After a while, the driver Xiao Jiang came in, and the four guests in the private room arrived.

After a while, Hao Desheng's dishes and drinks were also delivered one after another.

Seeing that Mr. Chen was about to pour wine for everyone, Hao Desheng immediately stood up and grabbed the wine bottle and said with a smile:

"Mr. Chen, I'll come. That's what I've done. ”

Hao Desheng took the bottle that the waiter had opened the cap on, and very skillfully poured the wine glasses of the mayor's wife and Mr. Chen, each of which was only eight points full.

Then, when Hao Desheng poured himself wine, he did not forget to say to the driver:

"Xiao Jiang, you pour Wang Lao Jiha yourself."

"Okay, I'll pour it myself. Thank you, Director Hao! ”

The driver, Xiao Jiang, picked up the "Wang Laoji" in front of him, opened the lid of the can, and poured herbal tea into his cup "whoa, whoa".

"Mrs. Sister-in-law, Mr. Chen, shall we have a banquet?"

After the wine was poured, Hao Desheng spoke as the host.

He picked up his glass and proposed to the mayor's wife and Mr. Chen to eat.

"Okay, let's have a table now!"

Mr. Chen echoed loudly, and at the same time stood up from his seat, raised his glass with both hands, and suggested to Hao Desheng:

"Today, I am drinking with Mrs. Wang for the first time, Director Hao, Xiao Jiang, this first glass of wine, we three men, do we respect Mrs. Wang together? I wish Mrs. Wang all the best, a happy family, and an early embrace of her grandson! ”

"Okay, I wish Mrs. Sister-in-law all the way, everything goes well, the family is happy, and I will hold my grandson early!"

Hao Desheng then stood up from his seat and raised his glass with both hands in response.

The driver, Xiao Jiang, naturally stood up, followed the example of Mr. Chen and Hao Desheng, picked up the drink with both hands, and toasted the mayor's wife together.

"Ouch, don't dare to be, don't dare to be. Thank you, thank you! I would like to sincerely thank Mr. Chen for his enthusiasm and help, and at the same time, I would like to thank Director Hao and Xiao Jiang for their company and hard work! ”

The mayor's wife said "don't dare to be", and her body had already stood up from her seat.

The mayor's wife held the wine glass in both hands, and after touching the glass with Mr. Chen, Hao Desheng and Xiao Jiang successively, she drank most of the glass of rice wine in one gulp because she was in a good mood.

"Ah, Madame Wang is really a good drinker! Director Hao, let's also toast with Mrs. Wang, shall we? ”

Mr. Chen saw that the mayor's wife had almost dried his glass, so he made another suggestion to Hao Desheng.

"Okay, cheers!"

There was a warm atmosphere on the wine table immediately, and Hao Desheng was naturally very happy.

He used his wine glass, and after touching Mr. Chen again, he raised his head and dried the wine in the glass.

Mr. Chen and Hao Desheng also dried up the wine glass in their hands at about the same time.

"Well, happy! Come on, everyone please eat vegetables, eat vegetables! ”

After finishing the wine, Hao Desheng immediately warmly greeted everyone to taste the dishes on the table.

"Okay, eat the vegetables, eat the vegetables!"

The mayor's wife, Mr. Chen, and Xiao Jiang picked up the chopsticks together.

After eating a few bites of hot food, Mr. Chen then picked up the steamed crab on the table, gave one to everyone at the table, and said in a proud tone:

"Come, Mrs. Wang, Director Hao, Xiao Jiang, let's eat crabs first. Crabs should be eaten hot! This is an authentic Yangcheng Lake hairy crab, you see, the label is still on it! This hotel has a long-term contract with JS Kunshan's Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab Co., Ltd. The hairy crabs here are absolutely authentic! ”

"This、This is the 'crab eight' that eats crabs, right?"

Looking at the hairy crabs that Mr. Chen put on his plate and a set of crab-eating tools next to the tableware, the mayor's wife was a little overwhelmed, so she asked Mr. Chen a question.

In the past, although the mayor's wife had also heard of the "Eight Crabs", she had never used this play.

To tell the truth, when eating crabs in the provincial capital in the past, Mrs. Wang used to eat them directly with her hand.

Now, looking at the crab and the "crab eight pieces" placed in front of her, the mayor's wife didn't know what to do with it.

"Yes, Mrs. Wang, this is the 'Eight Pieces of Crab'."

Mr. Chen took the words of the mayor's wife and introduced it eloquently:

"This set of 'crab eight pieces' existed as early as the Ming Dynasty, and it became popular in the Qing Dynasty.

Like JS Suzhou, almost every household has these tools.

The purpose of using 'Eight Pieces of Crab' is to eat the crabs cleanly, and no crab meat or crab roe is wasted. ”

As an authentic crab connoisseur, Mr. Chen began to explain to the guests at the table:

"In the past, the 'eight crabs' of the rich and noble families were extremely exquisite. Their spare 'crab eight pieces', or made of sterling silver, or inlaid with gold and jade, each has its own merits, each leading the way.

In ancient times, the 'Crab Eight Pieces' actually became a symbol of the rich and noble family and the affluent life.

At that time, someone wrote a poem to describe the scene of eating crabs with 'eight crabs', and the poem was written like this:

'Hammer the crab shell and sing eight pieces, and the golden saw cuts the chela. Poetry and chrysanthemum appreciation people are not drunk, dancing hooks and playing tweezers like fairies. ’

Listen, when our ancients ate crabs, they 'danced with hooks and tweezers like fairies', how chic and comfortable it was! ”

Mr. Chen explained the history of the ancients eating crabs and explained the knowledge of the 'Eight Crabs'.

When he saw that the three guests were listening carefully to his explanation, he said with even more interest:

"Our ancestors have long summed up the experience of eating crabs from the table.

When a crab comes up, it first eats the crab legs, then the crab claws, and finally eats the crab roe and crab meat wrapped in the crab shell.

Why do you eat it like this?

This way of eating is mainly for heat preservation.

Steamed crabs, once cold, will have a fishy smell, which will affect its deliciousness.

Therefore, when we eat crabs, we must eat crab claws and crab claws while they are hot. This is because this is the area that is most prone to cold. The crab roe and crab meat in the crab body are protected by the shell, so they will not be cold at once.

Okay, now I'll introduce you to the 'Eight Pieces of Crab'.

Well, this is a crab hammer, a crab spoon, a crab plate, a crab bowl, a crab claw, a crab table, a crab needle and a crab needle holder. ”

Mr. Chen picked up the 'eight crabs' in front of him one by one and introduced them to the guests one by one:

"This crab claw is a two-in-one product, in terms of design, it integrates the structure of crab scissors in it, which can be used for two purposes;

This crab needle can also be used for two purposes, you see, this end is in the shape of a small fork, and this end is in the shape of a flat spoon.

The main function of the 'Eight Pieces of Crab' is that we can eat the hairy crabs cleanly, and even the meat crumbs in the crab claws can be left at all.

Generally speaking, the standard time to eat a hairy crab is two hours.

For crab connoisseurs, after the crab is eaten, the crab shell can be put back together and restored to a god-like crab, so that it can continue to lie on the 'crab table' in front of it. That's the best 'realm' to eat hairy crabs! ”

"Oh, eating a crab, there is still so much exquisiteness? It seems that we are really old-fashioned! ”

After listening to Mr. Chen's explanation, the mayor's wife was not afraid that others would laugh at her ignorance, so she smiled and laughed at herself.

"Yes, we Chinese, in terms of food, we pay a lot of attention. It can be described as 'as many as stars'! I dare not brag about anything else, if you want to talk about food, the Chinese are first-class in the world! ”

Mr. Chen summed it up in a word.

"Okay, let's start eating crabs! Sister-in-law, come, I'll help you untie the rope. ”

Hao Desheng is worthy of being the chief of staff, and he knows very well when and how to receive the leader or the leader's wife.

As Hao Desheng spoke, he picked up the hairy crab in front of Mrs. Wang, untied the string that bound the crab three times and divided it by two, and took off the crab claws and crab claws one by one, and put them into the crab plate of the mayor's wife together with the crab body.

"Well, thank you! Come on, everyone eat it while it's hot! ”

The mayor's wife nodded to Hao Desheng to express her gratitude, then looked at Mr. Chen with a smile and said:

"Mr. Chen, if you want to talk about eating crabs, we are really laymen. Today, I'm going to learn from you how to use the 'Eight Pieces of Crab'! ”

"Oh, don't dare, don't dare. We communicate with each other. Come on, let's eat crab claws first. Well, you can use crab needles to eat crab claws. ”

Mr. Chen said humbly, while picking up the crab needle in front of him, and picking up another crab claw, and began to demonstrate to everyone.

So, the three guests at the table imitated Mr. Chen's movements and began to taste the delicious and sweet crab meat.

It needs to be explained here that the four hairy crabs on the table are all females.

Here's what people often say:

"Nine females and ten males"!

What does that mean?

That is to say, when buying crabs, you have to eat the female in the ninth lunar month: because the female crab in the ninth lunar month has fat meat and yellow feet;

In October of the lunar calendar, you have to eat male: the male crab in October is full of meat and fragrant!

After the four of them ate crab claws with the "Eight Crabs" for a while, the mayor's wife felt that no matter what special effects the "Eight Crabs" had, anyway, it always felt very awkward to eat crabs with a utensil in their hands.

So, the mayor's wife simply put down the crab needle in her hand and said bluntly:

"Ouch, it's too troublesome to eat crabs with this plaything! It's time-consuming and labor-intensive, so I'll eat it with my hands. ”

After that, she reached out and picked up a crab claw, dipped balsamic vinegar in the crab bowl in front of her, and then sent it directly into her mouth, using her sharp upper and lower incisors, first biting off the shell at the front end of the crab claw, and then picking up her lips and sucking it in her mouth.

"Well, it's still like this, it's easy, and it's fast!"

After the mayor's wife finished eating, she smiled at Mr. Chen ostentatiously.

"Yes, yes, it's actually okay to eat crabs directly with your hands. At most, some crab meat will not be clean. We don't have to stick to the 'crab eight pieces', we can eat it as much as it is convenient. ”

Mr. Chen did not ridicule the mayor's wife because of her "old-fashionedness", but smiled at the mayor's wife very understandingly, and used compromise words to step down for the mayor's wife.

Hao Desheng and the driver Xiao Jiang are not very accustomed to eating crabs with "eight pieces of crabs", and now they see that the mayor's wife has given up "eight pieces of crabs", so they also took the opportunity to put down the crab needles in their hands and began to eat crab claws and crab claws with their hands.