Exile at the beginning: I rule the world by drawing cards

Chapter 27 Making Konjac Tofu

That night, Chen Ergou did not come back.

After suffering for two nights, Mrs. Zhu finally couldn't bear it any longer. Early in the morning she shouted that it was the gambling house that had kidnapped her son and that she was going to the town to fight.Several women came to pull her away, fearing that she would do something stupid.

Zhu's voice spread from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, and it was difficult for Qin Mengshang not to hear it.

After serving food to the two little guys, he turned to Zhou Lingqi and asked, "Did you see Chen Ergou that day?"

Zhou Lingqi sat at the table and drank porridge slowly without raising his head. "I saw it and went upstream."

In fact, many people saw Chen Ergou going to the river embankment that day, but no one ever suspected it.Because when the rain stopped, someone saw Chen Ergou running down there holding his head. As for where he went after that, no one knew.

A big living person disappeared out of thin air for two days. Either he was hiding, or he was in an accident.

But this matter is being dealt with on its own, so it's not her turn to worry about it.

Qin Mengshang watched the two little ones eating. Jinbao came earlier. After eating meat for several days, his belly was round.On the contrary, the wolf cub picked up from the mountain was very thin and small, dragging its legs and lying next to the bowl to eat, looking pitiful.

Zhou Lingqi glanced over here and said in a neither salty nor cool voice: "The abandoned wolf pups are very vengeful. You'd better be careful to avoid being bitten."

Qin Mengshang: "."

You are talking about yourself.

This little guy has been peaceful since he came back yesterday, and he's quite well behaved when he sleeps in the same nest as the baby.

Qin Mengshang touched the little guy's head and thought about giving it a name.I wanted to make a pair with Bao and call it Lucky, but I thought it was a wolf and the name did not match the identity. Finally, I thought of a decent name: "Yuanbao."

Zhou Lingqi disagreed.

Every time he went out, he would pick up something and bring it back to keep. He was really afraid that he would pick up someone and bring it back next time.

After breakfast, we went to work on the river embankment.The men from Sanjiang Village helped find Chen Ergou. There were more than a dozen people missing on the river embankment, but it did not affect the progress.

The government issued an approval document saying that the river embankment should be repaired by September, so the construction started half an hour earlier and ended half an hour later.

Qin Mengshang was thinking about Amorphophallus konjac and went back first after finishing his work in the kitchen.

Before leaving, Mrs. Chen suddenly stopped her: "Do you still have money on you? This month's salary cannot be paid for the time being, so you can save some food."

Hedi pays 28 wages per month, and there is a big market in town the next day, so they pay the wages the day before.

Qin Meng Shang asked the reason, and Mrs. Chen shook off the rag and said angrily: "It's not like those black-hearted people are carrying money and are reluctant to give it away, and they don't know what they are doing. A government in such a big government even wants wages." dragging”

I woke up early and stayed in the dark for a month, hoping that the little wages would be paid so that I could go to the town to cut two kilograms of pork and come back to improve the food. Who would have thought that the end of the month was coming, and they said that the wages could not be paid. I was afraid that I was kidding.

Mrs. Chen was unhappy, and Qin Mengshang closed her mouth knowingly.

Whether she is paid or not actually doesn't have much impact on her. Half a month's salary is only about [-] yuan.It’s okay to send it later, but you can’t not send it.

The wages of the river embankment have not been paid, and the method of making money by oneself must be implemented as soon as possible.

Qin Mengshang mentally went through the steps of making konjac tofu. Although she had a stone mill at home and it was a bit old, she couldn't push it alone and had to find someone to help.

Mrs. Ji was also sighing about not being paid at the end of the month, and didn't pay attention to what she was thinking.

"Sister-in-law Zhao, are you free this afternoon? I want to ask you for a favor."

Qin Mengshang interrupted her sorrow and told her his plan.

Ji was shocked when she heard this: "Konjak? You can't eat that thing. Even if you boil it, it will be poisonous!" "Just boiling in water cannot eliminate the toxicity of konjac. You have to add alkaline water and mix well." That’s all.”

In ancient times, alkaline water was made from plant ash, which could remove the toxicity of konjac and was also the key to making konjac tofu.

Mrs. Ji was a little worried. Don't try poisonous things easily. Even if you don't lose your life, paying for a doctor will cost you half your life.

But Qin and Meng Shang had many ideas. Wasn't that what they did when they dug ditches in the rice fields last time?Maybe she really has a way.

Ji hesitated for a moment and finally agreed.

The two of them went back together. As soon as they entered the door, Jinbao rushed towards him with his tail wagging. Yuanbao was not so lively. When he saw a stranger, he stood up as if facing a powerful enemy.

Ji looked at the two furry little things and said, "Isn't raising two dogs equivalent to having more people to eat?"

People can hardly afford to eat these days, so who still keeps a dog?Old Man Hu is the only one in the village who often hunts and keeps a dog to catch prey.

Qin Mengshang smiled and said: "There is usually no one at home, so it's good to keep him as a housekeeper."

"That's right."

Qin Mengshang called her in, brought a handful of dry straw over, and asked Ji to help burn plant ashes to make alkaline water, while he put on simple sewing gloves and started washing the konjac.

Seeing such a large piece of konjac, Mrs. Ji secretly smacked her lips. If it were sold to a medical clinic, it would cost three to five hundred yuan. It was almost as much as a month's wages for helping in the kitchen!Isn’t it a waste to just use it for food?

But Qin Mengshang was very busy, so she couldn't throw cold water on him, so she didn't say anything more after thinking about it, so she could work with peace of mind.

The two people divided the work and worked quickly.

Before Shenshi, a pot of konjac had come out, but it would take time to solidify, so Qin Mengshang asked Ji to go back first and send it to her later when it was ready.

Ji looked at the pot of dusty things with a confused look on her face, unable to refuse, so she walked out with a vague smile.

While waiting for the konjac to solidify, Qin Mengshang took the green onions and noodles and prepared to make a green onion pancake.

There are only so many vegetables left at home, and there are no eggs, so the space for creativity is limited.It just so happens that scallion pancakes are easy to make and delicious to eat.

After kneading the dough, apply a layer of oil and cover it with bamboo strips and set it aside to rest.On the way, I looked at the konjac in the basin and felt that it was pretty good. If it works, I can fry it in a plate tonight.

Twilight falls, night falls.

When Zhou Lingqi came back from the river embankment, she saw lights on in her home from a distance, busy figures in the kitchen, and two little guys walking around her, giving her a vague illusion of warmth and tranquility.

Qin Mengshang was carrying the finished konjac to deliver to the Ji family. When he went out, he saw Zhou Lingqi standing at the door of his house.

"What are you doing standing here?"

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Zhou Lingqi looked away unnaturally and saw the bowl of dark but strange-smelling stuff in her hand. He was a little curious: "What is this?"

"This is konjac tofu. I still have it at home. I will send it to Sister-in-law Zhao first. If you are hungry, eat two pieces of pancake first."

Zhou Lingqi frowned. He had seen konjac in a book and it was poisonous.The imperial physician in the palace often used it as medicine, but he had never heard of konjac tofu.

Qin Mengshang made a pot of konjac tofu. The shape didn’t look good the first time he made it, but it tasted okay after it was cut out and stir-fried.

She served a bowl to Ji and a few pieces of scallion pancakes.

(End of this chapter)