Happy Farmer's Life

The olives on the mountain ushered in the harvest season, and Du Weiming became busier because of this.Almost every day I go up the mountain to pick olives, and a small part of the olives I picked are made into olive vegetables and Tianze olives, and are ready to be sold to Tianxianglou.Du Weiming found it difficult to see the huge pile of olives at home. There were so many olives that he couldn't finish them all at once, and if they were broken, they would be wasted.

Du Weiming thought that olives could be used to extract oil. Isn't that olive oil? This is much better than lard. As a modern person, lard is really not used to eating.Du Weiming only has a general idea about how to extract oil. He majored in chemistry at university and has theoretical knowledge about it, but not in practice. Forget it, let’s try it.

Firstly, the olives are picked out with large fruit and good color. After simple cleaning, the pits are removed, and they are placed outside to dry.This process took him a few days. When the olives were almost dry to the touch, he chopped the olives until they were about the size of a mung bean, and then put them into the pot for stir-frying. It can’t be too big, of course it’s not too small, and then stir-fry constantly, and stir-fry evenly to prevent scorching or burnt outside and raw inside.After this process was completed, Du Weiming put the fruit into a high-temperature heating distillation equipment made of materials. Because the materials were limited, Du Weiming was not sure whether this would produce oil.When the oil dripped from the nozzle, Du Weiming jumped up with a loud cry.It finally worked.But because the machine is relatively simple, the oil output is not high. About ten catties of olives can squeeze out about two catties of oil. Du Weiming decided to process the remaining olive pomace and squeezed it again. This time it was less, about It only looks like a pound.Du Weiming placed the two olive oils separately, one is virgin oil, and the other can only be called refined oil.

That night, Du Weiming cooked himself dishes with olive oil. After eating the delicious dishes, Du Weiming was really on the verge of tears.This is a real pure natural, pollution-free, premium oil.In the days that followed, Du Weiming was squeezing oil every day. Later, the clay pots at home were not enough. Du Weiming went to Pingfu Town on a special trip to buy a batch of jars with relatively fine workmanship, and also ordered a batch of small bottles made of ceramics. , this is much more expensive than clay pots, 5 cents each, Du Weiming was planning how to sell these olive oils.I remember that when my sister was too busy to get angry, her face would always have acne. Later, one of her suitors gave her a bottle of XXX brand olive oil, and the effect was very good.The acne subsided in a short time, and there were no traces on the face. It is said that the brand is the high-grade olive virgin oil used.Du Weiming has been experimenting with those virgin oils on his face for the past two days, and the effect is not bad, but after all, this is a child's skin, which cannot be compared with a woman's.Du Weiming thought about giving some to the women in the village for use in the next two days, to see the effect, and if possible, sell these to Pingfu Town.

In addition to olive oil, Du Weiming also thought about making some castile soap.The soap I bought from the town last time was used by myself. To be honest, it is incomparable with modern soaps. The decontamination ability is not bad, but after using it, the skin will be very dry and rough.Soap is much easier to make than oil. I tried it myself before, so I bought a bag of lime and went home.In fact, caustic soda is used to make soap. There is no caustic soda here. The main component of lime is this, so lime is used instead.

I went to the carpenter Zhang and asked him to make 10 round molds, and described to him the soap box he imagined. The wooden box should be exquisite, and there should be some carved patterns on the box. .Carpenter Zhang agreed, saying that he would send it to him after a while, thinking to himself, what does Li Er want these things for?

Du Weiming is going to try out this soap method first.Pour cold water into a large porcelain bowl, add a tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of sugar into the water and mix well.Pour lime into water and mix well to dissolve.Be very careful when doing this, lime is somewhat corrosive.Du Weiming wrapped his hands with his clothes, then put an appropriate amount of olive oil into the pot, poured the water in the porcelain cup into the oil, stirred with a spoon for 10-15 minutes, and added flour during the stirring.Then pour it into a large porcelain bowl for 3 days, then pour it out and put it in a ventilated place.After half a month, the first bar of castile soap appeared.Du Weiming tried it out and found the effect to be good. It can be said that "the skin is elastic and not tight after washing".Carpenter Zhang also sent him a round mold and a small wooden box. Du Weiming thought the small wooden box was very well made. pattern.

Du Weiming tried to make 20 yuan castile soap. On the one hand, there are only so many soap boxes, and on the other hand, he also wanted to test the popularity of this soap.The clean white round soap is wrapped in rice paper, which Du Weiming bought specially to wrap the soap, neatly placed in a small wooden box piece by piece.Bottles of olive oil are packed in custom-made small porcelain bottles.Twenty bottles of olive oil were also filled.Du Weiming went to the village head's house once, and made an agreement with the village head to go to the town market together tomorrow.

Du Weiming did an experiment and asked five aunts and five girls in the village to use homemade castile soap and virgin olive oil. The effect can be said to be very good.Especially if you have some acne on your face, the effect is particularly obvious.Aunt Zhang next door said that it is better than the soap bought in the town.Du Weiming looked at Aunt Zhang's skin and it seemed to have some effect.Du Weiming kept the virgin olive oil for sale, and the second-pressed oil was used for cooking.Half of the olives on the mountain have been harvested this time, and the remaining half is not free to harvest, and I have to continue working when I return this time.About 5 catties of virgin oil and 5 catties of refined oil are extracted from the harvested olives.The remaining olive pomace was not wasted, and part of it was eaten by rabbits and chickens with grass, and they ate happily.There is also a part of the cake made with cornmeal, which tastes very good.Du Weiming kept all the scum and piled it in the middle room, planning to find a way to deal with it when he came back from town.