Chapter 315: Tea Seeds
Jia Yi rode Xiaoqing to the academy town, got off Xiaoqing's back, and led it through the academy.
When passing by Skoll's Chamber of Commerce, he was stopped by Hayley, who stopped and asked with some confusion, "What's wrong, is there something wrong?"
Hailey said helplessly: "You ordered tea in our chamber of commerce, and we have been waiting for you to come and get it, but you have never come." ”
"Oh, oh~" Jiayi patted Xiaoqing's back, "Have you already arrived?" I didn't expect it to be so fast. ”
He ordered tea a long time ago, and he was always looking forward to it at the beginning, but after a long time, he didn't have the excitement he had at the beginning, and he was really busy recently, so he had forgotten about it.
If the express delivery is so slow on Taobao, the merchants and courier companies will all be cold.
However, Jia Yi will not say that he forgot, but that he thinks the goods have not arrived yet.
Hayley said: "It's been here a long time ago, two days before your exam, I thought you would come and pick it up soon, but I didn't expect to wait until now, if you don't come again, we will send someone to inform you or resell it." ”
Hailey took Jia Yi to the Chamber of Commerce, took out a small wooden box of ash from the warehouse, handed it to Jia Yi and said: "This is the tea you want, brought from Moshacher Island, although it is not a high-end product of Elf Island, but it is also the top grade in the tea manor near Moshacher Island, which is much better than the loose tea that can be bought on the general market." ”
Hayley said with pride, as if it was a great thing to be able to provide such a good tea, and of course it was remarkable.
For example, ordinary aristocrats can occasionally buy some loose tea from the black market, but all such tea leaves are defective, and even moldy. And the kind of tea that Hailey took out in good condition and of high quality is not something that ordinary people can buy.
In fact, the current tea production is limited, and most of the tea is covered by senior mages and royal nobles.
Although even the royal family must give a mage enough respect, how to say it, the mage is just one person, and a royal family represents a large group of people, and the influence of the forces is completely different.
As far as business is concerned, no merchant will refuse an order from a nobleman.
If it is really hard steel, only a purple-robed mage can make an empire fearful enough (this refers to the empire, a small kingdom can't even offend a white-robed mage), and the words of a legendary mage can be regarded as an enemy country, and there is no limit to distance and space.
Jia Yi opened the box, and inside were two sea bowl-sized blue-green tea cakes, which looked like Pu'er's Tuocha tea cakes, but the color was different, and they were not kneaded into strips, but directly in the shape of leaves, and the texture was not very dry.
It's the first time I've seen tea from the other world, and what I drank in Orlando was insect tea, which could only be regarded as insect.
He didn't know what grade this tea was on the other side, but with his relationship with Queenie, the Skoll Chamber of Commerce should not pit himself, and at least the appearance was complete.
At this time, the group tea is the best product, and the broken ones are considered defective, and there is no such thing as fried green tea.
He closed the lid and asked, "This tea is good, how much is it?"
Although he can't say what's good, it's like Taobao is used to praise, and most of the time a compliment will not be wrong.
Hayley said, "The seasonal tea cakes from Moshacher's fine tea plantation cost 120 gold per pound, and here are two tea cakes, half a pound each, just one pound. ”
Jia Yiyi's eyes widened suddenly, 120 gold, although it doesn't seem to be a big amount to use gold as a unit, but if it is converted into RMB, it is worth nearly one million, and according to Hailey's meaning, this is not the top level, although it is good, but it is only an ordinary level.
The tea plantations near Mochacher have only been open for a few years, and they have not yet made a name for themselves, and the tea produced is quite cost-effective.
Jia Yi didn't know how much the price of the most expensive tea on the earth was before he crossed over, but this price is probably comparable to the MVP mother tree of the online literature world.
He only now truly understands how precious tea is here.
Fortunately, after the blast furnace of the Valoka Chamber of Commerce was built, the dividends started again, otherwise he was not sure if he would have the courage to buy this little tea.
Seeing Jiayi's somewhat painful appearance, Hailey took out a small cloth bag and handed it to Jiayi: "This is a tea seed, which can be planted to grow tea trees, and it was given to you by the Chamber of Commerce." ”
Jia Yi took the cloth bag curiously, and even sent seeds with some surprise, after all, the outflow of seeds should be strictly controlled in order to ensure monopoly and sell tea at a higher price.
Tea has the effect of slightly improving spiritual power, which is very precious to the mage, and he does not have to worry about not being able to sell it.
Seeing Jia's doubts, Hailey explained: "These seeds were collected by the General Chamber of Commerce, because I heard that you have conducted research on plants in the academy, so I brought some to you." However, in Moshacher, the control of tea seeds is not very strict, because the difficulty of planting is very high, so far only the islands around Moshacher have been successfully transplanted, and in our northern part, we have never heard of any successful tea planting. ”
Jia Yi didn't expect that they knew a lot about the dynamics of customers, and he didn't know if it was because he was a gold member or how he knew about every customer, but he felt even more confused after listening to it.
Is this tea tree so difficult to grow? Before he crossed it, it felt like it had already overflowed, and tea was grown in almost every province south of the Yangtze River.
He opened it and looked at it, and found that the seeds of the tea tree were brown seeds the size of a hairy chestnut, and the seed coat looked very hard.
There is wild camellia in Cyberling, but there is no tea that can be drunk.
He took the tea and the seeds together, and did not refuse the kindness of the other party.
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Back at home, Jia Yi kept Xiaoqing on the grass outside the door, hurriedly returned to the house, took out a piece of tea cake and carefully looked at the tea leaves on the tea cake, these tea leaves are not young buds, all of them are just relatively tender leaves, the selection of materials is similar to Lu'an melon slices, and the leaves are selected.
Jia consciously thought that this was because the tea cakes were not top-notch enough, but he didn't know that the tea selection at this time was made by selecting young leaves, and there was no tradition of selecting young shoots.
And looking at the shape of this tea ball, he always has the illusion that it should be aged for a few years before it tastes good.
He took a chopstick, used the wind blade to cut the chopsticks into a pointed end like a needle for knitting a sweater, and then carefully dismantled a tea cake into a small piece.
He took a small piece of tea and brewed it in a pot, he never paid much attention to making tea, it was always simple and rude.
The hot water stimulates the aroma in the tea leaves, but the familiar tea aroma makes him feel a taste of nostalgia.
He has been drinking tea since he was a child, because his father loved tea, and when he was a programmer, he always made a cup of tea every day. However, although he has been drinking tea, he does not have too intuitive feelings about the quality of tea, at most it is the difference between Pu'er black tea and green tea.
After the tea was brewed, as soon as the tea soup was in his mouth, he frowned a little, there was a grass green smell in the tea, which made him a little unaccustomed, although at present, it was very good to be able to have tea to drink.
He still prefers the green tea that comes out of the roasted green, and the acceptance of the rest of the tea is lower, especially the steamed green tea now, which is even more unaccustomed.
He subconsciously glanced at the tea tree seeds that were put aside, and it seemed that the planting of tea trees could be put on the agenda, and after planting, he could roast the tea by himself.
Although he has never been exposed to this craft, he also has some understanding, when he was a child, when he was a farmer, his mother once went to the nearby mountains to help people pick tea leaves, and roasted tea was simply made a few times, so he still has some understanding of this.
Planting tea trees looks more promising, because tea trees can survive for many years, planting a living tree is one, as long as it is well managed, there are no pests and diseases, it can be said that it is a planting, a lifetime benefit.
At least in Jiayi's view, planting tea trees should be easier than planting elf rice, and the planting of elf rice every year is a new test.