Farm Girl Turns Everything Around: Sly Husband, Let's Farm

Chapter 1268: Chapter 1267: The Charm of Crawfish_1 Chapter 1268: Chapter 1267: The Charm of Crawfish_1 The charm of crawfish was indeed great, and its explosive popularity in later generations was definitely not the result of hype.

The phenomenon of crawfish was based on merit.

On a hot summer evening, sitting at a food stall, enjoying the night breeze with an iced drink, wearing gloves, and peeling crawfish was absolutely one of life’s great pleasures.

However, there were no disposable gloves like those in the future, so peeling them by hand was no longer an option, and Xiaomai suggested that palace maids peel them for Yang Zheng.

She had put a lot of chili peppers in the dish. Prolonged contact with the crawfish would cause a stinging pain in the hands, fiery hot, and since Yang Zheng was the sole heir of the Royal family, she did not wish to see him encounter any problem.

But she herself had no such concerns, happily eating them one by one with her hands, not even wasting the sauce on her hands, sticking out her tongue to lick it clean–she used chili sparingly in cooking, and she couldn’t bear to waste a single spicy note.

Tong Sanlang also mimicked her, sucking on his fingers with relish as he hadn’t tasted crawfish in a long time, and the combination of numbness and spiciness was too nostalgic.

Their way of eating lacked any semblance of an image; Yang Hao and Feng Huihui were reserved, picking at the crawfish peeled by palace maids with chopsticks. With their status, such uninhibited eating could be done in private, but now, in the presence of others, they needed to maintain the dignity of the Royal family.

But Yang Zheng couldn’t hold back. Watching Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang enjoy their food heartily, he used chopsticks to dip the peeled crawfish meat into the sauce.

The crawfish meat coated with the shiny red sauce, um, was very delicious.

But it still felt like something was missing.

It should taste like the way Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang were eating it.

After much restraint, he turned his head to Yang Hao, “Daddy, I want to peel too.”

“Your hands will hurt.”

“I’m not afraid, I am a man.” He puffed out his little chest.

Yang Hao, upon hearing this, looked at the sauce-covered hands of Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang and nodded silently.

Next time, he would definitely ask Xiaomai to cook a portion of spicy crawfish just for him, and he would peel them himself with gusto!

Seeing his father’s permission, Yang Zheng dropped his chopsticks and started peeling with his own hands.

The crawfish were covered in sauce, and he first sucked a few mouthfuls, the taste so satisfying it far surpassed what he had just had!

“Prince Zheng, come, come, have some Sour Plum Soup,” Xiaomai said as she wiped her hands with a napkin and opened the basin filled with Sour Plum Soup.

It was now the end of June, and with the hot weather, she had started making Sour Plum Soup. After making it, she’d chill it in the ice cellar, and the taste was very good.

“But you can’t drink too much, okay? Having something cold and something spicy together might upset the stomach,” she warned.

Yang Zheng heeded her advice with a nod.

But while his mouth agreed, his actions did not stop; he ate a whole plate of crawfish with the Sour Plum Soup.

Yang Hao watched from the side, not uttering a word of caution.

Once Yang Zheng truly experienced the discomfort of an upset stomach, he would learn his lesson.

After finishing the crawfish, Xiaomai cooked some noodles in the sauce, a method that garnered praise from the entire Yang family, and the half basin of noodles was devoured completely.

In the end, Xiaomai served up a plate of watermelon.

The watermelon was also chilled, cool and sweet; Yang Zheng almost wished he could gnaw on the rind as well.

“Keep the rinds, we’ll fry them later; they taste quite good,” Xiaomai quickly stated upon seeing this.

“They can be cooked?” Yang Zheng asked, a bit surprised.

“Yes, it tastes good.”

“Oh~” Yang Zheng placed the rind that he had eaten so clean it lacked even a hint of red back on the plate and picked up another piece to continue eating.

This manor truly was heaven!