Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 120 Entering Sichuan

With one week left before school started, Wen Qing told Liu Quan and Wang Jianguo that she wanted to go to Sichuan Province to buy wine and wine mud, and she also called Zhuang Xien to tell him where she was going.

Zhuang Xien did not stop her and told her to be careful on the road. Wen Qing felt warm in her heart listening to his caring words.

She immediately went to the train station to buy a train ticket for the next day, returned to Erxia Village, and took some time to go up the mountain to visit the orchard to see how the fruit trees were growing.

The two villagers who guard the forest have also started working. Usually they are responsible for pruning, fertilizing, weeding and watering the fruit trees. They also prevent villagers from going up the mountain to cut trees. In winter, they also have to tie some hay to the saplings to prevent them from frostbite at night.

Wen Qing greeted the two of them, talked about their family situations, learned about the situation in the orchard, and when she learned that everything was normal, she felt relieved and went down the mountain.

After the Spring Festival, Liu Quan started visiting customers and preparing goods in advance according to the frequency of their purchases. He would deliver the goods to customers’ homes for those nearby and ship the goods to those far away.

This time he was also going on a business trip, to Jiangnan, to visit Manager Luo of Ping'an County's non-staple food company, Manager Wang of the department store, and Director Fang of the county party committee canteen, and sign a contract with them for the new year.

Wang Jianguo was put in charge of the winery. His apprentice Jin Zicong was now basically able to operate the business independently, so Wang Jianguo had more time to train other workers.

Wen Qing took a train to Xichuan. In the second half of the journey, the train traveled among the rolling hills and often passed through long tunnels. The airflow caused by it made her ears particularly uncomfortable.

Wen Qing was so bored that she finally arrived at Tokugawa and got off the car. Tokugawa was relatively small and shabby, and it would take twenty years for it to change drastically. She found a hotel that looked relatively clean, asked for a single room, closed the door and entered the space.

Wen Qing took a shower in the space, then left the space and went to a small restaurant on the street, ordered a plate of twice-cooked pork, a bowl of sauerkraut vermicelli soup and white rice, and paid two taels of food coupons and 3 yuan.

Wen Qing enjoyed the meal very much. She liked Sichuan cuisine in her previous life, but in this life, she had never eaten authentic Sichuan cuisine. Although this restaurant looked inconspicuous, the food tasted really good.

After resting for a night in Tokugawa, she rode her bicycle towards Takeba Prefecture the next day. Her destination was Kawananchun and other local wineries.

After leaving the city, Wen Qing changed to a pickup truck and it only took an hour to reach Zhuye County.

To her disappointment, Chuannanchun was a state-owned winery and one had to have a quota to buy wine. She tried hard for a long time but failed to buy any wine.

Wen Qing could only go to other wineries in Zhuye and found good stuff in a larger winery.

This winery is also a well-known local winery, which sells strong-flavor liquor and various vintages, ranging from three, five, ten to twenty and thirty years old. After comparison and selection, she bought 30 kilograms of 5000-year-old wine at a price of 30 yuan per kilogram.

She has tasted the finished wine of this company. The finished wine blended with 30-year-old wine is better than Gutan wine and much better than Gaojia wine. Although it is not well-known, it is indeed a very good Sichuan-style Luzhou-flavored Daqu wine.

Wen Qing humbly asked their master chef for advice, and the master chef took her to the wine cellar of the winery and said, "Our winery was founded during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It has been more than 400 years now, and this wine cellar has never been dry. The 30-year-old wine you bought comes from this cellar."

He grabbed a piece of cellar mud and handed it to Wen Qing, "Take a closer look."

This piece of cellar mud is black and yellow in color, and has a strong aroma of koji.

Wen Qing asked: "Master, what kind of mud do you use for your new wine cellar?"

The master chef said: "It is a kind of soil near the Jialing River, called white clay soil. This soil is a little white in color, but the soil is fine and sticky, with few impurities."

Wen Qing asked him the specific place, and the master chef smiled and said, "Girl, you want to dig the soil too? That's not possible, someone is occupying that place." But he still told Wen Qing the location.

Wen Qing said: "I don't want to dig the soil, I just want to see what the soil looks like."

Wen Qing asked the winery to transport the wine to the station. At night, Wen Qing put the wine into the space. This time the task of buying wine was completed.

The next day, she went to the Jialing River and found the place the master chef had mentioned. Wen Qing touched the white mud and found that it was exactly as the master chef had said, very suitable for making wine mud.

She told the guard that she wanted to buy white clay. The people inside did not make things difficult for her. They negotiated a price and sold her two tons of white clay.

Wen Qing drove there in a pickup truck and loaded the soil directly onto the truck and transported it away.

After walking for a while, Wen Qing collected the soil into the space and drove towards Qinling Mountains.

It is about 700 kilometers from Zhuye County to Qinling Mountains, and it has to pass through Yuanguang and Hanzhong. She looked at the map and headed northeast.

Although it is winter, the Xichuan Basin is protected by the Qinling Mountains and the temperature is above zero, so it is not very cold.

Zhuye County is located in a basin with relatively flat terrain. She drove for more than 200 kilometers before she saw some low hills. She thought it was still far away from the Qinling Mountains.

Wen Qing was not in a hurry. She observed the road signs and paid attention to the pedestrians on the road. There were woods on both sides of the road. If someone or livestock ran out of the woods and ran onto the road, it would be difficult to deal with if they were hit.

Especially at this time, there are still bandits and the security situation is worrying. I heard that many long-distance drivers still carry guns.

Wen Qing took out a pistol that he had searched in the beach villa from the space, loaded it with bullets, then took out a machete and placed it on the seat next to him before continuing to drive forward.

By nightfall, she had almost entered the mountainous area, winding along the mountain road, and didn't see a single car for four or five kilometers.

She stared intently ahead. There were dense forests and cliffs on both sides of the road. Although they were not very high, she still needed to be careful.

Wen Qing drove for another hour. It was getting dark and she could no longer see the road signs clearly. Based on the mileage she had driven, she estimated that she was not far from Zhuyuan Town.

After driving for another hour, I saw bright lights ahead in the distance. As I got closer, I found it was indeed Zhuyuan Town.

Zhuyuan Town is on the bank of the Qingshui River. Wen Qing found a small hotel to stay in, ate a bowl of mixed noodles on the street, and took a slow walk along the bank of the Qingshui River. She was a little tired after driving all day.

She stood by the river, took out an apple from the space and started to eat it. The rich sweet aroma made her fatigue disappear instantly. A gentle breeze blew from the river. After eating the apple, she washed her hands in the river, stretched her body, and went back to the hotel to rest.

The next day we continued heading north, zigzagging along the Qingshui River. The road was very narrow and the car couldn't drive fast.

Wen Qing missed the highway and the feeling of speeding, but now she could only move forward at a snail's pace. She had lunch in a small town at noon. The soup was made with a local small fish, which was very delicious.

Wen Qing also ate a kind of wild mushroom fried with bacon. When she asked the name of the wild mushroom, the restaurant proprietress spoke in the local dialect. The two talked for a long time, but she still didn't understand, but it looked a bit like Matsutake.

After lunch, she drove to a fork in the road, turned into a wider valley, stopped and took a nap. When she woke up, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. She turned back onto the highway and continued driving forward.

It was evening when they were still in the wilderness. Wen Qing didn't want to go on anymore, so she put the car into the space and entered the space herself. She opened the map and found that if she went west, she would enter the mountainous area. Not far to the west, there was a place called Yaowang Valley, which reminded her of a famous martial arts novel.

Wen Qing couldn't help but smile and decided to go to the west to have a look.

It wasn't too late yet, so she decided to go a little further.

Before leaving the space, Wen Qing habitually used her mental power to explore the surroundings to avoid any strange phenomena that might cause a sudden change in the lives of the living.

I only heard someone outside saying, "Let's hide in the mountains for a while. Once we go deep into the mountains, we won't be able to find anyone."

Another voice: "We don't have much food left. We need to get some food first."

The first person to speak: "Let's go to the nearby village to find some food before it gets dark."

The two people didn't speak loudly, but their voices could be heard clearly in the quiet night.