Lord of Rot

Chapter 12 Steamed Crabs

"Who?" Li Qi turned his head to look at the wheel, and he could probably imagine the other person's appearance just by hearing the name, but he didn't understand that a person with such a face would make the pretty widow miss him.

The hunchbacked old man explained: "Old toothless, he is not young, and he has great energy in farming. Every year, the harvest in the village is the best. Many widows want to follow him."

Li Qi nodded, he understood what the woman meant, she needed someone to rely on instead of food and money.

Although this was only the third day after her man's bird shit died.

The ethics of this world are somewhat different from Li Qi's, which made him less interested in the next chat with the pretty widow.

"I'll send Pitchfork to do it."

Pitchfork, the valet, has many roles, and now he has another identity as a matchmaker.

After that, Li Qi visited the other three families on horseback. The dead farmer was the only breadwinner in the family. After the man died, their wives all chose to remarry without exception, and there was another wife who wanted to marry just like the bird shit. Give an old chipped tooth to one ear.

Judging by her expression, I am afraid that Lao Huoya is not only good at farming, but also has a strong ability to cultivate land.

But Li Qi could only tell her with regret that Lao Huoya had already been booked, and as the lord, he could not break his promise. The woman proposed the second candidate without hesitation, and Li Qi would swallow all the compensation he had said. It's good to remarry after entering the stomach, the population of the territory is small, more matching, more children, in order to develop better.

The horse was walking slowly on the dirt road. The rut marks made by the golden mule yesterday had not disappeared, but there were a few more foot marks beside the mud.

Going southeast from the territory is the seaside, Pigtail Bay.

The environment here is far more than that of a village, because no one will run such a long distance to defecate anywhere. There are only weeds, waves, sandy beaches, and...crabs running sideways and shells that have rotted on the sandy beach.

Pigtail Bay without a pier is deserted.

The Baron Leard planned to build a pier here, but it was not done because of the high price.

Li Qi remembered the fresh oysters he ate once in his memory before he came to Porcupine Collar. The sour vinegar was paired with oysters that had just been pried open, one bite at a time, and a three-bronze star. Makes you stronger in bed.

"Pitchfork, take a few people to pick up some seafood."

Today's lunch and dinner can be solved.

Pitchfork held a knife, rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, and under the guidance of Baron Li Qi, he cut the knife into the reef and pried off the oysters that were about the same color as the rocks.

"What a big one!" He raised his hand happily.

"Good job." Li Qi nodded in the distance.

The manservant, who was praised by his lord, was full of energy and plunged into the reef to pry the oysters.

Wheels also arranged for some teenagers to help.

The water in Pigtail Bay is very deep. As a construction site for the pier, it can save a lot of trouble and allow ships to dock, but it is definitely not a good place to catch the sea. The depth of the water means danger, so there are not many places to pick up, but it is not a problem to supply the Baron Castle.

The youngsters helped their lord to pick up seafood clumsily, such as opis the size of a fist, oysters the size of a fist, stone crabs the size of a fist, and a few buckets of them in a short while.

This is not a good place to go to the sea. There were several times when the teenagers were almost swept away by the waves. Li Qi could only tell them not to get too close to the sea. The teenagers are the hope of the territory, and they are more valuable private property than the old farmers.

Maybe there are more good things in the sea, but the reefs on the shore are enough.

"Ah!" The boy with the bulbous nose screamed. He accidentally got his finger caught by a crab, and tears of pain rolled in his eyes. What was worse was that the bucket fell, and the crabs in it fled away one after another. He went up to catch the crabs running around, but as one can imagine, he didn't catch any.

The companions laughed at the bulbous-nosed boy and showed off their achievements. They will be praised by the lord.

Li Qi, who was standing on the rock, took this scene into his eyes, but said nothing. Seeing that the lord did not criticize him, the teenagers laughed even louder, and were willing to show themselves in this way, and the secret contest began.

Li Qi turned his head to look at the endless sea.

The sea breeze blows, and the cheeks are slightly wet.

"Is this world a ball?"

Porcupine Castle.

The returned Baron Li Qi visited the kitchen.

The kitchen utensils here are pitiful, two knives, an axe, and a wooden board for chopping meat.

Three legs are used for cooking and soup, the pot is hung by hooks, and the firewood is burned under the hanging pot.

There is a barbecue rack on the side.

With only these things, he can make delicious meals. His chef really has amazing cooking skills. He began to think about building a stove and teaching his chef to fry, not to bake.

"Are you going to eat this kind of sea spider? Bless the four gods!" The wine barrel looked nervously at the stone crabs crawling around in the barrel, not knowing where to put his carrot-like fat hand.

The price of the secret rivalry between the teenagers is that they caught too many things this time, four big barrels in total!

In Donggang and even Iron Rock City, oysters have become a must-have food for gentlemen, but the poor Pork Ridge Valley does not know that these things in the sea are edible, and some of them will never have them unless they are recruited or sold as serfs. Opportunity out of the Spine Valley.

The transmission of information is always slow. Only nobles can use ravens to send messages, but the feet of ravens will definitely not be tied to such insignificant things as seafood cooking methods.

"Tie their legs with grass." Li Qi bent down and tried to pick up a crab, but the manservant shouted "My lord, be careful!" He was also caught when he was catching crabs today.

The same is true, making him terrified by what Li Qi said about eating this kind of sea spider that can bite people.

Porcupines have sheep, chickens, and sometimes wild boars. Why do they have to eat such ugly and terrifying things?

Li Qi was not caught, he quickly picked up a crab, and pinched the top of the crab's legs. The stone crab waved its terrifying claws, but it did not threaten the people in front of it. The claws could not touch the one on the back. Hand, it's clumsy and pathetic, with a foaming crab mouth.

Pitchfork and Wine Barrel looked at Li Qi with admiration. The terrifying sea spider was like a pitiful creature in his hands.

"Tie the legs up," Li Qi said, "otherwise they will run around during steaming."

"Also, throw away any crabs that die before serving the pot."

"Steaming means boiling in water." Looking at the bewildered expression of the wine barrel, Li Qi gestured and said, of course he was only in charge of gestures, and the practice was handed over to his subordinates.

Including cleaning with a brush, making clams spit sand, seafood that is not cleaned will affect the taste, and Li Qi does not want to be chewing rocks in his mouth while eating delicious seafood.

The clams can be left in the soup, and stir-fried is best, but there is no pepper here.

In Li Qi's impression, people here tend to eat salty and sweet food, and rarely eat spicy food. Garlic is a spicy ingredient that they rarely come into contact with. Some people firmly believe that eating garlic can cure all diseases.

Oysters can be eaten raw, but Li Qi chose to steam them. Even though there are fewer parasites in seawater than in land organisms, they are not absolutely free.

After everything was said, he just had to wait quietly.

The kitchen is already busy, but the stubborn chef, Wine Barrel, refuses anyone who wants to help. He is the chef who was rewarded by the lord for Silver Moon. If he asks others to help, it shows that he is not capable enough. Maybe it will be taken back, he does not allow this to happen.

(End of this chapter)