Looking at the shrimps and crabs jumping around in the bucket, Jiang Yue poked them with her finger.
There was a crisp "crack" sound, and she suddenly withdrew her hand. The hairy crab was waving its hard big claws arrogantly. If it was pinched, it would definitely bleed, and maybe even lose a piece of meat.
Jiang Nian took some straw, tied up the big crabs tightly, and put them in the steamer.
The whole hairy crabs were steamed, but many were missing limbs. Jiang Yue picked some and cleaned them. She then peeled two potatoes and cut them into slices.
Pour plenty of oil into the pot, heat it up gradually, then put in the spices, shrimp, crab, and side dishes one by one. If there is no onion, you can only add some green chopped green onion and coriander.
Suddenly, the entire kitchen was filled with the crackling sound of frying oil and the rich aroma. With familiar faces all around her, she didn't need to worry about the aroma attracting trouble.
As for whether or not she was making the other kid cry out of envy, that wasn't even within her consideration. She herself was on the verge of tears.
In the evening, she simply didn't cook any other dishes. She just made a pot of steamed crabs and a pot of dry-pot spicy shrimps and crabs, intending to eat all-you-can-eat seafood.
The two of them sat under the osmanthus tree in the yard, cutting the crabs into pieces one by one.
Jiang Nian looked at the crab in his hand that had turned red after being cooked, and slowly put it into his mouth.
Without tools, it would be difficult to eat. Jiang Yue was struggling with the crab in her hand when she heard a crisp sound. She looked up in surprise and watched Jiang Nian bite a crab with the shell and meat.
He was about to reach out to take it, but was stopped by Jiang Yue.
"Hey, wait, wait, you can't eat crab shells!"
"Open your mouth so I can see."
Jiang Nian was confused, "Ah——"
He had swallowed it all, eating it cleanly without leaving any residue.
Jiang Yue took a deep breath and said, "You have really good teeth." The bones were crunchy even when she bit them.
"What's wrong?"
"You can't eat the shell. It's not tasty. Just eat the meat inside. It won't bother you."
He licked his fangs with the tip of his tongue, "It's not bad, it's softer than bones."
But this time he didn't eat the whole crab. He picked up one, bit off the shell, picked out the meat with chopsticks and put it in Jiang Yue's bowl. After a while, he had picked out a full bowl.
Seeing that he moved quickly, Jiang Yue wiped her hands and picked up the chopsticks.
“Mmm, delicious!”
She squinted her eyes with joy. The steamed food was very fresh and the spicy food was very tasty. Her wish was finally fulfilled!
She picked up a piece of tender white meat and passed it to the man who was still peeling the crab for her. He rolled it with his tongue and the meat was gone.
By the way, I gave her a compliment on her cooking skills, "Delicious!"
The two of them ate from dawn to dusk.
Jiang Nian was still carrying the rice bowl to finish the meal. Jiang Yue touched her slightly bulging belly and leaned back in the chair to rest.
The night wind is also hot. This osmanthus tree looks like it's been there for over ten years, but now it has only a few leaves. I wonder if it will bloom in the golden autumn. If it does, I'll pick the flowers and make osmanthus cake.
"Tomorrow morning, let's build a pigpen and chicken coop in the small backyard. We previously thought the summer weather was too hot and the winter was too cold, and we were worried that we wouldn't be able to raise the piglets, so we didn't let them out. But now, we're spending too much time trapped in this space, which is not cost-effective."
"Also, our eggs are constantly being consumed, and you love to eat them. Let's go find Aunt Jin next door and ask her to teach us how to hatch chicks, or maybe give her a dried fish and ask her for help. They're short of meat, and the two children are skinny as a sap."
Speaking of eggs, Jiang Nian raised his head and swallowed the rice in his mouth. "Let's just ask her for help. Otherwise, if we don't take good care of them one day, it will be bad if those eggs are ruined."
"Yeah, it takes a month to hatch once. It would be so frustrating if you worked so hard for a month only to have it ruined in the end."
At noon the next day, Jiang Yue and his friend went there when Aunt Jin Xiu returned home.
"Auntie, we would like you to help hatch the chicks. This is your reward."
Jiang Yue put the fish on the table. Jin Xiu, who was drinking porridge, was stunned. This one was half the size of the last one! Are all sea fish this big?
She knew the other person's temperament and didn't hesitate, "Okay! Just leave the eggs to me, I will definitely hatch them for you!"
She was now raising chickens for her parents, and the business was thriving, having already hatched hundreds of chicks. Moreover, she had a little girl at home looking after her, so she had the perfect opportunity to teach her the "family craft."
The more she thought about it, the more appropriate it seemed. She asked happily, "How many do you want to hatch?"
They put the basket down. "Here are fifty eggs."
Jiang Yue left half of it, just in case anything went wrong, there would always be a way out.
Jin Xiu thought for a moment and said, "If there are fifty eggs, I can probably hatch forty to forty-five chicks."
Jiang Yue calculated that a success rate of 80 to 90 percent was already very impressive.
"Is there anything we need to prepare?"
"Are there any rags and straw?"
"Yes, I'll bring it to you later." There are a lot of these things.
Jin Xiu smiled and said, "No need for anything else."
"Thank you so much, sister-in-law."
After some polite exchanges, Jiang Yue went home to get rags and straw for her.
Jin Xiu emptied her bowl of porridge into her stomach in a few mouthfuls, told her daughter to take good care of the eggs and dried fish, and then hurried out. She received more food every day than the others, so she must work harder.
In the past, she would curse the horrible weather when walking on the hot ground, but today she couldn't stop laughing and was very happy.
Two big fish! When the man comes back, they'll steam one and eat it with rice. The other big one will be for the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner!
Very beautiful~
Jiang Yue and the other person were dividing up the area in the backyard. With a month's time, they would be able to build a pigpen and a chicken coop.
At this time, someone came and knocked on the door.
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