newbobooks Chapter 762: Crab Sauce
Chapter 762: Crab Sauce
Of course, there are not many guests as generous as this. There is only one from the Wang family in this county, and there are only three from other counties combined.
The more you buy, the more you get. Twenty baskets will get two small baskets free.
Although the price is not cheap, the big one is one or two taels of silver more expensive than the small one.
The families who received the gifts were quite satisfied. Who wouldn’t be happy when they got something for free?
She calculated that five days had passed since she delivered crabs to the county magistrate.
These days, people come to buy crabs every day. At first, they were from our county, then they came from several neighboring counties, and later they came from big households from several counties next to them.
So many big customers come to the door every day, and some of them are arrogant, but no one wants to take it for free. They all pay the money obediently, not a penny less.
Zhou Guo was very satisfied and would wait until they received the money before giving them the crabs.
There were tens of thousands of crabs in the pond, and fifteen counties took turns selling them. In addition, there were big buyers coming to the village every day to buy the crabs, so they were almost sold out in less than half a month.
Finally, she picked out three baskets of big crabs and sent them to the county magistrate. The county magistrate was satisfied, and she was happy too.
After the sale, when they counted the money, everyone in the Zhou family was so happy that they were grinning.
Li sighed, "When you used the recipe for tender tofu to exchange for Yang's crab seedlings, I felt it was not worth it. Only my family knows how to make tender tofu, but there are many crabs in the world.
Now I see that it was the right decision. Even if we had the recipe and worked hard every day, we would have made a good business of 100 guan. We could never make that much money in more than ten lifetimes."
Everyone nodded sincerely. A piece of tofu costs two or three cents, and a crab costs five hundred cents. How many pieces of tofu would it take to make?
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Mom, don't underestimate our tender tofu. Now only the owner of Baoyue Tower knows how to make it, and it has brought many returning customers to Baoyue Tower.
I guess after he let everyone know, all the people in Baoyue Tower will buy this thing. Tender tofu is of little use to us, but in their hands, it is more valuable than crabs. "
After all, it is a unique thing no matter how you look at it, and it tastes good. It is the favorite of many people in the hot summer.
The old man pursed his lips and said, "You're right. In the summer, cook it with preserved eggs and cool it with ice. The taste is indescribably good."
After saying that, he blinked a few times.
The Zhou family was amused.
Zhou Guo said: "How about I make it for you tomorrow?"
The old man nodded. "Okay, okay, I'll help you make more. The weather is getting colder, so it won't go bad for a while. Soft tofu is delicious when used in soups, salads, or fish stews."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I don't need you. I can do it alone."
She is very strong and it only takes her one hour to do what others need two hours. She hasn't done it for a long time anyway, so it might as well do more.
After the crabs were sold out, she gave some to her close friends in the village as she did in previous years.
The villagers looked at these crabs with both joy and jealousy. The crabs they had left uneaten last year all froze to death in the winter. Even those kept indoors died inexplicably.
No family was exempt from this, and only then did they realize how difficult it is to raise this thing.
The Zhou family has been able to keep the fish well in such a large pond. From a few hundred in the beginning, they now have tens of thousands every year. I don’t know how they do it.
I wanted to ask, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. They still have some sense of shame.
I'll just eat the crabs myself this year. I heard from many people that they are very delicious, although there is not much meat, so it's a bit troublesome.
Zhou Sanyuan's family was particularly angry. They were so angry looking at these crabs, "Tell me, why can other people raise crabs well but I can't? I was afraid they would be hungry, so I provided them with delicious food. I couldn't bear to eat it myself. I was afraid they would be cold, so I put them in the house every night and let them out during the day to get some fresh air. I took better care of them than I would two children. How could they die so early?!"
Zhou Sanyuan didn't dare to speak, and after a while he said, "Maybe, maybe I took too good care of her?"
"Bullshit!" Zhou Sanyuan's wife was angry. "Won't the more you take care of it, the better it will be?"
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Zhou Guo estimated that there were still six or seven thousand crabs in the pond, and the people in the village still had three crabs each.
There were not many left in the small pond, only about a thousand. He picked out some and gave them to Wu Jiang, Qian Duo and others. As for the rest, he kept two or three hundred for breeding and gave some to the Zhao family. Zhou Guo planned to keep them all for himself.
The leftovers are saved for making crab sauce, crab roe sauce and crab meat sauce. We didn’t make much last year, but the whole family ate it all before the Chinese New Year.
As a result, Zhou Dacang had no food to eat when he came back.
Make more this year and save it for mixing with noodles, rice, or dipping steamed buns in the winter. It’s a great dish.
If Zhou Dakura comes back and misses the crab season next autumn, he can still eat crab sauce to satisfy his craving.
In the evening, the family sat in the yard and ate.
After Zhou Guo ate ten crabs in one breath, he could hardly eat anymore. This was the first time they had eaten crabs this year. Like the people in the village, they waited until the crabs were sold out before they started eating.
This is the only month or so in the whole year when we can eat something fresh, so of course we eat as much as we can.
The old man didn’t eat fresh crab last year because the crab sauce was not satisfying enough.
He picked a big one, cracked open the shell, took a bite, closed his eyes, and sighed, "I don't know who discovered that such an ugly hard-shell crab can be eaten. He should be recorded in history."
Everyone laughed and nodded, which made sense.
Zhou Guo said: "The first person who ate crabs must have been extremely hungry, otherwise who would want to eat this thing for no reason."
It has a hard shell, bared teeth and claws, but no meat. I really don't know what's so good about it.
Li smiled and said, "You're right. I'm hungry. Let alone the hard crabs, I'd eat even the dirt. At least there's still some meat in it, although not much."
Zhou Mai remembered something and said to Li: "Mom, do you make a lot of crab sauce at home?"
Li said, "Don't worry, there are plenty, several large jars, you will have enough to eat."
Everyone in my family loves this crab paste. Since we have it at home, we naturally have to prepare more.
The crab season is not over yet, but this year's matsutake mushroom season has begun.
When the first mushroom appeared in the mountains, Li told Zhou Guo, "This year's mushrooms have come out, is it time to harvest them?"
Zhou Guo shook his head. "Let's wait for a while. Now is not the best time."
Mrs. Li stopped asking. She didn't understand and didn't know when was the best time to collect the child. She could only follow what the child said.
She just thought that if they didn’t accept the purchase now, they would accept it later. Would the villagers still be able to sell to them?
As a result, when the people who went up the mountain came down on the first day, there were only seven or eight people who came to sell mushrooms.
Li forced a smile and said, "No, no, we Guoguo said that we won't accept them for the time being. You can sell them yourselves."
Sigh, it turns out this girl had already expected this.
Wu Ya said, "Second Aunt, please stop sighing. Guoguo is right. The market for the first few batches of mushrooms is good. We can always sell them for more money. When there are too many mushrooms in the market later, they will be worth less. At that time, they will beg us to buy them."