Struggle in the Steam Age

"Are you saying that we have products that are valuable to you?" After listening to Lawrence, the tauren elder showed a puzzled expression. "Our ancestors lived here for hundreds of years, and they never found anything valuable 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 a tauren, we believe in trading our hands for the future. Instead of relying on other people's mercy or charity. There are some things you don't need."

"What charity? What is unnecessary?" Lawrence felt a little embarrassed to be said by the older tauren shaman, but soon he thought of what the tauren was saying. So he said with a little helplessness. "What I just said is true. It is not the kind of relief that is prepared to consider your self-esteem, but that you have found some very valuable wealth 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, and we should be able to help you better develop these treasures. Help you as stipulated in our agreement just now."

"Well—actually, those treasures are obvious, they are the tea leaves growing on the tea trees all over the hilly area." Looking at the other side, you are not willing to say that you are lying to me, and then considering that you want to develop this piece of land. The tea in the area also needs the cooperation of these tauren people, so Lawrence simply said what the treasure he found was.

"Are you talking about those bitter teas?" The tauren shaman had an unbelievable expression. "But the taste of those bitter teas is really terrible. We have tried to drink them since we knew that those things are tea, but the bitterness, even our tongues can't accept it. In the end it can only be regarded as a kind of right. Medicinal materials for people or animals."

"Now you tell me to ask for these bitter teas and say they are treasures, so how do you use these bitter teas?" Finally the tauren shaman asked. "Are you going to use this tea as a raw material to purify the active ingredients in it? Or use these teas for other purposes."

"We just treat them as drinks." At this point, Lawrence quickly explained as he looked at the tauren shaman with an expression of disbelief. "Of course, not according to the original method. We definitely couldn't drink the original method, but we found a way to improve the tea."

"Is it using the force of nature to change these tea trees?" The tauren shaman looked at Lawrence seriously and said, "I am not optimistic about your attempts, because our ancestors have tried to use magic to improve these Tea trees, but only one or two years will be restored to their original condition 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 much higher than the value of the tea itself. Therefore, we would rather simply The use of this tea as a potion will no longer do such silly things."

"So, I'm very curious about any way you humans can change the nature of these teas." Finally, the tauren shaman said with a serious look at Lawrence. "If you can really change the characteristics of these tea plants, please allow me to observe how you do it. Because I think this might help me learn better ways to communicate with nature."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Shaman." Lawrence said with a smile and shook his head. "The method we mastered this time has nothing to do with changing the tree itself. To be precise, we changed the characteristics of the tea itself through other methods this time. Let the tea become drunk by normal people."

"Change the tea?" the tauren shaman asked after thinking about it. "Don't you 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 tea soup. It's all gone, it's all spice. But then, why should we make tea?"

"Of course we wouldn't do that." Lawrence said as he took two small packets of black tea that could be directly brewed from the little doll's Nora and handed it to the tauren shaman. "You can taste these teas that we have processed through special methods. It has a unique fragrance and is a tea that has been processed by a new method."

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

"They are very different from the tea you made using the green tea frying method in the past." Lawrence finally warned. "Those tea leaves with intact leaves are directly brewed with water and drunk, while powdered tea leaves are drunk with milk and sugar added after brewing. Because these two kinds of tea leaves are taken from different parts of the tea tree leaves, and they are different. The brewing method allows them to play their best flavor."

After introducing the brewing method and sending away the tauren elder, Lawrence and Nora went back to the room to rest together, seeing that there was an hour or two before dinner. As a result, fifteen minutes later, he heard an excited knock on the door of the room. Opening the door, he found the older tauren shaman standing outside the door with an anxious look.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" Lawrence asked. According to the previous plan, if there were no accidents, they would have dinner together during 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 leaders of forces, this kind of unpredictable visit is considered a rude thing, unless there is an emergency that requires immediate discussion.

"The tea you made before, tea—" What I didn't expect was that after the gate was opened, the tauren elder might be so excited that he just said the word tea repeatedly with his mouth~www.ltnovel.com~ Lawrence’s first reaction was whether the fermented tea was different for the tauren in some respects than for humans, and as a result, it poisoned who was drinking it.

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

"What is the problem with drinking?" After hearing Lawrence's words, the tauren elder also showed a strange expression on his face. "No one has a problem. The reason I came to you is because I brewed a cup of each of the two kinds of tea just as you said. Seriously, if you didn't tell me the ingredients of these teas, I would not I can believe this is made from the tea leaves on the long tea tree on our side."

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

"Ah, it turned out to be like this." Lawrence nodded and let the tauren shaman in and said. "Then please come in, I think we can use this little time before dinner to briefly discuss this issue."