Chapter 21： Festival to make tofu

Chapter 21 Making Tofu

However, there is no money in the second brother's dimension, and the money in the Qixun dimension cannot be taken out, and the money will not be lost in the sky, so the matter of earning money has to be mentioned.

Fortunately, I have food to eat now. Although I don’t pay attention to what I wear, I can barely survive the winter.

People should learn to be satisfied.

Even if her house was hit by a fire, her life was actually much better than that of most impoverished families in her clan.

Not to mention anything else, only the three surviving houses in her family are earth houses, but they are spacious, not as big as the blue brick and large tile houses of the few families in the clan, but better than the houses of ordinary people. many.

When her grandfather built the house, he was low-key and only built an earthen house, but he also paid attention to the quality of living. Not to mention the size of the room, those adobes were poured out of glutinous rice paddles. How many. Besides, there is no heated kang in the house except for the great-uncle's house.

Let’s talk about food, my second brother can hunt now, and we can see meat and fish at least from time to time at home. I also bought some food, and I can guarantee to eat dry meals three times a day. Half of the people in the clan still have two meals a day.

There are also clothes. Ninety percent of the family can't afford silk and cotton, and the straw and catkins are about to die. It's a pain to spend the winter. It's been better these years. In the previous years, how many years did not freeze to death? elder?

The empire is strong, but it does not mean that the people are rich. It's a good day if you don't starve to death.

Qixun sighed, and went to the vegetable field to break off a few leaves of white wort, washed it by the well and fed it to the rabbits.

The rabbit has two white rabbits, one male and one female. Rabbits multiply quickly, if it weren't for the urgent need for money, she would be reluctant to sell the ones caught by the second brother yesterday, so it would be nice to keep them for shearing.

However, those whose coats are not good-looking, don’t feel bad if they sell them.

In the future, she will raise rabbits, and she only intends to pick pure white rabbits, black rabbits, and gray rabbits. She doesn't plan to keep those with mixed coats.

After feeding the rabbit, seeing that the soybeans had been soaked for a few hours, all of them were soaked, so he took the bean bucket and moved it to a small stone grinder, and asked the third sister Lingsu, who came back from collecting the herbs and was processing the herbs, to help her grind the beans.

By the time the beans were ground, it was dusk when the sun slanted west, and the second brother and Uncle Lu just came back from the county town.

I was just waiting for the gauze that my second brother bought to be a sling for filtering soy milk.

Seeing the second brother entering the yard, Qixun greeted him: "Second brother, have you bought the gauze I want?"

Hanging soymilk, pressing tofu and thousand sheets are all needed.

Gong Yuhao smiled and said, "I bought it. In addition to the rice noodles, I also bought some fine linen and satin for you, and another 30 catties of silk and cotton to make four beds of 6 catties of quilts for you and your mother to use after winter. , the remaining six catties are for you to make cotton-padded clothes, so you don't have to worry about changing them in the future. I also bought the quilt and the lining."

Brother Monkey's heart is still very delicate, Qixun was shocked: "Where did the money come from? The pheasant and hares sold are far from enough to buy such a thing?"

"Hey, it's not the money from selling pheasants and hares, it's me who rescued people in the county town. I met a frightened horse on the street, and I rescued a little baby from under the horse's hooves who was almost trampled by the horse, the baby's family and horseback riding. In order to thank me, the young master rounded up the wild things for me and Uncle Lu, and also gave me some money. I don’t know each other, so I received the money and got this life-saving grace. Both are cheap.”

He is not greedy for other people's money, but for the party who has received grace and is not short of money, it is the cheapest thing to use money to pay off the owed kindness.

Qi Xun saw that his back was full of stuff, not to mention, but he was still carrying a large package. It was obvious that he had bought a lot of things, so he smiled and said, "How much money did you charge for buying so many things?"

"Uncle Lu and I sold the wild things for 4 taels of silver, and we split 2 taels each. The other son on horseback and the family of Xiao Wa'er each rewarded me with 20 taels of silver, plus the silver for selling the wild things, a total of 40 taels. Twenty taels. I also bought you a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. It cost thirty-six taels in total, and I still have sixty taels left. I will give it to my mother to keep for the family."

Yes, you can really spend money.

Qixun said: "Forty taels of silver, if we save a little more, it will be enough for three large brick houses."

Gong Yuhao put the back basket on the floor of the main room, and then entered the room and put the package on the kang before waving his hand: "I have already asked Uncle Lu, a big tiger can be sold for dozens or hundreds for its skin alone. Two silver coins, and tiger bones are also worth a lot of money. Uncle Lu said that there are tigers in the deep mountains. When I go back to the mountains to fight two tigers, I have everything. Dad and eldest brother are not at home, so I can’t make my mother and you hungry. Frozen. Besides, didn't you say that you can still sell the medical books you copied?"

said to Gongyu Mingxi again: "Mother, look at whether the things I bought are suitable for use."

Well, these people in my family have never lived a real poor life.

Don't look at the lack of money now, but I really don't care much about money, so they all happily open the package.

The package contains fine linen and silk for inner and middle clothes, and satin for winter clothes. Although it is not the best, it is not bad. Seriously, if it wasn't for their father's status as a great man, his family wouldn't be able to wear this silk.

Silk cotton is enough to make four thick quilts plus a cotton coat for one person.

Pen, ink, paper and inkstone are not cheap things, so I bought them for ordinary use.

And because of Qixun complaining about the toilet problem, there is still a big bag of straw paper inside.

It is not that there is no straw paper now, at least their family used straw paper to go to the toilet before. But it's not really affordable for ordinary people. My family is poor now, which is why Qixun wants to make his own paper.

As for the food, because I bought some before, Gong Yuhao did not worry that he could not earn money, so he only bought 20 catties of polished rice and polished wheat noodles.

He handed over six taels of silver and dozens of coppers to Gongyu Mingxi for storage: "I have agreed with Uncle Lu that I will go into the mountains the day after tomorrow, and when the prey is sold, I will buy more food and come back."

Qixun discussed with Gongyu Mingxi: "Mother, can you buy a set of woodworking tools? I also want to raise more rabbits. With the tools, I can make several rabbit cages. Besides, I want to make a spinning wheel. Come out. After the spinning wheel is finished, I can also make some furniture. My brother and sister and Xiao Wu have to read and practice calligraphy every day, and my mother also writes and draws. Now there is only a desk that my grandfather used in the past, which is not enough. . Tables, chairs, benches, boxes, cages, wardrobes, etc., have to be remade. If you find a synagogue to do it, you have to spend money, which is not cost-effective."

Gongyu Mingxi was given a headache by her thoughts: "Okay, I'll buy it for you. When your second brother enters the city, I'll ask him to bring it back for you."

Gongyu Mingxi and Lingyu were packing the things they bought in the house. Gong Yuhao carried the rice noodles to the rice bowl and noodle bowl and put them away.

Qixun cut a few pieces of gauze, and after washing it, tied it to the hanger and began to filter the soy milk.

Gong Yuhao and Lingsu were there to help.

Filter the soy milk, set the fire with Lingsu, and stir Qixun on the stove. After the soymilk was cooked, the brine was ordered, and after the soymilk solidified, Qixun first filled a few bowls to make the tofu brain, and then put the rest into the mold frame, covered with a wooden board, and asked Gong Yuhao to move the slate to press.

The remaining point, she began to carefully make thousands of sheets.

Thousands of sheets are more labor-intensive and require layers of gauze, beans and brains, layered on top of each other, and then pressed. After pressing the water, uncover it layer by layer.

But 1000 pieces are shredded and served cold, soup, roasted meat, and stir-fried vegetables are all delicious.

There are no seasonings at the moment, Qixun is a salty party, so the bean curd brain is only drenched in hot oil with onions and garlic, and mixed with a little salt.

Gongyu Mingxi ate very well, and asked Gongyuhao to send an urn to each of the grandfather and grandma of the Zuo family, as well as the two families over there.

Waiting for the tofu to be made, the sisters prepare dinner, Qixun himself is not good at cooking, but he can eat, so he instructed Lingsu to make fried tofu and a flat bridge tofu soup. Also have dinner.

(end of this chapter)