rebirth through food

"This? Fried tofu, you can eat it in a while, Uncle Zhang has been working for a long time, let the east room rest for a while. Lan'er, where is the cold water for you?" Ye Xiaofeng was very busy.

"Here we come." Lan'er ran out of the west room in a panic, and poured a bowl of water for each of the three in a panic.

Several people were chatting in the room, while Ye Xiaofeng showed off his skills and cooked some delicious dishes.A dish of shredded potatoes with green peppers, a dish of fried tofu with Chinese cabbage, a dish of stir-fried oily rapeseed, and a dish of fried bean curd with mutton oil and green peas.In fact, if the tofu dregs are mung bean tofu dregs, after a little fermentation, they become hemp tofu, served with suet, diced mutton, and green peas, and sprinkled with a layer of chili oil when they are out of the pan. It is slightly sour and spicy, appetizing and satisfying.But at the moment, there is only this ordinary bean dregs, which can only make do.

Although there are only four dishes, the portions are full. It is served with a large bowl of winter melon minced meat soup, and a large bowl of brown rice per person is delicious.

Zhang Da felt very apologetic while eating, "Look, I'm here to help you, and I'm going to have a meal with your family, this..." Although he really felt embarrassed, the chopsticks in his hand were He couldn't stop life and death, which made him feel quite embarrassed.

"Uncle Zhang, look at what you said, our family used to be taken care of by your family, so eating our meal is nothing." Ye Xiaofeng ate slowly, helping his sister put some food into the bowl from time to time, "Besides, we are selling food now. , the family eats too much, do you still come to eat? Even if you come to eat every day, we will not be full."

"That's right, Zhang Da, the friendship we grew up with, why isn't it worth this bowl of rice?" Father Ye didn't know how to say nice things, but the words were sincere.

Today's meal is sufficient, and there is still a lot left.Ye Xiaofeng brought out another plate of deep-fried tofu puffs that he had dialed out for Huzi to take back.On this day, I borrowed a car and helped with work, but I did not trouble others much.Ye Xiaofeng understands sophistication, although the relationship is close, it needs to be carefully maintained, if it is taken for granted, it is afraid that even the best relationship will not last for a few years.

After packing up the rest of the food, Ye Xiaofeng went to the well to rinse the newly made tofu tray. With this, he could grind more soy milk in the future, and the leftovers could be made into tofu and sold to the neighbors.

Rinse the tofu drawer and stand it on the window sill to dry, then turn over the soybeans, the soy sauce is ripe, and the soy sauce is just around the corner.

In a blink of an eye, he didn't see Lan'er for another half a day, Ye Xiaofeng felt very strange, Lan'er was always around him at ordinary times, but today it was abnormal.

Ye Xiaofeng washed his hands and went into the west room, and found that Lan Er was talking with her head bowed with her back to him.

"Lan'er..."

"Ah!" Lan'er stood up in shock, almost knocking over a small bowl in her hand.

Ye Xiaofeng blinked, "What are you doing?"

"No, it's fine."

"Hehe..." Ye Xiaofeng smiled, strode over and saw something behind Lan'er.It turned out to be a black kitten. It didn't look big, that is, it looked like a month or two.Ye Xiaofeng raised his eyebrows, "Cat?"

"Brother..." Lan'er was very nervous. "I'm sorry, I'll take it out right away." Lan'er's voice was a little depressed.

"It's okay, you can play with it, I won't snatch it." Ye Xiaofeng wanted to reach out to touch it, but the little black cat turned his head and avoided Ye Xiaofeng's fingers. "He's so small, are you feeding him?"

"Hmm...brother, do you want me to raise it?" Lan'er was a little embarrassed, afraid that Ye Xiaofeng would ask him to throw the cat out.

"Raise it, how much it can eat." Ye Xiaofeng laughed and went out.Cats like to eat fishy things. He remembered that there was a pack of small salted fish in the cupboard. Although it looked like it had been stored for a long time, cats would definitely not dislike it.

With Ye Xiaofeng's approval, Lan'er was relieved. She also picked up a cat before, but Ye Xiaofeng refused to let her cat into the house, and finally disappeared.

Today, as soon as she entered the door, she heard a cat meowing. She followed the sound and found the kitten behind the door. She immediately fell in love with it.While everyone was busy, she took the cat back to the west room and hid it, and fed the cat with food, but was discovered by Ye Xiaofeng.

I had already thought about the result, but I didn't expect to see Ye Xiaofeng not feeling disgusted at all, but trying to get close to the kitten, so I immediately felt relieved.

When Ye Xiaofeng entered the house with the dried salted fish, Lan Er was talking to the little black cat with a smile. Although the little black cat came from a stray, it was surprisingly clean and had no peculiar smell on its body.I don't know if it's an illusion, but Ye Xiaofeng still feels a faint fragrance.

"Lan'er, the cat wants to eat fish, come here, Mimi Mimi~" Ye Xiaofeng's self-righteous approach made him lose his adulthood, the black cat didn't even look at the little fish in Ye Xiaofeng's hand, just took a look, and walked proudly and gracefully , walked to Laner's side.Eating broth with rice with a look of reluctance.

Ye Xiaofeng was angry, "You don't even eat fish, so why don't you still want to eat shrimp and crab?"

"Brother, do cats eat crabs?" Lan'er laughed. There are big rivers and streams next to Daqing Mountain. Some people go to catch crabs and eat them, but Xiejia Village is far away, so they don't eat them often. But even so, Laner has never heard of cats eating crabs.

"I want to eat and dream, I still want to eat!" Ye Xiaofeng muttered, "This cat is called a crab! See if I turn around and steam him!"

"Hey, brother, the cat still likes the meal I prepared!"

Ye Xiaofeng rolled his eyes, I didn't cook that meal.Smelling the dried salted fish in his hand, Ye Xiaofeng choked for a moment, and quickly threw it aside to absorb it, but the salty smell couldn't be washed away.

Ye Xiaofeng didn't object, and Father Ye didn't have anything to say, he just said that black cats are unlucky.But Lan'er didn't care, even though Ye Xiaofeng gave the kitten a surprising name.Of course Ye Xiaofeng didn't care much, he liked cats already, but his delicate cousin looked terrified and exaggerated when she saw cats and moldy garbage, so he had no choice but to give up this hobby.Now seeing a little milk cat, I naturally like it.

But the little black cat didn't like Ye Xiaofeng's appearance very much, he wouldn't let it be touched, he wouldn't be touched, and he wouldn't respond to his barking, and even picked up Ye Xiaofeng's clothes and quilts to catch him.

Ye Xiaofeng was very angry because of this, but he couldn't bear to do anything to the kitten.

The large purchase of soybeans really brought the tofu business to a higher level.In addition to the earlier soy milk and tofu nao, tofu is also sold to customers in blocks.Tofu is cut into cubes that weigh more than a catty, and each piece costs one penny. It is a good dish to buy and eat stewed or mixed with some green onions and fine salt. The sales volume even far exceeds that of marinated offal.

The days gradually became more and more prosperous, although they earned a penny or two every day, but the amount was quite a lot, and Ye's father's inquiry from the shopkeeper of the big car shop still did not make any progress, and he was frowning every day.

Although many landlords with well-off families were found, none of them were willing to take over.Firstly, shopkeeper Feng of the big car shop was in a hurry to spend money, and the price offered by this shop was not low. Second, although this big car shop had existed for many years, it was not a very lucrative business.Compared with earning a few pennies from peddlers and pawns every day, it is more profitable to open a bank.

There are also some people who have taken a fancy to this place and want to sell it, but they also want to take advantage of Shopkeeper Feng's urgent use of money to lower the price. Therefore, after so many days, things have not progressed at all, and Father Ye even feels ashamed to see Shopkeeper Feng.

But the family is not all troubles, at least Ye Xiaofeng is very happy, the color of the sauce grains has gradually turned reddish-brown over time, according to the secret recipe, salt water is mixed into the mature sauce grains, soaked for a day, and the oil is squeezed out.Then use the squeezed residue and mix it with brine again to squeeze out the second oil and the third oil.After three times, the three times are mixed together, heated and clarified.

Ye Xiaofeng almost burst into tears looking at the soy sauce, which was bright and crimson in color and had a strong aroma.This is not soy sauce, this is the future braised pork, soy pork knuckle, braised tofu, and soy sauce lo mei!

The soy sauce filled a half-sized soil jar, and Ye Xiaofeng moved it to the corner of the wing.This place is shady and cool for more days, and the soy sauce is in good condition, and can be sold to neighbors.After cleaning up the residue, Ye Xiaofeng soaked the beans again, preparing to continue making soy sauce for sale.Moreover, the beans used this time are new beans, and the brewed slices may be better.

Ye Xiaofeng thought about making a few dishes that used soy sauce for dinner, braised tofu with minced meat, and braised radishes with soy sauce. Thinking about only two dishes, he couldn't satisfy his cravings, so he took out the newly bought ones that day, which cost him 55 renminbi. A piece of good pork belly at a price of [-] yuan was washed and cut into small square pieces.

Boil the water to pull the white soup, put the oil in the big pot and put the sugar, and pour the two catties of tight pork belly into the pot to fry the sugar color.After a while, the meat pieces that were originally white, tender and pink were stained with a crimson sugar color. In fact, if they were fried with brown sugar, the color would be more beautiful and the taste would be different.It's just that there is only white sugar at home, so I have to give up.

Stir-fry the meat pieces repeatedly in a hot pan, so that the excess fat will be released, which will not be too greasy, but also make the soup richer. Finally, pour in the most important supporting role soy sauce and continue to stir-fry.

Put the water into the pot until the meat is covered, slice or cut the onion, ginger and garlic, and put in the condiments such as pepper, star anise and cinnamon, let Lan Er put them together and sew a small gauze pocket, throw it into the pot middle.

After the fire was boiled, it was turned to a low heat and simmered slowly. Ye Xiaofeng made tofu with shallots and radish skins with vinegar and put them on the table.

With a straw in his mouth, Ye Xiaofeng sat on a small bench by the stove to light the fire.Since Ye Xiaofeng took over the kitchen work, at most it was a job of steaming rice and lighting a fire, but when Ye Xiaofeng was nimble, he didn't even need this.

Lan'er was wearing a light yellow dress, and stood aside holding a little black cat crab, "Brother, I'll go out and play for a while." The light yellow suit made the little girl very beautiful, and Ye Xiaofeng could understand it. Friends, take a look.

"Go, come back early, the rice is cooked and the meat is in the pot." This braised pork needs to be stewed crispy to be delicious. It turned out that there was an excellent dish of braised pork called tongue bite, which is what it was about. The meat is crispy, soft and fragrant, and it melts in your mouth. When you eat it, you will always bite your tongue because the meat is too soft.Later, green beans, diced carrots, etc. were added to this dish. When eating, carefully pick up a piece and mix it with rice to avoid this situation.

Ye Xiaofeng felt drooling when he thought about it.