The Most Simple Wish

This year's autumn tea is growing well, with terraced fields and green machines all over the mountains. The water content of the tea leaves gradually decreased, releasing the dry fragrance of tea, which enveloped the whole Mengla County and the whole dacha mountain. It makes people feel like they are in the kingdom of tea, the world of tea. The ocean of tea, the paradise of tea.

In front of the bamboo house, Dao Xiaotong wiped the sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand. It was very hot and she was preparing for lunch. Wearing an apron, she conceived a series of delicious dishes in her mind. I can smell the fragrance of tea gathered by tens of thousands of tea terraces in Dai township. The smell rose into the air and floated all the way north.

She set up a shed and looked to the endless mountains to the north. Around the mountain, there are terraces cultivated by the Dai people, hundreds of mu, thousands of mu, tens of thousands of mu. This is the land on which the Dai people live. Tea can be picked and glutinous rice is ripe. The harvest season, she sighed with joy.

Under the direct influence of the Beijing Olympic Games, the price of tea merchants to collect tea in Dai township has doubled this year, and the demand has also increased, which makes it much easier for the tea farmers who depend on the tea fields to have enough food and clothing than in previous years.

When the businessmen from Banna were collecting tea, they couldn't help joking: Well, it's probably because the common people are sitting at home, blowing fans, watching the Olympics and drinking green tea. Life is getting better. When people are free, they either drink wine or drink tea.

Dao Xiaotong has been in charge of the small things of dachacun primary school. Occasionally she helps Tao Huizhen take the place of her teacher. Most of the time, she just acts as a good helper. Sometimes they sew and mend, run a leg, do some dirty work, in order to get a full meal, and a subsidy of 30 yuan. For example, Tao Huizhen, Li Lao, and her own three meals a day are all solved by her. She is very good at cooking, has a pair of skilful hands, the movement is also very sharp. But cutting clothes is not good. She spends more time than others in cutting clothes. She can always cut the skirt like a work of art, but also strong and durable.

Dao Xiaotong imagines what the tea merchant said and remembers the problems about tea in her mind. She has already done the preparation work of cooking unconsciously. In another hour, Mr. Tao will give the kids a lunch break. At that time, Mr. Tao will come here to have a quick lunch, and then he will use this time to read books and newspapers. The children brought their own food and some went home to eat. Sometimes Mr. Li would come to the bamboo house to fill his stomach and then go to work. Sometimes Mr. Li only came in the evening, sometimes he didn't come to dinner

Speaking of tea, since ancient times, Chinese people cannot do without tea. Tea originated in China, China's tea culture has a long history, broad and profound. There are so many books and movies about tea ceremony that every nation has its own tea culture, tea making techniques and tea drinking methods.

No matter what the opportunity is, tea will have a better market in Mengla Dai Township, and the price will rise, which is a great good thing for tea farmers and even the people of the whole Dai township. This will directly affect the survival of tea farmers in Dai township.

Dao Xiaotong wiped the sweat on her face with a handkerchief. No matter how simple the work is, she will try her best to do it well. She always thinks that it's not easy for people like her to have the chance to get dozens of yuan in subsidies and get enough food and clothing. This is probably the "window" that fate opened while taking away everything from her, so she especially cherishes the present. She was afraid to lose.

Sunny, she was in the open-air "kitchen" busy up. The glutinous rice has been soaked for a long time. The stove fire was lit and the smoke rose from outside the bamboo house. At this moment, time has become narrow and slow. But there is also a sense of leisurely and peaceful mood.

The washed potato is also put in the glutinous rice and directly put out in one pot. At the same time, Dao Xiaotong didn't stop. She cleaned a small piece of pork, cut it into thin pieces like paper, and put it in a bamboo tube in turn. She had to put it in a positive and a negative row. Relying on her imagination, she decorated it with sour bamboo shoots, sour mustard, and more advanced ingredients. At this time, her thoughts seemed to overlap with a certain moment in the past. She looked at the masterpiece in front of her with satisfaction.

As one of the three people in charge of food in dachacun primary school, she wanted to cook a meat dish a long time ago.

Whenever she cooked glutinous rice and washed the potato and put it into the pot, she always wondered how she would recuperate if there was a piece of good pork? Imagine every step before you stop. Now it is no exaggeration to say that she has been in mind for countless times, it can be said that she is familiar with the road.

Due to the terrain of Dai Township in Mengla, it can only be reclaimed in mountainous areas, so terraced fields have become the main form of fields here. In addition to a small number of self-sufficient potato and glutinous rice planted in the terraced fields, tea trees were planted all over the mountains and fields. In other words, Dai People's source of livelihood is from the tea tree.

It is an intense and busy period from picking tea in the tea field to making dry tea. Often can be selected shoots, just a top part of a tea plant, but in order to produce quality, tea farmers have to keep improving. However, the cost of such carefully selected raw materials and technology is very high, and a considerable part of good tea leaves are discarded. As a result, most of the wasted tender buds, which are slightly inferior in quality, become fertilizer for the next season's new tea. A small number of them were made into finished tea by the Dai people themselves and left to drink. Such a situation directly leads to a large number of second rate tea being discarded and wasted, but the output of fine dry tea is insufficient, so the income of Dai people can not be improved.

The above situation has become the biggest problem of tea farmers in Dai township for decades.

In front of the bamboo house. Dao Xiaotong didn't cook the sliced meat. She looked at the pork in the bamboo tube from all angles, white and red. She couldn't help thinking, how long has it been since I ate it? I have completely forgotten the taste of meat. Today, there was meat all of a sudden, which made her almost at a loss. She remembers teacher Tao said that meat is never enough to eat, just like beautiful things, everyone is as close as possible. But good things will wear away people's will and make them degenerate. This is the reason why Tao Huizhen didn't agree to buy pork several times before. Tao Huizhen is very clear that the reason for the problem is not whether she can eat the meat, but to get rid of the potato used to satisfy her hunger, which is the real fundamental change. Before that, even if let her eat more potato are willing.

Potato is known as the food of the poor, in many places it is used as the first staple food to eat. Although glutinous rice is the staple food of Dai people, bamboo shoots seem to be inexhaustible. But the reality is that most of the time, Dao Xiaotong and his wife used potato to satisfy their hunger. Whether the glutinous rice is enough or not, it has become a habit of most people in dacha village to cook two potatoes for each meal. At the end of the village, Qiuhe's family has been eating potato for many years. According to Qiuhe, she doesn't have a meal without eating potato and leaves more glutinous rice to her grandparents.

Tao Huizhen knows that Qiu He is telling the truth. Qiu he would never lie, and he was not afraid to confess his poverty and weakness to others.

Qiu He also stressed: "must eat, can't let the mouth become greedy, want to eat a potato down.". Although sometimes the stomach is very uncomfortable and the stomach is also uncomfortable, I have to force myself to eat. Only when I eat one potato can I eat the others. This is the rule I set for myself - I'm afraid, I'm afraid, if I don't have any glutinous rice to eat any day, I can only eat potato! "

At that time, after listening to Qiu He's words, Tao Huizhen's face became as pale as paper. She clenched her fists as if she was suppressing the violent shock of her heart.

She didn't feel sorry for Qiuhe's situation, but was surprised at Qiuhe's self-control ability. She knew things well and was sensible. She has her own understanding of the world and her own experience of life. Careful, such as walking on thin ice to get a life, always want to think of a future for tomorrow.

It doesn't mean that Qiu He is smart. Rather, the living environment forces her to do so. Most of the time, she just out of helplessness.

She is really not as strong as she looks, which Dao Xiaotong should be able to feel in her own place. Because the fate is very similar, she often imagines the situation of Qiuhe.