slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 173 Delicious
The house was noisy, and the corners of Cang Hai's mouth curved slightly. Although Cang Hai prefers to be quiet, that's how people are. After living in quiet for a long time, they naturally want to be more lively. Now this Noisy at home makes people feel more alive.

Guan Lin lay on the sofa and played for a while. When she got up, she saw Cang Hai and Shi Wei wearing strings. The girl who was interested also took a bench and sat next to them, and put on disposable gloves. Put on skewers.

The sun was about to set, and the meat skewers on Cang Hai's side were almost worn out. The [-]-jin mutton was all skewered, and the small square iron plate next to it was full of piles.

"Cang Hai, there are so many things you can't eat at night, don't wear them anymore." Qin Lingling turned her head and saw that the three of Cang Hai were wearing so many skewers, and immediately persuaded: "Your teacher and I can't eat a few skewers, you are young. It’s enough for people to take care of themselves, let alone vegetarian dishes.”

Guan Qidong was arguing with Qu Guowei, and he turned his head when he heard the words, and seeing such a big pile of mutton skewers, he also said: "Yes, there are enough for a dozen people to eat, there is no need for so many ".

Cang Hai smiled and replied: "Teacher, this is not just for us to eat, folks will come to us to watch movies at night, so prepare some for them."

"Oh!"

At this moment, Ping An walked in through the curtain, opened his mouth and said to Cang Hai: "Second brother, the lobster is brought back, do you want to get it now?"

When Cang Hai heard that the lobster was brought back, he stood up and took off the disposable gloves on his hands: "Get it now, the sun is almost setting, if you don't get it now, when will it be done."

Hearing that the lobsters were coming, Guan Lin stood up immediately: "I'll go and see too, are there many lobsters?"

Ping An replied with a smile: "There are more than ten cages, each of which is quite a lot, but it's hard to say how many there are in total."

Qin Lingling stood up when she heard this, she didn't look at the chess and followed the others out of the kiln.

As soon as I got outside, I immediately felt a heat wave. After a little adaptation, I felt much better. Now the weather is not as hot as it was at noon. Although the temperature at this time is hot, it is still bearable.

There are more than a dozen prawn cages on the ground outside. This kind of shrimp cage is not a boxy one, but an oversized bowling bottle made of bamboo strips. It has a small mouth, a long neck and a wide belly, and the length is about one meter. Around, the widest part of the belly is about [-] centimeters, and the ground with a dozen or so shrimp cages looks rather shocking.

Guan Lin likes to eat lobsters, but this is the first time she has seen a cage for catching lobsters. Standing beside the cages curiously, she looked left and right, and muttered as she watched, "So that's how you catch crayfish!"

Ping An said happily: "Well, well, this is the cage for catching lobsters. It was designed by my second brother, and the grandpas of the Li family helped make it up."

At that time, Shi Wei dragged a large basin from the kitchen. The basin was so big that an adult could squat in it to take a bath.

Cang Hai helped put the basin on the ground, then picked up a shrimp cage, reached out and pulled out the ball of grass stuffed in the small mouth, erected the shrimp cage, pointed the small mouth at the basin, and started pouring the contents into the basin .

Whoa!
As soon as the cage stood up, all the noodles fell into the basin, and the dark red lobster hit the basin with a crisp sound.

"Wow, what a big crayfish!"

When Guan Lin saw the size of the lobster in the basin, she immediately exclaimed.

Even Qin Lingling also praised: "This one is big, the biggest crayfish in Shanghai is probably half the size, and it's so expensive."

Now people all over the country seem to have a special emotion for crayfish, especially in the season when crayfish is on the market. Whether it is a food stall on the street or a hotel, crayfish has always played the leading role. For many years These things were still wild before, but now they are directly farmed, and the price is one price per year. For a big and fat crayfish like the one in Canghai, it is estimated that it will cost at least 91 per catty if you get it in Shanghai. One hundred, it has to be raw. If it is cooked and served on the table, it will cost at least two hundred.

Not to mention spending money, you may not be able to buy such a big crayfish if you have money, because they are all farmed lobsters, and they are all seasonal products. No farmer will keep them for two or three years, so you can see small crayfish on the market. The big lobsters are only about four or six, close to one tael, which is really too little.

"And snakes, snakes!"

Seeing a long, thin thing fall into the basin, Guan Lin immediately screamed.

Qin Lingling couldn't help but cry: "Silly girl, what kind of snake is this? This is the eel you like to eat! You can't tell the difference between a snake and an eel. Oh, there are really snakes!"

Qin Lingling hadn't finished speaking when she saw a small snake seedling fall into the basin.

As soon as Guan Lin heard that there was a real snake, Guan Lin immediately jumped aside, not to mention Guan Lin, even Shi Wei shrank her neck and fled away from the basin.

Ping An walked to the side of the basin, reached out and grabbed the snake, and threw it directly into a small red bucket.

"Is this also for dinner?" Guan Lin took two steps towards the small bucket, about one meter away from the small bucket, and asked with her head looking at the snake in the small red bucket.

Pingan shook his head: "It's too small, there's no meat, wait to see if there are any other snakes, and if there are any, put them in the small river ahead."

"Why did you let it go?" Guan Lin asked.

For Guan Lin, such a disgusting thing should be eradicated. If it is put back, it will not give birth to a bunch of little snakes.

Pingan said: "Snakes are good things. Their staple food is mice. With them, there are fewer field mice near our village. If we kill all the snakes, our village will have to go back to the way it was before. You can step into a mouse hole."

Cang Hai didn't make a sound, but focused on pouring the harvest from the shrimp cage into the basin one by one. Just halfway there, a layer of crayfish crawled up the bottom of the basin, not only crayfish but also three to five There are only crabs, not small in size, about three or four. In addition to crabs, there are also some small miscellaneous fish and shrimps.

Needless to say miscellaneous fish, small shrimps are not millet shrimps, and prawns that are about one finger long. The scientific name seems to be Roche shrimp, which is a shrimp with two thin and long claws. This thing is easy to feed and grows fast. , It is estimated that it was raised in the reservoir before, and it was washed here by the flood.

Canghai shakes the shrimp cage, and Ping An and Shi Wei start to pick them up. They pick out the miscellaneous fish, shrimp and crabs, and put them in the small basins of the individual.

As there were more and more crayfish in the basin, Guan Lin became more and more happy. She squatted next to the basin and began to pick the biggest lobster in her hand, yelling and playing like a child.

Qin Lingling also squatted next to the basin, helping to pick out miscellaneous fish.

"Teach me, teach me!"

Maybe it’s because I’m tired of playing with lobsters. Guan Lin asked Ping An to teach him how to catch rice field eels. Everyone knows rice field eels are extremely slippery. If you grab them normally, you will definitely not be able to catch them. You have to use two fingers to roll them up. to clip.

Seeing Ping An clipping one by one here, Guan Lin is very jealous, and also imitates Ping An and Shi Wei to clip one by one, but she does not have the skills of Ping An and Shi Wei. First, she has no skills, and second, she is timid and afraid I was bitten, so I played with a small eel for four or five minutes but failed to put the little thing in the small bucket next to it, so I had to ask Ping An for help.

Ping An was naturally willing to teach. After about a minute, Guan Lin clamped the eel with her hands, and proudly held up the eel seedling the size of chopsticks in her hand to show off to the two chess players in the kiln.

Qin Lingling looked at the pot of crayfish, and said to Cang Hai, "How much do you plan to cook today?"

Cang Hai said: "It's all boiled, there are so many people, and almost half of the lobster is shell."

"Is it edible?" Qin Lingling counted the heads in her mind, looked at the big pot of lobsters, and raised her head to look at Cang Hai and asked.

Cang Hai said: "Eat slowly, you won't be able to eat dinner, and then everyone can eat it as a snack."

Making lobsters at home is not like washing and rinsing in restaurants. Not only do you have to cut the tails of emerald lobsters, but you also have to cut the head shell, then remove the gills on both sides, and finally pull out the shrimp intestines. Every lobster has to go through human hands.This half full pot of lobster is no small task.

After fetching four pairs of scissors, Cang Hai, Ping An, Shi Wei and Qin Lingling each sat on a small bench, sitting around the big pot and began to cut the lobster.

"Oh, so many lobsters!"

Grandma Qiu Shanghua stood beside the basin, glanced at the lobster in the basin and said.

Cang Hai turned his head and saw Grandma Qiu holding a bottle of exquisitely packaged mature vinegar, so he said, "Just a bottle of vinegar, can you return it?"

"Look at what you said, it's borrowing, how can you not pay it back, here, I'll put it in the kitchen for you." Qiu Shanghua put the vinegar in his hand on the table in the kitchen.

The folks in the village buy things one by one. Whereas Canghai buys bottles and bottles, and they also choose branded products. Two days ago, Qiu Shanghua came to borrow a bottle of vinegar.

While waiting to buy a bottle of the same one to return to Cang Hai, the old lady went to the supermarket and found out that the bottle of vinegar borrowed by Cang Hai cost more than 30 yuan, but the old lady was very distressed. It's only five or six yuan a bottle, and this bottle is equivalent to seven or eight bottles of her own, so the old lady decided not to borrow these materials from Cang Hai's family in the future, the reason is that they are too expensive.

"Grandma Qiu, come to eat at home tonight?" Cang Hai extended the invitation politely.

Qiu Shanghua waved her hand: "What's delicious about lobster, you can eat it."

The villagers also catch lobsters, but they are all sold to Zhang Jiusheng. A pound of lobsters can be sold for about twenty yuan. As much as a group of old people can eat, four or five per person is about the same.

Besides, there are not many lobsters in the creek in front of the village. The reason is easy to understand, because every family who sells money is caught in a cage. How long can one catch in a small stream?
Fortunately, the folks did not fish in the marsh, but caught them in cages instead of the whole family going out to catch them. If so, the lobsters in the creek at the entrance of the village would be caught within a year or two.

For example, the shrimp caught by Canghai now are all from Fenghuanggou and Jiazituo lakes, which belong to Canghai's own one-third of an acre of land.Even if the villagers are greedy, no one will tell Cang Hai to get something to eat, because in their hearts, a catty is twenty, which is equivalent to taking money from Cang Hai's pocket.

It is precisely because we all pay attention to people that we can get along happily and harmoniously.

Standing by the pot and looking at it for a while, Qiu Shanghua turned around and went home to cook, while Cang Hai and the others continued to cut the lobster.

When all the crayfish were cut out, there were two red plastic buckets filled with about thirty catties of lobster, which was quite attractive for a good crayfish.

"I'll eat them at night." Guan Lin swallowed happily, and then said, "It's so cool to think about it!"

The lobster is ready, but it can’t be cooked yet, because there is still a shortage of ingredients. Canghai’s kitchen has ordinary ingredients, but the main ingredient must be picked fresh, that is, the green peppercorns that increase the numbing flavor. Cut it while Canghai When it was green pepper, Shi Wei and the others peeled the garlic, and the peeled garlic had to be mashed into garlic in a garlic mortar.Compared to these two things, dried red peppers were easier, but Cang Hai didn't plan to use dried red peppers to enhance the flavor, so he just cut the green peppercorns and picked more than a pound of red and red fresh Chaotian peppers.

(End of this chapter)