Three days later.
At Sanshan School in Lianshan Town, the servant who was guarding the door walked into Dong Wei’s study with a wooden box made of yellow rosewood.
He bowed to Meng Zhili, and then said, “Master, Lord, Shen Zhong from Lianshan Town sent a gift, saying that he wanted to give it to him.”
“Who allowed you to accept it?” Meng Zhili frowned and his tone was a little unkind.
The servant was so scared that he knelt on the ground.
“Sir, it’s not a slave who wants to take it away. He put down his things and got on the carriage. Even the young ones can’t catch up.” The servant quickly explained.
“You open it and take a look.” The father-in-law and son-in-law looked at each other.
Dong Wei spoke.
“Yes, lord.” The servant put down the wooden box he was holding tremblingly.
The top is gone.
Because the workmanship is too exquisite, the servants’ strength is particularly light, for fear of breaking the relief patterns on the wooden box.
“Master, sir, please see.” After opening it, the servant opened his mouth so much that he opened his mouth wide. His eyelids jumped quickly twice, and then he turned the wooden box in a direction and pointed at the father-in-law and son-in-law.
“Hmph, eight ingots of gold ingots are so generous. Why are there two wooden boxes there? Let’s open them together.” Seeing the wooden box, Meng Zhili laughed disdainfully.
He pointed to the small wooden box next to the Jin Yuanbao again.
“Yes, sir.” The servant quickly got up, turned his direction, and squatted on the ground to open the wooden box.
“Sir, it’s tea.” Two wooden boxes opened.
The tea leaves inside are full of flowers.
“Is this…ice fog tea?” Dong Wei, who was knowledgeable, picked up a tea leaf, sniffed it first, and then looked over and over again.
The so-called ice fog tea grows on a high mountain in the coldest north, where there are few people.
Every winter, many people can freeze to death, but there is only a kind of tea tree growing on the top of the mountain, closest to the clouds, also known as Yunwu Tea. This kind of tea tree only grows some tender buds in summer, and is like dead trees at other times.
After the tender buds are picked and fried into tea, they are covered with white frost, as if covered with a layer of snow, which makes the touch cool.
There is also a faint fragrance.
Especially magical.
It is extremely difficult to pick these tea leaves.
First of all, the summer in that place is only twelve days.
Secondly, climbing up to that mountain is very dangerous. Even if you have the life to climb up, it will take at least five days.
That is, each person can only pick it twice at most.
Otherwise you can’t bring it down.
Once you are greedy, you will definitely be alive when you go up the mountain for the third time and encounter wind and snow.
And outsideLand people are not familiar with the shape of the mountain and can easily enter the territory of beasts or fall off the cliff.
Therefore, the people who are responsible for picking tea are all villagers living in the local area.
When summer comes, they will carry bamboo baskets up the mountain.
A basket of tea can be sold for ten taels of silver, and everyone can earn twenty taels of money every year.
Although there are quite a few twenty taels, there are only eight of them who go there at most.
The summer there is like late autumn in Lianshan Town.
Wherever you see, there are no wild vegetables and wild fruits that you can eat.
Only bring your own dry food.
In short, picking is extremely difficult.
Some people also want to make more money. They not only carry bamboo baskets, but also cloth bags. As a result, they came to the road to climbing down the mountain, but they didn’t hold it firmly with one hand and fell down.
No complete corpse died.
After picking tea, you must go down the mountain within two days.
Otherwise, the aroma of tea will be lost.
Nothing worthless then.
For two days, the villagers, let alone sleeping, even eating dry food, did not dare to rest at all, except for the small and small solutions.
The tea bought by vendors from villagers has increased in price after layers of increase.
In the end, it sold at a sky-high price.
Ice fog tea is usually drunk in summer, which not only can remove the heat in your body, but also calm down your mind and make people feel at ease.
Moreover, the tea is not astringent and has a hint of sweetness.