Traveling through 70's wine

After buying wine-making containers and cleaning them, Wen Qing went to the Wild Grape Valley again. This time, after collecting the wild grapes into the space, he directly put them into the water tank for crushing, added sugar, and sealed the tank for brewing.

Picking grapes manually is time-consuming and laborious. Wen Qing went out early and came back late every day for a week, spending every day in the valley. At noon, he ate the cakes and steamed bread brought by others. After brewing 7 or 8 acres of wild grapes, he had lost a lot of weight.

The flow of time in this space is faster than outside. In addition to picking grapes and making wine every day, Wen Qing also has to check the fermentation of the wine brewed two days ago and press the floating grape skins and grape seeds into the juice. This is what her grandmother did.

To make wild wine, the fermentation time in space is generally one week. After the wine stops fermenting, she pours the wine into another clean ceramic jar for a second fermentation. After the two fermentations are completed, the clear, ruby-like wine is sealed and stored.

She doesn't have any oak barrels now, so she can only use clay jars.

After Wen Qing finished brewing the wine, she built a shed in the space with bamboo to store the wine. She first went to the bamboo forest to select thick and long bamboos that grew densely together, dug holes in the ground on the hillside and inserted the bamboos into them, then used bamboo to build crossbeams, split the bamboo tubes into strips and weaved them into bamboo mats, which she fixed to the ceiling with bamboo silk. In this way, a simple bamboo shed was built.

It took her a whole week to build such a bamboo shed that is 10 meters wide, 3 meters wide and 3 meters high. The main reason was that the cut bamboo had to be dried first. In order to build the bamboo shed in a short time, she also went to the mountains, found a cave, lit a fire and dried the bamboo.

Of course, while drying the bamboo, she was not idle. She went to the stream to catch some fish to enrich the lake in the space.

After building the bamboo shed, she went to the mountains to cut grass for pigs, and then went to the space to harvest the rice and corn she had planted. She spread them out in the space to dry. A week later, she gave 200 kilograms of millet to the family who boiled water tanks and took back 20 large water tanks.

A week later, after the corn in the space had dried, they peeled the corn kernels and sent 375 kilograms of corn to the family who burned the kiln. They also took back the 200 pottery pots. In this way, there were still 120 kilograms of rice and 200 kilograms of corn kernels in the space.

Although she doesn't need these things now, she will need them sooner or later when she makes wild wine.

In addition, she began to take care of the orchard. At first, she looked for wild fruit trees, which produced fruits of poor quality.

Later, when she went to the county, she found someone selling fruit tree seedlings. After asking, she learned that some brigades had dug up the original orchards to grow crops. She bought some apple trees, pear trees, and plum trees, and first planted these fruit trees, then cut off the branches and grafted them onto wild fruit trees. Now all the wild fruit trees in the space orchard have been grafted, and they are growing well. It is estimated that they will bear fruit next year.

Wen Qing's job is to cut grass for pigs and cows. It is late summer now and the grass is lush and green. Not only is she cutting grass for pigs, but the children in the village also cut grass for pigs and earn some work points.

Therefore, no matter how much or how little she paid, it would not affect feeding the livestock, and Wen Qing spent a lot of time doing her own work.

She often went to several nearby towns to sell chickens, rabbits and fish. Of course, she would not show up in her true appearance, but always put on makeup. Sometimes she was a man, sometimes an old woman, and sometimes a middle-aged woman, so as not to be noticed by others. After three months, before the autumn harvest, she had saved more than 2000 yuan.

While busy working in the space, Wen Qing also made good use of the time to study. Although the college entrance examination would be resumed in more than two years, her foundation was poor and she had to study several more times.

What she regretted most was that she could only read books and do the exercises in the books. For a student who is used to doing exercises, she always felt uneasy if she didn't do the exercises.

That night, after putting down her textbook, she said to Wu Qing, "Sister Qingqing, do you have the previous exam papers?"

Wu Qing thought for a moment, then said hesitantly, "We seldom did any exam questions before. I'll write back and ask if my old exam questions are still available."

Wen Qing didn't hold much hope for Wu Qing, so she just nodded and said, "You ask first, and I'll look somewhere else."

The rice is ripe and the brigade is arranging the autumn harvest.

During the autumn harvest, everyone has to work, and they must harvest the rice in the fields while the weather is good, so Wen Qing must also participate.

Although she couldn't do heavy work, she still went to the fields to pick up rice ears with the elderly and children in the village.

They would hold a small basket and follow the people harvesting rice, pick up the rice ears that fell during the harvest and put them into the basket, and then go to the drying dam to dry them.

Wen Qing wasn't very tired after working all day, but her personality just couldn't allow her to do heavy work, so she worked slowly, causing the team leader to worry that she would faint in the field.

After work, Wen Qing returned home and started cooking dinner. Today she planned to make braised fish. The fish was caught from the space a few days ago. Of course, she said it was caught from the small river near the village. She also cooked some old pumpkin soup. The ripe old pumpkin was cooked into a golden soup with a sweet smell, which looked attractive.

At this time Wu Qing came back. She was responsible for carrying the cut straw to the drying dam. This was the most strenuous job. After a day's work, her shirt had been soaked with sweat several times.

Wen Qing looked at her tired appearance and couldn't help but feel heartbroken. She said to Wu Qing, "Sister Qingqing, don't work so hard. You should also take care of your own health."

Wu Qing said weakly: "I have no choice. The team leader seems to be keeping an eye on me and criticizes me for being a little slow." Tears started to flow as she spoke. She is only 21 years old now, her face is dark and yellow, and she is very thin. She looks like she is 30 years old.

Wen Qing couldn't think of a good solution for a moment, so she could only say, "Sister Qingqing, go wash up first, and you can eat soon."

Wu Qing looked at the hot water boiling on the stove, took the wooden bucket, scooped some water and took a bath, then the two sat down to eat.

Seeing the aroma of the braised fish that Wen Qing brought to the table, his depressed mood suddenly improved. He sniffed hard, his mouth full of saliva, and while serving the rice, he said, "We still have to harvest corn next week. The team leader asked me to tell you that you still have to participate."

Wen Qing said nonchalantly, "I'll go to work. I'm not in good health and can't do heavy work. The doctor told me to rest more. Who does he think he is?"

After dinner, Wen Qing asked Wu Qing to rest early. She cleaned the kitchen, house and yard before going up to the attic and then into the space to sow a new batch of corn and rice seeds.

She now starts breeding rice immediately after harvesting the previous batch of rice, and waits until the seedlings grow to a certain height before moving them to the field and planting them at appropriate intervals. There are no pests in the space, and she only needs to regularly replenish the soil fertility, and the crops will grow well.

During the autumn harvest, Wen Qing was too busy to go into the mountains, so he could only continue his studies in the space at night. Wu Qing was tortured to exhaustion both physically and mentally, and he would go to bed after dinner every day when he returned home.

The two of them have lived together for more than a year. Wu Qing usually takes good care of her, and although she can't help in other areas, she can still prepare some nutritious meals.

Wen Qing felt that she was too serious, but it was not easy to persuade her, so she just kept cooking for her the dried field mouse meat and the fish she had fished out from the space.

During the one-month autumn harvest, picking rice ears, drying corn, and peeling corn were actually not easy tasks, but she just wanted to slack off. When the team leader Chen Tianxing saw her like this, he talked her out of it several times, but Wen Qing didn't care much and continued to do her own thing. The team leader couldn't do anything about her, the most he could do was to make things difficult for her in calculating work points, but this was what Wen Qing cared about the least, so when the autumn harvest was over, she was still full of energy, and after work in the evening she still had the energy to transplant the rice seedlings grown in the space to the fields.

The autumn harvest was considered over only after everyone dried and threshed the harvested rice and corn and paid the public tax. Everyone in the village was exhausted.

After the autumn harvest, Wen Qing started to collect grass for pigs again. In autumn, the grass in Yunnan Province is still green.

She remembered that there was an oak forest deep in the dense woods, so she walked for three or four hours and cut down two sturdy oak trees and put them into the space.

There was a carpenter in the nearby town of Xiyuan, to whom she had once sold fish, so Wen Qing decided to order an oak barrel to order.

She disguised herself as a middle-aged man carrying wood and went to the carpenter's house. She knocked on the door and asked, "Is Master Zhou here?"

Master Zhou, a carpenter in his 50s, opened the gate and asked, "Who is it?"

Wen Qing said, "Master Zhou, I want to make some wooden barrels. I have brought the wood. Can you do it?"

Master Zhou let her into the yard and asked, "No problem, what style of barrel?"

Wen Qing described the appearance of an oak barrel to him. Master Zhou said, "I have never made a barrel like the one you mentioned. It sounds like it requires more steps than ordinary water barrels, but it shouldn't be a big problem."

Asking Wen Qing to draw the dimensions, Master Zhou promised her to finish it as soon as possible, and then said, "The labor cost for this bucket is two yuan each."

Wen Qing suppressed her joy and said, "Master Zhou, I have no problem with the wages, but if I am not satisfied with the results, I will not pay you. If it is bad, you will have to compensate me for the wood."

Master Zhou felt that Wen Qing didn't trust his craftsmanship, and said angrily: "It's just a wooden barrel. If you can't make it, I'll compensate you for the wood!"

Master Zhou made a rough calculation and concluded that the two oak trees that Wen Qing had brought over, each with a trunk diameter of 30 centimeters and a length of about three meters, could be used to make about six oak barrels. Wen Qing smiled secretly and agreed to pick up the goods in two weeks.