As a stream of hot steam rises from the clay jar above the stove, the whole courtyard begins to fill the courtyard with a strong smell of tea fruits, with a slight bitterness and a smell of tea, which makes people feel comfortable.

"Lidian, it should have been almost steamed!" Liu Erwa opened the lid and grabbed it, pinched it with her hand and said.

"Okay, let's start making oil cakes!" Chen Xu naturally didn't know how long to steam, and only Liu Erwa had seen it in the county oil mill in the entire town, so everything could only be done by listening to his opinion.

Under Liu Erwa's instructions, several jars of steamed tea tree fruit were dug out by the helper with a wooden scoop and sent into the warehouse, and the helper inside had already scattered the hemp grass in the middle of the bamboo hoop, and after the hot steaming material was poured in, the helper who made the oil cake hurriedly stepped on it with his feet, and then folded and gathered the hemp grass around him in the middle, and then covered all the tea tree fruits tightly after stepping on it, so that it only took five minutes for an oil cake to be successfully made, and it was pressed and stacked next to it with a wooden cover.

Four people helped transport the materials, seven people helped to step on the cakes, the speed was very fast, nearly thirty oil cakes were made in less than twenty minutes, and after all the steamed tea tree fruit pieces were finished, under the command of Liu Erwa, these oil cakes were stuffed into the wooden press and placed neatly, and seven or eight thick pieces of wood were also stuffed into the oil cakes to resist them all.

Soon all the preparations were over, Liu Erwa carefully checked around the wooden press again, and felt that everything was fine, so he yelled and started squeezing, and the four strong young men swung a rosewood ramming rod with a thin waist and suspended on the beams of the house to swing back, and then hit a wooden wedge on the wooden press.

"Bang~"

The huge wooden wedge sank into the ground by a full three feet, and the whole room seemed to jump slightly, and countless dust and grass clippings fell from the roof.

"Up~" As Liu Erwa gave the order again, the bumper swing a few feet away again, and then hit the wooden wedge again under the impetus of the four young people shouting the trumpet.

"Bang~" The whole wooden wedge was directly completely knocked into the wood press.

Under Liu Erwa's command, the two helpers once again stuffed a thick wooden wedge into the wooden press, and the ramming rod swung again.

The sound of banging in the warehouse kept ringing, very regularly accompanied by the continuous impact of the password, after the three consecutive wooden wedges were knocked into the wooden press, the speed of the fourth entry was obviously much slower, each hit into less than three inches, and at this time all the oil cakes have been tightly squeezed together, and the half-foot-thick oil cakes have become much thinner.

"From~"

"Bang~"

The sound of trumpets and crashes continued to sound in an orderly manner, and soon half an hour had passed, and the fifth wedge had been hit, and by this time it was already possible to see the clear fine particles of oil being squeezed out of the oil cake.

"Hard, it's already starting to produce oil!" Although she is only fifty years old, Liu Erwa, whose hair has turned gray, is also sweating profusely at this time, but watching the oil particles come out, her heart is also hot, and she can't help yelling.

"Up, hi yo~" Although the four young people were only wearing thin short hangers, they were steaming all over their bodies, and they were already sweating at this time, but they were also very excited to push the batter bar and hit the wooden wedge fiercely.

"Lidian Lidian, oil is out, oil is out, oil is really out!" Lu Gen, who had been guarding next to the wood press, turned red with excitement, and watched as drops of tea oil kept flowing down the hemp grass on the oil cake, and soon seeped into the groove under the wood press.

"Oh ~ out of the oil ~ " A few children crowded at the door suddenly screamed excitedly, and the whole yard was sensational again, many people were tiptoeing and stretching their necks to look inside, but in fact, except for a few people at the door, they basically couldn't see anything, they could only hear the trumpets and crashes inside.

A few minutes later, a stream of golden tea oil bubbled out from a small hole at the end of the wooden press, and then fell into a clay pot below like a golden thread, and at the same time, there was a quiet tea fragrance spreading throughout the warehouse, refreshing.

"Whew~~"

Chen Xu seemed to hear a small person in his mind, and his excited limbs were lying on the ground and roaring to the sky.

Nima is not easy, before and after half a year, from the beginning of knowing the water soft, let her help collect tea fruits, the hard work paid off, and today finally squeezed out the edible vegetable oil.

Tea tree oil, known as the olive oil of the East by later generations, the royal family's special cooking oil, is no worse than olive oil in terms of nutritional value, but it has not been able to be popularized on a large scale because of the yield problem, and has become an extremely scarce high-end oil, the price is outrageous, Chen Xu clearly remembers that the hillside behind his house is planting Camellia oleifera on a large scale, but unfortunately he has not seen the fruit of Camellia oleifera on the burp, and Camellia oleifera and tea trees are the same family of plants, but the fruit hanging rate of Camellia oleifera is much larger, In terms of nutritional value, there is not much difference, and even the oil of tea tree fruit is more fragrant.

"You go ahead, I'll go and verify the effectiveness of tea tree fruit oil first!" Chen Xu couldn't wait to fill half a bottle with a pottery bottle that had already been prepared, and happily carried it to the primary school cafeteria, he was going to make a vegetable oil stir-fry first and scrape the oil and water in the blood vessels.

The onlookers dodged a path again, Chen Xu walked out with a smile on his face, and then looked at the two young men standing outside, feeling a little familiar.

"Is that you?" Chen Xu was puzzled, and the two young men immediately recognized Chen Xu, and when they spoke in unison, their faces were full of surprise.

"The two of you seem familiar, where have we met?" Chen Xu really didn't have much impression of these two young people, mainly because he went to the lotus garden that day, and almost all his attention was focused on Gao Yao, and he stayed for two or three minutes before and after saying a few words, and he naturally didn't care too much about the two young people who accompanied him in the room, and it was reasonable that he couldn't remember.

"Chen Lidian, I met in the lotus garden in Wancheng on the night of the Winter Clothes Festival, and Gao Yao, the second son of the county governor's mansion, was also there that day!" Yingbu hastened to explain.

Chen Xu smiled and said: "Slack, sluggish, coming and going in a hurry that day, I really didn't think about it, I just felt familiar!" ”

"Hehe, Chen Lidian don't blame yourself, I was lucky enough to meet that day, I passed by Qinghe Town today, I didn't expect to meet again, fate is not shallow!" Chen Ping said with a smile.

"What I said is, it's better to meet by chance, the two of you came from afar, please follow me to drink tea and rest, it just so happens that I got a new kind of clear oil today, you can make dishes and taste it, two please!" Chen Xu is also very enthusiastic, these two young people know Gao Yao and Ran Feng, their status is definitely not too low, and Gu Du is heroic and does not seem to be an ordinary person, so he also has a heart to make friends.

"It's better to meet by chance, Chen Lidian is really cool and straightforward, so we are respectful and obedient!"

Chen Ping and Yingbu did not shirk, went out and led the horse to follow Chen Xu to Qinghe Town Primary School, when the two of them saw the words Qinghe Town Primary School, they were surprised, and after figuring out the role of this primary school from Chen Xu's mouth, the surprised expression increased by three points.

Because of the recent agricultural slack, coupled with the good weather, Niu Quanxian was bored and summoned some children who were less than ten years old to attend classes at school, and the three old men naturally liked this kind of class activity very much, and they were tired of staying in the school to teach people tirelessly, and the residents of the town also had people who would come to eat some steamed porridge noodles and dumplings in the morning, although there were not many people, but there would always be a dozen or so every day, basically some of the rich families in the town, so the canteen was still open as usual.

Ask the two of them to sit down in a room with a clay kang next to the cafeteria, and arrange for the canteen helper to make tea.

"Last time I came and went in a hurry, I haven't asked the two high surnames yet?" Chen Xu sat down and said.

"Don't dare, under Chen Ping!" Chen Ping, who has a slightly scribe temperament, also said.

"Chen Ping?!" Chen Xu's face shook in surprise, and he stared at Chen Ping's face for a long time before saying, "Are you from Wei?" ”

Chen Ping's face trembled in surprise, and he asked more surprised than Chen Xu: "Ping is indeed from Daliang, but how did Chen Lidian know that I was from the original Wei State?" ”

Chen Xu's face slowly returned to calm and said with a smile: "I just heard that you speak like a Wei Di accent, which is very different from my Nanyang, so I was just slightly surprised!" ”

"No wonder, I didn't expect Chen Lidian to be so young that he could distinguish Chen Ping's origin by virtue of his accent, and I admire him so much!" Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief and smiled and pointed to Yingbu next to him and said, "Then Chen Lidian guess where Brother Yingbu is from?" ”

Yingbu? Chen Xu's face shook violently a few times, but he quickly regained his composure.

Regardless of whether Chen Ping and Yingbu are the two famous figures in history who assisted Xiang Yu and Liu Bang in later generations, they are still unknown ordinary people, and Wang Jian , Meng Yi , Zhao Gao , these celebrities who are now in power in Daqin, the difference in identity and status is too big, and it will not arouse anyone's interest at all, even Liu Bang and Xiang Yu are still unknown in their respective territories and don't know what they are doing.

Sitting opposite, Yingbu has a relatively strong body, ordinary appearance but sharp eyes, and a long sword hanging from his waist, which looks extremely heroic.

Chen Xu had a slight toothache, although he knew that Yingbu was the general under Xiang Yu in the Chu-Han War, but how did Lao Tzu know where he was from, and you were not Zhuge Liang, not to mention whether this Yingbu was Yingbu or not is still unknown, but for now, let's take it for now.

And Daqin is so big, he actually let himself meet two celebrities in this poor country, is this a big coincidence?

But anyway, Yingbu is Xiang Yu's subordinate, he must be a southerner, as for the accent is not easy to distinguish, the Qin Dynasty is not an era after two thousand years, and Chen Xu has never been far away, but Yingbu and Han Xin and Peng Yue are known as one of the three famous generals in the early Han Dynasty This Chen Xu still knows, after the Han Dynasty, he was named the king of Huainan by Liu Bang, probably probably from Anhui, so Chen Xu smiled slightly and said: "I guess Brother Yingbu should be from Huainan!" ”

Chen Ping and Yingbu were both surprised, and Yingbu directly said with admiration on his face: "Although Chen Lidian is slightly wrong, the difference is not too far, I am from six counties, and Huainan is only more than two hundred miles away, and I can guess so much just by virtue of my accent, and the five bodies of the cloth compensation will be thrown to the ground!" ”

"Hehe, it's just a fluke!" Chen Xu wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve without a trace.

During the conversation between the three of them, the kitchen helper brought in the brewed tea, and Chen Xu went to the kitchen to arrange the preparation of meals, and by the way, he used the freshly squeezed tea tree fruit oil to make a few side dishes to taste.