At this time, it was the afternoon, which was the period when the sun was the largest and most poisonous, but time waited for no one, so Li Yu had no choice but to go out.

Wheat is the world's largest food crop, widely distributed all over the world because of its strong adaptability, from near the Arctic Circle to around the equator, from basins to plateaus, wheat is cultivated, according to its harvest season, divided into spring wheat and winter wheat.

China has a vast territory, can grow both winter wheat and spring wheat, of which winter wheat accounts for more than seventy percent, a considerable part of which is ground into flour, after a process, in the form of pasta into people's mouths.

But what Li Yu was looking for was not ordinary flour, but flour ground with animal power stones.

The kind of flour we see on weekdays that costs a few dollars a pound is milled by machines, and its feel and appearance are not to mention, some extremely fine flour is not even grainy.

Compared with this machine-ground flour, stone-ground flour looks like a dick.

But after being made into pasta, the dick silk counterattacked, and the taste and toughness of stone-ground flour are several grades higher than that of machine-ground flour, just like hand-rolled noodles and machine-made noodles, the difference is quite obvious.

However, with the progress of society, the grain and oil industry pursues higher profitability and higher efficiency, so animal power is inevitably replaced by those assembly lines.

The world's animal power industry is more difficult, animal power is derived from animal husbandry, meat can not be eaten, resulting in the largest source of income for the animal power industry, except for a small number of farmers who are unable to afford trucks, seeders and the like, few have experienced breeding animal power for their own use.

This situation is a bit more severe in Fujian Province, after all, Fujian Province is mountainous, there are few plains, and raising livestock is not the first choice for farmers... The matter of stone grinding flour can only depend on luck.

After going out, Li Yu stopped the car: "Master, go to the grain and oil center in Jin'an District." ”

The grain and oil trading center of Shucheng is located in the north of Jin'an District, the location is a little remote, but it is the largest grain and oil trading center in the five districts and eight counties of Shucheng and even the whole Fujian Province.

Its daily incoming and outgoing trucks are countless, in the non-agricultural season, the daily inbound and outgoing tons are 40,000 or 50,000 tons, and in the busy agricultural season, its daily inbound and outbound tons can be as high as nearly 200,000 tons!

This is a very frightening figure, taking Qinzhou Port, which ranks 25th in China in terms of throughput as an example, how much is its annual throughput? More than 60 million tons! The daily average is only 200,000 tons.

Do you know what that number represents?!

Yes, this means that the people of Fujian Province are very good at eating... Oh no, it's a lot of population =. =

The taxi traveled for almost half an hour and finally arrived at its destination, during which the turbid smell in the taxi also strengthened Li Yu's idea of buying a car.

This is the first time Li Yu has come to the grain and oil trading center in Shucheng, and it is in the afternoon, but in front of the grain and oil trading center, it is still a complicated scene.

In front of the unloading table of the trading center, there are dozens of large trucks, and everywhere you can see workers sweating or wearing vests, or wearing bare backs, struggling to unload bags of goods.

After sighing that it was not easy to do anything, Li Yu turned around and entered the gate.

Entering the gate, Li Yu saw a schematic diagram at first glance, on which the trading area of various goods was written in detail, and it was a coincidence that the rice and noodle trading area was not far from Li Yu's left.

Li Yu walked along the sign, and it didn't take long to arrive at the rice and noodle trading area, there were dozens of stores in a row in the trading area, these stores were very small, the largest one, but only accounted for three rooms, there was very little rice grain in these stores, mainly for customers to see the color, and the real rice grain reserve warehouse was outside the trading area.

Li Yu avoided several of the largest stores, the larger the storefront, the greater the business flow, this kind of batch rice grain supply, you don't need to look at it to know that it is processed by the assembly line.

.........

Half an hour later, Li Yu walked out of a rice shop with a frown.

This is the twentieth store he entered, except for three or four of these twenty shops that did not sell flour, the rest of the shops all sold machine-ground flour, and two of them bullied Li Yu young, and even lied about machine-ground flour as stone-ground flour.

"Really, I'm a fool, the number of times in the stone mill flour grinding is small, the temperature is low, so it is slightly yellowish, and the white paper is like a stone mill.... Hey...."Li Yu shook his head as he continued to search.

Suddenly, he stopped outside a rice shop, "Hou Ji Rice Shop... and the master have the same surname, forget it, go in and have a look. ”

The door of this rice shop is narrow but deep, and when Li Yu enters, the owner of the shop seems to be talking to someone about business.

The owner of the rice shop was a slightly chubby man, about thirty years old, with a round face and a very kind look, and in front of him stood a dark and thin man, about fifty years old, wearing a slightly crooked white short-sleeved shirt, a pair of army-green pants with some mud marks on the cuffs, and a pair of low-imitation shoes with the '362 degrees' brand on his feet.

When the boss saw Li Yu enter the store, he politely made a gesture of invitation, then turned his head to look at the black thin man, and sighed: "Brother Zhao... To tell you the truth, I really don't recommend you to engage in breeding, the ban on meat has only been lifted for a year, and no one can tell the prospect of the breeding industry, if you are in a hurry to use money or something, with our business friendship in the past ten years, no more than 200,000, I will lend you, I don't want an IOU!"

The thin black man shook his head and said, "Brother Hou, this has nothing to do with whether you are in a hurry to use the money or not... You also know the situation of my family, I got married late, and it doesn't matter if I am a poor household, but I have four children, and the eldest son is about to go to college, and this year's tuition fee will have the money in the future... I don't want to fight, I don't have any hope!"

The owner of the rice shop sighed when he heard this, glanced at Li Yu, and said to the thin black man, 'I'll deal with the guests first', and then said to Li Yu: "The contemptible surname is Hou, this little brother, do you want to buy rice?"

Li Yu shook his head and said, "I want to buy flour, the kind of stone grinding." ”

The owner of the rice shop raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and his tone was a little more polite: "Stone grinding flour? Little brother, you are here at the right house, this old brother's surname is Zhao, and his family grinds flour!"

After that, he took Li Yu to a semi-closed glass cabinet, pointed to the cabinet and said, "Look at it, this is stone flour." ”

Li Yu gently grabbed a small handful, this handful of flour was naturally white and slightly yellowish, and when he sniffed it close to his nose, a wheat fragrance came to his face.

Li Yu was determined and looked at Boss Hou: "How much is this catty?"

Boss Hou didn't hesitate much, and said: "Fourteen yuan per catty, this is pure stone-ground flour, and the new rice used is still last season's new rice, not the old rice of previous years, if the amount is large, the price can be cheaper." ”

Li Yu nodded secretly in his heart, this boss Hou is worthy of the same surname as the master, the price is very real, generally speaking, the rice of stone flour is ground with old rice for more than two years, one pound ranges from eight to eleven or twelve pieces, and the flour of the new rice mill last season is only fourteen pounds, which is indeed very fair.

He immediately replied, "Give me ten pounds... Try it first, and if the taste is good, I'll take the goods from you for a long time. ”

After that, he glanced at the thin black man and asked, "Boss Hou... You guys seem to be saying... Farms?"