Chapter 336: Ink Bamboo Pu'er, A Mysterious Processing Technique

Ning Fei's tea-picking process sent the viewers into an absolute frenzy.

It was like watching a cultivation blockbuster.

The crazy part was that it was all happening live.

They could only say that Temple Master Ning was truly fierce!

After filling a basket with tea leaves, Ning Fei climbed down from the tree.

His method of getting down was completely different from an ordinary person's.

A normal person would face the trunk, clinging to the bark as they inched their way down backward.

Not Ning Fei. He faced outward, picked his spots on the trunk, and lightly hopped down.

Occasionally, he would grab a branch to steady himself or use the momentum to shift positions.

The viewers simply watched as Ning Fei hopped, hopped, and hopped again before landing smoothly on the ground.

Everyone's eyelids twitched.

For a moment, they had no idea what to say.

Ning Fei handed the full basket of tea leaves on his back to Bai Yi and took an empty one in return.

The tea trees were too tall. Even if Bai Yi wanted to help pick leaves, she had no way of climbing up. However, Ning Fei worked so fast that he didn't need her help anyway.

With that, Ning Fei nimbly climbed back up the tree and once again demonstrated his immortal-like tea-picking skills.

Seeing this, the viewers truly felt that Ning Fei had the constitution of an immortal.

He displayed such ethereal immortal demeanor even when just picking tea.

Once the second basket was full, Ning Fei dropped down from the tree.

He took a moment to glance at the chat.

He noticed that the user named Yunzhinan Green Tea Company had gifted him fifty super rockets.

The chat was buzzing about it.

The ID had an official verification badge, meaning it was the genuine Yunzhinan Green Tea Company.

This company and Lin Chuan's company were both famous major tea corporations in the country. Even if their assets weren't quite at Lin Chuan's level, the gap wasn't large.

Sitting in his office, Lin Chuan watched Yunzhinan's donations with an unreadable expression.

When a tea master walked in, Lin Chuan immediately asked him a question.

"I had you identify those tea trees, and you said they were a special variety of Pu'er. Now someone is saying it's Green Dragon Pu'er. Have you ever heard of it?" Lin Chuan asked.

"Green Dragon Pu'er?" Hearing the name, the tea master shook his head in confusion.

"That guy Liu Cen mentioned that it's Ink Bamboo Pu'er. Have you heard that name?" Lin Chuan asked again.

"Ink Bamboo Pu'er?" This time, the tea master's expression shifted.

He thought carefully before saying, "That's impossible. Ink Bamboo Pu'er has been lost for years. No one has been able to grow it for a long time. Where would anyone even find the seeds for it?"

"Never mind that," Lin Chuan said. "Just tell me how much these tea trees are worth."

Hearing this, the tea master replied, "You could say this tea is valuable, but you could also say it's worthless."

"To process Ink Bamboo Pu'er Tea, aside from the basic steps of withering, making green, fixing, rolling, and drying, there is a very special procedure that requires certain precious medicinal herbs."

"I don't know the specific method, but if processed through this procedure, Ink Bamboo Pu'er will ascend to another grade, and its price will far exceed any tea on the market."

"Without this procedure, the quality of Ink Bamboo Pu'er wouldn't even match our Qingshan Maojian."

Hearing the tea master's words, Lin Chuan frowned deeply.

A special procedure.

Making tea was extremely complex, especially for tea estates that focused on high-end products.

The techniques were finely divided into light body, original body, long body, shaking sieve, rotary sieve, flat circular sieve, ticket sieve, and so on. A layperson would get a headache just looking at the steps, let alone a professional tea master.

Therefore, to achieve the highest quality tea, one had to perfect the details of the processing techniques.

Lin Chuan had quite a few tea masters in his tea garden, and the man standing before him was the most experienced of them all, yet even he didn't know the mysterious processing technique for Ink Bamboo Pu'er.

However, Lin Chuan knew that since Bai Yuanche had planted Ink Bamboo Pu'er here, he definitely had the processing method.

He turned his attention back to the live stream.

In the stream, Ning Fei was chatting with Liu Cen.

"Green Dragon Pu'er is also known as Ink Bamboo Pu'er. That's a name given by later generations; back in the Ming Dynasty, its title was simply Green Dragon."

Ning Fei explained.

"I am not selling these tea leaves. Green Dragon Pu'er only yields a batch once every twenty-six years, and those leaves are of the highest quality. After that, the leaves will be replaced, and the flavor will fall far short of this batch. These leaves might not even be enough for my master and me to drink over the next twenty-six years."

He once again rejected Liu Cen's idea of buying the tea leaves.

"Temple Master Ning, how about this? I won't buy the tea leaves, but could you sell me some of the tea trees? I don't need the whole tree, just some branches. The branches of Ink Bamboo Pu'er can survive transplanting, and I'm willing to pay a high price for them."

Liu Cen's attitude was very sincere.

Selling some branches wouldn't have much of an impact on the tea garden.

Bai Yuanche had also told Ning Fei that the tea garden had been handed over to him and was entirely his. He could decide whatever he wanted to do with it.

Only then did the viewers realize that Ning Fei's tea garden wasn't nearly as shabby as it looked.

"Are these tea trees really that good? They actually alarmed people from the green tea company?"

"It looks like Temple Master Ning was telling the truth. This tea really is expensive!"

"I said it before—nothing of Temple Master Ning's is simple."

"Now I kind of want to buy some."

"Not to brag, but I don't think anyone here can afford it."

The tone of the chat instantly shifted.

When they first saw this tea forest, many people thought the Ink Bamboo Pu'er looked completely ordinary and that the trees were in poor condition. A lot of people had even mocked them.

Looking at it now, the chat was filled entirely with praise.

Around this time, Ning Fei and Liu Cen reached an agreement.

Five Ink Bamboo Pu'er tea trees, at two million per tree.

To Ning Fei, this was just taking a few branches from the trees; it wouldn't have much of an impact on the tea forest at all.

But for the people of Yunzhinan Green Tea Manor, the significance was entirely different.

Their specialty was arbor-type Pu'er tea. If they could get their hands on the extinct Ink Bamboo Pu'er now, it would mean the world to the tea manor.

Watching this scene, the viewers secretly clicked their tongues in shock.

A few branches could sell for ten million.

Then how much would this whole tea forest sell for?

Temple Master Ning's foundations were simply too profound.

In reality, Ning Fei also knew that the cultivation conditions for this kind of tea tree were extremely harsh.

It was only because the people from the green tea manor had the cultivation experience that they would buy it. Generally, very few people would spend so much money on an Ink Bamboo Pu'er tea tree.

It could only be said that he had the right timing, the right location, and the right people to make such a deal happen.

With this, Ning Fei's savings grew considerably.

He could finally pursue his next dream.

The true sea of stars.

After finishing the tea picking and returning to the courtyard, Lin Chuan brought a tea master over to visit Ning Fei.

He said he wanted to witness the effects of Green Dragon Pu'er for himself.

"Master Ning, I heard that to bring out the maximum effect of this Green Dragon Pu'er, there is a special procedure."

"Our tea estate has always placed a strong emphasis on processing techniques. I was wondering if it might be convenient for you to explain what that special procedure is?"

Lin Chuan personally poured Ning Fei a cup of tea as he asked.

Hearing his words, Ning Fei smiled and said, "Making Green Dragon Pu'er Tea uses ordinary procedures, except during wet piling. At that stage, a special instrument must be added: the Seven-Colored Lotus Heart Stone."

"The Seven-Colored Lotus Heart Stone is a rare gemstone, which is why Green Dragon Pu'er Tea cannot be mass-produced. It can only be made little by little, just enough to satisfy a few people."

Upon hearing Ning Fei's explanation, Lin Chuan finally understood.

Of course, he knew about wet piling. It was one of the tea-making processes where wet tea bases with high moisture content were piled up to a height of about a meter, then covered with wet cloths, straw capes, and the like.

Its purpose was to destroy the chlorophyll while oxidizing the polyphenols, removing the tea's bitterness and astringency.

If stones with unique effects were added during this process, they could alter the internal structure of the tea leaves while the chlorophyll was being destroyed.

The Seven-Colored Lotus Heart Stone was incredibly rare and could not be replaced by anything else. Because of this, the tea was truly a tribute tea that only a very small number of people would ever get to drink.

Lin Chuan's mind was put at ease. He had been worried that Yunzhinan Green Tea Manor might produce Green Dragon Pu'er in massive quantities and steal his business.

Now it seemed that it would merely satisfy the tastes of a few old fogeys at that tea manor.

Since it wouldn't affect his business, Lin Chuan regained his composure.

But on second thought, he realized that the young man in front of him and Bai Yuanche were truly no ordinary people.

Lin Chuan had the biggest business in the tea industry now, but even he had to admit that Yunzhinan Green Tea Manor possessed one of the highest legacies in Huaxia's tea world. Their foundations were far deeper than his own, having only started out as an amateur two decades ago.

And yet, this master and disciple had somehow managed to get their hands on an ancient tea that had long been extinct even to a manor like that.

Just what exactly was their background?