"Oil extraction?"

"So, my niece thought, I wonder if this kind of thing can be used to extract oil—"

"Oil, but isn't there a lot of oil sold on the street now?"

"Second uncle, last year, I only planted one acre of land fruit here, and the output was more than 500 catties-", Shi Niang didn't say yet, she specially asked Mama Li to plant it with relatively barren land.

"What?" Hearing this, Xu Zhongyan's eyes lit up, and he said, "Is there really more than 500 catties?" Then let's quickly find an oil mill and try to see if we can produce oil!"

The yield of sesame seeds per mu is only 80 catties, and this thing actually has 500 catties.

"However, my niece is not very familiar with things outside, so can I bother the second uncle-"

"No problem, you let your people load more than a dozen catties of ground nuts first, and I will go to find an oil mill tomorrow to see if I can squeeze out the oil." Xu Zhongyan said quickly.

Shi Niang remembers that the methods of vegetable oil are all similar, so she doesn't do technical guidance, anyway, she doesn't understand it herself. After going back, she mobilized everyone to start peeling the ground nuts, because this was the first time to squeeze oil, in order to count the oil yield, she also specially asked people to weigh it, weighed a sufficient amount of twenty catties of ground nuts, and handed it to Minglu.

Xu Zhongyan didn't rest here, he walked around in the south of the city for an afternoon, and finally settled on an oil mill, and early the next morning, he took the ground nuts, and Minglu and Xu Daquan went out.

Although the people in the oil mill squeezed this kind of thing for the first time, they did not hurry to do it according to the method of sesame oil, first steamed the nuts, and then pressed, and the oil was squeezed in the evening.

The workshop owner smelled the oil and found that although the mellow fragrance was not as good as sesame oil, it was not much different, so he wanted to ask Xu Zhongyan about the origin of this nut, Xu Zhongyan waved his hand again and again, and said: "This kind of thing is not easy to plant, an acre of land can only produce dozens of catties, which is more difficult to regulate than sesame seeds, even if I tell you, it is not worth fiddling with this thing!"

The workshop owner had no choice but to give up.

Xu Zhongyan went back happily with people and things.

When he got home, he heard that dinner had been ready, and he was waiting for him to start eating, Xu Zhongyan ran to Eleven Niang's Tingfeng Courtyard, handed over the freshly squeezed oil, and the two of them asked Mama Li to fry a plate of Yangzhou fried rice, sent it to the upper room, and dined together.

Although I heard that Fengyuan had a small kitchen, so far the small kitchen, Eleven Niang has been sent to the upper room, and the people in the second room have eaten together, basically I have not enjoyed the convenience of this small kitchen alone, mainly because I am afraid of being said to eat alone.

The original Yangzhou fried rice was fried with lard, which was delicious and delicious, but it lacked a mellow feeling, and it would be greasy if you ate too much, and after changing it to peanut oil, it felt different.

Brother Jun has always been a loyal lover of Yangzhou fried rice, and after eating a bowl of rice, he asked, "Hey, this fried rice seems to be different from the usual feeling?"

Eleven Niang smiled and said, "Big brother's tongue is so sensitive!"

Seeing what his son was going to ask again, Xu Zhongyan said in a timely manner: "If you have to eat, you can eat, ask so much what to do!"

Brother Jun glanced at his father depressedly, and then picked up another bowl of Yangzhou fried rice.

After eating, Eleven Niang was called to the study by Xu Zhongyan.

Xu Zhongyan sat on the chair and asked someone to move out a stool for Eleven Niang to sit on.

"Eleven Niang, this fruit oil is really good, fragrant enough!" Xu Zhongyan praised, and then asked, "How many seeds do you still have in your hands?" ”

Eleven Niang already knew about the oil yield of forty percent, and she asked, "Second uncle, how many acres do you plan to plant next year?"

Xu Zhongyan didn't answer this question, but asked, "How much does this land yield per mu a year?"

"I asked Mama Li to plant an acre last year, harvesting 530 catties of shelled fruits, the shell accounts for 30%, and after the shell, you should be able to get 370 catties of nuts. ”

"370 catties, that acre of land can produce 140 catties of oil, plus direct consumption, so how about we plant three acres next year?" Xu Zhongyan discussed.

"Second uncle, aren't you planning to open a restaurant?" Eleven Niang said: "This fruit oil, today we all smelled it, and tasted it, although it is not as good as sesame oil, but it is not much worse, and some dishes use this fruit oil, but it is also very fragrant."

yes, why didn't he think of this stubble!

"Also, this kernel can not only be used to extract oil, but it is also very fragrant when used for cooking."

"Cooking?"

"Yes, second uncle, what I just thought of when I ate today is that the oil squeezed out is so fragrant, then we can use nuts to cook, such as stuffing with pig's trotters or something. ”

Xu Zhongyan said: "Why don't we try it tomorrow?"

"Okay, I'll let them try it tomorrow, then second uncle, how much do you plan to plant this fruit next year?"

"Alas, Eleven Niang, I still only plant three acres, you also know that the second uncle has no land now, I have to go back to discuss with your uncle if I want to plant, although Mrs. Tai is here, he will definitely agree, but you also know that I have never given this eldest brother a good face before, and now I want to go to the door to beg him, I am uncomfortable......" Xu Zhongyan frowned and said.

That's right, in my impression, this second uncle has never said anything serious to the uncle, thinking of this, Eleven Niang stepped forward and whispered: "Second uncle, why don't we join forces?"

Xu Zhongyan raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you mean?"

Eleven Niang touched her head and said, "What, second uncle, or we will go to other counties to buy another few hundred acres of land, and we will occupy half of each of the two houses." ”

Xu Zhongyan said: "Hundreds of acres, Eleven Niang, you are so angry, one acre of fertile land costs ten taels of silver, and one hundred acres costs one thousand taels, do you still want to buy hundreds of acres? This-you are really embarrassed by your second uncle!"

"Second uncle, I will pay the money for the land first, and then the second uncle will pay me back when the hotel makes money, how about it?

"This—" Xu Zhongyan hesitated.

"Isn't the second uncle confident in himself?"

When Xu Zhongyan heard this, his eyes narrowed, and he said, "Eleven Niang, I found that you are becoming more and more like your father, and you will actually use the radical method on the second uncle!"

"What about the second uncle's decision?" asked Eleven Niang.

"Cheng, let's buy him a few hundred acres of land, tomorrow I will ask someone to find a tooth to inquire, but then again, Eleven Niang, how much money does your little vault have?