After Hui Cheng and Osmanthus drove the cow back to the cattle pen and put it on the table, they slipped out of the door of the oil mill and saw that Liang Biao, the grandfather of the second dog, was stripped naked, straddling two skinny long legs, his head hung down and buried his face in the squeezing trough, and he was using a wooden shovel to squeeze the broken peanut cake. The old man's ass was facing the door of the oil mill, and he was cocked high.

Ergou and Huicheng stood outside the door and shouted in unison: "Old man, the fish is here, give us fried fish to eat!" ”

"You cubs come to fry fish, and you always use the oil from my factory." Liang Biao didn't look up and continued to work, and saw a few dolls carrying fish skewers in his hands from under his crotch, and saw two female babies, so he hurriedly scolded: "Fuck, you all go out to pick up firewood first." ”

The oil mill was built in a secluded ravine on the hill behind the village, adjacent to the village's small hydroelectric power station.

The oil factory is the ancestral business of Grandpa Ergou, and it is a total of three large stone houses by the mountains and rivers. The middle room is equipped with a wooden press, which is the main facility of the oil mill.

The wood press is made by hollowing out the heart of the tree and then joining 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. In a room to the right of the oil mill, there is a waterwheel, which rotates and drives 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. In the room on the left, there is a large stone kang platform, which is usually used to roast dried peanut seeds. In addition, there are two earthen stoves, one is used to fry dried peanut seeds and stir-fry the powder of various oils, and the other is used to steam the powder of peanut hoop cakes.

The oil is extracted by two strong men who cooperate with each other, first put the wrapped hoop cake into the belly of the wooden press, and then use a thick round green gang wooden board to hold all the hoop cakes, and then use two layers of green gang wood of different thicknesses on the round wooden board, and then press all the hoop cakes in the wooden press tightly. 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 a person to push the two-zhang long and more than 100 catties of hard wood oil gas forward into the air, let the oil gas back, and then caught 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 the entire oil mill seem to tremble, and the sound can be heard from far, far away.

Liang Biao is old in front of him, his legs are often frozen in the cold winter because of hunting in the past, and his leg joints suffer from severe rheumatism. For this reason, he could not do the heavy work of oil extraction, and could only be specially responsible for the miscellaneous work of crushing various raw materials, frying the water of the hoop powder and repairing various parts of the oil plant. Don't look at his old age, but this oil mill is really unable to squeeze oil without his old man's home.

Not to mention that you need to master the heat of fried peanut seeds and hoop flour, because if you don't fry or over-fire, the amount of oil and the color of the oil will be affected, and he is an all-rounder, such as carpenter, rockmason, blacksmith and other handicrafts, he can 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 tip is damaged, or the steel ring on the outside of the hoop cake is more likely to break during oil extraction, you need to hire a blacksmith to deal with it, and so on. Accidents like this can happen at any time, which is inseparable from Shi Bo, an old oilmaker, to solve them.

The oil mill started from the beginning of summer, squeezing peanut oil and rape oil, squeezing vegetable oil and squeezing tung oil, squeezing tung oil and then squeezing black tree seed oil......

In the past, the black tree grew most in the river ridge and sandy land of Wenyangtian Village, and belonged to the tall tree and oil tree species. The outside of the black tree is wrapped in a waxy shell, and the oil squeezed out becomes white wax after cooling, which has the functions of lubrication, dyeing and protection. It can make lubricants, alabaster cream, soaps, paints, inks, candles, oil paper and oil umbrellas and other products, and is an important traditional industrial raw material in southern China. When Ergou was five or six years old, he liked to climb on the pile of sacks in the oil factory to play, and he was very familiar with the situation in the oil factory.

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 ditch to scrub it clean, and then put the pants in the sun and simply wore nothing, and began to work naked. The women knew that the oilman had such an uncivilized habit, so naturally they could not easily run into the factory.

At that time, Huineng didn't know that the oilmaker had such an uncivilized habit, and out of kindness, he suggested calling Liang Yulian and Osmanthus to come to fry the fish. And Ergou and Huicheng knew it but didn't say it, no wonder they were snickering at that time.

There is a bit of land around the oil mill, which is the self-reserved land of Liang Biao's family, which is used to grow melons and vegetables. Liang Biao sweeps the floor, often sweeps the dust and scattered dirty hoop powder into the shovel and pours it into the ground to serve as fertilizer, so his melons and vegetables grow particularly lushly.

In summer and autumn, the vines of pumpkins, winter melons, bitter melons, loofahs, and peas climb on the ditches, stone walls, and eaves, giving the edge of the oil mill as if they were surrounded by hedges or green walls, 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 steaming hoop flour in an oil factory, scooped up and thrown on the pebbles by the river to dry. In the afternoon of the same day or the afternoon of the next day, Liang Biao's wife Li walked to the river beach with a basket on his back and took it back to his home to store it. Or make a variety of canned dishes and save them for the winter so that they can either eat them at home, or sell them at the bazaar for money. The old pumpkin was picked up and stored on the house, and when it was not green, it was used to satisfy hunger.

Ergou and Huicheng often come to the river, and in autumn the pumpkin grows like a hat, and they are willing to carry a big pumpkin back to the old man when they go home. When carrying a pumpkin to swim across the river, Ergou likes to ride the pumpkin under his crotch and use it as a ball to swim across the river.

Ergou's grandfather and Huicheng's grandfather are brothers in the same room. When Huicheng's grandfather was underdeveloped, one year, Huicheng's family had a large population, and it was difficult to survive, so it was all thanks to Ergou's grandfather who gave Huicheng's family two picks of old pumpkins to eat, so that Huicheng's family survived the famine years.

Snakes often appear in the oil mill, just because the bed is warm and comfortable to sleep, and sometimes the snake has to burrow into it. Liang Bo lay on the kang stove at night to guard the oil factory, and once before going to bed, he shook out a poisonous snake that grew into a soldering iron head from the bed. Snakes can hurt people, and since his son Liang Tianbao was bitten to death by a snake, Liang Bo has regarded the snake as an enemy, and he has to kill it when he sees the snake.

At that time, after Liang Bo drove the landers to collect firewood, he stopped what he was doing, put on his trousers, and came out to take the fish that the children had picked up from the river to the ditch behind the house and cut open their stomachs, remove the feces, and wash them. He had cut the fish and brushed the pot, and the children had already picked up firewood from the river.