Picking tea composition during busy farming hours

"Cuckoo Cuckoo, busy sister-in-law, tea-picking old man, little baby" is a dialect circulating in our tea village, which means that when the cuckoo calls, the busy farming season will begin, and the elderly and children will go into battle together during the busy farming season.

In fact, long before the cuckoo crowed, the management of the tea garden was already as busy as a bee. 1, pruning, namely pruning branches and leaves at the top of the tea tree to make the tea tree form a sphere; Then it is weeding and fertilizing, leveling the soil. Tea picking began gradually around the Qingming Festival.

Picking tea is picking up money on the tea tree! Tea farmers are also very busy and cheerful, but they have suffered from us since childhood. Every day when the sky is a fish-belly grey, I am woken up by my parents. Usually like this, I want to call three times, the first is to say hello, the second is to warn, and the third is silent, so I have to go forward and uncover the quilt. In a daze, I took the bamboo basket handed me by the adults, one foot deep and one foot shallow, looking trance-like, stumbling through the dew on the roadside and dawdling towards my tea garden. I will be reprimanded by adults along the way, and then I will reason with you: getting up early three days is worth a job. Baby, be sensible and help your parents do something.

When the sun rises in Ran Ran, their bamboo baskets are already full of green tea leaves, and the original slack is dispelled by the bright sunshine, bringing fresh air, fragrant wild flowers and green tea gardens, and their expressions are suddenly full. Carrying a basket full of tea leaves home, adults hang the freshly picked tea leaves on the concrete floor to prevent them from being soaked and burnt. Wash your face, have breakfast and go to another tea garden to pick it.

In the evening, naturally go home in the dark. And I like my parents telling me to go home early to make a fire and cook, close the chicken and feed the pigs and other housework. Although the work is hard, I prefer to stay at home and do things instead of picking tea.

Although picking tea is manual work, it is tiring. First of all, it's boring. Standing in the tea garden, what I hear most is the sound of picking tea. Of course, men can smoke a cigarette, and women can chat and occasionally tell a joke to make everyone laugh, but this is rare. I am also smart as my father. Sometimes I put the radio in a bamboo basket to enliven the dull atmosphere. Followed by low back pain. Picking tea is bending over and hanging in the air for a long time from morning till night, so my legs and feet are stiff and my neck is sour. Then it's rainy. You have to wear plastic film and take it off when you stand in the rain and fog with a bamboo hat. Your sleeves and pants are all wet and sad. Unless there is a knife in the sky, you can only hide at home. The phrase "tea has two sharp ends, and both ends will be upset in three days" means that the market situation of tea is unstable. The price is not bad today, and it may drop a lot tomorrow. Besides, "picking tea before rain is a treasure, and picking tea after rain is grass." After a day, the tea leaves are much older. Therefore, it is always right to try to stay ahead.

Picking tea leaves is bitter, and making tea leaves is equally hard and high in technology. You can't be lazy in the seven or eight processes, otherwise the hard-picked tea can't buy a good price, and some of them are not good. Fixing, rubbing, drying, drying, baking ... a series of processes, but also to master the size of the heat. In this way, the tea is green and fragrant. In the quiet mountain village, the tea is full of fragrance, and every household is fragrant. "Green silk is all over Shan Ye, and every household smells tea" is true. After a large amount of tea leaves came from Grain Rain, they were produced only by the tea factory in the village. Every household sent people to finish the production of several thousand kilograms of raw tea. The next day, I had to go to the tea purchasing station in the town to verify the grade purchase. When I came back, some of them didn't sleep. They went straight to their tea garden with bamboo baskets on their shoulders. Sometimes they doze off while picking, swaying, like drunk, and really can't hold back and lean against the tea bushes, snoring like thunder.

"The chicken flew over the fence and the dog barked, knowing that there were merchants coming to buy tea." The tea broker came to buy tea, and the tea farmers told each other later and went home to take out the prepared tea. There are jade buds before the Ming Dynasty, fairy branches with one gun and one flag, and a curling cloud. Everyone also commented on each other, looked at the appearance, checked the color, smelled the aroma, checked and weighed, and took out a lot of money. Adults with hard-earned money, tired face showed a happy smile.

Adults at this time are so busy that their front feet are close to the back of their heads that they can't grow two hands. The unreasonable urchin went to the toilet while drinking water and strolled to the river to catch fish and pull out small bamboo shoots. When adults saw the baby was late, they stamped their feet and shouted at the top of their voices. After your family called him home, voices came and went, echoing in the quiet valley for a long time-and the cuckoo in the mountain forest cried unhurriedly, and the cuckoo sighed, as if urging the busy tea farmers.