Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 144 Kidnapping

Wen Qing was also very happy. She now went to work every day and led a very ordinary life, focusing her main energy on the winery.

The new winery put 30 new wine cellars into production. Wen Qing also dug some yellow mud from the space and started to maintain the remaining 40 wine cellars, hoping to put them into use next spring.

In the spring, the orchard has a bumper cherry harvest, and the orchard now employs six orchard keepers. After everyone picks the cherries, Wen Qing asks the orchard keepers, Master Li and Master Tang, to take some of the cherries to the town to sell. Fruit vendors also come to the orchard to buy some. The orchard earns a total of 5 yuan, and Wen Qing immediately gives several of the orchard keepers bonuses of 2 to 300 yuan.

They were very envious of the fact that the winery workers received bonuses during the Spring Festival, but the orchard had not made any profit, so during the Spring Festival, Wen Qing only gave them some food as welfare.

Now that the orchard is profitable, Wen Qing promptly pays out rewards to let everyone know that only by creating profits can there be effectiveness, rather than taking rewards for granted.

On the weekend, Wen Qing went up the mountain to inspect the orchard. He said hello to Master Li and Master Tang who were looking after the orchard, and climbed up the mountain by himself.

In early summer, the peaches and apricots in the orchard are not ripe yet, only the tips of the fruit are faintly red. The apples and pears are still green, but as big as ping-pong balls, enjoying the sunshine on the branches.

In the orchard, the trees blocked the sunlight, so it was not as hot as at the foot of the mountain. It was very comfortable to walk there, and she reached the top of the mountain in a short while.

There are 200 acres of forest in the front mountain, which is about 13 square meters, which is not a large area; there are 100 acres of forest in the back mountain, which is about 6 square meters. Together, it is almost 20 square meters, which is equivalent to 28 football fields. It is not small when you think about it.

Along the way, Wen Qing's thoughts raced, thinking about what to do with the fruits after harvesting them? Should they be sold? Or made into fruit wine?

The hill was about 400 meters high. When she reached the top, she turned toward the back hill. She had lived here for more than three years, but she had not yet finished walking through the entire forest.

After climbing over a hill and walking for about two hours, they finally passed through the forest. Wen Qing calculated that based on her speed, they had walked about ten kilometers.

Standing on the hillside, there is a vast lake in front of me. It turns out that I have arrived at Qingyun Lake. Looking at the sparkling lake surface, I feel that the wind blowing from the lake is cooler.

At this time, a small van drove up on the road from a distance. There was no cement paved on the lakeside here, only bumpy gravel roads, and usually no cars came here. Wen Qing shrank under the shade of the trees on the mountain, feeling that this car was a little strange.

The car approached and stopped at a corner under the cliff, just out of sight from the road.

The car door opened, a man got out from the passenger seat and stood in front of the car, and two more men got out from the car.

The two men carried out a box covered with black cloth from the carriage. The thing was quite large, probably about one meter wide and one meter high.

The man standing in front of the car said, "This place is very remote, no one comes here."

A man carrying a box asked, "Didn't we receive it...? Do you want more...?" His voice was so soft that Wen Qing couldn't hear it clearly.

The man standing in front of the car said something and waved.

The two men were carrying things towards the lake. Wen Qing's heart tightened. She took a few steps quietly, walked around the two men from a distance and headed towards the lake.

As I got closer, I heard a man carrying a box say, "He saw our faces, we can't let go."

Another man carrying a box asked, "Just throw it here?"

The first person to speak said, "Is he awake?"

Another man said: "He was drugged just now, and he probably hasn't woken up yet."

The first man to speak: "It's not painful to drown while unconscious."

A man uttered, "So you did something good?"

The man who said to give me medicine said maliciously: "Hou San, what do you mean by that?"

Hou San quickly laughed and said, "Brother Jin, I was just kidding."

Wen Qing saw two people carrying things onto a small boat tied nearby. They placed the box on the bow, untied the ropes, and rowed toward the lake.

She quietly entered the water from a distance, dived to the bottom of the water, and swam quickly under the boat.

She quickly swam under the boat and held onto the bottom of the boat. The boat stopped 200 meters from the shore. She heard something being pushed into the water and quickly put the object into the space.

Then he picked up the black cloth that fell into the water and flashed into the space.

Wen Qing saw that the thing was an iron cage, with an unconscious middle-aged man in the cage. Although he drank a few sips of water, he did not wake up. She gave the man a blow, letting him remain unconscious, and covered the cage with a black cloth, observing the movements of the boat outside the space.

The people on the boat pushed the cage into the water and rowed the boat towards the shore.

Wen Qing came out of the space again, swam far away from the bottom of the water, and quietly hid beside a big rock on the lakeshore.

I saw a man smoking by the car and two people rowing back. The smoking man walked to the shore, took the rope thrown by the people in the boat and tied it to a tree. A man asked, "Boss, where can we hide?" From the voice, it was Hou San.

The smoking man said, "Let's go to the northern grassland first and come back after this gust of wind passes."

The others had no objections and nodded.

A man said, "Boss, show me the money."

The smoking man said, "Ah Jin, you want to share the money now?"

Ah Jin said hurriedly: "Forget it, no rush, let's leave here first and find a safe place to talk about it."

The boss threw his cigarette butt into the water and said, "Get in the car."

Several people got on the car, one person on the passenger seat, two people in the car, and there was a driver, at least four people in total.

Wen Qing waited until they walked away, took the iron cage out of the space, and lifted the black cloth. Only then could she see the man in the cage clearly.

This was a slightly fat middle-aged man, his hands and feet were tied, he was unconscious, his face was pale, he was wearing a gray shirt and black trousers, his body was soaked, and he looked very disheveled.

Wen Qing unscrewed the wire that bound the iron cage, and untied the ropes tied to the man's hands and feet. She tried the man's breathing at his mouth and nose, and found that there was no big problem. She put the iron cage next to a big rock and waited for the man to wake up and come out by himself.

She chased the van onto the road and saw that it had gone far away, becoming a small dot. She ran along the road for a distance, turned a corner, then took out the jeep and chased in the direction the van had gone.

Not long after Wen Qing left, the man in the iron cage woke up and found himself by the lake. He looked around and saw that there was no one around. His hands and feet had been released. He wondered if the kidnappers were trustworthy and would release him after receiving the ransom. But he was wet, probably because he had been soaked in water. What was going on?

He carefully crawled out of the iron cage and staggered towards the road. He had been kidnapped these days, and one of the kidnappers was even someone he knew.

He knew that he had fallen into someone's trap. During the two days of being kidnapped, the kidnappers only gave him water and two steamed buns. He thought he had no way to escape this time, but who knew that they actually let him go.

The man walked on the road for more than an hour before he found a place to make a phone call. He had no money, so he said a lot of nice things before he was able to borrow a phone and called his family. He then waited for nearly an hour before a car came to pick him up.

This man is the patriarch of a large family. Although they have experienced turmoil, the family is very low-key and outsiders do not know the family's background. They have always been safe. Now that the situation has improved, he is about to make a big move, but he was kidnapped.

The disaster he encountered this time was caused by an internal thief who lured him out and kidnapped him.

After returning home, this man conducted a thorough investigation and finally found the family parasite. It turned out to be his father's half-brother, his uncle. He was unwilling to just eat leftovers and wanted to get rid of him and take over himself.

He thought that if they dared to take the risk, they would have to be prepared to bear his wrath, so he prepared a last dinner for the family and drove them all to the northwest.

But he still had doubts about how he escaped, and he investigated secretly.