There are two categories of raw materials for water tofu, one is brine brine, which is the mother liquor after salt deep well water or seawater precipitation salt, there are magnesium chloride and other substances, which can be coagulated into bean curd by soybean milk, and the brine brine itself is toxic. Another type of raw material is the common cement gypsum, the water tofu pointed out with cement gypsum is white and tender, but the taste is slightly inferior to the water tofu of the brine salt water point.

Seeing that Sister Qiu was talking about the Tao, Jia Shi seemed to be an insider of water tofu for many years, and couldn't help but be very curious, and hurriedly asked: "Then where are we going to make salt brine?" "Huyang does not rely on the sea, and there are no salt wells, so it is very difficult to want good salt brine, but I am afraid that all of them may not be sold in Huyang.

Only then did Sister Qiu raise her eyes, and said to the Jia family with a smile: "We don't need salt brine. "It's very difficult to buy salt brine here, and you can only use cement gypsum, Sister Qiu quietly added in her heart.

In China, the development history of water tofu has a thousand years, since the Han Dynasty there are records of water tofu, but it is the water tofu that has really become a home-cooked dish on the table of every household, but it has gone through a relatively long time, all the way to the Mei Dynasty, there is a record that water tofu has really become an indispensable part of the people's livelihood in the market.

Sister Qiu had heard Lin Zhun talk about the current dynasty in this space, not any dynasty in Chinese history that she was familiar with, maybe she was in a different space, but what Sister Qiu can be sure of is that the people of this dynasty have not yet fully grasped the technology of water tofu, and the use of soybeans is only simply stuck in the situation of extracting oil and making soybean paste. It may not be easy for people to accept her water tofu, but this is the best era for her.

"I'll make it first, give it to the big guys to taste, and if it's all good, we'll sell it in town." Sister Qiu smiled and explained to Jia, she naturally understood Jia's panic, a village woman who had been farming for decades, suddenly lost the wild land she relied on for her life, and she would not be at ease to rely on a business that she seemed completely impossible to make money.

This is different from when Sister Qiu's family worked together to make water tofu and sell water tofu, in the nineties, water tofu has long been an indispensable food for every family, as long as there is no shortage of water tofu in the market, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell.

"Eh, let's take a look first." Jia Shi said with a smile, if she doesn't do well, she thinks of other ways to make money, she is in good health, and she has physical strength, so she can wash clothes for others, and she can also support her mother, and no one can sell her daughter anymore.

Sister Qiu raised her head, and looked at Jia's smile, after years of hard work, Jia's face was prematurely dyed with wind and frost, and the eldest aunt Li Ailian was 6 years older than Jia's, but the two stood together, and Jia's was even more like an older sister. In addition, when she was in the Mei family, she was aggrieved, her heart was under great pressure, her family was sad, and her face was full of bitterness.

However, at this time, under the golden sunlight, Jia's face smiled softly and calmly, the corners of his eyebrows were stretched, and a pair of big apricot eyes smiled and bent into a beautiful crescent, Sister Qiu was a little stunned, in fact, Jia's appearance was very Zhouzheng, and her smile was very beautiful. It was only after such years of hard life that all the Jia family's appearance was worn out of the light, and now that he was out of the fire pit, he let out such a comfortable and bright smile.

"Mother, you look so good when you smile, smile more backwards." Sister Qiu concentrated on preaching really.

Jia's face turned red in an instant, and he was a little cramped, "You girl, you joke that your own mother is here." ”

Sister Qiu giggled, and the people in the village always praised her for her clean and Zhou Zheng, all of whom inherited Jia's good looks. "Mother, are you feeling very comfortable now? There's nothing more to weigh on your shoulders and breathless? ”

Jia Shi paused, and then he didn't know what it was like, nodded and sighed: "It's true, since I moved here, my heart has been brisk for a moment, and I was in ...... When you were at the house, you didn't dare to say a word, you were worried every day, you were scared to death, your grandmother scolded people, and patience passed, I was afraid that they would sell you, if that, my mother would not live...... Now, this family belongs to our mother's mother, and if there is no land, there is no land, that is, I want to work as a coolie every day, wash people's clothes and change food, I am all happy! ”

Sister Qiu leaned on Jia's shoulder, looked at the somewhat desolate courtyard, and said with a smile: "Mother, where can I ask you to wash other people's clothes?" Later, when we made money, we bought land, bought a lot of land, hired long-term laborers to farm the land for us, knocked down the courtyard and rebuilt it, and built the kind of blue brick and tile houses in the town, which would not be broken for a hundred years, and planted flowers and grass in the courtyard...... Mother, you are the wife of the big landlord, and I am the wife of the small landlord, hehe! ”

Rong Deyi is the best person in Xiaohe Town, and she will definitely be better than Rong Deyi's family in the future.

Jia Shi patted Sister Qiu's shoulder, and she only smiled at Sister Qiu's planned future Qingtu. Jia's life to Mei's house was all hard life, and now that she has been divided, she is satisfied that she can earn enough money for her mother and son to eat, where do you dare to think about the life of the landlord's wife.

"What kind of landlord is not a landlord, I don't dare to think that our mother and mother can eat without looking at people's faces!" Jia Shi smiled and said that she was a down-to-earth and timid person.

Sister Qiu didn't say anything more, the local lady's wife is her biggest life goal after coming here, if she still doesn't have three meals here, it will be too much of a loss. As long as she struggles slowly, there will be a day when her ideals will be realized, and now she has a beautiful well with sweet water, will the good field be far away?

The selected beans are soaked in the basin, and they must be soaked all night, and the dried beans will absorb enough water, and they will become soft and soaked, and they can be ground fine when they are milled the next day, and the pulp juice will be more fragrant.

When the soybean milk boils in the pot, add the cement gypsum or brine salt water batch of the water tofu, and the soybean milk will solidify into white and tender bean curd, and the bean curd will be fished out of the water and compacted into a lump to become water tofu. If it is compact, the water in the water tofu is less, it becomes the "North Water Tofu", if the water in the water tofu is more, the water tofu is pressed and tender, it is the "South Water Tofu" that people usually say.

In her previous life, Sister Qiu also tried to use vinegar to point tofu, although the pressed water tofu is a little old, but the taste is very unique, compared to the water tofu pointed out by brine salt water and cement gypsum, it tastes strong, but vinegar water tofu has never become the mainstream.

Water tofu is simple to say, but it is not so easy to make, the temperature of the slurry water when the water tofu is pointed, the speed when adding brine salt water or cement gypsum, and the strength of the water tofu when it is pressed, all of which are extremely testing people's palm skills, and it is very difficult to grasp the essentials of each process stage without a few years of work.

Sister Qiu hates to make beans into water tofu now, to the set to try how the water tofu market is, in the previous life she was in her own water tofu factory, used to see tens of thousands of dollars of a single water tofu idea, for the initial stage of the water tofu idea, she is a little anxious. It's just that Sister Qiu also knows the idea step by step, she can't go from a poor girl who is so poor that she becomes rich and relies on a little accumulation.

Early the next morning, Sister Qiu and Lin Zhun Dayin made an appointment at the entrance of the village, and Dayin also brought his young man to accompany the donkey.

Now that the donkey is facing Sister Qiu, he will never mention the "mother worm", he likes to follow Sister Qiu and go out with Brother Zhun.

The four of them walked on the road briskly, and when they arrived in the town, Sister Qiu first went to the store of the eldest uncle's house, and greeted the eldest uncle, saying that all the mothers and relatives were fine, and the eldest uncle should not worry about it.

Li Zhongquan nodded with a smile and said, "I can't leave for the past two days, and the day after tomorrow, I will take a craftsman to paint the door of your house." ”

"No need, uncle." Sister Qiu smiled and shook her head, the whiteboard door is very good, the most important thing is that I don't want my uncle to break the bank, and painting is a little more expensive than buying a door.

"How can that be?" Li Zhongquan waved his hand, "If you don't paint it, it won't take two years for that door, and if it is rainy, it will be rotten, and this money uncle will still come out." ”

At this time, Sister Qiu's aunt Tian came out of the store with a basin of water, listening to Li Zhongquan's words, she couldn't help but laugh, and muttered in her mouth, Sister Qiu didn't hear clearly, and when she looked at the past, Tian's face was full of unhappiness.

"Concubine." Sister Qiu called out politely.

Tian reluctantly smiled on his face, and his attitude was perfunctory, "Sister Qiu is here, what do you want to eat, I will make it for you at noon." ”

Sister Qiu smiled and shook her head, she could understand what kind of attitude the Tian family had when the Jia family came to the door with an empty palm before, "No, concubine." I'll go back with the rest of my village, and my mother is still waiting for me at home! ”

After coming out of her uncle's house, Sister Qiu and Lin Zhun went to the medical clinic in the town, in view of the experience of selling snake skins last time, Sister Qiu went straight to the medical center that sold snake skins, they are not familiar with the place here, and Lin Zhun, the oldest of the four, is only 14 years old, and he has no reason for the black-hearted businessman.

"Boss, bring me a pound of cement plaster." Sister Qiu preached to the young boss.

The young boss was very surprised, cement gypsum is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine, and it seems that all of them are sold with other Chinese herbal medicines. Looking at the little lady with a white face, she was a little familiar, and the boss thought about it, and then remembered that this was not the little lady who sold his snake skin, and Sister Qiu's articulate bargaining left a very deep impression on him.