The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 263 Full crab feast

"Is this really for us to live in? Oh my God, this house is so well-renovated, isn't it?"

The old man who asked this question still can't believe that his family owned a house in the capital in his great-grandfather's generation.

But the great-grandfather's generation began to decline. He was an actor and a gambler. It was only in his father's generation that the family paid off its debts.

I have been renting a house for several generations. When encountering such a good thing, the old man still thinks he is dreaming.

The neighbor who went with him smiled and replied: "Can the Jingzhao Mansion still play tricks on our people? It will definitely be true as long as your family's situation is true!"

There was an old woman sitting on the ground unable to get up:
"This cement floor is so clean, and the walls are also clean. If my old lady can stay here for one night, it will be worth her life!"

Others were quite surprised by the layout of the house:

"Have you seen the kitchen? There are also pig pens and latrines. When the pig pens are not raising pigs, you can raise chickens. Living in a courtyard in the capital is not as convenient as living in this village!"

"I really wish I could move in tomorrow. I just want to ask, has anyone said when the list will be announced?"

Those who knew about it quickly revealed to everyone: "I've said it before, by the end of winter at the latest, the people who are qualified to live in it will be able to celebrate the New Year in the new house!"

They not only looked over the east side, but also the west side. Finally, they stood on the street that was still under construction and pointed.

The plasterers, listening to these discussions, straightened their backs.

This is the home they built with their own hands, and no one cares about their houses.

In this area where tens of thousands of people live, in addition to housing, a school and several streets of shops will also be built.

It not only facilitates residents' shopping, but also allows pedestrians passing by to rest. Staying here for one night is much more cost-effective than staying in an inn in the capital.

If the future business district is formed, it will already be regarded as the town with the largest population in Daxia, and may even be more populous than some small counties.

For a town so close to Guandao and the capital, its future prosperity can already be foreseen.

The chief designer, Zhong Qinbo, has no time to go to the construction site now.

During the day, he had to check the list of purchased supplies, and at night he had to do hard labor to help his wife.

In order to make dried lemon slices for Heiwa, Cuihua picked lemons in the space for more than half a month.

Use the drying equipment in the space to keep slicing and drying.

We also picked several thousand kilograms of small yellow apricots, cut them in half, removed the stones and dehydrated them into dried apricots.

There is nowhere to go to buy these things this year.

The couple had to go back to the bedroom early every night and go to bed until midnight.

After being so busy, Juyue was busy, and Cuihua said that life still needs some sense of ritual.

In previous years, during the Chrysanthemum Moon, it was also a sight to enjoy chrysanthemums and eat crabs. What chrysanthemums are there this year?
There were a lot of crabs, and the Yuan Mansion held a crab feast on the Moon Festival.

There are cages of large crabs weighing more than half a kilogram, and they are so alive that they can dance with their teeth and claws.

Black Panther and Black Tiger know how powerful these crabs are.

But Heng Heng didn't know. With so many living creatures, it couldn't help but want to provoke.

"Ah, ah, wife, help me~"

"It hurts the bird to death, it hurts the bird to death~" The screams echoed throughout the main courtyard.

"Hahahahahaha."

Several children were so happy to see Heng Heng whose claws were caught by the crab.

The little guy actually used his claws to catch a crab, but his claws were caught in the crab's big pliers.

It couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard it was, so it had to call for help from its owners. The children were laughing and teasing, and the big kitchen was busy.

Under the command and arrangement of the mistress Cuihua, the cooks dismantled hundreds of female crabs and prepared twelve crab dishes, with the staple food being butter rice.

Remove the spines from the herring meat and chop into puree, then mix the removed crab meat and crab roe with it.

Add a little starch, black pepper, salt and a small amount of Shaoxing wine to remove the fishy smell, and stir clockwise.

Finally, squeeze the minced meat into balls, put them in water and cook them over a slow fire.

The delicious little meatballs are like dragon balls. Compared with the taste of fish balls, they are more fresh.

Of course, crab fried rice cake is a must.

The soft and chewy rice cake absorbs the umami flavor of the crab. It's hard to say whether the crab meat is fresher or the rice cake is sweeter.

Cuihua can eat this dish every time without getting tired of it. It used to be a must-make dish every year.

Salt-baked female crab: The female crab is plump and golden.

Baking with salt not only retains the original sweetness of the crab meat, but also adds the salty aroma of sea salt and spices, giving it an extra layer of flavor compared to steaming.

Crab Meal and Shrimp Tofu: Crab Meal made from crab roe, crab paste, crab meat, and crab oil.

It perfectly retains the "freshness" of the lake crab, and is paired with soft and silky tofu and fresh and chewy shrimp.

Spoon a large spoonful onto the rice and it will taste delicious.

Crispy Crab Meat Roll: Slice the chicken breast into thin slices, marinate and wrap it in crab meat, roll it into a cylindrical shape, then wrap it in white sesame seeds, and fry until golden brown. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the sesame seeds cannot cover it up. Crab meat is fragrant.

No child can escape the charm of this dish and cannot stop eating it.

Use two tendons from the pig's front trotters and stew them in advance until soft and tasty.

Remove the crab meat and crab roe, season with stock and slowly simmer over low heat to melt, then combine with the tendons.

The soft and glutinous tendons are mixed with golden and fragrant crab meat, and are decorated with blanched cabbage hearts, which is both eye-catching and nourishing to the stomach.

As the soul partner of tonight's rice, Bald Butter, the recipe is actually simple and crude.

Just heat oil in a pan, add minced ginger and sauté until fragrant, then add crab roe, boil out butter, then add minced green onion and crab paste, stir-fry thoroughly and add Shaoxing wine, water, salt and pepper to taste.

It tastes better when eaten after refrigeration. There is no other problem with this oil except that it wastes crab roe and crab paste.

In addition to these, of course there are Huadiao drunken crabs, flavored crabs stir-fried with spicy pot base, etc. Bald butter and drunken crabs are prepared two days in advance.

Old Yuan leader led the Yuan family in Dali Village back to the capital.

It was a pity that the sisters-in-law could not eat too much crab because of their pregnancy. Fan Qingju was so greedy that she swallowed her saliva and repeatedly begged her sister-in-law to do it again next year.

Sure enough, everyone loves crabs, but they are impatient to peel them.

The first things everyone ate were the crab dishes that didn’t require shelling.

Cuihua also has two cubs waiting to be fed with their mouths open, wishing they could grow ten hands.

"Mom, this yellow oil is so good, I can eat three bowls of bibimbap!" Liutou is a big fan of Bald Butter, eating one bite after another, and filling the big bowl with rice.

"Son, for the oil you eat from this bowl of rice, my mother has to peel more than ten crabs. Our family doesn't have so much money to waste!"

Hearing what the aunt said, Santou and Sitou both started cooking faster.

Such delicious oily rice only comes once a year.

Wu Tou directly asked for a larger bowl. The rice cook disliked the trouble of holding rice in small bowls and wished to use a basin.

(End of this chapter)