Chapter 199
The tea grown on Huolu Mountain is indeed good tea, because of its good terrain and the best peak. The top of the mountain is a shallow slope, and a large area of the slope faces the sun, making this mountain extremely suitable for growing tea. But this place is suitable for growing this variety of tea, but it does not mean that all the mountains in this area are suitable for growing this variety of tea. They must find out the most suitable tea tree variety for the water and soil of this mountain, and plant it scientifically. The tea grown in this way will have the best taste, tea soup color, buds after brewing, and the highest content of amino acids and water extracts in the tea. Only in this way can they showcase their Wugong Mountain tea from all aspects and make their Wugong Mountain Wugong tea famous.
Otherwise, there are so many tea gardens and tea mountains in the world, why is it that only the Wugong Tea from Wugong Mountain can stand out? In addition to cultural propaganda and proper marketing of hometown and tea, the quality of the tea itself must also stand out from all kinds of tea. Otherwise, if the tea tastes obviously dry, bitter and astringent, and the tea soup is turbid, why would people follow you? Am I trying to make you sour, bitter, and astringent?
Today's Jiang Guotai is not as well-connected as he would be more than ten years later, with connections reaching the core of power in the province. Fortunately, Jiang Xin and Wang Xiyue are studying at university in the provincial capital and are familiar with it. After receiving Jiang Guotai's call, they took the task given by Jiang Guotai and ran to the Agricultural University not far from their university to find experts and professors related to tea to consult on the matter.
Although it is called asking for advice, it is certainly not free, it is paid.
It happened that the experts and professors were free on this National Day, so Jiang Xin and his team invited three experts and professors in the field, brought some tools, and came to Huolu Mountain in Jiangjia Village to test the water and soil of the place. At the hospitality of Mayor Jiang and his team, each of them brought back five kilograms of this year's Mingqian tea, packed it in local tea tubes, and gave it to them, asking them to take the tea produced in Huolu Mountain to the province for free amino acid testing.
Uncle Jiang said excitedly, "Don't tell me, the village is doing well. Now the hills have been cleared, and we are just waiting to draw lots to divide the land. Once the land is divided and the tea varieties are selected, we will start planting. By the way, I will draw lots for you. You three children, plus the old man, can get a total of six acres of tea land."
Uncle Jiang said this with a smile so severe that his teeth were showing.
Father Jiang's heart was moved when he heard this. He keenly realized something and asked, "Can girls in the village also get land?"
Uncle Jiang clicked his tongue and said, "That's right. This is not our era now. Girls are very important. This is a new era with the one-child policy. Many families have only one girl. If they can't get land, let's not talk about Ningning, who took the lead in this matter, but Lao Si (Chief Jiang) and Guotai who have been running around for this matter. Lao Si's family has only Yanyan as an only daughter. If she can't get land, will Lao Si (Chief Jiang) agree?"
"Guotai's family also has a daughter, so who dares to say that Guotai's Miaomiao can't get a share of the land?"
For the villagers, profit is always above all else. Giving land to the girls in the village means that their families will have one more acre of tea land. Although it is not clear what value this tea land has now, the shrewd Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang have both said that they will give tea land to their daughters, so of course they have to follow suit.
Father Jiang was silent on the phone. He just listened to a legend and couldn't relate to Uncle Jiang's story about Jiang Ning returning to his hometown to donate relief supplies. His daughter was the protagonist of the legend, so he didn't feel deeply about it. He just smiled and nodded. But when it came to allocating land to the girls in the village, he finally thought about it and said with emotion, "It's about allocating land to girls. Now the country advocates that having sons and daughters is the same. Daughters can also pass on descendants. If we don't allocate land to girls, what's the point? We should have done it a long time ago!"
Back then, Jiang's father was also an advanced element in the village. During the nationwide craze for opening factories, he was the one who actively responded and took action. So his thinking was a mixture of the feudal and backwardness that was native to Jiangjia Village, as well as the advanced thinking that allowed him to quickly accept new ideas.
As a man with vested interests, he actually understands the injustice that society does to women and girls. They are all human beings, so how could he not understand that?
It’s just that sometimes their own interests are not affected, and the overall social environment is like this, so they don’t want to fight for their daughters or make changes.
But when someone really fights for the interests of girls, who should have equal interests with boys, like the initiator, Mayor Jiang, who has an only daughter, and Mayor Jiang has status, prestige, power, and is also an only daughter, it is like something that was originally covered in dust suddenly seeing the sun, and Jiang's father, who understands these principles, will stand up and speak "fair words".
Yes, the government has said that it doesn’t matter whether you have a boy or a girl, so why can’t the girls in the village get a share of the tea land?
Uncle Jiang is the fourth generation of his family and currently has only one granddaughter. His granddaughter can also get a share of the tea land, so of course he is happy and supports Mayor Jiang’s decision?
Of course, daughters who have married out are not included in this. Only girls in the village who have not yet married and whose household registration is still in Jiangjia Village are eligible to share the land. Girls who have been allocated tea land in Jiangjia Village cannot move their household registration even if they get married in the future. If the man agrees to settle in Jiangjia Village, which is the traditional sense of "marrying into the wife's family", and move his household registration to the woman's household registration book, if the woman is the head of the household, of course she can also share the land.
Uncle Jiang talked about a series of matters regarding the tea fields that Mayor Jiang and his team had negotiated, and said, "If it really goes as Ningning planned, and we can make our tea fields famous and sell them at a high price, then our village will be very powerful in the future!"
If the girls in the village don't marry outside the village and instead take in sons-in-law who live with them, how many more households will be added to the village? Originally, their Jiangjia Village was the most famous and largest village in the surrounding area. With more and more sons-in-law coming to live with the family, the scale of the village would inevitably become larger and larger, and the family influence would also become more and more powerful.
Uncle Jiang doesn't know it now, but more than ten years later, when people around him mention Shuibu Town, Wucheng City, the three most famous specialties are: Wugong Tea from Wugong Mountain, wolfberry from Wugong Mountain, and the son-in-law from Henan (the abbreviation for the area south of Shahe).
This is a story for later, so I won’t discuss it for now.
After Jiang's father hung up the phone, he still looked a little dazed.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that in just three short years, Jiang Ning had brought tremendous changes to Jiangjia Village and even the entire Wujiang City.
Being far away, he himself did not feel it deeply. He only said that in Wujia Village of Linhe Brigade, not only was there a craze for sending girls to school, but Uncle Jiang's extremely patriarchal ideas had already been formed. Many middle-aged men with deeply rooted ideas did not even think there was anything wrong with having a girl. They were actively looking forward to their granddaughter growing up and going to school quickly, and hoping that she would be as promising as Aunt Ningning in the future. Even the major issue of allocating land to girls, which fundamentally solved the problem of girls' status, was accepted so well.
People like him who are away from home all year round and have not personally experienced or participated in the changes in their hometown can feel these earth-shaking changes like an outsider.
He couldn't help but look up at the strange world around him.
Shenzhen is one of the earliest cities to implement reform and opening up, and is at the forefront of the country's fastest-growing cities. In just over a decade, it has developed from a small fishing village into the prosperous metropolis it is today. Today, it is still changing and improving at a rapid pace.
Dad Jiang has been here for more than two years, almost three years. He has witnessed the world changing and developing rapidly.
When he returned, he told Jiang Ma about this.
When Jiang Ma heard that she had to pay for planting tea trees, she was immediately unhappy: "We can't even pick all the tea leaves on the mountain, so why plant tea trees? Isn't this just a waste of money?"
Jiang's father knew that Jiang's mother didn't understand these things, so he gave her an example: "How can tea be worthless? Since ancient times, tea has been the most profitable. Those tea merchants... Let's not talk about far away places, just look at Anji White Tea and Donghu Longjing. Just one Longjing tree drives all the teas around it, all called Longjing, and one pound can be sold for hundreds or thousands of yuan. How can it be worthless? It's only our Wugong tea that is worthless, but what's the difference between our Wugongshan tea and others?"
For Jiang Dad, who was born and raised in this area and grew up drinking Wugong tea, Wugong tea is the best tea in the world. He is a serious and loyal supporter of Wugong tea and advocates Wugong tea with his real name.
"The only thing our Wugongshan tea lacks is fame. In fact, it is no worse than Anji White Tea or Donghu Longjing! As long as the reputation is spread, why worry about the difficulty in selling tea?"
Mother Jiang couldn't win the argument with Father Jiang, and said unhappily, "Yes, yes, Wugongshan tea is good! What's the point of you saying it's good? It's only good if people outside think it's good and it can be sold at a high price. Otherwise, no matter how much you plant, if you can't sell it, it will just go to waste on the mountain. What's the point? Isn't it just a waste of money?"
Jiang Ma and many local villagers who are unwilling to participate in tea planting have the same idea, that is, the tea leaves on their own tea trees cannot be picked or drunk every year, so they just leave them there idle. Spending money to buy new varieties of tea trees and plant tea trees is simply a waste of time.
Father Jiang couldn't help laughing when he thought about what Jiang Ning, Jiang Guotai, and Mayor Jiang had said during the Chinese New Year about a series of publicity plans for the subsequent tea trees after they were planted. He lay on the bed with his hands behind his head and talked to Mother Jiang about the village's decision to allocate tea plots to the girls.
"By then, Ningning will have land in the village." Jiang's father said with emotion.
His greatest wish for future life is that his children will be around him, love each other, and live together warmly. It will be so lively for the whole family to live together. When the eldest son Jiang Song gets married and has children, his family will have four generations living under the same roof. At that time, during the New Year, everyone will sit around a large table together, and it will be very lively.
Whenever Dad Jiang thought of that scene, he became full of energy and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Ningning has land in the village and has roots there. Her roots are in the village, so no matter where she goes, she will always come back.
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