Chapter 27: Making Dried Tofu

The man saw that the little lady was shouting to herself, and answered in a dull voice, burying her head in the scattered green silk, and the faint fragrance was refreshing.

This night of clouds and rain is naturally a good meal.

Early the next morning, Su Mi got up early to make breakfast. When the man got up, the steamed buns had already been steamed on the stove table, the soy milk was also freshly cooked, and there was a stack of pickled radish shoots.

Rao was too tired last night, this was the first time Zhao Laosan slept so deeply, his wife had already gotten up and was busy in the stove, he didn't even know.

"Husband, I saved some of the soy milk I ground yesterday for the morning, and the rest was boiled into tofu, and now it is pressed in a box at the grinding plate. After breakfast, we can go to town to make a living. Su Mi sat beside Zhao Laosan, with a peach lip open, revealing two rows of neat jade teeth, and his voice was small but very pleasant.

"Today, we won't go to the town to sell tofu!" Zhao Laosan took a bite of pickled vegetables and broke open the fragrant and soft steamed buns.

"Why? Isn't this tofu already ground? Su Mi only felt strangely tight, staring at the man in front of him with a pair of watery eyes.

The man looked at this delicate and gentle cheek, stretched out his hand and rubbed it, he couldn't bear to say that he was afraid that the two ruffians in yesterday would bring people to make trouble, swallowed a mouthful of soy milk and said: "Today's weather is good, and it is the tofu that the lady got up early in the morning to cook, I want to make some dried tofu, so that the little lady will have snacks to eat." ”

Where did Su Mi think so much, when Zhao Laosan said this, not only was he not suspicious, but sweet, he drank a big mouthful of soy milk, and smiled: "When I was in the capital before, I ate dried tofu in a restaurant, but I didn't expect my husband to make it?" ”

"These two pots of tofu ladies are well cooked, and the heat is well controlled, so it's not difficult to make dried tofu!" Zhao Laosan said while eating steamed buns, this is already the fourth steamed bun.

The woman's palms are relatively thin, this steamed bun is small, and she is very patient, and the steamed steamed bun is no worse than the restaurant in the town. Soft and glutinous, very sweet, Zhao Laosan has lived in Zhaojia Village, or the first time he has eaten such steamed buns, after a while, a basket of steamed buns will be gone.

When a woman sees that men love to eat so much, her heart is as soft as if she has been soaked in the spring rain: "My husband was tired of tossing yesterday, and today is the time to eat some food!" ”

Raising his eyes, Su Mi's cheeks were ruddy and full of colorful xia, and he lowered his head and looked at Zhao Laosan embarrassedly.

After the two of them finished breakfast, the sun had already risen red. Today, both of them are at home, so Su Mi cleaned up the stove and went to the yard to catch the three ducks out of the fence and let them bask in the sun. In only half a month, the duck was halfway grown, and a pair of orange-red paws under its bulging belly were pulling soil in the grass.

It's very cute to look at!

Zhao Laosan had a lot of strength, and when he saw that the tofu was still draining, he lifted the grinding plate with a pair of big hands and pressed it down. The tofu water immediately flowed down like a rain curtain.

Su Mi was not idle, and saw that the man was busy pressing the moisture of the tofu, so he went to the bedroom to clean the clothes and pants that he and the man had changed yesterday.

He went to the river with a wooden basin, and met a concubine along the way, no matter who it was, Su Mi smiled and treated each other gently. When I met the doll, I took out one or two lactose from my pocket, so I coaxed it.

Although these village women all felt that Su Mi was a bad star and specialized in men's fortunes, Su Mi had a plan in her heart, and if she treated each other in such a harmonious manner, she would definitely resolve the misunderstanding.

When they arrived in the river, there were not many women who washed their clothes, and the women of this spring day either went down to the fields or worked in the fields. In the village, she is afraid that she is the most relaxed person.

First, he took out the man's clothes, and this green cloth gown was made by Su's mother herself when she returned to her parents' house last time. With both hands, the clothes were soaked in the river, and some soap oil was smeared in his hands, and he scrubbed them repeatedly.

When he got home, the man had already dried the tofu juice. Su Mi wiped the water on the placket of his waist with both hands, dried the clothes on the ropes in the courtyard, and went to take out the dustpan and cutting board.

First, cut the tofu into slices, then change the knife to thicker cubes. In half an hour, the white tofu was cut into small cubes. Rao knew that this tofu was fragile, although Su Mi's hands were sharp, his movements were extremely gentle, and after cutting, no piece of this tofu was broken.

The man sat not far away, took out the broken dustpan in the house, and repaired it. From time to time, he looked at the woman, rolled up the sleeves of his hands to his elbows, revealing a white arm like lotus root, and the ten fingers like chives gently turned the tofu cubes of the dustpan, and the tofu in the courtyard was fragrant and refreshing.

Seeing that the woman's strength was small, Zhao Laosan got up and picked up the dustpan and rested it on the shed in the yard, so that the tofu could be dried for a day.

"Wait for this tofu to be half dry, then pour it with wine, steam it with spiced star anise, and then dry it for a few days before you can seal it and eat it slowly!" Zhao Laosan said carefully while putting the dustpan down.

"I didn't expect my husband to have research on this tofu, so I thought of a way."

"What is the lady thinking?"

"Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, our tofu will not be easy to sell, and there are so many beans, it is better to make tofu into dried tofu and sell it!" Su Mi grabbed Zhao Laosan's sturdy arm with both hands, and stared at his man with watery eyes.

"It's still a virtuous lady, I used to be spoiled every summer when I couldn't sell this tofu, so I had to throw it away." Zhao Laosan saw that the lady said seriously, and responded with both hands clasped on her thin shoulders.

"Husband, in fact, there is more to this, dried tofu is only loved by women, children and children, if you are afraid of tofu spoilage, we can also make edamame tofu and wrap it in green vegetables and sell it!" Su Mi has been cooking with his mother since he was a child, the capital is in the north, and now he has moved to the south, and he found that there was a lot of food in the suburbs of Beijing before, but there was no food here, maybe it was made, and the people here also loved to eat.

Zhao Laosan didn't rush to agree, his long and narrow eyes were bright, but his gaze was soft: "Let's just make a living selling tofu, enough for the two of us to live a small life." ”

"Husband, you're just afraid of tiring me, isn't it?" Su Mi has always felt that after marrying Zhao Laosan, she lived like a fairy, and she didn't do much work when she was a girl.

"Lady doesn't have to work so hard!" Zhao Laosan just wanted to live a quiet life, and the rest were rich and rich, but he didn't think about it.

"If you have a doll in the future, does your husband still think so?" As soon as Su Mi talked about the doll, he remembered that the man had been cloudy and rainy a few times last night, and his delicate and fair cheeks couldn't help but be dyed red, as if layers of sunset were spreading.

"It's because we have dolls in the future, and you have to take care of the dolls, so I am reluctant to let you still get involved in business." The man's big hands rubbed against the woman's cheeks, and his words were warm and as if the spring breeze was blowing.

After the two of them finished drying the tofu blocks, it was already noon, and Su Mi went into the stove room to prepare for lunch. Seeing that the weather was relatively hot, he mixed cucumbers with bamboo shoots, cooked a pot of porridge, and ate the remaining steamed buns in the morning.

She woke up early in the morning, and after lunch, the woman rested for a while in the morning on the bed. The man has always been a little worried in his heart, and he guards Su Mi every step of the way, for fear that the ruffians in the town will find his house.

Su Mi woke up in an hour, saw the man cleaning up in the house, stretched his waist and wiped his eyes, sleepy-eyed: "Husband, this day is in full bloom, why don't you rest for a while?" ”

The man held a broom in his hand and watched as the woman had just woken up, her cheeks were covered with snow, like freshly peeled lychees, and only the flesh was still juicy, crystal clear in the sun.

"I'm not tired if I didn't go out on the street today!" The man's eyes looked at the woman, and his black and white pupils were like stars.

"Husband, I'm not tired, let's go and hoe grass in the bean field!" After Su Mi finished speaking, he put on a brocade pomegranate-colored coat. I went to the stove to get a basin of water and washed my face.

The man took the hoe, and when he saw that the sun was still hot, he took a straw hat and put it on the woman's head.

Zhao Laosan's family does not have many other crops, but there are a lot of beans. The sunny land at the west end of the village is almost all beans planted by him.

When she got off the ground, the woman saw that the beans were growing just right, and the green bean leaves covered the beans, which were not yet full and had just grown fruit.

There are not many weeds in the field, just looking at the crops in this field, you can know that Zhao Laosan is a diligent and neat person. Not to mention in the field, there are not many weeds in the field.

"Husband, I haven't asked you why you want to make a living selling tofu!"

The man looked at the woman on the ground, and his eyes flashed some pictures, it was a long, long time ago, a woman in gorgeous clothes, holding his hand and teaching him to make tofu cake: "Because my mother likes to eat tofu!" ”

"Husband's mother?" Su Mi's pupils were clear and transparent, like a pool of clear spring water, and a small face was oozing with a little beads of sweat.

"Hmm!" Zhao Laosan just answered, and then bent down to hoe the grass.

I only heard the sound of hoes squirming next to the dirt, and the afternoon sun gently spread over, wrapping around this verdant bean field.

"If you don't want to say it, I won't ask anything, if you want to say it, you can tell me anytime!" Su Mi raised his face, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and his peach lips were closed.

The man was a little shocked, and when he saw Su Mi knowing the general situation like this, his heart warmed: "Who is the mother's biological mother, do you know?" ”

"When I got married to my husband, I was afraid that my husband would dislike me and pick it up by my mother, but the last time I went back to the door, my husband didn't treat me lightly, so I knew that my husband didn't care. My biological mother and biological father, I don't know who it is, my father said that I picked it up in a temple on the outskirts of Beijing, and my father and mother may have died in the war! Su Mi had never seen her biological father and mother, and she didn't want to do this in her heart, her eyes flashed brightly.

"Lady is relieved, I will treat you well in the future, and I will not let you suffer a little grievance!" Zhao Laosan helped the straw hat on his head, his face was pale, and his thin lips were closed one by one.

"Husband, I believe in you!"