The sun is shining brightly, and the fragrance of jasmine flowers in Shen's house's garden is fragrant.
Xia Zhu and Chun Yu were drying the jasmine flowers on the mat together. There were more than a dozen mats spread in the garden, and the harvested jasmine flowers were dried on them. The jasmine flowers are weightless. Although they look like a lot, they only weigh one or two hundred kilograms when dried. After these jasmine flowers are dried, they will be sent to the workshop and mixed with tea leaves to make jasmine tea.
Xiao Zi'an took the grasshopper made by Xiao Yi's brother and squatted on the ground to watch Xia Zhu and others drying jasmine flowers with Xiao Yi.
Shen Wan felt that it would be better for the boy to stay with other boys, so she stopped letting Xiao Yi watch the door and asked him to look after the boy An.
The sun in May is also sufficient, and these jasmine flowers will dry in the sun for three to five days.
In the workshop under the Shen family's tea mountain, workers are busy making tea.
What they are making now is black tea. In this era, there is only black tea but no green tea. Since there is no black tea, it is a business opportunity. Moreover, black tea is warm in nature, warms the stomach and dispels cold, can also reduce phlegm, digest food and appetite, promote body fluids and clear away heat, and strengthen myocardial function. It has many benefits for the human body and is more suitable for women to drink.
The fermented tea leaves are already being fried, and the workshop is as hot as a steamer.
Seeing that Shen Wan's face was turning red, the village chief said, "It's hot here, so you should go out and cool down!"
"Yeah." Shen Wan left the workshop.
As soon as she left the workshop, she felt a chill and exhaled comfortably.
"Can this tea really be made like this?" Village Chief Bai still looked at Shen Wan with some worry.
Two days ago, Mrs. Shen said that she would make half of the tea leaves picked into black tea, and asked everyone to sign a confidentiality agreement not to reveal the method of making black tea. Because no one else knew about this except Mrs. Shen. The method of making black tea, so the production of this black tea is also unique to Shen Family Tea House.
The tea leaves had been fermented, and the originally green tea leaves had turned red, and the smell was wrong. They were all worried that once the tea leaves were made, they would not be drinkable or sellable, and they were even more worried that the tea leaves would be spoiled.
The people in their Chashan Village have been growing and making tea for generations, and they have never made tea like this.
"Of course." Shen Wan knew what Village Chief Bai and the others were worried about. They had never made black tea, let alone drank it, so it was normal for them to be worried. "Don't worry, I won't let myself lose money."
When the black tea is ready, they will know that the black tea is not only drinkable but also really good.
Even though Shen Wan said so, Village Chief Bai still couldn't rest assured.
At this time, several carriages stopped on the official road at the foot of Tea Mountain.
More than ten people got off the carriage, some holding big umbrellas and food boxes.
"Eh..." Li Mingyue said, looking at the workshop in front of which smoke was rising and exuding the aroma of tea, "Ruyu, when did your family build a tea-making workshop at the foot of the mountain?"
They had been to the Ning Family Tea Mountain before, but there was no such workshop at that time.
Ning Ruyu looked at the workshop, shook her head and said, "I don't know either, my second uncle is in charge of this tea mountain."
The weather has been good these days. Ning Ruyu and her friends wanted to go out for an outing. Ning Ruyu thought that it would be pleasant to smell the fragrance of tea, drink tea, eat refreshments, recite poems, and make jokes on the tea mountain. I was so impressed that I decided to place this place on my own tea mountain.
Second Master Ning has not told the Ning family that he has sold the tea mountain, so Ning Ruyu does not know that the tea mountain no longer belongs to the Ning family.
The people picking tea on the top of the tea mountain also saw the carriage below, and they were all talking about who was coming.
"Let's go up the mountain!" Ning Ruyu said to the little sisters, "The scenery at the top of the mountain is the best."
Everyone followed Ning Ruyu to the path leading to the mountain. When the person guarding the tea mountain saw someone going up the mountain, he ran all the way down the mountainside.