There are three large plateau lakes on the territory of Jiangchuan, and the people of Jiangchuan have experience in eating seafood and seafood. The method they taught Qi Jingtao was the simplest classic method - tying the hairy-footed crab with twine, putting it in a steamer, and using beer as the steaming footwater. Steamed and served directly on the table with ginger vinegar sauce to eat. Of course, it is not more sweet than dipping, and the guests decide a few lines according to their own tastes. The cooking method and the way to eat it are so simple and convenient.

The parents of both sides were gathering together to talk behind their backs, and Qi Jingtao always felt that his heart was hairy, and it was not easy to listen. Qi Jingtao depressedly found the twine that the hairy-footed crabs sold to his people, and then found a few steamers from the kitchen, ready to start catching and tying up the hairy-footed crabs with teeth and claws.

The adults in the family are busy talking about business in the living room, and the little cousin Bai Xue, who is playing unaccompanied, is very bored, and jumps to the kitchen to find the eldest cousin who has come home to play. When I came to the kitchen, I saw that my eldest cousin was holding twine and preparing to deal with those hairy-legged crabs, so I stood by and watched, cheering for my eldest cousin: "Brother, catch the biggest one first." It was the most domineering and tied it up. ”

"Okay, capture the thief and capture the king first, and I'll clean it up first. Qi Jingtao listened to his cousin's instructions, quickly stretched out his left hand, grabbed the largest hairy-footed crab on the left side of the glass cabinet, buckled two large tongs and pressed them on the four legs on both sides, and tied the hairy-footed crab into a cross with twine with his right hand.

"Oh, my brother is so amazing!" Xiao Baixue applauded her eldest cousin with little stars in her eyes.

"Take it, put it in the middle of the steamer, and when it is steamed, you will eat it. Ignoring the illegal use of child labor, Qi Jingtao instructed his eight-year-old cousin to help him cook.

"Okay. Xiao Baixue took the hairy crab that was tied up, but she didn't put it in the steamer. The little girl's fleshy little hands were raised and looked at the hairy-footed crab: "Hmph, if you want to be domineering, you almost pinched me, now be good." ”

"Oh, little Baixue, it turns out that you have a grudge. Su Minle, who was preparing ginger vinegar seasoning juice next to him, was happy.

"We don't have a grudge, I used the thatch to tease it, and it broke the thatch at once, and it almost caught my hand. Bai Xue looked up at her cousin and said, turned around, grabbed the tied big hairy-footed crab and ran away.

Qi Jingtao, who was continuing to tie up the hairy crab, was happy: "Hehe, that hairy crab is a blessing in disguise, and I can't eat it today." ”

Su Min smiled, "There shouldn't be any hatred in the eyes of a child, just let her be happy." Hehe, you should feel lucky!"

"Yes, if these hairy crabs have a grudge against her, we won't want to eat any steamed hairy crabs tonight. ”

"Guess where Xiao Baixue will put that hairy crab?"

"Who knows?"

"I heard you talk about breeding hairy crabs in Xingyun Lake, this hairy crab has a very strong survivability. Otherwise, we will simply select a few pairs of breeding crabs and put them in the reservoir for stocking, so that it will be convenient for our family to eat hairy crabs in the future. Su Min suggested on a whim.

"Hehe, it's still a good way for my wife to live. The water temperature in the reservoir is about the same as that of Xingyun Lake, and the water quality here is much better than that of Xingyun Lake. However, these hairy crabs sold back this time are all female crabs, not a pair!"

"Stupid, you throw a few female crabs into it and raise them, and in a few days you can go to Xingyun Lake and get a few more male crabs back?"

"It's still my wife who is smart. Hehe, these are quite fat, so choose these ones as breeding crabs. ”

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When Qi Jingtao and Su Min were cleaning up hairy crabs in the kitchen and talking about the great business of stocking hairy crabs in the reservoir, they were happy in the living room, and they seemed to have determined something big.

In front of the parents of both parties, grandma was facing Qi Cuiping, who got along with her peers in front of her former teacher at this time, entrusted her with an important task - to serve as the matchmaker for Su Min and Qi Jingtao.

Although Qi Jingtao and Su Min have already received a marriage certificate, they have been legally recognized as a legal husband and wife. However, according to local customs, as long as the wedding has not been officially held, and the guests of the banquet announce the official marriage, they are a little unjustifiable. In the eyes of the people in the village and others who knew them, they were not yet husband and wife. They are not as legal as those who have married early because they are under the legal age and have not obtained a marriage license, but have already had a wedding.

Because there has been no official wedding yet, even Qi Jingtao and Su Min still maintain their original names when they call each other's parents. They call each other's husbands and wives affectionate, and deep down, they themselves don't think they are officially husband and wife. On the issue of addressing each other's parents, there is no time to change their words, and they still can't change their words when they call each other's parents.

This time, in the name of the joy of the Qi family's housewarming, Qi Zhengming proposed the second official meeting between the two parents' families during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Mae Shafeng couple readily agreed to the meeting. The parents of both sides who couldn't bear it talked solemnly, and they both had the intention of forcing marriage.

Can't let the two of them be so confused, the parents of both parties directly set their wedding date before the Spring Festival after consultation, and the marriage must be done before the Spring Festival. The specific time can be considered by the two of them, and fine-tuning according to their work schedule can be regarded as giving them a little freedom.

According to local customs, the two families need an important role and medium to hold a wedding - matchmakers. Qi Jingtao and Su Min are in free love, and there is no traditional process of parental orders and matchmakers, where did the matchmaker come from?

If you have to say that there is a matchmaker, it seems that Xu Manli is barely one, but Xu Manli's eldest girl's family is not suitable to be a matchmaker!

As a result, Qi Cuiping, who is not only Qi Jingtao's third aunt but also a student of Meisha Peak, was entrusted by her grandmother with the important task of acting as the matchmaker for Qi Jingtao and Su Min, and she is the most suitable to come forward to take on this role.

Su Min had already finished the other meals and put them on the large round table in the dining room, just waiting for the relatives and friends in the living room who had deliberately left the two of them to discuss important matters to come to eat. Su Min, who was deliberately supported by his parents and was inconvenient to disturb his elders, had to go back to the kitchen to watch Qi Jingtao toss hairy foot crabs and make what he said about the new steamed hairy crabs.

Qi Jingtao divided the ten bundled hairy-legged crabs into two cages and put them in the steamer, stacked them together and brought them to the steamer. Take two bottles of Tsingtao beer and open it, pour it directly into the pot, and turn on the stove to steam the crab.

"Husband, who did you learn from beer to make steamed foot water?"

"Hehe, a Jiangchuan restaurant owner. We went to his restaurant to eat hairy crabs, and the guy set up a steamer in front of the guests, and they were steamed freshly eaten, and the water used to steam their feet was beer. I've also eaten steamed hairy crabs at other restaurants, and they are steamed with water. After comparison, those old foodies feel that the steamed beer is more delicious and delicious than the steamed beer. ”

Qi Jingtao explained to Su Min complacently, and poured a jar of Huadiao wine into several porcelain bottles, put a piece of old ginger in each bottle, and put it in the hot water to warm the wine.

Su Min, who eats hairy crabs with rice wine and ginger slices, knows that she likes cooking, and she is happy to see the hunt, and now she is concerned about the new method of hairy crabs, and asks, "How can you judge whether it is steamed or not?"

"With such a large small steamer, one bottle of beer can be cooked dry, and two bottles are safer. ”

"It's a good way to be lazy, hehe, and learn another trick. ”

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"Brother, sister, do you still need help?" Bai Xue returned. The hairy crab didn't come, and she didn't know where she was hiding. I hope that after eating, Bai Xue will not forget to hide people there, otherwise the tied hairy-legged crab will be miserable.

Qi Jingtao looked at the boiling beer in the steamer, turned his head and smiled and instructed the little cousin who came to help: "Xiao Baixue, you came just in time, go and inform your grandmother that they are coming to eat, you can start eating!"

"I'll go with Xiao Baixue to please, you look at the steamer. Su Min said with a smile, and went to the living room with Bai Xue to inform everyone that they had gone to dinner.

When the whole family came to the restaurant, Qi Jingtao just brought the hairy crabs to the table, and the family feast began in a joyful atmosphere.

The Qi family's new home is spacious and atmospheric without losing the warmth of the farmhouse, a main building, seven auxiliary buildings are distributed on the mountainside and independent into a large courtyard, which is parallel to the water outlet, and the number of guests who can live and entertain is considerable.

Qi Cuiping joked, there is a posture of the Grand View Garden, and it is necessary to give each relatively independent building a suitable name to facilitate everyone's living and coming.