The Defeated Dragon

Splash cools down.

Large tracts of smoke emerged from the dusty brown brick, and a serf took down a few pieces with gloves and handed them to Lester, Gorte and Marcus.

“Experiment with hardness. ”

Clang

Two hammers went down and the brick was smashed.

“Normal hardness, not enough burning, try another stove.” Lester said calmly that this furnace brick clearly fell short of the quality of his experiments.

The new firing time of one furnace was extended by 10 minutes, leaving the furnace for half an hour.

After the splash cools, the hardness of the taupe brick has reached the standard, which is no less than the hardness of the granite.

Jomaya Clay felt the stiffness and weight of the bricks on the stretcher, and again exclaimed: "My lord, with this same shape of brick, it's very convenient to build anything. Compared to those fragile ceramics, the hardness of the bricks is the same as that of the stones. ”

“Just work well, then the rest of the brick factory kiln will be left to you to direct design. As soon as you're done building the brick factory, you start building the lighthouse. ”

If Jomaya is not brought in early, it is time to produce qualified bricks and complete the task before Jomaya enters his field of view. However, the smoke mission has changed, and Jomaya has arrived early and is preparing to build a lighthouse to shorten the time of many missions.

Lester turns around and asks Marcus: "Mr. Marcus, is the lighthouse location selected? ”

“A field trip has been conducted with Captain Costo to determine the location, a mile west of the port of Hema, where the terrain is high, the view is good and the view is clear on the ship. And the surrounding stone beach is not an obstacle to walking and the transportation of building materials is easy. ”

“Then build the lighthouse at this location, Counsellor Gaultai, and you will continue to be responsible for the construction of the brick factory. ”

“as you wish, my lord. ”

Handing over construction supervision tasks to Gorte, Lester took Marcus, Russell and Griffin on his own riding lightning bolt to start another task on this trip to Black Horse Island - finding wild tea trees.

There are not many trees on the island.

The vast majority of them are also rubber trees.

So the trees that can't distinguish the species, very few, in just one day, Lester finds the reward for the last smoke mission, three wild tea trees. These three wild tea trees, close together, grow on the hillside north of the iceberg hill and can be seen at a glance.

Tea trees that are shrub-shaped, not very tall, about two meters.

Plenty of branches, clutter and chaos, and no artificially planted tea trees neatly. Now it is March day, the young leaves of the wild tea tree have just germinated, slightly different from the tea tree buds in Lester's memory, the edges are not very obvious serrated shape, and the buds are not obvious.

Not comparable to a domesticated tea tree.

Tea harvesting, especially spring tea, can be single-sprouted or one sprouted leaf and one sprouted leaf.

A single bud is a bud head that has just grown and has not yet formed a young leaf; a bud head is a bud head that has grown into a young leaf; and a bud leaf is two bud heads that have grown into a young leaf.

Some people like to drink a single sprout, usually 30,000 sprouts to fry a kilo of single sprouts. Uni-bud is not fully developed, the flavour is not refreshing enough, and it will be a little bitter, not to mention bubble-resistant. But the characters I like are the single-malted fragrance and glycerin, and the kind of noble ambience.

One leaf and two leaves are relatively popular, well developed, ample amino acids and vitamins, and enough tea aroma. However, it is brewed out, there is no one-shot “needle-like stand up" pleasing eyes, and the thick tea flavour also lacks a hint of drift.

Like premium dragon well tea, it is made by collecting unique buds and stir-frying them.

Lester doesn't understand the above, he was just a regular wage earner before he crossed, drinking more drinks than tea. His knowledge of tea leaves is still obtained from the video website's perforated advertisement, what leafy tea leaves tea, how many processes, and what old experts personally supervise the work.

“If I'm not mistaken, these three trees should be called tea trees.” Lister stood in front of a wild tea tree and spoke faintly.

Marcus wondered, "Black tea tree? My lord, the black tea tree doesn't seem to grow like this, its leaves are slightly reddish and rounded, and can still produce results. ”

“This is… the green tea tree.” Listerdale, “I read in a magic book that green tea trees and black tea trees are very different, picking off their young buds, frying them and drinking them directly into tea is very good for your body. ”

“Green tea tree? ”

Marcus chewed the name of the tree, didn't say much more, and he understood that he didn't have Lester's knowledge —— this young lord, an expo book, knew a lot. Rubber trees are the best example, not Lord Wisdom, and they will miss out on extremely important rubber.

There was no delay, and Lester directly ordered a group of female serfs to gather three green tea tree sprouts.

Whether it's a single bud or a bud or a leaf, a bud or two leaves, or a bud or three or four leaves.

Let's start by collecting it.

Of course, according to junior high biology, he knew that tea should be collected from leaf buds on top of tea trees. Because plants have an apical advantage, apical buds preferentially grow and inhibit lateral bud growth. Once the top buds are picked, the side buds of the tea tree will grow without affecting the growth of the tea tree.

Nearly 1,500 serfs are now working on Black Horse Island.

There are also many female serfs, Griffin shouting for twenty and carrying several ladders to pick the top buds of green tea trees. Looking at the serfs at work, Lester suddenly came up with a legend of tea mining - lip tea.

There is a kind of tea, a virgin with her own mouth that is mined and stained with virgin saliva is particularly fragrant. It is cooked and then put into the arms of a virgin, and eventually comes out with a new tea, fragrant, fresh aroma, with a unique body fragrance of a virgin, called lip tea.

Legend is untrustworthy, at least not Lister.

If a virgin who picks tea looks like Phoenix, and believes in that kind of lip tea, no one should be willing to drink it.

In two hours' work, the serfs have already picked most of the roof buds, not much in all, about two kilos. With two kilos of young leaves sprouts, Lester is ready to return to Flower Town by boat - work on Black Horse Island is under the care of Gaultai and Marcus and will not be a problem.

Just before the trip, Gaultai looked at him and said, "My lord, Freya is pregnant in September and will give birth at any moment, and I cannot be with her. ”

“Rest assured, when the lighthouse is finished, you will be able to come back... Gorte Consultant, Flower Town is important, the port town on Hema Island is just as important, it will take a while for you to maintain here, after all, Mr. Marcus lacks experience. ”

So far, Gaultai can only be exhilarated: “Don't worry, my lord, Gaultai will carefully plan the development of the port town! ”

Comfort Gaultai too much.

The Flowers sail, and the blue sky is full of wind and waves.

Looking at the two kilos of fresh tea in the basket, he couldn't help but begin to imagine: "I don't know how many kilos of dry tea can be sautéed, and how does it taste to make it? ”