丨 This article was originally produced by Xiao Chen Tea
丨 First published in the headline number: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
《1》
Last night, I fell asleep with a heavy heart.
Because of the typhoon.
Because fuzhou rained heavily.
Thinking of Fuding, it is estimated that today will also be a heavy rain pouring down - the weather forecast is brightly written that there is rain.
When I called Master S yesterday afternoon, he also said that on a typhoon day, it was raining on the mountain and there was no tea picking. Today, it is estimated that it will also rain.
The words of this old mountainman were like a scoop of cold water in his pocket, pouring a cold water on chen, the village girl who was desperately looking forward to cold dew tea.
Even in the dream, the sound of rain is torrential.
《2》
This morning I got up, at half past seven, and called Master S.
He was still half-dreaming and half-awake.
Impatiently asked him, how is it, is it raining?
I heard the sound of getting up and putting on my shoes, and I guess I went to pull the curtains and look out the window. After a while, his voice came: the sky was overcast, and the clouds were a little thick.
Well, it's not raining now. I was relieved. "Will it be down later?"
He said that the clouds were so thick that it was difficult to say. Wait until ten o'clock to see.
The weather in Taimu Mountain is like this, there is fog in the morning, fog in the evening, and today there are more clouds, which is even more uncertain about the next weather changes.
Every day until the end of the morning, the weather conditions will become clearer.
Now, there's only one word, etc.
Waiting is the first old age of a lifetime.
So the village girl Chen finished freshening up, sat by the window, drank tea, and so on.
Time passed by minute by minute, and I finally experienced the feeling of Wang Baojun's ten years of cold kiln.
If I were her, I would have to live well, sit on an equal footing with the tortoiseshell princess of that Fanbang, live longer than her, live better than her, and this big turnip with the surname of Xue should be diaphragm.
《3》
100 grams of white peony cake, drink a dip.
By the time of the tenth rush, Master S's call came.
His slightly hesitant voice rang out into the microphone: It's sunny now, but I don't know if it's going to rain later.
Why? I was puzzled.
He explained that it was sunny now, but the clouds hadn't completely dispersed yet, and if the clouds gathered again, it might rain. That's how the weather in the mountains is. Can't tell.
What to do? Do you want to go up the mountain to keep the sun out?
If it rains today and you can't pick cold dew, then it's okay to pick it tomorrow, and tomorrow's cold dew is also cold dew, and it's better to postpone it than to advance.
One day late, although the inner quality is not much worse, but tomorrow's cold dew, after all, is not as good as today's cold dew.
After hesitating for a long time, I finally decided to go up the mountain.
Go and keep the sun.
If the weather gets better today, pick it. If the weather is bad today, pick it tomorrow. I live in the mountains tonight, and I can get up early tomorrow morning to photograph the sunrise of the tea garden and pick tea.
The weather forecast said that tomorrow would be a sunny day.
《4》
Half an hour Li Mahua flew to pick up.
The car drove to Ningde, it was already sunny, blue sea and blue sky.
Our mood is also brisk.
Ningde and Fuding, but tens of kilometers away, it is impossible to shine here in the sun, and heavy rain pours down there.
With the stimulation of this sunshine, it is too late to eat lunch, and it is not stopping to go up the mountain.
By the time we reached the foot of Mount Taimu, the sun had sunned overhead. White clouds, ribbon-like, cotton-like, animal-like, scattered above the blue sky, not to mention how beautiful.
The journey up the hill is thrilling.
Finally, the cold dew tea of 2021, there is no difficult birth.
It was picked on the day of the Cold Dew Festival, and it was fortunately made into a daylight withered white tea.
Solar withering can promote the production of protein and theanine in large quantities.
Such white tea has more abundant nutrients.
Taste, richer and more diverse.
《5》
The tea plantation on the hill is still quiet.
The forest is deep and long, and the camellia flowers that fall from the ground under the abandoned white tea trees, a small white flower, lie on the soil of the roots, becoming a beautiful scenery.
In the terrace tea garden, it is almost impossible to see people picking tea.
This summer is very hot, autumn is also very hot, and this autumn is very hot for a long time, until the National Day, this extremely hot weather, let the tea plant grow wildly, in advance of the overdraft of physical strength.
By the cold dew festival of late autumn, the white tea trees were weak in their internal strength, and they had already been overwhelmed, and they could not produce more young shoots and young leaves.
It can only grow slowly, develop slowly.
The buds are not large, the leaves are not many, and there are not many tea greens that can be picked.
The output is not large, a day to stand down, can not pick dozens of pounds of tea green, can not earn much money, smart tea farmers, go to other work.
Only the older ones, who have no way out, are still insisting on picking.
In this breeze, I stood myself as a tree deep into the tea garden.
《6》
Some tea friends asked, is there more cold dew tea this year?
I can only sigh.
Less than last year.
Heartache.
Hanlu tea, originally not much every year.
Especially this year, after the summer is too long and the energy is overdrawn, hanlu tea is more difficult to develop.
In addition, the tea pickers think that the amount of tea green is not much and the income is not high, and most of them have changed to other jobs.
Coupled with the higher income of silver needles, many tea farmers have chosen not to pick cold dew and retain their physical strength to collect silver needles next year.
In short, next year's silver needle production will increase even more. And this year's cold dew, although God appreciates the meal and eats, got a good weather, but because of the result of artificial selection, the yield is still extremely low.
Silver needles will be everywhere in the future.
And the cold dew, perhaps, will be more rare.
Things are scarce and expensive, and the amount of cold dew is less, isn't it more precious? Li Mahua was excited on the side.
Yes, you're right.
I smiled at her.
For the first time, I felt that she had a lot of sense.
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Xiao chen tea village gu Chen, columnist, tea industry original new media "Xiao Chen tea matter" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", 2016-2020 has written more than 4,000 original articles.