Chapter 134 Green Tea
On March 3rd, crabs go to the mountains.
There was no late spring cold this year. The villagers were worried for a month and did not feel relieved until the seedlings were strong.
Then, Kelongli was shrouded in lush green.
Only the front of the ancestral hall is white with pear blossoms.
The naughty children were invited to light up the crabs with torches at night, and they often heard the splashing sound of big fish splashing water at the water's edge.
In order to reproduce, they are no longer afraid of human footsteps and just writhe in the water plants.
Rolling dark clouds began to appear in the water again, which was a spectacular scene composed of a huge number of small fish fry.
There was no need for Su You to mobilize the children. The third brother, the fifth brother and the sixth brother took it upon themselves to lead the team to scoop up water splashes. The children were ruthlessly deprived of the fun of playing in the water.
The water is still cold in March! Anyone who dares to go into the water should be careful! Especially the one in the lead!
So the children shifted their interest to the mountains, where there were more birds, the best of which were pheasants, rabbits, and muntjacs.
A letter came from Shi Wei, and the letter she wrote to herself arrived front and back. The letter didn't say who came first, so he probably lost.
The Jade Game View is not bad, everyone inside is wearing the same clothes, the whole place is fragrant, there are a few sword masters, but there are more gold needle masters.
Then there are many books here, some of them have pictures, and the adults in them are naked and have lots of little dots on their bodies.
The food was not very good, but I took my mother with me and had brother Xiaoyou’s seasonings and recipes. They planned to open a small stove alone.
The people here refer to Brother Xiaotianshi, the old master with white beard, and herself.
This suggestion was made by Brother Xiaotianshi. He also encouraged me and Brother Xiaoyou to order more soy sauce, but Brother Xiaoyou said it was not good if it was too salty, so I refused.
Su You smiled, and you can imagine the depression of Brother Shengun when he was rejected.
Then I read it, and the letter also said that I missed Kelongli very much, even Shijia Village, the small fish in the ditch, the birds on the mountain, um, winter bamboo shoots, field snails, eels, loaches...
Now it was Su You's turn to be depressed. After thinking so much, he didn't even let go of the loach, but he just missed me.
Well, these are all things I took her to play with, and she just misses me when she thinks about them. Is there anything wrong with this understanding?
There are still a few exercise books with several empty questions. I can't do that. Brother Xiaoyou, please fill them in.
After putting down this letter, there was also a letter from the Little Heavenly Master. The letter said that Shi Wei was straightforward and generous, a lovely little girl who was liked by everyone.
Thanks to Su You for providing the stone paper, pencils, test paper, weights, and most importantly, the ideas and expressions for acid-base mutual verification.
He personally tasted dilute hydrochloric acid and plant ash water, and finally mixed them together, measured the balance with a test paper, and took a sip. It was salty!
Su You felt a slight headache as he looked at it. Do you want to be so perverted! Are you trying to be Frankenstein?!
Quickly correct your homework and then reply, first to the Little Heavenly Master.
Don't let Wei'er see those pornographic books in your library yet. She is still young, so she should just start by understanding medicinal species.
It’s best not to use your tongue to measure chemical reagents. Many of them are poisonous and corrosive and will cause problems if you eat them!
Soy sauce is easy to talk about, so I will prepare it now, as well as ten bottles of Yongchun Dew. This time it is Tequ. If you try it, if it is good, I will sell the Qu medicine to my younger brother.
Then he wrote a letter to Shi Wei, changing his tone to a childish tone. Then he went to a few places where they often played, and drew a few sketches with a pencil and sent them to Shi Wei.
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The adults are too busy. They have to open up land in the back hill, plant mulberry trees on the newly built ridges, and dig small pits for beans on the soil slope below the ridges of the terraced fields.
Work hard and make every effort to make every effort.
Thousands of people cultivate the land and thousands of people eat it. The land of Bashu has given people selfless gifts, and people have used them in the most diligent way.
The seeds of borneol camphor are fragrant. Last winter, after Su You returned to his hometown, he organized his children to collect leaves and berries.
Purple-black berries are collected, retting in water to soften the flesh and rot, then wash with clean water, spread thinly in a cool and ventilated place to dry, and select the plump and strong ones.
As soon as spring began, Su You gave the seeds to Sister-in-law San, who first sterilized them with lime water, then soaked them in warm water to accelerate germination, spread them into the seedbed behind the ancestral hall, and carefully covered them with straw.
Now that the seedlings have grown, Su You asked his third brother to open a nursery in the old borneol camphor forest and use the canopy to shade the seedlings.
This is a quite terrifying project. Last year, there were no less than 10,000 camphor trees in the camphor forest. After several eliminations of this batch of camphor seedlings, there are still several thousand camphor seedlings left.
Hachigong inspected the saplings several times and had no doubts about Su You's ability to plow up the trees. He happily announced to the village that You Wa had said that the saplings would be transplanted several times and strong seedlings would emerge after a year.
It will grow into a tree in the next year. Anyone who wants to plant it can do so. Youwa will collect the leaves with everyone.
Another thing is, don’t pick this year’s tea leaves blindly. In addition to taking cuttings according to last year’s method, only pick young leaves, two leaves and one bud, like a bird’s beak with its tongue exposed, and hand them over to the ancestral hall. Youwa will make tea.
It's not that Su You doesn't drink tea, it's that he doesn't like to drink Song Dynasty tea. Moreover, he feels that the higher the quality of Song tea, the more reactionary it becomes, which is not his cup of tea at all.
In later generations, the foothills of Mount Emei, Leshan and Ya'an Meishan were important producing areas of Sichuan tea. On the Leshan side, there were green teas, scented teas, and bamboo-leaf green teas; on the Ya'an side, the main products were Xiaguan Tuo tea and black tea sold to Tibetan areas.
There was also Dabai tea and Laoyin tea that Suyou picked from the mountains at that time. With Pangdahai and honeysuckle, the taste was actually quite good, at least it helped him earn money for his tuition.
After working, a leader was a tea fanatic and stubbornly believed that handmade tea was better than machine-processed tea. Hearing that Su You was engaged in the restoration of intangible cultural heritage, he instructed him to investigate the possibility of restoring the craft of hand-fried tea.
Su You inspected several places and wrote a report, believing that machine processing is actually not worse than hand-made tea. What is more important for tea is the place of origin, climate, and soil, that is to say, the quality of the tea itself.
As for the taste of the finished product, in fact, machine processing has been developed for so many years, and it is not much different from manual processing. It is only slightly different in the integrity of the tea leaves. If it were not a master master, ordinary people would really not be able to handle the machine.
The leader quickly gave instructions. The young comrade's report was constructive to a certain extent, but the work was not done in detail. If it is the same tea mountain, the same tea type, and the same batch of tea leaves, is there a difference between the ones made by hand and those processed by machines?
What? Have you done any verification?
Su You finally had a sudden realization, and he found an old tea farmer who had been in the family for several generations. He watched him from picking tea to making tea, and wrote a new craft report, highlighting the location of the tea farm of the inheritor and the latest information.
The release date of good tea also highlighted the fact that the manual output was too low to be promoted in the market. Even the tea samples were handed over to the leaders, and they sincerely reviewed their work negligence.
The leader was finally satisfied. He patted the new report with a smile and praised him for his strong understanding.
Understand that this is what people want. Things that cannot be bought on the market are good things to show off.
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But the tea leaves from all the tea houses in Longli were all collected in one place, and the quantity was still a bit scary.
This thing is really easier said than done. Speaking of large processes, it only consists of three steps: finishing, kneading and drying.
But if you break it down, there are more than a dozen techniques for just kneading.
Even machine production, after simplification, can be divided into many steps such as fixing, shaking, rolling, sifting, picking stems, arranging, kneading, baking, flavoring, drying and so on.
Fortunately, he knew the purpose of each step of the machine process, so it was much easier to handle. He worked backwards from the machine steps and turned it into a simplified version of the manual tea-frying process.
As for the complicated advanced version process, he wrote it down in the notebook. Whoever wants to play can play it. I don’t have high requirements for tea, just drink it if you can. The Grain Rain during the Qingming Festival will pass in a blink of an eye, so hurry up and get it out!
In this way, a lot of money was wasted, mainly because the children were used to stir-frying, so a lot of tea leaves were burnt, and the tea leaves tasted like coffee and became burnt.
After leading the internal affairs team to tinker for a week, I finally produced a handful of green tea. This was because the hot air drying process greatly reduced the working hours.
Su You picked up a handful and soaked it in a cup. He smelled it first and then took a careful sip. A refreshing and familiar taste lingered on the tip of his tongue.
Su You blew the cup and smiled happily: "It's finally right, okay, the process is finalized, hurry up and produce it. We missed it tomorrow, and after Grain Rain, the quality will be lowered to another level!"
Chapter completed!