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The tea leaves in my hand are fresh and emerald green, as if they were growing on a tea tree. Every green leaf is intact, as if it is still covered with dew, and the fluff on it is clearly visible!

"This is the tea leaves behind the old house at home. I got up to pick them before dawn, what's wrong!"

Although Zhang Xiang was a little guilty, he insisted that he got up this morning to pick it.Looking left and right, Zhang Hongbing doesn't always feel like it, but he has always believed in his son the most. Since Zhang wants to say this, he can't be wrong!

"You are really good at picking tea leaves. Next time I want to pick tea, I must call you!"

Zhang Hongbing sighed, maybe because he was old, every time he picked green leaves behind the old house, he felt that it was not as good as it is today, is it because his hands are heavy?

"Yeah, Dad, hurry up and start!"

Seeing that his father had been fooled, Zhang wanted to feel relieved at last, so he was free to watch Zhang Hongbing fry tea there!

Zhang Hongbing had no choice but to go to the kitchen of the farm, and Zhang wanted to help him start a big stove!

Zhang Hongbing first put the green leaves in a bamboo sieve and spread them in the sun to dry them. After the green tea leaves withered to an appropriate degree, they were fried at high temperature.

Stir-frying greens is also called killing greens, which is a technical work. Only experienced tea-stirring people use high temperature in the process of making tea leaves to wither the tea leaves in a pot.

It is also a process in which the water in the tea leaves evaporates quickly through manual rolling, blocking the fermentation process of the tea leaves, and completely retaining the essence of the tea juice.

Zhang Hongbing felt the temperature of the iron pot, and when it was between 180 degrees and two hundred degrees, he threw a small amount of tea into the pot.

He used a frying teaspoon to rotate and stir fry in the pot.The leaves turn and turn.Zhang Xiang looked dazzled on the side.Zhang Hongbing chuckled:

"This first step is to let the green leaves be heated and lose water evenly, and turn quickly. Use force evenly, combined with shaking the tea leaves, until the leaves are soft and the leaves are dark green. It will take a minute or two at most. !"

He was talking, but his movements were not slow, and he went down with each broom.The green leaves are evenly separated!Soon he poured the tea into the second pot.

"The temperature of the second pot should be lower, and this pot should be vigorous, so that the leaves should be rotated in the pot with the tea broom. The rotation starts to roll into strips, and at the same time, it should be combined with shaking the tea balls to let the heat through. When the leaves shrink into strips, the tea juice sticks to the leaves. It feels sticky!"

Zhang Xiang watched his father's movements.While listening to his explanation carefully, thinking that next time there is tea, I can try it myself.

Seeing his son listening attentively, Zhang Hongbing felt very relieved. Then he swept the green leaves into the cooking pot. The temperature of this pot should be the lowest, which should not exceed 150 degrees.

The leaves in the cooked pot are relatively soft, so stir fry them a few times with a tea broom.The leaves are drilled into the inner bamboo branches.

"This cooked pot is good for making strips, and it shakes a little. The leaves are scattered into the pot. Repeated operations like this make the leaves swallow inside and outside the bamboo broom, and skillfully combine dehydration and kneading into strips."

"Taking advantage of the leaves' softness and good plasticity under hot and humid conditions, it promotes the formation of thick and old leaves, and overcomes the disadvantages of cold kneading into broken stems, fragments, and exposed tendons. Stir-fry until the strands are tight and thin."

Zhang Hongbing was explaining patiently, but he could smell the fragrance of tea wafting from the pot.

"There are many ways to stir-fry tea. If you pay attention to it, let's drink it at home without messing around. Just stir-fry it!"

Zhang wanted to hear his father say this, and he couldn't help but click his tongue. You have changed three pots of tea for this little amount of tea.

Zhang Hongbing smelled the refreshing aroma of the tea, which was particularly strong, and felt very comfortable. It seemed that his craftsmanship had not been abandoned, and it was still very good!

Early the next morning, Baoshan and the others came to invite Zhang Xiang to the cemetery on the mountain behind his old house, planning to wrap up his grandfather's cemetery, and then go to Shangtu in Qingming!

There are a lot of things to pay attention to about the cemetery. Neither the daughter-in-law nor the married girl can go to the grave. The male descendants of each family have to do it themselves. Generally, outsiders are not allowed to make the grave, for fear of collision!

Zhang thought that after breakfast, each of them carried a shovel, a hoe or something, they went to the cemetery talking and laughing.

Walking from the back of Zhang Xiang's old house, through the woods and a few rapeseed fields, and then climbed up a half hillside to the north, behind a large rapeseed field, is the grave of Zhang Xiang's grandpa!

The terrain of the cemetery is very high. Standing on the top and looking down, you can have a panoramic view of Zhangjiadian and the scenery of Xujia Lake, which makes people look refreshed!

"Not to mention, the cemetery that Second Uncle and Dad chose for Grandpa is really good! Don't our descendants all go smoothly!"

Yinshan stood there going up the mountain, looking at the scenery down the mountain, the more he looked at it, the more he felt better. He didn't know Fengshui, so he just thought that standing far away and looking high was a good place!

"That is, why would fourth uncle have to choose a good place for sixth uncle? Our grandfather's land is the best! Or else my father will be buried here after a hundred years of death!"

Baoshan also feels the same way. This place is good. Seeing how the second uncle’s house is getting better every year, you know that grandpa buried a good place!

"The rapeseed field here belongs to Lao Han's family. Didn't he keep the land that our family exchanged with him as the foundation of the house? Talk to him again, and exchange this rapeseed field with us, it's okay!"

Jin Shan also agrees with the boss's words, but the cemetery of grandpa was exchanged for an acre of land on the side of the road more than ten years ago. Now that land happens to be the place where the foundation was laid out in the village a while ago!

"I also said that the old lady of Lao Han's family ran to the house to find her father two days ago, saying that she wanted his family's private land or something!"

When Baoshan heard about the old Han’s family, he remembered it. He was not at home that day. When he came back, he heard his father tell him. Take it to heart!

The old Han family they were talking about was the Han Jiafu family who had acted as the secretary of Baoshan Village. There were six brothers in his family, and he was also the kind of person with a large number of people and a powerful force in Zhangjiadian!

In rural areas, apart from paddy fields and a small amount of private land, there are serious contracting contracts. Many wastelands and slopes have no formalities. Sometimes the villagers just find two people to exchange land, and just write a document after a meal. !

"It's strange, what does the old lady of the Han family want to do with her uncle? If she has something to do, she should go to her brother?"

Zhang wanted to hear what Baoshan said, and he was also a little puzzled. Zhang Xiang, the old lady of the Han family, knew that she was a very aggressive person. He had six sons, and Han Jiafu was her eldest grandson!

"Whatever the old lady, let's quickly surround the grandfather's grave, clear up the weeds around it, and get some pine trees in front, so that it looks good!"

Jin Shan didn't want to listen to their chatter, he picked up the hoe three times, and was about to start digging in the cemetery.

"Slow down, I haven't burned incense for my ancestors yet, why are you in a hurry!"

Baoshan grabbed the second younger brother, this guy is not young, but he doesn't know the rules, the ancestor broke the ground, that's for burning incense and praying, so he can come here casually!

"It's okay, grandpa liked me the most at that time!"

The other brothers all burst into laughter. Grandpa left early, so Zhang Xiang really didn’t have any impression, but I heard that he liked Jinshan very much at that time!

The brothers smiled and burned incense and kowtowed, and then started to pack up.They are all young and strong laborers who can work hard and work quickly. The matter of packing the cemetery is very easy among them talking and joking.

Zhang thought that his brothers were on the mountain, but he didn't know that Zhang Hongbing received an unexpected guest at the farm today.

"What, what did you say, you want my family to move to the graveyard?"

Zhang Hongbing had never been so surprised. An old lady in her 60s and [-]s was sitting across from her. She was not tall, very thin, and her face was full of wrinkles, but her hair was well combed without any mess!

Her eyes were very bright, not cloudy like ordinary old ladies. At this time, she was sitting opposite Zhang Hongbing, drinking tea casually, not flustered at all!

"Yes, nephew, I'm not young anymore. I haven't lived for a few years. There are some things that the juniors don't know. Do you dare to say that your family's grave is not buried in my Han family's private plot?"

The old lady's surname is Mei, and she is Han Jiafu's grandma. She filled the house for the Han family decades ago. Because she is ten years older than Old Han, she has given birth to six sons, so she is very favored. The Han family said that one thing is true!

People in the village call her Aunt Mei to her face, and call her Erniang Han behind her back, which means her Erniang, who is the housekeeper of the old Han family!

Lao Han is old and has long since ignored things, but she is very aggressive and a little unreasonable, but people don't argue with her. Firstly, she is old and senior, and secondly, come and see his six Sons, a lot of grandchildren, who have nothing to do to make a fuss!

"Ms. Mei, I remember that my father's cemetery is my elder brother's. He gave you an acre of good land on the side of the road in exchange! You were there at the time! There is a contract for this matter, and there is also a just person!"

Zhang Hongbing blushed, Erniang Han was too unconscionable to say this, the two families agreed on this matter at the beginning, and invited the sixth uncle and Boss Han in the village to have dinner!

Speaking of this, Zhang Hongbing suddenly remembered that the sixth uncle passed away at the end of last year, and as for Boss Han, he also passed away a few years ago!

You said that the old contract was written more than ten years ago. The two fair men were both highly respected at that time.

"You can't say that. My land is privately owned by the state. My people want to grow their own fields. You can't let your cemetery occupy my land. Even if your nephew is the village secretary, you have to be reasonable!"

Zhang Hongbing was smoked by the anger of her last words. It was obviously his elder brother's land. He exchanged the slope land with her family and made it the old man's cemetery. How could it become unreasonable for her!

"Who is this unreasonable? My old man has been buried there for more than ten years and has been fine. Now you come to say that it is your place, and whose family owns the land on the side of the road?"

Hearing the voices in the room getting louder, Jin Juhua was called back from the vegetable field by Yanling, and she heard Mei Erniang say this before entering the door, she couldn't help answering a sentence! (to be continued..)