Traveling through 70's wine

After leaving Zhou's house, Wen Qing went to Nanyuan Town and sold seven fish and five wild rabbits, earning 21 yuan. On the way back, he also picked some pig grass to report to his boss.

Two weeks later, Wen Qing went to Master Zhou's house to get 6 oak barrels. In front of Master Zhou, she filled them with water one by one to verify. Master Zhou was indeed an experienced veteran and the 6 oak barrels were leak-proof.

Wen Qing showed admiration and gave a thumbs up: "Master Zhou, this is your skill."

Master Zhou was very satisfied and proud. He puffed on his pipe and said with a smile, "It was a bit troublesome to make this wooden barrel, but it's not difficult for me."

Wen Qing smiled and said, "Brother, you have great skills. I admire you." He gave him 12 yuan as wages, took out two bottles of wine, and said, "Brother, try the wine I brewed. I will come to you when I need to make barrels in the future."

Many families in rural areas can make rice wine, but wine is relatively rare, but some people still make it.

Master Zhou looked at the wine and couldn't help feeling happy. Nowadays, people even have difficulty in getting food. The liquor in the supply and marketing cooperative can only be purchased with tickets. He rarely has the opportunity to drink. He took the wine pot, opened it and smelled it, and said with a smile: "Little sister, just for your wine, I will make it for you next time you come."

The oak barrels made by Master Zhou are used to age wine. Wen Qing entered the space, cleaned the oak barrels, and hung them aside.

I went to the fields to see how the rice and corn were growing. I saw that the rice that I had planted three weeks ago had already sprouted, and the corn had grown to a man's height and produced corn cobs, but they were still very small and it was not time to harvest them.

Now five acres of rice and five acres of corn have been planted in the space. Moreover, she has reclaimed ten acres of land in the space and has started to grow seedlings. This time she plans to plant five acres of rice and five acres of wheat.

She considered that if the planting area was large, manual harvesting would not work, and she would have to make some agricultural machinery. However, there were too few parts now, and it was not realistic to make large and advanced equipment. She could only make some simple ones for use first.

Wen Qing found the parts she had found last time and selected a bearing and a steel pipe. She first made them into connecting parts for the harvester, then sawed off a few sections of the steel pipe, used iron sheets and blades to make a backpack harvester, and then made a small trailer to hold the engine.

She took this strange harvester and went to the grassland to cut grass. With one hand pulling the cart and the other wielding the harvester, she cut the grass very quickly. She collected the cut grass and put it in a backpack, which was just enough to feed the pigs.

The engine runs on diesel, and there's still some diesel left from the pot of diesel she bought last time. Remember, she needs to buy some more.

In order to reduce the use of generators, she did not use automatic machinery for rice and wheat threshers, but adopted a foot-operated wooden structure thresher. The structure is very simple, that is, using the foot to step on the pedal to drive the wooden wheel to crush the rice and wheat ears, and then the fan blades rotate to bring wind to blow the lighter grains of rice, wheat and grass leaves aside, and the grains fall into the basket below, and the wheat straw and rice stalks can be taken out.

She learned about these devices by reading an agricultural technology manual she found at a scrap yard. She understood the functions and simple parts of the equipment and added her own ideas to make them. Wen Qing is now very interested in agricultural machinery and plans to visit Xinhua Bookstore when she has the chance to visit Luchun County to see if she can buy some more related books.

Once she finishes making the farm machinery, the rice in the space will be ripe and can be harvested.

Wen Qing first drained the water from the paddy field, waved the harvester, cut the rice and poured it on the field, then bundled the rice and transported it to the prepared drying dam. It took two days to dry the rice before it could be put into the thresher.

Currently, she only has five acres of rice fields. This time, she harvested 3800 kilograms of rice, with an average yield of more than 700 kilograms per acre. This feels like a big gap from the kilograms per acre yield of rice she had heard in her previous life. She thought it might be because she was not very good at growing rice.

Corn threshing is a bit more complicated.

Wen Qing didn't have a corn thresher yet. After harvesting the corn, she could only remove the corn cobs from the corn stalks one by one. She made a thresher out of iron sheets, put the corn in and turned it, and the corn kernels were removed from the corn cobs. It was quite efficient, but she had to thresh the corn one by one.

She harvested 4000 kilograms of corn from her five mu corn field, which solved her food problem. However, she still had to go to the mill to grind the rice and corn into rice and cornmeal, but this was an easy problem to solve.

After the autumn harvest, Wen Qing spent more than half a month working on the ten acres of land with agricultural machinery and harvesting space. He also took the time to transplant the rice seedlings and corn seedlings into the fields, and chopped up the harvested rice and corn stalks and poured them into the pit for compost. After completing these tasks, it was already November.

The winter in Yunnan Province is not too cold, but there is a lot to do. Unlike the north where people can relax in winter, their village can only take a short break before starting to plant winter wheat and rapeseed.

Before this, the commune decided that each brigade could distribute grain once. On the one hand, the team had surplus grain after paying the public grain, and on the other hand, the wheat distributed after the summer harvest had basically been eaten up. Everyone was waiting for the grain to be cooked. Some families had even been out of food for one or two months and could only live on sweet potatoes and pumpkins. The autumn harvest also greatly consumed everyone's physical strength. If the grain was not distributed, they might not be able to hold on.

On this day, the production team asked all villagers, including the educated youth, to gather at the team headquarters for a meeting to distribute grain. For a moment, adults and children were all excited and gathered in the dam in front of the team headquarters. The team leader Lin Changsheng first gave a passionate speech, thanking the organization, the leaders, and the commune. Xiangyang Village had a very good harvest this year. After paying the public grain, there were still nearly 20 kilograms of grain left, including rice, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, soybeans, etc., excluding 3000 kilograms of reserve grain. There were 600 people in the village, and each person could get 300 kilograms on average. Of course, the rations were distributed first, and then the work was divided.

The accountant announced the full year's accounts in front of everyone. The Xiangyang Brigade had a 200%:150% split, with work points accounting for % and food rations accounting for %. As long as the basic work standards were met, adults in the village could get an average of kilograms, and children could get kilograms.

After calculating the accounts, it was announced that this year five work points could be divided into one catty of fine grains, two catties of coarse grains could be counted as one catty of fine grains, and sweet potatoes were also counted as coarse grains. If someone did not want grain, they could also get money, at four cents for one work point.

All in all, Wu Qing got 100 kilograms of millet, 200 kilograms of corn, 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and 10 kilograms of rapeseed, which was considered a lot. Wen Qing had fewer work points and got less too. She asked for 100 kilograms of millet and 40 kilograms of rapeseed. There was enough food in her space, but she did not grow any rapeseed.

The male educated youths at the educated youth camp received more food, and everyone was delighted. They looked after each other's food and found baskets to carry the food back to the educated youth camp.

The next day, the grain station in Shangyi Town was doing a booming business. Every household brought grain to be processed. Wen Qing also told Wu Qing that she was going to the grain station to grind rice. When she left the village, she picked up a load of millet. While queuing to grind the rice, she changed it into two large baskets of rice. After returning, Wu Qing was still drying sweet potatoes and didn't pay attention. Wen Qing poured the ground rice into their rice jars.

In the evening, the two of them ate rice, fried eel, steamed bacon, and fried rapeseed sprouts. It was a very sumptuous meal. Gu Hua brought them four pork patties. Wen Qing felt embarrassed and cut a piece of bacon in return.

After the grain was distributed, the team began to level the fields and replenish their fertility. People from all over the village were picking up manure, gathering it together, adding soil, mixing it, and then spreading it on the fields, making everyone stink.

Several male educated youth had to work with strong laborers to plow the fields again, while the female educated youth followed the village aunts to be responsible for breeding.

After the autumnal equinox, people start planting winter wheat, rapeseed and soybeans. Spinach, cabbage, garlic and radish are also planted in the family's private plots. These vegetables are also their daily consumption. Rural people do not buy vegetables.