[Ran^Text^Library] []"What a noise! The Zhuangzi door was slammed open, and a man shouted.

Looking at the blood-red tassel waist knife hanging from the waist of the Chinese character, the peasants outside were dumbfounded and silent for a moment, and a woman couldn't help crying: "What can I do about this? I said, don't plant, don't plant, you don't listen to me. ”

"Zhang Shuo's family, our Zhuangzi was sealed not long after the beginning of spring, and I also informed you at that time, and now I can't make you so troubled. If you want to find it, find a new owner. ”

A middle-aged man walked out from the man's side and said with a cold expression.

When he looked at the man, the peasant was speechless, and as soon as the woman sat down on the ground, she began to weep.

The middle-aged man snorted coldly, raised his eyes, and looked at the horse team galloping from the mountain road.

The horse team stopped some distance from the door, and a girl in a plain white dress was helped off the horse, ran quickly to the front of the village, squatted down, and said to the woman with a pleasant face: "This aunt, don't cry first, tell me, how did the Yuan family promise you?" ”

"This girl, you come to judge the theory, last year, the Yuan family told us that this year we want to plant all rapeseed, we can use rapeseed to offset this year's field rent, one acre of land, collect us two loads of rapeseed, the excess, they also collected at the price of a load of one or two silver, we used all the money in the family, but they said that it didn't matter, said that the owner changed, rapeseed is not wanted, or according to the past, with silver to pay for rent, where do we still have silver to give!"

As she spoke, the woman clapped her ground and began to weep.

When the woman spoke, the middle-aged man wanted to stop it, but the man pushed him hard and pushed him back into the village, and instead smiled gloomily at the subordinate who had blocked the villagers at the door.

The man didn't dare to move.

"Then, auntie, how much rapeseed can your family harvest this year? If you can sell it, will you be able to recoup your capital? Gu Xinyue glanced at the man, and turned around and said in a tactful voice.

"This year, God appreciates the face, the rape in the field grows well, one mu can be harvested three loads, if it can be paid to the rent, the excess load can be sold, and it can also come back for five dollars of silver." The woman said with tears in her eyes.

The seed money costs five yuan, and the family has a total of twenty-five taels of silver for fifty acres of land, not only all of which are pasted into the family, but also borrowed a lot from relatives.

I was thinking that if I could pay off the rent and get some money back, this year's grain would be my own, and I could earn no matter what.

Who would have thought it would be like this.

The sorrow came from this, and the woman could not help but cry again.

"Auntie, don't cry, don't worry, we have collected all your rapeseeds, two loads for rent, one load, and pay for one tael of cash." Gu Xinyue took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped the woman's face, and said, "Go back quickly, I see that there are many rapeseeds in your field, but they are already old, and if you don't harvest them, they will rot in the field." ”

"Girl, ......," the woman looked at her in amazement.

"This Zhuangzi, our girl has already sold it." Qin Qi glanced at the peasants at the door and said loudly, "Haven't you heard clearly?" The girl said, "We will pay the rent for the field with two loads of rapeseed, and we will accept all the excess with cash, one load and one tael." ”

After the villagers looked at each other, they shouted, and then they went home, and hurried to harvest the rapeseed that had already ripened.

When the people at the door were scattered, Gu Xinyue stood up with Zisu's hand, glanced coldly at the people who were stunned at the door, and walked towards the Zhuangzi.

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Compared with the Zhuangzi on the Qingling side, this Zhuangzi is a full farm, although it is also a green brick and blue tile, but all of them are rough and large, and there are dozens of warehouses in the back.

And a little further past the warehouse, near the water, is the oil mill.

The mountain stream cascaded down the mountain, forming a small waterfall next to the oil mill, and a dozen water wheels stood up from top to bottom, flickering and turning under the impact of the rapids.

In the largest rooms of the oil mill, there is a huge stone mill connected to the water wheel outside, with a faint oil fragrance, and in some small rooms next to it, there are two stone mills, connected to a slightly smaller water wheel, and the groove of the stone mill is relatively deep, with golden oil stains.

And across the stream from the oil mill, there is a very hidden flat land dug out of the mountain, with an area of about 100 square meters, on which are placed four furnaces, and on top of the furnace is placed a huge iron pot.

Gu Xingyue circled around the furnace, beckoned Qin Qi to approach, and after everyone else retreated, he said in a low voice: "This is the home of refining cooked tung oil, after grinding the tung seeds into oil in the stone mill, and then putting them in this iron pot to heat and boil, and after the water evaporates, then leave the fire, stir constantly with a wooden stick, and after cooling, the tung oil can be pulled into a silk shape, which is cooked tung oil."

Qin Qi's eyes deepened, nodded, and said, "Why did the girl collect those rapeseeds?" ”

Gu Xinyue smiled faintly: "Of course you have to harvest it, the tongzi is ripe in autumn, and the rapeseed is ripe in spring, just so that the oil mill is not vacant, such a big oil mill may grind a lot of oil in a day!" This young master of the Yuan family is really a character, you see, the oil yield of rapeseed is generally forty percent, if the control is good, it can reach fifty percent, and a load of rapeseed can produce more than fifty catties of oil, what is the current oil price? Vegetable oil? ”

After thinking about the big barrels of oil that he had just bought in Zhuangzi, Qin Qi said: "The essential oil is three hundred wen a catty, the crude oil is eighty wen a catty, and the fifty catties of coarse oil can get four taels of silver." ”

Essential oil, Gu Xinyue pursed her lips and smiled: "The so-called essential oil is just to remove the impurities in the oil to make the oil look beautiful and not bubble, this is simple, it is nothing more than filtering it with gauze once, heating it to a certain temperature, adding two percent of water, and standing to precipitate, fifty catties of crude oil, you can get forty catties of essential oil." ”

That is to say, a load of rapeseed can get twelve taels of silver.

Qin Qi raised his eyebrows unconsciously.

Along the way, most of the fields I saw were planted with rapeseed, and if we counted it as 500 acres, there was also a yield of 1,500 quintals, and if we removed 500 quintals to pay, we would get 17,500 taels of silver.

"You see, with this income, all the tung oil is given to my brother, and we are also rich." Gu Xinyue raised her eyebrows and said softly: "You go and check, who is the eldest young master of the Yuan family?" ”

It's a paulownia tree and a rapeseed, this person's ability to make money is not small!

Qin Qi was silent, and said: "The eldest young master of the Yuan family is the only son of the Yuan family's big house, he has been smart since he was a child, he got the name of genius at the age of five with a seven-step poem, entered the Lingshan Academy at the age of ten, and fought with the senior brothers who were preparing to graduate for an hour, defeated the senior brother, and then quit the academy in the name of Lingshan Academy only teaching pedantic and stubborn people. ”

"Beheaded?" Gu Xinyue remembered that Gu Mohan had said that the Yuan family was copied by them, and paused and said, "Have you seen it?" ”

Qin Qi sneered: "That, I copied so many houses and cut so many heads in three days, to be honest, I can't remember." ”

Gu Xinyue sighed and said, "It's a pity, if he hadn't died, let's find him, how good it would be for everyone to make money together." ”

"Girl," Qin Qi said cautiously, "their family is all beheaded by the general himself." ”

You're not afraid that he won't make you money, so I'll kill you first?!

Uh, Gu Xinyue looked at the sky and said, "Let's go, let's go meet this Zhuangzi's descendant." ”