Bean sprouts, a very common home-cooked dish in later generations, can be eaten in five or six days as long as the temperature is right.

After arriving at the kitchen, Chen Xu asked the kitchen workers to buy in advance and soak the soybeans and beans in warm water for a day (note, the beans are mung beans, collectively referred to as soybean in the Qin and Han dynasties) to drain and set aside, and the prepared two large vats were also washed and cleaned, and a few stone bricks were placed at the bottom of the tank, and then a bamboo dustpan made of bamboo was placed on the stone bricks, and a burlap was spread on the dustpan, and then the drained soybeans and mung beans were poured on the bamboo dustpan and spread evenly, and covered with a wet linen cloth, and a wooden board was pressed on the surface. Finally, put the lid on the clay pot and let people move it to the stove near the kang and put it away.

Raw bean sprouts are very simple, Chen Xu saw his mother do it countless times when he was a child, but there are a few tricks in it, one is to use a light-tight container, so that the bean sprouts that grow are white, and the leaves will not turn green.

The second is to ensure water permeability, bean sprouts should be watered two to three times a day, but the beans can not be soaked in water, otherwise the bean sprouts are easy to rot after they grow, so they can not be placed directly at the bottom of the tank, if they are placed at the bottom of the tank, the bottom of the tank must leak.

The third is to ensure the temperature of the growth of bean sprouts, it is winter now, but fortunately, now the family is big, there are hundreds of people in Qinghe Houfu, and the warm kang is burning all day and night, although a lot of firewood and grass are consumed, but Chen Xu has a lot of money to spend, and he can naturally afford it, even the servant's room has a stove and a warm kang, which is enough to ensure the growth temperature of the bean sprouts.

Finally, the bean sprouts should be pressed with a heavier thing, so that the bean sprouts will be more neat and straight, of course, you can not press, and the last long bean sprouts are curved, and it tastes fine, but it is not good-looking.

"These beans are watered once a day, morning and evening, and they need to be watered thoroughly! But don't water too much and don't let the water soak into the beans. After everything was done, Chen Xu told the kitchen helper.

"Hou Ye, don't worry!" Several helpers nodded their heads.

"Have you seen clearly?" Chen Xu asked a few kitchen workers.

"See clearly, Master Hou!" A group of cooks also nodded quickly.

"That's good, just do more according to this method, there are not too many fresh vegetables in the cold winter, eating more bean sprouts is good for the body, and after the bean sprouts grow, you can stir-fry and salad, no matter the guards and servants in the house must eat every two or three days!"

"Yes, Master Hou!"

"By the way, how was the tofu I made the other day?" Chen Xu turned around and asked as he walked to the room next to the kitchen.

"Master Hou, that tofu has been spoiled, and a layer of mucus and white hair has grown on the surface, and the smell is ......," a kitchen worker followed behind him and stopped.

"It smells bad, doesn't it?" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Yes, it smells very bad, the house smells like going to a latrine!"

"Haha, that's right, that's what I want!" Chen Xu laughed happily.

To make tofu milk, how to do it if it doesn't stink, the more stinky it is, the better the mold grows, and the more fragrant the bean curd will be!

Tofu is steamed bread, and there is a bowl of millet porridge, and a plate of sour, spicy and refreshing dried radish is added, and breakfast will be very convenient in the future.

Of course, you can also fry fried fritters with sweet soy milk, which is also a good choice for breakfast.

Sure enough, the room is not very ventilated, although it is the cold winter season, but because there are too many rice, flour, oil and grain and various dishes stacked inside, the temperature in the room is more than ten degrees higher than the outside, and when you open the door, a hot smell mixed with these various flavors comes to your face, and there is a particularly strong smell, and the smoked Chen Xu almost hit the door frame with a pestle.

Chen Xu covered his nose and retreated to the door and waited for a while, waiting for the smell in the room to weaken a little before walking in.

There were a few bamboo dustpans placed on a wooden shelf, and when he uncovered the linen cloth covering it, he saw that the tofu pieces cut into small pieces and neatly placed on the corn grass inside had grown thick white mold, exuding an extremely strong smell, but Chen Xu didn't think that this taste was very similar to the latrine, because these were completely two different tastes, this thing could be eaten,...... Can't eat!

There are two ways to eat this edamame tofu, one is made into tofu milk, and the other is made into fried stinky tofu.

Stinky tofu Chen Xu has not done it, but it does not prevent him from making it, because this thing is available in the north and south of China in later generations, and it is a home-cooked snack that almost every household in the countryside has to do, and even in many places it has been made into a special snack, and some scenic tourist areas have a strong smell of fried stinky tofu wafting everywhere.

Now that edamame tofu has been successful, the next step is naturally to make both and try it.

Instructed a few helpers to bring all the stinky tofu to the kitchen, and all the helpers and maids covered their noses, their faces full of surprise but did not dare to ask.

"Did you buy the crockpot I wanted?" Chen Xu checked all the edamame tofu side by side, picked out some of the tofu that had grown black mold and threw them away.

"Master Hou, I've already bought it back, just clean it." A helper hurried to fetch a few crockpots.

"Is the ingredient I want ready?" Chen Xu asked a kitchen worker next to him.

"Back to Master Hou, it's done!" A cook hurriedly took out a small jar, which contained half a jar of powder, exuding the pungent smell of pepper mustard and other spices.

These powders are filled with cumin, dried ginger, peppercorns, mustard and a small amount of perilla leaves, ground into powder, which is used to make tofu...... The corners of Chen Xu's very melancholy mouth twitched a few times.

It seems that I have to speed up my pace, otherwise I won't see the shadow of the pepper on the day I hang.

Now that everything is ready, the next thing is relatively fast, dip the edamame tofu in some salt, gently roll it in the ground spices and evenly dip it with a layer of spice powder, then place it in a small crockpot, fill a jar and pour in some Qinghe wine, and then seal it.

After getting a few cans, there were still some Chen Xu who planned to make a dish of fried stinky tofu.

Pour some Qinghe tea oil into the iron pot, burn it until it is hot, and then throw a few pieces of edamame tofu into the oil pot, accompanied by a fluttering sound, suddenly an extremely strong smell permeated the entire kitchen, all the kitchen helpers and the servants and maids who looked strange all covered their noses and fled from the room, Yu Wuya held his breath and persisted for three minutes before running away from the door.

"Engong, I won't eat this if I am killed?" Yu Wuya stood far away at the window, covering his nose and shouting.

Chen Xuniao didn't bother to bird him, and continued to fry his stinky tofu.

"What are you doing, how can it stink so much?" The steward of the Hou Mansion, Huangfu, came in a hurry.

"Master Hou is frying stinky tofu!" A servant whispered.

"But how does it smell like fried! What are you frying for? Huangfu hurriedly lowered his voice and asked.

"Eat~" The servant's answer was concise and to the point.

"Grope~" Huangfu covered his mouth and turned around.

"Steward Huangfu, you come in, I'll eat a delicious dish with you!" Chen Xu saw the emperor who was about to leave in the kitchen, and hurriedly beckoned.

"Master Hou, I'm ...... I suddenly had unbearable abdominal pain and wanted to go to the toilet! Huang Fuque suddenly covered his stomach and said with a twisted face.

"You have to ask me to come out and invite you!" Chen Xu said viciously.

"The subordinates don't dare!" The emperor covered his nose and moved into the kitchen step by step, and the smell in the kitchen became stronger, almost fainting him.

"Here, try a piece of fried stinky tofu I made!" Chen Xu enthusiastically scooped up a few pieces of fried stinky tofu and put them on the plate, dipped them in some sauce, and handed them to Huangfu Missing a pair of chopsticks.

"Master Hou, you ...... Do you have an opinion about me, if you think I did not do well, dismiss me ......" Huangfu took the chopsticks with a shudder, looking at a few pieces of fried golden but mixed with a foul smell of dried tofu, and felt that his soul was about to be smoked out of his body.

"No comment, you're doing a good job, I'm satisfied, but if you can have the courage to eat a piece, you'll definitely find that a whole new world opens up to you, and it's not a contradiction to be good or bad, this thing smells bad, but it may taste good......"

"Master Hou......" Huangfu almost cried, and he hesitated for a long time holding chopsticks but still didn't have the courage to pick them up.

"You know why you have never succeeded, you are still unknown in Xianyang in your thirties, it is because you don't have the courage to accept new things, if you continue like this, even if you are old to death, you can only be a steward in the Hou Mansion at most, and you will not become a world-famous writer!"

After Chen Xu finished speaking, he picked up a piece of stinky tofu and put it in his mouth, and after taking a bite, it was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the strong flavor spread out in his mouth, and the entanglement of thousands of taste buds instantly turned into a strong strange fragrance.

"Delicious~~" Chen Xu couldn't help but let out a heartfelt admiration with his half-closed eyes.

"Click~"

Huang Fuqi was a little distracted by Chen Xu's words, and after he came to his senses, he gritted his teeth and picked up a piece of stinky tofu and stuffed it into his mouth, and the expression on his face was full of dramatic changes in an instant, from twisting to stretching, from bitterness to shock, and after chewing with a click, he swallowed the tofu into his stomach with a clatter.

"How?" Chen Xu asked with a smile.

"Delicious, it can be called a peerless delicacy, crispy and delicious, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, full of fragrance, and you can't feel the slightest smell after entering the mouth!" Huang Fuqi praised repeatedly, and the chopsticks in his hand had already caught the second piece.

A few pieces of dried tofu Chen Xu and Huang Fuqi stood in the kitchen, and they ate it quickly, and Yu Wuya, who was standing outside the window, followed by Yingbu, Sun Shujiong and a group of kitchen workers and servants all looked at each other.

"It's so delicious, Hou Ye fried a few more pieces!" The emperor's lack of satisfaction is still unfinished.

Although he took refuge as a doorman, Huangfu was a cultured and idealistic intellectual, although he was not well-known in Xianyang and was still a down-and-out family, but generally speaking, the style of the literati still existed, so in addition to being more respectful when talking to Chen Xu, most of the time he was very casual, and after getting along for a period of time, everyone in the Hou Mansion knew that Chen Xu, the Hou Ye, was different, and he cared about everyone very much, and he never put the Hou Ye on the shelf, and he never beat and scolded people. Therefore, Chen Xu is also deeply respected and loved by everyone.

Chen Xu naturally obeyed Huangfu's suggestion, picked up a few pieces of edamame tofu and put them in the pot again, Huangfuque couldn't wait to squat behind the stove and add firewood and grass to become a cook.

"Isn't it really delicious?" As a senior foodie, Yu Wuya smelled the strong stench wafting in the air, and after enduring it again and again, he decided to give up the idea of not eating it at the beginning, and went in to taste this kind of food that smelled no different from.

"Hehe, Engong, I'll taste a piece too!" Yu Wuya smiled dryly, picked up a pair of chopsticks and guarded the side of the pot.

"The cathode gives birth to yang, the anode gives birth to yin, yin is the beginning of yang, yang is the end of yin, yin and yang hug each other and are called Taiji, this stinky tofu is the same, there is fragrance in the smell, there is a smell in the fragrance, and he is not stinky to the extreme......"

Chen Xu grinned nonsense, and quickly scooped up the fried stinky tofu and put it on the plate. Huangfu Que, who couldn't wait for a long time, directly sandwiched a piece of hot stinky tofu, dipped some sauce indiscriminately, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Yu Wuya hesitated slightly, then he also put a piece in his mouth, and when he took a bite, the expression on his face was almost exactly the same as that of the emperor just now, and he was instantly conquered by this delicious taste that smelled stinky and tasted good.

"Delicious, very delicious!"

"Yes, only Master Hou in the world can make such a peculiar food!"

"The fragrance stinks, the smell smells, and Wuya's comprehension of Tai Chi has improved a lot!"

Chen Xu: ......