After resting for less than half an hour, Zhang Ran and his mother picked up their hoes again and began to weed in the fields.

More than two acres of weeds are less than a day's work for Zhang Ran's family of three. Therefore, although Zhang Ran and the three of them took a few breaks halfway, it did not affect the progress of weeding.

Before the sun set, Zhang Ran's family finished the work in the fields early. After a simple tidying up, I dumped the weeds that remained in the basket. I went to the river again, collected the fish cage, and brought the few fish I had newly caught today, and Zhang Ran's family returned from the river.

It was still very early when he got home, and while the sky was still relatively bright, Zhang Ran took a wooden bucket of water from the well at the entrance of the village, and after bringing it home, he used the water to disembowel the fish he caught today and rinse it clean.

Then, he picked out all the crabs and shrimp that had been unexpectedly harvested in the fish cage in the past two days. After counting, Zhang Ran found that there were as many as five crabs, and each of them was bigger than a fist. As for the number of shrimp, there are even more, more than a dozen. It's just a little small...

The crab is scrubbed with a small brush made of sorghum spikes, and the shrimp line is picked out and washed, and then put it on the retort (retort, Han Dynasty steamed food cooking utensils, mostly pottery or copper and iron, in the shape of an inverted trapezoid, you can place layers of grates of different sizes in it, and put steamed food on the grate), and put some green onions into it, and then boil the water on a large fire.

It takes at least twenty or thirty minutes to cook the crab, and during this time, Zhang Ran put some firewood in another fire pit to light it, set up the grill, and prepared to start grilling the fish...

The fish that has been grilled for two days in a row, grilling the fish is simply a matter of ease for Zhang Ran, smearing it with salt, skewering the fish meat with a wooden stick, putting it on the grill, and using the temperature of the charcoal fire, baking them evenly and cooked thoroughly little by little...

When the fish is grilled, Zhang Ran's steamed crab is almost cooked. Zhang Ran walked to the kettle where the retort was placed, lifted the wooden lid, looked at it, and found that the crabs inside had turned red and looked as if they were cooked.

So I used chopsticks to clip out the steamed crab and shrimp inside, and put them in a clay bowl.

Five crabs and a dozen shrimp filled two large bowls. Zhang Ran took the bowl and came to Zhang Li and his sister Zhang Sui'er, and said to the two: "Mother, Sui'er, the crab is steamed, do you want to taste it?" ”

Zhang Li shook his head and said, "It's better for you to eat it yourself, I'll just eat the fish." ”

As he spoke, he took down the large string of grilled fish that Zhang Ran had grilled from the grill, took off a few pieces of fish meat with chopsticks and put them into the clay bowl, picked up a piece and took a small bite.

Seeing this, Zhang Ran turned his head and asked his sister Zhang Sui'er next to him: "Sui'er, what about you?" To eat or not to eat? Are crabs delicious? ”

"I don't want to..."

Zhang Sui'er stuck out her little tongue, made a grimace at Zhang Ran, turned around and ran to her mother's side, took the rest of the half of the string in her hand, and didn't use the dishes and chopsticks, and directly bit it with a "ahhhh

Seeing that neither of them wanted to eat, Zhang Ran shrugged his shoulders and said, "Since you don't eat it, then I'll eat it myself!" ”

After speaking, Zhang Ran found a wooden pier and sat down, put two bowls on the ground, took out a steamed crab from one of them, tore off a crab claw, and took a bite with a "click".

After the crab claws are bitten open, the crab meat inside is as white as white jade... Zhang Ran gently sucked it in his mouth, and the tender crab meat was sucked into his mouth along with the soup...

Although the crab claws do not have much meat, they are extremely delicious and are definitely the best choice for appetizing.

Zhang Ran ate the crab claws in two or three bites, threw the crab shell into the fire casually, ripped off a crab claw, and tasted it slowly...

Because he is a person who enjoys this delicacy alone, no one competes, Zhang Ran eats the crab very slowly, and is also very meticulous, not only eating all the meat in the crab claws, but even sucking out the juice in the crab cockle, without wasting it at all.

After eating the crab claws, Zhang Ran began to eat the crab body again, he first opened the round lid on the crab body and threw it away, and then slammed it hard to divide the crab body into two halves...

The meat of the crab body is also white, although it does not look as delicate as the meat in the crab claws, but it is fuller and more generous, so people can't help but move their index fingers at a glance...

Zhang Ran took a bite of the crab meat lightly, and immediately found that the crab meat was fat but not greasy, and it was extremely delicious, far more delicious and delicious than grilled fish...

The crabs that Zhang Ran caught were not very big, and there was not much meat, although Zhang Ran ate slowly, he still ate one quickly...

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ran picked up the second crab, ripped off a crab claw, "clicked" and bit it, and put it in his mouth...

"Ziyo~"

"Huh?" Zhang Ran's hand suddenly paused, and he couldn't help but take away a little bit of the crab claws that had just been placed in his mouth, looked down, and found that the crab meat was still unchanged, and said suspiciously: "It's still there..."

"Slip~"

The voice sounded again, Zhang Ran turned his head suddenly, followed the voice, and suddenly found that less than two meters away from him, his sister Zhang Sui'er was quietly swallowing saliva, looking at him with blank eyes... Crab in hand.

When the four eyes met, Sui'er's little face turned red like fire, and quickly lowered her head, and whispered in a cramped voice: "I didn't (look)... It's not me..."

"Uh" Zhang Ran looked down at the crab in his hand, and looked up at his sister Sui'er, who was about to blush in her ears, and couldn't help sighing.

Then, Zhang Ran threw the crab in his hand back into the bowl, reached out and picked up the bowl of crabs next to him that had not been moved, walked up to his sister, handed it to her, and said, "Na... Here you go! Try it! ”

"......" Zhang Sui'er raised her head and looked at the two red steamed crabs in the bowl, and suddenly felt very entangled, not knowing whether to pick it up or not...

"Take it quickly..."Zhang Ran reached out and stuffed the bowl into his sister's hand, and said with a smile: "If you want to eat, just say it, there's no need to be embarrassed, can I, as a brother, still laugh at my sister... Eat it, it's not good if it's cold..."

"Hmm!" Zhang Sui'er nodded with a smile, reached out and grabbed a crab, and was about to gnaw it...

"Wait! It's going to be shelled! Zhang Ran snatched the crab from Zhang Sui'er's hand, broke it in half, handed it to his sister, and instructed: "The shell of the crab can't be eaten, you have to break it to eat the meat inside." Now, now you can taste it..."

"Hmm!" Sui'er reached out and took the crab, couldn't wait to take a bite of the white and tender crab meat inside, and whimpered in her mouth: "Woo~, it's so fragrant..."

After taking a small bite, Zhang Sui'er quickly raised her head and smiled sweetly at Zhang Ran: "Thank you, brother... The crabs are so delicious.."