"Maybe no one comes here to catch crabs, so these crabs have been growing for several years!" Wen Xi smiled. The crabs here were crab seedlings that she had released. The seedlings looked quite big back then, so it's normal for them to have grown to one or two ounces after more than a year!
After Qin Mi went into the water, he reached out his hand to Wen Xi and asked, "Xi, do you want to come down?"
"Of course!" Wen Xi smiled proudly. This was a moment to witness the harvest, so how could she not come down and catch them herself? She was the one who released the crab and fish fry here!
Qin Mi pulled Wen Xi down, and then Wen Xi went to a secluded spot and started looking for crabs by turning over rocks. It was cooler there, so the crabs weren't hiding very deep and were easy to find.
After that, the six of them seriously searched for crabs in the stream, and every now and then a cry of surprise could be heard as someone caught a crab.
No one knew how long they had been catching crabs, but Chen Jiaojiao asked, "Xiaoxi, how many crabs are we going to catch?"
"We'll catch a few dozen, enough for us to eat. We brought a small pot, so we'll just cook the crabs on the rocks in a bit." Catching them by hand is too inefficient, but since everyone is here, Wenxi can't take out a net to catch crabs. She'll just have to wait for another opportunity to catch them by herself.
Actually, she did stockpile large crabs. Back in the 21st century, when Qin Mi's family lived there, Wen Xi felt that stockpiling crabs was not very meaningful, so she didn't stockpile them. However, she did help the crab farmers later, so she stockpiled the crabs and they gave her the lowest possible discount.
Wenxi caught crabs for a while and then came ashore because it was already noon when they arrived, and she had to prepare food for everyone.
Seeing that Wenxi had gone up, Qin Mi followed her up. The two of them took turns going behind the tree to change their wet clothes and then laid them out on the rocks to dry.
Afterwards, the two found a shady spot and set up a stove. Wenxi washed the potatoes they had brought out in a small iron pot and then cooked them in the pot.
When you're out and about, you have to keep things simple. Although Wenxi has a lot of things, she can't just conjure them up out of thin air, so she can only share the hardships with everyone.
Potatoes need to be boiled for a while to cook through, so once the potatoes were cooked, Wenxi stopped worrying about them. She went to the stream and brought over all the crabs that everyone had caught, and washed them briefly.
After washing the crabs, put them in a clean basket. The crabs can only be cooked after the potatoes are cooked, because I only brought a small pot.
Seeing that Qin Mi was following her around like a shadow, Wen Xi handed the net to Qin Mi, saying, "Brother Qin, I just saw a lot of fish in here. Could you help me catch some so we can make grilled fish later?"
"Okay." Qin Mi took the net and went to the stream to catch fish.
Wenxi then moved the crabs to the makeshift stove and secretly replaced them with the larger crabs she had hoarded, because she felt that the larger crabs she had hoarded were bigger and more satisfying to eat.
After all, it's only early summer now, and it's not the official season for eating crabs yet. There's definitely not much crab meat at this time. The crabs she stocked up on were before Qinmi University started, and by then they had grown quite a bit.
When it was almost time, Wenxi poked the potato with her chopsticks and found that it was cooked through. She took the potato out and set it aside to cool. Then she took the small iron pot to the stream to clean it, then fetched a pot of water. She put some crabs in, along with scallions, ginger, and garlic, a spoonful of salt, and secretly poured in a lidful of cooking wine.
Cooking wine should be able to remove the fishy smell, because she saw that many dishes in the recipe book added some cooking wine.
After covering the pot with the lid, the crabs crawled around inside, making a really jarring noise. Wenxi subconsciously moved away from them.
Qin Mi soon came over carrying a basket. Wen Xi went over to take a look and exclaimed, "Wow, Brother Qin, you're amazing! You caught so many fish, and they're quite big too!"
Qin Mi not only caught the fish, but also cleaned it thoroughly. Wen Xi marinated the fish, and they would grill it after everyone had eaten the crabs and potatoes.
"Brother Qin, we still need bamboo to skewer the fish and grill them," Wen Xi said.
"Okay, let's go cut bamboo now!" Qin Mi took a sickle from the basket containing tools and then led Wen Xi to find the bamboo forest.
Wenxi had been here many times and knew this place very well. Led by Wenxi, they soon arrived at a bamboo forest. The bamboo variety was long and slender, and the bamboo leaves rustled in the summer breeze. They walked in the shade of the bamboo and didn't feel hot at all.
Qin Mi said softly, "Xi, wait for me here. I'll go cut some bamboo. Will two stalks be enough?"
Wen Xi thought for a moment and nodded, "Let's cut two!"
Qin Mi went to cut bamboo and quickly brought it back. The two of them dragged the slender bamboo back. Under Wen Xi's guidance, Qin Mi shaved a lot of bamboo skewers. Wen Xi took out the cooked crabs and shouted to everyone, "The crabs are ready! We can eat them now! Everyone, come on up!"
Then everyone carried the crabs from their baskets up.
Looking at the bright red crab, Shen Jiaojiao asked, "Xiaoxi, how should we eat this crab? Do we eat it shell and all?"
Lin Yiwan chuckled, "I don't think you have the teeth to eat crab shells. I grew up here, I know how to eat crabs, you can learn from me."
Lin Yiwan took a crab, lifted its shell, and took out the inedible parts. "This is the stomach, you can't eat it. Then you can't eat the gills on both sides, you can't eat the crab heart near the crab roe, and you can't eat the excretion area."
Lin Yiwan peeled a crab, took a bite of the crab roe, and exclaimed, "It's so delicious! I've never eaten such delicious crab before! But crab is considered a cold food, so we shouldn't eat too much."
Wenxi put the second batch of crabs into the pot to cook, and then took a crab to eat herself. Unexpectedly, the crab was quite delicious, and the crab meat even had a faint sweetness.
One person ate a few crabs, and the rest were not cooked. Wenxi skewered the marinated fish on sticks and grilled them over the fire. Soon the fish emitted an enticing aroma.
After eating the crabs, grilled fish, and potatoes, Qin Mi went to the river to fetch water and put out all the sparks. Then everyone went to the waterfall together.
Although it was quite a distance, everyone had nothing else to do and wasn't in a hurry to go back, so they walked together toward the waterfall. When they reached the rocks below the waterfall, water droplets splashed onto them from time to time.
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