Chapter 167: Lin Ying Returns

"Xueqing, get up quickly! It's time to occupy a spot!"

On the eve of the Tea Competition.

An Sheng, who used to go home to sleep at three or four o'clock, chose to stay up all night, contrary to his usual practice. Before the sky was even bright, he lay on the bed, using his head to push against Xueqing's waist and his feet to kick Mo Yiqing's arm.

Following the little fox's chirping and the action of stretching his head and kicking his legs, Yu Xueqing and Mo Yiqing both gradually woke up from their dreams, looking at the little fox sitting on the bed with his head held high and chest out, full of confusion.

"Based on my experience participating in the Tea Competition, it's actually a bit late for us to go over at 6:30 now..." An Sheng opened his mouth full of confidence, telling Yu Xueqing about the Tea Competition and some related matters.

Although Xueqing is a local, locals are also tourists in the Tea Competition. The participants of the Tea Competition are all tea companies, tea factories, and tea farmers. Only those who have truly gone through the process know the inside track.

"If we don't go quickly to grab a spot, those spots left for us locals in Zhangxi will be gone!"

Mo Yiqing rubbed her dazed head, reached out and scratched the center of her chest that had been stuffy all night, and said:

"... Xueqing, what did the little fox say?"

"Xiao An said the villagers are all running to the ancestral hall, let us also quickly go to the ancestral hall to gather..." Yu Xueqing explained to Mo Yiqing what the little fox was saying using her own words after carefully pondering the machine-translated words.

"Not the Chen Ancestral Hall! The ancestral hall is for burning incense and worshiping ancestors; it's fine if we go later. We must prioritize going to the Village Committee to occupy a spot!"

Under the guidance of the old senior An Sheng, Yu Xueqing and Mo Yiqing rummaged through boxes and cabinets in the old house, took out the red plastic chairs used during the Chinese New Year, and moved the folding tables that the children sat at during the Chinese New Year.

Yu Xueqing stacked a dozen red stools together, hugged them, and walked out the door, while Mo Yiqing carried the folding table.

The little fox held a water bottle in his mouth, kicked the base of a yellow brass alcohol lamp with his front feet, and walked straight out the door.

Two people and one fox arrived in front of the Dodge Hellcat. Mo Yiqing opened the trunk and forcibly put the dozen red stools, the folding table, the water bottle the fox was holding, and a set of white ceramic tea sets into the trunk.

"Wow—"

Seeing this scene, Yu Xueqing couldn't help but subconsciously say: "Mo Mo, your sports car is a bit subversive. My previous stereotype of sports cars..."

Mo Yiqing closed the trunk, raised her hand, patted Yu Xueqing's butt very naturally, smiled, walked toward the driver's seat, and said in a teasing tone:

"It's better not to be subversive. This car is just an American muscle car, not a real sports car..."

"And, a large trunk is the American tradition. If the trunk isn't big, how can you participate in gunfights every day, and incidentally carry the human spoils of war won from hunting?"

Mo Yiqing's complaint made Yu Xueqing stunned.

As an American car owner, Mo Yiqing had always been unable to understand what such a large trunk could be used for.

Like her family's old Lincoln, it was also the same; it sacrificed rear seat space for trunk space.

Although she is an American car owner, this doesn't prevent her from complaining about the brain circuits of American designers.

"Yeah! What can a car trunk hold? A certain Indian old chief said with a full face of confusion." An Sheng, who was lying in Xueqing's arms, complained happily.

American dark humor, classic and long-lasting.

The Tea Competition is not a particularly important grand ceremony in the culture of the Xia Dong region.

Tea competition started in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In the beginning, it was an elegant amusement for the rich in ancient times. Tea competitors would take the good tea they collected and take turns cooking it, deciding the winner through tasting and evaluation.

And developing to this day, the Tea Competition is equivalent to an exchange meeting for tea farmers, tea merchants, and tea guests.

In one year, the Tea Competition held independently by major tea production areas in the Xia Dong region can reach seven or eight hundred.

It's better to call it an exchange meeting than a tea competition. This is also why there is a large amount of tea on the market written with awards from this or that tea competition, and the price is extremely expensive, but it tastes just like that.

Because that thing is just like that. Some tea companies even hold competitions themselves, acting as both judges and contestants, forcibly piling up rankings of one, two, three, four, and five for their own tea.

But the nature of the Tea Competition held in Zhangxizhen this year is different.

It is a competition with an official nature.

The most basic requirement for every tea leaf participating in the competition is to comply with national standard production, prioritizing safety, and then the flavor and taste of the tea leaves.

The evaluation of the Tea Competition is divided into two categories.

The first category is professional tea tasters who have been professionally trained. They conduct multi-dimensional evaluation and scoring on tea soup that has been repackaged and hidden from the contestants' names, with only numbers.

The second category of scoring is public scoring. Similarly, tea soup with hidden names is placed at the Tea Competition, allowing all tourists to taste and score, measuring the comprehensive score.

And the grand prize winner can usually get a bonus of about thirty to sixty thousand, and the second place can get twenty to fifty thousand. How much bonus can be obtained depends specifically on the investment of the sponsors.

【The 6th Zhangxizhen Tea Competition】

【Thanks to Lin's Holding Group, Jule Energy Group, Xinhao Entertainment... for sponsorship.】

There are a lot of banners in front of the Village Committee, with the official gold logo of the Tea Competition written on them. Similarly, there are also banners thanking the venue sponsors and capital investors.

The office space of the Zhangxizhen Village Committee is not built by Zhangxizhen itself; they just rented an office in this small agricultural trade market.

Of course, after learning that Zhangxizhen had obtained the right to host the Tea Competition, the owner of the agricultural trade market was still very generous in renting the venue for free to the people and village committee of Zhangxizhen to hold activities and provide cleaning services.

It is true that the small agricultural trade market is his.

But the land belongs to the Zhangxi Village collective.

It doesn't even need to rise to the level of human relationships; the manager of the agricultural trade market ran over and took care of everything.

"That annoying tag-along is here again..."

The Dodge Hellcat drove to the front gate. Yu Xueqing took her ID card to the agricultural trade market gate post to handle a business license for a booth. Only with this certificate can she set up her tea booth in the agricultural trade market.

And Mo Yiqing in the car, through the rearview mirror, saw a BMW X6 following behind at a glance. The person sitting in the driver's seat was none other than Yin Pengfei.

The happy expression on Mo Yiqing's face originally became a bit disgusted, just like stepping on shit.

In Mo Yiqing's heart, Yin Pengfei is no longer in the category of good or bad.

His existence is like dysmenorrhea.

Women are terrified when they see him and avoid him.

"It's okay! This is the agricultural trade market. I'll borrow a cactus later and help you jump up and hit his knees directly!" The little fox looked at the rearview mirror and continued:

"And this guy is not a good person either. Under the guise of picking up girls, he cheated his parents out of their coffin money."

"I was busy frying tea before and forgot to take a cactus to brush his big mouth. He came just in time."

The Dodge Hellcat drove into the agricultural trade market, followed closely by the BMW SUV, and then a commercial vehicle driven by Lin Shu, the three cars driving in one after another.

While Yu Xueqing and Mo Yiqing were setting up booths in the exhibition area, An Sheng ran to buy a cactus.

However.

Before he had walked two steps, Lin Shu came to An Sheng and said: "Lord Fuli, Miss Lin's plane just landed not long ago, and she wants to invite you over for tea."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 168 =====