Chapter 122 Tofu
After buying the meat, Wu Fei bought dozens of pieces of dried tofu. Stir-fried meat with dried tofu is also a dish that Wu Fei likes very much, but the dried tofu he eats outside is not as delicious as the one at home.
Speaking of which, the tofu in the town is very famous in nearby counties and cities. I heard that an emperor once passed by the town and praised it after eating the dried tofu in the town.
It's just that it's famous, but unfortunately the output has never been high. The main reason why it can make such delicious tofu is because of the water. There is only one well in the town that can make tofu with this taste. It only takes one day.
The amount of tofu in Bai Lai table.
The tofu from other wells is not that delicious. So although it has always been said that the tofu in the town is delicious. But after many people come here to eat it, it is just like that, different from other places.
The taste of tofu is not much different.
In fact, what they bought was some fake tofu. The well was in the yard of a family. It could be said to be their private property. The only ones who could make tofu with that flavor were their two brothers.
Almost a hundred tables of tofu are made every day, and half of the water tofu is usually sold, and the other half is made into dried tofu.
Tofu that has been made for decades is usually sold at a stall in the vegetable market. The tofu made in the morning is generally sold as water tofu, and the tofu made in the afternoon is made into dried tofu.
However, his tofu is usually bought by regular customers nearby, or by restaurants in town buying it one table at a time.
Speaking of which, there is a purchase limit for their tofu. You can only buy one table at most at a time. It is said to be a rule passed down from ancestors.
The same goes for dried tofu. You can only buy a table at most. Wu Fei and his colleagues sell 36 pieces of tofu per table here. They used to sell it for a few cents a piece, but later it slowly increased from 5 cents to 8 cents to 1 yuan.
Up to 1 yuan and 50 cents now.
Although his tofu tastes good and is in short supply, the price is still the same as everyone else's, a piece of tofu costs one dollar and fifty cents.
Speaking of which, every time the price of tofu has increased over the years, their family has been the last to increase it. Others have increased it first, and then theirs has followed suit. It can be regarded as a strange thing in Wu Fei's town.
Wu Fei had heard people talk about their family more than once when he was a child. Today, when he came to town to buy groceries, he rushed over to his house to buy tofu. It was also a chance to meet some of the strange people in this town.
After Wu Fei bought the meat and rushed to the place selling tofu, he saw a lot of people gathered in front of a stall. Many people had bought tofu and were about to leave.
By the time Wu Fei squeezed his way to the front of the stall, there was no piece of fresh water tofu left on the stall. What was left was only a load of dried tofu.
One load of dried tofu is equivalent to ten tables. It is packed in a special load, one layer at a time, and five layers can be placed on one side. One load is exactly ten tables.
Dried tofu is a little more expensive than water tofu. A piece of dried tofu costs 2 yuan, and a table of dried tofu costs 36 yuan. Wu Fei bought a table directly.
It's not that Wu Fei doesn't want to buy more. I haven't heard anyone say in so many years that anyone can buy two tables at a time, so Wu Fei won't talk about it.
Originally, Wu Fei wanted to come over and see the two brothers who were making tofu, but he didn't get what he wanted. The tofu seller today was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old. He should be the child of the two tofu guys.
Now is the time for school, and it looks like he should be in high school age. But Wu Fei is not surprised. Nowadays, many children stop studying after junior high school.
It’s not that the family is unable to send them to study, it’s simply that they don’t want to study. For example, the children of Zhou Benxiong’s family in Team 8 of Wu Fei’s village have both parents working on a construction site for highway construction. His father is digging an excavator and his mother is at the construction site.
Working as a handyman, I can earn more than 100,000 yuan a year.
But he didn’t want to go to high school after one year, and he was still the type who would never go to high school. There was no other way but to let him study hairdressing. This was better. After a few months of being an apprentice, he found someone who was three or four years older than him.
A 20-year-old girlfriend scared his mother to the point where she stopped working at the construction site and hurried home to watch.
In fact, it is not impossible to be grandparents in their 40s in rural areas. This is the case in the home of one of Wu Fei's classmates.
When Wu Fei was still in high school, the brother of his classmate dropped out of junior high school after two years. He helped sell tickets on the shuttle bus driven by his father.
The bus was bought by their family in partnership with another family, and soon the classmate's brother became friends with the partner's daughter.
They were both about the same age, around seventeen or eighteen years old. It was unknown when they secretly ate the forbidden fruit. By the time the two families found out, the girl was already very pregnant.
If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't hide it anymore, neither family would have noticed that things had reached this stage. One thought they were two children falling in love, and both regarded them as playing house.
It's really like what some children say: "Don't underestimate me even though I'm young." You really can't underestimate anyone.
That boy is Liu Yuewen's younger brother. It seems that this is also hereditary. I heard that his father is also very romantic. He has been driving a shuttle bus for many years. I heard that he has suffered a lot because of the affairs between men and women.
Liu Yuewen also fell in love early in high school, but now he can be regarded as a favorite among his classmates and a legendary figure. I don’t know if there are still legends about them in high school now.
In fact, his younger brother is more powerful than him. When Liu Yuewen fell in love, his younger brother might have given him a little nephew.
Anyway, when Wu Fei and his friends graduated from high school, Wu Fei took the shuttle bus driven by Liu Yuewen and his brother when he went home. At that time, his brother also bought a shuttle bus with others and drove the bus himself, while his wife helped sell tickets.
Anyway, when Wu Fei saw his younger brother, his sister-in-law's belly had grown bigger again. I heard that it was her second child.
Wu Fei was shocked at that time. The two of them were only 20 years old at most, especially Liu Yuewen's younger brother, who was not even old enough to get married yet and was already almost the father of two children.
After the last class reunion, when Wu Fei called Liu Yuewen, he asked about his younger brother. He said that he now has two sons and a daughter, but there is no shuttle bus now.
With the increase of private cars in recent years, the shuttle bus has gradually become less profitable. Now I have bought a large truck, and my parents-in-law bring fruits back from Yunnan to sell them. As for the children, they are all the mothers of his brother and his wife.
Help carry it.
When Wu Fei heard the news, he was silent for a long time. He is truly a model of a winner in life. He gave birth to a child at a young age, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law helped to take care of him.
By the time my children finish college, I will only be in my 40s and will still have a lot of time to waste.
Like Wu Fei and others, when they get married and have children, they will be almost 27 or 8 years old. If they have two children, they will be in their thirties.
Chapter completed!