Chapter 76: Oil Pressing at the Space-Time Transfer Station
"Although the combined money of the two of us is not small, it is nothing compared to the wealthy families like the Zhu and Bai families, or even Mr. Ma in town. We still have to make more money."
Mr. Ma owns thousands of acres of fertile land in Fufeng Township. Every year, he collects several thousand taels of rent, which is several times their family wealth. No wonder he can be so arrogant.
Shen Yi pondered and said, “I will go to the ferry after the busy farming season in spring.”
This is his main business and the longest-lasting livelihood he can think of.
Su Tai looked at him hopefully with eyes wide open, "How much do you earn in a day?"
Shen Yi pondered, "It depends. If the weather is good and it's a big market in Dahe Town, I can go back and forth twice a day, pick up ten people at a time, and each person is two cents, which means eighty cents. Usually I only go back and forth once a day, and wait until the seats are full before leaving."
Compared with other villagers who were digging for food in the fields, he was already very content.
Su Tai propped up her chin and began to calculate. "There are three big markets a month, and I can earn 240 coins. The rest of the time, it's almost 1,000 coins. That means I can earn more than 1,300 coins a month. Minus two busy farming months and more than four months of severe cold, it's 7,260 coins. This doesn't include bad weather, right?"
Shen Yi took a sip of water and paused, "Indeed."
Originally he thought the ferryman made a lot of money, but after his wife calculated it, it didn't seem like much. After all, their family could earn several hundred taels a year just from the farm.
Su Tai sighed and shook her head. "The effort is not proportional to the income, and there are risks. It's not good at all. But I know your skill has been passed down from generation to generation. I'm afraid you won't be willing to give it up. How about I catch some fish? You can sell them in Dahe Town?"
Shen Yi wanted to refuse, but when he met Su Tai's pleading eyes, he couldn't say anything against it.
Seeing his hesitation, Su Tai continued, "Don't worry, I have experience, and I will arrange things in an orderly manner next time. And you also said that the fish here are not easy to catch, so I won't catch too many. Just one net a day, I can earn a little, and then I will think about making some food and selling it on the boat, how about it?"
Shen Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard this, "Are you going to use the boat to its full potential?"
"Of course!" Su Tai shook her head proudly.
After Chen Yi went to clean up the kitchen, she carried the three fish given by Chen Zhuang into the transfer station. She was shocked to see that her virtual currency balance had suddenly decreased by five points. Could it be that one point would be deducted for catching a fish? What about putting in a fish?
To verify her guess, she put one of the fish into the lake, and sure enough, the virtual currency balance increased a little.
After understanding the rules of fishing, she gritted her teeth and rented a fully automatic fishing boat, took the remaining baits for fishing and went to Water Time and Space.
The fishing boat that we rented earlier was still quietly parked by the water, and the fishing nets on it were in a mess and had not been cleared away.
She quickly prepared the fishing net, tied the two boats together, and sailed to her destination.
After making a nest, she casts the net and then ties the net to the fishing boat. She then leaves on another fishing boat and goes back in to collect the net at about the same time, so she doesn't have to be trapped in the water space-time.
When Su Tai returned to the room, Shen Yi had almost finished his work.
They washed their faces and feet and went to bed.
The warm quilt blocks out the severe cold of late autumn.
Su Tai squinted her eyes comfortably, held Chen Yi's arm tightly and asked, "How much oil do we have left?"
Chen Yi took advantage of the situation and held her in his arms, rolling his Adam's apple and saying slowly: "Use as much as you want. If it's not enough, I can go to town to buy more."
"Oil is so expensive! It's not worth it if I buy a lot! Don't we still have a lot of peanuts and soybeans at home?" She raised her head suddenly, wanting to look at Shen Yi in the dark, but ended up bumping into his chin, and tears welled up in pain.
Shen Yi hurriedly took up his hands and gently rubbed them, his tone full of pampering and helplessness, "The peanuts and soybeans have not been touched. The yield of our land is about 200 kilograms more than others. I hid them all. I have saved more than 1,000 kilograms of peanuts and soybeans. You can use them however you want."
Su Tai was so excited that she kissed Shen Yi fiercely, "You are so amazing."
The man's eyes gradually became deep, and before Su Tai could react, he pressed forward.
After tossing and turning all night, Su Tai felt sore in her back and waist when she got up the next morning. In order to make money, she had to grit her teeth and get up.
When she finished packing and opened the door, she found that Shen Yi had already placed a few bags of peanuts and soybeans in the corner near the door, which saved her a lot of effort.
After getting the soybeans and peanuts to the Space-Time Gate Transfer Station, she rented a fully automatic oil press from a media tool vending machine. This machine didn't even have instructions for use and was very easy to operate. Just pour the raw materials in and the machine will produce oil after running for half an hour. The oil residue was so dry that no oil was visible, which showed how high the oil yield was.
In the end, 500 kilograms of peanuts produced 250 kilograms of peanut oil, and 500 kilograms of soybeans produced 125 kilograms of soybean oil. No matter how you look at it, peanuts are more cost-effective.
The squeezed oil is temporarily stored in a large medium vat, and you need to buy some oil bottles to get it outside.
Su Tai ran to find Shen Yi, "I need some oil bottles, the bigger the better."
Shen Yi stood up, dusted off the dust on his body, and asked calmly, "How much oil was produced?"
"Two hundred and fifty kilograms of peanut oil and one hundred and twenty-five kilograms of soybean oil." Su Tai said.
Shen Yi was so shocked that he swallowed his saliva, and without further questioning, he took the silver coins and drove the donkey cart out.
As soon as Chen Yi left, Su Tai was not idle either. She ran to the water time and space again to collect yesterday's fishing net. Perhaps it had been left for too long, and there was only a big grass carp, two carps weighing about three pounds, some small fish, and a big hole on the fishing net.
Su Tai felt so distressed that she stared at the hole for a long time and gestured for a long time, wondering if there was a monster in the lake. Such a big hole looked wrong.
Unfortunately, she couldn't figure out the reason after thinking for a long time, so she could only take the fish and the broken fishing net back to the transfer station. The broken fishing net was a medium tool, and no one could see it even if she took it out, let alone use it. She herself didn't know how to repair it, so she could only sell it to the automatic trading cabinet for secondary recycling.
After scanning, the automatic trading cabinet gave a quote of twenty virtual coins, which was an outrageously low price.
Suta cursed in his heart, but had to agree to sell it and spend another 100 virtual coins to buy a new fishing net.
After noon, Shen Yi came back pulling a donkey cart full of oil bottles, followed by his second aunt Xu.
Xu was still holding her own oil bottle in her hand. When she saw Su Tai, she immediately said with a smile, "Chen Yi said that your family has imported a batch of soybean oil and peanut oil. I came to buy some from you so that we don't have to go to town in such a cold day."
Su Tai took the oil bottle and asked, "Aunt, do you want soybean oil or peanut oil?"
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