Chapter 214 As long as I can get rich
At the foot of the back mountain, there is a tea garden.
An Qinghe was bending over to pick tea, sweating profusely.
Outside the tea garden fence, a group of children were chasing and playing, and their happy voices made An Qinghe a little jealous.
He wiped the sweat off his face, turned around and shouted, "Stone! Stone!"
"Before you left, you told Xixi that you were coming to help. Why should I be working while you are having fun over there?!"
Shitou, Qing'er, Gou Wa, and several other children who usually played well together all stopped.
Shitou said seriously, "Brother An, I am just helping you. I have brought so many people here to accompany you. We are all here to encourage you."
An Qinghe was speechless, "Then you guys should stop accompanying me and go play somewhere else!"
Gou Wa was kind-hearted. After thinking for a while, he said, "Since we don't have anything else to do, why don't we help Boss An pick leaves? I think it's fun."
Except for Shi Tou, everyone else agreed. After all, for children, they will always be interested in something they have never done before.
But Shitou insisted, "No, children are not allowed to enter Sister Xixi's tea garden."
"You don't know how to pick tea leaves. If you accidentally damage something, it will be terrible."
An Qinghe suddenly came to his senses after hearing this and quickly said with a smile, "Thank you for your kindness. I was just joking with Shitou just now. I can finish this little job by myself very quickly."
He knew very well how much Gu Xixi treasured these tea trees.
If the tea garden was messed up, he couldn't even imagine what would happen to him...
An Qinghe was still frightened and urged again with a smile, "Go and have fun, go wherever you want, you don't have to accompany me."
The children looked at each other.
Gou Wa said with some regret, "Okay, since Boss An doesn't need help, how about we go to the village chief's house to see General Black?"
In the orchard of the village chief Lao Qian, there is a majestic fighting cock named Black General. All the brave boys in the village love to watch the cockfighting.
Gou Wa’s proposal indeed aroused widespread resonance.
Qing'er has also seen General Black. She is not afraid at all and said excitedly, "Qing'er wants to catch bugs and feed them to General Black! And Xiaobai, Xiaohuang, and Xiaohong!"
Xiaobai is a big white goose, and Xiaohuang and Xiaohong are free-range chickens raised by Lao Qian's family.
An Qinghe had been on high alert the whole time, and only when he saw the gang of brats running away did he breathe a sigh of relief and speed up his work.
From last year to this summer, Gu Xixi has grown the number of tea trees here to more than 40.
The workload of picking tea is not too heavy, but the task assigned to An Qinghe today is a bit troublesome.
He had to pick the tea according to the classification marks that Gu Xixi had made on the tea trees and classify the tea leaves.
Monk Anqing didn't know why Gu Xixi asked him to do this.
Since he taught himself how to roast tea not long ago, whenever his family ran out of tea, he would come to the tea garden to pick some, roast it and make it into the simplest loose tea.
Often, leaves of different kinds were mixed together. Gu Xixi had never said anything, but this was the first time she specifically asked for classification and packaging.
So An Qinghe put pre-pasted paper bags in his backpack, and on each bag was written the number of the tea tree species, from one to five.
An Qinghe was busy for most of the hour and picked six full bags from each number.
The backpack was almost full. He picked it up, weighed it, and decided to go home and report back with satisfaction.
In the shade of the yard, a clean straw mat was spread on the ground.
Gu Xixi placed a small stool next to her.
An Qinghe blinked in bewilderment, "Xixi, do you want to enjoy the cool air here?"
"It's not for me, it's for you." Gu Xixi said, "Pour the tea leaves on it and do the first screening."
An Qinghe always listened to Gu Xixi. Although he didn't fully understand the purpose, he still put down the backpack and sat down obediently.
Gu Xixi continued, "We used to drink loose tea at home, so we'll just have to make do with it. As long as it's clean, it's fine."
"But now we want to try making Fucha, so naturally it will take more effort."
"Fu'er tea?!" An Qinghe opened his eyes exaggeratedly.
In an instant, those beautiful blue pupils seemed to transform into two shining...gold ingots.
"Is it... the Fu Cha I know?"
Gu Xixi coughed lightly and said, "Don't get excited too soon. I'm just saying it's a trial. Whether it will work or not is still unknown."
An Qinghe grinned, "It's okay, as long as you tell me how to do it, even if I can't do it once or twice, it's worth it if I do it a hundred or eighty times!"
So this is the business opportunity that Gu Xixi was talking about!
Jinhua Fu Tea is a treasure among brick teas. This business opportunity is huge!
After all, as long as it is successful, with Anqinghe having no shortage of ready-made sales channels, it will surely be a hot commodity and bring in a lot of money.
Gu Xixi said, "There are fourteen steps in total, and the process is very arduous."
An Qinghe said without hesitation, "I am not afraid of hard work!"
Gu Xixi glanced at him and said, "But overall, it's not that pessimistic. At least the first twelve production processes and the final drying process are 100% certain to go through."
“Only the thirteenth step, fermentation, is the most difficult.”
"If it can ferment to produce golden flowers, it is real Fucha. If not, it is just an ordinary black tea brick."
An Qinghe smiled foolishly, "I see. Ordinary tea bricks are easy to sell anyway. As long as I can learn how to make them, we will make money anyway."
Gu Xixi was silent for a moment. This was true, but was An Qinghe too optimistic?
As soon as he said it, An Qinghe manually screened the tea leaves, picking out the dead leaves and tea stems that were mixed in, while urging Gu Xixi to continue, "Tell me, what are you going to do next?"
Gu Xixi said, "Don't worry, after completing one process, it won't be too late to talk about the next one."
An Qinghe smiled and said, "Then tell me about the fermentation of Fucha."
Gu Xixi organized her words and said, "You once said that your hometown uses goat's milk and cow's milk to make yogurt. In fact, this process is fermentation."
"Also, when Aunt Zhang steams buns, she always checks whether the dough has risen, which is also fermentation."
An Qinghe drew inferences from one example, "Can tea leaves also be fermented?"
Gu Xixi said, "One of the differences between the loose tea you've been roasting recently and the dark tea bricks you're familiar with is whether it's fermented or not."
"The golden flowers that appear on Fu tea are produced by a more special fermentation process."
An Qinghe suddenly realized, "So Fucha is a black tea brick that has gone a step further and is more special?"
Gu Xixi nodded, "That's basically how it can be understood."
"It's not easy to grow golden flowers on tea cakes. It requires the right soil, water and climate, which is what people call the right time and right place."
An Qinghe thought thoughtfully, "No wonder I only heard that Fu tea is produced in this area of the northwest, and the output is not high."
"So not every place can make Fucha?"
Gu Xixi agreed, "Indeed."
An Qinghe was overjoyed, "Then we will make a lot of money!"
Gu Xixi sighed and patted him sympathetically, "You still have eleven steps to go before the fermentation difficulty, take your time."
At the front camp of the Northwest Army, Meng Chengping walked into the tent exhausted.
"Brother Mu! The batch of medicine from Huachidu Village has just arrived!"
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