Grinding tofu during the Spring Festival is a traditional custom in Sun Gang’s hometown.

"Tofu" and "Toufu" are homophonic to the people, and they are willing to be "rich" in the New Year. Home-cooked tofu, Mapo tofu, five-spice tofu, crispy tofu, three-fresh tofu, stinky tofu... The reporter walked into the people who ground tofu and bought tofu, listened to them telling stories related to tofu, and tasted the strong tofu fragrance...

The reason is that after the local legend of the Kitchen God reported to heaven, the Jade Emperor would go to the world to visit and see if each household was as the Kitchen God said. So each household ate tofu to express his hardship and concealed the Jade Emperor's punishment. The legend is legend, eating tofu tofu to actually have low productivity in ancient times and not so many delicious foods. It is also a portrayal of the virtues of thrift and frugality of the ancestors.

The next morning, Sun's father and Sun Gang carried half a pot of soaked beans to Wang Jiaxiang's house in the village. He said hello in advance.

The tofu made by his family is famous for its fresh fragrance and tender whiteness, and is very popular. When he was young, he often went around the streets to sell it. He was a person who used a stone mill to grind tofu. His words "Who wants tofu, stone mill tofu..." are also well known to the villagers nearby. The tofu grinds from the stone mill has less moisture, high hardness and mellow taste.

Wang Jiaxiang often felt a little melancholy, "Stone-ground tofu is a craft handed down by our ancestors, and I have never been reluctant to throw it away."

When he got older, his youngest son Wang Chengyou took over his job and started making tofu with machines. He stopped walking around the streets and went to the streets to sell it. He grind a small amount of tofu on his back, which was digestible by the villagers.

As the Spring Festival approaches, Wang Chengyou and his family are particularly busy.

The wind was blowing outside the window, and the room was in full swing.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so we have to book a few days in advance. Our village is the first, and other villages have booked it, but we can't get busy." Wang Chengyou, who was debugging the machine, was so tired that he was sweating, but he didn't care about wiping it.

"Now my family produces it all day and night." Wang Chengyou's wife, who was fishing beans next to her, continued the conversation.

"Second brother, come and smoke a cigarette." Wang Chengyou handed Sun's father a cigarette, "I've been busy these days and I haven't stopped all day long."

To make soybeans into tofu, it requires multiple processes such as refining, cooking, filtering, slurrying, and slurrying, and boiling and entering the box. Adding to the picking and soaking of beans before refining, there are as many as seven or eight processes, which is not only troublesome, but also quite laborious.

Sun Gang and Wang Chengyou's wife lifted the bubbled soybeans and poured them into the huge aluminum container of the grinder.

Unscrew the water supply valve and close the switch. The buzzing sound of the machine and the sound of running water, and the white soy milk flowed out.

The red "firecrackers" hanging on the wall and the hot production scene set the New Year atmosphere to the extreme.

"It's the Chinese New Year, and the people want to eat some tofu. Although life is better now, tofu is still indispensable among big fish and meat, right?" Wang Chengyou's words were filled with pride. "Now my family is all in battle, but there is still not enough manpower. My elder brother and I have to work day and night to produce."

In the operating room, Wang Chengyou and his family each performed their own duties. His wife and son were responsible for controlling the grinder and filtration of bean dregs, while Wang Chengyou was responsible for boiling the pot.

After half an hour of high temperature boiling, the soy milk was filtered through a fine mesh and flowed into a large tank. Wang Chengyou took out the old slurry and poured it into the tank.

Using old paste tofu to make tofu is a technical job. Old paste cannot be poured too much or too little. Too much is worse than too much, and it is best to be just right.

The old slurry was filled with the basin. While he slowly dripped the old slurry, he slowly stirred the soy milk with a stirring rod.

The process of slurry cannot be fast or slow. In particular, the old slurry must be mixed evenly. The quality of the tofu is successful and failure. The way to test the tofu is to take a chopstick and fall freely into the jar. If it stands upright and does not fall, it means it is OK.

"Gangwoo, are you going to drink tofu brain?" Wang Chengyou used his scoop to scoop into the jar, poured it into the large teapot next to it, and handed it to Sun Gang.

After taking the teapot, he took a sip. Sun Gang only felt that the tofu brain was fresh, tender, soft and melted in his mouth, and the taste was particularly pure. He felt that it had never been sweet, fragrant and smooth.

The remaining steps are "boxing" and "extrusion". "Extrusion" is very simple, which is to press the tofu in the box with heavy objects to make it mold.

There are two types of tofu: water tofu and thousand tofu.

Wang Chengyou squeezes each piece of tofu for more than 30 minutes, ensuring that the tofu has a standard hardness.

After this series of procedures, a piece of round tofu with a diameter of more than one foot was officially formed. The process of grinding the tofu is produced: tofu can be eaten, soy milk can be drunk, and tofu dregs can be fed pigs and cows.

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Sun Gang caught dozens of fish in the rice fields and made a few of them for his uncles, aunts, aunts, and uncles’ family, so he didn’t have to buy them during the Chinese New Year.

Many people in the village also came to buy fish from Sun Gang. They knew that the fish from Sun Gang were delicious and there was no problem. After all, in a village, these fish grew up under their eyes and noses, so they were relieved to eat. Sun Gang sold all the prices lower than those on the street, and unknowingly they sold hundreds of fish. Because some people would buy more when they bought them and give them to relatives and friends, and their reputation gradually spread.

These days, Sun's mother and Sun Gang made noodles and steamed buns. They had to make hundreds of them. They kept some at home and made 50 for their grandparents and grandparents. Their family would not come to eat at the guests, so they could eat them until the end of the first lunar month.

Sun Gang has been kneading dough for the past two days, and Sun's mother steamed buns. Sun Gang's sister-in-law had never done these things before, so she could only help. Sun's father and Sun Yang chose fish and killed chickens. There were a series of chickens and fish hanging on the clothesline in the yard, and they were cleaned up.

Sun Gang used his strength to slap, throw, rub, rub, and rub. The whole family was shocked by his slap in the face of his slapping face and said that he was thinking he was venting his anger with the chopping board.

I was so tired of rubbing that Sun Gang's arms began to hurt when he was sleeping at night.

The steamed buns that were just out of the pot were steaming hot, slightly yellow on the outside, smelled like wheat, and tasted very chewy, which means that Sun Gang kneaded the noodles and ate them very vigorously.

What Sun Gang likes most is the steamed buns that are stuck to the edge of the pot. After steaming, they will be roasted with scorched yellow buns. Originally, there were dry lotus leaves on the steamed buns, and there would be no steamed buns. Only those with the outer circle attached to the pots will be there.

The sticky pan has a browned shell. If you take a bite, it will be crispy and crispy. If you don’t have good teeth, it won’t work.

Sun Gang remembered that as soon as the steamed buns steamed by his mother were out of the pot when he was a child, the two brothers started to peel off the steamed buns. In the end, several steamed buns were missing. Sun's mother said that it looked like a bald man's head. The steamed buns with the shells were peeled off, and the next few days, Sun's mother would heat up and give them to the two brothers for food.

The New Year is getting closer and closer, and the New Year atmosphere is getting stronger!

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Recently, my collection has not increased. I have to lose a few every day. I am very depressed! I hope everyone will collect more!
Chapter completed!