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

Chapter 150 Aunt is more cost-effective

Li Xiang and his colleagues took many photos in the tea-making workshop. Li Xiang even personally experienced the steps of sifting and frying tea.

The other party uses a machine to fry the tea. One advantage is that the fried tea leaves look very good, and the quality of each batch is basically the same because the set parameters are the same.

As for hand-fried tea, due to its low efficiency and special reliance on the personal skills of the tea frying master, it is now basically facing the dilemma of being "lost" and is also included in the ranks of intangible cultural heritage.

For example, the same tea mountain and the same piece of land produce fresh leaves of the same grade. Then a master brings several apprentices to fry the tea. As a result, the same batch of tea can produce several different flavors, and even the problem of even stacking cannot be solved. This phenomenon is difficult to explain to customers.

If the master craftsman relies on himself alone, the quantity is too large and he definitely can't handle it all.

Moreover, different masters have different techniques, and the quality of tea is also different, which greatly affects sales.

In addition, not many young people are willing to learn this nowadays. Manual tea frying is too hard. In a tea frying pot at a temperature of 200 to 300 degrees, you have to grab, shake, put, spread, press, push, buckle, throw, grind, and press...

The hands will become red, swollen, black, blistered, and peeling, and callouses will form after repeated repeated treatments. Hands full of callouses are naturally ugly. For young people, it affects their love life.

For example, if you are a woman, and your boyfriend touches your hand, wouldn’t you feel disgusted?
If you are a man and your hands are covered with calluses, and you touch your girlfriend, will she be willing?

Then some places will introduce some strange policies. For example, there is a news report that a certain place closed down small family workshops and did not allow farmers to stir-fry tea privately. This is also one of the reasons why traditional skills are lost.

Of course, behind every unreasonable policy, there are some interest factors driving it.

"We also wanted to launch a handmade tea product before. We have a master craftsman who is proficient in hand-fried tea. However, after we put out the advertisement to recruit apprentices, no one came to sign up for many days." Mr. Chen, the owner of the tea factory, said with great regret.

Zhao Xueqing blinked her eyes and thought to herself, I am willing to learn, I am originally engaged in intangible cultural heritage. However, she is too busy recently and probably has no time, so I will wait and see later.

After visiting the tea factory, it was almost noon.

"Teacher Li, several teachers, how about we drive to the county town, I will treat you, we can find a restaurant and have a good gathering." The tea factory owner was very enthusiastic.

"Thank you, thank you. I'd rather not go," Li Xiang declined. "Let's just have a simple working lunch in your staff cafeteria."

The main reason is that this tea factory is at the foot of a high mountain, more than 20 kilometers away from the county seat. The round trip, plus meals, takes too much time.

They still have to go to the tea mountains for field investigation and video shooting in the afternoon, and then rush back.

"How can that be? Isn't it too neglectful to have a friend coming from afar?" The tea factory owner felt embarrassed.

"It's okay, just the staff cafeteria." Li Xiang insisted.

The tea factory owner said, "Then I'll go and make the arrangements."

As a result, when we got there, it was not a working meal. Instead, the boss had privately instructed the canteen to set up a small stove and cook a table of special side dishes, so we all had a simple lunch together.

The owner of this tea factory is quite kind.

Of course, if they were not honest, Li Xiang would probably not come next time and might not be willing to cooperate with them. There were many tea factories in this county, and they also arranged to visit several other tea factories.

Compare prices from three different suppliers. If you choose a single supplier, the risk will be relatively high.

After a short rest after the meal, the group set out for the mountain, led by the tea factory owner himself.

The path is winding and very steep in some places.

"From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, more than 1,200 meters above sea level, all of them are our tea gardens. As for the quality, the tea on the mountain is naturally better."

Looking up from the foot of the mountain, you can see dozens of middle-aged women busy at work. Those who are far away seem like small dots in the tea garden.

It was a sunny day with blue sky and white clouds. The tea mountains were green and the tea trees were lined up neatly, which was a pleasant sight.

"It is still a few days away from the Qingming Festival, and there are not many leaf buds available for picking. In two or three days, a large number of pickers will arrive. By then, the mountain will be full of people, and it will be much more lively!" said the tea factory owner.

"The altitude is over 1,200 meters, my God..." Yao Yao shrugged. She was most afraid of climbing mountains.

Sure enough, when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, about 500 to 600 meters, the two girls, Yao Yao and Zhao Xueqing, couldn't bear it anymore.

Lei Xiaohui is okay, her physical strength is much better than these two girls.

Actually, 500-600 meters is not that high, but the main thing is that the road is difficult to walk on. There are no roads in many places, and people who are not good at climbing need to use their hands and feet, otherwise they are likely to fall down. People who are afraid of heights look back and think, "Oh my god, it's so high," and then they get scared.

If it rains, it will be even more slippery and difficult to walk on.

There are no stone steps like those in scenic spots here.

"Brother, can you carry me?" Yao Yao felt like her waist was about to break.

Zhao Xueqing looked at me intently. She was too embarrassed to say it, but her eyes made it clear that I wanted to recite it too.

Li Xiang looked around. The air was very fresh, and the tea trees were all over the mountain. The scenery was pleasant. "Let's stay here. This tea mountain is pretty good. Let's take a break and start taking pictures and recording videos."

Yao Yao: “…” Zhao Xueqing: “…”

However, the two of them also breathed a sigh of relief. Even though they failed to recite it, at least they didn't have to continue moving forward.

Everyone found a place to rest.

Yao Yao didn't care about her image anymore and found a place to sit down. Zhao Xueqing did the same.

The tea factory owner climbs mountains all year round and has good physical strength. Li Xiang walked with him among the tea trees and asked him some professional questions from time to time.

"Our tea leaves now basically have one bud and one leaf. Look, this one is almost ready for picking." The tea factory owner picked one, chewed it in his mouth, and actually swallowed it without spitting out even the residue.

Li Xiang followed suit and picked a leaf, smacked it in his mouth, and it tasted refreshing and sweet, of top quality. This fresh leaf is edible.

He remembered that when he was working, he had eaten a dish called "Longjing Shrimp", which was Longjing tea and shrimp fried together.

The shrimp meat is white, tender, the buds and leaves are fragrant and the color is elegant. The dishes cooked in this way have the aroma of tea in the shrimp meat and the freshness of the shrimp in the tea, which is refreshing and appetizing, with endless aftertaste.

This dish has a long history. It is said that Emperor Qianlong tasted it when he went to the south of the Yangtze River. It was created by chance. Some say it was created by Weng Tonghe.

Then in the late Qing Dynasty, some chefs in Anhui Province were already using "Queshe" and "Yingzhua" teas to stir-fry river shrimps.

Li Xiang decided to take some of these fresh mountain leaves back and stir-fry them with shrimps for his grandmother to taste. It doesn't need to be much, just a few handfuls, and he can stir-fry it several times.

At this time, the tea factory owner's phone rang.

"Teacher Li, sorry, I have to go take a call."

"Okay, you go ahead, I'll just take a look." Li Xiang continued to walk in. Seeing an old lady picking leaf buds skillfully, Li Xiang went over to chat with her and learn more information.

Suddenly, the system prompted: "A third-order mutant Jade Dragon Lizard has been detected."

Li Xiang said goodbye to the old lady and searched nearby. Soon, he saw a lizard basking in the sun on a large piece of earth.

The four-legged gecko, also known as the skink, stone dragon lizard, mountain bomb, spring dragon, oil snake, dog snake, dog snake, pig snake, mountain loach, etc., is called differently in each place, but when it comes to the four-legged gecko, everyone knows it.

Legend has it that it is the snake's brother-in-law, so many people stay away from it after seeing it, for fear that if they accidentally provoke it, it will go looking for its brother-in-law for revenge.

Li Xiang is naturally not afraid of his brother-in-law. When his brother-in-law comes, he will just serve as spicy snacks for his cats.

This lizard was very alert. Even when Li Xiang was still several meters away, it noticed him and ran away immediately.

Unfortunately, it ran into Li Xiang.

"Swish~" A faint and almost transparent icy sword energy shot out and cut the lizard into two pieces in an instant.

It has to be said that this "sword energy" Kung Fu is more practical and more concealed than the White Fang Dagger. It can kill people without leaving any traces, and there is no need to retrieve the dagger.

"Congratulations to the host for killing the third-order mutant Jade Dragon Lizard and obtaining three second-order mutant berries, the Spirit Ribes, as a surprise reward, and 60 achievement points."

There was now one more elixir in Li Xiang’s system warehouse.

He took a look and found it was a very small fruit that looked like a ruby. There were too many people around, so he didn't take it out. For him now, the second-level spiritual berries were no longer of much interest. Only spiritual medicines of the fifth level or above could make him feel happy.

Because of the tea trees, no one knew that Li Xiang had killed a dog snake in a flash. Seeing that everyone had rested, he started a live broadcast.

It is also an advertisement for the usual tea sales.

You see, Brother Xiang is a real man, not that kind of middleman who talks big. Instead, he does on-site investigations and finds that all the tea leaves come from high-mountain tea gardens, which are over 500 meters above sea level, or even over 1,000 meters above sea level, on pollution-free mountains. The quality is absolutely guaranteed.

Then Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui carried their backpacks and started to dress up as tea-picking girls, making the fans in the live broadcast room stare in amazement.

"Oh my god, Brother Xiang, if all the tea you sell is hand-picked by beautiful girls like this, I'll buy ten kilograms!"

Before Li Xiang could reply, a fan commented: "How is that possible? Usually in advertisements or promotions, there are young and sweet tea-picking girls, but in fact the work is done by old ladies."

"Ha ha!"

Li Xiang also said bluntly: "Impossible. If all the tea leaves were picked with beautiful girls like this, then the price of tea would increase tenfold!"

After all, who would be willing to do this job as a young and pretty girl? Middle-aged women are more cost-effective.

As for the tea leaves that Li Xiang and his friends picked on the mountain to shoot the video, the tea factory owner naturally did not charge them, saying that he wanted them to take them back to taste.

Since Li Xiang was quite satisfied with this tea factory and felt that Boss Chen was a nice person, they quickly reached a cooperation agreement. Li Xiang first ordered 1,000 kilograms of Mingqian tea and 1,000 kilograms of Yuqian tea, and there will be more orders in the future.

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