"Young master, you're up early! Did you enjoy yesterday's vegetarian meal?"
"Get up early to do morning prayers, cultivate your speech, body, and mind, and purify your physical, verbal, and mental karma."
Little Stone sniffed, and then he understood when he looked at the stone mill in her yard:
"Are you making tofu? There's a hunter named Liu in Shuangcha Ridge who's very good at eating tofu, but he's never cooked winter melon and tofu together like you have. It tastes delicious."
Xu Milu vaguely felt that the place name sounded familiar, but she didn't think much of it. She poured the ground soy milk into a large pot to cook. Soon, the soy milk in the pot was covered with fine, dense bubbles, steaming hot.
"Did someone bring you breakfast this morning? I still have a few sesame cakes and some freshly boiled hot soy milk here. Have a bowl of hot soy milk before you go back. The people at Huasheng Temple are really something, how could they leave you here all alone?"
Xu Milu grabbed two large bowls, sprinkled them with Flame Glazed Leaf Sugar Powder, poured in boiling hot soy milk, placed the sesame cakes on the stone table in the courtyard, and saw that Little Stone was already sitting in the courtyard.
"You're so young, but you're quite agile. Here, this is for you. Drink it all before you get more, but be careful, it's hot."
When Xu Milu looked at Xiao Shitou, it was as if she were seeing Xu Minian when she was a child, and she couldn't help but adopt a tone of coaxing a child.
“My master spends his days chanting sutras and copying books at Hongfu Temple. He only comes to Huasheng Temple once a year during the Ghost Festival. I couldn’t stand the rules at Huasheng Temple, so I stayed here.”
Little Stone didn't hesitate at all. He picked up the bowl, which was bigger than his face, and gulped it down, seemingly oblivious to the scalding temperature. After finishing, he smacked his lips with a look of astonishment.
"The soybeans you used to grind soybeans for soy milk..."
Xu Milu took a sip. The piping hot soy milk had a rich soy flavor, and upon closer tasting, she could also taste the subtle sweetness from the flame-shaped glass leaf sugar powder. She broke open a sesame flatbread, soaked it in the soy milk, and then took a big, delicious bite, feeling her mouth filled with fragrance.
"What's wrong? Doesn't it taste good?"
She was a little puzzled.
Little Stone shook his head, then filled the bowl he was holding with another spoon:
“I’ll buy some with you and take them back for my master to drink.”
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