Everyday heroes

Chapter 100
As a traditional Chinese condiment, soy sauce can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty.

Confucius once said very firmly: If you don’t get the sauce, you don’t eat it.It means that different meats need to be paired with different sauces, which shows the importance of soy sauce to cooking.

However, this is also the place where Mr. Kong was born, so he can say this sentence so stubbornly. Otherwise, if he was born in Japan and South Korea, wouldn’t he starve to death, because the sauce making technology was not until the Tang Dynasty eminent monk went east? Just pass it on.

Most of the brewed soy sauces on the market are fermented by-products of soybean processing as raw materials, but in fact, the earliest soy sauce was fermented with meat sauce.

According to the records in Zhang Dai's "Night Sailing Boat": Suiren's made meat jerky, Huangdi made roasted meat, and made soup for fermented rice.醢 is the earliest soy sauce.

If this record is true, then soy sauce appeared 3000 years earlier.

It can be seen that our position as a flower grower in the world's three major culinary countries is deeply rooted and has been around since ancient times.

Even in the primitive era of slash-and-burn farming, we never forget to explore food seasoning. How delicate and valuable this pursuit is.

Of course, the raw material for making soy sauce in Guanlang today is not meat sauce, but soybeans, because the soy sauce made from soybeans and meat sauce is actually very similar in flavor, and the price will be cheaper.

According to Qin Yanxi's instructions in advance, Guan Lang and Wu Yazhen poured out a bag of soybeans they had just bought. These soybeans were bought in Guan Lang's high-end ingredients store.

All Northeastern soybeans, not genetically modified beans.

Although he didn't know the difference between the soy sauces made by the two, but since Qin Yanxi said so, he paid more attention.

Discard moldy and spoiled gnocchi.

The remaining plump and good soybeans are the raw materials that can be used for brewing.

"The next step is to soak in water."

Guan Lang took out a large iron basin for washing vegetables, washed the soybeans and soaked them in water.

It takes about three to four hours to soak.

Make preparations for soaking in advance now, and when Qin Yanxi comes at ten o'clock, the soaking will just be completed.

There are many steps in brewing soy sauce, but the most critical link is the step of koji making, so the preparation work can go smoothly even if Qin Yanxi does not have "visiting guidance".

After inspecting the potted plants on the balcony, Qianqiu slipped into the kitchen after basking in the sun again.

Leaping over the puddles of water on the ground, he jumped onto the shoulder of Guan Lang who was bending over to wash the beans.

Guan Lang turned his head and glanced at it.

Qianqiu watched the two work like a supervisor.

Guan Lang ignored him, but the little cousin looked up at it frequently and waved at it.

It's a pity that Luohua has intentions, while Flowing Water is ruthless, Qianqiu has no idea of ​​interaction.

It is quite afraid of water, but still wants to stay by Guan Lang's side, as if driven by an instinctive existence.

For some reason, since it woke up in the morning, it felt that the sense of intimacy on Guan Lang's body had strengthened.

As long as you get close to him, there will be an atmosphere of peace of mind and nature, as if returning to the mother's womb.

After the two of them washed the soybeans, they had nothing to do while soaking in water.

Wu Yazhen began to clean the kitchen.

Guan Lang went to clean up the "devastated" balcony left by the heavy rain last night.

Clean up clutter and put clothes back on the drying rack.

Qian Qiu still wanted to stick to him, but unfortunately, he was driven off by Guan Lang, who despised it as heavy and obstructive.

Then Qianqiu explored the house with a cat and continued to search for treasures. It likes to collect furry or furry items.

This is also its own entertainment at home on weekdays.

Three hours later, Guan Lang went back to the studio to practice a few line drawings. Seeing that the time was almost up, he went to look at the soaking beans in the kitchen.

At this time, the beans have absorbed water and swelled, and the beans are plump and shiny, and there are no wrinkles on the surface.

Just as he was about to start the second step of steaming beans, there was a knock on the door.

Qin Yanxi should have arrived.

Guan Lang opened the door for her.

Look at her carrying a big bag of things in her hand.

"Sister Xi, what are you doing with so many things?" Guan Lang was a little puzzled, he had already bought all the ingredients according to the list she gave.

"Come on, lift it up for me, it's a bit heavy." Qin Yanxi gave him a light look, why doesn't this piece of wood look like a gentleman?I just stood there blankly and asked questions.

"Oh." Guan Lang hurriedly took the red bag and lifted it upside down in his hands, as if it wasn't heavy.

"Didn't you say you want to brew the best autumn oil?" Qin Yanxi walked into the apartment. "The list I sent you before is not all the ingredients. I went back to my grandfather's house to get some good soy sauce koji essence and pollen. There is a time-honored soy sauce workshop there, and I bought the koji mold there."

"Hmm." Guan Lang didn't understand anything, so he could only nod his head.

"Let me tell you, why do you want to make soy sauce yourself on a whim? Even if you are tired of the soy sauce produced by the factory, just go to some old workshops and buy some handmade soy sauce." Qin Yanxi was still a little puzzled as she walked. Broken thought.

But even though she murmured incomprehensibly, and even felt that Guan Lang was a bit silly, she was secretly happy in her heart. If she was going to buy it, then what was her business? She liked the feeling of being entrusted by Guan Lang, so She also never reminded Guan Lang that he could go to the workshop to buy this option.

Guan Lang raised his eyebrows and smiled naively. He forgot about it at first, but when he thought about it later, he felt that since he had asked Qin Yanxi about making soy sauce, it would be wrong to give up halfway. Bite the bullet and get ready.

"It's more reassuring to brew it yourself." Guan Lang gave a reason casually, but this argument is really untenable. The two of them, plus the little cousin, are three, and they don't know much about brewing soy sauce. How can there be a professional workshop? Don't worry.

Fortunately, Qin Yanxi also had her own thoughts, so she nodded and accepted his words.

"Sister Xi, you're here!" Wu Yazhen just took down the sorted garbage and threw it away, when she walked in the door, she saw Qin Yanxi's figure, smiled and waved lightly to say hello.

"Ya Zhen, I just came back from taking out the trash, your cousin is too bad, he orders you to do things all day long." Qin Yanxi said with a smile.

"No. No, I rushed to do these things myself, otherwise I wouldn't be able to help." Wu Yazhen closed the door with a slight smile on her lips.

Guan Lang put the bag in his hand into the kitchen.

"Guan Lang, where is your cat?" Qin Yanxi also came in, looking left and right to find the figure of the cat that Guan Lang mentioned before.

"Nu, isn't it right there, that silly cat." Guan Lang pointed to Qian Qiu in the living room.

It was standing upright at the curtain beside the floor-to-ceiling window, bouncing and hitting the fur ball at the end of the curtain drawstring.

How stupid!Guan Lang glanced at it with some distaste, obviously his IQ was not low, and he could even understand what he was conveying from time to time, but he was still addicted to this stupid game of catching.

Maybe it's the predator's instinct flowing in its bloodline genes.

(End of this chapter)