Chapter 37 Chapter 7 Tea Crazy

When I knew that my grandfather and father had returned to China when I was one year old and wanted to find the legendary Valley of the Kings of Tea, I felt as if possessed, and wanted to see the true face of the Valley of the Kings of Tea.Liao's second child may have been psychologically affected. He really thought that he was going to die, so he was always depressed.I want to find Mu Qingxiang first and ask her for advice, because she knows a lot of things, without her we would never have found Tea King Valley.It's a pity that Mu Qingxiang is always elusive, and there is no way to find him. Zhao Shuai even said not to look for it at all. Anyway, Mu Qingxiang always showed up on his own initiative.

On the third day, Old Man Baimu and Yang Qingshan announced the result of the Shandong Tea Battle—no one won.Because of an accident in the middle, everyone couldn't taste the tea in time, and all the preparations have been cancelled.To be fair, they decided to give everyone another month to prepare, just to give everyone else who wasn't there a chance.I told the news to Liao Lao Er, he was finally a little happy, since Lan Tian has been arrested and Yang Zishan is dead, then the next Ming battle will be more fair. It's a pity that Mr. Liao doesn't have better tea at hand. Although it can be made up for by water and cooking methods, these are not enough to overwhelm other tea lovers.Zhou Cha Lao came to visit Liao Er, he was the only one who came to visit Liao Er, when he came in, Liao Er introduced us to each other.I thought that Zhou Chalao often went out with his father when he was in Hubei, so he would know his father's whereabouts in 1971, but Zhou Chalao shook his head and denied it, saying that he knew that his father had returned to China, but he didn't know that his father was with him in that year. Where has my grandfather been.

"Son, I want to know more about those things than you do, but your father always avoids talking about it, and makes sex with alcohol, hey." Zhou Chalao sighed, "He doesn't let me get close to you, and he doesn't want you to come in again." Tea ceremony, but he certainly didn't expect that you still..." I never knew my father had this idea, and I thought he didn't want to inherit the family business, so he didn't teach me the tea ceremony.However, after my grandfather gave me the incomplete book of tea, I never mentioned it to my father, and now only Liao Laoer and Zhao Shuai know that I have that thing.One after another of sudden changes, I am already on guard against people. Although Zhou Cha looks very kind, who knows if he has a bad stomach.

Later, Zhou Cha Lao told me: "There is one more thing, I don't know if I should tell you?" "What's the matter? Just say it." My heart was beating wildly. "The day before your father passed away, I was with him, but he seemed to know that his time had come, so he kept saying that he didn't want to die yet. Who knew that he would..." My head was buzzing, and these words from my father clearly implied that he already knew he was going to die, and I always thought he died of illness.Could it be that even the father died abnormally? Who would have such a great ability to kill so many people without anyone noticing.Zhou tea guy doesn't know much. In order to prepare for the tea battle in a month's time, he will also leave Qingdao to collect tea in other places.After Zhou Cha Lao left the ward, Zhao Shuai walked in, and he brought a piece of news.

Through some connections, Zhao Shuai found out that Lan Tian's family had indeed found Jingua Rentou tea, but he couldn't find Xiao Nongyun's relics.After hearing this, I thought, a person like Lan Tian, ​​who is blinded by profit, would only steal tea, and would never look directly at those inconspicuous relics.If anyone has seen Xiao Nongyun's relics, then at the scene of the tea battle, they would at least show a surprised expression when they saw Mu Qingxiang, but no one had such a reaction. It is very likely that the relics were not stolen by the tea masters present. Lan Tian just happened to be a scapegoat.

The second Liao also begged me to play instead of him. Since the postponement was postponed for a month, I would have time to exercise again and prepare good tea.I originally wanted to decline, but Liao's second son was not in good health, so I half-pushed and half-heartedly agreed.Who made us grasshoppers on the same line, we were the only ones who survived the Xungu Incident in 1971.But I feel very wronged, after all, I was only one year old at that time, and it was not my initiative to find the Tea King Valley, so it has nothing to do with me. In the end, we discussed and made three decisions: first, let Liao’s second child recuperate in Qingdao; second, Zhao Shuai and I went to Tanggong Mountain in Yixing to collect tea, which is the location of the legendary Tea King Valley. Inquire whether a group of outsiders entered the mountain in 1971; Third, Jiang Langzhong left behind a granddaughter——Jiang Hongyu, who has never been able to let go of her grandfather's death, and has been looking for the whereabouts of Tea King Valley.The second Liao said, we can find Jiang Hongyu and invite her to go to the mountains to find valleys together. She will definitely not refuse, because her situation is somewhat similar to mine.

As for the whereabouts of Xiao Nongyun's relics, Liao Er Er asked us to leave it alone for the time being. Judging from the current situation, Mu Qingxiang is a friend rather than an enemy. If we meet her again in the future, let me say a word of humility to him.After two days of preparation, I went south with Zhao Shuai and took the train to Nanjing.In Nanjing we wanted to buy something for self-defense, but we also thought that Jiangsu was different from Yunnan and there would be no danger, so we only bought some lighting equipment and then transferred to Yixing, which also started another amazing journey.

China is the hometown of tea, and there is also a tea making tool that is as famous as tea - the purple sand pot.Zisha teapots can absorb tea juice, making tea with purple sand teapots, the taste of tea is timeless and mellow, and the most famous teapots are the products of Yixing, the pottery capital.Yixing Zisha craftsmanship began in the Northern Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and flourishes today.Zisha teapot integrates calligraphy, painting, poetry, seal cutting, and sculpture. It won the first prize at the Panama World Exposition in 1915 and became famous overseas.

Tanggong Mountain in Yixing is the origin of Yangxian tea, the tribute tea of ​​the Tang Dynasty. Lu Yu, a tea sage, discovered Yangxian tea and recommended it to the imperial court. This tea became tribute tea.Tanggong Mountain is not too big, it is located in Dingshu Town, Yixing, and every inch of land in the mountain can be covered in a few days and nights.Therefore, I am very confident in finding Tea King Valley, but I am a little discouraged when I think that no one has found it before. Although Yixing in the 1990s was not considered a big city, due to the relationship between the tea industry and the purple sand pot, Yixing's economy was still good, and there were also a lot of foreign businessmen.

Zhao Shuai was still happy to pick wild flowers on the roadside, which caused us to delay arriving in Yixing for a few days, and it was already night when we got off the bus that day.We didn't know the exact location of Tanggong Mountain, so we stayed in a guest house and planned to find Jiang Hongyu tomorrow.Because the second Liao and Langzhong Jiang rarely met each other, they always communicated by letters, so the second Liao couldn't tell where Jiang Hongyu lived. Jiang Hongyu was about the same age as me. After her grandfather died, other relatives died as well, but she did not believe that these people died accidentally.Jiang Hongyu runs a small purple clay teapot shop, and usually deals with tea people, so she has collected a lot of information about Tea King Valley, but she has not been able to find the location of Tea King Valley.The second Liao only knew the name of Jiang Hongyu's purple sand pot shop - Hongyu Shop. As for the location of the shop, he didn't know, he only knew it was in Yixing.

Fortunately, Yixing is not big, so it is not difficult to find a small Hongyu shop, and it is much easier than looking for Tea King Valley.Zhao Shuai ran to inquire with the little sister at the guest house, and he still didn't forget to flirt while inquiring, the little sister smiled so much that her face was blooming.In order not to attract attention, I asked Zhao Shuai to take off his suit before arriving in Jiangsu and change into something more ordinary.It's a pity that it's useless to remove it, he is still more likely to attract women's favor than me. When I went to inquire, my little sister didn't look at me. After Zhao Shuai came back pretending to be cool, I quickly asked him how he was doing and whether the Hongyu shop was easy to find.Unexpectedly, Zhao Shuai waved his hand and said don't look for the Hongyu shop, he probably already guessed the location of the Tea King Valley, and there is no need to find Jiang Hongyu anymore.I looked at Zhao Shuai suspiciously, and thought that this kid was bragging again, and he didn't look at the occasion. Is it time to brag now? Seeing that I didn't believe it, Zhao Shuai immediately said unhappy, "You are awesome, you know a lot, why didn't you take the first place in the tea fight?" I was speechless for a moment, and then changed the subject: "What did my little sister say to you? Don't tell me she wants to elope with you." "Of course not!" Zhao Shuai put down the curtains, sat on the snow-white bed, and said to me, "So, it is said that an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty was dug out in Tanggong Mountain recently. The rare ancient teapot in the ancient tomb is very real. Maybe that tomb is the tomb of the first generation of tea kings. If you find out the location of that ancient tomb, then the Valley of Tea Kings will be easy to find.” "Do you believe this kind of gossip? If someone really digs up the ancient tomb, the contents inside will be left to you. Do you think others are fools?" I snorted. "Listen to me!" Zhao Shuai tutted, "I don't know if there is something wrong in the ancient tomb. The tomb robbers are almost dead. Only one watchman didn't go down, so he didn't die. This news is passed on by the watchman. It came out, but it is also very difficult to find people who watch the wind, and now the news has spread to everyone, it is estimated that many people have gone to Tanggong Mountain." I rubbed my temples, and suddenly felt a headache. Tanggong Mountain is not big, so many people can’t find the Valley of the King of Tea. Maybe there is no Valley of the King of Tea in the world.But since they're all here, it's defenseless to look at them, and they can't return empty-handed.Zhao Shuai saw that I was silent, and he said that half a year ago, a tea idiot came to Yixing to find a good teapot, and it was this incident that made everyone flock to Tanggong Mountain.I finally became interested, and asked what happened to tea madness, did I drink tea to the point of dementia? It turned out that the tea addict was surnamed Lin, over 70 years old, and grew up in the tea town of Wuyi Mountain.In addition to managing all kinds of famous teas, Mr. Lin also has a treasure - his inseparable teapot.Old man Lin has used this pot for 52 years, and a thick layer of tea rust has formed inside the pot.Even if the empty pot is filled with clean water, the poured water still has the fragrance of tea. It can be seen how much good tea from Wuyi Mountain was used by Mr. Lin to grow this good pot.However, such a good pot was destroyed in the hands of the new nanny of the Lin family.The nanny took advantage of Uncle Lin's lunch break to clean the thick tea rust inside the teapot. When Uncle Lin was making tea with the cleaned pot, he was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood, and he never got sick again. It takes dozens of years to grow such a teapot, so the descendants of the Lin family thought of Yixing to look for teapots, and they had been used for decades, and they should never be newly made.It's a pity that this kind of thing is rare. Old man Lin died of depression half a year later.The Lin family still couldn't let go of this matter, so they let it go. As long as they can find a teapot that has been used for decades or even hundreds of years, they are willing to share half of the family property with the person who provides the teapot. I was dumbfounded when I heard it. It was the first time I heard of drinking tea to such an extent.The Lin family are all lunatics, don't they even want their lives for a teapot, and even give away the family property to others, it is true that the same rice supports all kinds of people.Most of the businessmen who were serious about Zisha teapots were not interested, but some idlers saw money and used fake teapots to cheat, but they were immediately spotted by the Lin family.When they heard that the tomb of an ancient tea maker was dug up in Tanggong Mountain, everyone wondered if there might be a good ancient teapot, so some street thugs ran into the mountain. However, we didn't find out about Jiang Hongyu's small shop. Maybe her shop is really too small, so no one in the county has heard of it.Tanggong Mountain is in Dingshu Town, and we have to go there by car tomorrow morning, so we went to bed early, lest everything in the ancient tomb would be taken out if we went late.I prayed in my heart, hoping that the ancient tomb was hidden deep and no one else had found it yet. Soon, Zhao Shuai fell asleep, but I couldn't fall asleep on the other bed.The things I experienced during this period kept coming to my mind, but I couldn't find the connection point of all the things. The only thing I could connect was the broken scriptures left by my grandfather.In the dark, I took the remnant scriptures out of the bag again, and with the help of the yellow streetlight outside the window, I squinted and looked through them.Zhao Shuai was woken up by the sound of my flipping the book, and cursed a few words in a daze, because I couldn't read the words clearly without turning on the light, so I closed the remnant scripture again and was about to stuff it back into the bag. However, the moment I closed the broken scriptures, I noticed something strange in the broken scriptures.