"What money?"
Wu Lan was fiddling with her cellphone when she said, "Years ago, when Tantan was a child, people would come to our door to buy the leaves, for 8 cents a jin. Her dad would take the big tea shears and work on the mountain for several days, huffing and puffing."
Back then, there were no electric or diesel options, everything had to be done using big iron shears by hand. After a few days of work, the person would be nearly worn out.
Now, however...
Zhang Yanping pondered for a moment, "Pruning tea leaves must require pruning a lot, right? 8 cents a jin, it was at least an income, and the price must have gone up now."
Pruning is divided into light and heavy pruning.
Light pruning means only trimming the uneven tender top part, while heavy pruning means cutting off more than half including the old branches, with the lower branches being heavier.
8 cents a jin, that really was an income.
