Crossing the Unknown Country

I heard that bricks can be exchanged for building a wall in the village, so everyone asked the village chief, and he also agreed that villagers can exchange bricks. This made many people actively build the wall, and the wall was built for the safety of the village, so even if they were not given bricks, they would still go. In the past, some people were lazy from time to time, but now they go when they have time, and build as much as they can. The wall is built early so that everyone can have time to build houses.

The Su He family didn't have time, so they had already offered to pay the villagers to help build the house, 30 coins per person per day, which was more than what they paid in the city. Everyone was eager to earn this money! If the wall was not built well, how could people build their houses? Everyone hurried to build the wall again.

When the family returned home, Fu Manduo happily came to the door and watched them open the door. He wagged his tail and rubbed against Su He's legs. Today he was very dedicated and just waited for his owner to feed him bones. Su He went to the car and threw a big bone he bought to Fu Manduo. The guy ran away with the bone in his mouth.

The remaining two bones were taken to the kitchen, and they were used to make bone soup and multi-grain pancakes tonight. Su He smashed the big bones with an axe and put them in the pot to stew. The family was really busy now. Just after returning home, his father went to Carpenter Li's house to get the things Su He made, and his mother started kneading the dough to make noodles.

Su He first peeled the melon seeds and peanuts he bought and prepared to fry them, so that he could try to squeeze oil when his father brought back the tools. This was a big project. Su He thought peanuts were okay, and they could be easily peeled with a light pressure of a wooden board. Melon seeds were a bit more difficult, and there was no good way, so he could only peel them one by one. In fact, oil is squeezed in the shell now, and must go through special filtering equipment. There were no tools here, so he could only peel the shell.

His father came back soon, and the village was not far away. Su He looked at the bed and remembered the most primitive bed for pressing noodles that he saw on the Internet. This one is exactly the same, and the production process is really similar.

Su He first put the pancakes on, and then used another stove to fry the peanuts. Su He's family has three kitchens this time, with a kitchen in each entrance. There are two stoves in one kitchen, one for cooking and the other for frying. There are water cans buried on the flues of the two stoves, so it is convenient for the family to drink water. Boiled water is directly put into the water can, and they can heat the water while cooking.

Peanuts need to be fried until crispy, then peeled and crushed in a mortar. Steam the ground peanuts in a steamer for four minutes. Su He went to the house to find a piece of thin white cloth and wrapped the ground peanuts, which should be enough to fill two-thirds of the bucket.

Su He asked his father to come over and help. He put the peanut bags into the bed bucket and pressed them hard. If he couldn't press them hard, he would put a stone slab on top and hit them with a hammer. They did squeeze out oil, but they couldn't squeeze out much at a time.

Su He also knew that the best way was to put two stones with peanut cakes in between, and use the impact method to produce the most oil. In the end, they got a small bowl of peanut oil, and the remaining peanut cakes were not wasted. Su He and his brothers ate them as snacks.

The whole family was surprised to see the clear oil. Peanuts can really produce oil. Although this is laborious, peanut oil is cheap. We can save a lot of money in the future. However, this tool is too small. In the end, we had to use a hammer to hit it to get a lot of oil. If we can use the iron tool or the impact method mentioned by Su He, we can definitely save effort and squeeze more oil.

Su He directly fried a green leafy vegetable with peanut oil. It was delicious without any strange smell. The whole family liked it very much. Su He said that this oil is water-like except when it solidifies when it is too cold. This oil is good. It is not as oily as lard. It must be very good for frying dough sticks.