Chapter 33 Catching Mountain Crabs

It was not only the Yuan family who paid attention to soap and even Wan Yunjun, but also the powerful people behind these businessmen who noticed, or rather, noticed the benefits that were affected because of Wan Yunjun himself.

But all this has nothing to do with Zhao Yuan, after the house is finished, there is only the roof tile capping and painting the walls and floor, Zhao Yuan wants to paint the walls of the house with lime, and the floor with red bricks, which can isolate the moisture.

The kitchen of the new house is already usable, Zhao Yuan is in a good mood these days, and he also knows the popularity of soap from Wan Fu, the shopkeeper of Funing Building, and his home is about to be built in this era.

"Brother Yuan, are we going to move here after our house is repaired?" Meng Ying asked, the house was repaired, and after the wages were settled, Zhaojiazhuang and the team that built the house had already left.

"Xiaoying, is the new house good, do you like it, and Luoluo." Zhao Yuan asked with a smile.

"Like, I've been dreaming like I've been dreaming for the past six months, and so many things have happened." Meng Ying buried her head and said.

"I like it too, uncle." Luoluo said happily, the little girl's fingers that were pressed when she opened up the wasteland have been healed, but there are still black blood clots on the nails, but it doesn't hurt anymore, and after a period of time, the nails are completely grown, and you can't see it.

"Does Luoluo like her new home or uncle?" Zhao Yuan teased Zhao Luo.

"I like it all, uncle, do I want to sleep in a room by myself in the future?" Zhao Luo asked.

"That's right, when Luoluo grows up, she has to sleep alone." Zhao Yuan said.

"What should I do if I'm afraid? What if a big bad wolf comes at night? Luoluo said worriedly.

"Uncle will close the door, there will be no big bad wolf." Zhao Yuan picked up Luoluo and said with a smile.

"Don't worry, Luoluo, you're scared and your aunt will sleep with you." Meng Ying looked at the harmonious uncle and nephew and said with a smile.

"Okay, auntie can come to my room, uncle, when will my room be ready?" Luoluo asked expectantly.

"We have to wait for a few days, and we have to go back first after the house is built and renovated, and we can't live in it immediately after the house is built, so we have to open it for a while." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

Originally, Zhao Yuan wanted Master Qi and his party to leave after the house was completely built, but his team lacked carpenters and bricklayers, and he needed to hire another person, and the new master carpenter and master bricklayer would not arrive until tomorrow.

The uncles and brothers who came to help Zhao Jiazhuang not only helped Zhao Yuan dig the foundation of the house during this time, but later began to build the wall, and they helped to dig out the fish pond and river reserved by Zhao Yuan.

The father-in-law's family who came to help also went back, and during this time, they were busy and worried. The two pigs and donkeys have been locked in after the pigsty and donkey shed have been built, and there is no longer any need for Zhao Bo and the two brothers to help them stock, but Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying have more work to cut pigweed and donkey grass, but there are no people in Xiaheba, and there are many plants that can be used as food for pigs and donkeys.

"The house hasn't been tiled yet, and after the tiles are built, the floor will have to be installed, so we have to wait, Luoluo, I remember that your hand was crushed that day because you saw a crab, didn't you?" All of a sudden, everyone left, Zhao Yuan was a little uncomfortable, thought about it and asked.

"Brother Yuan, what do you ask that handworm to do?" Meng Ying asked suspiciously.

"That's a good thing, now is the time for the crabs to be fat, go grab some and cook them?" Zhao Yuan said suspiciously.

Zhao Yuan remembered that crabs had been eaten a long time ago in ancient times, didn't Meng Ying know that crabs could be eaten.

"Can you still eat the hand worms?" Meng Ying asked.

"That's right, the hand worm you're talking about is a crab, of course you can eat it!"

"Brother Yuan, you must be mistaken, the crabs you said are different from the hand worms in the river, they all look similar, but the crabs are more numerous than the hand worms." Meng Ying said with a smile.

"Really? Let's go and see, am I really mistaken? Zhao Yuan also said suspiciously.

"Then let's go, just by the way, let's take the pigweed and take the black tiger out and let it go." Meng Ying said with a smile.

"I'm going to lead the black tiger." Luoluo hurriedly said, after this period of time, the little donkey and Luoluo are already very familiar, and when they see Luoluo walking in, the little donkey will scream.

The newly built pigsty and donkey shed are under the new house, and the pit under the pigsty is specially pounded with yellow mud to prevent the pig manure from leaking into the river. The donkey shed is on one side of the pigsty, and a large fence has been built outside the pigsty with trees cut back from the mountains some time ago, just to raise more livestock and poultry later.

"Uncle, let's go." Zhao Luo led the little donkey out of the donkey shed, looked at Zhao Yuan who was carrying the basket on his back and said.

"Okay, let's go."

In this field of Zhao Yuan, because of the relationship between the wasteland, the weeds and shrubs in it have been cleaned up, and there are many plants growing on both sides of the river embankment, many of which are suitable for making pigweed.

Walking all the way and cutting all the way, the pigweed in the basket and basket slowly increased, and the little donkey did not need Zhao Luo to lead, quietly eating the grass on the side of the road, calling once or twice from time to time, Zhao Yuan looked at the donkey that had grown up a lot, and thought that it was time to add a stone mill at home.

"Uncle, look, a crab crawled under that rock just now." Zhao Luo thought about Zhao Yuan saying that he was going to catch crabs, and paid special attention to the dry river.

"Where?" Zhao Yuan threw a few pigweeds into the back basket, straightened up and asked.

"Right there." Luoluo pointed to the river where only a small stream of water flowed.

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Zhao Yuan put the basket aside, walked towards the stone pointed by Luoluo, turned over the stone, and saw the crab that had been very small quickly crawling away.

"It turned out to be a mountain crab, this is not delicious." After Zhao Yuan saw the crab, he said disappointedly.

"I'll just say that there are no crabs in the river here, just some hand worms." Meng Ying looked at the childish Zhao Yuan amusedly, and said with a smile.

"This is also a crab, but it is a mountain crab, although it can be eaten, but it is too small and not as delicious as a big crab." Zhao Yuan shook his head and said.

Mountain crabs, also known as climbing the sea, generally grow in mountain rivers, small in size, but rich in nutrients, when eating, the crab navel is removed, and then fried golden, with the shell to eat. However, in this era, there is relatively little oil, and there is not much reluctance to put oil in cooking and stir-frying, so there are few fried things, not to mention catching these mountain crabs back and frying them.

"Can this hand worm really be eaten, Brother Yuan, just like that wild mushroom?" Meng Ying asked.

"It's just eating and playing, it can't be compared with wild mushrooms, grab it and see, if you catch more, you can fry a plate and eat it at night." Zhao Yuan said with a smile while flipping the stones in the wet place by the river.

"There are again, uncle, hurry up and catch it, otherwise it will run away." Luoluo followed behind Zhao Yuan, and saw a crab crawling quickly under a stone that Zhao Yuan had raised, and hurriedly said.

"Okay, grab it, Luoluo, don't catch it, be careful that it catches you." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

There are really a lot of mountain crabs in the river, and every time you turn a few stones, you can find one or two, and I brought a small cloth bag with a small bag, and by the way, I cut the pigweed by the river.