Chapter 182 Tea Growing on the Hillside
Liangchuan, a layman, is a layman. Although he has also been exposed to some knowledge about tea ceremony, he is also the knowledge that bragging at tea parties. Sun Houpu is a professional. There is an old saying, don’t use your hobbies to challenge other people’s professions.
Sun Houpu was afraid of being wasted more than a thousand good seedlings, so he asked Liang Chuan if he knew how to grow tea seedlings. Fengshan's agriculture was so colorful that after getting the negative answer, especially He Lu, he was doing all kinds of tricks that were not available in other places. Moreover, each tea seedling costs several hundred cents, so it shouldn't be bought and squandered. As a result, Liang Chuan told him that he didn't understand at all... He began to regret why his mind was so hot that he sent these treasures.
A large group of carriages took the tea seedlings to Liangchuan's new home. The masters of Luocheng now saw a lot of big events. The boss is a big deal, and everything he does is vigorously. They are busy with their work at hand, and they have no time to pay attention to these tea vendors.
The carriage does not have a mountain road to the mountain, so it can only be removed from the carriage, carried it on the back of the horse, and carried it up the mountain with a horse. This is the same thing as someone building a tomb on the mountain. If someone carries these materials, he will vomit blood. The horses pulling the carriage are all endurance horses, and it is not possible to marching and charge, but it is best to be hard-working.
Not only the Song Dynasty, but even today, when many mobile telecommunications and power companies were going to build elevated towers on many mountains, the assembled steel still relied on mules and horses to carry it up the mountain, because there was no road for cars to drive in the deep mountains, and there was no dirt road.
Sun Houpu led the horse team members to the front. He did not linger at the foot of the mountain or talk to Liang Chuan, but instead led a horse and took the men to the mountain to find a suitable location for growing tea.
This made Liang Chuan look at him with a little attention. Most of the young men born with a golden spoon in their arms felt that they had accumulated great virtues in their previous life and saved the Song Dynasty. They were reincarnated in this life to enjoy happiness. Many people were either wine bags, or they were ignorant second-generation ancestors, dandy yamen, not to mention rich young masters like Sun Houpu who were willing to do things by themselves.
Some families educate their children, leaving behind a wealth of wealth, but they train their children into a pampered rice insect. The family is a small wealth but difficult to last. Sun Houpu truly interprets what capital outside of personal ability means is equal to zero. They all start from scratch and do it themselves. Liang Chuan sighed from the bottom of his heart that it is like this, and how can the descendants of poor people feel this? It is difficult for the family to not prosper with this good family tradition.
The land on the mountain is full of unowned wasteland, and anyone who develops it will belong to whom. Strictly speaking, this mountain also belongs to Helu Village. However, no one wants to plant the land at the foot of the mountain, and no one will plant the slopes on the mountain. Even making a cemetery is troublesome.
The attitude of the government also encourages farmers to open up land and increase the area of arable land. The county officials will add a heavy hand in the course exam, which is a political achievement.
Liang Chuan followed Sun Houpu's horse team to the mountain. He was not as professional as the Sun family, but he knew a little bit. It is best to do his own tea according to his own wishes. Times are changing, and the technology of making tea for a thousand years has become unrecognizable. He can keep the excellent ancient technology and cooperate with his strengths in his later generations. I believe the tea produced will not be bad.
The mountainous land in Helu’s back mountain is not high at a height, but it is also a hilly area. After the terrain height exceeds one thousand meters, it will cause freezing damage, and the tea trees cannot survive in winter. Compared with the plains, the hill is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round. The water of the Nanxi River brings continuous water vapor all year round, covering the hillside, with enough humidity and low air pressure. The diffused sunlight is beneficial to the growth of tea trees.
The growth of tea trees also has certain requirements for temperature. The Longtuan Tea Tree is native to Jianzhou. Later, the Sun family transplanted it to Quanzhou. Xinghua was more south than Jianzhou and in the north of Quanzhou. The latitude of the two is relatively superior. The temperature here is above ten degrees in winter and below twenty-five degrees in summer, which is just suitable for the growth of tea trees.
The convoy winds up the mountain road. Whenever he reaches a certain height, Sun Houpu will squat on the ground, twist a handful of soil with his hands, rub it with his hands, feel the ingredients of the soil at the tip of his hands, observe carefully, and smell it from time to time.
"Xiao Sun, there are so many kinds of tea trees? Isn't it enough to dig a few holes and bury them directly?" Liang Chuan said naively.
Before, he didn't know Liang Chuan or this person, Sun Houpu might have thought that this person was really a layman and spoke insults, but now every time he sees Liang Chuan's face as if he is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, he feels a thorn on his back, and he always feels that this kid is pretending to be stupid.
Especially today, he thought that the terrain of Xinghua was not suitable for growing tea trees. After his on-site inspection, his heart was surging like a storm. The temperature, terrain, soil, and sunshine here are the best conditions for growing tea trees! No wonder Liang Chuan, a man who was full on a whim, wanted to plant tea trees, just say, it turned out that he had calculated everything, but now he pretended to be in a posture of not knowing anything, so he was so cunning.
Sun Houpu thought about Liang Chuan several times in his mind. Liang Chuan looked at Sun Houpu with a burning look. He really didn't understand. He just wanted to do some tea experiments. How could he know that his image had become a master who had a 9th dan in Sun Houpu's eyes...
"One unique place! A land of gold!" Sun Houpu's eyes were quite hot, and he was a little furious when he saw Liang Chuan.
"Xiao Sun, what's wrong? Can't we plant tea trees here?" Liang Chuan asked timidly without any confidence.
You are pretending! Sun Houpu greeted Liang Chuan's family several times, but his face was still excited and said, "I have been to many places in the vast land of Minyue, so I just slapped my eyes under my nose." Sun Houpu looked annoyed after saying that.
Liang Chuan became even more confused, "Xiao Sun, you just said it's okay, can't you plant it?"
Sun Houpu grabbed a handful of mud and rubbed it on his palm for a long time before he reluctantly lifted the soil in his hand. "Your mountain soil layer is very thick, but the soil is very loose, and it has excellent ventilation, permeability and water storage performance. Moreover, tea tree seedlings like mahogany the most and avoid loess. You are all mahogany here, so you smell the smell on my hands."
The red soil on Sun Houpu's hand had already risen, but Liang Chuan leaned over and smelled it, and a strong smell of rotten smell still came to his face.
"This earthy taste is so strong." Liang Chuan frowned.
"You are right. The more rotten the soil is, the more it means that the soil is fertile. Red soil is the most suitable for the growth of this tea seedling. So I said that this place is a unique Feng Shui treasure land!" Sun Houpu kept exclaiming.
Liang Chuan has heard that tea trees like acidic soils, and the more humus there is in the soil, in this era without synthetic fertilizers, biological fertilizer is the only source of nutrients for plants. After Sun Houpu breaks it a little, he suddenly realized that it seems like this.
"This hillside faces the sunshine, and the sufficient sunlight will make the tea trees grow soundly. There is also an old saying that the mountains are mostly covered with sand and gravel, and those who call them good food are all located in the south of the mountain, which is the sum of the rising sun! Take the tea trees here and pick them on time, so you won't have any good tea to drink!"
There are many clouds and mists in the mountains, many diffuse lights, large humidity, and some are large temperature differences between day and night, which are conducive to the accumulation of effective tea substances, especially the accumulation of aromatic substances. In general, this is the result of the comprehensive influence of environmental conditions. However, not all mountains can grow good tea. A superior geographical environment can make tea more prominent, but to create a good tea is indispensable in all aspects from growth to frying.
Liang Chuan didn't expect that his unintentional actions had created such a good effect. This was a real fortune from heaven. Tea was also a valuable item. If he mastered the technique of tea stir-frying, he would not worry about not being a source of income.
After the tea garden was selected, Sun Houpu asked his servants to help dig pits and plant. Sun was only responsible for helping Liang Chuan farm roughly. As for the weeding, repairing, leveling and drainage of the tea garden, Liang Chuan asked someone to manage it in the future. It was already a big help to help Liang Chuan plant only. If he asked someone to plant tea, he would not know how many tea seedlings would be ruined, and Fengshan would have no place to hire a tea farmer.
The tea garden was very busy, and Sun Houpu did not go into battle personally at this time. All that was left was physical work, so he didn't need to come forward. He looked at Fengshan and Xinghua with his hands behind his back. Xinghua City was at the middle of the mountain. There was a long street passing by Fengshan, and the water in the south stream tied the two closely together like a jade belt.
The gentle spring breeze caresses the belt of the Piaopiao young master from time to time. This silk-like uniform is not only light in texture but also very comfortable to wear. Like the spring breeze, it cannot caress the heavy and hemp farm work clothes on Liang Chuan. Sun Houpu's background is very elegant, and he looks like a kind of guidance.
Liang Chuan walked quietly to the side, facing the prosperity, and stood side by side, asking, "Do you really like Zheng Ruoying?"
Sun Houpu's lips raised gently and said lightly: "Don't you think I look like me?"
"Then I will teach you another trick today, and I will definitely win!"
This made Sun Houpu feel at heart, and then he turned his face and looked at Liang Chuan passionately, waiting for Liang Chuan's answer.
"You just need to ask the matchmaker to get a job, and then carry the sedan chair and play to his Zheng family's house. How come his father will not agree when he sees you, a son-in-law," he said.
Sun Houpu smiled bitterly, "Are you saying that you rely on my family to win their favor? That's right, his family will be very glorious, but will she be happy?"
"Uh... According to my understanding of this girl, she will not only not be happy, but will also hate you for the rest of her life."
Chapter completed!