Chapter 157 Making Shrimp and Crab Sauce

Zhang Wen was conscientiously writing a short essay to fight against counterfeiting, but the time was short and few people knew about it. When the people at the backend of Wanmao Supermarket saw the complaint, they subconsciously clicked to delete the comments without reading it carefully.

Zhang Wen was not convinced and continued uploading. However, because it was the holiday season and many relatives came to her home, she had to put the matter aside.

The anti-counterfeiting essays left behind are quietly fermenting, just waiting for the day when they will explode.

The Ye family was entertaining guests here. Father Ye took out the medicinal wine brewed by Ye Zhen. It was a small transparent wine jar with light gold liquid, soaked with unknown roots, blooming flowers, Fuzhi and other medicinal herbs.

Grandpa Ye handed the bowl to Dad Ye and looked at him with envy as he poured the wine. It was a rare holiday, and drinking this kind of wine was good for the body, so he could drink it too!

"Come on, let's all drink this wine." Dad Ye poured a full glass for Uncle Ye and took a big gulp.

Uncle Ye didn't dare drink too much as he had to drive back home, so he could only moisten his lips lightly.

Aunt Ye also stopped him: "Don't drink too much, you still have to drive later!"

Uncle Ye put it down and was glared at by Grandpa Ye:

"Don't worry about drinking. Let's rest here today and have a good drink together!" After saying that, he took a big gulp.

Grandma Ye watched the other party do it generously from the side and subconsciously wanted to stop him, but thinking that it was a rare day for everyone to be together today, she did not say a word.

Now that he has recovered, all the drinks at home are brewed by Ye Zhen according to the recipes of the immortal world. There are various fruit wines, as well as medicinal wines brewed from some medicinal herbs and spiritual plants found in the deep pit.

This made Grandpa Ye and Dad Ye, both wine lovers, very happy. They had to drink a glass every day. If Mom Ye and Grandma Ye hadn't been watching over them, the wine would not have lasted until the holiday!

Aunt Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Dad, you should drink less too!"

"Why are you saying all this? It's a festival and we should eat and drink well and be together as a family." Grandpa Ye was unhappy. He didn't like his children nagging him all the time. He was so old and it was rare for him to have a hobby, so why did they always stop him?

"Come on, let's have a drink!" Grandpa Ye continued to urge them to drink.

Uncle Ye was helpless and took a small sip with a smile. Well, since he didn't have to go to work tomorrow anyway, he might as well stay at his brother-in-law's house for a day and rest.

Unexpectedly, once I drank the wine, I found it was not spicy at all, but mellow and sweet, and my stomach felt warm.

"How is it?" Grandpa Ye said proudly, "Isn't this wine good?"

Uncle Ye's eyebrows relaxed and he sighed with enjoyment: "Excellent!"

Everyone laughed at this, and Ye's mother advised: "Eat some vegetables, eat some vegetables. They are all fish, shrimps and crabs caught at home. They are fat and big, and they are guaranteed to be delicious!"

"Oh! You have to eat more!" Aunt Ye was not polite and picked up a big crab.

"This crab is so big. Do you have a lot of them at home?" asked Aunt Ye.

"Too many, too many. Fortunately the pond is big, otherwise it would be full of crabs! I have been raising these for half a year, and there are already a lot of small crabs. Go back and take some more!"

Grandma Ye invited her son-in-law and grandson to eat, smiling with a worried and happy look, as if she didn't know how to deal with so many shrimps and crabs.

At the beginning, the seedlings of fish and shrimp were cheap, and these things are not particularly easy to raise. But I didn't expect them to crawl all over the place. Since the shrimps became fat, they have been eaten at every meal. No matter how delicious they are, my mouth will get tired of them. If I don't eat them, they will grow more and more.

So worried!

Ye Zhen was amused by her grandmother, "Grandma, these shrimps and crabs are difficult to transport and sell. If we can't eat all of them, we can make them into shrimp and crab sauce!" It's all crab meat and crab roe, isn't it better than the ones bought outside?

If you don’t know how to make it at home, you can search it online. Anyway, you have a lot of them at home and have the money to spend.

Ye Zhen is rich and doesn't think there is any problem.

After saying this, Grandma Ye seemed to have opened the door to a new world. "Okay, Meizi and I will try it together tomorrow, and Yingzi can come too!"

She can also give some shrimps and crabs to her fans and hold a lucky draw. She doesn't believe that her fans won't increase.

After hearing Grandma Ye's idea, Brother Ye gave her a thumbs up and praised her: "Grandma, you are so thoughtful."

Grandma Ye was proud, "That's not the case."

He did what he said. After dinner, Ye Zhen drained the water from the pond and used a large dustpan to block the gap where the water would be drained. This would prevent the fish and shrimp from escaping with the water flow.

The flowers in the lotus pond have all withered, and there are only plump lotus pods on top. Ye Zhen broke off a few and threw them onto the shore.

The sunlight was hazy, and the light circles were scattered on the water waves, moving rapidly, and the fish and shrimps below were swimming along with the water.

The next moment, he was caught by a scoop net!

Young brother Ye happily raised the scoop net, and crabs and lobsters of all sizes inside were scratching the net with their claws and teeth.

"Aunt, come and pretend!" Ye Xiaodi shouted.

The breeze was very cool. Aunt Ye came over with a large empty bucket. She saw the shrimps and crabs in the net and raised her eyebrows:

"Wow! So fat!"

Aunt Ye was itching to catch some shrimps and crabs, so she put the bucket on the ground and picked up the net to scoop them up. There were so many shrimps and crabs that the net was full with just a few scoops.

One bucket is not enough. If you want to make shrimp and crab sauce, you need at least several buckets. People going back and forth would come over to see what was going on in the village.

"Haizi, are you selling your shrimps and crabs? I'd like to buy a few pounds." Ye Laogen put his hands behind his back and liked them more and more the more he looked at them.

He was a chef when he was young, and he knew these shrimps and crabs were good at first glance!

Father Ye was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "Sell, of course! For folks in the village, we'll pay according to the market price."

He said this to the other villagers. If it was just Uncle Lao Gen, he would have given them a few shrimps and crabs, but with so many people present, it was difficult to say anything. With more business, Dad Ye was no longer as generous as he was before.

Once someone opens the mouth, those who want to buy will naturally take action.

"Haizi, I'll buy a few pounds of shrimps." Zhang Shuiying came back from the fields and heard that Ye Zhen's family had opened a pond. She originally wanted to buy some fish to bring back for her grandchildren to eat.

But when I got closer, I saw that the shrimps were really big. Thinking that my granddaughter would like to eat them, I bought a few pounds!

"Okay, choose for yourself."

From the moment someone came to buy shrimps, Ye Zhen smartly asked his younger brother Ye to run home to get a scale and plastic bags.

At that moment, Dad Ye took the scale and started weighing everyone.

The people here had already fished enough, so they left two buckets for Ye's father, and the rest of them went back first.

The shrimps and crabs were first placed in clean water to grow and spit out the mud, and then Ye Zhen led the group to the back mountain.

Passing by Ye Zhen's house, the whole frame has been built. After the cement on the walls has dried, they will start decorating. It's the holiday season now and all the workers have gone home. Anyway, the construction of the house has been contracted out and will be built to the highest standards.

All the materials, except the quality, color and specifications, have been finalized, and we are just waiting for the decoration to be completed.

Not to mention, if you have money, you can build a house quickly.

Aunt Ye was amazed. From the outside, it looked like the house was quite large and not the square-shaped building commonly seen in the village. In any case, it had an indescribable beauty.

The house is an imitation of antique architecture with some modern elements incorporated into it, which does not look out of place and the two complement each other.

Ye Zhen planned to dig a large pool on the left side of the house, introduce running water from the mountain stream, and lay a layer of sand and pebbles in it. He planned to plant some water-loving flowers and plants in the empty space next to it. He also planned to place a rockery and a small fountain in the empty space inside the pool. There would be water in the pool, and two small flower trees would be planted. Now the vegetation is lush, and Ye Zhen planned to put some water lilies he cultivated and some ornamental lotus in the pool.

When the building is finished, I will raise a few fat koi, fence the yard, lay large bluestone bricks, plant some flowers and trees around it, and even grow a grape vine...

After hearing Ye Zhen's introduction, Aunt Ye was amazed:

"Ye Zi, you are really successful. How much money would it cost to build such a big house?"

According to this plan, you can buy a good house in a good location in the city.

"Not that much, just the house costs money, but I can take care of the other trees and flowers myself."

Ye Zhen waved her hand. In addition to the money for decorating the house, Ye Zhen planned to build the pond herself. Not to mention the flowers and plants, she could have as many as she wanted. She would not buy those with leaves as long as they bloomed.

The group walked and stopped along the way, and Aunt Ye and Uncle felt that they couldn't see enough.

Most of the fruit trees purchased by Houshan Yezhen were mature fruit trees. Although they were not induced to grow, some of the fruit trees that were originally bearing fruit did not drop their flowers and fruits due to transplantation.

On the contrary, it grows better in the back mountain, where the spiritual energy is rich and the vitality is vigorous. When Aunt Ye and her companions came in, they felt that all the pores in their bodies were opened up, as if they were absorbing the fresh air with their own consciousness.

"The air in the mountains is still better. It makes my lungs feel relaxed." Uncle Ye's eyes lit up as he looked at the mushrooms on the ground and picked them up subconsciously.

It's no wonder he was surprised; he was a town kid and had never picked wild mushrooms before.

He picked up a flower and asked Aunt Ye: "Look, is this edible?"

"It's edible. This one is quite delicious." After identifying it, Aunt Ye looked around for it. She hadn't picked mushrooms by herself for a long time.

Ye Zhen had set up a formation on this mountain, and there were really a lot of mushrooms on the mountain! No one else went up the mountain, and the Ye family was too lazy to pick up the mushrooms on the ground.

Only Grandma Ye and her friends would come to pick some, dry them and sell them in the store. This family alone has several sacks of dried fruits. Just imagine how many there are on the mountain!

Aunt Ye wanted to pick some, so Ye Zhen divided the bags he brought into two. Some fruits on the mountain were ripe, so he picked some for Aunt Ye to take back.

When they arrived at the orchard, Aunt Ye and her partner's bags were full, so Ye Zhen hurriedly stopped them:

"Let's pick the fruits first, and then come back to pick mushrooms." Otherwise it will be dark.

Aunt Ye felt that she had lived in vain. She grew up in the countryside and had never seen a mountain area with so many mushrooms.

When I was a kid, the little that was available was picked up by the villagers. How could they compete with the mountain runners in the nearby mountains? They picked some to eat and dried, but if they wanted to sell it, they couldn't earn much money from traveling so far.

Now! Look what she is looking at, some expensive red mushrooms everywhere, she is puzzled and shocked!

"Ye Zi, aren't you going to pick up so many mushrooms?" Aunt Ye looked at the green-headed mushrooms that had already blossomed with regret. She had become numb.

I've seen a lot of mushrooms along the way, and many of them have wilted.

"I picked them up, but I can't pick them all up. There are too many." Ye Zhen answered casually, "There are too many piled up at home."

"Aunt has picked all that can be picked. Since we drove here anyway, we can pick more and take them back tomorrow." In just one night, a lot of new mushrooms will sprout tomorrow, and it will be impossible to pick them all up even if you pick them all up from the trees and the ground.

Aunt Ye was upset. She looked at her husband and decided to get sacks to pick up the dead trees tomorrow. If she didn’t pick all the dead trees on the mountain, she would lose!