Traveling through 70's wine

The man who was selling things at the stall asked, "What do you want with him?"

Wen Qing put down her backpack, took out a bag of food, and whispered, "Do you want this?"

The man was stunned, then he remembered something and said, "Wait a minute."

He put down his work, walked out of the alley, and came back not long after, saying, "Come with me."

Wen Qing followed him to the outside of the alley, where an old man was standing. The man said, "Tell him what you want to say."

The old man was the biggest grain dealer in the black market. Wen Qing had seen him before, so she asked, "I have some grain. Do you want some?"

The old man said, "Why don't you sell it yourself?"

Wen Qing said: "It's not convenient for me to buy it myself."

The old man thought she had some connection with the grain station and was selling grain. He was afraid that the grain station would find out if he sold it himself, so he asked, "How much is it? What's the price?"

Wen Qing said that there were rice, wheat, and corn, with a quantity of several thousand kilograms, and the price was the market wholesale price.

The old man thought about it and wanted to make trouble, but he was also worried that Wen Qing was indeed related to the grain station. He usually dealt with the grain station and didn't want the flood to flush the Dragon King Temple.

After discussion, the two traded 5000 kilograms of rice, wheat and corn, and Wen Qing earned 4500 yuan.

After completing the pilot promotion of three tea gardens in Ping'an County, Wen Qing has planted crops in the fields in the space again, and they have returned to Pingjing City.

The final exam was coming up shortly after Wen Qing returned from Ping'an County. She hadn't attended classes for a month, so she hurriedly borrowed Chen Rui's notes to study.

After returning to Erxia Village, she worked overtime in her space every night to review. Fortunately, even in Ping'an County, she did not relax her studies. After a busy month, she finally completed the final exam.

After the final exam, the school’s commendation decision came out. The school praised Wen Qing as an outstanding student and innovative advanced individual and awarded her 1000 yuan.

Although the total amount of these bonuses is not as much as the money Wen Qing paid herself, she feels that seeing her designs being promoted in practice is the greatest reward for herself.

She took the opportunity to ask the department to stop living on campus, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering agreed.

Wen Qing went to the cafeteria to buy some stir-fried dishes and invited her roommates to have a meal together. She then said to Zhu Hongying, "Hongying, I won't be living on campus anymore. I'll give you my bed."

There was no need for the mother and daughter to share one bed. Little Mingli was very well-behaved and not noisy. The other students in the dormitory understood Zhu Hongying very well. They all came from difficult environments, and even Xueqin, the pampered girl, had no objection.

Zhu Hongying said happily and ashamedly: "We are sorry for disturbing you. Thank you."

Wen Qing said hurriedly, "Don't think too much, Hongying. I don't live in school because I have another place to live." She also comforted him, "The difficulties are only temporary. How are you contacting Mingli about going to kindergarten?"

"The school kindergarten refused to accept Mingli, so I contacted a neighborhood kindergarten and they agreed to take her in. Mingli can go to kindergarten in September, but she still has to stay in the dormitory at night."

In September, Mingli turned 9 years old, just the right age to go to kindergarten.

The inauguration ceremony of the courtyard in Erxia Village was held before the summer vacation. Wen Qing took out chickens, rabbits, and fish from the space, and went to the black market to buy pork. She invited the Zhang couple, who were good at preparing banquets in the village, and borrowed furniture from Captain Liu and Mr. Liu Erye, to hold a housewarming party.

Wen Qing set up ten tables in total and invited nearby neighbors, village elders, brigade cadres, and a group of people who were repairing the house. She also took out more than ten bottles of white wine, one bottle for each table, and enough for the main table.

People who came to the banquet brought some gifts. Looking at the eight hot dishes on the table, six of which were meat dishes, they felt that this girl was really down-to-earth.

With Captain Liu and Mr. Liu speaking in her favor, others did not dare to underestimate her, and Wen Qing officially joined Erxia Village.

Wen Qing did not go home during this holiday. She told the captain of Xiangyang Village, Lin Changsheng, that if there were any letters for her, please help her send them to Erxia Village in Pingjing.

Wen Qing had also written a letter to Mr. Zhao in Nankun City, asking him to send the money to Erxia Village as well.

Captain Lin of Xiangyang Village never wrote to her, but Mr. Zhao paid the remaining 3 yuan as agreed.

I recently received a letter from Mr. Zhao. He wanted to order another batch of wine, and the quantity would be the same as last time.

Wen Qing has been very busy recently and hasn't had time to deliver the goods to him.

Now that it's vacation time, Wen Qing has cleaned up the inventory in the space. Currently there are still 2 bottles of liquor and 3 bottles of wine. Wen Qing now needs glass bottles to pack the wine.

There is a glass bottle factory in Pingjing City, but it does not sell to individuals, so Wen Qing has to go to the omnipotent scrap yard to find glass bottles.

She started from the scrap yard in the western suburbs and ran all over Pingjing City, buying all the intact glass wine bottles and soy sauce bottles she could find, a total of more than 4.

Fortunately, the styles of bottles are similar now, so she simply classified the bottles into three styles. The most numerous ones are for white wine, and the others are for wine.

I printed a batch of wine labels myself, named the white wine Changxia Qingniang and the wine Changxia Hong, which could be considered a brand.

The wine bottles she bought were not clean and had to be cleaned before they could be filled with wine. Wen Qing first washed all the bottles, boiled them in a large iron pot to dry them, cut the wood into corks, filled them with wine, and sealed the bottle mouths. She also bought several large barrels of glue and pasted the wine labels on them. In this way, the wine looked presentable.

It's just that I'm too tired. I've broken five long-handled pig-bristle brushes just from scrubbing the wine bottles. I'm so tired that I can't even straighten my back.

Wen Qing has been constantly reclaiming the land in the space. Now the cultivated area in the space has already reached 350 acres, with 100 acres of rice, wheat, corn and 50 acres of sorghum. Since sorghum is not easy to sell and no wine has been made recently, 2 kilograms have been accumulated. In addition to the 3000 kilograms of unsold rice, 2000 kilograms of wheat and 3000 kilograms of corn, Wen Qing plans to hurry up and make wine.

She was still brewing wine in the space. She first crushed the sorghum slightly, then soaked it in warm water, and soaked the rice and wheat separately. Then she put the grains into the steamer and steamed them with water. After steaming, she spread them into long strips, added water again and stirred them. When the temperature dropped, she added the koji and mixed it evenly, then put it into an earthenware jar for fermentation.

It took a lot of effort to make wine from more than 1000 kilograms of grain. Since the steamer in the space could only hold about kilograms of grain at a time, the grain had to be steamed twenty-seven times. It took Wen Qing a full ten days in the space to finish making this batch of wine.

Wen Qing felt that if she continued to make wine this way, it would not last long, so she had to think of other ways.

Don’t think about these for now. Wen Qing went to the train station and bought a ticket to Nankun, preparing to send some wine to Mr. Zhao.

It takes two days and two nights to travel from Pingjing to Nankun by train. Wen Qing couldn't buy a sleeper berth and could only sit in a hard seat.

The temperature is high in the summer and the smell on the train is very bad. Wen Qing half-closed his eyes and blocked his sense of smell. Except for eating and going to the toilet, he had been practicing quietly.

The air in the car was not good, so she just trained her mental power and used it to sense the surrounding environment and subtle changes around her.

Along the way, Wen Qing not only used her mental power to observe the passengers coming and going, but also "looked" at the luggage they carried and "looked" at their movements and expressions. The more she used it, the stronger her mental power became. She found it quite interesting, but the journey of more than 30 hours was really tiring.

After arriving in Nankun, Wen Qing did not go straight to the door. She first found a hotel and had a good rest for the night.

The next day, he changed into clean clothes, rented a warehouse near the train station, put 6000 bottles and 1000 boxes of wine in it, and then took the bus to the city center. Standing outside Mr. Zhao's yard, Wen Qing found that he did not convert the courtyard wall into a shop. It seemed that the old man felt that now was not the right time.