Gu Dewang and Gu Defa shouted one by one, and after shouting, they stared at the bean dregs cake in their hands, and swallowed their saliva.

Although the third grandmother didn't like Chen, she couldn't bear to let the two children watch dryly, so she took a bean dregs cake for one of them: "Eat it." ”

Gu Dewang and Gu Defa took it with a smile, took a big bite, and said inarticulate while chewing: "Fragrant~ It's really fragrant, it's delicious." ”

Chen's hands are fast, taking advantage of the third grandmother's kung fu to get the bean dregs cake for the two children, he quickly took two, stacked the two bean dregs cake together, and took two bites in a row, the bean fragrance, the meat oil fragrance, the burnt crispy fragrance, the spice fragrance, several fragrances mixed together, forming an excellent delicacy, Chen's eyes widened when he ate, spraying the cake crumbs and saying: "Fragrant, too fragrant!" ”

The third grandmother was afraid that her cake crumbs would spray into the pottery bowl, so she hurriedly blocked it with her hand, glared at Chen, and scolded: "Chen, are you a starving ghost reincarnated?" Turn aside, eat something and spray everywhere, bury it or not? ”

Chen was eating happily, and he didn't care about the third grandmother scolding her, but he still turned his back and didn't dare to eat in front of the third grandmother again.

Chan saw wooden boxes in the courtyard, which were placed on mud bricks, pressed with large stones, and water seeping from the bottom of the boxes. Curious, she walked over and wanted to move the stone away to see what was pressed inside.

The third grandmother kept staring at her, and scolded when she saw this: "Chen, you owe a lot, hurry up and stop it." This is the tofu made by Xiaoyu, it has to be pressed with a stone, and it can only be opened when there is enough time, if you dare to move the stone away, the tofu that harms Xiaoyu can't be made, and the old woman tears you. ”

The third grandmother had a headache when she saw the Chen family, why did their Gu family have such a bad daughter-in-law?

Hearing this, Chen didn't dare to move the stones on it anymore, and only circled around the wooden box: "This is the tofu that Xiaoyu said?" Isn't it delicious? ”

She turned back to Cui Shi and said, "Sister-in-law Dashan, let's come to your house for dinner tonight, what is the taste of this tofu?" ”

The third grandmother was so angry that she scolded: "Chen, you don't have enough to take advantage of, right?" "Still eating? I just had a meal of meat at Dashan's house the night before yesterday, and now I still eat Dashan's bean dregs cake in my mouth, and I still want to eat it at night, so I just let Dashan's family support their family.

Chen licked his smile and said, "It's not like everyone has been eating together for a few months after escaping from the famine, and they are separated all of a sudden, and they are not used to it." ”

After a while, Chen finished eating the two bean dregs cakes in his hand, and when he saw that there were no bean dregs cakes in the pottery bowl, he called his two sons and took them to Gu Dashan's kitchen.

It's a pity that before they got to the kitchen, Gu Jinli slammed the kitchen door and plugged it in.

Chen's face froze, although she was angry, but she knew that Gu Jinli was a fierce person, and she didn't dare to anger her, for fear that she wouldn't be able to get the tofu, so she could only take her two sons back to the yard and wait for Gu Jinli's tofu to be pressed.

Half an hour later, Gu Jinli finally finished frying four catties of bean dregs cakes, and fried a large clay pot.

After frying the bean dregs cake, she and Luo Huiniang went to the yard to see her tofu.

"Xiaoyu, is the tofu pressed?" The third grandmother asked her.

Gu Jinli nodded: "It should be fine." "The bean curd can be pressed into tofu in two quarters of an hour, and she has been pressing it for almost an hour.

As soon as they heard that her tofu was pressed, everyone gathered around. Gu Dashan removed the stones from the wooden box for her and removed the wooden board covered with tofu.

Gu Jinli lifted the burlap covering the tofu, and a large piece of complete snow-white tofu appeared in front of everyone, she pressed the surface of the tofu with her hand, which was firm and elastic: "It's done." ”

The tofu is neither old nor tender, and the time of pressing is just right.

"Yo, this is tofu for nothing?" Chen was really shocked when she saw the tofu made, she had lived for half her life, she had never seen this kind of thing, she couldn't help but poke it, and the third grandmother slapped her hand away in time, glared at her and said: "You don't have a heavy hand, you smashed the tofu, can you afford it?" ”

This is a rarity they have never seen before, and it can't be spoiled by the Chen family.

Chen didn't poke the tofu, his hands were very itchy, and he asked Gu Jinli again: "Xiaoyu, your tofu method is really told to you by people on the way to escape from the wilderness?" ”

Gu Jinli nodded: "Yes." ”

Chen didn't believe it: "Why haven't I met a strange person with this kind of ability?" ”

Gu Jinli didn't look at her, just stared at the tofu and said: "There are many strange people in the desert, and you didn't help them, why should others tell you about the ancestral craftsmanship." ”

She didn't want to be burned by others as a monster, so she pushed everything she knew on the victims she met on the famine. Anyway, there are so many people fleeing the famine, and now they are scattered all over the place, and there is no way to find out if they want to, which is an excellent excuse to deal with it.

The third grandmother said: "Xiaoyu is right, you selfish goods, even if you meet someone who has the ability, you don't have the ability to let people pass on the craft to you." ”

The third grandmother didn't want to listen to Chen's noise, so she said to her: "If you want tofu, go home and get a bowl, we don't have an empty bowl for you at home." ”

"Eh, I'll go back and get it." That's what Chen wanted, and he went back to get the bowl happily.

By the time Chen returned, Gu Jinli had already cut the tofu into palm-sized pieces.

The three grandmothers are in charge, giving each family two pieces of tofu, plus one okara cake for each person.

The Chen family did not divide the family, and they got two pieces of tofu and four bean dregs cakes with the light of Gu Dafu's father and son.

Chen was very happy that the four bean dregs were taken back, one was divided into two halves, and she could eat another half.

The third grandfather was afraid of Chen's big mouth, so he reminded her: "This fresh food is made of small fish, you don't have to go around talking about it." ”

Chen is a shrewd person, and immediately promised: "Don't worry, the third uncle, the nephew and daughter-in-law know, and they must not say anything outside." "This is a rarity, and the method has to be in the hands of a few of them, and she will only say it if she is stupid.

Luo Huiniang brought back her share of her own family and the Tian family, Gu Jinli gave her two packets of ground spices, asked her to add some to when making tofu, and told her a few ways to make tofu.

Gu Jin'an took one and sent it to Gu Damu's Gu Dalin family, and Gu Jinli took one and sent it to the Qin family.

That night, Gu Jinli made a fragrant fried spiced tofu, braised stewed tofu, and sour and hot tofu.

The fried spiced tofu is fresh and crispy, the braised stewed tofu is delicious, the sour and hot tofu is appetizing with rice, and the family of eight eats tofu with soy milk and bean dregs cake, and eats them one by one.

The third grandfather sighed: "I used to eat stewed beans, but when I got to eat, it was like taking medicine, and it was unpalatable." Nowadays, when I eat this tofu and bean dregs cake, I don't feel that it is enough to eat as much as I want. ”

And the meal they ate was only a pound of beans.

The third grandfather suddenly realized something and asked Gu Jinli: "Xiaoyu, how much tofu can be produced from this pound of beans?" "Why do you think there are so many tofu and bean dregs cakes made from five catties of beans?

Gu Jinli said: "One pound of beans produces three and a half pounds of tofu, and five pounds of soybeans produce four pounds of bean dregs." ”

The third grandfather was really shocked: "Then these five catties of beans are not nearly twenty catties of tofu!" And okara. This, why have these soybeans become more? "After the grain has been grinded, it has become less, but the soybeans have become more.

Gu Jinli said with a smile: "Because the soybeans are soaked in water." Originally, there were only five catties of soybeans, but after soaking in water, they could rise to more than 20 catties, and the soy milk used to make tofu was actually the water absorbed by the beans, so the soybeans became more. ”

"Eh, this is God's blessing, then we don't have to go hungry." The third grandmother folded her hands and bowed to the door.

The third grandfather also said: "We don't have land, and we don't have anything to make a living, we have to buy food to eat for most of the next half a year. ”

Gu Jinli heard the third grandfather say the word "earning", and took the opportunity to say, "Third grandfather, what do you think of the fried five-spiced tofu tonight?" ”

Third grandfather: "Naturally, it's good." ”

Gu Jinli: "Then let's go to the market to sell fried spiced tofu, what do you think?" ”

Gu Jin'an's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "Third grandfather, this is a good livelihood, and we will definitely be able to make a lot of money in the whole town." ”