The Most Simple Wish

Spring rain has been raining for a week without a sound, and the thin rain line seems to be able to get into the smallest secret crevice. Therefore, everything in Dai township has been thoroughly watered, and Tao Huizhen feels that she is getting moldy.

The good time for picking spring tea is now over. There are no more tea pickers in the tea terraces outside Dai township. The scene of crowds and flickering tea baskets are gone. The vast tea terraces covered by rain were empty. Between heaven and earth, covered with a layer of rain and fog.

Dai Township, which has been busy for more than half a month, has regained its former tranquility.

Talking about picking spring tea. Among the four seasons of tea picking, the importance of picking spring tea should be put in the first place. People in dacha village mainly live by planting tea. Whether they can survive a whole year depends on the quantity and quality of spring tea and the time that tea farmers grasp to pick and make tea.

It can be said that the work of picking spring tea is directly related to the survival plan of the Dai people. This is the most unforgettable time of the year.

A day's plan is in the morning, a year's plan is in the spring. Spring tea is also one of the most nutritious teas in the four seasons. Its leaves are full and green with strong fragrance. It is more dark green "mature fresh tea" in summer, and "old tea" in autumn and winter.

The careful care and expectation of tea terraces is only for the harvest every spring. If you miss the time to pick spring tea, the taste of dry tea made from fresh leaves in other seasons will be far different, and the price is less than one tenth of that of spring tea. As a matter of fact, only when spring tea is picked can businessmen gather in Dai township to collect tea. This is the most grand event of the whole people in Dai Township besides the water splashing Festival. The chance is only once a year, and the tea harvest lasts about ten days. This is the reason why Dai people put everything at hand and joined the tea gathering team in February and March. Tao Huizhen's most depressed period was the most urgent stage of tea picking. She could only watch the students passing by dachacun primary school to the tea field.

The tea making technology of dachacun village is very simple, mainly green tea. The process of making green tea is simple and the cycle is short. It can best reflect the original taste of fresh tea.

Ten days or so after picking spring tea, several waves of businessmen will come to Mengla County from the surrounding cities. At this time, Mengla County is the gathering season of foreign businessmen every year, and the small market is full of traffic. Later, these merchants will go down to each village to collect tea. Dacha village is often the least favored place for the merchants. The 15 kilometer rugged mountain road makes the tea collectors daunted. Usually only a few businessmen will appear in dacha village in the last few days.

The merchants complained that the mountain road was hard to walk, so the price of tea was lower.

Tea farmers in dacha village generally don't have much tea. After some tea farmers make dry tea, only a few Jin are left after weighing. This is because the tea field area of dacha village is limited, and the fresh leaves that can meet the requirements of spring quality tea are often only a few on a tea tree. Sometimes, due to weather and human factors, the timing of tea picking is not well grasped, and the quality of spring tea will be greatly reduced in a few days, so that there are few fresh leaves that meet the standard.

A pair of hands covered with green tea pulp, at this time, reached out to the businessmen and introduced their own dry tea.

In fact, the Dai people never make fake, and the tea merchants will not allow the problem of shoddy tea to appear. They have a vicious eye. Even if the color of a leaf in a basket of dry tea is not right, they can be as sharp as an eagle.

The spring tea sold in Dai Township every spring represents the highest standard of tea in Dai township. In order to maintain this specification, some people would rather sacrifice the quantity of finished tea than gobble it up.

Dai people prefer to be poor, but they have never questioned or complained about the current way of life. They have settled down and become used to it. In the mountains, decades have passed like this year after year. Last year, during the tea selling season, a young girl from Dai village only took a jin of green tea to the merchant to weigh it. People remember her small figure holding a tea basket in her hand. The dry tea in the basket won't come easily, which will be the survival guarantee of her family in the next year.

The eyes of the adults in the village fall on the girl, but their thoughts drift far away. The girl's every move in dacha village has gradually grown up, and the hardships and scenes of her life have become vivid in the memory of adults.

This kilo of tea is very valuable. The girl clasped the notch of the tea basket with her fingers. When she poured the dry tea into the merchant's large container, her legs seemed to lose the strength to support her body. A child's voice seemed to come from the loudspeaker: "orphan! No father, mother, brother and sister's orphan! She can only get so little tea... "

The girl obviously didn't expect someone to say that. She shook her body as if she had been struck by lightning, but soon she stood firm again. How can we become invincible? First, face what you are afraid of. She is an orphan. She doesn't need to escape. What can a child's words do to her? She persuaded herself.

Except for some children, no one jokes that the girl takes out a small amount of green tea. She is the only labor force in her family. No matter what, one can't seize the opportunity to pick tea. It's not easy to make green tea in a short time, catch up with the tea collectors and go down to the village to have a kilo of finished dry tea. The girl looks like she hasn't closed her eyes for days and nights. She is very independent in the crowd.

She began to treat her peers as children who didn't know the world. She looked at the adults with cat's eyes and jewel like eyes. The adults looked away. Her eyes were deep, and there was a sharp light hidden in them.

All the adults in Dai Township know about the disappearance ten years ago. She also knew that adults should know. She looked up at the huge mountains not far away, where dacha mountain was. There was silence.

After getting some ten yuan old coins, the girl left the crowd and walked towards her home at the foot of the mountain. She is the orphan Qiuhe. That year she just turned twelve