The back mountain not only has the fruit trees planted this year, but also many original tea oil trees.

The Double Ninth Festival has passed, and the Cold Dew season is a good time to pick tea seeds.

The program team also intends to promote this aspect to promote the sales of camellia oil in Meicheng.

Meicheng tea tree is also known as wild tea.

Camellia oleifera is a woody oil-bearing tree species unique to the south and one of the four largest woody edible oil trees in the world. Chinese camellia oil is known as the olive oil of the East, but in fact, it is superior to olive oil in terms of its dual functions as a food and therapeutic agent.

In addition to the similar nutritional components of the two, tea oil also contains specific physiologically active substances such as tea polyphenols and tea saponins that are not found in olive oil.

Unfortunately, the oil tea industry has not developed smoothly due to the lack of new varieties, poor management, high initial investment, insufficient public awareness, and lack of policy support.

Many of them are in the south where camellia oil is grown. The locals know how good it is, and if they don’t have enough camellia oil at home, they will buy some.

Few outsiders know of its existence.

This time in "Let's Go", the five guests put on sun hats, transformed themselves into local tea pickers, carried backpacks and put on gloves and started picking tea.

This tea oil tree is not tall and is a shrub, so it is easy to pick the tea leaves.

In addition to the tea seeds on the tree, the mature tea seeds will naturally fall to the ground and those on the ground must be picked up.

In the past, after other families had picked a round of tea-oil seeds, people who did not grow tea-oil plants at home would take bags to the mountains to pick up the ones that had fallen on the ground. They could pick up a bag in a day and squeeze out more than ten pounds of oil, enough for their own consumption.

During the recording of this program, Wang Yanmei and Xu Fuqiang also joined in picking tea seeds.

The guests asked questions and they answered them in a way that introduced them to the public.

Wang Yanmei also said: "Tea oil is very precious here. These days, all the dishes at home are fried with tea oil."

“No wonder the fried vegetables taste different. Not only are the vegetables delicious, but there is also a very fragrant smell. It turns out to be tea oil.” Wen Hao exclaimed.

"Not only are the oil and dishes good, but Auntie's cooking skills are also excellent." Xia Weiwei praised.

Wang Yanmei laughed awkwardly and said modestly, "No, no."

After everyone picked tea seeds for a while, the program team arranged to go to the oil tea workshop to explore how camellia oil is produced.

However, the picked tea seeds need to be dried in the sun so that the oil yield can be high. When the skin is dried until it turns into a flower and rolls outward like petals, revealing the black fruit petals inside, those fruits are ready for oil extraction.

The tea seeds that have just been picked by the boss are naturally not suitable for extracting oil.

The main purpose of this program is to popularize tea oil, and what you will see are tea oil seeds squeezed by other people.

This period is the harvest season for oil tea, and people are lining up in the oil tea shops waiting to get their tea pressed.

The guests just stood there and watched, chatting and asking questions to the owner of the oil tea shop from time to time.

The tea seeds must first be cleaned and shelled, and after the tea kernels are steamed and fried, the oil can be squeezed out.

The machine is like a pressure cooker that cooks rice. After the oil is squeezed out, it is precipitated and filtered. Only then is the orange-yellow, clean, impurity-free camellia oil considered ready.

For a bunch like this, the oil tea shop only charges 15 yuan per bunch for processing.

The audience not only watched the modern oil pressing method with the guests, but when the program crew learned that there was an ancient folk oil press in the village, they immediately decided to visit the ancient oil press.

In this era of rapid development of information economy, sometimes we eat pre-prepared dishes in restaurants. The pace of life seems to be accelerating, which makes people yearn for the past era of simple and unadulterated human labor.

As soon as you enter the ancient oil press, you can see large wooden racks. The oil pressing environment is naturally not as clean and bright as the shopping malls in the city, but it reminds people of the feeling of childhood.

Every step of the oil pressing process is done manually, which is undoubtedly a very labor-intensive physical job.

The owner of the oil press was a young man in his twenties. He also knew that the program crew was coming at the last minute. He nervously wiped the sweat off his trouser legs in front of the live camera before shaking hands with PD Liu, "Welcome."

Wen Hao was a little surprised to see that the boss was so young.

After all, the traditional folk method of oil pressing and young people seem to have nothing in common.

Having lived in the village for some time, he has some understanding of it. Most of the people in the village are middle-aged and elderly, and there are almost no young people.

Wen Hao asked, "Boss, why did you think of doing this?"

The oil press owner smiled and said, "This craft was passed down from my grandfather's grandfather. My father had a car accident two years ago, and my grandfather is old and in poor health. I grew up in this environment since I was a child. I had no reason to give up this, so I quit my job and went home to do this, which is just in time for me to take care of my family."

"Can you make money from that?" Wen Hao asked.

"Fortunately, I can live at home and I can do some other business." The oil press owner said with a smile.

Wen Hao couldn't help but admire the fact that he didn't act pitifully in front of the camera.

You should know that in the past, when participating in such programs, many people would choose to play the path of selling misery, so that the products can be sold better. It's not that those people are wrong, it's human nature, their lives are indeed not that good, and they just want to sell more products and make more money.

It’s just that this boss’s optimistic attitude is rare.

"Then I will take you to understand the oil pressing process." The owner of the oil press stretched out his hand and motioned everyone to come over here.

The traditional oil pressing process is much more complicated, and each step requires great craftsmanship.

The boss introduced: "For example, when roasting tea seeds, they must be free of moisture but not burnt, the powder must be finely ground and the heat must be appropriate, and the oil extraction must be timely and skillful. Otherwise, if you are not careful, you may not extract oil or produce too little oil."

The guests followed into a room, which contained a large stove such as those in the countryside. Fire was used for heating, baking, dehumidifying and frying. Here, attention had to be paid to the size of the fire.

"This is roasting tea seeds." said the boss.

When you walk out of the room, you can see a stone mill in the yard.

The boss introduced: "This used to be a flour mill. We used to use this kind of large stone millstone, and people and cattle pulled it to grind. Now we rarely use it. We will directly use an electric flour mill to save time and labor."

Go further in and you will find the steam room.

"This will turn the raw material into cooked material so that the oil can be separated. After steaming, make tea cakes while it is still hot."

Several guests were taken to another room, where they saw some modern tools.

The boss explained: "In the past, the traditional oil pressing method was mostly done by people using their feet to tamp down the tea cakes. But I always felt that it was not appropriate, especially now that young people like me are very careful about whether the food we eat is clean. If customers see that the oil they eat has been tamp down before it is made, it will definitely not be acceptable."

"I was inspired to make this machine because I watched a short video before. It seemed that in the old days, when making sugar cane, the sugar cane was not washed and was directly put into the machine for juice extraction. A young man thought this was not clean, so he made a machine to automatically wash the sugar cane before squeezing. So I also made this cake pressing machine based on my years of experience. This is much more convenient and cleaner."

Wen Hao said: "That is actually equivalent to combining technology with ancient methods to make it more suitable for the current market."

The boss nodded and said, "Yes."

The last room is where the tea cakes are loaded into the trough of the wooden press. The tea cakes must be placed neatly and smoothly, otherwise no oil may be extracted.

After all the tea cakes are placed, wooden plugs, wooden wedges and piles will be inserted . Next, the piles are pulled back and forth by manpower, and the squeezing force is used to physically squeeze the oil cakes. In fact, this is the basic principle of ancient oil pressing.

In the live broadcast, the tea oil physically squeezed out overflowed from the oil cake like raindrops, gathered together and flowed continuously from the oil outlet on the side of the pressing trough into the large wooden barrel outside the press.

This traditional technique of extracting tea oil is actually hard to find in modern times.

The boss even said without any reservation: "In fact, I also have a modern oil press. After all, the ancient oil pressing process is complicated, but some older generations are reluctant to give up this and come here to press oil. The people you just saw are all villagers who come to help. They think that this way of pressing oil tastes good, so I have never abandoned them and do not charge them money. As long as someone needs it for one day, I will do it for one day."

The men who had finished their work knew that it was a recording session, so they all crowded over and said thank you to Xiao Li.

"Over the years, we have come here to press oil, and Xiao Li has never taken our money."

"Yes, there aren't many profitable businesses in the village. Xiao Li has had a really hard time these years."

An old man said, "If there weren't oil presses in the village, we would have to go a long way to press oil, which would be very troublesome."

"You guys are recording a program, can you help us promote it more? Our tea oil is actually very good."

"Yes, the oil we squeezed today is from my family. You can scoop a few pounds to try."

The online audience in the live broadcast room kept posting comments.

[This kind of ancient oil pressing method is really rare. My mother took me to see it when I was a child, and I still remember the smell of the oil. Now there is no oil pressing in the village, and we have to go to the oil press in the town. ]

[There are few people in the village now, and even fewer people who press oil. The oil press in the village is not making any money at all.]

[Just like schools, now there are no primary schools in the village, and there are fewer people. There is no other way but to centralize these resources in the town, and people from all over the country go to the town to exploit them.]

[I hope this boss can stick with it, at least don’t let this craft be lost. ]

[Does anyone know how much this tea oil costs per pound? I want to buy some to try? ]

[The oil press can actually make some money from selling tea seed cakes and rapeseed cakes. Let the boss sell them directly online. I grow strawberries and make enzyme fertilizers and buy them every year.]

【If you buy camellia oil, it is very expensive. The price varies from place to place. In our place, it is over fifty yuan per pound, which is relatively cheap. In areas where the camellia oil is of very good quality, it is over seventy or even over eighty yuan per pound.】

[In fact, it’s mainly because people don’t trust things on the Internet and don’t know whether the quality is good or not. ]

[Yes, even the vegetables from Fuwang Farm were questioned at first, but later on there were test reports that they were really delicious. People have bought their products so many times and never had any problems, which is why everyone is rushing to buy them now.]

To put it bluntly, if it is cheap, it is fine to buy it, but if it is too expensive and the cost of trying is too high, forget it. God knows whether those things sold online are conscientious or not, there are many unscrupulous merchants.

Wen Hao had worked at Fuwang Farm for a few days and knew that online shopping was very popular, so he asked the boss, "Do you have a store online?"

The boss shook his head and said, "Most of them are people from nearby villages who come here to press oil. After the oil is pressed, the tea dregs and rapeseed cakes are left. Whoever wants them can take them. If you want to pay, you can pay."

"Then you can open a store online, and our show can help you promote it." Song Feizhou said.

Huo Fengze, who is usually quiet, said: "Our current program is Yunqi Live. You can apply for a store directly on Yunqi Live."

The boss is a young man and is very receptive to these things, but he had never thought about doing it before. After all, there are so many stores on the Internet and no one would pay attention to them.

The boss also knew that the program was intended to promote the company, so he agreed immediately. He took out his mobile phone, downloaded the app, and submitted his business license and other information.

The review on Yunqi Live was very quick and the store was approved quickly.

The "Xiao Li Oil Press" store is now online.

He put everything he had in the store on the shelves.

Tea cake, 5 catties for 15 yuan. Peanut bran, 5 catties for 15 yuan. Rapeseed cake, 5 catties for 15 yuan. Camellia oil, 1 catty for 75 yuan, none of which includes shipping.

He sells it at this price because it is a very reasonable price, and he doesn't increase the price just because there is any promotional program.

The online audience base of the program "Let's Go" is there, and many people rushed into the store to buy. Although it was not the boss's product, this program did play a role in promoting it.

Fishermen can buy it to make bait, and vegetable growers can buy it as fertilizer. After all, peanut bran is a very good organic fertilizer.

Although camellia oil is expensive, it is indeed priced at this price. Not only did the audience rush to buy it, but the five guests who knew about it at the first time also rushed to buy dozens of kilograms to show their support.

Especially Wen Hao. Although he didn't cook because he was acting on the crew all year round, he tasted the food at his boss's house and found out that it was cooked with camellia oil. Camellia oil is so healthy, so he thought about buying some for his family. He bought 100 kilograms at one time. After all, he was not short of money.

After Xiao Li launched the product, he was shocked to see that it had been sold out in the backend.

With my back to the live broadcast room, I couldn't hold back my tears.

In order to come back to take care of his grandfather and father, he gave up the hard-earned 10,000 yuan a month he earned at a construction site in the city. He barely made a living by living in an oil press these years, and occasionally went out to do odd jobs and grow some rice and vegetables. He never expected that the things he used to give away for free could actually be sold for money, and so quickly.

This is the economic effect of the era of traffic. If there are people paying attention, everything will sell quickly.

Nowadays, many markets are occupied by finished products sold by capitalists, but in this era, there are still a few people who insist on making original and good products.

(End of this chapter)