60s Splendid Life

Unknowingly, the conversation between the three of them reached almost noon.

The children in the family were coming back from school, so Lu Jin said goodbye to Aunt Qin and the others, and took their little Baoer back home.

When the three children came back from school at noon, Shen Xing also showed off what he had learned in class, and recited an addition formula for them, which surprised him.Not only Lu Jin was surprised, but even the two children in their family who went to school together were a little surprised.

Especially kid Lu Haochen, whose mouth was so wide that he could stuff an egg into it. He pointed to his younger brother who was stronger than him and asked, "How can you memorize it?" They went to class for half a day.

"Big brother taught me." Shen Xing shook the two little tugs on top of his head, looked at his little friend innocently, with an expression of "your brother didn't teach you", almost made Lu Haochen cry past.

So don't look at the kid Shen Xing who usually looks unreliable, but he can learn the things his brother taught him twice. In the class, the teacher taught everyone to read, and he could recite it after listening to it twice.

Lu Haochen looked at his brother... his brother taught them every day!

Lu Jin couldn't help laughing at the eyes of their children, and said to their children: "Okay, I will teach you to recite it after lunch later. Sister, can you recite it?"

"Well, yes." Lu Qinglian could memorize addition and subtraction formulas, and she spent time memorizing them at night.

Hearing that his elder sister will meet, Lu Jin said to their children: "Then after lunch, elder sister will teach younger brother to recite, and ask me if you don't understand anything." Let the elder sister teach the younger brother, and the two siblings learn together and make progress together.His big brother only appears when needed, in order to show his importance and uniqueness.

The scallion noodles they ate at noon, the scallion noodles are definitely delicious and easy to make noodles. First boil the noodles, heat the oil in the pan, put the scallions in and fry until fragrant, then add soy sauce and a little sugar To taste.Since there is already salt in the soy sauce, there is no need to add additional salt.

Pour the adjusted sauce over the noodles and stir it evenly with chopsticks. Each person has a bowl. A group of children ate up to the bottom of the bowl. Lu Jin also ate a big bowl of noodles.

Several children were full and paralyzed on the chair for a while before they crawled to do their homework one by one. The elder sister taught the younger brother to recite the addition formula, and the room was filled with the sound of reading. Even the little Baoer could follow the brothers and sisters together. Reading is just not knowing if you can understand real calculations.

As the eldest brother, Lu Jin is very happy to see children eager to learn and make progress. Although the current scholars can't get good use, but in another ten or eight years, when their children grow up, they will belong to these children Our opportunity and time has come, so prepare ahead of time.There is a saying that is true, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, and he hopes that his children are those who are prepared.

However, although the children's enthusiasm for studying is very high, he interrupted the children's enthusiasm for studying appropriately and let them sleep on the kang for a while, so that they can go to the labor class in the afternoon.

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In the afternoon, the three children got up and went to labor class wearing straw hats and rain boots. Lu Jin stayed at home with little Bao'er to sleep for a little longer before taking the children to Aunt Qin's house next door.

Aunt Qin was very happy to see them coming, "I was thinking whether I should come to your house to find you, can you see if the beans are soaked?" beans.

The beans that had been soaked for several hours were already soaked. Lu Jin grabbed a handful of them and squeezed them with his hands. He hummed and said, "It's almost ready. Let's soak a little earlier next time. It might be better if you soak it longer. It's better." Today's time is short, and the time to soak the beans is not long enough, but if you don't make it now, the tofu you make will not be able to keep up with their dinner, so you can't save it for tomorrow.Today their main task is to go through the process and teach two novices how to make tofu.

"Hey, okay, what are we going to do now?" Aunt Qin and Wang Xiumei were a little excited when they heard that they could make tofu, but they had never made tofu before, so they didn't know what to do. How to do it.

"Grind the beans first." It happened that there was a stone mill in the yard of Aunt Qin's house, so their beans didn't need to be brought to the entrance of the village for grinding, they could be ground at Aunt Qin's house.Last time, Lu Jin didn't notice that there was a mill in the neighbor's house, so he took the beans to the entrance of the village to grind them.

Now that there is a stone mill in the yard, it is more convenient to make tofu.

Because there were not many beans, his sister-in-law Xiumei ground the beans by herself, and Lu Jin was responsible for explaining some things that needed attention.

Grind the soy milk, and then filter it with a clean gauze. Last time he made tofu, there was a large piece of clean gauze, so he brought it from home, and it can be used directly.With his Aunt Qin and Sister-in-law Xiumei around, basically he didn't need to do it. He only needed to be in charge of teaching, and Aunt Qin and Sister-in-law Xiumei were on the sidelines.

The filtered bean dregs were left aside first, and Lu Jin said, "We can save the bean dregs to make bean dregs cakes, or fry them." Food is very precious these days, so these bean dregs should not be wasted, but should be used , Whether it is eaten by humans or livestock, it is edible.

"This is good, save it to make pancakes for later." Aunt Qin and the others have experienced famine in their generation, and they know the value of food, so they will never be willing to waste any food.

After the soy milk is filtered out, the next step is to cook the soy milk. They brought the soy milk to the kitchen and poured the soy milk into a large pot to cook.In order to prevent the bottom from being burnt, a person needs to stand by and stir with a spoon when cooking soy milk.

Lu Jin reminded from the side: "In the future, you must pay attention to one thing when making tofu, that is, the soy milk must be boiled. After the high heat is boiled, then cook on a low heat for five to six minutes. Make sure that it is fully cooked before turning off the fire, otherwise it will not be cooked. Cooked soy milk is poisonous and will cause diarrhea to those who eat it."

"Oh, let's remember this." When they heard that undercooked food is poisonous, Aunt Qin and Wang Xiumei both took it very seriously and kept the words in their minds.

After the soy milk in the pot was boiled, it was boiled for five or six minutes until it was completely cooked, and then they scooped out the cooked soy milk and put it into the big pot.

Three people guarded the pot of boiled soybean milk. Lu Jin said: "The boiled soybean milk should be left for a few minutes, and then stewed when the temperature drops to about [-] or [-] degrees. Stewing is the most critical step, and it must be stewed." Don’t worry, just drop by drop... Be careful when dropping. The spoon should be tilted, pour in the brine bit by bit, and stir the soy milk in the same direction. If you see that there is nothing in the middle, let a vortex form in the middle. .”

I was afraid that Aunt Qin and Wang Xiumei would not know how to do it for the first time, so Lu Jin did the cooking step by himself and asked Wang Xiumei to stir it with a spoon.

He brought the brine from home. Fortunately, he had put brine in his space before. This thing can be sold in spice shops in later generations, but it's not easy for them to buy it here.

In addition, the water left over from making tofu is poured into a water tank, put in a warm place to ferment for a day, and can also be used as brine. The brine used by those who make tofu at home is passed down from generation to generation.If people in the countryside can't make tofu now, there is another key point that they can't get any brine for tofu.

Lu Jin told Aunt Qin and sister-in-law Xiumei how to keep the brine.

As soon as she heard that the brine could be kept, and would not be used up, Aunt Qin smiled and said: "I heard people say that tofu needs to be brine, but I don't know where the brine comes from. It turns out that it can still be left out, so that we can save some water for later when we finish making tofu, so we don’t have to worry about the tofu running out of brine in the future.”

Wang Xiumei responded with a smile, "That's the reason."

After a while, I saw bean curd and yellow water appearing in the soy milk, and Lu Jin shouted: "Look, there is bean curd coming out of it."

"Sister-in-law Xiumei is fine, you stop first."

Lu Jin asked Wang Xiumei to stop stirring, and when the soy milk in the pot stopped, they could see the bean curds formed in it, "If the soy milk is yellow now, it means it's okay. If the soy milk is still whitish, You need to add a few more drops of brine. If you are afraid that you will not be able to control yourself, you can find a small bottle and poke a small hole in the bottom, and slowly drip it drop by drop. But you must remember that you can’t put more brine , Putting too much tofu will not taste good, and it is not good for people to eat, so the brine must be handled carefully, and the amount should be enough.”

"Oh." Aunt Qin and Wang Xiumei didn't know that there are so many things to pay attention to in making tofu, but they both learned humbly.

Cover the lid and wait for a few minutes, then lift the lid, and you can see flocculent bean curds forming in the pot.At this time, they only need to soak the gauze completely and spread it into the tofu box, and use a colander to scoop out large pieces of tofu flowers and put them in the box.

Lu Jin reminded: "At this time, we must try our best to make the tofu look good. If we want to open a tofu shop in the future, we will have to hire someone to make a few boxes for tofu."

"Oh." The two people next to him nodded seriously.

When all the bean curds are scooped out, the rest is to teach time.

Because the tofu flower he ate a few days ago was delicious, so this time Lu Jin saved some soy milk to make tofu flower.The solidification time of tofu flowers is not as long as that of tofu. They eat tofu flowers before the tofu is ready.

Each of the three children gets a bowl, and the three of them also get a bowl for each of them. They are topped with sweet syrup and mixed with a spoon. It is delicious and delicious.