While they were going to Chashan, a pig was killed in the town. When they came back and cleaned up, several steaming local specialties were already placed on the dining table in the main room.
Several town leaders were very enthusiastic and gathered everyone together to serve the table. Pu'er copper pot wine is a famous specialty wine here. Everyone exchanged glasses and drank until late at night.
The next morning, several people set off after breakfast. When they came back in the evening, a deputy mayor who had dinner with them yesterday came to see Sun Dahai.
"What, professor surnamed Tao, yes, he is a consultant for our company. Now he has arrived in Chuncheng, and he will arrive in Simao tomorrow? Okay, thank you, I understand."
It turned out that Mr. Tao, who stayed in the capital to recuperate, felt that his body had recovered in the past few days. Since he agreed to serve as a consultant for the tea factory of Jiahua Investment Company, he did not want to miss the opportunity of this field trip.
He called Mr. Huang and explained the situation, then took one of his students and boarded a plane to Spring City, accompanied by staff from the capital office of Jiahua Investment Company.
People from the Jiahua office followed Sun Dahai's whereabouts and made phone calls all the way to the town. Unfortunately, it was already late at that time and everyone in the town was off work. They couldn't find anyone. They didn't get in touch until today during the day.
In this way, the office contacted the Dian Provincial Investment Promotion Office and helped Mr. Tao book a ticket for tomorrow, so that everyone can meet up at noon tomorrow.
Sun Dahai was also very happy. It was really lucky for the company to meet a responsible person like Mr. Tao. So he discussed with Chief Hong and others to change the schedule and go back to the airport in Simao area to pick up the person tomorrow.
With Mr. Tao, things will be much easier to handle. Although he is already over sixty and has just had a minor illness, in terms of experience in mountain walking and field work, he is far superior to Sun Dahai.
Mr. Tao led everyone to work hard for several days, and finally inspected several candidate tea mountains, and finally selected the one to be contracted.
"You want to contract Liangqiu Mountain? Of course you can, but Liangqiu Mountain is about 40 miles away from the town and the road is not easy to walk.
Moreover, there don’t seem to be many ancient trees on the mountain, but there are quite a few wild tea trees. Are you sure you want to contract there?”
The mayor listened to Sun Dahai's proposal for the contract location and kindly tried to dissuade him.
Liangqiu Mountain is a possible contracting location circled by the mayor, but it is not considered as an alternative because it is far away, the mountain is steep, and it is difficult to climb up and down. At the same time, the tea trees on the mountain are not very ideal.
Villagers in the town went up to investigate and found that there are more wild tea trees in Liangqiu Mountain, the yield is small, and the tea produced does not taste very good, so villagers generally rarely go there to pick tea.
Sun Dahai shook his head with a smile and said: "Thank you, mayor. However, our Mr. Tao is interested in this tea mountain. He said he wants to try it and improve the quality of tea through refined management."
The discovery of Liangqiu Mountain was actually a coincidence. At that time, Mr. Tao and Sun Dahai had just finished inspecting a nearby tea mountain and were planning to take a rest before going back.
Sun Dahai looked around with a telescope and accidentally discovered a small forest in a depression on the rock wall of the opposite mountain.
Sun Dahai discovered that there were tall trees in the woods, which were very similar to the ancient Pu'er trees that Mr. Tao had led them to look for and identify in the past few days, so he gave the telescope to Mr. Tao and asked him to take a look.
Mr. Tao was very excited when he saw it. This was really the Pu'er ancient tree group that he most hoped to find. And according to the location, this ancient tree group was located on the back of the tea mountain opposite, which was a visual blind spot.
Moreover, the altitude of this area is between 1500 meters and 2000 meters, and the mountains are covered with mist. Only outsiders like Sun Dahai would look around with telescopes. The locals are already accustomed to the surrounding environment, so it may be difficult to find them.
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The mountains in the south are different from those in the north. They are no longer tall and majestic and continuous, but have strange peaks rising abruptly from the ground.
People are on two mountains respectively, talking loudly to each other, and each other can hear each other. But if you really want to go there, you may have to walk a day's mountain road.
This is why singing folk songs is popular in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces.
It was already late at that time, so Mr. Tao and others, led by the local guide, returned to the town to rest. Early the next morning, they came here again and climbed Liangqiu Mountain with great effort.
The area on the top of Liangqiu Mountain is not very large, with dozens of tea trees growing here and there. The trees are quite old, but unfortunately they lack maintenance and are growing wildly.
Mr. Tao shook his head and sighed secretly. It was a pity. These wild tea trees are all old trees, but they are too crowded with each other, resulting in loss of nutrition and light. No wonder the locals look down on these ancient trees.
"These wild ancient trees will take several years to take good care of, and the quality should be improved.
Look at the sea, these three trees are intertwined with each other. If you cut off the middle one, arrange the branches, and saw off the ones that need to be sawed off, the remaining two trees will definitely get better after a few years.
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Mr. Tao was engaged in research after all. He had just climbed up and before he could catch his breath, he was thinking about how to take care of these tea trees.
"Mr. Tao, let's figure out how to get down first before we can see the ancient Pu'er trees you mentioned.
If there were only these wild tea trees on the top of the mountain, it wouldn't be worth the trouble for us to travel so far to contract here. The tea mountains we inspected a few days ago are pretty good."
Sun Dahai followed Mr. Tao for a few days and gained a lot of knowledge. Now he can roughly distinguish their quality and age by taking a look at these tea trees.
The guide was specially arranged for them by the town and was an old mountain man. He walked around the top of the mountain and found a narrow mountain crevice going down, but it was covered by weeds.
Mr. Tao's student was a middle-aged man in his thirties named Chen Guoqing. He and Hu Cheng held one end of the safety rope, and the other end was used by the guide to tie their waists.
The guide hung a safety rope to protect himself, wielded a knife in his hand, split the weeds, and slowly made his way down. Every time he went down for about half an hour, he would come up to rest for a while.
After three times, he went down to the depression and inspected it. After finding that there was no danger, he asked everyone to go down slowly.
Hu Cheng and Tang Guoqing tied the safety rope to a big tree nearby and took the lead to pull the safety rope down. Sun Dahai and Mr. Tao followed them and slipped down.
This steep slope is not long, only about thirty meters, and there are still ten meters of road after that, which is relatively gentle.
Passing through this gap, Sun Dahai's eyes lit up, and they came to the depression. The depression was not very regular, similar to a spindle shape, but the area was not small, covering four or five acres.
There are more than a dozen tall ancient tea trees growing here, spaced very regularly. According to Tao Lao, these should be tea trees planted artificially by previous generations, otherwise the spacing would not be so regular.