Because pickled pickles take time to absorb the flavor, even if it is shortened, it will take about 40 days, and when it is on the market, it is a pity that everyone will miss the New Year.

However, this is also a helpless thing, in order to ensure the quality of pickles, when the time comes, the brand of Huiniang pickles can not be shortened or the process can be reduced, otherwise it will be smashing its own signboard.

Hui Niang's pickles were pickled into the sauce jar one after another, and Qiu Niang's tofu workshop was also prepared.

Qiu Niang's family didn't go to the shop to buy beans, so they collected some beans in several surrounding villages, on the one hand, they were cheaper than the shop, and on the other hand, it was also an advertisement, telling the nearby villagers that Qiu Niang's family had opened a tofu workshop, and everyone didn't have to go to Huluzhuang or Linzhang County to buy tofu and bean skin in the future, and they could buy it directly at Qiu Niang's house.

Qiu Niang's husband Zhou An Zhouquan and the brothers also went to the tofu workshop in the county seat, spent a few taels of silver, and learned some skills from the shopkeeper, such as grinding how many beans and how much gypsum, how to make dried tofu, yuba, and how to pick tofu skin.

Zhou An studied carefully, and he was still thinking in his heart when he went to bed at night, and after a few days of learning in the county tofu workshop, he learned a series of things in the tofu workshop.

It turns out that tofu has been an ordinary dish on the table of the people since it was invented by Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, and it has been an ordinary dish on the table of the people in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou An Zhouquan said that he was selling it in the village near his home, and he didn't steal business with the county tofu factory, and when he saw a few taels of white silver offered, where did the store in the tofu factory refuse to teach?

On this day, Xie Xuan went to Wangjiazhuang Qiuniang's house with Xie Qingshan and the old couple of Xie Wang's family to see how their tofu workshop was going.

Xie Qingshan drove the mule, dragged the cart, rode Xie Wang and Xie Xuan, and put a basket of eggs, a bag of snacks, a bag of osmanthus candy, and a box of jasmine tea.

When I arrived at Wangjiazhuang, I saw someone I knew in the village to greet him, Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang's gossip all the way, and arrived at Qiu Niang's house.

Qiu Niang's house is also the same as most other families in the village, it is a soil embryo wall, thatched roof, the wall is surrounded by soil cultivation, the courtyard gate is made of two old door panels, and there are two old locust trees on both sides of the door.

As soon as the mule cart was parked, I saw Qiu Niang and his wife come out when they heard the sound, full of surprises.

"Dad, mother, why are you here? I don't ask anyone to say anything, I'm going to prepare something! Qiu Niang was full of smiles and said quickly.

Zhou Qin and Zhou Hong also laughed and threw themselves into Xie Wang's arms, Xie Wang quickly turned around and took out the bag of osmanthus candy from the car and handed it to the sisters and brothers.

"It's all my own family, what are you going to prepare!" Xie Qingshan handed the reins to the attentive Zhou An and said with a smile.

"Then I'll have to cut some meat or something!" Qiu Niang said, took out five cents of broken silver from the hidden bag around her waist and handed it to Uncle Zhouquan, and said with a smile: "Quan'er, go to Zhang Butcher's house to cut two catties of pork, remember to get a lot of fat!" ”

Zhou Quan took the corner of the broken silver, and responded with a smile: "Sister-in-law, I know!" With that, he hurried away.

Xie Wangshi looked at Zhou Quan's distant figure with a smile, and said with a smile: "Zhou Quan has also grown up, and he has grown into a young man when he sees it."

, other people's families should say daughter-in-law at this time! ”

"When our tofu shop makes money and life gets better, it's not too late to tell him about his daughter-in-law! It's only seventeen miles old, and it's nothing to wait for another two years! Zhou An said with a smile.

Zhou An is a kind and thoughtful person, and he thinks long-term, he talked to his brother long before others thought of it, saying that when the family conditions are good, he will marry him a virtuous daughter-in-law, and Zhou Quan also responded with a red face.

"That is, if the family conditions are good, why are you afraid that you won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law? Older, but steady! Don't be like that bastard of Ping'an, who makes me and my mother angry! Xie Qingshan said, and remembered his son Xie Ping'an, although he was one year older than Zhou Quan, he was not thoughtful and sensible in marriage.

Zhou An couldn't talk about his brother-in-law behind his back, so he had to use a cliché to advise: "It's normal for the young man to be young and vigorous, and he will be more stable when he becomes a parent." ”

With a sigh, the crowd entered.

Xie Xuan looked and saw that the courtyard layout of Qiu Niang's house was also a common triple courtyard in Zhangde Mansion, with a main house divided into three rooms, and the east wing and the west wing in front were divided into two rooms.

Qiu Niang and his wife took Zhou Hong to live in the main landlord's house, Zhou Qin lived in the smaller west room of the main house, and Zhou Quan lived in two east wings, one of which had some sundries. There are two rooms in the west wing, of which the small one is used as a kitchen, and the other is a large one, which is used as a tofu workshop.

Moving the things in the car into the hall, Qiu Niang complained while moving them: "Dad, mother, come here, what are you doing with some things?" As a daughter, I haven't honored the two elders, but I have always asked you to subsidize our ......"

Zhou An was also grateful and guilty, and said: "That's it, father, mother, we just took thirty taels of silver from you to set up a tofu workshop, how can I let you bring some things over?!" I feel uneasy! ”

Xie Wang's heart ironed after listening to it, Qiu Niang's son-in-law is better than Hui Niang's son-in-law, who can talk and do things, and what he said makes people feel comfortable when they hear it.

"What's so upset, the family doesn't talk to each other, and we also feel sorry for our daughter's grandson with this thing!" Xie Wang said with a smile.

"It's also that some of our guests sent some rare things to give them to taste, otherwise we wouldn't be able to buy these good things if we have money!" Xie Qingshan turned his head to look at Xie Xuan, and said with a smile to Qiu Niang and his wife.

Qiu Niang and Zhou An hurriedly asked what was going on, and Xie Qingshan said it briefly.

"Ah, fortunately, Xuanxuan is smart, otherwise I don't know what's going on!" Qiu Niang patted her chest in fear, touched Xie Xuan's hair and said.

"That is, Xuanxuan can be clever, if she wants to be replaced by someone else, even adults may not be able to escape!" Zhou An looked at Xie Xuan with a look of surprise in his eyes, as early as what happened in the Xie family's Zhuangzi, he felt that this little girl was not simple, her little girl was so frightened that Li Da and Li Erzhi trembled in a few words, and he didn't dare to go to the west, at that time he was a little surprised by the transformation of this little girl, after all, Xie Xuan grew up in his father-in-law's house since he was a child, and he also knew his previous temperament.

"Uncle, I'm embarrassed if you praise me!" Xie Xuan noticed Zhou An's surprised eyes, so she pretended to be shy.

After a few words of gossip, Qiu Niang and Zhou An took Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang's family to the tofu making house, and Xie Xuan also followed behind to see how Qiu Niang's tofu workshop was prepared.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw a grinding disc the size of a manhole cover on the floor of the house, on which were wet soybeans, and a wooden basin was placed underneath to receive the ground soybean milk and bean dregs.

"Ah, you're making tofu? We're here just in time to try your tofu. When Xie Wang saw it, the wrinkles on his face were all gone, and he was very pleased with the diligence of his son-in-law and daughter.