The soy milk in the cauldron is bubbling, and the aroma in the house spreads.

Sun Cai sat by the fire, burning the fire while getting up and skimming off the foam from time to time.

"Lady, you can eat it at this time, do you want to taste the pulp?" He grinned and turned his head to look at the woman beside him.

It's been half a day, and the woman is sitting steadily, watching his every move without the slightest impatience.

Making tofu looks easy, but it's not something you can learn by just looking at it, it's something you have to work with.

Sun Cai was a little proud and pretended to be casual.

The restaurant is not big, the aroma spreads to the front hall, and the two people who are sitting and eating can't help but stop chopsticks.

"And what do you do so well?" One sniffed and said.

The other took the sifted wine from the small stove and poured a bowl, drank it in a big gulp, and busily picked up the vegetables.

The cold dishes on the table have been withdrawn, and there are two plates of hot dishes, and today's meat dishes are just mutton, donkeys, chickens, and ducks, cattle are not allowed to be eaten, pork is not allowed to be on the table, and there are very few river shrimps, fish, and crabs in Beijing.

However, the meat dishes on the table at this time are not like the large pieces of meat stewed with cabbage and radish that are commonly used in ordinary restaurants, but neat slices of meat that are cooked and fried for some reason, and their taste is sweet and delicious, and the two of them can't help but put down their chopsticks one after another.

The fourth came over with a tray.

"Guest, the soup is here." He said.

Two guests looked over, saw a pottery deep plate on the table, under which there is a burning charcoal to support the ground, the deep dish is still gurgling and churning, a few thin noodles and a few handfuls of tender vegetables float on it from time to time, the aroma is overflowing.

"This is a soup cake?" The two couldn't help but ask.

"This is rice noodle soup." The fourth said with a smile, while personally taking the dishes and chopsticks for the two of them to scoop up.

Rice noodle?

It's a novelty!

However, sit down in this shop. Everything is new.

It is worthy of being a suburb of the capital. It's extraordinary. The two guests couldn't help but smile.

"Wait."

Watching Sun Cai scoop out the soybean milk in the pot and stir it with a wooden stick, while taking the water bowl on the side to drip into the basin, Cheng Jianniang, who had been silent, spoke.

Sun Cai was taken aback and almost threw the bowl into the basin.

"What are you putting here?" Cheng Jianniang asked.

Sun Cai smiled.

"Lady, this is the key to the formation of tofu, and the lady is smart." "But you can't even know the way." More and less is the important thing, more..."

"Show me it." Cheng Jianniang interrupted him and stretched out her hand.

Sun Cai had to reluctantly take it.

Cheng Jianniang took it and sniffed it, and handed it to Sun Cai.

"Sure enough, it's not." She said.

Sure enough, what is not? Sun Cai was puzzled.

"Let's do it." Cheng Jianniang said and didn't say anything more.

Scooped up the last rice noodles, there was only a little soup left in the deep plate, and after drinking the last bowl of wine, the two put down the dishes and chopsticks, and exhaled with satisfaction.

I don't know if it's the smell of wine, the steam of food, or the sweat of eating, the two people sitting opposite each other are red-faced.

"I didn't expect such a small shop. Eating is so subtle. One laughed.

"The capital is really rich and beautiful." The other laughed and beckoned to the banknotes. "I can't wait to go to Beijing to have a good look."

The old shopkeeper smiled.

"A total of money." He laughed.

Without the slightest hesitation, one of the guests took out the money and looked around as he got up.

"Shop, the food is clean and delicious, why is the business cold?" He asked, puzzled.

"The small shop is newly opened, and people don't know about it yet." The old shopkeeper smiled, while thinking of something, he took out a few of the usual money and stuffed it into the guest, "The two guest officers are people who travel, and they are tired of making a good job for us, and it is also good to attract some popularity, hard work." ”

The guest smiled, the business people pay attention to buying and selling, and they don't care about the little money returned by the old shopkeeper, or wave their hands generously, but reach out to take it.

"The store will do business, and there is no need to worry about good business." He laughed.

The fourth brother and the old shopkeeper personally sent the two out of the house, and another brother and the fifth brother had already brought the horse.

"Enough feeding." Lao Wu said.

Looking at the horses that were obviously shiny and tired, the two guests nodded more satisfied, stepped on the upper horse stone and got on the horse, and the two looked at the plaque again.

"Taipingju." One reads, nodding with a smile.

The two men urged the horses forward, and soon went away.

"Shopkeeper, why do you want to take less money from him?" The fourth asked puzzledly, and he didn't hide it, so he asked frankly.

The old shopkeeper didn't think it was annoyed, and he smiled.

"Four owners, how much do we charge for this table to make money?" He asked.

The fourth child didn't know what to do.

"Eight dollars is considered to be earnable." The old shopkeeper stretched out his hand and said, "Although I give him money, it is only his money to repay his money." ”

"But it's always good to make a few more?" The fourth child was still puzzled and asked.

The old shopkeeper shook his head.

"If you want to make more money, you have to be willing to make less money." He said, "Don't be greedy, but get more." ”

The fourth reached out and scratched his head.

"Anyway, the shopkeeper is in charge, I'd better practice how to serve wine and food first." He laughed.

"Half celery."

Cheng Jianniang shouted.

The maidservant outside the door of the house hurriedly answered the sound and came in with a paper bag.

In the house, Sun Cai had already pressed the heavy stone on the tofu.

"You can eat it tomorrow." He clapped his hands and said, looking at Cheng Jianniang with a little ease, "This is making tofu, it is not only manual skill but also manual work." ”

Cheng Jianniang nodded.

"You do it again." She said.

Sun Cai's hand holding on to the wooden frame slipped and he almost fell.

"Do it again?" He glared and asked, "Lady, these tofu can't be stored for a long time, and no one will eat them when they are made, after all, they are beans, and they are so ruined." ”

"If you don't waste it for a while, you will waste it forever." Cheng Jianniang said, while taking the paper bag handed by the maidservant, "You can do it yourself, I won't let you do it in vain." ”

Sun Cai pouted.

"Okay, if the lady likes it, it's fine." He said.

Although you can't sell yourself to be comfortable and stable, you can make a lot of money by playing with this lady, so let's take care of your current livelihood first.

Here, Sun Cai jingled and took the soaked beans and grinded, and occasionally glanced at it, and saw that the woman was not staring at herself like last time, but calling the maid to fetch water and pots, and did not know what to do.

Do whatever you want, Sun Cai was busy, and after a while, he burned the soy milk and poured it out, sniffed, rubbed his somewhat sore arm, took the wooden stick and began to stir, and when he picked up the water bowl again, he was stopped by Cheng Jianniang again.

"This time, put this." Cheng Jianniang said.

The maidservant brought a bowl of water.

"That's not going to work." Sun Cai shook his head and waved his hand and said, "Lady, this is not a play, there are rules for what to put in." ”

"Let it go." The maidservant said, "Where did you come from so verbose?" ”

Sun Cai hissed and breathed coldly, helplessly.

"That's okay, that's okay, I'll say it first, there's a step that doesn't follow me, but I can't make tofu." He said.

"Alright, don't think too highly of yourself." The maidservant snorted and handed him the bowl of water.

Sun Cai reluctantly took it, looked at the water bowl, which was completely different from his own, and couldn't help but sniff it, a strange and somewhat familiar smell.

What is it?

He couldn't help but think about it.

"Please." The maidservant urged.

Sun Cai came back to his senses, and continued to move, and after a while, another piece of tofu was pressed on the stone and placed.

It was nearly evening.

Cheng Jianniang didn't say anything else, said goodbye to Xu Maoxiu and others, and went back by car, and the Zhou house was already brightly lit when she entered the door.

"Lady, the water is boiled, I'll go get a change of clothes." The maidservant said, and as she walked through the door, she couldn't help but pause.

A few of the servant women sat under the porch, and when they saw them, they were busy smiling and giving salutes.

"The lady is back." They said.

The maidservant looked at them with a surprised face, and then looked into the house, and saw that several burdens were placed in the center, and the furnishings in the room were already different from when they had gone out.

"Who let you into the lady's house!" She shouted with an eyebrow raised, and hurried into the room.

Sure enough, the bedding and hangers have been put away, several cases have been removed, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone books are gone.

"What is this for? Who touched the lady's things? She shouted.

The servant woman was not in a hurry, not in a hurry, not salty, and smiled in a smile, and gave a salute to Cheng Jiaoniang again.

"Lady, this house is a little old, seeing that the spring rain is coming, I'm afraid of inconvenience, Mrs. let me repair it, so I invite the lady to live in the house first, and then move back when it is repaired." A woman said with a smile.

The maidservant was stunned and incredulous.

Is this, to drive them away? (To be continued......)