"Shaobao, why is this crab soft?"

Li Chengqian squatted under the yard, looked at the crabs in the pot, and reached out to poke them curiously. However, this crab was different from the crabs he had seen before. These domineering guys were actually soft.

The shell is soft, the feet are soft, and the whole body is soft.

Li Chao said without looking back, "It's really rare. This is what the crab looks like after it loses its shell."

"Crabs will still fade their shells?" Li Chengqian asked in surprise.

"Many animals will lose their shells and skin, such as snakes, shrimps, and crabs."

"Ah, I really didn't know it before."

Li Chao said to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty, our prince's education is still missing. We should give the prince a natural lesson and teach the prince common sense of life, some biogeography and nature knowledge. Otherwise, we can't even distinguish between leeks and wheat seedlings, and we can't recognize eels and snakes, which is not possible."

Just now, Li Chengqian recognized the eel as a snake, and was so scared that he retreated desperately.

"Wen Yuan's words are quite reasonable." Li Shimin washed away the mud on his body, changed into a robe, and restored his imperial majesty.

"Is this just a soft-legged crab?" Changsun Wuji asked on the side.

"That's right." Li Chao replied.

"Can this soft-legged crab be eaten?" Changsun Wuji is also a foodie. He was also very curious when he saw Li Chao bringing a pot of soft-legged crab.

“Eatable, and delicious.”

Crabs will lose their shells. It is said that they will have to go through thirteen times in their life. Each time they transform and grow, it is a new beginning. What is extremely magical about crabs' shells is that they will also remove their gills, sacs, and internal organs when they lose their shells, so that after the shells are removed, there is no trace of dirt on their bodies.

The whole body of the crab after the shell is weak, but what is even more amazing is that this soft state lasts only for a few hours.

After a few hours, the crabs will slowly become hard when they come into contact with water.

Li Chengqian grabbed a crab and found that the crab did not hurt him at all. He pulled it gently and pulled down a crab claw, and white water like rice slurry flowed out of the surface.

"Mr. Wei, this soft-shell crab is a rare delicacy. It can be eaten all over the body. It is delicious when steamed or fried."

If Li Chao was not the largest landlord in Bashang, it would be very difficult to eat a large plate of soft-shell crabs. Because this soft-shell crab will become hard after the shell fades.

This is what the Li family’s farmers knew that Li Chao wanted to entertain guests with soft-shell crabs, so they deliberately started looking for them in the fields and caught almost all the soft-shell crabs that had just faded.

"Then I have never eaten this soft-legged crab, so I must compensate you today."

Li Shimin also said that he wanted to give it a try, and he heard Li Chao brag so much.

Li Chao did it himself.

Clean the soft-legged crab first and steam it in a steamer.

After steaming, hang a paste made of starch and eggs, and fry it.

This method is also called crispy fried.

After the oil is hot, put the battered crabs into the pot and fry until they turn golden brown.

Drain the oil.

Li Chengqian watched the whole process, and he was so sad that he could not turn his eyes.

Li Shimin on the other side turned his eyes from time to time.

After a little cold, Li Chao grabbed a golden fried soft-shell crab and bit it down in one bite.

Fragrant and crispy.

Crispy, chicken flavor!

When Li Chengqian saw that Li Chao had one first, he immediately reached out to grab one without hesitation and bit it down.

Crack!

So crispy, so crispy.

"tasty!"

Li Chengqian only said two words!

This kid has the potential to become a new generation of foodies!

Li Chao brought the plate to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty."

Li Chao was the first to eat crabs. Seeing that Li Chao and Li Chengqian were so happy, Li Shimin reached out to pick up one.

The soft-legged crab has been fried golden and crispy.

I took off a crab leg and bit it in my mouth, creaking, and it was indeed delicious.

Li Shimin gave a thumbs up.

"Wuji, Xuanling, you guys eat it too, it's really good." Li Shimin strongly recommended it.

The prime ministers were one by one.

"I have eaten steamed crabs before, and they are all big crabs from the lake. I never thought that this kind of soft crab and this crispy fried method are also delicious."

"That's right, this is a rare soft-shell crab."

Li Chao had already eaten one and immediately took the second one. Li Chengqian was not willing to be outdone. This kid was smart. He took two at a time and ate one, and took one in his hand.

"Your Majesty, this soft-shell crab has many health functions. Eating it can promote growth, development and intelligence, and adults can also prevent obesity. This obesity is actually a disease, especially for middle-aged and elderly people. After obesity, they will easily develop many diseases. Therefore, after middle-aged and elderly people, they must pay attention to obesity. If they are too fat, they have to lose weight, otherwise all kinds of diseases will be easily caused."

Among the several prime ministers, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda were older, had high status and good conditions. When they were young, one was the prince of Xiliang and the other was the prince of Nanchen. Now they are both prime ministers, which can be considered pampered. In addition, they are civil servants, so there is not much time to exercise. When people are middle-aged, they inevitably start to have a small belly and get lucky.

"Wen Yuan, do you think we are obese?" Xiao Yu asked.

People generally call fat fat, because ordinary people have no conditions to be fat. They have heavy physical strength and nutrition that cannot keep up, so there are no fat people among the poor.

Only those rich and powerful people will have fat people, who live a good life, work less, and grow white and fat. Therefore, the people enviously believe that obesity is something that only wealthy people have, and gaining weight is called gaining weight.

However, Li Chao clearly knows that obesity can easily cause three highs, diabetes, etc. Today's people do call diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia and other diseases such as wealth and honor.

Diabetes is called diabetes now, and it is also a treatment that is not cured, and most of them are caused by wealthy people.

Many people suffer from these diseases because of obesity.

Being fat and having wealth are not good things.

"Xiao Xiang, Chen Xiang, you must strengthen your exercise in the future and pay attention to your healthy diet. For example, you must eat less of this crispy crab in the future. Eat more light food, less wine and meat, especially less oil. Of course, the most important thing is to exercise. Even if you are busy, you must take time to practice your body, so that you will naturally be healthy and live a hundred years old."

When Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda heard this, they looked at the crabs in their hands and felt very reluctant to leave.

Li Shimin grabbed another one to eat. He was still young, in his twenties, and had been living in military service for many years. His health was the strongest time.

Changsun Wuji also grabbed another one, "I'm in good health and don't worry about this yet. I'll eat another one for Xiao Xiang."

Fang Xuanling also smiled and said, "I'll eat another one for Chen Xiang."

When the prince saw this, he immediately reached out to grab it.

As a result, there was only the last one left in the plate, and Li Shimin and Li Chengqian's hands met together.

Li Chengqian was a little unwilling to accept it when he saw it was his father.

Li Shimin's hand did not retract and looked at Li Chengqian with his squint eyes.

The father and son were in a stalemate.

Li Chao smiled and said, "Crown Prince, have you forgotten the story of Kong Rong giving up the li?"

The prince reluctantly withdrew his hand.

Li Shimin picked up the crab with great satisfaction, then pulled off a crab claw and handed it to Chengqian.

"He is worthy of being my prince. I am filial. Come on, I will give you this big clamp!"

"Well, it's delicious. Wenyuan, let's take some crabs back and send them to the palace to let the Supreme Emperor and the Queen compensate."

There are not many soft-shell crabs, but there are still many small crabs in the fields. This type of crab is not as big as that in the lake. But in fact, it is not good to eat fried ones. Chew the shells together to supplement calcium.

Of course, millet shrimp is even better. It is a small one, with a green translucent color. It can be eaten directly, and it is so fresh.

Fried eel section, roasted rice flower fish...

It's simple but very delicious. After a meal, I'll have a few slices of iced watermelon, which is cool.

"Wenyuan, I didn't expect that your fat would increase the yield of the fields so much."

"It's not just a fertilizer. If you grow rice, water retention is the first key. Then you have to be well fertilized, and the other is good management. The rice here is basically meticulously cultivated, and extensive cultivation is not possible as before. This kind of intensive cultivation method can only cultivate ten acres of land for a small family or a single couple who have a few children. If you have more, you can't cultivate it. You have to spend a lot of energy on the fields, fertilizing, water retention, weeding, etc."

Fang Xuanling said on the side, "But your harvest is also high. Although manpower is expensive and fertilizer costs are increased, one acre can produce five stones in the end. If you add the income from growing soybeans, rapeseed and fish farming, even if a family only guards these ten acres of land this year, the harvest will be very good."

It turns out that the type of extensive farming is that although one family planted 100 acres of land, one hundred acres of land has to be rotated due to insufficient fertility. The land is divided into three pieces and one piece is rotated every year. After two years of ploughing, one hundred acres is actually only sixty or seventy acres of land. Moreover, due to insufficient fertility, it is impossible to plant three-season crops. At most, one acre of millet, wheat, and soybeans or radishes are planted, and the harvest is far inferior to that of the Li family.

A better land can harvest two or three stones of millet and wheat, which is very good. Generally, it can only collect one stone per mu, or even seven or eight dou.

This means that if it is just an ordinary field, the grain will only be sixty or seventy stones a year.

The Li family's farmhouse only planted ten acres of land and harvested fifty stones of grain a year. It has not yet been counted for the harvest of soybeans, rapeseed and fish.

After doing this, planting 100 acres of land is almost the same as planting 10 acres of land!

This is very amazing.

For the court, this is even more amazing.
To be continued...