Yoshida Mii

Chapter 65 Preparation
Seeing that Dong Bao didn't look like he was joking, Lin Fu couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, "Are you really planning to sell tofu?"

"Of course it's true." Dong Bao said earnestly. Her parents in her previous life had successfully made a fortune out of tofu and became a rich man. She has been involved in the family business all these years.If she can't make tofu here, I'm sorry for her 20 years of work experience in her previous life.

Mrs. Li was also taken aback. She had never heard Dongbao talk about making tofu before, so she looked at Dongbao hesitantly and asked, "We have never made tofu before, and the tofu here is not easy to sell." Yuan There are only one or two tofu sellers in Shuizhen, and the business is not doing well.

"How do you know if you don't try it?" Dong Bao laughed, "I've seen other people make tofu, and that's it!"

Lin Shi replied, "I think that Dongbao has a lot of thought in making cauliflower, and the food it makes is delicious, and the tofu it makes must be better than others. Besides, it doesn't take much effort to make tofu."

There is no male labor in Dongbao's family, so the land will definitely not work. Not to mention the lack of livestock and farm tools, the work in the field requires a lot of effort. After a year of hard work, after paying the rent, the remaining food may not be enough to make ends meet. Starting a small business in the town is enough for the two of them to eat.

Dong Bao couldn't help looking over, and smiled at Lin Shi, it's better to be brother Da Shi, and support her in everything.

"Then try it." Aunt Qiuxia smiled, "Dongbao is very dexterous, and the fish soup at noon is very beautiful. I have been cooking for half my life, and I can't make such delicious food."

In the afternoon, Dong Bao followed Lin Shi to Lao Cheng's grocery store to buy ten catties of soybeans.Uncle Cheng was puzzled when he weighed the beans for Dong Bao, and couldn't help but talk a little too much, asking, "Dong Bao, why are you buying so many beans?"

It is no exaggeration to say that the fact that the lady of the scholar was seriously ill and was thrown out by the old lady of the Song family together with the second child of the Song family has been spread all over the world. Apart from talking about the Song family's unkindness behind their backs, the big guys can only treat Li The mother and daughter sympathized with each other.Orphans and widows live in difficulty, and soybeans are not of much use except for making miso and oil.

"Of course I ate it." Dong Bao smiled, and didn't intend to tell outsiders too much. There is no privacy in the village. It was said at this meeting. In less than an hour, the sister-in-law's family of the foreign daughter-in-law in the village knew that she was going Tofu is sold.

Seeing that Dong Bao didn't intend to say anything, and Uncle Cheng didn't feel comfortable asking any more, after weighing the soybeans, Lin Shi took the bag and carried it on his shoulder.

"How is your mother? Are you feeling better?" Uncle Cheng asked.

Dong Bao nodded, and said in a brisk voice, "It's much better. In the morning, my aunt asked the doctor from their village to come and see him. He said that he would rest for a few days and take a few medicines."

Uncle Cheng raised his brows in surprise, isn't it? In the past two days, there have been rumors in the village that the lady of the scholar has a sudden illness and is dying. She is waiting to die, and even invited two doctors from the town to see Okay, how come after a day of work, it's almost healed?
Could it be that the adults were afraid that the poor little girl who lost her father would be sad, so she coaxed her on purpose?

Thinking of this, Uncle Cheng couldn't help looking at Dong Bao with pity, and reached out to grab a few sorghum candies from the shelf and stuffed them into Dong Bao's hand, "Take it, eat it on the way."

Dong Bao pushed back in surprise, "Uncle..." Their family is not close to Lao Cheng's, they are just acquaintances, so they can't just ask for their things.

"Uncle gave it to you, why, why don't you like it?" Old Uncle Cheng smiled, and stuffed the candy into Dong Bao's hand again.

"Thank you, Uncle!" Dong Bao was not polite anymore, any more polite would be false, any child in the village is not a glutton.

Before leaving, Uncle Cheng grabbed Lin Shi and asked in a low voice, "Dashi, what's wrong with Mrs. Xiucai?"

Lin Shi could tell from his expression that he was thinking wrong, and couldn't help laughing and said: "Ma'am is very well, the doctor said that after a few days of recuperation, it will be fine."

Looking at the back of Lin Shi pulling Dong Bao away, Uncle Cheng shook his head and said with a smile: "I really recovered from my illness. I thought it was something wrong, and I felt uncomfortable after this. Hey, good people get good rewards." , God is watching!"

After returning home, Dongbao begged Aunt Qiuxia to "edit" the doctor's words and release the news that the doctor had misdiagnosed Li's illness. Don't gossip in private.

Aunt Qiuxia naturally agreed.

After the Lin family left, Mrs. Li helped Dongbao move out the millstone from the house, put it in the yard, scrubbed it several times with clean water, and put it in the sun to dry.

"Bao'er, do you really want to make tofu?" Shi Li asked hesitantly.She was originally a timid person, and she had never touched tofu before. Her eyes were smeared about this business, which made her doubt and unconfident even more. However, Dongbao was full of energy and confidence, and Li also hoped Make money by borrowing tofu.

The most important thing is that it has been so long since Dong Bao came home, Dong Bao has become smarter and more sensible, he can see things more clearly than she does, and even thought of such a clever way to get the mother and daughter out of the Song family, Gradually, Li Shi habitually listened to Dong Bao's opinion in everything, and Dong Bao became the one who made up his mind among the two.

"Of course." Dong Bao sat under the eaves to rest his breath, pointed at the beans piled up in the room and said, "Look, I bought all the beans."

A catty of beans cost three renminbi, and Dong Bao bought ten catties of beans for [-] renminbi. According to Lin Shi, it would be cheaper to go to the town or those big shops in Anzhou City to buy beans for hundreds or even thousands of catties.According to her craftsmanship, one catty of beans can produce almost three catties of tofu, and the cost of one catty of tofu is just a little more than one penny. If it is to be sold, the price must be set carefully.

"Bao'er, it's not like there was no tofu sold in this town before. No one bought it after it was fresh for a while. I also tasted that tofu. It's not very tasty, it has a bitter taste." Li sighed.

Dong Bao smiled and picked up the beans he bought, picked out the damaged ones and those that didn’t look good, and asked without raising his head, “Mom, what color is the tofu you eat?”

Mrs. Li sat next to Dongbao and helped Dongbao pick up the beans. After thinking about it for a while, she shook her head and said, "It's yellow, it's not pretty."

"Oh, then they must be tofu made with salt and marinade. The craftsmanship is not good, the marinade is not added properly, and the tofu is over-pressed when it is pressed. The taste is bitter and the color is not good. Don't worry, we must be better than theirs." Dong Bao Said.

There are two types of raw materials for ordering tofu. One is brine, which is the mother liquor after salt is precipitated from salt well water or sea water. There are substances such as magnesium chloride, which can make soy milk solidify into bean curd. The brine itself is poisonous. The tofu factory uses brine to order tofu.Another type of raw material is common gypsum. The tofu made with gypsum is white and tender, but the taste is slightly inferior to the tofu made with brine.

Mrs. Li was surprised when she saw that Dongbao said it clearly and logically, like an expert who had been making tofu for many years, and asked quickly, "Then where can we get brine?" The salt bittern is very difficult, I am afraid that it may not be sold in Anzhou.

Only then did Dong Bao raise his head, and said to Li with a smile, "We don't use brine." It's hard to buy brine here, so we can only use gypsum, Dong Bao added silently in his heart.

In China, tofu has a history of more than 1000 years. There have been records of tofu since the Han Dynasty. However, it took a long time for tofu to become a home-cooked dish on every table. It has become an indispensable part of people's livelihood.

Dong Bao had heard from Lin Shi that the current dynasty in this time and space was not any dynasty in Chinese history that she was familiar with. Maybe she had arrived in a different time and space, but Dong Bao was sure that the people in this dynasty had not fully grasped the point. The technology of tofu and the use of soybeans are simply stuck at the point of extracting oil and making soybean paste.It may not be easy for people to accept her tofu, but this is the best time for her.

"I'll make it first and give it to everyone to taste. If it's all agreed, we'll sell it in the town." Dong Bao explained to Li with a smile. Of course she understood Li's panic. She had planted one for decades The peasant woman in the land suddenly lost the land on which she lived, and she could not rest assured that she had to make a living from a business that she thought was completely impossible to make money.

This is different from Dongbao's family working together to make tofu and sell tofu. In the 90s, tofu was already an indispensable food for every family.

"Hey, I'd better make it first and have a look." Li said with a smile, if she doesn't do well, just think of other ways to make money. She is in good health and has plenty of strength. Even if she does laundry for others, she can support her. No one could sell her daughter anymore. .

Dong Bao raised his head and saw Li Shi's smile. Years of hard work made Li Shi's face prematurely stained with wind and frost. Aunt Li Hongqin was five or six years older than Li Shi, but the two of them stood together, On the contrary, Mrs. Li is more like an older sister.In addition, when he was in the Song family, he lived a miserable life, he was under a lot of pressure, he was frowning all day long, and his face was bitter, all of which added up, Dong Bao never thought this mother was good-looking.

However, looking at the past at this time, under the golden sunlight, Li's face is smiling softly and calmly, his brows are stretched, and a pair of big apricot eyes are curved into beautiful crescents when he smiles. Dong Bao is a little stunned. In fact, Li's appearance is very Zhou Zheng, she looks pretty when she smiles. When she was a girl, she should have bright and beautiful colors. Otherwise, the talented father with eyes above the top would not have liked Li Shi back then.It's just that so many years of hard life have worn away the brilliance of Li's face, and now that he has escaped from the fire pit, he has such a comfortable and bright smile.

"Mother, you look so pretty when you smile, you should smile more in the future." Dong Bao said seriously.

(End of this chapter)