I am old in the Han Dynasty

Xie Lang wanted to explain, but nodded his head when the words came to his lips.

The tall man's eyes flashed brightly in an instant.

Xie Lang was taken aback, and didn't dare to use this matter to test him again, "Brother Bowen, I—"

"You don't need to say sorry. It's not your fault, it's all my fault that I didn't listen to you and made half oil skin and half tofu." Xie Bowen said as tears overflowed his eyes.

Xie Lang sighed, "You can also let me finish. When I say you can't eat it, you mean now, and it will be fine in another ten days. The premise is that you follow what I said, and put the tofu made on the first day and the second day. Open it all up, three fingers wide and three fingers long."

Xie Bowen blinked his eyes, tears came out, he opened his mouth to say something, he was too excited to say it for a while.

After a while, he found his voice, "Ten days?!"

"Of course. Like we use soybeans to make sauce, isn't it sticky and broken in the first few days? After a few days, the green mold will wrap the beans, and the sauce can be made."

Xie Lang didn't understand this, but Xie Sanlang did, he made sauce for his mother before.

Xie Bowen nodded repeatedly, smiling through tears, "I was scared to death."

He can't eat so much tofu, so he's wasted these days.

"Actually, I'm also to blame. If I listen to you, at least I can sell the oily skin made in the past two days. Those tofu can't be eaten, and I can earn back the capital."

"You are afraid that the oily skin will get moldy, and you believe in me, so you dare to make so many tofu. Then again, I really don't understand, and I won't say that stinky tofu is edible. Just like you asked me how to eat oily skin, I don't know. Say I don't know." Xie Lang said, "Besides, even if I lie to you, I wouldn't dare lie to my elder brother and second elder brother."

"I said you wouldn't lie to us, and my sister-in-law also said that you haven't made tofu, so it's only normal if you hear it wrong."

Hearing the sound, Xie Lang turned his head to look, his second sister-in-law was standing at the door, and Xie Dalang's wife was standing on the other side, with an embarrassed expression on her face, looking around at Xie Dalang and Xie Erlang, but she didn't dare to look in his direction.

Xie Lang laughed, "So you came to settle accounts with me?"

"No, Saburo." Xie Erlang said, "It's because the elder sister-in-law doesn't believe you, but your second sister-in-law believes in you. The two got into an argument over this, so I came to you to ask what happened."

Xie Lang was not surprised at all.

They have never seen stinky tofu or fermented bean curd, so it is normal for them to feel uneasy.

But Xie Bowen, who was on the next floor, said he didn't blame him, but his cousin came to him instead. Xie Lang was angry and didn't bother to be polite, "Since the elder sister-in-law doesn't believe me, why bother to buy donkeys and make tofu with the second sister-in-law. In my opinion Don't do it, let the second sister-in-law do it with her neighbors."

"I... It's not that I don't believe you, it's because we haven't done it before, so, hey, even if it breaks, I won't blame you."

Xie Lang raised his eyebrows, "So you still want to blame me? How? Compensate your beans, or sell me the bad tofu?"

"No, it's not."

"You didn't sell it to me, but let uncle scold me?" Xie Lang snorted and lowered his face, "Sister-in-law, don't think you gave birth to two children for eldest brother. They are uncle's daughter-in-law. If you and I fight, uncle and auntie will also turn to me .” Without waiting for him to speak, he asked Xie Erlang, “Who are you facing?”

Xie Erlang moved his mouth, gasped, and turned to his wife, "Why are you pinching me? Don't let me tell? Then I have to say, Saburo is my brother. I dare to say to my sister-in-law, my uncle and my aunt. Won't let me go."

Xie Lang chuckled, "Sister-in-law, did you hear that?"

Xie Dalang's wife turned around and left.

Xie Dalang looked at Sanlang, then turned to look at his wife, sighed, and ran after him.

"Sanlang..." Seeing this scene, Xie Bowen said nothing, and said nothing, "Erlang, go and see your sister-in-law and don't run back to her mother's house."

Xie Erlang looked at Xie Lang subconsciously.

"What are you looking at me for? If you want to go, you can go, if you don't want to go, you can go home directly. If you want to go but don't want to go, then go find your uncle and auntie." Xie Lang said.

Xie Erlang was overjoyed, "I went to find my father and told her to scold her. I have long thought that my sister-in-law is not pleasing to the eye, and I talk like a gun all day long, and I think I can't hear it. I'm just too lazy to talk to her. Hey, you This woman, why pinch me again? Don't you also say that sister-in-law is talking—hey, hey, let me go!"

"Sanlang, let's go find our parents." Xie Erlang's wife grabbed his ear and pulled him south.

Xie Lang couldn't help rubbing his forehead, then turned to Xie Bowen, ashamed for Xie Erlang, "I'll show you a joke."

"It's not a joke, as long as you don't get angry with me." Xie Bowen said, "Your sister-in-law and I also think that you may have misremembered, the tofu is really bad."

Xie Lang: "At least you, like my second brother and second sister-in-law, didn't suspect that I pretended to understand."

This is true.

But because Xie Dalang's wife suspected Xie Lang, Xie Bowen didn't dare to nod, "Will your sister-in-law really go back to her mother's house in a fit of anger?"

"will not!"

Xie Dalang's daughter-in-law is not as bad-mouthed as Xie Erlang's wife. She looks very honest, but she has a high spirit and hopes to surpass her sister-in-law in all aspects.

When she went back to her natal family, Xie Dalang was the only one making tofu in her family. Her family would get [-]% of the selling price, and [-]% less, she would die of heartache.

But Xie Lang didn't say this, "The life of my uncle's family was similar to that of her natal family. Ever since my uncle plowed and harrowed me, they started making tofu. Life is much better than her natal family's, and my elder brother will not leave even if I drive her away. Don't think it will be better than now if you marry your eldest brother again."

Not every woman has the opportunity to become Liu Che's mother.

Xie Bowen agreed, "Your uncle and auntie don't have a bad temper. They give them some money every year and bring up their children. They have found such a lucrative business. Marrying in the city is not necessarily more comfortable than following your elder brother."

Xie Lang smiled, neither saying yes nor no, "Where do you store all the tofu you make?"

"The ones made two days earlier were put at my father's house, and the ones made yesterday and today were still cut up." Xie Bowen said, "I'll sell them in the city tomorrow, and then cut them up."

Xie Lang: "Look for some people in the village to borrow some water tanks, cut them up and put them in the main room of my house." Pointing to the main room, "There is no door or window, the room is shady and cool, just right for moldy tofu."

Xie Bowen turned his head to look, shook his head and said, "This is your new house, you haven't lived in it yet."

"I'm going to hang it out for a summer." Xie Lang said, "The smell will be gone by then. You can tell my second brother later, let them move here too."

Xie Bowen opened his mouth to thank, but felt that the word "thank you" was too empty, "Sanlang, from now on you will be my brother, just like Zhong Wu."

"If you still can't eat after ten days, don't blame me." Xie Lang said.

Xie Bowen waved his hand, "No wonder."

Feeling relieved, Xie Bowen calmed down and thought that he failed this time, and if he tried again later, he would always succeed.

Once it is made, you don't have to worry about making more tofu in cloudy and rainy days.

If Xie Lang hadn't told him that moldy tofu could be eaten, there would be a lot more tofu wasted due to rainy days all year round than this time.

Worried that Xie Lang would not believe it, Xie Bowen told Xie Lang what he thought in his heart.

Xie Lang was surprised and curious, "Why didn't you think of it just now?"

Xie Bowen blushed when he thought that he was actually crying, "I, I was in a hurry at that time, and I was so panicked that I lost my mind."

"Saburo, Saburo..."

Xie Bowen: "Your uncle is here, and he must talk about your sister-in-law. I am not suitable here. Can you handle it alone? Hey, Xiao Qi, what are you doing with the little tiger? You can't go out, Xiao Qi—"

Xie Lang stretched out his long arms and hugged him.

"Master!" The child frowned, "let me go."

Xie Bowen persuaded: "The little tiger is still young, wait for it to grow up before taking it out."

Xie Lang squeezed the child's face, "He doesn't want to lead the little tiger out to play, he wants the tiger to bite my uncle."

The child stopped struggling.

Xie Bowen was very surprised, more puzzled, "Why bite your uncle?"

"Yes, why bite me? I didn't scold you today." Xie Jianye asked when he walked in.

Xie Lang laughed and said: "He thought you came to stand up for your daughter-in-law, and wanted to catch me and beat me up."

Xie Jianye was embarrassed.

"Your sister-in-law, she is really ignorant."

Early this morning, Xie Jianye heard the muttering next door. Yao Guizhi lay on the wall and listened for a while but couldn't hear clearly. He misunderstood that Xie Dalang and his wife were chatting about trivial matters, so they pretended not to hear.

Just now when Xie Erlang went to his house to tell what his eldest daughter-in-law did, Xie Jianye regretted not letting Yao Guizhi listen again, maybe he heard them talking about Xie Lang.

Xie Lang: "What are you going to do?"

"I asked your aunt to train her. If she talks about you later, I will ask Da Lang to send her back." Xie Jianye said.

Xie Lang snorted, "Uncle, Brother Bowen, while you two are here and there are no outsiders, I'll tell you straight up, you know what I used to be like, I know how to make plows and rakes, it's purely forced by life It's a coincidence that I can make tofu, and you can only make it if you believe in me.

"Ask me for advice in the future. I will say what I know, and I won't pretend to understand what I don't understand. I will make up a lie to deceive you. But I am a human being, not a god, and what I say may not be all right. No matter what the result is in the future, It has nothing to do with me."

"This..." Xie Jianye looked at Xie Bowen.

Xie Bowen didn't speak, and motioned Xie Lang to continue.

"Like what happened today, I'm sure moldy tofu can be eaten, but as my sister-in-law said, I haven't done it, and it may cause you to waste so many beans. If similar things happen in the future, don't blame me, you My uncle, you are my brother Bowen. You blame me, let alone ask me for advice, if you want to borrow my plow, I will not borrow it."

"No." Xie Bowen thought he didn't care about them anymore, but he was relieved to hear him say that, "You are also for our own good." Touch Xie Jianye to make him express his opinion.

Xie Jianye nodded, "Yes. It's really bad, but it's just a waste of time these days. Tianqing will make money again."

"Then you also have to remember today's words. Every time something happens, you come to me. People who don't know the inside story think I'm a villain who is full of nonsense. Someday it will be heard in the ears of the prince. If we really have something to ask him, he They won’t help me either. People give me things because they think I can still go anywhere.”

At this time, people value reputation, Xie Lang said so, Xie Jianye and Xie Bowen became cautious.

Xie Bowen said: "In the future, if something like today happens again, I will not come here during the day when I come to look for you."

"Bowen is right. I came here quietly after everyone has rested." Xie Jianye continued.

At this moment Xie Lang was really not angry anymore.

Xie Lang said what he didn't plan to say earlier, "Brother Bowen, I don't think the road will be ready for driving tomorrow, so soak less beans today, and make four boards tomorrow, and go to the city with Brother Zhongwu, and pick up the ones that are not moldy. On the oil belt, every wine shop you know will send some. You must not ask for money, even if it is given to you."

"Why?" Xie Bowen was puzzled.

Xie Lang: "Thank you for buying your tofu every day, and I would like to mention your moldy tofu. They were very happy and agreed to sell moldy tofu in their own wine shop. When the tofu is ready, you can just send it over. The moldy tofu takes time , If you tell them it’s troublesome and charge more money, they won’t think too much about it.”

Thinking of himself and others, Xie Bowen thinks that the tofu sellers are good, and if the price of moldy tofu is slightly higher, he will not lower the price.

Xie Jianye is half a businessman, thinking about Xie Lang's words, it makes sense, "I'll tell your elder brother and second brother." Turning around to leave, he stopped suddenly, "Your sister-in-law should think it's unnecessary. Nagging on and on."

Xie Lang couldn't bear it this time, and immediately rolled his eyes.

Xie Jianye was very embarrassed, "If she dares to talk about you, I will ask your aunt to find her mother."

Xie Lang turned his face away and told him silently that your family's affairs have nothing to do with me.Xie Jianye sighed, winked at Xie Bowen, and persuaded him for me.

Xie Bowen nodded, and Xie Jianye went out.

"I'm used to it!" Xie Lang waited for him to walk away before humming.

Xie Bowen smiled and said: "Your uncle said that your parents spoil you, but in fact he spoils children even more than your parents. My family Xie Guang dared to let his wife find his brother like Da Lang. I broke his leg long ago. .”

"Don't talk about him. My uncle was here just now, so I didn't say anything because I was afraid that he would soften his heart." Xie Lang said.

Xie Bowen: "What else?"

Naturally, Xiao Qi's uncle and second uncle.

Xie Jianye and Xie Bowen care about reputation, Xie Dalang and Xie Erlang are timid and dare not pass off good ones, those two don't care about money.Xie Lang was worried that they would sell moldy oil skin and stale tofu to wine shops, ruining the reputation of the four, so he told Xie Bowen his worries.

It rained every day, and Xie Bowen nestled in the house making tofu. He had never seen them before, so he forgot about those two families.

After Xie Lang finished speaking, Xie Bowen was afraid for a while, "I'll go find them!"

"It's useless, I won't listen to you." Xie Lang looked at Xiao Qi, "Do you think so?"

The child faintly heard that his uncle and second uncle were going to do something bad, so he didn't quite understand and said, "The third master is right."

Xie Lang smiled and put him on the ground, "It's windy outside, go back to the house with Huzi."

"Huzi, let's go to sleep." The child went into the house, put the cub in the nest, took off his shoes and climbed onto the couch, and said in a childlike voice, "Huzi, go to sleep. Wake up and eat."

Xie Lang laughed, "This kid." After closing the door, he continued, "Tell them that tomorrow you won't sell it but give it away, and see what their attitude is. If you don't agree, tell them to leave."

"It's okay. I just don't need to explain moldy tofu to them." Xie Bowen said, "I heard you said that moldy tofu takes half a month, but I'm worried that they will put it for ten days, or take it out for sale in four or five days."

Xie Lang: "The people in the city are smart. If you mention in a subtle way that although you are together, you each do your own thing, and people will know what it means."

People in the city can understand it, but Xie Bowen is still worried. The things that are imported are not other things.Putting aside the relationship and causing problems for people, they will also be implicated by those two families.

But when the weather cleared, not only to make tofu, but also to plow the land to grow broomcorn.Xie Bowen wanted to borrow Xie Lang's cattle, thinking that Xie Jianye would have to use them for himself and help the village plow the wasteland, so he brought a pot of tofu to borrow cattle from another family.

The field was plowed and harrowed, and the next day it rained again.But this time it's clear when the wet ground is underway.

It is not very humid, but it is convenient for the common people. After drying it for half a day, just scatter the millet down, and this year's spring planting is over.

After finishing the work in the field, Xie Lang rested for two days, and it was fourteen days before Xie Bowen's first batch of tofu was delivered.

That afternoon around Shen time, Xie Lang estimated that everyone had eaten and the house was tidied up, so he went to the main room to dig a bowl, took two cleaned tiles, and led Xiao Qi out of the house.

Then he called Xie Jianye and Yao Guizhi in the front yard, and went to Xie Bowen's house.

Xie Guang didn't allow Xie Lang to order, so he used adobe to set up a simple stove, lit the fire to heat the tiles, put the oil and put the tofu.

When the tofu with a little bit of water hit the hot oil, it stinged, and the stench was suffocating.

Xie Jianye and Yao Guizhi covered their noses at the same time. The expressions of the three members of Xie Bowen's family suddenly changed, and then they looked at each other. Is it okay to eat this thing?

Eating a bad stomach is a small matter, but death is a major matter.