Chapter 068: Tea is good

“Squeak—”

After a day, the rain finally stopped outside. Tang Yuan opened the door and looked around with a few rolls of plastic film in his hands.

Who would have thought that after opening the door, I found a familiar bamboo straw basket not far away, exactly the same as the basket used to deliver Qingtuan last time.

She temporarily put the plastic film in her hand by the door, walked to the straw basket, and found the things inside, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and some wild vegetables. There was no message left next to them, but it seemed that these things were indeed prepared for her.

Tang Yuan stood there thinking for a while, then smiled, sure that this was to repay her for saving his life yesterday.

In that case, she could naturally accept it with ease.

He picked up the straw basket and went back into the house, put the things away, then picked up the plastic film, went to the outer circle of the house, carried the wooden ladder that had been there for who knows how long to the side of the house that was leaking the least, and climbed up using the ladder.

After a day, much of the rain on the roof had dissipated. She estimated the location and carefully went to the leaking place, turned over the straw on the roof, laid the plastic film on it, and then put the straw back.

This is only a temporary solution, but it is enough to block rainwater for a short period of time and reduce the damage caused by rainwater to the house.

In this way, they built a few houses. When they were about to go downstairs, they saw people not far away from the roof. They seemed to be picking something. They squinted their eyes for a while and found that they were picking tea leaves.

This season is really the season for picking tea leaves.

For tea, you can cook tea eggs, add milk and sugar, and make milk tea.

She licked her lips. She was a little greedy for both tea eggs and milk tea. However, there was not much tea in the Northeast and it was not easy to buy. Tea in Hong Kong was more expensive. The cheap ones could only buy tea stems, which were edible. But now that there were better options, she would definitely choose the better one.

Tang Yuan lowered his head, looked at his tattered clothes, touched his messy hair, turned over, walked down the wooden ladder, and quickly returned to the house.

After walking around in the game space, she came out wearing clean clothes, with her hair tied up, revealing her face.

In this way, no one would recognize her as a lunatic. She quickly walked down from another mountain, following the memory fragments of this body, and soon arrived at a large village with relatively many people. However, such an environment also required caution. She did not go inside, but just looked for a few families on the edge.

Purchase tea leaves at 0.20 yuan per pound.

At that time, there was no large-scale tea purchasing business. The amount of tea picked and roasted by these families was not large. It was considered good if a family could take out five or six kilograms. Two or three kilograms was the most common. She took out money and went out to ask. Without saying a word, the people went into the house to get the tea and put bags of it in her hands.

After a while, Tang Yuan received more than twenty kilograms of tea leaves.

When we were about to leave, one of the families asked, "Are you coming again?"

Tang Yuan stopped, looked back at the other party's pleading eyes and his patched clothes, and said, "Yes, I will send someone to tell you in three days that you can make more tea."

After saying that, she quickly left and returned to the top of the mountain along the original route.

As soon as she got back, she felt a little regretful. Where could she find someone in her current situation?

The identity of a madman is beneficial to her, so she will not give it up unless she has to. If she didn't have the identity of a madman, she might not even let her live alone in the house on the top of the mountain.

Although she can control the other vests, she can only get here through actual means of transportation. The "temporary residence" here can only allow Xiaomei, the vest, to enter and exit.

While she was thinking and hesitating, the news that someone was harvesting tea in the village had spread throughout the village.

There are not many other sources of income in the village, and picking tea leaves is mostly a hobby of every household. After all, there are many tea fields around. The tea leaves can be fried and added to dishes to add some flavor to ordinary dishes.

After the green tea leaves are picked, they are fried and the moisture in them is evaporated. It is no problem to make two or three kilograms of tea a day.

One pound of tea costs 20 cents. If you can roast three pounds of tea a day, you can earn 60 cents.

"Can you really come? Do you know that person?"

"You don't know him? If he doesn't know him, maybe he is just talking. Besides, private transactions are not allowed at this time. What use would he have if he collected the tea?"

"Why can't we sell it? We can sell the tea leaves we roast on a regular basis in the market, and maybe people will give them away as gifts. I still have five or six kilograms of tea leaves at home, all of which were picked not long ago. If you come, you will definitely be able to take my tea leaves, right?"

"I'm just worried that people won't dare to come."

"Let's just keep quiet about this."

"Then how do they know if we tell anyone?"

There was a lot of talk in the village, but in the next few days, everyone started going up the mountain to pick tea leaves. Many people had places to dry tea leaves in front of their doors, and the aroma of tea wafted out of every house.

Tang Yuan went out several times, and in addition to seeing these traces, she also saw food placed in front of her house. Although most of the food was only enough for one meal, the people who delivered the food were able to deliver it to her continuously, which showed their care.

Three days later, she looked at the situation outside, changed her clothes back to her original messy ones, messed up her hair, carried a bag on her back, held a note in her hand, and walked towards the village where she had bought tea before.

As soon as she appeared, she caused screams in the village and attracted more and more people to show up.

"Why did the madman come down the mountain?"

"She goes in fits and starts to go crazy. Maybe she's not that crazy right now."

"Even if she's not that crazy right now, she might become crazy the next moment. Stay away from her."

Tang Yuan listened to everyone's discussions without making any big moves until the person called "Village Chief" appeared. She then threw the note in her hand over and then made a deliberate move to stuff the object in her palm into her mouth.

Sure enough, it caused another discussion: "What did she stuff it with?"

"Sugar bar, it seems."

"Where did she get the candy?"

Before they could come up with anything to discuss, the village chief spoke first: "Everyone, please step back. She was invited here to collect the tea leaves."

"Chaye? The person from three days ago?"

"Why let a madman collect tea leaves?"

"They actually asked a madman to come. This is... a bit smart. Anyway, the madman will definitely not tell anyone about this."

After reading the note, the village chief looked up at Tang Yuan and said softly, "Can you give us the bag? It says on it that we need to give the bag."

Tang Yuan lowered his head, looked at the bag on his back, took it off and handed it over, then reached out to the village chief.

The village chief felt in his bag and quickly took out a handful of money and a piece of candy. He put the candy in Tang Yuan's hand and said, "Here is a total of ten yuan. If anyone of you wants to sell tea, go back and get it. I want ten yuan worth of tea today."

"How many pounds can ten pieces weigh?"

"A pound is 20 cents, ten yuan... ten yuan is..."

"Fifty pounds."

"Yes, yes, fifty kilograms of tea. I have a lot of tea at home. Please wait for me, Village Chief. I will go get the tea. Give me eight kilograms of tea."

"I sell five kilograms. Five kilograms."

"First come, first served," the village chief said immediately, "bring it back quickly and let Xiaomei take it back. She's waiting a little further away."

"Come on, come on."

Tang Yuan gritted his teeth and shouted a few times: "Come on, come on, come on~"

This shout successfully made the few families who were already running fast run even faster.

The village chief immediately turned around and comforted him: "Eat your candy and wait a moment."

"Oh, come on." Tang Yuan lowered her head and pretended to put the candy in her hand into her mouth. In fact, she would have to do this in the future. She couldn't keep eating so much candy.

It was not easy for her to travel through time. She acted like a fool and pretended to be a madman. She hoped that there would be no more outrageous aliases in the future. There were too many outrageous aliases and she was afraid that she would become schizophrenic.

The village is not small, but everyone lives together. Before long, someone came over carrying tea. After the village chief calculated the amount, he settled the amount with the other party.

Fifty kilograms of tea leaves is not a lot, but it is not a little either. Five kilograms per family, ten families can take it. For those who come late, the village chief will have no money left.

"Is that all?"

"We haven't even sold one jin yet. Please give me a balanced portion, at least two jin."

"Why only 50 kilograms? What can 50 kilograms of tea do?"

"Village chief, can you please ask if they will come back?"

The village chief glared at the person who was speaking and asked, "Who do you want me to ask?"

"Ask..." The other party was stunned, staring blankly at Xiaomei with disheveled hair and lowered head.

"Village Chief, is there any writing on the back of the paper in your hand?"

The village chief lowered his head and took a look at it. "It really is there. It says that the tea leaves must be intact and no bad tea can be made. If everything is good, you can still buy it. But once there was too much bad tea in it, people would not come back again."

"Village chief, please check if there is any bad tea in there. My family only has good tea, which is picked one bud at a time. You can replace the bad tea."

"My house is also good. We definitely don't have to buy everything by the handful. We can also change it."

After these words were spoken, the person who had sold tea earlier became unhappy.

"Who is picking them by the handful? Ours is also good, definitely not bad, we pick them one bud at a time."

"Yes, that's how we do it at home too. We pick them very carefully and would never lie to anyone."

"Tea leaves cooked from young buds are the best to drink. Tea leaves that are too old are not good to drink. We pick tea leaves for our own drinking, so how can we spoil the tea?"

"Okay, okay," the village chief said, pulling apart the two parties who were about to quarrel. "I've taken a rough look at the harvest this time, and there's nothing wrong with it. You still have a chance to sell the ones you didn't sell today. They said you can come back in a few days. You can store them first and sell them together when the time comes."

"Village chief, what did the person who wanted the tea say to the madman? Did he go to the top of the mountain? Do you think we can put the tea directly on the top of the mountain? Wouldn't that save the madman the time of carrying it up and down?"

"Yes, since they want tea, we can send more in advance, one hundred or two hundred kilograms, they still want it, they will definitely take it. Once the tea is delivered, we can feel more at ease, right?"

Tang Yuan lowered his head and thought.

This is a good idea. The reason why she ordered 50 kilograms this time is mainly because she couldn't move more than that. If someone could help her carry it up, it would save her a lot of effort. The only problem is that she can't let anyone into her house.

It seems that I have to keep a close eye on it these few days and let them deliver it up, but avoid her house. This way, I can have the best of both worlds.