Rebirth 1983

Chapter 21 Chen Song's Secret Crayfish

Carrying more than a dozen catties of crayfish and aquatic products, Chen Song ignored all the gossiping villagers along the way.

"Little Yaoyao, uncle is back."

As soon as he entered the door, before he put down the things in his hand, Chen Song yelled.

Then Xiao Yaoyao rushed out of the house in a hurry, ignored Chen Song, and stared at Chen Song's bamboo basket.

"Ah, lobster?"

Yaotiao pointed at the crayfish in the bamboo basket, her face full of doubts.

The country people are no strangers to lobsters, but now people basically don’t eat them. Yaoyao and her friends play in the ditch. Occasionally, some naughty little boys will catch a few lobsters to scare the little girls.

Yaoyao is one of the little girls who are often scared to cry, so she has always kept a respectful distance from the culprit, the lobster.

Now seeing so many crayfish in the bamboo basket, I immediately recalled the unhappy memories of playing.

"Uncle, you are bad, Yaoyao doesn't like you anymore."

Yaotiao glared at Chen Song angrily, turned around and ran towards the back room.

Wang Yao just came out from inside, Yaotiao bumped into Wang Yao's arms, Wang Yao hugged Yaotiao: "You can't be rude to uncle."

Yaotiao directly buried her pretty face in front of Wang Yao's deep heart, and shook her head on Wang Yao's heart. Wang Yao couldn't stand still because of Yaotiao's head shaking, and could only hug her tightly.

Chen Song looked a little embarrassed, and quickly turned his head away, not to look at her.

Yaoyao raised her head, glanced at Chen Song and the crayfish in the bamboo basket, and said eagerly: "Mom, it's a crayfish. Uncle is as bad as Ergou and the others. He wants to scare us with the crayfish."

"crayfish?"

Hearing this, Wang Yao glanced suspiciously at the dignified Slim, and then carried her to the yard, where she saw a thick pile of lobsters in the bamboo basket, baring their teeth and dancing their claws in a majestic manner.

"Why are you catching so many lobsters?"

Wang Yao looked at Chen Song, completely unable to understand Chen Song's operation.

"Of course I caught it to eat, what else can I do?" Chen Song replied, looking at Yaoyao: "Little Yaoyao, didn't uncle say he wanted to make something delicious for you? Crayfish are delicious, uncle will go and make them for you right away."

"delicious?"

Yaotiao regained her spirits, but when she saw the crayfish, she got into Wang Yao's arms again, and shook her head in disbelief.

After a while, she got up and asked, "Is it really delicious?"

Xiao Yaoyao took a sip of her saliva and pointed to the crayfish in the bamboo basket: "If uncle didn't scare Yaoyao like Ergou, Yaoyao would barely forgive you."

"Of course I can eat it, and it's very delicious."

Chen Song grabbed a lobster and sent it to Yaoyao, but Yaoyao was no longer afraid, with an expression of wanting to eat, which is food.

"How can this be so delicious?"

How could it be that Wang Yao has never eaten crayfish? Everyone in the country has eaten this food, but generally it is boiled like a river prawn, and it can be eaten with a little salt. The special thing is to dip it in soy sauce or vinegar.

Later, the crayfish was also braised in soy sauce, and the taste became better, but usually I would not be willing to add more soy sauce, so naturally I would not make it so delicious.

Knowing this, Wang Yao has doubts about whether crayfish are delicious.

"Look, I'll do it now, and we'll see the outcome later." Chen Song responded with a smile: "But you have to clean them up for me first, there are a lot of frames."

"Hee hee, Yaotiao is also here to help." Before Wang Yao could say anything more, Yaotiao struggled to the ground.

"Okay." Wang Yao found two stools and a big wooden basin.

"Bring two more scissors." Calling Wang Yao to get the scissors, Chen Song sat down and placed the bamboo basket between them.

Chen Song demonstrated to Wang Yao how to kill a lobster. Cut off half the head of the lobster with scissors, pull out the lobster line from the tail, and throw it into a clean wooden barrel.

"Is this the way to kill?"

Wang Yao imitated it again, and Chen Song nodded slightly.

"I want to play too!" Yaoyao squatted in front of the bamboo basket, trying to catch the lobster, but when she saw the lobster inside waving its claws at her in a demonstration, she instantly lost interest.

"Uncle, Mom, I'd better watch you kill the lobster." Yaoyao pursed her lips, looked at the lobster timidly, and took two steps back.

"Haha, is that little Yaotiao just watching from the side, okay?" Chen Song and Wang Yao looked at each other, and they both saw smiles in each other's eyes.

"Okay." Yaotiao clapped her hands, hummed softly at the crayfish in the bamboo basket, and obediently watched from the side.

Chen Song and Wang Yao handled the lobsters, and they became proficient in a short time. They were quickly lifted up after cutting and pumping, and the number of crayfish in the bamboo basket gradually decreased, while the number of processed crayfish in the clean wooden barrel was getting higher and higher.

The sky began to darken, and when the last crayfish in Chen Song's hand was pulled out of the lobster line, Chen Song breathed a sigh of relief.

Knocking his back, he straightened his sore waist, Chen Song stood up slowly, took a few steps and jumped, and then he slowed down, turned around and saw Wang Yao covering his mouth and laughing at him.

"Get them to the well and wash them first."

Chen Song ignored Wang Yao's snickering, a big pot of lobsters, bent over for so long, must have back pain, and it's not kidney deficiency, so what's so funny.

Rinse it with well water, and Chen Song treated it with a brush. After several times of rinsing and changing the water, the lobster in the pot is already very clean.

Nodding in satisfaction, Chen Song turned around to look at Wang Yao and Yaotiao.

"Okay, I'm going to cook right now, so you can always cook with my own skills." Chen Song was full of confidence.

"Okay, uncle, go quickly, Yaoyao is hungry."

Yaotiao patted her flat belly, as if saying that she was hungry and the baby wanted to eat.

Under the expectant eyes of Wang Yao and Yaotiao, Chen Song walked into the kitchen with a big pot of lobster in his arms.

After finding dried chilies and a dozen bulbs of garlic, Chen Song began to prepare the seasoning.

Because there is no beer, and considering that slim people can't eat spicy food, the spicy version of crayfish that Chen Song plans to make is actually not that spicy.

Instead, it was garlic crayfish. Because of the amount of garlic needed and the processing of the garlic, Chen Song was busy for a while. Now there is no special tool for processing garlic in the later generations, so he can only use a kitchen knife to flatten it and chop it one by one.

Boil water in the pot. After the water boils, pour all the crayfish into the big pot, add ginger and cooking wine, cover the pot, and wait for a few minutes.

The thumping heat burst out, and a scent of lobster had already spread out.

Outside the kitchen, Yaotiao bit her finger, not sure if she was asking herself or her mother: "It smells so good, is this the smell of crayfish?"

Lifting the lid of the pot, the lobsters have turned into a bright red color, and they are curled up into balls one by one, which looks very appetizing.

After picking up the lobster in the water, Chen Song washed the bottom of the pot, and then drained the lobster.

Divide a pot of lobster into two portions, each weighing about seven to eight catties, Chen Song plans to make garlic-flavored crayfish first, and then a spicy version.

Pour oil, add minced garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, pour directly into the blanched crayfish, the fragrant minced garlic and crayfish are mixed, a strong aroma comes out, Chen Song quickly stir-fries, let the minced garlic blend into each crayfish, then add salt, then take it out of the pot and pour it into a clean small wooden basin.

Next is spicy crayfish, dried peppers cut into sections, and some green peppers found in the kitchen and cut some.Pour the same oil, wait until the oil is hot, add dried chilies and sauté until fragrant, pour in the crayfish and stir fry, the spicy taste and fragrance of the chili blend with the taste of the crayfish, Chen Song pinpoints the timing, adds peppercorns and green peppers, stir fry for a while, and then covers the pot.

After a few minutes, add salt, take it out of the pot, and put it in a pot.

Two large servings of lobster fresh from the oven.

Chen Song walked out of the kitchen with a wooden basin in one hand, and there were two beauties, big and small, drooling.

"Dangdang! The secret crayfish is here!"

"I want to eat I want to eat!"

Yaotiao waited for Chen Song to put down the lobster, and couldn't wait to grab it with her hands.

"It's hot!"

Yaotiao retracted her hand aggrievedly, and looked at Chen Song aggrievedly.

"Little glutton!" I'll get it for you, Chen Song put a garlic-flavored crayfish into the slim bowl.

(End of this chapter)