[Red House] Release a concubine and have children

"What is this?" Qian Da reached out and grabbed the seeds, put them in front of his eyes, and smelled them again, "It doesn't smell like anything."

Fu Li laughed and said: "What fragrance can seeds have? This thing is called peanuts, and in some places it is also called peanuts, long-lived fruits. The fruits grow in the ground, and what to eat..." She pointed to the peanuts in Qian Da's hand, " It’s the seeds. If you’re curious, you can try it. It tastes better when it’s fried or boiled with salt, but it’s also different when eaten raw.”

As she said that, she turned her head and started packing her bags, trying to plant the peanuts she brought into the soil in the way she remembered.

But soon she raised it up: "I almost forgot that this mountain is not mine. Qian Da, quickly take out the deed, writing brush and ink pad, we will smash this matter right away."

Qian Da took a look at her, hesitantly put a peanut into his mouth, chewed it a few times and then nodded: "It really tastes good. But if you just buy the whole mountain just to grow peanuts, that's not enough." Isn’t it worth it? Peanuts are not like hot peppers that can be sold for a high price, and they don’t fill your stomach.

Fu Li smiled: "This product has a large output, even if it is sold at a low price, it can still make money. Besides, peanuts can also be squeezed for oil."

"Extract oil?" Qian Da's eyes lit up, "Are you sure?"

Most people nowadays use lard and rapeseed oil for cooking, and at most add soybean oil.If there is a new source of edible oil, the value is naturally immeasurable.

Fu Li added another chip: "If I remember correctly, the oil yield of soybeans seems to be about [-] catties of oil per [-] catties, while rapeseed is better, and only [-] catties of oil can be squeezed out of [-] catties. It’s only about a catty of oil, do you know the oil yield of these peanuts?”

Qian Da sensitively sensed something from Fu Li's words, and immediately looked at her excitedly: "How much? Is it taller than rapeseed?"

Fu Li smiled mysteriously: "One hundred catties of peanuts can squeeze out about 45 to [-] catties of oil. If the operation is done properly, it can even be higher. The key point is that this peanut oil has great benefits for the body. Medicinal materials have good medicinal value for malnutrition, spleen and stomach disorders, or symptoms such as cough, phlegm and asthma, and lack of milk. If you really want to sell them, the price will definitely be higher than soybean oil and rapeseed oil."

Qian Da took a deep breath: "Is the oil yield of peanuts really that high?"

He doesn't care about the efficacy, at most, he will say a few words when selling it in the future, just to raise the price of peanut oil; the oil yield of peanut oil is what he cares most about, as long as the output is large, it is a little extra Can the effect be compensated by increasing the price?

Fu Li nodded and looked at Qian Da with a smile: "Tell me now, even if I plant peanuts all over the mountains, will I lose money?"

"Of course not!" Qian Da stood up abruptly, "If this peanut really has such a high oil yield, not only will you not lose money, but you will make a lot of money!"

but……

Qian Da looked at Fu Li suspiciously: "Although chili peppers and wolf peaches are rare, I have heard of them before, but why haven't I heard of this peanut before? And if peanuts really have such a large amount of oil, no wonder As for the fact that no one has known about it for so long, and planted it to extract oil?"

Fu Li chuckled: "You have little knowledge, but it doesn't mean that this thing didn't exist before."

Leaving aside Fourier

Peanut varieties have been introduced to Daxia as early as the [-]th century. Let’s just talk about the native land of Daxia. In fact, there have been traces of peanuts a long time ago.

Daxia is one of the origins of peanuts.

It's just that it developed at the end of the [-]th century, and the peanut varieties that were planted in large quantities after the founding of the People's Republic of China have always been imported from South America, so people always think that peanuts are not native plants.

The reason why peanut has not been paid much attention to development is not only because people have not found that it can be used as an oil variety, but also because of its growth habit——

The fruit of peanuts is underground and has a strong grip on the soil after they grow up. If they are planted in the yellow soil or red soil widely distributed in Daxia, harvesting will be very troublesome.On the contrary, if they are planted in sandy loam soil, the yield will be greater, and the harvest will become extremely simple. After the peanuts are mature, they only need to be gently pulled to pull out the whole plant, including the leaves and fruits.

But there's no need to talk about these things in detail with Mr. Qian, and he doesn't care about them at all.

Fu Li smiled and said: "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Jia Ming who wrote a book called "Food Instructions", which not only recorded the existence of peanuts, but also wrote about its many characteristics and geography. Distribution. If you don’t believe me, you can check it out. As for why other people haven’t discovered that peanuts can be used to extract oil…” She couldn’t help but rolled her eyes, “I’m just an ordinary person, and I can’t go back and ask those Human reasons!"

Qian Da smiled awkwardly: "Aren't I just curious?"

In fact, he felt that Fu Li had too many good things in his hands, and he always felt that he didn't know when she would come up with another surprising new thing and make a lot of money.

Qian Da likes money, it is inevitable that he will be tempted, and he couldn't help but ask a question.

It's a pity that this thing actually existed in the first place, just like peppers and wolf peaches. No one had discovered its true value before, which made Fu Li miss it.

As for why Fu Li was so lucky to discover the value of these plants one after another...

Qian Da shrugged his shoulders. Luck is something that cannot be determined.

Fu Li understood Qian Da's temperament, but he was never angry, but urged: "Don't hurry up and bring me the deed? Or are you regretting it now?"

To be honest, Qian Da really wanted to regret——

Since the peanuts already existed in Daxia, and the mountain is in his hands now, why didn't he just buy the mountain himself and grow peanuts to make money?

Fu Li saw what he was thinking, and immediately poured cold water on him with a sneer: "Don't blame me for not reminding you, I would be willing to buy this mountain because I have enough peanut seeds for confidence, if you want to keep it for yourself You may not be able to find so many seeds when you grow peanuts, and the price of the seeds may not be what you can afford."

The soil conditions in Bazhou Prefecture and even several nearby prefectures are similar. There are very few sandy loam soils suitable for peanut production, so peanuts have never appeared in these prefectures. If Qian Da really wants to buy seeds, he will have to travel thousands of miles Buying seeds in Luzhou prefecture area does not count the time to find peanuts, and it takes more than half a year to go back and forth on the road, which is too expensive.

Qian Da's heart trembled, and he immediately smiled and took out the deed, brush and ink pad from his arms: "Look at what you said, how could I have such an idea?"

?This is the deed, Mrs. Fu hasten to sign and stamp it. "

Fu Li took the contract and signed it decisively.

After finishing all this, Fu Li took Qian Da and prepared to open up a small piece of land here to plant peanuts in the soil: "I don't know how many months the peanuts are sown, so let's plant some and see the situation."

If she hadn't forgotten what month the peanuts were sown, she wouldn't have gone up the mountain with a small bag of seeds.

Qian Da was speechless: "Miss Fu, are you kidding me?"

Fu Li paused and looked back at him: "Do you know the growth habit of peanuts? Then tell me?"

Qian Da chose to compromise: "...If this is the case, why don't you plant too many seeds? It's enough to just sprinkle a dozen or so seeds."

Fu Li thought it made sense and nodded in agreement.

The two of them left many branches and surrounded a small field, loosened it and sprinkled it with peanuts, then went down the mountain with Qian Da.

Walking to the foot of the mountain, I suddenly saw a few middle-aged men rushing towards the two of them, and when they came close, the man in the lead looked at Qian Da fiercely: "You are so rich, why do you run around here so often? Come up from my house?"

Qian Da glanced at him, and stretched out his hand to protect Fu Li behind him: "Your family's mountain? Uncle Liu handed over this mountain to me more than a month ago, and asked me to help sell it. It was sold, and now all the money is in the hands of Uncle Liu, this mountain has nothing to do with you, Liu Yu."

Liu Yu's eyes widened: "What did you say? That old man sold this mountain? He also took the money?"

"Didn't Uncle Liu tell you?" Qian Da was stunned, "That's right, you are a person who eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and beats and scolds your parents. How could Uncle Liu tell you about this? Maybe he brought money with him long ago. moved."

Liu Yu became anxious immediately: "How much money was sold on this hill?"

Qian Da frowned: "This mountain belongs to Uncle Liu, and Uncle Liu and I have already paid off the money. You can go to Uncle Liu for how much money you have sold, I have no obligation to tell you!"

As he said that, he turned his head and glanced at Fu Li, and was about to take people away.

Liu Yu was not stingy at first, and he didn't get the answer he wanted, so how could he let the two of them go?Immediately, people surrounded the two of them: "If you don't explain the matter clearly, don't even think about leaving!"

It's just that due to Qian Da's rumors some time ago, he didn't dare to really do anything to the two of them.

Qian Da was immediately laughed out of anger, and raised his hand to push him away.Before his hand fell on Liu Yu, he heard a cold shout not far away: "What are you doing?"

Everyone turned their heads and saw a few rich and noble people walking towards them with a group of entourage.

Fu Li was taken aback: "The magistrate..."

No, Lin Ruhai hasn't left yet, this person can't be regarded as the magistrate yet.

But what she blurted out unconsciously still frightened Liu Yu a lot. People like him are usually afraid of encountering officials when they walk on the road, not to mention that the person who came here is suspected to be the biggest official in Bazhou Prefecture?

Liu Yu and his brothers looked at each other, turned around and wanted to run.

Seeing this, Fu Li subconsciously wanted to stop him, but for some reason, her eyes suddenly went dark, and then she didn't know what happened afterwards.

When she woke up again, she saw that the room was crowded with people standing or sitting.

Before Fu Li could speak, Aunt Tian looked at her worriedly: "Miss Fu, the doctor said you are pregnant."