The Spirit World

Chapter 154: Fifty Chapters
My life is too long...

It’s a pity for my old bones. I’m already old and still have to be pulled out. I’m already buried in the ground.

Fortunately, I have tea to keep me company, which can be regarded as a comfort for the rest of my life.

This is my tea garden. It's a big place. When the emperor gives it to me, it won't be shabby.

"Grandpa Tan, look, this piece of tea is crystal clear. Can it really be used to make tea?" The eldest princess took a piece of white tea in her hand and looked at it carefully. The bells on her ankles jingled. She was wearing casual clothes, um... luxurious casual clothes.

"This can't be considered a kind of tea, it's just called that. It comes from the Elven Kingdom, so it's more appropriate to call it vanilla. But when you put it in warm water, it will completely dissolve and emit a wonderful fragrance. Ah... that feeling is really wonderful. Sometimes you have to admire the miracles of nature." I put my hands behind my back. As for my back, it is indeed a little hunched...

Time is not forgiving.

But if you ask me to talk about tea, I can definitely talk about it for three days and three nights.

I know so much about planting tea seeds, growing tea leaves, pest control, watering, picking, brewing tea leaves, and most importantly, tasting tea.

"Yes, the spiritual world is always so magical. There are many, many unimaginable things that I have not seen. They exist quietly somewhere in the world. They are the miracle of this world. How wonderful." The eldest princess happily put down my precious tea. I knew she had something to ask me, but she didn't say anything. She just followed me to the tea garden. I put the hoe aside and she wandered around the tea garden.

I was thinking, I am an old man now, what else can I do? And I need the little darling Princess to play the emotional card.

Although I agree with this, I still have some doubts.

What could it be?
"Oh! I didn't expect that Grandpa Tan actually grows this kind of tea! This is a very rare kind of tea! Grandpa Tan is really amazing." The eldest princess took a green leaf in her hand and looked at it. She looked very happy. She must know this kind of tea.

"I didn't expect you to know this tea?" I walked over to him and squatted down next to the tea plant. I also picked a leaf and held it in my hand: "I was going to test you... I brought this tea seed from Bailing Mountain with great effort."

"Well... this tea can only grow in the soil of Bailing Mountain and the water of Bailing Mountain. It is only found in Bailing Mountain. It is called Guan'erhai, and its leaves look like storks spreading their wings. The tea brewed with this tea is extremely bitter, but with specially prepared seawater, it becomes extremely sweet. For many people, this Guan'erhai seedling is hard to come by. It's not that you can't get the seedling, but that you can't get the care you need. Without the mountains and waters of Bailing Mountain, I'm afraid you can only watch it being planted in the soil and buried."

"Hahahahahaha... I didn't expect that the princess also knows about tea... I'm really embarrassed to speak."

"Grandpa Tan, you are joking... How can I compare with you? I only know this from reading books occasionally, and I remembered it today when I saw the real thing. Grandpa Tan has such rare species. It really opened Lin'er's eyes." The princess put the tea leaves in her sleeve. I have heard that she has the habit of collecting rare things in the world. However, she is still very generous and doesn't feel polite. Although she doesn't need to ask me, it still makes me feel distressed.

If tea is not drunk but collected, it would be a great pity for those rare teas.

If there is no good tea master to make tea, I will also feel uncomfortable.

"The tea leaves here are much more than just the ones from Guan'erhai..." I put the tea leaves in my hand into the tea basket I carry with me.

"I've heard that Grandpa Tan loves tea as much as his life. Today, I see that it's true." The eldest princess walked leisurely on the path in the tea garden. The bells on her ankles sometimes rang loudly and sometimes were silent.

I laughed out loud. Indeed, my heart was bleeding when she picked that leaf.

However, I will not speak openly about it. No one comes to see me for no reason. The eldest princess came to see me for no apparent reason, and didn't find me at my residence, but even followed me to the tea garden. It doesn't seem like there is any good thing going on. No matter how important it is, it should be a hard job.

I didn't dare ask her why she came here. Of course, I wouldn't make things difficult for this little girl. If it wasn't a big deal, I would just refuse.

I picked up the hoe again, fixed the tea basket, and started to weed the weeds bit by bit. Some things cannot be said openly, and I hope the princess should understand this. So, I just need to wait for her to be unable to bear my silence and go back.

This is like a negotiation. I am obviously unwilling to do what she might ask me to do. So, what she needs to do is to put the matter tactfully. What is more important is the price. If the price is not high enough, there is no qualification for negotiation.

I won't ask. She came to me to tell me something that required an old man like me to come out of retirement.

The hoe went into the ground, slowly pulling out the weeds, and the spiritual power put the piles of weeds aside at the roots of the tea tree. There was a larger basket there to hold them.

The sound of the bell came and went, and she was still looking at my precious tea leaves with interest.

Of course, with the crisp sound of the snap, my heart started to bleed. She must have picked it and kept it as a collection.

【Bah! 】

【Bah! 】

【Bah! 】

My hands were almost shaking. The more I dug the land, the more things felt wrong. I felt bad.

Can I stop this big darling from picking my precious tea leaves? No... I can't stop Her Royal Highness, the eldest princess of the empire, from wanting anything.

Tea leaves can grow longer! But this leisure time is different.

[Bah…]

[Bah…]

[Bah…]

How much has the little girl picked? From the sound of it, she has even plucked out the twigs.

Do you hear it? It's the sound of my heart bleeding.

And the cries of my tea tree baby.

Sure enough, this little darling knows how to take advantage of me. At my age, I only have this little tea garden left.

"Hey! I remember now! Grandpa Tan... I want to tell you something." The bell on her ankle started to move. Ding-ling-ding-ling, ding-ling-ding-ling, as if it had moved to another place.

[Bah…]

really.

"What...thing..." My voice should not have trembled...well...that's it, she should not be able to hear it.

"Father asked me to tell you something..."

[Bah…]

"What's the matter?" He put down his hoe and looked at her.

I sighed faintly.

"Bai Ling Mountain is short of a general manager position, and we need you to take the position." She half-knelt and looked at the storks carefully.

"I'm an old man...how can I take care of Bailing Mountain! I've retired for many years...Besides, I've been idle for so many years, I can't keep up anymore." What I said were all useless words. If the emperor asked me to go, how could I not go?
"Besides, there is no one to take care of my garden. I am afraid that I, Tan, am not up to the task." I pounded my waist. I had to be very strong, but I still had to pound it when it was necessary.

"Grandpa Tan... have you heard? A huge fire eagle appeared in the sky above Bailing Mountain." She didn't look at me, but stared at the tea trees in Guan'erhai.

"I have long since stopped caring about worldly matters, so how would I know?"

"But groundless rumors cannot withstand the scrutiny of Wutong Division..."

I have nothing to say.

"So... my arranged marriage to my prince consort, the Young Master of Bailing Mountain, should be back." She glanced at me sideways, and I had been looking at her, so I noticed it.

"This is a good thing..." These are all I could say.

"I want Grandpa Tan to help me find out what the young master of the Ning family is like now. As for the steward of Bailing Mountain, I will take care of it as far as my father is concerned."

I don’t believe it, because the emperor can scold his daughter, but he may not be so simple as scolding me.

My words don't really carry that much weight, the ruler is the ruler and the subject is the subject. Sending the princess to invite me was already a big honor, after all, it's been a long time since I resigned from the Wutong Division.

It's been so long that I almost forgot what they look like.

I didn't say anything. Looking at the garden, something very uncomfortable flowed in my heart.

"I...understand..."

The eldest princess doesn't have much of a way out compared to her previous image, and she wasn't a naive person before. Probably. But the situation of breaking off the engagement is different, so it's normal to have a way out.

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(End of this chapter)