Portable Space: Small Peasant Girls Farm to Get Rich

As soon as Liu Qingcao arrived at the entrance of Shihe Village, strong winds suddenly started blowing, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the sky that was bright just now turned dark in an instant.

"It's going to rain heavily." Liu Qingcao raised the bullwhip and hit the cow lightly. The cow was very humane and knew that its master was urging it, so it stepped forward to speed up.

It's going to rain. In the village, besides the sound of reading, there are the sounds of people shouting to collect clothes.

Liu Qingcao drove his bullock cart past the villagers' gates, greeting everyone he saw.

All the way back to the end of the village, Liu Qingcao drove the cattle to the shed, put the fodder in it, and then put the things on the cattle cart into the space.

At this time, big raindrops from the sky hit the ground, smashing out raindrops. After a while, the rain became denser, and the green brick ground was filled with water. Liu Qingcao glanced at the heavy rain, took out a bamboo hat and put it on her head. Go up and rush directly into the house in the rain.

Things in the house remained unchanged and Chen Cuizhi did not come back. Liu Qingcao changed out of her wet clothes and went to the kitchen to cook.

In the kitchen, Liu Qingcao picked through the space, and finally picked a handful of chili peppers, a few green peppercorns, and two preserved eggs. Finally, after thinking about it, he took out a few fish balls and cut them into four pieces with a knife.

After a lot of work, a dish of braised fish meatballs and a dish of cold preserved eggs were served.

After a hearty meal, Liu Qingcao entered the space and collected the mature crops before going to play with the oil press he had brought back.

This oil press actually uses levers to exert force through the lever principle to physically squeeze the oil cake in the oil press, so the oil is "squeezed" out.

This oil-pressing method is labor-saving and does not require too much labor. The oil yield is not as high as the wooden oil-pressing method of Xujia Oil Press Shop. Even Liu Qingcao can complete it by herself.

Since it is a lever principle, it requires a beam, a fulcrum and load forces at both ends.

The fulcrum is now a big iron barrel and an iron pestle, and the cross beam is an oversized maple tree trunk. She bought this wood from a carpenter. It is hard and not easy to break.

As for the load force at both ends, Liu Qingcao went directly to Qianfeng Mountain to build a complete hill, and dug a hole larger than the beam in the middle. On the other side, Liu Qingcao went and moved in a smaller mountain again, the same as before. He dug a hole, found the whole wood left over from the house construction, and put it into the hole. The wood was placed at the end of the maple tree. There were two levers in the entire oil extraction place, which greatly reduced Liu Qingcao's burden.

Ten meters to the left of the oil press, there is a hand-cranked wind shaker that is 1.6 meters high, about 1.8 meters long, and [-] centimeters wide.

It took Liu Qingcao and Pan Yong several months to get this Feng Dian. When trying to do the second one, Pan Yong was injured, and in the end it was nothing.

Originally, she planned to make it for sifting grain, but then she thought that she had too many things to reveal and it would arouse suspicion, so Liu Qingcao gave up the idea.

As for Pan Yong, he only knew that there was such a thing, but he didn't know what it was used for.

Now is the perfect time to use it to remove shriveled rapeseed husks and debris.

On the right side of the oil press, there is an oversized stone mill, with a deep conical funnel above the stone mill.

This stone mill does not need willow grass to turn it, just buy two donkeys.

Five meters next to the stone mill, there are three pots, stoves, steamers, a pile of cloth bags, firewood, etc...

Although the oil press has become much more convenient after she modified it, oil extraction is still a hard job, and many steps require her to do it herself.

After everything was washed and collected, Liu Qingcao was ready to start pressing oil.

The oil extraction process is complicated. Liu Qingcao starts with wind seeds, then fryes the rapeseeds. After frying the rapeseeds, they pour them into the conical funnel on the stone mill. The donkeys haven't been bought yet, so they have to get the mules in the hay shed first. make.

After the pots of rapeseed have cooled down, they are constantly fried and poured into the funnel. When they are ground into powder, Liu Qingcao takes a large spoon and scoops out the rapeseed powder from a ten-cup wooden bucket. .

Place the minced rice into a large steamer and steam it for one and a half minutes. While it's still hot, pour it into a cloth bag, shake it evenly, and put it into a large iron bucket. Repeat this process over and over again until the iron bucket is full.

Looking at the filled iron bucket, Liu Qingcao placed the iron pestle disk on the iron bucket, then went to the end of the second lever and placed the prepared stones one by one into the iron frame on the wood.There are more and more stones, and the newly tilted wood is slowly pressed downwards. The modules in the iron barrel are squeezed by the end force and slowly become thinner.

Then Liu Qingcao saw that the outside of the cloth bag containing the powder was slowly soaked, and then greenish-yellow oil emerged. They went down along the seam of the iron barrel, poured into the sharp-nosed iron sheet, and flowed down the iron sheet. Go into the vat below.

"It's done!" Liu Qingcao happily scooped up the vegetable oil in the bucket with an iron spoon. The green smell was strong, the taste was very fragrant, and the oil was good.

Liu Qingcao continued to put stones on the iron frame. At the end, she put the last piece of iron in, and then pulled the rope back on the iron frame.

The load on the beam became greater, the crushed rapeseed in the iron bucket was squeezed into cakes, and the rapeseed oil gurgling from the sharp-nosed iron mouth flowed into the bucket. Watching it made Liu Qingcao extremely excited.

The amount of rapeseed in the iron bucket was about [-] kilograms. Liu Qingcao took out the cake embryos in the iron bucket, crushed them, steamed them again in the steamer, and performed the second re-pressing.

The ancient oil pressing method is no better than the 21st century oil pressing method. The ancient oil pressing method needs to be carried out twice to squeeze out basically all the vegetable oil in the cake embryo.

After the second squeeze, the oil in the barrel increased by three-tenths, and the entire barrel contained almost 320 kilograms. This is rapeseed grown in space, and the quality is better than that of the 21st century. After this squeeze, you will get Three hundred pounds, this oil production rate is considered low.

There was no way, it couldn't be compared with the technological age. Liu Qingcao was satisfied with being able to get so much.

After finishing pressing the oil, Liu Qingcao took out the cake embryo and set it aside, and then started preparing the next batch of cake embryo.

While Liu Qingcao was steaming the minced rice in a large pot, she poured the cooled vegetable oil into a clay pot and stored it.

It's strange to say that high-temperature objects in space can be controlled by Liu Qingcao's thoughts alone. Heat can be turned cold or kept fresh, but cold things cannot be turned into hot ones by thoughts, nor can crops be harvested by thoughts... …

This is very useless, quite useless. If it weren't for this, she wouldn't be half tired to death every day, and she would have to work hard whenever she had time.

After this busy work, when Liu Qingcao came out of the space, the rain outside the house had stopped, and even the rainwater on the green brick floor had evaporated.

Liu Qingcao made a simple dinner. After the meal, she went out to Jiang's house to find Jiang Dafu.

Jiang Dafu has been very busy running around the village and outside the village these days. When Liu Qingcao left, he happened to meet Jiang Dafu out.

"Brother Jiang, where are you going?" Liu Qingcao called out.

"Qingcao, you're back. I'm going to go out and find two trees. Where are you going?" Jiang Dafu was surprised when he saw Liu Qingcao and asked quickly.

"Brother Jiang, I came to see you for something. Let's talk while walking, and I won't delay you in cutting down the tree."

"Okay, let's go then."

Liu Qingcao and Jiang Dafu walked towards Qianfeng Mountain, talking about things.

"Brother Jiang, are things better now in Shiqing Village and Shiliu Village?"

"Most of the villagers are having a much better life, and only a few lonely villagers are having trouble." Jiang Dafu thought of those people and sighed.

Liu Qingcao frowned. She remembered that the children from Baijia Private School would go to the village for free clinics every once in a while. It stands to reason that they are not sick and have no disasters. Even if they are a little older, they will not be unable to work!
And those people are not too old, so why are they having a hard time?
"Jiang Dafu, the villagers in the two villages are in good health, their ears and eyesight are clear, and Brother Tian and Brother Jiang Li are here to help, so why can't they still make it through?"

"Qingcao, it seems that these people are also making themselves unhappy." Jiang Dafu slowed down, with a hint of hatred in his tone.

Liu Qingcao became curious after hearing his tone.

"Brother Jiang, what do you mean by this? What happened?"