The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Li Yu put away the gifts and returned to the foot of the mountain. He saw Xiao An still guarding the pit for burning charcoal. Li Yu saw that he had blocked the smoke exhaust vents and checked, "Xiao An, there is no need to watch here. Let’s go pick the soapnuts and come back to get the charcoal tomorrow morning.”

"Okay," Xiao An picked up the bamboo pole, "Sister Li, what is soapberry?"

"A kind of fruit that can be used to wash things, and the seeds inside are also medicinal materials." Li Yu took Xiao An to the forest where the soapberry trees grew, and saw that most of the soapberry fruits were ripe, and most of the fruits had turned They are brown. Li Yu pointed at the fruits and said, "Look, these are soapberries. Xiao An, you should pick them at a low place. Don't pick only the green ones that are yellow."

"Hmm!" Xiao An put down the bamboo basket on his back, picked off the yellow soapberry and put it in the basket. Li Yu used the branches to hook the soapberry tree, and pulled the branches down from the high branches to remove the ripe oil on them. Take off the soda seeds and put them in your back basket.

The two of them picked three or four trees before filling the two baskets. Their hands were covered with soapberry sap. Li Yu carried the soapberry seeds back home and spread them out on the sun mat, preparing to dry them and store them. Get up and peel it slowly later when you have free time.

At night, Li Yu took a look at the gifts sent by Zhou Jia. There were two chinchilla fur coats, two sets of pens, ink, paper and inkstones, several boxes of snacks, and several pieces of fine cloth, including purple, gray-green, lake blue... .

Li Yu sent the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to Li Qing's room and placed them beside Li Qing's bed. Looking at the empty room, he thought that he should make some furniture and paint the house with lime.

Li Qing came back after wiping his hair, and said to Li Yu with a smile: "Sister, what is that thing you gave me to take a bath today? My hair felt astringent just after washing it, and I didn't think it was easy to use it. After wiping it, my hair became smooth. .”

Li Yu smiled and said, "It's the thing you use in the sunbathing mat. It's called soapberry and it's more useful than soapberry, right?"

"Well! Sister, my husband asked me today if I want to continue studying to prepare for the exams and gain fame, or should I just read Braille and learn some calculations?"

"Then how did you answer?"

"Sister, I want to study for two years and give it a try. If I can pass the exam, I will continue studying. If I still can't pass the exam twice at most, I will stop studying."

"Okay, you also have to have confidence in yourself. You have to believe that you can do it. Also, I want to tell you that you don't have to worry about the money to study. We still have enough money to support you in studying for a few years."

"I know you made some money selling pickles, but I can't be like those old boys who spent their family's hard-earned money to take the exam year after year. I decided to take the exam twice at most. If I don't pass the exam, I won't study. , come back and do things with you.”

After hearing this, Li Yu felt that this child was too sensible. He knew how to plan his life at the age of nine. Li Yu patted Li Qing on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I support you, Ah Qing. I believe you can do it."

"Yes." Li Qing solemnly responded, watching Li Yu step forward and holding Li Yu's hand and calling out, "Sister," Li Yu nodded with a smile, and the two siblings laughed.

In the next few days, Li Yu plans to burn the charcoal. After blocking the air outlet and starting to simmer the charcoal, he will pick the soapnuts and go home to dry them. After picking the soapnuts, he will start fertilizing the rapeseeds. Li Yu is like a little baby. The bees are busy all the time, and they don't finish until almost frost time.

At night, while lying in bed, Li Yu suddenly remembered that it was time to pick camellia oleifera fruits in the mountains, and was worried about whether there was an oil press here.

Li Yu put on his clothes and came out and saw that the oil lamp in Li Qing's room was still on. He knocked on the door. Li Qing opened the door and said to Li Yu with a smile: "Sister, why aren't you asleep yet?"

"Aren't you asleep too? Sister, I would like to ask, have you ever heard of an oil pressing mill somewhere?"

"There's one in Qingshan City! There's one right under the mountain where I used to chop wood," Li Qing said with a smile, "Sister, the rapeseed isn't ripe yet!"

"I found a piece of camellia oleifera tree in the mountains. It should be ripe now. I will pick it and squeeze it tomorrow. The oil mill is so far away, so I will pick it and go home first. You go to bed early."

Li Qing nodded, watched Li Yu return to the room, and went back to study hard.

When Li Yu went back to the house, he thought about picking the camellia oleifera fruits first, and then asking a mason to make a mortar to squeeze them himself. Yes, that's it.

Li Yu took a pen and drew a stone pestle and a mortar socket, but they were much larger than the ordinary stone pestle and mortar socket. He thought about drilling a hole at the bottom of the mortar socket, baking and bending the bamboo tube and connecting it to the hole, and waiting for the oil to be squeezed out. It can flow out from the bottom along the bamboo tube.

Early the next morning, Li Yu drove an ox cart to Stonemason Chen's house in the east end of the village. He handed the drawing to Stonemason Chen and said, "Uncle Chen, I want to make something like this for oil extraction. Do you think it can be used to squeeze oil?" OK?"

Chen Shijiang looked at it for a while and said with a smile: "Xiaoyu, I've seen how they press oil. Your stone mortar and pestle can be made into a stepping stone. You don't need the stone pestle, just use one that is slightly smaller than the mortar socket." A bit of hard wood, like a cork, is squeezed into the mortar socket to squeeze out the oil, and then three stone pillars are placed at the bottom of the mortar socket, and the oil flows out from the bamboo tube."

Li Yu asked worriedly: "Will the pipe be strong?"

Chen Shijiang smiled confidently, "Don't worry about this, you won't be able to break it off after I stick it with isin glue."

Li Yu felt relieved and said, "Okay, please help me make it as soon as possible. I'm in a hurry."

"Xiaoyu, this thing is a bit expensive. I will charge you at least one, two or five yuan."

"Okay, Uncle Chen." Li Yu paid the money, went home happily, took two bunches of money and handed them to Qian, "Aunt Qian, you will ask Xiao An to drive back later to buy two limes. I can use them. "

"Okay." Qian accepted the money and agreed with a smile.

Li Yu took a sack and a bamboo basket to the camellia oleifera forest and got busy looking at the trees full of ripe camellia oleifera fruits.

Li Qing went to school early in the morning. As soon as he saw Jixiang, he asked: "Brother Jixiang, do you know where there is an oil pressing workshop nearby?"

"Oil pressing workshop? Why are you looking for an oil pressing workshop? If your sister wants to buy oil, my grocery store has it!"

Li Qing told Jixiang about Li Yu's trip to pick camellia oleifera fruits. After hearing this, Jixiang asked curiously: "What does the camellia oleifera tree look like?"

Li Qing shook his head, "I don't know. My sister should have been taught by my mother."

Ji Xiang looked at Li Qing with a smile, "Oh! You go to class first! I will ask you questions later."

"Thank you, Brother Jixiang."

Ji Xiang went to Zhou Jia and told him about Li Yu's search for an oil pressing workshop, "Master, what is a tea tree? Is it a tea tree that has oil?"

For some reason, Zhou Jia remembered the way Li Yu disliked her, "Go and bring me Qi Min Yaoshu. Then go up the mountain and look for her. If you can find Miss Li, go and help her."

"Okay." Jixiang went to find Qi Min's art and gave it to Zhou Jia, then turned around and went out to the mountains.

Thinking of Zhou Jia's expression, Ji Xiang thought as he walked: Could it be that the young master is interested in Miss Li? Otherwise, such a big mountain would make me search in the mountains.

Li Yu was busy picking Camellia oleifera fruits in the mountains. He picked a full bag and put it into the space. He was so busy that he suddenly heard a whirring sound behind him. Li Yu thought to himself: No, there is a wild boar.

When he turned around, he saw a wild boar with long tusks charging towards him.

Li Yu took a few steps back and hid behind the tea tree, and took out the long knife from the space. As soon as he took out the knife, he saw that the two tea trees were knocked down by the wild boar. Li Yu jumped up and stepped on the back of the wild boar. , jumped to the side of the wild boar, raised his knife and struck hard on the wild boar's back, causing blood to spurt out and spread all over the ground.

The wild boar howled and rushed into the forest. Li Yu chased after him and slashed the wild boar's back with a knife. The wild boar fell to the ground howling, grunted and twitched a few times, then stopped moving.

Li Yu touched the wild boar, put it into the space, and dug some soil to cover the pig blood to prevent the smell of blood from attracting wild beasts.

After covering it with blood, he sat down to rest for a while, ate something, and then continued to pick tea fruits.