Jiang Yue poured all the crayfish into the basin. There were nearly nine pounds of crayfish, which was a lot. It was estimated that there were more than a hundred of them. One big basin could not hold them all, so Jiang Yue found another basin.
"Mom, do bugs bite people?" Ningning saw the crayfish waving its big claws "crunching, crunching" and hid behind Jiang Yue in fear, wanting to watch but not daring to.
"Ningning, this is not a bug, it's called a crayfish. It doesn't bite people, but its big claws can pinch people." Jiang Yue explained to Ningning.
"Will it hurt if a crayfish pinches someone?" Ningning asked again.
"Of course it hurts, and it will bleed! So Ningning, don't touch it, okay?" Jiang Yue found a brush and prepared to brush the crayfish. She was afraid of getting pinched, so she wore rubber gloves.
When Ningning heard that crayfish would hurt and cause bleeding, she didn't dare to touch it even without Jiang Yue's warning.
Jiang Yue cleaned the crayfish one by one, removed the shrimp thread, cut off the mouth with scissors, and put them in a clean basin of water. Jiang Yue only processed half of them, leaving the rest for cooking in the evening, so that they would be fresher.
It was still early, so Jiang Yue prepared the dishes and took Ningning to Lian Rongrong's house, but she was turned away as Lian Rongrong was not at home.
"Jiang Yue, are you looking for Lian Rongrong? She went out to buy groceries and hasn't come back yet." The neighbor next door to Lian Rongrong heard the knock on the door and came out. Seeing that it was Jiang Yue, he said with a smile.
"Okay, OK! Then please tell Rongrong that I came to see her when she comes back." Jiang Yue now knows many military wives in the staff compound. The one who was speaking was the wife of quartermaster staff officer Wang, whose surname was Zhang.
Last year, the new family building was completed and many cadres' families moved there. Now, except for Gu Ye, the family of Regiment Commander Zhao, the family of Company Commander Wang, that is, the family of Staff Officer Wang, and two or three other families, the rest are the families of non-commissioned officers accompanying the army.
Gu Ye gave his spot to someone else. Captain Zhao's family lives here because there are many people and they live here because of the larger space. The others who did not move also have their own reasons.
Although Jiang Yue is usually only close to Zhao's wife Lian Rongrong, she does not avoid dealing with people in the family compound. She will say hello when she meets them.
Of course, except for Li Hongying's weird family.
"No trouble!" Zhang Yan said with a smile. Seeing Ningning following Jiang Yue obediently, she turned around, went into the door, took out an apple and handed it to Ningning, "Come, Ningning, eat an apple!"
Ning Ning first looked at Jiang Yue, and when she saw Jiang Yue nod, she took the apple and thanked her politely: "Thank you, Auntie!"
"So cute!" Zhang Yan touched Ningning's little head and said to Jiang Yue with a smile, "Ningning is getting prettier and prettier."
"Thank you, Auntie. You are very beautiful too!" Ningning remembered what her mother said: be sweet-mouthed when you are out.
Sure enough, when Zhang Yan heard this, she smiled so hard that her teeth were showing, "Oh, this little mouth is so sweet!"
"Sister-in-law, we'll go back first!" Jiang Yue waved goodbye to Zhang Yan.
After returning home, Jiang Yue first sorted out the paintings she had drawn last night. When she saw Gu Ye's paintings, Jiang Yue liked them very much.
"Ningning, we are going to the county town with dad in the afternoon. We will take a family photo then. Ningning, go and choose a dress. We want to look pretty this afternoon." Jiang Yue said to Ningning.
"Okay, Mom!" Ningning happily ran to pick out clothes.
Jiang Yue opened the drawer and took out a black-and-white photo from a notebook. It was taken when the original body and Gu Ye got married. Gu Ye was wearing a military uniform and a military cap, while the original body was wearing a lapel shirt and had two braids.
Although the two of them were leaning against each other, their brows and eyes were very serious. Their eyes looking directly at the camera could even be said to be cold, and they all exuded an air of unfamiliarity.
However, judging from their appearance alone, the two people in the photo are still quite a match, the man is handsome and the woman is beautiful, very pleasing to the eye.
In fact, Jiang Yue found this photo when she just arrived. The original owner didn't like this photo very much, so he casually placed it in the corner of the drawer, with a lot of messy things on it. When Jiang Yue was tidying up the drawer, he almost threw it away together with the waste paper.
On the contrary, the original person cherished the letters to his first love very much, folding them neatly and putting them in the book.
After reading the letters, Jiang Yue burned them all in the stove, but saved the photo.
However, her relationship with Gu Ye was not good at that time, and she always thought that she would only stay here for a month at most, and there would be no result between her and Gu Ye, so she only took out the photo, looked at it, and then put it in her notebook.
However, the situation is different now. Jiang Yue stroked Gu Ye's face in the photo with her fingers, and when her eyes fell on the original body's face, although this face looked like her, and she knew in her heart that the original body was the character written by Pei Xueyun based on her, Jiang Yue still felt that she and the original body were two different people.
So the photo that Gu Ye took with his original body before doesn’t count, she wants to take a new one with him!
"Mom, I'll just wear this puppy coat and match it with this skirt." Jiang Yue usually matches clothes, and Ningning learned how to do it by watching and listening.
"Sure!" Jiang Yue closed the drawer, stood up and said, "Ningning, Mom is going to cook, you can play by yourself, come and tell Mom if you need anything."
Jiang Yue first washed the rice and put it into the pot, then cooked the rice in the inner pot, put oil in the outer pot, and after heating it, added the scallions, ginger, and garlic to stir-fry until fragrant, added dried chilies, peppercorns and other spices to stir-fry until fragrant, and then added the bean paste to stir-fry until the oil turned red.
Pour in the crayfish and stir-fry over high heat until the shell turns red. Then pour in half a bottle of beer, half a bowl of water, add salt, sugar and other seasonings. Turn to low heat and simmer for a while to allow the crayfish to fully absorb the flavor. Jiang Yue also added cucumber. Finally, simmer over high heat until the sauce is reduced. Sprinkle with coriander, and the fragrant spicy crayfish is ready.
Jiang Yue, who doesn't really eat spicy food, couldn't help but eat three of them in a row. They were so fragrant, fresh and delicious!
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