Chapter 67：

"Without wages, many people can't afford to eat these days. The wages wherever comes, just give him something to eat and live there."

If Li Changfeng didn't even think about it, he would leave the people in the courtyard feeling empty as soon as he exited it. There was no wages, then the family couldn't be subsidized. It didn't make a difference.

Youngest Li's face also sank, "Go and let him come back quickly! What is it like for an unmarried brother to take care of others!"

Li Changfeng shook his head, "How can this work, and it's a good thing, isn't it."

"What's so good! The decent brother will take care of the unloved stranger?! Call me back quickly!" Old man Li said viciously.

"Yeah, if this matter spreads out, how much gossip you have to provoke the villagers," Mrs. Li's wife said in a low voice, and was tossed by Mrs. Li by the side.

Li Changfeng smiled calmly, "Why is it not a good thing? The younger brother is also afraid that his family life cannot be separated. He also knows that he eats a lot. This time, he will be in the town not far away. Home, there is no need to prepare his food at home, how can it be a bad thing?"

This is also true. The expressions of Old Man Li and Old Man Li eased, but Old Man Li still insisted on saying, "Then let him figure it out!"

"That's OK, then I will go back." Li Changfeng stood up and just got on the donkey cart after leaving the hospital. Li Yaoyao looked at the sturdy donkey and couldn't help saying: "This donkey is faster than our piglet. Actually, you must have a lot of food to raise and eat, it takes a lot of trouble."

"It doesn't take much trouble. Our family's life depends on it. If you can pull a few people on the road and keep it a little more troublesome, what's the matter? Let's go!" Gu Zi's selling poorly, Li Yaoyao is just suffocated, and can't tell directly, can't say that he wants to eat meat!

"It turns out that this is the case. In this case, we will also go to see brother." Xu Qing finally felt relieved after hearing Li Changfeng's story about Li Xiaoer.

"Okay, I know, you can rest assured." Li Changfeng thought about what he said in the yard of Li's family to tell Li Xiaoer, don't let Li Xiaoer, who didn't know then, give back all his wages stupidly, Li Xiaoer It's the age to be married, so save a little more private money.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the seasons changed. In a blink of an eye, Xu Qing's belly grew from five months to eight months, and it was ripe for two months, and now it is eleven. Months have passed, and the sky has started to get cold.

The good news is that just last month, it finally started to rain. Although there were no crops in the fields, the rain came and the hope of the farmers came.

Li Changfeng had already turned over the fields again in that month, and irrigated the ditch with water. The ditch that should be hooked up is a good hand in the field!

The water level of the river outside the village has also risen, and the smiles in the village have also increased. These days, I have been planting vegetables and grains in the ground that can be planted, so that I can eat some warm vegetables in the winter. .

What surprises Xu Qing in particular is that there are potatoes here! So he didn't care if he could survive, anyway, he had a spiritual spring, so he asked Li Changfeng to free up one acre of land to grow potatoes and one acre to grow sweet potatoes!

During the period when Xu Qing was fine, he secretly wandered to the ground dripping with the spirit spring. Now the sweet potato seedlings and potato seedlings in the ground have grown a lot, which makes the villagers who see this place more hopeful. At this time It can be planted, so I am afraid that this winter will be tough!

So the village started to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes with Xu Qing and others. Xu Qing had no choice but to secretly drip some spiritual springs into the main source of irrigation in the village. In this way, how many potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted by every household. Seedlings all emerged.

Although Xu Qing’s belly is huge, but this person is thin except for his belly. You can only see his belly from a distance. It looks a little scary. Xie Ame said this is the child in the belly absorbing it. Because of the energy of the body, Xu Qing ate a lot, but except for the belly, there was no reason to get fat anywhere else.

But what surprised Li Changfeng and Xu Qing was that the children turned around in their stomachs at all times, "stretching their fists," at this moment, they reminded the new father how strong and lively the children are.

As soon as Li Changfeng returned home, he saw Xu Qingmao touching his belly.

"Kicked you again?"

Xu Qing nodded, "No, he doesn't kick me more than ten times a day!" He doesn't hurt when he moves lightly, but occasionally when a big one comes in, he hurts badly!

As soon as Li Changfeng’s hand was placed on Xu Qing’s stomach, he felt the little guy kicking again. Li Changfeng smiled silly, and Xu Qing slapped his hand away, “Don’t laugh, help me. I'll go back to the house to get warmer."

Although there are Kang and Fire Walls, it just started to be cold on this day. Xu Qing didn't want to start using it as he wanted, otherwise he wouldn't even want to go out when it was cold later.

"Today Xie Ama talked about Brother Xiaoyu again." Xu Qing was lying on the warm bed, just wanting to hum comfortably, but thinking of Xie Ama's words today, he talked to Li Changfeng.

"But you're worrying about your child again?" Li Changfeng doesn't need to guess what Xie Ama is worrying about. This brother Xie has been married to the Lin family for more than half a year, and there is still no movement in his stomach. Xie A is not just worrying!

Brother Xie’s body was carefully adjusted by Doctor Lin, and Xu Qing had given him a drink before, and Lin Fangliang was kind to him. It can be said that he lived comfortably and was healthy, but he just couldn’t get pregnant. Brother Xie's pressure began to increase, even if Lin Fangliang said it was okay to have no children, he still couldn't let it go.

"I think Brother Xiaoyu is too serious!" Xu Qing has heard a case before, that the more you want to be pregnant, the less you can't. It's heavy, the body naturally didn't let go, how could I be pregnant when I was ready.

"Yes, by the way, what do you want to eat tonight?" The most important thing Li Changfeng thinks is Xu Qing.

"what are we eating."

Xu Qing really didn't know, his appetite suddenly dropped these days, "By the way, what about the soybeans we bought!" Xu Qing suddenly thought of tofu!

"In the warehouse, you want to eat it? I'll cook it!" They eat soy beans directly.

"No need to cook, I'll teach you a new dish to try! You go and scoop three bowls, we first pick out the unwanted beans, and then soak them in water, we will make it tomorrow, and we will have an omelette tonight Cake bar." These days, Li Changfeng's cooking skills are getting better and better under Xu Qing's guidance.

The selection of the tofu material is also very important. After Li Changfeng used a sieve to remove impurities, low-quality beans, vegetation, sand and other impurities, he began to soak the beans, that is, soak the soybeans in water to remove the impurities floating on the water. , The amount of water is subject to the immersion of soybeans.

"During the soaking process, prevent the soaking water from becoming sour and rancid, which will affect the quality. The soaking time varies according to the temperature. Generally, the soaking time is two to three hours in summer and four to six hours in winter." When Xu Qing watched Li Changfeng add water to the beans, he was talking about the procedure while pointing at the other side's water level.

In the afternoon of the next day, Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng to use a stone mill to grind the soybeans he had soaked. According to Xu Qing’s instructions, Li Changfeng added soybeans and water to make a soybean paste. It must be uniform and consistent with the speed of your stone milling, so that you can grind the delicate and smooth soy milk."

Li Changfeng did it earnestly, for fear that he would miss a little bit of the steps Xu Qing said, and did it meticulously. After it was ground into soy milk, it had to be filtered. Xu Qing found a cloth with a relatively sparse wire net and let Li Changfeng use it for filtering. Add the ground soybean paste to warm water and mix it evenly, then put it into a cloth bag, lift the cloth bag, shake it by hand, wait for the slurry to flow out, and repeat the operation several times. Until the slurry is drained.

Looking at the white water in the bowl and smelling the peculiar beany smell coming from the soy milk in the air, Xu Qing was very satisfied, so that the original soy beans would make great tofu.

The last step is to boil the milk. Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng to take the filtered raw soy milk and put it into the pot, heat it to a boil until the froth of soy milk on the pot noodles burst, and then the cooked soy milk was obtained by removing the fire.

Xu Qing deliberately scooped out two large bowls of hot soy milk, added sugar to the bowl, stirred until it melted, and handed a bowl to Li Changfeng, "Come on, taste it."

Li Changfeng took the bowl and blew the heat on the noodles. A special fragrance came from the tip of his nose. He took a sip, his eyes brightened, and he didn't care about it. After a few big mouthfuls, he drank the bowl clean!

"How about it?"

Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng, Li Changfeng nodded, and directly scooped a bowl of sugar in the pot again, and then was about to scoop out all the soy milk in the pot.

"Stop it!"

Xu Qing hurriedly stopped Li Changfeng's movements, "What's the matter?" Li Changfeng stopped his movements and asked puzzledly. "This is just a small snack. This big pot is not just for drinking. Come and listen to me."

This soy milk is so delicious, and there are other things. Li Changfeng was full of expectations. He also obeyed Xu Qing's words and poured the soy milk in the bowl, leaving only the bowl where he had just put the sugar. .

If you want to make tofu, you need some milk. Scoop the boiled soy milk out of the pot and let it cool a bit. When the temperature drops, you can order the milk. When ordering the milk, use a small spoon to stir the soy milk forward and slowly add the salt brine. When the soy milk sticks to the spoon, the stirring is slowed down, and the speed of adding the salt brine is also slowed down, until the soy milk appears nail-sized tofu grains, stop Stir, cover the pot and keep it for about a quarter of an hour.

Taking advantage of this time, Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng to wash the wooden grid specially made this morning and put it aside. When the time came, Li Changfeng poured the tofu in the pot into the wooden grid covered with cotton cloth. Well, squeeze it with a heavy object to squeeze out the water. Generally, it should not be pressed too dry, otherwise it is not tofu, but dried tofu.

After a while, Li Changfeng pulled off the cotton cloth, and what appeared to him was white and tender tofu. Xu Qing broke a piece and put it in his mouth, "Well, that's the taste!" And it tasted better than modern ones!

"Try it too, we will make it." Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng to try the taste too. Li Changfeng carefully took a small piece and tried it, frowning a little.

"do not like?"

Xu Qing remembered that Li Changfeng's taste was relatively heavy, and the tofu that came out was relatively light, and it was normal not to like it.

Li Changfeng couldn't tell whether he liked it or not, "I just think the smell is a little weird, I can't tell."

"It's okay, we can make the taste you like." Xu Qing broke another piece and stuffed it into his mouth. Well, it was delicious.

Because he was afraid that Li Changfeng had no experience in doing it for the first time, Xu Qing did it himself, and Li Changfeng started it. What he was going to do was spicy tofu!

Thinking about Xie Ah, they also tried it. Xu Qing took a few larger pieces of tofu, cut the tofu into pieces, blanched them for later use, and cut a small dish similar to chili and garlic into small pieces, and cut Xie Ah. The sweet potato flour that I sent was adjusted, and a small piece of meat that Li Changfeng took out of the well was cut into minced meat, and then a spoonful of wine and a spoonful of salt were marinated for a quarter of an hour, and then Li Changfeng was allowed to burn.

After the pot was hot, Xu Qing put oil in the pot to heat up, then put the side dishes and garlic into the pot and fry until fragrant, and then put the marinated minced meat into the pot to stir fry. After the aroma came out, Xu Qing poured the sweet potato flour into the pot, stir-fried, poured in appropriate water, boiled over high heat, then put the cut tofu into the pot, gently fry it several times, then scoop it into it. Sprinkle chopped green onion in the bowl, and two large bowls of beautiful and smelling spicy tofu are ready.

"You send this bowl to Xie Ama's house, I will cook another soup, and you can eat when you come back." Xu Qing will give Xie Ama their bowl of spicy tofu in a basket and use another piece After covering with a clean cloth, let Li Changfeng send it over.

Li Changfeng cleaned the pot swiftly, and then heated the fire. After Xu Qing prepared the eggs for the soup, he carried the basket and walked into the village.

Xie Ama is cooking with Uncle Xie, even at this moment Xie Ama's eyebrows are also full of sadness, "What do you think this is all about! If it weren't for the Ma family back then, our brother wouldn't be like this!"