Traveling through 70's wine

Before the Spring Festival, after the Xiangyang Brigade distributed grain, everyone went to the commune to handle the transfer of household registration and grain relations while the commune was not on holiday.

Li Wei, Wu Qing and Luo Yixing planned to go home first before going to school, so they left in a hurry.

Because Wu Juan was still studying at the commune middle school, Wu Ying planned to wait for Wu Juan to have a holiday, spend the Spring Festival at the educated youth site, and then take her sister to Nankun City to go to school.

Her family is from the provincial capital, and Wu Juan's household registration is still in the provincial capital, but she does not plan to go home to see her biological father and stepmother.

There is no tuition fee to study at the Normal College, and there is also a living allowance. If she saves a little and does odd jobs, she can support herself and her sister.

She plans to contact a middle school near the school so that Wu Juan can continue her studies.

Wen Qing didn't plan to go home either. There was no place to live if she went home, so it was better for her to go directly to school. She was not the original owner and had no sense of belonging to that home.

Wen Qing had nothing to do these few days, so she went into the space to dry the fermented Pu'er ripe tea. Finally, she boiled water on the stove and made the tea leaves into tea cakes with the steam in the pot.

For the New Year's Eve dinner, the three of them worked together to make dumplings. Wen Qing took out the bacon, bought pork in town, and went up the mountain to catch a pheasant and a rabbit.

Wu Ying also contributed eggs. Wu Ying killed two chickens, and Wen Qing made them into wind chickens for her and asked her to take them to school.

Zheng Xiaoqiang brought them steamed fish and said, "Thank you for your help, teacher."

He has only a widowed mother who raised him and his sister. His sister is now married and the family is in financial difficulty. He plans to study at the Agricultural University because he doesn't need to pay tuition and will receive subsidies.

Now his mother raises chickens and grows tea in the tea garden, and his sister's in-laws' attitude towards her has also improved. He is full of gratitude to Wen Qing.

Wen Qing accepted the steamed fish and took out a basket of things from the house and handed it to him, "I will be leaving in a few days. I won't need these things. Take them."

Zheng Xiaoqiang took it back to show his mother and opened the bundle. Inside was a sweater, a coat, two pairs of gloves, a pair of Liberation shoes, about 50 kilograms of food, and a small bag containing 50 yuan and 20 kilograms of food coupons.

These things are all new. The sweater and coat are men's, so they should be for Zheng Xiaoqiang. The gloves and Liberation shoes are in small sizes, so they should be for Zheng's mother.

Zheng Xiaoqiang's mother burst into tears. After her husband passed away, her in-laws wanted to occupy her house, and her parents' family didn't care about her. They tried their best to support Zheng Xiaoqiang until he graduated from high school.

No one had ever given her anything, and every stitch was earned by her with tears and sweat. She was extremely grateful for the sudden care.

Zheng Xiaoqiang stared at these things in a daze. He took the money and food coupons and left, "I'm going to find the teacher."

After finding Wen Qing, Zheng Xiaoqiang handed over the money and food coupons, "Teacher, I can't take these."

Wen Qing: "Xiao Qiang, you have been studying with me for more than a year, and you know my personality. Since it is given to you, you should take it."

Zheng Xiaoqiang: "Teacher, I don't need money to study."

"You need money for the trip, right? Your mother is still at home, and without your help, the food they get will be much less. It's good to have some money."

"The food coupons are all local food coupons. I won't need them in the future."

Zheng Xiaoqiang: "Thank you, teacher. I will definitely pay you back in the future."

Wen Qing: "I can't take the tea trees from my own plot with me. Do you want them?"

Zheng Xiaoqiang did not refuse this time, "Yes, I will send you tea in the future."

"Well, find a good place tomorrow and I'll dig up the tea trees and you can come and get them."

Zheng Xiaoqiang knew that the tea trees in Wen Qing's private plot were growing better than those in the tea garden, and it was time to pick them in large quantities.

He went home and told his mother. They were both very happy. His mother said, "Wen Zhiqing is such a good person. We should repay him if we have the chance."

Zheng Xiaoqiang said, "I understand, mother."

The mother and son went to their own private plot, harvested the cabbages and radishes in the field, applied base fertilizer overnight, and dug ditches and ridges.

The next day, they went to Wen Qing's place to dig up tea trees and brought them back. Wen Qing gave them a packet of medicinal powder and said to them, "This is my homemade rooting powder. Before planting the tea trees, mix it with water and soak the tea trees in it for an hour before planting them."

Zheng Xiaoqiang took the rooting powder back and soaked the tea trees according to Wen Qing's method before planting them. Sure enough, the survival rate was relatively high.

Two days later, Wen Qing packed her luggage, gave some of the bulky furniture in the house to Captain Lin and some to Erniu's family, said goodbye to the Wu Ying sisters, and left alone.

She decided to go to Nankun City first and then go to Pingjing from there.

Arriving in Nankun City, she made up as a dark and thin man and went to a small restaurant near the train station. She happened to meet Mr. Zhao who was tasting wine. Mr. Zhao took the initiative to ask, "Brother, what good wine did you bring this time?"

Wen Qing took out a bottle of wine from her backpack and handed it to Mr. Zhao, "This is what I brewed five years ago. Please taste it."

Mr. Zhao opened the bottle and smelled it. "Not bad."

He asked the waiter to bring the cups quickly. The waiter brought two cups. Mr. Zhao poured the wine and drank it. He smacked his lips and said, "Good wine, good wine."

The owner of the small restaurant came out, poured himself a glass and drank it, saying with a smile: "Brother, your wine is much better than the one from last year."

Wen Qing smiled and said, "This is five years old, how can it be bad?"

He took out another bottle of red wine and said, "Let's taste the red wine again."

The waiter took out two more red wine glasses, and Wen Qing opened the corks herself. She didn't have the equipment to make corks, so she used ordinary corks and sealed them with beeswax.

The wine was poured into a tall glass. The two raised their glasses to look at it carefully. Mr. Zhao took a sip and said, "This wine should be wild wine that has been stored in the cellar for more than five years, right?

The color is like ruby, with aromas of cream and caramel, balanced tannins and fruit acidity, and a full body. It is a good red wine. "

The boss also nodded.

Wen Qing asked, "How much do you want?"

The restaurant owner said, "Brother, I thought you were coming before the Spring Festival, but you didn't. How much wine did you bring this time?"

"I don't brew much at home. I didn't find a chance to come to the provincial capital before the Spring Festival. This time I brought 3000 bottles of white wine and 3000 bottles of red wine."

Mr. Zhao said, "Brother, you don't have anyone to sell wine to in the provincial capital, so why don't you give me the wine and I will be the general distributor in Nankun City."

Wen Qing's eyes lit up, and she said happily, "With Elder Zhao's help, it must be good."

The restaurant owner ordered 500 bottles of each type of wine, with white wine costing 7 yuan a bottle and red wine costing 6 yuan a bottle.

Seeing that the two wanted to talk, the boss said sorry and went to the kitchen.

Mr. Zhao told Wen Qing about his plans.

His family originally ran a winery, which was later handed over to the state, leaving him with only a yard. The yard was in a good location, in the center of Nankun City, so he could open a door in his yard and run a shop open to the outside world.

In the future, if Wen Qing wants to sell wine, he can go directly to his house to find him.

At the end, Mr. Zhao said hesitantly: "Brother, you can see that I don't have that much money to pay you all at once. I can only pay you a little bit at a time. I won't default on the debt."

Wen Qing couldn't say she was familiar with Mr. Zhao, she just had seen him when selling wine in the past few years. She wouldn't feel comfortable giving him wine just because of his words, so she offered to go to his house to take a look.

Mr. Zhao had no objection and took her on the bus to his small yard.

Mr. Zhao has two sons, both of whom live with him.

His yard is very big, with two entrances. The first entrance has five main rooms, with corridors on the east and west, and four back rooms at the entrance.

Mr. Zhao said that the east side could be opened up and turned into a shop.

The back hall consists of five main rooms and three side rooms on the east and west sides. He and his wife live in the main rooms, while his two sons live in the east and west side rooms respectively.

There is an 80-square-meter yard in the front yard and a 60-square-meter open space in the back yard.

Wen Qing said, "Mr. Zhao, you can brew wine in the front yard."

Mr. Zhao said: "There is no water source here, and tap water cannot make wine. The children now have their own jobs and have no time to make wine."

His sons all work in state-owned wineries, and now is not the time to make his own wine.

The two men renegotiated the price of the wine. Mr. Zhao set the wholesale price of the wine as the price that Wen Qing sold to the owner of the small restaurant. The distributor price was 15% off on this basis, so he could make at least 15% profit.

He can set his own retail prices in the future, but Wen Qing suggested that the maximum increase should not exceed 20%.