Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 177: Harvesting rapeseed, 600 kg boulder hits
Of course, it is impossible for Li Xiang to support the entire company by himself, and Yao Yao was just joking to liven up the atmosphere.

Li Xiang is the best at farm work, so it is basically Li Xiang who does the work. A few girls wanted to help, but Li Xiang thought they were in the way, so they could only stand by and cheer on the side.

The three girls actually helped Li Xiang a lot. He now threw all kinds of miscellaneous chores to them.

For example, for the business of several stores, Li Xiang just checked the accounts and left it to them to manage.

They are also responsible for express delivery, tracking and after-sales service.

In order to make the three girls feel more fulfilled, Li Xiang provided them with another benefit, allowing them to sign up for some online courses that they were interested in, such as management courses, or online courses for adult undergraduates. One purpose was to get a diploma, and the other was to improve their own skills and recharge themselves.

Diplomas are more of a "status". For example, when you tell people that you graduated from a certain university, you can improve your image by saying that you graduated from a certain university. It sounds better than saying that you graduated from high school.

If you study hard at a correspondence university, you can also learn a lot of knowledge.

The three girls were all quite pragmatic. Li Xiang reimbursed their tuition fees, which moved them so much that they wanted to marry him even more.

They were not able to get into university and had to enter society to work early due to family circumstances. Now they have the opportunity to realize their dream of obtaining an academic degree, and the three of them cherish it very much.

Rapeseed is actually divided into spring rapeseed and winter rapeseed. In places with severe cold climates such as the Northeast and Northwest, it is often sown in spring from April to May and harvested in autumn from October to November. In places with warm climates, such as the South, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, etc., winter rapeseed is often planted, sown in October to November each year, and harvested in May to June of the following year.

Li Xiang is from Sichuan Province, so he grows winter rapeseed.

Due to the different growing seasons and growth cycles, there are also differences in varieties. Winter rapeseed is mostly cabbage-type, while spring rapeseed is often cabbage-type or mustard-type.

Winter rapeseed has a longer growth cycle and a higher oil content, between 35% and 50%, while spring rapeseed is usually between 25% and 30%.

Li Xiang harvests rapeseed, threshes it after drying it, and then uses a "windmill" to remove some broken leaves and dust to obtain clean rapeseed.

He planned to record a video on the traditional method of oil pressing, so he invited Li Jinyu, Li Yucheng, Jiang Jianguo and others. In addition, Grandma Li Xiang, Grandma San, and some older people in the village who had pressed oil before also came to visit, join in the fun, and provide some technical support and suggestions.

The location was chosen in a corner of Li Xiang’s backyard, where a large shed was built.

Jiang Jianguo and Li Yucheng helped make the wooden frame of the oil pressing equipment. Li Xiang was strong and knew some simple carpentry work, so he also came to help.

The main structure is made of thick pine wood.

Many places need to be hooped up with steel, which needs to be very strong, otherwise it cannot withstand the impact. Jiang Jianguo is responsible for forging these iron hoops and fastening parts.

Older people like Li Jinyu are responsible for technical guidance.

After two days, a five-meter-long, seventy-to-eighty-centimeter-diameter, wooden and iron structured traditional oil pressing device was successfully built.

In addition, clean straw was prepared to wrap the rapeseed.

The first step in oil pressing is to make the dough.

There is a mystery hidden in this process.

The ground rapeseed is placed in a steamer, steamed with steam, and then fried. The control of moisture and temperature is very important. If it is too dry, no oil can be squeezed out, and if it is too wet, no oil can be squeezed out. This all depends on experience.

Lijia Village has not used this traditional oil pressing method for many years. Usually, the oil is transported to the town and sent to a special oil pressing workshop to be pressed by machine. That is more efficient.

Li Xiang does this mainly for traffic, and it can also be regarded as a heritage of intangible cultural heritage.

Then the rapeseed oil extracted by this method is more fragrant and of better quality.

Pour the fried rapeseed powder into straw, put an iron ring on the outside, and step on it to wrap the pancake.

Of course it is impossible for a grown man to step on it. For example, it is said that the production of Moutai is done by young girls.

But the female workers who step on the koji at Maotai Distillery are definitely not as pretty as the three girls on Li Xiang's side.

Three beautiful girls, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui, appeared on the screen. They washed their feet and stepped on the pancakes barefoot. While working, they kept laughing like silver bells. They were all virgins in their twenties, and it was a beautiful sight.

Li Xiang installed the "rapeseed cake" they had stepped on into the press chamber, and then started the oil pressing process.

This is Li Xiang’s home court.

His upper body was bare, with well-defined tendons and muscles, each piece of which looked like a work of art. He was wielding a huge stone hammer weighing more than 600 kilograms, hitting the wooden wedge again and again.

In general, a traditional oil press workshop would use a hammer weighing one or two hundred kilograms, which is already quite powerful. It would also be suspended from the beams for convenience and effort. Some would even just use a thick wooden pillar, like the kind used in temple bells. However, Li Xiang directly used a huge stone weighing more than 600 kilograms, which was more efficient.

It might take others three hours to hit, but it might only take him more than an hour.

Originally, this was a very hard physical job, requiring only two drops of sweat and one drop of oil. But for Li Xiang, it was like playing.

In fact, Li Xiang, who is heavier, is not struggling, but if the force is too great, the equipment will not be able to bear it. If it falls apart, wouldn't it be a waste of work?
And if it is too heavy, it will be too shocking.

This pure force exerts tremendous pressure on the dough in the press chamber. Relying on this physical pressure, bright yellow rapeseed oil, which looks like liquid gold, oozes out.

Three girls jumped barefoot on the clean stone slabs nearby, cheering: "Oil is coming out, oil is coming out~"

“We succeeded~”

Li Xiang was also very pleased that he successfully produced oil on his first try.

Seeing this, the other participants also applauded and celebrated.

Li Xiang continued to swing the boulder and hit it. This process required repeated squeezing and beating, which lasted for at least an hour, so that the rapeseed oil could flow out completely.

The "boom boom" sound of the collision resounded throughout the backyard. Many tourists were attracted by the earth-shaking and rhythmic sound, and followed the sound to enter Li Xiang's backyard to visit, comment, and shoot videos.

Some tourists questioned: "Are you using a prop from a movie? Is it actually made of foam?" Li Xiang put down the boulder and made an inviting gesture: "Come on, come on, try it."

The questioning tourist stepped forward and was dumbfounded: "Oh my god, it's so heavy, it's really heavy! I can't lift it, I can't lift it!"

"I admire you!"

The tourists' doubts were gone, and when Li Xiang operated it again, they cheered and applauded.

"This guy is amazing, he's a real strongman!"

"This must be several hundred kilograms, right? About three or four hundred kilograms, right?"

In fact, it was more than 600 kilograms. Li Xiang didn't explain, but just smiled.

A tourist who had followed Li Xiang before explained: "This is Brother Xiang, the most powerful pastoral blogger on the Internet! He is admired by many people in the martial arts and weightlifting circles. If you don't believe me, search for the video of him beheading a wild boar with one knife. That guy is simply amazing! Aesthetics of violence!"

"I can't believe that such a well-proportioned figure can contain such amazing power."

Clips of tourists questioning the situation are also included in the video, which adds to its authenticity and credibility.

Of course, after the video was uploaded, it was inevitable that some black fans would be suspicious, saying that these people must have been hired agents and that the video was created for effect.

A fan explained that when you look at the vibration of the wooden wedge, the vibration of the oil pressing equipment, and the oozing of bright yellow oil, you can tell that it was a real collision.

But those people still don’t believe it, saying that vibration can be a video special effect, and that 50-cent special effects are more exaggerated than this, so what is there to brag about?

There is nothing you can do when you encounter those argumentative people.

……

Uploading the video is a later story. At this moment, Li Xiang was pressing oil. After an hour and a half, he finished this labor (cultivation) and came to check the rapeseed oil.

He scooped it up with a spoon and let it flow down slowly. It was bright golden and exuded the rich aroma unique to rapeseed oil. It looked to be of very good quality.

The final weighing showed that the total oil output was a little over 48 pounds.

Zhao Xueqing pressed the calculator and said, "We invested 121 kilograms of rapeseed before, so about two and a half kilograms of rapeseed can produce one kilogram of oil."

Li Xiang nodded. He had consulted Li Jinyu and others before, and this was roughly the ratio.

The rapeseed he had harvested before was only 121 kilograms, which was a relatively small amount and could be used up in one go. Therefore, Li Xiang went to the village to purchase some more rapeseed and was able to squeeze enough oil for his family for a year.

A total of more than 300 kilograms of rapeseed oil were squeezed and stored in the cellar.

Then Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui also brought rapeseed from their homes to Li Xiang to ask him to press oil.

The rapeseed oil squeezed by Brother Xiang is naturally healthier than the ones sold in stores. And seeing Brother Xiang taking off his clothes to work, the visual effect of his muscular body is a kind of beautiful enjoyment, and the three girls think it is very pleasing to the eye.

Yao Yao, in particular, was quite bold. Occasionally, she would come over and touch him with a smile, satisfying her hand urge and making jokes.

Lei Xiaohui was not willing to be outdone, so she also went up and touched it a few times. Li Xiang scolded her and told them to move away to avoid it hitting them.

A huge rock weighing more than 600 kilograms was dancing, and if it touched you would get hurt, and if it was touched you would get broken.

Zhao Xueqing also wanted to touch it, but she was too shy to do so, feeling that she was at a disadvantage.

Li Xiang naturally did not charge them any processing fees, because they also participated in the video shooting and helped to step on the pancakes.

The oil cakes left over from oil extraction are also returned to them, and after fermentation, they are used as fertilizer for growing vegetables and flowers.

The rapeseed grown by Li Xiang and the villagers is truly pesticide-free throughout the entire process. It is purely green and pollution-free. No additives are used when extracting the oil. The pure pressing method is used. The straw is also washed and dried. It is truly pure natural green edible oil and is safe to eat.

Many oils on the market, which are produced by factories, are often extracted by leaching, that is, using organic solvents (such as hexane) for extraction, such as soybean oil, corn germ oil, rice bran oil, etc. Because these raw materials themselves have low oil content, they are not suitable for direct pressing.

Products like peanuts and rapeseed are squeezed.

However, in order to save resources and pursue efficiency, modern enterprises will use the extraction method to make oil from the oil cake after pressing.

Because there is a lot of oil left in the oil cakes, it is not directly used as fertilizer like in rural areas.

It can be said that it is utilized to the extreme.

Therefore, some inferior rapeseed oil and peanut oil are made from the cake residue after pressing, which is then extracted with organic solvents.

This organic solvent is also graded. No. 6 light gasoline (mainly containing n-hexane, cyclohexane and some other hydrocarbons, with a more complex composition) is definitely less expensive than using high-purity n-hexane.

During the leaching process, solvent residue is inevitable and it is basically impossible to completely remove it.

Therefore, there is a "technological basis" for using a tanker truck to load kerosene and gasoline and then use it to load cooking oil.

Their tanker trucks were originally used to transport solvents to those factories. They pulled the tanks here, unloaded them, and then loaded them with edible oil, seamlessly.

There are relevant regulations on the upper limit of solvent residue in the national standard. Generally speaking, if the product does not exceed the standard and complies with laws and regulations, it can be sold normally.

From a dialectical point of view, existence is reasonable. The demand for edible oil is too great. If we only rely on the pressing method to produce only high-quality oil, many people will not be able to eat oil or cannot afford it.

However, even if it does not exceed the standard, it will exceed the standard once it is loaded with that kind of tanker truck.

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