CHAPTER 107: CHAPTER 107: FOUND THE CAMELLIA TREES, NOW WE HAVE GOOD OIL TO EAT

After the pig dung was cleaned up, Pei Shu’er sprinkled some lime powder around for disinfection.

At the same time, this pigsty also needs some renovation; otherwise, shoveling pig dung every time is difficult, and it’s not convenient for managing wild boars.

Thinking of this, Pei Shu’er quickly drew a blueprint for the pigsty on white paper with charcoal.

After the fish pond was completed, the pigsty was finished three days later, with all four pigsties completed simultaneously.

This pigsty has separate feeding troughs, fences to separate wild boars, and a drainage system that channels into a sewage pool, forming valuable organic fertilizer.

This way, it would be much easier for everyone to clean the pigsty.

Additionally, half of the pigsty is covered with a rain shelter, and the other half is open, allowing the wild boars to sunbathe without needing to drive them out; it can all be done inside the wild boar pen.

If it rains, they can also be herded into the grass shed.

Meanwhile, over the past few days of Pei Shu’er’s care and treatment, the two female wild boars started eating and are quite voracious.

Overjoyed, everyone had to allocate more people to the back mountain to find pig feed because they couldn’t possibly feed them human food.

That would be too wasteful.

When taking everyone to the back mountain, Pei Shu’er noticed that most of the trees were inedible, serving only ornamental and firewood purposes.

There was also a considerable gap between the trees.

She thought that if fruit trees were planted on the back mountain, food and drink wouldn’t be a concern in the future.

In her space, there were a trillion supplies, but she had been continuously extracting items to buy more from the market, and there would be a limit to this; extracting more would seem suspicious.

So currently, most of the food came from mountain gathering.

If the mountain were covered with fruit trees in the future, gathering would be much more convenient.

More importantly, this back mountain was unowned land, and planting fruit trees was a way of staking a claim.

No matter how things changed later, the land couldn’t be taken away.

When their resources became more abundant, they could even build a wall around the back mountain...

This way, the back mountain would become her family’s backyard garden.

With this thought, the smile on Pei Shu’er’s face deepened.

She said immediately, "This place is suddenly much better than the Deserted Mountain. If only we could fill it with fruit trees."

Everyone was initially stunned, then their eyes lit up, looking at Pei Shu’er with hope.

However, the light in their eyes dimmed again.

"It’s good to plant fruit trees, but where do we get seeds?"

Pei Shu’er immediately laughed, "Everyone forget, previously when we went into the mountain, we picked some fruits; I’ve already dried and stored seeds that are easy to plant."

"It’s not the busy farming season right now, and it’s spring; planting fruit trees won’t delay work."

Everyone nodded in agreement; they always followed Pei Shu’er’s orders.

But she still considerately gave these reasons, making everyone appreciate her more.

Seeing everyone agree, Pei Shu’er led them around the back mountain.

"Later we’ll fence in the areas where we’ve planted to prevent trampling and remind everyone that this is claimed land."

After saying this, with the seeds provided by Pei Shu’er, they began planting.

These seeds were soaked in Spiritual Spring Water overnight and were fully infused; after planting, they sprouted in a few days.

And they grew exceptionally well.

Everyone was thrilled, unable to restrain their thoughts of how to enjoy the fruit trees.

While searching for suitable spots to plant fruit trees on the back mountain, they also explored the area.

Suddenly, Tang Qingning grabbed Pei Shu’er and spoke hesitantly.

"Shu’er, I discovered something, but I’m not sure if it’s useful."

Normally, Tang Qingning wouldn’t seek her out; her approaching now indicated she was more than sixty percent certain.

She walked over, seeing Tang Qingning pointing to some oil tea trees.

"Shu’er, I heard oil tea can be pressed into oil."

Pei Shu’er’s eyes lit up; she walked over and saw that the oil tea fruits were ripe. All they needed was to extract the seeds and go through some processes to make tea oil.

Lately, they’ve been consuming only wild boar oil; it’s not as fragrant as pork oil and carries a unique gamey taste, which doesn’t appeal much.

But without it, there’d be no oil for cooking.

Now with this oil tea, they could use tea oil for cooking, improving taste and offering variety.

Pei Shu’er laughed, "Now we have good oil to eat."

As the king of oils, oil tea naturally excited Pei Shu’er.

She had never been to this part of the area before and didn’t know such a great surprise awaited.

Pei Shu’er looked at the women, who were already tired from planting fruit trees; the difference in physical strength between men and women was evident now.

Pei Shu’er said to everyone, "Rest for fifteen minutes, then the women come here to pick tea seeds while the men continue planting trees."

After resting enough, they came over to pick tea seeds, and the old lady looked at the seeds, smiling widely.

"These tea seeds are good; they could yield a lot of oil."

Pei Shu’er looked at the old lady, "Grandma Yu, do you know how to press oil?"

The old lady shook her head, "I’ve seen others press oil, but I’ve never done it myself; no equipment."

Pei Shu’er nodded, planning to search for oil-pressing methods as she was fed up with wild boar oil.

The women collected all the tea seeds from the area, about fifty pounds, making everyone very happy; this amount would keep them well-supplied with oil for a long while.

Pei Shu’er had everyone carry the tea seeds back to the third house, following Grandma Yu’s advice to spread them out for drying.

Afterward, Pei Shu’er went to her room to look up oil-pressing information.

Sure enough, she quickly found some information.

First dry them, and if they’re too moist, use a drying cage, then roast them until aromatic before steaming.

Then bag them and press with a hydraulic jack.

The process seems not too difficult, but there’s no equipment.

First, a drying cage and then a hydraulic oil press are needed.

If they don’t want oil wasted, they need a decent container for oil extraction.

Thinking of this, Pei Shu’er began researching ancient oil extraction tools, sketching them out. Then, she called over Lai Fu and Wangcai, asking them to search the Deserted Mountain for any former carpenters, offering ten work points as a reward.

Someone came quickly; he had ten years of carpentry experience and understood what Pei Shu’er wanted to make as soon as he saw the tools she had.

However, these things were more advanced than anything he had dealt with before.

Of course, this also made them more challenging to craft.