A night on the edge of the desert is certainly not as comfortable as being in a camp. The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is truly frightening. Even though they spent the night on the treeline, they woke up from the cold many times in the middle of the night.
However, the desert night is also very enchanting. The cool moonlight drapes the desert in a silvery cloak, and the unobstructed desert gives the moonlight room to shine freely, making the stars in the night sky appear incredibly bright.
The starry sky in the microcosm is beautiful; in the unpolluted microcosm, the Milky Way can be seen in the night sky. This is even more pronounced in the desert, where the earth is a single color, making the night sky appear even purer.
A faint Milky Way appeared in the night sky, with a full moon hanging alone beside it; the desolate feeling was unparalleled anywhere else.
In the early morning, they watched the sunrise again. After watching the sunrise, they quickly set off while it was still cool. When the sun had fully risen, it was already eight o'clock in the micro-world, and everyone was forcibly driven out of the micro-world.
Because he spent a long time in the micro-world, Chen Yang didn't get up until eight o'clock.
He had already practiced his boxing in the micro-world, facing the rising sun, but his real body hadn't been exercised. Chen Yang didn't want his two bodies to be out of sync, making his micro-world self look like a game character while he himself was a game addict.
So, Chen Yang practiced his boxing routine and did some indoor exercises in his room before washing up and leaving the room.
When he entered the inn's lobby, Ye Wu was already telling the others about their experiences on this desert trip. Chen Yang saved himself the trouble of explaining and let Ye Wu exaggerate. Although there was a lot of exaggeration, it was still enough to convey their experiences.
He glanced around the tea room and saw that Xing Tu was already sitting there, along with Guo Zifeng.
"You two, you're here way too early," Chen Yang said speechlessly.
"It's not early, it's not early. I had breakfast and did my morning exercise with Old Xing before coming over," Guo Zifeng said.
Chen Yang looked at Guo Zifeng with disdain. It was because this guy had been fawning over Xing Tu that Chen Yang treated Xing Tu like a regular customer and often let him into the Micro Realm Inn.
“Grandpa Xing, you’re so old, you shouldn’t be coming here every day. Here, let me scan a code for you, and you can drink thousand-year-old Pu’er tea every day,” Chen Yang said.
Xing Tu glared at him and said, "Boss Chen, you can't just say things like that. This is a thousand-year-old Pu'er tea. I don't know how you got it, but even the top leaders can't drink it often."
"Mr. Xing, Chen Yang really wasn't bragging. As long as you scan the code, you can drink it every day without any problem. There are also tea eggs made with thousand-year-old Pu'er tea."
Xing Tu gave a helpless smile and said, "Xiao Guo, I know you're familiar with Boss Chen, but don't try to fool me like this. If this thousand-year-old Pu'er tea is properly marketed, it could easily sell for over a million. Pu'er tea with tea eggs? Are your tea eggs made of gold?"
Guo Zifeng knew this was somewhat unbelievable, so he said, "Mr. Xing, you'll know once you scan it. Boss Chen doesn't just give out these codes to anyone. I did offer 1 million, but I still couldn't get them."
"Oh, that's so novel?" Xing Tu was a little curious. Then he took out his phone, which turned out to be a discontinued Nokia, and asked, "Can this scan?"
Chen Yang and Guo Zifeng were taken aback; they hadn't really considered whether Nokia phones could scan QR codes. Even Grandpa Lianyun and Jiang Bo's parents used smartphones.
"Grandpa, your phone seems to have a camera. Why don't you turn it on and try it?" Chen Yang said somewhat uncertainly.
Grandpa Xing turned on his phone's camera and pointed it at Chen Yang's phone.
"Wow, that really works!" Guo Zifeng said in surprise.
A new optional icon appeared on Grandpa Xing's black-and-white screen phone; it was the icon for Micro World. Chen Yang wasn't even sure if this could be considered an app.
He took the old man's phone, pressed the confirmation button, and was indeed taken to the login page of Weijie.
"Grandpa, tonight at eight o'clock, open this and click 'OK'. Remember to lie in bed when you click 'OK'," Chen Yang said.
"What are you guys up to?" Xing Tu asked, somewhat puzzled.
Chen Yang took the half-cake of thousand-year-old Pu'er tea from the tea caddy in his hand and said, "Grandpa, if you've made your choice, I'll have Su'er brew you some thousand-year-old Pu'er tea. You can brew as many as you want, as much as you want."
"Really!" Xing Tu said excitedly.
Chen Yang nodded and said, "It's even more impressive than the Chinese national football team winning the 2018 World Cup."
"Mr. Chen, let's use a different example."
Chen Yang smiled and said, "Old man, we should have faith in our own people."
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That evening, Xing Tu entered the micro-realm, and Guo Zifeng took the initiative to welcome him. Chen Yang also gave him this good opportunity to curry favor.
Xing Tu had finally come to accept the existence of the Micro Realm, but when he saw the pile of tea cakes that Guo Zifeng had treasured, he was completely dumbfounded, especially when Guo Zifeng told him that two of the cakes were picked from ancient tea trees that were at least five thousand years old.
"Put it away quickly, or I'll be cursed by the heavens if it gets damp," Xing Tu said.
"It's alright, we have more than a dozen ancient tea trees that are over a thousand years old. Here, these are tea eggs made with thousand-year-old Pu'er tea. Chen Yang asked me to give them to you. I'll make you some tea later, Grandpa." Li Su'er brought over two tea eggs in a ceramic bowl.
"I used a cake of tea with a relatively low degree of fermentation to make this. Pu-erh ripe tea is a type of black tea, which is not suitable for making tea eggs. Also, there are no spices like star anise here, so it's not flavorful enough. Just eat it as is. But the tea aroma is still quite good."
Xing Tu had no doubts at all now, and his hands were trembling as he took the tea egg.
This is sooooo extravagant!
To make tea eggs, you need at least a dozen grams of tea leaves. A tea cake weighs only two or three hundred grams. Even if you only make a dozen grams of eggs at once, that tea leaf would cost at least ten thousand yuan.
One egg costs 10,000 yuan...
A few years ago, an expert from a certain island in my country said that people on the mainland couldn't even afford tea eggs. Xing Tu even joked that if tea eggs were made with several top-grade teas, they really wouldn't be able to afford them.
I never imagined that a joke I made back then would come true one day.
While the group at the camp was preparing to eat the exorbitantly priced tea eggs, the group on the other side of the desert set off again, wanting to move quickly before the temperature rose.
The aloe vera they found along the way played a crucial role, helping them protect themselves from ultraviolet rays.
The group even used charcoal ash to blacken the area around their eyes, supposedly to protect them, but the side effect was that it made them look less attractive.
Not all creatures with dark circles under their eyes can be as cute as pandas.
In the desert, there's nowhere to escape the sun, so protective measures are crucial. Fortunately, everyone knew they were going into the desert and was prepared, wearing clothing made of nettles and bark to cover their skin as much as possible. Everyone wore a chivalrous straw hat.
"We see it, there are some plants over there." After walking for a while, the others finally saw the area that Chen Yang had pointed out.
"Hopefully we can find a water bar. Let's speed things up."
(End of this chapter)
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