Chapter 7 Xiaolong Demolition Team and Tofu Project
Jiangyou was very satisfied with how easily he got the dragon crystal that originally cost 100-150 gold coins.
No matter how much Xiaolong eats, as long as she makes a point of eating three plates of each dish a day, she will just treat it as another person in the family... Of course, not all the dishes and ingredients can be sold out every day, so maybe this can be used to clear the store's inventory.
Although, given her and Xiaolong's lifespans, if they fed the dragon endlessly, the accumulated food money might exceed the value of a dragon crystal mine over time, this was still a matter of the future. Jiangyou didn't need to empty his savings and conjure up hundreds of gold coins now. Secondly, by that time, Leodo would probably have become his restaurant's most loyal customer.
With an ice dragon that can soar into the sky, into the earth, and into the sea, and who also carries out the mission of traveling the world to gain experience, no matter where Jiangyou wants to get some ingredients, he can probably ask him for a favor. Besides, the little dragon can produce dragon crystals by sleeping on the ground, which can also deter enemies and may even attract more wealthy dragon diners...
Such a fool... No, such a good-talking little dragon, naturally he should be treated as a distinguished guest of the store and treated well.
Jiangyou was in a particularly good mood. She prepared a table full of delicious food for Xiaolong: soy sauce chicken, braised pork, braised duck, fried shrimp, dace with fermented black beans and lettuce, shrimp rice rolls, shrimp dumplings, seafood porridge... Xiaolong's mouth was full of oil and he couldn't stop eating.
The black bean dace was made by Jiangyou after he bought dace from a fish stall a few days ago and recreated the taste based on his memory.
While this 'grass fish' differed slightly from the one from the other world, and its flavor was slightly different, it was still incredibly delicious. Jiangyou only prepared a glass jar of the sauce, sterilized it with a Purification Spell, and then froze it in the refrigerator. This kind of fine stuff wasn't something he'd casually share; it was only used when a distinguished guest visited.
After finishing a table full of dishes and a full pot of seafood porridge, Xiaolong burped contentedly, feeling very happy with the contract he had signed. He didn't even want to go back to his shop, so he patted his belly and said, "Where is that piece of land you mentioned? I'm just going over there to take a nap."
Xiaolong was eager to work, so Jiangyou naturally had no reason to refuse. She took the key and, smiling, led Xiaolong through the back door into the backyard, then around to the next door. "Look, this is the land. This house is already a dilapidated structure. I originally wanted to tear it down, but now it's a great opportunity to turn it into dragon crystal."
Leo walked around the house and nodded. "Well, the place is big enough... Since it's going to be demolished, I can help you renovate it."
Jiang You didn't understand why, but he nodded: "No problem!"
Leodo yawned and said, "Manager, you can go back now. I'll set up a barrier here. Just come back tomorrow and ask me to have dinner."
Takumi: “…?” Is he planning to sleep until tomorrow? He’s not even going to run his own shop anymore?
But after all, they were doing it to help her, so she had no complaints. Jiang You retreated obediently, and saw a silver-blue screen of light ignite and close around the wall, covering the land like a cubic cover.
Then, a giant silver-blue dragon suddenly appeared in front of the house. With a few kicks, it collapsed the crumbling structure, yet strangely, no sound or dust escaped beyond the barrier. Jiang You turned around and saw that the guests sitting in his courtyard were still happily eating and drinking, completely oblivious to the commotion.
Xiaolong quickly and silently finished the demolition of the dilapidated house, then carved a hollow in the pile of bricks and rubble. He opened his dragon mouth and exhaled a breath of ice, creating an ice bed for himself.
The dragon nestled comfortably on the ice bed, coiled like a small hill. He rested his head on his curved tail and yawned comfortably. As he exhaled more and more dragon breath, the barrier gradually turned into an opaque frosted texture.
It seemed Xiaolong didn't intend to be watched sleeping. Jiangyou withdrew her gaze and walked back to the workshop. She still had a lot of work to do: first, make a batch of malt sugar, then boil the new green plums into plum sauce, and also need to restock the soy sauce and fermented black beans... and soak some soybeans for soy milk and tofu.
To make tofu, you need brine or gypsum. The "brine" here isn't the kind Jiangyou normally uses to marinate meat, but rather "salt brine," primarily composed of seawater precipitates like magnesium chloride. Gypsum, on the other hand, is divided into raw gypsum and pared gypsum. Raw gypsum is calcium sulfate dihydrate, while pared gypsum is calcium sulfate hemihydrate formed by heating raw gypsum to 100-200 degrees Celsius and then dehydrating it.
Gypsum is generally used to make tofu. The sulfate in the gypsum will undergo a replacement reaction with the magnesium ions in the soy milk to form magnesium sulfate, which is difficult to dissolve in water. The protein in the soy milk will gradually condense into clumps under the action of this reaction, thus forming solid tofu.
What solidifies at first is soft and tender tofu pudding. Then you just need to wrap the tofu pudding in gauze and press it on a stone slab to dehydrate it, and it will form tofu with a soft and tough texture. The longer the dehydration time, the drier and harder the tofu will be. Eventually, you can make dried tofu, and after frying and other processes, you can make a variety of tofu products.
To make tofu that is harmless to the human body, the brine and gypsum used to make the tofu must be as pure as possible. If they contain other metal impurities, the tofu produced will naturally contain heavy metal impurities.
If it's simply magnesium chloride or calcium sulfate hemihydrate, as long as the dosage is appropriate, they will be consumed through normal reactions and can also replenish the calcium and magnesium needed by the body. Therefore, as long as the production materials are of high quality and the production process is reliable and compliant, eating too much tofu will not cause health problems for normal people and is actually a healthy food.
Takuyu herself loved these soy products, and naturally wanted to recreate this traditional delicacy in this other world. However, obtaining the right ingredients was a challenge. Fortunately, alchemists existed in this world. After repeated correspondence with refrigerator vendor Mel Ho Cielo, the alchemist, he indeed obtained pure calcium sulfate hemihydrate according to Takuyu's description and delivered it to her via raven.
The package sent by Raven contained a small bag of white powder and an instruction manual. In the instruction manual, Mel introduced in detail the chemical composition and various reaction performances of this substance. Considering Takumi's excellent chemistry grades in high school, she was very sure that this thing was the plaster of Paris she was looking for.
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