Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 98 Picking Tea Seeds

"Sister, haven't you dealt with that big thing you dug up yesterday?" Fanyue, who was cooking at night, saw two black lumps that her elder sister dug up yesterday at the foot of the kitchen. Xie Fanxing shouted.

"That's right! I was busy and forgot, there is still some time, let's make the konjac first." Xie Fanxing saw the two konjac in the kitchen, she patted herself on the head and said.

"Sister, how to do this, you teach me and I will help you." After Fanyue washed the rice and cooked it on the stove, she wiped her hands and approached her elder sister and asked.

"Let's wash it first, peel off the outer layer of skin, then cut it into small pieces, put it directly in the stone mill to grind it into mud, and then burn straw ash and put it in to shape it.

Finally let go of the water and pass through the water, and the konjac is ready.After that, no matter whether we eat it in cold salad or stir-fry sour peppers, the taste is excellent. Sister Xie Fanxing and Xie Fanyue each carried a konjac to the well to clean the konjac. Xie Fanxing taught Xie Fanyue how to deal with it while she explained.

The most important thing to deal with konjac is to grind it into mud. Their family has a stone mill, and the job of grinding it into mud requires a lot of effort.

Peeling, cutting, grinding mud, mixing plant ash water, shaping, boiling water, konjac into.

"Sister, this konjac is ready like this." Xie Fanyue followed her elder sister to make the konjac step by step, and saw the finished product appearing in her hands. She felt that the ugly or even inconspicuous things on the mountain could always pass through her elder sister's hands. Turning decay into magic, the dishes made are delicious and delicious.

"After boiling, it will be finalized. I'm afraid I don't have time to make konjac today. Elder sister will make it tomorrow. I will have a simple meal today."

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On the second day, at half past Mao, Mrs. Zhang, Fanxing, Fanyue, and Fanchen went up the mountain to pick tea seeds.
Fan Ri continued to stay at home to look after the baby, while Fan Yang took Wan Xiaojun and the others to practice martial arts, bow and arrow, and came to help after the practice.

"You brat, you keep scratching my hair. I'll see if I don't spank your ass later." Xie Fanri tied the little boy on his back, and he was picking vegetables in the vegetable garden. Messing his hair, he straightened up and pressed Xiao Guai's hand.

Xiaoguai thought that Fanri was going to play with him, so he grabbed Fanri's fingers with his little hand and giggled.

"Fanri, what are you doing? What about your elder sister and the others?" Xie Yunxiu and her came to work on the first day in charge of the house. After she didn't see her mother and Fanxing in the house, she walked into the vegetable garden with the baby. Fanri asked.

"Auntie, Uncle, you are here. Grandma and Eldest Sister have gone to work in the mountains. My elder brother is exercising in Huangping. You can find him in Huangping at the foot of the mountain at the back. He will take you up the mountain."

"Okay, I see. I'm leaving with your uncle. You can take care of the baby at home."

"Fanyang, what are you doing?" Cao Tielin came to Huangping, he saw Fanyang leading Wan Xiaojun, Lu Linyi and Wu Chen running around Huangping, he asked a little strangely.

He also knew that Fanyang had been learning martial arts, bow and arrow from Cao Xiucai in their village for more than half a year.

This is practicing bows and arrows, isn't it familiar with bows and arrows and accurate sight?

If you don't learn martial arts, it's also Zamabu. What's the purpose of this running?

Cao Tielin suddenly became puzzled.

"Auntie, Uncle, you are here. Whether they are practicing martial arts or archery, they still need to stretch their muscles and bones a few days ago. Of course, as you can see, they are just running. After slowly getting used to the intensity, I will teach them other things later.

Auntie, we have almost finished practicing today, and I will take you up the mountain. "Xie Fanyang wiped the sweat off his forehead, he explained.

"Come on, let's go up the mountain." Cao Tielin nodded half-understanding.

"Fanyang, what are you doing up the mountain? You need our help." Wan Xiaojun asked.

"We have work to do on the mountain, so we don't need your help. Fanwen and I can practice and play with the bow and arrow first, so that you are familiar with it." Xie Fanyang refused.

"Well, if there is anything, call the three of us. After all, the three of us practice bow and arrow with you, and there is no tuition fee. We still have some strength. Fanyang, don't alienate us " Wu Chen said in a deep voice.

"Yes, I won't be polite to you after you have learned a little bit." Xie Fanyang also thought about it. Now, although the three of them practiced bow and arrow with him, they haven't learned anything well yet, so they will It was too early for the three of them to help their own family. He planned to wait for a while, and wait for them to learn some kung fu.

After Xie Fanyang and Wan Xiaojun bid farewell and left, he purposefully took his aunt and uncle to the mountains. After walking for nearly a quarter of an hour, they finally arrived at the destination where they were going to work for the past few days.

"Mother, Fanxing, what do you want us to do now?" Xie Yunxiu came to the tea tree slope, and she asked Zhang and Xie Fanxing who were picking tea seeds from the tree.

"Uncle, Uncle, you came just in time, let's take these things home first." Xie Fanxing pointed to the tea seeds piled up together and put them in the basket.

Picking tea seeds is easy, but it is a bit laborious and troublesome to transport them back down the mountain.

Because the mountain road is rugged and uneven, neither horse-drawn carts nor ox carts can get up, and people need to go down the mountain with baskets on their backs.

The tea trees on this mountain are at least tens of thousands of catties, and it may take a long time to carry them down the mountain.

"Okay." Both Xie Yunxiu and Cao Tielin couldn't stay idle, and after the work was arranged for them, they immediately walked down the mountain with two baskets of tea seeds on their backs.

Seeing this, Xie Fanxing hurried down with two baskets of tea seeds, because she had to arrange where her aunt put the tea seeds she carried down the mountain.

After the Camellia oleifera fruit is harvested, it needs to be stacked and retting for 6 to 7 days, so that the tea seeds can be matured to increase the oil content. It is not possible to expose the tea seeds to the sun after they are picked home.

Xie Fanxing and the others carried back the tea seeds, and she put them directly in a large empty room in the backyard of her uncle's house.

The room in the backyard of her uncle's house was built by Xie Fanxing on purpose for her uncle to pile up the retting tea seeds, and then use it as a place to store the tea oil after squeezing the oil.

And in the future, brick making and burning will be completed in the backyard of her uncle's house.

Therefore, when her uncle built the house, he expanded the backyard a lot, and the ground was paved with bluestone slabs or blue bricks to facilitate their future work.

"Gu, let's just pour the tea seeds that I carried back inside, layer by layer, so as to increase the yield of oil extraction." Xie Fanxing said as he poured the tea seeds that he carried back onto the ground.

"Fanxing, these things are used to extract oil, and they look ordinary, can they really extract oil?" Cao Tielin asked which tea seeds were a little surprised.

Yesterday, his daughter-in-law told her about the brick-burning and oil-pressing of the Yue family, and asked them to help.

Cao Tielin finds it miraculous that edible oil can really be squeezed out of plants?

(End of this chapter)