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Chapter 277 Oil Pressing Workshop
Wang Zhong has always been a vigorous and decisive person, and he never procrastinates on things that have been decided.

Ten days later, the work of plowing and topdressing, planting and transplanting seedlings was basically completed, and the work of preparing for the oil extraction workshop and grain depot officially started.

Time is precious, and there is no room for delay. After all, Wang Zhong is a person who has led a large group of tens of thousands of people. He used to be kind and talkative to others when he was not showing off, but once he became serious, he would fight with the general who led the troops. Similarly, as soon as he spoke, there was a majesty that could not be resisted and subconsciously obeyed.

Niu Bold and Zhao Youtian led people into the mountains to log. After repeated surveys and comparisons, Wang Zhong and Ma Renli determined the location of the oil workshop about 500 meters west of the village.

Since Wang Zhong intends to use water power to reduce the input of manpower, the choice of this location has to be carefully considered.

Wang Zhong deliberately chose an excellent location, which is properly connected to the irrigation system of Maixiang Village, and uses water power to generate power to drive some equipment.

However, after the wood is cut back, it cannot be used immediately, and it has to be placed for a period of time to dry the wood before processing.

Wang Zhong first led the people to renovate the warehouse left by the Ma family, and dug a cellar under the grain storehouse.

The time passed day by day in the tense and busy day, and Wang Zhong didn't mean to let the villagers work for nothing. How much each person worked every day was counted in the form of points. After extracting oil and making profits, the villagers will be given material subsidies based on these points.

Although they only painted big cakes like those black-hearted so-called "entrepreneurs" in the later generations, the villagers of Maixiang Village ate the big cakes Wang Zhong drew very happily, and they still believed in Wang Zhong.

There is no shortage of craftsmen in the village. There are three monkeys and others who make brick bricks, some old carpenters, and the craftsman of blind Lao Yin, a blacksmith, is also good.

Midsummer is the hottest time of the year, but none of the villagers seem to know what heat is or what is tiredness. They dig foundations, open ditches, build brick walls, build stoves, and iron hoops.

If you speed up the flow of time, you can see the house building videos that people see in the short video app on their mobile phones in the real world.

An oil-pressing workshop in the form of a triad with an area of ​​hundreds of square meters, several warehouses on the east and west sides, firewood sheds, a front and back yard, and a large pool rose from the ground.

Time flies, and it is the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Boss, this Mid-Autumn Festival, shall we make some mooncakes?" Jiang Hongguo was standing in front of the chopping board, rolling out noodles, while Wang Zhong teased his two sons on the kang in the house.

"Steam a pot of steamed buns! Didn't you buy mutton yesterday? Just steam a tray of big steamed buns stuffed with mutton. My son loves it." Wang Zhong's voice came from the inner room.

"steamed stuffed bun!"

"steamed stuffed bun!"

"Eat buns!"

As soon as Wang Zhong finished speaking, two immature voices followed.

"May my mother make mutton buns for you?"

Ziping and Zi'an were able to walk when they were just one year old, and now they are able to walk steadily on their own. The two brothers were playing on the kang, and when they heard the buns, they sat up on the kang table and sat up. I'm begging for buns again.

"In a few days, the sweet potatoes in the field should be harvested!" Jiang Hongguo skillfully cut the rolled noodles into thin strips with a big knife.

"It's time to harvest. We planted a lot of sweet potatoes this year, and the harvest should be quite a lot!" Wang Zhong sighed and said, "It's a pity that the sweet potatoes can only be stored for the first half of the year. Otherwise, we can expand the scale of planting."

"Half a year is not enough!" Jiang Hongguo said, "Besides, didn't you say that it is not good to eat too many sweet potatoes!"

"When the sweet potatoes are almost harvested, the corn and soybeans in the field are almost ripe." Wang Zhong said: "I've been busy recently!"

"When the time comes, let's bring Ziping and Zi'an there, and let them feel the joy of harvest."

Jiang Hongguo smiled and said, "You are not afraid that they will make trouble for us!"

"What trouble can you add!" Wang Zhong picked up Ziping, stretched his son's armpit, and held him in front of him: "Daping, your mother said you are making trouble!"

"Father! Hug!" Seeing his elder brother being hugged by his father, Zi'an next to him also crawled over, grabbed Wang Zhong's clothes and stood up.

"Okay! Daddy hug!"

"By the way, the oil press workshop has been built for several days. Have you discussed when it will officially start?" Jiang Hongguo's voice came from outside again.

"Don't worry about this. The autumn harvest and autumn sowing are the most important things right now. The start of work can't be too late after the autumn sowing is over!"

Jiang Hongguo said with some anticipation: "I really want to see how the oil extraction machine extracts the oil."

"I won't know until then!"

After eating, Wang Zhong went out with the hatchet.

At the entrance of the village, Niu Bold, Zhao Youtian, Laoganbang, Sanhouzi, Blind Laoyin, Ma Renli and others have just arrived.

"The branch secretary 'Brother Big Insect' is here!"

Seeing Wang Zhong approaching, all the people who were squatting or sitting stood up one after another and greeted Wang Zhong. After a while, they became angry, and they went into the mountains in groups.

Chopping firewood, harvesting, plowing, and top dressing, the whole Maixiang Village is like a machine that runs continuously. The villagers are the various parts of the machine, working non-stop all day long.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of September in the lunar calendar, and it was almost November in the solar calendar. The autumn sowing was over. Wang Zhong led seven strong men to the oil pressing workshop. , a total of eight people, ready to officially start oil extraction.

All the villagers who had nothing to worry about came to watch, and the oil workshop was almost full of people.

"Brother! What should we do?" He was talking about Three Monkeys. Apart from Wang Zhong, he was the only one who was suitable in the Second Society.

"Oil extraction consists of five steps: frying, grinding, steaming, stepping, and bumping. Since this is our first oil extraction, we will use my peanuts to test first!" Wang Zhong said: "Let's fry the peanuts first to get rid of the moisture in the peanuts." .”

Niu Bold had already led the people to bring firewood, and when the fire was lit, everyone worked together to pour the peanuts into several custom-made large pots for frying.

After frying, the fried peanuts are crushed with a large mill driven by water power. After the crushing, they have to be steamed in a pan, and then the cake base is made. Finally, the thick wooden stakes suspended in the air are used to hit the wooden wedges and squeeze them. Press the cake base to squeeze out the fat contained in the cake base.

The difficulty of squeezing the oil lies in the making of the biscuit and the preliminary processing of the raw materials. As for the final oil squeezing, it is only a laborious task.

"It's all good!" Wang Zhong, wearing only a sleeveless coarse cloth vest, pulled up the ram, and the man followed it: "This oil extraction is all about dexterity, and you can't use brute force. Let's lift the ram first." High, and then rely on the falling force of the ram, plus our thrust."

While speaking, Wang Zhong had already released the bumper, and he followed the bumper forward.

There was a violent impact of "bang!", and the bumper hit the wooden wedge directly, and the biscuit was squeezed even tighter.

Wang Zhong explained the essentials to Niu Bold and others while striking, and then stepped aside to let Niu Bold and others try it for themselves, while Wang Zhong stood aside and gave instructions.

"Slow down, don't worry, stability is the most important thing, don't worry! Otherwise it's easy to hurt yourself!"

Wang Zhong stared at the side with a serious face.

A total of three large wooden oil presses were cut out of three huge hardwood trees. It took Wang Zhong and his carpenters more than ten days to deal with these three oil presses. Six people press oil at the same time.

Those wooden wedges are also carefully made of hardwood one by one according to the uniform size.

Hitting wooden wedges is not a very difficult job. Niu Bold are the best farmers. You may feel a headache if you let them read and write, but if you let them work, they are not slow to get started.

After hitting it five or six times, fat again seeped out of the cake dough.

After a while, the grease flows down the wooden groove into the bucket under the oil outlet.

"It's oily!"

"It's oily!"

"It's really oily!"

Watching the oil being squeezed out from the cake base bit by bit, from less to more, amidst the shouts and impacts, the speed of oil production gradually accelerated, and the faces of the surrounding villagers also burst into tears. They showed unconcealable shock and joy. Although they all believed in Wang Zhong, they still couldn't help the excitement in their hearts when they really saw the oil coming out.

Fortunately, Wang Zhong has already explained that everyone is not allowed to make loud noises. Although the villagers were excited, they all suppressed their excitement and lowered their voices to share the joy with the people next to them. Their eyes did not move. Staring at the place where the oil comes out, some are looking at the cake base, some are staring at the oil outlet of the wooden trough, their eyes are all bright.

Niu Bold and the others were not blind either. They saw smiles on their faces as they watched the oil being gradually squeezed by their own hands, and they worked harder and harder.

"Be careful, don't be distracted, and be careful not to hurt yourself!"

"Be sure to be steady, don't worry!"

Wang Zhong shouted loudly, his expression became more serious, and his tone became more severe.

Seeing that the oil coming out of the cake was getting less and less, Wang Zhong called everyone to stop one after another. Niu Bold and the others were already sweating profusely from exhaustion, and their clothes were soaked in sweat.

"Ma Renli!" Wang Zhong shouted.

"Here!" Ma Renli immediately rushed out with a smile.

"Calculate the oil yield immediately."

"okay!"

Ma Renli hurriedly led the people to put the oil on the scale, watching the buckets of peanut oil being poured into the big bucket, the eyes of the villagers were wide open, and the peanut dregs left over from the oil were also collected one by one, agreeing excellent.

Everyone worked together, and the statistics were all counted in less than a while.

"How much?" Wang Zhong asked impatiently.

"Five hundred catties of peanuts yielded 88 catties of oil and 321 catties of remaining oil residue. The oil yield was about 17% to 18%, and the loss was about 17%." Ma Renli said.

Wang Zhong nodded slightly, with a smile on his face: "It's normal if there is loss. Besides, the loss is not lost. There is still water in the peanuts. There are some in our cake dough, oil tank, and oil barrels." residue."

"This is our first oil extraction, and we have an oil yield of 17%, which is beyond my expectations." Wang Zhong said happily: "Although these oil residues are a bit rough, they have high nutritional value, not only It can be used as rations, and it is also excellent for feeding livestock, which is a rare good thing.”

"Brother Big Chong, how much can you sell for 88 catties of oil?" Three Monkeys asked Wang Zhong eagerly.

"If we sell oil, we will either sell it to the supply and marketing cooperative, or the canteen of some unit will come to us to purchase it. The price will definitely be a little lower than the supply and marketing cooperative, but it will not be much lower."

"Brother Big Chong!" Walked over with a smile on his face, not full, and gave a thumbs up: "God!"

"Cough cough cough! Folks, let me say a few words!" Wang Zhong coughed dryly and said loudly.

At the same time as Wang Zhong spoke, the noisy crowd fell silent in an instant while they were whispering to each other.

"Starting tomorrow, each of our groups will elect another person to enter the oil-pressing workshop. I suggest that this time, we should not only select gay men, but also select a few female comrades. After all, the work on the stove has always been We female comrades take care of it, they have a much finer control over the temperature of the fire than us rough men."

"Brother Big Chong, how about the treatment of our female comrades!" Xiao Zhuan asked impatiently.

"Comrade Xiaozhuan, you didn't read the notice posted on the bulletin board a few days ago?" Wang Zhong said.

"Look!" Xiao Zhuan said.

"Now that you read it, why don't you know that it is clearly written in the notice. After the oil press workshop is officially in operation, it will be the same as during the preparatory period. The work points are determined according to the position, and the work points are used in exchange for remuneration."

"Then what if all the big guys want to work in the oil mill?" Zhao Youtian asked this question.

"I have discussed this matter with several presidents!" Wang Zhong said: "We can take turns."

"Take turns?" Asked curiously, not full enough, "Why come turns?"

"For example, Brother Bold's No. [-] club. Let's divide it by household. This time, Brother Bold is here. Next time, he can be replaced by a fool. Next time, he can be replaced by a group that is not full. It is limited to five days. After five days, a new group of people will come. Don’t we have to add more people? Every time two people come to each commune, this is two families. If you can get your turn, then everyone can earn work points.”

"This is a good idea!" Yang Deng'er nodded in agreement.

Wang Zhong said again: "There is one more thing. I suggest that if we should visit relatives in the past few days, we should go to relatives, and those who should go to the door should go to the door. Let us deal with the matter of our oil pressing workshop as soon as possible." He spread the word and let the folks in the ten miles and eight villages know that there is an oil-pressing workshop in Maixiang Village, and give out the name of our oil-pressing workshop!"

"Yes! Put out the name of our oil factory, and let folks from ten miles and eight villages come to our oil factory to squeeze oil!" The villagers responded one after another.

Under the active publicity of the villagers, the name of Maixiang Village Oil Press Workshop gradually spread throughout the Maixiangling District. Many people who were related to Maixiang Village tried to come to Maixiang Village with peanuts and soybeans Xiangcun press oil.

One time of oil extraction in the countryside is basically the amount that the family eats for a year. The oil extraction workshop in Maixiang Village does not charge high fees, and the oil yield rate is not low. In winter, the signboard of Maixiang Village Oil Pressing Workshop was erected in the whole Maixiangling area, and the reputation was very good.

(End of this chapter)