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Chapter 422 - 【421】Sixty Wastrel Counterattack 56 (4 more updates)

After the autumn harvest, the grains had to dry properly before they could be taken in as public grain. As before, he handed over one hundred pounds, but this time it was corn, not rice. He had stored all the rice at the grain station for the family's consumption.

Having cleaned the harvested sesame, and after drying it, he took it to the mill to press it into sesame oil. According to the ratio of one pound of sesame yielding four taels of oil, his one hundred pounds of sesame eventually produced forty-one pounds of sesame oil.

The sweet potatoes and peanuts in the backyard were also harvested. The peanut yield wasn't much – just fifty pounds with shells – far from enough for oil pressing, so they were kept at home for snacking.

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