Traveling through 70's wine

Ask Wang Jianguo: "You want to take an apprentice? Have you chosen the right person?"

Wang Jianguo said: "My sister married in Wulipu, and my nephew doesn't want to farm at home and wants to find a job outside. I want to take him with me."

Wen Qing asked, "Only one disciple?"

Wang Jianguo thought about it and said, "It would be better to bring two."

Wen Qing asked him to bring his nephew over to see.

Wang Jianguo went back and told his father, asking him to go to Wulipu immediately to tell his sister the news and ask his nephew to come for an interview the next morning.

Wen Qing discussed with Liu Quan, "Our winery needs to recruit people. I'll write a recruitment notice and you go back and tell your father."

When Captain Liu heard that the winery was recruiting, he asked Wen Qing to consider the villagers first.

Wen Qing had no objection. She was doing business in the village and it was her duty to take care of the villagers, so she decided to recruit villagers first. If she couldn't recruit enough people in the village, she would recruit people from other villages.

Captain Liu was very willing to help. With the newcomer in, his son would become the leader. Besides, the salary paid by Changxia Winery was not low, and it would also be a supplement to the villagers' families. If everyone lived a good life, he, as the captain, would have less pressure.

The recruitment notice was posted on the village bulletin board. The requirements were not high. Applicants were required to be an elementary school graduate, have good character, be hardworking and down-to-earth, and be under 50 years old.

Wen Qing had no prejudice. Her small workshop needed strong workers, regardless of gender. Anyone who wanted to come could sign up at the brigade headquarters, and wages would be distributed according to work.

Of course, not everyone who signs up can enter the winery. She has to take an exam and have a one-month probation period, and will be eliminated if she doesn't perform well.

During this period, Wen Qing has been busy with the winery day and night. The crops in the space are almost ripe. She plans to harvest the crops before school starts. Today, she will prepare the seeds for next season and start raising seedlings in advance.

She hadn't been in the space for a long time. She found that the branches of the fruit tree cuttings had survived and grown new leaves. The lotus roots by the lake had bloomed into a pond full of lotus flowers. Standing by the lake, she could smell the fragrance of the lotus flowers in the breeze.

Wen Qing walked around and plowed the rice seedling field carefully twice, raked the mud into fine powder, and scattered the soaked seeds on the ground. The crops could be transplanted after harvest.

Leaving the fields and walking up the hillside, she found that the medicinal herbs on the hillside had not been harvested for a long time, so she picked up a hoe and dug out the herbs from the ground.

In the space, annual plants such as licorice and isatis root can grow for many years and have better medicinal properties than annual plants. This time they were all harvested. Machines cannot be used to dig medicinal materials, so Wen Qing can only do it herself.

This time, she dug a total of five acres of land and harvested four to five thousand kilograms of medicinal herbs. She placed all the herbs on the drying dam, pumped up lake water with a pump to rinse them clean, and then sorted and arranged them.

She had studied the barefoot doctor manual, and these herbs were all common. She followed the instructions in the book, leaving the roots of those who needed them and the leaves of those who needed them, and put the medicinal parts on a bamboo dustpan to dry.

Wen Qing stood up and stretched. She felt very tired after working all day. Fortunately, it was a holiday, so she could sleep until she woke up naturally tomorrow.

Two days later, the recruitment registration was closed. Captain Liu brought the registration list to Wen Qing. Including Wang Jianguo's nephew, a total of 18 people were recruited.

Wen Qing met Wang Jianguo's nephew, a very honest young man named Jin Zicong, 21 years old, a junior high school graduate, and already married. This time he became a disciple of his uncle and planned to learn how to make wine.

Wen Qing accepted him and 17 other people, divided them into four groups, and asked them to take turns studying with Wang Jianguo.

So-called learning meant helping Wang Jianguo, shoveling wine dregs, making fire, carrying grain, and doing other rough work. Although Wang Jianguo only accepted Jin Zicong as his apprentice, he was also open to others and answered all their questions.

Wang Jianguo became the master and kept telling everyone to do this and that. His voice was full of enthusiasm and he enjoyed it.

When Wen Qing went to the winery to brew wine, he would also bring a few people to do the work.

After finishing the work, Wen Qing would gather everyone together for training and explain the process of brewing wine and making koji. She spoke very enthusiastically and the workers below also listened attentively.

I heard from the elders in my family that in the past, if you wanted to be an apprentice to learn a skill, you had to sign a contract to sell yourself. Now, working in a winery, you can not only learn skills but also get paid. Everyone cherishes this opportunity.

Seeing everyone's learning state, Wen Qing estimated that by the time the winery is expanded, this group of employees will basically be able to master the method of brewing wine and can start brewing wine.

After the new season's crops are planted and the herbs are dried, she plans to sell all of them.

The most famous Chinese medicine shops in Pingjing are Renshoutang and Heniantang. Wen Qing packed the herbs, tied them to the back of his bicycle, and rode for more than an hour to Renshoutang.

She parked her bike and went in with her big bag on her back. She stood in the lobby. On the left side of the lobby was a row of old doctors sitting for consultations, and on the right side were the counter and medicine cabinet.

Seeing that the hall was full of people seeking medical treatment and getting medicine, and the noise was complicated, Wen Qing stopped a waiter and asked, "Do you accept medicinal materials?"

The waiter asked, "What kind of herbs?"

Wen Qing took out a paper box from her bag and opened it to show the waiter. The waiter's eyes lit up and he said to Wen Qing, "Please wait a moment. I'll go call the chef."

Wen Qing sat on the chair next to her and waited for more than ten minutes. Then the waiter and a middle-aged man in his fifties came over.

Wen Qing stood up, and the waiter said, "This is our Master Wei."

Wen Qing said, "Master Wei, I have some medicinal herbs. Would you accept them?"

Master Wei said, "Let me take a look first."

Wen Qing was taken to a counter in the corner. Wen Qing put the paper box on the counter and opened the big box. There were several small boxes inside. Master Wei picked up a small box and opened it. There was a purple-red Ganoderma lucidum. The other boxes contained ginseng, Polygonatum sibiricum, Gastrodia elata, and Panax notoginseng. They all looked very good and had a very strong medicinal smell.

Master Wei asked, "Miss, what else?"

Wen Qing took out a small bundle of Dendrobium from her backpack and placed it on the counter.

He carefully examined each one, and finally picked up the ginseng and said, "Looking at the patterns on the reed head and the ginseng, this ginseng should be no less than 80 years old."

Wen Qing calculated that this was picked in the mountains when she was in Yunnan. It was almost 40 years old when she picked it, and it had been planted in the space for 7 years, which is equivalent to 80 years.

Master Wei opened the dendrobium and asked, "Can I try it?"

Wen Qing nodded. He broke off a section, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully. He looked up and said to Wen Qing, "The quality of these herbs is very good. We buy them according to the first grade. Polygonatum is 6 yuan per catty, Gastrodia elata is 12 yuan per catty, Dendrobium is 50 yuan per catty, Ganoderma lucidum is 200 yuan per catty, and the ginseng is 80 years old. This is quite rare, and one stem is 8000 yuan."

Wen Qing nodded and agreed to the deal. The price was similar to what she had inquired about. Master Wei took out a small scale and weighed all the herbs. He gave a total of 1.12 yuan.

Wen Qing went to another Chinese medicine store, Heniantang, and sold another batch of herbs, earning more than 7000 yuan, and a total of 1.9 yuan from the two batches of herbs.

Time passed by in the busyness, and soon it was September, the second semester of the junior year. Wen Qing's grades were still the best in the grade last semester, but her name was not on the scholarship list announced by the class monitor Liu Wenming. The girl Gao Min who asked her to exchange her place was on the list, but I don't know how she was selected.

Wen Qing asked the class teacher, but he didn't know either. He just said that it was selected by everyone.

When Wen Qing was in class, she heard people quietly discussing that the scholarship selection method this time was different from before. The new policy required both moral integrity and ability, and the scholarship selection would be biased towards those who actively participated in school activities.

She had a lot of things to do last semester and didn't participate in any school activities, so she didn't meet the selection criteria.

Wen Qing just smiled and didn't care at all.

Later, Wen Qing met Gao Min in the library. The girl smiled at her arrogantly, and Wen Qing realized that she might be targeted.

In fact, she didn't care about the bonus of three to five hundred yuan, and even the honor was dispensable. She had spent no less than one hundred thousand just to invest in building the winery, and it would cost more than fifty thousand to expand the winery this time.

There is still more than one million in cash in the space and hundreds of thousands in the bank account, but this is not a matter of money.