The cherry trees in the front yard are under the quiet care of Mu Xiu, and this year the branches are luxuriant, and the flowers are also blooming a lot, and it seems that there will be a lot of cherries this year, and the figs will also grow taller.

"Mother, Uncle Chen and I will go to him." Mu Xiu picked up a small bag of soybeans, explained it to Zhou Shuilian, and went to the backyard with Chen Jianqiang.

Chen Jianqiang pushed open the door, Mrs. Chen was sorting out the mulberry leaves in the house, and now the mulberry leaves have just grown, and Mrs. Chen is picking them up nearby and collecting them, and when the weather is warmer in a few days, you can raise silkworms.

"Old woman, Mu Xiu is looking for you." Chen Jianqiang said.

"Aunt Chen, I want to learn how to make tofu from you." Mu Xiu said to Aunt Chen with a smile.

"It's simple, it's just that you need to grind the stone, and the soybeans have two boxes." Mrs. Chen briefly described the shape of the lower wooden frame.

Mu Xiu understood as soon as she heard it, she put the soybeans on the ground and said, "Aunt Chen, this is soybeans, my father will make the wooden frame, and when it is done, I will pull it over together with the stone mill." ”

"As long as you have the tools, it's quick to do." Aunt Chen said.

"Okay, then I'll go back first." Mu Xiu left after speaking.

Back home, Mu Xiu entered the house, spent a rectangle on the paper, but this rectangle only has four sides, the top and bottom are all empty, after the painting, came to Mu Shui and said: "Dad, I want this kind of wooden frame, one side is empty, one side makes a wooden cover, to make two." ”

Mu Shui took it and knew how to do it, "Okay, this is very simple, I can do it tonight." ”

Some time ago, Mu Shui got another stone mill back according to Mu Xiu's requirements, the size is not very large, but because it is made of stone, it is very heavy, and it will take two people to carry it to the ox cart tomorrow before it can be sent to Aunt Chen.

Originally, Mu Xiu's house could also make tofu and soy milk, but there were too many poultry at home, there would always be scattered feathers in the air, and the soy milk and tofu were white, and a little impurity could be seen clearly.

After dinner, Mu Shui sat down in the hallway, took out his tools, and began to make wooden frames.

Mu Xiu got up in the morning, and the wooden frame she asked for had been made, washed, and placed under the porch to dry.

Chen Xuhui and Mu Shui are not at home at this time, they only watered the wasteland yesterday, and they also hoeed the weeds, so they don't need to go over, they should go to the responsible field to water it, and Zhou Shuilian has already cooked the meal.

Mu Xiu was embarrassed, every time in the family except for the three children, she got up the latest, and Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui came back at about eight o'clock.

After everyone finished eating, Mu Xiu said to Mu Shui: "Dad, you and Brother Chen will pull this stone mill to Uncle Chen's house together, use an ox cart to pull it, and I will make tofu with Aunt Chen today." ”

Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui nodded, and went directly to the morning glory cart to move the stone mill, Mu Xiu put the two boxes in it and pushed them to the stone table outside Uncle Chen's house behind.

"Aunt Chen, I'm here." Mu Xiu shouted into the house.

With a "squeak", the door opened, and Aunt Chen and Uncle Chen walked out.

"Old man, let's take out the soybeans soaked last night." Aunt Chen explained and walked over.

"I'm thinking about the stone mill and the wooden box, the owner does things quickly on weekdays, and it should be done today, so I soaked the soybeans in advance, even if it is not done, the soybeans can be made into soybean sprouts, and it will not be wasted." Aunt Chen said as she walked.

"Auntie, you can still make soybean sprouts, send some next time." Mu Xiu said.

"Okay, I'll do it in the next two days, and I'll let the old man send it to the owner." Mrs. Chen looked at the stone mill, picked up the wooden frame and looked at it, and said in surprise: "It's such a wooden frame, it's really good." ”

Uncle Chen came over with a pot of soybeans, and Mu Xiu picked up the water scoop to clean the stone mill that he had just pulled over, and tied the rope to the cow's body.

"Then let's go first, the wheat will be topdressed today." Mu Shui took Chen Xuhui and Chen Jianqiang to work in the field together.

Mrs. Chen brought a clean wooden basin, covered the gauze on the wooden basin, and placed it under the stone mill to deliver soybean milk.

After washing the soaked soybeans several times, Mu Xiu brought a bucket of water and put it next to the stone mill.

Mu Xiu covered the cow's eyes with a cloth and began to drive it around, and Mrs. Chen scooped soybeans into the mouth of the stone mill, and scooped water into it, and the stone mill turned.

The soybeans have been soaked overnight and have absorbed a lot of water and softened a lot, and they are ground all at once with a stone mill, mixed with water and turned into paddles, and the more the slurry water is grinded, it flows out of the grinding disc and drips into the wooden basin with gauze.

When there were more and more okara on the gauze, Mu Xiu and Mrs. Chen each picked up the gauze side, straightened it and twisted it left and right, squeezed the slurry water in the bean dregs, and then put the bean dregs in a clean basin next to them, so as not to let the okara touch the slurry below.

After a while, the wooden basin was full of raw soybean milk, and Mu Xiu also brought a large wooden basin when he came, and then the two of them put the wooden basin full of raw soybean milk aside, and put the big wooden basin under the grinding plate, covered it with gauze, and continued to grind.

Six catties of soybeans were all ground in a short time, and two wooden pots and one pot of bean dregs were connected.

Mu Xiu and Aunt Chen picked up the basin together, carried the slurry water into the kitchen and poured it into the pot.

Mu Xiu raised the fire, waited until the soy milk boiled to boil, extinguished the fire, and Mrs. Chen lit vinegar into it, and the soy milk soon became bean curd, and the taste of bean curd was very sweet.

Put the wooden frame on the table, put the clean straw underneath, then spread a clean cloth inside the frame, pour the tofu flower into the frame, then wrap the bean curd tightly with a cloth, then cover the wooden cover of the wooden frame, and then press it on it with a stone, the main purpose is to squeeze out the excess water in the bean curd and turn it into tofu.

After the tofu was pressed into the two wooden frames, and Mu Xiu cleaned the stone grinding, the tofu was formed and ready in half an hour.

"Aunt Chen, is the tofu ready?" Mu Xiu felt that it was too easy.

"Yes, it's easy to make tofu, and the brine left over from making tofu this time is preserved, and it tastes better when making tofu with this brine in the future, and this tofu residue can be made into cakes." Aunt Chen hasn't done it for a long time, but I didn't expect to do it again, and I didn't have any hands at all.

"Auntie, you can keep the tofu scum to make cakes, I'll take the tofu back and make it now, and go to my house for dinner at noon." Mu Xiu put the tofu in a wooden basin and led the ox cart away.