I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 94 Autumn Hunting
Two young adults, naked from the waist up, worked together to push the graphite pole. A girl over ten years old stood in front of the graphite and kept pushing in the soybeans.

Seeing this, Li Xiuju smiled and said, "Where are you making tofu? Oh, it seems I came at the right time. When you made the tofu, I was the first to get the freshest one."

Zhou Huilan's son's business had just started, and there were neighbors who supported him. Before it was too late, Zhou Huilan was happy. When she saw them coming, she quickly took out her hand, brought two stools over, and chatted with them for a while:
"Xiuju, you don't know how torturing this tofu is. How can you make it in a short time? You just tell me how many pieces you want. When it is done, I will deliver it to your home personally."

Li Xiuju shook her head and smiled, "It's not this girl. She wants to come over and see how tofu is made?"

Zhou Chenyu folded his hands obediently in front of him and smiled at Zhou Huilan, "Auntie, if you don't mind it, feel free to order me around. I haven't been full for a long time, and I have a lot of strength."

After Zhou Huilan heard this, she was very happy and her smile became even brighter, "How many strong young men are there? It's your turn to be a little girl. Sit down quickly and eat a bowl of tofu cake later before leaving. .”

Zhou Huilan placed another plate of wild peaches on the table, "I picked these up in the mountains yesterday. They are a bit small and very sweet. Please try them quickly."

Li Xiuju pushed back embarrassedly, "Huilan, we are here to buy tofu. This is both fruit and tofu curd. You treat us like guests, there is no need to be like this."

"If you don't eat it, we, Shen Yu girl, still have to eat it!" Zhou Huilan looked slightly angry and put down the basket domineeringly, "Besides, we live in a village with different surnames, and our ancestors are all brothers and sisters. Why are we so exposed to outsiders?"

Li Xiuju blushed and took the fruit, thanking her several times.

Zhou Chenyu was named by Mrs. Zhou. Even though he didn't like eating peaches, he still held one in his hand and took a few bites.

Zhou Huilan chatted with him for a while. When she saw her son was tired from pushing graphite, she rubbed her hands and stood up: "You guys just wait here while I change with the children."

Zhou Chenyu saw that the two grown men were pushing so hard and was really curious about how heavy the graphite was. She looked at Li Xiuju and said, "Old lady, how about I go over and give it a try?"

The work of pushing graphite has always been done by men, so no daughter's family is interested.

Seeing the child's curious face, Li Xiuju let her go. Zhou Chenyu smiled and walked to Zhou Huilan's side, suddenly having extra hands. Zhou Huilan liked this girl even more, "Chen Yu, this graphite is a bit heavy, so be careful. "

"It's okay, I have plenty of strength, come on!" Zhou Chenyu pressed his hand on the log stretched out by graphite. Zhou Huilan shouted and left. Zhou Chenyu felt that he had exerted all his strength and rubbed the old lady's breasts. He pushed hard and slowly in a circle.

She didn't expect that a piece of graphite, smaller than a round table, would be so hard to push, as heavy as pushing a refrigerator.

The cruel words were spoken too early. Zhou Chenyu couldn't help but step down from the stage. He gritted his teeth and pushed for more than a dozen times with Zhou Huilan. Zhou Huilan's two sons had rested enough and hurriedly came up to replace them.

Zhou Chenyu had been waiting for that moment. After coming down from the graphite, his arms were shaking.

Li Xiuju couldn't help but smile and asked: "Can I return this graphite in the future?"

"I won't go, and I won't go even if I'm beaten to death." Zhou Chenyu stretched out his hands uncontrollably, shaking his head with a sad face. His sincere look made everyone present laugh.

Zhou Huilan's two sons put the remaining soybeans into graphite and finished grinding them. The graphite-infused soybeans were ground into bean juice along with the well water, and flowed into the bucket along the shallow ditch along the edge of the pebbles.Set up a cloth bag in the air, pour the ground soybean juice into it, squeeze it hard a few times, and sift the soybean residue into the bag, leaving the pure soybean juice.

Pour all the purified soybean juice into a large pot, cook it over high heat to create foam, and add brine little by little. Gradually, the soybean juice in the pot slowly condenses into a ball. Take a dustpan and press it to separate layers, making them translucent. The juice floats on top, scoop it out with a spoon, and the remaining congealed part is the tender white tofu.

It is not easy for them to make tofu once. Li Xiuju was too embarrassed to stay and taste the tofu pudding, so she took the tofu she bought on the pretext of heavy rain and went out.

Zhou Chenyu walked with her halfway, and sure enough, the rain started getting heavier, and the water that soaked into the bamboo hat flowed down his neck and into his clothes.

Li Xiuju looked at the heavy rain and couldn't care less about herself. She hurried home, "It's raining so hard. I wonder how Baoyu is doing? Go back quickly and prepare hot water for him."

They ran back to the door and saw Baoyu squatting under the eaves to take shelter from the rain, with the rainwater flowing down his forehead.

Zhou Chenyu looked at the three strands of hair on his forehead, coupled with his Sichuan expression, and couldn't help but laugh.

Li Xiuju took out the key and hurried over, saying helplessly: "You kid is so wet, don't you know where to hide?"

Baoyu shook his numb legs, "I wanted to climb over the wall and get in, but before I could reach the top of the wall, the heavy rain came. Mother, sister, where have you been? It's not at home with such a heavy rain!"

Zhou Chenyu shook the tofu and wolfberry vegetables in the basket and coaxed: "I know you are working hard outside, so we are preparing food for you to make dinner."

"Prepare food for me? I don't believe it." Baoyu pouted and took off her wet clothes and entered the house. Li Xiuju quickly stopped her, "Hey, stop, you are so wet. You will get wet again when you enter the house." Now. You stay here, and Mom will get you some clean clothes to change into."

Baoyu leaned miserably against the wall, "I went out to build roads for our family, and I didn't even give me tea, but I was despised by you. How am I living like this?"

The more Zhou Chenyu looked at him, the funnier he became, "What do you dislike? Didn't I boil water to make ginger soup for you?"

Li Xiuju came out with the clothes and pushed him on the shoulder: "That's right, how can a dignified man be so petty and fussy? Go and change your clothes."

Baoyu snorted aggrievedly and reluctantly took his clothes and went to the bathroom to change.

It was raining non-stop, and the sky above the eaves was shrouded in dark clouds. Before evening, oil lamps had already begun to light up in the house.

Zhou Chenyu sat on a low stool picking wolfberry leaves, while Li Xiuju chopped the minced meat, dug out the middle of the white tofu, and stuffed spoonful after spoonful of the minced meat inside.

The mother and daughter were chatting without a word when they were suddenly interrupted by a rapid knock on the door. Hongmei held a pair of shoes in her hand and walked into the yard barefoot. Her white feet were covered with mud and said, "Auntie , that duck with a slit on its flipper, is it from your family?"

Li Xiuju put down the spoon and hurried out of the kitchen, "Yes, but our ducks haven't been let out today? Could it be that they ran out on their own?"

(End of this chapter)