Traveling through 70's wine

It was already past 8pm when we got back to the educated youth camp.

Wen Qing started to light a fire and cook. She beat eggs, made some dumpling soup, ate quickly, then went to the village to fetch water, filled the water tank, boiled water for a bath, and finally washed the clothes and hung them in the yard.

Wen Qing climbed up to the attic and entered the space. She first went to the warehouse to check on the fermenting wine and found that the fermentation of two tanks of wine was almost finished.

She moved the water jar onto the stone platform and poured the clear wine into a clean earthenware jar. The two jars of wine just filled up a clay pot. She also poured the remaining grape skins and seeds in the water jar into the pit by the lake to decompose and use as fertilizer.

There are fourteen vats of wine brewed last time, and twelve vats are still fermenting, but they will probably have to be emptied tomorrow.

Wen Qing dug fertilizer from another large pit, put it into a basket, placed it on the tractor, and drove the tractor to spread the fertilizer in the field.

These fertilizers are made by fermenting animal manure on the island together with chopped rice stalks and corn stalks. The lees from her wine making are also buried in a large pit dug by the lake to ferment, so the fields in the space are all using organic fertilizers.

After applying the fertilizer, Wen Qing started the tractor and hung the tiller at the back and began to turn the soil, turning the fertilizer just spread on the surface to the lower layer. In two days, she would be able to transplant the rice seedlings into the field.

It took seven or eight hours to finish all this. Wen Qing returned to the bamboo building and took another bath. Even though she had profound skills, she felt tired, so she fell asleep in the space.

In the morning, the Youth League compound was bustling with activity, except for Wen Qing's room whose door was closed.

When Gu Hua came out, he glanced unconsciously. His wife followed him out, stretched, and said in a friendly tone: "Brother Gu Hua, when are we going home?"

Gu Hua said in a gentle tone, "We will go to the commune to transfer connections today."

Gu Hua came back with his wife, Luo Yixing moved into Li Wei's house, and after Guo Jianguo joined the army, he lived alone.

While they were talking, Wen Qing's door opened.

Wen Qing came out to wash up. Wu Ying saw her and said, "Sister Qingqing, you're back?"

Wen Qing said: "I was delayed on the way and came back a little late."

After washing up, Wen Qing made some omelettes, cooked some vegetable soup, and quickly had breakfast. She deliberately made more omelettes and put them in the space to prepare dry food.

Wen Qing changed into clean clothes. Although she had washed her clothes last night, she had been doing farm work in the space for half a day and her clothes were dirty. After changing them in the morning, Wen Qing took the basin of dirty clothes to the river to wash them.

Four or five aunties were squatting by the creek, chatting while washing clothes, and they became the gossip center of the village.

Wen Qing walked to a place a little further away and squatted down, put the clothes on a clean stone by the river, poured water on them and rubbed them.

After a while, the aunties and grannies started talking about Gu Hua.

An auntie: "I heard that Gu Zhiqing is going back to the city?"

An old lady said: "Our Mr. Lin said he wants to recruit workers back to the city." The voice was that of the team leader's wife Zhu Hongmei.

"Is the lesbian who came with him his lover?"

"I heard that they are the children of cadres, and they are very generous, giving fruit candies to everyone they meet."

"Alas, Gu Zhiqing has finally made it through and found a capable father-in-law."

"That girl looks smart, too."

"Gu Zhiqing is also good-looking. He has been working in our village for four or five years, right?"

"It's been more than five years. My son had just gotten married when they went to the countryside, and now my grandson is three years old."

The topic turned to sons, grandsons and daughters-in-law again.

After Wen Qing finished washing the clothes, she went back and hung them in the yard.

"You are Wen Zhiqing, right?"

Wen Qing turned around and saw a woman in a floral shirt and beige trousers talking to her.

"I am, which one are you?"

"My last name is Li, and I'm Gu Hua's lover."

"Hello, Comrade Li." Wen Qing nodded and greeted.

"You didn't come to our dinner last night, what a pity. Brother Gu Hua is here thanks to your care, and we wanted to thank you all." He doesn't look like a white lotus.

"Oh, what a coincidence, I didn't know about it before. I went out for something and came back late, so I didn't attend your wedding." Green Tea to White Lotus.

"Xiuqin," Gu Hua went out and saw the two people talking. His heart tightened and he called out hurriedly.

The two stopped chatting and turned to look at Gu Hua.

Gu Hua came over and said to Wen Qing, "Wen Qing, when did you come back?"

Wen Qing looked at him, "Something happened on the way, and it was already eight o'clock when I got back."

"Are you OK?"

"It's okay. I heard you were going back to the city? How are the formalities going?"

Gu Hua was a little embarrassed. "It's almost done. I'll go to the commune to transfer my household registration today."

"when are we leaving?"

"tomorrow."

"Then I wish you a safe journey, and a happy wedding, and a long-lasting happiness together."

Seeing this, Li Xiuqin said, "Comrade Wen, if you go to Songjiang in the future, remember to come to our house to play."

Wen Qing nodded, "Okay. Sorry, I have to go collect grass for the pigs, so I won't disturb you anymore." After that, she picked up the wooden basin and went back to the house. After a while, she picked up the backpack and left the Youth League compound.

Wen Qing walked out of the village. There was not much green grass near the village in November, so Wen Qing prepared to go up the mountain to collect grass for the pigs.

After climbing up the mountain, Wen Qing walked into the depths of the dense forest and slipped into the space.

First, he went to the warehouse where wine was brewed and poured the remaining twelve jars of wine into clay jars one by one, filling up six jars. He then filtered out the grape skins and seeds and buried them in a pit by the lake.

The wine will ferment once more in the ceramic jar, which takes about 20 days, then it can be put into oak barrels or sealed in ceramic jars for storage.

After tinkering with the wine, Wen Qing left the space and climbed up the mountain. After walking for more than an hour, he arrived at the Wild Grape Valley.

She had already picked the wild grapes and made wine. She came here today to cut some grape vines that were growing well and plant them in the space. She had already planned 10 acres of land in the space to plant wild grapes. It was not that she did not have the land, but she felt that ten acres of wild grapes were enough for her to make wine.

After cutting a large bundle of grape vines, Wen Qing put them into the space. She first made ridges in the vineyard, dug holes every half a meter, and planted two grape branches. When one bundle of vines was finished, she cut another bundle. After planting ten acres of land, she found that it was already noon.

Wen Qing took out an omelet and some eggs, cooked egg drop soup, and had lunch.

In the afternoon, Wen Qing continued to walk into the mountains. Last year, they found truffles in the mountains and agreed to pick them again this year, but she still wanted to look for them in other places. Since the environment here can grow truffles, there must be more than one place.

Wen Qing walked to a sunny slope of Daqing Mountain, where there was a large pine forest. She dug away the thick pine needles on the ground and immediately remembered that the space still needed fertilizer, so she put the pine needles together with the pine needle soil underneath into the space. Worried that the soil might contain parasites, she spread the soil on the gravel ground and prepared to dry it before use.

As she dug and searched, she not only found seven or eight truffles, but also picked seven or eight Ganoderma lucidum, picked half a basket of mushrooms, and shot two pheasants.

But the truffles were still relatively small, so she didn't pick them. She had to wait another month until the truffles grew bigger before she could dig them.

Wen Qing went down the mountain with satisfaction. On the way home, she cut a basket of grass and sent it to the pig farm, which counted as two work points. After handing over the pig grass, she went to cut another basket of grass and sent it to the cowshed, which counted as two more work points. That was the end of her work for the day.

After returning to the educated youth center, Wen Qing boiled water, killed and plucked the pheasant, then washed the mushrooms and prepared to make mushroom roast chicken.

Then she took a winnowing basket and hung the Ganoderma lucidum, Polygonatum sibiricum and Dendrobium on it to dry. She had collected about fifteen Ganoderma lucidum and would sell them at a pharmacy in Gejiu City after they were dried.

While the chicken was cooking on the stove, Wen Qing washed the rice and started steaming it. Since Wu Qing lived in the school, Wen Qing had more opportunities to eat white rice.

She didn't cook any other dishes because if she cooked too much, she wouldn't be able to finish them and it would be troublesome to clean up.

After bringing the food into the house, Wen Qing closed the door and took out a bottle of wine from the space. This was the wine she brewed last year. It had been stored in oak barrels for a year. Now it was ruby ​​red in color, with a strong fruity aroma and a very mellow taste.

She ate her dinner, taking bites of mushroom chicken and sips of wine. Before she knew it, she had finished the whole bottle. She came out to wash the dishes, cleaned up the kitchen, went up to the attic, and fell asleep.