Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 21 Delicious Divine Tofu (Tuesday, please read it later)
Yu Qiutang tied up the little civet's mouth and legs with ropes and threw it into Yu Xiaowei's frame.

He had been muttering about running with an empty basket on his back, and now he finally had something.

"Uncle, can we take this back and eat the meat?"

"I just want to eat. We have a lot of pickled yellow rat meat at home, which is enough to last for a few days. There will be a market in town tomorrow, and there will definitely be wild animals for sale. I can sell them and buy some food for the family."

"Oh, that's pretty good. How much can this sell for?"

"I can't say for sure. I'll ask when I get there."

As Yu Qiutang spoke, he directly pressed down the jujube tree that had been chopped down to the point where there was not much left, cut off the last connection, separated the trunk and branches, and carried the trunk itself.

The branches were cut into pieces more than one meter long and divided into two parts. Yu Xiaowei carried the small bundle and added a large bundle on top of the bag.

Including the leaves in front of him, he now had at least 150 kilograms on his back, but he still did not find it strenuous at all. He felt as if he could walk briskly in the mountains even if the weight was doubled.

Yu Xiaowei was stunned.

He followed behind him and praised him repeatedly, saying that Yu Qiutang was a strongman and that even Li Yuanba in the picture book didn't have such strength.

Yu Qiutang smiled indifferently.

He recalled the action of throwing the axe just now. He was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and extremely skillful. Time and time again, the experience fully proved that his various attributes were basically three or four times that of an ordinary person.

This is the greatest reward I can give him as a reborn person.

Otherwise, he has been honest all his life, hasn't accumulated much ability, has never been involved in stocks, let alone doing business.

Not everyone can do business. With his personality, he should not think about making money from others, but just don't lose money to others.

Yu Qiutang didn't dare to dream that his brain would suddenly become smarter after he was reborn.

Even though he has lived two lives, he still values ​​his own practice more. It is impossible to know the depth of the water by listening to others, and only by experiencing it personally can it count.

When the two were returning home, they passed by Aunt Liu's house again and saw a middle-aged man squatting at the door polishing his leather shoes. It was Aunt Liu's husband.

Yu Xiaowei still subconsciously hid behind Yu Qiutang, but Yu Qiutang walked upright without any fear.

He just needed some people to stand out and let him show off his power, so that the villagers would not think that he was easy to bully. He would not take the initiative to provoke anyone, but if he was provoked, he would definitely not be afraid of trouble.

Aunt Liu's husband also saw the two of them. He followed them for a while with his eyes, but for some reason he looked away and did not come over to cause trouble.

Yu Qiutang still felt a little regretful.

After passing by, Yu Xiaowei heaved a long sigh of relief and said, "Finally we made it. I was worried that they would cause trouble for us."

"What are you afraid of? Just come over. It's a good opportunity for him to take good care of his wife."

"You're awesome." Yu Xiaowei gave Yu Qiutang a thumbs up. Regardless of his real strength, Yu Xiaowei felt inferior to him just for his courage.

After returning home, Yu Qiutang asked Yu Xiaowei to chop firewood. He put the little civet in a bag and threw it into the corner, then asked Yu Chunmei and Yu Xiaoyun to make magic tofu.

As far as he could remember, the people here had tasted the divine tofu only after the millennium, so it must be a rarity to make it now.

Yu Chunmei looked at the two bags of leaves and felt worried, not knowing what to do.

Yu Qiutang told them not to worry, he would demonstrate it himself and they would learn it after doing it once.

With the help of Yu Chunmei, he first washed half a basket of clean leaves and chopped them up for later use. Then, when the hot water in the pot boiled, he poured all the leaf fragments into the pot and stirred vigorously, allowing the leaves to fully melt into the hot water, gradually forming a pot of green paste.

Transfer the paste into the washbasin, wash the pot, find a piece of white gauze, fix the four corners, slowly pour the paste in the basin onto the white gauze to filter, the green water all seeps into the pot, leaving only residue on the filter cloth.

Take some ashes from the burnt wheat straw from the bottom of the pot, put them in a basket to sift out the finest ashes, slowly add them to the filtered green liquid in the pot, stir thoroughly, and then transfer to another basin to settle. Start the second pot in this pot.

The first pot was basically made by Yu Qiutang, while the other two watched.

When it came to the second pot, two people cooked it, and Yu Qiutang watched.

For people who cook frequently, this process is not complicated, and many of the movements are more skillful than Yu Qiutang.

Soon, the second pot was also out of the pot.

Both pots were placed and only half a bag of leaves was used. However, as there was no other container to hold things at home, I had to give up for the time being.

Roughly estimated, these two basins weigh at least 20 to 30 kilograms, and should be able to be sold for some money or exchanged for something else.

After the second pot was out of the pot, the first pot had already formed a rudimentary sediment. Yu Xiaoyun lay beside the basin curious and surprised. It was hard to understand why leaves could make such a thing. It was smooth and greasy and looked delicious.

"Uncle, this is the divine tofu, what does it look like?"

"What does it look like?" Yu Qiutang asked jokingly.

“Like…” Yu Xiaoyun tilted her head and thought for a moment, then shook her head shyly, “I can’t really say, I don’t know what it looks like.”

Yu Qiutang smiled.

In fact, this magical tofu is called tofu, but its ingredients are not very different from tofu, and they are almost unrelated.

The fairy tofu is actually more like a kind of jelly, and its main ingredients are starch and gelatin, not protein.

This kind of magical tofu is sold in many places in later generations, especially in some counties in the south of the Yangtze River, which are close to the mountains. If you go into any restaurant, you will find that almost every household has this magical tofu dish.

However, the way of eating is different in the south and the north.

People in the south prefer to stir-fry it, which is similar to stir-frying ordinary tofu.

The north prefers to eat it cold.

Especially in the Northwest, everything can be eaten cold.

To make it refreshing, you can add some vinegar, salt, garlic juice, etc. If you like it more, add some red chili oil. The taste is so delicious.

At this time, Yu Xiaowei also cut all the branches into short pieces and stacked them neatly on the left side of the kitchen, ready for use after being dried by the wind.

When he saw the tofu in the basin, his eyes lit up and he asked hastily, "Can I eat this?"

Yu Qiutang pressed the first basin with chopsticks and found that it was still a little soft, so he asked people to wait another half an hour.

During this time, he found some red peppers, chopped them up, peeled a few cloves of garlic and mashed them into meat paste with a garlic mortar. When he wanted to pour vinegar, he found that he had no seasoning at home, so he simply heated some oil and poured it on top, then stirred it evenly.

The kitchen was immediately filled with a strong fragrance.

Yu Chunmei was fine, but the two children couldn't wait any longer and looked at Yu Qiutang eagerly, waiting for his order so that they could eat heartily.

Yu Qiutang did not wait any longer.

Cut a slice with a knife, cut it a few more times horizontally in your hand, then cut it vertically into thin slices about one centimeter thick and put them into three bowls respectively.

Add the chili peppers that have been poured with the hot oil and stir them together. The aroma of the chili and sourness, combined with the faint fragrance of the tofu, makes the two children swallow their saliva before they even eat it.

It feels even better than the pheasant I ate last night.

(End of this chapter)