Traveling through 70's wine

This renovation requires a large amount of wood and stone for beams and walls. She can only rely on Mr. Liu to buy the wood, and she has plenty of stone in her space.

Master Liu acted in a hurry and immediately ran to buy wood from the villagers. He got back to Wen Qing a day later. There were several families in the village who had wood, but not many were suitable and willing to sell. So there was not much wood available. After calculation, there was still a shortage of ten beams and forty other pieces of wood.

Wen Qing could only take the stones out of the space first, let Master Liu level the foundation first, and go find wood herself.

There is a mountain range 300 kilometers west of Pingjing City called Meizi Mountain. Meizi Mountain stretches for hundreds of kilometers, connecting to grasslands in the north and Laishui in the south. Surrounding it are Shannan County, Jimen County, Pingyuan County, Daili County, etc. Wen Qing took a long-distance bus to Jimen County and it took five hours to reach the county seat.

She was in a hurry to cut down the trees, so she didn't look for a hotel. She just took out her motorcycle in a deserted place and rode towards the depths of the mountains. After forty kilometers, she had already entered the mountains, so she put away the motorcycle and climbed up the mountain.

The mountains in the north are majestic. Wen Qing walked up the mountain road for more than two hours and went deep into the mountains.

When they arrived at the mixed coniferous and broad-leaved zone, Wen Qing chose a dense forest and specifically selected trees that grew too densely to cut down. This could be considered as clearing the forest, allowing the remaining trees to enjoy more sunlight and rain, which was beneficial to their growth.

Wen Qing cut down 10 big trees and dug up 30 small trees in this forest; then she went around two mountains, cut down 30 big trees, dug up 20 small trees, and transplanted 50 saplings into the space. She wanted to plant some pine and cypress trees in the space as a backup.

At night, Wen Qing entered the space in the woods to rest. She cut off the branches of the big trees. She also cut down the long and straight branches and dried them. She used them together with the main trunk to build a house. She planted the other cut branches in the ground to see if they could take root.

At daybreak, Wen Qing left the space and went down the mountain. When he reached the road at the foot of the mountain, he took out his motorcycle and rode towards the nearby Daili County. When he arrived outside the county town, he put away his motorcycle, walked to the county bus station, and took a long-distance bus from Daili County to Pingjing City. There was no direct bus along the way, so Wen Qing had to change buses several times before returning to Erxia Village.

Master Liu spent four days leveling the ground in the backyard.

He first demolished the original earthen courtyard wall, dug a deep trench for the foundation according to the size of the house, and selected large rocks from the stones provided by Wen Qing. He chiseled them into flat stone slabs and buried them as the foundation. After that, he could use smaller stones to build the walls.

The ten large logs that Mr. Liu bought in the village have been placed on the ground to serve as wall pillars. The walls of the house will be built with stones, cement and lime, so there is no need to buy bricks.

Wen Qing came back in the evening. She put all the wood in the front yard. When Mr. Liu saw her in the morning, he did not ask her where she bought it. He just asked the carpenter to process the wood into the required shape.

Wen Qing asked Captain Liu for a letter of introduction, and went to the Wulipu Brick and Tile Factory to buy tiles. She also gave 100 kilograms of grain to the factory to help deliver the goods.

After the materials for building the winery were prepared, Mr. Liu sped up the construction process. Wen Qing still paid the workers according to the standards of the last construction.

Seeing how straightforward she was, Mr. Liu worked even harder, and in more than 30 days, he had repaired the two large houses, and also dug the cave and the wine cellar.

If you want to open a winemaking workshop in the backyard, it is best to have a separate wiring circuit.

Wen Qing went to the hardware store in the city to buy electrical wires and lights, then found the township power team, paid money to have the electrical wires pulled from the electric pole at the entrance of the village. She spent three days installing electric lights and sockets in the two rooms in the backyard.

Looking at the two neatly arranged rooms, the snow-white walls, the high roofs, and the flat bluestone floors, although simple, the rooms were tall and spacious, and Wen Qing was very satisfied.

Captain Liu came to ask Wen Qing what the house was for, and Wen Qing simply said that she was going to do something.

There are not many self-employed individuals now, so she plans to wait until the situation becomes clearer next year.

Wen Qing put out the wine-making equipment she had found from Mr. Zhao, and according to the stove-building method she had learned during the two house renovations, she built two large earthen stoves in a corner of the large room. One had a steamer for steaming wine, and the other had a stainless steel barrel for boiling water. The other stainless steel barrel was used as a water storage tank, and a water pump was used to pump well water into the stainless steel barrel for use.

She had drunk the water from the well and found it sweet and clear. Overall, the water was good and could be used to make wine.

After laying out the things, she found that some things were still missing, such as water pipes, water tanks, bamboo plaques, wooden racks, shovels, bamboo mats, ceramic jars in the hole, and special soil on the bottom and walls of the wine cellar to cultivate wine mud. All these things had to be done one by one.

She went to the school-run factory and used her own money to make a water pipe connecting the water tank and the steamer. When she was leaving the school, she went to the message room to see if there were any letters for her. Sure enough, she found a letter from Xiangyang Village in Yunnan and another from Nanjiang University. She looked at the postmark on the envelope and saw that it had arrived a week ago.

Wen Qing took out a letter after returning to the village. One of the letters was from Zheng Xiaoqiang from Xiangyang Village. It described his study at the Agricultural College. His tone was somewhat complaining. He still had to work in the fields during college, which was not at all what he had imagined. Wen Qing smiled as she read the letter and imagined Zheng Xiaoqiang's disappointed look.

Zheng Xiaoqiang also talked about the current situation of the village's tea garden. This year is the second year of tea planting. After the spring, the villagers combined pruning with picking a few young leaves. According to the instructions she left behind, under the leadership of Chen Changmin, they made the first batch of tea in Xiangyang Village.

The team leader sent some tea to the commune, and the commune sent it to the county, where it was praised by the county leaders. At present, the commune has agreed to expand the tea garden area of ​​Xiangyang Team.

The chickens raised in the tea garden are also growing well. Zheng Xiaoqiang added that he has introduced the idea of ​​raising chickens in the tea garden to the professors at the school. The professors are very interested and said they will go to the village to investigate. If the effect is good, they may promote it in the tea garden.

The letter from Nanjiang University was written by Wu Qing, mainly introducing his studies and campus life during this period.

Wen Qing could feel from the letter that she was studying very hard. Wu Qing and Li Wei were in the same city. The couple met every week and had a good relationship. They were now planning to buy a house locally and would probably stay in Nanjiang City to develop their careers in the future.

Wen Qing wrote back to both of them. She learned from the letters that Xiangyang Village already knew how to develop a tea garden, so she did not say much about the tea garden. She just encouraged Zheng Xiaoqiang to study hard and suggested that he explore ways to optimize grain cultivation.

In her reply to Wu Qing, Wen Qing first shared her academic progress, and then said that she had bought a house in the suburbs of Pingjing, encouraging her to buy one as well.

He also told them the address of his courtyard in Erxia Village and invited them to visit him if they had the chance.

From now on, Erxia Village is her home, and she is going to Shenjiayuan to buy some furniture and supplies.

This time, they first went to the Xinda Trust Store in Shenjiayuan. Wen Qing decided to buy a visible means of transportation, and bought a second-hand bicycle from Xinda, which was 90% new and cost yuan.

She also took a fancy to a step-out bed in Xinda Store, which was priced at 200 yuan. This step-out bed has two layers, the outer bed curtain fence is carved with peony and cloud patterns, and the inner fence rails and bed board are carved with flower and bird patterns, which looks elegant and exquisite.

The old craftsman in the shop said that this was a step-out bed from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It was made of solid materials and had exquisite workmanship. He assured that as long as it was painted and waxed regularly and used carefully, it would have no problem being used for another 30 years.

Wen Qing checked the bed and found that it was made of elm wood. Except for the loose mortise and tenon joints and some scratches on the fence, there were no other problems. Wen Qing did not bargain and paid directly. She also gave an extra 10 yuan and asked the trust store to deliver the bed to her in Erxia Village.