Traveling through: I rely on space to raise the sick Wei Wang

Chapter 114 Steamed Crab
Just as Xu Ruqing was thinking about what to do, Aunt Wu excitedly brought a basin of water, and began to tidy up without saying a word.

She dipped the rag in her hand with cold water and wiped the stove again and again. She looked at Xu Ruqing with a smile while she was working, with a little bit of embarrassment in her eyes.

"Miss Xu, don't be surprised. Our family is too poor to open the pot. We rely on pickled vegetables and rice bran to fill our stomachs all year round. We don't need these things, so the pot and stove are dusty. You wait outside. You can come in after I clean up."

Xu Ruqing was really embarrassed to look at Aunt Wu, so it was inconvenient to stay here and embarrass others. "That's fine, auntie, you clean up first. I see there is a well in your yard. I'll fetch water to wash the things in the basket."

"to make."

Xu Ruqing came to the yard and found a huge wooden basin. After two hours of draining, the crabs had been severely dehydrated and spit out white foam.She poured all the crabs in, went to the well and poured several buckets of water into the basin, squatted down, picked up the bristle brush on the side without saying a word, and cleaned them one by one.

The best time to eat crabs is from after the cold dew to early November, and the crabs are the most plump during this period.When the female crab begins to develop eggs, the crab roe and crab paste will be plump and thick, while the gonads of male crabs develop to the best time, the yellow fat paste is white, and the crab paste tastes plump and smooth.

Each crab is very big, and it doesn't take much effort to brush it. Xu Ruqing grabs the back of the crab three or two times to get one. In less than half an hour, a large pot of crabs is cleaned up.

Don't look at Aunt Wu as a tricky person, but she is not sloppy in her work.She cleaned up the kitchen, and poured out the muddy sewage one after another.After a while, the gray kitchen became neat and bright, much cleaner than before.

She came out to fetch water again, and when she passed by Xu Ruqing, she realized what the "good things" Xu Ruqing was talking about.

Aunt Wu frowned, her face full of surprise: "Miss Xu, you don't mean to cook these big bugs, do you?"

Xu Ruqing didn't notice the strange look in Aunt Wu's eyes, and replied with a smile: "Yes, I see that everyone has worked hard day and night in the fields, and today I picked up these rare things for nothing, so I have to take care of them myself. Make a good meal for everyone!"

Unexpectedly, Aunt Wu put down the wooden basin in her hand, and said with a sad face: "Oh, my little lady, this thing is harmful, so I don't like to eat it! Stop playing around with it, and you will be caught by the pliers." It's not good!"

As she said that, Aunt Wu stepped forward to help Xu Ruqing up, keeping her away from the big basin, for fear that the bugs in it would be harmful to her.

"Auntie, this is delicious, it's not a bug!" Xu Ruqing didn't know how to explain it to them, with a helpless expression on her face.

Aunt Wu still didn't believe it: "You are from the city, and you come from a noble family. You haven't eaten any good food. Why bother about a bug?! Listen to Auntie and put it down, don't mess around!"

Xu Ruqing followed her words and said: "It is because I have eaten it that I know it can be used for cooking. Believe me, auntie, after these things are out of the pot, I guarantee that it will refresh your understanding. Its cognition!"

Although Aunt Wu still couldn't believe that the big bug could eat it, under Xu Ruqing's insistence, she could only let Xu Ruqing say what it was.

Aunt Wu let out a breath of compromise: "Forget it, since you insist on doing this, then I can't stop it. But I have to put the ugly words first, my family is willing to lend you things, but if you end up If there is any problem with the food, I will not take the responsibility!"

Aunt Wu's worry was also reasonable, Xu Ruqing gave her a comforting smile: "Auntie, you can rest assured, even if something happens, I will be solely responsible and will not implicate you."

Finally, under Xu Ruqing's repeated assurances, Aunt Wu left with peace of mind.

The sewage was poured out, and the basin was poured out. Aunt Wu’s house didn’t have a steamer, so Xu Ruqing had to borrow it from other people’s house. At first, the people who borrowed it were willing, but when they learned that Xu Ruqing was using it to steam big worms, people made excuses one after another. Don't prevaricate.

In the end, Aunt Wu's neighbor, Ma Tianlun, lent her his steamer.The steamer is quite big, with five or six layers of drawers, and a dozen crabs can be placed on one layer, and all the crabs can be steamed in three or four times.

"Thank you, Brother Ma, thanks to your steamer, otherwise I don't know what to do with these crabs."

Hearing Xu Ruqing thanking himself, Ma Tianlun's dark face flushed suddenly, he scratched his head foolishly, and said with a smile: "Miss Xu, you are too polite, you gave everyone in the village a chance to make money, and you even made us a Several sets of overalls for the winter, let us eat and wear warm...Compared with you, this little thing I do is nothing."

"We all help each other, that's what I should do." Xu Ruqing responded with a smile.

Ma Tianlun would blush whenever he talked to a woman, and now his face was as red as a monkey's butt.Helpless, he had no choice but to find an excuse to leave temporarily, lest Xu Ruqing find out his embarrassment: "Okay, then Mrs. Xu, you are busy first. I will go to my yard to bring some firewood and light it for you."

"Brother Rauma is here."

Ma Tianlun waved his hands and stopped talking, and ran back home in a smooth manner. After a while, he really came back with a large bundle of firewood. He skillfully lit a fire with a flint, and soon a fire was lit under the clay stove.

Xu Ruqing was not idle either, she poured water into the big iron pot, and then covered the steamer layer by layer.As time went by, the water in the pot boiled, and the crabs in the steamer gradually matured. The crabs also changed from black and blue to "generals" in red armor.

Soon the whole Dajing Village was enveloped in a delicious fragrance, and the crab fragrance that came out with the steam all seduced people's taste buds.

Wu Xiulian, who was embroidering in the boudoir, also smelled this wonderful fragrance. She searched for the fragrance and came to the kitchen by accident. She opened the curtain and peeked inside, and saw Xu Ruqing who was busy.

Wu Xiulian is the daughter adopted by Aunt Wu, because she is the only daughter, Aunt Wu loves her very much on weekdays, even the material of the clothes she wears looks much better than the surrounding villagers.

She immediately found Aunt Wu who was sifting rice bran in the courtyard, and asked furtively, "Mother, is that woman inside the lady you told me about who often benefits you?"

Aunt Wu nodded when she heard the words, and she couldn't deny it: "Well, that person is Mrs. Xu, who came to borrow our kitchen to cook today. She has a lot of background and a rich family, you have to entertain her well. "

(End of this chapter)