Traveling through 70's wine

I woke up the next day feeling refreshed. I walked out of the room and went to the village drying dam. It was early morning.

The fields were shrouded in morning mist. A light white mist floated in the air, covering the distant Daqing Mountain and the trees in the fields. The stream was flowing, emitting golden light in the morning light. A rooster from an unknown house began to crow, and a new day had come.

Wen Qing practiced several sets of boxing, worked up a sweat, and took a few breaths towards the direction of the rising sun before stopping and returning to the educated youth point.

After breakfast, Wen Qing and Wu Ying went out together. Wu Ying went to the team headquarters to take charge of the work, while she carried a backpack to collect grass for the pigs.

After planting the winter vegetables, the women's job was to weed and apply fertilizer. The male laborers were arranged by the team to dig river mud and repair canals. None of the female educated youth in the educated youth site participated in this kind of heavy physical work this time.

Wen Qing didn't walk very far. She walked upstream along the stream and cut grass for pigs on the riverbank. She also picked up seven wild duck eggs. She wrapped the eggs with grass, put them under the backpack, covered them with pig grass, and went to the pig farm to hand in the pig grass.

She only earned two work points for a basket of pig grass. Generally, women could earn 7 or 8 work points, and 5 or 6 work points at least. So she should have at least three baskets of pig grass every day, but Wen Qing basically only paid two baskets of pig grass.

Other children in the village would also collect grass for the pigs and send it to the pig farm. The six pigs in the village were enough to eat.

At noon, Wen Qing finished her meal and closed the door to study. She entered the space after everyone had gone to work and carefully looked at the two ebony trees she had dug out by the waterfall stream.

After careful analysis, it was found that the small one was camphor wood and the large one was golden nanmu, both of which are very precious ebony. She put these ebony together with the sunken wood found in Handao Lake, and these woods can be used to make furniture.

After a short rest, she started the tractor, pulled up the rice seedlings in the nursery field, transported them to the edge of the paddy field, and started planting them.

This time she wanted to plant 100 acres of rice. Wen Qing repaired the rice transplanter, mainly because the engine was broken. Wen Qing disassembled it and replaced the engine piston.

This rice transplanter is driven by a single ground wheel, has a width of 2 meters, and can transplant 10 rows. Originally, one person was required to drive and two people to load the seedlings, but she was alone, so Wen Qing could only make a seedling delivery rack and load as many seedlings as possible. In this way, she could transplant 1 acres a day by working overtime.

According to the time difference between inside and outside the space, one night outside is equivalent to one and a half days inside the space. Wen Qing spent three days outside to plant all the rice in the space.

He started the tractor to dig shallow trenches in the wheat field, and began to sow seeds with a basket. After sowing one acre of land, Wen Qing sprinkled sifted fine soil on the wheat seeds. The corn was sown in the same way.

It only takes three days to plant 100 acres of wheat and 40 acres of corn.

After completing the formalities, Gu Hua left in a hurry, taking only clothes, books, and leaving the furniture and farm tools to Luo Yixing.

Luo Yixing moved back from Levi's room and lived in a single room.

After Guo Jianguo, Wu Bo and Gu Hua left, the three male educated youth now live in single rooms, but they still eat together.

Wu Qing occasionally came back to live here, and You Manli was often not at the educated youth site, so Wen Qing and Wu Ying actually spent most of their time living alone.

Wen Qing didn't want to eat with others, so Wu Ying and she continued to do their own thing.

Sometimes Wu Ying would also ask her to read and study together. Now the four-person study group has been restored, namely Wen Qing, Luo Yixing, Li Wei and Wu Ying.

After Wen Qing’s internal strength breakthrough, her comprehension and memory also improved.

Things that she couldn't understand before, she can now understand after studying it once; things that she couldn't remember before, she can now remember after reading it once. She also bought high school English textbooks and political textbooks at the scrap yard, especially political textbooks because they are required for the college entrance examination, but she just taught herself English.

In winter, as the weather grew colder, the male laborers who had gone out to dig ditches also returned. A villager named Ye Dashan had his right leg broken and was carried back. His family members cried and made a fuss for Lin Changsheng for a long time. Only after Lin Changsheng applied for a subsidy from the commune did the situation gradually calm down.

In mid-December, Wen Qing led a study group of four to the place where they had dug truffles last year. It took them more than two hours to find the pine forest.

Luo Yixing said: "Wen Qing, if you hadn't led the way, I would definitely not have been able to find this place."

Wen Qing said: "Who told you not to remember the way?"

Everyone dispersed, dug up the soil under the pine trees and began searching.

Wu Ying had never dug truffles before, so she followed Wen Qing to learn. She saw her digging up the pine needles and soil under the pine tree, groping on the ground for a long time before she dug out a dark brown root. Wen Qing handed it to her. The truffle was the size of a fist and had a special aroma. Wu Ying said, "Is this a truffle?"

Wen Qing told her that truffles generally grow under pine trees, oak trees or oak trees, and may grow in the soil, so they are difficult to dig, but they dug some here last year, so there should be truffle spores here.

Wu Ying followed Wen Qing's example and started digging under a tree. She dug everywhere under the tree but still couldn't find it. She then changed to another tree and started digging even more carefully.

At noon, everyone ate together, eating the dry food they brought with them. After a short rest, they reported their own battle results.

Luo Yixing dug 9, Li Wei dug 9, Wen Qing dug 8, and Wu Ying only dug 5.

In the afternoon, the four searched the pine forest thoroughly before leaving and going home.

In the evening, everyone contributed equally. Wen Qing contributed a piece of bacon, Li Wei contributed 5 eggs, Luo Yixing contributed a can of luncheon meat, and Wu Ying pulled some cabbage, radish, and lettuce from her own private plot as a snack. She also took out some dried bamboo shoots that she had dried in the summer. Everyone contributed their own food, and everyone contributed one truffle.

When we go to the countryside, everyone’s cooking skills have improved and everyone can cook. The only difference is whether the food tastes good or not.

There were so many people that they had to use separate stoves. Wen Qing made stir-fried bacon with green garlic sprouts, fried lotus root with oil residue, and stir-fried lettuce.

The boys made steamed eggs with truffles and luncheon meat stewed with truffle and dried bamboo shoots.

Wu Ying steamed corn and rice, made cold-mixed shredded radish, and cooked cabbage soup. They ate in the main hall over there with the boys.

Although Chen Zhiqiang was a little unsociable, he was also called over.

Wen Qing took out the white wine she brewed herself, and the five of them started drinking together.

Li Wei said: "Last year, there were six of us having dinner together, but this year there were only five of us."

Luo Yixing: "Three people left this year, which is a good thing!"

Chen Zhiqiang: "There will definitely be a chance in the future, cheers!"

The two girls didn't say anything, but raised their glasses. Wu Ying took a sip and said, "Sister Qingqing, this wine is so spicy."

Li Wei: "Wen Qing, where did you buy this wine? It tastes good."

Wen Qing said: "I brought it back home."

Luo Yixing picked up a piece of cold-mixed shredded radish with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. "I couldn't get used to the taste when I first came here, but now it tastes quite good."

Li Wei, Chen Zhiqiang and Wu Ying all belong to the Zhe Er Gen Alliance. Wen Qing, who is from Hubei Province, is not used to eating it, so she only picks up shredded radish. Truffles are loved by everyone, and a bowl of truffle steamed eggs was swept away by five people. Everyone left after eating and drinking their fill.

After New Year's Day, the team distributed food.

In 1975, Luchun County had good weather and the Xiangyang Brigade had a bumper harvest. The whole village had 10 kilograms of rice, 15 kilograms of corn, and 21 kilograms of sweet potatoes left.

Team leader Lin Changsheng announced that in addition to saving seeds and storing grain, adults in the village can get an average of 150 kilograms of rice, 220 kilograms of corn, and 230 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and children can get 100 kilograms of rice, 150 kilograms of corn, and 160 sweet potatoes.

Wen Qing's work points were not high, only 90 kilograms of rice, 170 kilograms of corn and 180 kilograms of sweet potatoes.

Although Wu Qing earned 10 yuan a month for teaching in the commune, the village still gave her 5 work points every day. She received more food than Wen Qing, including 100 kilograms of rice, 200 kilograms of corn and 220 kilograms of sweet potatoes.

The village handed in two pigs, killed three boars, and kept one sow. The whole village shared the meat and ate the pig-killing dish.

All the educated youth came to the drying dam, picked up the food they were allocated, and took baskets to fill with pork. This year, each educated youth could get one and a half kilograms of meat, and those who had money could buy another kilogram of pork. This made the educated youth very happy, as they should be able to have enough food to eat next year.