Reborn in 1993, after divorce, life became a mess

The two sisters came home with two stir-fried vegetables and eight pies. Sure enough, mom hadn't cooked yet.

That's how my mom is, not a single meal is cooked on time.

Na Liwen was already used to it.

Dad, who had already got off work, was on the verge of getting angry.

When he saw the meal that Li Wen had packed back, he immediately turned off the fire and smiled.

He and his two little ones were eating a big meat pie and two stir-fried vegetables, while his mother was still nagging them without interest.

Dad eats well and is in a good mood. It's all about his mother's nagging, like music accompanying him.

Dad and the two little ones didn't leave anything for mom, they even picked out the chopped green onions and ate them.

My mother ate her cabbage stew with tofu alone.

Na Liwen took a bite and found that the locally made tofu was very rough and old. Even the bean dregs were not filtered out, just like the heels of an old lady.

"Mom, did you buy such unpalatable tofu to eat?" Na Liwen said angrily.

My mother said: “Vegetables are very expensive nowadays, and potatoes cost only one yuan a pound.

Tofu is the cheapest, only one yuan a piece, and there is no need to peel, wash or pick it. "

Dad sighed: “I used to love cabbage stewed with tofu the most, but now, just one look is enough.

It’s been years since I’ve had tender tofu. "

"Dad, I will make soft tofu for you tomorrow."

Na Liwen said to him.

Then, he rolled up his sleeves and went to soak the soybeans.

"Can you make tofu?" Mom asked.

Na Liwen replied: "Of course I will."

Mom asked: "Where did you learn it?"

Na Liwen: "I learned it from books."

Of course she couldn't tell her mother that this was when she worked in a restaurant in her previous life and was assigned by the master chef to soak and grind beans every day.

Then, the master chef uses the soy milk she grinds to make soft tofu.

Back then, she didn’t have a soymilk machine to grind beans, so she ground them little by little with a small stone grinder.

After Na Liwen soaked the soybeans, he drove to the company.

Because she saw a small stone mill in the company, which was new and unused.

Just take it home and grind it into soy milk.

By the way, the soymilk machine has not yet been seen at this time, and I don’t know if there are any for sale?

……

The next day is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

My mother gets up early and makes Lantern Festival by herself.

Then Li Wen got up and ground the soy milk with a small stone.

"How can you order tofu without brine after grinding the soy milk?" Mom asked while rolling the dumplings in a dustpan.

Na Liwen replied: "You can also use gypsum to make tofu. Of course I can adjust the brine."

"You know how to adjust brine?" Mom asked in surprise.

Na Liwen: "Yes, you can adjust the marinade with salt and vinegar."

My mother didn’t believe it: “Just brag, it’s the first time I heard that brine is made with salt and vinegar.”

"Then wait a moment and you'll witness the miracle."

Na Liwen continued to grind soy milk.

Grind the soy milk, filter out the dregs, put it into a pot and bring it to a boil over high heat, then let it sit for a few minutes.

She took this time to start making brine.

Mom stopped going to the Lantern Festival and came over to see if the brine she prepared was ready.

"Let me witness a miracle."

"Mom, just watch it."

Then Liwen used salt and vinegar to make a suitable brine. When the soy milk in the pot was almost cool, he added the brine little by little.

Gradually, the soy milk begins to solidify.

My mother shouted: "It's really...Old man, come and see."

"Pfft haha" Na Liwen laughed, "Mom, my dad is about to be fifty, so you call him old man?"

Mom: "You're not an old man even if you're fifty."

Dad came over and said angrily: "According to the age of one, I am only forty-eight. Don't call me an old man."

Mom smiled and said, "Okay, spirited young man, look at how our second girl can make tofu with salt and vinegar."

The "spirited boy" dad was also surprised when he saw the solidified soy milk: "It's better to be educated, and you can make your own brine."

Na Liwen: This method was really thought up by an uneducated person.

Mom ran to the house to get some paper and pen and asked Na Liwen: "Second girl, tell Mom, how did you prepare the brine?"

Na Liwen replied: "It is based on the ratio of salt, water and vinegar, 1:10:10."

"I don't understand." Mom shook her head and said,

Na Liwen: "That is, if you use 5 grams of salt, add 50 grams of water and 50 grams of white vinegar."

Mom: “I still don’t understand, how much is 5 grams?”

Na Liwen: "...just one penny."

Mom nodded: "I understand this time."

She started to write it down in her notebook.

Then Li Wen stretched his head to look at it. His mother's handwriting was quite beautiful.