Chapter 20 How is tofu made?
Baoya, Yunhua and Yunyue spent half a day in the main room choosing floral fabrics. The three of them gestured to each other to show what kind of clothes they wanted to make.
Yun Chenglu poked his head in to take a look, then retracted it.
Zhao Zhilan rubbed his head: "What are you looking at? Why don't you go and pick something out?"
Yun Chenglu crossed his arms and raised his head in disdain: "Tsk, I don't care. What's so picky about this?"
Zhao Zhilan smiled and said, "Then what are you interested in? You don't even like to study, and you just run around outside all day."
"What's so good about reading? It's all about father and grandson all day long." Yun Chenglu clenched his fists. "I want to strengthen my body so that I can find a powerful master in the future!"
"From now on, if anyone dares to bully me or our family, I will beat him down!"
He spoke seriously and a little loudly, so Baoya in the inner room could hear it.
Baoya put down the cloth in her hand, ran to the door, stood on the threshold, and was just below Yun Chenglu's neck.
"Second brother, do you want to learn powerful martial arts?"
Yun Chenglu also imitated Zhao Zhilan and rubbed Baoya's head: "Yes, so that I can protect you little girls in the future."
"Then you have to eat more," Baoya also rolled up her sleeves, revealing her thin little arms, "Second brother doesn't eat as much as I do, and he's not as strong as me."
Yun Chenglu looked at her serious expression and smiled, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth: "Second brother can't compare with your stubbornness, but I can compete with you in eating rice. Let's see who eats more next time."
"Okay!" Baoya loved talking about anything related to food. She clapped her hands and looked up at Zhao Zhilan, "Grandma, be our witness."
"Okay, add Sanya and Siya, and you guys can compete to see who eats the most."
Zhao Zhilan agreed readily. Although her family's conditions were poor before and even having enough food was a problem, they are rich now and have stored up a lot of food.
Moreover, she had a vague premonition that her family would become even richer in the future and would have plenty of food.
Therefore, we must not let the children suffer. This is the period of growth, and we must ensure that they are well fed.
Yunhua and Yunyue in the room heard it and responded in unison. The five generations of grandparents and grandchildren laughed together.
Baoya played with her brothers and sisters for a while and then felt a little sleepy. She rubbed her eyes, said goodbye to Yunhua and the others, and went back to the east wing to sleep with He Chunxiu.
As a result, as soon as I walked out of the east room, I saw He Chunxiu and Li Rongyue soaking beans in the main room. There was a large wooden basin full of soybeans.
Baoya walked over curiously: "Mom, Second Aunt, what are you doing?"
He Chunxiu looked up and saw that it was Baoya. She took her little hand and asked her to sit down next to her.
As she mixed the soybeans in a large wooden basin with her hands, she said, "Soak the soybeans and make tofu tomorrow morning."
"Making tofu?" Baoya's eyes lit up and she became interested. "How is tofu made?"
"Go back to sleep and check it out tomorrow morning," said He Chunxiu.
"I want to wait for mom to sleep together." Baoya said, and yawned.
He Chunxiu saw that she was so sleepy that she could hardly open her eyes, but she was still holding on, and said helplessly: "You go first, I will go to sleep after I finish."
"Third sister-in-law, you go ahead. There's nothing else to do. I'll take care of the rest." Li Rongyue said as she took over the job.
Seeing Baoya's little head nodding, He Chunxiu had no choice but to put down the beans in her hand, grabbed the rag next to her to wipe her hands, and picked up Baoya.
"Then I'll trouble you, sister-in-law. I'll send Baoya back first and come back later."
"No, no." Li Rongyue waved her hand and sent her away.
Baoya went to bed early and the child was full of energy, so he woke up early the next day.
He Chunxiu was sitting in front of a bronze mirror combing her hair. Baoya sat up in a daze, rubbing her eyes with her short hands.
"Mom, make tofu."
He's thinking about making tofu without even opening his eyes.
He Chunxiu smiled: "You sleep a little longer, it's not ready yet. If you want to see it, mother will call you later."
"Okay." After hearing He Chunxiu say that she would call her, Baoya didn't delay for a moment. She just fell back and went to sleep again.
He Chunxiu: ...
The tofu was so attractive that she even suspected that Baoya was talking in a dream.
To make tofu, you need to soak the soybeans first, then grind them on the stone mill in the yard, grind the soybeans into fine soybean paste, put them into a pot and boil them, add brine to the paste, and then press them into blocks with wooden boards. Then it is done.
The soybeans were soaked last night and will be just right for use later.
He Chunxiu didn't have to do the heavy work of grinding beans.
Dalang and Erlang got up early in the morning and went to the fields. Wang Cailian and Li Rongyue went to feed the chickens and sheep and take care of the animals, while the other went to make breakfast.
Yun Sanlang took the beans that He Chunxiu and Li Rongyue had soaked last night and took them to the stone mill in the yard to grind them.
Grinding beans is a laborious and time-consuming job. Yun Sanlang pushed the millstone while He Chunxiu poured water into the grinding hole to prevent the beans from being too dry and unable to form a pulp.
"Baoya is still asleep?" Yun Sanlang asked her.
He Chunxiu lifted her hair and said, "She woke up once and said she wanted to watch the tofu making. I let her go back to sleep and will wake her up when we've almost finished grinding the beans."
"Well, you'd better sleep a little longer. You're growing taller." Yun Sanlang said naively, and then continued to work.
There were a lot of beans, and it took the two of them an hour to grind them until they were almost done. Then He Chunxiu went into the house to call Baoya to get up.
When the little girl heard that they were going to start making tofu, she jumped up from the kang and immediately woke up.
"Mom, I'm awake! Let's go watch tofu being made!"
"Okay, okay, wash your face first, eat something, and I'll comb your hair for you."
Baoya nodded repeatedly, quickly put on her clothes, washed her face, and ran to the yard.
At this time, it was already dawn.
Yun Sanlang pushed the millstone around the millstone in circles, and Baoya tilted her little head and watched intently.
He Chunxiu had no choice but to stuff a piece of pancake left over from yesterday into her hand, then stood behind her and combed her hair.
"Mom, do I have to grind all the beans to make tofu?"
"Well, it needs to be crushed into a pulp before it can be used to make brine." He Chunxiu answered her question while combing her hair.
"It's all crushed, how can it be in a block?"
"You'll know when you see me. You have a lot of questions in your little head." He Chunxiu finished braiding her hair and patted her shoulder with a smile. "I'll ask your father to make you a bowl of sweet soybean milk later."
"Great," Baoya's eyes narrowed with smile when she heard there was soy milk to drink, "So soy milk is made from soybeans!"
"Yeah, what do you think, Baoya?"
"Hmm..." Baoya sucked her little finger, "I thought it was just the water from soaking soybeans."
"Hahaha." He Chunxiu laughed, and Yun Sanlang beside her also laughed.
Yun Sanlang ground the beans, scooped a handful of the pulp with a spoon, put it into the pot, added water and brought it to a boil. He Chunxiu then used a bowl to scoop it up, filtered out the residue, and the soy milk was ready.
She served Baoya a bowl, added a lot of sugar, then covered the remaining bowl of soy milk and waited for the whole family to get up and drink it later.
"Baoya, come here," He Chunxiu put the bowl on the small table in the main hall for her, "how about trying it?"
Baoya picked up the bowl, gulped down a big gulp, opened her little mouth and exclaimed, "Mom! The soy milk is so delicious!"
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