Traveling through 70's wine

Wen Qing still invited Hu Dingze's construction company to build the vineyard. They had been working together for a long time, so they could communicate easily if there were any problems, and Wen Qing didn't have to spend a lot of time supervising the work.

Hu Dingze came from Beijing with a construction team. There was no such pure European-style winery in China, and he wanted to see it.

After Hu Dingze met Dawson, Dawson introduced his design ideas. Hu Dingze carefully reviewed the design drawings and had a clear understanding of the construction of the entire winery.

The construction of the winery had begun. Dawson and his team had already been in China for more than half a month, so they happily said goodbye to Wen Qing, left Wenshui, and went to the capital, planning to travel for a while before coming back to guide the construction.

Wen Qing asked Liu Honggang to participate in the construction work of Hu Dingze and his team. He also attached great importance to this cooperation with foreigners in designing the winery. After all, they were professionals and it broadened his horizons.

Hu Dingze only brought key construction personnel, and general laborers were recruited locally. Wen Qing contacted the county government. Now more and more young people were leaving their homes to work in the south, and those who stayed behind were those who found it difficult to leave their hometowns. The government also wanted to find some ways out for them, while also preventing these people from causing problems out of nothing.

The government sent people to nearby villages to mobilize villagers to sign up. Hu Dingze recruited 20 temporary workers after selection, and Wen Qing also selected 50 people to build the vineyard. It is now May and June, which is past the best time to plant grape vines. We can only wait until autumn to plant, but we can improve the soil first.

The fields in Wenshui are mostly composed of loess and have deep soil quality, but the nutrient content is not enough. When Wen Qing was plowing the soil, he consciously added some nutrients and asked the workers to plow deep underground.

She divided the vineyard into several planting areas for grape varieties and planted some trees such as boxwood, camphor, ginkgo, and mountain pepper that can prevent diseases and pests as isolation zones.

Although it is too late to plant grapes now, it is still possible to plant these seedlings. At night, Wen Qing took out some camphor, ginkgo, and boxwood seedlings from the space when no one was paying attention. She planted them in the fields after the villagers went to work the next day. She did not plant a lot, but just tried it first to see if these trees can really have a preventive effect on pests and diseases, and also to observe whether it will affect the quality of the grapes?

In early June, the construction of the winery continued. Wen Qing left Liu Honggang and returned to Pingjing.

Yang Jiesheng also returned to Pingjing's home and told her that the Jiesheng Jewelry Hangzhou branch had opened and hoped to launch a batch of jade jewelry. Wen Qing had a lot of raw stones in the space, but she hoped that Yang Jiesheng would find a way himself and not rely too much on the space.

So the two decided to go to the Yunnan-Yunnan border to buy some jadeite. They wanted to buy jadeite instead of gambling on it. Yang Jiesheng didn't want to take the risk of going to Burma. His last experience at the foot of Mount Hua made him feel very insecure in unfamiliar places.

Leaving the two children at home to be taken care of by Mrs. Liu and Qiao Dali, they flew to Mangshi and then took a bus to Ruili. The weather here was hot, so as soon as they arrived at the hotel, they changed into short-sleeved shirts and T-shirts. Wen Qing and Yang Jiesheng rested for a while and then went out for lunch.

Wen Qing was from a rural area in Yunnan, so she was very familiar with the local food and took Yang Jiesheng to eat rice noodles.

The two asked the owner of a small restaurant where they could buy jadeite. After walking two streets, they finally found a small alley with many simple shops. They walked into a shop with a few chairs in front of the door and the door wide open. The light in the shop was dim. Two men were sitting outside smoking and chatting. Wen Qing asked them if they had any jadeite for sale.

A fat middle-aged man took out the pipe from his mouth and asked, "Yes, which one do you want?"

Yang Jiesheng said: "It is jadeite."

The two men walked into the shop, and a silent man took out a box from the counter, opened the box and put it on the counter. Yang Jiesheng looked at the box, there were three pieces of jade in it, one was dry green, about the size of a man's fist, one was glutinous, the size of a goose egg, the green area was not too large, and the rest was colorless, and one was glutinous ice, also the size of a goose egg, with an oily green color.

Yang Jiesheng pointed at the piece of icy jadeite and asked, "How much is this?" The fat black man said, "30,000."

Yang Jiesheng shook his head. This piece of jade is too small. At most, it can be made into a bracelet, with three or four jade pieces in the middle. Nowadays, jade bracelets of better quality only sell for 5000 to 1 yuan, and this kind of glutinous ice bracelet can only be sold for about 4000 yuan. You can't make much money by buying this piece of jade.

Yang Jiesheng asked again: "Are there any better, bigger ones?"

The fat black man motioned to the young man to take out another box, put it on the counter, and opened it. Inside was an irregular jadeite about 10 cm long, 5 cm wide and 8 cm high. The color was light green to bright green, and the quality was glutinous to glutinous icy. The fat black man asked for 15 yuan. Yang Jiesheng bought this piece and the glutinous icy oily green jadeite for 10 yuan.

Wen Qing asked: "Do you have jadeite rough stones for sale?"

The fat black man shook his head and said, "It's sold out. If you come next week, you'll have it. We're trying to get more."

Yang Jiesheng asked, "Is there any other store on this street that sells jadeite raw stones?"

The fat black man replied: "I'm not sure either. Go forward, the fourth one might have one."

Yang Jiesheng put away the jadeite, took the receipt, said goodbye and went out. He found the fourth store. Standing at the door, he heard a lot of noises in the house and many people coming in and out. Yang Jiesheng walked up and asked the person at the door: "Can we go in and take a look?"

The man standing at the door stepped aside to let the two in.

After Yang and Wen went in, they found that the shop was very large, with many stones placed on the ground. Some customers were searching for the stones on the ground with flashlights and magnifying glasses.

Yang Jiesheng asked a man in a short-sleeved jacket in the store, "Do you have a flashlight? I want to borrow one."

The man said, "The rental fee is 10 yuan per stick."

Yang Jiesheng gave 20 yuan and took two flashlights.

Wen Qing called over a clerk and asked, "What are the prices of these stones?"

The man replied: "The stones with green marks are 1000 yuan per kilogram, the stones with red marks are 3000 yuan per kilogram, the stones with blue marks are 5000 yuan per kilogram, and the stones without marks are 500 yuan per piece."

Wen Qing asked: "Is there anything better?"

The man looked at Wen Qing for a few times and said, "The material is in the backyard. You can go there if you want to see it."

Wen Qing thought about it and decided to try her luck by selecting a rough stone first. She squatted down and relayed what the clerk had just said to Yang Jiesheng. Yang Jiesheng took a flashlight and, imitating the others, shone the light into the stone.

When he was working at Yang's Jewelry, he occasionally went to the jewelry processing workshop and saw the master craftsman cutting stones. He also heard some knowledge about identifying jadeite raw stones, such as python, cracks, moss, and where they came from, but he was not sure how to use them specifically and had to rely on guesswork.

Although Wen Qing was also holding a flashlight to shine on the raw stone, her five senses were sensitive and she could see the changes in light entering the raw stone more clearly. She could also discover the slight difference in warmth and coolness coming from the stone from the feel of the raw stone.