Chapter 9 Tea Ancestor Wu Lizhen
Chunsheng's father is Wu Lizhen, who is known as the "Tea Ancestor" and the "Master of Manna"! Speaking of this, Wu Lizhen has a legendary story of becoming a tea ancestor!
Wu Lizhen's family lived in Mengshan (now Ya'an, Sichuan), his father died early, his family was extremely poor, and his mother became ill from hard work, Wu Lizhen took on the important responsibility of being the head of the family since he was a child! In Wu Lizhen's impression, from the time he was born to his adulthood, he rarely had enough to eat!
Wu Li is really a dutiful son, even if he can't eat enough every day, whenever the rooster announces, he will bring the tools for mowing the grass, climb the Mengding Mountain, collect firewood, cut the grass, find herbs, exchange rice for subsistence, and exchange money for his mother to buy medicine and cure the disease. I was reluctant to eat it, so I gave it to my mother. His mother stopped eating, and he came to clean up the mess.
There is a river near Mengding Mountain, called Qinglong River, one day it rained rainingly, the waves in the river rolled, and a fish was slapped on the rocks on the shore.
Wu Lizhen happened to pass by when he went down the mountain, and he saw this fish. So he picked up the fish excitedly, and he thought to himself: "I can make a fish soup for my mother today to make up for it." ”
When he wanted to put the fish in the basket, he suddenly saw the fish cry.
The first time he saw the fish weeping, he was moved by compassion and carefully released the fish back into the river.
The fish was not an ordinary fish, but Tamaba, the daughter of the river fairy. On this day, Yuye played against the water, but she didn't expect to encounter a storm, and was hit by the water on the rock, as soon as Yuye left the water, her magic was weak, she was struggling, and she happened to meet this young man who saved her, and she was infinitely grateful.
Since then, Yuye has often traveled against the current and traveled to Mengding Mountain to visit Wu Lizhen. She saw that Wu Li was really a good and filial guy, but he couldn't eat enough for many years and was a little thin. Yuye moved her mind and wanted to marry him.
Finally one day, she used her thousand-year-old cultivation to transform herself into a human form, standing by the river and waiting quietly for Wu Lizhen.
Wu Lizhen went down the mountain and saw a beautiful woman waving to him by the river, so he asked, "Girl, what's the matter?"
The girl replied shyly, "Sir, I am lost, and now I am hungry and thirsty, can I go to your house and stay for a while, and eat something before I go on my way?"
Wu Li was really a kind-hearted person, and said happily: "Okay! It's just that my family is poor, and I have nothing to entertain you." The girl said, "What is there to be picky about me in such a down-and-out situation?"
Wu Lizhen led her home.
When the mother saw Yuye, she sat up from the bed and asked Wu Lizhen, "Whose girl is this?
Wu Lizhen whispered to her mother: "Mother, this girl is lost, hungry and thirsty, I will take her home first, and then when she calms down, we will help her recall together, if she remembers the way home, I will send her home." ”
The old mother immediately pulled Yuye to her side and sat down, and the two chatted about homely things.
Yuye saw that the Wu family was destitute, saw that Wu Lizhen's mother was very ill, and the family situation was very bad, and she was determined to help Wu Lizhen well.
Yuye said to her mother, "Auntie, I'm going to help Li Zhen cook." ”
Mother Wu nodded happily, thinking to herself, "If only this girl was willing to marry my family." ”
Yuye helped Wu Lizhen cook, and then ate with Wu Lizhen's mother.
After dinner, I cleaned the house inside and out, but Wu Lizhen didn't let her do it, she didn't listen.
It was a little late, Wu Lizhen's mother asked Yuye to stay overnight and sleep with her, and the next morning it was dawn, and then to find the way home, Yuye agreed.
Yuye took advantage of the fact that the Wu family was asleep, and skillfully performed a small magic trick to make everything neat, clean and tidy in the Wu family, and added some new furniture. She also brought mountains and rivers into the house, so that the family had a pond, and raised fish, ducks, and chickens, so that it was lively.
Early the next morning, Wu Lizhen and his mother were startled and did not know what had happened. Mother asks Lizhen, and Lizhen asks Yuye what's going on.
Yuye had no choice but to tell her true feelings: "I am Yuye, the daughter of the river fairy, I fell on the rocks by the river a year ago, Brother Lizhen saved my life, I am here to repay the kindness." When she said this, Wu Lizhen remembered the fish that shed tears.
Mother was very happy to hear this, but Li Zhen said: "Although I have a favor with you, I can't covet it, let alone sit back and enjoy your gifts. ”
Yuye was moved by Wu Lizhen's gentlemanly style and said, "I don't just want to repay the favor, but I also want to marry you." I am deeply touched by your integrity, hard work, filial piety, and kindness, and I must marry you! ”
Wu Lizhen was even more surprised when he heard this.
The mother was moved by Yuye's sincerity, she had long been worried about her son's marriage, they were from a poor family, how could any girl be willing to marry. Such a beautiful and capable daughter-in-law came to the door by herself, where in the world to find it, she hurriedly rushed to say before her son denied it: "Okay, child, my mother promised you! ”
The old lady didn't give Wu Lizhen a chance to speak, and the family matter was settled, "knowing a son is like a mother", Wu's mother knew that Wu Lizhen still had to say something, and if she didn't agree to others, let the girl put her face where to go, she had to settle the matter before his so-called truth, so that his son had nothing to say.
Wu Lizhen saw that his mother had never been so happy and happy, and he was the master for himself, so his filial son naturally had nothing to say. He actually liked Yuye in his heart, so he didn't object anymore.
Under the auspices of their mother, the two worshipped heaven and earth. After the two got married, they loved each other. Yuye saw that Wu Lizhen's rooster reported early in the morning, brought the tools for mowing the grass, collected firewood, cut the grass, and found herbs to do endlessly, the family was still poor, and she wanted to find a way to change the poor appearance of Mengding Mountain.
In order to make the Wu family happier and better, Yuye flew to the Heavenly Palace alone, and she wanted to ask the Shennong clan, who managed the hundred grasses, for some treasures that could be planted.
Shennong listened to the story she told, and felt that the jade leaf girl was affectionate and righteous, and was kind, he said: "When I was looking for a cure for the disease, I accidentally got poisoned, and then I chewed a few leaves called tea, and the poison was immediately cured, this tea is not only detoxified, but also can be soaked in water to drink, refreshing and refreshing, it is a treasure."
Yuye said: "Such a good treasure, you can give me some!" Shennong agreed to Yuye's request in one bite, gave her seven immortal tea seeds, and asked her to bring the immortal tea drunk by the heavenly immortals to the mortal world!
Yuye sent the fairy tea seeds to Wu Lizhen, and then said to him: "My husband, these are fairy tea seeds, after you plant them, they can grow into fairy tea trees, and with their tea seeds and branches, they can plant half a mountain, and we will have our own tea garden." The leaves of this tea can be soaked in water to drink, quench thirst, use medicine, and cook, which is a good thing that only gods can enjoy in the sky. ”
The two loved each other and worked together to cultivate tea seedlings. Not long after, the first seedling grows, Yuye is pregnant with the first child for Wu Lizhen, the eldest daughter - Wu Qingqing was born; Yuye untied the white shawl on his shoulders and threw it into the air, and suddenly the white mist filled the top of Mengshan Mountain, moistening the first tea seedling that grew, the tea tree is the body of the eldest sister Wu Qingqing.
For seven consecutive years, a tea tree grew every year, and Yuye gave birth to a child for Wu Lizhen, giving birth to a total of seven children. Among them, there is only one boy in Chunsheng, and of course his parents are very fond of Chunsheng, and the sisters are even more fond of the male in this family.
The tea trees grew more and more vigorously under the white mist of jade leaves, and soon the couple quickly planted a green tea garden in the middle of the mountain, but what Yuye was most afraid of happening was still coming.