The juice containing tea leaves naturally couldn't just be poured away. As soon as Baye Feng showed even a hint of that intention, the spectators swarmed in and divided up the pot of residue.
The tea water, with sugar, salt, soy sauce, and spices, was considered a delectable treat for the people in the tribe; they would not discard it even after boiling it several times.
Because there wasn't enough water, someone went to fetch more and added it to boil again. Then, disregarding the scorching heat, a group of people scrambled to scoop out the juice from the tea leaf eggs in the pot.
Some even wanted to chew and swallow the tea leaves, as if they were some sort of divine herb.
Soon, everyone felt an intense happiness, an almost ethereal feeling came over them.
A sip of the tea juice, a few chews of the tea leaves, it felt like opening the door to another world.
