Ever since Jiang Cheng's mother passed away and his father married a stepmother, he had always acted subserviently at home. After learning that he was to marry in place of his sister, he resolu...
The next day, Jiang Cheng was awakened by Xu Sanniang's voice. He suddenly sat up from the bed and felt the familiar soreness.
"Hiss..." Jiang Cheng looked at the marks on his body, then glanced at Song Tingzhi who was pretending to sleep, and couldn't help but hit him.
"Chengcheng, are you awake?" Xu Sanniang knocked on the door twice outside.
"Come on, mom, let me put on some clothes!" Jiang Cheng responded hurriedly.
He quickly got out of bed and put on his clothes.
Jiang Cheng made quite a lot of noise, so Song Tingzhi couldn't pretend to be asleep anymore and got up.
"Awake?" Jiang Cheng walked over to him. "It's all your fault that I overslept. Mom said she wanted to teach me how to make tofu today."
Jiang Cheng complained to Song Tingzhi, then left him in the house and went out alone.
"Awake?" Jiang Cheng had just walked out when Xu Sanniang came over and looked inside the house. "Where's Tingzhi?"
"He just woke up and will be out soon." Jiang Cheng said to Xu Sanniang. Seeing Xu Sanniang staring at him, his face flushed. "Mom, let's leave him alone. Let's go to the woodshed."
Jiang Cheng took Xu Sanniang's arm and pulled her to the woodshed.
After arriving at the woodshed, Jiang Cheng found that Xu Sanniang had already fished out the soybeans and put them aside.
"We will grind the soybeans with a stone mill later, and then filter out the bean dregs." Xu Sanniang and Jiang Cheng explained the previous steps to him.
"Mom..." The voice came in before Song Tingzhi even entered the door.
"Tingzhi, you came at the right time. Just help me move the beans out and move them to the stone mill." When Xu Sanniang heard Song Tingzhi's voice, she ordered him to start working.
"I understand." Before Song Tingzhi even stepped into the woodshed, he was sent away by Xu Sanniang.
Jiang Cheng wanted to help Song Tingzhi, but was stopped by Xu Sanniang.
"Chengcheng, Tingzhi is very strong, just let him do it." Xu Sanniang pulled Jiang Cheng and asked him to stay with her.
Xu Sanniang asked Song Tingzhi to move the soybeans to the stone mill and grind them into powder.
He took Jiang Cheng to the woodshed to make square cloth to filter bean dregs.
Xu Sanniang tied two wooden sticks together in the shape of a cross, tied them with a thick rope, and hung them on the beam. Then she tied the four corners of the square cloth to the four corners of the wooden sticks, and only fixed them when the angles were about right.
"Okay, just wait for Tingzhi to bring the bean dregs and raw soy milk!" After Xu Sanniang finished getting things ready, she sat on the stool to rest for a while.
I'm really old. I can't handle it after just a short while!
Jiang Cheng didn't quite understand either, so he sat down with Xu Sanniang and waited for Song Tingzhi to come over.
Of course, the two of them were not idle either. Xu Sanniang and Jiang Cheng chatted about a lot of gossip that Jiang Cheng didn't know.
The two were chatting happily when Song Tingzhi came in carrying a wooden barrel.
"Hurry, just put it here."
When Xu Sanniang saw Song Tingzhi coming in, she stopped chatting about gossip with Jiang Cheng and quickly stood up and asked Song Tingzhi to put the things over.
After Song Tingzhi put the things down, Xu Sanniang took a gourd and began to scoop the soy milk into the square cloth. Then she put down the gourd, grabbed the two corners of the wooden stick and began to shake it. When the raw soy milk had almost dripped out, Xu Sanniang scooped another spoonful and repeated the steps.
Jiang Cheng learned it after watching it twice. He asked Xu Sanniang to rest and then started repeating the steps.
After all the soy dregs water was scooped out, Jiang Cheng pressed the soy dregs tightly again, squeezed out some raw soy milk, and then looked at Xu Sanniang.
"Mom, what should we do with this bean dregs?" Jiang Cheng asked.
"It's okay, Tingzhi, you can use the bean dregs to feed the chickens." Xu Sanniang looked at the bean dregs in the square cloth, went over to take it out, put it in the chicken feeding basin, and then asked Song Tingzhi to feed the chickens.
She scooped the raw soy milk squeezed out of the bean dregs water into the pot, then asked Jiang Cheng to light the fire while she kept stirring the raw soy milk in front. After the raw soy milk bubbled, Xu Sanniang asked Song Tingzhi to take a few bowls and scooped out a few bowls of soy milk.
"Tingzhi, go call your father, brothers and sisters to come and drink soy milk!" Xu Sanniang asked Song Tingzhi to bring the soy milk to the table, and then said to Jiang Cheng.
"Chengcheng, stop cooking and come to the front to drink some soy milk. This freshly cooked soy milk is the best!" Xu Sanniang pulled Jiang Cheng from behind and asked him to drink the soy milk.
"Thank you, Mom!" Jiang Cheng took a sip of soy milk and it tasted good!
After the soy milk started bubbling, Xu Sanniang slowly poured in the brine she had prepared earlier, stirring the soy milk as she poured.
After pouring all the brine, Xu Sanniang did not stop until the soy milk was stirred into granules.
Then Xu Sanniang pulled Jiang Cheng to wait for an incense stick of time, and then used a spoon to scoop the bean curd into the wooden box that Xu Sanniang asked Song Tingzhi to make.
Then they covered it with wooden boards and put a bucket of water on top of it.
Xu Sanniang told Jiang Cheng that this was to filter out all the water so that it could be pressed into tofu.
The filtered water can also be given to chickens to drink, so it is not a waste.
While the tofu was being formed, Jiang Cheng and Xu Sanniang prepared breakfast for the family.
The family ate breakfast while waiting for the tofu to be pressed.
After finishing her meal, Xu Sanniang went outside to look at the wooden box. She felt that the tofu was almost pressed, so she asked Song Tingzhi to move the tofu into the house.
Xu Sanniang turned the tofu out, then took a knife and cut it into pieces and placed them on a plate.
Jiang Cheng brought the tofu to the table and poured some soy sauce on the side for them to dip in.
"Delicious!" As the head of the family, Song Tao first picked up his chopsticks and tasted the tofu made by Xu Sanniang, and praised it highly.
"So tender!" Song Yu picked up a piece of tofu and put it in his mouth. The freshly made tofu was still hot! It was delicious!
"Not bad! It seems that my skills are not outdated!" Xu Sanniang was very proud when she heard Song Tao and Song Yu praising her.
"It's because of my mother's good cooking skills!!"
Jiang Cheng took a bite and kept praising it.
It would be a shame not to open a shop with this skill!!
Jiang Cheng inadvertently said what was in his heart, and then looked at Xu Sanniang belatedly.
"What's wrong? Eat!" Xu Sanniang was confused by Jiang Cheng's stare, then she glanced at him and continued eating.
In fact, Xu Sanniang also felt that it was a pity not to expand her craft, but she just didn't have much time to do these things before!
Jiang Cheng felt slightly relieved when he saw that Xu Sanniang didn't take it to heart.
After tasting the tofu, an idea came to Jiang Cheng's mind.
"Mom, what do you think about us selling tofu in the village first?" Jiang Cheng felt that it was unrealistic to sell tofu in the town right from the start, so he wanted to try it in the village first.
If sales are not good, you can give up early and find other ways to make a living.
Jiang Cheng thought he had thought it through, so he told Xu Sanniang about his idea.
"Okay, I'll do as you say!" Xu Sanniang naturally agreed to what Jiang Cheng said.