farm concubine

Chapter 5 Shrimp Tofu
When Lin Shuirou's mother and son swept to the third room, Li Rulin came back with an iron pot and a small cloth bag.

As soon as the things were put away, they also pulled the weeds and joined the team of mother and son. With Li Rulin joining, the three thatched huts were quickly cleaned up, and the sun had already set.

Li Wanqing was not idle either. Seeing the sun slowly setting to the west, she went outside the courtyard wall to find some relatively large stones that she could move and came back, and built a pot-holding pot under the corner of the room on the right. Simple stone stove.

I picked a dozen or so ungerminated potatoes from the bag, put them in a small pot brought by Li Ruying, and washed them by a small river ten meters away from home.

"A lot of prawns." Li Wanqing looked at the prawns swimming in the small river in surprise, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she couldn't hide her excited little eyes.

Regardless of the pain in his brain, he quickly cleaned the small half pot of potatoes and hurried back.

"Sister, you've already washed the potatoes, let me cut them." After cleaning, Li Muchen saw that the small pot Li Wanqing was holding was filled with potatoes that had been washed away from the sludge, and wanted to take over, but was avoided by Li Wanqing. up.

"No, just put it in the pot like this, add water to cook it and then peel it off."

"Sister, it's tasteless to cook like this." Thinking of Lin Shuirou's usual way of cooking potatoes, just like cooking sweet potatoes, this sweet potato still has a sweet taste, but this potato has no taste at all, insipid.

When Li Muchen said this, Li Wanqing also remembered that in this backward ancient times, the recipes of the dishes were very simple, but she has changed the inner core of Li Wanqing, so there are naturally many recipes for this dish.

Li Wanqing smiled sweetly: "No, I guarantee that you will eat the first time, and you will want the second time."

"Your injury is still not healed, mother should do it." Li Wanqing was about to go to the temporary stone stove, but was robbed by Lin Shuirou.

Thinking of the small shrimps in the small river, Li Wanqing let Lin Shuirou find Li Rulin: "Father, there are a lot of small shrimps in the small river, let's go and catch some, shall we?"

"Okay." Li Rulin replied with a smile, "Wait a minute, Dad will go to your Aunt Fu's house to borrow a sieve."

The Aunt Fu that Li Rulin spoke of was Zhou Laifu's daughter-in-law Wu, who lived next door to their house. Most of the children in the village called her Aunt Fu.

"Father, I'll go too." Li Muchen was also very excited when he heard that he was going to fish for shrimps.

"Father, Xiaochen and I are waiting for you at the gate of the courtyard." Li Wanqing took the empty pot and said happily to Li Rulin.

After Li Rulin nodded, he walked out of the courtyard gate. After leaving the courtyard gate, to the left is the road up the mountain, and to the right is the road to the village. Now their home is at the end of the village, and Zhou Laifu’s house is farther than theirs. The village is closer, so Li Rulin walked to the left when he left the courtyard gate.

Because the two families were close, both Li Wanqing and Li Muchen could clearly hear the voices coming from Zhou's courtyard.

"Brother Rulin, why are you here?" Li Wanqing had already confirmed that Aunt Fu had a loud voice and was enthusiastic.

"Sister-in-law Fu, I'm here to borrow a sieve from you. The children said they want to catch shrimp by the river." Li Rulin said a little embarrassed.

When Wu Shi heard that Li Rulin came to borrow the sieve, she immediately narrowed her eyes with a smile, and guided her into the kitchen to take out three sieves of different sizes: "Brother Rulin, you can choose whichever you want to borrow."

"That's all, thank you Mrs. Fu." Li Rulin picked a small one.

"We're all neighbors now, you're welcome." Mrs. Wu was very forthright.

Li Rulin nodded with a smile, turned and left.

Waiting for Li Rulin's figure to leave, Wu shook her head and muttered: "I don't know why Aunt Li is so biased, and gave a few broken thatched houses to Brother Rulin, alas—"

Li Rulin's footsteps paused, and he walked towards the pair of sons and daughters waiting outside the house.

"Father, did you borrow the sieve?" Seeing his father coming back, Li Muchen stepped forward and asked happily.

"Well, let's go catch the shrimps." Li Rulin raised the small sieve in his hand and said to the siblings with a smile.

"Oh yeah, grab the shrimp." Li Muchen was still young, and when he heard that there was something to play, he clapped his hands happily and shouted cheerfully.

The family of three happily walked to the small river.

Li Rulin was in charge of catching shrimps in the river, and Li Wanqing and his brother took small pots to put them on the river bank.

In just half an hour, a family of three filled a small pot full of shrimp. Li Wanqing reckoned that it weighed about five or six catties.

"Father, I wish I had a piece of soft tofu." On the way home, Li Wanqing looked at Li Rulin expectantly.

"Okay, Dad, go and see if there is any tender tofu for sale at your Aunt Huang's place. Xiaochen, return the sieve to your Aunt Fu." After explaining, Li Rulin walked to the village. Aunt Huang is a tofu maker in the village. People, her husband died young, she is a woman with a son, making a living by making tofu.

The two walked to the door, and when Li Muchen was walking to Aunt Fu's house, Li Wanqing asked him to borrow two more green onions.

In the evening, Li Wanqing crushed the potatoes boiled by Lin Shuirou into mashed potatoes, washed some of the small shrimps, and cooked shrimp tofu with the tender tofu bought by Li Rulin and two green onions borrowed by Li Muchen. The umami taste is accompanied by the fragrance of green onions, which makes people salivate non-stop.

"Sister, how did you know how to make mashed potatoes and this small shrimp tofu?" After eating, Li Muchen asked curiously, but he had never seen his sister cook such a novel food.

"Yes, Qing'er, how did you think of it?" Lin Shuirou was also curious.

Even Li Rulin looked at her with question marks in his eyes.

Uh!
Li Wanqing was startled, but quickly regained her composure: "Didn't I go to the town with my second aunt last time? I saw that the restaurant there did that. I've always wanted to make it for everyone to try, but There is no chance, and today I saw a rare opportunity, so I did it."

After hearing this, the three of them suddenly realized that it was only last month that Li Wanqing and Mrs. Gu went to the town to go to the market, and everyone remembered it.

Seeing that the three of them stopped asking questions, Li Wanqing heaved a sigh of relief, and waited to see that there were still a third of the shrimp left outside the door, so she began to think.

Tonight she cooked a third of the dried shrimps and gave a bowl to Aunt Fu's family. She thanked her for lending them a sieve today, but Aunt Fu told her that she was embarrassed because they were so polite.

Just as he was thinking about what to do with the remaining shrimp, his second uncle Li Ruying's voice sounded outside the courtyard: "Brother, sister-in-law."

(End of this chapter)