Pick up a killer and farm together

Chapter 23 Making Dried Tofu

In the afternoon of the next day, Liu Mingqiao brought a little black wolfdog from nowhere. Liu Ruchun and Si'er liked it very much, so they went to the Song's next door to buy some straw, and made a soft kennel for him.

For several days, I didn't hear any movement from Mrs. Lin. On the contrary, since old man Liu knew that his youngest daughter had become the aunt of a rich family, he stopped working. He walked around the village with a jug all day, talking about Dacheng The master of the Shen family here is his uncle.

"Tomorrow, let's invite a few people to help hoe the land. There is no food at home. You can go to Aunt Zhao's house and exchange for two catties of tofu." Mrs. Zhong weighed a catty of five taels of soybeans to Liu Ruchun from the bag.

"Sister, I'm going too." Si'er, who was playing games with Xiao Hei, quickly followed, and Xiao Hei also followed the two of them.

Zhong Shi was worried at first, but when she saw Xiao Hei following her, she told Liu Ruchun, "Watch Si'er carefully."

Aunt Zhao's house is not far away, so Liu Ruchun came back after changing tofu. On the way, she suddenly thought that in her previous life, she ate so many soy products, but here seems to be only tofu and bean curd soup. I made tofu at home with my mother.

When Liu Ruchun returned home, she told her mother what she thought, but her mother shook her head, "Anyone can make tofu, so who will you sell it to?"

What her mother said was right, it was impossible for her to want her mother and father to sell tofu, unless she made some achievements first, but she was too young, could she do it?After thinking about it, he had no choice but to say: "Mother, from now on, we won't make tofu at home, so we won't change it, okay? It's not worthwhile to change it."

"Isn't mother afraid of trouble?" Zhong still shook her head.

Now that this idea has been born, Liu Ruchun can't give up, she just wants her mother to make tofu by herself after hoeing the ground.

Zhong couldn't stand her, so he had no choice but to agree.

After getting her mother's nod, Liu Ruchun began to make plans in her heart. She remembered that when she lived at her grandmother's house in her last life, her grandmother always wrapped square pieces of cloth with no tofu curd, and then pulled the four corners to wrap them, and wrapped those The tender bean curd was wrapped into a square prototype, so Liu Ruchun asked her mother for a lot of rags, cut more than 20 small pieces of cloth, and prepared to make dried bean curd by herself.

But after wrapping, the following procedures need a place to put it, preferably a square or rectangular wooden frame, stack the wrapped bean curds one by one, and then stack them together neatly, with wooden boards on the top Cover it well, and then press it with a heavy object. In this way, the moisture in the bean curd will be squeezed out. After waiting for two hours, you can remove the heavy object on it. The dried tofu has been formed, so just Just remove the dried tofu from the cloth.

It's just that it's easy to think about it, but if it's really done, Liu Ruchun finds that many things are missing, so she begged her father to make a wooden frame, and asked Zhen Fugui to bring a big pebble from the river, Liu Ruchun went first Pick up the beans and soak them well, and wait for the next morning to grind the soybean milk.

When Liu Mingqiao heard that her daughter wanted to learn how to make tofu, she didn't object, so she chopped firewood for the two of them the next morning, and went hunting in the mountains.

After grinding the soy milk, Liu Ruchun brought Si'er to add fire to the side, Zhong quickly poured the soy milk into the pot, waited for it to warm up, then put it into the gauze cloth to drain the bean dregs, and drained twice like this Bean dregs, soy milk is already very pure, Liu Ruchun and Si'er each presented a bowl, and put a lot of sugar extravagantly.

The firewood was very dry, so the fire ignited a lot. After a while, the soy milk in the pot began to condense, and tender bean curds came out.Seeing this, Mrs. Zhong quickly asked Liu Ruchun to turn off the fire, picked up the gourd ladle and scooped the bean curd into the basin, and then directly pressed the water inside to make tofu.

Seeing this, Liu Ruchun quickly stopped her mother, "Mother, don't worry, I thought of a way to make tofu better than tofu."

She has always had a lot of ghost ideas, so Zhong nodded to see if she had any ideas, but seeing Liu Ruchun brought many small pieces of cloth, she couldn't help asking curiously: "What are you doing with this? Give it to me a few days ago Just do this if you want to go?"

Liu Ruchun nodded, "Mother wrapped this bean curd in a cloth, and we stacked it neatly in the frame, then covered it with wooden boards, and pressed it with stones."

"Mother has lived for most of her life, and she has never seen such torment. If you do this, it is the same tofu, but you don't need to cut it." Zhong smiled bitterly, feeling that her daughter was a little unnecessary.

"Mum, why don't you try it. I thought about it for a long time. Maybe the tofu made this way will be more delicious." Liu Ruchun said, and he had already asked Si'er to carry the small bench, and he started scooping the bean curd onto the cloth. bag.

Seeing that the two sisters are so enthusiastic, Mrs. Zhong always loves them, thinking that she is also idle, so she follows her to make trouble, so she also follows Liu Ruchun.

After wrapping the dried tofu and pressing it on a stone, Liu Ruchun sat beside her and waited. After all, it was her first time making it herself, so she didn't know if the tofu would be crushed or her dried tofu would be out of shape.

Si'er is also well-behaved, sitting next to her, a pair of sparkling eyes without blinking, "Sister, is our tofu sweet, Si'er wants to eat something sweet." The bowl of soy milk just now still has endless aftertaste.

"Be good, Si'er, eat less sweets, or you'll get worms in your teeth." Liu Ruchun didn't have time to talk to her, and only cared about the tofu.

Si'er was so frightened that he quickly covered his mouth, and burst into tears after a while, "My sister wanted to make my teeth grow worms, so she put so much sugar on me just now, my sister is bad, and my mother and sister bullied me." Go to the house to find Zhong to complain.

The dried tofu was taken out, and Zhong picked up 20 yuan at night and fried a plate with dried chili and garlic sprouts. It tasted much better than ordinary tofu, but I couldn’t say how delicious it was, and I ate too much. a bowl of rice.

It was already hot in June, and the dried tofu became moldy within two days, but it tasted better than the stinky tofu in the big city when it was roasted and eaten with chili noodles.

When the town was going to market, Liu Mingqiao sold the wild pheasant, and then bought flower cloth for Si'er to make new clothes, because Zhong was worried that Liu Mingqiao would not be able to pick cloth, and he missed his son, so he went to town with him.

Liu Ruchun didn't have anything to do at home, so he took Si'er to do embroidery work under the peach tree in the yard.

Si'er also moved her small bench, yelled at Xiao Hei, and sat down next to Liu Ruchun. Xiao Hei basked in the sun and fell asleep at her feet. Those half-clear peaches on the tree said, "Sister, why are the peaches still not ripe?"

"The peaches in our family were transplanted from the mountain by my father. They are not as good as the peaches in our family. They ripen after the Dragon Boat Festival." Liu Ruchun replied to her words while embroidering crabapple flowers.

(End of this chapter)