Chapter 200 Preparing to sell crabs

With this move, the rest of the breakfast was indeed wiped out.

There are still many people coming in to eat at noon.

This season is the time to eat crabs, but the traffic at this time is not as developed as the real traffic. But a few days ago, she asked someone to send a message to the elder brothers and sisters in the countryside, asking them to collect crabs. The crabs are all bigger than a palm.

If you meet the requirements, a crab will cost you two cents.

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a carriage stopping at the door.

The driver was Qin Daniu.

Seeing her eldest brother, her face showed joy: "Brother."

Qin Daniu jumped off the carriage and said to him: "I have brought you the vegetables harvested in the past two days. By the way, there are also the crabs you mentioned. After I harvested the crabs, many people from our village went into the river.

Go and touch it, don’t tell me, I really touched a lot.”

He went in and pulled out a basket.

The basket was covered with wooden boards and even weighted with stones. Qin Zhiyi knew at a glance that the elder brother was worried that the crabs would slip out of it, so he did this.

Seeing that her eldest brother was about to take down the stone, she hurriedly said: "Don't worry about taking it down yet, let's move the things to the back kitchen and pour them into the big bucket to prevent these things from crawling out."

Qin Daniu smiled naively and responded, holding the basket with both hands and carrying the stones in it.

After removing the stone, Qin Daniu opened the lid and poured out all the crabs inside with a splash.

Dozens of crabs immediately scurried back and forth inside, but they could only circle around the bottom of the plate and couldn't escape at all.

Qin Zhiyi smiled and said, "Brother, if you collect crabs next time, you can tell them to tie them up with straw, so that they can neither use pliers to pinch people nor escape."

As she spoke, she walked to the pot hole, picked up a piece of straw, soaked it in water, and after it was soft, twisted it to show Qin Daniu a demonstration.

Now that my sister did this, the crab really lay down in his hand. He scratched his scalp and said, "My sister is really smart. If you tie it like this, it will be honest. I learned how to tie it back later, and I also taught them to tie it like this."

At this point, he asked again: "Sister, what are you doing with these crabs?"

"Of course I ate it."

Qin Zhiyi continued: "Brother is tired today. I will have dinner here at noon. After dinner, I will go back to Qinjiazhuang with you to pick up Grandma. We will celebrate the festival tomorrow."

Hearing this, Qin Daniu also understood his sister's thoughts, so he nodded.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Qin Zhiyi added: "It just so happened that I got these crabs at noon and took my brother to try them together."

"good."

After Qin Zhiyi finished speaking, he began to brush the crabs himself.

Qin Daniu stood aside and made some uneasy moves.

Even before he came back, he had heard that his sister and Fei Chengsheng were planning to get married.

But now when he saw his sister, he didn't know what to say.

Several times, Qin Daniu stood beside him and tested him, but in the end he didn't say anything.

It wasn't until Qin Zhiyi washed the crabs in his hands and steamed them in a pot that he saw Qin Daniu's hesitant look.

"Brother, do you have something to say to me?"

After being pointed out by Qin Zhiyi, Qin Daniu nodded naively again: "Sister, why don't we change places? Big brother wants to talk to you."

"good."

The two of them arrived at a private room. Qin Daniu sat down and then hesitantly said: "Brother, I heard that you are going to marry Mr. Fei?"

Qin Zhiyi didn't say anything, and Qin Daniu hurriedly spoke again: "Brother knows, there must be some reason. You are a sensible girl, and you know that the new widow will be criticized if she can't get married so soon, but others don't know, so eldest brother

I was wondering if there was something else going on."

She admitted that she was moved by her elder brother's words: "Originally I didn't want to talk about it, but since elder brother asked and the matter has passed, I will tell you about it."

Then she told her eldest brother everything about Master Liu and their plans.

After hearing this, the eldest brother spoke: "So that's it. It's been a hard time for you for a while. You must have suffered a lot of gossip. Fortunately, this matter is over."

Qin Zhiyi nodded: "The date originally spread about the wedding was two days after the Double Ninth Festival, but we didn't get married when the date came, so the rumors were self-defeating."

"That's true."

The big stone that Qin Daniu was pressing on his chest finally fell.

The reason why his sister did this was entirely to catch the thief. If someone gossiped about her in the future, he could refute it with confidence.

Soon, the crabs in the pot were steamed, and Ah Xi came up to tell her, so she took her eldest brother downstairs to make the dipping sauce, sat in the most conspicuous position at the door, and started eating crabs with her eldest brother.

The tools prepared earlier were already ready. Just putting the crabs on the table, and placing the crab eating tools and dipping sauces neatly had already attracted people coming in to eat.

Of course, everyone will not accept novel things easily, especially crabs. Everyone has never eaten like this before, and it looks like a strange thing when it is served on the table.

Many people who came to eat simply ordered food and stood aside to watch them eat.

Qin Zhiyi didn't care about anything else, she just asked her eldest brother to imitate her, how to open the crab shell.

Fortunately, the first female crab she opened had not only a lot of crab roe, but also a lot of crab paste.

She picked it out with a tool, dipped it in the juice, and handed it to her elder brother: "Brother, try it."

It was also the first time for Qin Daniu to eat like this. Seeing Qin Zhiyi handing him something yellow, he couldn't help but ask: "This, can this be eaten too?"

In his opinion, this yellow stuff is excrement, how can it be eaten?

Qin Zhiyi patiently explained: "This is the crab roe, the treasure among crabs, here are the gills, and here..."

Her voice was unhurried and her tone was also comfortable to listen to. While introducing her to her elder brother, she was also introducing her to the people around her.

After hearing this, the eldest brother took the last bite of the crab roe and immediately exclaimed: "It's not bad, it's very delicious. It tastes like egg yolk, but it's many times more delicious than egg yolk."

There were already people nearby who were curious, and Qin Zhiyi was not stingy. After getting rid of the crabs, those who were willing to try could try it.

Many people have taken the initiative to try it and put a bite of crab roe in their mouths. Everyone who has eaten it praises the deliciousness.

It seems that the delicacy of crab is ready to be served on the dining table.

During lunch, Fei Chengsheng did not come back.

Before he could send Ah Xi to ask, Fei Chengsheng had already sent a yamen servant over, saying that Mr. Liu would invite him to dinner at noon.

When Qin Zhiyi heard this, he immediately asked the chef to cook the food and sent Ah Xi to the Yamen.

There were a lot of people in the Yamen, so she made more than a dozen dishes and brought them over. They were all meat dishes that could be served on the table. Even the vegetarian dishes were popular among everyone.

After lunch, Qin Zhiyi took a carriage, took Dabao and Erbao with him, and returned to Qinjiazhuang with his eldest brother.

Unexpectedly, when I got off the carriage, I didn't see Grandma, but I saw my sister-in-law walking out of the house.

Seeing Qin Zhiyi, Xue Chunhua was also stunned: "Why is my sister back today?"

Qin Daniu hurriedly explained: "My sister said that she would take grandma to the city to celebrate the festival today."

Xue Chunhua realized it immediately and sighed: "After your eldest brother left in the morning, grandma secretly cried in the house and kept saying that she would go to the grave to accompany grandpa. We couldn't stop her, so we just let her

Went..."
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