Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 58 The Joy of Harvest

After tidying up and digging up the ground to plant miscellaneous grains such as corn and sorghum, Luo Tiandu finally remembered the [-] catties of cloud sprouts left in the oil workshop.

"Mother, should I go to the oil mill to pick up the oil today?" Luo Tian calculated that [-] catties of rapeseed should be able to extract about [-] catties of oil. With so much oil, there is only the big water tank that the family bought last time. In order to hold it, I stored the pickled vegetables in the vat into several large jars, washed the water vat clean and kept it at home, waiting to be filled with oil.

Fang replied, looking at Luo Tiandu's determined expression, she felt a little bit of anticipation in her heart.

"This time, let's ask Shang Dad to go together, mother, you can't push back alone." Luo Tian didn't want to exhaust Fang Shi to death just to push this little oil.

Luo Baisu responded, and borrowed a cart from Changhui's house, and the family headed for Zheng's oil shop in a mighty way.

When you meet someone you know well on the road, you can't help but ask, "You big family, where are you going with your cart?"

Fang didn't want to reveal a little bit of cloud sprout seed oil before he actually saw the vegetable oil, so he could only vaguely say: "Go to the town to buy some things."

The man then said enviously and enviously: "Sister-in-law Wu's family is getting better and better now, and I go to the town to buy things from time to time."

Fang smiled and said: "It's not that there is not enough food at home, I want to buy some food back, otherwise the whole family will be hungry."

That person is also not innocent, and he doesn't know how to stop everything. Obviously, Fang is using words to perfuse him, but he keeps asking: "There are many people in the village who have surplus food at home, why do they have to go to the town to buy it? Not to mention the high price, people have to work hard.”

Luo Tian covered his mouth and laughed, to see how Fang would respond.

Fang's babbled so much that he prevaricated and sent him away.

Luo Tiandu laughed and teased Fang Shi: "Mother, you are lying."

Mrs. Fang glared at her, and said: "It's not all your fault. You insisted on planting this cloud stalk, and now you are shouting out. If you don't bring the oil back, you won't be laughed at."

Luo Tian felt that Fang's was good everywhere, but one thing was that he cared too much about other people's opinions.You live your life by yourself, why do you always think about what others think of you?Luo Tian couldn't understand it.

Fang felt that she was a child after all, and she didn't know that people's words were scary. Sometimes, killing people didn't have to be with a knife, just gossip could kill people alive.

"You are still young, and the rumors can't hurt you. Wait for another two years. When you grow up, you can't be like this, especially you can't talk back to your elders. What you said to Ying Er last time, you can't Besides, if you tell the second person, you will die in your heart from now on, do you hear me?" Fang then warned her sternly.

"I see." Luo Tian nodded hastily. Every time Fang shows that expression, she'd better agree obediently and quickly if she is sensible. If she hesitates or is reluctant, she will definitely read it to her ears when she returns home. Raw cocoons. "

After a lot of noise all the way, they finally arrived at Zheng's Oil Factory.

This season, the oil shop business is very light, not as busy as when they delivered tallow oil last time, the yard is also clean, there are no hazelnuts and tung seeds piled up for oil extraction, and the oil shop is also quiet, I can no longer hear the shocking crash when I came back last time.

But this didn't affect Luo Tiandu's excited mood at all. Thinking that more than 400 catties of vegetable oil would be carried home soon, she was as happy as a bird flying in the sky.

"Is anyone here? Is anyone here?" Luo Tiandu pushed open the door of the dark oil workshop and called out in repeated voices, "Uncle Zheng, we are from Luojia Village, and we are here to fetch oil today."

"Hey——come, come." A hearty female voice came from the back of the yard, and then someone pushed open the dark wooden door behind the oil workshop and walked in.

"Aunt Zheng, we are here to fetch oil." Luo Tian was in a good mood, and even his mouth became sweeter, "I haven't seen you in winter, and Aunt Zheng is much younger again."

"You're a kid who knows how to be talkative." Mrs. Zheng took off her apron and beckoned them to come in and sit down with a smile.

Luo Tian couldn't wait to go in, unable to hold back the excitement in his heart, his eyes kept searching the oil workshop, and soon saw two large oil drums in the corner.The oil barrel is an old-fashioned wooden oil barrel, with four iron hoops firmly around the outside of the barrel, and a lid on it.

Mrs. Zheng's family led them to the oil barrel, unscrewed the lid of the barrel, and saw the brown rapeseed oil exuding a strong oily fragrance.

It was only at this time that Fang's heart was finally settled, and he knew that this was the oil squeezed by the cloud sprouts.

The lady of Zheng's family smiled and said: "I squeezed 420 seven catties of oil, and I kept five catties according to the rules, and the remaining 420 two catties are in these two barrels."

Luo Tiandu also had a happy expression on his face.She originally thought that the original oil extraction method was relatively backward, and the oil yield would be relatively low, which was 22 catties at most, which was [-] catties more.

One must know that edible soybean oil is 22 cents a catty, and rapeseed oil is no worse than soybean oil. [-] catties of oil is a lot of money, which is really not a small sum.

Fang's face was also beaming with excitement, touching the edge of the vat, smelling the scent of vegetable oil in the air, she couldn't believe it: "Sister Zheng, is this true? These two barrels of oil belong to our family?"

The wife of Zheng's family looked puzzled: "Your family is the only one coming to extract oil this month, so you can't make a mistake, but your family sent more than 500 catties of cloud sprouts, which can squeeze out 410 seven catties of oil. rare."

That's natural. Rapeseed has the highest oil yield among all oil crops.Luo Tian was so happy that her eyes were narrowed into slits, she wished she could sell the oil immediately and exchange it for cash, she could even imagine the crisp and beautiful sound of round copper coins falling into the jar.

Fang paid the 420 taels very readily, and even thought for the first time that it would be better if he could pay a few dozen more.

Because the amount of oil was relatively large, Fang still borrowed the Zheng family's oil barrel to carry it back, and then sent the oil barrel to the Zheng family after storing the oil in his own tank.

The lady of Zheng's family readily agreed, fearing that it would be difficult for Fang to pour the oil back home, she specially brought a funnel to Fang, and finally asked his man to help Luo Baisu carry the two heavy oil drums onto the cart. The oil cakes left over from oil extraction were also sent to the car.

This thing can be used not only to fertilize the field but also as fodder for pigs and cattle. Her family has no livestock, so it is good to sell it or give it to acquaintances.

Luo Tian also wanted Mrs. Zheng's family to help promote her rapeseed oil, and before leaving, he told Mrs. Zheng's family that the oil squeezed this time was edible.

The lady of Zheng's family covered her mouth and smiled straight: "Since it is the oil of cloud sprouts, it is naturally edible. You are really an honest person, and you even told me specifically."

Luo Tian was made to blush, and he felt that he was just a gangster. People, old and young, have been extracting oil for generations, and their eyes couldn't be sharper, and she needed to remind them.

When they came, it was Fang who pushed the cart, and when they went back, Luo Baisu dragged the cart and walked in front, Fang and Luo Mingdu Luo Tian followed behind and pushed.

The wheels of the cart are all made of wood, which does not save a lot of effort. More than 400 catties of oil, plus barrels, and dozens of catties of oil cakes, are almost all pulled by manpower. Even so, the family is also very happy , I don't feel tired at all.

"Father, let's keep 400 catties of oil for our family to eat, and sell the rest." Fang was overjoyed, and she had always regarded her as useless, and even thought it was a cloud that lost money. However, it turns out that it can really make money.

How much can you sell for four hundred catties of oil?Fang felt that she couldn't count.

"Let's keep some more for ourselves. Just keep seventy catties. Don't work so hard to plant it once. You are even reluctant to eat it." Luo Tiandu felt that only twenty catties was too little, and the family of four always ate it on weekdays. For some boiled vegetables, it is rare to see even a little bit of oily foam. Usually it is fine, but like this time when the farming is busy, it is necessary to eat more oily water, otherwise the body will not be able to bear it, and Luo Mingdu is just growing up. At that time, she thought there was no way to do it because she had no conditions, but now that she had rapeseed oil, she naturally wanted to make more delicious food for Luo Mingdu.Besides, it’s not a problem to have oil at home. If you have nothing to do, make some fried snacks, which everyone loves, especially children. If you sell them near the school in the town, the business will definitely not be bad.

"Well, it's all up to you." Although Luo Baisu still looked reticent as usual, there was a gleam of joy in his face and eyes.

No matter who is facing such a big harvest, they will not be able to suppress the joy in their hearts.

Luo Mingdu has learned arithmetic well recently, so he started to settle accounts there: "420 two catties, we keep 350 catties for ourselves, then we have 25 two catties to sell, one five gets five, five five twenty five..." Luo Tian They only taught her addition, subtraction, multiplication and division up to thousands of digits, and she couldn't understand anything beyond thousands of digits. She frowned and wriggled her fingers, repeating over and over the ninety-nine multiplication table that Luo Tiandu taught her to memorize, but still nothing. I understand.

Luo Tian took the opportunity to teach her how to flexibly use the arithmetic operations she had mastered: "Elder sister, 350 two catties, fifty cents per catty, you can take it apart and count. How much can you sell for a hundred catties? How many hundred catties are there?" ?”

Listening to Luo Tiandu and Luo Ming muttering calculations behind them, Fang Shi and Luo Baisu looked at each other and smiled.

Luo Mingdu was not stupid, he understood it immediately, muttered and counted again, finally got the result, and said happily: "Mother, apart from our own oil, other oils can be sold for seventeen yuan or six hundred yuan. "

After the calculation, she seemed a little stunned, ran to Fang, and said, "Mother, can you sell this much?"

Luo Tian felt a little complacent, and began to cock his tail superficially: "I just said that planting cloud sprouts only makes money but not compensation. Father and mother didn't believe me back then."

"Yes, yes, it's all due to you." Fang was in a good mood, and Luo Tian didn't care about it at all, so he took all the credit for it by himself.

(End of this chapter)