In the seventh year of Zhenguan, it was already snowing heavily in Lishi County in mid-October. On a mountain road more than ten miles east of the county town, two people were trekking in the snow.

Both of them are villagers in Xipo Village. They have been walking on this road many times these days. It was better if it had not snowed before, but when it snowed heavily, the road became extremely difficult.

"Da Lang, is it heavy? Let me carry it for a while?" The old woman was talking, but she was very energetic. She walked in the wind and snow with a big basket. Her steps were not necessarily much more difficult than the young man next to her. The old man's hair was a little messy by the north wind. Her clothes were neatly worn. Although they were the most common linen clothes, they were very clean and neat.

"No, I can carry it." The young man of fifteen or sixteen years old was not strong. He was obviously very troubled to walk in the snow with a big basket on his back. He didn't complain, but just gritted his teeth and persevered.

"If you are tired, just say it. It won't be a big deal for us to stop and take a break. There is no need to worry about this moment." The old woman felt sorry for her grandson.

Her eldest son had an accident while in labor service and lost one leg. He could not leave the house in this kind of weather. No one else could do this job except this grandson in the family.

The boy also said Xue Da told her not to follow him, he could do it alone, but the old woman would not agree. She was such a good grandson, but she was afraid that she would be taken away by a wolf. It was cold and the wild animals on the mountain hid. Those beasts that could not hunt food often came down to the mountain, so they should be extra careful when they went out. Don’t look at her old bones, if they really acted ruthlessly, the beasts would have to be afraid of it.

"When you climb over the slope in front, you will see your aunt's house."

"If you exchange this basket of tofu, you can get a lot of beans."

"Oh, it would be great if I could have a cow. Dalang, let's be more time. When your mother learns the skills of making tofu from Luo Sanlang, our family will also save some money and buy a cow. Then you won't have to work so hard. As long as there is a cow, it will be convenient for you to go out, and you don't have to be like this now..."

The old woman felt sorry for her grandson and kept talking along the way that her devil was short of life and her son was disabled, so the family mainly relied on her and her daughter-in-law to support her. In the past two years, her grandson has grown up and can help them share some of the burden.

A few days ago, Nasanlang of the Luo family said that as long as anyone in the village is willing to help his family with a month, he will teach him all the skills of making tofu.

What's the point of working for a month? They are all in the village, just under the noses of their own family, and they can't endure any hardships. In addition, in this winter, they are not afraid of delaying the farming work. Her family originally planned to arrange for the Changsun to go, but after thinking about it, they decided to let her daughter-in-law go. They were worried that Luo Sanlang would despise the woman's labor force, but they didn't expect that the other party was easy to talk to. They also said that when she was grinding beans in the grass trench that day, her daughter-in-law helped and knew that she was a skilled worker.

These days, her daughter-in-law goes to work in the Luo family every day, and she and her grandson exchange it for tofu from the Luo family and visit relatives everywhere.

After leaving many villages, I finally found that the people in the village where her eldest daughter is located are the ones who are most willing to eat them. Every time the tofu they carry will be divided up by the villagers in a short while, and the beans will be given to them with ease. If she hadn't insisted on leaving a piece for her granddaughter every time, she would probably not have left any of them.

In their Xipo Village, there were still some people who didn’t know the sky or the earth. They were talking nonsense behind their backs, saying that the old woman was crazy about food and was frozen in the cold and asked her to come out with her to suffer such hardship.

They know what a big deal! Don’t look at Luo Sanlang who sells tofu in the village now, he can earn some beans every day. There are only a little bit big in Xipo Village. Now there are more than a dozen people helping the Luo family. In the future, the Luo family will teach them the skills of making tofu. There will be more than a dozen more tofu families in the village. Where will the tofu be made then go? You must not prepare early.

These days, her son has not been idle at home. He has learned the Luo family's appearance as a Luo family. In addition, her management is ready, and everything is ready, just waiting for her daughter-in-law to learn skills from the Luo family.

In a village not far ahead, because it was snowing, the doors and windows of every household were closed. In a certain family in the village, three or five women were sitting together, rubbing the twine and making clothes.

In both rural areas, this village looks richer than the Xipo Village where Luo Sanlang is. Because it is not far from the county town, growing vegetables and vegetables to the city to sell them can earn some income. Even if they sell grain, they are more likely to sell them here at a good price and are close to well-informed. Sometimes, without those grain merchants, they can get a few cents more for the city residents.

"My grandma, grandma is here." Several children gathered around the window to play with the window, quietly opened the wooden window a little and put it down. As long as it didn't make too much trouble, the women in the room would not care.

"What grandma, I think you want to eat tofu, right?" several adults in the house joked.

"Really, the grandma is here, and the cousin is here too." The children simply opened the window to show them.

A gust of cold wind blew into the house, and many snowflakes blew in. Looking out from the window, I saw two people walking here in the wind and snow.

"My mother, why are you still coming here for this heavy snow?" A woman hurriedly greeted her and reached out to pick up the basket from the old woman's hand.

"I have agreed to come here in the next two days, I'm afraid you will wait for nothing." The old woman smiled.

"Hurry into the house and warm it up. It's a cold day..." The three of them entered the yard as they spoke.

Not long after, many people in the village heard that someone had come from Xipo Village again, so they hurriedly brought beans from home to exchange for tofu.

There are only a few foods in winter, and there is no trick. They have eaten the tofu in Xipo Village several times. They are something they have never eaten before. They are not only fresh, but also delicious and not expensive. A liter of beans can be exchanged for a piece of palm, which is quite thick. If it is just a side dish, the family is generally not a large population, and a piece of tofu is enough for one or two meals. There is also a very frugal one. It takes three or five days to eat it. It is the only time for the children at home to taste fresh.

The baskets of tofu were divided shortly after a while. Another neighbor brought a bucket of beans and exchanged half of the basket of tofu in one breath, saying that he wanted to deliver it to relatives in the city.

Now the reputation of Xipo Village, the tofu, has spread to the city, but there are no shops for sale in the city. At this time, taking this tofu to the city to give it to people. Although it is not very expensive, it is better than fresh. After all, it is a fashionable thing at the beginning.

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After ten days of the Luo family, the Luo family's yard has changed. The originally sparse fence walls have been pulled out, and a circle of earthen walls that are more than one person high are built around the yard. The three rooms did not move, but a straw shed was built as a place to make tofu.

This straw shed is built on the open space between the courtyard wall and the house where Erniang and the others sleep. The large stove for boiling tofu is directly against the wall of the house. When these big stoves are burned, the room next to it is particularly warm.

In the first two days, because the sales have not been opened up much and there are not many beans at home, so I don’t make much tofu every day. The more than a dozen people who come to the Luo family to help are basically engaged in basic engineering construction every day, building walls, sheds, and stoves. Those with skills can get some easy tasks, such as making tofu baskets and baskets.

After these basic projects were almost completed, more people came to buy tofu. After the accumulation of the previous few days, Luo Yong had more beans in his hand, so he threw his arms and started making tofu. He never stopped all day long. The yard was filled with bean fragrance, with snowflakes flying outside the straw shed and water steam steam inside the straw shed.

Luo Sanlang was only fourteen years old and had just recovered from a serious illness. He seemed young and weak, but in fact he was very promising. The words he said before that he wanted to teach everyone to make tofu have shocked many villagers. During these days, he has seen him arrange things in an orderly manner every day, and no one would have thoughts of neglecting because of his young age.

These days, Luo Yong asked the people in the yard to make tofu. How much tofu is made on that day? If you can sell it, you can sell it. If you can't finish it, just put it in a few large jars under the yard wall to freeze it. It's cold this day, and you can make a batch of frozen tofu.

After a month of the days, all these people left. Only the few people in their family could probably not make a few pieces of tofu. Of course, if you could save enough money to buy a donkey, the tofu business could be continued for a while.

I heard that some villagers have begun to worry recently that there are too many people making tofu in a month, so the tofu they make can't be sold. Luo Yong was not worried. In his opinion, the reason why the villagers are worried is because they have not seen the large blank market in front of them.

"Sanlang, why don't you stay in the house on this cold day?"

That morning, Aunt Luo and Lin Wulang came to the Luo family yard together. Seeing Luo Sanlang wandering around the yard, I couldn't help but say a few more words to him. Aunt Luo, to put it bluntly, is a bit sick from the elder sister and always has the heart to bear it.

"I just had a meal, I walked around." Luo Yong said, looking behind Aunt Luo and the others, and found that Lin Liulang was not Lin.

Speaking of Lin Liulang, I have seen him several times since Da Yong woke up. He doesn’t seem to be arrogant in his impression. I wonder if he hasn’t seen him for more than half a year, so that guy has changed.

Since he started making tofu at home, the brothers of the Lin family have come to see the fun. Lin Dalang also gave him a big millstone. Luo Yong had nothing to do with him for the time being, so he returned a basket of dried tofu bean rolls for him, barely saying that there were some comings and goings.

"Let's go into the house and talk."

After entering the house, Aunt Luo and Lin Wulang explained their purpose this time. This time, the child was named Qiao Junlin, who was a relative's family in Aunt Luo's mother-in-law's mother-in-law's family.

Lin's mother's family was a wealthy family in the county. The reason why she married into Xipo Village was her father's arrangement. The world was a bit chaotic back then. His father made such a decision in order to ensure that the family could have multiple guarantees. Later, Lin's mother married into Xipo Village and indeed helped her parents' family. She gave away many grains, rice and flour. Later, the world was peaceful. Someone from her family passed the imperial examination and became a small official. There were still a few good talents among the younger generation. For a time, the whole family had a bright future. Now the Lin family also vaguely regarded that place as a backer.

The boy who came with him today was the grandson of Lin's mother's younger brother's family. The boy's mother went there early. His father got him a stepmother and made several younger brothers and sisters. Then the world was not peaceful. He fought every now and then, and he wanted to lift the roof.

A few days ago, Lin's mother took Lin Liulang back to her parents' home to visit her relatives, but she didn't know how to do it. The boy's stepmother said that this boy and Lin Liulang were not too close to each other, and then his father said that since he had sex, he would go to the countryside with Liulang for a while, and then he was sent to him.

In his words, Aunt Luo spoke more implicitly, but Luo used his own brain to supplement his brain and basically got a relatively complete story.

The story is not over yet. After this kid moved into the Lin family, he had some idea of ​​fucking Lin Liulang, who was said to be very close to him. Lin Liulang was spoiled by his family since he was a child and had never fought much. He suddenly encountered such a person who had become a steelmaker, so he would be sad.

Lin Liulang was so sad that Lin's mother was in her eyes and hurt her heart. Then, this second-generation ancestor named Qiao Junlin suddenly told them yesterday that she wanted to learn to make tofu from the Luo family Sanlang. Lin's mother was very happy and immediately spoke, asking Aunt Luo, Lin Wulang and his wife to take him here to see the new things.

Luo Yong basically understood this when he heard this. This guy named Qiao Junlin is a down-and-out young man who had a stepmother and then a stepfather. In the end, even when he left a relative, he was disliked. Now this young man finally realized that he still had to rely on himself to be a human being, and he was determined to learn the craft of making tofu to support himself?

Fourteen years old...tsk, it's the age when I should be in the second grade of junior high school.

"Sanlang, you say..." Aunt Luo felt a little guilty. Sanlang had been sick for so long and finally recovered. Just as she was about to do something at home, she got someone to come and make things trouble him. How inappropriate, but since the grandmother in the head had already spoken, it was really hard for the couple to refuse.

"If you have nothing to do, let him stay with me." Luo Yong didn't feel embarrassed at all.

After they finished speaking, they walked outside and saw that the boy named Qiao Junlin, regardless of how they discussed it, ran over there and pushed the millstone on the other side.

Perhaps because I was born in a wealthy family, I had no shortage of food and drink since I was a child, and I had a lot of fighting and exercise, so my small body still had some strength, and my skill in pushing the millstone is no worse than that of those adults in the yard.
Chapter completed!