As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhoushan tea, Baishui group tea, and Xiaolongfeng group tea in Leadshan County were tributes.

Due to the convenient water transportation, Hekou Town, Leadshan County, has gradually developed into a tea processing and distribution center in Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian and other places, and the tea business is quite developed.

The Qing Dynasty poet Cheng Hongyi described it in "Words of the Bamboo Branches at the Mouth of the River": "The women of Shijiang take advantage of the new tea, and the sideburns and clothes are fragrant and laughing. Qi asked the dealer to divide the small ticket, and the spring onion was frozen and the thunder buds were removed.

The poem describes the grand scene when tens of thousands of tea pickers were picking spring tea all over the mountains, and it was very lively.

Of course, now is the Zhengde period, the heyday of the tea industry in Hekou Town has not yet arrived, and so on to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the rise of small black tea, the tea industry in Hekou Town will usher in the most glorious period, the famous black tea originator Hekou black tea (Zhengshan small species) was born here, the end of the Ming Dynasty began to be exported to Europe, respected by Westerners as the queen of tea.

Although it is not the heyday of the tea industry in Hekou Town, the tea industry has become the pillar industry of Hekou Town, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it feeds nearly half of the population of Leadshan County.

Huang Desheng is one of the many small tea merchants in Hekou Town, who operates hundreds of acres of tea plantations on Yangmei Ridge, and is a big family in Luoshi Village. Of course, if a tea merchant of Huang Desheng's level is put in the entire Leadshan County, it is really nothing, and it is not worth it compared with the Fang family, which monopolizes more than 50% of the local tea industry in Leadshan County.

Huang Desheng's residence is in Luoshi Village, and next to the house is a tea workshop, covering an area of nearly 2,000 square meters. It is the season of autumn tea picking, and you can see that there are more than a dozen tea workers busy in the workshop.

Xu Jin and the others entered Huang Desheng's house and sat in the living room in the front yard, the fat woman Yang took Xie Xiaowan to the back house to bathe and change clothes very enthusiastically, and Yahuan Yue'er followed and waited.

When Huang Desheng learned that the Fei brothers were actually the two sons of a local scholarly family, he was immediately in awe, and his attitude became even more enthusiastic, and he immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare wine and food for reception.

It was noon, Xu Jin and the others had been on the road for a long time, but they were tired and thirsty, so they did not refuse, and promised to stay and leave after eating.

Huang Desheng secretly rejoiced, the Fei family is a local family in Lead Mountain, and it is also a scholarly family, and the current head of the Fei family is a former official to the cabinet scholar, a small merchant can receive two Fei family sons, and naturally feels that there is light on his face.

"What are you doing? Why don't you go and make a pot of tea? Huang Desheng frowned and scolded his son-in-law Zhang Nan, who was on the side.

Zhang Nan hurriedly went down to make tea.

Fei Maozhong looked at Zhang Nan's back and couldn't help asking: "Boss Huang, this Brother Zhang Nan looks a little kind, is the word Shaobei." ”

Huang Desheng was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "This kid ...... cough, Zhang Nan does have a few words in the north, does Fei Gongzi know him? ”

Fei Maozhong said with a smile: "That's right, no wonder it looks a little familiar, Brother Shaobei is studying in Goose Lake Academy, right?" ”

Huang Desheng said curiously: "Hey, Zhang Nan did study in Goose Lake Academy, but now he has dropped out, how does Fei Gongzi know?" ”

Fei Maozhong said with a smile: "Zai Xia and his brother have both studied in Goose Lake Academy, and they are classmates with Brother Zhang Nan, so I have a little impression." ”

Huang Desheng stroked his beard lightly, and his mind couldn't help but come alive.

At this time, Na Zhang Nan had already made a pot of tea and poured a cup for everyone with a restrained expression.

Huang Desheng said lightly: "You can also sit down and chat with a few sons." ”

Zhang Nan was a little flattered and sat down next to him nervously. Fei Maozhong smiled and said, "Brother Shaobei, do you still remember where you are?" ”

Zhang Nan said self-deprecatingly: "Brother Minshou is the banner figure of Goose Lake Academy, how can he not remember it, but Brother Minshou still remembers the words of such a small person, which makes Zai Xia very surprised." ”

Xu Jin couldn't help frowning secretly, a little innocuous self-deprecation in the conversation between the two sides could adjust the atmosphere, but Zhang Nan's sour self-deprecation would only make the atmosphere embarrassing. The person who says such a thing is either very inferior, or he has a bad life and is full of complaints, and there is no doubt that neither of these people is very pleasant.

Fei Maozhong was slightly embarrassed and said with a smile: "Why should Brother Shaobei be arrogant, by the way, is Shaobei still studying in Goose Lake Academy now?" ”

Zhang Nan shook his head: "I'm ashamed, my family can't continue, and I dropped out of school at the beginning of next year." ”

It is said that this Zhang Nan is a native of Rongshu Township, Hekou Town, his parents are tea workers, and Zhang Nan was very smart when he was young, and Zhang's father wanted to cultivate him as a lintel, so he sent the twelve-year-old Zhang Nan to Goose Lake Academy to study.

Zhang Nan was also very competitive, and passed the county exam when he was fifteen years old, but the next government exam was not successful year after year, and he took the exam more than a dozen times, until the year before last, Zhang's father died of illness last year.

After Zhang's father regretted the end, the Zhang family's family was even more poor, and he could no longer afford to provide for Zhang Nan to go to school, and Zhang Nan was twenty-seven years old at this time, and he had not yet married, and his mother was also sick in bed last winter, Zhang Nan had no choice but to drop out of school to earn money to support his family and serve his mother.

It happened that Huang Desheng's tea garden needed a guy who could write and calculate, so Zhang Nan was recruited to become a worker in the tea garden.

Huang Desheng's wife Yang's maiden family has a bit of a background, and even Huang Desheng's tea garden is also helped by the Yang family, so the Yang family is very strong at home on weekdays, and he is also jealous, although the husband and wife are over forty years old, and there is only one daughter under their knees, the Yang family has never allowed her husband to take a concubine, and spoils her only daughter as a treasure.

Because of this, Huang Fanger has been rude and willful since she was a child, and has always done her own thing, so that she made such a "shocking" move in front of the public today.

Fei Maozhong chatted with Zhang Nan for a few words, the atmosphere was dull, and he couldn't talk anymore, so he took a sip of the teacup, and suddenly said softly: "What kind of tea is this, is it a new variety?" ”

Xu Jin liked to drink tea very much in his previous life, and he still had a lot of research on tea, glanced at the burgundy tea soup, and smelled the faint longan smell emitted by the tea soup, and blurted out: "This is Zhengshan Xiaozhong, right?" ”

Everyone present was stunned for a moment, and Fei Mao Xianqi said: "Ziqian, what kind of tea is Zhengshan Xiaozhong?" Unheard of! ”

Xu Jin glanced at Huang Desheng and Zhang Nan, who were also full of doubts, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, could it be that there was no small black tea in the Zhengde years?

Xu Jin carefully tasted the tea soup and found that there was really a faint pine fragrance, and the taste and taste were undoubtedly small black tea, but looking at the expressions of Huang Desheng and Zhang Nan, this kind of black tea did not seem to be called small black tea, so he said quietly: "This kind of tea is a little similar to the taste of a tea that I have tasted in the future, I don't know what the name of this tea is Boss Huang?" ”

Huang Desheng glanced at Xu Jin suspiciously, and replied: "This kind of tea is made by this kid Zhang Nan, and the contemptible people think that the taste is not bad, and I plan to take it to the tea market this year to try the water, but I haven't named it yet, it's called black tea for the time being!" ”

Xu Jin's heart moved, and asked, "Boss Huang, can you take some tea samples to have a look?" ”

Huang Desheng happily asked Zhang Nan to bring a bag of tea, anyway, there is no way to know how to make tea just by looking at the appearance of the tea.

When the Fei brothers saw the bag of black charcoal-shaped tea leaves, they immediately frowned, but Xu Jin was overjoyed, this tea was the Zhengshan small species that would become popular all over the world in the future, known as the queen of tea, grandma's, and accidentally witnessed history again.