Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

On the way back, Li Mengyue happened to meet the Li Dazhui brothers who were packing up their stall. They went back in a ox cart, saving a lot of time.

After returning home, Li Mengyue started grinding spices.

This time she plans to prepare four kinds of spices, including thirteen spices, stew ingredients, barbecue ingredients, and marinade ingredients.

Among them, the thirteen spices can be used for cooking or making soup.

With these spices, she won't have to cook anymore. Even if her mother's cooking skills are not as good as hers, the dishes will taste good if she adds the right amount of spices.

Li Mengyue did it right away. It took her about half an hour to prepare the four spices.

Li Mengyue took out the paper she had prepared in advance and just wrapped the spices when Li came over.

"What smells so good?"

"Mom, I mixed four kinds of spices and put them in the dishes. They taste much better than boiled vegetables."

Li had a mysterious confidence in her daughter. She never doubted what Li Mengyue said and wondered if she could also cook delicious meals.

After talking about spices, Li almost forgot about soybeans.

"Yueyue, look, are the soybeans soaked?"

Li Mengyue got up and looked at the soybeans, and said with satisfaction: "Mom, the soybeans are soaked to this degree, and now we will start grinding the beans."

After grinding for just a quarter of an hour, Li Mengyue felt that it was not realistic to grind the beans solely by manpower.

My mother was too weak to push the mill, and she was pregnant and couldn't do heavy work for a long time. It seemed necessary to buy a donkey to pull the mill.

But the soaked soybeans must be ground today, otherwise it will be wasted.

However, there were six other women working at home. They worked in groups of two and it took them half an hour to grind the soybeans.

After that, Li Mengyue started making tofu and bean curd cakes.

Mrs. Li sat in front of the stove and boiled the pot. Li Mengyue poured the raw soy milk into the large iron pot at once, brought it to a boil, and skimmed out all the foam.

A strainer is placed on the pot and cheesecloth is used to hold the pulp so that all the dregs will be filtered out.

After the filtering was completed, all the cooked soy milk was scooped into a large water tank.

While the cooked soy milk was cooling down naturally, Li Mengyue was not idle, but was preparing to make brine.

Although gypsum tofu can be made with gypsum, Li Mengyue does not plan to do so because gypsum is harmful to the body and consuming too much will affect health.

She is pregnant now, so naturally she has to put the baby first.

Gypsum tofu is passed, white vinegar and salt can also be made into brine.

But she was powerless; she couldn't make vinegar just to make the brine.

Even if she wanted to, there was no time.

After much thought, I decided to use the most primitive wood ash brine.

Take an appropriate amount of wood ash from under the stove, then mix it with clean water in a ratio of 1:3, stir evenly and let it stand.

Filter out the supernatant and boil the filtered wood ash water without stirring. It is best if the water becomes clear without any impurities.

After the wood ash water cooled down, Li Mengyue added a little salt to the water, and the brine was ready.

At this time, the cooked soy milk in the large water tank is almost cold, so start pouring brine into the water tank to add some brine and simmer the tank.

Li and the other six women watched the cooked soy milk quickly turn into flocs and screamed in surprise.

"Oh my god, just adding a little bit of wood ash water can make soy milk coagulate and turn into tofu. This is incredible."

Except for Li Mengyue, no one present knew about tofu as a food, nor did they know that yellow beans could be ground into pulp and made into tofu.

Even though they witnessed with their own eyes how tofu was made, they still couldn't believe it.

Li Mengyue didn't care how surprised everyone was, but went to the wall of the yard and moved two tofu boxes, put them on the bench, and put clean cotton cloth inside.

When the tofu pudding was formed and solidified into steamed egg drops, Li Mengyue took a ladle and scooped all the tofu pudding into the tofu box.

Cover with cotton cloth, then put on a board lid, and bring two stones to help press the tofu into shape.

Li saw that her daughter was not doing anything, so she asked curiously, "Yueyue, how long does it take to make tofu?"

"A quarter of an hour will do."

"So fast."

"Well, I'll make some fried tofu later for everyone to try. There's also bean dregs, which can be made into bean dregs cakes, which tastes pretty good too."

Hearing that Li Mengyue was going to make fried tofu, Li and the six women all got busy.

Anyway, the locusts collected today have been dealt with, and they have nothing to do, so it would be nice for them to help make the bean curd cakes.

Li Mengyue didn't do anything. She asked someone to put the bean dregs into a basin and began to tell them how to make bean dregs cakes.

In fact, bean curd cake is very simple to make. Just add flour and appropriate amount of water, and stir with chopsticks until it forms a clumping dough.

Then she used a rolling pin to roll the bean dregs into small rectangular thin slices, brushed a layer of oil on them, sprinkled the spices she had prepared on them, rolled them up and cut them into small pieces with a knife.

Press them into small cakes with your hands, put them in the pan, fry them until both sides are golden brown, and sprinkle with spices.

Just as the women finished making the bean curd cake dough, Li had already started the fire, and this time Li Mengyue was in charge of the cooking.

Since it is not difficult to make bean curd cakes, a lot of them can be made in less than half an hour. Each one is not only soft but also very fragrant.

"Shashasha, delicious, delicious."

Goudan's mother didn't care that it was hot and ate one in one bite.

The other women also ate happily. The bean curd cakes sprinkled with spices were really delicious.

"Okay, just eat one to taste it. Don't keep eating until the host tells you to."

The village chief's wife ate one and stopped eating, and also did not allow other women to eat.

They had already eaten six and were still being paid, so they didn't have the nerve to eat any more.

"It's okay, Village Chief's wife, there's still a lot left, feel free to eat."

Even if Li Mengyue asked them to eat, the women restrained themselves from eating. Being able to taste the new food for the first time was already enough for them to show off.

So several women continued to help, and soon all the bean curd cakes were ready.

Li Mengyue kept some and prepared to give the rest to the people who planted trees on the mountain.

The tofu has been formed, and while the pan is still hot, Li Mengyue wants to make some fried tofu.

The village head's wife saw Li Mengyue making tofu and asked, "Yue girl, the tofu is ready."

"Yes, Village Chief Granny, please help cut the tofu into small pieces."

"Hey, good!"

Soon, a strange fragrance wafted from the Li family's yard again, making people swallow their saliva.

"What delicious food is the Li family cooking? It smells so good. It makes me hungry."

"Who says it's not? This is the first time I smell such a nice scent. Hurry up and take a few more puffs. If you can take a few puffs, you'll win."

"Makes sense."

……

The villagers who came to Li's house to sell locusts as usual were all standing at the door, sticking their noses forward and breathing in the fragrance in the air.

"Squeak!"

"what!"

The villagers who were breathing in the fragrance crazily opened their eyes wide, their faces turned as red as monkeys' butts, and they didn't know where to put the small bamboo baskets in their hands.