After washing the blue crabs, Zhang Ze untied the straw rope and put them into the boiling pot.

Zhang Huihong picked up the already languid black Bao Gong from the bucket and asked: "What kind of fish is this, do you want to burn it too?"

"I'll make this later. It's guaranteed to be delicious!" Zhang Ze thought for a while and finally decided to steam it.

The blue crabs were also cooked, and there was also a fish that was steamed. Mother Zhang didn’t say anything else this time, 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 on the spot and slapped him.

"Hey, you're a fish, why are you pouring so much oil? The oil doesn't cost money or tickets, you prodigal!"

"Mom, this fish needs to be drizzled with hot oil to make it fragrant. This step is essential." Zhang Ze endured the heavy blow from his old mother with a wry smile and explained quickly.

"Why would you put so much oil in something that doesn't taste good? Are you so wasteful?" Zhang Huihong snatched away the oil bottle, "You can do whatever you want from now on, and don't let me enter the kitchen!"

Zhang Qian and others stood nearby covering their mouths and laughing. It was rare to see my brother get beaten by his mother.

"..." Zhang Ze looked at the half tablespoon of cooking oil in the pot and suddenly felt nostalgic for future generations.

But he is still unwilling to let him go back.

His younger sister, brother, and old mother are all around him. This long-lost family relationship makes him cherish and enjoy it very much, and it won't be like this for long.

After 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 at the table with rice.

Three dishes for lunch, blue crab, braised mudskipper with pickled vegetables, and steamed squid.

This table of dishes would cost at least a thousand in later generations. Not to mention anything else, just five wild blue crabs weighing more than 50 pounds would cost nearly a thousand.

Because Zhang's mother was worried about the seasoning, Zhang Ze stopped pouring soy sauce, picked up a piece of cut blue crab meat and dipped it into the soy sauce soup containing the male fish, and then tasted it beautifully.

"Well, it's so fresh and sweet. This cricket is really delicious."

"I want a big tong!" Zhang Wu was immediately aroused when he saw how delicious the food was, and then directly picked up a big tong that Zhang Ze had already cracked the shell of.

Remove the broken shell and immediately reveal the very plump crab meat inside.

Zhang Wu also imitated his example, swiping the crab claw meat into the fish soup a few times, and then took a big bite.

"Wow, it's really delicious! Mom, second sister and third sister, please eat quickly. This crab meat is much more delicious than field crab."

"Mom, Aqian Aqing, you can try the crab roe." Zhang Ze said, picking up a crab shell, using a spoon to make some fish soup, put it into the crab shell, and handed it to the old mother beside him.

Zhang Huihong already knew from her son's reaction that the crab meat tasted really good, so she tasted it directly without any hesitation.

"This crab that no one wants, tastes really good." She was a little surprised after taking a bite. Then she also tasted the crab meat, and she felt even more strange, "It's delicious, why doesn't anyone eat it?"

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In the era when Zhang Ze was born, many people in the village were so hungry that they even gnawed tree bark, but no one caught these crabs to eat. Zhang's mother suddenly didn't understand why.

"It's not that no one eats it. The city next door has cultivated it, which means there are people who eat it. But the people here don't know about it and don't understand how to eat it."

Zhang Ze pinched the two crab bodies at the hind legs and gave them to the two sisters, and then said with a smile.

In this era, black truffles are no different from weeds. To put it bluntly, rural people are ignorant and the time has not yet come.

The whole family ate with gusto at noon, and this seafood meal refreshed their diet.

Compared with fish that smells fishy when it's not cooked properly, at least crabs don't taste like that. Not only do they not smell fishy, ​​but they are also very sweet and can even fill your stomach.

This also made them understand that there are definitely a lot of good things to eat at the beach, at least Zhang Wu shouted to catch them tomorrow.

Zhang Ze touched his little hedgehog-like head: "Brother is going on a blind date tomorrow, maybe next time!"

You can’t eat delicious food every day. Later in his life, he had a fishing friend who farmed blue crabs at home. During the season, some green crabs with missing claws or too fat to survive were brought to the table almost every day.

According to what the guy said: "My head hurts when I see blue crabs!"

In the afternoon, Zhang Ze didn’t go fishing either.

There was not much firewood at home, so he took advantage of his free time today to go chop some more and come back.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Ze habitually got up early 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 tickets to buy some cloth, so his so-called decent clothes only had one missing patch.

Zhang's mother also got up early and made breakfast for her son.

Not long after eating, Zhang Cuifen came over, and then the two of them walked to the town and first took the bus to the county.

Going to Lumen Island is more troublesome. Only the county pier has boats that can go there.

The ferry fare is not expensive, only five cents.

Mainly, Lumen Island is not far from Yuewan County. If there is a bridge, it only takes ten minutes to drive.

Zhang Cuifen kept telling him in the car how wonderful the girl was, as if she would be single for the rest of her life if she didn't marry him.

However, Zhang Ze himself also has some small expectations in his heart. What if he can really pick up a beautiful and virtuous girl?

Then he will definitely make a lot of money.

Pick up the leaks as early as possible, otherwise his sons and grandsons will not have a chance in the future!

Arriving at the dock, Zhang Ze spotted Tong Yuanhang immediately.

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 had sharp eyes and saw her at the same time: "Hey, Aunt Zhang, why are you here? Aze, what are you doing?"

Zhang Ze was stunned: "How do you know each other?"

"Yesterday Aunt Zhang brought a young man to go on a blind date with my sister. I sent him there so early in the morning." Tong Yuanhang said, seeming to have thought of something, "By the way, you and Aunt Zhang won't also go to my place for a blind date."

Right? Then you and the young man named Zhang Guodong yesterday are not from the same village, are you?"

Zhang Ze's face gradually became weird. It turned out that the blind family was right in front of him!

But he knew that it was not the fault of the Tong family's lack of foresight, because the other party did not know the specific situation of Er Gouzi at all, and there was a matchmaker beside him who was always praising him.

He nodded: "I am indeed going to your place for a blind date. Just wait, I will go and say a few words to Aunt Zhang, and I will tell you something later."

Tong Yuanhang originally wanted to ask him about Ergouzi's situation, but seeing that Zhang Ze had something to say to Zhang Cuifen, he resisted the temptation to ask and stood aside to wait.
Chapter completed!