The three of them caught crabs in the shallow water, and the harvest was not small, almost forty or fifty.

Pu Xinnan and Lin Jiajun were very happy, only Tang Xiaozhou was not satisfied, alas...... I don't know if these dozens of crabs are enough to eat?

He knew Jiang Xiaobai's craftsmanship.

Pu Xinnan sighed when he saw him and said, "There are so many crabs, you can eat a few meals, go back!" ”

Tang Xiaozhou saw that it was getting late, so he had no choice but to give up.

The three of them took the fish and shrimp they had caught before on the fishing boat, invited Jiang Xiaobai's father and daughter, and walked to Pu Xinnan's house together.

Along the way, I met many villagers, and I was very curious to see Pu Xinnan catching so many crabs back.

"Xinnan, you catch so many crabs for dinner!"

"Xiaopu, there are guests at home, go to fish for Wuchang fish, why are you catching so many crabs?"

"Shinnan ......"

“……”

Pu Xinnan was embarrassed to be asked by those neighbors, but he couldn't explain it, and he was a little depressed along the way.

When the five of them arrived home, Pu Xinnan's wife Zhong Xiuhong had already returned from working in the fields, and the two children, Pu Xiaoyu and Pu Xiaoxia, had also returned home from school.

Zhong Xiuhong saw Tang Xiaozhou and the others, said hello and pulled Pu Xinnan into the stove house, and complained: "Xiaozhou, they are here, you don't tell me in advance, it's okay for me to cut two catties of meat on the street, now it's okay, I can only eat fish and shrimp." ”

Pu Xinnan said curtly: "You don't care, Xiaozhou said that they want to cook and eat by themselves." ”

Zhong Xiuhong was stunned for a moment and said, "You are really, how can you let them cook by themselves when they come?" Forget it, I'll eat something in the evening, and I'll go buy meat tomorrow morning......"

Tang Xiaozhou opened the curtain and entered the stove house, just when he heard his cousin-in-law complaining about Pu Xinnan, he said: "Cousin-in-law, don't talk about Brother Xinnan, I asked for it, lend us the stove house tonight, you can just eat it later." ”

While talking, Jiang Xiaobai took two packets of seasonings, and Lin Jiajun walked into the stove house with a large basket of crabs and a bucket of fish and shrimp.

When Zhong Xiuhong saw this situation, she had no choice but to give up and said, "Then you cook, I'll give you a hand and light the fire." ”

"Okay, that's troublesome sister-in-law!" Jiang Xiaobai agreed, after all, cooking in an unfamiliar place is unfamiliar with many utensils.

So, in the narrow stove house, several people got busy.

Pu Xinnan and Lin Jiajun killed fish and shrimp, Zhong Xiu burned the fire, only Tang Xiaozhou couldn't do anything, he could only watch.

Jiang Xiaobai asked Zhong Xiuhong and said, "Sister-in-law, is there a casserole at home?" ”

Zhong Xiuhong nodded, "There is a casserole, you want me to get it for you." ”

"Okay!" Jiang Xiaobai said: "By the way, take some rice, I'll cook porridge." ”

Liangzi Lake is the land of fish and rice, even in the countryside, the living conditions are much better than the rural areas of Qingzhou, most of the farmers in Qingzhou in this era are eating sweet potatoes, artichoke or bud grain noodles, but Liangzi Lake does not grow bud grain, every family is paddy field, farmers can also eat rice.

Tang Xiaozhou only cared about how to get the crabs, and said in surprise: "Why are you still cooking porridge?" Isn't it to make spicy crab? ”

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: "There are many ways to make crabs, I will make you shrimp and crab porridge, spicy crab and steamed hairy crab tonight!" ”

"Good, good, as long as there are crabs!" Tang Xiaozhou was overjoyed when he heard this, and said again and again.

Forty or fifty big crabs, Jiang Xiaobai chose a few female crabs and some shrimp to make shrimp and crab porridge, calculated that there were eight adults and children who ate together, so he picked 16 female crabs and 8 male crabs to make steamed hairy crabs, and the rest of the male and female crabs were killed to make spicy crabs.

Tang Xiaozhou saw him picking around, and asked curiously, "It's all crabs, what are you picking?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai said: "Pick male and female crabs." ”

Tang Xiaozhou exclaimed: "This is also recognized? ”

Even Pu Xinnan looked at Jiang Xiaobai strangely, he was a long-term crab catcher, and he hadn't paid attention to how to distinguish male crabs from female crabs, so he couldn't help but ask, "How to divide them." ”

Jiang Xiaobai talked eloquently and told them that there were three ways to distinguish the male and female of crabs.

One is to look at the abdomen, generally the abdomen of male crabs is triangular, while female crabs are round or oval.

The second is to look at the crab legs, the male crab will have fluff on its eight legs, while the female crab will only have fluff on the front two pincers.

The third is to look at the crab roe, the female crab will have crab roe, the crab roe is the ovaries and egg cells of the female crab, while the male crab does not, and the male crab only has crab paste.

Pu Xinnan looked at Jiang Xiaobai with admiration and said that he had learned.

Lin Jiajun groaned slightly and said, "Xiaobai, you separate the male crab from the female crab, is there any difference between the two crabs?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: "Generally, female crabs are smaller than male crabs, but female crabs are better than male crabs. ”

Tang Xiaozhou said with a smile: "It's like eating shrimp yellow when eating crayfish!" ”

Jiang Xiaobai nodded, waited for Zhong Xiuhong to bring the casserole and rice, and asked her to help find the brush and hemp rope.

In this era, women in the countryside generally took their own soles, and they generally had hemp rope at home, and Zhong Xiuhong quickly found it.

Jiang Xiaobai first washed the crab clean, then grabbed both sides of the crab's body with the index finger and thumb of his left hand, pressed the back of the hairy crab and the back of the tongs with his right hand, closed the crab's legs and two large tongs until it fit the body, took the hemp rope and tied it twice from the middle of the crab's big tongs to the back, then circled and tied twice along the vertical direction of the crab's head and tail, and finally tied a slipknot to tie a hairy crab.

When he tied up, Tang Xiaozhou, Lin Jiajun and Pu Xinnan were all watching from the sidelines.

Lin Jiajun was surprised: "Why are you tying up the crab five flowers, don't you kill it?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled: "It's okay to steam it alive!" ”

Tang Xiaozhou said: "Steamed? That's cruel, isn't it? ”

Jiang Xiaobai said: "Human beings stand at the top of the food chain, and many delicacies are eaten in a cruel way, such as bear paws and monkey brains, which way of eating is not cruel? ”

Tang Xiaozhou glanced at him: "It's as if you've eaten everything!" ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled, in his previous life, he carried a bow and crossbow on his back, held a shotgun, galloped in the African savannah, and really ate a lot of good things.

However, there is no need to show off here, he threw the hemp rope in his hand to Tang Xiaozhou, and said, "Tie up the rest!" ”

"Huh?"

Tang Xiaozhou exclaimed, thinking that a few people had nothing to do by themselves, so he had to pick up the hemp rope and tie the crabs.

But the crab looked like an obedient student in Jiang Xiaobai's hands, but in his hands, it became a naughty child, not to mention that it was not tied well, and it was pinched a few times by the crab's big pincers.

Seeing that Lin Jiajun and Pu Xinnan couldn't help laughing, in the end, the two of them made a move and bundled the remaining crabs one by one.

All the preparations were ready, Jiang Xiaobai boiled shrimp and crab porridge in a casserole, steamed hairy crabs in a small pot, and burned spicy crabs in a large pot, and soon there were bursts of fragrance.