The origin of the tea

Once upon a time, there was a rich man named Gua Pi in Taiyuan, Jiangxi, who was fierce and fierce for people's hearts, and none of the long-term workers who could do anything bad did not hate him. Zhang Guapi has an only daughter named Zhang Xiulian, the girl looks as beautiful as a flower, provoked the door to climb the door of the young master of the front heel and back foot, let alone dozens, but she did not like one, but looked at the family's long-term worker Wu Lingzai.

Wu Lingzai was twenty-one years old, with a strong body, loyal and straight, and was an orphan.

Once, Xiulian was playing by the pond, accidentally fell into the pond, drowned seven or eight lives, was seen by Wu Fenzai, and only then rescued her from the water. Xiulian thinks that The boy is a good person and a long-term worker in the family, and they see each other every day, and after a long time, the two people are like friends.

The amount of rice is large, Xiulian often divides the rice for him to eat, and the boy naturally picks some bayberry and wild fruits from outside for her to taste. Soon, the two got along.

This matter was known to Zhang Guapi. Of course, he would not marry his precious daughter to a poor long-term worker, and he was determined to drive the boy away and repel their contacts. But then I thought, no, what if my daughter doesn't follow him and goes with him? I only have such a precious daughter, I think about it, I have come up with a poisonous plan. On this day, the boy was hoeing grass in the sweet potato field, and Zhang Gua Peel took a handful of sweet potato peel from his pocket and threw it on the ground, saying that the boy stole the sweet potato to eat. The boy didn't steal, of course he wouldn't admit it. Zhang Guapi called a few dog legs, beat the boy severely, and then put him in a private prison. Zhang Guapi ordered him to go down, only to bring water to the boy, not to send food, and wanted to starve him alive.

Xiulian knew it, and she hated her father very much for being so cruel and fierce, and knew that it was useless to intercede. In the evening, Xiulian came to the kitchen to steal something to give to the boy to eat, but the kitchen searched the cabinet and everything she could eat was hidden. It turned out that Zhang Guapi expected that her daughter would have such a hand. Xiulian was anxious like a fire, seeing that there was a bowl of tea soup on the stove, she thought that the tea could quench her thirst and fill her hunger, so she ran to the back mountain to pick a handful of tea leaves, stole some salt, and secretly gave it to the boy, who got the tea and salt, and used the water sent to brew it into salt tea and live by life. After a month, Zhang Guapi suddenly died, and Xiulian released the boy in prison, immediately became a relative, and put the inherited family wealth in the hands of the boy. The boy distributed the grain in the barn to the poor people. In order to help the people survive the spring famine, he remembered that he used salt tea water in prison to quench his hunger and thirst, so he asked the villagers to go up the mountain to pick tea leaves and brew salt tea, which was named "Beating Tea".

Later, people put some peanuts, sesame seeds and other spices in the tea, which was even more delicious. Gradually, in the Taiyuan area, tea became a tea for people to treat guests.