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In the summer afternoon, the scorching sun mercilessly shines on the earth. The trees in the distance and the flowers and plants on the roadside have been dried up by the sun, and they seem to be looking forward to the rain to wash away the heat of the scorching summer.

He Cheng, Wang Kaixuan and several educated youth went to the oil press factory after lunch.

Why they can work in the factory while staying in the village is all thanks to He Cheng.

He Cheng likes reading. When he first arrived here, he found that the brigade had a lot of peanuts and soybeans, which were all oil-pressing tools! He immediately mentioned this to the brigade leader, who didn't take it seriously at first. Although He Zhiqing was instructed by the higher-ups to be well taken care of, he was still a young man after all, and the brigade leader didn't think he had the ability to run an oil press. But he didn't expect that He Cheng would rent an oil press from the county machinery factory a few days later.

Li Wei, captain of Qinghe Brigade: ...

Since you've borrowed it, just use it.

He quickly asked his team members to clean up a house with a large yard and placed the oil press directly there. Thus, the oil press factory of Qinghe Brigade was established.

Team leader Li Wei actually wanted to take over the oil press factory, but he became a little timid when he thought of He Cheng's identity. Forget it, the factory was in their team anyway, and the educated youth should not dare to make trouble.

The oil mill had just started, and the workers inside were only He Cheng, Wang Kaixuan, and the two male educated youth who lived with them, as well as two female educated youth. They were paid in centimeters, the same as when they worked in the fields before.

In fact, there were quite a few educated youth in Qinghe Brigade, with more than 20 men and women combined. But when He Cheng brought up this matter, many people felt that the factory could not be run and it would be better to work in the fields instead of messing around. So few people were willing to join. There were only two male educated youth, Wang Kaixuan and Zhang Qing, who had a good relationship with He Cheng, a male educated youth Wei Qi who wanted to be lazy, and a female educated youth Li Qingyu who had intentions towards him, and her good sister Zhao Lan.

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After He Cheng and his team arrived at the oil mill, they each started working at their respective positions. They called themselves workers, which sounded impressive, but in fact their jobs were just picking soybeans, washing soybeans, pressing oil, filling oil, and collecting soybean dregs. Every afternoon, someone from the team would come to collect the collected soybean dregs, and they would feed the pigs. There was also a financial job,

He Cheng was in charge of oil pressing. This machine was complicated to operate, and as it was old it was prone to malfunctions. Others were afraid of taking responsibility and dared not do it, so this arduous step was handed over to him.

The oil mills now produce less oil, so the work is easier and their height is correspondingly the minimum of six centimeters. This was one of the reasons why many educated youth were unwilling to come here in the first place.

The oil from the oil mill these days is mainly supplied to the machinery factory. This is also the lease condition discussed at the beginning, exchanging oil for the right to use the machine. After tomorrow, the oil from the machinery factory will be exhausted. In the morning, the team leader asked other educated youth to tell him that they should come to him today to discuss the issue of exchanging oil for the team members.

He Cheng naturally had no objection. He stared at the running oil press while waiting for the captain to come over.

After a while, the person arrived.

Li Wei looked at the well-run oil press factory and smiled with satisfaction. When the leader said that He Cheng would be assigned to their team, he was afraid that the young master had a bad temper and might cause trouble for him if he did not serve him well. He did not expect that He Cheng not only had a good temper, but was also so capable. Not only did he get the oil press factory set up, but he also ran it so well.

He Cheng: "Captain, you are here."

Li Wei: "Well, He Zhiqing, this factory is looking more and more presentable."

He Cheng smiled faintly and said, "We have just started, and we don't have any stable orders yet. If we want to really develop, we still have a long way to go."

Li Wei: "In the past few days, many team members have come to ask me about changing the oil. I came here to discuss it with you."

He Cheng nodded.

Li Wei: “Do you have any ideas?”

He Cheng: "I do have one, but I don't know if it's suitable. Let me tell you, and you can listen to it and give me some advice."

Li Wei nodded, thinking that this boy was quite humble.

He Cheng: "You can exchange it with oil, for example, six pounds of peanuts for one pound of oil, eight pounds of soybeans for one pound of soybean oil. Different oils can be exchanged for different pounds of oil. You can also exchange it with centimeters. The specific number of centimeters per pound of oil is up to you, the captain."

Li Wei was very satisfied with the two methods he proposed. "Then let's use both. Although there are many people in the team who grow peanuts and soybeans, there are still a few households that don't have them. Or, if the oil-growing households have changed their oil crops, there will be no way to change them. So we use both oil-growing and centimeter-growing methods. They can choose whichever one they want."

He Cheng naturally had no objection. He had originally thought so too, but he just didn't say it directly. The captain was a smart man, so he just had to say what he should say. The captain would definitely understand, and now it was what he wanted.

He Cheng smiled faintly and said, "Okay, then I'll trouble the captain to tell everyone."

Wang Kaixuan, who was busy loading oil, looked at He Cheng who was chatting and laughing with the team leader, and a trace of admiration flashed in his heart. He has been in Qinghe Brigade for three years. When he signed up to go to the countryside, he was full of ambition and planned to build the countryside well. But when he got here, he found that it was completely different from what he had thought before. There are not so many opportunities here, and there is only working in the fields day after day.

Just when four years of rural life were about to wear down his ideals, He Cheng came. From the first moment he saw He Cheng, he felt that he was extraordinary. Sure enough, he built this oil press factory not long after he stayed here, and immediately stood out from the other educated youth.

He was very glad that he chose to do this with He Cheng. He was no longer the male educated youth who lived a muddle-headed life. He was Wang Kaixuan, a young man with ideals.

Li Wei got the result he wanted and was in a good mood. He looked at He Cheng with a smile and said, "It's not that hard. You will really have to work hard after today."

He Cheng understood the hidden meaning of his words. Now you need tickets to buy everything, and the amount of oil tickets is even less. Before, one pound of oil could last a year. Now their team has its own oil press. If they want oil, they can just exchange it for fuel. How can they not be excited? After everyone knows how to exchange oil, they will probably come here to exchange oil, and the oil press will naturally be busy.

He smiled and said that these were all trivial matters. Since he had chosen to go to the countryside, he was not afraid of being tired, and he thought that running this oil press factory was quite interesting.

He Cheng: "It's okay, it's all as it should be. Besides, compared with the team members working in the fields, this is nothing."

Li Wei looked at the modest and steady boy in front of him and smiled with satisfaction. He exchanged a few polite words with He Cheng and then left the oil press. He had to hurry to tell the team members the good news!

Li Qingyu, who was not far away, watched the captain leave. She came to He Cheng and said with a smile, "He Zhiqing, are you thirsty? I brought some mung bean soup when I came here at noon. Would you like to drink some?"