Chapter 130: The Hardship of the Journey
"Brother Li, let's find a place to talk." Li Laoer, who had just put the money in his pocket, looked up in confusion, "What to talk about? I'm sold out of braised meat and dried meat."
Li Laoer suddenly realized, "Do you want me to deliver it to you every day?"
Li Laoer was familiar with this matter. It just so happened that the brothel business had been sold. It would be great if he could find a regular buyer.
After hearing what the two people meant, Li Laoer took the man back home.
Qin Fangci tried to make tofu skin at home in the afternoon and achieved some success in just one afternoon.
Both Yuan and Du felt distressed when they saw this.
Before she knew it, Qin Fangci had wasted a bucket of tofu pudding. Not only that, the firewood in the stove kept burning, and she had lost another penny.
Qin Fangci looked at the little soy milk left and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "First family, second family, come here. I'll teach you how to make tofu."
Yuan thought she had misheard, "Mom, what are you going to teach me?"
"Didn't you say you wanted to learn to make tofu, but now you don't want to learn anymore?"
Yuan trotted over to Qin Fangci with her teeth bared, wagging her tail happily. "I want to learn, I want to learn. Mom, you are finally willing to teach me."
"...I'm a little reluctant. How about you give me a few hundred yuan in literary fees?"
The happy puppy's happiness came to an abrupt end. Yuan looked at Qin Fangci and stepped back hesitantly, "Mom, we have no money."
Qin Fangci directly deducted 500 coins from the money earned before, leaving Yuan with only a few pitiful copper coins.
The joy that night had nothing to do with the second wife.
"Look, the soy milk just out of the pot needs to be left for a while. Touch the edge of the bucket with your hand to see if the temperature drops to 80 degrees, which is the most suitable."
"Mom, what is eighty degrees?"
"I'm telling you guys, put your hands over here."
"Hiss, Mom, it's so hot."
"Are you still going to study?" Qin Fangci looked at Yuan.
Yuan glanced at her sister-in-law, who had been working silently, and said in a loud voice, "Learn!"
Qin Fangci: "...Lower your voice, it's deafening."
Yuan covered her mouth, and suddenly remembered that when she was worried about following the boss to deliver meat to the brothel, those girls covered their mouths, spoke softly and tenderly, and had shy and timid eyes.
Then... her mind suddenly went blank, and she tried to imitate Qin Fangci.
Qin Fangci, who was accidentally hit by a critical hit, shuddered.
I couldn't help it and gave Yuan a hammer on the head.
Yuan became obedient.
"There's really no secret recipe for making tofu. Practice makes perfect. It's all about mastery. If the temperature is too high, the tofu will become loose. If the temperature is too low, it will take longer to solidify. The tofu made at the temperature I told you is the best."
"For six ounces of soybeans, add a little over one ounce of lime water. Too much will make the tofu hard and bitter, and too little will make the tofu shapeless."
"You can't add the lime water all at once. Add it in three times. Stir it like I do. Too fast or too slow won't do. Apply force evenly in one direction. Don't stir it back and forth like you're frying a big pot, raising it with one shovelful and lowering it."
Yuan nodded obediently without refuting.
She likes to cook quickly, and the spatula always stirs the food quickly, so the dishes are often half-cooked.
My sister-in-law’s cooking is still better.
But that was also because she had some selfish motives and didn't want to work.
This was a business that could make money, so Yuan showed more patience, listened carefully, and worked seriously.
In the end, the tofu she made was actually better than Du's.
It was at this time that Li Laoer brought people back.
"Mom, mom, I'm back!" Li Laoer's voice was filled with overflowing joy. One could tell from his voice that his business was doing well and that good things might happen.
Yuan walked out happily, her voice filled with the same overflowing joy, "Boss, boss, mother taught me."
When the two groups met, Yuan suddenly saw the three strange men behind Li Laoer. Her smile froze and her voice trailed off, "Boss? Who are they?"
Could it be that the head of the family got into some trouble outside and someone followed him home?
No way, no way, she only has a few coins in her hand!
Yuan's panic was visible to the naked eye, but Li Laoer's joy did not diminish at all. Qin Fangci walked over with a calm expression and a peaceful face.
"Bai Liang, did you bring guests back?"
"Mom, this is my former classmate." Li Laoer put his hand over his mouth and reminded quietly, "The surname is Xu."
Qin Fangci understood, "So it's Baisong's former classmate. Are you here to look for Baisong?"
Xu Zhoutian nodded and said casually, "Auntie Li, I'm here to look for Li Bosong. Is he here? My brothers want to discuss some business with your family. They're away from home all year round."
I see.
"Second Brother, please take the guests to the courtyard and sit for a while." Qin Fangci looked at Xu Zhoutian again, "Bai Song is not at home today. It's very polite of you to come all the way to express your gratitude."
"Ah, he is not at home. Where did he go?" Xu Zhoutian looked around the yard, but there was no sign of Li Baisong.
Qin Fangci didn't intend to elaborate, "He went to the county town."
Xu Zhoutian thought to himself, "Is he going to study at the academy again? Yeah, he's a book lover."
Li Laoer moved a stool and found an empty seat in the corner for the three Xu brothers to sit down.
"The house is a little messy, please forgive me."
Li Laoer was also one of the people who visited Pan's house. He imitated Mr. Pan's behavior and greeted people while winking at Yuan.
Yuan: "...Boss, is your eye cramping? Let me take a look."
As he said that, he started to pull Li Laoer.
Li Lao Er angrily waved the man away and said, "Go away, go away. I told you to bring some water, but you have no sense at all."
The servants in Pan's house didn't even need to make eye contact. As soon as they entered, tea and snacks were served to them, and they were gentle and thoughtful.
Those days...tsk tsk.
Yuan was still unhappy, "You didn't tell me when you poured the water, and your eyes were twitching. Who would know what you meant?"
Li Laoer: "You fool, your brain is not very smart..."
"Cough." Qin Fangci coughed lightly, interrupting Li Laoer's more unpleasant words.
Xu Da and Xu Er knew what was going on as soon as they walked in. Li Lao Er was not lying. He was not the one who made the decisions in this family.
Xu Da got straight to the point. "Mrs. Li, how long can your dried meat be kept? We'd like to take some to the city. If we buy a lot, what's the price?"
"If you want to preserve it for a long time, you need to dry the meat even more thoroughly. If it's well-ventilated and dry, and doesn't get wet, two or three months shouldn't be a problem. I wonder how long it takes to get from here to the capital?"
"Guangyi County is remote. It takes four or five days to get to our provincial capital, Jinzhou Prefecture, even by fast horse. If we travel slowly with so much cargo, it would take more than ten days."
"How many hundreds of miles is it from here to Jinzhou Prefecture?" Qin Fangci was quite surprised.
She really didn't know how many miles a fast horse could run in a day.
"Without changing horses, we can travel a hundred miles a day." The hundred miles here is equivalent to forty or fifty kilometers in the previous life. By this calculation, there are more than two hundred kilometers from Guangyi County to the provincial capital, which is actually not a long distance.
It’s just that traveling was difficult in ancient times.
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