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Whether it is a person or a thing, when it comes to an extreme, it will develop in the opposite direction, and many religions more directly explain the principle that opposite things have convergence, and there are such examples for food.

Yang Huairen hid on the second floor of Suiyuan, observing everything that happened in front of Suiyuan downstairs through the crack in the window.

Those who made discordant remarks, instead of jumping out, hid in the crowd, shouting with their hands over their mouths.

Yang Huairen smiled, and said in his heart that Wei Cai, this old man is too vicious, but the trick of fanning the flames first and then watching the fire from the other side is not very clever in Yang Huairen's eyes, and it is even a little LOW.

Spend money to invite a few small ruffians to make trouble, at least get a few decent ones, just a few crooked melons and cracked dates, it's really not enough to see.

Yang Huairen glanced at Yang Lotian behind him, and Yang Lotian nodded and ran downstairs and took out the stinky tofu that had been cooked a long time ago.

Dried tofu with hair, in fact, you can eat it directly after washing, but the taste and smell are still so bad, yesterday when the fermented stinky dried tofu secretly brought back to Suiyuan, Yang Huairen specially ordered to ask for some pickled pickles from the Zhuangzi Zhuang's house.

After slow-cooking and processing with these brine and fermented dried stinky tofu again, the taste of stinky tofu reaches that extreme effect.

When the crowd gradually lost control and was about to rush into the gate of Suiyuan, Yang Lotian only needed to open the mouth of the large jar containing the boiled stinky dried tofu and move it out.

At first glance, when I smell this kind of smell, I can't stand it, and it feels like an old footcloth blocked on my nose, and the smell makes people dizzy.

The crowd that had been crowded in the garden was defeated by this sudden stench, and their faces showed a look of horror, their eyelids and teeth trembled at the same time.

The crowd at the gate of the garden quickly fled in waves, and at the same time left a large open space for Yang Lotian and others to move the stinky tofu out, and at the same time, a copper-skinned stove was also set up by the Caishui River at the gate of the garden.

Yang Lotian commanded the men to bring out a large cauldron and set it up on the big copper stove that made a fire, and poured vegetable oil into the pot, and a large square table was installed next to the stove, on which there was a large dustpan, and next to the dustpan there were many sharpened bamboo skewers and a large porcelain pot.

The vegetable oil in the pot quickly rolled up under the fierce fire, and a bunch of oil smoke rose on the pot.

Yang Lotian began to put stinky tofu dried in the oil pot, and a pot can almost fry thirty or forty pieces at a time, but when the first piece of stinky tofu came out of the pot, the sky-high smell was strong enough to smoke people half to death.

Originally, someone in the crowd recognized that the big jar contained stinky tofu, and pinched their noses and was about to scold loudly, but before they could open their mouths, a terrible stench poured into their mouths, and the swear words that had reached their throats and eyes were pressed back into their stomachs.

Stinky tofu is actually not a fresh food for the Song people, and since the Han Dynasty had tofu, it didn't take long for stinky tofu to have this kind of food.

Like many fermented foods, stinky tofu is not deliberately made to be eaten as food, but because it is not stored properly, causing the food to spoil.

Chinese's understanding of fermented food is not simply that the food is spoiled and can no longer be eaten, as early as 3,600 years ago, fermented food entered the Chinese's recipes, which is at least 2,000 years earlier than Westerners.

In order to preserve these precious foods, most of the original fermented foods were protein-rich meats, and people preserved the food by curing, fermenting and air-drying.

Later, people were pleasantly surprised to find that this preserved food has a special taste, although it smells bad, but it tastes fragrant.

Although stinky tofu is not unusual, Yang Huairen's method is novel, first natural fermentation, and then slow cooking with brine after the stinky tofu is dried, more tender and soft, and the method of frying is through the reaction of various amino acids dissociated from hot fat and fermented protein, the fragrance is more unique and rich.

This practice of taking the smell of stinky tofu to the extreme did not appear until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and Yang Huairen took it to the Great Song Dynasty hundreds of years in advance to use it, and it really had the effect of blowing up the sky.

However, as we all know, the method of frying also makes the pungent smell of stinky tofu stronger, and people who don't usually come into contact with it suddenly smell this violent smell, which is really unbearable.

The crowd that had been bustling was now scattered, but no matter how they fled, the stench followed them like a devil for a moment.

They pinched their noses and covered their mouths, but they felt the stench still enter their bodies through their eyes and ears, and even the exposed skin seemed to be infected.

Everyone subconsciously shouted for help, but they didn't dare to open their mouths, so they had to close their eyes and bump around.

The smell of the fried stinky tofu seemed to be like having wings, and it soon flew far away, with Suiyuan as the center, at least two or three miles in a radius of land, all of which were filled with the smell of stinky tofu.

The students in Taixue and Guozijian couldn't read, and the white-bearded old gentlemen were angry in their hearts, and they wanted to show their concentration, but they only lasted less than five seconds before they were fainted.

The ladies in the brothels on the other side of the river had not slept long before they were awakened by the smell, and they cursed and searched for the source of the stench.

Wandering around, walking birds, no one stopped walking, and quickly pulled the hem of his clothes to cover his mouth and nose.

In Juyuan, Yelu Diao and Wei Cai didn't understand what Yang Huairen was doing, but the guests who were originally attracted by Juyuan's free guest house today also slipped away, and the shopkeeper Zhou hurriedly ordered the guys to close the door and door panels, for fear that the sky-high stench would also smoke Juyuan.

Yerodio shouted, "Is the person surnamed Yang crazy? The streets are full of stinking smells, is this business not going to be done, deliberately making such a stinky thing, is it to end up with us in the garden? ”

Wei Cai also thought so at first, he felt that Yang Huairen, this kid, was really retaliating against Yelu Diao for stopping their beef supply, so he thought of such an extreme method, but when he looked at Yang Lotian with a smile and what was still constantly exploding, he suddenly realized something, and shouted, "It's broken!" ”