It happened that Yu Fuling did not come to the countryside with Yu Jiao today, so Yu Mengshan did not come to the house empty-handed.
Although he knew that Yu Jiao had opened a grain store and bought land in Xixun County, Yu Mengshan was still a little scared when he saw it with his own eyes.
The house in the city is comparable to those of the gentry in Changkui County. Just now on the way here, Yu Fuling pointed to hundreds of acres of cabbage fields and said that those were all the fields bought by Yu Jiao.
The big house in front of him turned out to be a paper mill built by Yu Jiao. Fuling said that Yu Jiao was also going to run an oil press. What Yu Jiao did in Xixun County was really beyond Yu Mengshan's imagination.
"It's okay. Uncle Mengshan, would you like to come down and take a look?" Yu Jiao said with a smile.
Fuling had asked him to get off the car just now. Yu Mengshan met a few servants in the house. Hearing them all calling Yu Jiao "boss", he was afraid that his lameness would embarrass Yu Jiao, so he was too embarrassed to get off the car.
Yu Mengshan took a look at the paper mill and was quite interested. He heard from Fuling that Zhizhou and a manager went to Jiangnan, and when they came back from Jiangnan, Yu Jiao would hand over the paper mill to his third brother.
"Dad, I'll walk around with you." Yu Fuling saw what her father was thinking and said, "Yu Jiao has things to do, let's walk around and I'll show you the places."
Yu Mengshan got off the carriage, and Yu Jiao asked, "Has Uncle Mengshan had his meal yet?"
Yu Fuling said, "When Dad came to the house, I asked the cook to cook for him. I brought him here after Dad had eaten."
Yu Jiao nodded, and the guy holding the blueprint came over to find Yu Jiao, so Yu Jiao went to the reservoir with the guy.
Yu Fuling brought Yu Mengshan into the paper mill. She often came here with Yu Jiao and witnessed the construction of the paper mill with her own eyes. She explained to Yu Mengshan the use of every item in the yard.
After visiting the paper mill, seeing Yu Jiao still talking to the clerk, Yu Fuling took Yu Mengshan to the nearby Baiyi Village to see the oil press that was under construction.
The oil press occupied a very large area. Because the wedge oil press was to be placed inside, Yu Jiao asked people to go to the nearby mountains to cut down a camphor tree that was 18 feet long and nearly a hundred years old. The tree was used to make the wedge oil press. She also specially invited a craftsman who was very good at carpentry and had made wedge oil presses in other oil presses to help chisel wooden troughs to make the oil cake chambers.
Yu Fuling heard all this from Yu Jiao, and told Yu Mengshan about it. Yu Mengshan had never been to an oil press before, and it was his first time seeing a wedge oil press. He couldn't help but stand next to the carpenter and watch for a while, then asked curiously, "How do you press oil?"
Yu Fuling had already learned the principle from Yu Jiao, and couldn't help showing off, "Yu Jiao said that after the cauliflower seeds are grown, they should be dried in the sun and poured into a slanted pan for frying. After frying, they should be spread out to cool and ground into powder. Then they should be steamed and made into pancakes while they are still hot. The pancakes should be placed in the oil tank."
Yu Fuling pointed to a circular groove that the carpenter had chiseled and continued, "It's here. Then put a wooden block on this side of the oil cake and use the hanging perforated stone to hit the two triangular wedges between the wooden blocks. The wedges will be driven into the press chamber. The wooden block placed horizontally in the press chamber will squeeze the oil cake and oil will come out."
She pointed at the groove left by the carpenter and said, "When the time comes, the oil will flow down from this groove, and we can just use an oil bucket to catch it underneath."
Yu Mengshan listened carefully and said, "Then it would take a lot of people to press the oil, right?" After all, it takes a lot of effort to squeeze the oil out of the oil cake.
Yu Fuling nodded. "Yu Jiao said there is a hammer. Three or five people will have to work together to knock the wedge into the press chamber, just like the big bell at Fahua Temple."
Yu Mengshan seemed to be thinking about something. He was just sitting there doing nothing. Although he had a lame leg, he now had a prosthetic leg and still had some strength. He could help Yu Jiao here.
"Uncle, why are you here?"
Zhao Yu was just staring at the slanted stove with frying oil in it in the kitchen. As soon as he came out of the kitchen, he saw Yu Fuling. He was about to walk over to talk to her, but when he looked carefully, he recognized his father-in-law standing next to her and hurried over to greet her.
"Brother Yu?" Yu Mengshan turned around when he heard the voice and was surprised to see it was Zhao Yu.
Yu Fuling explained, "The owner of the Zhang family grain store where Zhao Yu originally worked asked a relative to take his job. Yu Jiao also opened a grain store in Danzhou. A while ago, they were short of manpower, so I asked Zhao Yu to come and work in Yu Jiao's grain store."
"Danzhou?" Yu Mengshan was inevitably confused. Wasn't it said that the grain shop was only opened in Qixun County? How come there was also one in Danzhou?
Zhao Yu said, "The grain in Danzhou has been sold out, and Boss Yu has closed the grain shop. I and the other employees of the Danzhou grain shop have returned to Qiyun County. The boss is busy building a paper mill and an oil press, so he asked me to keep an eye on the work at the oil press."
Yu Mengshan nodded, not knowing what to say for a moment. Everything that Yu Jiao had done outside really opened his eyes.
She was a little girl but she had such great abilities that she quietly opened two grain stores and quickly built two workshops. He couldn't help her at all.
Yu Fuling was afraid that Yu Mengshan would blame her for not getting married yet, so she asked Zhao Yu to come and work for Yu Jiao. She nudged Zhao Yu with her elbow and asked him to behave well in front of her father.
Zhao Yu received the signal and said, "Uncle, there is tea in the room. Would you like to sit in the room for a while?"
Seeing the little actions of the two, Yu Mengshan was secretly satisfied. The two would get married after the new year. The couple had such a good relationship, so they would naturally live a happy life in the future.
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