Suddenly, Mr. Li slapped his head and said, "I almost forgot. Someone in the village has ordered another 500 kilograms of tofu. Can you make it?"

Li Xiaomei was delighted when she heard this: "You can do it, you can do it, I'll go soak the beans right away!"

Looking at his daughter busying around, Mr. Li felt happy. The child had been depressed at home since the divorce. Now that she had something she wanted to do, she seemed to come alive!

Worried that his daughter couldn't handle the work alone, Mr. Li asked his eldest son to follow behind his daughter and help. Then he returned home with his hands behind his back and called the whole family to help.

Seeing Wu coming over excitedly, Li Xiaomei explained, "Mom, these beans have just been soaked. Don't worry. After lunch, you and your sister-in-law can come over to help!"

Mrs. Wu nodded, and looked at her daughter's busy and orderly figure with satisfaction, feeling very happy in her heart.

Unable to help at the moment, Mrs. Wu took her eldest daughter-in-law back home and came back after the beans were soaked!

There is strength in numbers. When making tofu in the afternoon, everyone divided the work and cooperated with each other, each doing their own job.

Li Dalang drove the donkey to grind the mill, while his sister-in-law Liu poured the soaked soybeans into the millstone. Wu helped to light the fire in the kitchen, and Li Xiaomei watched the soy milk cooking in the pot.

Everyone cooperated tacitly and completed each step in an orderly manner according to Li Xiaomei's instructions.

Finally, Li Xiaomei poured the solidified tofu into a mold and gently pressed it with a large stone to squeeze out excess water.

Several people were busy all afternoon without stopping, and they saw that one plate of tofu after another was quickly formed.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Mr. Li did not delay and he and Li Erlang delivered the tofu that the villagers had ordered.

The villagers who received the tofu were very happy: "Uncle, you are so fast, come in quickly, come in quickly, I will get the beans for you!"

The two men delivered the tofu and collected the beans at the same time. Soon they finished distributing the more than 200 kilograms of tofu made in the afternoon. When they returned home, it was dark.

Lin watched everyone busying themselves and felt that she couldn't help, so she started to prepare the meal. She used ready-made tofu and cut a large piece of pork belly. She made a big pot of simple tofu stew with pork. The rich aroma made the stomachs of people who had been busy all day rumble.

After cleaning the stove, Li Xiaomei hurriedly invited everyone to eat. However, she just wanted to make tofu, and the whole family got busy following her.

Li Xiaomei brought the hot tofu stew to the table and said, "Thank you, Mom, Dad, Brother, and Sister-in-law for your help today. Let's all come and eat!"

Maomao couldn't wait to sit down and saw the stewed tofu and meat on the table was shining. Although the little guy wanted to eat it very much, he knew that he had to wait until his grandparents came before he could start eating.

Mrs. Wu looked at her drooling grandson with amusement and took the lead in picking up a piece and putting it in his bowl: "Chanmao, eat it!"

Maomao ignored his grandmother's joke and started eating happily. The stewed meat was tender and tasty, the tofu was soft and tender, and the rich soup was so delicious!

Everyone sat together, eating and chatting, and the atmosphere was very warm for a while.

Mrs. Wu was worried that her daughter would have to get up again to make tofu in the middle of the night, so she reminded her, "You've been busy for a long time. You should get a good rest today. You can make the tofu tomorrow. Don't work too hard at night, or your second brother will have to get up to help you!"

Li Xiaomei quickly agreed: "I know, Mom!"

Li Xiaomei also thought it through. She couldn't let her whole family suffer because of her own behavior. She didn't mind, but she didn't want her second brother and Yan'er to suffer as well.

People who had been busy all day were very tired. They went home to wash up and go to bed early.