"Hot soybean curd, marinated soybean curd, a big piece costs two cents..."
"Frozen tofu, eat hot pot and maocai, put it with honeycomb inside, it tastes best when you suck the soup ..."
"Would you like some tofu? How many do you want?"
It's almost noon. A normal market, this is where people buy groceries on a daily basis.
When the weather gets cold, some things are covered with cotton cloth, including vegetables wholesaled from the greenhouse.
Tofu sellers usually stay at the entrance and exit. In winter, the tofu that has just come out is covered with cotton drawer cloth to keep it from freezing for a period of time. The tofu is hot after it is made.
Only when the leftovers cannot be sold, they are cut into pieces and frozen on a board to become frozen tofu. The price is the same as normal.
We do this in the winter in the north, either continue to press and press it into dried tofu. If the dried tofu is not easy to sell, add salt and pickle it to make salty dried tofu.
Just like dried tofu, it is called tofu skin in some places, but there is actually a special type of tofu skin, which is different from yuba.
You usually see the kind of tofu skin when you eat Malatang, so the ones that look like Qianzhang are called dried tofu.
If the dry tofu is damaged or cannot be sold, it is balled up, wrapped in a layer of dry tofu, pressed, and then smoked with some salt to become a vegetarian chicken. This can be stored longer. one day.
Some are smoked and made into shredded dried tofu, with salt added to it, and can be stored for one day longer.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of a tofu stall and watched. No one came to buy it. The stall owner also looked at it, eagerly. The stall owner already knew who the person was, but he didn't dare to call out. Can't kneel down.
I was told a long time ago that if the person coming does not identify themselves, do not salute.
The tofu seller knows the people in Xiaqiu Village, and Xiaqiu Village does not wholesale tofu, even if the cost is lower, because doing so will cause the people who originally used small mills to grind beans lose their skills.
People in Xiaqiu Village collect bean dregs and provide better filter cloth.
Because the collected bean dregs are not ground so fine by normal means, Xiaqiu Village grinds them again to produce some tofu. The remaining part is used as feed and part is fried into vegetarian meatballs.
The tofu sellers wait for people to collect the bean dregs every day, sometimes asking for money, and sometimes replacing them with better gypsum or brine provided by Xiaqiu Village.
Of course you can also make tofu with vinegar, but no one does it that way. Glutinous rice white vinegar is good, but the cost is too high.
The tofu seller saw that there were so many people in Xiaqiu Village, and then looked at where he was standing, mother! His Majesty the Emperor is here?
Anyway, it is impossible for the minister to let the people of Xiaqiu Village hold him like this. What will he do with his own tofu?
"This piece weighs two kilograms, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know the other person's psychological activities. He looked at the size of the tofu piece and his eyes were red.
"Reply to your question! It's almost nine taels per catty. Some people think it's too small, so they buy it for one cent and fifty cents per catty. If you add a little more, it's still the same price. Sometimes you can buy it by the block. .”
The stall owner answered carefully, it is only one cent and fifty cents per catty. When the tofu is pressed, it will leave traces of the grid, so cut it along the traces to get the same weight.
The more Buy it in the morning when it's hot. The more you add, the more moisture it contains. When it's sold in the afternoon, some of the water will have gone out, so you won't need to add more.
Put it in the evening in the winter, which is old. It’s good to not raise the price now, don’t expect more.
Even if it can’t be sold, it will never be lowered. If it is lowered today, there will be many people waiting to buy it tomorrow. < /p>
It’s like a watermelon seller. If you sell it until night, you can’t keep the watermelon anymore, so you throw it away.
“It’s so cheap. We couldn’t afford tofu when we were young. Four cents per catty, who wants fewer people to grow beans! ”
Zhu Wentian blinked and recalled the days when he was a cowherd boy. Tofu was too expensive.
The main reason is that there are few people planting it and the yield per mu is also small. He has nothing He secretly burned beans to eat, and was beaten.
Empress Ma naturally took Zhu Yuanzhang's hand and said: "One pound of beans can be exchanged for two pounds of tofu. When making tofu, one pound of beans will produce two pounds and four ounces of tofu." , earning almost 10%, and there are still bean dregs left. "
When the two said this, the tofu seller's eyes turned red: "Thank you, Your Majesty, oh! Your Majesty, the beans shipped from other places are cheap and the people make a lot of money, so we can buy tofu every day. ”
“Cut some for us and let’s have a taste.” "Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly wanted to eat tofu.
"This..." The face of the tofu seller turned pale. It was not frozen in the sky.
"Cut, come, cut less, then, A little, hmm! Hey hey hey..."
Zhu Wentian came over, put his hand on the stall owner's shoulder, close to his neck, and asked him to cut it.
"Cut it! Choose the back position. "Ling'er followed.
"Okay! "The stall owner took a deep breath, took the tofu cutting knife, pulled up the drawer cloth, cut off a little bit in the middle of the back of the half plate of tofu, and handed it over tremblingly.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not reach out, but stretched his neck and bit it with his mouth. , until he took it into his mouth and stood up, the stall owner was covered in sweat.
“It’s delicious! It was hot, and I felt warm in my heart after eating it, so I went to visit the next place. ”
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished tasting, he walked forward.
The people behind him bought all the tofu and gave the stall owner a piece of soap to wipe the sweat on his forehead. , showing a smile
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him: "Oh! Who would have thought that a place that should be suffering from drought and locust plagues would actually provide soybeans in large quantities?
Winter wheat is rotated with soybeans and sorghum, and corn will be planted later, right?
Especially in plain areas, corn grows well. It says so in the brochure, right? ”
Zhu Yuanzhang knew why tofu became cheaper. Because the supply of soybeans increased, people began to plant after harvesting winter wheat.
Plant sorghum first, and then plant sorghum after it grows a little longer.Soybeans are planted next to them, sorghum provides shade to the soybeans, and soybeans provide nitrogen fertilizer to the sorghum.
Crop rotation and intercropping will increase the yield of the people's land. The people will have to work harder. Fertilizer must keep up, and the land must be plowed at the same time.
Without plowing the ground, just cut the low wheat stubble and plant it directly.
The leader responded: “Once corn grows, its kernels are so big that sparrows don’t like to eat them and can’t swallow them.
In places with mountains, wild boars and other large Animals will come down the mountain to harm corn fields, and the main hazard in plain areas is rabbits.
Corn requires less water than sorghum and soybeans, and the roots of corn are tight.
However, because the corn roots are large, they are convenient for manual rooting, and they can be used as firewood after being beaten..."
According to Hanhan, it is most cost-effective to plant corn after the normal winter wheat harvest, and corn and The proportion of soybeans eaten by birds is much smaller than that of sorghum.
But mice and rabbits like to live in cornfields. The cornfields are hidden and they can eat the corn kernels.
"That is to say, we need to find a special place to grow soybeans. Otherwise, where can we find cheap tofu? Can we make a lot of money from the bean dregs?"
Zhu Yuanzhang considered the people eating tofu and changed it. After corn becomes corn, who will plant soybeans?
"Your Majesty, there are so many!" Ling'er answered: "After we collect it, it can be used for many purposes. If we grind it again, we can eat some tofu.
Then we will make meatballs. , the taste of bean dregs meatballs is different from other meatballs.
After fermentation, it becomes a good fertilizer for livestock. If it is fermented with other things, the larger the production scale, the lower the cost. "Recently transcoded. Seriously, let us be more motivated and update faster. Please use your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thank you