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

Zhao Yeqing put the last piece of rapeseed cake into the oil bed and comforted himself: "This is not the first difficulty we have encountered in history. We have been able to overcome it before. Our country is so awesome, so this is definitely nothing."

After placing the last piece of oil cake, Mu Xi checked the rope of the crash pole for the last time.

He set up a frame of log posts in the yard, and hung the hitting rod used to hit the oil bed press on it with a rope.

Zhao Yeqing stepped back a little, and Mu Xi pulled the long and thick striking rod back a few steps, then lowered the striking rod along with the inertia, and hit it vertically against the wooden pillar coming out of the oil bed.

'boom! With a sound, the wooden pillar squeezed the rapeseed cake. After a few hits, Zhao Yeqing saw golden and clear liquid flowing down from the diversion port of the oil bed.

A basin was placed underneath, and Mu Xi continued to shake and hit the wooden pillars.

Until all the rapeseed cake inside can no longer squeeze out oil.

The pressed rapeseed cake can be used again. Take it out, rinse and grind the pressed rapeseed cake into powder, then wrap it into cake and continue to pound it.

It’s just that this time the oil production rate has been greatly reduced.

No matter how small a fly is, it is still meat.

The two of them chose to start pressing oil after dusk, which would make them feel a little more comfortable. Not only would it be cooler, but at least they would be out of the sun.

She sat by the door and admired Mu Xi, who was shirtless and had eight-pack abs. His tanned skin was working, and his sensible sweat flowed down his neck to his abs.

Gee tut.

Seeing Mu Xi looking over, he pretended that nothing happened and played with the dog.

Mu Xi put all the oil in the kitchen to settle. After it settled, he scooped it out and put it into a plastic bottle for storage.

This is the barrel of vegetable oil that was collected before. The oil in it has been used up. Zhao Yeqing is reluctant to throw it away. Now it can be used to continue to store oil.

The 5-liter oil bottle filled three large bottles and was just finished.

Ever since the rapeseed was steamed, the whole house was filled with a rich aroma of nut oil. Now that the oil has been squeezed out, the aroma is even stronger.

The remaining rapeseed residue can also be used as fertilizer and feed.

Feeding rapeseed directly to cattle and sheep can easily cause poisoning and indigestion. She only dared to feed it a small amount, and even if it turned into rapeseed cake, she had to feed it a small amount before she could eat it.

The original owner's notes specifically stated that there were toxins in rapeseed meal, and that cattle and sheep would develop goiters if they ate it. They should not eat more of it if it was not detoxified, but it did not say how to detoxify it.

Zhao Yeqing thought that the feed was not bad, so he simply used it as fertilizer.

If soybeans or peanuts are used to extract the oil, there is no such concern. Soybean meal has no toxins and is an excellent feed fertilizer.

However, the oil yield of soybeans is low, only one or two ounces of oil per pound. Unless next year or after the temperature drops, more oil can be extracted.

Neither of them had fried vegetables in vegetable oil for a long time. This freshly squeezed rapeseed oil had a fragrant aroma that made any green leafy vegetables fragrant.

The vegetable patch in the basement has turned into a mung bean patch. Leafy vegetables can only be planted in the gaps between fruits and vegetables, and they have not grown yet.

What was being stir-fried in the pot was the wild vegetable that Mu Xi picked up in the woods when he cut down the wood for the bumper pole for the last time - Solanum nigrum.

In this weather, eating wild vegetables with a hint of bitterness is very refreshing.

This small-flowered nightshade looks very similar to pepper leaves and is also called bitter cold dish. As the name suggests, the dish has a little sweetness after the bitter taste. It has the effect of cooling and reducing fire, and it is also a medicinal herb.

After the meal, Zhao Yeqing couldn't work because of his injury, so he went around the house to check for any omissions.

The first is the bacteria room.

The oyster mushrooms inside have grown a lot, but they are not too big yet, and they can still grow a few more.

The weather is hot now, and mushrooms like warmth and humidity. The water evaporates too quickly, which is not conducive to growth.

She asked Mu Xi to pull three meters of plastic film to cover it to prevent the water from evaporating. Even if it evaporated, it would first condense on the plastic film and then drip back onto the mushrooms.

The mushrooms grown in the two media are almost the same. The mushrooms grown in bran and rice husk grow more, while the mushrooms grown in corn cobs grow larger.

After Zhao Yeqing checked the situation in the germ room, he went underground again.

The basement exuded the aroma of strawberries. She knelt down and took a look and found many strawberries that had turned red again.

Zhao Yeqing was immersed in the joy of harvesting strawberries. When he finished picking, he realized that there was something abnormal about the strawberry plant.

The leaves were slightly wilted, and there were small insects on them. Zhao Yeqing got closer and found that they were red spiders.

Among the things Mu Xi brought from Meishan were pesticides to prevent spider mites, but the planting of strawberries is very particular. They are prone to diseases and insects, and after the flowering and fruiting stage, pesticides cannot be used to kill insects, otherwise they will be eaten. The fruit contains pesticides.

Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to bring water and manually sprayed it to eliminate the insects.

"Another way is to smoke it with mugwort, but I don't remember that there seems to be no mugwort at home."

Mu Xi recalled and nodded, "There are no more, but if you look carefully this season, you should still be able to find some in relatively cloudy places."

In order to ensure pollution-free entrance, we can only use this relatively time-consuming and purely natural method.

She gently lifted up the strawberry leaves with some hammer heads and sighed, "These strawberries are really delicate. The sun has been quite strong these two days, and we were busy pressing oil and didn't open the board for them to bask in the sun. It seems that I don’t feel very energetic anymore.”

Strawberries are like a delicate little girl. They need ventilation but are afraid of high temperatures. They like fat but are prone to obesity. They need water but are prone to root suffocation.

Compared with the previous saying that tomatoes are difficult to grow, strawberries are more troublesome, and they require various elements to eat. Without magnesium, potassium and calcium, the fruit will easily become sour.

This is a relatively early-maturing variety, and it took four months to eat the fruit, and the seedling time is longer than that of normal fruits and vegetables.

But if planted well, there is no problem in growing a strawberry plant for more than two years. When the weather gets colder, the strawberries will be sweeter.

It is said that farming requires the right time and location, but it is not easy to farm well in this temperature environment.

After she washed away all the red spider mites that could be seen above, she suddenly remembered that the two of them hadn't been to a citrus orchard for a while. The citrus trees were also an area where red spider mites were most common.

Spider mites are particularly easy to reproduce when exposed to high temperatures and droughts. The tobacco water she found last year was of some use, but there wasn't much left.

She originally thought that after two days of manual deworming, if the spider mites on the strawberries were not reduced, she would use the last bit of tobacco leaves.

But those tobacco leaves are definitely not enough for the citrus orchards.

Mu Xi: "Then I'll go look for last year's tobacco fields. If the tobacco still grows, I'll pick more. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to find mugwort."

"If there is tobacco, don't just pick it. Find two plants that look better, dig them up by the roots and plant them."

Mu Xi nodded in agreement.

He took the basket of strawberries held by Zhao Yeqing and the two of them walked back.

This time I harvested a lot. It may be due to some lack of calcium fertilizer. The strawberry fruit is a little soft and the taste is a little worse. Zhao Yeqing is thinking about whether to simply use it to make strawberry jam, which can be used in ice cream later, or It's delicious even if you eat it with toast.