Chapter 120 Chapter 3 The first stop of Wanli Tea Road

The servant was listless, yawning, and told us we had better stop, because we could still catch the next train when we left.Liao Er was quite annoyed, what kind of onion was a little servant, and he dared to tell the guest who hadn't sat down to get out.Tang Dahai is relatively simple and honest, and his temperament is much gentler. He asked patiently, and only then did he know that the groom of the Lin family had been missing for a day or two. The head of the Lin family is now Lin Ming's younger brother——Lin Tu. Although he is old, he is very angry.Just because of this improper marriage, Lin Tu kicked the groom out of the house.The groom is Lin Ming's grandson, named Lin Hongyan. His favorite things in his life are reading, writing, and raising fish and turtles.Lin Tu was the second master. Although he was not Lin Hongyan's real grandfather, no one dared to stand up against him when talking at home.

What kind of marriage is there without a groom, and most of the relatives stay out of it and don't participate in this marriage.As a result, more than half of the relatives who received the wedding invitation did not come, and the wedding was as deserted as a divorce.After Lin Hongyan was kicked out of Lin's house, it didn't take long before he didn't hear from him, and he couldn't find it no matter how hard he searched.The wedding day is three days later, and the bride is still waiting to get married at her mother's house, and she has not learned anything about the Lin family's affairs.Since Lin Hongyan did not elope with the bride, most people guessed that he had already died in love, and the tea masters who came all the way did not leave, and all stayed to watch the good show three days later.

I'm not in the mood to watch a movie right now, and I have no right to interfere with the success of this marriage.Before the servant of the Lin family left, I asked her if anyone in the Lin family had gone out a month ago.The servant of the Lin family turned around and saw that I was too young and lacking in qualifications. She said impatiently that only Lin Hongyan had traveled far away more than a month ago, and she heard that she had gone to Gansu. "You didn't lie to me, did you? Think again, who else in the Lin family traveled far a month ago?" I asked impatiently. The servant of the Lin family was probably scolded by the master just now, and she was in a bad mood. After being questioned by me, she lost her temper: "Why are you lying to me? I'm not related to you, and I lied to you to have money to spend? If you don't believe me, go to the street and ask. If I lie to you, I will cut off my head."

When it comes to this point, I have no reason not to believe it. The servant's words are somewhat reasonable. She really doesn't need to lie to me.Now that it is confirmed, and the timing is so coincidental, then the possibility of Lin Hongyan being the mysterious person is the greatest.But I still have doubts. After all, Lin Hongyan is about the same age as me. Will he be the one who left behind the "tea fairy to visit here".Anything is possible, I'm young, I've had a few adventures, and I'm a far cry from who I used to be.Lin Hongyan lived in a tea family since he was a child, so it is not impossible to have the skill of a tea fairy.

After seeing off the servant, I went to the street to inquire again, and finally got some clues. Lin Hongyan was indeed the only one in the Lin family who went out more than a month ago.I complained one after another, why don't you disappear sooner or later, you will disappear as soon as I come.I still have a load of questions to ask, but at least I answered all the questions clearly, and I won't stop you if you jump off a cliff or hang yourself.At the same time, Liao's second child was not idle. After putting down his luggage, he went to find other tea shoppers and dug up more valuable information.The servant said that Lin Hongyan was missing, but she didn't tell us that Lin Hongyan went to Xiamei Village in the east of Wuyi Mountain before she disappeared.

Speaking of Xiamei Village, it is a long story, but the space is limited, so I will make a long story short here. In the past, the Lin family was just a small character, not as big as it is now, and lived in a village outside the urban area decades ago.Xiamei is a small village at the foot of Mount Wuyi. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the Wuyi tea market was located in Xiamei, and there were more than 300 bamboo rafts coming and going in peak season.However, after the Opium War, since the Qing government was forced to open five treaty ports, Wuyi rock tea can be exported as long as it goes down the Minjiang River.As a result, the tea center in the Wuyishan area was transferred from Xiamei to Chishi.Thanks to the convenient transportation and the proximity to the Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area, Chishi Village is already close to Zhuzhechi. It is no longer the past, but Xiamei is still hidden in the mountains not far away, retaining the charm of the Qing Dynasty.

Although Xiamei is not close to the Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area, nearly 40% of the undeveloped area of ​​Wuyi Mountain is, and the green mountains and green waters of Xiamei are more primitive.After the Lin family moved to the city, they still kept their ancestral house in Xiamei, and there was another tea plantation there.After Lin Hongyan was kicked out, he went back to his ancestral house for two days, but somehow disappeared there. I didn't intend to watch the marriage farce, so I wanted to rush to Xiamei Village again, and I didn't want to stay in the city anymore.After several months of recuperation, Liao Er'er's body has recovered a lot. Seeing that I was about to run away again, he took his luggage with him without saying a word.Tang Dahai couldn't figure it out, and asked us why we went to the small village in the mountains if we didn't want to watch a good show, and whether we wanted to kidnap some village girls back.The second Liao knew that if he came with me, there must be something more exciting to watch, and he didn't have a wedding invitation, so he said goodbye to Tang Dahai with a smile and no words.

Xiamei Village is seven or eight kilometers away from the urban area, and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when Liao Laoer and I got there by car.In late autumn, the weather is slightly cold, and Xiamei has not yet been fully developed into a scenic spot, so there are very few tourists, or there are no tourists at all.When I walked into the entrance of Xiamei Village, I couldn't help but sigh how simple the ancient stream houses here are, and the ancestral halls of the folk houses are also in the style of the Qing Dynasty, and many of them are the style of old rich families.

The waterway was the lifeblood of Xiamei because of the prosperity of the tea market, and the road was built in 1958.Before, flowing through the Meixi River next to the village has always been the main traffic route from Xiamei to Wuyi Town and even overseas.Dangxi, which flows into Meixi, divides Xiamei into north and south. This 900-meter-long Dangxi is actually an artificial river, which was planned and built for the tea market during the Kangxi period.There are railings on the side of the street in Linxi, where you can sit and lean. There are many small stone bridges on the river, and the transportation is convenient.

The gate of the Lin family's ancestral house was closed. I patted it several times but no one responded. The old lady next door thought I was going to rob.After asking the neighbors, they confirmed that Lin Hongyan had indeed been back. He did not come back after going to the Lin family's tea plantation yesterday, and wondered if he had returned to the city.We thanked the old lady, and the two of them walked to the edge of the stream and stood there in a daze. "Lin Hongyan didn't go back at all. Could it be that he knew we were coming, so he hid?" I wondered. Liao Lao Er and I stood by the stone railing of Dangxi River, looking at the gurgling water, and said to me: "This is impossible. You didn't meet the mysterious person in the ancient city of Yuequan at that time. Even if you saw Lin Hongyan, he would It can still be denied. Besides, that kid doesn't know that we have already got a lot of clues, so it is impossible for us to come."

"Then he won't really commit suicide because of love. Fuck, this tea fairy's psychological quality is too bad." I sighed. "That's not true. Didn't you hear? They said that Lin Hongyan disappeared when he went to the Lin family's tea farm. Let's go to the mountains and see, maybe we can find him." Liao Laoer said excitedly. Neither Liao nor I knew Lin Hongyan, so before we left the city, we got a photo of Lin Hongyan, so as not to miss him when we passed by him.Having not been out for activities for several months, Liao Er Er is very active and even willing not to rest.Due to the long hours of traveling, I was so tired that my bones were broken. Ignoring Liao's second child's objection, I stayed with a family for one night, planning to go out to find Lin Hongyan tomorrow morning.That family's house is not big, so Liao and I just shared the same bed, anyway, it's not like we never slept together. Liao's second son was always talking nonsense. After we settled down, he went to talk to the host again and got a lot of useful information.Because we didn't expect to come to Xiamei Village, we didn't know much about it. After asking the local old people, we realized that we didn't know Mount Tai. It turns out that Xiamei Village is the first stop of the Wanli Tea Road, which is as famous as the Silk Road.According to records, the Chang family from Chewang Town, Yuci City, Shanxi Province was the first to sell tea in Wuyi Mountain. Xiamei Village was his first stop to sell tea in Wuyi Mountain.Led by Shanxi Chang's tea masters, this tea road has become longer and longer, reaching 5,150 kilometers, from Xiamei in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, all the way to Russia, and then radiates to Western countries. This may be the reason for the Lin family's reluctance to leave their ancestral home after their fortune. After all, this is the first stop of the Wanli Tea Road and the source of everything.The tea farms of the Lin family are also different. Unlike ordinary tea leaves that are located on tea slopes, almost all of the tea trees of the Lin family are on rock walls.You know, Fujian is famous for rock tea, and many Westerners even use rock tea as the general name of Chinese tea. There is tea in Yanyan, tea is named after rock, and rock is distinguished by tea, so it is named Yancha.Wuyi rock tea is an oolong tea, one of the top ten famous teas in China. It is produced in Wuyi Mountain in Fujian, and Wuyi Dahongpao is the best.Dahongpao is a thousand-year-old tree, a rare treasure, and only 4 trees remain on the cliff of Jiulongke in Wuyi Mountain.When the ancient tree germinates in the Spring Festival, it is red like fire, so it is named Dahongpao.Spring water oozes out from the cracks in the rocks under the ancient tea trees, nourishing the tea trees, which are now thousands of years old.Every March and May, the tea masters will pick the tea on a high ladder. Because of the scarcity of the output, it is regarded as a rare treasure, and it has been a tribute to the royal family since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. In fact, very few people can drink the first generation of Dahongpao tea in Wuyi, and the four Dahongpao plants have been protected long ago to prevent people from continuing to pick tea.The Dahongpao that can be bought now are all copied through the technology of asexual reproduction.Back then, Dahongpao rock tea was produced only one catty a year, so one can imagine how precious it was. In the 1970s, Chairman Mao gave four taels to US President Nixon. Nixon, who did not know the details, also said that Chairman Mao was stingy.It's a pity that Chairman Mao didn't like to drink Dahongpao, and it is said that he gave special instructions not to give it to him in the future. The Lin family was very famous in Xiamei, so after Lin Hongyan came back, everyone paid attention to his every word and deed.When the host knew that we wanted to go to the Lin Family Tea Plantation, he shook his head and said that it might be difficult, because even the locals cannot approach the Lin Family Tea Plantation casually. That tea farm grew top-quality rock tea. For decades, except for the tea pickers hired by the Lin family, everyone else could only watch the Lin family tea farm from a distance.Around the tea plantation, the Lin family arranged some strong men to guard, and they would drive away any idlers approaching.In fact, it is not uncommon to hire people to guard the tea in this area. As early as 1930, the government sent troops to guard the tea trees in Wuyi Mountain. Take the four thousand-year-old Dahongpao plants in Wuyi Mountain as an example. The Communist Party of China sent troops to guard them. After the founding of New China, the People's Liberation Army successively guarded them.In addition to the four thousand-year-old Dahongpao plants, there are also some tea farms that are also stationed by government troops.Tea trees need to be guarded by soldiers, which is probably unique in China. Even the eighteen mother trees of West Lake Longjing Royal Seal, which is more famous than Dahongpao, do not have this kind of treatment. The owner is over 70 years old, and his memory is a little fuzzy. When we asked why soldiers were stationed, the old man said that maybe those tea trees were more precious.In the past, some tea people competed viciously, and many tea farms were destroyed, including the Lin family tea farm.To this day, the Lin family tea farm has maintained this tradition, and all the tea farms are guarded. When I got back to the room, I was about to lie down, and Liao Lao Er came over and said he had an idea. After hearing that, I said "ah" several times.