Chapter 295 One in a thousand miles or one in a hundred?
The old men had wine to drink anyway, and they were satisfied and happy enough to have thick and plump crabs as food and drinks.
"I remember when I was poor, I could still drink and eat empty-shell crabs that were much thinner than these!" Mr. Fu recalled the bitter experience and thought sweetly.
Mr. Li also smiled and said: "At that time, you people in the city had wine to drink and crabs to eat. We were very poor in our place. We were busy all day long and only earned two corns. When we got home, we had to break them up and share them with our brothers.
Sister, when I think about those days now, I really don’t know how I survived.”
Everyone sighed and cherished the life in front of them even more.
At this time, I heard Xu Suizhu exclaiming in a low voice.
Everyone looked over and saw, oh! The crab meat is yellow and sizzling with oil, and the broken crab legs are dripping with oil. There is really a butter crab!
"I remember it was Dou Dou who picked the crabs, right?" Mr. Lu waved to Little Baozi excitedly, "Little guy, come to Grandpa's side and pick one for Grandpa too, okay?"
"Doudou, come to uncle!"
"Doudou, come..."
The little bun looked at this and that in confusion.
After a long while, he slipped off Xu Suizhu's lap without saying a word and ran back to the beach to continue playing the human-turtle racing game with the drama turtle.
Could it be that they think the adult world is too complicated and don’t want to deal with them?
Everyone shook their heads and laughed, saying that this kid was a ghost.
It is said that the best butter crab, which is only one in a million, appeared in a plate of more than a dozen butter crabs. Everyone immediately became energetic and compared the butter crab with the other crabs on the plate one by one.
The result is obvious - there is no second one.
Xu Xiuyuan's mind was spinning, and she suddenly thought of live crabs kept in crab pots and raised in farms: "Old Lin, you caught hundreds of them today, right?"
Lin Guodong choked.
Wouldn’t the mother-in-law go to the breeding farm to pick out the live crabs just because she didn’t want him to eat?
Two to three hundred crabs would be too few to sell, but asking him to screen them one by one to see if they were butter crabs would be too many!
"You're stupid!" Xu Xiuyuan rolled her eyes at the man, "How could I ask you to pick something before you've eaten? Besides, it's almost dark, and the farm is dark, so how can you pick something!"
Lin Guodong breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. He picked up his chopsticks and was about to continue eating when he heard his mother-in-law say: "It's a good meal to choose from. Just carry the crab pot into the house and hold it under the light to choose."
"..."
It seems that I am destined to not escape this life tonight!
Everyone laughed.
"My dear, you have to think about it this way: If you leak a butter crab, you will leak a lot of money!" Mr. Lu comforted him with a smile.
Then he said: "If there are still butter crabs, why don't you sell them to me? I'll ask Xiao Zhao to send them to Kyoto and give them to a few of my old friends to have a taste. It must be the first time for them to taste this one-in-a-million good thing."
Lu Chilin twitched the corner of his mouth: The old man must be trying to show off again.
During the time he came to Fuju Island, the old man really showed off to his old comrades in Kyoto. There were some good things, such as the health wine made by his grandson's wife, the delicacies made by his family, the soothing sachet made by Doctor Liu... They were all spoken orally, which made the little boy
Zhao wrote it in a letter and sent it to Kyoto.
Not to mention the tone of voice, something like "I drank the health-preserving wine specially made by my grandson's wife for me, it tasted delicious, and I slept until dawn"; or "The life on the island is a bit boring - fishing in the morning, playing chess in the afternoon,
After dinner, I took a walk around the island. Otherwise, I kept the meat to grow. Why? The in-laws were so enthusiastic that they had a feast. Chickens and ducks were raised in the bamboo forest. You can catch whatever you want, not to mention seafood. One time
I also took a boat to go fishing with Lao Fu and Lao Li..."
Look! Is this a "boring" tone? It's obviously because you're afraid that the other person will be too boring - deliberately irritating them.
If it hadn't been for the Asian Games some time ago, when Mr. Lin and others were invited to sit in the guest seats to watch the opening ceremony, they might have come here long ago.
It is simply unforgivable to tempt patients with the three-high syndrome syndrome by tempting them with the comfortable life on the island and the delicacies that they can only see but not taste!
What if we bring the butter crab to them to try...
Tsk! Mr. Lu dares to bet that within a few days, he will definitely see those old men on the island...
Lin Guodong and his wife heard that the old man wanted to give it away, so they agreed without saying a word: "If there are really butter crabs left, just take them. We are all a family, and talking about money will hurt our feelings."
The old man smiled and stroked his beard and said, "Okay, then I won't be polite to you. I'll have someone bring some good things over later."
The good thing he said is the Three Treasures of Northeast China.
Mr. Lin was angry that he was showing off by sending letters every three days. A while ago, he asked someone to bring back some treasures from the deep woods in the northeast, but the quantity was not large. People near and far away were reluctant to share it, so he only sent Mr. Lu a telegram to inform him, saying that he would leave it for him.
I bought two high-quality ginseng plants and a pair of deer antlers.
Mr. Lu said he was disgusted: "I am as strong as a cow now, why do I need these things?" But he was actually happy in his heart.
He was just chatting about life on the island when he had something to do, and he didn't give away anything valuable. He was so anxious that Old Man Lin counterattacked with the Three Treasures of Northeast China.
Haha! To paraphrase a wise saying from my grandson’s daughter-in-law: Some people are born to pay more taxes than others. What tax? IQ tax!
It would be nice if it was old Luo who didn't get along with him. He was so fooled that he even emptied the Luo family's warehouse without mercy.
It's a pity that it's Old Man Lin. The two of them have a good personal relationship, otherwise they wouldn't be able to show off by writing letters. It would be embarrassing to accept such a big gift from him and not say anything in return.
Fortunately, there were butter crabs, which saved him from having to think about extra gifts in return.
When Xu Xiuyuan and his wife heard what Mr. Lu said, they became even more concerned about the crab pots and crabs that were temporarily raised in the breeding farm.
I originally planned to pick one up.
After all, it would be a pity to sandwich butter crabs with ordinary butter crabs, send them to restaurants, and sell them to diners at ordinary prices.
Now that I heard what the old man said, I have to choose carefully. I don’t want to miss any of them.
So, after dinner, we went to the farm to pick up crab pots.
After entering the house, he turned on all the lights, grabbed a crab, put it under the light, and picked one by one.
The main thing is to see whether the two corners of the crab shell are transparent. Transparency means that the crab paste has turned into oil, otherwise it means that the paste has not turned into oil.
In this way, more than two hundred crabs were selected, and more than ten crabs were selected.
No way?
The family looked at each other.
Isn’t it said that you can only pick one out of ten thousand? When did you say that you can pick out ten out of a hundred?
"The day after tomorrow during the Mid-Autumn Festival, call Jian Bing. Let's get together as a family and steam two more crabs. If they are butter crabs, it means the quality of this batch of crabs is really good." Xu Xiuyuan immediately agreed.
"Why don't we send this batch to the hotel and keep it for Suisui's wedding?" Wu Meili suggested, "What if the next batch we catch is not as good as this one?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Xu Xiuyuan slapped her thigh, "Keep it! This batch won't be sent to the hotel for now! Anyway, they are kept in crab pots and placed in the breeding farm, with occasional bait, which is almost the same as being stocked in the sea."
With that said, he took out the wedding banquet menu he had prepared and ticked off the cream crab on it, which meant that all the ingredients for this dish were ready.