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Tea Trail: Adventures in the Unknown
This time, going to the mountain to hunt for tea, like the previous times, we went to new places, just going, not knowing anyone, not knowing what to eat, where to sleep... Just hearing that there was... Tea, we went there.
Today was the same, we wandered around, went into a grocery store, met an old lady of the Red Dao ethnic group, "chatted" a few stories, then she told us to go to her house to cook and eat...
When we got to her house, we found out that it was a spacious 3-storey house, with a living room, kitchen, clean bathroom, 5 fragrant bedrooms... So we got to eat, drink, sleep... hehe
I remember 2017, that time I went up the mountain alone, also a place I had just visited for the first time, the road was far, full of jagged rocks, small, slippery, one side was a steep cliff, the other side was a deep abyss. I don't know what possessed me to keep going. Going to the tea area, it was past noon so I stopped at a roadside grocery store to buy 2 pieces of tofu with salt. Then I continued walking, when I came back it was too dark, I wanted to see the people making tea, but because I was shy, I didn't ask them to let me stay overnight, I drove back to the center in the middle of the night, ran straight without looking back like a ghost was chasing me, at 1am I saw the first motel, rented a room, when I lay down on the bed... I realized I was still alive. It took almost 5 years to gather the courage to come back...
The next few times were luckier, I always met "noble people helping me".
Just keep going, you will get there!
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