After being comforted for a while, Zijian finally decided to be more comfortable, and he still had to do what he had to do.

Cement, steel bars, tea seed oil, and the manpower and food needed can drag Zijian down, but it has to be done, so it can only be done on a small scale first.

grabbed Li Zhu'er's tender hand, "Zhu'er, do you want to be a young grandmother at home, or come out to help me do things?" ”

Since there was no manpower, Zijian had to arrest Li Zhu'er and use it, of course, he asked her what she meant first, if she wanted to be a heroine in charge at home, Zijian didn't care.

Li Zhu'er was taken aback and asked, "Husband, do you have anything to do as a concubine!" Wouldn't that be out of line. ”

If there is a man in the family, women generally teach their husbands and children at home, and it is unheard of for Zijian to let a woman come out and show her face like this.

Zijian: "What's unreasonable, the territory will get bigger and bigger in the future, you want to control the power of one party, or rest assured at home." Zijian asked again.

Zijian is giving power to Li Zhuer, it depends on how she chooses.

Li Zhu'er used to follow her father outside, and she was used to seeing the benefits of power, how could Zijian not understand such an obvious hint, but she was also worried.

"Husband, is it good for the concubine to be like this!"

Li Zhu'er has already made it clear in this sentence, she wants to hold power, she is Zijian's first woman, yes, but there is no guarantee that Zijian will have other women in the future, she will really be a wife at home, if Zijian finds a new woman in the future, she will fall out of favor, if she can help Zijian, then no matter how many women Zijian has in the future, her status will not be reduced.

Now she is in charge of Zijian's finances, but Zijian can't always give her this control.

Zijian didn't care about Xiao Jiujiu in Li Zhu'er's heart, "Hehe, then I'll give you a task when you agree, and that's it." Zijian pointed to a task in the notebook with a pen and said, "Tea seed oil, this is a lifeblood that determines the development of the volunteers, and I will hand it over to you to manage." ”

Li Zhu'er sat down and asked seriously about the role of tea seed oil.

Zijian was a little surprised at first, Li Zhu'er was also outside, so she didn't understand the use of tea seed oil! Thinking about the backward messaging in ancient times, it was not surprising that her daughter of a small merchant did not know.

Zijian: "Of course, the role of tea seed oil is to eat, and it can also be used as soap, of course, it is too wasteful to use tea seed oil to make soap, but it is very good to eat alone, so I want to collect tea seeds on a large scale, and I will leave this matter to you to do!" ”

Li Zhu'er: "The concubine body will help the husband, what is the benefit of the concubine body." ”

Li Zhuer hugged Zijian's neck and was coquettish.

Zijian: "That's it, in the future, the tea seed oil you squeeze out, the volunteers buy it for fifty yuan a catty, you set up a company, which is the meaning of the caravan, after the establishment of the company, you organize the people to collect, squeeze the tea seed oil, and then give priority to selling it to the volunteers." In the future, the money is yours and you are free to use it. ”

Li Zhu'er is in charge of Zijian's finances, but Li Zhu'er can't use the silver indiscriminately, it belongs to the property of the volunteers, Li Zhu'er is equivalent to a bank chief, she can be in charge of money, but the ownership of the silver does not belong to her.

But the volunteers used silver to buy tea seed oil from Li Zhu'er, and this money was owned by Li Zhu'er, and she could use it at will.

Li Zhu'er quickly figured out the truth, and showed a happy face, of course she was happy to have her own small treasury.

Li Zhu'er couldn't wait to ask her husband, "What is the tea seed oil, give the concubine a look." ”

Zijian got up and said, "Let's go, on the way back yesterday, I picked three sacks of tea seeds and came back, and now I should be in the warehouse." ”

Soon Zijian found the tea seeds from the grain warehouse and let people carry them out.

Li Zhu'er's tea seeds, "Husband, that's it, the concubine used to meet it often, but I didn't know what to do." ”

Zijian, "Hehe, you are looking at the baby and don't know the goods, if your family does this business, it is guaranteed to make a lot of money." ”

Li Zhu'er's expression was gloomy, thinking of her father who was killed.

Zijian hugged her from behind and comforted, "Okay, it's me who is not good, that Zhao Tianhu was caught by me and handed over to the people of Liu Zhen to deal with, which can be regarded as revenge." ”

Li Zhu'er recovered quickly, after all, the matter was over, and it was useless to think about it, and then her face was ruddy, because there were more than ten girls who were helping to do things here, and the quilt was held in front of everyone, and her face was not so thick.

There was a layer of useless skin on the outside of the tea seeds, and the useless skin was quickly peeled off with the efforts of more than a dozen girls.

The remaining sack of tea seed oil seeds, so that the oil can not be squeezed, originally these seeds need to be dried for a few days, waiting for the moisture in them to dry, but Zijian can not be so long, so there can only be another method, heating.

Let people find three large iron pots, divide them into three parts, stir-fry them over low heat, and fry the water of the tea seed seeds dry.

This process takes a little longer, and after two hours, the seeds are fried and dried, during which Zijian and Li Zhu'er have lunch.

After the seeds are fried, the next step is to break the husks of the tea seeds, leaving the meat inside is the key to oil extraction.

There were more than a dozen young girls who started to do things quickly, so that after removing the shell, there was only three-quarters of the sack of tea seed meat left.

Li Zhu'er picked up a handful of tea seed meat and looked at it, these things can squeeze edible oil, she has not seen it, but she thinks that her husband will not deceive her.

"Husband, what are you going to do next?"

The steps that Zijian did were oil extraction, and of course Li Zhuer had to remember the practices of each step, and she would be in charge of this matter in the future.

Zijian shrugged, "The next step is to smash." ”

Let the volunteers go to the people's homes to borrow a stone mill, half the size of a person, and carry it back to Zhang's mansion directly, Zijian pushed the stone mill, anyway, he was strong enough, Li Zhuer personally added tea seed meat to Zijian.

The whirring stone mill crushes the tea seed flesh, of course, it is impossible to grind it into powder, but it can also be used.

The next step is to steam these tea seed powders, and to steam them at one time over high heat, these don't need Zijian's hands, and a girl completes them.

Half an hour later, the steamed tea seed flour was ready, and Zijian wrapped the tea seed powder in a straw mold to make a total of ten tea seed cakes.

After this step, Zijian breathed a sigh of relief, and things were almost over.

Li Zhu'er followed and watched for a long time, watching how Zijian made tea seed seeds like this step by step.

"Husband, is this all right!"

Zijian: "Hehe, there is only one last step left, which is to squeeze oil, I have done so many things before, just for this step." You all stand back, and I'll take care of the final thing. ”

Zijian stacked ten pieces of finished tea seed cakes on top of each other, put them on a stone slab, and then pressed a stone slab on the tea seed cake, the weight of the stone slab was no more than a hundred catties, of course, it could not press out much oil.

"Hey, look at me."

Then Zijian was outside, picking up a stone lion at the door, at least more than 500 catties, Zijian's behavior frightened the people watching the excitement to the side.

"The chief is good, and the chief is a man of God."

It was Li Xian who spoke, and he had already come over to see Zijian's actions, but he didn't understand what the chief was doing.

Zijian didn't bother to watch the lively few cronies, picked up the stone lion and pressed it on the stone slab, and then the gravity of 500 catties pressed the tea seed cake out of the grease.

Drops of grease seep out and fall onto a plate covered with cotton cloth, and after filtration, it is edible tea seed oil.

Soon there was no grease coming out, Zijian threw the stone lion aside, Li Zhuer stepped forward, lifted the cotton cloth, and saw the tea seed oil with a somewhat turbid color.

"Husband, this is tea seed oil. The taste is somewhat odd. ”

Zijian: "Haha, it's finally done, this is the tea seed oil that can be used, let's try it tonight." ”

Three sacks of tea seed fruits, in exchange for a plate of tea seed oil, the oil yield is okay.

The oil yield of tea seed oil is much lower than that of peanuts, but at present, Zijian has no way to get peanuts, anyway, Zijian has not seen it in Zhangjiacun and Liuzhen, God knows where.

Peanuts, corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes have actually been brought to the Ming Dynasty by the Spaniards in later generations, but they are only planted in a small area in the coastal areas, and there is no large-scale planting, because the official does not realize that these crops can change the food problem of the Chinese people, so they have been covered in dust.

If there was no Zijian, the normal historical development would be that sweet potatoes brought a prosperous era of sweet potatoes to the Qing Dynasty.

Daming had such a good crop and didn't know it, and it was normal for the peasants to be overthrown by the uprising.

After a busy day, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon. Li Zhu'er held the tea seed oil in her baby, this is her treasure to make a fortune in the future.

A large plate of tea seed oil is about 20 catties, according to Zijian's bid, it is 50 wen a catty, and this plate of tea seed oil is one or two silver.

This is a very high price, three sacks of tea seeds in exchange for one or two silver, Li Zhuer has to wake up with a smile in her dreams, ask someone to pick three sacks of tea seeds, it costs fifty yuan, and the next series of work, the total cost does not exceed two hundred yuan, so down, according to the calculation of three sacks, Li Zhuer earned about seven hundred yuan, one three sacks is seven hundred yuan, one thousand, 10,000 three sacks of silver earned more.