Chapter 361 Cash Crops
After the rapeseed is harvested and sent home, it still cannot be threshed immediately.
If harvested when ripe, the pods filled with rapeseeds will explode immediately with just a slight external touch, and the rapeseed kernels inside will be instantly ejected and sent to all directions.
Therefore, although the current rapeseed pods are full, they still have a little time to mature.
In this little time, you can wait in the yard.
Wait until the pods are ripe and dry, and then beat them repeatedly with a flail to release the rapeseeds.
Finally, all the rapeseed branches are picked up, the rapeseed is sieved, and the soot is blown.
The whole process, which lasted several days, was also quite cumbersome. Especially the last step of sifting and blowing...
Zhang Sijiu, whose arms were sore and his cheeks were sore, had blurred vision, and what was playing over and over in his mind was a barrage: Every drop of freshly squeezed rapeseed oil is as precious as gold.
Zhaoyin held down Zhang Sijiu and said, "I'll do it. Jiuniang, you don't have enough physical strength."
In the past six months, Zhaoyin Nutrition has been able to keep up and has jumped up a lot. Visually, it is at least about 1.67 meters, and the breakthrough of 1.7 meters is just around the corner.
And those toned muscles...
It is the dream of many fitness people.
Mrs. Xu has worried about her future marriage to Zhao Yin more than once.
But Zhaoyin himself didn't take it seriously at all, and happily said to Zhang Sijiu: "It's just right if you can't find them. They are too short, I don't like them."
Zhang Sijiu handed the sieve to Zhaoyin and took out the cake painting method: "When the oil is squeezed out, I will bring the first spoonful to Zhaoyin to make something delicious for you!"
According to her discussion with Yang Yuanding, the first pot of oil must be fried dough sticks, fried chicken, fried meatballs, and fried meat skewers!
Zhaoyin laughed twice: "Jiuniang, you go and have a rest. If you don't give me anything to eat, I will do it."
Zhang Sijiu: ...I didn’t expect that the first person in the family who was desensitized to the art of painting cakes was actually Zhaoyin! This is the hidden wisdom!
However, the rapeseed harvest is good, so even if the whole family goes to battle, the three baskets of rapeseed will not be finished in a while.
Aunt Li and several other young women enthusiastically ran over to help, and finally managed to clean the three baskets of rapeseed before the wheat was taken back.
The dark rapeseed seeds, which are about the same size as sesame seeds, are unremarkable whether they are smelled or chewed. Everyone is very skeptical about the fact that they can extract oil.
However, after the villager pinched two pills, he was very sure: "I can extract oil, but I don't know if I can eat it."
Mrs. Xu smiled and made a promise: "If the oil is really extracted, then my family will get a share, and each of your families will get a bowl!"
When others come to help, you can't really take it for granted.
Especially Aunt Li's family.
Nowadays, the Zhang family's life is getting better, but they are even busier. Little Pumpkin still spends most of the time raising it there. Although it has been weaned from breast feeding and eating complementary food, it doesn't take time to eat, drink, poop, play with and coax him to sleep.
Moreover, Aunt Li’s family has raised seven or eight pigs this year, so she has more work to do.
Come to help at this time, it is true that a friend in need is a friend indeed.
The Li family's aunt looked at Zhang Sijiu happily: "What are we talking about? If it weren't for Jiuniang, my Tiedan would have suffered a lot."
Tiedan was a little sick before, but no one in the Li family noticed it. Zhang Sijiu accidentally discovered it when he went to pick up the little pumpkin. He told the Li family's aunt, and he was treated in time, so he didn't become a serious problem.
Mrs. Xu laughed: "Isn't that what it should be?"
The relationship between the two families is getting better and better now, and the Li family's aunt has said more than once that she wants to adopt Little Pumpkin as her goddaughter.
The cleaned rapeseed was personally delivered by Zhang Xiaoshan to a house not far from the Yamen.
Yang Yuanding bought the house with his own money and used it as his studio.
After what happened with Mr. Zhou, now he is here whether he is drawing drawings or doing research and development.
The management here is militarized - well, we can't afford to hire so many security guards at the moment, so the manpower is seconded from the Yamen.
Anyway, it looks decent.
The first time he pressed oil, he pressed it here. After confirming the process, Yang Yuanding planned to invest in an oil mill.
When Zhang Xiaoshan and Zhang Sijiu passed by, Yang Yuanding was in the yard leading a carpenter to assemble a large tool.
This tool looks round and has four legs, which makes it look a bit naive. However, I can’t tell what it is for the time being.
Yang Yuanding and the carpenter were sweating profusely. When they looked up and saw Zhang Sijiu, they bared their big white teeth and said, "Jiu Niang, here you are! Didn't you tell me that it's too tiring to sift out the ashes? Come and see, I'll do it."
Get a blower!”
Zhang Sijiu glanced at the round machine: Blower?
"Blower? How to use it?" Zhang Sijiu walked up to it curiously and circled it twice more, but still couldn't see anything.
Yang Yuanding took Zhang Sijiu and introduced: "Look, there is a bucket at the top. After the food is poured in, it will slide down through the small leak. And here, in the belly, there is another set of fan blades. Turn the handle.
After that, the fan blades started to rotate, causing the wind to flow. The wind blew in that direction——"
Yang Yuanding pointed to the exit on the other side: "The dust and empty particles will be carried out by the wind due to insufficient weight. The remaining rapeseeds with full particles and some fine stones will be carried out by the wind.
It fell due to gravity, and finally came out from the hole at the bottom."
He patted the final outlet of the grain: "Isn't it very convenient to put a basket underneath and drag it away when it is full? Moreover, depending on the grain, the speed of turning the handle is different, which will also cause wind force
The size and speed are different, so it can be applied to every kind of food! Jiuniang, are you very powerful?!"
Obviously, Yang Yuanding was very excited. His eyes were shining with excitement.
That energetic look made Zhang Sijiu couldn't help but laugh along with Canran: "Awesome! It's simply awesome!"
The next moment, Yang Yuanding happily said to Zhang Sijiu: "I can install it tonight and send it over tomorrow so you can use it!"
Zhang Sijiu looked at his smiling face and almost couldn't bear to tell him that he wouldn't be able to use it this year.
She sighed, pinched her sore arm, and said regretfully: "We came here today to deliver rapeseeds."
Yang Yuanding:......
Regarding his visible loss, Zhang Sijiu had to comfort him: "But there is still wheat. Don't worry. It will definitely be used!"
Even if you don’t use it, it’s still worth being happy for this intention!
Zhang Sijiu said sincerely: "This blower is really very practical for farmers."
Zhang Xiaoshan listened for a long time, and at this time he couldn't help but touch the blower. His eyes were a little more enthusiastic than when he looked at Xu: "Is this really so easy to use? If so, wouldn't it be great when harvesting in the future?
Save a lot of effort?"
You know, to remove ashes now, people have to stand there with a dustpan and lift the ashes over and over again! Not only is it tiring, but it’s still slow!
However, Zhang Sijiu is still more concerned about rapeseed oil.
Chapter completed!