Farmhouse strong man

After Yuan Liuzhen heard Li Niang and the others say that whoever marries Tao Fu will surely enjoy good fortune, her expression froze. What she said was true. Tao Fu was called a "wife restrainer" when he was an adult, and no one dared to match him. Besides, Tao Fu had always lived on the mountain. , busy making money, not much contact with outsiders, no one said it should be a matchmaker.But it's different now, he and Tao Fu moved into Liyao Village, and the villagers in Liyao Village didn't know Tao Fu's reputation as a "wife restrainer", so someone would talk to Tao Fu about their marriage.Thinking of this, he couldn't help being in a bad mood, he wasn't even as excited as before when he was about to eat a table of dishes cooked by Tao Fu himself.

Yuan Liuzhen took out the wine he had filtered and added a lot of sugar, and said to Uncle Man and Niang Li, "This is the wine made by me and A Fu, you can taste it."

Yuan Liuzhen poured a glass of wine for everyone. Uncle Man and the others were curious when they saw the purple wine, especially Uncle Man. When they were drinking together yesterday, he heard Tao Fu talk about wine making, but he didn't expect Tao Fu The wine brewed with Yuan Liuzhen is this kind of purple, and it looks delicious.

When Yuan Liuzhen was pouring wine for Tao Fu, Tao Fu blocked Yuan Liuzhen's hand to pour the wine, looked at Yuan Liuzhen, his eyes looked a little uncomfortable, and he said embarrassedly: "Zhenzhen don't need to pour it for me, I drank too much wine yesterday. Drinking it today is not good for your health."

Yuan Liuzhen smiled and said, "That's right." He didn't pour himself a drink.

After Uncle Man and the others tasted the wine, they realized that the wine was quite sweet and delicious, so they couldn't resist drinking a few more glasses.It was only after they finished eating that they realized that they didn't feel much when they drank the wine, but if they drank too much, it had a lot of stamina. Many of them already felt dizzy after they finished eating.

After the meal, Tao Fu went to clean up the dishes and the stove, and Yuan Liuzhen chatted with Uncle Man and the others.

Not long after that, Li Niang and the others left one after another. Uncle Man and Xiao Man sat for a while and talked to Tao Fu before leaving.

Tao Fu and Yuan Liuzhen were the only ones left in the hall. Yuan Liuzhen ate the pastries one bite at a time as if nothing had happened, and drank the tea that Tao Fu bought from the town.

Yuan Liuzhen knew that Tao Fu was looking at him, but he never asked. He could feel that Tao Fu wanted to tell him something but didn't dare to say it, and he didn't ask specifically.

After eating pastries for a while, Yuan Liuzhen continued to pick beans in the living room, Tao Fu came to help.Yuan Liuzhen had nothing to do to find topics with Tao Fu, and they talked about interesting things, and Tao Fu couldn't find a chance to ask the questions he wanted to ask.

After picking all the soybeans, it wasn't too late, but the two of them had something on their minds tonight, and they both didn't mention the matter of sword practice, but went back to their rooms to rest.

Yuan Liuzhen went back to the room and lay down, heaved a sigh of relief, he was exhausted today, but fortunately his body had no other symptoms except soreness, otherwise he couldn't pretend that nothing happened until this point, after he lay down, his whole body Much more comfortable.

At this time, he began to think carefully about what happened last night. Although his memory was rather vague, he thought it was a dream, but he still remembered some. Tao Fu thought it was a dream, he seemed more daring than before, and he didn't have too much restraint, he just acted on instinct.

Thinking of this, Yuan Liuzhen didn't dare to think about it.

At this moment, Ah'Ban, who rarely followed him after coming to Ligou Village, suddenly flew in from the open window. He thought that Ah'Ban's arrival at this time would give him some psychological comfort. He suddenly understood what A’Ban, who had been missing all along, had been doing since he came to Ligou Village. Ah’Ban’s return at this time was not to comfort him at all, but to give him dog food .

The figure that fell on the window sill didn't enter the house, but Ah'Ban took the pastry he hadn't finished just now and sent it to the figure.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Liuzhen became a little angry, turned her back to Ah'Ban, and fell asleep not long after.

In the morning of the second day, Yuan Liuzhen got up very early, earlier than Tao Fu, and he began to grind soybean milk after getting up.

Tao Fu woke up with dark circles under his eyes, saw Yuan Liuzhen grinding soybean milk and asked, "Is Zhenzhen going to make tofu now?"

In this era, some people already know how to make tofu, but not everyone knows how to make tofu, and there are not many ways to eat soy products.The gypsum powder used to make tofu is also available. They bought some gypsum powder when they bought beans.Therefore, it is not particularly troublesome for them to make their own tofu.

Yuan Liuzhen nodded and said, "Yes, I'm just free recently, so I'm researching some ways to eat soy products." He looked at Tao Fu's dark eye circles and asked with concern, "Did you not sleep well last night, Fu?"

Tao Fu was a little embarrassed and said: "Yes, I have been dreaming for the past two days."

Yuan Liuzhen was thinking that Tao Fu probably felt that what happened the night before yesterday was a dream?He suggested: "If you can't sleep well, you can order some soothing incense to help you sleep."

"It's okay, it will be fine in two days." Tao Fu came over, seeing Yuan Liuzhen putting soaked beans in one hand and grinding soybean milk with a mill in the other, he naturally took the wooden stick from Yuan Liuzhen's hand and started to turn the millstone.

One of the two pushed the mill, and the other put the beans in, and soon a bucket of soybean milk was ground.

After grinding the soy milk, Yuan Liuzhen looked at the bucket of soy milk and decided to make the tofu skin for spicy slices first.

Tao Fu came to the kitchen with the soy milk and asked Yuan Liuzhen what to do. Yuan Liuzhen asked Tao Fu to pour the soy milk into a large pot and boil it.

While cooking soy milk, Yuan Liuzhen kept recalling the steps of making tofu skin.

As the soy milk boiled, Yuan Liuzhen asked Tao Fu to put the cooked soy milk into the wooden basin.After the soy milk in the wooden basin was aired until it was slightly cool, Tao Fu put a little gypsum powder bought in it to solidify.

After putting in the gypsum powder, it needs to solidify for a while.Yuan Liuzhen used this time to find a clean white cloth. They bought a lot of white cloth because they sold horseradish and crispy rice. These white cloths have been cleaned. He took some white cloth and cut them into squares the size of ordinary tofu skin. Spicy slices are bigger squares.The cut cloth is scalded with hot water to sterilize it before use.

When the time was almost up, he asked Tao Fu to smash the solidified soybean milk, that is, tofu nao, and then put the cut cloth on the chopping board, and spread the crushed tofu nao on the square cloth for wrapping. After it is finished, continue to spread a square white cloth, spread a layer of broken tofu nao on the white cloth, wrap the broken tofu nao with white cloth, and place it layer by layer in this way, and when it reaches a certain height, Find a stone slab that is larger than the square piece of cloth, wash and disinfect it and press it on top, so that the water in the tofu brain wrapped in the cloth can be squeezed out.

After a while, all the tofu brains were arranged like this.

Waiting for all the water in the cloth-wrapped tofu brain to be squeezed out and no longer flowing, Yuan Liuzhen and Tao Fu washed their hands and began to remove each piece of tofu wrapped in white cloth from inside.Yuan Liuzhen looked at the tofu slices. Although they didn't look as expected, they looked pretty good.

After removing all the tofu slices, they put the tofu slices on a clean white cloth and put them in the yard for drying. The sun is very good today, and they can be used after two days of drying.

After finishing all this, there were still some tofu brains left, which he and Tao Fu ate for dinner.

It may take two or three days to make spicy slices. Yuan Liuzhen decided to use this time to pack the wine brewed with Tao Fu, so that they can sell it in Litang Town.I heard from Uncle Man that the small bottle of white wine he drank with Tao Fu last time cost two hundred renminbi. Uncle Man and Niang Li said they had never drank the red wine they made. The most important raw materials are rare. They sold out this time. There was no need to sell this time, so he set the price of red wine at [-] Wen per bottle.Of course, the price can also be divided into different flavors. If the taste is sweeter, the price will be higher. At that time, it can be adjusted according to the wine price in Litang Town.

After he told Tao Fu about his thoughts, Tao Fu agreed that there was still a lot of wine they brewed, and it was estimated that they would be able to fill a lot of bottles by then.

After the two had dinner, they came to the cave where the wine was kept. They both seemed a little uncomfortable when they entered it. It was Yuan Liuzhen who talked about some relaxing topics to break the atmosphere.Tao Fu moved out the wine jars, and Yuan Liuzhen put them one by one at the entrance of the cave.They came here with big backpacks, and the wine could be carried all at once.

They put the wine jars into the back basket one by one, and after making sure that they would not leak, they walked down the mountain with the wine jars on their backs.

Back in the yard, Yuan Liuzhen was in charge of filtering the red wine, while Tao Fu went to the town to buy wine bottles for the wine.

Yuan Liuzhen filtered the wine very carefully. These red wines are for sale, so they must be filtered carefully to ensure that there is no sediment in them.

After working all afternoon, his hands were tired before he filtered all the red wine and put them back into clean jars.

After he finished his work, before he had a long rest, Tao Fu rushed back with a lot of wine bottles.

The two of them cleaned the wine bottle that Tao Fu brought back, washed it with hot water, disinfected it, and dried it.

It was almost dark at this time, and the two brought the tofu skin that had been dried during the day to the hall.

After dark, Tao Fu went to cook, while Yuan Liuzhen went into the study to paint.

It's just that this time I didn't put so much effort into painting this time. When I was painting, I always thought of a lot about Tao Fu, about that night, about the embarrassing scene of the two going to the cave today, which made him a little upset. , I had no choice but to write a line of words at random, "Kang Ye was originally unintentional, but because of inadvertence, he knew that there was love."

He didn't write this sentence to express anything, he just wrote it casually to calm his cranky mood.As soon as he finished writing, he heard Tao Fu's footsteps, and he was startled for a moment. He wanted to put the paper away, but then he thought that Tao Fu was illiterate, so he didn't move at ease. Tao Fu bumped into him.

Seeing Yuan Liuzhen walk out of the room, Tao Fu said good dinner to Yuan Liuzhen, Yuan Liuzhen nodded, and the two went to the hall for dinner together.

The food tonight is still delicious. Yesterday, I entertained Uncle Man and they left a lot of dishes, such as pork head meat and pig ears, and I didn’t finish them. Tao Fu made cold pig ears and pig head meat, and fried some vegetables, served with white rice. He ate three bowls of rice in one go.

After eating, the two cleaned up the stove together.

After tidying up, Yuan Liuzhen wandered around the courtyard to digest food, which was his habit, and Tao Fu also followed him to digest food.

When the digestion was almost over, Yuan Liuzhen suggested that the two practice sword together, and Tao Fu did not refuse. They practiced sword as before, discussing moves until very late before going to bed, and no one mentioned what happened that night.

Early in the morning, Yuan Liuzhen and Tao Fu began to fill the red wine after a brief wash. Before filling the wine, Tao Fu added sugar to the red wine to adjust the red wine to different sweetness levels, and then used different bottles for the red wines with different sweetness levels.

When Tao Fu bought wine bottles, according to Yuan Liuzhen's request, he bought relatively expensive wine bottles, which cost a lot of money.

After the red wine is bottled, it looks very high-end, and it can be sold at a better price.

When adjusting the taste of red wine, the atmosphere between the two seemed slightly awkward.Yuan Liuzhen felt that he would be more at ease teaching Tao Fu the job of seasoning. After all, Tao Fu cooks so deliciously. In addition to talent and hard work, he also has a sharper tongue than others. Therefore, he did not think much about this task. Handed it over to Tao Fu.

But Tao Fu didn't know whether what happened that night was a dream or it really happened. In fact, he was more inclined to what happened with Yuan Liuzhen. He wanted to mention it several times, but seeing Yuan Liuzhen seemed to be fine, he was not sure. .In the past few days, he has been dreaming every night, which made him a little resistant to drinking red wine. Yuan Liuzhen asked him to taste the taste of red wine, and he remembered that night, which caused him to taste the red wine carefully, just dipping a little to taste the taste.

Yuan Liuzhen looked at Tao Fu with some guilty conscience when he saw Tao Fu's careful expression while tasting the red wine, but he didn't dare to look more.

Yuan Liuzhen was a little surprised when the red wine was finished. He didn't expect that the jars of red wine contained almost 86 small bottles.After the red wine was finished, he asked Tao Fu to grind the beans with him. He was going to make fermented bean curd, and he could sell fermented bean curd when the red wine was almost sold out.

The steps of making tofu are similar to the last time making tofu skin. It is to grind the soymilk, filter it, put it in a pot, boil it and let it cool, then put some gypsum powder in it to solidify, and the tofu is almost ready.

They make a lot of tofu, and save some tofu for eating and making other tofu products. Yuan Liuzhen asked Taofu to soak the rest of the tofu in clean water for a while, then took out the water, cut the tofu into small pieces and put them in a clean place. Put it on a white cloth and put it in a place with a relatively high temperature. Now in summer, it can be placed indoors normally.After a week, the color of the tofu surface changes, which is basically the same.

Seeing that Yuan Liuzhen asked him to do this, Tao Fu didn't understand. He felt that the tofu would go bad if left alone. Yuan Liuzhen didn't care and explained: "Although the taste of fermented bean curd is not everyone's favorite, those who like it will definitely feel good. Eat." Just like stinky tofu, he doesn't like to eat stinky tofu, but he doesn't dislike tofu curd, and thinks it tastes good.

Part of the remaining tofu is used as fresh tofu stir-fry, and part of it is cut into strips or slices and fried, which is convenient for preservation.

After finishing their work, they had a meal and looked at the tofu skin in the middle of the yard. Yuan Liuzhen felt that it was almost dried, so they started making spicy slices non-stop.

Dried tofu slices are very hard and need to be soaked in water for a while until they are almost soft, but not too soft. Take them out after soaking, and put the tofu slices on a clean white cloth to dry the water.Then make the sauce for smearing the spicy slices.

The sauce for smearing spicy slices is very important. In addition to seasonings such as white sesame, sugar, salt, pepper, and chili, Tao Fu added a lot of seasonings based on his years of cooking experience and the experience of making spicy strips last time. , then pour over boiling hot oil and stir.

After stirring the sauce, the two of them cleaned their hands and began to smear the sauce on the dried tofu skin. Apply the sauce on both the front and back of the tofu skin, and then put it in the basin.

Tao Fu didn't make many spicy slices, he just made some of them first to taste the taste, and when he adjusted the best taste and was ready to sell, he could make more.

At the moment when the spicy slices were successful, Yuan Liuzhen took a slice with his hand and took a bite, then rummaged through the kitchen to find hot steamed buns, put them in the steamed buns, and ate them in big mouthfuls. The taste is even better and the spicy sliced ​​steamed buns, Yuan Liuzhen finished one in three or two bites, and then ate a steamed bun with spicy slices slowly.

Tao Fu saw that Yuan Liuzhen was eager to eat spicy sliced ​​buns, so he also ate with spicy sliced ​​buns. After eating, he found that the taste was much better than eating spicy slices alone.He instantly thought that spicy slices could be sold one by one, instead of selling them by the catty.A piece of spicy slices can hold a steamed bun, which is very convenient when there is no time to cook. In this way, the spicy slices can be sold more expensive than horseradish.

Tao Fu told Yuan Liuzhen what he thought, and Yuan Liuzhen smiled and said, "I think so too. Making spicy slices is much more troublesome than making horseradish, and the time cost is also high. You can sell them by slice. Horseradish is ten pounds per catty." Wen, there are five pieces of spicy slices for about 25 grams, and [-] pieces for a catty. You can sell two slices for a penny. If the taste becomes better in the future, you can sell them separately. The original taste is sold for two slices for a penny. A penny a piece."

Tao Fu heard what Yuan Liuzhen said, and felt that the price was reasonable, and also felt that he might have had a lot of contact with Yuan Liuzhen, and now he has thought a lot about selling things.If he used to earn 15 taels of silver in less than a month, he would not dare to think about it, unless he dug up very precious medicinal materials on the mountain, but precious medicinal materials are hard to come by, and they are not available all the time, and it takes a long time Ability to grow up does not mean that you can have it if you work hard and spend time.But doing business is different. As long as you are smart, have a craft, and work hard, it is very easy to make money.

Yuan Liuzhen and Tao Fu sat together and calculated what they wanted to sell, and said, "The day after tomorrow, we will be in the market of Tang Town. We will make more spicy slices tomorrow morning. Just bring two bottles of red wine. We will go to see the market situation the next day." As for horseradish and crispy rice, I’m afraid I won’t have time to make them in the street market tomorrow. You can talk to Uncle Man in two days and ask Uncle Man to come over to help or just tell Uncle Man how to make horseradish and crispy rice and let Uncle Man sell them. What do you think? How about it?"

"Yes." Tao Fu looked at Yuan Liuzhen with a tenderness that he couldn't detect. In fact, since Yuan Liuzhen said that he would do business with him, he hadn't expected what would happen until Yuan Liuzhen unreservedly sold everything that could be sold. Taught him the skills of Qian, and he understood that there were few people like Yuan Liuzhen who handed over their skills to others at will.Just by making horseradish, one can live a lifetime without worrying about food and accumulate a lot of wealth.Not to mention, every time Yuan Liuzhen thinks of a good way to eat, he will teach him how to do it immediately. This is complete trust.Therefore, when Yuan Liuzhen said that he would tell Uncle Man how he made horseradish, he was a little surprised, but he also felt that it was not surprising that Yuan Liuzhen would do so.

The two chattered and discussed a lot. After buying the yard, they left about seven taels of silver. Recently, because of the joy of housewarming, they entertained Uncle Man and Li Niang and the others, and bought wine bottles and other things. .After a few days of rest, the mental state of the two of them improved, and the matter of making money just happened to catch up with the schedule.

In the evening, as usual, the two of them took a walk to eliminate food, and then practiced swords and rested.

In the vertical day, the two have been busy making a lot of spicy slices for a long time. The chili noodles that Tao Fu chose this time are the ones that he thinks can improve the taste of spicy slices. The spicy slices made are much better than yesterday’s. The sandwiches are even more delicious. The two of them ate five spicy slices of steamed buns in a row in the morning, and there was no need to cook at all.

After the spicy slices were packed, they brought two more bottles of wine. Tao Fu went to the village to borrow a bullock cart, and they rushed to Litang Town.

Dali Tang Town had a rest for the night as before, and Shu Ri went directly to the place where they set up a stall.

When he got there, Yuan Liuzhen first cut a piece of spicy slices into small pieces and put them in a bowl, and put a small bamboo stick next to it, which is more convenient for tasting.

For better publicity, Yuan Liuzhen also specially asked Tao Fu to bring some steamed buns. Although these steamed buns were a bit cold, they were very soft and delicious with spicy slices sandwiched between them.

They hadn't waited long in front of the booth when a few old customers came over. They didn't see spicy noodles and crispy rice in front of the booth, but they saw a kind of snack that they had never seen before, so they asked Tao Fu and Yuan Liuzhen, "Boss, don't you come here today to sell horseradish and crispy rice? I didn't see you when I came here a few days ago."

"I had something to do at home a few days ago, so I didn't come to the market. I just made a new snack today. You can try it." Yuan Liuzhen hurriedly handed a bamboo stick with spicy slices to each of the people who came over and said: "This kind of snack is called spicy food. The whole piece is this big."

Yuan Liuzhen showed the complete spicy slices to these people and said: "As for how to eat, it can be eaten as a snack like now, or as a dish, with rice and steamed buns. Of course, the best way to eat is to eat the whole spicy slices Zhang spicy slices are eaten in steamed buns just out of the pan, like this, the taste is very delicious.”

Yuan Liuzhen demonstrated while talking. After adding the spicy slices to the steamed buns, he cut them into small pieces with a knife, and handed the small pieces with the spicy slices to several people one by one. They knew that Yuan Liuzhen sold things here for tasting, so they were welcome. After receiving it, they ate it directly. After tasting the taste, they were really amazed. The spicy slices alone taste very spicy and delicious, and the taste after adding steamed buns is even better than eating alone.Yuan Liuzhen asked them to try it for just one bite, and they were still a little bit unsatisfied after eating it.

"How much is it?"

"Spicy slices cost a penny for two slices. You can buy a few slices and try something new." Yuan Liuzhen replied.

"Okay, then I'll buy it for three Wen. It's delicious and I'll buy it next time."

Yuan Liuzhen was not too little, and said enthusiastically: "Okay, I will take care of you."

Others bought some for ten renminbi and some for five renminbi. However, before they left, they still asked when the horseradish and crispy rice would be sold, and the children at home clamored for them.

Yuan Liuzhen smiled and said, "Next time we will bring them to the street market and sell them together."

The few people left satisfied when they heard that spicy strips and crispy rice would be sold in the street market next time. What they all wanted was to steam a big pot of steamed buns and eat them with spicy slices.

After the few people left, Yuan Liuzhen went to the street to greet passers-by as before, let passers-by taste it, and then brought it to the stall to buy.Due to his and Tao Fu's high-intensity experience in soliciting customers in order to earn yard money, it is relatively easy and smooth to do it now.