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The village brigade has a warehouse equipped with rice mills, flour mills, rice cake machines and oil presses. It is not open on weekdays, and only on a certain day after the corresponding crops are mature and harvested, the village's loudspeaker will notify you in advance.

Today is the day when the oil press is open.

The two houses next door also planted rapeseed flowers this year, and they packed them up early in the morning and prepared them for storage.

Lin Zhen and his wife recovered the rapeseed from the field that day and dried it in the sun for two days. Now that the rapeseed has been completely dried, they carefully tied the snakeskin bag tightly with a rope and hung it on both ends of the pole.

Chen Hu and Uncle Yang had several bags of rapeseed of their own and were unable to help, so today the young couple had to carry it by themselves.

It was Lin Zhen's first time carrying a pole. He could bear the weight. He lifted the pole onto his shoulders. Within a few seconds, nearly two hundred kilograms of rapeseed oil and the hard bamboo pole weighed down half of his shoulders. Very powerful.

Chen Hu joked, "Lin Zhen, why did you become squeamish after you fell down the slope last year?"

Uncle Yang laughed and said, "You are squeamish, but after that fall, Lin Zhen became smarter."

Lin Zhen stretched his muscles and picked it up again. This time he gritted his teeth and endured it, but before he could take two steps, the snakeskin bags hanging on both ends of the pole shook so hard that he couldn't even walk steadily.

Had to stop again.

Ji Congzhe went back to the house and took a towel, folded it and put it on Lin Zhen's shoulders.

Chen Hu also taught Lin Zhen to hold on to the snakeskin bag when carrying a load, so that he would not wobble when walking.

So Chen Hu and Uncle Yang, who was in his sixties, walked quickly in front, while Lin Zhen walked behind and had to stop for a while, or if it was too much, he and Ji Congzhe would take turns to carry the load.

Ji Congzhe was even worse. He fell straight into the ditch while carrying others. Lin Zhen had to help carry a bag behind.

The ten-minute journey to the brigade warehouse took them nearly twenty minutes.

After arriving at the warehouse, there was already a long queue in front of him. Lin Zhen asked Ji Congzhe to watch the queue of snakeskin bags while he went back to get the wine jar.

Near noon, they were finally in line. They moved the snakeskin bags into the warehouse. They couldn't tell what the various machines were. They just looked at a few of them in operation and knew they were mustard oil. of.

There was an earthen stove next to it, with firewood burning in the stove. There was a large pot on the stove. Someone stood in front of the stove with a shovel to clean out the last bits of rapeseed in the big pot, and then asked Lin Zhen to untie the snakeskin bag. The man came over, picked it up, and poured all the rapeseed into the pot.

Then the man held a shovel and kept stirring the rapeseed. When the rapeseed was almost fried, he put it into the dustpan one shovel at a time, and then put the rapeseed in the dustpan into the large iron funnel on the press next to it. Pour in.

As the machine started to operate, the full amount of rapeseed collapsed down the funnel. After being squeezed, the golden-yellow rapeseed crude oil mixed with milky foam slowly flowed down the iron ditch into the iron bucket that had been placed in advance.

The rapeseed residue falls off the machine just like sugarcane bagasse.

After the crude rapeseed oil in the iron bucket is filled, you only need to pour it into the filter and wait for the filtering to be completed to harvest the clear oil.