Send me to the countryside? Turn around and make you homeless!

After all, it was she who sent the child to the county, and she was also responsible for the accident. Tan Yuan walked towards Zhao Sanni.

"Sanni, has Brother Xiaoliu returned home?"

Tan Yuan gently stroked Zhao Sanni's little head, feeling mixed emotions.

Zhao Sanni burst into tears. She wanted to hold back her tears, but it was Sister Tan who took Xiaoliu to the hospital that day, so she couldn't help it.

"Sister, Xiaoliu can't hear anymore."

Xiaoliu can't hear?

Deaf?

Tan Yuan paused for several seconds before moving again and asked Zhao Sanni to take her to see.

The Zhao family's house was incredibly simple. Although they were natives of the Huaiyin Brigade, their home was almost as simple as that of the educated youth's residence. Some of the educated youth's things even seemed to have more than the Zhao family's.

There were a few stones and wood carvings on the simple desk. The wood carving was of a little rabbit, which looked lifelike.

Zhao Xiaoliu was lying on the bed at the moment. He was already thin, and now he was even thinner due to the pain. He didn't look chubby like a little kid at all.

"Is Xiaoliu deaf? Are there any other symptoms?"

Zhao Sanni herself was only a five-year-old child, and she knew nothing about anything Tan Yuan asked her.

She only knew that Xiaoliu couldn't hear, and everyone in the family was very sad. Her eldest brother said he didn't want to study anymore, and her eldest sister said she wanted to get married...

Tan Yuan didn't know what to say. She remembered that in her previous life, the eldest son of the Zhao family also didn't finish reading the book, but not this year, but next year when the brigade's grain production dropped significantly and the brigade members could not eat enough and could not fill their stomachs.

And the eldest daughter of the Zhao family? Tan Yuan had never met her, so she had no idea about her. She had never even heard of this person.

But the eldest son of the Zhao family is not very old, he is only a junior high school student. The eldest sister should be even younger. How can such a small thing, even its development is not complete, get married...

To put it bluntly, it was all because of money. Tan Yuan felt that she had one more reason to make this tofu.

She is not a saint, she just wants to help those who are good to her.

She didn't look at Zhao Xiaoliu again. She was not a doctor, and even if she looked at him, she couldn't cure Zhao Xiaoliu's illness.

She walked out of the room, picked up the machete and went to see if the Zhao family had any suitable wood.

Everyone in the brigade has the habit of piling up wood at home, one is for burning, and the other is to make tables and benches when they have free time.

Sure enough, a large log was found in the corner where firewood was piled under the eaves. It must have been cut from some tree.

Tan Yuan had no idea how to deal with such a big piece of wood, so she could only leave it here and wait for the team leader or Zhao Wu to finish his work before coming back to deal with it.

Tan Yuan thought she came here to make tofu, and she had paper and pen with her, so she took out the paper and pen and started writing and drawing.

She planned to draw the mold and then make the mold according to the drawing.

Zhao Sanni also looked at her curiously, without blinking. She looked at Tan Yuan for a while and then turned back to the room to look at her brother. She looked so leisurely and busy, so adorable.

After finishing the drawing, Tan Yuan went to the kitchen to see how the tofu was being made.

The soy milk had been boiling for quite a while. Wu Yuhua felt it with her hand and when she felt it was almost ready, she took out the brine she had just prepared, put it in a large iron spoon, and poured the prepared brine into the soy milk little by little, her eyes fixed on the surface of the soy milk without moving.

The most important step in making tofu is to add the marinade. If this step is not done well, the whole pot of soy milk will be wasted.

Seeing Tan Yuan stretching her neck to look, Zhao Wu quickly made way for Tan Yuan to go in and take a look.

"Tan Yuan, educated youth, come and see how my wife is doing."

Although I have made tofu before, this is the first time I have been so nervous. I felt like my heart was about to jump out.

It was the first time for Tan Yuan to see tofu being made. She stepped inside and handed the drawing in her hand to Zhao Wu.

"Brother Zhao, can you make this?"

In fact, the principle is the same as the mold used to make tofu, the only difference is that it is smaller and shorter.

Tan Yuan was not sure what size would be appropriate, so she drew several sizes.

Zhao Wu took it out and looked at it. Although he didn't know many words, he still knew the numbers.

"Okay, this is easy. I'll do it right away and it will be done in a moment."

All the wood in his house is ready-made. You just need to saw it into pieces and then splice it together. It's very simple.

Zhao Wu took the blueprint and went to make the mold, while Tan Yuan stayed in the room to continue watching Wu Yuhua make tofu.

As soon as the brine was added, the soy milk started to react in a short while.

When particles the size of sesame seeds began to appear on the surface of the white soy milk, Wu Yuhua stopped what she was doing and quickly covered the pot with the lid.

"Is this okay?"

"No, we have to wait for 40 to 50 minutes before we can put it into the mold."

A thin layer of drain cloth must be placed inside the mold to wrap the solidified tofu pudding, and then it can be pressed with a heavy object to squeeze out the moisture inside.

Wu Yuhua couldn't stop and hurried to help Zhao Wu make the mold.

Just as Tan Yuan said, Lin Guoan first went to the clinic, got some medicinal herbs from the clinic, and then quickly rode his bike to the commune.

The grain and oil station in the commune had a relatively complete range of goods, so he bought everything and was just glad that he didn't have to go to the commune again.

Fearing that Tan Yuan might need it urgently, he quickly rode his bike back to the team.

He pedaled his bicycle very quickly. He was not as active as he was now when he came to the commune for meetings before.

The journey that used to take forty minutes now only takes less than half an hour.

Even when the people in the group greeted him, he didn't show any intention of stopping to talk.

He no longer looked the mature and steady person that the Huaiyin Brigade members used to think of him. He looked more like an anxious young man of eighteen or nineteen.

"I'm here, I've bought everything."

The team leader wiped the sweat from his head and gasped for breath. It was obvious that he was riding the bike with all his might. When he looked up, he saw Tan Yuan and others squatting under the eaves making molds.

Tan Yuan hurried over to take a look. There were more than twenty kinds of spices, including star anise, cinnamon, galangal, cumin... There was no shortage of them.

"Well, everything is ready. Let's go and make the marinade."

The Zhao family has chili peppers. You don’t need too much chili peppers to make basic flavors. Just a little bit will be enough to create a base flavor.

Tan Yuan and Wu Yuhua went into the kitchen to cook the marinade, while the team leader and Zhao Wu continued to squat on the eaves to make molds.