Dressed as a top-notch girl, leading the whole village to become rich

The heroine's departure did not seem to bring any changes to the life in Yejia Village.

Only occasionally someone would talk about their family, and the heroine's fiancé who was studying at the county school, either boasting, or with envy, or jealousy.

The county school had a half-month holiday for the busy farming season, and the family finally had a reliable labor force.

The family was about to become wealthy, but because of the contract, they could not sell their products openly.

Others accepted this well, but Ye Guo himself was a little anxious and angry.

It’s simple, just because she wants to buy more food and store more supplies.

The prerequisite for all this is to have money.

"Aunt, why do you want me to collect so many soybeans? We don't make tofu at home." Ye Li came back carrying six bags of soybeans. His back was soaked as he hadn't done hard labor for a long time.

"What? Making oil." Ye Guo's eyes moved and the sad expression on his face disappeared.

Old Lady Ye and Ye Wan were stunned for a moment and looked over. "You said you want to make oil with soybeans?"

Ye Guo nodded: "When I make it, you will know. It is the kind of oil that can be used for cooking. You can put as much as you want in the future."

Soybean oil is very good.

Animal oil is used in Daqing. In a remote place like Yejia Village, we had to borrow chickens from the wife of the head of the village in order to get some eggs to nourish her body.

Most families in the village raise poultry, and the wealthier ones even have piglets. But in general, the meat is expensive and the oil is insufficient.

This can be proved by the fact that almost all the villagers in Yejia Village are skinny.

Soybeans are different. Although there are corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, bean rice is also one of the staple foods, so every household generally grows soybeans.

If soybean oil is produced, the price will definitely be much cheaper than lard.

Ye Guo is not an expert in this field, but as far as she knows, although the oil yield of soybeans is not as high as that of rapeseed, it should not be less than 20%.

In other words, ten kilograms of soybeans should be able to produce about two kilograms of oil.

The soybean meal left over from oil extraction can also be used to make soybean cake and the like.

It can not only be used as fertilizer, but also can be used to feed poultry...

Therefore, the news that Ye Guo was going to use beans to extract oil shocked the whole family.

The first step is to fry the beans. Her family members were reluctant to let her stand for even two seconds longer, let alone do such a hot and strenuous job.

All the pots that could be used at home were found. After all, in order to extract oil, the amount of beans must be large so that the oil can be produced quickly and with less effort.

The beans are almost done when all the moisture is dried out and the surface becomes a little oily.

Then they moved the beans to the stone scoop. There were many people in the family, and Xiaomu and Xiaolu were also very hardworking. They broke the beans into tiny particles in a very short time.

However, this was a relatively slow process, so Ye Guo suggested using a stone mill and letting a donkey pull the mill.

The beans that have been granulated are covered with the thinnest cloth, and now all that’s left is to extract the oil.

Nowadays, the bean particles are made into round bean cakes with straw, which are then tied with iron rings and put into a machine for pressing.

But this is Daqing!

There aren't any tools that are even slightly smart.

But there is a mountain behind my house, and the most common things on the mountain are soil and rocks.

Using stones to squeeze oil is a bit clumsy, but let's get the results first and then think of ways to improve it.

He asked Old Man Ye and Boss Ye to go to the back mountain and find a big and heavy rock.

The beans wrapped in cloth were placed on a flat stone with grooves for oil leakage made in advance, and then the large stone was found and pressed on the beans.

In order to prevent the oil from spilling, Ye Guo found a bamboo tube and placed it under the slot. Then he looked up and saw Father Ye and Boss Ye, both carrying the "mountain" over.

These two people are quite solid. He originally thought that if the strength was not enough, he could find someone to stand on a rock and jump a few times.

I guess it’s no longer useful now.

"Is that all? Are you sure you didn't miss any steps?" Old Mrs. Ye was the most concerned one and followed the whole process from beginning to end.

"That's it." Ye Guo nodded. Although the beans are small, they produce a lot of oil.

In fact, many beans and plants can also be used to produce oil. Modern oils include soybean oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, tea oil, olive oil... The reason why soybeans are the most popular is because they produce a lot of oil.

In fact, peanuts produce more oil, but she has discovered sugarcane and has not seen peanuts.

There’s no way, Yejia Village is too small, let’s talk about it later.

"Tick tock..."

"Oil is coming out!"

When the first drop of oil fell from the trough, everyone in the Ye family almost went crazy.

This is oil! In the past, when my family couldn’t afford meat, we used pig skin, which we used from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

For some reason, Old Mrs. Ye's tears suddenly started falling.

Everyone in the Ye family was guarding the oil press. They didn't sleep at night and didn't dare to blink, for fear that they were dreaming.

Oil was squeezed out of bamboo tube after bamboo tube. Smelling the unique aroma of soybean oil, Old Mrs. Ye could not control her expression. She looked towards the direction of Ye Guo's house. Could it be that her daughter was a fairy who had descended to earth?

At this time, Ye Guo was drawing a waterwheel with charcoal.

It is very difficult to irrigate the fields upstream of Yejia Village. Even the paddy fields have to be watered using shoulder poles and wooden buckets.

But she had only seen water wheels in field-type scenic spots, and was not sure about many of the details.

After making a rough sketch and deciding that she couldn't add any details for the time being, she put down the charcoal.

But she couldn't sleep, which was rare.

Although she seemed indifferent to the soybean oil issue, she was actually extremely excited inside because of her family's emotions.

Especially when it came to Old Lady Ye’s tears, she couldn’t remain indifferent.

A lot of things have happened recently, and as she thought about it, she simply took out some paper again, using a charcoal pencil, and began to write a letter to her second brother who was far away in Lingnan.

"Second brother, the news is good. Although it is the autumn harvest, the uncles and aunts in the village trust me very much. The rice seedlings in the fields..."

Ye Guo was a little reserved at the beginning, but became more and more confident as he wrote further on.

"There is never enough money at home, so I want to make soybean oil."

"There's not even a decent pressing tool. The stone was temporarily found by my father and eldest brother in the back mountain."

"What I didn't expect was that when my mother saw the oil, she cried. Even my father, my eldest brother... everyone in the family was wiping away tears."

"I suddenly regretted not thinking of soybean oil extraction earlier."

"My mother told me privately that she was really tired of being poor, so she cried with joy after seeing that soybeans could be pressed to produce oil. She asked me if I could sell it to relatives and friends at a lower price."

"So, second brother, I plan to set the price of a bamboo tube of oil at 100 coins."