Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 15 Oil Pressing
"Yes, that's it, Uncle. Repeat this hammering until the oil is squeezed out, and we have finished extracting the oil from the plant." Seeing that her uncle found the key, Xie Fanxing nodded and said.

"Now we are divided into two groups to work, Grandma, you take Fanyang and Fanchen to continue steaming tea seed powder and pressing them into tea seed cakes, and put them aside for later use.

Uncle and aunt, let's squeeze and hammer. "Now the tea seed oil is pressed purely by hand, row pressing and hammering are the most difficult. Therefore, she must personally supervise and give correct guidance to avoid other accidents.

The hammering was done by her uncle and aunt because they were young and strong enough for the job.

In addition, the oil trench at this time is placed on several benches. When the hammer hits, the oil trench will turn over, fearing that it will fall off the bench, and someone needs to support it, so it takes three hours to squeeze and hammer. people to accomplish this.

Her uncle and aunt also understood the principle of squeezing and hammering.

Qian kept looking for suitable wooden sticks, bamboo slices and other utensils that could be squeezed. She saw the cracks and kept stuffing things into the back of the oil trench for her uncle to hammer.

As they keep stuffing in the squeezed things and hammering forward, the tea seed cakes that are pressed into round cakes are shrinking in size, squeezed, and slowly pushed forward.

However, Xie Fanxing also saw traces of oil slowly squeezed out from the tea seed cake, probably because the hammer was not enough, so the tea seed oil squeezed out of the tea seed cake was not a lot of.

Not enough to drip from the eye of the slot.

"It seems to be oily?" Xie Zhong also found this situation, he said a little excitedly.

"Let me take a look." When Qian heard this, she also approached immediately, looked carefully and touched the tea seed cakes with her fingers.

After wiping, seeing that his hands were indeed stained with oil, Qian's face showed great joy and said: "It's really oily, let's work harder and squeeze out the oil in the tea seed cake."

Seeing that oil could be extracted from the tea seed cake, Xie Zhong and Qian's couple were even more motivated to do this job.

This continued for another two quarters of an hour.

Finally, tea seed oil was knocked out by the hammer in the hole of the groove. Seeing this, Xie Zhong exclaimed with great joy, "Oil has come out."

"Is it oily? Let me take a look." Zhang Shi, who was busy pressing tea seed cakes in the kitchen, heard that she couldn't care less about pressing tea seed cakes, and hurried up to have a look and said:

"This oil smells so good! The color is also golden yellow, so pretty."

Now that the oil has been squeezed out, Mrs. Zhang and Xie Zhong are working faster.

It took nearly half an hour for the tea seed cake to be squeezed out of the tea seed cake in the oil trench, and the oil in the tea seed cake was squeezed out until the oil could no longer be squeezed out, and they replaced it with new tea seeds. Cake, continue a new round of squeezing.

Xie Fanxing reckoned that the tea seed cake in Yiyouhao probably weighed nearly a hundred catties, and the squeezed oil weighed about fifteen or six catties.

The oil yield is pitiful. According to the tea seed powder they have ground is about [-] catties, it is too much to squeeze out [-] catties of tea seed oil.

Seeing that the oil could be extracted, Qian Shi and Xie Zhong worked even more vigorously. After breakfast, they began to extract oil non-stop.

At the end of the afternoon when they were busy, they squeezed all the tea seeds into oil.

Xie Fanxing did not let go of the tea seed cake waste that was squeezed out of the oil. These can be used as waste, not only for chickens, but also for mosquitoes and insects.

"Uncle, Auntie, take this jar of oil back and eat it! Each of our family has a jar." Xie Fanxing filled two jars with the tea seed oil squeezed out today, and she handed Xie Zhong a jar of tea seed oil road.

"Here." Seeing this, Xie Zhong didn't reach out to pick it up.

"Uncle, what's wrong with you, you can't see it, it's because my niece has something good, so I'm not allowed to show filial piety to you.

What's more, my uncle and aunt helped, and I didn't have any wages to pay you, so I took the oil as wages. "Xie Fanxing saw that her uncle didn't answer, so she forced it to her uncle.

"Zhongzi, Fanxing said this is for you as a filial piety, so you can take it!" Seeing that the eldest granddaughter knows how to deal with people and how to maintain the relationship with her uncle and aunt, Mrs. Zhang sighed with relief. Her family Fanxing has grown up. , the elders handed over the whole family to Fanxing, so it would be no problem for her to manage the house.

"Auntie, at the end of this summer, the tea tree will be able to pick the fruit. Let's pick one piece and press it into tea seed oil. What do you think?" Xie Fanxing invited Qian.

When Qian heard her eldest niece's invitation, she was surprised and pleasantly surprised. Her eldest niece is good, and she doesn't hide some good things. If she has good things, she knows that it is good to honor their elders.

In fact, Xie Fanxing was working for the two laborers of her uncle's family so that they could work.

"Okay, at the end of summer this year, when the tea tree bears fruit and can be picked, we will do this work together. I see that there are more than a dozen tea trees on the mountain, and they bear a lot of fruit every year. It is said that there are more than 20 catties, and if it is more, it will be more than 30 catties.

If there are more than a dozen trees and nearly [-] trees, then six to seven hundred catties of tea seeds can be produced. According to oil extraction, nearly one hundred catties of tea seed oil can be squeezed out. So much tea seed oil, our two families will share it equally. Enough for us to eat for more than a year.

If there is any surplus left, can we take it to the town for money? "Qian thought about it for a while, the more she thought about it, the more her thoughts diverged, and when she thought about whether the tea seed oil could be sold for money, she suddenly said excitedly.

"The oil extracted is too little, and we can only eat it ourselves. Unless we find more tea trees, otherwise, it will be useless to sell money. Also, if the town only eats oil extracted from animals I've never eaten oil extracted from plants, so I'm afraid it will be difficult for people to accept, and selling it is a problem." At first, Xie Fanxing also thought of extracting oil and selling it for money, but he gave up after thinking about it for a while.

First of all, there were too few tea trees, and not much oil was squeezed out, which was only enough for the two families to eat.

Another issue is who the sales channel is for and what the selling price is.

"Don't worry about this. Auntie will go to the mountain tomorrow to see if there are tea trees growing. Since there are more than a dozen tea trees in the mountain, there must be a second tea tree, The third piece of tea tree.

Zhongzi, tomorrow you take the prey you caught from the mountains to the wine shop in the town to sell for money, and inquire about the oil by the way, to see if the wine shop accepts the oil we squeezed. "Qian's thoughts turned extremely fast.

But as Qian said, there must be a second tea tree on the mountain, but they couldn't find it.

If you can find a large number of tea seed trees, you can extract oil in large quantities, but you can consider selling oil in large quantities.

"Auntie, I'll go up the mountain with you tomorrow! We also have a mutual help. Also, I found that ancient book from Cao Xiucai's house that introduced it. There are many things that can be eaten and have great effects. I will go up the mountain to have a look , can you find something?" Xie Fanxing asked with a thought.

"That's fine. Let's go up the mountain together tomorrow." Qian did not refuse.

"Why don't you go up the mountain together after Zhongzi finishes going to town." Mrs. Zhang was a little worried that Mrs. Qian and her eldest granddaughter went up the mountain together.

"Mom, we don't go deep into the mountains, we just look around, it's fine."

(End of this chapter)