If you keep making noise, I won’t stand it anymore!

Chapter 51: Small batch production, rare things are valuable

Meixiang asked Chen San to lead everyone to a patch of plants that looked like trees but were not trees, and were about ten fingers taller than a person's knees. Looking at the new buds that were emerging, she felt particularly happy.

"Is this a tea tree? Is your tea made from this?" Manager Sun couldn't help but exclaimed.

Meixiang turned her head and looked at him, then nodded. As the manager of the Sun Family Cloth Shop, it was not unusual for her to have seen this tea tree.

"Then why is it so different from the existing tea on the market?" Steward Sun asked. His stomach must have been spoiled by the tea from Liu Mansion. He lost his appetite when he thought of the black tea cakes on the market.

Meixiang turned her head and looked at him again, which made Manager Sun feel like a fool who asked a question even though he knew the answer.

"If the originals are the same but the finished products are different, then it must be because of the different production processes!" Meixiang said as a matter of course.

Manager Sun touched his nose and thought, well, his brain really wasn't working very well after meeting Miss Mei.

"In spring, not only are the buds plump, green, soft, and white hairs visible, but some effective ingredients related to improving tea quality, especially amino acids and multivitamins, are also rich, making the taste of spring tea more refreshing, the aroma more intense, and the health benefits more obvious." Meixiang pointed to the new buds on the tea tree in front of her and explained, "Amino acids and multivitamins are a kind of nutrient components needed by the human body."

Meixiang asked everyone to take out the tea picking tools that they had prepared in advance. "The tea we drink now can only be made into stir-fried green tea because it was picked late. This year, this time is just right. We will pick a batch of first-crop tender buds today and go back to have Madam and Aunt Li make new tea for everyone to taste. Come around and pay attention to the parts I choose and the movements I make."

Meixiang's movements teach you how to identify the top buds from the tea stems, demonstrate how to pick tea leaves and what precautions are needed, etc. This is the time to pick these top buds. Tea leaves are very seasonal, and if you pick them two days later you won't be able to drink them this year. That's why tea leaves must be picked in time. "Three days early it's a treasure, three days late it's weeds."

Everyone gathered around Meixiang and watched carefully, as this was related to their own enjoyment. When everyone had a good grasp of the situation, Meixiang told everyone to be careful and took Chen San and Liu Chengen to another place.

The last time Panghu took her to pick ginseng, Meixiang seemed to have discovered another kind of tea tree along the way. Panghu was in a hurry at the time and didn't have time to take a closer look. This time, she took the opportunity to take a closer look. In fact, in spring, she recommends and likes to drink some flower tea, which is better for the body than green tea. Now, as long as she thinks of those beautiful flowers floating and blooming in the tea bowl, the fragrance will greet her nose. Meixiang's heart is itching and she can't wait to drink it.

It seems that once the dyeing workshop is on track, she must satisfy her taste buds. Meixiang secretly made up her mind.

As she got closer, Meixiang became more and more excited. When she got completely in front of it and bent down to take a clear look at the thin, straight, tender, green, and stretched leaves with white hairs all over the leaf body, Meixiang wanted to laugh out loud three times. The mountain behind Liujia Village is really a treasure land, a natural treasure, with unexpected surprises at any time.

Meixiang asked Chen San and Liu Chengen to work quickly. It seemed that they would be busy again in the next few days. Later, Chen San, Meiying, Xiaoer and Xiaosan worked for two days before picking all the first batch of tender buds this year and handing them over to Nanny Chen and Aunt Li to make tea.

Since Doctor Wang saw Meixiang and the others picking tea leaves and told him that this was the raw material for making tea, he has never left the Liu Mansion. He stared at Nanny Chen and the others anxiously. Meixiang didn't ask him to help because she was afraid that he would be tired, but now seeing his impatient look, she couldn't even rest if she wanted him to.

"Master, if you don't have anything important to do recently, just help Nanny and the others to make some tea." Meixiang caught Doctor Wang who was about to secretly follow Nanny Chen and the others.

Doctor Wang grabbed Meixiang's shoulders with a look of surprise and asked, "Can I? Can I really go to study?"

"Of course you can. The reason I didn't let you go before was because I was busy treating Young Master Sun's poison, and I was afraid you would be tired. Since you are interested, just go. If you have any ideas in the future, you can tell me directly." Meixiang sighed. It is really not a worrying thing to have an old man at home who is greedy and has a strong thirst for knowledge.

Meixiang explained the tea-making procedures and precautions of Cuimei and Maojian to the three of them, and after handing the seeds of dragon blood tree and Donglu to Liu Dazhuang in the same way, she became a hands-off boss again. Together with Sun Shao, she devoted all her attention to the dyeing workshop.

On the second day after the dyeing workshop was fully built, Sun Shao and Meixiang gathered all the people from the Liu Mansion who were participating in the trial dyeing for the first time, Manager Sun and the three invited dyeing masters. Xiao San gave a detailed introduction to the day's color extraction, dyeing, cleaning and drying processes.

"This is the finished product of our last trial dyeing. Please take a look at it first. If you have any questions, please raise them and we can discuss it together." Sun Shao handed the three cloth bags that Meixiang gave him last time to one of the three dyeing masters.

After opening the three cloth bags, he was stunned to see the different shades of red, the light yellow, and the layers of green. You know, with Haoyue's current dyeing technology, it is the first time to see such bright colors: "Master, this will cause a sensation. It's incredible."

Sun Shao and Mei Xiang looked at each other with smiles. It seemed that their bet was right this time.

"I have an idea," Meixiang said lightly, "Now these two dyeing raw materials are relatively scarce, and we can produce these two products in small batches because they are rare and valuable. The masters can study other colors, for example: vermilion plus a small amount of black will form a new color brown, grass green plus a small amount of black will form dark green..."

"Miss, wait a minute, I'll find some paper and pen to write this down. This is a genius." One of the dyeing masters was the first to react, and this voice awakened everyone who was staring at Mei Xiang in a daze. Especially the look from Sun Yu, which was surprised and sincere, and scorching as if it would burn Mei Xiang in the next second.

Meixiang blushed and touched her nose. "Well, I read this in a book. I don't really understand it, but I just remembered it and told you about it. If you need it, I'll think about it and write it down for your reference later."

Later, this manuscript was included in Haoyue's classics and became a treasure book for dyeing craftsmen.

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