I grew up eating camellia oil, and then I ate less when I went out to study. I was not used to eating cooking oil at first. Now working, I have to go back to help when I collect tea seeds every year. We all weed the mountains artificially (my hometown is called Guacha Mountain). Picked tea seeds are called (tea seeds), dried and taken home. When the weather is too cold to prepare for winter, I will separate the tea shells from the tea seeds at home. The selected tea leaves are just waiting for people from several villages to dig a pit together, then go to the pit to dry, then crush it, wrap it in rice hay into cakes, and then put it into a press by young and strong men in the village. This is hard work. When I was a child, I liked to squeeze tea every year, because it was warm and smelled of freshly squeezed tea oil, which I will never forget.

My home is backward and the mountain road is far away. I remember I was basically self-sufficient when I was a child. Because rural people are honest and seldom sell things, they don't know how to sell things. So I planted tea oil, millet, bayberry and mountain herbs for my own use, and some of them would be given to my relatives.

In the past two years, occasionally some vendors will go there to buy some, because the traffic is inconvenient, so there are not many.

Every time I go home, I bring some tea oil or millet, and some friends contact me to bring them something to eat. If I don't have much at home, I will buy some from the next door, and I will be happy to let them sell something to earn some money.

My mother said that the price of camellia oil was not bad this year, but she still kept it because she was not used to eating other oils after eating it for half her life. However, if the harvest is good, every family will sell some, because she can't finish it. . . .

Where can we buy real camellia oil? It is similar to the wild camellia oil in the mountains. We only mow the grass manually once a year, just waiting to collect tea seeds. In my opinion, there are not many tea trees and wild trees, but the yield like ours is too low to produce much all over the mountains, and it is very hard to collect. According to my mother, some places have experts who grow tea seeds to sell them, and they put chemical fertilizers.

I forgot the landlord's question. My feeling about tea oil is that there are few physical problems at home, but there are some when I come out. I used to eat tea oil every day, so my throat wouldn't feel so bad now. Basically, I didn't have pimples on my face before, and now I get angry easily. Tea oil is good anyway. My dad said, a local tyrant, a small Chinese medicine practitioner, drinks herbal tea cooked at home and eats it.