Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 11 Picking Up Tea Seeds

"Yes, just weave it like this. Uncle, your hands are so skillful. The weaving is beautiful and strong. Uncle, you can weave a few more and put them in the place where pheasants and hares often go, and then put some pheasants in the cage for food and cages." , The hare can't get out of custody.

Uncle, if you go up the mountain to put these cages tomorrow, can you cut me a big tree that is about ten feet long, as thick as this is enough. "Xie Fanxing gestured to Xie Zhong a few times, asking her uncle to cut down a big tree for her and come back.

"Fanxing, what do you want Uncle to do by chopping down big trees?" Xie Zhong asked a little strangely.

"I have other great uses."

"Okay, when Uncle Ming'er goes to release the cage, I'll find a tree for you and chop it back for you."

Xie Fanxing saw that her uncle had understood and learned to weave the hunting chicken coop, so she didn't stay at her uncle's house anymore, as for how much hunting chicken coop her uncle wanted to weave, he let him go.

"Sister, you are back. I left you a meal, but the cooking is not as good as yours." Xie Fanyue heard the voice outside the house, and she came out to have a look. After seeing that her eldest sister had returned, she quickly helped her eldest sister unload the food. Basket Road.

"It's okay, as long as you can swallow and eat enough, big sister is not so hypocritical, big sister Fanyang asked you to go back to the cage again, you can do it." Xie Fanxing asked while eating the breakfast Xie Fanyang brought out from the kitchen.

Today, their siblings had steamed sweet potatoes and stewed cabbage for breakfast.

It's just that the stewed cabbage is too rotten and not as crisp as stir-fried. The taste of the stewed cabbage is naturally not good, and it is even more unpalatable without oil.

"I did what the eldest sister said." Xie Fanyang nodded and said.

"I also sorted the fish and shrimp I caught and kept them separately in wooden basins." Xie Fanyue replied before her elder sister could ask her a question.

"Eldest Sister, Second Sister and Eldest Brother, you have given them work, why don't you assign work to my Third Sister?" Fan Ri asked with some embarrassment when he saw that his eldest sister didn't give him any work. .

As if he and the third sister were useless, he suddenly felt aggrieved.

"Whoever has the work, the elder sister will assign work for you later." Xie Fanxing saw Fanri's aggrieved little face, she pinched his little face, and said a little funny.

In this world, there are people rushing to do the work.

"Do you want to make money?" Xie Fanxing asked his younger siblings when he thought that he had to collect tea seeds to extract oil.

"Of course I thought about it. If you make money, you won't go hungry, you can eat well, wear warm clothes, and do whatever you want." Xie Fanyang was the first to express his opinion.

"If you want to make money, you two, Fanyue and Fanyang, will go up the mountain with the eldest sister later. But if we go up the mountain, we can't let grandma, uncle and aunt know, otherwise, they won't let us go up the mountain alone.

Of course, my sister and brother went up the mountain, and we didn't go far, so we picked up some things on the mountain and brought them back. The eldest sister will be useful if we pick up these things.Fanchen, you take care of your younger brother at home.

If the little brother is crying, check to see if he is going to relieve himself or wet his diaper, if not, feed him some water or batter, and then coax him.

Fanri, go ahead and take out our sieve and dustpan, wipe them clean, and after we leave for [-] minutes, you can light up the fire on the stove, it will be useful when we come back. "

"Sister, shall we go up the mountain now? What do you want us to pick up? Can we make money by picking up this thing?" Xie Fanyue is older and knows that money is not so easy to earn. She is a little curious, what kind of things are she picking up? , can make money.

"Whether you can make money or not, we have to wait for the eldest sister to do an experiment to find out. If it works, it will naturally make money, if it doesn't work, it will naturally not make money.

Let's go, each of us carries a backpack, I will take the hatchet, Fanyue will take the hoe, and Fanyang will go last. "After Xie Fanxing had breakfast, she put on the basket again, picked up the hatchet, and beckoned Xie Fanyue and Xie Fanyang to go up the mountain.

Xie Fanxing plans to pick up the tea seeds from the mountain today, dry them in the sun for three days, fry them to dry them, grind them for two days, and dig them for grooves on the fifth day, which will be used to squeeze out the oil.

It takes another day to steam the tea seed powder, then make tea seed cakes, put them in the groove, and hammer them. After doing this series of things, it will take less than half a month to complete.

In addition, there are still people working in the dry land and growing vegetables, and their siblings are busy.

After Xie Fanxing led Xie Fanyang and Xie Fanyue up the mountain, she went straight to the tea tree.

When they arrived at the destination, Xie Fanxing first taught the younger siblings how to know tea seeds, and today's purpose is to pick up these things and bring them home.

And I told them not to use rotten ones, smelly ones with a lot of moisture, or broken ones.

The job of picking tea seeds is simple, just squat down to pick them up.

Even if the siblings don't know what is good and what is bad, Xie Fanxing will let them pick it up first, and she will definitely have to pick and choose in the end.

In one afternoon, Xie Fanxing took his younger siblings up the mountain six times.

They picked it back and forth three times, and each time the three of them picked up 150 catties of tea seeds and went back. After three trips, they picked up almost 450 catties.

Some of the tea seeds have to remove some shells, pick out some bad ones, and dry and fry them in the sun. I am afraid that the tea seeds obtained in the end may be less than [-] catties.

According to one hundred catties of tea seeds, 25 to [-] catties of oil can be squeezed out, and they can only squeeze out [-] catties of oil from three hundred catties of tea seeds, which is too much.

Moreover, Xie Fanxing's techniques, techniques, and equipment for making tea seed oil are not so advanced, and the oil yield is estimated to be even lower.

Xie Fanxing reckoned that fifty catties of oil would be enough.

"I'm exhausted." Xie Fanxing looked at the tea seeds piled up in the corner of the main room, and a smile appeared on her face.

Although I am tired, it is worth it to think that these tea seeds can be squeezed out of oil.

"Fanchen, Fanri, don't peel it anymore, take a rest, let's get up early tomorrow and peel it together. Today we have breakfast earlier and go to bed." Xie Fanxing, Xie Fanyue, and Xie Fanyang went to the mountain to pick it up. Tea seeds, the tea seeds picked up, Xie Fanxing asked the Fanchen brother and sister to peel the tea seeds so that they can be dried later.

She can't wait for it to dry naturally and shed the tea seeds naturally.

Now in February, the cold wind is steep, and the sun is not hot even when the sun comes out. I don’t know how long it will take to wait for these tea seeds to dry naturally.

Xie Fanxing had no choice but to take a quick trip to peel the oil manually, then dry it with firewood, and press the oil quickly.

Xie Fanxing was tired today, and was not in the mood to cook dinner. She steamed some sweet potatoes, cut a capers, and made a meal together.

On the second day, Xie Fanxing got up early in the morning to peel the tea seeds.

Before her uncle cut down a big tree for her, their siblings peeled off all the tea seeds.

"Uncle, your hunting chicken coop has been set up." Xie Fanxing just packed it here, and when she saw her uncle and aunt carrying this big log in, she quickly carried it for her aunt, and asked Xie Zhong.

"Hmm! If I didn't find the tree trunk you want, I would have come back a long time ago. Fan Xing, what do you want this tree trunk for? Do you want uncle to help?" Xie Zhong asked Xie Fanxing after putting the tree trunk in the backyard .

"I will ask my uncle to help me if I have something to do. I don't need my uncle's help for now."

"Row."

(End of this chapter)