Chapter 044 Making Tofu



She pushed Cha Jiuzhang away, grasped the handle and started pushing, feeling the millstone start to spin under her strength.

It's quite fun.

Seeing that Jiang Tiantian was having fun, Cha Jiuzhang did not disturb her and turned to ask Sixth Grandpa, "Have you picked up the brine?"

Sixth Grandpa smiled and said, "You guys help here, I'll go pick it out."

Cha Jiuzhang stopped Sixth Grandpa and said, "I'll go."

When he put the carrying pole on his shoulders and picked up two empty wooden barrels, Jiang Tiantian asked again.

"What are you doing?"

Cha Jiuzhang turned around helplessly and said, "I'll go get some water from the well."

"Why are you fetching water from the well? Isn't the well right in the yard?"

"No, I'm going to get some well water for tofu."

"Tofu is made with brine. One thing can overcome another. Isn't gypsum used to make tofu?" She still has this common sense.

"No, we use well water to make tofu in our village."

"So magical? I want to go."

Jiang Tiantian let go of the handle and ran over to ask Cha Jiuzhang to teach her how to use the pole. After getting the hang of it, she ruthlessly pushed him away and said, "Go grind the beans."

"Sixth Grandpa, let's go fetch some water."

Cha Jiuzhang reached out his hand but failed to hold her back.

He could see that this woman was much more enthusiastic about all the new things in the village than she was about him.

Why does my mouth taste sour?

He wouldn't be jealous of even this...

Damn it!

I went back feeling tired and continued grinding the beans.

Grandma Liu laughed at the side and said, "Jiu Zhang, your daughter-in-law is so likable. She has a very lively personality."

"She has never seen these before. Everything she sees is new to her."

"That's rare. She's a girl from the provincial capital, and she married into the countryside, but she didn't seem to be uncomfortable or disgusted at all."

"I've seen what city girls are like."

"Your wife is great. She's not arrogant, and she's not petty. Yesterday when we went to town, she told us a lot of jokes along the way, and it made everyone laugh."

"I'm telling you, don't bully her just because she married here alone. You have to be nice to her. Otherwise, I, Sixth Grandma, will be the first to disagree."

Cha Jiuzhang was aggrieved, "Sixth Grandma, look at her temper, can I bully her?"

Who once said that he was the treasure in everyone's palm?

This woman has only been here for a few days, and already everyone is starting to turn their palms outward?

Love changes so fast, like a tornado...

In a corner of the village, there is an old well, and the surrounding stone platforms bear clear marks of time and weathering.

Grandpa Liu said: "This well is in our village and has a history of more than 100 years. It is strange that the water from other wells is very clear, but the water from this well is a little turbid."

"Later, the ancestors of the tea industry discovered that the water here naturally contained brine, which was used instead of gypsum to make tofu. The tofu made from it had no gypsum taste, and was fragrant, tender, fine-textured, fragrant with bean flavor, and chewy. Villagers all loved to eat tofu made with it.

Since then, a saying has been passed down in Chajia Village: A sip of ancient well water and the lingering fragrance of tofu.

"Xiao Qi, can you find out what the reason is?"

"System testing shows that this well water is a little different from ordinary underground well water. First, it is acidic water. Second, it has a higher mineralization degree, especially calcium ions. Using this water to make tofu has a similar function to gypsum."

Jiang, the little angel who loves learning, Tiantian, has learned a new piece of knowledge.

Under the guidance of her Sixth Grandpa, she used the wooden bucket by the well to fetch two buckets of water and filled the wooden bucket she brought.

Making tofu requires many steps, including washing, grinding, boiling, filtering, dotting, shaping, and cutting.

When Jiang Tiantian came back with the water, Cha Jiuzhang and the others had already ground the soybeans and started cooking soy milk.

"Tiantian, Jiuzhang said you haven't had breakfast yet, so it's a good time to have a bowl of soy milk to warm your stomach."

Grandma Liu took out four bowls of soy milk with a gourd ladle and said, "Tiantian, do you want salty or sweet soy milk?"

"Thank you, Grandma Liu. I'll drink the sweet one."

"Where's Jiuzhang?"

“I drink sweet ones too.”

Sixth Grandma didn't feel sorry at all and scooped two large spoonfuls of sugar into each person's bowl.

Sixth Grandpa automatically ignored it, thinking he was just an old cabbage stalk. Who cares what he does? He can just get what he wants to drink himself.

Sixth Grandpa didn't care and smiled as he scooped half a spoonful of sugar for himself and sprinkled it in.

Jiang Tiantian went forward and hugged Sixth Grandma and acted coquettishly, "Sixth Grandma is so nice to me. She knows I like sweet things. I will bake small cakes for Sixth Grandma in the future."

"Haha, okay, then Sixth Grandma will be waiting."

Grandpa Liu was holding the bowl, blowing on it and drinking from it, and he couldn't help but sigh,

"You don't know, Tiantian is very strong. I asked her to carry the water on the way back, but she refused. She walked across half the village and brought back two full buckets of water easily."

"If this is let go, he is definitely a good hand in the fields."

When Sixth Grandma heard this, she was unhappy.

"Puh~"

"You think everyone is like you, treating women like men. Jiuzhang married Tiantian to love her, but look at her delicate skin and tender flesh, she is a piece of shit."

"Hey, you old woman, I just said that, why are you so angry again? Wasn't it the year when you gave birth to your first child, and before you were out of confinement, I asked you to go to the fields to help two days in advance?"

"How come you still remember it today? Wasn't it a special situation at that time? It was a busy farming season and we were short of manpower."

"Look at the last two times. I served you very well each time, from the bed to the outside of the bed. I didn't even let you touch the ground. I almost called you my ancestor..."

“…”

Very good, this time, Sixth Grandpa successfully ignited Sixth Grandma’s temper.

The two of them forgot that there were two spectators around them and started to revisit the past with complete abandon.

Jiang Tiantian seemed to have discovered something very magical: the villagers were all born joke tellers, and they had a lot of jokes to tell, one after another, and they were all very funny. . .

She asked Xiao Qi: "Can I hold a few talk show competitions or debate competitions in the village? Will anyone watch such videos?"

She had this idea in her mind yesterday while in the car, and thought it would be interesting to invite a few villagers to tell stories.

Especially for some elderly people, their minds are filled with legends, folk anecdotes, rural anecdotes, romantic stories...

That's really a lot.

Xiao Qi: "Everything is possible, you can try."

“Ahem~”

“Is it time to order tofu?”

Cha Jiuzhang couldn't help it and interrupted the two childish children, whose combined age was over a hundred years old.

The main thing is that it got a bit off topic towards the end, the subject is too explicit, and there’s a kid who’s just come of age here, don’t let him be a bad influence.

Sixth Grandma came to her senses immediately and swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.

She smoothed her hair on her forehead in a dignified manner and said, "Ah, look at me, I almost missed something important."

"Jiuzhang, bring the bucket over here, let's start ordering tofu."

She turned around and glared at Sixth Grandpa fiercely, "I want to scold someone today, so I won't scold you. Go wherever you want..."

The Sixth Grandpa's stubborn neck stiffened, "I think it's quite cool here."

"Puchi~"

Jiang Tiantian put down the bowl and curled up into a ball, holding her stomach and laughing.

It's funny, but I'm really envious.

Despite the quarrels, the concentration of happiness is very high.

This time, Sixth Grandpa finally felt a little embarrassed. He touched his nose and said unnaturally, "I...I'll go and bring the stone in."


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