After getting this improved bird gun, Gao Mingcheng's first thought was to go into the mountains to hunt and try his marksmanship.

However, Grandma Xi reminded him to take the tea seeds to extract oil, and there was not much lard at home.

So Gao Mingcheng resisted the impulse in his heart and decided to take the tea seeds to extract oil first.

He picked up too many tea seeds, and there were still four big bags after husking, about five or six hundred catties, with his manpower, it would not work, if he called a tractor, then it would be more expensive.

So he went to ask someone to borrow a flatbed, then put the tea seeds on the flatbed, and just walked to the town with his hands on the cart.

There is an oil mill in the town that can be used to squeeze rapeseed, soybean and tea seed oil.

It is the harvest season of tea seed oil, so all the tea seed oil that comes to be squeezed is tea seed oil. Before he got closer, Gao Mingcheng first smelled a strong fragrance of tea oil.

Outside the oil mill, there is a large grinding pan, and a donkey is tied to the side of the grinding pan, which is using the pulling force of the donkey to rotate the milling process.

The first step of this tea seed oil is to be 100% dry, this step has been achieved by Gao Mingcheng at home, and the second step is to put the tea oil seeds on the grinding plate and then grind them into powder.

Then, after the camellia seeds are ground into powder, they are poured into the steamer and steamed, this process takes about an hour, and after steaming, the oil can be squeezed out, and the camellia powder will be particularly soft, which is easy to squeeze out the oil.

Gao Mingcheng removed the tea seeds from the flatbed, put them on the edge of the mill, and then negotiated with the owner of the oil mill.

There are two ways to charge for this oil mill, the first is to leave the tea withered in the oil mill, and you can leave directly with the tea oil.

The second is that you want the tea to wither, and then you will pay a certain amount of wages to the oil mill.

Gao Mingcheng had already thought about this, so he chose the second one, so the people in the oil mill began to weigh the tea seeds.

And the experienced oil extractor will also check the dryness of the tea seeds you brought, and if they are not dry enough, they will not squeeze them.

Because such tea seeds have a lot of water, the quality of the oil squeezed out is not very good, and the amount is small.

A hundred catties of tea seeds, how much oil can be produced, there is an approximate data, if the oil is less, there will be disputes.

After weighing, you can wait for the tea seeds to be ground into powder.

In the process, Gao Mingcheng wandered around the oil mill, which looked simple and lacked modern machinery, but it had been in existence for many years.

Some people are responsible for crushing the tea seeds, some are responsible for steaming the tea seed powder, and some people are responsible for filling the steamed tea seed powder into an oil ring with a round bamboo strip with a straw bottom to make a tea oil cake.

Don't underestimate this step, if the thickness of the tea oil cake is uneven, it will affect the oil yield, and experienced masters can use an iron spoon to scoop up the appropriate amount of tea seed powder for packaging, and the packaging method is quite familiar and fast.

After making the camellia cake, the next step is the last step - squeezing the oil!

Gao Mingcheng stood in front of the oil bed, looking at this time-honored oil bed.

The oil bed is hewn from a single piece of wood, which is more than a hundred years old camphor wood, which is the 'main engine' of the entire oil mill. In the center of the tree, a 2-meter-long, 0.4-meter-wide oil bed is chiseled, and the tea oil cake is filled in the oil bed, and after the tea oil cake is loaded, it can be pressed.

Squeezing is the most physically demanding in the whole oil pressing process, because there is no machinery, the most traditional extrusion method is used, the masters use the length, uneven thickness of the wooden stake into the oil bed crack for extrusion, after a while, a wisp of fine tea oil will slowly drip down from the oil bed, and then the whole oil pressing workshop will be filled with a refreshing fragrance.

Gao Mingcheng spent nearly five hours in the oil mill, and the tea seeds he brought were all squeezed, and when the last step was carried out, Gao Mingcheng also disliked the strength of the oil presser, so he personally went up to drive the wooden stakes into the oil bed, and with his efforts, well, at least a few catties of tea oil!

In this regard, Gao Mingcheng can be proud.

Even the masters of the oil mill gave Gao Mingcheng a thumbs up and praised him for his strength.

After loading the tea oil, removing the tea withered from the oil bed, piling it together on the flatbed, and after giving the salary, Gao Mingcheng pushed the flatbed truck to Gaojia Village.

These tea witherers are good things, which can be used as natural shampoos, and can be used as fertilizer, and then fertilized crops, using this fertilizer, it can fatten, kill insects and sweeten.

It's better than ordinary manure.

Otherwise, why would the oil mill be willing to leave the tea withered? It's to be sold for money.

Since it is a good thing, then Gao Mingcheng himself is willing to stay. He has cultivated two acres of land in his new house, and his family has a small population, and there is no poultry to raise, so he is short of fertilizer to cultivate the land.

In addition to these two acres of land, he is also ready to continue to reclaim a few acres of land, of course, these lands will not be used to grow vegetables, but to grow some fruits.

Such as watermelon, melon, grape, peach, persimmon, etc.

He plans to wait for the Spring Festival to go to the market to buy fruit seedlings, and then arrange all his favorite foods first.

When Gao Mingcheng returned home, it was almost dark.

Grandma Xi was cooking in the kitchen, and when she saw him coming back, she immediately asked him with concern how much tea oil he had squeezed out.

Gao Mingcheng first drank a bowl of tea, and then said: "One hundred catties of dried tea seeds, squeezed twenty catties of tea oil." ”

Grandma sighed and said, "That's good, I've heard people say that a hundred catties of dried tea seeds can only squeeze out about eighteen catties, and you can squeeze out twenty catties, which is very good." ”

Gao Mingcheng smiled slightly, the traditional pressing method, the oil yield is relatively low, if he didn't make a little effort at the end, then it would be a maximum of nineteen catties.

Gao Mingcheng put the tea oil into the house, then piled the tea on the edge of the wall, and then returned the flatbed.

After returning home, seeing that there was still some time before eating, Gao Mingcheng simply took out a hammer and began to crush the tea.

The tea withered after squeezing the oil is like a hard cake poured with cement, which ordinary people simply break and need to use a hammer to crush it little by little.

Whether it's used to wash hair or make fertilizer, it has to be crushed first, otherwise a large piece of hard tea will wither, and you won't be able to use it at all.

In the kitchen, the sound of spatula stir-frying, under the eaves, the hammer beats frequently, and the two sounds interact together, weaving the most ordinary sound of life.

As the iron pot poured half a scoop of water into it, making a sizzling sound, the fine grandmother shouted, "It's time to eat!" ”

"Hey." Gao Mingcheng got up and walked towards the kitchen.

Gao Zhuang was burning the fire, about to withdraw the large wood that had not been completely burned in the stove, bury it in the ashes below, and let it be extinguished little by little.

(End of chapter)