The Ugly Ger's Farming Story

"There is no wages. Many people can't afford to eat these days. Where does the wages come from? Just give him something to eat and live in."

The words that Li Changfeng said without even thinking about it made the hearts of the people in the courtyard feel empty. If there is no salary, then you can’t subsidize the family, it doesn’t make any difference.

Youngest Li's complexion also darkened, "Go and tell him to come back quickly! What does it sound like for an unmarried brother to take care of others!"

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

"What's so good! A serious brother will take care of strangers who don't know him?! Hurry up and call me back!" Old man Li said viciously.

"That's right, if this matter gets out, how many gossips will be caused by the villagers," Boss Li's daughter-in-law said in a low voice, and was pulled by Boss Li on the side.

Li Changfeng smiled calmly, "It's not a good thing, my little brother is also afraid that life at home will not be separated, and he also knows that he eats a lot. This time, he is not far away in the town, and he can come back as often as he wants. Home, there is no need to prepare his food at home, why is it not a good thing?"

This is true, the faces of the youngest Li and the old man Li have eased up, but the old man Li still insisted, "Then let him figure it out!"

"That's fine, then I'll go back too." Li Changfeng stood up and went out of the hospital just as he got into the donkey cart. Looking at the sturdy donkey, Li Laojiao couldn't help saying: "This donkey is growing fatter than our piglets. To be honest, you must have a lot of food to feed, it takes a lot of trouble."

"It's no problem, our family's life depends on it. If it can pull a few people on the road, it's a lot of trouble to keep it, so what? Let's go!" Gu Zi pretends to be poor, but the youngest Li is depressed, so he can't tell the truth directly, he can't say that he wants to eat meat!

"So that's what happened. Since this is the case, we will go to see my brother every now and then." Xu Qing finally felt relieved after hearing what Li Changfeng had said about little brother Li.

"Okay, I know, you can rest assured." Li Changfeng thought to tell Brother Li what he said in the Li family's yard, so that Brother Li, who didn't know at the time, would stupidly hand back all the wages. It is also the age to prepare for marriage, so it is better to save more private money.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the seasons changed. In the blink of an eye, Xu Qing's stomach grew from five months to eight months, and it will be ripe in two months. Now, it is eleven It's the month, and it's starting to get cold.

The good news is that just last month, it finally rained. Although the crops in the fields were gone, the rain came, and so did the hope of the farmers.

Li Changfeng had turned over the field again in that one month, irrigated the water, and made the ditch. It can be said that he is a good hand in the field!

The water level of the river outside the village has also risen, and there are more smiles in the village. These days, we are planting vegetables and food that can be planted in the ground, so that we can eat some warm vegetables in winter .

Xu Qing was particularly surprised that there were potatoes here!So he didn't care if he could survive, anyway, he had a spiritual spring, so he asked Li Changfeng to set aside an acre of land to grow potatoes and an acre of land to grow sweet potatoes!

During the period when Xu Qing was free, he sneaked around to drip the spiritual spring in the field. Now the sweet potato seedlings and potato seedlings in the field have grown a lot, which makes the villagers who see this place even more hopeful. At this time It can be grown out, so I am afraid that this winter will be difficult!

So the village began to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes with Xu Qing and the others in a hurry. Xu Qing was forced 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? They all sprouted.

Although Xu Qing's stomach is very big, but this man is thin everywhere except his stomach, and he can only see his stomach from a distance, which looks a little scary, Xie Ah, does it mean that the child in his stomach is absorbing it? Therefore, although Xu Qing ate a lot, he didn't get fat in any other place except his stomach.

But what surprised Li Changfeng and Xu Qing even more was that the child rolled over in the stomach at every turn, "stretching his fists and feet," reminding the new parents all the time how strong and lively the child is.

As soon as Li Changfeng came home, he saw Xu Qing stroking his belly.

"Kicked you again?"

Xu Qing nodded, "That's right, he's amazing if he doesn't kick me more than ten times a day!" He doesn't hurt when the movements are light, but occasionally when a big one comes, he hurts badly!

As soon as Li Changfeng put his hand on Xu Qing's stomach, he felt the little guy kick again. Li Changfeng smiled silly, and Xu Qing slapped his hand away, "Stop laughing, help me, I'll go home and get warmer."

Although there is a kang and a fire wall, but it has just started to be cold this day, and Xu Qing is not willing to start using it just like that, otherwise he will never want to go out when it is cold later.

"Today, Xie Ahmo talked about Brother Xiaoyu again." Xu Qing lay on the warm bed, all he wanted to do was hum, but remembering what Xie Ahmo said today, he still talked to Li Changfeng.

"But you're worried about the child again?" Li Changfeng knew what Xie Ah Mo was worried about without guessing. Brother Xie has been married to the Lin family for more than half a year, and his stomach still hasn't moved. Isn't Xie Ah Mo just worried?

Brother Xie's body is under the care of old doctor Lin, plus Xu Qing gave him a spiritual spring to drink before, and Lin Fangliang is kind to him, so it can be said that he lives comfortably and is healthy, but he just can't conceive. Brother Xie's pressure began to increase. Even though Lin Fangliang said that it was okay to have no children, he still couldn't let go.

"I think brother Xiaoyu is too worried!" Xu Qing had heard a case before, that is, the more he wanted to conceive, the more he couldn't conceive. Heavy, the body naturally did not let go, ready, how can I be pregnant.

"That's right, by the way, what do you want to eat tonight?" Xu Qing was the most important thing Li Changfeng thought about.

"what are we eating."

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

"It's in the warehouse, do you want to eat it? I'll cook it!" They eat soybeans directly by cooking them.

"No need to cook, I'll teach you a new dish to try! You go and scoop up three bowls. Let's just pick out the unwanted beans and soak them in water. We'll make them tomorrow, and we'll have fried eggs tonight." Cake." These days, Li Changfeng's cooking skills are also getting better and better under Xu Qing's guidance.

The selection of tofu material is also very important. Li Changfeng asked Li Changfeng to use a sieve to remove impurities such as sundries, low-quality beans, vegetation and sand, and then began to soak the beans, which means soaking soybeans in water to remove impurities floating on the water surface. , the amount of water is based on submerged soybeans.

"During the soaking process, the water quality of the soaked beans is prevented from becoming sour and rancid, which will affect the quality. The soaking time varies according to the temperature. Generally, soaking beans for two to three hours in summer; four to six hours in winter."When Xu Qing watched Li Changfeng add water to the beans, he talked about the procedure while pointing out the water level.

In the afternoon of the next day, Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng to grind the soaked soybeans with a stone mill. According to Xu Qing's instructions, Li Changfeng added soybeans and water at the same time to grind them into a paste. It should be uniform and consistent with the speed of your stone mill, so that you can grind fine and smooth soybean milk."

Li Changfeng was doing it seriously, for fear that he would miss a little bit of the steps Xu Qing said, and he was doing it meticulously. After grinding into soy milk, it had to be filtered.Xu Qing found a piece of cloth with a relatively sparse wire mesh and asked Li Changfeng to filter it. Add the ground soy milk paste to warm water and mix evenly before putting it into a cloth bag. Lift the cloth bag and shake it by hand until the slurry flows out. Repeat the operation several times. until the slurry drains.

Looking at the white slurry in the basin and smelling the unique beany smell emanating from the soy milk in the air, Xu Qing was very satisfied, because the original soy bean can make very good tofu.

The last thing 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 up and boil until the foam on the surface of the pot bursts, and remove the heat to get cooked soy milk.

Xu Qing scooped up two large bowls of hot soybean milk, added sugar to the bowl, stirred until it melted, and handed the bowl to Li Changfeng, "Come, try it."

Li Changfeng took the bowl and blew on the hot air on his face. A special fragrance came from the tip of his nose. He drank a small sip first, his eyes lit up, and he didn't care about the heat, so he drank the bowl clean in a few gulps!

"How about it?"

Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng, Li Changfeng nodded, and directly scooped another bowl into the pot, put sugar again, and then prepared to scoop out all the soy milk in the pot.

"Stop, stop, stop!"

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

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

If you want to make tofu, you have to order pulp.Scoop the boiled soymilk out of the pot and let it cool slightly. When the temperature drops, it can be ordered.Use a small spoon to stir the soymilk forward continuously when ordering the slurry, and slowly add the brine. When the soymilk sticks to the spoon, slow down the agitation, and the speed of adding the brine will also slow down accordingly, until the soymilk has fingernail-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 brains in the pot into the wooden grid covered with cotton cloth, wrapped Well, squeeze it with a heavy object to squeeze out the water. Generally, you can’t press it too dry, otherwise it’s not tofu, but dried tofu.

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

"You try it too, we've made it now." Xu Qing asked Li Changfeng to taste it in a good mood. Li Changfeng carefully took a small piece and tried it, frowning a little.

"do not like?"

Xu Qing recalled that Li Changfeng's taste was relatively strong, and the tofu that came out now was relatively bland, and it's normal not to like it.

Li Changfeng couldn't tell whether he liked it or not, "I just think the taste is a bit weird, so 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, um, it's delicious.

Because he was afraid that Li Changfeng would be inexperienced in making it for the first time, Xu Qing did it himself, and Li Changfeng helped him. What he made was spicy tofu!

Thinking of Xie Ah, they would also try something new, so Xu Qing took a few pieces of relatively large tofu, cut the tofu into pieces, and blanched them for later use. After mixing the sweet potato flour that Mo sent, he cut a small piece of meat that Li Changfeng took out from the well into minced meat, then put in a spoonful of wine and a spoonful of salt to marinate for a quarter of an hour, and then let Li Changfeng light up the fire.

After the pot was hot, Xu Qing put oil in the pot and heated it up, then put the side dishes and garlic into the pot and sautéed until fragrant, then put the marinated minced meat into the pot and stir-fried until the fragrance came out, Xu Qing poured the prepared sweet potato flour into the pot again, stirred it, poured in appropriate amount of water, brought it to a boil, then put the cut tofu into the pot, stirred it lightly for a few times, then scooped it into the pot Sprinkle chopped green onion in the bowl, and two big bowls of delicious and delicious spicy tofu are ready.

"You send this bowl to Xie Amo's family, and I'll cook another soup, and you can eat when you come back." Xu Qing put the bowl of spicy tofu for Xie Amo and the others in a basket, and used another piece After covering it with a clean cloth, let Li Changfeng send it over.

Li Changfeng quickly cleaned the pot and heated up the fire. After Xu Qing prepared the eggs for soup, he walked to the village with a basket.

Xie Amo was cooking with Uncle Xie, and at this moment, Xie Amo's brows were full of sadness, "What do you think this is all about! If it weren't for the Ma family back then, our brother would not have become like this!"