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Because Hualei discovered that the piglets had such a good appetite, the chickens, ducks and geese could be allowed to roam free, and the insects at the roots of the wheat stubble could be used as food. All she had to do was cut some grass and mix it with some rice bran.

But piglets cannot do that. They must be kept in captivity. If they are allowed to roam freely, they will grow too slowly. Even if they are kept in captivity, reducing their activity, they will still eat up their food very quickly.

Hualei has already moved all the rice bran from Baihua Manor here, and every day he asks the piglets to go cut grass around and mix it with the rice bran for them to eat. The rice bran is visibly decreasing. If this continues, there will be no more rice bran to supply.

Originally, Hua Lei was thinking of getting some soybeans from Baihua Farm, boiling them up and adding them to the feed, but then she changed her mind and thought that it was a bit extravagant to feed the piglets directly with boiled soybeans. It would be better to make tofu and then feed the piglets with the remaining bean dregs.

This way you can kill two birds with one stone and earn some money for yourself.

Although there are tofu makers in Shangjing City, there are few who make dried tofu and tofu skin. I can try to open up a new way to make money. My grandmother's family started out by making tofu. Aunt Fu grew up with her grandmother and is also an expert at making tofu.

So, he put the purchased millstone on the side of the pig farm, found a relatively good row of five-room small brick houses, used bricks to surround an independent small courtyard, picked three people from the village, and prepared to make tofu exclusively.

One of the three men was the Qian family father and son. The father, Qian Manguan, was honest and kind, and the son, Qian Jiaan, was 21 years old. The other one was Qian Jiaan's cousin, He Weinan. All three of them were considered young and strong.

After all, making tofu is a tiring job, and you have to get up early and work late. The original monthly salary of these three people was one tael and five cents, and Hualei also directly raised the monthly salary to two taels, which made the three people very happy.

Uncle Fu and a few men installed the millstone, and Hualei transferred all the soybeans from Baihua Village here. Fortunately, the people in Baihua Village were diligent and planted a lot of soybeans wherever they could, intending to use them as food when there was not enough rice and flour.

However, after Hua Lei bought Baihua Manor, she never skimped on their food. They only ate rice, brown rice, and white flour, and even rarely ate whole grain flour. So the soybeans for emergency use were always kept, and now they came in handy.

On the newly purchased hillside, Aunt Zheng and Aunt Zhao and others planted soybeans, mung beans and other crops around the Qingming Festival. They should be able to be harvested after the Mid-Autumn Festival, which will be a perfect opportunity to supplement the soybeans here.

After everything was ready, Aunt Fu took the three selected people to learn how to make tofu. Because the people in the village all had indentures, they had no worries about leaving after learning, so Aunt Fu tried her best to teach them the skills of making tofu.

By the fifth day, the three had learned well enough to complete the entire process on their own. Hualei tasted their tofu and dried bean curd.

The tofu was smooth and tender, the dried bean curd was firm and compact, and exuded a rich bean aroma, making people salivate. Hualei was very satisfied with their performance and asked them to make some extra soy milk and bean curd every day.

These soy milk and tofu pudding will be distributed to the other two farms to ensure that everyone in the village can enjoy this delicious and nutritious food. In addition to meeting the needs of the village, the tofu and dried tofu produced will also be supplied to the farmers in Baihua Village.

In addition, the company's own steamed bun shop has also introduced new delicacies such as soy milk and tofu pudding, which are available in salty and sweet flavors to meet the taste preferences of different customers. This not only allows more people to taste fresh soy products, but also further improves the business of the steamed bun shop.

Then, tofu and dried tofu were supplied to Aunt Fang and her daughter-in-law every day, and they were asked to sell them together with steamed buns and dumplings. Now, because Aunt Fang and her daughter-in-law's steamed buns and dumplings business was good, although they were still reluctant to buy a mule cart, they spent one and a half taels of silver to purchase a flatbed cart.

Every morning, the three Fang Youtian brothers took turns helping push the cart filled with steamed buns to the market.

Since the goods were sold out, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could push them back.

At the beginning, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were not experienced in selling buns and steamed buns, and they were in a mess. After half a year, they had become very experienced. So now Hualei has added tofu and dried tofu to their business, and they can take care of it, which gives them another extra income.

Brother Fang Youcai was grateful to Hua Lei and made some connections, recommending Hua Lei's tofu and dried tofu to the owner of his employer, Zui Yue Lou.

On the first day Hua Lei and Uncle Fu arrived in the capital, they had dinner at Zui Yue Lou. Over the past year or so, Uncle Fu had become familiar with the shopkeeper Chen and Brother Fang Youdi because he had invited them to dinner many times. Now, with the recommendation of his own clerk and seeing that Fang Youtian worked in the government office, he readily agreed to purchase goods from Hua Lei. If they didn't buy the goods here, they would have to buy them outside. Since they could have the goods delivered to their doorstep and the prices were similar, it would be better to purchase them from Hua Lei.

After having tofu and dried bean curd for more than ten days, I feel that the tofu and dried bean curd made by Hualei are more solid, and they are delivered to me early in the morning every day, so they are very fresh. They have never sent me tofu and dried bean curd that is rotten or sour due to the hot weather. I am very satisfied.

He also recommended to Hualei the restaurant "Qianweilou" owned by his wife's family in the southern part of the city, and the restaurant "Fengweilou" owned by his brother. He gave them tofu and dried bean curd.

So Hualei originally just wanted to find food for the piglets. Before she knew it, the tofu shop had grown. Now she had to supply several hundred kilograms of tofu and dried bean curd to Aunt Fang and several restaurants every day. In addition, her own bun shop also needed a lot of soy milk and bean curd. Now she had to soak 150 kilograms of soybeans every day.

Not only was the food problem for the piglets solved perfectly, but there was also excess bean dregs for the chickens, ducks and geese to eat.

In order to deliver the goods, Hualei selected two people from the farm to take turns delivering tofu and dried bean curd to several restaurants and her own bun shop. The tofu shop was thriving in less than a month.

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was already early July. The wheat in Baihua Village had been harvested. The taro seedlings and wild rice seedlings from the Agricultural Bureau had also arrived. Hualei asked Uncle Fu to bring the people from the village and find some villagers who were doing odd jobs nearby. Together, they spent more than half a month planting the taro seedlings and wild rice seedlings in the shallow puddles.

It's a pity that the planting season for lotus roots has passed. Otherwise, it would be a good idea to plant some lotus roots. The lotus has an ornamental value, but at least the lotus roots are very delicious and can also bring in income. I can only wait until next year to plant them.