The vegetable market in my neighborhood is very large, and there are several servings of tofu sold in it. Nowadays, most of the tofu sold on the market is made of gypsum, but people still love the kind of brine tofu in the past, which has a good taste and a strong bean fragrance. However, nowadays, it is hard to buy brine tofu. In this vegetable market, there is a stall selling pure brine tofu, called Lao Wang tofu.
Speaking of Lao Wang Tofu, this vegetable market is a rebuilt open-air market. I didn't notice it before, but since the opening of the new vegetable market more than ten years ago, there has been a Lao Wang tofu stall. Lao Wang tofu is very popular in the market, and there are often queues in front of the stalls.
Every morning when the market opens, it is also the hottest time in front of Lao Wang's tofu stall. Surrounded by wooden planks, large tofu trays are stacked there, and the thick surface of the tofu is the pattern left by the bean wrap cloth when the tofu is pressed, which is the same as the old tofu I ate when I was a child, both in appearance and texture.
When selling tofu, Lao Wang held a knife to cut tofu in his hand, and when he went down, a thick piece of tofu with the fragrance of beans was packed into a plastic bag and delivered to the customer, and it didn't take long for the tofu to be sold out.
Looking at the few points that sell gypsum tofu, there are very few people who patronize them. But they didn't worry, Lao Wang's tofu was sold out before noon. They mainly sell vegetables and sell tofu, and they can sell it in small quantities.
On the eve of the Spring Festival this year, I want to go to my relatives, and as soon as the vegetable market opens, I will go to the Lao Wang tofu stall, afraid that there are many people who buy tofu before the Spring Festival. I bought a few large pieces of tofu, and I bought soy products such as dried tofu shreds, and I wanted my relatives to taste the old brine tofu.
A few days later, a relative called** and said, this is the delicious brine tofu you said, not to mention the evil smell of tofu, the shredded tofu can't be chewed at all after being cold, and it is also an evil smell. The child said that it might be synthesized from chemical raw materials, right? I didn't dare to eat it, and I threw away all the bags of soy products you brought.
As soon as she said it, I really remembered that the person who sold me tofu was really not Lao Wang but a middle-aged woman, and I thought it was Lao Wang's family and didn't think much about it.
The next day, when the vegetable market opened, I immediately ran to the Lao Wang tofu stall, the signboard of Lao Wang Tofu was still there, and the tofu seller was still the same woman from the previous year. I bought a little bit and tasted it at home, not to mention the evil smell, the tofu shreds couldn't be bitten at all, and if it wasn't an evil smell in my mouth, I thought it was chewing.
What about the slag of wood. Anyway, I bought a little bit of it, and I didn't bother to talk nonsense anymore, so I just threw them away.
Many people found that the tofu had changed its flavor and looked for it. The woman said that Lao Wang quit and gave her the tofu stall and the signboard before the Spring Festival, and she paid a lot of money to redeem it. She also said in a heartfelt manner, my tofu is different from his family's practice, the taste must be different, and it is not deceiving, the taste is not in line with the taste, you can not buy it next time. The people who came to him had nothing to say.
I don't understand why the woman didn't make the brine tofu as well as Lao Wang did instead of making some mess. Are consumers so easy to deceive? Anyway, I don't think I'll buy that woman's tofu in the future.
However, the reversal of the plot is beyond everyone's expectations. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the sixteenth market had just opened, and people found Lao Wang standing firmly in front of Lao Wang's tofu stall.
I heard Lao Wang say that they closed their business and returned to their hometown on the twenty-ninth day of the previous year, and they did not come back until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It turned out that the woman saw that Lao Wang's tofu business was good, and took advantage of the Spring Festival Lao Wang to go back to his hometown to take advantage of the loophole, and the dove occupied the magpie's nest. With the good reputation of Lao Wang Tofu, he made a fortune during the Spring Festival. Even the market management department thought she was a relative of Lao Wang. As soon as Lao Wang came out of the stall, the woman disappeared immediately, and it seems that the information is quite accurate.
Alas, the forest is so big that there are all kinds of birds.