Chapter 14: Fake Crabs
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The so-called ninth day of the ninth month of September is just a good omen, if there is no mountain to climb on the flat land, you can not climb high and look far away, you have to use the high ground.
There is a high platform near the water in the Zhao family garden, and the field of vision is quite broad, so the old lady Zhao let people set up a banquet here.
Dozens of pots of yellow, white and green juhua flowers are placed together, and they also have a unique taste. The jade-white bone spirit was beautiful, standing slightly trembling; Yellow thin moon clear frost, like a golden group embraced; Purple-green ice is clear and jade, demure and elegant.
Zhao Youlin looked at dozens of pots of ju flowers and said: "The Jiehua fairy is becoming more and more refined. It's hard to see such beautiful chamomile in Nanjing. ”
"Orange is orange born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei. So what? The water and soil are also different. Mrs. Zhao washed her hands, dried them, took scissors, cut off a few blooming juju, took the petals and green leaves, and put them in a bag of sorghum.
"Uncle still brews juhua wine?"
Old lady Zhao cut a few more ju flowers and put them in another bag of sorghum and said with a smile: "People are getting old, and there are many problems." Drink more juhua wine to brighten your eyes, just cure the head wind. You haven't drunk the wine I brewed for five or six years, and the taste is worse than Nanjing's? ”
The old lady Zhao, who had cut the juhua flowers, washed her hands again and ordered someone to bring the hot juhua wine.
Warm and palatable.
"Drink a few more sips and eat a few more crabs when the time comes."
Zhao Youlin nodded, took a wooden box from the scholar's hand, and saluted Mrs. Zhao with both hands: "This is eight crabs, and my nephew took them to honor my uncle." ”
"You brought a lot of inkstones with me yesterday, what are you doing with these?" Old lady Zhao opened the wooden box, only to see that there was a set of eight golden crabs inside, and pushed it out, "How much money do you have, take this to me?" Your main business now is to do learning, don't mess with your mind, take it! ”
Zhao Youlin hurriedly stood up and said, "This is the Luming banquet, a Suzhou classmate spared his nephew." It's just a layer of gold on the outside, but copper on the inside. ”
"Joke! How can you use this thing as a color head at the deer banquet? It's ridiculous now! ”
Zhao Youlin said with a smile: "Master Cao likes to eat crabs the most, and a crab banquet was specially placed at the Luming banquet, and the crab chanted poems, and the nephew specially copied a few poems to show his uncle." As he spoke, he took out the vacated poems from his cuffs and handed them over.
Old lady Zhao squinted at the poem manuscript handed over by Zhao Youlin, and praised: "The words are really better than before!" ”
Zhao Youlin just bowed his hand slightly and did not answer, waiting for Mrs. Zhao to finish the article.
"Who wrote this? The rampant son has no intestines, really straightforward, although this sentence is vulgar, the artistic conception behind it is good. Old lady Zhao pointed to a song and said with a smile.
Zhao Youlin walked up to him and looked at it: "Tangshan Wu Qiheng, seven in this township test." ”
Old lady Zhao nodded, and pointed to another song and said: "This white jade marigold kiln saucer, snow garlic, orange and ginger are pounded high." Written so flowery, flashy and flashy, it has the meaning of inviting pets. ”
Zhao Youlin knew that his uncle was talking about Ming Duanfan, and sighed that his uncle's eyes were like torches, and he could see a person clearly between the lines.
At this time, I only heard Mrs. Zhao sigh at the case: "Happy!" Joyfully! Guo Suo Guo Suo, still tied with grass, watched coldly, and watched what he did. ”
Old lady Zhao raised his head and drank a glass of wine, and looked at Zhao Youlin with happy eyes: "This work is very good!" …… San'in Xu Wenchang. ”
"Exactly! This poem is the best at the Luming banquet. ”
Old Lady Zhao nodded, and then the light in her eyes sank again: "This person is at the bottom of the list this time?" ”
"Yes. Master Cao said that although Xu Wen's long essay is good, his pen power is too domineering, leaving no room for anything, and he should hone one or two if he wants to be in the middle. ”
"Joke!" Old lady Zhao snorted coldly, "It's only good to wear out the bones of the readers!" I don't think they're as good as a rampant son! ”
Zhao Youlin didn't dare to speak, just stood and stood.
Old lady Zhao looked at him standing with the two children, and waved his hand angrily: "You all sit, don't pay attention to me." Then he turned around and asked, "Why hasn't the crab been steamed yet?" ”
The scholar hurriedly went down to urge the vegetables, but after a while, Wang Jiuzhi came in person and served a copy: "There are no good crabs today, only this is made, you can taste it." ”
Old lady Zhao dipped the vinegar suspiciously, tasted it, raised her eyebrows unhappily and said, "This tastes good, and it is said that there is no good crab." Is Rui Xue well? ”
"It's already good. Nine females and ten males, now eating female crabs is fat, and I didn't say hello in advance, I have already said that I will send it tomorrow. ”
Zhao Xihou tasted it, gave a thumbs up and said, "Uncle Wang, this taste is so good." ”
Zhao Youlin also tasted it and said, "Yes." But the crab soup is still delicious. It's just that the crab soup on the Luming banquet is filled with shark fin, sea cucumber, and chicken soup to boil, why is it not so flavorful? ”
Before Wang Jiuzhi could speak, Zhao Xihou said with some dissatisfaction: "Crab soup should be pure, those stupid things think that shark fin sea cucumber is seafood, and it must be delicious, but they don't want to add fishy evil out of thin air, but it will spoil the taste!" However, Uncle Wang, why is the crab soup you made so flavorful, unlike the ones I ate before. ”
Wang Jiuzhi nodded: "What the third young master said is that the crab soup must not be added." Therefore, you don't need to mix the crab soup with chicken soup, you can only add the original soup left by the steamed crab before. ”
Old lady Zhao sighed: "You are too hypocritical. It's easy to come back once, and you have to wait a day to eat crabs, you have the kung fu to make crab soup, and it's good to take a few out to suit the occasion. ”
"There are really no crabs today, this is boiled out of yellow croaker, and there are no crabs at all." Wang Jiuzhi said helplessly.
Old lady Zhao pointed at Wang Jiuzhi and smiled: "Just send a few complaints, and you will be ashamed!" Where can yellow croaker get the taste of crab? ”
Zhao Xihou didn't believe Wang Jiuzhi's words either, he had also eaten the "crab flavor" made by other ingredients before, and the taste was there, but it couldn't be so pure.
"It's boiled with yellow croaker, why don't I do it again for the old lady to see?"
Zhao Youlin said: "It turns out that the yellow croaker can still be boiled out of crab flavor? Today, even if you don't eat crabs, you won't be worthy. ”
Old lady Zhao pointed to the eight crabs that Zhao Youlin gave him, and pretended to be annoyed and pointed at Wang Jiu: "I also want to try whether this thing that Youlin gave me fits, it all makes you unhappy." Punish you for making a table crab feast tomorrow, and only use crabs, and you are not allowed to use anything else. ”
Wang Jiuzhi was busy.
The others were not very interested, but Zhao Xihou's eyes lit up, and he wanted to eat a crab banquet that day, but he was not good at being in his grandfather's house, but he didn't expect it to be realized today, and the whole person was happy.
After the two children ate for a while, they didn't want to sit still, and Mrs. Zhao ordered someone to take a kite for the two children to play. He sang poems with Zhao You.
A gust of autumn wind blew, and the yellow flowers flew away. Old lady Zhao gathered her clothes, Zhao Youlin hurriedly got up and took the cloak from the scholar's hand and put it on for Old Lady Zhao: "Uncle, it's cold outside, it's near the water, the wind is strong, let's go to the house!" ”
Old lady Zhao glanced at Juhua, nodded, and was helped into the back room by Zhao You.
"You, you're thirty this year."
Zhao Youlin held the hot tea and said to the old lady Zhao: "My nephew is four years younger than the third brother, and he is Chinese New Year's Eve two today." ”
Old lady Zhao took a sip of tea and said: "Yun'er's mother has also been gone for five or six years, you are another person, Yun'er is also as big as a day, where can I teach her anything as a lonely old man." It's time for you to pick up the strings, too. ”
"My nephew came back this time and wanted to discuss this matter with my uncle. The nephew is young, and he asked his uncle to refer to one or two details for his nephew. ”
"Oh? But there is something satisfied? ”
Zhao You purled his robe and knelt in front of Old Lady Zhao: "It's just that someone mentioned this." ”
Old lady Zhao motioned for Zhao Youlin to stand up and asked, "Where is the woman?" How is the character? ”
"Yes...... She is the niece and granddaughter of Zhou Bin, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials. ”
Old Lady Zhao pondered for a moment and said, "Zhou Bin...... But it's also the right one. ”
Zhao Youlin smiled embarrassedly: "My nephew just wants to go back to Uncle Ming, so I can ask the matchmaker to talk about it in the future." ”
Old lady Zhao said: "Why do you need to ask me, as long as she can be good to you and Yun'er, everything will be fine." ”
"It's just ......" Zhao Youlin was a little hesitant, not knowing whether to say it or not.
Old lady Zhao was just impatient with him, sat up straight and said, "Just what?" The eldest husband made a decision immediately, how could he be such a mother-in-law! ”
Zhao Youlin hesitated to tell the whole story. Zhao Youlin is at the forefront of Guozijian's study, and he is also a little literary in Nanjing, and he accidentally met Zhou Bin's niece and granddaughter, but he didn't want to be arranged by Zhou Bin. But I didn't expect that the young lady was unusually simple, walked to the front, and said to Zhao Youlin through the curtain: "It's okay to be older, and it's okay to be poor, but the girl next to me is older, I think I have read and read, and I have more ideas in my heart." I was young, clumsy, and difficult to discipline. ”
"Uncle, Yun'er will stay with you for a few days first, and wait...... When she gave birth to a son...... I'll pick it up again. Zhao Youlin knelt in front of Old Lady Zhao and begged.
Old lady Zhao was suddenly angry: "Joke! This is not even counted as a child! Don't marry this kind of young lady as soon as possible! ”
"Uncle......" Zhao Youlin grabbed Old Lady Zhao's sleeve and said eagerly.
Seeing Zhao Youlin like this, Old Lady Zhao couldn't help but wonder in her heart: "You Ling, you tell me honestly, do you have any wrongdoing?" ”
Zhao Youlin hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, my nephew has always strictly abided by the law of etiquette and has not done anything wrong." ”
"Then what's the point of you hanging that? Tomorrow I will invite someone in our county, no, we will be in Chuzhou Mansion for you. ”
"Uncle...... Nephew ......" Zhao Youlin said in a squeak, it turned out that he had exchanged eight characters with the Zhou family, and even ordered the gift.
Old lady Zhao was suddenly dizzy, fell crooked in the Taishi chair, and pointed at Zhao Youlin with a trembling right hand: "You...... You ......"
"Uncle, nephew knows it's wrong. It's just that...... It's just that the nephew has studied hard for all these years, and he can't ruin his reputation because of this matter, and ask his uncle to fulfill it, you can take care of Yun'er for another three years, and after three years, as long as she gives birth to a son, the nephew will take Yun'er over! ”
Old lady Zhao said weakly: "Don't tell me, you talk to Yun'er!" ”
Zhao Youlin followed Old Lady Zhao's fingers and looked behind him.
Zhao Xiyun was incredulous; Zhao Xihou was full of contempt......
He hurriedly stood up and ran to Zhao Xiyun: "Yun'er, you listen to your father, your father ......."
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Xiyun had already turned around and ran away.
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Fake crab: boil two yellow croaker, take the meat and remove the bones. Add four raw salt eggs, crush them, mix in the fish, and stir up the oil pot. Bring the chicken soup to a boil, stir the salted eggs well, add mushrooms, green onions, ginger juice and wine. When eating, use vinegar as appropriate.
This method comes from Qing Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List", and the red envelope has been tried personally, but it is delicious, not the taste of real crab. It is said that there are many other ingredients that make the crab flavor that is also very good, so you can try it if you have a chance.