【105】Tianxianglou
After the beginning of spring, good things on the mountain came out one after another. Yu Wan found several wild vegetables alone, but now they only sprouts have emerged, and it takes a while to dig them. Yu Wan secretly recorded the location of the wild vegetables.
In terms of taste, these wild vegetables may not be as good as the green vegetables in the field, but now their fields are gone? Besides, wild vegetables are rich in nutritional value and have no choice but to the body.
Spring bamboo shoots are still small now, so Yu Wan came to the stream. The movement of the earth also had a slight impact on the landform of the mountains and forests, but it was not a big deal.
Yu Wan caught three fish in the stream, two of which were too thin and asked her to release them, and she only carried the fat big crucian carp back to the yard.
I was thinking about how to make this fish later on the road, but as soon as I arrived at the door of the backyard, I turned around and knocked on the back door next door.
Uncle Wan opened the door.
Uncle Wan's face was not very good. He raised the Peony Flower King for a winter and was troubled by someone. There is no need to guess that it was three little bastards.
"Uncle Wan." Yu Wan greeted politely.
"Miss Yu." Uncle Wan Jiao was displeased. He liked Yu Wan from the bottom of his heart. Not only did he have good cooking skills, good temperament, good medical skills, but he was also considerate and hardworking, especially if he could tolerate his own snake sperm disease and three little bastards. Such a girl is really rare in the world!
Yu Wan was embarrassed to say that she gave her three little milk, so she said, "I caught a fish, you can use it to stew the soup."
She also took out the spring bamboo shoots from the back basket, "The bamboo shoots are not big, but they are very fresh, and the stewed fish soup is very nutritious."
"How can I be so embarrassed?" Uncle Wan refused.
Yu Wan said: "It's not worth much money, there are still many on the mountain."
"Then I'll be disrespectful." Uncle Wan smiled and accepted it, "Miss Yu will sit in the house for a while?"
Yu Wan shook her head: "No, I'm going to do something."
This is not a polite word, it is because the soybeans are soaked almost, and work is indeed going to start.
Uncle Wan also knew that the Yu family was busy with business and stopped asking for help. He thanked him carefully. After Yu Wan left, he carried the fat big crucian carp to the kitchen.
As soon as he turned around, he was shocked by Yan Jiuchao who had come behind him at some point!
"Young Master! Why are you not lying in the house? What are you doing when you run out?"
Even if Yan Jiuchao holds a crutch, he can still show aura of dominating the world. He glanced at Uncle Wan indifferently: "She is here to secretly inquire about this young master again?"
"Well……"
I didn't mention you a word...
Yan Jiuchao sneered and said, "I have taken advantage of this young master for one night. What else do she want?"
Uncle Wan was covered in black.
Cheap one night?
It's like Miss Yu ate you completely. Didn't it just look like you are a cripple man, pulling your hands, walking from the east end of the village to the west end of the village, kindly supporting you, the little cripple, back to the house?
We, do we have to be more shameful?
...
Yu Wan didn't know that she had sent wild game to her little milk bag and gave her a period of great imagination. She was now in the old house, helping to cook bean juice.
There are three stone mills in the village, and they are all used at this moment, and the continuous stream of soy sauce flows out from the millstone.
Shuanzi, Yu Feng, Hunter and several other strong men took turns pushing the mill, while Aunt Zhang, Aunt Bai and others helped put the beans and pick up the beans.
Cuihua and a few young wives were not idle either. Under Yu Wan's dispensing, they scoop out the soy sauce from the pot and poured it into the prepared tank in advance.
Making tofu is never easy, otherwise, there are three major hardships in the world: raising a boat, rushing iron, and selling tofu.
To make a bag of fresh soybeans into tofu, you must soak them for a few hours first, until they are two to three times the size.
After soaking, grind it over and put the ground bean juice into the pot and boil it over high heat. Until here, it is still a simple physical work. Once it is out of the pot, you have to start to slurry, and the knowledge here is great.
If you order well, you should use tofu brain; if you don’t order well, you should use yellow water.
The materials used for slurry directly determine the yield of tofu. Generally speaking, the yield of lactone tofu is the highest. One pound of soybeans can produce four pounds of tofu, followed by gypsum and brine, about two and a half to three or four pounds.
It’s a pity that there was no lactone in ancient times, and gypsum was not popular among the people. Brine was the choice of most tofu makers. Yu Wanyuan also planned to use salt. After tasting the sour milk tofu that my uncle made, she decisively changed to using sour milk.
The sour slurry is the juice from the tofu the day before. After acidification, it becomes a sour slurry. The yield of the tofu from the sour slurry is half a pound less than that of the brine, but its taste is more mellow and harder than the tofu tofu, and the bean aroma emits is more primitive and simple. Correspondingly, the requirements for the point slurry process are also more stringent.
"You want to do this..." Under the shed in the backyard, Yu Feng was patiently teaching Shuanzi to do some pulp.
Everyone was burning with firewood and the tofu that Yu's family only completed in three days was made overnight. Then they waited for them to ferment and then made into stinky tofu and fermented bean curd.
"Awan." After finishing work, Yu Feng called Yu Wan.
Yu Wan put the last piece of cut tofu into the jar: "What's wrong, brother?"
"There is something I want to tell you."
“Is it about order quantity?”
"You found out too?"
"Yeah." Yu Wan nodded, "We can't do the orders we have taken, and the whole village can't do enough."
To put it bluntly, if you can't support so much labor, otherwise they would be operating at a loss.
It’s okay to lose for a day or two, but if you lose for a long time, they will sooner or later collapse.
Yu Wan thought for a while and said, "We have to expand the market a little longer. I will go to the town and take a look tomorrow."
"Okay." Yu Fengyuan was a little worried that Yu Wan would reduce labor force. When she heard that she wanted to expand the market, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "I'll send you back."
The two left the old house.
Thinking of something, Yu Wan suddenly said, "How is the second brother? I haven't seen him all day."
Yu Feng frowned: "He is not sure what he is making a fuss, and he is also hiding in the room for dinner."
"By the way." This time it was Yu Feng's turn to ask her, "I heard that a new family is moved next door, and she is a scholar."
On the day when Xinghua Village came to visit, the Yu family accompanied her aunt back to her parents' home. It was still the villagers who were working today, but they accidentally mentioned it. Otherwise, Yu Feng would not have known that a powerful gentleman had come to their village.
Yu Wan said to herself, "What kind of gentleman?" Just a second-generation ancestor who is so idle.
...
The next day, early in the morning, Yu Wan and Yu Feng went to the town with two jars of homemade stinky tofu and fermented tofu.
The market outside the town has not opened, but the market inside the town has already started to open. As Yu Feng said, due to the intervention of the Xu family store, prices have been very stable.
The brother and sister wandered around the market and observed the passenger flow, feeling that it could not meet their current needs.
"It's good to sell salt." Yu Feng said in a strange way.
Salt is a huge profit. They know how to make salt and can turn affordable salt into high-quality snowflake salt. In this way, even if they don’t lose the amount, it will be enough for them to make a fortune.
Yu Wan smiled: "Not everyone is as tight-lipped as Miss Bai."
This is the truth. In Dazhou, selling private salt is illegal. Once it is spread, their whole family will be imprisoned.
Yu Feng sighed: "I just talk casually."
"Miss Yu!"
The two of them heard a familiar voice and turned around at the same time. They saw Manager Cui jumping out of an urgently stopped carriage.
Manager Cui said in surprise: "It's really you! I thought I had admitted my mistake! Brother Yu Feng is here too!"
"Shopkeeper Cui." The two greeted him.
"Where are you going? I'll give you a ride." Manager Cui said.
Yu Wan shook her head with a smile: "No, we just come to the town to see where we can sell stinky tofu."
Manager Cui said, "Your family's stinky tofu is still worried about not being able to sell it?" Mr. Xiao Wu said, your family is in short supply!"
Yu Wan said: "I've done more now than before."
"How much do you do...?" asked Manager Cui.
Yu Wan compared a gesture.
Manager Cui was shocked.
He originally wanted to say, "You should supply Baiyulou. Baiyulou's business has been very good recently, but when he sees the output of the Yu family, he is mute. A restaurant in a small town can't get so many."
"I have it!" He slapped his thigh, "You can go to Tianxianglou!"
Tianxianglou is the largest restaurant in Beijing, with a total of seven branches. In addition to the restaurant industry, they also have their own business stores in various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
If you can supply goods to Tianxianglou, you will not have to worry about making money.
"only……"
"But what?" Yu Wan asked.
Manager Cui said with great confidence: "His family is very picky about ingredients. Although I have confidence in your craftsmanship,... have you heard of Miss Du? Her cooking skills are unique in the world. Do you know that she is actually a teacher at Tianxianglou?"
Madam Du is also famous. What kind of chef temple should be where Madam Du is allowed to become a teacher?
Yu Wan nodded, and Yu Guang glanced at Yu Feng with a deep thought: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Yu Feng said with a complicated expression: "The place where my father used to do things was Tianxianglou."
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Fatty is offered, Momo~
Chapter completed!