Chapter 57: Eating Crabs in Autumn

Let's not mention "next time", several people speculated about who was behind "this time".

Sun Er was the first to speak: "Ding, it must be the shopkeeper Jia next door!" When there was trouble in front, he, he followed, and they all stood outside and watched, watching the excitement! I could see it clearly, he, he was laughing so happily! ”

"The people in the surrounding shops have come out to see, and no one has come out from Hanmo Zhai, do you think it's strange?"

"That's right! The last time Shopkeeper Chen came, didn't he remind him that Shopkeeper Jia was jealous? ”

Fangcao said: "I'm afraid that the thief shouts to catch the thief!" ”

"Thief, thief, thief shouting to catch thief?"

"Who knows if he did it on purpose, first splashing dirty water on others, so that others would not suspect him again! Hmph, I don't think he's a good person, so he comes to eat and drink when he has nothing to do! We rented his shop and served him dinner? Do you want to give him ......?"

Fangcao said these words, and she covered her mouth to hide her smile.

In the end, this matter is still not clear, so they can only be asked to do things more carefully and pay more attention to them.

The tea shop went for a few days, and only one was reluctant.

Leave that for now.

Get up early in the morning and rush to Hongjia Village.

When she was still making dried peaches in Hongjia Village, she and Village Chief Hong went to Nanxun to buy a batch of fish and shrimp and other seafood.

Ancient seafood, is the sea in the delicacies of the sea, also known as "sea mistakes" - the things in the sea, intricate and not one, because the ancients thought that it is not good to eat too much seafood, even if the rich family, only occasionally eat some abalone and cucumber wings, ordinary people generally do not eat, unless they are so poor that there is nothing to eat.

At present, there are also people who eat crabs, the way to eat is basically steamed crabs, and it is not popular, she has inquired about shrimp, and there are very few people who eat them.

There will be more dried fish.

Nanxun was originally close to the sea, and the villagers had dried fish in their own homes, such as crabs and shrimps, which were generally caught by children to play.

In addition, there is no kelp nearby, so I heard that there seems to be kelp in Silla, nor seaweed, but also in Fujian.

In previous years, there will be some crabs in Jiangzhou, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiangzhou crabs are the fattest, this year's waterlogging has affected the people who catch crabs.

He went to a village he knew with the village chief, and ordered some dried fish, and the villagers were naturally very happy, they made dried fish for their own food, and the things that every family had, which were not worth much at all, and the weather was hot at that time, and the villagers also caught an extra batch of dried fish for her, and dried fish for her - sea fish, but there was less money for salting.

Order a batch of dried fish.

By the way, I asked for a batch of shrimp.

The villagers didn't know what the "shrimp" was used for, but with the money, the whole village was making shrimp every day, small shrimp, directly dried into dried shrimp, prawns, and she asked people to take them back to Hongjia Village.

The seaside is relatively humid, and the Hongjia Village area has better sunlight, so take advantage of the high temperature to quickly turn over the shrimp.

By the end of August, it's almost time to make the sauce.

"What's Hai-chan?" Several children surrounded her.

"I'll all go back and sit down, who's going to come back ......," she waved the stick in her hand.

Plan ahead for winter and prepare to make "sea sauce".

First of all, may I ask, which of the following is something that Datang does not have?

A. Sichuan peppercorns

B. Pepper

C. Cayenne pepper

D. Pepper

Answer Analysis:

Let's talk about pepper first, as mentioned earlier, foreign tribute, the Central Plains is not produced, but the royal family and nobles of the Tang Dynasty still have it.

Sichuan pepper is self-produced, and ginger and Wu Zhuyu (zhu1 sound yu2 sound) are called the three major spicy masters.

So, is the answer C or D?

Originally called pepper, pepper is an ornamental plant that came to China from tropical Central and South America in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

This is a multiple-choice question, choose C and D!

What she actually made was chili sauce with meat, and there were no chili peppers at the time, so she decided to name it "sea sauce".

Featuring shrimp and dried fish, salt, peppercorns, ginger, dogwood, green onions, garlic, tempeh, sugar, and her homemade high liquor.

Why homemade liquor?

She felt that the alcohol content was higher, and the sea sauce should last longer.

By the way, she went to Chen Kee Tavern to have a drink.

It tastes really good.

However, at this time, the wine is mainly sweet, generally below 20 degrees, and there is no market for spicy and stimulating wine.

It's not hard to make a sea sauce.

Only two clay pots were made, one salty and one spicy, sealed with oily paper, tied with rope, and brought back to the shop for market testing, looking for the most accepted flavor.

Because of the addition of oil and salt, the shelf life of sea sauce should be 3-6 months, but she can't guarantee at all that it will not be bad or not.

Stayed in Hongjia Village for two days.

Discover one thing.

There was a young woman she hadn't seen before.

I passed by the dilapidated house several times, never knowing that there was anyone inside.

Not only a young woman, but also two children, one who can walk and the other who is up to three years old, are playing in the mud in the mud pit?

When I went to the village chief Hong, I mentioned it, and the village chief Hong said that the young woman was very capable, that is, there were two cubs in the family, and she really had no other energy to do things.

For the work of drying shrimp and fish, Village Chief Hong also gave her a small part.

"The young children in the village...... Oh, children under the age of six, are there nine? ”

"There's another one in the stomach."

"If the man in the family is not there, and the child is too young, it will affect the woman's work and not do things, where will the money and food come from? If you can, the village chief can try to talk to them about which woman's house to gather the children together and put them in the house for a day, and the others will work normally, and they will take turns to take care of the children, and on the day of watching the children, the others will help to give them some food. ”

"You're so good!"

Later, instead of following this method, a whole "kindergarten" came out, and all the children in the village were placed with an old woman, who sent the children in the morning and went back in the evening to pick up the children, and gave the woman something every month, and other old women went to help.

Before going back with Hai Sauce, she asked Village Chief Hong, but Sun Da and the others hadn't come back yet.

I went back to the shop.

The crabs brought by the trustee from Jiangzhou came.

There is not much crab meat, and it is troublesome to eat, ordinary people don't eat it, and when they see her eating crabs, several people in the shop feel strange.

As she ate, she asked about the sea sauce, "Which one tastes better?" ”

"Salty." Yerba replied.

There are only two jars of sauce, and 20 sets are randomly added every day, and each bowl is only scooped with a small spoonful, and Yerba will ask those people how they feel after using it.

"There are also people who like spicy mouths, and before I asked, they asked me what it was, but there were only a few people."

"Which one do you like?"

"It's salty, too."

She likes spicy flavors.

There are still seven or eight crabs left, and after they are cooked, let a few people get out the crab roe and crab meat.

"Shopkeeper, what are you doing with this? It's stinky! ”