Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 130 Returning Hometown

There are 120 households in Xiangyang Village. Wen Qing went to the market and bought 240 pieces of cotton cloth of various colors, 240 quilts, 400 barrels of vegetable oil. She also slaughtered 500 chickens and 500 rabbits, and made them into cured meat herself, preparing to bring them to Xiangyang Village.

After the bank draft matured, she successfully received the remaining payment and called Zhao Wei, who also said that sales were very good.

In the past, she would send wine to Zhao Wei in January. Now that she had time, she planned to send the wine to him in advance and then go back to Xiangyang Village.

Wen Qing still took the train to Nankun. When she arrived in Nankun City, Wen Qing first went to Jinjifang to find Zhao Wei, who was in the store.

Wen Qing saw that he had gained weight compared to the beginning of the year and said with a smile, "Brother Zhao, you've gained weight."

Although Zhao Wei's actions were a bit unkind last time, the cooperation between the two of them was pretty good after all. After all, it was a business cooperation, and Wen Qing just wanted to keep the business going.

Zhao Wei also smiled and said, "Sister Xiao Wen has become even prettier."

Zhao Wei is Mr. Zhao’s youngest son, about thirty-four or thirty-five years old, six or seven years older than Wen Qing.

Zhao Wei asked, "What kind of wine did you send me this time?"

"It depends on what kind of wine you want. This is the sales award our store won last year."

Wen Qing counted Zhao Wei as a distributor. Last year, he sold 1.8 bottles of wine, or 1.8 kilograms of liquor, making him a four-star distributor. He received a Sakura camera from Changxia Winery, valued at 880 yuan.

Zhao Wei had already received the letter from Wen Qing. He was very happy to receive the prize and said, "Oh, it's imported. It uses 135 film, right?"

As he unpacked the camera, the exquisite camera felt very textured in his hand. Wen Qing handed him two rolls of film and said, "Brother Zhao, take a picture of the old man and the children when you have time."

Cameras, stereos, and bicycles are men’s toys.

While dealing with Wen Qing, Zhao Wei played with the camera, studied the various buttons, loaded the film, and insisted on asking Wen Qing to be a model to take a picture of her standing under the quaint Golden Rooster Pavilion.

Zhao Wei smiled even more deeply and said to Wen Qing, "Little Wen, what is your prize this year? How can I get it?"

Wen Qing smiled and said, "Our store is now a four-star dealer. If we sell more than 2 kilograms a year, we will be a five-star dealer and will be rewarded with a gift worth 1500 yuan."

Zhao Wei calculated that he had already sold 9000 bottles, 9000 kilograms of wine. The second half of the year was the peak season, so if he tried hard, it would still be possible to reach 2 kilograms. So he said, "I want a kilogram of wine this time."

"Okay, let's pay the old way."

After signing the contract, Wen Qing said goodbye, promised to come back to deliver the goods in five days at the latest, and went to Xiangyang Village, Luchun County.

Zhao Wei went to the bank to issue a bank acceptance bill.

She took the train to Gejiu first. The green train went very slowly. Wen Qing bought a sleeper ticket, lay on the upper bunk, took out the picture book and read it roughly to see which medicinal herbs could be found in Yunnan.

She only knew some common medicinal herbs before, and was not clear whether leaves, stems or roots were used. Now, after reading this book, she understands a little better.

After watching for a while, Wen Qing immersed his mind in the space and started to take care of the medicine garden.

According to the knowledge in the book, harvest the mature medicinal herbs, wash the picked herbs, and dry them on the drying dam.

After doing all this, I just fell asleep when I heard the station announcement on the radio: We had arrived at Gejiu City.

After getting off the car, she found that the city had not changed much compared to when she left. The urban transformation began in the late 1990s.

There were no more buses to Luchun, so she could only find a hotel to stay in.

After a casual stroll in the city and dinner, Wen Qing went to bed early. The next morning, she bought the first bus ticket to Luchun County.

After a bumpy ride, Wen Qing saw Luchun County on the mountain in the distance and knew that they had reached their destination.

The car stopped at a station halfway up the mountain, and she got off there. Wen Qing stood on the side of the road with her luggage, looking at this place she had been to countless times.

Luchun is on the mountain, Xiangyang Village is in the valley, and she still has to go down the mountain.

Wen Qing carried her luggage and walked on the mountain path leading to Xiangyang Village. The path was winding. When she arrived at the village primary school, it was already noon. The class was over and the students went home for lunch. She took her things out of the space and placed them in an empty classroom.

She walked into the village and went straight to Lin Changsheng's house.

Lin Changsheng was quite surprised and said in astonishment: "Comrade Xiao Wen, you are back?"

Wen Qing smiled and said, "Uncle Captain, I'm back to see you all."

He added, "I brought some things back and asked someone to move them to the elementary school. Can you please ask the captain to find a few people to move them back?"

Lin Changsheng was very happy, mainly because he felt that the educated youth who had left still missed their fellow villagers, so he smiled and said, "It's not easy for you to come back, what are you buying?"

Thinking that it would take several people to move a lot of things, he called his two sons, took the shoulder poles and baskets, and went to the village primary school.

Wen Qing opened the door of the classroom. Lin Changsheng was surprised to see that the room was full of things. He said, "Xiao Wen, you're spending too much."

Wen Qing said, "This is a little gift from me to the villagers. It will be distributed to all the villagers, one for each family. You can divide it up as you see fit."

Several people moved the things to the brigade headquarters. Lin Changsheng found the branch secretary and the accountant, counted the quantity, and started distributing them.

Each family has two pieces of cloth, one dark-colored and one light-colored or floral. A piece of cloth is 90 centimeters wide and 30 meters long, which is enough for a family to use for two or three years. Now you still need cloth coupons to buy cloth. The villagers don’t have cloth coupons, so they can’t make a single piece of clothing in a year. The clothes they wear now are all patched up.

Each family has two barrels of vegetable oil, two quilts, and four cured chickens and rabbits.

The three people worked from the afternoon to the evening. In the evening, they used a loud speaker to notify the villagers to come and collect their gifts. "Fellow villagers, fellow villagers, we heard that the educated youth came to visit you and brought you gifts. Please send someone from each household to the brigade headquarters to collect your gifts."

When we heard that Wen Qing had returned, everyone was very curious. All the educated youth from Xiangyang Village had returned to the city, and Wen Qing was the first one to come back to visit them. We hadn't seen her for several years, and we didn't know if she had changed at all.

For a moment, the dam outside the brigade headquarters was full of people. They were still very poor, and the things Wen Qing brought were what everyone needed. Everyone was very happy to see the ground full of things.

The team leader emphasized to everyone that these were gifts brought by Wen Qing, and the villagers who came to receive the gifts thanked Wen Qing one after another.

Wen Qing felt a little embarrassed. She only brought some insignificant things, but received everyone's gratitude. She decided to find a way for everyone to make money.

When everyone was picking up their things, she called Lin Changsheng out and asked, "Captain, how is the tea from our tea garden?"

Lin Changsheng said: "Now there are 100 mu of tea gardens in the village, which can produce 2 kilograms of fresh tea leaves every year, and only 4 to 5 kilograms of tea leaves can be made. However, the taste of our tea is not as good as that of other places, so it is not easy to sell, so no one is willing to contract the tea garden."

Wen Qing thought for a while, then took Lin Changsheng back to his home, took out a box of tea from her luggage, and handed it to Lin Changsheng, "Captain, this is the tea I made. Try it and see if it is any different from the tea in the village."

Lin Changsheng made some tea. Without waiting for the water to cool down, he blew gently on the teacup and took a sip carefully. The aroma of tea filled his mouth. "What a nice smell! Xiao Wen, is this the tea you made yourself?"

"Yes, it was made this spring. It's green tea."

"It's much better than the tea in the village. Xiao Wen, can you teach us how to make tea?"

Wen Qing nodded and said, "How about this, I will make tea tomorrow, anyone who wants to learn can come and learn."