ch 43.2 - The Plot to Rob (1/2)

“Alright, grandpa, you let me handle this. Don’t worry about it, I am going to entertain my two school friends now!”Ning Xunzong interrupted his grandfather impatiently. He stood up and started leaving the room as he said to himself, “Some simple village girl wants to marry me? What a joke! Hrm!”

Old man Ning heard his words and frowned. He opened his mouth as though he was going to say something, but finally didn’t make a sound.

Cheng Xiao Xiao passed over two hill tops before she arrived in front over 10 tea leave trees. It wasn’t exactly a carpet or a sea of green, but there were many crooked branch from these trees growing in all directions. The leaves were elliptical in shape, thick and wide, a bright green that made them looked like oil was about to drip from them.

The flat top of the trees were covered with new, elliptical leaves. They had serrated edges and fresh like new born infants. The bright, green pointy leaves just waiting to be picked.

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Walking up to them a hint of tea fragrance filled the air. Tea trees (also known as

“tea plants” or “tea shrubs”) belong to the Theaceae family and Camellia genus and is a species of ever green shrub. Tea trees loves warm and humid climate and prefers bright filtered light; they grow well under direct sunlight. They have four different development stages: bud, seedling, mature plant, aged plant.

Cheng Xiao Xiao knew that they could be divided into spring and autumn seasons. Tea made from leaves picked in the spring time were called spring tea, tea from leaves picked in autumn time were called autumn tea. In later days these were mass grown for their leaves, but back in these days people still picked them from the mountains, that’s why they were very expensive.

Standing next to the tree plants, Xiao Xiao asked the little fairy, “Yuteng, if we transplant all these trees into the dimension, can we have tea leaves throughout the year?”

“Hehe, young master, why don’t we transplant them and find out?In addition to four seasons a year, the time in the dimension is accelerated1, you can have as much tea leaves as you want!”

“Wonderful. That’s great, and we will be able to sell them too!”