Traveling through 70's wine

Wen Qing put the things in a backpack and took the bus back to Shangyi Town with Wu Qing. Since they were both carrying a lot of things, they spent another dime to take a ox cart back to the village.

After returning home, Wu Qing opened the package she received. It contained several high school physics and chemistry books. Together with the Chinese and math textbooks she had brought with her, all her high school textbooks were complete.

Wen Qing also took out the chemistry and physics books from the math, physics and chemistry series that she bought from the scrap yard, and said, "Sister Qingqing, I plan to study the high school courses well." Wu Qing nodded. She also planned to review the books carefully. Anyway, there was nothing to do in the countryside except working. The leader once said, "Study hard and make progress every day."

Wen Qing took the first-year high school math and physics to the attic. She had already finished learning the first-year high school Chinese. With her current memory, she could memorize it all after reading it twice, so Chinese was the easiest subject for her.

Going up to the attic, Wen Qing first went into the space to look at old diesel engines and bicycle parts. She wanted to make a rotary tiller, which required an engine, transmission, switch, plowshare, fuel tank and other parts. She compared them to see what was missing and then tried to find a way to get them back.

After checking, she found that the engine was broken but could be repaired, the fuel tank was good, and she could find materials to make the rotating device herself. She still needed handrails, gears, blades, wheels or tracks, so she could go to other agricultural machinery stations or scrap yards in the county to look for them.

She calculated the land area in the space and it was about one hundred acres. If she wanted to cultivate it in a short period of time, she would have to rely on agricultural machinery.

Wen Qing went to the medicinal fields beside the bamboo forest. Some of the medicinal materials, such as Dendrobium, Panax notoginseng, Astragalus, and Panax notoginseng, have matured. The last time she went to the mountains, she found the five-fingered ginseng and transplanted it into the space only two weeks ago. It has been in the space for only about two months. It is only two feet tall, but it is growing well. She plans to cut some branches for cuttings. The five-fingered ginseng usually matures in two to three years. If it is planted in the space, it only takes four to five months to harvest.

The corn and rice in the space have begun to ear, and they can be harvested in another half a month, so she will not lack food.

She was going to prepare the thresher first. This thing was simpler than the rotary tiller. It could be made with an engine, old fan blades, iron sheets and iron mesh. But she didn't have any materials at hand, so it seemed she needed to go to the city again.

Wen Qing did what she said. She used lime and carbon ash to make up, found the captain, and said weakly, "Captain Lin, I had a concussion last time. The doctor at the health center asked me to go for a check-up in a month. Can you give me a letter of introduction? I have had a severe headache these days, and I want to go to the city hospital for a check-up."

Captain Lin thought that these educated youth were very spoiled. When the villagers were a little unwell, they would just endure it, but the educated youth had to spend money to go to the city hospital for treatment. But they didn't expect the educated youth to do anything, as long as they could earn their own food, and the team had no money to share with them.

Captain Lin readily gave Wen Qing a letter of introduction and told her, "Little educated youth Wen, you should get treatment now while there is not much work to do in the fields. The autumn harvest will be in October, so don't get too tired by then."

Wen Qing thanked him repeatedly and left the brigade headquarters with the letter of introduction.

She told Wu Qing that she was going to the city to see a doctor. The next day, she packed up some dried herbs, packed a backpack and left. After leaving the village, she made herself up to look like a woman with a yellow face.

After changing three buses, it took four or five hours to get to Gejiu City, which is an industrial city with tin mines and a gray city. After getting off the bus, she inquired about the location of the scrap yard and went directly to a scrap yard in the east of the city, which was close to the mine. She said something nice to the gatekeeper and took out a handful of fruit candies, and the gatekeeper let her choose for herself.

Wen Qing went in and saw that it was indeed much larger than the county's scrap yard. There were not only waste newspapers, old books, and old furniture, but also old bicycles, old fans, and old generators. Time was limited, so Wen Qing put some things into the space, picked out two old bicycles and some parts, weighed them, gave the gatekeeper twenty yuan, took out the prepared rope, packed the things, and carried them away.

The gatekeeper was surprised to see a woman carrying so many things, and thought that country women are just rough.

What he didn't know was that Wen Qing turned the corner, saw that there was no one around, quickly put the things into the space, and left easily.

Wen Qing went to look for materials to repair the engine. Nowadays, there are very few cars and motorcycles, and even fewer broken ones. She thought about it and went to the auto repair shop to have a look.

There is no automobile factory in Gejiu, but there are always cars that need to be repaired, and the auto repair shop should have replaced parts.

She asked for the location of the auto repair shop, got on the bus, sat for four or five stops, and got off. She was tired and thirsty, so she took out the water bottle from the space in her backpack, squatted on the side of the road, drank the water, and ate the bread she brought with her before heading towards the auto repair shop.

Wen Qing was still the same woman with a dark yellow face and ragged clothes. She looked like a rag picker. The factory workers had seen many such people and didn't take them seriously. She didn't go into the workshop, but just walked around the factory and found a pile of rusty things under the wall. When she got closer, she found that it was a pile of tractor parts.

Wen Qing asked a man who looked like an official, "Brother, do you want to sell the scrap iron over there?" The man asked with interest, "How much?" Wen Qing replied, "Scrap iron is 20 cents per pound, and scrap copper is 30 cents per pound." This was already higher than the usual price for scrap. The official thought the price was okay and immediately shouted, "Dayong, sell the scrap iron over there to this girl." The man whose name was called looked over, and Wen Qing immediately ran over and said flatteringly, "Brother, I'll weigh it."

He took out a scale from the backpack, which was actually taken out from the space. After weighing each item one by one, the pile of things weighed a total of 104 kilograms, which cost 26.80 yuan. Wen Qing paid the money immediately and put some small parts into the backpack. Everyone tied it up with a rope, carried it on their shoulders, and carried it away.

At night she found a guesthouse to stay in with the letter of introduction.

The next day, she went to the hardware store again and used the industrial tickets and letters of introduction to buy some tools and engine oil; she went to the gas station, took out the oil bottle, and bought 20 liters of diesel. Now that she had basically everything she needed, she took the bus back to Luchun County.

There were not many people in the county town, and the walls were covered with slogans. Wen Qing went to the county health center and found a friendly female doctor. She told her about her injury and secretly gave her a red envelope, saying, "Sister, I really get a headache and feel dizzy when I do heavy work."

The female doctor understood clearly that educated youth who went to the countryside were sometimes exploited by local villagers, especially some villagers with bad intentions, who would deliberately torment the female educated youth, forcing them to find support in the local area and marry themselves off in a hurry.

Looking at Wen Qing's sallow face and pretty features, the female doctor unconsciously classified Wen Qing as one of these unfortunate female educated youth.

She nodded sympathetically and said, "Let me check it out." She took out a stethoscope and listened to her heartbeat and breathing, then checked Wen Qing's injured head and wrote a certificate stating that "the patient is in poor physical condition, has persistent migraines, and is suspected of having organic injuries. It is recommended that he not engage in heavy physical labor." Yuan Xiangqiu signed his own name, took the medical record and certificate to the director's office to get it stamped, and returned to give it to Wen Qing.

Wen Qing also achieved the purpose of this trip.

After returning to the educated youth point, Wen Qing stood in the yard and said to Wu Qing, "This time when I went to the county, I helped an old lady. The old lady's children were very grateful to me and gave me some things. Take a look." He pulled Wu Qing into the room and took out things one by one from his backpack: 10 kilograms of rice, 2 kilograms of dry noodles, a bag of brown sugar, a piece of bacon weighing about 5 kilograms, a piece of blue cloth about 3 feet long, a can of lard weighing about 3 kilograms, and a pair of Liberation shoes.

Wu Qing hurriedly said, "Good people will be rewarded, you should put them away quickly." Wen Qing said, "I'll take the cloth and shoes, and I'll put the other things in the kitchen." Wu Qing said embarrassedly, "Oh, Xiaoqing, I'm taking advantage of you." Wen Qing waved her hand to indicate that she didn't mind.

She put her things away, took out the hospital certificate and went to see Captain Lin. Captain Lin looked at the diagnosis certificate and said, "You can't do heavy work in the future. What will happen to your work points? What will you eat?" Wen Qing said, "Captain, I can go to pick grass for pigs. The more I pick, the more work points I get. If the work points are not enough, I still have some money. I can buy some food from the brigade or the supply and marketing cooperative, and plant some sweet potatoes in my private plot, which will be enough."

"Okay, that's the only way. I'll tell your captain about it later."

"Thank you, Captain."