After a busy day, it was almost time for the sun to set, Chen Xu finally installed the last window and let out a long breath.

After the doors and windows are completed, there is basically no problem with sleeping at night.

At about the same time, Xing'er and Chen Jiang came back from the mountain with two baskets of mushrooms.

After every heavy rain in summer, many mushrooms will always grow on the mountain.

The villagers will go up the mountain to pick it in groups, clean it up and dry it and store it, and wait until there is no wild vegetables in winter before eating it.

In autumn, we will go up the mountain to pick various dried fruits such as chestnuts and hazelnuts. After collecting a certain amount, we will sell them in the market for some salt and linen.

But it is very hard and dangerous whenever you go up the mountain. Wild beasts, insects and snakes can threaten life safety at any time.

These days, the women in the village have made an appointment to go out together, and they have not walked too far. They are just a mile away near the village, and they can basically hear the shouts. Chen Xu was not too worried, but when he saw the two of them coming back, his half-suspended heart finally let go.

"Brother, look, we still picked a lot of fungus today!"

Xing'er happily took a branch covered by the vine basket and presented treasure to her brother.

Chen Jiang also put down the vine basket and picked out the leaves and weeds that fell inside and said: "The fungus will be purchased after being dried and taken to the witch doctor in the town market. It can be sold for three cents per catty last year. I wonder if it will be higher this year..."

But Chen Xu did not look at the fungus in the basket, but looked at the branch in Xing'er's hand, and a very surprised light appeared in his eyes and asked: "Xinger, where did this branch come from?"

"It's on the hillside there, there are so many big trees, all of which are blooming, it's so fragrant!" Xing'er turned around and pointed to a hillside.

Chen Jiangshi looked up and added, "Xu'er, this kind of tree can still bear some fruits in autumn, and it's very good to wash your hair..."

"Hahahaha!" Chen Xu couldn't help laughing excitedly, picked Xing'er and turned around and put it down, "Xinger, you have discovered good things this time. This kind of tree is called a tea tree. Picking tender leaves and stir-frying them in water and drinking them can cure many diseases. Now we are going to get rich!"

"Brother, then let's go and pick some back!" Xing'er also shouted happily.

"No, no hurry, cook now, and you can take me there tomorrow!"

Tea tree, Chen Xu felt that he was trembling all over.

Although according to later records, tea has a long history in Chinese food culture. Legend has it that in ancient times, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs and was poisoned every day, but drinking tea resolved the symptoms of poisoning. However, there were not many people who drank tea before the Qin and Han Dynasties, and those who could drink tea were all those who practice Taoism and hope to live forever. Therefore, in the late Han Dynasty, Taoism began to rise to the habit of drinking tea and gradually spread. Taoists also regarded tea as a elixir for health preservation. Drinking tea regularly not only can strengthen the body, but also can nourish the spirit, calm the mind, and help meditate and practice.

But the real development of tea culture was only after Lu Yu, known as the tea saint, wrote the "Tea Classic" in the Tang Dynasty, and the history of large-scale cultivation of tea in China was truly opened. Tea, a very good conditioning and health plant, slowly entered ordinary people's homes, and tea culture began to become a systematic cultural phenomenon. The tea ceremony created by Japan was formed after the Tang envoys were sent to the Tang Dynasty to introduce the tea culture of the Tang Dynasty to Japan.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, tea was dumped in large quantities with porcelain and silk to Western countries, becoming something that the Western royal family and nobles competed to buy. Drinking tea also became an elegant way of communication for the upper class. As a nobleman, if he didn't even have a set of porcelain from the Ming Empire in China and would not make tea and drink tea, he would be seriously despised. Westerners even believed that tea was a priceless treasure given to mankind by God, but this treasure was monopolized by the Chinese, and this monopoly brought about a large amount of Western silver being continuously pulled away by China ship by ship.

For Chinese people in the future, drinking tea has almost become a habit, just like having to eat every day.

Before Chen Xu traveled through time, because of work, he had to make a cup of tea on the electric car. He took a few sips after catching orders to deliver food. He not only refreshed and quenched his thirst. He also brewed a cup of tea to relax his mood almost every day after dinner, so that his busy and nervous body and emotions can be relieved and released. This has almost become his habit. It will be uncomfortable if he doesn't drink tea for a day.

But after traveling through time, Chen Xu had also looked for tea trees near the village, but he couldn't find them, so he could only make a cup of mint water as tea every day, because it had been half a month since he couldn't drink tea.

This suddenly got the whereabouts of the tea tree, and Chen Xu was excited.

If nothing unexpected happens, tea will be an important step in its future development. Tea can open the markets of Western countries in the future, and now it can also knock on the doors of dignitaries in exchange for a large amount of money and wealth.

Although the tea picking season has passed, there is no difference for the Qin Dynasty people who have never drunk green tea and black tea.

Tea trees have a wide range of branches in China, but most of them grow in warm and humid areas in the south. Provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin grow, but the distribution north of the Yangtze River is very sparse. This dividing line is basically bounded by the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River, while Henan is just on this dividing line.

The climate during the Qin Dynasty must be very different from that in two thousand years later, but Nanyang is actually closer to Hubei in later generations and is almost on the same plain as Xiangyang. At this time, Nanyang County actually included large areas of land such as Xiangyang in Hubei, which led to the two cities of Xiangyang and Nanyang in later generations often spitting each other for the competition for Zhuge Liang's former residence.

Hubei, in later generations, was a major tea-producing province, and it was not uncommon to have tea trees in Nanyang, which was so close to me.

Therefore, after learning that there were tea trees on the nearby mountains, Chen Xu was so excited that he didn't sleep well all night. He kept tossing and turning in the haystack. From time to time, he would get up and sit in a daze in the middle of the night, and then mutter in his mouth. Yu Wuya, who was sleeping next to him, almost didn't sleep well all night.

The next morning, Chen Xu yawned with two panda eyes and yawned for breakfast. Yu Wuya couldn't help asking: "My benefactor, you kept talking about what ice black tea was last night?"

"Have I said it?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

"Well, you mumbled in the middle of the night and said something that was so cool that you were talking about Tieguanyin and Dahongpao, which sounded very powerful!"
Chapter completed!