Traveling through 70's wine

After class, Wen Qing took the design drawings to Professor Wang Huazhen's office and said respectfully, "Teacher Wang, I have modified the design of the engine block. Here are the drawings. Please take a look."

Professor Wang flipped through the pages one by one. When she finished, Wen Qing handed her another stack of manuscripts and said, "Teacher Wang, this is my design idea and calculation process."

Professor Wang Huazhen took it and placed it on the desk. He stood up, found the cup and tea leaves in the office, poured some boiling water, and handed it to Wen Qing. "Xiao Wen, sit down and drink your tea. I'll take a look at your design plan first."

Wen Qing sat on the sofa next to her desk, sipping tea while looking around the office.

This is a large office of more than 20 square meters. There is a tea cabinet on the left side of the entrance, with two iron thermos bottles and several cups on it. There is a set of sofas, one large and two small, against the wall on the right side, which is the meeting area for the two professors. There is a walnut desk on each side of the window, and next to the desk is a floor-to-ceiling bookcase, which is the professors' office area.

Professor Wang looked at Wen Qing's design plan silently, calculating the parameters in his mind, and said after a long time: "At first glance, there is no big problem with your design, but I think there is something wrong here. The oil pan part can be improved, and I need to calculate the other parts again. Do you have any suggestions on the material of the engine cylinder block?" Pointing to one of the pages of the drawing.

Wen Qing said: "The engine block needs to withstand high temperature and high pressure, and also needs to withstand a certain impact force, so high-strength materials are needed. I think it is better to use high-strength cast iron and aluminum alloy to make the engine block."

Wang Huazhen nodded in approval. "I have already completed the design of the piston and crankshaft. According to our design, the fuel efficiency of the engine will be greatly improved. If the material is suitable, the compression ratio will reach 1 to 10, so the pressure-bearing capacity of the engine cylinder must be strong."

Wen Qing looked at the drawing and said, "Teacher Wang, I didn't think it through. I'll go back and think about it and revise the design."

This modification took another three weeks. By the time Wen Qing handed over all the drawings and design plans to Professor Wang, it was already mid-December and the north had entered the severe winter.

By the end of December, the project team's design work was basically completed. Professor Xu and several professors reviewed all the design drawings and believed that there were no problems. They then handed the design plans and drawings to the expert group of the Ministry of Machinery for review.

After that, it will be handed over to the factory to make molds and samples, which will no longer require the participation of Wen Qing and other students.

One evening, Wen Qing rode his bike along Yulin South Road back to Erxia Village against the howling north wind. The north wind was howling all the way, the sky was unusually dark, and it looked like it might snow at night.

She walked to the back of the house and first cleared away the ashes covering the fire, then stuffed in two split logs to get the fire going.

The temperature at night is now below zero, and it will be very cold in the house if we don't light a fire.

Then, she went to the kitchen and started cooking dinner. She was alone, so she only made stir-fried cabbage with meat and steamed rice. She boiled hot water while cooking. After dinner, the temperature in the house had risen.

She went to the bathroom, turned on the water, poured hot water into the bath tub, and then went back to the room to read after taking a bath.

The final exam is coming soon.

This semester, she spent a lot of time on design. Although she took time out of class to participate in the project design, she did not spend as much time on her studies as last semester. She did not review well before the midterm exam, which resulted in unsatisfactory test results and she could only rank in the middle of the class.

If she still wants to get the scholarship, she must rank among the top in the final exam.

Wen Qing placed all the textbooks on the desk. She planned to spend more time reviewing all the homework for this semester, and then combine it with her class notes to prepare for the exam.

The final exams are in January, and the time intervals between exams for each subject are quite long, which also gives Wen Qing enough time to review.

She attends classes at school during the day, goes to the library to read after class, and often studies until late at night when she gets home.

On New Year's Day, the school organized a New Year's Eve party with programs performed by various departments. Chen Rui's class had a folk dance program. Chen Rui wanted to drag Wen Qing to cheer her on, but Wen Qing thought that she still had a lot of homework to review, so she flatly refused. Chen Rui blackmailed her into giving her a meal before she gave up.

January was a busy month for final exams. Thanks to Wen Qing's active preparation, she did well overall.

After the exams, the school was on holiday and the students packed their bags to go home.

Xian Yumei's home was in Pingjing, so she went home right after the exam without waiting for the results to come out. A few days later, after the results came out, other classmates also left one after another.

Chen Rui, Zhao Lanlan and Chai Xueqin left on the same day. Wen Qing sent them to the train station. Zhao Na and Wu Xiaomei also reunited with their fellow villagers and went home one after another.

Zhu Hongying waited for two days. After the kindergarten was on holiday, she and her husband agreed that they would not return to their hometown this year. Instead, she took her daughter to the city where her husband lived to celebrate the New Year.

Wen Qing didn't plan to go home either. She planned to go to the south to have a look.

In the evening, Wen Qing went to the space first and harvested the ripe crops in the fields.

There are now 300 acres of various crops planted in the space, including 100 acres of rice, 70 acres of wheat, 50 acres of corn, and 80 acres of sorghum. Before the exam, she had harvested the corn and wheat one after another, and now only rice and sorghum are left.

Since she repaired the harvester, the efficiency of harvesting crops has improved a lot. She drove the harvester and harvested 2 acres of rice in just 100 days, and spent another 2 days to harvest sorghum. This season, she harvested a total of 6.5 kilograms of rice, 4 kilograms of wheat, 3.5 kilograms of corn, and 6 kilograms of sorghum.

She has made two batches of koji. The second batch slightly modified the grain formula and koji-making temperature based on the first batch. It feels better than the first batch, but the specific effect depends on the quality of the brewed wine.

By the time Wen Qing finished planting the next season's crops, it was already early February.

She first went to Nankun City to deliver wine to Mr. Zhao, and the two signed a new agreement for the new year.

The price of the wine remained the same as before, mainly because Mr. Zhao was very quick to pay. Although the agreement was to pay 20% every month, he basically paid Wen Qing's payment first as long as he had money, and the profits afterwards were his.

When he saw Wen Qing, Mr. Zhao said happily, "Xiao Wen, the ten-year-old wine you bought last time was really good. Someone offered me twice the price, but there were only three boxes of 3 bottles, which was too little."

Wen Qing smiled and said, "Uncle Zhao, there is really no other way. This batch of ten-year-old wine only has about ten boxes, and they have all been sold out one after another. I brought you two boxes this time, and I don't have any more."

In addition, she brought 1200 cases of five-year-old wine, which actually tasted pretty good.

After leaving Yunnan, she has never made wine. Now she mainly makes white wine, so what she gave to Mr. Zhao was white wine.

The total payment for this batch of goods was 5000 yuan. As usual, Mr. Zhao paid yuan to Wen Qing first.

Wen Qing received the payment for the goods and did not return to Pingjing. Instead, he planned to go directly to Dongyue City on the southeast coast to have a look.

It takes more than a day to get from Nankun to Dongyue. Wen Qing disguised herself as a middle-aged man and arrived at the train station. She looked around and found that there were many people queuing. She frowned and walked straight to the ticket window for Dongyue. She handed a cigarette to a man in front of the window and asked, "Brother, where are you going?"

The man took the cigarette and said, "Let's go to Qindao."

Wen Qing asked: "Can you help me buy a ticket? I'll pay double the price."

The man nodded, Wen Qing gave him 120 yuan and stood aside waiting for him.

After a while, the man left the ticket window and Wen Qing followed him to the open space outside. The man handed the ticket to Wen Qing and said, "This is the train ticket for this afternoon, express, and the fare is 53 yuan." He gave Wen Qing 14 yuan in change.

Wen Qing saw that the departure time on her ticket was after 5pm, which still left more than 7 hours, so she went to the flea market to buy some things.