Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 29

During the night, there was no snowfall in the sky, and the next morning when we got together on the kang, Zhang’s family was very busy, packing the small tofu cubes that were cut out from the whole board last night, and the stinky tofu. Put into the burden, and then go out with a few baskets of things.

The snow stopped, but the water and the ground were all frozen, and the weather was even colder, and clouds of mist could be sprayed out with just one mouth. The Zhang family rushed to Changyuan Town in the cold wind, just to earn a few hard-earned money. Hope to live a fat year.

The closer to the end of the year, the more lively the market will be. In addition, it has been snowing for the past few days, and many people who want to come to the market have been blocked by the snow. It will be hard for the snow to stop, and all of them will come here. In the past few days, there was a lot of noise and prosperity, and there were crowded people everywhere.

In such a lively scene, Zhang Yun tried his best to attract business, coupled with the delicious stinky tofu itself, there was an endless stream of people in front of Zhang's stall, which was even worse than the oil sales in the past few days. And, in just two hours, all the stinky tofu was sold out, and after soaking the tofu for a whole day, more than half of the board was sold.

Seeing the copper coins put into the purse, Zhang's family all smiled and squinted their eyes. Finally, the hard work of the family was not in vain, and they got rich rewards.

After a whole day, Zhang's family saw the power of stinky tofu, and when they drove back with their load in the evening, they were talking about this stinky thing all the way, and everyone said it was amazing.

"Father, so many people like this kind of stinky tofu, we have to hurry up and get more mold out, or there won't be enough to sell." On the way back from Bailidu, Mrs. Zhou said.

Zhang Youqing accepted the words with a smile, and said: "Just go to Tie Li's house to buy it. His family's tofu is worried that they can't sell it. Let's buy it so that they can get some money and have a good New Year. It's good for both of us." it is good."

"Yes, that's the reason. If every family in the village can live a good year, that's good." Zhang Liangen yelled, his family can have a good year this year, and he hopes that everyone can live a good life, so that Only in harmony can the days go by better and better.

Zhang's family laughed and talked all the way, Zhang Yun followed them, listening to their simple words, and their innocent thoughts made her feel very comfortable and warm.

Before it got dark, Zhang's family rushed back to the fenced yard. Mrs. Zhou put down their burdens and went to the kitchen to cook dinner. Zhang Liangen, Zhang Youqing, and Zhang Cheng's grandfather and grandson put down their burdens, turned around and went out again, and discussed with them on the way. As usual, he rushed to Chang Tieli's house to buy tofu. Zhang Xing was originally asked to stay at home, but he slipped out of the fenced yard and followed the adults while everyone was not paying attention.

Seeing that everyone had gone out, Zhang Yun went to the kitchen to help clean up the things in the load, scrubbing, washing, and putting away. When the loads were all cleared, the kitchen was already full of the smell of vegetables. Zhang Yun took a few deep breaths, only to feel his stomach growl.

"Yun'er, get hungry. I'll collect the things later. Wash your hands quickly. The meal will be ready. Your father and the others will be home soon." Mrs. Zhou was cooking chrysanthemum chrysanthemum and rolled tofu when she heard her daughter's stomach growl. , just smiled and called her to eat.

"It's almost cleaned up, let's eat together when Dad and the others come back." Zhang Yun dragged the burden to a corner, scooped water from the tank, washed off the oily hands, and said Zhou's words in his mouth. if.

While talking, there was movement outside the fenced yard, the grandparents of the Zhang family came back, Zhang Yun just wanted to run out to have a look, when he saw them file into the kitchen, all holding a whole board of tofu in their hands.

"Damn, there's not enough space on the water tank board, quickly clear up a place for tofu." Zhang Youqing yelled when he came in.

When Zhang Yun heard this, he hurriedly looked around the kitchen for a week. The kitchen is not small, but there are so many sundries piled up, and he couldn’t find a clean place to put it, even if he had to put it on the table in the main room, because he couldn’t eat like that. up.

"There are several sieves in our house. There is no place to put them here. We might as well set up a few sieves in the main room and put the tofu directly in it so that the water can drain." Zhang Yun was thinking about where to put the tofu, when Zhang Zhang who came in behind shouted stand up.

This is quite reasonable, Zhang Liangen said hurriedly after hearing this, "Chengzi's idea is good, Daqing's daughter-in-law, Yun'er, go and set up a sieve, there are still two boards of tofu behind."

Mrs. Zhou didn't care about cooking. After two or three times, he put the chrysanthemum chrysanthemum and tofu in the pot, scooped a ladle of water into the pot, put the spoon down, wiped his handle on the apron, and went out .

Zhang Yun also went out together. As soon as the mother and daughter went out, they saw Chang Tieli and his eldest son Chang Fu entering the yard with tofu in their hands.

"Yo, Brother Tieli, why do you want you to deliver it yourself, and let the baby's father take it later." Zhou immediately went up to meet him, took the tofu plate from Chang Fu's hand, and said politely.

"It's okay, you bought so much tofu from our house, so it's nothing to give it away." Chang Tieli responded with a smile, and together with Mrs. Zhou, took the tofu board to the main room and put it on the table.

Zhang Yun walked quickly to the backyard, and took out two sieves from the thatched hut where he pushed sundries. Just flush the slush off.

The sieves on both sides rolled halfway, and Mrs. Zhou came to meet her. Seeing that she was struggling to hold it, she wanted to come over and take over. Zhang Yun hurriedly said: "Mother, I can just roll away like this. You can go to the hut to get the shelf, so that it will be fine." Don't run back and forth."

Mrs. Zhou nodded, and went to the thatched cottage, took two wooden shelves with sieves from inside, and carried them to the front. The kitchen went to fetch water, rinsed away the snow and sludge stuck to the outer ring of the sieve, and wiped the surface of the sieve again to make sure it was clean before letting Zhang Youqing and the others put the tofu onto the sieve.

Father and son Chang Tieli and Chang Fu followed suit, and after the whole crossing was over, they talked joyfully, put away the tofu board, and left to go home.

After such a delay, it was already dark, Mrs. Zhou hurriedly fried pickled potherb mustard and put it on the table, everyone sat down and had dinner.

The family sat at the table to eat, and the tofu on the sieve beside them dripped dripping. Zhang's family looked at the sieve from time to time, looking at the large pieces of snow-white tofu, all with smiles on their faces .

With so much tofu waiting to be cut, the family didn't have the mood to eat slowly. They all ate the corn paste in the bowl in a few mouthfuls, put down the bowls and chopsticks and started working quickly.

Mrs. Zhou took away the bowls and chopsticks to wash, and Zhang Yun discussed with his father and elder brother, "We bought five boards of tofu this trip, father, look, how much mold should we take?"

"I see that deep-fried stinky tofu sells better than plain fried tofu. If it's more moldy, let's get a four-ban mold." Zhang Youqing said.

The charter also interjected, "That's right, it will take time, and it's only worth it if it's moldy. If we're afraid that the fried tofu won't be sold enough, we can go to Uncle Tieli's house to buy it temporarily. They still have tofu."

Zhang Yun also thought the same way, but he had to ask his family. Seeing that they all said so, he smiled and said: "Hey, then let's pack it with four boards." After talking, he went to the kitchen to get it. With a knife, now that the tofu is on the sieve, it is not easy to move it, so I simply cut it on the sieve.

There were only two kitchen knives in the family, Zhang Yun took one, Zhang Youqing took one, and the two of them cut together. When Mrs. Zhou packed up the dishes and came out, there were no kitchen knives to use. The people in the family couldn’t stay idle. Yes, I simply asked Zhang Zhang to borrow two kitchen knives from Chang Siliang's house, and Zhou and Zhang Zhang also joined in the process of cutting tofu.

More hands means faster. In less than half an hour, the four boards of tofu were cut into four squares. Because there were too many tofu, the water could not be drained for a while, so they were still placed on the sieve. The remaining half plate of tofu, this one is used for Minger’s deep-fried tofu puff, it needs to be cut into smaller pieces, Zhang Yun and Zhou Shi will cut it up soon, this one does not need to be drained, directly Just put it in a small basin, put it on a load, and pick it up tomorrow.

In this way, there is still a plate of tofu left. After two days of preparation, the tofu will be fried and soaked. This will take two or three days. Just put it on the sieve. Put the tofu in, scoop some water and soak it, so that the tofu will not dry out and become too old.

After everything is done here, everyone will work together to put the four boards of moldy tofu into the big wooden barrel piece by piece, carefully stacking them one by one. The four boards of tofu almost fill the wooden barrel. In the process of stacking, straw is laid layer by layer, and finally several layers are covered. After the cover is tight, it is covered with tung oil cloth to cover it tightly and airtight, and then it is carried to the back of the stove and put down.

Seeing that the whole bucket of tofu was moldy, Zhang's family laughed comfortably, and while talking, they put away the sieve and shelf, and went back to their houses.

When Zhang Youqing and Zhou returned to the house, they didn't want to sleep for a while. The couple sat cross-legged on the kang and put the small kang table in the middle. Zhou urged Zhang Youqing to take out the money bag. Pick up copper coins.

Today’s stinky tofu is sold for one penny, and the tofu puffs are still the same as before, three pennies. After such a day, I also received more than 160 copper coins, plus the last time I did not string more than 300 copper coins. The mouths were strung together for half a pen, looking at the money, talking happily, and then stuffing the half of the money into the clay pot in the kang, blowing on the oil lamp and resting.

Afterwards, Zhang’s family was busy for another three days. During these three days, the market became even more lively, and Zhang’s fried tofu also became more and more popular. Sold a whole board.

Just like this, in the midst of being busy, the days came to the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye. On the day of the New Year’s Eve, we had to sacrifice to the Kitchen God. All the food dedicated to the Kitchen God had to be burned, and all the incense candles, melons, fruits, and drinks had to be prepared. Sacrifice was very busy, so Tianzhang's family rested early and rushed back.

During this period of time, the family members were so busy with business that they couldn’t even cook and eat the Laba porridge on the day of Laba. Everyone thought in their hearts that today’s New Year’s Eve must be well spent, so that they can It has the taste of Chinese New Year.

(End of this chapter)