Zhou Liru's "Kiwi Love" Life

In the Yunlong demonstration area of Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, there is a beautiful and fresh administrative village with convenient transportation-Traffic Village. The mountains here are not high, but there are verdant trees and fragrant flowers. The water here is not deep, but there are waves of light, fish jumping and frogs singing. Recently, a new scene has been added here-the plaque of "Panlong kiwifruit Ecological Park" on the tall gatehouse is very conspicuous. Walking into the garden, looking around, a lush trapezoidal hillside, rows of macaque peach trees luxuriant branches and leaves, clusters of fresh fruit nestled between the branches and leaves, it is lovely. The kiwifruit ecological park, which covers an area of 40 mu, has a large scale and attracts a pair of delighted eyes.

Out of the ecological park, in the Panlong high-tech park adjacent to the cement road, Panlong kiwifruit wine brewing Co., Ltd. is full of wine flavor and joy. In the bright and clean storage tower, a batch of new wine has been successfully brewed, all the indicators are up to the standard, only waiting for the source to be bottled and listed on the market. In only two years, the kiwifruit trees in the ecological park have hung fruit, and the wine in the brewery has been fragrant, which is undoubtedly a miracle. Zhou Liru, Zhou Jiaqing and his son are the miracle workers. It is they who use painstaking efforts and sweat to cultivate kiwifruit and brew "kiwi love" brand wine, which leads you into their world with strong aroma.

Fall in love with kiwifruit

A chance to meet by chance. One day in 2004, Zhou Liru went for a walk in Central South Forestry College, which is not far from home. In the luxuriant plantation, which is the teaching base of the campus, he saw dozens of kiwifruit trees growing happily and couldn't help enjoying them. In his twenties, he is quite interested in new things. He once learned on the Internet that kiwifruit has high nutritional value and is known as the king of fruit. At this time, Professor Zhao Sidong of the school happened to come to the plantation. Zhou Liru, regardless of strangers, asked each other for advice with great interest. Professor Zhao spoke highly of kiwifruit, and he was so moved by Zhou Liru's love of kiwifruit that he was willing to help the supernumerary student from the bottom of his heart. He introduced kiwifruit, also known as rattan pear. It has been recorded and described as early as in the Book of songs. By the Tang Dynasty, kiwifruit had been chanted by poets. The famous poet Cen Shen wrote "A kiwifruit on the atrium well column". It can be seen that kiwifruit was planted as an ornamental plant in the courtyard more than a thousand years ago. It was also used as a medicine for a long time, and pharmacologists in the Song Dynasty believed that this juicy and delicious wild fruit had the functions of relieving thirst, eliminating annoyance and clearing heat. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "it is shaped like a pear and its color is like a peach, and the macaque likes to eat, so it is named." Kiwifruit is not only delicious, kiwifruit is rich in VC, VE, SOD and 17 essential amino acids and minerals, known as "king of fruit", "fruit of longevity", "medical holy hand" and so on. The roots, stems and leaves of rattan pear, which is known as the "king of fruit" in the world, have been proved to have the effect of anti-cancer and anti-cancer in modern medicine. Professor Zhao also enthusiastically introduced the habits and planting techniques of kiwifruit as well as points for attention. A rare encounter, a vivid lesson, let Zhou Liru get the treasure. From then on, kiwifruit took root in his heart.

Kiwifruit is a deciduous tree and is suitable for mountain growth. Zhou Liru and his son rented more than 2,000 mu of mountain land in Shizhuang Village, Yaojiaba Township, the city, and did the land forest certificate for 50 years. Zhou Liru is optimistic about this sandy mountain area and envisages developing it into a planting base for kiwifruit. At the same time, kiwifruit can be used to brew nutritious, delicious and fragrant fruit wine. His son, Zhou Jiaqing, is an enterprising and pioneering young man who fully agrees with his father. As a result, Zhou Liru began a difficult road construction project in the village. After working hard day and night, he finally built a 5.7-kilometer cement road running through the mountains and built a substation. This Shizhuang Road also facilitates the travel of some villagers in Shizhuang Village. When the road was built, the Zhou father and son did not collect a penny from the beneficiary villagers and sent a little work. The matter is a good talk in the local area. A local villager heard that Zhou Liru had the intention of making wine and knew who he was, so he specially introduced one of his cousins to Zhou Liru. His cousin is a master Dai who has been brewing local fruit wine for many years and has accumulated rich wine-making skills. Zhou Liru met the master for the first time, and the two talked happily with each other. Master Dai promised to accept him as an apprentice and teach him his lifelong skills without charging any fee. Zhou Liru was overjoyed and fascinated, and the great event that he had always dreamed of in life had begun.

In 2011, Master Dai gave guidance on the location, planning, construction, equipment purchase and installation of the winery, and both master and apprentice discussed. In the wine-making process, Master Dai gave all he had to teach skills. Zhou Liru listens carefully and digests carefully. Zhou Liru was not highly educated but savvy, could not write well and had a good memory. He soon understood the basic technology of brewing fruit wine. Master Dai appreciated this modest and studious apprentice very much, and Zhou Liru secretly made up her mind: we should not let the master's painstaking efforts be wasted. Zhuzhou people can also make fine wine and let our kiwifruit wine go to the world.

Pour out the fruit with sweat and painstaking efforts

With the careful guidance of Professor Zhao and the careful instruction of Master Dai, Zhou Liru broadened his mind. he was determined to do something he had never experienced before and embark on a road he had never set foot in. He wants to start growing kiwifruit and brewing fruit wine at the same time to form a supporting project to ensure that both raw materials and production are in place. He consulted with his son, who agreed with and fully supported what his father had decided. When the two men agreed on the scale, they thought that it was too early to start planting kiwifruit on 2,000 mu of land, and that they could first try planting kiwifruit on a smaller scale, make wine at the same time, and then expand production on 2,000 mu of mountain land.

Yunlong demonstration Zone, which is under construction like a raging fire, has become a new bright spot in Zhuzhou's economic development. The traffic villages in this area are "attracting Phoenix into the nest" on preferential terms. Zhou Liru, whose ancestral home is in Yunlong District, hit it off with village cadres and developed kiwifruit cultivation and wine production here.

It is Zhou Liru's temperament and his style to do what he says and do. He chose a 40-mu mountain surrounded by hills on all sides and low-lying in the middle. According to the needs of kiwifruit planting, he dug the mountain bags on all sides into a trapezoid, and then according to the growth characteristics of kiwifruit, dug out loose soil and water ditches, and each row of planting sites were installed with watering plastic pipes. Kiwifruit has high nutritional value, natural and delicate nature, and its mother soil should be moist and transparent. When the land was arranged and the basic conditions were in place, Zhou Liru bought back 2,000 kiwifruit saplings. Like a newborn baby, he planted the saplings carefully in the soil, carefully examined whether they had been planted safely, and looked back at the newly settled creatures after a few steps.

From then on, Zhou Liru attached herself to this garden and came here to inspect it every day. He watered, fertilized and weeded the saplings and watched the saplings grow tall. The supply of water and fertilizer for kiwifruit should not be neglected. Next door to the brewing company is an edible mushroom factory. Zhou Liru thought about the mushroom bag after making the edible fungus, but the first-class organic fertilizer proved to be so. Zhou Liru was overjoyed. He held the fungus bag in his hand and called the good guy! Good fertilizer! As a result, he moved the original abandoned mushroom bags to the top of the mountain and became a treasure.

Water is the life of saplings. With Zhou Liru's meticulous care, especially to ensure water supply, kiwifruit seedlings have grown well since 2011, with vigorous rattan branches climbing and emerald leaves with attractive luster. After winter, on a sunny spring day in March 2012, Zhou Liru climbed the mountain against the genial spring breeze. As he approached a sapling, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a burst of ecstasy welled up in his heart. In the green branches and leaves, a cluster of white and yellow flowers bloomed, charming and full. This means that hard work will bear fruit. Zhou Liru watched the flowers for a long time and could not bear to leave. From then on, Zhou Liru was even more careful and determined to be a good flower protector.

In June 2012, Zhou Liru was busy in the ecological park. He patrolled the trees one by one in order to prevent soil erosion in the ditch. He walked down layer by layer, a little tired, in the next slope, suddenly a stumble to step on the void, the person fell. Zhou Liru felt unbearable pain in her left arm and broke a bone in her left lower arm. He came to his son-in-law's hospital, where he received bone correction and bandage, and the doctor told him to rest for a month. Zhou Li can't leave the growing kiwifruit trees in the ecological park, and the trees can't do without him. With his wounded left arm hanging from his neck, he worked as tenaciously as usual with a right hand alone. After he was injured, he didn't have a day's rest, and all the work he had to do was in place to ensure the normal growth of the trees.

It was the height of summer in 2013, when the worst drought in 50 years hit. The scorching sun is like a ball of fire, evaporating all the water in the world, the stream is cut off and the pond is drained. Zhou Liru looked carefully at the top of the mountain against the fiery sun. he saw that the vines were dry, the leaves were withered, and the flowers withered, and his heart ached. At this time, he made up his mind that he must overcome the drought and irrigate the kiwifruit with painstaking efforts and sweat.

When the mountain pond was dry and there was no water to pump, he brought tap water to irrigate the land. The water watered during the day was easy to evaporate, so he decided to water it in the middle of the night. Zhou Liru and his wife get up at 2 am every day. They set off for the ecological park three kilometers away from home in a tricycle with a huge water pitcher firmly on board. When the car drove up the hill, Zhou Liru scratched the water with a bucket spoon and watered the kiwifruit trees, as if carefully feeding a group of crying little lives. They always work from 2: 00 a.m. to 8: 00 a.m., busy with hands and feet for six hours, drenched with sweat. Zhou Liru looked at the trees stretched after watering, with an unwavering goal: to make sure the trees bear rich fruit.

Once again, the spring breeze blew, and the kiwifruit ecological garden became greener and full of vitality. The macaque peach tree vines spread playfully and competed to climb the scaffolding. What is more fascinating is that many small kiwi fruits have been unveiled among the branches and leaves, and a picture of a bumper harvest shows that the mellow "kiwi love" fruit wine will have its own raw materials. Zhou Liru and Zhou Jiaqing smiled happily.

In 2013, Zhuzhou Kiwi Wine Brewing Co., Ltd. was established, the ecological park has been established, the kiwifruit has been produced, the wine-making factories and equipment have been improved one after another, and the trademark "Kiwi Love" has been registered. The company is committed to the scientific research, cultivation, domestication and cultivation of high-quality kiwifruit seedlings, as well as the research and development, production and sales of kiwifruit deep processing products. Adhering to the management policy of "based on biotechnology, developing ecological agriculture and improving the quality of life", they take "cultural guidance" and "healthy nutrition" as the forerunner of product strategy, through continuous product research and research, launch today's Chinese fruit wine family in the noble-"kiwi love" kiwi fruit wine. This is the combination of traditional brewing and modern biological science and technology. Superb production technology and advanced production equipment have created the excellent quality of "kiwi love" kiwifruit wine, inherited the noble pedigree of "Western Han Dynasty wine" for more than 2000 years, and laid the foundation for the positioning of high-end products. Its quality and nutritional elements are several times higher than those of wine, and given the sacred mission of "brewing China's first-class fruit wine"!

In the face of the sacred mission, Zhou Liru did not slack off. He painted the leased factory as new. In the workshop, huge wine tanks are lined up neatly; towering storage towers are as smooth as silver; stainless steel pipelines are shining brightly; bottling lines are smooth and smooth. All this is very standard and complete. But Zhou Liru is always picking on her own shortcomings. He said that if we want to serve the health of the public, we must brew the best kiwifruit wine with the most perfect production equipment and the most satisfactory brewing technology. This is what he thinks, what he says, and what is more, he does so. In order to ensure the quality and hygiene of the wine, he thought the container was very important, so they went to several provinces to buy back the best wine jars.

Zhou Liru and her son Zhou Jiaqing adhere to a belief and set a tone to make their dreams come true: actively, every minute and every second, to produce the best fruit wine and create a first-class brand. The company's job responsibility, product quality, purchase inspection, production safety and other systems are sound and strict. He integrates life, dedication and wine-making into one, which fully embodies the social responsibility of the enterprise. His son Zhou Jiaqing supported his father's career in many aspects. he tried his best to raise money for the brewery company and buy equipment and raw materials; he went around to go through the necessary procedures. However, the son's greatest support for his father is his spiritual needs. Father and son were tired and tired, smiling at each other and full of strength.

It was October 2013, and the company bought a batch of kiwifruit from Shanxi. This batch of kiwifruit is more mature, if not processed in time to make wine, it will be wasted. Zhou Liru immediately organized people to quickly process raw materials. He stayed at the company day and night, working in bright lights at night. He was relieved when he saw the last fruit washed and dried and put into the juicer. Then a colleague told him, Boss Zhou, you have been working here for three days and three nights. Zhou Liru blinked her blood-red eyes and said, "really, I'm not really sleepy yet."

The equipment in the workshop is brand new and neat, clean and standard. This is Zhou Liru under the guidance of the master, combined with their own innovation, to have today's scene. When Master Dai came here, he walked slowly, looked at it carefully, and sometimes caressed it gently, with a rare smile on his face. After reading it, he said to Zhou Liru affectionately, "I didn't expect you to improve the equipment and technology so well, which is better than I thought." He is satisfied with his choice of successors. He really stands out from blue and is far better than blue. He held up a glass of golden, transparent, fruity "kiwi love" wine and said: this wine is mellow, fruity, unique and nutritious. It is really a fine wine.

Bottles of crystal clear "kiwi love" brand fruit wine have left the factory, and all the indicators have been tested to be qualified. Zhou Liru father and son are not intoxicated by success, they are thinking and planning for a more beautiful tomorrow. Tomorrow, the ecological garden of more than 2,000 mu in Yaojiaba Township will be a paradise for the growth of kiwifruit, and the aroma of "kiwi love" brand fruit wine will become more and more intense, overflowing in all directions.