"Miss Qi come and sit down." Xiao Wu, the proprietress of the tofu shop, came out to pour water and saw Qi Ning hurriedly greeting loudly, Qi Ning walked over with a smile.

"Miss Qi, you have so many people working now, don't work too hard, come and sit down if you have nothing to do, let's talk to each other." The proprietress handed her a stool, took out a basket of beans from the house, sat down and picked them. Qi Ning hurriedly leaned over to help pick out the bad ones together. As soon as he put the basket on his lap, Wu took the initiative to come out and talk. I saw that she was wearing a coarse cloth headscarf, a blue apron tied around her waist, and a bamboo stool to sit next to them.

"Aunt Wu is also busy." Qi Ning smiled and took the initiative to greet her.

This Wu family is from the same village as the proprietress of the tofu shop, and his surname is Wu, and he is a cousin who does not come out of Wufu. The two have been good since they were young, and later they got married.

The proprietor of the tofu workshop is making tofu, and her husband passed down the craft, and then her father-in-law died, and her man sold the house and land in his hometown, and took a family to the county to rent a house to make tofu to sell, and the business is not bad, and many restaurants also come here to buy tofu.

The proprietress brought two bowls of tofu brains from the house for them to eat, Qi Ning and Wu took it, and sat on the stool with a bowl and ate it in a big gulp.

"Auntie, your tofu brain is so fragrant, tender and smooth, and the oil and spicy seeds are also fragrant, it's so delicious." Qi Ning tasted ancient tofu brain for the first time, and it felt quite fresh, and it was not the same taste as modern ones.

"That's right, my sister's tofu shop is famous in this town, and it only sells for half a day every day, and I don't have to eat it when I'm late." Wu raised his head and said with honor.

"Business is so good, why don't you do more?" Qi Ning asked curiously.

"Tofu brain can be sold out every morning, tofu dare not make more, the remaining tofu will not taste good overnight, when it rains, there will be more leftovers, if it is moldy, it has to be poured out, so I usually don't dare to do more." The most feared thing about selling tofu is the rain, and when it rains, there are few people who come to buy it, and the finished tofu will be ruined.

"Auntie, you can eat tofu if it's moldy, why do you throw it away?" I think it's strange, isn't it possible to make stinky tofu, and if you can't do it, you can still make tofu. How can it be wasted. In the past, when I was in college, there was always fried stinky tofu sold at the door, and I often ran to buy it to eat, because she went diligently, the stall owner gave her a few more pieces every time, Qi Ning remembered the tempting taste and didn't feel that her mouth was full of saliva.

"Tofu will be sour after a long time, and it will grow hair and stink, not to mention that this tofu is not expensive, even if the family is poor, they will not buy stinky tofu."

Only then did Qi Ning know that there was no stinky tofu and fermented bean curd in this era, let alone fried stinky tofu.

"Auntie, you are also a small business, how can I be embarrassed to always eat your tofu brain for nothing. I'll teach you a recipe, and if you have any leftover tofu in the future, you can try it, and it won't cost a few dollars anyway. Qi Ning finished the last bite and put down the bowl. I used to hear that Cixi Lafayette loves to eat stinky tofu and milk, and I can't leave it every day.

"Tell me, girl, if you do it, I will thank you again." The proprietress stopped her hand and looked at Qi Ning eagerly, for making food, she has an extraordinary admiration for Qi Ning, a teenage girl, can make so many delicious foods that she has never heard of, and now her brother and her brother-in-law have made some money by making lo-mei, and she is grateful to Qi Ning for a long time to send tofu brain soy milk, Qi Ning took things and did not be polite to her, and introduced her tofu to Xiao Ji Restaurant, and now Hu Shopkeeper sends guys to buy tofu for cooking every once in a while.

"It's far away to say thank you, we are good neighbors, my aunt often sends me bean juice, I can't find a good way to thank you. Although I know how to do it, but I haven't done it myself, I tell you to listen, you have to try it in your free time, if it works, don't blame me. ”

"I can still blame you if it's okay, you have always been kind to this child, you don't smile or talk when you see people, I know that you feel sorry for me for those bad tofu, you just have to say it."

"In the afternoon, if there is a lot of tofu left, you will slice the tofu and press it into dried tofu, and then add the dried tofu to the rotten pickle juice left over from the next year, seal the jar, and then bury it in the ground, take it out after half a month, and watch the tofu turn green and inky from the inside out. It smells strange, and after frying, put some pickled cabbage shreds, coriander, and chili oil, and you can eat it very fragrant. Alternatively, the tofu can also be cut into cubes and boiled. In addition, add water to the pot, add peppercorns, ginger slices, put more salt, let it cool after boiling, and then put the tofu in it and seal it, about seven or eight days in summer, this is the tofu milk, just eat it directly. "This authentic method is pure green and natural, without any added pigments, and it has an endless aftertaste in the mouth.

"Come on, when it's ready, I'll bring it over and ask Miss Qi to try it. If we do, we'll have one more way to make money in the future. The proprietress Xiao Wu looked at Qi Ning's confident expression, and she didn't have any worries in her heart.

"You girl, your brain is smart, but it's a pity that you are a woman, if a man will definitely become the richest man in our Qing'an City, there will be no time for many yellow flower girls to rush to marry you." Wu was already dumbfounded.

"Aunt Wu, don't praise me, I'll get carried away for a while, and I won't be able to touch the door to go home again." Qi Ning said goodbye with a smile and left, and two women laughed happily behind him.

Time flies, just in this monotonous and stable day ushered in winter, Xiao Gongzi took the hot pot recipe and opened another hot pot restaurant in the city, as the weather turned colder, the business was getting better and better, and he was busy and nowhere to be seen. The tofu shop also set up a stall at the door, selling fried stinky tofu, and the daily money earned is not less than selling tofu, but the tofu milk is not sold very well, and it is not done after a few times. After the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Wang Zhutou and Master Zhou followed the county order to the state capital to report on their work.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, after the New Year, every household was busy dusting and sacrificing to the god of the stove to send the stove king, and before dawn, Zhao took Han Dong and Qiao Niang to be busy in the backyard, and the youngest iron bull took a feather duster to help clean the front yard and the backyard.

It was dawn before Qi Ning climbed out of the warm quilt, had breakfast with everyone, and took Tie Niu to the street. The Chinese New Year is approaching, and the vendors on the street are all working very hard to sell, the red lanterns, and the windmills tied with all kinds of colored paper are whirring in the wind, which is very beautiful. There are also rouge gouache, needles and threads and other things that girls love, which are dazzling and much more lively than the usual market. Qi Ning is already familiar with many traders on this street, and along the way, uncles and aunts are also constantly greeting.

pulled a few colorful silk ropes for Handong, bought her a big red silk flower, looked at the brightly colored cloth and bought a few thick ones, and then bought a bag of hemp sugar and sugar melon in the sugar shop, and the two of them went home with big bags and small bags. Tie Niu followed behind and jumped back, licked his lips and took the sugar melon given by Qi Ning, grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth, Qi Ning smiled and touched his head, and gave the remaining half of the bag to Han Dong.

Handong ate one and put the rest back into the house, took advantage of the sunny weather, moved the bedding out and propped it up on the bamboo pole to dry, and continued to clean all the corners, after tidying up, the whole home was also a new look.