Pick the crab to pick up the shell full of shells, as soon as the shell is pinched, the shell will be deflated, and it must not be fat. You can also hold the crab up and shine it on the tungsten light bulb at the stall, and the light can be seen through the tips of the shells on both sides of the crab to see if the crab meat is covered with the whole crab shell. The crabs in the Spring Festival are still relatively fat, and the female crabs have lost some weight after ovulation and childbirth.

These are all things that Harato taught her when her biological father was there. Her biological father is a very honest and conscientious person, and he is often coaxed by small traders and vendors to buy vegetables in the vegetable market, and sometimes he carries a few hawkers home with packed tickets to protect the fat crabs, and her mother cuts it but looks so thin that there is no meat at all, and then her parents will be in the kitchen to mix their mouths.

One complained that he couldn't buy vegetables, and the other was annoyed and said: You will buy all the vegetables in the future, and I won't care anymore.

Sometimes my father took the original heron to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and he would tell the original heron what kind of crab is quasi-fat, and what kind of crab is so thin that it is even too bad to make soup.

Yuan Lu carefully picked a dozen crabs, planning to steam two at night, and stew the rest in the refrigerator, and then take them out after they are hot, dip them in ginger and soy sauce vinegar to eat.

She got out of the aunt's pile with the satisfied booty, and when she saw that Qiao Zhengqi was still standing in place waiting for her, she proudly raised the crab in her hand and laughed.

"Don't buy anything else, the hospital is allowed to make it, let's go have breakfast, there is a hot and sour soup in Wuxi near the entrance of Lujiaqiao Caishi, which is authentic, every time I play this piece, I can't help but taste it."

Qiao Zhengqi shrugged his shoulders and said, "Put the crabs in the car first." ”

Qiao Zhengqi took the crab bag in her hand, and found that Shen Huhu really didn't understand how her little lotus-like arm was raised so high at him just now.

Yuan Lu shook the water stains on his hands and said, "Fortunately, I asked for more ice, so it doesn't matter if the road is delayed." ”

Putting the crab in the trunk, Yuan Lu familiarly took Qiao Zhengqi to the hot and sour soup shop she said.

Before six o'clock, the business in the store was very good, the store was too busy to open Yuan Lu cleaned up a table by himself, shouted two bowls of hot and sour soup, and went to the baked cake shop next door to buy two plum vegetable baked cakes and came back.

The signature of the baked cake is Jinyun baked cake, but the method has an authentic northern flavor. The crust is thick, and a layer of plum vegetable puree is sandwiched inside, and the hot plum vegetable puree juice is completely soaked into the cake blank when you bite into it, and the sesame seeds on the roast cake fall down with it. At this time, take another sip of thick hot and sour soup, the bamboo shoots and dried tofu in the hot and sour soup are soft and hard, making the whole bowl of soup seem to be full of strength.

Yuan Lu likes to soak the oil gluten into the soup at the end, and the last bite of the gluten makes the whole breakfast taste bud feast completely sublimated and ended perfectly.

After she had eaten and drunk enough, she felt that the comfort in her heart could extend to every toe.

Qiao Zhengqi rarely saw anyone who would be satisfied with an eight-yuan breakfast, although he felt that Yuan Lu's happiness was too easy to be enriched, but he was also infected and happy, and this breakfast was delicious.

She ate faster than he did, waiting for him to finish while her chin was propped up with her hands and her thoughts drifted away.

"Are you going back after the New Year?"

"Back to the United States?"

"yes." Counting that he has been in China for almost two months, doesn't he need to go back to school?

Qiao Zhengqi was silent for a moment and said: "I am on vacation this semester, mainly with the team and G University to carry out scientific research projects, and try to drive the exchange of real rooms on both sides. ”

Still going back, Yuan Lu pulled his thoughts back and looked at him: "I have always felt that chemistry is harmful, you see so many biological and chemical weapons, so many food safety problems, so many poisons and dangerous contraband, haha Maybe this is the prejudice of liberal arts students, but when I see you, I don't know why I feel that it is suddenly not so hateful, and even feel that chemistry is a strict thing." ”

Qiao Zhengqi thought, probably because he gave her a very strict feeling.

"I don't think it's a good thing either, but I've been making it better."

Yuan Luge smiled: "Please make me a few bars of soap when you go back, it will really become a good thing." I have been using hand sanitizer at home, and I suddenly miss the feeling of washing my hands with soap, and the orange flavor I used when I was a child, but unfortunately it has been discontinued for a long time, and I haven't found the same one for so many years. ”

"Okay."

"Really?"

"Hmm."

Yuan Lu felt that he was very sincere and unthinking when he indulged himself, and even his image in her mind was very tall. This...... Is it the feeling of my brother?

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When she returned home, she took off her makeup and continued to make up for her sleep, set an alarm clock for two o'clock in the afternoon, and when she got up, the sun was not as drunk as it was in the morning, and as soon as she opened the curtains, she saw Pony rolling on the grass in the garden downstairs.

The corners of her lips rose unconsciously.

In the next life, it is not bad to be a carefree puppy, to be cute, coquettish, greedy, and tendonous.

Yuan Lu wrapped himself in a large robe of polar fleece and went downstairs, ready to start cleaning up the crabs.

Qiao Zhengqi was already in the kitchen, and when he heard her coming downstairs, he glanced back at her: "There is freshly squeezed blueberry and apple juice on the table, you drink it." ”

Yuan Lu saw that there was really a cup of juice with plastic wrap on the table.

She tore open the plastic wrap and glanced at Qiao Zhengqi.

Didn't you say that the gentleman was far away from cooking, why did Qiao Zhengqi clean up the things on the stove more neatly than her? The crab has been almost cleaned up by him, brushed the shell, chopped off the burr legs, and even the ginger shreds are cut to an even size and the same length.

Yuan Lu took a sip of juice, walked to the kitchen, stuck his neck out and looked into the pot, the water was almost boiling.

"Are the crabs okay? I was careful when I picked it. ”

"It's not bad, when you cut it, the green meat will be full when you cut the leg."

"Why don't you go and rest? I'll call you when the crabs are cooked, let's set off at about half past three, and if there is a traffic jam on the way to the hospital, we can get there before six o'clock in the morning. ”

Qiao Zhengqi stood in front of the cooking table and put the ginger shreds into the pot first, poured a few spoonfuls of cooking wine, and put the crabs into the boiling water before saying, "I'll pick up a few bottles of low-degree fruit wine and bring them over." ”

Qiao Zhengqi walked out of the kitchen, and Yuan Lu cleaned up the cutting board and knife in a hurry, and wiped the stove inside and out.

Pony came back from the yard with a pile of dried weeds stuck to his fur, sticking out his tongue and sticking out his tongue to the heron's side.

Yuan Lu laughed annoyed, and scolded in a low voice: "Why didn't you roll into a little dirty ball and not go to Qiao Zhengqi?" What a puppy, relying on me to groom you, and only know my benefits when you're out there in the wild. ”

Hara lowered the heat and let the crabs simmer in the pot, then picked up Pony and sat down on the couch to help him carefully pick up the weeds mixed in the long hair.

In this family, the object of her most nagging is Pony, this guy has been a little uneasy since the first time he saw her, but no matter how wrong a person and a dog are, Yuan Lu admits that Pony is the one who has been with her the longest for so many years. Whether it's happy or sad, holding a well-behaved puppy and talking, the days have become better.

After helping it clean up the weeds, Pony shook off the hair on his body, and turned into the arrogant cold puppy again, and couldn't wait to jump out of Yuan Lu's arms, and ran upstairs to find Qiao Zhengqi.

Yuan Lu looked at the back of the little whirlwind, and secretly scolded the little white-eyed wolf in her heart, but her heart was as happy as coaxing a child.

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On the way to the hospital, the speed of traffic is comparable to a 10,000-mile hike, Yuan Lu has been prepared, and has played a few episodes of online dramas in the Pad to pass the time, and a person is smiling crookedly in the passenger seat.

Qiao Zhengqi asked with some tears and laughter: "What are you looking at?" It's so funny. ”

Yuan Lu held his stomach in a haha, his eyes still staring at the screen and not moving away,

Qiao Zhengqi: ......

Yuan Lu felt that he must think that he was superficial, so he ignored him, and only said: "Hahaha, you big theologians definitely don't understand our jokes, the task of saving the world and supporting the universe will be handed over to you, what should we, the small people of Shengdou, do to contribute to the entertainment industry." ”

Qiao Zhengqi frowned and said noncommittally, "You guys? We? ”

Haraku: "Yes, you, us. ”

Qiao Zhengqi: "It seems that we have to have a good chat, and we have to sublimate the revolutionary friendship again." ”

Yuan Lu was stunned for a moment, and finally took his eyes off the screen, and glanced at Qiao Zhengqi strangely, did he know the meaning of this sentence? The classic quotations of Hu Bayi in the ghost blowing lamp, the revolutionary friendship is sublimated again.

Yuan Lu shook his head, feeling that Qiao Zhengqi didn't have the time to understand any Internet terms, and he definitely didn't know the meaning of this sentence, so he lowered his head and watched the drama again.

Qiao Zhengqi helplessly glanced at the light of the fire tree and silver flower outside the window, and sighed almost inaudibly.

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When I arrived at the hospital, the nurse on duty on the floor hugged Yuan Lu, who distributed the New Year's red envelopes prepared in advance to several nurses, and drew a few bags to the nannies who usually took care of the old lady.

The nanny happily accepted the red envelope, and the first sentence was: "Miss Yuan has a good New Year, find a handsome and excellent boyfriend in the coming year, work smoothly, and everything goes well." ”

Yuan Lu automatically ignored the first half of the sentence and said with a smile: "Thank you, how is my grandma today?" ”

The nanny said: "It's good today, I can't eat hard rice for the first two days, I got up early this morning and shouted that I was hungry, I fed the old lady gruel and she didn't do it, saying that it was tasteless to chew, so I changed the small half bowl of rice and ate it all." ”

Yuan Lu nodded and walked into the ward.

Old Mrs. Qiao was sitting and talking to Qiao Zhengqi.

Yuan Lu glanced at a few Chinese New Year's Eve dishes in the ward and asked people to take the crabs to be plated.

"Lulu, I just said your brother again, it's not like that, no one in the family wants you to go to the vegetable market in the morning to buy vegetables, you can eat something, grandma can't eat much, you and your brother can order whatever they like, there is no need to make those efforts for me."

Yuan Lu walked to the old lady's bed and peeled an orange for her: "The ou mandarin orange from Wenzhou, bitter but fire, the greasy food during the festival, go to the fire." ”

She tore a piece and handed it to the old lady, who took a bite and said, "Cool teeth, everything you eat here is like chewing wax, it's useless." ”

The old lady couldn't get up by herself, so she called the nanny and said, "Give them the two New Year's bags that I have prepared in the drawer of my bedside table." ”

Yuan Lu pursed his lips and smiled: "I'm so old that I still have New Year's money." ”

The old lady wrinkled her nose and said, "I'll still take a picture of your brother when he's so old, and he's still a child before he gets married." ”

The topic was in danger of running away, so Yuan Lu hurriedly pulled it back and said, "Did my parents call you today?" They can't come back on official business, and they can't return to China until the end of the New Year, and this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner specially ordered me to buy a few live crabs on the table, you love to eat. ”

In order to make the old lady feel relieved, Yuan Lu pushed the credit of the crab to Qiao's father and Qiao's mother, so that the bad man was not there, and he had a heart to let the old lady know.

The old lady didn't let go of her mouth, but she was still happy in her heart, and said stubbornly: "I don't know if you get up early in the morning to buy it for me, so it's not rare that they asked you to buy it." ”

Yuan Lu smiled and didn't speak.