Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 129 Results

When school started in September, the first thing Wen Qing did was to go to the department office to get her grades. She didn't have time to get them at the end of last semester.

She found the teacher in charge of grades in the department, who was on the phone at the time. He pointed at the paper on the table and told her to check it herself through his mouth.

Wen Qing saw several forms on the table. She flipped through them one by one and suddenly saw the report card of Class 65. She was moved to find that Gao Min, a girl who was said to have a connection with the Higher Education Commission, only scored 80 points in one professional course and the highest score in the other courses was only 90 points, while her own scores were all above points.

Seeing that the teacher wasn't paying attention, Wen Qing took out a camera from the space and took a picture of Gao Min's grades.

This person was too much. Since she did not give her the qualification to host American college students, this person had interfered with her scholarship eligibility many times.

After getting her transcript, Wen Qing gestured to the teacher and walked out of the office.

When leaving the school gate, she happened to run into Zhu Hongying. Wen Qing smiled and said, "Hongying, it's been a long time since we last met."

Zhu Hongying said, "Yes, what are you busy with? I rarely saw you last semester."

Wen Qing couldn't say that she was designing pressure filling equipment, so she just said, "I was auditing the chemical engineering department's professional courses last semester, so my schedule was tight. How about you? Did you go back home during the holidays?"

Zhu Hongying said: "Mingli is in primary school now. We enrolled her in a calligraphy class during the holidays. Yang Shaojun came over during the summer vacation, so we didn't go back."

After buying the house, Zhu Hongying stayed in Pingjing most of the time and had less contact with her hometown.

"Hongying, you're about to graduate, what are your plans?"

"I heard that the school has started to arrange jobs for our group of students. There are many units that need people, and in principle, we can go back to where we came from."

"Is it the place where we went back to the countryside?"

"No, we go back to our hometown, but we are usually arranged to stay in a big city."

Wen Qing nodded. She didn’t want to go back to her hometown, so she needed to inquire about this matter with the department.

"So you want to go back to your hometown?"

"I don't want to go back. I'll go ask first. If that doesn't work, I'll find a job myself."

Zhu Hongying has always had good academic performance and she wants to be a teacher.

After hurriedly saying goodbye to Wen Qing, Zhu Hongying rode her bike to pick up the children, while Wen Qing returned to Erxia Village.

This is their last semester in college. Their main task is to work on their graduation project. There are no professional courses and basically no attendance. Students can go directly to their instructors if they have any questions. The classmates are all busy with internships and design. Wen Qing completed her graduation project last semester, so she has very free time this semester.

Wen Qing spends his time at the distillery. While the competition in the liquor industry is not so fierce now, their Changxia Distillery must develop as quickly as possible.

She went to the Xinjiufang wine cellar with Wang Jianguo. When they came to the two wine cellars they were comparing, Wen Qing asked, "How are the fermentation conditions in these two wine cellars?"

Wang Jianguo said: "There is a cold water circulation system here, the ambient temperature is easier to control, and the fermentation is very stable. I heard that the fermentation sound has started to get smaller, so we can steam the wine tomorrow." He asked the workers to start preparing.

Wen Qing asked, "How are our new cellars doing?"

Wang Jianguo said: "It should be pretty good. I smelled it and it already had a cellar aroma."

Wen Qing thought for a moment and said, "Let's start using these wine cellars to make wine. The more we use the wine cellars, the better."

Wang Jianguo said: "The ground vats at the new wine shop are already being used to make wine, and 30 of them are currently in use."

"Okay, is there anything else to do in the winery? Organize five groups of people to work together tomorrow."

The new winery has ten stoves, which can serve ten groups of people at the same time. Generally, there are two and a half people in a group, one person to make fire, and two people to steam grain. The person who makes fire can look after two stoves. Now there are five groups of people, so twelve or thirteen people are needed.

Wang Jianguo said: "There is nothing serious going on in the winery. Leave a few people to look after the backyard, and the rest of you go to the new winery."

I calculated the grains and distiller's yeast that would be needed, made an order myself, and had someone pick up the goods from the warehouse, and then crush them. The distiller's yeast also had to be ground finely in advance.

Wen Qing also helped the workers clean the wine-making utensils. The workers shoveled out the lees used to maintain the cellar from the mud cellar and transported them outside for composting. They also pumped out well water and put it into stainless steel barrels to prepare for soaking the grain. The preparations were not completed until after five in the afternoon.

Everyone was familiar with the work of winemaking, and the workers cooperated very well. Wen Qing would only lend a hand when she saw help was needed, and together with Wang Jianguo, she supervised the workers in making wine.

Wen Qing waited until everyone got off work, then checked the winery before returning to the front yard.

This time they have to make a total of 10,000 kilograms of grain dregs. Since there is no old distiller's grains, all the materials are new grains, so the entire process is the same.

The steamed grains were poured into the drying platform one pot after another, and the workers nearby added hot water to lower the temperature. They kept turning the grains over until the temperature was right, added koji and mixed it, and finally put it into the wine cellar. It took a whole day to make five wine cellars.

Winemaking is not only a technical job, but also a physical job.

The new winery has 100 mud cellars, and they have only cultivated 30 of them, while the others are under cultivation.

Due to limited materials, they cultivate 30 wine cellars at a time, spending six months each time, and plan to spend two years to reach full production.

After reaching full production capacity, Changxia Distillery will be able to produce 200 million kilograms of liquor every year, including 40 kilograms of light-fragrance type and 160 million kilograms of strong-fragrance type.

Last year, the annual output of Changxia Distillery was only 15 jin. This year, the distillery has expanded its scale and strives to reach more than 30 jin.

A week later, all thirty wine cellars of the new winery started making wine, and all the crops in Wen Qing's space were harvested.

这一季，她收获了24万斤粮食，她拿出1万斤高粱、0.5万斤粳米、0.5万斤糯米、0.4万斤小麦、0.4万斤大麦、0.5万斤玉米、0.2万斤豌豆，交给金子聪入库，基本上够用一个月。

Wen Qing went to the free market several times and sold 3000 fat chickens and rabbits in the space, earning a total of 2.18 yuan. He then found a tea shop in the Beitong County market and sold 1000 kilograms of tea, earning another 5.8 yuan.

Now that the control over agricultural and sideline products has been relaxed, there is basically no problem of speculation in the sale of agricultural products. The government mainly manages industrial raw materials.

Wen Qing thought of the tea garden in Xiangyang Village, Yunnan, and wrote a letter to Lin Changsheng, asking about the situation in the village.

Two weeks later, she received a reply letter from Lin Changsheng, saying that Xiangyang Village had a good harvest in recent years, but was still not rich.

The tea garden has been contracted to the villagers. The current output is decent, but the tea produced does not sell well and not much money can be made. They also asked Wen Qing when she would return to the village to visit, as the villagers often talked about them, the educated youth.

Wen Qing thought back to the past years. Although the people in Xiangyang Village did not care much about them, everyone's life was very difficult at that time. The brigade cadres and villagers treated them equally, which to some extent provided them with food.

After the National Day, Wen Qing went to school to meet with the homeroom teacher, Mr. Huang, and asked about the progress of everyone’s graduation project.

Teacher Huang said: "As far as I know, most of the students have already decided on their design topics and are looking up information now."

“Have you finished the design?”

"It seems not yet."

"Teacher Huang, I'm going to the south soon, mainly to contact for internship matters." Wen Qing did not tell the truth.

"It doesn't matter. Just come to school in November to report on your graduation project."

Wen Qing took a leave and prepared to take things to Yunnan.