Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 149 Supplier Inspection

Spring tea is the best tea of the year.

During the rest and recuperation in winter, tea trees store a lot of energy and enrich the content of tea polyphenols, amino acids, caffeine and other substances. These substances not only make the taste of spring tea more fresh, but also increase its nutritional value.

Mingqian tea, which is tea picked before Qingming Festival, is the best spring tea. The second best is Yuqian tea, which is tea picked before Guyu.

Tea before the Qingming Festival is a treasure, tea before the rain is top quality, and the later the season, the worse the quality of the tea and the cheaper the price.

Of course, some deeply fermented teas, such as black tea, are picked in other seasons, such as summer, autumn and winter, and the quality varies. Although there are some high-quality summer teas and winter teas, they can definitely not compare with spring teas.

In addition to good quality, spring tea also has less pesticide pollution. Because it is just after winter, the spring is still cold and insect pests have not yet emerged. Tea farmers usually start spraying pesticides after picking pre-rain tea.

The picking period of spring tea is short, from a few days before Qingming Festival to Guyu, which is only about three weeks, so the output of spring tea is small and the price is relatively high.

At the end of March, when the picking of Mingqian tea began, Li Xiang drove a luxury SUV and took Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui to a tea house about 60 kilometers away.

That place has a long history of tea planting, which can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago. It is the main tea producing area in Sichuan Province and is known as a green ecological tea area. In addition to bamboo shoots, tea is also one of the specialties of Li Xiang's hometown.

There are some wild green teas growing on the hill behind his house, but the quantity is small. If you want to buy good tea and purchase in large quantities, you still have to go to the authentic production area.

That's the next county.

Even in the same county, some places grow tea and some do not.

At Li Xiang's suggestion, Lei Xiaohui wore a camouflage outfit for this trip, and the three women also wore sunglasses. Although they haven't got their driver's licenses yet, Lei Xiaohui standing behind them already looks like a female bodyguard.

"Brother, should I get a weapon?" Lei Xiaohui asked with a smile.

"Just be sure you're not afraid of being caught!" Li Xiang joked.

"That's it."

In fact, if Lei Xiaohui wanted to be equipped with weapons, Li Xiang would be able to satisfy her in a few years. She could be equipped with whatever weapons she wanted, even an anti-aircraft missile.

This time they went to a tea factory of a decent size.

This tea factory used to supply Gongfu black tea to the teahouse where Zhao Xueqing worked. In addition to Gongfu black tea, it also produces green tea and Kuding tea.

Gongfu tea, Gongfu black tea and black tea are three different concepts. Gongfu tea mainly refers to a method of brewing tea, which is popular in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. Gongfu black tea is a specific variety of black tea, which is made from tea buds through withering, rolling, fermentation and drying.

Gongfu black tea is divided into large-leaf Gongfu and small-leaf Gongfu. The former is made from fresh leaves of arbor or semi-arbor tea trees, while the latter is made from fresh leaves of shrub-type small-leaf tea trees. Large-leaf Gongfu black tea usually has a mellow taste and a distinct aroma, while small-leaf Gongfu black tea has a soft taste and a light aroma.

As for black tea, it is a broad category of tea, including Gongfu black tea.

Before Li Xiang and his team came, they had contacted the other party and made an appointment. The other party also checked Li Xiang's information in advance and found out that he was a big V with more than three million fans, and he was also a member of the County CPPCC of the neighboring county. So the boss attached great importance to him and came out to greet him in person when Li Xiang and his team arrived.

"Welcome, welcome, Teacher Li, teachers, please."

Sichuan and Chongqing, like Qi and Lu, like to call people "teacher". In fact, this way of addressing is popular in many provinces now, because it is not easy to make mistakes and it seems more polite. Of course, Qi and Lu are because of Confucius.

The boss, along with a group of subordinates, welcomed Li Xiang and his companions to the conference room. They sat down as host and guest, and then a beautiful woman came forward to serve tea.

The aroma of tea overflows.

After the two sides exchanged pleasantries, they began to introduce each other's companies. The tea factory owner also prepared a PPT and asked a beautiful employee to explain it. Li Xiang and others listened with great interest, asking questions from time to time, and the other party explained in detail. Overall, the atmosphere was still very good.

When it was Li Xiang's turn, he talked freely and boasted a lot. Although his Chinese-style teahouse was still under construction and not even finished, it did not prevent him from describing it based on the renderings. He also introduced the Chinese-style pub, coffee shop, milk tea shop, etc. He also said that he had reached a cooperation agreement with a coffee farm in Yunnan Province to purchase a large amount of coffee every year.

Anyway, when you are out there, your identity and strength are given by yourself, and others don’t know the specific details.

Then he also talked about the charity live broadcast organized by the county government to help farmers that he participated in a while ago. Yao Yao was very perceptive and immediately excitedly introduced Li Xiang's sales performance, which shocked the tea factory owner. Wow, five days, more than 36 million, awesome! In fact, it can't be considered a "bluff", after all, this is a real performance that can be checked through official channels and even reported in the news.

Yao Yao: "Boss Chen, if you don't believe it, you can search on our county government's website. It's absolutely true. We, Brother Xiang, never do anything fake."

"I believe it, your team is really amazing!" The tea factory owner praised. He was surprised that Li Xiang actually had so many businesses besides teahouses. And the sales performance was so strong.

He also wanted to ask Li Xiang to promote his products. Now the opportunity was right in front of him, so he could talk about it.

When Zhao Xueqing introduced herself, she was the person in charge of this traditional Chinese style teahouse.

Boss Chen had been to the teahouse where Zhao Xueqing worked several times before. He had also admired her long-spouted pot Kung Fu tea intangible cultural heritage performance. He was very impressed at the time and thought that this girl had superb skills. But she was just a waitress at the time. How come she suddenly became the director of a teahouse after just one year?
"Teacher Zhao, I haven't seen you for a few months. I didn't expect that you have opened your own teahouse. Congratulations!" said the tea factory owner.

Zhao Xueqing quickly explained: "I don't open it myself, I work for our boss!" and pointed at Li Xiang.

"That's impressive, too. You're the person in charge, at the store manager level." The tea factory owner gave a thumbs up and then said, "I'm also very grateful to you for recommending my tea to Teacher Li!"

Zhao Xueqing smiled slightly: "You are too kind. I recommend your tea because it is of good quality and reasonable price."

Yao Yao interrupted, "We will have a large quantity in the future, so you have to give us a more favorable price."

"sure."

Without Li Xiang saying anything, the three girls started bargaining.

The girl was so good at bargaining that the boss was a little overwhelmed. He quickly changed the subject and invited Li Xiang and the others to visit the tea-making workshop.

"Right on my mind!"

The purpose of Li Xiang and his team's trip was to conduct on-site inspections. They wanted to see the tea-making workshop and the tea mountains.

While walking on the road, Li Xiang asked: "Teacher Chen, can I take pictures in your workshop?"

The tea factory owner agreed repeatedly: "Sure, sure, no problem. It would be even better if you could help us promote it."

Yao Yao smiled and said, "We do have this business. The advertising fee is 60 for a 20-second advertisement."

The tea factory owner thought for a moment and said, "We can offer a better price for our tea, and your advertising fee can be cheaper, too. How about exchanging resources and achieving win-win cooperation?"

Li Xiang said, "No problem, we'll talk about it in detail later." He secretly gave Yao Yao a thumbs up.

It would be much more convenient to go out and discuss business with three eloquent girls.

Zhao Xueqing frowned slightly. This tea is my business. Why do you always butt in on this?

Yao Yao noticed this and felt secretly proud of herself, thinking, I am here to help enthusiastically, Green Tea Sister, you should thank me very much.

Zhao Xueqing thought, from now on, I will also follow your wine and beverage business, I can't suffer this loss.

Although the scale of this tea factory is not particularly large, the workshop looks quite formal and very clean. There are many large tea-sorting and tea-frying equipment. The workers are all wearing clean uniform operating clothes, hats and masks. There is also a hair net under the hat to hold the hair, which is to prevent the hair from falling into the tea leaves.

The owner of the tea factory took Li Xiang and his friends to visit each process one by one and gave them explanations.

In fact, the process of frying tea is not complicated, nor is it a secret. This county is an authentic tea producing area, and many people know about it.

But knowing is one thing, and whether it is done in detail and whether each link is controlled properly will have a great impact on the quality of tea.

(End of this chapter)