Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 28 Cricket Tofu
In June, the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Fang took out all the family's cotton-padded clothes and took them apart. Taking advantage of the long weather, they cleaned them up and made them better, so as not to miss them when it was cold.When cooking at night, I boiled a pot of hot water, poured the ash from the fire into a large basin, then poured hot water into it, and stirred it with a stick.When the water is clear and poured out, use this water to soak the clothes, and wash them after soaking overnight.At this time, there was no such thing as soap, and the water of plant ash was used to wash clothes.

After breakfast the next day, Fang rubbed all the soaked clothes. "Yuxian, mother is going to do the laundry, you and mother can do it together." Fang called Yuxian.

"Hey, mother, wait for me." Yuxian came out of the house and saw her mother holding a wooden basin, which contained clothes that had been rubbed once. There were a lot of clothes, and there was another one on the ground, which also contained clothes.He shouted: "Second brother and third brother, come out and help." Da Lang went to town again today.

Erlang and Xiaosan came out and asked, "Sister, what's the matter?"

"My mother and I are going to do the laundry. My brother can help deliver the clothes. I'm afraid my mother won't be able to take them." Although Fang has been pregnant for more than three months, it turned out that the symptoms of morning sickness and other symptoms have disappeared, but Yuxian still doesn't care. Don't worry, be careful with everything.Besides, Erlang and Xiaosan both have strength, so it would be safer for them to help.So Erlang and Xiaosan carried a basin of clothes, Yuxian held a mallet for beating clothes, Fang was empty-handed, Xiaosi and Xiaowu insisted on following, and a group of six walked to the river.Tong's family is at the east end of the village, and it happened to pass through the village when going to the river.

"Ms. Yuxian is going to do the laundry. It will be very useful when the children grow up. You see, these big and small children are strong enough." Everyone on the road praised Fang's good fortune, and Fang was very happy. Looking at the children.Ever since the children made money selling medicine, Yuxian asked her to bring some food back every time. Yuxian was a sensible person, she never cared about money to buy food for her brothers, and she never stopped eating at home.The children are full and have flesh on their bodies.Fang didn't ask the children how much they earned, and since she said she would let Yuxian take care of it, she would let her make the decision. However, seeing that Dalang gave Yuxian a lot of money every time he came back, he knew that they should sell medicinal materials. earn money.The children are grown up and know that they have made money, and Fang is also very relieved.

When they got to the river, Erlang and Xiaosan put the wooden basin on a flat stone. Fang found a stone with a flat back and a slope in front, took out the clothes, beat them and rinsed them.Xiao Si and Xiao Wu helped to put the pounded clothes in the water again, then Erlang and Xiao San wrung out the clothes and took them to the big rocks by the river to dry, Yu Xian also took a stick and followed suit Beat wash.With the cooperation of the whole family, the clothes were washed quickly and hung on the big rocks.Fang went home first, leaving the children to watch, and put away the clothes when they were dry.

Yuxian had nothing to do, so she went to the shallow water to watch the little fish swimming around.She lifted a stone, and suddenly saw a black thing lying on the ground under the stone, "Ah, it's a cricket!" Yuxian shouted happily.

Crayfish, scientific name Northeast black crayfish, also known as Changbai Mountain lobster, is distributed in the water system of Changbai Mountains. It lives in waters with clear water, non-polluted rivers and creeks and other stony waters. It has extremely high requirements for water quality, and slight pollution will causing mass death.Yuxian remembered that when she was young, there was a river in the village, and crickets could still be seen at that time.Later, people used more and more pesticides, and the rivers were seriously polluted, and the crickets gradually disappeared.Only in the clear creeks in some forest areas, very few can be seen.Cricket cricket meat is tender and nutritious. It is a delicacy in Changbai Mountain area. Yuxian often took guests to eat a dish called cricket cricket tofu in her previous life. It is made of cricket cricket. It is delicious and colorful. Dishes with all the flavors.It's just that they were all farmed at that time, and there were very few wild ones.Even if it is farmed, the price is very expensive.

Now that the crayfish was found here, Yuxian jumped up excitedly and forgot that she was in the river, "Oh," the splashed water wet the clothes, but fortunately it was summer and the water was not cold.

"Sister, what's the matter?" Erlang was close and hurried over, he was afraid that Yuxian might be bitten by something.

"It's okay, brother, there are crickets here." Yuxian told her brother excitedly.

"Cricket, what is that?" Erlang looked in the direction Yuxian pointed, "It's cricket, what's so rare about this thing? Be careful not to let it get caught, it hurts." Erlang Pulling Yuxian to the side.

"Brother, can you help me catch the cricket?" Yuxian didn't dare to catch that thing, so she had to let her brother do it.

"What's so interesting about that thing? Maybe it can be caught." Erlang wondered how his younger sister would like this.

"Second brother, this food is delicious, don't you know?" Yuxian was a little surprised, don't people at this time know that cricket crickets can be eaten?
"Eat? This thing has a hard shell, how can you eat it?" Erlang looked at his sister, thinking that she was very strange.

"Oh, don't worry about it, grab some for me, don't you know when I make it?" It seems that people at this time really don't know that crickets can be eaten.Yuxian decided to make a salt water crayfish first.So he insisted on his elder brother to catch the crickets for her, but Erlang couldn't pinch her, so he asked his younger brothers to help catch the crickets together with the attitude of coaxing his sister to play.There are quite a lot of crayfish in this river, and there will be crayfish under any stone, and they are not small in size.After a while, I grabbed a full pot. Yuxian looked at this pot of cricket crickets and was very happy. I can eat delicious cricket cricket tofu again.

It was hot, and the rock was even hotter, and the clothes were already dry. Yuxian and her brothers put the clothes away and put them in another basin, so the five brothers and sisters went home with a basin of clothes and a basin of crickets.On the way, some aunts and aunts met when they saw the crickets and said, "These children are really cheap. What are you doing with some crickets? I accidentally got my hands caught." Xian ignored him, and said in her heart: "Don't be greedy after you have eaten." After arriving home, Yuxian put the crayfish in a cool place, scooped some water, and poured some vinegar in it. The crayfish should be left for a while to spit out the sand.

Da Lang has already returned, and he winked at Yu Xian, who then entered the room with him. "Brother, how is today?"

"The mother-in-law of the Jin family said that her master is going out for a while, so she doesn't have to send fish there." Da Lang felt a little regretful that he lost a share of income, although it was not much, but at least he could exchange for some food. "Today shopkeeper Fang said that the medicinal property of piercing keel has been tested, and the effect is good. Let's dig more. He wants to promote this medicine." This is good news. Chuanlong bone has strong vitality. There are so many things, they should be usable. "He also counted the money for the piercing keel bones we sent before. Calculated at eight cents a catty, a total of fifty catties was sent a while ago, plus the other medicines sent today, a total of 690 yuan was brought back. Wenqian." As he spoke, he took out six strings of money and some loose copper coins from his pocket.In order to make it easier for her brother to get money, Yuxian specially asked her mother to sew a one-shoulder satchel for Dalang, just like the one-shoulder schoolbag in the previous life. It was sewn with thick cloth, and the inside was separated a few times.

Yuxian did the math, and there were a lot of Bawen. Wearing a keel is very expensive, and it is outrageous if it is too expensive. "Brother, there's a lot of eight coins. That thing is much easier to get than others, and the quantity is also large. You don't have to send the keel bone too often, or it will be worthless. Let's dig the medicinal materials and sell them at the beginning. In exchange for some food, it’s fine if we can eat enough. Now we don’t have to worry about eating, and we don’t have to work too hard to earn money. If we earn more, we will be jealous. If we really split up one day, we No one cares about it." Yuxian told her brother: "Brother, no matter who asks you about selling medicine, don't tell me. When you get rich."

"Well, I know. Let's go out to eat, I'm a little hungry." Da Lang led Yuxian out of the house, just as the meal was already served in the yard.

After lunch, everyone went to take a nap. As soon as Yuxian woke up in the afternoon, all the brothers mobilized to help her make crickets. Originally, they wanted to cook some crickets, but there were a lot of crickets. Today Nothing to do, the brothers are all there, so Yuxian decided to make cricket tofu.Take off the front cover of the cricket, pull out the yellow and put it alone, then break the tail sideways, and the intestines of the cricket come out.Put the processed crayfish into a stone mill and push, and then filter the flow out with gauze, and it becomes a small pot of brown juice.Mrs. Liu had already prepared the rice and started to serve it out. Yuxian asked Sanlang to cut a handful of leeks, wash them and chop them finely.At this time, Da Lang also boiled the water in the pot, and Yuxian slowly poured the crayfish juice and yellow into the boiling water. In an instant, large pink flowers turned up in the pot, and the soup The juice also became white.Yuxian withdrew the fire, turned the fire down, and poured in the chopped leeks after a while, and added some salt.The green vegetable leaves, white soup, golden yellow seeds, and pink cricket tofu are colorful and fragrant.The people in the yard who were waiting to eat all smelled a delicious fragrance, and asked Mrs. Liu what dishes he hadn't brought.

"I don't know, the children of the eldest brother's family are mysterious this afternoon, I don't know what they are messing with, just now I just finished cooking, Yuxian kicked me out, saying that she wants to eat something, Tell me not to watch." Liu Shi also had a puzzled expression on his face, so he talked about Yu Xian's performance in the afternoon.

"You have raised some good children, who spend all day messing about. Those oily and salty ones, which don't want money? The second daughter-in-law is also the same, so let them mess around like this." Qin said and got up to go into the kitchen to have a look .

Da Lang came out of the kitchen with a pot of soup, and the aroma wafted into everyone's nose from the pot.The big guys took bowls of soup one after another and couldn't wait to drink it. "It's really fresh," they all said it was delicious.

Old Man Tong also took a sip of the soup, "Well, this soup is pretty good, Da Lang, what is it made of?" Not only the old man was curious, but everyone wanted to know what it was made of.Mrs. Liu looked at Mrs. Fang, thinking she taught it, Mrs. Fang shook her head, she was still wondering.

"My sister made it, and I don't know what it is?" Da Lang shook his head, but his sister refused to say it.

(End of this chapter)