Chapter 182: What are you hiding from me?
Chen Yunyun sniffed, shook her head, and said, "No, I've only been out for a short time! Okay, let's go grind the soybeans!"
Lin Xiaoyue touched her head lovingly and said, "After a while, I'll go back with you to accompany my godfather and godmother. We'll stay for a few more days."
Chen Yunyun asked happily, "Really? But it's so busy here, can you really leave?"
Lin Xiaoyue smiled and said, "No matter how busy you are, you must spend time with your family! I will make arrangements, don't worry!"
When she arrived at the kitchen, Chen Yunyun first lit the oil lamp, and then started a fire to boil water.
Lin Xiaoyue scooped out a bucket of soybeans and went to the stone mill outside to grind them. In ancient times, there were no electric grinding machines, so grinding soybeans was extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the soybeans were not fine enough, so they needed to be ground several times.
Especially when one person is grinding the mill and adding soybeans, the speed is even slower!
Fortunately, after Chen Yunyun boiled the water, she turned to low heat and ran out to help Lin Xiaoyue. With the two of them together, they worked faster.
It was ground three times in total. During this period, Lin Xiaoyue took the raw soy milk to the big iron pot to boil. After it boiled for the second time, Lin Xiaoyue poured in the second bucket of raw soy milk. Next, she added another bucket after boiling until the iron pot was full. Lin Xiaoyue began to stir it with a ladle to soak it.
At this time, Chen Yunyun had already hung up the tofu bag, and there was an empty water tank under the tofu bag. Lin Xiaoyue poured ladles of cooked soy milk into the tofu bag. All the juice of the cooked soy milk seeped into the empty water tank, and what remained in the tofu bag was tofu dregs.
While filtering the bean dregs, Lin Xiaoyue also left a large basin of hot soy milk for everyone to make sweet soy milk.
After waiting until all the cooked soy milk seeped into the water tank, Lin Xiaoyue and Chen Yunyun used wood to squeeze the tofu bags until the juice inside was completely squeezed out.
Lin Xiaoyue found another wooden basin and scooped out the tofu residue from the tofu bag. She said, "Yunyun, these tofu residues can be used to feed the chickens and ducks. You don't have to prepare chicken feed tomorrow."
Chen Yunyun nodded and said, "Actually, tofu dregs can be made into bean dregs pancakes, but they can also be fed to chickens. Feed them well so they can lay more eggs in the future."
Lin Xiaoyue said embarrassedly: "I can make other things, why don't I keep it? Teach me how to make bean curd dregs pancakes."
Chen Yunyun brought the bean dregs to the table and said, "If you want to eat them, keep them! Come on, it's time for us to order tofu!"
Lin Xiaoyue nodded, took out a bottle of brine from the cabinet, and said, "Success or failure depends on this moment. If I make a mistake, don't laugh at me!"
Chen Yunyun covered her mouth and laughed, "What are you afraid of? Just pour it in, I'll watch it for you, it will definitely be fine!"
Lin Xiaoyue walked to the water tank containing hot soy milk with a heavy heart, and slowly poured the brine into it. Chen Yunyun helped stir it until the tofu pudding was formed.
Chen Yunyun stopped stirring and said, "Stop! There's tofu pudding!"
Lin Xiaoyue covered the lid and waited until the tofu pudding was formed. She poured it all into the gauze. There were two wooden boards under the gauze. The boards were placed on the big wooden barrel to collect the leaking water. Finally, when it was full, she wrapped the gauze tightly, tied a knot, and then pressed two big stones on it.
"Yunyun, go and have a rest! This will take a long time, and we can't both of us just sit there waiting." Lin Xiaoyue said as she straightened up.
Chen Yunyun pulled Lin Xiaoyue over and said, "Don't wait here anymore. Let's go back and take a nap together! By the time we get up, the tofu will be ready! Otherwise, I won't go back!"
Lin Xiaoyue did feel a little tired. She nodded and said, "Okay! Let's go back together!"
Chen Yunyun turned off the oil lamp in the kitchen and pulled Lin Xiaoyue back to take a nap.
Maybe she hadn't recovered from yesterday's drunkenness, or maybe she got up too early to make tofu, but Lin Xiaoyue fell asleep as soon as she lay down. When she woke up, the yard was already bustling with activity!
Lin Xiaoyue quickly put on her clothes and went out to find Chen Yunyun, "Yunyun, why didn't you call me? How's the tofu? Did you succeed?"
Chen Yunyun took out a piece of fresh tofu from the kitchen and said, "Look! It's a great success! How about tofu and fish soup for lunch today? What else do you want to eat?"
Lin Xiaoyue thought for a moment and said, "I'll make green onions and tofu!"
Chen Yunyun stopped Lin Xiaoyue and said, "No, I'm the chef today. If you want to show off your cooking skills, wait until tomorrow!"
Lin Xiaoyue smiled helplessly. Maybe Chen Yunyun was worried that she wouldn't be able to recover from yesterday's drunkenness?
It’s so nice to have traveled here and live with people who love and care about me. I really hope that such days will continue!
"Okay, okay, my little cook, I'll go out and check on the pork we harvested today!"
As she spoke, Lin Xiaoyue walked outside and saw that the pork, pig bones, pig offal and pig head were all separated.
Moreover, Zhan Wei and Zhan Tian were squatting on the ground processing the pig's internal organs, Liang Jingyao was processing the pig's head, and the others were temporarily piled up in a wooden basin.
Liang Jingyao saw Lin Xiaoyue coming over and said with a smile: "Did you sleep well? Look at how we are doing. Are we ready to start our apprenticeship?"
Lin Xiaoyue walked closer, took a look around, nodded, and said, "Very good! Better than what I made! By the way, there's a lot of pork coming in now, and I really don't have anywhere to put it. How about hiding it all in the cellar in the bamboo courtyard?"
Liang Jingyao looked at the many mouths in the yard and said hesitantly, "How about I have someone dig a cellar here? Otherwise, you will have to come and get it whenever you want to eat. It's too troublesome! Besides, there are many people in the teahouse, so we should prepare some food."
Lin Xiaoyue thought this was a good suggestion and said in agreement, "Okay! Where should we dig a cellar?"
Liang Jingyao looked around and said, "There's a place next to the kitchen that never gets sunlight. Let's dig there! After lunch, I'll have the Silver Slash Guards dig a cellar."
Lin Xiaoyue walked over to the pig offal, picked up the pig fat, and said, "Okay then! I'll take this pig fat in first. I have nothing to do this afternoon, so I'll make lard. Three pigs can make a lot of lard!"
Liang Jingyao stopped Lin Xiaoyue and said, "You might be busy this afternoon, so leave the lard boiling to Yunyun!"
Lin Xiaoyue asked curiously, "What's going on? Is there any new news coming out of the palace? Or is the sample book for Journey to the West ready?"
Liang Jingyao smiled mysteriously and said, "You'll know when the time comes! It's guaranteed to be a good thing!"
Lin Xiaoyue glanced suspiciously at everyone in the yard and asked, "Do they all know?"
As a result, the conversation among the Silver Slash Guards began to become stiff, and some of them even stared at their shoes in a daze!
What is it? Why do everyone know it, but I don’t?
Oh right! If Yunyun knew, she would definitely not hide it from me!
Lin Xiaoyue snorted in dissatisfaction and turned to walk towards the kitchen.
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