Traveling through 70's wine

By the summer of that year, there were more restaurants and grocery stores on the street.

Wen Qing took the wine around to sell it. The tickets have not been cancelled yet, and people are still very welcoming to this kind of liquor that does not require tickets.

Changxia Qingniang and Changxia Teniang are better tasting than the local Erguotou and are not expensive. Grocery stores and restaurants are willing to purchase them. In three months, Wen Qing signed contracts with 20 grocery stores and 40 restaurants.

Liu Quan sold the liquor to towns near Pingjing through his former black market friends.

Every month, they can sell about 3000 bottles of liquor, and the price is the same as the wholesale price given to Mr. Zhao, which is 6 yuan per bottle, and the retail price is about 8 yuan per bottle.

In this way, Wen Qing's Changxia Qingniang and Changxia Tejiu became a little famous in the west city of Pingjing.

One day, Wen Qing was steaming wine with Liu Quan and Wang Jianguo when they saw Captain Liu walking into the yard with a man who looked like an official.

Captain Liu took the initiative to introduce: "Xiao Wen, this is Manager Dong from our Yulin Town State-Owned Restaurant. He wants to talk to you about buying wine."

Wen Qing hurriedly moved two stools out and placed them under the eaves, asked the two to sit down, and handed them two cups of tea, saying with a smile: "Manager Dong, welcome, what do you want?"

Manager Dong said, "Xiao Wen, I'm from Yulin Town Hotel. I heard that you make wine here. What kind of wine do you have? I want to see if you can bring it to our hotel."

Wen Qing said, "We have two types of wine: light-flavored and strong-flavored. Which one would you like to buy?"

Now that life is getting better, the restaurant's supply of meat and vegetables has increased, more people come to eat, and people often come here to hold birthday parties and wedding banquets.

The Chinese say 'no banquet is complete without wine', but the planned wine supply to restaurants is too small, and ordinary people who host banquets cannot afford many wine tickets at a time, so they hope that restaurants can provide wine that does not require tickets.

Manager Dong went to the county sugar and wine company, and the other party replied that if he wanted a few bottles of wine, it would be no problem, but long-term supply was impossible and they had to supply according to the plan.

Now the most famous winery near Yulin Town is Changxia Winery, so he found Captain Liu of Erxia Village and asked him to take him to find Wen Qing.

Wen Qing took out several types of liquor with different alcohol content and asked the two to taste them.

Wen Qing poured the wine into two cups and introduced: "Manager Dong, Captain Liu, our winery produces two kinds of liquor, each with 53% and 42% alcohol. Please taste them."

Manager Dong picked up the wine glass, smelled it first, took a sip, and swallowed it slowly. After tasting all four kinds of wine, Manager Dong said: "Your wine is not bad, comparable to Erguotou. I want some of each of these four kinds of wine."

When the two were negotiating the price, Wen Qing gave in and asked Manager Dong to sell at least 100 bottles per month. The price was set at 6.5 yuan per bottle, and Manager Dong would receive a kickback of 1 yuan per bottle.

Manager Dong agreed, because the restaurant did not sell wine at the retail price outside, and could sell it for at least 9 yuan a bottle. The two parties signed a contract. For the first batch of 100 bottles, Manager Dong asked Wen Qing to deliver the wine to the restaurant, and payment would be made upon receipt of the goods.

When the two said goodbye, Wen Qing gave each of them a bottle of white wine.

In the evening, Liu Changgui came to her and said, "Xiao Wen, our village has started to register for the household contract responsibility system. Before the Spring Festival, you said you wanted the land from your backyard to the hillside. Does it still count?"

Wen Qing said in surprise: "Uncle Village Chief, has the registration started? How did you contract it?"

Liu Changgui said: "There are 114 households in the village, 79 of which are registered now, and with you, there are 80 households. Some have fish ponds, some have paddy fields, and some have hillsides."

Erxia Village has more than 2200 acres of land, including more than 800 acres of forests, more than 300 acres of hillside dry land, 400 acres of flat dry land, 200 acres of paddy fields, and 400 acres of ponds. Except for the forests, other landforms are intricate and intertwined.

Wen Qing said, "Uncle Village Chief, can I contract this piece of forest east of Xiaoya Mountain?"

Liu Changgui said, "Xiao Wen, there are only small trees on this mountain, which were planted in the past five years. There is nothing else on the mountain. What are you going to do with them?"

Their brigade had done some research and found out that no one in the village wanted to contract the forest. He was also worried that Wen Qing was ignorant and would not be able to grow anything if he contracted the forest, thus wasting money.

Wen Qing said: "You see, I don't have time to farm, and no one has contracted the forest. I will give a little rent as my support to the village."

Liu Changgui nodded. To be honest, Wen Qing, an outsider, was not qualified to contract land. She proposed to contract the sloping land between the backyard and the forest, and the brigade discussed it many times.

In the end, because this sloping land is mainly rocky, it takes a lot of effort to reclaim and cultivate it, and I think other people in the village are unwilling to do so, so they let Wen Qing take the contract, thinking that even the smallest bit of money is still meat.

Now that Wen Qing herself proposed that she wanted to help the village solve the problem, Liu Changgui didn't say anything more, but just asked Wen Qing to go to the team headquarters early to sign the agreement when she had time.

After the contract was settled, Liu Changgui asked, "Xiao Wen, we have hawthorn trees in our village. Can they be used to make wine?"

Wen Qing also noticed that there was a hawthorn forest on the west side of the village, about five or six acres. Wen Qing asked, "Uncle Village Chief, how many hawthorns can the village harvest every year? Have they all been sold?"

Liu Changgui said: "This hawthorn forest is wild and no one is taking care of it. I estimate that it can produce 1 kilograms of fruit a year. Everyone picks them for themselves to eat or sell. They are not worth much money."

Wen Qing said: "If I want to make hawthorn wine in the future, I will definitely buy it from you."

After Liu Changgui left, Wen Qing found Liu Quan and Wang Jianguo and said, "Our winery has signed contracts with some restaurants and grocery stores, and the production and sales of liquor have basically been straightened out.

But now the market is still relatively small and there are few customers. When we produce more fermented rice wine in the future, these customers will not be enough.

I have compiled a list. Let's divide the work. Who wants to go out and do sales? Who wants to make wine at home? Of course, you have to help when the winemaking is busy, otherwise there will be no wine to sell."

After discussing with Wang Jianguo, Liu Quan said, "Sister Wen, I will go out to do sales, and Jianguo will make wine at home. When I am not out, I will help him at home."

Wen Qing said, "Okay, we don't have many wine cellars in our winery. We brew 4 kilograms of grain every month, half of which is used to brew light-flavor liquor and the other half is used to brew strong-flavor liquor. Liquor needs time to age. Strong-flavor liquor needs to be stored in the cellar for more than three years before it can be bottled, and light-flavor liquor also needs to be stored in the cellar for more than two years. Of course, the longer the storage time, the better.

The liquor I sell now is the liquor I brewed in the past. The quantity is not large and I don’t think it will last long, so I want to brew some fruit wine. Fruit wine can be bottled after 3 to 6 months of cellaring, which takes less time. I will sell it with the liquor.”

There are a lot of apples and pears in Wen Qing's space. The peach trees have been planted for two years and will bear fruit in the second half of the year. These can be used to make wine. She has more than 30 stainless steel cans processed in the school-run factory, each of which can hold about 700 to 800 kilograms.

He also reminded Liuquan, "Liuquan, when you go out to market, you must not only stabilize the existing market, but also strive to sign more contracts; Jianguo must also strive for excellence when making wine at home. I have some books on winemaking here. You must study more and strive to make our wine better and catch up with the famous wines."

Wen Qing paused, thought for a moment and said, "Your current salary is 30 yuan per month. I will give rewards to Liu Quan for signing new orders in the future. The same goes for Jianguo. If the quality of the wine improves and the price of the wine increases accordingly, I will also give rewards."

Liu Quan said excitedly: "Xiao Wen, I will start running according to this order tomorrow, but can I borrow your bicycle?" Wen Qing nodded and said: "I have a bicycle and a tricycle at home, you can use them."

This month, Wen Qing spent a lot of time in the winery. Although she did not neglect her schoolwork, she was not as diligent as before. She wanted to spend more time on studying in the future.