Struggle in the Steam Age

"Are you saying that we have products that are valuable to you?" After hearing Lawrence, the tauren elder showed a puzzled expression. "Our ancestors lived here for hundreds of years, and they never found anything of value in the outside world."

Having said that, the tauren elder said to Lawrence as if he had thought of something. "If you just want to help us, you don't need to look like this. As tauren, we believe in buying the future with our hands. Instead of relying on other people's mercy or handouts. There are some things you don't have to."

"What kind of alms? What's so unnecessary?" Lawrence felt a little confused when the old tauren shaman said this, but soon he thought of what the tauren was talking about. So it seemed a little helpless to say. "What I just said is true. It is not the kind of relief prepared to give you in consideration of your self-esteem, but it is true that some very valuable wealth has been found in your land."

"Oh, really?" the older tauren shaman asked, looking down at Lawrence. "Can you tell me what the treasures you found are? I think we have lived here for so many years, so we should be able to help you better develop these treasures. Just like what we just stipulated in the agreement, we will help you."

"Well—actually, those treasures are obviously the tea leaves from the tea trees growing in the entire hilly area." Looking at the other party's attitude that you are lying to me if you don't say it, and after thinking about it, you want to develop this area. The tea in the area must also need the cooperation of these tauren, so Lawrence simply said what the treasure he found was.

"Are you talking about the bitter tea?" The tauren shaman had an unbelievable expression on his face. "But the taste of those bitter teas is really terrible. Since we knew that those things are tea leaves, we have tried to drink them, but the bitter taste, even our tongues can't accept it. In the end, it can only be used as a countermeasure. medicinal materials for humans or livestock."

"Now you tell me that you want these bitter teas and call them treasures, so what will you do with these bitter teas?" Finally, the tauren shaman asked. "Are you going to use this tea as a raw material to purify the active ingredients? Or use these teas for other purposes."

"We just treat them as drinks." At this point, Lawrence looked at the tauren shaman's expression of disbelief and quickly explained. "Of course, it's not according to the original method. We definitely can't drink the original method. It's just that we have found a way to improve these tea leaves."

"Is it using the power of nature to change these tea trees?" The tauren shaman looked at Lawrence seriously and said, "I don't like your attempt, because our ancestors have tried to use magic to improve these tea trees. Tea trees, but it only takes a year or two for them to return to their original shape due to the surrounding environment."

"In this way, our ancestors had to give up the original idea. Because they found that if they do this once a year by magic, the cost will be far higher than the value of the tea itself. Therefore, we would rather simply If you use this tea as a medicine, you won't do that kind of stupid thing anymore."

"So, I'm very curious about how you humans can change the nature of these tea leaves." Finally, the tauren shaman looked at Lawrence seriously and said. "If you can really change the characteristics of these tea trees, please allow me to observe how you do it. Because I think this may allow me to learn a better way to communicate with nature."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Shaman." Lawrence smiled and shook his head. "The method we have mastered this time has nothing to do with changing the tree itself. To be precise, we have changed the characteristics of the tea itself through other methods this time. It makes the tea drinkable for normal people."

"Change the tea leaves?" the tauren shaman asked after thinking for a while. "You can't let this tea have no tea flavor at all, in fact, we have also tried adding a lot of spices to try to change the taste of the tea, but that not only requires a lot of spices, but also makes the tea taste a little bit in the brewed tea soup It's all gone, it's all spice. Then why are we making tea?"

"Of course we won't do that." Lawrence said as he took two small bags of black tea that could be brewed directly from the doll's Nora and handed them to the tauren shaman. "You can taste these teas that we have processed through special means. It has a unique aroma and is a brand-new processing method."

"Really?" The tauren shaman opened the paper bag and smelled the dry tea leaves that had been fermented and turned dark red. "It smells pretty good, so I'll accept this gift. When I go back Just try to brew these teas, and taste the difference between your new varieties and the bitter teas I used to drink."

"They are very different from the teas you made by roasting green tea in the past." Lawrence finally reminded. "Those tea leaves with complete leaves are brewed directly with water and drunk, while powdered tea leaves are brewed and added with milk and sugar for drinking. Because these two kinds of tea are taken from different parts of the leaves of the tea tree, and different The brewing method brings out the best flavor in them."

After introducing the method of brewing and drinking and seeing off the tauren elder, Lawrence and Nora went back to the room to rest together, seeing that there was still an hour or two before dinner. As a result, fifteen minutes later, he heard someone knocking excitedly on the door of the room. Opening the door, he found the old tauren shaman standing outside the door with a very anxious look on his face.

"What's the matter with you?" Lawrence asked. According to the previous plan, if there were no accidents, they would have dinner together at dinner time, so he was a little curious why the tauren elder came to him at this time. After all, for those of them who are the leaders of the power, this kind of unannounced visit is considered a relatively rude thing, unless there is an emergency that needs to be discussed immediately.

"The tea you made before, tea—" Unexpectedly, after the door opened, the tauren elder might just say the word tea repeatedly because he was too excited. Lawrence's first reaction was whether the fermented tea was different for tauren than it was for human beings in some respects, and as a result, someone was poisoned after drinking it.

"What's wrong with the tea?" Lawrence couldn't help but get nervous and asked because of the tauren's rhythm. "I drank a whole cup in the morning and didn't see any problems. Let me go and see the person who had a problem with the drink. I have some healing potions on me."

"What's wrong with drinking?" After hearing Lawrence's words, the tauren elder also had a strange expression on his face. "There is no problem with anyone. The reason I came to you is because I brewed a cup of each of the two teas according to the method you said just now. Seriously, if you didn't tell me the ingredients of these teas, I wouldn't have I dare to believe that it is made from the tea leaves from the tea trees growing here."

"That's why I came to you, because I can see the future of our tauren from these tea leaves." Finally, the tauren shaman expressed his purpose of coming. "So I rushed over after drinking tea, hoping to discuss with you how to develop the knowledge of those tea forests."

"Ah, so that's the case." Lawrence nodded and let the tauren shaman through the door and continued. "Come in, then, and I think we can use this little time before dinner to discuss the matter briefly."