Traveling through 70's wine

After the beginning of spring, there is more farm work to do in the fields.

Wen Qing found the team leader Lin Changsheng and took him to the private plot of the educated youth. The tea trees she planted had grown to half a person's height, and now the treetops were covered with tender leaves.

"Captain, you see, tea trees can be planted on hillsides, and management is not labor-intensive. In a mature tea garden, spring tea can be harvested every three to five days.

Tea is picked every 5 to 7 days in summer and autumn. Both the elderly and children can pick tea. As long as it is managed properly, tea can be picked for years after planting it once. "

The team leader looked at the lush tea trees and said, "There are some barren slopes to the north of the village. If it doesn't affect growing crops, we can give it a try. I just don't know if the public society will agree."

Wen Qing said: "There are large tea plantations in several counties in southern Yunnan Province. We can use the wasteland to generate income. The commune will definitely support us, and the supply and marketing cooperative will also buy tea."

Wen Qing took out a bag of tea leaves from the house, "This is what is fried with these tea trees."

The team leader said: "Thank you, Mr. Wen. I will give it to the leaders of the commune to try."

Wen Qing wanted to emphasize again: "Captain, there is only so much food in the fields now, and it is barely enough for the members to eat. It is difficult to eat enough, let alone eat well.

If the brigade grows tea, at least the wasteland can be utilized and everyone can increase their income a little.”

The captain hesitated for a moment and said briefly: "I will try my best."

A few days later, the team leader began to organize people to reclaim and level the land, build ridges, and form platforms, on which tea trees could be planted later.

Wen Qing knew that this was a preparation for planting tea trees, so she immediately started to grow tea seedlings in the space.

Afterwards, the team leader found Wen Qing and said, "The commune has agreed to let us open a tea garden on the wasteland. The problem now is to find tea seedlings as soon as possible and try to plant them before Qingming Festival."

Wen Qing: "I bought the tea trees from Qing'an County before. If you trust me, I will go there again and guarantee to buy the tea seedlings back."

The captain said: "Okay, I'll give you a letter of introduction, you go right away."

Qing'an County is where Songsong's family lives. Tea is indeed produced there, and Songsong's mother even sent her two test papers.

Wen Qing discussed the purchase quantity with Lin Changsheng and then bought train tickets to Anqing County.

After getting off the car, Wen Qing went straight to the county government to find Zhang Desheng. After explaining her purpose, Zhang Desheng always felt regretful that he could not repay her. It was not difficult for Wen Qing to buy tea seedlings this time.

He found the leader of the Agricultural Bureau and helped Wen Qing contact the relevant tea gardens.

Wen Qing sat in his office for a while, and then a staff member from the Agriculture Bureau came in, "Chief Zhang, I'm Xiao Yuan from the Agriculture Bureau. Our leader asked me to accompany Comrade Wen to the tea garden to buy tea trees."

The production team where the tea garden is located received them with great pleasure. The team was happy to be able to sell tea seedlings. The team leader proudly said: "Our tea trees are the best, they produce leaves quickly and have few diseases and insect pests."

Wen Qing said: "Thank you, Captain. Our village also wants to grow tea, and we will come to you to learn how to grow tea in the future."

They negotiated a price of one yuan for ten plants. Wen Qing spent one thousand yuan to buy 10,000 tea seedlings. He then found the county transportation team through Zhang Desheng and rented a truck to transport the tea seedlings back.

It takes about 10 hours to get back to Xiangyang Village in Luchun County, with two drivers taking turns driving.

Wen Qing sat in the carriage full of tea seedlings and took the opportunity to put the tea seedlings in the space into the purchased tea seedlings. Putting them together, it was difficult to find the difference between the two tea seedlings. If you look closely, you can still see that the tea seedlings in the space are stronger.

After trudging all the way back to the village, the team leader was very happy to learn that the Qing'an County Tea Garden would help them transport tea saplings for free. He immediately asked his family to prepare a sumptuous dinner. Wen Qing took out a bottle of white wine and warmly entertained the two drivers.

The next day, Wen Qing delivered two batches of liquor and a piece of bacon, which made the two drivers very satisfied.

Regarding the subtle differences between the tea seedlings, Wen Qing said that one is two-year-old and the other is three-year-old. The total cost was one thousand yuan, of which Wen Qing paid 200 yuan herself and the balance of 800 yuan was paid after receiving the goods.

The team leader remitted 800 yuan to the other party and returned 200 yuan to Wen Qing.

Taking advantage of the time before spring plowing, the team leader organized everyone to plant the tea seedlings. This time, Captain Chen asked Wen Qing to serve as the technical instructor because she had experience in planting tea trees.

The team leader asked everyone in the village to learn about tea garden management. Wen Qing introduced everyone to the knowledge about tea tree planting spacing, soil, fertilizer and water, and field management.

In the early days, Wen Qing visited the tea garden almost every day. She dealt with any problems she found immediately and taught those who were willing to learn. She knew that this tea garden would be the wealth she would leave to Xiangyang Village in the future.

Since tea trees are usually not harvested until the third year, she would probably have left by then, so Wen Qing decided to train a group of people who could be competent in working in the tea garden.

After a month of investigation, Wen Qing agreed with the team leader to select several hard-working, smart and down-to-earth young people to learn tea planting and tea making from her.

The team leader also agreed with Wen Qing's idea. They didn't know when the educated youth would leave the village, so it was time to train their own people and keep the knowledge in their own hands.

He notified five people, Chen Changmin, Chen Changgang, Yuan Zhengfang, Zheng Xiaoqiang and Liu Manxia, ​​to come and study under Wen Qing. These five people were all young people around 16 or 7 years old, and they would receive 6 work points per day.

Wu Ying expressed her desire to learn tea tree planting from Wen Qing, but the work points earned from working in the tea garden were not high. Now she had to support her younger sister, and the work points earned from the tea garden were definitely not enough for the two of them. Wen Qing advised her to focus on earning work points.

Wu Ying went to see the team leader and explained the details. It turned out that Wu Ying's mother had passed away, and her father immediately married a stepmother. As the saying goes, "if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather" is absolutely true. The stepmother brought a child over and gave birth to a younger brother.

When she returned home this time, Wu Ying discovered that her sister lived in a shack in the yard. She couldn't even stand up straight, and the quilt on her bed was black and hard. Her sister no longer went to school and usually went out to pick up scraps. She lived worse than a dog, and even so, her stepmother still beat and scolded her all day long, and her father was a nobody.

She went back and made a fuss with her father for a few days, but her father simply wouldn't listen. When she left, her sister held her and cried. She was really worried about leaving her sister at home, so she made up her mind to take her sister to the countryside. Although she didn't have a household registration, she thought there was a way to prevent her from starving to death.

Captain Lin thought for a long time and said, "She can live with you in the educated youth camp. She won't have any food rations. If she goes to work, her work points can be credited to your name."

Wu Ying agreed at that time. Wu Juan lived with her. She usually earned three or four work points by cutting grass for pigs. Now she was learning how to grow tea, and she earned six work points a day. The combined income of the two was not small.

Fortunately, many educated youth returned to the city last year, and when they left it was not yet time for grain distribution, so they did not get any grain at the end of the year. Therefore, the educated youth and villagers who stayed behind got more than the previous year, but it was barely enough even if they saved a little.

There are abundant wild vegetables in spring, so the two sisters would go to the fields to dig wild vegetables whenever they had time. They would dry the ones they couldn’t eat and exchange them for food at the market, so they could make a living.

When the four-person study group was studying in the evening, Wu Ying also brought her sister along. Wu Juan was not talkative and picked up the junior high school textbooks that everyone had finished and started reading.

By the way, Wu Ying graduated from high school before going to the countryside, and her sister also completed elementary school courses.

After learning this, Wen Qing asked Wu Qing for some junior high school textbooks from the commune middle school and gave them to Wu Juan.

"Can Juanjuan learn on her own?" Looking into the girl's eyes, Wu Juan answered hesitantly, "Yes."

Wen Qing said, "You study on your own first. If you encounter anything you don't understand, you can ask us." She also gave Wu Juan an exercise book and a pen.

There are five people in the study group now, and we read and discuss books in Wenqing’s room in the evening.

After Wu Qing moved out, Wen Qing cleaned up the downstairs and made it into a living room, putting up a large table that could seat five people.