Chapter 20 Aunt Zhang, it's not appropriate for you to cheat my friend like this.
After washing the blue crabs clean, as they were already cool, Zhang Ze untied the straw ropes that bound them, and then put the blue crabs into the pot that was already burning.
Zhang Huihong picked up the already languid Black Bao Gong from the bucket and asked, "What kind of fish is this? Are you going to cook it too?"
"Let me make this later. I guarantee it will be delicious!" Zhang Ze thought about it and finally decided to steam it.
The blue crabs had been cooked, so there was no problem in steaming a fish. This time, Zhang's mother didn't say anything and took the fish out to deal with it.
However, when the fish was steamed and Zhang Ze poured oil into the pot, Zhang's mother jumped in anxiety and slapped him repeatedly.
"Hey, why did you pour so much oil into a fish? Oil doesn't cost money, you loser!"
"Mom, this fish will only be fragrant if it is drizzled with hot oil. This step is necessary." Zhang Ze endured the blow from his old mother with a wry smile and hurriedly explained.
"What kind of food doesn't taste good if it has so much oil in it? How can you be so wasteful?" Zhang Huihong snatched the oil bottle away, "Go do what you need to do from now on, and don't let me enter the kitchen!"
Zhang Qian and the others stood nearby, covering their mouths and laughing. It was rare to see their brother being beaten by his mother.
"." Zhang Ze looked at the half tablespoon of cooking oil in the pot and suddenly missed the future life.
But he still didn't want to go back.
His younger sister, younger brother and old mother are all around him, and he cherishes and enjoys this long-lost family affection, and such days will not last long.
When he gets married and his sister gets married, the days of living together as a family will definitely become a thing of the past.
Soon, the family sat down at the table with rice.
There were three dishes for lunch: blue crab, braised mudskipper with pickled vegetables, and steamed Baogong fish.
This table of dishes would cost at least a thousand yuan in later generations. Not to mention other things, just five wild blue crabs weighing more than a kilogram would cost nearly a thousand yuan.
Because Zhang's mother was concerned about the seasoning, Zhang Ze stopped pouring soy sauce. He picked up a piece of cut blue crab meat and dipped it into the soy sauce broth of Bao Gong fish, then tasted it happily.
"Hmm, so sweet, this mantis shrimp is really delicious."
"I want a big pair of pliers!" Seeing how delicious the food was, Zhang Wu was immediately tempted and picked up a pair of big pliers that Zhang Ze had already cracked the shell of.
Remove the broken shell and the plump crab meat inside will be revealed immediately.
Zhang Wu also followed his example, sliding the crab claw meat into the fish soup a few times, and then taking a big bite.
"Wow, it's really delicious! Mom, second sister, third sister, please eat it quickly. This crab meat is much better than field crab."
"Mom, Qian and Qing, you can try the crab roe." Zhang Ze said as he picked up a crab shell, used a spoon to scoop some fish soup into the crab shell, and handed it to his old mother beside him.
Zhang Huihong knew from her youngest son's reaction that the crab meat tasted really good, so she tasted it without hesitation.
"This crab that no one wants tastes really good." She was a little surprised after taking a bite. Then she tasted the crab meat and felt even more puzzled. "It tastes good. Why doesn't anyone eat it?"
When Zhang Ze was born, many people in the village were so hungry that they had to eat tree bark, and no one caught crabs to eat. Zhang's mother suddenly didn't understand why.
"It's not that no one eats it. The neighboring city is raising it, which means that some people eat it. It's just that people here don't know and don't know how to eat it."
Zhang Ze picked up two crab bodies at the hind legs and gave them to the two sisters, then said with a smile.
Nowadays, black truffles are no different from wild weeds. To put it bluntly, it's just that the rural people are ignorant and the time is not right yet.
The whole family enjoyed the lunch with gusto, and this seafood meal was considered a refresher for their diet.
Compared to fish that has a fishy smell when it is not cooked well, at least crabs don’t taste that way. Not only do they not have a fishy smell, but they are also very fresh and sweet, and can even fill your stomach.
This also made them realize that there are definitely a lot of good things to eat at the seaside. At least Zhang Wu shouted that he would go catch some tomorrow.
Zhang Ze touched his hedgehog-like head and said, "Brother has a blind date tomorrow, maybe next time!"
You can't eat delicious food every day. Later in his life, a fishing friend of his raised blue crabs at home. Every season, blue crabs with fewer claws or too fat to survive were served on the table almost every day.
According to the old man, "My head hurts when I see blue crabs!"
In the afternoon, Zhang Ze didn't go fishing either.
There was not much firewood left at home, so he took advantage of his free time today to go and chop some more.
The next morning, Zhang Ze got up early as usual and went to the yard to exercise.
I washed my hair and put on some decent clothes.
His family was poor, and he didn't have time to get cloth coupons to buy some cloth, so the so-called decent clothes he was wearing only had a few patches and only one.
Zhang's mother also got up early and made breakfast for her son.
Not long after the meal, Zhang Cuifen came over, and then the two of them walked to the town and took the bus to the county.
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It is rather troublesome to go to Lumen Island, as there are only boats available at the county pier.
The boat fare is not expensive, only five cents.
Mainly, Lumen Island is not far from Yuewan County. If there is a bridge, it would only take a dozen minutes to drive there.
In the car, Zhang Cuifen kept telling him how good the girl was, as if he would be single for the rest of his life if he didn't marry her.
However, Zhang Ze himself also had some small expectations in his heart. What if he could really find a beautiful and virtuous girl?
Then he will definitely make a lot of money.
It’s better to grab the bargain early, otherwise his sons and grandchildren will have no chance in the future!
When he arrived at the dock, Zhang Ze spotted Tong Yuanhang the first time.
It seemed that the other party was also waiting for him. When he saw him, he immediately shouted: "Aze, this way!"
Zhang Ze said something to Zhang Cuifen, and then walked over there, but he didn't notice that her face had become very ugly.
At this moment, she no longer wanted to take Zhang Ze to Lumen Island. She just wanted to find a suitable excuse to leave.
But Tong Yuanhang was sharp-eyed and saw her at the same time: "Hey, Aunt Zhang, why are you here too? Aze, what are you doing?"
Zhang Ze was stunned: "How do you know each other?"
"Yesterday, Aunt Zhang brought a young man to my sister for a blind date. I was the one who sent him there early in the morning." Tong Yuanhang said, as if he had thought of something. "By the way, you and Aunt Zhang are not going to my place for a blind date as well, are you? Then you and the young man named Zhang Guodong from yesterday are not from the same village, are you?"
Zhang Ze's face gradually became strange. It turned out that the blind family was right in front of him! But he knew that it was not the Tong family's fault for being short-sighted, because the other party didn't know the specific situation of Er Gouzi at all, and there was a matchmaker who was praising him desperately.
He nodded: "I am indeed going to your place for a blind date. Please wait a moment. I will go and talk to Aunt Zhang. I will tell you something later."
Tong Yuanhang originally wanted to ask him about Ergouzi's situation, but when he saw that Zhang Ze had something to say to Zhang Cuifen, he suppressed the urge to ask and stood aside waiting.
As for Zhang Ze, he had already come to Zhang Cuifen and looked at her with a half-smile: "Aunt Zhang, it's not appropriate for you to cheat my friend like this, right?"
(End of this chapter)
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