Chapter 16 Burnt hops
Some people say that the burnt fragrance of hops is always shaking over the city of Qinwan.
Yangcun, looking around, the hops are covered with green leaves, climbing up along the bamboo rack more than 3 meters high like grape branches. The hops look like yellow-green wheat ears, hanging overflowing, but light and slim.
This year is a year of hop harvest. Rongya Brewery has contracted more than 40 acres of land in Yangcun and is estimated to be able to harvest more than 2 tons of hops. In addition to satisfying its own factory, it can also support other domestic breweries.
Wu Geng pushed Qin Dong and jumped out of the car. He sniffed the fragrance of the air hard and shouted, "Comrades, work."
"Qin Dong, is this the hop?" Although I knew beer, this was the first time I saw the real hop. Du Xiaoju picked one and sniffed it before putting it into the basket in her hand.
"This is hops. Without hops, where can be beer come from?" Qin Dong laughed loudly.
Hops are one of the "souls" of beer. A bottle of beer requires about 5 grams of hops. Because hops can give the beer a refreshing aroma, bitterness and preservative, there is no preservative in the beer.
The two walked together in the greenery, and the basket was soon filled with hops. The picked hops were sent directly to the hop factory next to them, pressed dryly and used for the whole hops...
"Who, can't you sing a sing? Let's have a paragraph?" Wu Geng walked happily among the crowd, and came to Lu Xuguang and suddenly shouted loudly.
Seeing Lu Xu approaching the big guy with a slut, Qin Dong wondered, Lu Xuguang, who had two big teeth, was stuttering when he was about to say that, but he liked to leave the street stall and liked to run two people.
"Sister, brother sing one?" Lu Xuguang seemed to be asking for Qin Nan's opinions next to him. Before Qin Nan could speak, he answered himself, "Then brother sang "The Fifth Update of Crescent Moon". Everyone applauded."
"At the first update, the Crescent Moon just came out, and the beauty Diao Chan walked down the platform, kneeling on the ground with her knees..."
Wow—
Qin Dong and Du Xiaoju were clapping their hands hard, and I don’t know whether they sang well or not. However, Lu Xuguang really had the talent of an actor with the rich expression on his face."
"Sister Liu, let's have a relationship?" Lu Xuguang generously invited him, and a woman in her thirties immediately stood up in the crowd. It is said that she used to specialize in model operas.
"We were rowing the boat to pick red diamonds and pick red diamonds. We were so fond of the man and had a love for the girl, just like two horned diamonds, and we were born on the same day..."
With his partner, Lu Xuguang became more energetic. He put the towel on his bald head, pretended to be a young man, and then took the towel in his hand, pretending to be a girl.
Looking at such a big and thick "girl" who was winking, the people around him were so happy that they laughed.
These days, there are not many entertainment programs!
...
Wu Geng took the lead in applauding again, and Lu Xuguang sang even more vigorously. He used rowing movements, treated the hops as red diamonds, and put them to his nose like a woman, which made Du Xiaoju smiled and bent down again...
Qin Dong sighed in the blue sky and white clouds. Looking around, he looked full of smiling faces. People of this era are so easy to satisfy!
"This kid is a talent! Don't brush wine bottles, just go to the Quyi Troupe," Wu Geng smiled, "Okay, we have worked hard all morning and picked so many hops to eat!"
"Director Wu, didn't you say there was beer?" a young man shouted immediately.
"What did you say?" Wu Geng made a gesture to put his hand on his ear, "I can't hear it."
"We want to drink beer." Lu Xuguang yelled with a group of young people.
"Drink beer, then drink it!" Wu Geng then laughed loudly, "Drink! Our brewery has less beer. Young and old men, give me beer! Have a good time today!"
Have a good drink!
Everyone applauded. Although they had sweated all morning, everyone's smile was very satisfied and sincere. The smile was overflowing on everyone's face, and it was really like a holiday!
The car pulling the beer car drove up to the fields. The old and young men, women and girls were holding cans, and large porcelain bowls rushed up to the beer. The golden liquid flowed out, and the snow-white foam was everywhere in their hearts.
"Is it enough?" Wu Geng shouted loudly.
Not enough! Everyone shouted in unison, and everyone laughed.
"If it's not enough, go back to the factory to pull a car, and I'll drink it all! Grandma, I can't do it!" Wu Geng took a bowl of wine and drank it all by himself.
So generous and down-to-earth, Qin Dong has a lot of feelings for this deputy factory manager!
"Da Guang sang so well." Du Xiaoju took off her straw hat and used it as a fan. She took the beer handed over by Lu Xuguang and took a sip. Du Xiaoshu snatched it over and drank it all. He wiped the foam from his mouth and squeezed into the crowd with a bowl.
"Overall, the third in the country. I'll sing a second-hand song for everyone later," Lu Xuguang looked at Qin Dong's lunch box, "What rice do you have?" His lunch box contained fried beans and a steamed bun.
Qin Dong and Qin Nan’s lunch boxes are egg scallion cakes, and there are a few pieces of lunch meat on it. These days, lunch meat is only eaten during the Chinese New Year and holidays, and people usually dare not buy it.
"Oh, lunch meat, give me a piece. As soon as I sang Caihongling, I wanted to eat Hongling brand lunch meat!" Lu Xuguang immediately grabbed Qin Dong's lunch box.
The lunch meat was cut very thin, but it was full of fragrance. With the beer, Lu Xuguang sat in the shade on the ground, "Oh my god, it's comfortable!"
"Qin Dong, please save some..." Du Xiaoju said, "I didn't just eat it last night..."
Du Xiaoju's lunch box was leftovers from last night. Even last night, she couldn't bear to move a piece of lunch meat. It was still the willow branches that were put into her bowl, so she put them into her mouth little by little.
"I know you save," Qin Dong allocated Qin Nan's lunch meat to Du Xiaoju, "to make an exception today."
"I don't like lunch meat..." Du Xiaoju whispered, and the lunch meat was gently transferred to Xiaoer's black lunch box.
Seeing Xiao Erhei swallowing voraciously, Qin Dong could only smile helplessly.
Over there, Wu Geng held a canned bottle and toasted everywhere, but he was holding a steamed bun made in the cafeteria. The steamed buns were filled with a lot of alkali and turned yellow...
"Is this your factory manager? Why don't you bring food from home?" Liu Zhi handed a salted duck egg, "Qin Dong, send it to someone."
Qin Dong smiled and said, "Dry eating steamed buns, this is not the life that the factory manager lives!"
"Director Wu, I'll give it to you." Qin Dong walked to Wu Geng.
"Why, Qin Dong, I beat me up with one duck egg?" Wu Geng took the duck egg without hesitation, "Lunch meat? Who can afford lunch meat these days?" In the lunch box, not only were there peeled salted duck eggs, but also a few pieces of lunch meat, golden egg yolks and pink lunch meat, which immediately made people feel appetite.
"Don't think of buying me with lunch meat, it's not enough!" Wu Geng also found a shaded place to sit down, "Qin Dong, I can't pay this money, Zhou Yuanze may really fire you..."
"If you are fired, you will be fired. Otherwise, I will go directly to Luzhou factory and people will give me a Level 4 worker if I go." Qin Dong would also be next to Wu Geng, "Hey, hurry up, don't choke..."
"You're really panting..." Wu Geng ate too fast. He pounded his chest a few times, but looked at several cars driving in the distance.
A Shanghai sedan was driving in the front and slowly stopped on Tian Geng, "Hey, this is the car of the Second Light Bureau!" There were only a few cars in the agency, which were easy to remember and recognized.
"The leader is here to comfort us, everyone is working hard!" Wu Geng hurriedly stuffed the last few steamed buns into his mouth, patted the soil on his butt and greeted him.
All the leaders came, including Director Zou of the Second Light Bureau of the Municipal Liberation Bureau, Deputy Mayor Liang Yongsheng of Rongya District, and Director Wang Congjun of the District Industrial Bureau... A bunch of people, Zhou Fenghe, Chen Shifa and other factory leaders could not rank, so they could only follow behind.
"We have planted forty acres of hops this year, and the harvest is good. We are urging workers and their families to pick them together." Zhou Feng and the other team trotted a few steps ahead, but smiled at a woman with a beautiful face.
Hops?
The young woman looked at the busy labor scene in front of her, looked at the green and smiling faces, and walked down the ridge of the field with a smile.
"Is this what you planted yourself?"
"Yes, the hop variety we introduced from the United States was successfully planted in the past two years. We named it Qinwan Xiaohua." Zhou Fenghe smiled. He picked a hop and smelled the burnt fragrance deeply.
"Well, our country's beer industry, whether it is barley or hops, needs to be purchased from abroad. You have successfully planted new types of hops. First, you can save a lot of foreign exchange and support other domestic breweries," the young woman said to the city bureau and district leaders behind her, "This is very meaningful, um, where is Comrade Xiao Qin? Can you let him come?"
Chapter completed!