Zhou Yi is a visual creature full of feelings.

When he looks at people, he first looks at his appearance and appearance, and once his face does not meet his mind, he will stay away.

He has a cousin who is young and beautiful, but because of her slightly protruding cheekbones and slightly thin lips, Zhou Yi always thinks she is mean, so he respects her and stays away.

It's a very strange thought.

The same thing happened to eating - strictly speaking, Zhou Yi is a foodie, not a glutton, because he is a picky eater.

Not only picky eaters, but also where and when to eat.

For example, he can sit in the open KFC store on a lazy afternoon, holding a cup of prepared drink, watching the pedestrians outside, and stay alone for an afternoon; He could also spend the morning in the alley, just to find a simple and neat shop with a bit of tradition, and then go in and eat a bowl of noodles.

The noodles may not be delicious, but the mood is subtle.

He is a picky eater, picking on delicate and beautiful things to eat, and slightly ugly, in general, he does not like to fiddle.

For example, crabs; Big crab in autumn!

Autumn crabs, there are too many aliases, not only "Jiantuaner", but also "eight-legged general", or "Fu Huangzi", too many aliases, is since ancient times, people's love for autumn crab, is the praise of its taste.

No matter what article you read, when you write about Chinese food, you can't escape the crab.

But Zhou Yi, who has always liked food, just doesn't like this crab very much.

Why?

First, the crab is fierce, carnivorous and rotten, and its hairy feet tremble, and it looks a little like a big spider, which is really rough!

The second is nausea. The crab was usually steamed and eaten, and when the big shell was revealed, the paste inside was yellow, and Zhou Yi always felt that it was a little more disgusting than feces.

The third is trouble. Zhou Yi is a lazy and leisurely person, even if there are more external factors that prompt him to move forward a little, but after all, he still has to fall into the essence of idleness - how can such a lazy person like to fiddle with the eight pieces of crabs, peel and fiddle, just to compete for that trace of white meat?

Zhou Yi is not uncommon with this thing, but there are too many people who like it!

For example, Zhang Chutian, such as Daddy Zhang.

As I said earlier, there are crabs in the realm of Dongtian Mountain; It's a pity that they are all mountain crabs and stone crabs, which often don't grow big and lack creamy things, so they can only be grilled and fried, as a snack, and eat a crunchy.

However, this crab entered the ditch of Zhou Yi, nourished by the spiritual water, and preyed on the fish and shrimp in it day by day, growing day by day, growing day by day, until now, in the ravine, a crab, the big one, just the crab shell, has the size of a palm; The small one, not counting the feet, is also swollen with more than half a slap - the brain is full of cream, and it is really a treasure for crab lovers!

For such a baby, Zhang Chutian naturally couldn't let it go, so he caught more than a dozen of them directly, tied them with ropes, left the trailer, placed them at home, and prepared to speak later!

But he forgot that he was not the only foodie in the family!

Although Daddy Zhang suffers from "gout", he feels that he seems to be getting better recently; Moreover, if you have gout, you can't really eat anything, seeing this fattened crab, Chef Zhang has an itch in his hands and a gluttony in his mouth, where can he still bear it?

Immediately set up a cauldron, one by one fat crabs steamed on the pot, the iron goods snorted, the ginger and garlic sauce gathered into a furnace in the pot, and the crab gas in the steamer coincided, the rich aroma fluttered up, hit the ceiling, scattered and ran away, the whole room, can not escape the fragrance!

Daddy Zhang is a famous foodie and a chef.

Friends of foodies, naturally there are foodies; Chef's friends are also indispensable to chefs.

Baisha and Changping Lane, an ancient alley that has been almost forgotten by the modern city.

In the depths of the alley, a storefront wooden door is closed, and a plaque is hung on the door, which is called "Han Huang Zhai".

Those who "contain yellow", crabs also!

What this store is for is self-evident.

This storefront, located in a deep alley, is as quiet and clean as this deep alley, and it seems to have been forgotten if it is not open all year round.

Only the top foodies in this star city know the details of this "Hanhuang Zhai", and only then do they know that it is also in the golden autumn month every year, opening for half a month, for foodies to feast on.

This crab Zhai is not as famous as Baoqing Lou in the magic capital, and it is not as varied as the Chimelong Pavilion in Sichuan City, but in the whole of China, any connoisseur who eats crabs, when talking about crabs, he can't avoid the three words "Han Huang Zhai", and the owner of "Han Huang Zhai" "Shi Tuan'er" is a person.

On the day before the opening of Hanhuangzhai, Shi Tuan'er carried a cage of crabs and walked to Zhang's house.

This is a must-have show every year.

When Daddy Zhang was still the chef of the top hotel in Star City, the two exchanged cooking skills and exchanged fancy ways to make crabs, and this show was born.

Since Daddy Zhang resigned from his position as a chef because of gout, and he couldn't bear to think about the dazzling variety of dishes, but when he was eating vegetable soup, Shi Tuan'er came more diligently!

He enjoyed, very much enjoyed himself when he made crabs and ate crabs, Daddy Zhang was drooling beside him, holding chopsticks and dipping a little crab roe, carefully tasting the taste, the torture of wanting to eat but not being able to eat!

Shi Tuan'er thought about Daddy Zhang's uncomfortable appearance, and for some reason, his mood became better and better, and the crab cage he was carrying shook more and more violently, shaking several crab kings inside in a panic, humming an old tune in his mouth, and forming a song with the magpies in the tree.

He thought about things in his heart, and he didn't stop under his feet, and the one-kilometer road, between the silent movement of cloth shoes on the flat ground, was just a stone's throw away.

Shi Tuan'er walked to the door of Zhang's house and was about to knock on the door, when his nose suddenly moved, and a faint aroma, a strange fragrance that he had been familiar with all his life, dipped in his nostrils, swirled between his lungs, and could not be washed away.

"Huh?" He thought he had smelled wrong, and his nose twitched again, inhaling all the air in front of his nose into his chest cavity and lung cavity, and finally extracted the wisp of incense that he was familiar with.

He smelled it, it was indeed crab fragrance, and it was not the aroma of ordinary hairy crabs, nor the aroma of sea crabs.

He has been dealing with crabs all his life, and almost with this wisp of aroma, he sketches the appearance of crabs in his mind.

Smelling this aroma, and then looking at the seemingly fierce and huge crab kings in his hands, for some reason, he suddenly felt tasteless; A great sense of frustration came from this old man who had been a crab all his life.

Now, he only has one thought in his head, he must see what kind of crab this is! Even he, who has dealt with crabs all his life, can't smell this crab seed.

Before he could knock again, the door was already open.

"I knew you bad old man was coming!" Daddy Zhang's fat face, which was slightly thinner than half a point, was revealed, smiling, and it didn't look like a "good thing".

The old man didn't quarrel with him, but walked past Daddy Zhang, strode into the house, and went to the kitchen.

A crab idiot who sees a good crab can't hold anything else in his eyes.

He walked to the steamer, and was about to open the cage to take a look, but as soon as his hand reached into the air, he suddenly stopped, and his eyes were full of struggle—he wanted to find out what the crab was at once, but he didn't want to ruin the cage because of his actions.

Daddy Zhang touched the few remaining beards on his chin, looked at the struggling and changing face of the bad old man, kept stretching out and retracting his hand, smiling, smiling, not speaking, just watching.

He sniffed the steaming white gas, and saw that it was almost time, and his feet moved.

"Woohoo!"

The sound of metal hitting the ground broke the silence in the room, and also shattered Shi Tuan'er's expectation and struggle.

The bad old man glared angrily, and was about to scold, when he suddenly looked at the ground, and his face changed!

On the ground, three or five, rolled out of the iron bucket, were bundled crab plates.

These crab plates, all the big ones at the top, are nearly the size of an outstretched palm! The indigo crab shell is prismatic and shiny, and it seems to have a metallic luster; The center was a cyan, purple, emitting a faint and bright dark light, which attracted all Shi Tuan'er's eyes and divine light.

He picked up a crab ball, looked at the bulging-swollen body, and at a glance, he could see the thickness of the cream; Looking at the two big scissors that are as big as metal saw claws, and looking at the red light and evil spirits on them, you can see that they are vicious—the bigger the saw claw, the more juicy and fattened it is; The more fierce the crab, turned into a group food on the plate, isn't it more sweet and tender?

"In my life, it's worth it to see such a crab and smell the fragrance!" The more you understand, the more you know that it is rare, and the more you cherish it.

He is a crab idiot, he knows that crabs are crabs, he recognizes the second, and China is so big that no one dares to recognize the first; And his unique craftsmanship requires a unique ingredient to match.

Over the years, he has traveled north and south, going out every year to personally select crab materials, cultivate crab seedlings, and breed crabs, isn't it just to get this crab?

He is old, in a few years, maybe there will be no such energy to run north and south, he thought that his wish in this life would be difficult to come true, but he didn't want to, there was a "crab coming west", just like that, a surprise and abrupt appeared in front of him.

Could it be that God has pity for him, a crab idiot? Or is it a fateful encounter?

If you are not a chef, you will never know the desire of a good chef for ingredients; If you don't become a crab idiot, you can't understand that a person has such a big obsession and desire for crabs!

Daddy Zhang understands, but in order to avenge the "revenge of N arrows" over the years, he kept silent.

On the steamer, a stream of steam erupted, and the originally faint fishy smell suddenly became rich, enveloping the entire enclosed space in such a fresh smell.

As this fishy and fresh breath erupted, the white gas still went up, but the thick fishy smell and umami faded away, turning into a faint freshness, seducing the nose and throat of the two people, and adjusting the taste buds and smells of the two.

"It's done!"

Father Zhang was just about to make a move, and in the depths of an old spicy, craggy arm like steel and iron bones, with a claw of his hand, directly uncovered the blazing shroud.

In the white mist, clusters of crimson flames flickered brightly.

When the fog cleared a little, you could clearly see that huge spiky balls were as red as fire, and no trace of variegated colors was revealed in front of the two of them; It's not an orange-red with a bit of bleak and dead like ordinary crabs, but a real red, like fire, burning with the last light of life!

In the middle of the crab shell, where the deep purple meaning was originally hidden, an indescribable blazing flame was revealed, spreading the fire, and it seemed that all the brilliance on the entire crab body came from this blazing.

Not every crab has that deep purple intent, so not every tip has that blazing fire; Although it is still fiery red, in the face of the "source fire" on that one's body, these pure fiery red, dazzling fiery red, and conspicuous fiery red are inevitably lost by three points.

Shi Tuan'er's eyes lit up, and his rugged arm stretched out again, steadily holding the largest and most red-hot ball back into his arms.

As if holding some kind of artifact, he took out a delicate black plate from his bosom and put it on the dining table, and took out all kinds of things from his bosom one by one—gold, silver, iron, alloy, bamboo, wood, and ivory—one by one, neatly arranged, large and small, crochet, scissors, and hammers, and put out one hundred and eight objects, before he gave up.

Who knew that such a thin old man could fit so many objects!

He no longer looked like a cook, but a most meticulous artist, with knives, scissors, hammers, and needles coming out, but in a moment, when the crab shell was still glowing red, it was eaten up, and gradually became transparent, turning into a thin ruby shell; The other legs and feet are long chela, and the silk meat has not taken off its mouth, and they are fused in Shi Tuan'er's mouth one by one, turning into a natural sound of his taste buds.

After eating a crab, Shi Tuan'er pondered for a long time, tasted it for a long time, and finally let out a long breath of white gas, and the whole person was full of spirit, as if he was more than ten years younger, his eyes were shining, and his body was full of energy.

He squatted down, grabbed balls from the big iron bucket, put them in the big bath, and cut the ropes that bound them one by one.

The remaining seven or eight big crabs, just out of their restraints, caught them in pairs, and fought in this big basin!

Two huge saw chelas, no longer ornaments, sharply cut open the cavity of one enemy after another, cutting off the hands and feet of all the same kind in the vicinity, the crab with a deep purple meaning, exceptionally strong, stepped forward, holding two huge claws, declaring its status as "king".

In this world of little crabs, there are only winners, no losers, because defeat is equivalent to death!

Shi Tuan'er's eyes were staring at the big crab tightly, and he muttered: "King Crab, it's really the king crab!" A king crab that can't live in the same room! ”

Daddy Zhang's eyes widened as well. He didn't expect that these crabs would be so fierce and fierce! He had never seen such a vicious crab!

One mountain can't tolerate two tigers, and one room can't accommodate two crabs!

When Zhang Chutian came home, he smelled the aroma of the room, and secretly screamed in his heart, and when he ran to the kitchen again, he looked at the two old guys, one fat and one thin, looking at the room full of crab legs and shells, the table full of messes, and looking at the big crab that was still showing off his power in the basin, he could only whine and mourn alone......

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