Chapter 15: Mayday on Earth

This year's weather is hot, and as we enter May, the rape harvest outside the city has already begun.

Although the large rape fields have lost the golden exterior of March, they have a little more mature charm.

The country roads meander and are mostly carried by pedestrians carrying freshly harvested rape to the grain fields to dry.

The air is filled with the fragrance of fried rapeseed, whether it is a businessman from afar or an old farmer in the farmland, they will take a long breath of this fragrance.

The harvest season is the most gratifying.

In the field, a strange animal is enjoying the freshly harvested rape field, whether it is a moving rabbit or a frog scurrying around.

Tie Xinyuan, dressed as a peasant boy, stood on the huge stove, stir-frying the rapeseed in the cauldron with a wooden shovel, and the beads of sweat the size of beans crackled down from his forehead, and disappeared in an instant when he fell into the cauldron.

The rapeseed in the cauldron crackled, and he cursed the slippery farmer through gritted teeth, and waved the shovel more diligently.

If the rapeseed is not very dry, it will burst when it is fried, and the flying rapeseed pulp will reduce the oil yield a lot.

For farmers, it is not cost-effective to send too dry rapeseed to the oil mill in Qiaozhuang, and it can be sold for more money if it is wet.

During this time, it was a busy season in Zhuangzi, and Brother Qiao was wearing a pair of calf nose pants, and his oily and shiny muscles were contaminated with oil and gas, and with every time he exerted force, his muscles were like rats scurrying up and down.

Six or seven stout boys, dressed in the same way, were struggling to smash the ram into the wedge, and with each blow, a large amount of grease seeped out from the oil bag surrounded by wheat straw, and finally fell into the wooden basin below.

On the haystack next to them lay two fair-skinned and pink teenagers, but they no longer had the means to show their aristocratic elegance.

Dead dogs lay there, tears streaming down their faces.

Except for tears. They couldn't even move their legs and feet, and the whole person was squeezed out of all the essence like the oil residue next to them.

It's just that one is squeezed out of grease, and the other is squeezed out of strength.

Brother Qiao knows how to make the lazy donkey do the most work in the shortest time.

The huge ram swayed again, Brother Qiao and Ling'er pushed the ram to the highest point, and then suddenly changed the force, and with the rapid swing of the ram took two steps, and smashed the thick wooden wedge into more than half a foot with a bang.

Tie Xinyuan had already begun to pour out the fried rapeseed in the pot, and the black rapeseed was opened with a gap in the iron pot, and it slid into the wooden trough next to it with a bang.

Fu'er used a wooden shovel to put the hot rapeseed into a bag, tied the straw rope and threw it into the pressing trough that had just been vacated.

And so the sound of heavy footsteps sounded again......

Oil extraction is the work of men. The women generally do not enter the oil mill, so on this rare sunny day, they sit on the edge of the grain field, leisurely making female red, and by the way, watch that the rapeseed that is drying is not stolen by the birds.

Once again, the fox brought a small rabbit and placed it beside Su Mei.

Su Mei patted the fox's head to show praise, and then asked the maid to throw away the hare secretly, and eating wild meat on a hot day would make him sick.

The fox who shaved off his whole body and applied white ointment was hard to see. It didn't seem to feel anything wrong with itself, and leaned towards Su Mei one by one.

Su Mei pushed the fox away, took out the ointment and reapplied the place where the fox had just flowered, and let it obediently lie beside her and not move.

I saw Soho Sutong coming out of the oil mill with difficulty. Looking at himself pitifully, Su Mei hardened his heart and turned his head away, not wanting to pay attention to the two younger brothers.

Brother Qiao walked out of the oil mill, and carried the two brothers into the oil mill with one in one hand.

Yang Huaiyu, who had a bare backbone, walked in from outside the Zhuangzi. He was followed by a long string of chariots full of freshly harvested rapeseed.

Su Mei greeted Yang Huaiyu and wiped his sweat and said, "Is the output of Zhuangzi good this year?" ”

Yang Huaiyu said with a smile: "Yes, a total of 64,000 catties of rapeseed were harvested. Although it is useless for the Yang family of Nuoda, it is also happy. ”

Su Mei said with a smile: "If the Yang family had relied on Zhuangzi to eat, they would have starved to death a long time ago."

But ah, the nongsang is bigger than the sky, and it's also a good thing for you, the general, to kiss the nongsang. ”

The reason why Su Mei will call the general. It is because Yang Huaiyu's Zuowu doctor has not been lost, and the impeachment excerpt of the imperial historian is still handed over after all, for some reason, the emperor, who has always attached great importance to the impeachment of the official, remained silent this time.

The twists and turns were like mud cows entering water, and no echo was heard.

Carrying pickets, reminding the emperor that the matter and the Huangmen squire also seemed to have forgotten about it.

Only the Ministry of War reprimanded Yang Huaiyu in a text, and a fine of 300 catties of copper was over.

Tie Xinyuan walked out of the oil mill sweating, and in just half an hour, all his energy seemed to be drained.

The farm is hard, I didn't expect it to be so hard, I haven't done farm work in my life, and now I try it and I really don't want to do it anymore.

The reason why he came to Qiaozhuang and didn't go to school was because he was pro-Nongsang as an excuse, and after only two days, he had enough of Nongsang.

I am not pampered, and I can't stand such high-intensity labor, Su Tong and Su He, two weak young masters who have grown up in the women's pile, have fainted three times in just a few days.

Qiao Ge'er didn't have any means to govern people, first let the Su brothers replace the big animals to push the grind, and then went to the field to overturn the car to irrigate the fields at high places.

After the rapeseed was harvested, he naturally took the two brothers to the oil mill to extract oil.

Brother Qiao promised Su Mei that in half a year, he would definitely repay her two obedient and well-behaved younger brothers.

According to the current progress, Tie Xinyuan feels that it will take less than two months to train well.

I had a good life, but today I saw Zhao Zongyi, the stupid son of King Runan, walking along Qiaozhuang under the protection of the congren.

Listening to those subordinates, the prince of his family was scared stupid, and if he often came to the place where he lived before and looked at the familiar scene, he might come to his senses.

No matter who will give such convenience, Zhao Zongyi walked around Zhuangzi like a walking corpse and then went back.

In fact, he submitted his resignation to Dazongzheng, but was rejected by the emperor and could not return to the fiefdom, so he had to stay in Tokyo and wait for the emperor's arrangement.

Seeing Tie Xinyuan lying far away in the shade of the tree, the fox ran over with broken steps, and swept Tie Xinyuan's arm with his bare tail, as if complaining.

Tie Xinyuan sighed and pressed the fox down, checked the ointment on its body, or was he careless, the fox had a very heavy ringworm, and it was only at this time that he found out, and thought that it was a sign of health that it grew hard hair.

Yang Huaiyu threw over a kettle, pulled out the stopper, tasted it, and found that it was sherbet.

So he poured the sherbet with ice into his palm, and watched as the fox licked it clean little by little with its pink tongue.

Once a person is tired, he loses the interest in talking, and Tie Xinyuan wants to lie down like this.

Thinking of his excuse for coming here, and dragging his tired body into the oil mill, Mr. was right, you can't deceive yourself.

Since you said it yourself, let's crawl and finish him.

Standing on the stove again, the heat wave enveloped the whole body in an instant, more than the wooden shovel in Su Tong's hand, and it was quickly stir-fried, and the smell of mush already appeared in the pot.

There are still more than 100,000 catties of rapeseed waiting to be squeezed outside, and Brother Qiao'er will be busy from this summer to late autumn, unless all the work in the field is done, he can hire enough people to take over the oil extraction for himself.

The city of Tokyo is like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much grain and oil the surrounding people produce, it will not be enough to swallow it.

Tie Xinyuan has watched this big city become prosperous year by year, and even the vicinity of Xishuimen, which is the most unattended, has now become a lively place.

There is no pig farm to be seen, and naturally there is no dangerous building, whether it is vulgar or elegant, because it is an untimely existence, it will eventually disappear.

Brother Qiao, they began to shout the trumpet, which means that they are also very tired, and they want to rely on the neat sound of the trumpet to squeeze their last bit of strength.

This kind of labor is really life-threatening, Tie Xinyuan opened the opening on the edge of the iron pot, watched the fried rapeseed into the wooden trough, and couldn't help but miss the oil press of the later generations.

Machinery is the best means to liberate labor and improve efficiency, just like the movable type printing of the Great Song Dynasty, it can free people from simple, boring and hard labor.

After this pot of rapeseed is squeezed, today's work is over.

Everyone seemed to have been fished out of the water, and when they came out of the mill, the women of the family hurried in, loaded the loose vegetable oil into the large urn, and finally waited for the horse-drawn carriage to come and carry them all away in the evening.

"Tonight, the Yang family squeezes their own oil, we don't have to contribute, but it still can't go on like this, I think it's good to increase the cost of our family's oil squeezing by one percent, otherwise the rapeseed from all over the country will come to our house, and we won't be able to finish so much work even if we are tired."

Brother Qiao finally understood what the consequences of his unauthorized price reduction would be.

"You'd better find a way to quickly get an effortless oil press machine out.

If you raise the price back, I don't think anyone will take what you Li Daguan says in the future seriously. ”

Brother Qiao heard Tie Xinyuan say this, shook his head and said: "No, it's too late, since we can't raise the price, let's spend a lot of money to hire someone."

What has this guy been doing lately? I found that oil extraction was the perfect job for him.

As long as the oil is squeezed out on time, I would rather take care of his three meals a day and then process the money. ”

Tie Xinyuan was a little gloomy, and said after a while: "Baozi's mother passed away, that stupid guy is guarding the tomb of his wife in Hongnigang, and I don't know if it was the one who killed him and lied to him that keeping filial piety is three years, he believed it, and he only went for three months, and he wanted to come back, three years later." (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter 1