Wenhai Stationery Store is the largest stationery store in Yangping County, and Ye Rongrong came here today to buy some tools for painting.

Ye Rongrong, who is now a grandmaster-level painter, can't wait to see what kind of effect his paintings are.

For drawing, especially sketching, the pencil is very important, generally choose the 2H-4B model, the model is too light or too heavy to be suitable for sketching, and the eraser is softer 4B.

Then there are colored pencils, drawing paper, 8 large drawing boards, easels, large clips for drawing paper, pens, watercolors, palettes, pigments, etc., which are the tools for painting Western paintings.

Of course, Ye Rongrong also bought some tools for painting Chinese paintings, and the tools for painting Chinese paintings are much simpler, as long as brushes and paints are fine.

I have to say that the tools for painting are very expensive now, and Ye Rongrong bought this set and spent more than 1,000 yuan.

No wonder, now many families with average family backgrounds, because their children learn art and music, make the family come from all over the wall, it is too expensive to learn these, not only these tools are expensive, but it is even more expensive to ask teachers to train, basically hundreds of dollars an hour.

After buying these tools for painting, Ye Rongrong went to the vegetable market in the county town to buy two live big pike crabs, and now that the year is approaching, the value of this pike crab has also come up, and it is already more than a hundred pounds, ordinary people basically can't afford to eat, so on Chinese New Year's Eve, buy two to burn and eat.

Barracuda crab, commonly known as 'white crab' in some places. Because the cephalothorax is a shuttle, it is called a shuttle. There are three protrusions in the center of the carapace, so it is also called 'three-wart crab', which belongs to arthropods.

Males have a pointed and smooth umbilicus, with long chelae and a bluish shell surface; The female has a round umbilicus and villi. The shell surface is ochre or spotted.

The crab meat is fat and delicious, has high nutritional value and economic value, and is suitable for temporary breeding and fattening of seawater. cephalothorax fusiform, almost twice as wide as long; The surface of the cephalothorax is covered with fine particles.

with 2 granular transverse levies and 3 verrucous protrusions; The forehead has 2 sharp teeth, and the anterior lateral margin has 9 sharp teeth. The terminal teeth are long and spiny, protruding outward.

Chelicerae stout, longer than cephalothorax, long prismatic, male long longer than slender, anterior margin with 4 acute spines.

After buying two fat pike crabs, Ye Rongrong drove home directly on an electric tricycle.

"Husband, how do you buy these things?" asked Liu Jingqing, looking at the drawing board on the electric tricycle with some confusion.

"Of course it's a painting, and my wife continues. Let's eat crab today. Ye Rongrong handed the bag containing two large pike crabs to Liu Jingqing and said.

"Husband, do you know how to draw?"

Liu Jingqing asked suspiciously. Liu Jingqing knows that his man can do a lot of things now, but Liu Jingqing has never seen this painting, and he has never heard of his man painting.

"Of course, I'll paint you a portrait tomorrow. Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

"Hmm. ”

Liu Jingqing replied, Liu Jingqing also wanted to know very much about his man's painting level, whether it was the same as his cooking skills. Let yourself be amazed.

"Husband, I'll help you get these things to the piano room. In the future, it will be outside the piano room, and it will also be our family's studio. Liu Jingqing said.

"Then I'll leave it to you, give me the pike crab, this thing is very fierce, and it won't let go if you bite it." I'll take care of it. ”

Ye Rongrong took the bag in Liu Jingqing's hand and said. The pincers of this pike crab are very powerful, in case you really bite the finger of your own wife with fine skin and tender meat. Ye Rongrong will die of distress.

So after thinking about it, Ye Rongrong felt that it was better to deal with these two big pike crabs by himself, and his own skin was thick, so he let these two big pike crabs bite and bite off their pincers. You can't hurt yourself in the slightest.

"Hmm. ”

Liu Jingqing nodded, handed over the pike crab in the bag to Ye Rongrong, to be honest, Liu Jingqing, who had never made a pike crab by himself, looked at the pair of fat pincers of the pike crab, and was really a little scared.

"Wife, how about we eat fried rice cakes with pike crab at noon. Ye Rongrong asked.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and many households in the village make rice cakes, that is, they make their own hand-made rice cakes, which are characteristic and refreshing to eat.

A few days ago, Ye Rongfa's daughter-in-law sent more than a dozen rice cakes made by her own family to Ye Rongrong, Ye Rongrong hadn't eaten rice cakes for a year, and couldn't help but be a little greedy.

Rice cake is a traditional Chinese food, which is steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour, and is a seasonal food for the Chinese New Year.

During the Spring Festival, many areas of China pay attention to eating rice cakes. Rice cakes have red, yellow and white colors, symbolizing gold and silver, and rice cakes are also known as 'New Year Cakes', which are homophonic with 'Nian Nian Gao', implying that people's work and life are improving year by year.

Therefore, the predecessors had a poem called the rice cake: "The meaning of the rice cake is slightly deep, white as silver and yellow as gold." Looking forward to the high times and good times, pious and silent hope for the coming of wealth. ”

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Ye Rongrong carried the crab directly to the kitchen in the backyard, took out a special basin for the kitchen, poured half the basin water, and poured the two fat crabs in the bag into the basin.

These two pike crabs were specially selected by Ye Rongrong, and they are definitely the best pike crabs with fat meat.

The selection of good pike crabs is particular, generally the back of a good pike crab is cyan and hard, the abdomen is full and heavy, and you can also carefully observe the crab calves, the legs are hard, and it is difficult to pinch the fattest.

You can also look at the abdominal navel, the abdominal navel of a good pike crab is generally light red, the more red and the more fleshy the navel is full.

For female crabs, it is generally to look at the crab cover, and you can know the fullness of the cream yellow by looking at the crab cover, and whether there is anything yellow and red on the tips on both sides of the cover, and the more it proves that it is paste yellow.

These two big pike crabs are the best and fattest female pike crabs that Ye Rongrong selected from dozens of big pike crabs, because the female pike crab has delicious crab roe.

However, the price of female pike crabs is also much more expensive than that of male pike crabs.

Ye Rong cleaned up the pike crab, removed the crab cover, crab gills, and other excess things, chopped into pieces, the crab claws should be slightly patted with a knife, and the cut crab pieces were slapped with starch with white wine, salt, pepper, and pickling.

Use a knife to cut the green and red peppers into diamond-shaped pieces, cut the green onion into sections, slice the ginger, mince the garlic, and mince the chives, and set them aside and wait.

Turn on the stove, heat the pot, add the home-fried lard, and when the oil boils, add the crab pieces with dry starch and fry them until they change color.

Ye Rongrong took another pot, put oil and heated, poured in green onions, ginger and garlic, stir-fried the fragrance, put in the spicy sauce to fry the fragrance and red oil, put in the fried crab pieces, stir-fried and cooked into the liquor.

Finally, pour the rice cake that has been cut into the pot quickly, stir-fry evenly, add a little boiling water or clear soup, add sugar and salt to taste.

When the soup is thickened, change to low heat. Put in the green and red pepper pieces and stir-fry, stir-fry evenly, add a little sesame oil, and finally sprinkle with minced chives, a large piece of fragrant pike crab fried rice cake, which was fried by Ye Rongrong. (To be continued.) )