The cowherd looked helpless, rubbed his hands like flies and said, "My lord, how do I drive the cows over, these cows pull ......"

"Go, go, go! Pull what pull! These cows are fine! You don't have to work here in the future, you are too old to take care of some cows, what use do you need! After sending the cow, you can leave! If you are too long-winded, you will be punished for the crime of not being able to take care of you! ”

The master's words made the cowherd speechless, although this was all a good statement that Gu Lan had colluded with the master a long time ago, but the cowherd didn't know.

He only knew that he had worked hard for the county government for so many years, and even had heavy debts, and these officials and masters of the county government not only had no sympathy for him, but did so to him.

The matter has come to this point, and the cowherd will not say much, but fortunately out of the county office, the villagers of Xiaolongkan are waiting, and they will take the cattle and go home.

Because Xiaolongkan is relatively far away, everyone can only take the cow back to the cowherd's house first, and when they get to the cowherd's house, it is late, and a dim kerosene lamp is lit up in the small house built by the grass shed, and many things in the house have been packed up, plus Gu Lan brought a wheelbarrow, after loading, just wait for the cow to stop diarrhea tomorrow, and they can go back to Xiaolongkan.

These cows have diarrhea is naturally Gu Lan's idea, she asked the cowherd to feed the cows a small amount of croton, these crotons will have the effect of cleaning the intestines, as long as the dosage is controlled, it will not bring too much burden to these cows, just need to eat and drink well for a night, these cows can regain their health.

As for the Shangguan who came to inspect, naturally Gu Lan found a way to find someone to pretend, and when Qi Shi'an realized that there was a problem, it was impossible for him to take the initiative to ask if there was really a Shangguan in the imperial court to check the situation.

Gu Lan pinched the hearts of these fat-brained officials and teased them in circles.

Fortunately, the results were good, the cowherd's family raised these cattle are all good cattle, there are few older cattle, five of them have just given birth this year, and they are about to give birth, and once they give birth to calves, they will enter a long milking period of more than a year.

Before leaving, the cowherd looked at the home where he had lived for decades, far away from his homeland, the family was not very interested, he had two sons, three grandsons and two granddaughters, and when he heard Gu Lan say that he could let his grandchildren go to the school to study, this simple old man became happy again.

Returning to the village with nineteen cows, Xiaolongkan's labor pressure was suddenly reduced a lot, and the mountain land reclamation on the Beigang side was vigorous, but after more than half a month's effort, twenty or thirty acres of fields were opened, which were of course used to grow sugarcane.

The cultivation of sugarcane is also very simple, digging ditches, diligent sunbathing, and waiting for a few rains, this crop, which has never appeared in this world, gradually grows into the appearance of sugarcane.

Gu Lan finally put her mind at ease, thinking that after these sugarcanes grow, they can be planted in large quantities in a planned manner, white sugar is a good thing, not only can replenish the high energy required by the human body, play a big role in famine or wartime, but also serve as industrial supplies.

However, this is still too early for the current Xiaolongkan.

Soon the time came to May, the rape flowers found on the stone arch bridge were entering the maturity period, during this time, under Gu Lan's instructions, the people in the village cared about these rape flowers very much, and every time they passed by, they would rise with great respect.

Especially when I heard that this plant can be squeezed out of edible oil, everyone is looking forward to it.

When the rape flowers were ripe, Gu Lan found many people in the village to start harvesting the rape flowers.

The rape must be harvested when it is not fully ripe, so that it can be stored and placed in the square, and after a few more days, the shell will automatically crack open, revealing the rapeseed inside.

Hulling is the most difficult step, rapeseed is relatively small, but there are many people with great strength, in less than half a month, not only the rapeseed near Xiaolongkan was harvested, Gu Lan also specially told the caravan that came to the village that Xiaolongkan bought rapeseed on a large scale, and it cost ten cents a catty.

This price is not low, and all of a sudden, all the people within a radius of ten miles are sensational, looking for rapeseed all over the mountains, and then processing it and selling it to Xiaolongkan.

On the day the first batch of oil was squeezed out, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and the villagers of Xiaolongkan came to watch the excitement again, just like the last time they saw Gu Lan making tofu, they were also very curious about this rapeseed oil.

"Can such a small particle really squeeze out oil?"

"Sure it can, Lan girl said yes, then it must be possible!"

"What will canola oil taste like?"

Well, don't ask, what a gluttonous cat! ”

Rapeseed oil is also put into the grinding plate, slowly grinding out the oil, orange-yellow clear oil slowly flowed into the barrel, it took almost a morning, Gu Lan used one hundred catties of rapeseed to squeeze out forty catties of oil, this oil yield is not high, but it is definitely not low.

Rapeseed oil obviously has a clear smell of plants, which is completely different from the taste of lard, and some people like to smell this taste, and before they start cooking food, one or two start drooling.

Gu Lan asked people to boil the oil, and at the same time asked the women in the village to cook things, what kind of meat and noodles, as long as it is something that can be eaten, you can use the oil to make different foods.

Frying or frying, it couldn't stop at all, and in one afternoon, the children of Xiaolongkan saw heaven from Gu Lan's hands.

The deep-fried golden fritters twist fruit cake and the chicken thighs and chicken thighs wrapped in noodles can be made with a little salt.

There is also marinated pork belly, made into braised pork, wrapped in honey pork, and then fried in hot oil, the smell is simply fragrant, and the people who smell it nearby have no heart to work again.

This time, the oil recovered was not much, Gu Lan found someone to pick out the good seeds and keep the seeds, and the rest of the rapeseed was squeezed into oil and set aside.

At the same time, she finally took another step in her career, she decided to buy Wang's Restaurant in Xinghua Village and turn it into a grocery store, which was specially used to sell these works produced by Xiaolonglan.

However, just going around in Xiaolongkan, Gu Lan was still unwilling, she wanted to conquer the world, how could she be willing to stay in this one village.

But if you want to get out of here, you have to deal with those bandits.

Soon, there was good news from the blacksmith in the back mountain.

According to Gu Lan's conjecture, someone made gunpowder.

It was in vain that Gu Lan spent all her net worth in exchange for such an inferior method of making earth gunpowder, Gu Lan was shocked and hurriedly went to check the situation.

I don't know this look, but after reading it, I realized that there is still a long way to go to make gunpowder.

The person in charge of the blacksmith is named Ji Sihai, and he is also one of the core figures in the village.