Traveling through 70's wine

Old Yu pulled Wen Qing to the middle of the alley, where the view was better and he could see everything in front and behind.

He lowered his voice and asked, "What kind of food is it? How much is there? How much do you sell it for?"

"We have rice, wheat and corn, and the price just follows the market."

"We received a batch of goods before the Spring Festival, and they are still on reserve. The price is cheaper."

"Old Yu, you know, grain is the most profitable before the summer harvest. Think about it."

Old Yu said, "My money is all tied up in the goods. I don't have cash. Can I exchange something else with you?"

"what?"

"Yellow croaker." Old Yu gestured with his hands.

Wen Qing asked awkwardly, "How much is the yellow croaker?"

“165 yuan per tael.”

Wen Qing shook her head and said, "The quality of yellow croaker is hard to identify, and it's also hard to sell. It's only 100 yuan per ounce at most."

The two men discussed for a while and finally agreed on 130 yuan per tael.

Old Yu wants to buy 4000 kilograms of rice, 2000 kilograms of wheat, and 2000 kilograms of corn, for a total of 1800 yuan.

Give her 10 taels, which is 10 small yellow croakers, plus 500 yuan.

At night, Wen Qing drove a tractor to transport the grain to the place they had discussed, a secluded place near Luchun County.

Old Yu was already waiting for her. Wen Qing unloaded the goods, and the two of them settled the payment.

After Wen Qing left, one of Lao Yu's brothers came out and asked, "Brother, do you want to follow?"

"Forget it. We can make a lot of money from this batch of goods. Besides, I can't see through this person and don't know his background. It won't be worth it if I get into trouble."

Wen Qing now has more than 5000 yuan in cash and 10 small yellow croakers.

Wen Qing was very happy when she saw the two motorcycles, two tractors, a rotary tiller, a generator, a thresher, a harvester and a stone breaker in the space parking lot.

She thought to herself that she still needed a grain grinder and an oil press.

Now she is gradually becoming dissatisfied with the rotary tiller because it is too small and needs to be operated manually.

So, she made a tiller with iron plates and iron wires, which was mainly used to plow wasteland.

A tiller was made and hung behind a tractor with connecting rods and bearings to dig the ground.

She sat on the tractor and operated it, and it turned the soil faster than the original rotary tiller. She could plow 50 acres of land in four hours.

After parking the tractor in the parking lot and performing some simple maintenance on it, Wen Qing came to the orchard.

The fruit trees in the orchard were in bloom, and seeing the bees flying around collecting nectar, she couldn't help but look forward to eating the fruit in the near future.

Currently, the orchard only grows apples, pears, plums and walnuts. In the future, she will also look for peaches, apricots and citrus fruits.

After finishing her work in the orchard, she went to the tea garden.

It was time to prune the tea trees, so she cut some branches and soaked them in spring water. She then took a hoe and went to the orchard to start digging holes.

She found several ancient tea trees in Pudu and Handao and planned to expand the area of ​​the tea garden, so she used the cut branches for cuttings.

Fortunately, the survival rate of cuttings in space is very high. She can directly choose a good place for cuttings without having to transplant them again later.

After a busy afternoon, Wen Qing transplanted ten acres of land and felt tired. She returned to the bamboo building to take a shower, rest, read a book for a while, and practice on her own.

In this way, Wen Qing spent a month to reclaim 200 mu of land, plant tea trees, take care of the orchard, and plant 240 mu of crop land with rice, wheat and corn.

The remaining 50 acres of newly reclaimed land are still under seedling cultivation and can be planted after the seedlings emerge in a few days.

She doesn't have to worry about the medicine garden, as many of the herbs there are perennials, and the longer they are grown in the space, the better their efficacy.

After the Spring Festival, Wu Qing and his colleagues returned to the educated youth site one after another.

In March, Captain Lin Changsheng brought back four new educated youth, two boys and two girls, all of whom were high school students aged 3 or 4.

There is an empty room in the east wing of Wen Qing's house, which can accommodate two girls.

The west wing, where Gu Hua and Luo Yixing lived in one room and Guo Jianguo and Li Wei lived in another, was already full, so they had to clear out the main room for the two male educated youth to live in.

Fortunately, the main room is larger than the other rooms, and there is a room between them, so the remaining room can be used as a kitchen.

They built a woodshed next to the west wing to store tools and firewood.

In the evening, the six old educated youth provided food and dishes to treat the four new educated youth to a meal.

After the conversation, I found out that these four educated youth were all from the provincial capital of Yunnan.

The two girls are 2-year-old You Manli and 18-year-old Wu Ying.

The two boys are 19-year-old Wu Bo and 20-year-old Chen Zhiqiang.

Li Wei and Luo Yixing also introduced the situation of Xiangyang Village to them, and concluded: "Xiangyang Village is not bad. The people are very simple and honest. As long as you complete the work assigned by the team on time, the team cadres will not make things difficult for you."

"It's just that the work points are not very valuable. At the end of the year, we can just barely avoid starvation, but it's impossible to have enough to eat." The two of them didn't say this.

Wu Ying said: "We have never done farm work before, so we don't know how to do it. What should we do?"

Wu Qing said: "When we first arrived, we didn't know how to do farm work. We watched more and asked more questions from the uncles and aunts in the village, and gradually we learned it."

You Manli frowned and said, "I heard there are leeches in the ground that want to suck blood."

Guo Jianguo said: "It is best to wear long rain boots when going to the fields, but it doesn't matter if you don't have them.

If leeches crawl onto your legs, you can scrape them off with a razor blade, sprinkle some salt on them, or burn them with a lighter.

Once you get used to it, you won’t be afraid anymore.”

Wu Qing also said: "When you go out, wear long clothes and long pants, and tie your pants legs as tight as possible."

Wen Qing introduced to them how to fetch water, how to cultivate their private plots, and how to record work points.

Seeing how calm the old educated youth were, the four new educated youths gradually felt relieved. Since they were already here, they would just live their lives anyway.

With the arrival of spring, picking wild vegetables has become a favorite activity for women and children.

Shepherd's purse, Chinese toon buds, pear blossoms, wolfberry tips, stinkweed, and ferns popped up one after another, causing the morning work start time in Xiangyang Village to be postponed by one hour.

Even when working in the fields, the aunts and sisters-in-law would carry a small basket and dig up the watercress and shepherd's purse from the edge of the field and take them home.

The new educated youth also immediately started digging wild vegetables. It was because they came at the wrong time. Apart from borrowing food from the production team, they did not have their own private plots and had to borrow vegetables from the old educated youth.

Now that there are free wild vegetables, there is no reason to miss them.

In April, Wen Qing brought a bag of black tea that she had roasted herself to see the team leader Lin Changsheng.

"Captain, this is the Mingqian tea my classmate sent me."

The ancient tea trees in the space have grown new leaves, and the tea trees that have been grafted are still very small, so not much tea leaves can be picked, and pile fermentation cannot achieve the fermentation conditions for Pu'er tea.

She adopted the tea-making process of Dian black tea. When rolling the tea leaves, she rolled them lightly because the tea leaves are tender before the Qingming Festival, and the fermentation time is shorter. However, after the tea leaves fermented, the leaves had turned red, indicating that the fermentation condition was still good.

She picked the tea very carefully, without having to select it. Wen Qing also fumbled with the drying and shaping process. She also drank the final black tea, which had a mellow taste and floral fragrance.

Lin Changsheng looked at Wen Qing happily, "Wen Zhiqing is thoughtful. Tea is hard to buy now."

"Yes, people in the city only get two taels of tea a year. My classmates have tea gardens in the countryside, and they make their own tea."

Then he asked, "Captain, can we grow tea in our village?"

Lin Changsheng hesitated and said, "We have never planted tea in our village. First, we don't have tea trees, second, we don't have the technology, and third, we heard that it takes three years to grow tea trees before we can make tea.

There has been no production in the past three years, and it is difficult to explain to the commune. How are the members going to get enough food?"

Wen Qing stopped talking after hearing this.

After returning home, Wen Qing cleaned up her own plot and planted tea seedlings around the perimeter and in the corners.

Tea trees cannot be picked in large quantities in the first two years after planting, but even if she leaves in the future, these tea trees can leave something different for the village.

Wu Qing seemed a little depressed after returning this time.

Wen Qing asked her, "Sister Qingqing, is there anything wrong at home?"

Wu Qing: "There's nothing wrong at home, but when I went back this time, many of my classmates have already started families and careers, so I felt a little sad. I don't know where the future lies."