He said: "The tea farmers all keep the good tea leaves for their old customers. It is impossible to sell them to me. And do you know how much a brick of good tea leaves is?"

Zhou Lang used to unload people's goods in Yizhou City, so he naturally met tea merchants. At that time, he asked how much tea cost.

But the tea that allows him to unload boxes one by one is naturally not very good, and the price is moderate.

But this time he met tea farmers in person, and he realized that there are so many kinds of tea in the world. He said: "It's such a small brick of tea, eighty taels, which is still averagely good. I heard that some big families have

, the kind with ten or so tea mountains, two bricks of fine tea leaves come out in the spring, one hundred and eighty taels per brick, and there are tributes to the palace, which are even more expensive, even if you have money, you can't buy them."

Lao Zhoutou couldn't understand, "This tea is also used to quench thirst. Whoever wants to drink from the two tea trees on the back mountain can pick them and fry them. After brewing the tea, it will taste bitter. Why can these things be sold at such high prices?"

The price?”

He can understand that meat and grain are expensive, and he also understands that cloth is expensive. One is delicious and the other is beautiful, but why is tea?

Zhou Lang shook his head, "I don't understand either, but rich people like to drink this stuff. If they have money, they can drink it."

Man Bao thought for a while and said: "Sir, drinking tea is sometimes like tasting life, a cup of tea is like a world, and a cup of tea is a lifetime."

Everyone in the old Zhou family listened blankly, unable to understand the meaning at all. It sounded very powerful and a bit unreliable, but because Mr. Zhuang said this, the people in the old Zhou family

I believed it without even thinking about it.

Lao Zhoutou nodded deeply and said, "Then it seems that this tea is indeed good."

Man Bao nodded.

Lao Zhoutou asked Manbao, "Why don't you drink?"

Man Bao picked up a piece of meat and said confidently: "Sir, I'm still too young. I can't taste the tea even if I drink it. I only know it's bitter, so it's better not to drink it."

"Besides, we are young, so drinking too much tea is not good," Man Bao said, "But dad, you and mother can drink more, and brother, you can drink too."

Zhou Dalang said, "I can only taste the bitter taste, but tea is better at quenching my thirst."

It is also because of this that when their family is going out to work, they prefer to make a pot of tea and take it to the field to drink. When they are thirsty, taking a sip will quench their thirst and make them more energetic than drinking plain water.

Man Bao said: "Tea is also medicine, which can prolong life, resist aging and strengthen the body."

The people of Lao Zhou's family suddenly realized, Lao Zhou said: "No wonder, I just said that those rich people can't spend so much money on tea just to quench their thirst and enjoy the bitter taste, right?"

He said: "It must be because good tea can prolong life, resist aging and strengthen the body, so it is expensive."

Zhou Lang also suddenly understood, and patted the table gently and said: "I know how to tell those Hu businessmen after I return to Beijing."

Then he looked up at Man Bao and complained slightly, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that this tea has this effect?"

Zhou Lang asked: "This tea is so good, isn't it more profitable than growing yam and ginger? Can our family grow it?"

Everyone began to think deeply.

Zhou Dalang said directly to Zhou Lang: "When you go out to collect tea leaves, ask how to grow this tea. Is it directly grown from tea seeds, or is it directly planted like Ligustrum lucidum?"

Zhou Lang nodded.

Man Bao felt a sense of crisis and shouted: "Brother, you also promised to grow grapes for me."

Zhou Dalang smiled at her and comforted her: "I have collected all the seeds you gave me. Later I will ask your sister-in-law to clear a piece of land for you to plant in the vegetable field."

Man Bao said: "Grapes are vines, and one can grow very long. It is impossible to plant so many seeds in a vegetable field."

Xiao Qian said: "It's just such a small bag, not much."

The seeds that Manbao brought back were really only a few, but Manbao saw the picture of the grapevine from Keke, and then he realized that it can grow so much.

But Xiao Qian and others have never seen it. It is not certain whether such a small seed can be planted. Even if it can be planted, how much space will it take?

Zhou Lang said: "If there is not enough space, just move it. Didn't you say that grapes are fruit trees? These trees are all the same. They can survive if they are moved."

Man Bao thought for a while and realized that this was true. The encyclopedia entry said that grapevines could be cut, not to mention that her brothers knew much more about farming than she did.

Zhou Lang mentioned planting tea trees again, and Lao Zhoutou didn't object. He also thought the tea sounded quite profitable.

Zhou Lang promised that he would ask carefully when he went to collect tea again.

Zhou Zhoulang said: "This kind of tea is not cheap, right?"

Wu Lang sighed, "It would be great if we could just plant ligustrum lucidum at home, pick some branches, leaves and seeds from the wild and plant them. There are quite a few of them on the tea tree mountain."

Man Bao interrupted: "Wild tea leaves are too bitter."

You can tell by looking at the tea he gave them.

But Zhou Lang rolled his eyes and asked Manbao, "Do the Taoist masters in the Taoist temple still pick tea leaves?"

"Do you want to buy with him?" Man Bao said, "He doesn't have much."

Zhou Lang said: "He doesn't have much, but I remember that there are a lot of wild tea leaves on several mountains over Dali Village. Isn't spring coming soon? The tea trees will definitely sprout by then..."

Anyway, Ah Liu Dun couldn’t make good or bad tea, as long as it was tea, and the price he gave Ah Liu Dun was not high. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for...

Zhoulang was making calculations in his mind, and Manbao said: "Daohe doesn't know how to make tea bricks."

"It's okay. I gave Ah Liudun some loose tea when I was in the capital. They also want the fried loose tea."

It's also cheap, it just takes up a lot of space.

Zhou Lang was so ambitious that he wanted to bring back the four carts full of tea to the capital. But he didn't have enough money, so in order to pursue a large quantity, he had to keep the price of tea as low as possible.

But the price of tea in the hands of tea farmers is about the same. If it is too low, they will not be able to compete with the tea merchants they are familiar with.

So in order to buy tea, he had to pay a higher price than other tea merchants, maybe three cents, or two cents. It always had to be a little more before others would be willing to give him some.

Otherwise, Zhou Lang would not have thought of buying loose tea. There are not many tea mountains in Luojiang County. The country people drink tea by going up to the mountain to grab a handful, and they pay attention to lighting it and frying it. Some people find it troublesome and just dry it.

There are also some that can be brewed as soon as they are exposed to the sun.

Those are wild tea leaves that grow in the mountains, just like wild vegetables, extremely bitter.

He had seen Ah Liu Dun drinking tea. They boiled tea leaves with goat's milk. Unlike them who only drank tea, they chewed the tea leaves as well.

He also ate it and found that the tea after boiling it with goat's milk was not that bitter, and the fishy smell of goat's milk was gone.
Chapter completed!