"Wow, brother, look, the soy milk has turned into mush!" Apricot clapped her hands excitedly and shouted.

Finding that the soy milk in the charcoal pot really began to solidify, Chen Xu stopped stirring, and after two or three minutes, all the soy milk in the pot solidified into a ball of loose bean curd.

Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief very excitedly, it seemed that he had guessed correctly, this was a gypsum mine.

"Brother, is this tofu? Didn't you say that tofu is square and piece-by-piece? Xing'er's little face was full of surprise.

"This is called bean curd, also called tofu brain, and it's also delicious, let's make a bowl of sweet bean curd to eat, okay?"

"Okay~~" Apricot jumped and laughed excitedly, as long as she was eating, she was very happy.

Chen Xu washed the bowl containing the bean juice just now, put the bean curd in the clay pot, and then went to the kitchen to find the honey and put a spoonful of it in it, stirred it slightly, tasted it, there was no strange taste, and the entrance was soft and smooth, almost no different from the bean curd in later generations.

"Let's go, let's eat outside!" Chen Xu was happy, took two bamboo spoons and went to sit under the pergola outside, and the two brothers and sisters took a spoon around the table and began to eat one spoon at a time.

"Wow, brother, this bean curd is so tender and smooth!" Xing'er shouted and screamed when she ate, the little spoon danced like a windmill, and a big bowl of bean curd was basically eaten by her, and Chen Xu only ate a few spoonfuls and then it was gone.

"Brother, I still want to eat!" Apricot yelled with the empty bowl in her hand.

"Okay, you go and call the two uncles Wang Wu and Wang Qi to push the mill, let's make a big pot of bean curd, and make tofu if you can't finish it!"

"Good!" Xing'er dropped the bowl and ran out, and after a while, she pulled Wang Wu and Wang Qi, two burly and sturdy guards, over, and happily preached how delicious the bean curd was as she walked, and the two fighting men felt full of saliva.

In order to improve and increase the nutrition of the family, by the way, take care of the seriously injured Wang Qingsleeve, now soy milk is a must-have drink at home, every few days several guards will grind a large pot of soybean milk filtered and put it in a clay pot, every morning to cook some, everyone can drink a bowl, although it is a waste of soybeans, but Chen Xu has not been stingy, after all, soybeans can only be used as auxiliary food, it is not good to be a staple food, no one can stand it after eating for a long time, and making soy milk is not only conducive to absorption, but also tastes better than soybean rice to the sky, Even the okara is a good thing, and the onion bean dregs cake is loved by everyone, and the favorite food of several guards is the fragrant and crispy bean dregs cake, which is not enough to eat in a large pot at a time.

A large pot of soybeans soaked for two days, Wang Wu and Wang Qi two people one by one grinding and one feeding, with extremely skillful cooperation.

Because Yu Wuya said that pushing and grinding can exercise the coordination of the body, and at the same time can exercise the strength of the legs, waist and back arms, and it also naturally has the Taoist yin and yang mysteries, so under Yu Wuya's flickering, a group of guards have become the main force of pushing and grinding, basically after this group of people came, Yu Wuya has always been the status of the grandmaster of the grinding world, plus the martial arts are strong, so he is carefully served by several guards every day, serving tea and pouring water to serve meals and running errands, and has faintly become the leader of the home nursing home. Every day, he commands a group of guards to do manual work, and he squats next to him with an iron sword to eat snacks as a supervisor, which is very comfortable.

Taking advantage of the time when Wang Wu and Wang Qi were grinding soybeans, Chen Xu found out a tofu box, which was made by Liu Erwa, a carpenter in the town, a month ago, but it has not been used.

I washed the tofu box, washed a large piece of linen, and then went to the lab to mash some plaster into powder for later use.

The main ingredient of gypsum is calcium sulfate, but it is a hydrate state, and the protein in the soybean milk will coagulate and aggregate into colloids, which is commonly known as tofu, and the south generally uses gypsum to make tofu, and the north uses brine, and later it is said that gypsum is poisonous, so it is slowly changed to lactone, but this statement is despised by many people, Nima China has never heard of being poisoned by gypsum for thousands of years, and has never heard of being poisoned by gypsum tofu, as for eating gypsum tofu and dying, it is estimated that the tofu is too delicious, so it is dead!

And the gypsum itself is still a traditional Chinese medicine, can be intimate and cool blood, in traditional Chinese medicine is a very common non-toxic preparation, naturally Chen Xu will not be nitpicky that can not eat gypsum tofu, even if it is toxic to eat less wool problems, later generations of Chinese are not always eating gutter oil, Sudan red eggs, poisoned milk powder and other chemical toxic food to grow up, and one by one live all day worried about the country and the people to defeat US imperialism and liberate all mankind.

Soon half an hour passed, a large pot of soybeans was grinded, the bean juice was also squeezed out and boiled in a clay pot, and Chen Xu also prepared everything, and after more than ten minutes, the soybean milk began to boil, and the fragrant soybean milk taste began to emanate.

A few minutes later, the stove fire faded, the boiling soybean milk slowly calmed down, Chen Xu poured half a bowl of gypsum water into the clay pot and continued to stir a few times, and soon the soybean milk became clear, and the loose bean curd began to solidify, Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief, according to the general experience of the first success, he didn't expect to succeed at one time.

The next step is simple, first each person used a big bowl of honey to make bean curd, Chen Jiang also brought a big bowl to Niu Dashi's family, and the rest was scooped into the tofu box with a gourd scoop into a clean and soft linen cloth, and then covered the burlap with a lid, and pressed it with a few stones, just waiting for the water to be drained and then became tofu.

And with tofu, there are too many dishes that can be made, tofu fish, stewed pork ribs with tofu, hot and sour cold tofu, mapo tofu, fried tofu, mushroom tofu soup, pork stewed tofu, anyway, tofu is a versatile dish, you can eat it any way, and they are all delicious.

You can even put the tofu on the warm kang stove and smoke it for a few days, thoroughly smoke the water in it and then make it into dried tofu, and then fry and marinate it, and you can make a few delicious dishes, especially some dried tofu with spices, and wait for the cold winter wax moon to sit on the hot kang and eat while watching TV...... Well......

Chen Xu was a little distracted, what should Nima do lying on the hot kang in the cold winter when the snow covers the mountain, in this era when there is neither TV nor computer and mobile phone, I can't find a copy, I have to find some entertainment activities, otherwise I will probably get depression and mania after a few months.

"Xing'er, how did we spend the winter before?" Chen Xu couldn't help but ask Xing'er.

"On a sunny day, I will dig wild vegetable roots and go to the woods below the river beach to collect dry firewood, if it snows, I will hide in the room with my mother to spin twine and weave cloth, I can't stand the cold and I will be heated outside the house, and I can only suffer from freezing at night! Last year, my hands and feet were frozen and almost rotten," Xing'er stretched out a pair of small hands to Chen Xu after finishing speaking, "Brother, look, it's not winter yet, and my hands are starting to be red, swollen and itchy again!" ”

Looking at these thin hands, Chen Xu felt like his heart had been pricked by a needle, he had this kind of thing when he was a child, the feeling of itching and pain in the quilt and feeling of fever and wanting to use cold water is indeed very uncomfortable, although it can't be treated now, but at least it can be prevented in advance, and it seems that knitting sweaters and gloves will be put on the agenda in advance.

After getting the tofu, Chen Xu went to the bottom of the pergola to take a look at the hard dry glutinous rice, and found that it was completely dry, and it should be able to be fried into rice flowers.

However, making rice candy is not making tofu, the materials required and the production process are much more complicated, and Chen Xu has never done it at all, he still saw his mother do it when he was a child, and then his mother was too lazy to do it after junior high school, because the store is rich in biscuits and snacks, and many old traditional foods in the countryside quickly disappeared, and then some people began to remember the taste of their childhood, so some artists known as folk inheritance began to make those things into commodities and sell them, but unfortunately no matter how much they miss and miss, Once you buy it back and eat a few bites, everyone will find that this is not the taste that Lao Tzu wants.

is like Chen Xu eating wowotou in the food street.

The memories of that era have long lost their support in the long river of time, and the bittersweet memories are just a light and nostalgic past, and when you get your hands and eat them, you will find that everything is just a self-deceptive dream, and everyone is just living in the dream of childhood.

Therefore, Chen Xu misses this kind of thing like rice candy, but he also knows that it is just the satisfaction of his childhood snack extreme poverty, and it is also a longing for his parents who will never be able to return to his parents after more than 2,000 years, and it is also the longing for the annual reunion festival, and at the same time there is a kind of helplessness and loneliness.

In the entire Great Qin, or perhaps the whole world, no one could comprehend his loneliness and loneliness

Life is as lonely as snow, no one can understand it, this is Chen Xu's current situation.

Because no one knows his wishes and ideals.

"Far East, vast frontiers, and ancient broken walls.

The vicissitudes of the previous life, the scenery of the later life, thousands of miles and thousands of mountains are firmly bordered.

Around the old kingdom,

Around the truth of the facts,

Around the vast years,

Around desires and ideals,

……

Hazy ears

There were no people who heard the call sign that day, o~~"

While working, Chen Xu unscrupulously sang Beyond's tragic and desolate "Great Wall".

Making snacks for childhood memories and missing his parents who spanned two thousand years of time and space, facing the impoverished Daqin now, Chen Xu felt that there was a flame burning in his heart, but what was emitted was the temperature of endless loneliness and sadness.

Although Chen Jiang's, Xing'er, and Wang Wu and Wang Qi's two guards were very curious about this song with strange lyrics and heart-rending tones like a roar, they were just curious, because Chen Xu often sang some strange songs, in their opinion, it had nothing to do with loneliness and loneliness, it was just a strange song that they had never heard.