Chapter 13 The villagers don't know how expensive crabs are
"It's edible."
Looking at the crab in her hand, Qiao Mo'er's eyes lit up.
"It's all shells, no matter what you eat. I used to get it at home, but except for the shell, it was the shell, and then no one ate it..."Looking at his sister's appearance, Qiao Xu's heart was sour, and at the same time he secretly decided to wait for Ming to go to the town to see if there was any work to do, and if he could earn a few copper plates, he could also buy meat for his sister to eat.
"That's what you won't eat."
Hearing Qiao Xu say that no one eats this thing, while lamenting that people don't know good things, Qiao Mo'er was still excited in her heart.
She doesn't know anything else, but she can cook!
She saw a business opportunity in this crab!
"Brother, you can help me catch some more crabs."
"Crabs?"
"Ah, that's the big clip."
Qiao Mo'er threw the crab into the back basket, said to Qiao Xu excitedly, and when she found that she had missed her mouth, she hurriedly remedied.
"But Mo'er..."
"Brother, can you just help me catch it, when I get home and make it delicious, I won't make it again?" Qiao Mo'er pulled Qiao Xu's clothes and was coquettish.
"Okay." Qiao Xu couldn't resist his sister, so he could only agree.
Next, Qiao Mo'er commanded Qiao Xu to dig crabs under the grass along the riverbank, while she herself stepped on the stone and turned over the stone with Dou'er.
In her previous life, when she was young, she followed her friends in the village to the river to catch fish and dig crabs, and in streams like this, under the rocks and under the grass along the edge, there were hiding places for crabs. Catch crabs, she's a veteran!
And under the command of Qiao Mo'er, a veteran, in this place where the crabs were disgusted and no one was caught, they quickly got half a basket out. Looking at the crabs crawling and fighting in the back basket, Qiao Mo'er's happy eyes couldn't see.
They were lucky, in addition to this half basket of crabs, they also caught two fish, although they were only the size of a palm, but Qiao Mo'er was also content, not to mention that it was meat.
"Sister, can you really eat this big clip?" On the way home, Dou'er asked Qiao Mo'er.
Qiao Mo'er tugged at the pigtail on his head, raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't you believe my sister?" ”
"Believe!" Dou'er nodded heavily.
"You just wait to eat, you must still want to eat after eating."
If she convinces her family, then she may be able to make a lot of money with this crab, and then she will catch two more pigs, raise some chickens and ducks, and repair the house... As if she had seen the silver in her hand, the more Qiao Mo'er thought about it, the happier she became, and even began to think about what the silver was going to be used for.
When they returned home and saw the crab, Han and Qiao Guangfa both frowned without exception, "Mo'er, what are you doing picking up this big clip?" ”
"Eat." Qiao Mo'er replied crisply.
Seeing that Han Shi and Qiao Guangfa wanted to say something, they hurriedly spoke, "Mother, I don't waste oil and salt at home, you just let me try it." ”
"No oil or salt?" Han hesitated.
Qiao Mo'er nodded again and again, and when she saw Han's nodding, she happily went to the well with the basket and began to clean. She knows many ways to cook crabs, but oil and salt are precious things at home, and Han is reluctant to put them when cooking rice on weekdays. She can only choose steaming first, although the taste will be light, but as long as she convinces her father, she is not afraid of no oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
Steaming the crab is very simple, you just need to clean the crab and then put it on the grate to steam. Qiao Mo'er didn't wash all the crabs, but only picked up seven or eight egg-sized ones and steamed them.
In order not to waste firewood, I went to the vegetable field behind the house to pluck a few small cabbages and boiled green vegetable gnocchi in the back pot.
When she saw that the crab was almost over, as soon as she lifted the lid of the pot, Qiao Mo'er couldn't wait to reach out to catch the crab, and jumped away from the hot all of a sudden, and kept shaking her arms and screaming in pain.
"You girl, put it in the water." Han Shi hurriedly scooped out the cold water and put Qiao Mo'er's hand into it.