Yu Wuya also sewed two bags of fried soybeans on his clothes, and squatted beside him and pinched a few pieces from time to time. He chewed it in his mouth and made a crunch. Then he watched Chen Xu soak half a basin of dried and ground soybeans in the clay pot.

"My benefactor, when will you eat the stinky tofu you mentioned? Wuya is almost unable to wait. What kind of novel taste will the food that smells smelly and tastes delicious!"

"I haven't eaten it recently. Because there is no brine or gypsum, the soy juice cannot be condensed and formed, so I can only drink soy milk for the time being!" Chen Xu said helplessly.

"What is gypsum? Is salt brecia salt?" Yu Wuya heard the word "salt" and immediately thought that the two were similar.

But Chen Xu was depressed. Yes, chemically speaking, all compounds formed by metals and acids can be called salt, but this salt is not the other salt. Magnesium chloride and calcium sulfate can also be called salt, but it is completely different from the sodium chloride used for edible seasoning. Sodium chloride is salty, but magnesium chloride and calcium sulfate are bitter. But now I can't explain these things clearly to ancient people, and if these three things are placed in front of me, I won't be very clear.

It seems that in order to safely eat delicious stinky tofu, you have to make a simple set of chemical experiment equipment, otherwise one day you will get a piece of arsenic as salt and eat it as salt.

"Brine and gypsum are bitter but not salty..." Chen Xu explained simply that the two tastes are different.

"My benefactor, isn't the spring water in the cave where you are hiding wine, too bitter? Could it be salted water or gypsum water?" Yu Wuya asked quickly.

"Hey, you reminded me!" Chen Xu immediately stood up happily and said, "Let's go get some and try it!"

"I'll go dozens of miles, and my benefactor won't have to go. My horse is fast, I'll get it!" Yu Wuya became even more excited. He stopped eating soybeans and untied the reins from under the pergola and turned over the horse.

"Remember to collect some of the white powder in the cave and bring it back~" Chen Xu said loudly.

"Okay~" When Yu Wuya was speaking, he waved his whip and ran away and couldn't see it in a blink of an eye.

Chen Xu:...

Damn, he is indeed a foodie, but this is good, so he can avoid running back and forth by himself.

"Where is Wuya going?" Chen Jiang came out of the room and asked.

"Oh, he went to the town to help me find something to make tofu!" Chen Xu said.

"I haven't seen Miss Shui for a long time. Do you want to visit Wancheng?" Chen Jiang liked the gentle and beautiful Shui Qingrou very much, and knew that the two were close. Although they didn't know that they had almost finished cooking rice, they didn't see each other for a month or two, and they were a little worried.

"Don't worry, when the autumn harvest is almost busy, I will visit Wancheng with Wuya. In winter, you can pick her up and live with us!" Chen Xu said quickly.

"Really, don't deceive your mother!" Chen Jiangshi said with a happy face.

"Sister Shui is here?" Xing'er was in the room, and after hearing the words, she quickly ran out to ask.

Chen Xu shook his head and smiled and said, "Xing'er, would you like to be your sister-in-law?"

"I'm willing, brother, are you planning to marry Sister Shui? Then I can play with Sister Shui every day in the future, and she can sleep with me at night!" Xing'er clapped her hands excitedly.

Chen Xu:...

"What are you talking nonsense? If your brother marrys Sister Shui, Sister Shui will of course sleep with her brother!" Chen Jiangshi blushed and slapped Xing'er in the face.

"Why, how can a woman sleep with a man?" Xing'er asked in confusion.

Chen Xu:...

"You marry Brother Dashi when you grow up, don't you want to sleep with him!" Although Chen Jiang felt that this topic was a bit difficult to talk about, as a mother, she still had to instill some ethical relationships between a man and a woman in her daughter, otherwise it would be bad if she made a joke.

"I'm not going to sleep with Brother Dashi, I'm so embarrassed, I'm going to sleep with Sister Shui!" Xing'er shouted.

Chen Xu's face twitched a few times and sighed silently, instructing Chen Jiangshi to help make a cloth bag with the thinnest linen cloth, then turn around and chop bamboo. To filter the bean juice, a bamboo rack must be prepared.

Yu Wuya was very fast, and it took only an hour to go. Shortly after Chen Xu made the bamboo rack, he came back. There was a vine basket hanging on the horse's back, and a large clay pot was placed inside.

"My benefactor, I've got the bitter water back, how do you do it?" Yu Wuya didn't feel the fatigue of running back and forth at all, and asked excitedly, holding the big clay pot on the ground.

"Have you got those white powder?" Chen Xu asked quickly.

"I got it, here!" Yu Wuya turned around and took out a bamboo tube in the vine basket. There was a small tube of white powder crystals inside, mixed with a lot of damp sand and mud.

Chen Xu dipped his hand a little and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it. However, Yu Wuya quickly said, "My bet, don't taste it, it's extremely bitter and hard to swallow!"

"Did you taste it?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

"Well, when I went to pick up the wine last time, I heard my beloved say it was bitter, and Wuya didn't believe it. I was curious today and tasted it, it was really bitter!" Yu Wuya nodded and said.

Damn, a slut, he dared to put his mouth in his mouth if he didn't know him, but he felt relieved when he thought about it. In this primitive era, everything could only be recognized by his own personal experience. Otherwise, Shennong would not have tasted hundreds of herbs. As a disciple of Liezi, Yu Wuya learned the art of Huang Lao, and had a very practical spirit of scientific research. Many Taoist priests who practiced the truth and sought the Tao used their mouths to taste the alchemy, so it was not surprising that they would eat a few bites of it.

Chen Xu went to see the soybeans soybeans and found that they had been ground with a stone mill in advance, so they had been soaked for more than two hours and could almost be ground into slurry. So after Yu Wuya had been drinking water for a while, the two of them began to push and grind one by one and feed them. It took only half an hour to grind all the soybeans, and then put all the soybean milk into the fine linen bag that Chen Jiang had sewn and cleaned, and then placed a freshly prepared bamboo rack on the large tiled basin, tied the pocket tightly and started to pinch it up.

"Hey, my benefactor's filtering method is novel!" Yu Wuya began to be amazed at Chen Xu's simple and novel invention again.

"Wow, a lot of milk comes out of the bag. I want to drink milk!" Xing'er clapped her hands excitedly.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Chen Jiangshi blushed and hurriedly covered Xing'er's mouth.

"This is called bean juice, it is not milk. You can't drink it raw. When the brother cooks it, it will be delicious!" Chen Xu also quickly explained, so that the girl would not go all over the village after a while and ask her to pinch the beans out of milk.

After squeezing for twenty minutes, I got half a pot of soy milk and half a bag of half a bag of half a dry and non-sparse bean dregs, but now I can hardly squeeze out milk... Well, the bean juice is gone, so Chen Xu was too lazy to continue to work hard, putting the bean dregs and pockets aside, then pouring the bean juice into a clean clay pot and putting it on the earth stove, so that the apricots can be set on the fire and cooked.

Seeing Chen Xu turn around and get half a bag of bean dregs, Yu Wuya asked curiously: "My bet, can this remaining dregs be used?"

"This is called tofu dregs. It is also a delicious dish when prepared. Today I will make you a scallion and chive bean dregs cake. It is fragrant and crispy, and it is very delicious!"

"Hiss, benefactor, hurry up and my saliva fell off!" Yu Wuya's foodie nature was fully revealed. As long as Chen Xu talked about a dish of food, he would start to salivate like a reflex.

While Xing'er was cooking soy milk, Chen Xu went out for a walk and picked a handful of wild onions and some fresh alfalfa dishes.

Because it has been nearly a month since autumn, all kinds of plants in the mountains and fields have grown old and started to fall off their grains, and wild vegetables are even more so. Whether it is wild onions and garlic, they are bolted and strong. Even the shepherd's purse, celery, and mother-in-law who can be eaten on weekdays are old. When the wind blows, the sky is full of flying dandelion umbrellas, so naturally the leaves cannot be eaten. He searched in the shade of the ditch for a long time, and finally found some fresh and tender wild onions and alfalfa.

Alfalfa is an ancient vegetable in China, with high nutritional value and good medicinal value. It can treat gastric ulcers and hemorrhoids. However, the taste is not as good as shepherd's purse and mother-in-law's diced rice, so few people eat it. However, there are no fresh wild vegetables at present. It is also a good choice to make some tender alfalfa chopped and mixed into the bean dregs cake.

Winter is coming!

Chen Xu was a little moved and very depressed.

Once winter comes, I am afraid that there will be fewer and fewer green wild vegetables to find in the mountains and fields. Therefore, when he was washing vegetables and cutting vegetables, he asked Chen Jiangshi: "Mom, do we have any vegetable seeds that can be grown in winter?"

"There were some ginger and reed seeds. I dug a small vegetable garden behind the house a few days ago to plant it. I found that the seeds were already insect-eating and moldy. They were still from three years ago. I don't know if they can germinate when planted in the field!" Chen Jiang said with a shaking head.

Uh, Chen Xu was stunned for a long time and turned to look at Yu Wuya: "What kind of vegetables are 白花花 and 白花?"

Yu Wuya was also stunned for a long time and asked blankly: "My benefactor hasn't even seen these two kinds of dishes?"

"Uncle Yu, my brother fell from the tree and broke his head. I can't remember anything before!" Xing'er explained next to him.

"Oh, sorry, sorry, benefactor, don't blame me, Wuya didn't think of it for a moment. Sauce is a big-leaf green vegetable with a light taste, but it is cold-resistant and not delicious. It will also sprout and bloom in spring. It looks a bit like isatis root, but it is seven or eight times larger than isatis root, and it grows one foot in size!" Although Yu Wuya expressed it very clearly, Chen Xu still didn't think of what kind of vegetable the enlarged version of isatis root is.

"Where is the reed?"

"The reed is similar to mustard lumps. There are green leaves on it. The tender leaves are edible. When the elders get a little burrs, they are the size of fists at the roots, and they all have green and red skins. They taste spicy. After being cut into diced and dried, they can be used as pickles..."
Chapter completed!