Border Cook

The taste of five-spice dried tofu is loved by everyone, and Xia Mingyue smoked the tofu on the basis of the original dried tofu, so that the dried tofu can have a longer shelf life and a more unique taste.

The five-spice dried tofu was quickly put on the market for sale. Due to its good taste and reasonable price, it once again gained recognition from customers and was sold out every day.

The tofu business was also booming. After Xia Mingyue and Zhang Heming discussed it, they added two more sales shops in Changzhou City and increased the production of tofu and spiced dried tofu in the workshop.

Xia Mingyue took the opportunity to try making thousand sheets of tofu in the Wufu workshop.

The method of making tofu is basically the same as that of soaking beans, grinding soy milk, filtering the residue, boiling soy milk, making tofu and pressing it into shape.

The only difference from ordinary tofu is that in the final pressing step, a mold that is one foot long and half a foot wide is used.

Pour the ordered tofu pudding into the mold, spread a thin layer evenly, cover it with a clean cage cloth, pour another layer of tofu pudding, and cover it with another layer of cage cloth...

Repeat this process several times until the entire mold is filled, then cover it with a lid and enough weight until no slurry flows out. After the thousand sheets are completely shaped, you can open the mold, remove the cage cloth layer by layer, and take out the thousand sheets.

The finished thousand sheets can be sold directly, or it can be further processed like tofu to make smoked thousand sheets.

You can even stack many sheets of thousand sheets on top of each other, roll them into a cylinder, tie them tightly, and steam them to get a whole roll of vegetarian chicken.

Vegetarian chicken can be sold directly or made into spiced vegetarian chicken for sale.

Xia Mingyue even took advantage of the fact that Wufu Workshop had purchased a large amount of soybeans, and imitated the method of finding the two master chefs Gao Fusheng and Lao Liutou, and also found a few master chefs, and started to grow bean sprouts in Wufu Workshop...

As Xia Mingyue has been continuously developing new products recently, the categories of products sold in the tofu shop have continued to increase.

Buyers can choose their favorite soy products according to their own taste preferences. It can be said that as long as they enter this tofu shop, they can always buy what they like.

As the shop business was good, Wufu Workshop also gradually became prosperous and continued to expand in size.

The previous situation where only one corner of the workshop was busy is no longer there. Today, the Wufu workshop is almost half utilized, and the number of workers has increased several times. The daily busy scene can be described as in full swing.

Seeing this scene, the people in Wufu Workshop were happy, Xia Mingyue was happy, and those people who had bought shares in Wufu Workshop were even happier.

And the happiest person must be Zhang Heming.

The tofu workshop was able to accommodate more and more refugees, its business was getting better and better, it was making more and more money, and the people's reputation for it was getting higher and higher.

When it comes to being an official, the height of the position is one thing, the power held is another, but being recognized by the people is the most important thing.

Who, when serving as an official, is not full of ambition and desire to be a good official who serves the country and brings benefits to the people?
Although the world is unpredictable and sometimes he has no control over his own actions, being able to do something to benefit the people can be considered as the realization of his original ideal.

What a sense of accomplishment!

Although Zhang Heming was happy, he noticed that his wife Cao was very busy these days. Whenever he came back from the government office, she didn't even have time to chat with him for a while.

After observing for a few days, Zhang Heming discovered that his wife was busy doing needlework.

It is a dress, a light pink dress with crabapple flowers embroidered on the collar. It looks lifelike and very beautiful.

"Madam, your craftsmanship has improved." Zhang Heming praised, but he also felt a little distressed. "Making clothes is hard work. Even if Madam wants new clothes, she can just invite an embroiderer to come home and make them. She doesn't have to do it herself."

Although his salary was not high and his family's property was limited, he could not provide the Cao family with a life of luxury, but it was completely possible for him to make a few new clothes every year!

Cao didn't explain directly. Instead, she glanced at Zhang Heming and asked, "Don't you think the color of this dress is a little too pink for my age?" "Why?" Zhang Heming smiled very flatteringly, "Madam is young and beautiful, always in her prime. This pink color suits Madam best."

Cao: "..."

As expected, men’s words are lies.

She is already over 30 years old. Even if she takes good care of herself and looks younger, she can never be compared with real young people.

When Zhang Heming started lying, he really didn't even blink.

Cao rolled her eyes at Zhang Heming in annoyance and said, "If you keep saying these nonsense, I'll sew your mouth shut with needle and thread."

"This dress is not for me, but for Lady Xia."

"For Lady Xia?"

"Yes, after the dog days, it is the beginning of autumn. After the beginning of autumn, the weather will gradually become cooler. If it rains a few more times, it will be freezing cold."

Cao said, "Madam Xia is coming from Jinqiu County. She will not have as many clothes as she does at home. I will make a piece of clothing for her, and it will be useful when the time comes."

As for why she had to do it herself...

Xia Mingyue helped her husband solve a huge problem. It can be said that she was very kind to their family, so she naturally needed to give them some return.

Moreover, as a woman, Xia Mingyue can do things that the women in the rear house cannot do, which makes Cao, as a woman, feel proud of it.

Therefore, the clothes had to be made, and she had to make them by hand, so that they would appear solemn and express her respect and gratitude to Madam Xia.

"Madam, what you said makes a lot of sense." Zhang Heming nodded, his eyes twinkling, "But speaking of clothes, it's autumn now, so I should buy some autumn clothes."

"I have already arranged this. I have selected the fabric a few days ago. I am just waiting for the embroiderer to come tomorrow and measure the size for you." Cao said without raising her head.

Zhang Heming, "..."

"Ma'am, I don't seem to have enough socks to wear."

"I'll arrange for Xiangxiu to do it."

"Xiangxiu has a lot of things to do on weekdays. She also has to take care of Madam's personal affairs. If she were to do all of it, I'm afraid the socks she made wouldn't be enough to wear."

Not enough clothes?
Cao stopped what she was doing and looked at Zhang Heming. "You can easily make a lot of pairs. How can you not have enough to wear? Are you a centipede?"

Zhang Heming, "..."

He is not a centipede.

But now he would rather be a centipede.

Maybe the lady will look at him a few more times... (End of this chapter)