Chapter 7 Peanut Oil

Ding Yiyi waited for his father and mother to come back for dinner, and when he asked, there was really no peanut oil in this era. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "Dad, tomorrow you take out the ten taels of silver to buy peanuts, I want to make peanut oil to sell, I must keep it secret from the outside world, if someone asks, I will say that I bought it for others, don't say it." ”

Ding Yiyi said to Ding Dashan. "Girl, is your method reliable? Anyway, it's the money you make, you can use it if you want, I'll talk to Uncle Li in two days, and let him go with me to harvest peanuts." Although Ding Dashan was reluctant to give up the silver, he still knew the truth that the child was reluctant to catch the wolf. "By the way, Dad, you can also harvest some chili peppers, I can make chili oil, and rapeseed can also be made into canola oil. Ding Yiyi added, making sure he hadn't missed anything.

After a few days, the field was planted with wheat, and the wheat was watered, Ding Dashan rented an ox cart for a few days and began to harvest peanuts in a nearby village, peanuts could not be eaten as food, so the price was not expensive, ten cents a catty. In four or five days, he collected five or six hundred catties of peanuts, as well as some peppers and rapeseeds, Ding Yiyi felt that it was almost enough for his father to stop buying, anyway, it was enough for the first batch of oil, and then it was time to peel peanuts.

Ding Chen found a few familiar women to peel peanuts, fifteen yuan a day, those women were fine at home, and they made money without delaying cooking, which was quite cost-effective, so no one refused, and when the peanuts were peeled, they let those people go home. Ding Yiyi used the remaining few taels of silver to set up a small workshop by the river, saying that he was storing peanuts, but in fact he was preparing to make peanut oil.

After the preparations were completed, Ding Yiyi asked Ding Dashan to go to the uncle's family for help, after all, in the future, his brothers can be relied on, and the uncle's family are honest people. Ding Dashan immediately went to his eldest brother Ding Dahai and his two nephews to discuss the matter, of course Ding Dahai's family agreed, anyway, they didn't find a suitable job now, so they should help his younger brother's family, and don't share dividends.

After moving the dried peanuts into the workshop, the family began to fry the peanuts in a large pot, but fortunately the place was so remote that no one noticed what was going on here. After frying a pot, pour it into a stone mill specially made by a stonemason, this mill is like a large basin, the grinding disc on the top is slightly smaller, and there is a small hole at the bottom of the stone mill, pour the peanuts into the stone mill, and use a wooden barrel to put it under the small hole, so that the oil can be squeezed.

The squeezed oil is sifted with a muslin cloth, the peanut dregs are sifted out, and all that remains is the translucent fragrant oil.

The first barrel of peanut oil was left for their own consumption, and the second barrel was sold to the restaurant, and the business of the restaurant was particularly good, the vegetables fried with peanut oil were not like lard and would solidify into white, and the appearance was excellent, and the plate was not greasy, it was easier to brush than the lard plate, and the brush was clean. The shopkeeper naturally wanted to buy a son, but this time Ding Yiyi would not be cheap to him, because he thought that the shopkeeper might send someone to spy on them, Ding Yiyi also raised a few big wolf dogs, and the people sent by the shopkeeper returned in vain, so it was no longer a big idea.

Ding Yiyi made some chili oil and rapeseed oil, and the sales were also very good, and people from neighboring counties heard that they also came to make a deposit, and they earned thousands of taels in half a month. Ding Dashan's family began to discuss how to spend so much money, and unanimously decided to build a big house, push it to a thatched house, add some clothes and quilts or something, and take out 500 taels to buy land to plant peanuts and peppers.

Ding Yiyi couldn't help but feel distressed when he looked at the peanut dregs left over from the oil extraction, the oil yield in ancient times was really low, so he asked his father to press the peanut dregs into cakes and sell them cheaply, peanut cakes for two pennies a pound are very popular with rural people, and it is very cost-effective to buy peanut cakes when peanuts are sold.

Now that Ding Yiyi's family is rich, her mother often cooks some delicious food for her family, and every day when she sees her daughter, she has to thank God for giving her family a lucky star, and she has a lot of smiles on her face, and she is in a good mood every day.

Ding Yiyi's family began to prepare to build a house, and all the matters of building a house were handed over to Ding Dashan's brothers, and the two were busy buying bricks and tiles and timber every day.

Ding Chen took the time to take Ding Yiyi to the town to buy some cloth, there are muslin cloth for clothes, coarse cloth, satin, and flower cotton cloth for quilts, and bought a few beads for Ding Yiyi, Ding Yiyi doesn't want it, her mother said that she can't be bitter with her daughter when she is rich, Ding Yiyi doesn't like those heavy things, and her head hurts when she is overwhelmed.

Ding Chen used the fabric he bought to make several clothes, and he wore coarse cloth for work, which was wear-resistant, and he usually wore muslin cloth, which was breathable, and he wore silk and satin on important occasions. Ding Chen found his sister-in-law Ding Tian again, and the two made two thin quilts together, and when the house was built, they added more things for the winter.

Due to Ding Dashan's family, Ding Dahai's family has also become rich, and recently many matchmakers have said goodbye to Ding Xiangnan, the eldest son of Ding Dahai's family, and Ding Tian's family also pulled Ding Chen's family to see a few daughters, she wants to check for her son, of course, in the end, her son is willing. Ding Chen also said that he wanted to find a literate and diligent niece and daughter-in-law, but there are several literate daughters in the countryside, and the literate ones can only embroider and flutter butterflies diligently.

There is no hurry to marry a daughter-in-law, build a house first, and when Ding Yiyi's house is built, it is time to build a house for Ding Xiangnan, Ding Xiangnan is eighteen years old this year, and it is time to marry a daughter-in-law after building a house. Ding Xiangnan Ding Xiangbei brothers are now in charge of the workshop, Ding Yiyi is a technical consultant, the shopkeeper is shouldered, Ding Yiyi and her father and mother are also strange to the girl that they have never seen the words used to settle accounts, who did they learn from, although they have not been to the school, they have still seen the words, Ding Yiyi said that a white-bearded old gentleman taught in a dream, in this era of believing in ghosts and gods, my father and mother are convinced. Ding Yiyi decided to hand over the Arabic numeral accounting method to his cousin, so that she would not be so tired, and when the house was built, he would go to school, and by the way, he would find a father-in-law, of course, the father-in-law is not so easy to find, find it slowly, and when the time comes, my father and mother will not like it.