Although Zhaozhong saw that the paparazzi were cunning, greedy and greedy to take advantage, he thought that the life of that family in those years was ten sweet potatoes and one grain of rice for every meal, and the stir-fry was only swept with small oil and gently wiped around the bottom of the pot.

Wen Tsai couldn't resist the temptation, wiped the yellow snot hanging on the tip of his nose and the saliva on his mouth, and said hesitantly: "Tree banyan, what do you see? ”

Shu Rong didn't say anything, so he had to say: "Then leave Xiaofeng, Xiaoying and Xiaoqin here to watch the cows, let's go." ”

The four of them walked outside the door of the oil mill and saw Xiaofeng's grandfather stripped naked, straddling two skinny long legs, his head hanging down and burying his face in the stone trough, and he was using a wooden shovel to grind the tea hoop powder. The old guy's ass was facing the doorway, and it was cocked high. Several children stood outside the door and shouted in unison: "Wu Gong, give us fried fish to eat!" ”

"Fuck, you cubs love to fry fish, but I think of Yagong here, and your family knows about it, and you will blame the old man."

Wang Wu didn't look up and continued to work, and saw the fish skewers in the hands of several dolls from under his crotch, and said unhurriedly.

"We're not going to say it."

"Let's go collect firewood."

The oil mill was built next to the Tiandong River in the mountain behind the village, which was the ancestral business of the Wang Wu family before, and it was a total of three large tile houses with a hanging mountain and a bucket. The middle room is equipped with a wooden press, which is naturally the main facility of the oil mill.

The wood press is made by hollowing out the core of two hard wood trunks with a diameter of more than three feet, and then closing the two trunks face to face.

Eight large cylinders are used as supports, and eight beams are used to hold the body in place from top to bottom, so that this traditional oil extraction tool is made.

In the middle of the house before the press was erected a tall bracket, from the top end of which hung a thick bamboo rope, and at the lower end of the rope hung a large wooden coffin, which was specially used to extract oil.

There is a waterwheel in a room on the right side of the oil mill, which uses the water of the river to rotate and drive the grinding disc and stone grinding wheel in the house to work non-stop, mainly for grinding and crushing raw materials such as peanut seeds, camellia seeds, tung oil seeds and black tree seeds. In the room on the left, there is a large stone kang platform, which is usually used to roast dried tea seeds and tung seeds. In addition, there are two earthen stoves, one is used to fry dried rapeseed and stir-fry various oil powders, and the other is used to steam the powder of various hoop cakes.

The oil should be pressed by two strong men with each other, first the wrapped hoop cake into the belly of the wooden press, and then use a thick round green gang wooden board to resist all the hoop cakes, and then use two layers of green gang wood of different thicknesses on the round wooden board, and then the hoop cake in the wooden press is all tight.

Then insert a pointed fang with a length of more than one zhang in the two rows of wooden fangs, and then borrow the oil and gas to alternately knock on the iron hoop of the two pointed fangs in front of the wooden press. The fangs are slowly squeezed into the two layers of wooden fangs under the force, and the rows of hoop cakes in the press are gradually squeezed and pressed tightly. In this way, when the dough is squeezed by an external force, the fat slowly flows out of the squeezed navel - more and more, in the wooden basin on the ground.

The oil press used the oil gas to knock lightly, and then pulled out the two sharp fangs that had been trapped in, added the prepared wooden fangs and filled the vacated space, and the two of them hugged the big oil gas again and hit the sharp fangs hard.

After repeating this for a few rounds, the strong man began to shout, first by one person to push the two zhang long and more than 100 catties of hard wooden oil gas forward, and then let the oil gas back and then catch it by another oil presser, the two of them at the same time aimed the oil gas at the tip of the fang, and hit the trend. Of course, the harder the oil and gas collide, the faster and more the oil flows. Generally, it takes a long time to hit the dough until the grease in the hoop cake is squeezed clean, and all the processes are completed.

The heads of the oil gas and the sharp fang are equipped with iron hoops, and after a long time when the two collide with each other, the iron hoops are easy to spark when they are hot. At this time, the violent impact can make an oil mill house seem to tremble, and the sound can be heard from far, far away.

The wind and sand have blown the old years, and Wang Wu is old in front of him, because his legs used to hold the boat, and he often went down to the river in the cold winter, and his leg joints suffer from severe rheumatism. For this reason, he could not do the heavy work of oil extraction, so he could only be responsible for the miscellaneous work of crushing various raw materials, frying the water of the hoop powder and repairing various parts of the oil mill.

Don't look at his old age, but this oil mill can't really squeeze oil without him, an old guy. Not to mention that you need to master the color of the fire when frying rapeseed and hoop flour, because if you don't fry the heat or over-fry, the amount of oil and the color of the oil will be affected, and he is an all-rounder, such as carpenter, rockmason and blacksmith and other handicrafts, he will do it.

Usually, if you encounter a wheel on the water mill, or the parts on the wood press are damaged, you need to hire a carpenter to repair it; If the stone teeth above and below the grinding disc are smoothed, or the grinding groove is broken by the stone grinding wheel, you need to hire a rocksmith to replace it; If the iron hoop in front of the oil gas and the sharp fang is damaged, or the steel ring outside the hoop cake is easier to break during oil extraction, you need to hire a blacksmith to deal with it, etc.: such large and small accidents may occur at any time, and it is inseparable from Wang Wu, an old oilman, to solve them.

The oil mill started from the beginning of summer, squeezed peanut oil and rape oil, squeezed vegetable oil to press tung oil, squeezed tung oil and then squeezed black tree seed oil. At that time, especially the black tree seeds, were all transported from Yangzhou and Changde, and one or twenty wooden boats were generally transported along the river every year.

When the goods arrived at the wharf, the sacks containing the seeds and the iron drums for the oil were all placed inside and outside the oil mill house, piled up like several hills.

In the past, the black tree grew much in the river ridges and sandy lands of the Central Plains, and belonged to the tall tree and oil tree species. The outside of the black tree is wrapped with a layer of waxy shell, and the oil squeezed out becomes white wax after cooling, which has the functions of lubrication and protection.

When they were young, they liked to climb on the pile of sacks in the oil mill house to play, and they were familiar with the situation in the oil mill. Oil extraction is a hot, dirty and tiring hard work, usually from early summer to late autumn, and it takes more than half a year to complete. When they got to work, the oil presses sometimes wore only one pair of trousers, and sometimes because the trousers were soaked with sweat and oil, after taking off the trousers, they grabbed a handful of tung chitine and went to the river to scrub it, and then put the trousers in the sun and simply wore nothing, and went to work naked. The women knew that the oilmaker had such an uncivilized habit, and naturally could not easily run into the house.

There is a bit of land around the oil mill, which is the ancestral land of Wang Wu's family, which is used to grow melons and vegetables. Wang Wu swept the floor, often swept the dust and scattered dirty hoop powder into the shovel, and poured it into the ground to serve as fertilizer, and his melons and vegetables naturally grew luxuriantly.

In summer and autumn, the vines of pumpkins, winter melons, bitter melons, loofahs, cowpeas, and peas climb on the ditches, stone walls, and eaves, and the edge of the oil mill house seems to be surrounded by a hedge or green wall, and flowers of various colors bloom everywhere, and melons and fruits are hung everywhere, making it difficult to distinguish whether this is a vegetable garden or a garden. Tender pumpkins and winter melons can be sliced on the river beach, and cowpeas can be blanched in boiling water on a pot stove made from steamed hoop powder in an oil mill, then tossed on the pebbles by the river to dry. In the afternoon of the same day or the afternoon of the next day, Tianwu took it back to his home and stored it. Or make all kinds of canned vegetables and save them for the winter so that they can either eat them at home, or take them to the bazaar and sell them for money.

The old pumpkin was picked up and stored on the sky tower, and when it was not green, it was used to satisfy hunger. Dashi, Wen Tsai and the paparazzi often come to the river, and in autumn the pumpkins grow to the size of a hat, and they are happy to carry a large pumpkin back to Wang Wu when they go home. When carrying a pumpkin across the river, children like to ride the pumpkin under their crotch and use it as a ball to swim across the river.

Dashi and the paparazzi's family had six or seven people to eat, their family had a large population, and they couldn't survive some days when they encountered a drought, so they relied on Wang Wu to give their family two picks of old pumpkins to eat, so that their family survived the famine years.