After they left, the seventh cousin pondered: "Tantan, is your mother still picking tea leaves on the mountain? Give her a call and show me a few tea branches when she comes back."
"Okay."
Song Tan sent the message directly without asking the reason. Only Zhang Yanping did not miss any changes in the family and quickly asked: "Seventh cousin, why do you need the branches?"
The seventh cousin did not hide it: "I thought, if the tea leaves grow well, the old branches and old leaves must be fragrant as well. It would be a pity to just cut them and throw them into the ground or use them as firewood."
"Try it first when you come back. If it tastes good, you can make it later -"
"I see!"
Zhang Yanping clapped his hands fiercely: "Is it right to make tea bricks or tea foam?"
The cheap tea bricks, or the crushed tea leaves in scented tea, are made by breaking and stamping these old branches!
Seventh Cousin:......
He looked complicated, and then sighed: "Yan Ping, Tan Tan asked you to be responsible for selling things. You are really a professional counterpart."
"I just want to use dried tea sticks to smoke some duck and pork. You're welcome. I also want to crush it and make tea bricks... Shen Wansan doesn't even know what to do!"
Zhang Yanping guessed wrong and did not feel embarrassed. Instead, he smiled openly and said: "I don't dare to compare, he is the richest man after all, and I am just an ordinary worker. My salary is still two thousand five thousand!" "
Even the food is great. Not to mention getting a salary, he would not be willing to leave even without a salary.
And because eating is so satisfying, other material desires are reduced. With his current salary, apart from paying phone bills and game cash, there is absolutely no use for it...
If this continues, saving 20,000 yuan by the end of the year will not be a dream!
The seventh cousin just made a few jokes, and after saying that, he fell into deep thought: "But you are right, the tea is so good, the tea bricks and tea powder should also be very fragrant... Let me study it."
When it comes to matters in the kitchen, the seventh cousin has always been resolute.
Wu Lan came back with a basket at half noon, and sure enough he pulled out a lot of tea branches, and a camellia the size of a quail egg had already bloomed on one branch.
The snow-white petals are slightly closed, revealing the pale yellow stamens inside, which is particularly fresh and moving.
This surprised Qiao Qiao: "Mom, are the tea trees about to bear tea seeds? If they bear tea seeds this year, can I still pound tea oil?"
Pound tea oil——
Song Tan also fell into memories.
In her childhood, this was a skill that every child in the village knew.
Get a small wine cup and an unused pen, preferably one with a lid. Peel the ripe tea seeds from the mountain, smash the milky white round fruits into the wine cup, and use the pen to keep pressing downwards...
Over time, the mashed tea fruit will turn into a dark brown translucent shape, and a layer of yellow tea oil will precipitate on it.
When she was young, her classmates often compared each other like this, and even in class and after class, they would take pens and mess with them...
After all, in the countryside at that time, there were not as many types of entertainment as there are today.
Who would have thought that it was Qiaoqiao's turn, and since he had no playmates, he actually did the same thing.
"Okay." For Qiao Qiao, the family has always been free-range, and Wu Lan was even more cooperative this year: "You can buy a beautiful wine cup yourself, and then pound the tea oil and cook for everyone."
Qiaoqiao's eyes lit up instantly!
In the past, pounding tea oil was just a recreational activity, but now tea oil can be used for cooking - he was instantly full of enthusiasm!
"Is there tea fruit on the mountain now? I'll go now!"
That's not to say there isn't one - among the tea trees all over the mountains and plains, there are always one or two that are blooming or bearing fruit now. but……
"It's too hot now and will break easily. Just wait until autumn and winter. You can choose a beautiful little cup for yourself first. Mom will give you money!"
"Okay!" Qiao Qiao blinked - after all, his money has been used as travel expenses!
He must study hard during this trip. Once he learns it, if he saves money, he can take his parents on a trip in the winter when he has no job!
The seventh cousin has already put the tea branches on the fire to smoke them - now the conditions are simple, he just puts the tea branches a little away from the flames, slowly smokes them, and then takes them out to smell the aroma -
"The taste is okay, but I don't know what the flavor will be like when smoked and grilled with meat."
Skilled people like them can actually tell what the combination will taste like just by smelling it, but it's not absolutely accurate.
To be on the safe side, the seventh cousin decided - "Tan Tan, let's try killing two ducks later."
The duck at home is half big and not small, so it is quite suitable for roast duck.
Song Tan thought for a while: "Goodbye. Our chickens and ducks are still small, and they must be delicious. If you mix the two, you can't tell which one is more prominent."
"I'll go back to the market and buy an old duck so I can judge whether it tastes good or not."
The seventh cousin thought about it and it made sense: "Okay, the smoked duck is better to choose the old duck, which is more chewy. When the time comes, I will smoke a dry duck for you as a snack."
Then he stretched out his hand to call Qiao Qiao over: "Go, get the big shears, cut these into small branches, cut them into small pieces, one centimeter or two centimeters will do, be careful not to hurt your hands."
"OK."
Without saying a word, Qiaoqiao took the scissors used to cut branches at home, holding the tea branches in one hand, and started cutting into the prepared small stainless steel basin.
Here, the seventh cousin asked again: "Ulan, who else raises chickens in the village? Go and ask if there are any eggs, and we can buy some."
"What Yan Ping said just now makes sense. Our tea smells very good. I want to try whether the old tea branches can cook tea eggs."
After all, their tea leaves are too expensive, and no one is willing to use them to boil tea eggs.
Not to mention fresh tea leaves, the seventh cousin of Huang Pianzi wouldn't part with it - after all, he drinks two cups a day!
"Okay." Ulan immediately picked up the small basket and said, "I'll go right away."
After all, the tea branches cut off in previous years were either given to factories that collected old tea branches, or were picked up as firewood by other old men and women in the village.
This thing can only ignite fire, but not burn. Their family doesn't have enough labor, so they don't take care of it.
It was a coincidence that before Ulan went out, his cell phone rang.
She answered the phone, and the loud voice on the other end could be heard throughout the yard:
"Ulan, a factory has come to the village to collect old tea branches. Do you want to prune yours? If so, come and register as soon as possible! They say each of the first ten households will receive two boxes of beer!"
Wu Lan hesitated for a moment.
Zhang Yanping was curious: "This factory is quite good, and there are gifts for door-to-door purchases. How much does he pay for a pound of these old tea branches?"
Good night.
I haven't been productive in the past few days...it must be because I didn't offer enough sacrifices to the God of Codewords before!
Come on, let’s sacrifice a new updated sister tonight - "Live Debt Collection, One Follows the Whole Network and Frightens Cries!" 》
A generation of heavenly master Jiang Ningning traveled through time and became an incense shop owner!
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(End of chapter)
