The azaleas have been blooming for forty days, and the mountains are pink, white, red and purple, burning like fire.
Du Qingyang transformed the old health clinic left by his grandfather into the first "Cuckoo Coffee" in the mountains——
The bar counter is an old Chinese medicine cabinet, and the coffee beans are small seeds grown in a local cooperative. When customers order, he always gives a small bag of dried azalea petals as a gift, saying that the tea brewed has a honey aroma.
No one knew that he gave up his postgraduate offer at Guiyang Medical University and returned to the mountain with a yellowed old clinic medical record. He said that there are always people who want to pick up what their fathers left behind.
Until one rainy day, Shen Yanzhi, who was wearing black-rimmed glasses and carrying a canvas bag, opened the store door and said that he was a free clinic from the Provincial Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and wanted to rent the unused attic upstairs.
After drinking the first cup of hand brew, Shen Yanzhi tapped the rim of the coffee cup with his fingertips and smiled: "The sourness is like black plum, and the sweetness is like astragalus. It has a generous taste."
Du Qingyang's hand wiping the cup paused - this was what his grandfather wrote on the title page of the medical record. No one understood it, but the man in front of him could taste it at a glance.
From setting up a free clinic together in a sea of flowers in spring, to roasting Eucommia ulmoides and drinking wine with stinky tofu on a winter night; from helping him prepare the recipe for "Four Gentlemen's Qi Replenishing Latte", to holding hands on the back mountain plank road covered with petals -
Shen Yanzhi said that traditional Chinese medicine teaches that medicinal materials must be "authentic" and rooted in their homeland to be useful.
Du Qingyang raised his head and received a kiss that smelled of coffee, and saw that the rhododendrons were still blooming all over the mountain:
"Look, I'm just saying, before the cuckoo falls, everything can happen in time."
Concept: A poetic expression of rural revitalization: waiting for the flowers to bloom and believing in the future. The growth concept of two-way redemption: you are the root and I am the water, taking root and growing together.
