When the Zheng family sent someone to collect the melon seeds, the Xue family only needed to pass a scale and record the weight.

To fry melon seeds, many people's pots, water tanks, bamboo mats and other things in the village were borrowed by the Xue family again, and there are also many people who always have a variety of melon seeds in their houses, which is really hungry for many people.

At the same time, the sunflower seeds picked in the last few days were also dried in strict accordance with the instructions in the manual given by Zheng Linchu.

This melon seed to be squeezed for oil is also extremely strict with the requirements for drying, and how to dry it is a knowledge.

After drying, the melon seeds should be shelled and squeezed for oil.

As for the equipment for oil extraction, Zheng Linchu also brought it over, and even sent someone to guide the Xue family on how to extract oil.

To this end, the Xue family also built a small workshop to match the use of equipment.

The most time-consuming oil extraction is not another, but peeling the melon seeds, and peeling the melon seeds from the small melon seeds, which consumes a lot of labor.

Don't look at the melon seeds that only need to be peeled for the last two or three days, but it consumes several times more labor than threshing all sunflowers.

But for the villagers, it is a good thing that they have work to do, such a large number of melon seeds are enough for them to peel for several days, and they can earn a lot of money.

Speaking of which, the process of extracting oil from melon seeds is not too complicated, peeling the kernels of melon seeds, and then frying them, you can crush and extract oil.

Peeling melon seeds consumes labor, and the frying process requires the most skills, if it is fried too old, it is not easy to produce oil, fried too tender, squeezed out of the oil and not fragrant, how to grasp the heat, is another science.

After the melon seeds are fried, they have to be ground and crushed into powder, which is extremely labor-intensive.

Then it is steamed in the pot, beaten and subcontracted into cakes, neatly stacked in the oil trench, squeezed tightly with wooden wedges, and finally the oil is squeezed, which is another hard work.

Fortunately, although the process was a little laborious, the result was good.

The price of sunflower oil squeezed out is not low, and this transaction is not a loss for the Xue family.

Although the price is not enough to earn a few taels of silver more than simply fried melon seeds, at least it has attracted a lot of favor for the Xue family, and it is worth it.

As for the specific operation, it is not Xue Langjing who needs to care, and the family will take care of it.

This oil extraction takes a long time, and the planting of the fruit grove is completed before the sunflower oil extraction is completed.

After spending so much manpower, material and financial resources, the construction of this fruit forest was finally completed, which can be regarded as a major matter that solved Xue Langjing's mind, and now we can be regarded as people with big assets in their names.

After the fruit forest is built, there is no need to spend too much effort to take care of it, just hire some hired farmers to participate in taking care of the fields, and Xue Shanjing can handle these things alone.

She has been studying with experts for the past few days, and she has also learned a lot of skills, plus there is a guide manual given by Zheng Linchu, so there is no big problem.

Without this large amount of expenditure, there will be less consumption in the future, and the next task is to continue to earn money and buy equipment.

This equipment will cost more than 2,000 taels of silver.

Because during this period, the hunting team has accepted two more team members.

Nowadays, the hunting team has a fixed charter for recruiting new members.

The trial period is two months first, during which both food and medicinal baths are in accordance with the standards of the previous probationary period of the team members.

When the probationary period is up, if you agree to stay, you must sign a deed of sale before you can become a full-fledged member, and you must also agree to take the Enlightenment Elixir.

In other words, they can only agree to all the terms of the Xue family as other official members before they can be accepted as official members. The choice of whether or not to sign a deed of sale or take a potion was no longer theirs.

With two more team members, two more sets of equipment, two more potions, and an additional six hundred pieces of silver.

Distressed!

So, if you want to build a good hunting team, the initial investment is definitely not small.

Just look at her, the hunting team has been tossing for more than a year since it was established, and as before, she is still in debt.

One can imagine how difficult it is to build a hunting team. Especially for a person like her, who has no family background and can only start from scratch, she can only stumble and grow up slowly.

She was lucky, there was someone in front of her to guide her, and if she didn't even have someone to guide her, it would be even more difficult, and she didn't know how many mistakes she would make in the process.

In this regard, no matter what purpose Lin Chu used to help herself, at least people gave her a lot of real benefits, so that she didn't have to take many detours.

If there is no other party, it will be really difficult for your hunting team to build well.

Gratitude should be grateful.

Time flies.

Three more days passed, and the oil extraction was over, and it was finally time to collect the cash.

She was a little excited.

I don't know how much silver this batch of melon seeds and sunflower oil can get her.

For this batch of sunflower seeds, the labor cost and the cost of ingredients she put in totaled more than 200 taels of silver.

And that's not even counting the seven days it took the hunting team to harvest the sunflowers. For this reason, the hunting team basically has no other income except for the prey encountered on the road in the past few days, and all the effort is spent here.

As for the energy that the Xue family spends on it, let alone how much.

She didn't think it was worth it if she didn't have five or six hundred taels of silver.

On the second day after the last batch of sunflower oil was delivered to the Zheng family, Xue Langjing got a letter from Gu Rongxuan when she handed over the goods, asking her to go to Zheng Linchu tomorrow with the account book to settle the price with the other party.

It's finally time for the most exciting moment.

Another day passed like this, and after the hunt was over, Xue Langjing went to the town with their convoy.

This time, she got six hundred and twenty-five taels of silver from Zheng Linchu.

Of course, in addition to the silver, there is also good news that can be regarded as an additional harvest.

That is the residue left after the sunflower seeds are squeezed with oil, which is also a good thing.

These slags are called oil sunflower cakes, and oil sunflower cakes can be very useful.

It can be mixed with other crops such as soybean meal, wheat bran, rice bran and bract grains or residues to make feed, which is nutritious and excellent for feed.

It can also be used as base fertilizer, and this fertilizer is different from the fertilizer burned by plant ash and other fires, it does not burn the roots, and the fertilizer effect is extremely long, and it can also fertilize the field.

I still have tens of thousands of catties of oil sunflower cakes stored at home, and even if I sell them alone, I can sell them for dozens of taels of silver.

After chatting about sunflowers, the two talked about buying equipment again, and Xue Langjing confirmed with her that they wanted to buy it.

When she got home, she put the money in her account.

Because she needed silver to buy equipment, she simply reconciled accounts with her eldest sister.

only to find out that with the addition of more than 600 taels, she now has more than 1,500 taels of silver in her account.

In the future, the expenditure will be less, and the largest amount is to pay the wages of the farmers in the fruit forest, as well as the cost of fertilizer.

Simple care of fruit forests, the labor consumed is limited, this expenditure is not much for the Xue family today, and the same is true for fertilizer.

With less other expenses, she can save money faster, and if nothing else, she can have more than twenty people fully equipped in about a month.

However, her idea was still too naïve.

She, who is the shopkeeper who doesn't care about housework and runs outside all day, how does she know what the specific situation is at home.

I don't know that her yard is overloaded now, and she urgently needs more space to share it.