The blacksmith said, "Oh... It's no wonder, after all, it's the capital, and there are all kinds of strange things, but this cart is a little more complicated than what I used to do, and I'm afraid it will take two or three days. ”

"Time is not a problem, that is, I don't know how the price is..."Sun Yunniang touched the shy silver in her bag, and she was a little lacking in confidence.

"The cost of this iron cart is high, less than 300 Wen, and the small shop is afraid that it will lose money." The blacksmith said straight.

Sun Yunniang didn't like grinding either, so she killed the price to 260 Wen in two or three clicks, gritted her teeth and paid the deposit.

Although she is reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, she is really painful.

Solved this important matter, went to the carpenter shop again to customize a signboard and bamboo chips, and passed at noon.

The winter sky was darker than usual, so in order not to walk at night, Sun Yunniang quickened her pace and went to the nearest vegetable market.

Although the vegetable market in Qingyan Town does not have the scale of a modern farmers' market, she was surprised by the richness of the ingredients, and most of the modern common ingredients and seasonings can be bought.

But just after buying twenty catties of soybeans, Sun Yunniang's thin body began to sway.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead with her elbow, thinking to herself if only these things could be thrown directly into the ancestral house.

Before her thoughts fell, the thing in her hand disappeared in an instant!

Sun Yunniang's heart beat like a drum, and she looked around weakly, but fortunately, everyone was concentrating on trading, and no one noticed her at all.

With a sigh of relief, his complexion returned to normal, and his heart blossomed.

Then she had no scruples, the ingredients in her hand were a little heavier, and she found a no-man's corner and threw the things into the ancestral house.

When the sun set, Sun Yunniang returned with a full load, and when she arrived at the entrance of the village, to avoid any suspicion from the villagers, she summoned one or two ingredients to the ring and carried things into the village.

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Three days later, before dawn, Sun Yunniang got up and lit a fire.

She lifted the wet cloth on the wooden basin, last night she used the cooking machine in the ancestral house to squeeze out the soy milk to make tofu, these cut tofu slices have been soaked in alkaline water and fermented overnight, touch it with her index finger, the viscosity is just right.

Brush the pan with a thin layer of oil, set it on the stovetop, and gently put two palm-sized lye water tofu slices into the pot and cook slowly.

As the temperature of the bottom of the pot rises, the tofu slices gradually swell, and the skin is burned until slightly yellow, and then turned over.

The tofu slices continued to swell, like a small balloon that had been blown up, and then she turned down the stove slightly, and the tofu slices slowly deflated.

The next key is the ingredients, she took out a sea bowl, put an appropriate amount of cold boiled, salt, pepper powder, ginger and garlic water, sesame oil, vinegar, a large bowl of coriander and chopped green onions, and a pot of light soy sauce.

As for the ingredients to enhance the flavor, although there was no such thing as monosodium glutamate in ancient times, there are many substitutes.

For example, stock, fish paste, shrimp paste, shrimp skin, mushroom sauce, etc., are not inferior to modern industrial products.

So Sun Yunniang added a spoonful of shrimp paste and a bag of paprika to the dipping sauce.

Paste chili pepper is a must-have seasoning in the homes of ordinary people in modern Guizhou Province.

This spicy province has always had a rich variety of chili peppers, including green peppers, sharp peppers, dried chili peppers, bad chili peppers, and spiced chili peppers.

But no matter how many varieties of chili peppers there are, there is only one standard for spicy in Guizhou cuisine, and that is spicy, which is very different from the spicy nature of Sichuan cuisine.

Paste chili peppers are a spicy seasoning, which is usually dried and dehydrated from raw red peppers, and then roasted over a stove fire until charred.

After cooling and becoming crispy, it is then mashed with a bowl or directly kneaded into thick pieces by hand to form a paste chili powder with a unique burnt aroma.

It is unbelievable that in Nanchu, there was an ingredient such as paste chili pepper early, which not only made her feel convenient, but also lacked a way to make a fortune, which was a pity.

She stirred the dipping sauce and dipped it in a drop with her chopsticks and tasted it.

"Alas, the taste is good, but you can't find wood ginger and houttuynia in the vegetable market, and the two soul seasonings are missing, especially wood ginger, without it, the fragrance will be half missing..."Sun Yunniang frowned and muttered to herself.

The spice called wood ginger is also called mountain pepper, the shape is like pepper particles, but smoother than pepper, green when fresh, black brown after drying, this magical spice, smell between floral and fruity, there is a fresh lemon flavor, eat it between numb and spicy, similar to the special taste of lemongrass, not only can stimulate the taste buds, but also beneficial to the appetizer and spleen, very suitable for a variety of spicy snacks in the dipping sauce.

Sun Yunniang touched her chin, her eyes flowed, she silently thought about the name of the spice, unfolded her palm, and immediately fell into a small gray porcelain jar.

As soon as she lifted the lid, full of brown particles, her face was full of joy and immediately replaced the depression of the previous moment, with the chef's father here, the most important thing in the ancestral house was kitchenware and spices.

She immediately poured in rapeseed oil, put it on the stove, and after it was hot, she poured in half a jar of wood ginger and began to boil wood ginger oil.

Wood ginger granules can be used directly in hot pots or soups to flavor them, but when used as a dipping sauce, they will taste better when they are made into oil.

After about a quarter of an hour, a thin layer of foam gradually rose in the iron pot, and Sun Yunniang immediately turned off the fire to cool.

She used chopsticks to click a drop of wood ginger oil, put it on her tongue and sipped it, and immediately the refreshing numbness like an electric shock penetrated into her mouth, a bit like the jumping candy she had eaten as a child, which instantly refreshed her mind.

After just a few seconds of stimulation, it slowly returns to sweetness, like a mellow fruit wine, with a long aftertaste.

This taste is really the same as always, Sun Yunniang scooped a large tablespoon of wood ginger oil into the coriander chili juice, stirred well, and it was done.

She swallowed and eagerly scooped up a piece of baked tofu and sprinkled it with a spoonful of coriander paste chili juice.

This is the famous snack in the central region of the last century - "roasted tofu fruit".

This snack is available in the streets and alleys of Qianzhong, but the good memories that the locals have since their childhood are not only delicious, but also have a very romantic origin.

Tofu fruit was actually originally called love tofu fruit.

It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, Qianzhong was repeatedly attacked by air raids, and there was a couple who were nearly half a hundred years old and built several thatched huts in the vegetable field to make tofu fruit, and then took the roasted tofu fruit here and then took it to the street to sell.

After the air raid began, these huts became a place to avoid the air raid, and people came and went, and it was very lively.

The couple did not dare to go out into the streets because of the air raids, so they simply converted their huts into shops and sold roasted tofu to people who were hiding from the alarm.

Because the roasted tofu fruit is fast to make, easy to eat, cheap, and can satisfy hunger, it quickly opened up sales.

Ordinary people usually leave after eating, but some young men and women who are in love buy a plate of tofu fruit, dip it in chili water, chew it slowly, talk about the world, and sit for a long time.

After hearing about it, more and more young people have met here to meet and eat men and women in love, but so, this has also become a rare romantic scenery in troubled times.

Later, the couple's boss simply renamed the roasted tofu fruit as "love tofu fruit", which became a time-honored snack in the central Guizhou area.

Sun Yunniang took a bite of the tofu fruit, and blew it for a long time, the center of the tofu was still hot, and she breathed while chewing, as if this could blow the tofu colder.

The sweet juice of the tender tofu is matched with the strong fragrance of spicy sauce and vinegar, the stimulation of wood ginger, and the fragrance of coriander, which makes Sun Yunniang's stomach and intestines that have not yet woken up quickly peristalsis, and her appetite is instantly opened.

After eating two slices in one go, Sun Yunniang's brain was spicy with a thin layer of sweat, and her lips became bright red.

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In Qingyan Town, outside a market, a petite and thin young woman pulled a different stall cart and stopped at a corner of the street.

It was the end of winter and the beginning of spring, and she looked very thin in a cheap blue-green coarse cloth skirt, and as soon as she lit the charcoal fire with her trembling hands, she hurried close to get warm.

In this ghost weather, I have to stew some mutton tomorrow to get rid of the cold, Sun Yunniang scolded her stomach while opening the door of the cart cabinet.

The blacksmith's craftsmanship is really good, and the space inside is also very large, she immediately had an idea, and instantly transferred the ingredients stored in the ancestral house to the cart cabinet, which was full.

It's just the same, and it's ready to open.

Sun Yunniang hung a large signboard on the iron hook on the outer edge of the stall car, which was customized by a famous old carpenter shop in Qingyan Town.

The wooden sign is painted on a blue background, with bright yellow paint in the center, and an oversized font reads - Sun's Tofu Fruit, and on the side of the wooden sign, it is written in red paint with small bold letters: Ancestral Secret Production.

This blue, yellow and red color contrast is inspired by the outer packaging of a certain brand of a certain coconut in modern times, it is not important whether it is tacky or not, the important thing is that it is eye-catching enough.

Sure enough, as soon as this signboard was hung, it immediately attracted several people to come and watch.

"Tofu fruit? What kind of food is this, why have I never heard of it? ”

"I know tofu brain and white tofu."

"It's also an ancestral secret recipe, bragging!"

Sun Yunniang heard a burst of gossip around her, but she didn't explain anything.

She quickly brushed a thin layer of rapeseed oil on the iron sheet on the left side of the stall, and then put the lye water tofu in the basket one by one.

This honeycomb porous iron plate design does not suffocate the charcoal fire, but is also conducive to heating, and it is not easy to stick tofu to the board.

The charcoal fire slowly scorched, and the lye tofu swelled little by little, and at first glance it looked like a few fruits.

Sun Yunniang turned the noodles one by one with a short spatula, and the surface of the tofu slowly turned golden brown, forming a thin layer of pots, overflowing with bursts of bean fragrance.

Gradually, there were more and more onlookers, and it became more and more noisy.

"It's a freshly made hot food stall, forgive me for being lonely and unheard, it's the first time I've seen it."

"Have you noticed, her car stall is different from other houses, so exquisite."

"The car is not the point, this tofu smells so good, I don't know how to eat it?"

"The incense is fragrant, but it looks too light, our Nanchu people are all heavy tastes, but we can't get used to eating such light things."