"Really...... If you care, it's messy! Qi Bokun smiled bitterly and shook his head.

has been an official all his life, and he is also a secretary of the ministry, and he is very good at perceiving people's hearts. But this thought, he only focused on pondering others. For his most sorry grandson, apart from being full of love, he really didn't think about it so much.

"Okay, I got it. I won't mention those, I just ask you to take care of Qi Muyuan more. Qi Bokun stood up and bowed to Du Jinning.

Du Jinning was startled, and hurriedly jumped down from the chair to avoid it, and complained: "Grandpa Qi, are you trying to break my life?" I just promised to take care of your grandson, and you will take revenge like this? ”

"Hahaha......" Qi Bokun laughed and waved his hand, "Okay, good, I was wrong again." ”

He got up, wrapped all the snacks on the table, and stuffed them into Du Jinning's arms; "It's not early, and I won't leave you to eat, you can take this snack and eat it on the road. Let's come to Japan for a long time, and there will be a place for Grandpa Qi in the future, just open your mouth, you're welcome. ”

"Thank you, Grandpa Qi." Du Jinning didn't refuse the bag of dim sum, and said goodbye and left.

"You buy something in a while, and then you go to the teahouse. The carriage that Xiaoyuan left for you has been there, waiting to take you back. Qi Bokun admonished again.

"Thank you."

At this time, it was really not early, and it was time for Zhang Hongwen to disperse. If there was no carriage from the Qi family, Du Jinning would have to rush to the place where Zheng Lin was waiting for the car immediately. But now that there was a carriage, she was not in a hurry, she asked for directions first, went to the market, found a grocery store, and bought some spices such as star anise, sand ginger, cinnamon, and grass fruit. Seeing that there was soy sauce, she hit another pound of soy sauce. This thing is quite expensive, and it costs her fifty dollars to hold it in a small bamboo tube; You know, she bought a bag of spices, and she only went to Thirty Wen.

"Do you have salt brine here?" She asked the grocery store guy.

The guy was stunned: "Salt brine? What is it? He shook his head, "No." ”

"You want salt?" A middle-aged man happened to come in, heard Du Jinning's question, and said with a smile, "Coincidentally, it happened that a merchant from the north came over the day before yesterday and sold this thing." No one here knew about it, so I didn't want to take it, and he begged me again and again to get in. Come on, little brother, come over here. ”

He went inside, took out a small crockpot, and asked, "How much?" ”

"How do you sell this can?"

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, looked up at Du Jinning, and thought for a while: "One hundred wen." ”

"Fifty wen." Du Jinning directly cut half the price, "This thing is not valuable, boss, you can be honest in doing business." Besides, I guess no one wants it except me. ”

"Okay, okay, sell it to you."

He didn't buy this salt brine, but the northern merchant gave it, and it was really worthless.

The middle-aged man also inquired that this thing was used to make tofu. Gypsum is used to make tofu in the south, but you don't need this thing. He asked someone to try it, and the tofu was coarse, old, and yellowish in color, and he couldn't sell it, so he saved it.

Now I finally met someone who bought salt brine, and simply sold them all. Anyway, the fifty dollars were obtained for nothing, and he didn't lose anything.

After buying the things he needed, Du Jinning went to the teahouse, and sure enough, he saw a carriage parked at the door of the teahouse, and the coachman he had seen at noon was sitting at the window of the teahouse, looking outside.

When the coachman saw her coming, he hurriedly ran out of the teahouse, took the things in her hand, put them in the car, and said with a smile: "Young Master Du, are you back?" The villain sent you back? ”

Du Jinning nodded: "There is labor." ”

Yuan An also came out of the teahouse at this time and asked Du Jinning, "Do you want to go into the teahouse and sit down, warm and warm?" ”

"No, it's getting dark, I'll go home first. When this side is buried and the sofa is ready, let Zhang Hongwen give me a letter, and I will come to the city when the time comes. ”

"Okay." Yuan An didn't force him to stay, and watched Du Jinning leave.

This carriage is naturally much stronger than Zheng Lin's mule cart, not only has it been designed with a shock absorber, it is not so bumpy, it is not very ventilated, and it is very warm to sit in.

Du Jinning directly asked the coachman to drive the carriage to the vicinity of Zheng Lin's house, and when he got off the car, he asked the coachman and said: "My house is on the other side of the river, and I will arrive after crossing the bridge." Uncle Lao helped me carry something and sent me home. ”

At this time, she had a bag of books, a bag of spices, a bag of dim sum, and a tube of soy sauce in her hand, and she really couldn't hold it with two hands.

The coachman was privately advised by Qi Bokun, so naturally he would not refuse Du Jinning's little request, and helped her carry her things to her home, and then drove back to the city.

"The Qi family's carriage sent you back?" Chan asked.

"How do you know?" Du Jinning felt strange.

It was cold in winter, and it was almost dark, and she didn't see anyone in the village when she got out of the car just now.

"Brother Wen of the Zhang family came over and said. When he left school, a descendant of the Qi family came over to deliver a message, saying that the old lady of the Qi family invited you to sit in the house and come back later. Chen said, "Otherwise, if I don't see you go home at this time, I won't be crazy?" ”

Saying that, she nagged again: "No matter what the old lady is invited or not, you can't go home so late in the future." The road is not safe, and we are not at ease. ”

"Mm-hmm, it won't." Du Jinning responded with a smile and opened the bag of dim sum, "Mother, sister, you eat dim sum." ”

Chen Shi saw that Du Fangling wanted to get a dim sum when he reached out his hand, and quickly slapped her away: "Eat first, eat dim sum tomorrow morning, if you don't eat, it will be dark." ”

In winter, it gets dark early, and their family is so poor that they are reluctant to light the lamp. If you don't eat while there is still some light, you will have to catch the fire in the stove in a while.

After the family had eaten, Du Jinning took out the spices and salt brine: "Mother, I got a recipe today, you can try to make some braised dried tofu to sell." ”

This was the thought that popped into her when she saw the snacks in the teahouse today.

Their family used to make tofu, but now they just reprocess tofu. When the teahouse opens, if the business is good, the daily amount of dried tofu is not a small amount. At that time, my mother and three older sisters were at home making dried tofu for the teahouse and planting strawberries at the same time. After making money, she is not so tired, and she doesn't have to carry the burden every day to brave the cold wind to sell tofu, she thinks it's good.

"How?" Chan asked.

"Don't sell tofu tomorrow, my sisters will get up again at dawn, and then make some old tofu out, and I'll teach you braised dried tofu."

Chen was reluctant to make the money he made every day, and was hesitating, but Du Jinning directly clapped: "Don't think about it, listen to me." ”

"Okay then."

In case Chen asked why she would treat strawberries, Du Jinning didn't say anything about getting twenty taels of silver. After eating, they rested in peace, and they didn't say anything all night.

The next day, the Chen family got up early in the morning to make tofu.

Lishui County is located in the south, the south of the tofu is made of gypsum to make coagulant, the tofu made is white and delicate, suitable for soup or cold salad, mapo tofu, not suitable for tofu.

Du Jinning liked to travel in his previous life, and he was a foodie, so he was very good at eating. In addition, she has a good memory and has an impression of everything she has seen, so she naturally knows that it is most suitable to make dried tofu or northern tofu made of salt and brine to make dried tofu.

Order the tofu with salt marinade, and then crush the tofu brain before wrapping it, so that the water can be squeezed out as much as possible and it will be firmer. Draw the back of the head and then wrap it, and then divide it into four pieces the size of mahjong.

"Na, this is a pound of salt, you put half a bucket of water to melt it, and put it in to soak for half a day after the dried beans are cooled." After Du Jinning told Du Fangfei to soak it, he led Chen to boil the brine with the spices he bought yesterday.

"When the dried tofu over there is soaked, you put it in this brine and cook it for two quarters of an hour. If they turn brownish-red and both the salt and aroma seep in, that's fine. ”

Chen nodded: "It's not difficult. ”

"This brine smells fragrant, and when it is cooked, it must be delicious." Du Fanghui looked at the pot of brine that was still boiling, and looked forward to it.

Du Jinning has only been wearing it for a short time, and she doesn't have the time and money to go to the city to taste the local food, so she doesn't know if there is anyone in the local area who makes dried tofu. The reason why the Chen family made this is mainly because she has a teahouse as a sales channel, as long as the dried tofu tastes good, it can be sold.

After hearing Du Fanghui's words, she remembered this stubble and asked Chen, "Mother, have you ever eaten dried tofu before?" ”