Xilan City was located below the confluence of the boundaries of several major sects, and there happened to be another river passing from here, and a short distance in front of it joined an inland sea.

In the area where the river is about to enter the sea, there is a kind of crab that grows with a very special taste, this kind of crab is mainly black in color, and when it is steamed and cooked, the taste is extremely fishy and unbearable. However, this kind of crab production is very large, and there are no natural enemies in this area, and it goes ashore in autumn every year, and it is rampant and domineering, making the nearby residents miserable.

Xilancheng has to clean up this kind of crab every year, but it is always a wildfire that cannot be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows, after all, they can't really go down to the water to eat, and they turn down next to every stone, and catch every crab out and kill them all, which is the case in the second year, but it is controlled by people, but it will not really flood into a disaster.

When Mo Qiqi and the others arrived in Xilan City, they were just in time for people to catch crabs, and they were stacked on the shore one by one, piled up dozens of zhang away.

One by one, the crabs were waving their claws vigorously, scratching and creaking in the frame, it looked like a bumper harvest scene, she had never eaten this kind of crab, thinking that she hadn't cooked for herself for a long time, so she was a little greedy, thinking about buying a basket and going back to try her hands, leaning over and asking the little monk who was stacking the frame next to him: "Dare to ask the little Taoist, these crabs are for sale?"

The little friar was working, and when he heard her question, he raised his head and glanced at her, scratched his head a little bewildered, and said, "This is not for sale......

Mo Qiqi thought that people might be some kind of unique business, exclusively for restaurants or some kind of place, and not sold to the public, so he asked a little unwillingly: "Can you just sell me a basket?"

Only then did the little monk react, she may be a foreign monk, and she didn't know that this kind of crab was not delicious, so she kindly explained: "It's not for sale, it's just that this kind of crab is overflowing at this time of year, and the city organizes us little monks to come to salvage and control the quantity. ”

Are there any crabs that are not tasty?

Mo Qiqi looked around the basket twice with his hands behind his back, this kind of crab is not only darker in color, but also looks similar to the same kind of delicious blue crab, and the size is also very pleasing, all of them are the size of two palms, I want to take it back and ponder it, and see how bad it is.

Then he asked, "This doesn't taste good, could it be poisonous?"

"I haven't heard anyone talk about poison, although it doesn't taste good, but there are also some poor people, when life is not good, these crabs will go to satisfy hunger, and I haven't seen anyone eat to death. ”

If it wasn't poisonous, she would be relieved, and Mo Qiqi pointed to the basket: "Then I'll take two frames?"

"Seniors, please take care of yourself, but the crabs can be taken and the baskets have to be left, the crusts of this crab are so good, the frames are all special, and you have to hand them back after the night is finished, if you lose two baskets, I will be in vain for a day." The little friar smiled a little embarrassed.

These crabs are not considered demon beasts, but their sensitivity and strength far exceed that of ordinary crabs, and they can be drawn in the ranks of quasi-demon beasts, if there is no frame, Mo Qiqi does not have a special vessel to hold, so he can only be beaten to death one by one and thrown in a storage bag, which is a bit not good, whether it is a river crab or a sea crab, there is no doubt that it must taste better when it is fresh.

So he took a handful of spirit stones out of the storage bag, wrapped them in his sleeve and stuffed them into the little friar, and said, "I don't have any suitable utensils to store, I'm afraid I still have to take two baskets and cause you some trouble." ”

As long as he doesn't lose his money, naturally there will be no trouble, and the little monk smiled and accompanied Mo Qiqi to pick two baskets of big crabs, and then watched her leave.

Fortunately, Bian Hongjun has a separate courtyard in Xilan City, and Mo Qiqi doesn't have to drag two large baskets of crabs that the locals don't eat to the inn to be embarrassed.

Talking to Bian Hongjun, she carried two baskets of crabs straight to the kitchen, her cooking skills are not bad, Bian Hongjun knows, now seeing that she wants to toss crabs, she is naturally allowed to go, she can eat the best, so as not to spoil her interest. It doesn't matter if you can't eat it, it's great that he can just ask someone to bring some side ingredients.

Although the kitchen of this small courtyard is rarely used, the utensils in it are still quite complete, Mo Qiqi directly turned on the stove to burn the fire, boiled a pot of boiling water, and then picked two fat crabs, washed them clean, and steamed them in the basket.

Because he thought that the little monk had said that the crab was extremely fishy, he deliberately added a few more slices of ginger and scallion wine to the soup to see if he could get rid of some fishy smell.

When the heat is good, before the lid is lifted, Mo Qiqi can smell the fishy smell, although it is a little fishy compared to other seafood, it is a delicious fishy smell.

When I opened the lid of the pot, the crab turned from the original pitch black to orange yellow, which was no different from other crabs, and it looked very pleasant, but the smell was indeed a little unbearable, and the smell was like a pile of dead fish and rotten shrimp piled together to ferment and be exposed to the sun for two days.

If there were flies in this place, they should have buzzed and smelled by this time.

Mo Qiqi snorted, stepped forward strong and bravely, and opened the crab's shell, as soon as she opened the shell, the smell of fishy was even worse, if she was a person who needed three meals a day, she might vomit it out at this time.

This crab doesn't look much different from other crabs, she deliberately steamed a male and a female pair, and the cream was full of oil, which just smelled disgusting.

Hard-headed, I got closer and smelled it, and the smell was magnified several times, making the back of my head numb, she cleaned up all the creamy yellow internal organs of a crab, and then compared it with another one that was not cleaned, and found that the taste was several times lighter.

The vast majority of crabs with paste yellow mainly eat paste and yellow, and this crab, although Gao Huang is fat, but it is too smelly, the whole steamed, I don't know whether the meat itself stinks, or the smell of paste and yellow enters the crab's meat, causing the whole crab to stink.

So she took another crab, peeled the shell and removed the gills, washed the paste and yellow, mixed it with seasoning, and steamed it again in the pot.

This time it tastes much better, of course, it still has a bit of a fishy smell, unlike other seafood river fresh, which is particularly fresh and sweet after steaming, and is still not suitable for cooking.

But it wouldn't make her sick to her stomach when she smelled it, so she was bold enough to break open a crab claw and taste it.