"Tell us about Changyu wine! Both Castel and Cabernet wineries are fine. I don't drink much domestic wine, so I don't know much about it."
Chu Jiu successfully calmed the boss with what he had read in the magazine. The boss rushed to get the wine glass, for fear of neglecting the expert in front of him.
"This is from 1992 to 1994, which is the new wine from last year. You can try it."
Chujiu had a disdainful expression on her face and looked at me after tasting half a cup of each.
"Take one of each of these three bottles!"
The most expensive one is the 1992 first-class special bottle, which costs 58 yuan a bottle. The cheapest one is produced last year, and the first-class bottle costs 8 yuan.
Carrying three bottles of wine, we walked out of the wine store. I asked Chujiu which one tasted better? Chujiu replied that both were sweet to me.
"Didn't you say it was so exciting just now? What is it that is rich and powerful, with balanced acidity, rich layers, thick and delicate, smooth and pure, and now all that's left is that it's quite sweet?"
"I know a hammer! That's what it says in the book! Guo Guo, hurry up and get the mission information!"
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I walked quickly to the post office and seemed to have forgotten to ask why I wanted to buy wine.
"It's all very sweet, ha, very good."
I muttered, shook my head speechlessly and chased Chujiu.
Entered the post office and filled in the bank card and passbook information on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year.
I uncorked the most expensive bottle of wine, stuffed the pills Ivan Joe gave me into it, and then sealed the bottle cap.
Wine bottles with plastic caps are convenient, but wine with wooden stoppers requires some effort.
This is the method Ivan Joe told us. The pills he refined have better effects and the highest absorption rate when mixed with wine.
"Send me a package."
I placed three bottles of wine on the counter of the post office. The staff looked up at the wine. Liquid packages cannot be mailed.
"Then help me get a package."
I reported the tracking number of the package and looked at the three bottles of red wine in my hand speechlessly. Could it be that I have to take this bottle of wine back to school.
"Uh, please show me your ID. The special package requires identity verification."
When the staff heard the order number I reported, they were stunned for a moment, and then asked me to show my ID.
I handed the department's identity certificate to the staff. The staff picked up the red book and trotted to the office for verification.
Within three minutes, the staff respectfully handed me a leather waterproof envelope and told me that if I really wanted to mail the wine, they would find a way to solve it.
I casually took the letter paper on the counter and wrote a letter to my father. It probably meant that I had opened the bottle of wine and asked him and my mother to drink it as soon as possible, otherwise it would be wasted after it expired.
Based on my understanding of them, if you don't say this, most of them would be reluctant to drink it and would wait until grandpa returns to drink it.
Ivan Qiao once told me that this kind of elixir is not of much significance to my grandfather and uncle. Even if it is taken on the ninth day of the lunar month, it only has the effect of strengthening the body. Only ordinary people who take it can prolong life and relieve diseases.
No birth.
I specifically asked the post office staff not to fill in the sender's address.
This saves my parents from worrying about how they suddenly went to Shanxi despite studying in Sichuan.
They didn't know that I took over my grandfather's job in the department, or perhaps they didn't even know that my grandfather worked in the department.
The best thing about postal express registered parcels is that they can be delivered wherever there are people around.
At the head of Lijia Village’s house, one can see postmen wearing green clothes and riding 28-bar bicycles to deliver packages every once in a while.
After I finished sending the package, Chujiu was already sitting on the chair waiting for me with his bank card, passbook, and a deposit receipt.
Not far from the Garment City is the bus terminal. We bought tickets to Yongji City and boarded the bus.
The location that the mission needs to go to is Xiaowang Village, a small village along the Yellow River under the jurisdiction of Yongji City.
There is a villager named Zhang in Xiaowang Village who owns a sand farm and engages in the business of washing sand from the Yellow River.
The family surnamed Zhang owned a sand boat for digging sand. The couple left early in the morning and returned late, driving the sand boat along the Yellow River ten miles before and after Zhang Village, day after day, year after year.
Since their sand will go through a screening process after being dug out from the Yellow River, many construction units specify their Yellow River sand.
This also resulted in the family named Zhang spending their time digging sand from the Yellow River except on New Year's Eve. Although it was hard work, they also made a lot of money.
Half a month ago, the couple surnamed Zhang couldn't go to the river to dig sand because they had important matters. If the sand field was closed for one day, it would lose several tons of Yellow River sand. The workers at the sand field could go to the river instead of themselves.
This worker had been with them for some years and had driven a sand boat down the river many times alone before, so the couple felt comfortable leaving the work to him.
The worker casually called another worker and went into the river together.
Maybe the sand excavation machine is too old, or maybe there are other reasons.
When the sand boat traveled five or six miles, the sand dredging machine suddenly stopped working.
The experienced sandfield worker picked up the tools and came to the stern of the ship to repair the sand dredging machine. Who would have thought that he would step on wet river sand and slip and fall into the river.
This section of the river is in a fast-flowing area. After the old worker fell into the river, he was instantly swept away to a distance of more than ten meters.
The young worker panicked, started the sand boat, and chased the old worker at full speed.
However, the speed of the sand boat was far slower than the speed of the river. Within a few minutes, the old worker disappeared into the biting and cold river water.
After the young worker returned to the battlefield, he found the Zhang couple.
The couple surnamed Zhang summoned everyone they could and drove the fishing boat down the river to rescue the old worker, even though they knew that it was a disaster for the old worker to fall into the most dangerous section of the river.
"You want to see people alive, you want to see corpses when you're dead!"
The couple surnamed Zhang said they were willing to pay 10,000 yuan in hard work as long as they fished out the old workers.
According to the thinking of the couple surnamed Zhang, although the old worker is from outside the country, he has worked in his own battlefield for so many years. Giving him a decent burial is the most basic respect, but compensating his family is another matter.
The story of the 10,000 yuan hard-earned fee spread in the surrounding villages. In an era when the average annual household income was only three to four thousand yuan, 10,000 yuan was undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
People with fishing boats in the surrounding villages began to organize salvage operations.
"Most likely they were washed up in Guitou Bay."
The crowd, who had been searching for it day and night without success, began to guess where the old worker's body was washed up.
No one knows the original name of Guitou Bay. Everyone only knows that several generations of people have called that section of the river Guitou Bay.
Guitou Bay is twenty miles away from the battlefield. It is a sharp bend in the Yellow River waterway. There are towering stone cliffs on both sides of Guitou Bay. The speed of the water in the upper reaches is extremely scary, but the water in the lower reaches becomes gentle.
Over the years, many ship accidents have occurred here, and people have even seen the remains of ship hulls washed up by the river on the rock cliffs and accumulated dust for many years.