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Chapter 150 Peanut Oil

However, the calendar sign has already turned to September, and the long summer has ended. Many students or teachers who are on vacation in Rongshu Village pack their bags and say goodbye to the leisurely village and start a new work and life.

During this period of time in Rongshu Village, it left very beautiful memories for these strangers. This faint and warm mountain village life completely relaxed their hearts. For them, Rongshu Village is a bit like a paradise with certain contact with the outside world.

The hospitality of the villagers of Rongshu Village also made them feel good. This good feeling was brought to their family and friends by them. Therefore, the name of Rongshu Village was circulated among more people, attracting more curious tourists.

With the eager expectations of his family and fellow villagers, Chen Yang also packed his clothes and went out to the capital.

As a parent, Old Chen can finally take the opportunity to send Chen Yang to see Beijing **. This trip was a bit glorious, and Old Chen smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum.

Chen Yang's departure once again aroused the villagers' discussions about studying and college. At the beginning of this year, parents taught their children a lesson and added Chen Yang to a positive role model. In the hearts of many children, Chen Yang has become a collective idol. Studying hard and going to Beijing like Brother Chen Yang (uncle), has become a new goal in the hearts of many children.

The power of role models is always huge.

The village elementary school has started, and every day: the ringing ringing at a fixed time has become a reference for villagers to arrange their daily routines. There are no more young men chasing rabbits and birds in the field, and the children fishing and shrimping in the small river are gone. Instead, the sound of reading sounds are heard in the spacious and bright classroom.

If the Banyan Tree is a beautiful mountain village, the best building in the village, the primary school, represents the mark of the progress of the times and symbolizes the footsteps and hopes of civilization.

The children went to school, but the adults were not so idle, and there were countless work waiting for them in the field.

After planting the late rice seedlings in the ground, they grew and became lush after a period of time. From a distance, they looked like a huge green carpet laying on the ground. At this time, it was the best time to dress up the ground. So people could be seen carrying fertilizers into the fields in the fields.

After sprinkling fertilizer, people still trample on the fields with sticks. The purpose is to bury the fertilizer deep into the soil and loosen the soil to help the seedling roots. These experiences of land use have been summarized by countless ancestors for thousands of years, even today, are still useful.

In addition to working in rice fields, the most important thing for farmers now is to harvest various crops planted in drylands. Peanuts, sesame, mung beans, soybeans. Various crops have begun to enter the maturity stage. So the entire manor is filled with a feeling of joy.

These crops must be taken home quickly, otherwise the birds, mice, and squirrels will collect nutrient-rich seeds and turn them into overwintering areas to store them.

In Banshu Village, every household has several acres or even dozens of acres of hilly and dry land. It is used to plant some dry land crops. Because Banshu Village is basically still in the category of small-scale farm economic land, each family will not grow a single crop. From corn in spring to beans in autumn, various crops are dazzling, which is enough to meet the needs of every family in the year.

But in this way, apart from being self-use, many crops cannot be sold at all. So many people simply keep them for food. This self-sufficient small peasant economy has a huge impact on every family. Because it consumes labor, the harvest is not so good.

Now is the season for peanut harvest. Basically, the walls of every household's yard are filled with the harvested peanut seedlings. The plump pods are a little charming under the sunshine. Pick off a few pods, put them apart, put them in your mouth and bite them. You can feel a fragrant juice flowing.

There are various ways to make peanuts, boil, stew, and fry. No matter what the method is, peanuts are delicious and are deeply loved by the people. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", there are notes about peanuts. Peanuts have always been considered a food that nourishes the spleen and stomach. But generally speaking, in farmers, the biggest use of peanuts is to squeeze oil.

In Rongshu Village, except for a small number of peanuts harvested by the villagers as dishes for the coming year, most of them are used for oil extraction. There is an oil-pressing workshop in the village. Whenever peanuts are harvested, they will start to squeeze peanut kernels into peanut oil. In the late summer of each year, the strong fragrance of fresh peanut oil will evaporate the village, which is what comes from the oil-pressing workshop.

Unlike the various automated oil pressing machines outside the mountain, this oil pressing workshop is completely handmade and is very distinctive today.

On this day, after eating rolled powder in the village, Cen Jiahua happened to see Wu Fang on vacation carrying two large bags of peanuts on a motorcycle to press oil, so he followed him to see it.

When I arrived at the workshop, it was still early and there were no ones, so Wu Fang was the first to arrive.

"Uncle Fang, how many peanuts have you planted in total? There are so many peanuts used to squeeze oil?" Cen Jiahua chatted with Wu Jie like a chat with Wu Jie while helping Wu Jie unload the bag from the motorcycle.

More than one acre, except for a little left, they are all here." Wu Fang turned around and said under the eaves.

In Rongshu Village, the peanuts used to plant peanuts are generally mountainous land, not as fertile as the land on the Shandong plain, so it is normal for a slightly lower yield.

At this time, the boss of the workshop had already done the preparations and asked Wu Fang to carry the peanuts in.

When he walked into the room, Cen Jiahua saw a huge iron pot that had been heated, and a sultry feeling of being poured out in the room.

Wu Fang poured a bag of peanuts into a big pot, and then the boss of the workshop picked up a large shovel and started stir-frying.

"This process is the most important. If the peanut kernels are not fried, the oil yield will be very low; if they are burnt, the oil yield will be burnt." Seeing a look of interest, Wu Fang, who stood aside, explained to him in a low voice: "Generally, the masters are responsible for stir-frying. Only they can decide how much they cook according to different peanuts."

Cen Jiahua only saw the workshop teacher shirtless, holding the shovel in his hands and flying up and down, but none of the peanuts in the pot fell out. His various movements were like flowing water without any awkwardness, and every move was full of a perfect combination of strength and skills. The shovel and the pot did not collide and rub, and a rhythmic sound was made, and it sounded jingling.

Cen Jiahua sighed that experts can be seen in the folk at any time. Although this restaurant is not good-looking, the skill that has been trained for a long time can be regarded as a skill.

After a while, the fragrance of ripe peanuts began to rise inside the room. When the seed coat of peanuts was still red and not burned at all. After stir-frying for a while, the fragrance in the air became stronger and stronger, making people feel a little intoxicated.

The master of the workshop began to shovel up the fried peanuts with a shovel and turn them into a funnel next to them. Cen Jiahua only saw that his movements were very fast, but no peanut was sprinkled outside, which was really amazing.

In ancient times, there was an allusion for selling oil to wear copper coins. Now Cen Jiahua has also developed this characteristic in an ordinary farmer. It seems that the truth that practice makes perfect will not be missing in any era.

After putting the fried peanut kernels into the machine, a workshop master began to twist the turntable and began the oil pressing process.

At this time, Cen Jiahua smelled a stronger fragrance on his nose. This pure peanut oil is much better than the so-called pure peanut oil bought on the market.

Wu Fang carried the bucket he brought to the oil outlet at the door, and then the peanut oil flowed out slowly, with a smile on his face. From time to time, he sucked the intoxicating fragrance with his nose, while intoxicating it, looking completely selfless.

Cen Jiahua came up to take a look and found that the peanut oil was not that clear, and there was a little black in the golden yellow, which smelled so good.

Later, Cen Jiahua realized that these blacks were caused by residual peanut residues. As long as they were left to stand for a period of time, they would be deposited and layered.

After a while, the two big bags of peanut kernels brought by Wu Fang were squeezed and turned into two small buckets of peanut oil and two big bags of fluffy peanut residue. The peanut residue is a good thing. Just mix it with bean flour, dried fish powder and corn flour. Whether it is feeding pigs, chickens and ducks, it is a high-end product.

When Cen Jiahua and Wu Fang left the oil pressing workshop, there was already a long line at the entrance of the workshop. The villagers sent the peanuts they wanted to squeeze oil. People were rushing to eat fresh peanut oil before the Chinese Lunar New Year Festival this year, so they sent it to squeeze oil in such a concentrated manner.

After peanuts, there are sesame, mung beans and other crops. They all become fruits that are dried in the farmyard of Rongshu Village. The whole village is filled with the atmosphere of harvest.

The tourists who came to visit bought the newly squeezed peanut oil from the villagers, all kinds of pure natural sesame, mung beans, etc. After getting used to eating genetically modified foods, the city people were really excited. They all took back the whole lot.

Although every household has only a small amount of everything, the villagers have accumulated a lot of money, and after accumulating, they have sold a lot of money. Many people are thinking about planting a crop specifically for the next year and selling it to customers from the city.

It has to be said that the charm of the market is huge. Originally, the village committee and the superior agricultural department have always advocated centralized planting. However, the small farmers' awareness in the minds of the villagers is deeply rooted and they ignore other people's propaganda at all.

However, after a summer of what I saw and heard, the villagers' concepts have changed a lot. It has to be said that the role of the market effect is really huge.

This may be the most direct impact on the minds of the villagers in Rongshu Village after opening the farmhouse. This is a gratifying change.

The originally self-sufficient small peasant economic awareness has gradually changed under the baptism of the big commodity economy. In this way, the villagers can let go of their hands and devote themselves to their efforts to get rich.

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