Traveling through 70's wine

Wen Qing said goodbye to Master Wang, walked out of the tea factory, and slowly walked along the street towards the hotel.

When I walked to an alley, I heard someone talking in the wall, "Director Lu, please help me fix it. Our production team needs to haul timber right away, and we can't do it without a tractor."

"Captain Chen, I'm so sorry, our repairman has gone to the countryside, and there is really no one here. Why don't you try looking for someone else?"

Wen Qing turned the alley and found herself standing at the entrance of a machinery factory. A man who looked like a farmer was talking to a man who looked like a cadre. There was a tractor parked nearby and several people were checking it.

Wen Qing went over and stood aside to listen to their conversation. It turned out that the tractor had a problem and could not be started, so it was looking for a repair shop to fix it.

Wen Qing was thinking about where something might go wrong.

The factory manager Lu became increasingly impatient and said, “I’m really sorry, our technicians have gone to the countryside, and there’s no one in the factory now;

Captain Chen, if you want, you can leave the tractor here with us.

Wait for the technician to come back and fix it, or you can tow it away."

Hearing this, Wen Qing said to Captain Chen, "Maybe the oil pump is not delivering oil."

Captain Chen asked eagerly: "Young man, can you repair a tractor?"

Wen Qing said hurriedly: "I understand a little bit, but..."

Before Wen Qing could finish, Captain Chen interrupted her and said, "Then please help me take a look."

Seeing his urgent attitude, Director Lu also signaled Wen Qing to take action, and she opened the hood.

This is a single-cylinder Type 75 tractor. It is used in a relatively harsh environment and is not well maintained, resulting in severe wear and tear of parts. It is estimated that parts need to be replaced.

Wen Qing told Captain Chen her judgment.

Seeing that there was hope of repairing the tractor, Captain Chen asked Director Lu to allow them to enter the factory for repairs. Director Lu saw that the tractor was blocking the gate and that this was no use, so he asked several people to push the tractor into the factory.

Wen Qing opened the oil pump and found that the oil pump piston was broken. She replaced the piston, gasket and cylinder gasket, and also replaced the engine oil and lubricating oil. She installed them back and the ignition was successful.

Captain Chen was very happy and took Wen Qing out to eat.

Wen Qing didn't want to go at first, but Captain Chen insisted and insisted on inviting Director Lu and her, so she had no choice but to go.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Captain Chen asked everyone to sit down. The group wanted Wen Qing to sit at the main seat, but Wen Qing repeatedly declined. Captain Chen sat at the main seat, and Director Lu sat next to him. Wen Qing sat next to Director Lu.

During the dinner, everyone talked about tractor repair and praised Wen Qing for his good skills.

Captain Chen: "Young man, our team still has an old tractor that we have used for ten years. We bought this one two years ago. The old tractor broke down and we went to a repair shop but couldn't fix it."

He also glanced at Director Lu and said, "No, no? Old Lu."

"I wonder if it can be repaired?" As he said that, he was about to take Wen Qing back to repair the tractor.

Wen Qing said: "Alas, I was lucky to be able to repair this machine."

Director Lu: "Comrade Xiao Xiao, go and take a look, maybe it can be repaired."

Wen Qing said his name was Xiao Qingshan.

Captain Chen noticed Wen Qing's hesitation and said, "Xiao Xiao, just go and take a look. We won't blame you if you can't fix it."

The two agreed to pick her up the next morning.

Wen Qing went to borrow a tractor maintenance manual from Director Lu. Director Lu was very generous and let Wen Qing follow him back to the factory to get it.

Their factory had several copies of this book, so they gave one to Wen Qing.

After borrowing the tractor maintenance manual, Wen Qing entered the space and looked at it carefully.

This book is a maintenance manual published by the tractor factory. It clearly explains the tractor's structure, components, fault types, and how to deal with them.

It was a good reference for Wen Qing to understand the performance of tractors and agricultural machinery. After three days of reading in the space, Wen Qing had a basic understanding of tractor maintenance.

Three days of continuous study made her very tired. She took an hour to meditate and finally recovered some energy.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Captain Chen's men were waiting for her at the hotel.

Wen Qing and the visitor walked for an hour and arrived at their Qiaoxi Brigade.

Wen Qing carefully inspected the tractor and found that it did have many problems. The engine, carburetor, and drive shaft all had problems and needed to be replaced with new parts. Without the parts, Wen Qing was helpless.

Captain Chen had no choice but to accept the reality and prepare to ask the commune to exchange this tractor for a new one.

But Wen Qing helped repair the brigade's water pump and electric saw.

Captain Chen generously sold a broken rice transplanter in the team to Wen Qing at half price, which made the trip worthwhile.

She declined Captain Chen's offer to see her off, and went to the bus station with her luggage to buy a ticket to Lincang. There were still a few days before the Spring Festival, and she also wanted to visit Biancang, the hometown of Yunnan black tea.

Biancang is located on the bank of the Lancang River. It has high mountains and deep valleys, and the weather is warm all year round, which is also suitable for growing tea. But unlike Pudu, it is rich in black tea.

After getting on the bus, Wen Qing found a seat. It was about 300 kilometers from Pudu to Biancang, and the car took 5 hours to drive. It was close to the Spring Festival, and the road was not safe.

She tried to stay alert, and although she found a few thieves, they had to get off the car in disappointment because of her deliberate sabotage.

When they arrived at Bian Cang, a man in his 20s sitting next to her looked at her with admiration, got off the bus without saying a word.

After getting off the bus, Wen Qing went directly to Handao, a famous tea town. When she arrived at Handao Village, she did not enter the village but went directly to the tea mountain.

There are not only tea trees on the tea mountain, but also walnut trees, pine trees, paper mulberry trees, and catalpa trees. The plants on the tea mountain grow lushly, and the road is not easy to walk on. Wen Qing took out a machete and cut the weeds on the road. After walking for a while, he saw wild azaleas, camellias, and golden camellias growing on the mountain. It is really a paradise for plants.

Wen Qing walked for two hours and it was getting dark. She found a patch of ancient tea trees on the mountain. There used to be many ancient tea trees on this mountain.

In the past decade, due to land reclamation and crop planting, only a few tea trees have been dug up at the foot of the mountain, and only large tracts of ancient tea forests remain on high ground.

This patch of ancient tea trees grew very well, with lush branches and leaves. Wen Qing collected five ancient tea trees into the space, and dug out five small tea trees that he had grafted from the space and planted them in the pits of the ancient tea trees.

When conditions permit, she will give and take to maintain a balance.

Wen Qing practiced by the Handao Lake at night, and then entered the space to rest.

In the morning, she came out of the space and saw the sun rising from the east side of the lake, and the orange-red morning glow reflected on the lake water red.

She took a deep breath and exhaled a long breath. The air was fresh and chilly.

She was walking around Handao Lake and suddenly saw several tall and straight trees in the woods beside the lake. She walked over and saw that it was a tree called Bauhinia, with a smooth gray-brown trunk and round leaves. Wen Qing dug two of them into the space.

This tree is not rare and can be found everywhere in southern and southwestern China.

She just likes the sight of this tree in full bloom.

Wen Qing walked to the other side of the lake and found that there were many fallen trees in the water about 300 meters away from the shore. She found it very strange.

Seeing that there was no one around, she swam into the lake and carefully examined the tree trunks in the water.

Seeing that these trees were not rotten even though they were immersed in the lake water, no matter what kind of trees they were, they were first put into space. It was better than letting them rot in the water.

She swam to the shore. The lake water was extremely cold in winter. Even though she had her internal energy to protect her body, she still felt a little cold.

Wen Qing entered the space, took a hot shower, used internal energy to dry her hair, and went to check the wood she had fished out of the water.

There are 34 trees in total, some are 5 meters tall and some are over 2 meters tall. The largest tree has a breast diameter of over 70 centimeters and the smallest is more than ten centimeters.

The bark of the trees was all black, covered with sphagnum moss and mud.

Wen Qing used water to rinse the trees and found that they were not rotten. They felt very hard and almost carbonized. They should be sunken wood. Judging from the texture, they might be camphor trees or nanmu trees.

Wen Qing went down the mountain, asked several local villagers, and found the Shunning Tea Factory.

Shunning Tea Factory is located in a tea mountain. Wen Qing walked along the mountain path into the tea garden.

This time, Wen Qing carried a backpack and pretended to be an old man selling mountain products, with a face full of wrinkles and dark, thin hands.

There weren't many people in the tea factory. After all, it was already the eve of the Spring Festival, and tea picking wouldn't start until March, so the workers who stayed behind were only making tea sporadically.

Someone saw Wen Qing put down his backpack and stood on the side of the road, and asked, "Old man, what are you doing?"

Wen Qing smiled and said, "I'm selling some things. Here are some walnuts, hazelnuts, and dried mushrooms. I want to exchange them for some tea leaves."

The questioner was a worker in his 50s, "Where did you come from, old man?"

"From South America." Not the South America thousands of miles away, but a nearby village called South America.

"We have tea trees there, but the tea we make doesn't taste good. I want to see how you make tea."