Traveling through 70's wine

One day, Wen Qing called Chen Changmin and five others, as well as Wu Ying, to the educated youth site and pointed to the tea trees in the backyard and said, "Tea trees enter a rapid growth period in spring, during which young leaves can be picked every four or five days. If it rains, young leaves can be picked every three days."

He demonstrated how to pick tea leaves. "My tea tree has only been planted for two years, so we can't pick a lot of tea leaves yet. Today we are just trying to pick some tea leaves, and then show you how to make tea."

Watching Wen Qing's hands flying, she quickly picked the tender leaves and put them into the small basket around her waist.

Several people were eager to try. Wen Qing picked half a basket and handed it to Wu Ying. "You can try it too. Each person is responsible for one row. Only pick tea trees that are more than 60 centimeters tall. The standard for picking is one leaf and one bud."

The six people started working quickly. They were all used to doing farm work. After watching Wen Qing's actions, they now did it themselves. Although their speed was not as fast as Wen Qing's, it was also standard.

An hour later, the sun was high in the sky and everyone put down their small baskets, which were basically half full.

Wen Qing poured the young leaves into a large, flat bamboo dustpan, and spread the tea leaves flat in the dustpan with her hands, while explaining to everyone, "This is called spreading and airing. It is mainly to dry out the moisture of the fresh tea leaves. The airing time is generally not too long."

After more than half an hour, she poured the dried tea leaves into a large pot. She used wood as the stove under the pot to control the temperature. She introduced: "This step is called killing the green tea."

Everyone watched her stir-frying the tea leaves in the hot wok with her hands, concentrating carefully on watching her gestures. As she stir-fried the tea leaves, the grassy flavor of the tea leaves in the wok gradually faded and the color gradually turned dark green.

Then Wen Qing poured the tea leaves from the iron pot into the bamboo dustpan and kneaded the tea leaves. "This step is called kneading and twisting, which is to further break up the structure of the tea leaves, making it easier for the aroma and active ingredients in the tea leaves to brew out, and also to form strips."

Sure enough, everyone could smell the fragrance of the tea leaves slowly emanating.

Finally, Wen Qing put the rolled tea leaves in the sun to dry.

Wen Qing took out the dried tea leaves she had previously dried and distributed a bag of them to everyone. Chen Changgang picked up a tea leaf and smelled it. "Teacher Wen, can our tea garden also produce such good tea in the future?"

"Why not? But in the next two years, you have to carefully manage the tea garden. The tea leaves have sufficient nutrients and the tea produced is of good quality. Did you see the tea-making process today? Think about it more after you go back, and you can make tea by yourself next week."

Wu Ying went back and took out the tea leaves to make two cups of tea. She tasted them with Wu Juan. Looking at the rising steam, the tea fragrance also rose. After taking a sip of the tea, Wu Juan said, "Sister, I also want to learn how to grow and make tea."

Looking at her skinny sister, Wu Ying said distressedly: "Xiaojuan, take care of yourself first. I will go to the commune middle school to ask whether you should continue to go to school."

Wu Juan: "I want to learn how to grow tea."

Wu Ying had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll go tell Wen Qing."

Of course Wen Qing has no problem with this, as there are now 7 people learning from her.

In the autumn, everyone made tea twice on their own. This was mainly because Wen Qing's tea trees were still young and could not produce much tea. Wen Qing still watered the space with lake water from time to time and dug soil from the space to protect the roots.

There are 20 acres of tea garden in the village. Now 1 tea seedlings are planted. 2000 of them were bought from Anqing County, and were transplanted by Wen Qing from the space.

Looking down from the mountain next to the tea garden, the tea seedlings in the tea garden are planted neatly in rows, looking extremely refreshing.

Wen Qing brought seven young people to weed and fertilize every day.

The tea garden is newly reclaimed land with a lot of weeds, which need to be constantly removed. It will take two years to basically remove all of them. The tea trees also need to be protected from diseases and insects. The main tea tree diseases include tea anthracnose and tea cake disease. These need to be improved by increasing the application of phosphorus fertilizers, potassium fertilizers and organic fertilizers to increase the resistance of the tea trees.

At the same time, the water must be drained in time, and then the insects must be caught. There are fewer pesticides now, so pests can be caught directly when they are found.

Wen Qing learned about tea planting from her last trip to the tea gardens in Mengguang and Pudu, and from a book on rural cash crop planting that she bought at a scrap yard. In addition, she had been planting tea for two years and had accumulated a certain amount of experience.

After more than half a year of growth, the tea seedlings in the tea garden have grown to two feet tall, with lush green leaves, and are growing well.

Lin Changsheng also often came to the tea garden for a stroll and was very satisfied with Wen Qing's work results.

Wen Qing and several young people usually work in the tea garden, and they still have to go to the fields during the summer and autumn harvests.

The tea garden has no income yet, and the crops in the fields are the hope of the whole village. The villagers are doing their best to harvest the crops.

Wen Qing now earns 6 work points a day. She no longer collects grass for pigs, so she spends less time in the mountains. She focuses her energy mainly on studying.

This year, Songsong's aunt Zhang Deying and her mother Xu Huali sent her test papers twice respectively, and Wen Qing also sent them dried mushrooms as a return gift.

Wen Qing has finished all the textbooks for junior high and high school, and has also finished reading four books on mathematics, physics and chemistry. According to her history in her previous life, she still has one year to review.

For Wen Qing, English is the most difficult subject. As many schools now do not offer English classes, there are very few English materials. Fortunately, she found an incomplete English-Chinese dictionary at a scrap yard in Nankun City last time. Without the book, she memorized the dictionary, not only the words but also the sentences. Now, except for the lack of frequent practice in speaking and listening, she has no problem reading books and making sentences.

Sometimes Wen Qing couldn’t help but think that if she had been half as serious in her previous life as she is now, she wouldn’t have only passed the exam into a second-tier university.

After the autumn harvest, Wen Qing handed over the work in the tea garden to seven young people. In fact, there was not much work to do. It was mainly about applying fertilizer and pruning. They cut off the thin side branches to allow the main branches to accumulate nutrients so that the young leaves would grow better in the spring of the following year.

She went deep into the Daqing Mountain by herself. She climbed to the top of the mountain along the path she took last time, went to the pine forest, picked pine nuts and acorns, and dug truffles. She put the pine cones and pine needles into the space for composting and use as fertilizer. This time she came a little earlier and had a very good harvest. She picked more than 300 kilograms of pine nuts, more than 500 kilograms of acorns, and 20 kilograms of truffles, and put all these things into the space.

Turning the ridge, she went to the big waterfall.

The water level of the autumn waterfall was not as high as before. Wen Qing walked over and found a large, flat stone to sit on. The weather in late autumn was getting colder, and the water felt a little chilly when it hit her body.

Wen Qing was busy practicing internal energy to circulate throughout her body, and she no longer felt the cold.

Wen Qing was completely immersed in her cultivation. The sound of flowing water, the sound of wind blowing through the trees, and the sound of birds singing gradually faded away. She only felt a vibrant force constantly squeezing her meridians, and her internal strength continued to increase.

She was very happy with this change, like a mountain breeze blowing up the mountain mist.

At this moment, a force suddenly burst out from the meridians, pushing the internal energy to flow. Although he did not open his eyes, there was a light in front of him and a fragrance in his nose. A hot current flowed through various acupoints, passing through all the meridians that had been cultivated.

Her perception was even more acute. Even with her eyes closed she could see a bird singing on a branch 50 meters away. With a thought, she used her inner strength to wrap up a fist-sized stone underwater and threw it at the bird. "Snap!" the bird was hit and fell off the branch. It was stunned for a moment before flapping its wings and flying away again.

Wen Qing once again wrapped a basketball-sized stone with her mind and threw it at a small tree beside the pond. With a "crash", the small branch broke and fell to the ground.