4. Zhao Ji Tea Pavilion
Seven or eight miles north of Zhangjiaqiao Town, there are several families called Zhaozhuang. Zhaozhuang Yishan: But the mountain is not high, the green pines on the mountain are not old, the trees are shady, and the tea plantations on the slope are luxuriant. Perennial verdant. But not by the water: but the mountains and streams are trickling for a long time. Zhao Jinju's home lives in Zhaozhuang.
Zhaozhuang is at the foot of the mountain, but the terrain is high. It is about 500 meters to the side of the main road (road). Both the north and south sides are slopes. The downhill to the south is quick to reach Zhangjiaqiao, and the downhill to the north is the main road to the mine. The northern slope is slightly flat and long, and the southern slope is steep and short. Zhang Ping'an bought coal and went to buy it empty, so it didn't matter if the slope was steep. When I came back, it was a flat slope, but the slope was long. More than 1,000 catties of coal were dragged. Therefore, it took the strength of the milk to go uphill.
The "Zhao Ji Tea Pavilion" on the slope is located here. Whether you come from the south or from the north, you have to go uphill, and it is certain that your legs are sore. It is natural to sit on the ridge and rest your feet and blow a cool breeze. Hot weather and dry mouth are for sure. As long as you don't bring water, it's very common to spend a few cents to drink herbal tea.
The owner of Zhao Ji Tea Pavilion is Zhao Jinju and her mother, known as Sun Yanzi, and commonly known as Sun Erniang. Sun Erniang went to the county seat today, saying that she was buying cloth for her daughter to make clothes, and she was reluctant to take her daughter there, so she asked her daughter to sell tea for her.
Business at the tea pavilion has always been good, especially in summer and autumn. A cup of herbal tea sells for only two cents. Don't underestimate these two cents, it's one or two dollars a day. One or two dollars a day, that's a great thing. You know, that's real gain, that is, real profit. First, tea does not cost money. The tea trees are planted on their own mountain, and the picking and production of tea leaves takes time, of course, and Sun Yanzi has time. There is also a type of tea that is wild tea, and hexagonal is one of them. The hexagonal is hexagonal, the tip of the horn is like a thorn, if you don't pay attention to it, you will cut your hands, pick it back and wash it with water and sprinkle it dry to use. Hexagonal thorn tea has a sweet taste and has the effect of clearing fire and poisoning. Sun Yanzi picks a lot of them every summer; Second, the water is mountain spring water, clear and transparent. Instead of taking it manually, farmers use bamboo to make pipes, which can introduce stream water into the water storage tank at home, and connect it at any time. When the water is full, just move the pipe aside. Water storage is necessary because there are unforeseen weather conditions, and when it rains, the water quality is not good. The Zhao family has two large water tanks. Able to deal with the unforeseen of more than ten days; Thirdly, the firewood is the miscellaneous wood that he has cut from the mountains, and after drying it, he piles it on the so-called upstairs - a frame built with a few boards and wood. You can only put firewood and the like. Firewood needs to be dried all year round to be burned, and it is used for cooking and boiling water.
In other words, Sun Yanzi and Sun Erniang's herbal tea cost tends to be close to zero. Of course the teacup was bought. The authentic blue and white porcelain cups made in Jingdezhen are beautiful!
Business belongs to business, and favor is favor. The tea in the Zhao Kee Tea Pavilion is not two cents per cup. Some give five points, and some give a dime. Those who give two cents are the normal price, those who give five cents are polite, and those who give a dime are the big lots. However, Sun Erniang generally still insists on finding other people's money, and she will never collect more. There are also those who don't give money. One is that people have no change, big tickets, Sun Erniang forget it, give it next time! She won't find so much change for others, it's all troublesome, so she doesn't bother to ask for it. One kind of person has no money, and there are more people passing through the countryside, like Zhang Ping'an, which is another situation. It doesn't matter if you don't have money, singing saliva to quench your thirst is Sun Erniang's good deeds, which is called practicing and accumulating virtues, and it is also a virtue left by her ancestors.
In the past, it is true that the tea pavilion does not charge money, and herbal tea is as you like. But when the Chinese New Year is approaching, the tea man in the tea pavilion will carry the burden to turn the fate - not to ask for food. The flat pole carries two pairs of baskets, and there is a certain tea pavilion mark on the basket. Anyone who passes by this tea pavilion knows what is going on. So they take out a few pieces of rice cakes, or glutinous rice cakes, or one and a half liters of rice grains from their homes, and put them into the baskets of the people who pick the baskets, consciously or unconsciously, it is customary. I don't know if the tea maker didn't come to the door that year. So I drank tea and gave money, and I changed the old rules.
Sun Erniang's daughter Zhao Jinju is sixteen years old this year and will enter the second year of high school in the second half of the year. Sixteen years old is the same age as a flower, young and beautiful, slender, 1.60 meters tall, and still growing taller. Seeing that he is about to enter the second year of high school, the clothes he wore in the first year of high school are already short, and it is not suitable to wear them in the second year of high school. I'm in a hurry. Look, didn't you go into the city today to tear the cloth for your daughter, you have to buy it quickly.
The sun was about to set, and Sun Erniang came back from the county seat, arrived at the tea pavilion, and showed her daughter all the fabrics she bought. From time to time, I will compare the pieces of fabric to my daughter. It is said that this is made of tops, which is made of pants, and a whole lot of underwear and coats. For the sake of her baby daughter, Sun Erniang happily spent money. Zhao Jinju has new clothes to wear, and of course she is very happy.
Sun Yingzi's husband is an ordinary farmer, a member of the commune, but he looks like a talent, Sun Erniang loves handsome guys, and he is the Langjun in his photo. After marriage, she gave birth to a daughter named Zhao Jinju. Golden chrysanthemum is a more precious variety of chrysanthemums, and its vitality is strong. The flower color is golden and is called golden chrysanthemum. But Jin Ju is a woman. No matter how precious a woman is, she can't succeed. Giving birth to a son is the one who perpetuates the incense. But when Leping was liberated, Zhao's father was chopping wood on the mountain, and was accidentally hit by a scattered bullet, injuring the left half of his body. The most serious thing is the loss of sexual function and the inability to have children. Labor is insufficient, and working in the production team is at most half of the labor force. The lives of the whole family are affected. Sun Erniang had to find another way to survive and opened a tea pavilion. The other members don't have any big opinions, and the production team is helpless! You can't help but let people live. Besides, the tea pavilion is a good deed, and it has existed before. Collecting a few change is the income of labor, and it cannot be said that it is engaging in capitalism! There is another layer, the husband is injured and cannot enjoy the treatment of public injury, and there is no place to reason if he wants to make trouble, he is not a state employee. Peasants - what are the public injuries of the peasants, and who will be responsible? The key is who pays for it. The production team couldn't get out, so Sun Erniang opened a tea pavilion to sell tea.