Chapter 239 Vegetable Cultivation Room
The weather is hot both morning and night, with no dew or moisture, so the bean curd sheets can be placed under the eaves to dry without getting damp.
It dried completely overnight.
After getting up early in the morning, the two of them took the bean curd sheets back into the house and prepared to make fried tofu and dried tofu with the five and a half pounds of tofu left over from yesterday.
Dried tofu also needs to be dried, but tofu contains more water than bean skin. If you want to dry it quickly, it is best to steam it in a pot for a while and then dry it in the sun.
Zhao Yeqing cut the tofu into square blocks one centimeter thick, placed them neatly in the steamer, and spread a little salt on each piece.
Steam it for ten minutes after the water boils, take it out, spread it on a winnowing basket and take it outside to dry.
I was thinking about making some five-spice dried tofu, but I don’t have enough spices at home, and there are still two or three spices that I haven’t found yet. Every time I say I want to go out to find spices, I always get tripped up by many things.
Just make the original flavor first, and when you have time, find the spices and make tofu again.
The dried tofu was taken out to dry, and the only thing left was the fried tofu.
This is one of Zhao Yeqing's favorite soy products. Cut the tofu into small cubes and fry them in a pan. Use an iron spoon to press them while frying. After a while, the tofu will turn into round and plump bean bubbles.
There is a delicacy in my hometown, which is to tear open the oil beans, stuff them with meat, and then cook or steam them.
In the past, this dish would always be available during the Chinese New Year. Later, when I went to school and lived in the school dormitory, I could finally go home. My grandmother knew that she loved it, so she would prepare it every time and wait for her to come back.
As she was thinking, her vision gradually became blurred and she didn't notice a drop of hot oil splashed out and landed on her hand.
A small red spot instantly appeared on the back of her hand. She subconsciously retracted her hand in pain, and the iron spoon in her hand fell into the pot.
Mu Xi walked in and saw it, and hurriedly grabbed her hand and put it under the water to rinse it. When he looked up, he saw that her eyes were red. Thinking that she was in pain, he hurried out to find ointment.
Zhao Yeqing stopped him and said, "It's okay. It will be fine in a while."
The oil spot was just a small one and it no longer looked red after rinsing with water for a while.
Mu Xi was still worried, and blew gently at the red spot, "Does it hurt?"
Zhao Yeqing guessed that he thought she was crying because of the pain, and couldn't help but explain with a smile, "It's nothing, I was just making fried tofu and thought of grandma."
Mu Xi rubbed her head and said, "I'll do it. You go eat the tofu pudding."
I woke up early in the morning and saw the bean curd sheets under the eaves and started making dried tofu. I forgot that I hadn't had breakfast yet. I opened the refrigerator immediately after hearing this.
The tofu pudding is icy and cool. It would be even better if it could be poured with honey, but now there is only homemade brown sugar.
Take a small pot to dissolve the brown sugar and pour it on the tofu pudding. Pour brown sugar in one bowl and mix white sugar in another bowl.
Brown sugar has a stronger flavor, while white sugar has a lighter flavor. They each have their own delicious taste.
"You can't just eat cold food." Mu Xi took out the fried bean curd and put it aside to drain the oil, and put a plate of tofu in to squeeze it, "You have to eat something hot, otherwise your stomach won't be able to take it."
Zhao Yeqing obediently ate only half a bowl of tofu pudding——
Two kinds of tofu pudding, half a bowl of each.
I cook breakfast after I finish eating. I don’t eat much in the morning, and I don’t eat anything too greasy, so I mainly eat light food.
I took out the tofu I had just made yesterday and cut it into small cubes. I also went to the chicken coop to get a few eggs, beat two of them, and put the rest in the refrigerator.
Mix the tofu and egg liquid together and steam them. Pick a carrot, cut it into small cubes, mix it with chopped green onions, stir-fry it until fragrant, and pour a thin starch on top.
The two of them were eating breakfast, and Zhao Yeqing talked about spices. "It was said before that star anise would have to wait until autumn. Now it is autumn according to the passage of time, but according to the month and temperature, it is still summer. I don't know if it will be there."
Mu Xi: "Then go find cinnamon and bay leaves first. Whichever you can find is the best."
After he had breakfast, he soaked and fried the beans and went out to look for spices.
Zhao Yeqing had nothing to do at home, and had to wait until the sun went down in the afternoon before he could go to the fields.
The temperature today has risen to 37 degrees, which is faster than last year.
Zhao Yeqing went to the backyard and picked the bright red strawberries. The strawberries had not been in good condition recently. They were still wilted despite watering them in the morning and evening.
The watermelons have started to bear fruit, and the largest one is already the size of a dragon fruit.
Zhao Yeqing was worried that something might happen to the strawberries, so he thought about moving them indoors. However, if he did, he would have to turn on a fill light, otherwise not only would there not be enough light, but it would not be much cooler either.
She sat in the rocking chair in the room, eating strawberries and thinking about how to deal with the high temperature.
As long as the strawberry seedlings are well maintained, they can be perennial. If the conditions are not met before, they will die. The worst that can happen is that you can start over from seedlings.
But now that he has found a supplementary light at home, Zhao Yeqing is unwilling to leave the strawberries he has worked so hard to cultivate to fend for themselves.
It is now 37 degrees Celsius, and it is estimated that it will reach over 40 degrees Celsius next month. The strawberries are almost in danger.
Not only strawberries, but also tomatoes, peppers and the like cannot withstand the high temperature.
But the PC boards we have are enough to build a greenhouse.
She scratched her head and pondered at home until Mu Xi found the spices.
"Tell me, how can we create a suitable environment for them to stay in?"
Mu Xi also sat aside and thought about it. When he went to the mountains, he felt that the forest was much cooler than the meadow where there was no shade and was exposed to direct sunlight. But he couldn't just plant things there, otherwise they would be eaten, and the planting area was also small.
Unless, like we did before in Meishan, we cut down the trees, dig out the roots, and expand the planting area.
This will increase the workload. The work that was previously done with electric saws now has to be done manually, which consumes more energy and time.
He murmured, "If only there were some trees to provide some shade, it wouldn't be so hot."
Shade?
Zhao Yeqing remembered that when he was in Meishan, he painted the plastic film black to reduce the light, but this was not a permanent solution. It could not block the high temperature of over 40 degrees.
Suddenly an idea flashed in her mind, and she remembered that when they were in Meishan, they expanded the cellar and lived in it.
If you can dig a basement underground to grow crops, and then install grow lights, it will be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Maybe you can even eat fresh vegetables in the winter!
Zhao Yeqing quickly told Mu Xi his idea. The more Mu Xi listened, the straighter he sat. After listening, he felt that it was very feasible.
"The biggest fear for a basement is collapse and water seepage. For water seepage, we have to choose a good location. Collapse is easy to solve. We can use the steel pipes we brought back last time and the red bricks and cement we made before as supports. There will definitely be no problem."
Zhao Yeqing's eyes sparkled, "That's right! As long as we turn on the grow lights inside, we can move strawberries, watermelons, tomatoes, peppers and green leafy vegetables in, and it will directly become a vegetable cultivation room!"
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