The history of struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 25 Mustard Seed Oil
While spinning, Han Qianluo was thinking about how to extract the oil. She was still very familiar with the steps of oil extraction, but the trouble was the machine. At this time, there was nothing, and she had to do everything by herself. It's a little troublesome.

Han Qianluo thought about it for a day, and thought through all the steps. When it was time for dinner at night, he said to Han Qingquan, "Brother, are you free tomorrow?"

"Yes, what's the matter?" Han Qingquan asked.

"I want to get something that squeezes vegetable oil, and I need the help of my elder brother." Han Qianluo said.

Han Qingquan agreed without even thinking about it.On the other hand, Han Shui'er said dissatisfiedly: "How can plants extract oil? Xiao Luo, if you have nothing to do, just stay at home and spin, and don't mess with these messy things."

"Sister, you don't know how to spend money, why don't you give it a try?" Han Qianluo retorted. She didn't know what to say about this second sister. Anyway, she didn't like it very much, and even hated it, but it was The whole family can't be too obvious.

Han Shui'er opened his mouth to say something, but Han Qingquan suddenly said lightly: "It's fine anyway, what's the matter." Han Shui'er stopped talking for a while, and ate quietly.

The next day, Han Qingquan started working on the oil extraction machine under the guidance of Han Qianluo.After two days of making, this thing was finally finished, and Han Qianluo installed it in the yard.

"Qianluo, what are you doing with this thing?" Li Chunhua asked while lying on the wall between the two houses.

Han Qianluo said indifferently, "This is for squeezing oil."

"Fried oil! How can this thing be fried?" Chunhua asked in surprise.

Han Qianluo didn't answer her question, and she still lay there watching. If she can learn it, she will learn it, and if she can't, it's none of her business. Anyway, even if she doesn't talk about this method, someone will invent it soon. After all, the principle It's so easy.

After finishing the oil extraction, Han Qianluo decided to start extracting the oil. First, clean the rapeseed, stir-fry it, then make it into cakes and steam it, and finally put it in the freshly made machine to extract the oil.

Han Qian herself doesn't have the strength to squeeze the oil, so the only one who can do this is her eldest brother Han Qingquan. She just watched from the side, and then watched the golden rapeseed oil flow out little by little. That feeling, don't mention how good it is.

Not only Han Qianluo, but Han Sanwei also watched from the sidelines without blinking. After seeing the rapeseed oil flowing out, he was even more excited than Han Qianluo: "Sister San, the oil is coming out."

"I saw it." Han Qianluo said calmly, with a faint smile on her face, but she noticed that Han Shui'er, who seemed to have been weaving carefully, couldn't help but look this way when she heard these words, but what did she say? I didn't do it either, I still pretended to be spinning.

Not only Han Sanwei was excited, but even Han Qingquan was very happy, but he was much more sensible than Han Sanwei, so he asked Han Qianluo: "Xiaoluo, is this really oil?"

"Brother, even if it's not oil, it won't do any harm, will it?" Han Qianluo said.

Han Qingquan didn't say anything more when he heard it, and continued to squeeze the oil.Soon, all the rapeseed oil was squeezed out. Han Qianluo took out a clay pot, packed all the rapeseed oil, and carefully placed it in the innermost part of the cupboard. Before planting rapeseed in the second half of the year, only so little.

After finishing this matter, Han Qianluo finally had time to relax and think about what to do in the future. While thinking, he counted the money he had saved some time ago. After counting several times, he saved a total of more than 500 Wen. In Han Qianluo's view, it really wasn't much.

After putting the money back, Han Qianluo looked at the time outside, it was still early, and the sun was still high in the sky, so he decided to go to Granny Zhou to see how much sugarcane was left, and to see how much money he had. Enough to buy them all.

Granny Zhou knelt on the third mat at the door, and was picking up the soles of her shoes. When she saw Han Qianluo coming, she said loudly, "Qianluo is here, come and sit quickly."

Han Qianluo walked over and knelt down beside Granny Zhou, and said straight to the point: "Grandma Zhou, do you still have any sugarcane?"

Then Granny Zhou stopped picking up the soles of her shoes, looked up at Han Qianluo and said, "There are a lot of sugar cane, and I don't really like to eat them. It's too hard to bite. gone."

When Han Qianluo heard this, he thought it was good, and he just happened to be able to buy them all, but he still looked very plain on the surface: "Grandma Zhou, then I want to buy sugar cane from you."

"No problem, I don't eat this either, how much do you want to buy?" Granny Zhou asked with a kind smile.

Han Qianluo thought about it, and although she really wanted to buy them all, she was still a little worried that Granny Zhou had too much sugar cane and her own money was not enough, so to be on the safe side, she asked first: "Grandma Zhou, do you have any sugar cane?" How much sugar cane?"

Unexpectedly, Granny Zhou smiled clearly, as if she had seen through what Han Qianluo was thinking, and said directly, "Take all you want, Qianluo."

Han Qianluo said in a low voice, "But I'm worried that I don't have that much money."

"The matter of money is not a big deal. Anyway, your family is here, and you can't escape. If you have money in the future, just give it to me." Granny Zhou said kindly.

Han Qianluo didn't expect Granny Zhou to be such a good person, and things would be so simple, so she couldn't help being very happy, and said with a smile, "Grandma Zhou, you are so kind."

"You girl." Granny Zhou smiled kindly, then stood up and said to Han Qianluo, "Come in with me."

Han Qianluo followed Granny Zhou into a room next to her. There was a large stone cabinet for grain and a wooden cabinet. In one corner were piled sugar cane that Liang Yue dreamed of.

"Help me move it out, I can't move my old bones." Granny Zhou said mockingly.

Han Qianluo hurried forward to move all the sugarcane out into the yard. Granny Zhou said as she walked out, "Wait here, I'll borrow a steelyard."

Such a heavy sugar cane cannot be weighed by ordinary scales. Only a large scale can be used to weigh such a heavy thing.Han Qianluo only waited in the yard for a while before seeing Granny Zhou returning with a middle-aged man and a steelyard.

"Aunt Zhou, do you want to call this sugar cane?" The man asked loudly.

"Yes, this is it."

The man neatly placed the tied sugarcane on the scale, and moved the weight several times before the beam stabilized.These sugar canes were weighed several times, and finally the man calculated in his mind and said, "It's 230 jin in total." After weighing the sugar canes, the man left.

"Grandma Zhou, how much is this sugar cane per catty?" Han Qianluo asked.

Granny Zhou pondered for a while, and then said: "It's only three Wen a catty, and the total is 690 Liu Wen."

Han Qianluo thought for a while that he only had more than 500 Wen, and he had to keep a little of this money for backup: "Grandma Zhou, I will pay you 490 Wen first, how about it? I will give you the remaining [-] Wen later." you."

"no problem."

However, Han Qianluo looked at the huge pile of sugarcane in front of her, and felt a little troubled. She felt that she definitely didn't have the strength to move the sugarcane back.In the end, Granny Zhou said, "Go back and ask your brother to help you move."

Han Qianluo hesitated for a moment, then followed what Granny Zhou said, and went back carrying a small bundle of sugar cane.It happened that the eldest brother Han Qingquan was at home, and when he saw her coming back carrying sugarcane, he asked, "Xiao Luo, where did you come from?"

"I bought it from Granny Zhou, brother, go and help me carry it back." Han Qianluo said as he put the sugar cane in the yard, then wiped off the sweat from his forehead, and was too tired to sit on the stool Moved.

Without further ado, Han Qingquan put down the half-split wood, then got up and went to Granny Zhou's house to carry the sugar cane back.

Soon Han Qingquan came back briskly carrying a large bundle of sugar cane.

Seeing this clear line, Han Qianluo couldn't help sighing, men are stronger than women, she herself only resisted a little bit of sugarcane, and she was still exhausted, but her elder brother came back with such a large bundle of sugarcane, and she was still very tired. Relaxed look.

At this time, Han Qianluo had rested, got up and cleaned up the sugar cane, removed the dried leaves on the outside of the sugar cane, and wiped it with a cloth. It was too dirty. She also wanted to eat the sugar when she made it, so Can't stand the cane juice squeezed from such dirty cane and boiled into sugar.

After breakfast the next morning, Han Qianluo stopped Han Qingquan who was about to go out: "Brother, I want to go to the next door to squeeze these sugar canes into juice, please help me carry it."

"Okay, let's go."

Han Qianluo and the others carried the sugar cane to the place where the sugar cane was squeezed next door. The thing that squeezed the sugar cane was indeed the one in Han Qianluo's memory. It seemed that things hadn't changed much for thousands of years.

In fact, the principle of this thing is very simple, that is, use two large stones to forcibly squeeze out the sugarcane juice. Two cylindrical stones are hooped together next to each other, and of course there are some small zigzags in the middle.

One of the cylindrical stones is fixed with a piece of wood in the middle to prevent it from moving, and a tree for turning is inserted in the middle of the other stone.Of course, animals are generally used to turn this tree. If people want to turn this to extract sugarcane juice, it is still very difficult.

"I'll borrow two mules nearby." Han Qingquan said, and then left.

After a while, Han Qingquan came over with two mules, and tied the mules to the long tree.

Han Qianluo put the sugarcane between two stones, and then let the livestock pull the tree to turn. The sawtooth in the middle of the stone continuously rolled in the sugarcane, and then squeezed out the juice inside, which flowed out from below and flowed into the wooden barrel below. in.

After an hour,

"Okay, it's finally done." Han Qianluo said contentedly.

(End of this chapter)