Traveling through 70's wine

Wen Qing walked to a stall selling earthenware. The stall owner was a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties. She had a dark and plump face and a piece of brown coarse cloth wrapped around her head that looked gray from washing.

Wen Qing looked at a 30-centimeter-tall earthenware jar on the stall and said, "Big sister, how much is this jar?"

The woman said, "This is a water jug. Although it's used, it's very sturdy and costs three yuan each. This one is new. The small one costs four yuan each, and the big one costs five yuan each." Her family burned a bigger one and no longer used the original one.

Wen Qing spent 40 kilograms of rice to exchange with her an old water pitcher, an old medicine jar, an old large ceramic basin, and two rings covered with mud, only one of which had a round center and the other had a square center.

Wen Qing's heart moved, and she asked, "Sister, which village are you from?"

The middle-aged woman said, "I live in Jiangjun Village west of the city. It's another ten miles west of the city."

Wen Qing seemed to realize something and put the things in the backpack at the back of the car.

After walking to a deserted place, Wen Qing put the things into the space. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when she returned to the stone bridge.

Gao Xin was already waiting there. After taking Gao Xin's hundred yuan, he exchanged bicycles with her. Gao Xin jumped on the bicycle and left to experience the speed of the geared bicycle.

Gao Xin rode back and forth along the riverside street for several laps. As expected, the bike was faster and lighter to ride. The more he tried different knobs and combinations, the more fun it became. He played with it until after six o'clock before going home.

When Gao Xin's mother saw him coming back, she asked, "Gao Xin, where have you been all afternoon?"

Gao Xin said: "Just ride your bike along the riverside street."

After a while, his elder brother also came home and said to Gao Xin: "Gao Xin, what do you want to ask me for fifty yuan this afternoon?"

His mother asked unhappily, "Gao Feng, did Gao Xin ask you for money?"

Gao Xin pointed to the bicycle parked outside the door and said proudly, "I changed my bicycle."

Gao Feng looked at it and said, "Are you stupid? You have to pay for the replacement of the car. You bought that car during the National Day holiday. It is basically new!"

Gao Xin took his brother to look at his bicycle and said, "Look carefully, aren't there a lot of gears here?"

Gao Feng took a look and found that it was indeed different from an ordinary bicycle. He asked, "What is this?"

Gao Xin said: "This is called a speed-controlled bicycle. It is light and fast to ride."

Gao Feng said, “Let me ride for a while.”

He stretched his legs and got on the bike. After a while, he rode back to the yard and asked, "How did you get it?"

Gao Xin snorted and said, "I spent 100 yuan to exchange it with someone else."

Gao Feng said: "Do you know where this is produced?"

Gao Xin thought for a moment and said, "It seems to have been made by the Ping'an County Machine Repair Factory."

Gao Feng said, "This bicycle is great. I'll go get in touch with them."

Gao Feng is the purchasing manager of the city’s second department store. Their department store also sells bicycles. If they can introduce speed bicycles, wouldn’t the number of bicycles sold in their store exceed that of other department stores?

Gao Feng went to Ping'an County and contacted Director Huang. The two sides reached an agreement to purchase 200 sets of speed change kits every month. Director Huang sent technicians to teach them how to install them.

Soon, speed bicycles became popular in Huzhou City, and Gao Feng's Second Department Store became the store with the largest bicycle sales.

Director Huang wrote a letter to tell Wen Qing the good news.

Here, Wen Qing left Huzhou and continued towards Changhua.

When they reached a dam beside the road, she took out the transmission kit and tools, converted the bicycle that Gao Xin had given her into a transmission bike, and continued to drive the pickup truck onto the road to Changhua.

After walking for an hour, it was already dusk. In the twilight, I found seven or eight large trees fallen on the road.

Wen Qing stopped the car, turned off the engine and got out, wondering why these tree trunks fell on the road so suddenly. There must be something wrong.

She stood beside the car without moving. She heard rustling sounds in the woods by the roadside. Soon three men came out. One of them was tall and bearded, one was thin and had shifty eyes, and the third was short with a square face and small eyes.

Wen Qing calmly opened the car door, used the door as a cover, and took out a long stick from the space.

The three men slowly surrounded them, and Wen Qing said sternly, "What do you want to do?"

The bearded man grinned and said, "Little sister, what do you think we want to do?"

The sly-looking man threatened, "Take out everything in the car."

The short man added: "Take out the things you have on you."

Wen Qing took a step back and said, "Don't mess around, or I will be rude."

The bearded man grinned and said, "Little sister, I advise you to cooperate, otherwise...", and reached out to grab Wen Qing.

The short man exclaimed: "Hey, let me see how you can be rude."

Wen Qing suddenly pulled out a wooden stick from behind him, swung his hand, and hit the bearded man with it. Then he swept it towards the short man and hit him on the leg.

The two blows were very severe. "Ouch!" "Ouch!" The short boy fell to the ground holding his legs. The bearded man and the shifty man pounced on her. One of them jumped on her from behind and tried to hug her, while the other drew a knife and stabbed her in the abdomen from the front.

Wen Qing slid sideways. She had practiced Baguazhang for many years and had never fought with anyone in her life. The two of them missed.

Wen Qing calmed down, raised the wooden stick, and combined it with Baguazhang, poking and pushing, hitting the bearded man and the shifty-eyed man on the arms with the stick.

She was very strong, and the two men felt very painful after these blows. They probably had their arms broken. The short boy was hit by Wen Qing with a stick at the beginning, and he hid nearby and threw stones at Wen Qing, but Wen Qing dodged them every time.

Seeing that there was no way they could get what they wanted, the three men did not dare to stay any longer. The bearded man said, "Brothers, let's go." He ran towards the woods first. The short man had an injured leg, so he also ran away limping.

Wen Qing moved the tree trunk away, drove away quickly, drove a distance, and observed carefully with his mental power. Seeing that there was no one around, he immediately put the pickup truck into space, walked into the woods on the side of the road, and chased in the direction where the three people had just left.

Wen Qing's five senses became sharp after practice. She followed the three people from a distance and walked for more than an hour before arriving at a forest. There was a small courtyard deep in the woods.

Wen Qing jumped lightly, climbed up the mountain wall behind the courtyard, and hid in the grass.

I only heard someone in the room say, "Brother, my arm is broken. Ouch, it hurts. I want to go to the hospital." The one who spoke was a man with shifty eyes. Another rough voice said, "Brother, my leg seems to be broken and it's swollen." It was probably the short boy.

The bearded man said, "I was unlucky today. I didn't get anything and I got hurt. Let's go to the town's health center tomorrow morning."

It was already dark, and it was pitch dark in the woods. An oil lamp was lit in the yard, and the three of them started a fire and cooked. It took them an hour to prepare dinner.

Wen Qing smelled the aroma of rice and meat in the air. The three of them were eating quite well. She wondered if they had stolen the food.

After the meal, the three men bandaged their injuries haphazardly and boiled some herbal medicine to drink. They had been walking on the edge of a knife for a long time and were often injured, so they always had medicine at home.

After eleven o'clock, the lights in the room went out and it seemed that everyone went to bed.

Since these people were injured and did not sleep very deeply, Wen Qing watched them for a while, entered the space, did the farm work for the day, and went to sleep in the small bamboo house.

As soon as day broke, Wen Qing left the space and hid in the bushes to observe the movements in the courtyard.

They only heard the bearded man's voice, asking the two to get up quickly. After the three of them had breakfast, the bearded man rode a tricycle and took the two to the town to see a doctor.

Wen Qing climbed down the cliff, climbed into the courtyard, and began searching the room.

There were only three rooms in this yard. Wen Qing found some cash in the drawer of the table in the room and a box in the cabinet of a bedroom, which contained some gold and silver dollars. After leaving the room, she searched around the yard and found three tall piles of firewood under the back wall, mainly branches and tree trunks. Wen Qing pushed open the pile of firewood and found a cave behind it.

She walked into the cave, which was very dry. She took out a flashlight and found that it was a natural cave. She continued to walk deeper into the cave.

While walking, he searched the cave carefully. Sure enough, he found three wooden boxes on the wall of a cave and five wooden boxes wrapped in oilcloth on the ground at the end of the cave. Wen Qing put all these things into the space without hesitation.

After leaving the cave, Wen Qing restored the pile of firewood, climbed out of the yard along the same route, and disappeared into the forest.