The cherry trees in the front yard are lush with leaves and blooming a lot this year. It seems that many cherries will bear this year, and figs will grow taller. According to this growth, they will bear fruit in the year after tomorrow.

"Mom, I'll go to his place with Uncle Chen." Mu Xiu picked up a small bag of soybeans, explained it to Zhou Shuilian, and then went to the backyard with Chen Jianqiang.

Chen Jianqiang opened the door and Aunt Chen was sorting out mulberry leaves in the house. Now the mulberry leaves have just grown. Aunt Chen picked them nearby and collected them. After a few days, the weather will be warmer and you can raise silkworms.

"Old woman, Mu Xiu is looking for you." Chen Jianqiang said.

"Aunt Chen, I want to learn to make tofu from you." Mu Xiu said to Aunt Chen with a smile.

"It's simple, but it requires a stone mill, and soybeans have two frames." Aunt Chen briefly described the shape of the lower wooden frame.

Mu Xiu understood as soon as she heard this. She put the soybeans on the ground and said, "Aunt Chen, this is soybeans. My father can make the wooden frame. After it is done, I will pull it over with the stone mill."

"As long as you have complete tools, you can do it quickly." Aunt Chen said.

"Okay, then I'll go back first." Mu Xiu left after saying that.

When he returned home, Mu Xiu entered the house and drew a rectangle on the paper. However, the rectangle only has four sides, and the upper and lower parts are empty. After drawing, he came to Mu Shui and said, "Dad, I want a wooden frame of this kind. One side is empty, and the other side is made of a wooden lid, and two are needed."

Mushui took it and saw how to do it. "Okay, this is very simple, I can do it tonight."

Some time ago, Mushui made another stone mill according to Mu Xiu's request. The size was not very large, but because it was made of stone, it was very heavy. Tomorrow, two people would need to carry it to the ox cart before it could be delivered to Aunt Chen.

Originally, I could make tofu and soy milk at Mu Xiu's house, but there were too many poultry at home, and there were always fragments of feathers in the air. Soy milk and tofu were all white, and there were a little impurity to see clearly. Mu Xiu thought it would be better to make tofu and soy milk from Aunt Chen in the future.

After dinner, Mushui sat down in the corridor, took out his tools, and started making wooden frames.

Mu Xiu woke up in the morning. The wooden frame she asked for was already made and washed, and it was dry under the corridor.

Chen Xuhui and Mushui are not at home now. They have only watered the wasteland yesterday and have weeded them. There is no need to go there. They should have gone to the responsible field to water it. Zhou Shuilian has already prepared the meal.

Mu Xiu was ashamed. Every time she got up except those three children at home, she was the latest to get up. Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui didn't come back at about eight o'clock.

After everyone finished their meal, Mu Xiu said to Mushui: "Dad, you and Brother Chen will pull this stone mill together to Mr. Chen's house, and use a ox cart to pull it. Today I will make tofu with Aunt Chen."

Mushui and Chen Xuhui nodded and went straight to the ox cart to move the stone mill. Mu Xiu put the two frames in and pushed them to the stone table outside Mr. Chen's house behind.

"Aunt Chen, I'm here." Mu Xiu shouted into the room.

With a creak, the door opened, and Aunt Chen and Mr. Chen walked out.

"Old man, please move out the soybeans soaked last night." Aunt Chen explained and walked over.

"I was thinking about the stone mill and wooden box. My boss was doing things quickly on weekdays and should be able to do it today. I soaked the soybeans in advance. Even if they were not done well, the soybeans could be sprouted into soybean sprouts and would not be wasted." Aunt Chen said as she walked.

"Auntie, you can also make soybean sprouts. I will give it some next time." Mu Xiu said.

"Okay, I'll do it in the past two days, so I'll let the old man deliver it to the boss." Aunt Chen looked at the stone mill, picked up the wooden frame and looked at it, and said in surprise: "It's such a wooden frame, it's really good to make."

Uncle Chen came over with a basin of soybeans. Mu Xiu picked up the scoop and cleaned the stone that had just been pulled over, and tied the rope to the cow.

"Then let's go first, Xiaomai will have top dressing today." Mushui took Chen Xuhui and Chen Jianqiang to work together.

Aunt Chen brought a clean wooden basin, covered the gauze on the wooden basin, and placed it under the stone mill to deliver soy milk.

Mu Xiu cleaned the soybeans several times, then carried a bucket of clean water and placed them next to the stone mill.

Mu Xiu covered the cow's eyes with a piece of cloth and began to drive it away. Aunt Chen scooped soybeans into the hole of the stone mill and scooped clean water into it. The stone mill turned.

After soaking the soybeans overnight, they absorbed water and softened a lot. They were ground with stone mills and then turned into paddles. The more the slurry water was grinding, it flowed out of the millstone and dripped into the wooden basin with gauze.

When there were more and more bean dregs on the gauze, Mu Xiu and Aunt Chen picked up the gauze side, straightened them and twisted them left and right. After squeezing the slurry in the bean dregs, they put the bean dregs in a clean basin next to prevent the bean dregs from touching the slurry below.

After a while, the wooden basin was filled with raw soy milk. When Mu Xiu came, he also brought a large wooden basin. At this moment, the two of them put the wooden basin filled with raw soy milk aside. They put the large wooden basin under the grinder, covered it with gauze, and continued to grind it.

Six kilograms of soybeans were ground all in a short while, and two wooden basins and one basin of bean dregs were collected.

Mu Xiu and Aunt Chen picked up the basin together, carried the slurry into the kitchen and poured it into the pot.

Mu Xiu raised the fire. After the soy milk was boiling until it was boiling, the fire was extinguished. Aunt Chen ordered vinegar inside. The soy milk quickly turned into tofu, and the tofu tasted very sweet.

Put the wooden frame on the table, mat the clean straw under it, then lay a clean cloth inside the frame, pour the tofu flowers into the frame, then wrap the tofu flowers tightly with cloth, cover the wooden lid of the wooden frame, and then press it on it with a stone. This is mainly to squeeze out the excess moisture in the tofu and turn it into tofu.

After the tofu was pressed into both wooden frames, Mu Xiu cleaned the stone mill, the tofu was formed in half an hour and was ready.

"Aunt Chen, is the tofu ready now?" Mu Xiu thought it was too easy.

"Yes, it's easy to make tofu. This time, the remaining brine left in the tofu is preserved. In the future, it tastes better when making tofu with this brine. This tofu dregs can be eaten as a cake." Aunt Chen hasn't made it for a long time, but she didn't expect to make it again, and she didn't have any hand-brewedness at all.

"Auntie, please keep the tofu and make pancakes. I'll take the tofu back and make it. I'll go to my house for lunch." Mu Xiu put the tofu in a wooden basin and took the ox cart away.
Chapter completed!