The oil mill is built on the edge of the green hill not far from the county seat, and several waterfalls fall from the high mountains to form a wide stream of water, which the locals call Luohe, and Lan Yi feels very meaningful every time she hears this name. But when the six sons mentioned yì to name the oil mill "Luohe Oil Mill", everyone was unanimously opposed, falling into the river, falling into the river, plummeting and helpless, the name of doing business was naturally unpleasant, and the water-based floating was difficult to continue.

Later, everyone agreed with Lin Xi's statement, and the oil mill was called "Qingshan Oil Mill". The green mountains do not change, the green water flows for a long time, the mountains are gentle, simple and heavy, and there is a sense of grandeur that people like, Qingshan Oil Mill sounds ordinary but has a deep meaning.

After the opening of the Qingshan Oil Mill, the rapeseed oil was squeezed first, and Lan Yi once went to the oil mill to take a look.

There are four oil mill houses in the white courtyard walls, and six stone houses are built next to the hillside, which are used for lodging and storing peony seeds or oil. During this time, Xia Shun lived here, and the sixth son followed Zhao Shangjing to settle down in the hut on the hillside of Beigou Village, so as to take care of the peony.

Inside the room is all the equipment of a traditional rapeseed oil mill: a double cooktop, a grinding pan, a large trough wood and a suspended oil hammer.

The peony seed oil extraction process is simply divided into seven steps: soaking - hulling - frying - grinding - steaming - making cakes - squeezing - squeezing - entering the tank. It takes half a day for workers to squeeze out the oil from peony seeds one by one according to the process, so the number of peonies that can be squeezed in a day will not be too much, but a few hundred catties can always be done. The more than 6,700 catties of peony seeds they harvested last year were really squeezed, and it only took more than ten days to squeeze them, but fortunately, the merchant ships sent by Chongxiao to go around in the early summer of this year brought back a lot of peony seeds, which was enough for the oil mill to squeeze for a few days.

After this process, the oil yield of peony can be guaranteed to be about 30%, which is quite high.

After the first batch of peony oil was squeezed out, Lan Yi, Xia Chongxiao, Xia Shun and others got together and ate a meal of peony oil fried, fried and cold salad, and discussed the pricing.

Xia Chongxiao spoke first: "Because this oil material is taken from the world's favorite peony seeds, the taste is also delicious, and it is not too much to set our price higher." ”

Lan Yi nodded: "Yes, scarcity is expensive, our peony oil will take the high-end route this time, first send the oil to the high-end restaurants, give them some preferential conditions, and first beat the reputation of peony oil, which is called the peony flower banquet." ”

"Sister-in-law Wang, have you thought about the dishes for this flower banquet?" Seeing Lan Yi's confident appearance, the sixth son couldn't help but ask curiously.

Lan Yi took out a small notebook and handed it to Xia Chongxiao first: "This is the recipe for the peony flower banquet, eldest brother can find someone to try it." ”

The peony feast, as the name suggests, is mostly made from peony petals, which is why they did not sell all the petals they picked. Peony petals, soup can be blanched, honey can be soaked, gravy can also be stewed, the taste is good. Among the recipes are peony white fungus soup, peony flower slippery fish fillet, peony flower loin silk and peony petal wine. These peony-based dishes are not only delicious, refreshing and delicate, but also have a therapeutic effect.

Coupled with a variety of exquisitely carved and delicately arranged vegetable colors, the peony flowers on the whole table must look quite beautiful. Lan Yi will only say that he can't do it, so he only wrote the recipe, as for what it can be done, it still depends on the level of the chef Xia Chongxiao and they can find, Lan Yi's mind flashed to prepare for that white and fat face, if he wears a chef's hat, he will look like a chef.

Xia Chongxiao's eyes lit up after reading the recipe, and after he handed the recipe to the rest of the people to see, he said: "Leave this matter to me, and I will definitely be able to make a good table of dishes in less than a month." ”

Xia Shun stood in the position of the shopkeeper and considered more questions: "If the dish is launched, our peony flower oil will have to keep up." Young master, sister-in-law Wang, in your opinion, when is the right time to launch this dish? Also, did Qingshan Oil Mill squeeze out the peony oil first and store it, or did it squeeze it in batches? ”

Xia Chongxiao also looked at Lan Yi and wanted to hear her thoughts: "The oil is not afraid to be released, and it is nothing to squeeze it out together." But pay attention to take good care of it, and don't go out of your way. Is it safe in our oil mill? ”

Liuzi nodded: "Steward Zhang is his own person, and the workers in the oil mill know the roots." ”

"There is still a period of time for our dishes to be promoted, when to squeeze the oil and get an idea. Now the key is to slowly spread the benefits of the oil. Lan Yi coughed lightly and took out another notebook, which was her list of batches of promotion methods.

"Many of these methods are not perfect, let's sum them up, Brother Xia, Shopkeeper Xia, sixth son, second brother, third brother, let's not be afraid of many ideas, say any ideas, gather them together and sort them out."

Everyone nodded, now Xia Chongxiao is also used to Lan Yi's approach, and he also thinks it is so good, after some discussion, he still decided to focus on Lan Yi's promotion method. However, some of them were also decided by everyone, such as this beauty method for women to massage with peony oil and remove stretch marks, and they decided to talk about it later.

After some discussion, Shopkeeper Xia made a summary, under Lan Yi's training, he became more and more like a professional manager: "It's okay, then ask the young master to put more effort into the dishes, I urged Zhang Guan to squeeze out a batch of peony oil in advance, and then squeeze rapeseed oil." Lin Xi, Lin Yuan, and Liuzi, the three of you have to use your brains more these days to think about how to make these ideas better, and the success or failure of our oil mill is also in this one. ”

Lan Yi is the most relaxed among these people, and after the meeting, she went home to take care of the family and busy with her own affairs. There is no work in the peony garden except weeding. The cultivation of peonies is much simpler than she imagined, as long as there is enough fertilizer and water, and there is good ventilation and drainage system. Purple spot and Fengdan are not expensive varieties, and they adapt well to the soil and climate, and with Zhao Shangjing, it is only a matter of time before they produce more seeds.

April day in the world, the most beautiful time of the year, the acacia flowers in Lan Yi's yard also bloom like snow, and the courtyard is full of fragrance.

When they came back last year, the acacia flowers had already been grateful, and this year she felt the fragrance of the acacia flowers in her heart, Lan Yi reveled in the opportunity under the tree, picked the locust flowers and tasted them, thinking about the locust cakes and crystal eggs that her mother made with acacia flowers when she was a child, she couldn't help but be greedy.

She brought a stool and stood under the locust tree, picked a lot of well-skewered locust flowers, washed them, put the egg custard in the pot and steamed for a while, and then put in the locust flowers to steam. The familiar taste when it came out of the pot made her want to shed tears, and the two children loved to eat it too.

She added flour and acacia flowers to mix with water, put oil in the pot and spread them into a thin locust cake, the taste was actually very childish, Lan Yi was very excited. She spread a lot of acacia cakes and put them in a basket for Yu'er to send them to the second grandfather's house, Yu'er and the baby went out with the basket, and saw that the door of Zhou Weiji's house was open, and Zhou Weiji was washing clothes by the well under the paulownia tree, so he ran in and put some for him.

During these days, Yu'er's children often went to Zhou Weiji's house to learn boxing with him.

Since Lan Yi quarreled with the Liu family of Zhou Yang's family, Zhou Weiji has opened the gate as long as he is at home, and everyone passing by the gate can have a clear view of his yard, so naturally there is no gossip.

Zhou Weiji's house is a place with three main houses, about 25 meters wide, and the yard is the same as Lan Yi's house, about 60 meters. Different from the liveliness of Lan Yi's house, the courtyard of the Zhou family is empty, there is no vegetable garden and no living animals, but a tall paulownia tree is planted by the well.

Zhou Weiji likes to boxing when he is at home. Lan Yi had seen it a few times when he passed by his door, he should be playing an ancient military body boxing, he was very skilled and powerful. She felt that he was much better at boxing than herself, flexible and skillful, and the strength of the tiger made him like a leopard in the woods, full of explosive power.

Yu'er often plays around in the village, and when they see Tuesday Bo boxing, they look at the door. Last winter, Zhou Weiji was the best kick on the wheat field, although he didn't go much, but as long as he kicked would score, the children admired him very much, but his tall body and beard, and often rode a horse with a knife, so that they did not dare to approach.

Yu'er is following Lan Yi's request, planning to be a violent and reasonable little Zhengtai. As long as a child dares to bully him, he will go up and fight, winning or losing. Seeing Tuesday's boxing power, I really wanted to learn from him.

After looking at it a few times, a few children walked in with little courage and made blind gestures to the side. Zhou Weiji did not drive them out, but taught them to take a horse step and practice punching and kicking. Later, as long as Zhou Weiji was at home, seven or eight children would wait for him to practice boxing in his yard, and sometimes the babies would run over to play.

After Yu'er came back, she always said how powerful Zhou Bo was, how loud a punch was, and how high his legs could be kicked. Lan Yi felt that it was not a bad thing for him to practice boxing, so let them not make trouble, and listen to Uncle Zhou's words, so they didn't care too much.

Since Yu'er became familiar with Zhou Weiji, he was gradually not afraid of him, today's acacia cake was delicious, so he wanted to give Zhou Weiji some to try, which is a typical sharing psychology of children.

"Uncle Tuesday, this is the acacia cake that my mother just made, it's delicious." After Yu'er finished speaking, she took out a few pieces of acacia cake and held them to Zhou Weiji's mouth.

Zhou Wei was a little surprised, washed his hands with clean water and took it, the crispy pancakes were still hot, exuding bursts of aroma. The three of them were picking locust flowers next door to make cakes, he heard it, and he also heard the sound of Yu'er and the baby shouting delicious, he didn't expect that he could eat it so soon.

"Your mother told you to send it?" When he said this, although he knew that it was impossible, he still had some faint expectations.

Yu'er shook her head, picked up the basket and said, "Mother asked me to send it to the second grandfather's house." My mother also made Huaihua egg custard for me and my brother, which is more delicious than this, but it is not easy to bring out Huaihua egg custard. ”

Children worship heroes, Zhou Weiji is now his idol, although his mother doesn't say it, but Yu'er knows that his mother won't blame him even if she knows. Moreover, my mother said that there is something delicious to share with everyone, and he did it right.

After Yu'er went home, she ran over and told Sù Niang, "Mother, the second grandfather, the second grandmother, the second aunt, the third aunt, Dafu and the two Niuniu have all eaten, and they say it's delicious." The second and third uncles were not at home and did not eat. ”

"Well, Yu'er is awesome." Lan Yi praised, the baby was holding the cake next to him and eating it deliciously, and his brother said so many people in one breath, he was still quite envious.

Yu'er thought about it for a while, and said with some frustration: "Tuesday Bo doesn't like it, he didn't eat it." ”

Lan Yi asked strangely, "Where did Yu'er meet Tuesday?" ”

"Tuesday Bo was doing laundry in the yard." Yu'er replied as a matter of course.

When Lan Yi heard this, she knew that Yu'er took the initiative to send him over, and it was understandable for children to do this, but they still had to educate them.

"Well, there are delicious foods that know it's right for everyone to taste. However, you see that you don't like to eat bitter wild vegetables, but your mother loves to eat them, right? "Lan Yi is talking about bitter herbs that go to the fire, which tastes good when used to dip in sauce and eat, and Yu'er and Baobao don't like them.

"Well, bitter herbs don't taste good." Yu'er frowned, very cute.

"So, Tuesday Bo doesn't like to eat acacia cakes, but Yu'er does, it's normal, right?"

Yu'er thought about it and understood: "En." Tuesday Bo doesn't like to eat acacia cakes, just like Yu'er doesn't like to eat bitter vegetables. ”

"Yu'er is so smart, when you give someone something to eat, you have to ask him if he wants to eat it before giving it, so it's fine."

"Yes. Yu'er remembered. Mother, I'm going to ask Tuesday what Uncle likes to eat, and my mother will make it for him, okay? Yu'er is a child's mentality, and he is eager to let Zhou Weiji know that the things made by his mother are delicious, even if he doesn't like Huaihua cakes and other delicious things.

Lan Yi was helpless, why was it so difficult to kidnap a child, "Yu'er, Tuesday Uncle is an adult, if he is still as greedy as a child, others will laugh at him, and he won't say it if you ask." ”

Yu'er nodded, and Lan Yi continued to ask, "Yu'er thinks it's good to have a recliner on Tuesday, let's also buy one and put it in the yard, you can enjoy the shade during the day and watch the stars at night, where do you think it's better?" ”

Zhou Weiji's yard was empty, and the living creatures were just him and the black horse, Lan Yi passed by his door several times and saw him lying on a recliner under the plane tree, looking very comfortable.

"Put it under the locust tree, it's fragrant." Yu'er was immediately diverted from the subject.

The baby also nodded: "Look at the stars." ”

"Well, it's a good place under the locust tree, let's hang up the curtain to keep mosquitoes and flies out of the way."

When the two children heard this, they quickly nodded, and Lan Yi began to discuss when to buy a recliner and what to buy.

Lan Yi sighed after following the crooked building, she didn't hate Zhou Weiji, and she was also very grateful to him for teaching Yu'er a few boxing. However, their unmarried man and woman are widowed, and too much interaction will inevitably attract gossip, and she just wants to live a quiet life now.

Since Lan Yi's mother and son were sitting under the eaves of the hall, Zhou Weiji leaned against the courtyard wall and listened to their conversation. He looked down at the acacia cake in his hand, and it turned out that Yu'er thought he didn't like to eat it.

How could he not like it?

It's Yu'er's mother who doesn't like it.

Eating the locust cake silently, it is clear that it has a floral fragrance, but the entrance is a little bitter. R1152