绿茶采摘季节 Green tea picking season

This morning (March 21) on the tea mountain, there was a different scene: Sun Xuejuan, who was wearing a blue raincoat, a mask, and a bamboo basket, hummed a little tune with a few little sisters who usually danced the square together. Fingers kept flying over the top of the tea tree.

Looking at the tender sprouts in the tea basket, Sun Xuejuan looked relieved: "I can give a friend an explanation."

It is said that "tea before the Ming Dynasty is as expensive as gold", but Aunt Xie and his wife Teng Fulin, who live in Yebuqiao Community, Zhuantang Street, are so worried that they can't sleep at night.

It turned out that on March 19, during the mining operation, there was a new case of asymptomatic infection of the new coronavirus in Hangzhou, who lived in the Yebuqiao community. Aunt Xie's family was designated as a control area and required to be isolated at home.

"What about the 2 acres and 8 cents of tea at home?" The old couple was worried. "When the quarantine is over, the tea leaves will be old! Not to mention that the price of tea is the best during the period before tomorrow, and a year of hard work will be in vain. It's gone!"

Aunt Xie said that in previous years, she and her wife picked tea together. "We don't have a lot of tea leaves in our house. That's all. The couple worked a little harder, and we finished picking them by ourselves. Tea pickers are already very popular now, and we can't find them if we look for them temporarily."

After a year of hard work, you just watch the tea leaves go unreceived?

Aunt Xie sent a circle of friends, originally wanted to complain about her depression. Unexpectedly, after seeing it, Sun Xuejuan, a good sister who danced square dance together, sent a WeChat message to Aunt Xie, expressing her willingness to help Aunt Xie's house pick tea, and also brought a few friends who usually dance square dance together.

Sun Xuejuan is 66 years old this year. She usually plays Douyin smoothly and has a young and upward heart. Her friends call her "Tide Mom".

"With a little effort, we are all locals, who can't pick tea!" Sun Xuejuan said proudly.

After a busy morning, it was 11:00 a.m. before I knew it, and "Chao Mom" had already picked a basket full of tea leaves.

"When the tea leaves are picked and the little sisters are isolated, we will go to dance together.