Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 123 Snoring

After leaving the market, Wen Qing first put the bag in her hand into the space, and then put the pottery into the space through the backpack. She took the bus to the Forest of Steles again.

The Forest of Steles in Chang'an is a must-visit place for tourists. It houses thousands of steles from hundreds of years ago, including several steles written by Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan. Here you can see steles of various famous calligraphers, including seal script, clerical script, regular script, running script, and cursive script. It is the best place to appreciate calligraphy from all dynasties.

Wen Qing didn't know much about calligraphy and just glanced at it, but she was also shocked by the majestic and elegant calligraphy.

She bought a few calligraphy rubbings in the souvenir shop. After coming out, she found an antique market in the back street. The market was not as big as the Terracotta Warriors market, but it looked more historical and the items were similar.

Wen Qing walked into a shop called Moxiang Pavilion, which sold calligraphy, paintings, and study items.

Wen Qing selected two pieces of calligraphy and a flower-and-bird painting. Judging from the signatures on both of them, they were ancient paintings, so she didn't know whether they were fakes or not, but judging from the good painting skills, they should be imitations.

She only spent two or three hundred yuan on a painting, and she knew it was not an authentic work and could only be considered a tourist souvenir.

After leaving this store, Wen Qing saw a store called Quanzhen, which sold ancient coins and ancient jade.

Wen Qing saw many ancient Chinese coins on the counter, ranging from ancient knives and cloth to modern silver coins, and even coins that have been in circulation since the founding of the People's Republic of China. There were not many ancient jades, only more than ten pieces placed on one side of the counter.

Wen Qing selected three pieces of ancient jade, one was a white jade bi with red tint, one was a dragon-shaped jade hook, which had a simple and rustic shape and was very extraordinary, and one was a Hetian white jade plaque with the pattern of the Three Friends of Winter. She spent a total of 380 yuan, and the stall owner also gave her five copper coins, saying they were the Five Emperors' Coins, as a bonus.

Wen Qing fully demonstrated the spirit of not being short of money. She bought things wherever she went and became happier the more she bought.

After visiting these two places, Wen Qing went to the train station to buy a ticket back to Pingjing. The main reason was that school was about to start and she had to report to school. Even if she couldn't buy a sleeper berth, she had to go home.

It was just after get off work when they left Chang'an. Looking out the car window, Wen Qing saw the heavy traffic. She suddenly felt very tired and wanted to get home immediately.

She hadn't sat on a hard seat for a long time. There were many people in the carriage. Wen Qing put her backpack on the luggage rack and sat in her window seat.

After a while, two young men came and sat in the remaining two seats. Not long after the train left Chang'an Station, the two men chatted for a while and then read their books and calmed down.

Wen Qing was planning to doze off for a while, but the fat man started dozing off after only two minutes of reading. His snoring made it impossible for Wen Qing to fall asleep.

She had no choice but to pretend that she didn't see it and forced herself to look out the window, but the snoring was too loud. The young man who was traveling with the fat man felt a little embarrassed, so he pushed the fat man awake and kept chatting with him.

After everyone finished dinner, the little fat boy fell asleep snoring again.

Wen Qing had no choice but to get up and go to the conductor to ask for a sleeper berth. The conductor carefully looked through the record of sleeper berth tickets and said to Wen Qing, "Comrade, there will be no berths available until we reach Yuzhou."

Wen Qing immediately bought a new ticket and asked the conductor to remind her when she arrived in Yuzhou.

There was still more than 5 hours to wait, and Wen Qing did not go back to the hard seat car immediately. She really could not stand the snoring, so she strolled around several cars for more than an hour. Finally, she was so tired that she had to go back to her seat to rest.

The little fat boy's snoring was still alarming, and the passengers nearby could only endure it in silence.

Wen Qing didn't fall asleep after sitting down. She went in and out of her seat to get water or go to the toilet, taking the opportunity to wake up the little fat boy.

The little fat boy was probably too tired. After being woken up, he gave way, sat down, and fell asleep in a second. Wen Qing didn't fall asleep the whole night.

It was finally three o'clock in the morning when the conductor informed her that they would arrive in Yuzhou soon. She carried her luggage to the sleeper car.

As soon as she left, the man standing next to her sat down immediately. Now the three men could compare who snored the loudest.

Wen Qing bought a lower bunk bed this time. She took out a piece of cloth and spread it on the bed, then lay down and fell asleep.

She slept until noon and went to the bathroom to wash up. When she came back, she found a woman sitting on her bed. She tried to ask, "Comrade, please make way."

The woman moved sideways to let Wen Qing sit on the edge of the bed, so Wen Qing had no choice but to say, "Comrade, where is your bed?"

The woman pointed to the middle bunk and said, "Hey, I'm going to eat something here, don't mind me."

Wen Qing had no choice but to remain silent.

Fortunately, the woman ate faster and left soon.

Wen Qing ate the scones she brought and went back to bed to rest.

There was someone sleeping on the bed, but no other passengers came to sit there. It was not until Pingjing that Wen Qing slowly got up and packed her luggage.

After arriving home, Wen Qing asked someone to find Wang Jianguo and Liu Quan, and they rushed over upon hearing the news.

Liuquan has returned from Jiangnan and signed another one-year agreement with three stores.

Wang Jianguo reported that the first fermentation of hawthorn wine has been completed. They have filtered out the mash and are now undergoing the second fermentation.

In addition, they started brewing light-fragrance liquor in the new distillery. The first batch made 10 jars of liquor. Today is the third day of fermentation. He told Wen Qing that there is not much grain left, and it is only enough to add grain to the several cellars of strong-fragrance liquor in the backyard.

Wen Qing nodded. She had sold most of the food in the space in the port city last time, and the next harvest would be in two weeks.

Wen Qing said, "Okay, I'll go buy some grain right away. Now you guys can make more koji. When the grain arrives, we can continue brewing Luzhou-flavor liquor. We also need to build a wine cellar. I've prepared some mud for the wine cellar."

After arranging these tasks, Wen Qing asked the two to go back.

She lit the fire, heated the kang and did the cleaning, and it was already midnight when she finished her meal.

Wen Qing put the white mud he bought and the yellow mud he washed by the empty lake together at the new winery. He then took out 2000 kilograms of 30-year-old wine and 2000 kilograms of white wine that had been aged in his own space for more than a year and put them into the backyard wine cellar. He replaced 5000 kilograms of new wine into the space and entered the space himself.

I took a nice bath in the mountain spring in the small bamboo house and felt lighter.

Wen Qing left the space and returned to the courtyard to sleep. The next morning, she did not run, but took a walk in the fields of Erxia Village, climbed up the small hill she contracted, and watched the morning mist gradually dissipate. She felt at ease to be back home.

After returning to the courtyard, Wen Qing sat down to practice. She took out the jade piece and suddenly found a new line on it. Upon closer inspection, she discovered that it was a new meridian.

She hadn't checked the jade piece for a long time and didn't know when the meridians on the jade piece appeared.

Wen Qing felt a little regretful that she had slacked off in her practice over the past six months, so she immediately began to practice according to the lines on the jade piece.

This meridian runs from the heel to the lower dantian. Wen Qing thought about it for a moment, and the true energy in her body couldn't help but circulate along the direction of the meridian, advancing one acupoint at a time, driving the true energy throughout the body to pass through other meridians.

Wen Qing sank the true energy into her legs, and in the space of a breath, the true energy in her lower dantian became even more solid.

She spent the morning practicing, circulating her Qi over and over again. She felt that the Qi was not only circulating along the meridian from her heel to the lower Dantian, but was gradually expanding to other meridians throughout the body.

She cleared away all distracting thoughts, forgot about herself and the world, and completed the cultivation of all five meridians. Only then did she come out of the cultivation state, stand up and exhale the foul air in her stomach.