A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

I originally wanted to dye cloth when I went back yesterday, but the original dye was not enough color. Shen Wu temporarily gave up dyeing the cloth and planned to find time to get some more dye.

As for the alum used to fix the color, she didn't consider it at all. The dye was natural anyway, and she would be wearing clothes inside, so why waste money on alum? It would be better to save it for practical use. At worst, she could just boil and dye it a few more times and dry it a few more times.

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Shen Wu got up early in the morning. When she was making dinner yesterday, she kneaded the dough and placed it next to the stove to keep it warm. Even if the weather gradually gets cooler, the dough can still rise.

Shen Wu held the oil lamp and walked from the house to the kitchen. Before she reached the kitchen, she was startled by the bright light inside.

So early! ?

Sure enough, Gu Zhou was already busy kneading the dough, and the prepared shepherd's purse stuffing was next to it.

"Why did you get up so early?" Shen Wu wondered.

Gu Zhou turned around and saw her holding an oil lamp outside the door. He chuckled: "I'm not sleepy at all, so why not get up and prepare the buns."

As he spoke, he kneaded the dough on the table a few times. There were fires burning in two stoves. The crackling sound of the firewood and the flames reflected on his face, which looked very soft.

Shen Wu walked to the side, took a wooden stick and extinguished the wick of the oil lamp. She took out the oil lamp from her room and put it aside in a corner. She guessed that there was boiling water in the pot, and seeing that there was not much firewood, she added some to the two stoves.

"No need to get up so early, it's still early," Shen Wu said as he pushed the firewood.

Gu Zhou turned the dough over, cut half of it with a knife, and began to divide it into portions according to the previous steps: "It's okay, I always did it this early before."

"By the way! I went to see Uncle Li yesterday afternoon and asked him to keep half a tray of tofu. I'll go after I divide the dough." Gu Zhou kept working as he spoke. Four or five doughs flowed out of his hands while he was talking.

Shen Wu didn't say anything for a while. She couldn't understand how this kid could take her job away. Could it be that she would have to get up earlier next time if she wanted to work?

She thought for a while, then stood up and washed her hands in the basin on the wall. There was a broken wooden basin in this place, which was used for family members to wash their hands in the kitchen.

After washing her hands, she wanted to intervene, but was stopped by Gu Zhou with the reason she had said before: "Don't move once I start. Don't be anxious. Wait until I come back."

As if he was afraid that she would take over the job, Gu Zhou quickened his pace in dividing the dough and finally divided all the dough on the large chopping board.

Since there was really no room left and the dough had already risen, I put the rest in the basin with a lid on and waited until the ones in front were finished before I could go in.

Since he couldn't get in, Shen Wu simply gave up. He turned back and stuffed some more firewood into the stove, opened the boiling pot, and found an unused basin to scoop some water into it.

Gu Zhou didn't continue to distribute it. He patted the flour on his hands and squatted in front of the basin by the wall to wash his hands: "I'm going to get the tofu now, you keep it." After he said that, he stood up and ran out with the backpack that had been prepared by the wall.

"Hey...!..." Shen Wu just opened his mouth but found that he had already run out of the door, probably running towards Uncle Li's house.

The man had run away, and Shen Wu stopped chasing him. He balanced the water in the two stoves and prepared to boil it again.

After many years of living, Gu Zhou had gotten used to going out in the early morning. He hurried to the old man with money in his pocket to order a board of tofu.

"Uncle, I'd like to order some tofu." When Gu Zhou stepped into the courtyard with a basket on his back, he took out money from his pocket. It was money that he had counted out in advance, a total of about thirty coins.

"Gu kid, you're here. I was just telling your third uncle that you should come and order some tofu today." Uncle Li scooped up the already formed bean curd and put it one scoop at a time into the prepared board.

"Gu kid, take this board. It was made first. You can take it back now and put it in the buns." Uncle Li San took one out from the pile of wooden frames on the side.

Covered in a thin cloth is freshly baked tofu.

Uncle Li San found a place to put the tofu basket, cut it a few times with a knife to divide it into even pieces: "Come, I'll put it in your backpack."

Gu Zhou moved the backpack closer. The bottom of the basket was padded with oil paper, and the top was padded with cloth used to cover buns to prevent the tofu from getting smashed.

After handing the money to the Third Master, Gu Zhou hurriedly said goodbye to the two of them and walked home.

It was still dark, and any breeze was biting. Gu Zhou was wearing the first piece of clothing she had made for him. He was afraid of getting it dirty, so he kept wearing tattered clothes outside.

After walking the village road for so many years, he could find his way back with his eyes closed. Carefully bypassing the raised dirt on the ground, Gu Zhou hurried back home as fast as he could.

"So fast!?" Shen Wu was shocked. It's been less than ten minutes?

After helping to unload the tofu, Gu Zhou went into the kitchen to warm up: "Did the water boil early?"

"Well, I've boiled some hot water. The bowl on the table is yours. You can drink it after it cools down." Shen Wu took the tofu from the basket and put it on the chopping board.

Now I don’t need to distinguish between the two sides of the chopping board. I disinfect it with hot water after every meal, so it’s okay to use it mixed with the flour side of the chopping board.

Gu Zhou washed his hands and wanted to help, but she stopped him: "It's cold outside, you just came back and drank some water to warm yourself up by the fire. I'll cut the tofu first."

Gu Zhou was a young porter, and although it was cold on the road, he was sweating as he walked. However, when the wind blew, the sweat turned into cold water, which stuck to his clothes and made him feel a little wet and uncomfortable.

The kitchen had been quite hot since he entered, but after just a few words the temperature had dropped slightly.

She was in a hurry to cut tofu, and Gu Zhou couldn't get his hands involved, so he started helping wash the vegetables.

"What should I leave for my little sister in the morning?" Gu Zhou didn't know what she wanted to cook, but the wild vegetables next to her indicated that she would definitely use them.

Shen Wu cut one third of it and put it into the shepherd's purse. It was hard to tell how much it was. She took another third and chopped it up and mixed it in. This time it finally looked much better. You could even see the presence of the tofu. "I plan to make a soup with shepherd's purse, tofu and noodles."

"Okay," Gu Zhou responded, took the washed shepherd's purse out of the basin and put it aside to drain.

The stored dough was not sticky because it was sprinkled with some flour. The two of us took turns wrapping a whole pot of dough in just a few dozen minutes.

It gets better once you become proficient at it, and you can do it very skillfully. As usual, Shen Wu left some steamed buns and vegetable porridge for the two children before leaving.

Although my younger brother can eat complementary food, the taste of the buns is a bit strong for him. The buns are for Gu Wei, and the tofu, vegetable and rice porridge is for my younger brother and Gu Wei.

The two of them said goodbye to the child, told her to be careful, and to ask Aunt He for help if she had any problems. Then, each of them carried a backpack in front and back, and carefully went to the gathering point.

The location is at the doorstep of Uncle Li’s house. It was originally free, but as more people came and bought, Uncle San started to charge a symbolic fee of two cents per time.

In fact, most of the time the Third Master never asked for a cent, he was just joking, but Gu Zhou and Shen Wu took it seriously and gave it to him a few times, and even stuffed it into the oil paper bag after the two grandfathers refused.

Uncle Li and Uncle Li San were on guard against Shen Wu in every possible way, but they just couldn't stop his mischievousness. He always hid the two copper coins for each of them in a strange way, and they could find them out when the other two were taking out the buns.