Chapter 148: River Shrimp Crab

The river behind the mountain beam is wide and not slow. But in a shoal, the river was unusually gentle and crystal clear, and Jiang Xingchen smiled when he saw it.

The shallow water is up to a metre deep, and there are many shrimp swimming below, and they are not small.

"Sure enough, there are river shrimps, this is a blessing!" Jiang Xingchen immediately took out the net pocket and took out the bison bones he carried with him, which were the remnants of the beef noodle stew he made and brought them today. If it were on earth, it would be best to use sheep bones, but there are no sheep here, so it would be okay to replace them with this.

The old man, Mei'er, the little cat girl, Xin'er, and Nier all looked at Jiang Xingchen with curiosity on their faces, wondering what he was going to do.

Jiang Xingchen put the cow bones into the net pocket, turned his head to look at a few people, smiled, and threw the net pocket into the water.

The movement of the net pocket into the water startled the river shrimp to scatter and flee, but soon, they all gathered again, entered the belly of the net pocket through the small mouth, and threw themselves into the net.

After waiting for a while, Jiang Xingchen lifted it vigorously, and there was a loud noise, and the net pocket was suddenly pulled up, and dozens of green shrimp in it crackled.

"It's so big!" Jiang Xingchen let out a soft snort, just now in the water, he just felt that the size of the river shrimp was not small, but now when he saw it, he couldn't help but exclaim, each shrimp was at least ten centimeters or more, larger than the average sea shrimp on the earth.

"Boy, is this what you're going to get?" The old man looked at the river shrimp jumping around in the net pocket, and then looked at Jiang Xingchen, with a strange expression.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xingchen blinked and said, "This is an excellent delicacy!"

"You say...... This is delicious! Don't talk about it, no one eats such an ugly thing, and the fishermen will throw it away when they catch it!" the old man pouted and shook his head.

"Yes, brother. This thing is weirdly shaped, and it can't be poisoned!" Mei'er nodded in agreement with the old man's words.

"Uh! No one has ever eaten river shrimp?" Jiang Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, this is the same as the first person to eat crabs, it looks strange, no one dares to eat it! In addition, no one dares to eat the brightly colored ones. It seems that tomatoes on Earth have only just started to be eaten until the last century.

"Hehe!" Jiang Xingchen smiled and said, "Since you don't eat it, I'll do it when I go back, you can't grab it!"

"Brother!" Mei'er frowned. She looked a little anxious, she didn't want her brother to be poisoned.

"Don't worry, it's okay! When did my brother do something that he wasn't sure about!" Jiang Xingchen patted Mei'er on the shoulder.

"Lord Jiang, can you really eat this ugly thing?" asked Nier, biting her fingers.

"Of course you can. When the lord is ready, I will ensure you...... Huh!" Jiang Xingchen hadn't finished saying yet. Suddenly, his gaze fixed on the edge of the shallows.

"Crab! I'm going. It's so big!" Jiang Xingchen cheered, put the net pocket on the ground, swooped over, and grabbed the crab.

"As soon as I said that the first person to eat crabs found crabs, I found crabs, could it be that my buddy's luck is really so good...... This guy. At least more than a pound, it's a little pressed, it must be fat enough, it's not yet after autumn!"

"Huh?" Jiang Xingchen made a sudden move. The old man, Mei'er and the others were all stunned, and hurriedly gathered around, and saw that he was already holding a thing with a dark blue color, full armor, and two large pincers.

"Boy, what are you doing with a broken iron shell, throw it away!" the old man said loudly.

"What a broken iron shell, this is a crab, it's also a supreme delicacy!" Jiang Xingchen smiled, walked over and threw the crab into a cloth bag.

"What kind of crab, what kind of deliciousness, this thing is called an iron shell, no one eats it at all! What are you crazy about today, how can you find these things that can't be eaten!" the old man said as he stepped forward to touch Jiang Xingchen's forehead.

"Go!" Jiang Xingchen turned his head to avoid the old man's hand and said, "You can't eat what you said, don't regret it when the time comes!"

After speaking, Jiang Xingchen no longer paid attention to the old man and ran to the river beach to turn over the stones. Sure enough, within two turns, a big crab ran out, running rampant and domineering, and escaped quickly!

"Where to run!" Jiang Xingchen shot like lightning, pinched the crab's tail fin, and threw it into the cloth bag.

The old man, Mei'er, the little cat girl, and Xin'er looked at each other, not knowing what to say, and watched Jiang Xingchen busy working by the river beach in a daze.

It didn't take much effort, Jiang Xingchen had already caught more than a dozen crabs, each of which was more than a catty, and most of them were round fins.

Feeling that it was almost over, Jiang Xingchen withdrew his hand, went over and poured the river shrimp in the net pocket into another cloth bag, and then still entered the water again.

After carrying three nets in a row and getting a hundred and ten prawns, Jiang Xingchen stopped, smiled, and waved his hand: "Today's harvest is good, let's go back!"

"Boy, are you really sure that you don't have a fever?" the old man asked again, this time with an extremely serious expression.

"Brother, don't eat this thing!" Mei'er also persuaded again.

"My brother has eaten this thing before, it's really okay!" Jiang Xingchen had to make up a lie, he could see that the old man and Mei'er were very serious, and they were not joking.

"My brother has eaten it, why don't I know it?" asked Mei'er in amazement.

"You haven't come here yet when I was eight years old!" Jiang Xingchen smiled, turned his head to the old man and said, "Don't worry, there will be no problem!"

At this time, the old man also knew that Jiang Xingchen was definitely going to eat these two things, and he couldn't persuade him to come back. As for him saying that he had eaten this thing at the age of eight, the old man was not a charmer, and he didn't believe it at all.

The group hurriedly returned home, Jiang Xingchen ran into the kitchen, made water first, then poured the river shrimp into clean water and washed them, and after the water boiled, he grabbed two handfuls and threw them directly into the pot.

Fresh river shrimp don't need any special conditioning at all, just boil it in boiling water, and add a little salt is enough.

After a short time, the river shrimp turned red, and Jiang Xingchen immediately fished it out of the pot, put it on a plate, and brought it to the house.

On the table, no one made a move, and they all watched Jiang Xingchen peel a shrimp, revealing the white shrimp meat, put it in his mouth and gently bit a small piece.

Although he kept saying that there was nothing to do, when it was time to eat, he was still careful not to throw the whole thing into his mouth. After all, there are many differences between this world and the earth, and it cannot be ruled out that this river shrimp is really poisonous.

The shrimp meat is fresh and tender, refreshing in the mouth, with a slight sweetness, exactly the same as the taste in his memory, Jiang Xingchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "It should be fine!"

The old man stared at Jiang Xingchen nervously, and as long as he had any wrong reaction, he would immediately take action to save him.

Mei'er didn't say anything, but also picked up a shrimp, peeled it like Jiang Xingchen, and took a small bite gently.

"Mei'er!" Jiang Xingchen saw the little girl's actions, hurriedly raised his hand, and shouted.

"Brother, this is really delicious, tender and fragrant!" Mei'er smiled sweetly at Jiang Xingchen.

For a while, Jiang Xingchen felt that his throat was a little choked, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't make a sound......

After half a month, everything was as usual, the old man grabbed Jiang Xingchen's wrist, pinched the pulse and stopped for a while, and finally exhaled: "It seems that there is really nothing to do, this thing can be eaten!"

Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed seven or eight river shrimp from the plate, put them in front of him, and peeled them violently.

"I'll go, old man, you're too cunning!" Jiang Xingchen threw the rest of the shrimp meat into his mouth and shouted: "Mei'er, hurry up and start, let him snatch it up in a while!"

"Oh!" Mei'er breathed a sigh of relief and ate the remaining shrimp.

"Hmm~ Fresh and fragrant, delicious, really delicious! Boy, I really didn't expect this thing to be so delicious, those who used to fish were simply second-class goods, and threw away the best delicacy!" the old man said while eating.

Jiang Xingchen didn't pay attention to him at all, and his dexterous hands quickly peeled out the shrimp meat one by one.

The little cat girl also moved, and it seemed that she had no teacher, and the speed of peeling the skin of the shrimp was fast, not much worse than Jiang Xingchen.

Mei'er and Xin'er are both unhurried, but if you look closely, you can see that their shooting speed is not much inferior to that of Catwoman.

It didn't take much time, and a plate of river shrimp bottomed out, leaving only a table of shrimp skin.

Nile sat on the big chair, her little head just out of the table, staring at the empty plate on the table in a daze, and crying out with a wow. She didn't have time to start just now, and all the delicious dishes on the plate were divided.

"Hehe!" Jiang Xingchen patted the top of the little girl's head with a smile and sent a few peeled shrimp to her.

Then, Mei'er, Catwoman, Xin'er, and even the old man left two for her.

"Xie Lu Xie, sir, ancestor, and sisters!" Nier burst into tears and laughed, grabbed the shrimp and put it in her mouth to chew hard, and made a grunting sound: "It's delicious, it's delicious!"

The river shrimp are sure that there is nothing to do, and the crabs will not be a problem, and the method used by Jiang Xingchen is steaming. The seasoning is very simple, vinegar and minced ginger.

Before it was cooked, the unique aroma of the crab wafted out, making the old man constantly stir his nose.

After extinguishing the fire, the lid of the pot was lifted, and the back lid of each crab was opened with a full roe of crab roe.

"Fat, really fat!" Jiang Xingchen swallowed his saliva and brought the crab to the table.

Eating this is not the same as eating shrimp, the temperament is not good, eating crabs is about slow work and careful work.

Although he didn't have the tools at hand, Jiang Xingchen had extremely flexible hands, one chopstick, two crab claws, and he cleaned the crab roe, crab paste, and crab meat, not only eating it himself, but also taking care of the three girls, Mei'er, Xin'er and Nier.

The old man and the little cat girl can't do it, this kind of little bit of eating is not suitable for them at all.

It's obviously more delicious than river shrimp, but it's really not enjoyable to eat it like this.

After the last, the old man was so anxious that he tore off half of the crab body, dipped it in the dipping sauce, and put it directly in his mouth to chew it, Jiang Xingchen was dumbfounded, he was almost stupid, and muttered: "It turns out that crabs can still be eaten like this......" (to be continued......