Chapter 143 Fairy Tea
Walking through the sweet potato field, Song Wen came to a place where pheasants, wild ducks and swans were raised in captivity.
After a while of hatching, the eggs under the butts of the pheasant wild ducks finally hatched. There were more than ten little swans, and there were a little more pheasant wild ducks, about twenty.
The little guys are furry and cute. They followed their mother's butts, shouting happily. They followed them wherever their mother went, like little followers. When they saw someone coming, they were not afraid, and they were curious to come over and stretched out their little heads to look.
Song Wen fed them something. The food they were fed was simple, including some chopped vegetable leaves and chopped sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes were sweet. These guys especially liked to eat them, and they ate fat one by one.
After feeding pheasants, wild ducks and swans, Song Wen came to the edge of the ginseng. After the fat ginseng last bloomed and bears fruit, the stems on it withered and turned bald again, but now green buds are starting to emerge on it, and it is probably about to grow stems again.
Song Wen ignored it and looked around. After walking around, he stood by the pool. He felt that the pool in Ruyi Fan was empty, which was a pity. So he wanted to raise something?
There are already mountain crabs, so there is no need to raise them anymore. Moreover, mountain crabs are just moving around the pond, which has nothing to do with the pool.
I don’t like crucian carp; loaches have already been raised; grass carp, the pond seems to be too small and cannot be raised much; silver carp, too many thorns, and it will suffer when eating; pomfret is not easy to raise; shrimps are prone to illness; soil killing (catfish), it is okay to eat occasionally, but it tastes weird if you eat it for a long time.
After thinking about it, Song Wen couldn't think of what fish to raise. Suddenly he thought that he should raise some eels, preferably bass eels.
In southern Fujian, the perch eel is called the earth dragon and the red clay dragon. It is scientifically known as the flower eel, which is a bit like a big eel, so some people call it "Eel King".
The largest earth dragon is more than two or three meters, with 40 or fifty kilograms.
Tulong is not only delicious and nutritious, but also can be used as medicinal. Its meat is sweet and flat, and has the effects of nourishing and strengthening, dispelling wind and killing insects. Bone, blood, bladder, etc. can also be used as medicine. People use Tulong to stew with Chuanxiong to treat dizziness and headache. Tulong is very nourishing when stewing medicinal materials. It tastes so good, but the price is a little expensive.
However, no one raised this thing near Songjiabao. This thing is usually raised in the coastal area. It seems that I have to go to Tongling, and there are many people who raise this thing on the sea.
After leaving the Ruyi Fan, Song Wen went to the place where the tender bamboo buds were dried and found that the tender bamboo buds had dried. He took the cut tender bamboo bud tips to the front yard. Because he wanted to stir-fry tea, he specially built a stove for stir-fry tea in the front yard, just like the stove in the countryside, but the charcoal was burned.
"Luo'an Essay" mentioned that fried bamboo leaf tea must use charcoal made of longan wood. Because longan wood belongs to yang wood, bamboo leaves are slightly cold in nature, using the yang energy of longan wood to rinse away the cold air brought by bamboo leaves, making bamboo leaf tea more beneficial to the body and mind.
Song Wen actually didn't know if this was the case. The ancients always talked so much about things. Anyway, it was not a big deal. He would do whatever the book said.
Nowadays, most people use electric woks to stir-fry tea by hand or simply use machines to stir-fry tea.
The biggest advantage of using a tea stir-frying machine is that it saves costs, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to stir-fry manually, and it is high in price, and it saves time and money when stir-frying by machine. However, the tea fried by hand is completely different from that produced by machine. From the appearance, the tea fried by machine is more regular and more beautiful. However, in terms of the taste, the tea fried by machine is much inferior to that produced by hand.
Fried tea is actually fried green, mainly to remove the earthy taste, moisture, and the green flavor of the tea leaves, so as to preserve the aroma and essence of the tea leaves, making the taste more prominent and more mellow.
Song Wen lit the charcoal in the stove of the tea pot. When the temperature of the tea pot is good, he put down the tips of the tender bamboo buds. The tea pot is new, so the first time you need to use the tips of the tender bamboo buds to stir-fry the taste of the new pot, which is the same as buying a new pot in the kitchen.
Because the new flavor of the iron pot is removed, the fried tea has the flavor of the iron pot, so the fried tea cannot be used and must be thrown away. After throwing it away, Song Wen continued to stir-fry it again.
No one grows tea in Songjiabao, and no one knows how to stir-fry tea, so Song Wen had to search online.
After watching countless videos and countless text introductions, he felt that fried tea was drizzling to him. Unexpectedly, it was not the case when stir-frying. It was either burnt or had a green smell. It was terrible and tragic. Not one of the ten pots was qualified.
At the end, I picked up the fried bamboo leaf tea with good taste and weighed it, and found that it was less than one or two taels.
You banana guava, Song Wen cursed, this thing is even harder than the legendary alchemy.
You know, he picked two baskets in the morning, and even if he only used the tips of the tender buds, he still had about half a basket. Unexpectedly, he had the only one to fry until the end, so he had the heart to jump off the building. Fortunately, he finally fryed it out.
He couldn't wait to come to the house with the fried bamboo tea, then took out a thick glass cup from it, put a little fried bamboo tea, and brewed it with boiling spring water.
The spring water rushed into the cup, and the tender bamboo buds instantly rolled up. The rolled leaves turned with the boiling water, like fairies exiled to the mortal world, dancing gracefully in the water, and finally stretched out, becoming a fresh and tender bamboo leaf. The veins on the leaves were clearly visible, and a wisp of bamboo fragrance floated out.
It is fresh and pleasant, making people feel as if deep in the bamboo forest, a fresh bamboo is coming, like a dream and a fantasy.
The tea water made from bamboo leaf tea is clear and colored between yellow and green, neither light nor thick, like a gentleman, not biased.
Song Wen took a sip and the aroma was mellow and sweet. He swallowed it into his stomach. The aroma was fragrant and sweet afterwards. After that, he returned to his teeth and had a lingering fragrance, which made people intoxicated.
What a great tea! Song Wen sighed.
I don’t know how the man named Luean came up with this method to make bamboo leaf tea, which is simply amazing. Can the mind of a mortal?
He thought it should be named for this tea, and it would be too vulgar to use bamboo leaf tea. Look at it being soaked like a fairy and dancing in the water, so it is called "Xian'er Tea"! The full name is Dajian Xian'er, because it is produced in Dajian Mountain. Perhaps it will be as famous as Frozen Ding Oolong, Wuyi Rock Tea, Dongting Longjing, etc. in the future.
After drinking, he was reluctant to drink it again. There was only one or two taels, but it disappeared as soon as he finished drinking it. He was reluctant to throw away the tea leaves that had been fried a little too hot. He put them away and wrapped them in a bag and could still soak them in the future.
After cleaning the tea pot and stove, Song Wen took out the cut-out bamboo buds that were dried on the stall, and planned to continue making bamboo leaf wine.
The method of making bamboo leaf wine is relatively simple, not as complicated as making bamboo leaf tea. Just cook the green rice, then sprinkle the ground powder, chopped tender bamboo buds and wine koji powder on the cooked rice, and stir evenly and compact it.
Song Wen mixed the rice with the ground medicinal powder, tender bamboo buds, and wine koji powder, put it in a large porcelain basin to compact it, cover it with a cloth and put it aside, waiting for the medicinal power of the medicinal materials and the fragrance of tender bamboo buds to penetrate into the rice tomorrow. The aroma of the wine overflows, and you can start steaming the wine.
After everything was done, seeing that it was getting late, Song Wen went to cook.
When he was going to bed at night, he applied for a store on Taobao, then took some photos of the big white jade snail and put them on it, set the price, and spent some money to promote it, and waited for someone to buy it. Now he was so poor that he was waiting to sell the big white jade snail to earn money.
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