Chapter Eighteen: Midnight Telegram

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  Liu Daxing is very familiar with the village of Huanhe, and although Yang Jie wrote down a lot of ingredients, he only spent more than two hours preparing everything, and the amount of ingredients prepared was not small.

  What piqued Liu Daxing's interest was the Yangyang wine. As he grew older, Liu Daxing felt increasingly powerless in that regard. After experiencing the effects of the hangover cure, Liu Daxing had high expectations for the Yangyang wine that Yang Jie had mentioned.

  Yang Jie, who was inspecting the various workshops of the winery with Jimmy, saw that Liu Daxing had already returned. He then had these ingredients sent to the technical room of the winery, where new varieties were developed and experimented on. All kinds of tools for blending and brewing wine were available there.

  A mountain town near Yunhe Township has hot springs. Yang Jie asked Secretary Lei's driver to take Jimmy to the mountain town for a soak in the hot springs. Liu Daxing was idle and had nothing to do, so he also shouted that he wanted to accompany Jimmy together. Yang Jie had no choice but to let Liu Daxing go with Jimmy.

  Because Yang Jie needed to use the technical room, Wang Guixi asked the staff in the technical room to leave work ahead of time. After everyone left and only Yang Jie was left in the room, under Xiao Wu's guidance, Yang Jie quickly sorted out the ingredients purchased by Liu Daxing and prepared the necessary materials for functional wine using a scoop.

  The ingredients required for the Yangtze River wine and antihypertensive wine are different. In the future, the production of these two functional wines will be completed in a sterile workshop with high-tech production lines at one time. However, the first generation of the two functional wines does not require such strict requirements, plus Yang Jie is currently working on samples, so it doesn't matter that much.

  The Chinese medicine needs to be ground into a powder, and then different medicines are continuously added for modulation. After the required Chinese medicine and rhizome are all ground into a powder, Yang Jie pours the medicinal powder separately into two 1000ml beakers, adds mountain spring water, and heats it up to decoct the medicine.

  Soon, a strong medicinal smell emanated from the beaker. Yang Jie watched the time and waited until the water had been boiling for twenty minutes before turning off the heat. He then filtered the medicinal liquid in the beaker through ten layers of gauze to remove the dregs, poured it into a measuring cylinder, and added water to two other 500ml beakers containing chemical reagents for further heating treatment.

  After the chemical reagent was heated for ten minutes and completely dissolved in the mountain spring water, Yang Jie put on asbestos gloves, carefully held the beaker, and according to the amount of Chinese medicine liquid on the measuring instrument, poured in an appropriate amount of chemical reagent solution.

  Only the original golden yellow Chinese medicine liquid, after the chemical reagent solution was poured in, quickly underwent a chemical reaction, just like bleach entering turbid water, quickly clarifying the measuring container's Chinese medicine liquid, making the liquid in the measuring container become transparent.

  After finishing all this, Yang Jie took out two 10 kg transparent glass jars from the technical room, poured in 56 degree Liuyang liquor, leaving about one kilogram of space, and then poured the well-configured medicinal liquid into the large jar.

  After pouring the medicinal liquid of the two functional wines into a large wine bottle, Yang Jie sealed the two large wine bottles and then used white non-drying adhesive paper to stick them on the two wine bottles, writing their respective names and making identification marks. Only after that did he record the time when the wine was properly mixed.

  At dinner time, Jimmy and Liu Daxing had just returned from a mountain town. Looking at the two middle-aged men who didn't speak the same language but were shoulder to shoulder, they seemed unusually familiar. The affectionate appearance made Yang Jie feel a sense of strangeness.

  Looking at the driver with a strange expression, Yang Jie suddenly thought of something. After the development of Yishan Town's hot spring industry, due to its proximity to National Highway 137, long-distance truck drivers liked to stop and rest in Yishan Town, thus giving rise to a special service industry. There were no less than 500 prostitutes in Yishan Town. Looking at Jimmy and Liu Daxing's appearance, it seemed that the two had unspeakable secrets.

  "Xiao Jie, is the medicinal wine ready? Can we try it tonight?" Liu Daxing shouted as soon as he entered the room, asking Yang Jie who was sitting on the sofa watching TV.

  Yang Jie glanced at the time, from preparing the functional liquor to now, five hours had passed, and the medicine had fully dissolved into the liquor. "Although it's still a bit short of perfection, this is just a sample, so it's close enough. Have someone move those two large wine bottles over from the technical room!"

  There were still a lot of ingredients left, Yang Jie didn't waste them and packed them into Yang Xin Hua's dormitory in the winery. Next time they need it, they can save the time to buy materials.

  Liu Daxing heard that the medicinal liquor was ready, and his face showed an excited expression. He didn't say a word to Jimmy, but just pulled Jimmy's hand, gave him a wink, and Jimmy understood. The two of them smiled and went to the technical room.

  Before long, Liu Daxing and Jimmy appeared, each carrying a large wine bottle, striding into Yang Xinhua's office.

  "Guixi, go get two wine dividers and twenty 500ml empty bottles to the office." Yang Xinhua instructed Wang Guixi, who was standing outside the door, after Liu Daxing and others put down the large wine bottles.

  Looking at the two bottles of medicinal liquor that were crystal clear and didn't look much different from ordinary white wine, Liu Daxing circled around the large wine bottle a few times before scratching his head and asking Yang Jie: "Little Jie, is this really the medicinal liquor you came up with? Can it really strengthen yang and lower blood pressure?"

  "Little brother-in-law, you'll know when the time comes, but don't let my mom know about your trip to Yishan Town!" Yang Jie chuckled and teased Liu Daxing, making him feel embarrassed. Looking at Yang Xinhua sitting beside him with a serious face, Liu Daxing suddenly felt guilty and smiled awkwardly before glaring at Yang Jie.

  Wang Guixi acted quickly, and the wine divider and empty bottles were soon delivered to the office. Yang Jie took over the wine divider, inserted it into the sealed holes of the two large wine bottles, put one end of the wine divider into the empty bottle, squeezed the wine divider, and divided the liquor from the large wine bottles into small bottles.

  Twenty 500ml empty liquor bottles, just enough for ten bottles of medicinal liquor. Liu Daxing took the non-stick stickers and made labels on the bottles before putting the remaining half of the medicinal liquor in two large bottles into the corner of Yang Xinhua's office.

  "Jie, can these two bottles of medicinal wine be sent to the county town? Luo Lun has high blood pressure, and Jamieson's side is not doing well. I want them to try it separately." Jimmy was a foreign merchant, he knew that Yang Jie would never dare to give the wine to Jamieson if he wasn't confident in its effects, and he also wanted to confirm whether these two medicinal wines were effective or not.

  "No problem, I can have Secretary Lei's driver deliver the wine to the county right away." Yang Jie smiled and nodded upon hearing this, then casually picked up two bottles of functional wine from the table, each wrapped in a different colored plastic bag. "However, these two types of wine haven't been diluted again, so their medicinal effects may be stronger. You can't drink too much, no more than one bottle per day."

  Jimmy nodded, picked up a pen from his desk and wrote down the effects of the two wines on a letterhead, along with some instructions. Only then did he let Yang Jie arrange for a driver to take him back to the county, where he was handed over to Luo Lun and Jamison.

  Dinner was held at Yang Jie's home, where Liu Daxing still had two hangover pills. Before eating, he and Yang Xinhua each took one, so when drinking with Jimmy, the two were also heroic and bold. Several people took turns toasting Jimmy, letting the good drinker Jimmy drink until he shouted in delight, finally getting drunk again.

  "Ding ding ding......"

  A piercing phone ring, in the dead of night, came from Yang Xinhua's home. Drunken Yang Xinhua struggled to pick up the phone on his bedside table.

  "What! Alright, I'll get Yang Jie to return to the county immediately!" After hearing the words on the other end of the phone, Yang Xinhua couldn't help but rub his temples in frustration and accompanied Jimi in drinking, getting him drunk as well. If it weren't for the sobering medicine, he would have probably passed out by now.

  "Xiao Jie, Xiao Jie!" Yang Xinhua leaned on his cane and walked out of the bedroom, knocking on Yang Jie's door.

  "Dad, who's on the phone? What happened?" Yang Jie also heard the phone ringing in the living room and saw Yang Xinhua getting out of bed so late to call him, knowing that something important must have happened.

  "The county committee office director Chen's phone call, it was all because of that Yangyang wine causing trouble. A foreigner who came with Jimmy to inspect, drank the Yangyang wine and couldn't hold back at night, went to find a mistress, but encountered police inspection and got caught in the act. Now he is still being detained by the public security bureau's security team. Old chief asked Director Chen to call you, telling you to hurry back to the county and handle this matter in a low-key way." Yang Xinhua complained to Yang Jie with an unpleasant tone.

  "Can't Jamieson help but go find a mistress at night? And got caught? What's going on here? Didn't the county arrange for someone to take care of them? How could something like this happen?" Yang Jie heard and immediately burst out laughing, not taking it seriously at all.

  "Stop stalling, Director Chen has already sent a car to pick you up. This matter must be resolved as soon as possible. Secretary Zhou is furious and County Magistrate Zhang is holding the county party committee office accountable for mishandling the situation, saying that if Jimmy and his group don't invest in the county, the county party committee office will bear the main responsibility." Yang Xinhua knew that Zhou Dali and Zhang Dasen were at odds with each other, even though he wasn't in the county.

  Yang Jie's face suddenly sank when Yang Xinhua said this, and it was Zhang Daxian again. He was afraid that Jamison had been caught, and it was also inseparable from Zhang Daxian's black hand. There were few foreigners in Yunhe County, and Jimi and his party came to Yunhe County for inspection. The public security department had received notification early and had carried out security rectification in advance. How could they catch Jamison into the Public Security Bureau during the temporary inspection?

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