MTL - The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn-Chapter 44 44 Pressed tea oil

   Chapter 44 44 Tea Extraction

   Seven or eight people worked for four or five days to plant nearly 20 acres of rapeseed and fertilized them. Everyone helped to fertilize the winter wheat again before they went home.

When everyone was gone, Li Yu took the camellia fruit out of the space, mixed it with a small amount of lime and piled it under the eaves porch for three or four days. After Tian waited for most of the tea fruits to crack naturally, Li Yu took Qian's mother and son to peel the uncracked tea fruits and put them on the drying mat.

  Qian looked at the tea seeds and asked Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, I'm afraid it will cost twenty or thirty stones to clean up these tea seeds?"

   "Probably!" Li Yu sifted the tea seeds with a sieve, spread them out on a drying mat, and dried them for two days before drying them and putting them in a basket. He planned to start oil extraction the next day.

   I remembered that Zhou Jia had said that he wanted to come to see him squeeze tea oil. Li Yu got up early in the morning and said to Li Qing, "Aqing, sister will start to squeeze tea oil today, please talk to Mr. Zhou."

  Li Qing looked at Li Yu, "Sister, does Mr. Zhou want to see you squeeze tea oil?"

   "Yeah! He said that last time, and I also promised to invite him to see it. You can just say anything."

  Li Qing nodded, touched the schoolbag and smiled at Li Yu, "Sister, the young master of the Xu family wants to ask you to buy a bag like mine, he said to give five hundred cents, will you do it?"

   "Okay! You ask him to bring the money, and I'll make it for him."

   "Then I'll go to the school and tell him." Li Qing went out with his schoolbag on his back.

  Li Yu thought about Li Qing's words and thought: Let Li Mei and Qian Shi make some schoolbags and take them out from Qingshan City Academy! After Li Yu thought about it, he happily picked the tea seeds in the basket to the edge of the stone mill and began to grind the tea seed powder.

After Qian Shi and Xiao An came, Li Yu pushed the mill to help add tea seeds, and the two ground a basket of tea seed powder. Li Yu said to Qian Shi, "Aunt Qian, you continue to push the mill and I will make a few tables. A straw basket."

   "Okay, go ahead! Leave it to me." Mr. Qian took the grinding handle and continued to grind the tea seeds.

Li Yu went to the firewood house, took a bundle of clean straw, and made a dozen straw baskets. He took it out of the firewood house and returned to the courtyard. Seeing Zhou Jia knocking at the door with Jixiang, Li Yu smiled and said, "The door It's okay, you just come in, people in the countryside don't pay so much attention."

   Mr. Qian was delighted after hearing this, "Mr. Zhou is a scholar with good manners, how can he be like us!"

   Zhou Jia and Jixiang went into the yard with a smile, and saw Li Yu carrying tea seed powder to the stove.

   Jixiang pointed at the large stone mortar and treadmill in the yard, and said to Zhou Jia, "Young master, do you think Miss Li is going to use this thing to squeeze oil! Do you think it can be done?"

   Zhou Jia approached and looked at it for a while, then nodded, "It should be able to squeeze it out."

   After steaming the tea seed powder, Li Yu poured the tea seed powder onto a slate and put it in a straw basket and packed it tightly.

   Zhou Jia was also clumsy and helped Li Yu put the grass basket wrapped with tea seed powder into the stone mortar, and put seven packets of tea cakes in the stone mortar one after another, and the stone mortar was full.

  Li Yu pressed the cork on top of the tea oil cake and was about to step on the tumbler. Jixiang ran over and stepped on the tumbler. He smiled at Li Yu and said, "Miss Li, hold on to the cork and I will help you to step on the vertebra."

"Okay!" Li Yu held on to the wooden stopper, Jixiang stepped on the treadmill, the treadmill fell and hit the wooden stopper, banging the wooden stopper into the stone mortar, the wooden stopper squeezed the oil cake down, and after a while The tea oil will flow into the basin from the tube.

   Zhou Jia watched the tea oil flow from the bamboo tube into the wooden basin, and pointed to the tea oil in the wooden basin, "Look, Miss Li, the tea oil has flowed into the wooden basin."

  Li Yu looked down at the golden tea seed oil flowing down the bamboo tube, thinking that the color of the tea seed oil is good.

  Aunt Qian heard that the oil was coming out, so she happily put down the grinding handle and ran over, looking at the tea oil in the basin, "Little fish, now you can rest assured that everything is not in vain."

   "Yeah! Don't worry!" Li Yu scooped up the spoon and poured it back into the basin. He said with a smile, "Tea oil tastes much better than rapeseed oil."

   Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu after hearing this and thought: Listening to Miss Li's tone, it should not be the first time to eat tea oil.

   Jixiang also put down the vertebrae and ran over to look at the golden and transparent tea seed oil in the wooden basin, "Young master, you can see that the oil is really squeezed out."

   Zhou Jia cast aside his thoughts and looked at Auspicious, "I said I would squeeze it out! Auspicious, go and keep stepping on it!"

   "Oh!" Jixiang continued to step on the treadmill in the past, and the tea oil flowed faster.

   Zhou Jia pointed to the residue in the oil and said to Li Yu, "Miss Li. I think it should be filtered to clean up the oil residue."

  Li Yu nodded with a smile, "I'll just filter it with gauze later."

   Zhou Jia squatted down and scooped a spoonful with a spoon and poured it back into the basin to look at the golden transparent liquid, "Yes, it looks much stronger than the plain oil I sell, and it smells a faint fragrance."

   Li Yu smiled proudly, "Of course, tea seed oil is good for people, I don't believe you can try it for a few days."

   Zhou Jia looked up at Li Yu, "It seems that Miss Li has eaten a lot of tea oil?"

   "Where, my mother said it." Li Yu said with a smile, and went to the stove with the steamer.

  Li Yu was steaming tea seed powder in the stove, secretly reminding himself not to get carried away.

   Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu's back thoughtfully, shook his head, and helped Li Yu put the tea seed powder into the straw basket.

   Several people were busy until the end of the hour before they squeezed out the two-stone tea seeds. Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia's master and servant and said politely: "Noon is coming, Mr. Zhou, you and Jixiang will have a light meal at my house!"

  Li Yu thought that Zhou Jia would refuse, but Zhou Jia smiled and nodded, "Then our master and servant will harass Miss Li."

   "Where! It's just a light meal." Li Yu went to the vegetable field with a smile, pulled out two lettuce, two radishes, pinched a handful of garlic sprouts and a bamboo basket of rapeseed, and took them home.

  Aunt Qian has washed out the cured meat and cured pork ribs and chopped them into inch-long pieces. Li Yu cooked a radish and pork ribs soup, fried a plate of lettuce with sliced ​​lettuce, fried cured pork with garlic sprouts, and stir-fried rapeseed.

   Li Qing returned home and saw Zhou Jia in his home, and bowed to Zhou Jia in surprise, "Sir, do you know how my sister squeezes oil?"

   Zhou Jia smiled and nodded, "I see, Ah Qing's sister is a sensitive woman."

"Thank you for your compliment, sir," Li Qing happily took off the schoolbag and showed it to Zhou Jia, "Sir, look at the schoolbag my sister made for me. My sister said that I would not be afraid of raining books when I carry this to school. Wet, even Xu Jinxin likes to ask my sister to make one for him."

   Zhou Jia's eyes lit up when he took over the schoolbag. After looking at it for a while, "Yeah! It's really good. Ah Qing also helped the husband to tell your sister, and asked her to make one for me too."

  Li Qing saw that Zhou Jia also liked the schoolbag made by Li Yu, and nodded happily, "Okay sir, I'll tell my sister later."

   Jixiang covered his face and felt that he couldn't see it: Ah Qing, do you know that you are helping the tyrant! Young master, you are too shameless.

  Li Yu took the dishes and arranged them for Aunt Qian to ask Zhou Jia's master and servant to eat.

   Jixiang didn't sit and eat with Zhou Jia, Li Yu had to divide the dishes and let Li Qing eat with Xiaoan and Jixiang.

  Aunt Qian looked at Zhou Jia sitting on the small bench and laughed, unable to straighten her legs, "Xiaoyu, look at Mr. Zhou sitting on the bench, he can't even straighten his legs."

   Zhou Jia smiled, "It's okay, Miss Li's dishes are delicious."

  Aunt Qian looked at Zhou Jia's elegant look when he was eating, "Mr. Zhou, I heard that when you eat in a big family, you want to eat without talking or sleep, right?"

   Zhou Jia swallowed the food in his mouth and nodded, "It's almost like this."

   Aunt Qian sighed: "Oh! Then we are not used to it. After a busy day, we sit together during dinner and talk about family affairs and the parents in the village."

  Li Yuxiao looked at Zhou Jia's blushing face and was not used to it, and said to her heart: I'll see if you're still going to eat here in the future.

   (end of this chapter)