Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 59 The First Trial of Vegetable Oil
The family pulled and pushed, and it took a lot of effort to push the tank of oil back home.Luo Baisu worked the hardest, he was the one pulling the whole process, Fang just pushed behind, Luo Mingdu and Luo Tiandu, although they wanted to help, they were so weak, they could only put on a show.

When the family of four arrived home, Luo Baisu's clothes were soaked with sweat.

Fang was worried that he would catch a cold, so she went to boil hot water and asked him to take a bath and change clothes.

After Luo Baisu took a bath, he and Fang moved the oil barrel into the house, and lifted the lid. Suddenly, the room was filled with a strong smell of rapeseed oil.

"It smells so good." Fang couldn't help but said.

Although Luo Baisu didn't speak, he subconsciously sniffed hard, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

The family of four scooped three barrels of oil for more than an hour before they were all scooped from the oil barrel into the vat.Luo Tian didn't waste the oily residue that settled in the barrel, he put it in a clean jar and sealed it.

Although the oil residue can't be used for cooking, it is very good for maintaining farm tools. When shovels and hoes are sharpened, they will not rust so easily if they are coated with oil residue.

Fang's heart was happy, and said: "Let's not cook or stew tonight, just fry it, and try the taste of this cloud sprout seed oil."

Luo Tiandu didn't quite trust Fang's cooking techniques. Although Fang's best at cooking and stewing, everything was stewed in one pot. Of course it was because the oil was scarce and expensive, but Fang's cooking techniques were not very good. Gao Ming is also an indisputable fact.

Luo Tiandu, on the other hand, loves to eat and is picky. When he first came here, he had some maladjustment, but he gradually got used to it. At this time, he wanted to show off his skills and volunteered: "Mom, I'm here today." Stir-fry."

"You haven't even held a spatula a few times, and you know how to cook?" Fang asked curiously.

Luo Tian felt deeply insulted, and became more and more determined to show his hand in front of Fang Shi, so he took his basket and went to the field to pick vegetables.

Several of the vegetables Fang planted years ago can be eaten now.

Luo Tiandu then pulled out two lettuces, one big cabbage, and brought back a basket of spinach.

When Luo Tiandu was cooking, not only Fang Shi and Luo Ming were staring at the pot, but even Luo Baisu came in and packed the makeshift earthen shed to the brim.

Luo Mingdu concentrated on lighting the fire in the stove, and the iron pot quickly heated up, emitting faint blue smoke.The brown oil was poured into the hot pot, and splashed upwards with a "push, puff, puff", and boiled for a long time before calming down.

Luo Tiandu skillfully poured the ingredients and the main dish into the pot, stir frying from time to time, added the main dish, and after a while, several dishes came out of the oven.

Two lettuces, cut into thin shreds, fry a plate of shredded lettuce; lettuce leaves, remove the old leaves, cut the young leaves into small pieces, heat the oil to boiling hot, and fry a plate with garlic; As for the big cabbage head, the stems are kept to make mustard in the future. Only the thick leaves are taken, soaked in boiling water, soaked in cold water, cut into very thin pieces, and made into a plate of snow with dried chili. Red, spinach made a soup.

Three dishes and one soup, although they are all vegetarian, but they are all seasonal fresh dishes. Luo Tian stir-fried them just right, and brown oil can be seen in the soup, which makes people feel appetite greatly .

Fang was very interested in the plate of xuelihong, and said: "Caitouye, we all use it to pickle pickles. I didn't expect it to taste so good and crunchy after such a long time."

Luo Tiandu smiled and said, "It will taste even better if it is fried with shredded pork."

Stir-fried pork with red porridge is a special dish in her previous life. There are many leaves of vegetables like radishes and cabbage. They taste spicy and rough in the mouth, but when made into porridge, it is a unique delicacy. .

Fang took a chopstick of vegetables into Luo Tiandu's bowl, and said, "Eat more of the rice you cooked today."

Luo Tiandu smiled and took a bite of the shredded lettuce. It was crunchy, slightly sweet, full of moisture and tasted very good.

After eating, Luo Baisu took out the books that had been neglected for a long time due to spring plowing, and reviewed his homework.

Mrs. Fang sat and sewed clothes. The spring plowing had just finished and she was exhausted. She should take this opportunity to have a rest. There were four members of her family who couldn't bear to go to sleep. They all sat in the room, look at me, look at me You have a smile on your face that you have never seen before.

Luo Tian remembered the black tallow oil from last time, and asked Luo Baisu, "Father, should we write a letter to the county government?"

Fang asked a little puzzled: "What do you write to the county government?"

Luo Baisu understood what she meant immediately, nodded and said, "It's better to report this matter."

Fang also understood, and asked: "You are going to report to the government."

"Yeah." Luo Tiandu nodded and said, "Most of the fields here are empty in winter. If we plant a season of cloud sprouts and harvest the seeds, we can catch up with the season of corn and sorghum. It will not delay the farming season. The seeds harvested It can also extract oil. We usually eat lard or soybean oil, but meat is expensive, lard is not always affordable, and soybean oil is not cheap. If the family is not rich, no one will be willing to take it Beans are exchanged for soybean oil. In times of famine, they are all serious food. Let’s write a letter to the county government to inform Tang County Magistrate about this. To be able to eat expensive vegetable oil is a good deed we have done."

"But, how can our family make money like this?" For a while, Fang felt that what she said was reasonable, and at the same time, she felt that it was not worthwhile to cut off her family's financial resources.

"Mother, this is not how to make money. There are so many things that can make money in the world, and we are not just pointing at this one business. What's more, we have squeezed more than 400 catties of oil this year, and we have already made a fortune ahead of others. In the future There will be a more profitable business." Luo Tiandu then analyzed the pros and cons for Fang, "We must not be able to hide the fact that cloud sprouts seeds can extract oil, as long as our family starts selling vegetable oil outside, people in the village will Everyone can guess how this oil came from. Everyone will spread it to ten, ten to a hundred, and a hundred to a thousand. When we plant cloud sprouts next year, someone will definitely plant it with us. Instead of doing this, we might as well be more generous and simply share Spread it out, anyway, we made money this year."

Fang thinks about it and thinks it makes sense, but it's a pity that such a profitable business can only be done for one year. There will be more people planting next year, and the oil price will definitely fall.

Luo Tiandu comforted her and said: "There is never enough money in the world, and we will find other ways to make money in the future, not to mention that only when everyone has money, can we make more money, right?" Otherwise, everyone will be poor, who will make money?

Mrs. Fang seemed to be persuaded, so she went to help Luo Baisu get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Luo Mingdu helped Luo Baisu grind the ink.

A few days ago, when Fang invited Changhui's family to dinner, she bought a wild goose. She saved the outermost feathers of the wild goose's wings, skimmed off the fat, sharpened them, and made a simple The quill pen, but I don't know how to harden it, so the quality is lacking, and it will break easily after a long time of writing.

Although the charcoal pen is easy to make, the writing is bulky, which is a waste of paper, and the charcoal ash will gradually fade after being wiped several times, making it difficult to preserve. The quill pen is much more convenient.

So taking advantage of Luo Baisu's opportunity to write a letter to County Magistrate Tang, she re-transcribed the previous account book with a quill pen.

Seeing her pretending to write with a bird feather, Fang was very funny: "You ghost girl, you are the only one who likes to play tricks."

"This saves paper." Luo Tian did not even raise his head, and wrote it down carefully.

Luo Baisu was very interested in the quill pen in her hand, took one over, read it over and over twice, then dipped it in ink and tried to write two characters, but in the end he gave up because the pen barrel was too thin and he was not used to it.

"Children's hands are small and slender, so they can use this quill pen, but they won't be able to develop their wrist strength, which is not conducive to practicing calligraphy in the future."

Luo Tiandu raised his head, smiled at Luo Baisu, and said, "I don't need to take the number one examination. It doesn't matter whether the handwriting is good or bad, as long as I can understand it myself."

Luo Baisu thought so too, since the girl's family can't take part in the scientific examination, it doesn't matter if the handwriting is good or not.

After a while, Luo Baisu's letter was written.Luo Tiandu took it over and read it again. Like the last letter, the letter contained details on the seedling raising, cultivation, fertilization, yield, oil yield, etc. of the cloud sprouts.It's still quite well-behaved, not even a word of flattery, nor does it mean to take credit for himself.

Luo Tian couldn't help sighing, and began to doubt whether his father's personality was suitable for taking the imperial examination and entering an official career.

Is such an upright person who doesn't know how to seize the opportunity to fight for his own interests really suitable to be an official in the court?

However, she turned her head, looked at Luo Baisu's slightly refined face, and thought, maybe this world needs a few officials who are dedicated to doing practical things like her father.

The next day, Luo Baisu packed a small jar of freshly squeezed vegetable oil, sealed it, and entrusted someone to send it to the county government together with the letter.

After Luo Baisu delivered the letter, the family forgot about it.

The Luo family squeezed a total of more than 400 catties of rapeseed oil, and in the end they negotiated to keep [-] catties, and sold all the excess.

When Fang got the money, she couldn't believe it.

She has worked hard for half her life, and this is the second time she has more than ten tangs in her hands. The first time was to go to the county government to make rice noodles. Mrs. Tang and Mrs. Tang rewarded eighteen tangs, but this time she really got to farm the land by herself. Here, the meaning is completely different.

Luo Tiandu was also very happy.Seventeen dongs of money, plus the fact that Fang seems to have about two dongs of money in his hands, adds up to a total of [-] dongs of money. Luo Baisu's expenses for the exam are enough anyway, and she wants to buy the rest of the money. One farm ox, but I don't know how much the livestock here cost.

(End of this chapter)