Tea? Who among the middle-aged and elderly doesn't enjoy it?
Uncle Song indeed was tempted, "How much does a tea picker earn a day?"
Wu Lan didn't beat around the bush, "150, our tea plants were fertilized this year, they've grown well, and you can pick about five jin a day. Your family's Tea Mountain has been neglected for many years; I guess it's not easy to pick there, maybe three jin per person per day?"
What she said was the truth. Tea trees have to be pruned every year and buds picked; otherwise, they will grow tall and thin, with branches sprawling everywhere.
The tips of the buds will also become longer and slimmer, and weigh less and less.
Standing among such tea trees, you can hardly see the end, and to pick the tea leaves, you have to pull down the branches first.
The three jin Wu Lan mentioned per day, that was already an optimistic estimate!
