If you don't work hard to farm the fields, you will inherit the throne with the prince.

Chapter 23 Making Tofu
"Mother, add some firewood to the pot."

Xie Mingzhu and Zhao Shi were busy in the kitchen.

While the soy milk was boiling, Xie Mingzhu made an excuse to go back to the study.

She was alone in the study room, completed the points that must be done every day in the Qiangguo APP, and bought a bottle of brine for ordering soy milk.

"Mingzhu, Mingzhu, the soy milk is open!"

According to the proportion, Xie Mingzhu poured a little brine into the iron pot.

Under the action of brine, the milky white soybean milk coagulates rapidly.

"Mingzhu, you are..." Zhao was shocked.

Xie Mingzhu was very happy watching the changes in the soy milk in the pot.

She swiftly laid out the burlap in a bamboo basket, and scooped the uncured tofu in. The burlap was tightly packed, and a large stone was pressed on it.

Before, Xie Mingzhu had some soy milk left, and she made yuba according to the method of making yuba in Qiangguo Middle School.

Making bean curd sticks is a bit of a test for Xie Mingzhu. The hot bean curd must be scooped out of the soy milk pot quickly and placed on a rack made of small bamboo to dry.

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Xie Mingzhu only insisted on ten fingers, and the fingers were burned red.

"Pearl, I'm coming."

Mrs. Zhao snatched the wooden spoon containing cold water from Xie Mingzhu's hand, and quickly made the yuba.

Xie Mingzhu was not idle either, she swiftly divided the remaining soaked soybeans into two portions.

A smaller portion is used to make bean sprouts.

The other ones that are a little bit more are put into a drawer made of bamboo and steamed, ready to be used to make soy sauce.

The way to make soy sauce is not complicated.

After the soybeans are steamed, they are served from the pot and set aside to wait for them to cool slowly.

When it becomes less hot, stir-fry in an iron pan without oil.

Stir-fry until the water evaporates, set aside to cool, and knead with hands to form a powder.

Finally, Xie Mingzhu took out the soy sauce koji from the soy sauce making bag she exchanged in the learning power, and mixed it with soybeans.

Cover it with a thin cloth and place it in the study to ferment, waiting for the surprise that time brings to her.

Xie Mingzhu put the other part, the soaked soybeans, into a bamboo basket and put it in a place where the temperature of the stove was high and away from light.

"Mingzhu, take a break."

Xie Mingzhu wanted to go into the kitchen to make the bean dregs that had been filtered before into bean dregs cakes, but she was grabbed by Mrs. Zhao and pressed on a chair to rest.

"Mom, I'm not tired."

Zhao said distressedly: "Seeing you so busy, my heart aches."

"Mom, let me move!"

As soon as Xie Mingzhu stopped, she thought of Peach Blossom.

Although Taohua didn't die by her hands, she would still blame herself, if she hadn't kindly brought Qing Yao back, Taohua would not have died.

She is a young man who was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze.

She couldn't stand idly by Xie Laosan's violent beating of Qing Yao.

She rescued her, which was her instinct as a poverty alleviation cadre.

But she didn't expect that the domestic violence woman she saved would cause Taohua to lose her life at a young age.

"Mingzhu, Taohua's death has nothing to do with you." Zhao said in a rather calm tone, "Peach Blossom is the one who killed Taohua."

Xie Mingzhu understands the truth.

She just can't pass this barrier in her heart.

"Mother, Peach Blossom is so pitiful." Xie Mingzhu said.

In the era she lived in, Taohua would dress warmly, eat well, and go to school with her schoolbag on her back.

Even if there is a gambling father and a cowardly mother, there is another possibility in the peach blossom life.

Mrs. Zhao comforted Xie Mingzhu in her arms: "Mother knows, mother knows."

If she didn't feel that Taohua was pitiful, she would not give Taohua the clothes that Erya couldn't wear.

Obviously Taohua is bigger than Erya, but it looks smaller than Erya.

This is probably because Xia Man Xing is a mother, and she is more qualified than Tao Hua Niang.

No one knew how much Taohua's death had touched Xie Mingzhu.

She made up her mind that even if she was weak, she would still be the spark that started a prairie fire.

She wanted countless peach blossoms to no longer die inexplicably like poor peach blossoms.

"Mom, thank you."

Xie Mingzhu hugged Zhao Shi tightly.

Mrs. Zhao patted Xie Mingzhu on the shoulder and said, "Sit down, and I'll get you something to eat."

Mrs. Zhao returned to the kitchen and fried an egg with lard.

He quickly cooked a bowl of egg noodles for Xie Mingzhu.

There was no seasoning in this bowl of egg noodles, but Xie Mingzhu, who had been hungry for a long time, still ate everything.

The sun is getting higher and higher, and the sun is getting more and more poisonous.

Mrs. Zhao and Xie Mingzhu sat on the eaves and started sewing.

Sister-in-law Liu Guizhi went to work with Xie Mingjin in the field after eating at Xie Mingzhu's house.

In the past, when the Xie family was not separated, the men would work in the fields, and the women would do the housework and take care of the children.

Now that the family is separated, Xia Manxing and Zhu Yeqing also went to work for their men.

Xie Mingxuan felt sorry for Zhu Yeqing and asked her to work in the shade.

The couple discussed what to have for lunch.

On the other side of the ground, Xia Manxing stood up, hammered her waist, which was too tired to straighten up, and said full of resentment: "Ming Yu, parents are too partial, and they stayed at Xie Mingzhu's house last night. "

"Mingzhu is the daughter of parents, how can you be biased?" Xie Mingyu really didn't want to argue with Xia Manxing on this issue, he glanced at the sun and said: "It's hot, you go back first, so that Er Ya won't wake up No one at home, the meal is ready, call me."

"I still have to cook?" Xia Manxing said as it should be: "Mother didn't go to the field, mother should do it!"

"Mother is at Mingzhu's house." Xie Mingyu said.

Xia Manxing said disapprovingly: "Then let's go to Mingzhu's house to eat. Her house has a lot of good things. You said father and mother, did they propose to separate us because they knew that Qin Che's family was good? They Are you afraid that we will gain the light of the pearl?"

Xia Manxing couldn't stop swallowing when she thought about the table full of delicacies last night.

She has never seen those dishes, those meats and fishes before, let alone eat them.

I don't know, what are they doing delicious at home at noon today?

"Xia Manxing, it's not you who are making trouble there, will parents separate?"

Xia Manxing didn't think it was her fault, and yelled: "After all, it's because my parents have reservations. If my parents had told me that Qin Che's family is good, I would have made a fuss about breaking up the family? A family? Is it interesting to be so defensive?"

"Father said that the house was paid for by Qin Che himself, you don't believe it! Who is to blame?" Xie Mingyu's tone was quite bad, and her voice was even more angry, "Go back to cooking now, don't keep staring at other people's pearls That little thing at home."

"Why do you tell me to stare at Mingzhu's things?" Xia Manxing became angry, and regardless of being in the field, pointed at Xie Mingyu's blind and flushed face, and cursed: "It's not that you are incompetent, you see Look at Erya, how happy I was eating last night! Mingzhu is an aunt, what's wrong with giving something to my niece? We're all a family, what are you doing seeing out like this?"

(End of this chapter)