I don't want to be a saint

Chapter 235 Do you have time to drink flower wine with me?
Because the signature dishes of Wangjinglou and Yanyulou are all kinds of stir-fried dishes.

Therefore, a lot of fat is consumed every day.Stir-fried vegetables with lard are fragrant, but the smell of oil is too strong.

Therefore, Zhu Laoer ingeniously prescribed two types of cooking oil for diners to choose from, which are lard and soybean oil.

Diners can choose in advance when ordering.

Unexpectedly, there are more diners who choose soybean oil.Because the taste of soybean oil is relatively flat, it is easy to highlight the characteristics and taste of the dish itself.

Ever since, Zhu Er Er, who was more able to live a life, got a small oil press machine in the backyard of the restaurant.

Guo Yi once took a look at it. First, he stacked four large logs into a square column and embedded them on the chassis made of thick boards. flow into the container.

The oil extraction method at this time is to wrap the rapeseed into a cake shape by frying and steaming, put them into the groove next to each other, press it with a spinning process, insert a long wedge, and squeeze out the oil by beating the long wedge .

The method is very clumsy, and the oil yield is not high.

But he was busy making paper and other things at the time, so he didn't think much about it.

It wasn't until later, when he went to Nanping Town, that he suddenly realized that the food for the workers was too scarce. It was either chestnut rice pancakes or wild vegetable dumpling, which didn't have any oily smell.

He thought about making changes at the time, but things were complicated at the time, and he forgot about it.

Today it suddenly came up again, he couldn't help but slapped his head, and smiled wryly: "I know a better oil extraction technique. When I was in Nanping Town, I thought about doing it after I came back. But it's a mess. There are too many things, I have already forgotten."

When Pei Xidao heard this, he couldn't help raising his brows: "Hey! Erlang can even extract oil? According to what you said just now, one stone of beans can produce eleven catties of oil?"

As a gentleman who started as a county magistrate and rose step by step, he naturally knew the method of squeezing oil.

Moreover, he used to be the magistrate of "Hengzhou Mansion" under the jurisdiction of Jinghu South Road.

The mountainous area of ​​Jingnan South Road is rich in tea seeds. The local farmers dry the tea seeds in the slack season, mash them and add straw to make oil cakes, fix them with iron hoops and put them in the barrel of the oil press for Press the oil.

The first step is to dry the returned camellia seeds, which takes about five or six hours to dry completely.

In the second step, the dried tea seeds are poured into a water mill for grinding, and they must be completely ground into powder.Then put the tea seed powder into the cage for steaming.

After steaming, use straw to form oil cakes, fix them with iron hoops, and put them in the chamber of the oil press for oil extraction.

In the horizontal wedge oil press, after the oil cake is installed in the press chamber, a wooden block is inserted on one side of the oil cake, and then a triangular wedge between the wooden blocks is hit with a stone hammer.

As the wedges are driven into the press chamber, the wooden blocks placed horizontally in the press chamber will exert a squeezing force on the oil cake.It is precisely because this triangular wedge plays an important role in the process of oil extraction that this oil press is called a wedge oil press.

With the continuous increase of this power, clear tea oil will flow out.But with this method, the oil yield of soybeans is only about nine catties, which is far less than eleven catties.

Seeing his surprised expression, Guo Yi nodded in agreement and said, "Well! Almost! It should be about ten catties."

His neighbor in the previous life was an earthen workshop made of wood and oil.Although I have never eaten pork, I have seen pigs running.

Then he added: "I'm going to find an old carpenter right now, and after I make it, let Mr. Pei have a look!"

As soon as the words fell, Pei Ruyu couldn't help but sighed: "Erlang is really versatile! He can find water and dig wells, cook stew and boil salt, make paper and weave cloth, make cranes, and raise a lot of chickens, ducks and rabbits." .And now, they still squeeze oil!"

Thinking of him, Pei Ruyu, as the son of the minister's family, walked around the capital, but he had seen countless young and handsome men, and he had never been convinced by anyone.

And Guo Yi, but the first one, is also the only one so far.

This kid is simply too knowledgeable, it seems that there is nothing he can't...

As soon as he finished speaking, the second Zhu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly interrupted: "Guo Erlang, he is not only raising chickens, ducks and rabbits, he is also planning to raise fish!"

fish culture?

Everyone couldn't help being startled. It seems normal to raise fish in this Jiangnan water town, right?

When Guo Yi heard the words, he slapped his head suddenly, it was broken, and he forgot about the two old fish farmers he invited...

Then he turned his head to look at Zhu's second child, seeing him winking at him, he couldn't help laughing wryly: "Is he still with you?"

Because Manager Zhu is too busy with things, Zhu Laoer has a lot of leisure time, so he will let Zhu Laoer do it now if he has something to do.

The two old fish farmers in the 'Old Han Village' were sent by Mr. Zhu to pick them up.

He was going to visit the pond that day, but was delayed by the sudden flood.

Seeing that he finally remembered, Zhu Lao Er couldn't help winking and said: "You are a dignified Director Guo, you forget things so much, I can understand! I can understand!"

Guo Yi ignored his teasing, and asked helplessly, "Where is he? Let's go and have a look!"

After finishing speaking, he announced his crime to the King of Chu and Prime Minister Pei, and then jumped into Zhu's second mule cart and was about to leave.

"Erlang, wait a minute!" Pei Ruyu suddenly stopped him.

Guo Yi didn't understand why he looked at him: "Brother Pei, what's the matter?"

Pei Ruyu's prodigal son turned around, and after he suddenly came to his senses, he no longer had the arrogance he had before in dealing with people and things, and became much more easy-going.

Moreover, a few days ago, he took the initiative to slide with him in the swamp to guide the canal-digging team.

Therefore, the relationship between the two has become much closer.

Pei Ruyu took a few steps forward, said with a smile: "If Erlang is free tonight, why not accompany me to the banquet."

Going to a banquet?

Guo Yi was stunned for a moment: "Where are you going for the banquet?"

"It's an old friend. We had several banquets together in the capital. Unexpectedly, we met again in Jiangling the day before yesterday. He wanted to join the friendship of the landlord, and invited me to have a banquet on a boat by the river tonight.

But since I am not familiar with the place, I thought of Erlang.Are you free tonight? "

A boat by the river?
Is it the flower boat of the brothel?
Guo Yi was quite speechless. In his entire life, he had never been to that kind of fireworks... To put it bluntly, he had never even been to a KTV...

Not because he is innocent, but because he is poor!
But right now it's hard to refuse, everyone has already talked about this, so he can only nod: "Okay! I"

Before he finished speaking, Pei Ruyu cupped his hands with a smile and said, "I knew Erlang would be so generous! If so, thank you very much!

This person is the eldest son of the Wei family, and Erlang should have heard of it.It's good for Erlang to get to know each other, the Wei family is a wealthy family in Jiangling, and we can help each other out in the future. "

Da Lang of the Wei family?

Isn't that Wei Jinglan?

This world is really small!

(End of this chapter)