When Li Yan returned home, Li Xiaomei was checking the swollen beans.
Li Yan came forward curiously: "How is my aunt?"
Li Xiaomei scooped up the soaked beans and said to Li Yan, "Alright, help me pull the donkey to the millstone and start grinding the beans!"
Upon hearing this, Li Yan immediately stood up, went to the backyard to bring the donkey, and blindfolded the donkey with cloth.
Everything is ready, and Li Xiaomei pours the soaked beans into the stone mill.
The donkey pulls the millstone, slowly grinding the beans into a thick soy milk. They work in perfect harmony, adding just the right amount of water to keep the millstone running smoothly.
As the donkey pulled, the stone mill began to turn, making a creaking sound. With the donkey's power, the beans were gradually ground into powder, releasing the rich aroma of soy milk.
When the beans were completely ground into fine soy milk, Li Xiaomei picked up a clean tofu bag and poured the soy milk into it. She squeezed it slightly to separate the dregs from the soy milk. The dregs were filtered out, and Li Xiaomei went to the kitchen with the soy milk.
Li Xiaomei poured the soy milk into the pot neatly, while Lin helped light the fire. She poured the soy milk into the pot, stirring it constantly and skimming off the foam. The boiled soy milk was very fragrant. Li Xiaomei kept stirring and said to Li Yan, "Pour some boiled soy milk and send it to your grandmother to try!"
Li Yan then took a small basin, filled it with soy milk, added some sugar and took it to the next room.
When Li Yan came over with the bowl, Mrs. Wu and her aunt were busy drying the meat.
A few days ago, Mr. Li asked someone to slaughter the fat pig that he had raised for half a year. His two sons each got half. Today, the weather was good, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took out the pork that had been pickled for several days and dried it in the sun!
Maomao, who was playing in the yard, saw his second sister coming over with a small basin. He rushed to Li Yan like a little firecracker, tilted his head, and asked curiously, "Second sister, second sister, what did you bring?"
Li Yan: "Maomao, have you ever tried soy milk? It's sweet and delicious!" After saying that, she took the little guy to the main room.
Li Yan placed the small basin on the table, told Maomao not to move it, and then went to the kitchen to get some small bowls.
At this time, Mrs. Wu also finished her work and came to the main hall. Looking at the soy milk brought by her granddaughter, she asked curiously, "Where did this soy milk come from?"
Li Yan served a bowl to each person and told Wu about her aunt making tofu.
When Mrs. Wu thought of her daughter's past experiences, the soy milk in her hand suddenly became dull.
Li Yan saw that Grandma Wu was clearly depressed and quickly comforted her, "Grandma, you should be happy for my aunt. Now that she finally has something she wants to do, who knows, this tofu business might even grow bigger in the future! I have great confidence in her!"
Mrs. Wu was amused by her granddaughter's words: "Okay, when I'm done, I'll come to see you later."
When Li Yan came back, Li Xiaomei was making tofu. The soy milk poured with gypsum water was slowly starting to solidify.
Li Yan looked at her aunt's skillful work with curiosity.
Li Xiaomei carefully poured the solidified tofu into a mold specially made for making tofu, wrapped it with a tofu bag, and finally pressed a large stone on it to start draining the moisture out of the tofu!
After a whole morning of hard work, they finally finished making the tofu. Li Xiaomei pointed to a large basin of tofu dregs and said to Li Yan, "There's still quite a bit of tofu dregs left. They're great for feeding the pigs down the mountain!"
Li Yan had the same idea. Now the more than ten piglets are getting bigger and bigger, and their appetites are getting bigger and bigger. This tofu dregs is really a rare feed for the piglets!
The three of them were busy for the whole morning, and then Lin simply made some rolled noodles, and the three of them had lunch with it.
After lunch, the three of them rested for a while. At this time, Wu came over and asked, "Is the tofu ready? Let me see it!"
Li Xiaomei stood up and removed the stone covering the tofu, then carefully opened the tofu package. The tender and white tofu was ready!
Wu asked her daughter curiously, "How many pounds of tofu are there?"
Li Xiaomei: "I estimate it's about 30 kilograms!"
Li Yan hurriedly said, "We need to be more precise. I'll go get the scale to weigh it!" After that, she hurried back to get the scale.
After Li Yan brought the scale, she cut the tofu into pieces and put it on the scale bar. It weighed a full 32 kilograms.
Li Xiaomei smiled and said to the others, "We used almost ten pounds of beans here. One pound of beans can make about three pounds of tofu! I haven't made it in a while, so today is my first time trying it. Mom will take some back to try and give me some advice!"
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