Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

Two days later, just as He Yuzhu expected, all the tea fruits had been dried and cracked. Now, He Yuzhu was about to enter the next key step of tea fruit oil extraction - peeling the tea kernels from the tea fruits by hand.

After get off work at noon that day, He Yuzhu went straight to the house in Qudeng Hutong. The reason why he chose this place instead of returning to his home in Nanluoguxiang was actually very simple: there were more than ten families living in the quadrangle of Nanluoguxiang. If he entered the magical place "Fudi Dongtian" one day, and a neighbor happened to look for him at this time but couldn't find him, he clearly saw him return to his quadrangle home, but couldn't find anyone, wouldn't it bring unnecessary trouble to himself? Therefore, only by acting cautiously can we ensure that there is no risk of error. After all, if there is an omission that leads to a capsize, it will be too late to regret. He Yuzhu pushed his bicycle into the quadrangle of Qudeng Hutong, locked the door from the inside, and then picked up a bamboo chair made by himself, and stepped into the mysterious "Fudi Dongtian" without hesitation.

In this era without mobile phones, the Internet, or television, He Yuzhu taught himself many skills to pass the time, such as calligraphy, tea making, clay carving, wood carving, etc. After the bamboo in the blessed land cave took shape, He Yuzhu taught himself to weave a variety of items with bamboo. Whether it is a bamboo basket for holding items or a bamboo winnowing basket for drying, it is a piece of cake for him. With enough bamboo for his practice, He Yuzhu's skill in weaving bamboo products has been changing with each passing day and making rapid progress. In just two years, He Yuzhu's woven bamboo products have undergone a gorgeous transformation: from the initial rough and clumsy evolution to the current exquisite and beautiful.

In this mysterious and fairyland-like blessed land, the Wuji Hall, there are many daily necessities woven by He Yuzhu himself with bamboo. Each piece is extremely delicate and amazing, just like a work of art. If someone curiously asks why there are no defective products, He Yuzhu will pretend to be profound and complacent, and then tell the other person in an extremely pretentious tone: "I, He Yuzhu, am a person who pursues the ultimate perfection. Those imperfect things are not allowed to exist in this world. All the defective products are burned as firewood by me!"

It's a pity that these exquisite items are inconvenient to take out for use, otherwise how could they be left here idle and covered with dust? Not only that, in the midsummer of this year, He Yuzhu made full use of his free time to build two elegant bamboo houses in this blessed land. One bamboo house was built next to Wuji Lake to store his farming tools; the other was built next to a small waterfall to cover his oil pressing tools.

Originally, He Yuzhu planned to sit here and leisurely peel the tea fruits and take out the precious tea kernels… But thinking that it would take a while to peel so many tea fruits, He Yuzhu ran to the Wuji Hall to find a rack and put the drying basket of the tea fruits on it. He Yuzhu peeled the tea fruits while doing horse stance and threw the peeled shells directly into a bamboo basket to be burned as fuel when steaming the tea seed powder.

When He Yuzhu started peeling the nuts, in order to make the process less boring, He Yuzhu pretended to have a daisy mata80 phone in front of him and was broadcasting live. He seemed to be facing a group of enthusiastic audiences and said loudly to the air: "Hey! Dear fans, hello! I am the man who makes your heart beat - Brother Zhu! The oil tea fruits I picked a few days ago have been dried. Today, I will peel out all the oil tea seeds in these oil tea fruits to make full preparations for the subsequent oil pressing work!"

"It would be so boring to just peel the oil-tea fruit, so today I'm going to give you a unique performance - peeling the oil-tea fruit while doing horse stance! How is it? Exciting enough! It's not easy for us to be rural anchors, so please support us, and give us a thumbs up when you have time, and send us free little hearts! And friends who have just come to the live broadcast room, remember to click to follow! Next, please open your eyes and enjoy Brother Zhu's wonderful performance! As long as the little hearts keep coming, my horse stance will never stop! Thanks to the big rocket sent by the big brother on the list, and thanks to a certain old friend for the double click 666."

The more than 1,000 kilograms of tea fruit may seem huge, but in fact, it is surprisingly quick to peel them. With superb skills and unremitting efforts, He Yuzhu successfully peeled out all the tea kernels from all the tea fruits in just two afternoons. Looking at the plump tea kernels in the drying basket, he felt a sense of accomplishment.

Afterwards, he carefully spread the peeled oil tea kernels into the drying winnowing basket and placed it on a spacious square, allowing them to continue to enjoy the sun's bath and further dry. After five days of sufficient drying on the square of Fudi Dongtian, all the oil tea kernels have been fully dried. The next thing He Yuzhu has to do is to use a roller to crush the 5 kilograms of oil tea kernels into powder.

He Yuzhu carried a pole on his shoulders, with bamboo baskets full of oil tea kernels hanging on both ends, and walked steadily towards the waterfall. He came to the millstone beside the waterfall and carefully poured the oil tea kernels onto the millstone. Then he reached out and pulled out the wooden stick that fixed the waterwheel. Then, under the strong impact of the waterfall water flow, the waterwheel made a "squeaking and twisting" sound and slowly turned.

At the same time, the transmission device in the middle started to operate, driving the roller to rotate together. Watching the oil tea fruit gradually turn into powder under the pressure of the roller, He Yuzhu nodded with satisfaction. Then he turned and walked towards the bamboo house nearby.

After entering the bamboo house, He Yuzhu prepared to boil water. He first took out a few matches from his pocket, lit the small bamboo sticks he had prepared in advance, and gently put them into the furnace of the big pot. Then, he added some more bamboo sticks, and the fire spread quickly, and a blazing fire was burning in the furnace.

He Yuzhu carried a wooden bucket and walked quickly to the stream. He filled a bucket with clear stream water, then returned to the big pot and poured the water into the boiling iron pot. After the iron pot was filled with water, He Yuzhu added a few bamboos to the stove again, then stepped out of the bamboo house and walked to the side of the stone mill. He held a broom and carefully swept the slightly larger oil tea kernels to the center of the stone mill so that the mill could fully crush the oil tea kernels. During this period, He Yuzhu frequently shuttled between the big pot and the stone mill, sometimes checking whether the flames in the big pot were still burning, and sometimes checking whether the oil tea kernels on the stone mill had been completely crushed.

When all the tea kernels are turned into fine powder, He Yuzhu puts the ground tea kernel powder into a bamboo basket and then pours it into a large wooden barrel placed above a large iron pot. After all the tea kernel powder falls into the pot, He Yuzhu will cover the top of the large wooden barrel with a bamboo pot lid woven by himself. Then, He Yuzhu moderately increases the fire and waits for about half an hour until all the tea kernel powder in the large wooden barrel is fully heated.

Next, He Yuzhu took out the oil tea kernel powder from the big wooden barrel and wrapped it tightly with cotton cloth to make oil cakes. Then he put the oil cakes into the bottom of the oil press cylinder that he had ordered before. In this way, He Yuzhu wrapped all the oil tea kernel powder with cotton cloth to make oil cakes. Next, He Yuzhu had to process the oil tea kernel powder into oil cakes and put them into the oil press cylinder. He carefully made 300 kilograms of oil cakes and carefully distributed them evenly into the two oil press cylinders. After finishing, he placed a solid iron plate above the oil cakes on the top of each oil press cylinder. Then he placed the pressure rod on the iron plate and pulled the rope at the top of the pressure rod down hard. The stone tied to the other end of the rope slowly rose. When the stone reached the top of the pressure rod, He Yuzhu tied the rope to the base under the oil press cylinder.

Under the gravitational pull of the heavy stone, the pressure rod of the oil press began to fall slowly and steadily. As the pressure rod gradually descended, the oil cake made of tea nut powder in the oil press cylinder was under strong pressure. Gradually, clear, bright and golden liquid began to emerge from the oil tank at the bottom of the oil press cylinder. This golden oil continuously gathered and slowly flowed along the small opening at the bottom of the oil press cylinder, and finally flowed into the oil cylinder below that had been washed and dried.

As the pressure rod slowly fell, He Yuzhu accurately pulled another rope. When the stone at the other end of the rope also reached the expected height, he did the same thing and tied the rope firmly to the base of the oil press. In this way, He Yuzhu successfully pulled the remaining 8 stones one by one to the predetermined height, and also fixed the rope connecting them to the base of the oil press.

As the 10 heavy stones rise one by one, the oil cakes in the oil press barrel are releasing oil at a significantly faster rate. All He Yuzhu needs to do next is wait patiently. The huge pressure brought by the 1000-jin stone can be magnified 8 times to nearly 8000 jin by the carefully designed lever that operates according to the principle of leverage. Under the powerful pressure of nearly 8000 jin, the oil cakes in the oil press barrel will be gradually squeezed out without a drop left. In just one night, all the oil contained in the oil cakes can be squeezed out.

Then, He Yuzhu walked briskly to the edge of the waterfall. He carefully picked up the wooden stick used to fix the waterwheel and inserted it accurately into the slot of the waterwheel. With a crisp and pleasant "click" sound, the waterwheel stopped abruptly as if it was cast by magic and stopped turning.

After completing the task, He Yuzhu nodded with satisfaction, then turned and walked towards the bamboo house. He gently closed the door of the bamboo house and carefully checked the surroundings to see if there was anything missing. After confirming that everything was in place, he took out the key and locked the door on the outer wall of the bamboo house tightly.

At this moment, He Yuzhu thought to himself: "I'm finally done with my work. I can leave this blessed land." As soon as the thought came to his mind, he felt his body lighten, as if he had traveled through a time tunnel, and returned to the real world in the blink of an eye.

Standing next to the familiar bicycle, He Yuzhu pushed the bike happily and slowly opened the gate of the courtyard in Qudeng Hutong. After stepping out of the courtyard, he stopped again, locked the gate, turned around, stepped on the bike, and sped away in the direction of his home in Nanluoguxiang.

He Yuzhu was driving at lightning speed all the way. Thinking that he would be able to taste the camellia oil he had been dreaming about for many years tomorrow, he couldn't help but smile. "Those 300 kilograms of camellia kernels can at least produce 100 kilograms of camellia oil! From now on, I can enjoy the deliciousness and health brought by camellia oil and truly achieve camellia oil freedom! I can harvest so much camellia oil in the first year this year. As the camellia trees grow, the camellia oil fruits that can be picked will increase every year. I will have a new source of income. It seems that I have to order a batch of oil jars from the ceramic shop in advance, otherwise it will be funny if I have nothing to put the oil in after squeezing it out."

"You don't have to order them specially. You can just use the ready-made wine jars. Get 500 40-jin wine jars and 50 1000-jin small wine jars. We should take advantage of the fact that we haven't entered the planned economy era yet. Otherwise, when the bill era comes and the public-private partnership is fully implemented, it won't be so easy to buy things in bulk. You should also consider preparing some things that you may need in the future."

As the wheels rolled rapidly, He Yuzhu was getting closer and closer to his home in Nanluoguxiang.