Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

"It's not too much and not too little. It's enough for you to drink several times. I picked some. I was anxious to come back and didn't finish picking them. I'll pick all the half-opened ones tomorrow. The half-opened ones are best for drying flowers and making tea."

It has been three years since she came back, but she still hasn't found any tea. She can only use this scented tea to satisfy her cravings.

When Mu Xi returned to Meishan this time, he specially brought her remaining coffee.

But now she doesn't have to stay up late and get up early, there is no pressure, and she doesn't need this thing anymore. She plans to use this coffee to make cakes when she gets better.

Mu Xi had collected all the rapeseed today. While it was still dark, he used a flail to beat out the rapeseed in the yard.

Small, round black rapeseeds fell on the plastic sheet underneath.

After they were all punched out and weighed, less than 80 kilograms of rapeseed was harvested from half an acre of land.

The ratio of eighty pounds of rapeseed to rapeseed oil is 1 to 0.4, which means one pound of rapeseed can produce four ounces of oil.

They do not have modern oil extraction equipment now, so they can only use homemade oil extraction tools. The oil yield rate has to be lower, and it is estimated that it will only be more than 20 kilograms in the end.

There are also a lot of animal fats at home, including a lot of beef, mutton, and butter. There are more than 20 kilograms of vegetable oil, enough for two people to eat for a long time.

Even if you fry something occasionally, you can still consume it for more than a year.

Zhao Yeqing can't do heavy physical work now, and he also tries to avoid large movements. After Mu Xi drew the design drawings of the oil-pressing tools and cut back the wood for making the tools, Zhao Yeqing sat aside and helped cut them with a knife. some wooden parts.

Before you start carpentry, you must draw a drawing, and it must be accurate to the dimensions of every corner. It is nonsense to think that you can make large tools directly, or even build a house.

Without enough experience, even if you have the drawings, you often have to modify them to get them right.

Zhao Yeqing just had little experience in carpentry. This time he realized the difficulties. Half of the parts he made had to be reworked.

The tools for extracting oil are huge, and they call them oil beds.

In her impression, it was a large lump of wood at least three or four meters long, with a gap in the middle and several long wooden pillars inserted vertically across the gap. Some of the wooden pillars had grown to the point where they were sticking out.

Oil extraction involves using hanging stones or wood to hit the wooden pillars to squeeze the rapeseeds, and the oil can be squeezed out.

You can also see the round rapeseed cake or tea seed cake inside through the gap.

If you want to squeeze out oil from rapeseed, you have to crush it, steam it in a pot, and then make it into cakes and squeeze it in.

Zhao Yeqing finished making the small wooden parts and wanted to let her stir-fry the dried rapeseed seeds to dry them out.

Mu Xi refused, fearing that she would twist her chest again by swinging the spatula.

In the end, Mu Xi could only let him finish frying the rapeseed, and Zhao Yeqing took the cow out to grind the rapeseed.

In the past, oil mills used an oversized circular millstone. The millstone did not require manpower or oxen. It only needed a waterwheel to push the millstone.

We don't have one at home now, and we can't use one as big as the conditions allow, so Mu Xi moved two big stones back and made a grooved stone mill.

Pour all the rapeseed directly into the groove, and grind the rapeseed into powder by moving the cow back and forth.

If she hadn't been injured, the two of them would have finished the rapeseed in a while using a stone mill. Now that such a large stone mill had to be pulled by oxen, it was really overkill.

Mu Xi said: "This time it's because of the reduction in production, the rainy season and the high temperature. If under normal circumstances the harvest is definitely more than this, then we have to do it anyway. I might as well do it while we have electricity now."

This time he went back to get an electric saw, which could be used to cut down trees and make oil extraction tools. In addition, there was a cutting machine in the tourist area. When it was started, a circular blade would rotate, which could cut wood and stone.

He made a wooden oil bed, and then thought of making a millstone as well, taking advantage of the strong sun in this season and replenishing the battery.

If you wait until the heat stops, it will be troublesome to use these power tools again.

Zhao Yeqing was persuaded and took the grass to guide the oxen to grind.

She can also do the work after grinding the rapeseed powder, that is, steaming the powder.

High-temperature steaming can further separate the oil in rapeseed powder, and the subsequent oil yield can be higher.

The steamed rapeseed powder has to be made into rapeseed cakes.

Mu Xi made a bamboo hoop, which was wrapped with iron wire for reinforcement. It was three centimeters thick, round and hollow, and placed it on the table. After spreading straw inside, he poured the rapeseed powder into it.

He asked Zhao Yeqing to change into a pair of cleaner shoes. After putting a layer of plastic bags on the outside of the shoes, the rapeseed powder was covered with straw. She stood on top of the rapeseed powder and stepped on it until the powder was firm and completely into the shape of a hoop.

The rapeseed cake is ready.

A cake is about the size of a basketball. The ones I saw when I was a kid were even bigger. However, the oil bed made by Mu Xi is relatively small, so the size of the rapeseed cake will naturally be reduced proportionally.

The process of pressing oil is complicated. It takes ten days to make the tools in the early stage, and another two or three days to prepare the rapeseed.

The two of them had been busy for nearly half a month and were finally able to officially squeeze the oil.

In just half a month, Mu Xi went dark twice.

The recent temperature has reached 47 degrees at noon. Even doing carpentry under the eaves makes me dizzy from the heat. Mu Xi got tanned like this just by hiding from the sun.

When Zhao Yeqing saw this, he didn't go out if he could. He had to wear a hat to block the sun when he went to the bathroom, and he had to wear sun protection clothing no matter how hot it was.

After going to the restroom and returning to the room, I immediately took off the fan. After a few minutes of going back and forth, my sun protection clothes were soaked with sweat.

Almost all the freezer compartment of the refrigerator at home is used to freeze ice cubes, and even this is not enough.

In addition to putting ice cubes in drinking water, ice cubes should also be placed in air-conditioning fans, and in cattle pens, sheep pens, chicken houses, and bacteria rooms.

The temperature in the meadow is three to four degrees lower than that in Meishan, and Meishan is about ten degrees cooler than the towns down the mountain.

The two prepared the final process of oil extraction and put the rapeseed cake into the oil bed.

Zhao Yeqing said: "It's not allowed to have fifty-five degrees in the city now?"

Mu Xi knew that she was worried about her family, and comforted her: "Hiding underground in air-raid shelters and subway tunnels, the temperature can be much lower, and the government will organize people outside to restore order, and the electricity will definitely still be available. There is air conditioning."

It's just that if you live underground, it will probably be difficult to get air conditioning, and the electricity will have to be reserved for reconstruction and restoration.

Even after it was rebuilt, the signal spread was not that fast, and the radio never sounded again when it was so hot.

It is understood that reconstruction and resource preparation will take time. The most important problem is probably the food problem. Temperature has little impact on people, but it is a bit difficult to deal with food crops.

The second-season rice at home is about to be harvested now. The high temperature is so severe that it is difficult to set fruit. Many rice ears are empty husks. It is estimated that the yield per mu is only half of that of the first-season rice.

They are all like this, and Yamashita is probably more serious.