The Abandoned Woman of Space

Chapter 17

Xiao Douding grew up to be five years old and hadn't had a few mouthfuls of good food.

Now seeing Yunmo making Guanyin tofu, he stuffed some firewood into the stove, stood in front of the stove door, stared curiously at the steaming big iron pot with a pair of dark eyes.

Yunmo kept stirring the spatula, and the fresh and tender rotten leaves were scalded by boiling water, and soon their bright green color faded, and they were all boiled and rotten in the pot.

The originally clear water gradually turned green, bubbling and bubbling. With the continuous stirring of the clouds, a pot of clear water turned into a green water slurry. The longer the cooking time, the thicker the water slurry.

"Tongtong, there is no need to add firewood for now."

After the pot was gurgling for a while, Yunmo picked up the spatula, took a closer look, and saw that the water slurry was so sticky that it could lift the green silk, so she told Yun Xiaotong not to put firewood in the stove for the time being.

"En." Yun Xiaotong nodded heavily, and threw the firewood in his hand on the ground, "Mother, is the tofu ready?"

"It's almost ready, add some gypsum water to the water slurry, let it condense for a while, and then you can eat it."

Yunmo took the wooden basin and put it on the stove, bent over and took the gourd and bamboo sieve, put the bamboo sieve on the edge of the wooden basin, scooped up the water slurry in the pot with the gourd, poured it into the bamboo sieve middle.

A ladle of melon water slurry was poured in, and the water slurry flowed into the wooden basin along the gap of the bamboo sieve, and the leaf residue was filtered out.

After the water slurry was filtered, Yunmo put the wooden basin aside and put it away, then took out the filtered leaf residue and poured it out, and then returned to the stove, ready to put the chopped mink meat into the pot.

There is no oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home, so mink meat can only be stewed.

She cleaned the iron pan and added two scoops of water. At this time, Yun Xiaotong lay down on the stove and ignited the fire again.

"Mother, the fire is burning, it's time to stew meat."

"Okay, mother, let's cook the meat now." Yunmo felt distressed and wanted to laugh when he saw the ashes covered on his face.

The water in the pot was boiled, she put the chopped mink meat into the pot, and stirred it several times with a spatula to get rid of the bloody smell. After the mink meat was scalded by the boiling water and turned white, she picked it up again and put it in a bamboo sieve to drain. moisture.

Remove the blood from the mink meat, drain the water, Yunmo scooped out the water in the pot and poured it out, then added two scoops of water to the pot again.

In front of the earthen stove, Yun Xiaotong kept adding more firewood to the stove to make the fire vigorous. After a while, the water in the pot boiled again.

Yunmo lifted the lid of the pot, poured the drained mink meat into the pot, and turned it a few times with a spatula to let the water submerge the meat. Since there was no oil, salt, sauce and vinegar for seasoning, she picked a few wild peppercorns and threw them into the pot In it, it is stewed with mink meat.

Wild prickly ash has a numbing aroma, stewed with mink meat, one can enhance the flavor, and the other can remove some fishy smell.

After stewing the mink meat in the pot, Yunmo thought about it. There is no gypsum powder at home, and the Guanyin tofu in the pot does not have gypsum powder, so it cannot be condensed into shape.

"Tongtong, you watch the fire at home, mother-in-law went to Granny He's house to borrow some gypsum powder, and I'll be back in a while." After thinking for a while, Yunmo decided to go to Qiu's house to borrow some gypsum powder.

"Mother, don't worry, I will take care of Huo." Yun Xiaotong grinned, looking very cute, assuring Yunmo patted his chest.

Yunmo took a broken pottery bowl from the cupboard, ready to go out.

Anyway, Qiu's house is next door, just a few steps away from the bamboo fence, and it only takes a few minutes to go and return quickly, so I am not afraid of accidents at home.

"Aunt He, sister Qiuyue, are you at home?"

Yunmo walked outside the wall of the yellow clay courtyard of Qiu's house, saw that the gate of Moozhu was ajar, so she didn't go directly into the courtyard, but stood at the foot of the wall and shouted twice.

As soon as she finished speaking, a simple and honest male voice came from the yard.

"Mozi is here, hurry up and sit in the courtyard, my mother and sister are at home." It was Qiuyue's brother Qiushi who spoke.

"Hey." Yun Mo responded to Qiu Shi, pushed open the bamboo door, and walked into the small courtyard.

"Brother Qiu, you're weaving straw sandals again." Yunmo walked into the small courtyard, saw Qiu Shi was weaving straw sandals under the shade of a tree, and casually greeted him.

Qiushi stopped what he was doing, raised his honest and honest face, and looked at Yunmo with a smile, "That's right, I'm going to the market in the city tomorrow, so I'll make up some more today so that Qiuyue can sell them in the city. "

Yunmo was worried that Yun Xiaotong was alone at home, and after chatting with Qiushi briefly, he asked directly, "Brother Qiu, do you have gypsum powder at home?"

"Yes." Qiushi said with a smile, "I bought it years ago, and it happened to be unused."

"Mozi, are you looking for gypsum powder to make tofu?"

"Yeah." Yun Mo nodded slightly, "The bean curd paste is ready, it's just a little bit of gypsum powder."

Qiushi heard that Yunmo had already made tofu paste, and the only thing missing was gypsum powder, so he shouted into the room, "Qiuyue, take out the gypsum powder left over from our house, your sister Mozi made tofu paste , just use gypsum powder.”

Yun Mo was very grateful in her heart, but she didn't say much.

Not long after, Qiuyue came out of the house with gypsum powder, and He Jiuniang followed behind her.

"Sister Mozi, there's only this gypsum powder left. You can see if it's enough." Qiuyue walked up to Yunmo with a smile on her face, and handed her the gypsum powder in her hand.

Yunmo took the gypsum powder, pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "That's enough, Aunt He, sister Qiuyue, thank you so much."

"Sister Mozi, you're out of touch." Qiuyue curled her lips, pretending to be unhappy, "It's just a little gypsum powder, and it's not a good thing, so thank you."

After Qiuyue finished speaking, Yunmo smiled, and also felt that the words of thanks were a bit hypocritical.

He Jiuniang looked at the gypsum powder in Yunmo's hand, thought for a while, and asked, "Girl Yunmo, when did you grind the tofu? Why haven't you come to my house to grind?"

There happened to be an old stone mill in Qiu's house. Usually, when Yunmo wanted to use the mill, he would come to Qiu's house. Today, Yunmo said that he made tofu, but he didn't come to pull the mill, so He Jiuniang asked casually.

Yunmo had no intention of keeping the matter of Guanyin Tofu from the Qiu family.

At this moment, when He Jiuniang asked, she said in detail: "Aunt He, I use a kind of leaves to make tofu paste. I don't need to use a stone mill. After a while, the tofu will congeal. I'll send you some." , let you also try something new."

"Sister Mozi, can the leaves really be made into tofu?" Qiuyue became very curious when she heard this.

Isn't tofu made from beans?It was the first time she had heard of such a rare thing as making tofu with leaves.

Seeing her curious expression, Yunmo smiled and said, "Of course it's true. I'll bring you some later. The green tofu is smooth and soft. It's delicious."

Qiuyue swallowed, and she was not polite, and said carelessly, "Sister Mozi, you said this, then I will wait at home."

(End of this chapter)