During the Mid-Autumn Festival, we eat moon cakes, crabs and drink rice wine.
Today, everyone at Grandpa Jiang's house arrived. One table couldn't accommodate everyone, so they split it into two tables. The food at both tables was the same.
Grandpa Jiang sat at a table and asked everyone else to sit down quickly.
"You can sit anywhere you want. There aren't that many rules here."
Cen Zhengnian asked Chu Xia in a low voice: "Where do you want to sit?"
Jiang Zhida didn't like listening to the nagging of his elders, so he took his children to sit at the table where Grandpa Jiang was not, and Jiang Zhiyi followed them.
Chu Xia didn't want to sit with her second aunt. She looked at her second uncle Jiang and his family who were already sitting with Grandpa Jiang. She directly pulled Cen Zhengnian to sit at this table: "Let's stay here. It's comfortable."
Jiang Zhiguan looked at the two tables, especially when she saw her father at Grandpa Jiang's, she immediately pulled her husband to sit next to Chuxia and the others.
Aunt Li also sat at this table, while the rest of the people went to Grandpa Jiang's place.
The table was filled with dishes, the most eye-catching of which were those made with crabs, including steamed crab, stir-fried crab, spicy crab, and garlic crab.
Crabs are cold in nature, so we prepared ginger vinegar and rice wine on the table. Children cannot drink alcohol, so we also prepared ginger, jujube and brown sugar water.
However, Chu Xia did not allow Cen Huaian to eat too much. Cen Zhengnian had a bad stomach and could not eat at all.
"If you want to eat, you can eat a crab leg." Chu Xia leaned her head towards Cen Zhengnian and whispered to him.
Cen Zhengnian held a steamed hairy crab in his hand. Without using any tools, he used his slender fingers to flexibly remove the crab meat piece by piece using the crab's own limbs. He put it into Chuxia's bowl and said with a smile, "I don't want to eat it."
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Then he took out another piece of crab meat and gave it to Cen Huaian.
It was An An’s first time eating crabs, and he didn’t know how to peel them, so he just sat there and watched Cen Zhengnian peel them, and imitated Jiang Zhida and the others by dipping them in ginger and vinegar.
As soon as he put it in his mouth, his eyes lit up. This was Cen Huaian's usual expression when he ate delicious food. The crab roe was even more delicious. He ate without even raising his head, and the remaining crab meat in the bowl was finished in no time.
In fact, Chuxia also knew how to peel crabs, but since Cen Zhengnian had done it, she didn't do it anymore and just waited to eat.
Jiang Zhida and Jiang Zhiyi are not afraid of spicy food, so they consume the spicy crabs very quickly.
Seeing Cen Zhengnian feeding Chu Xia and Cen Huaian, they both showed envy in their eyes. It was so comfortable to eat only crab meat. They also wanted someone to peel crabs for them!
"Second cousin, please peel one for me." Jiang Zhida was even more shameless and waved the small bowl in front of Cen Zhengnian.
Cen Zhengnian put the crab he had peeled in Chuxia's bowl, looked at him and said, "Don't you have hands? Peel it yourself."
Jiang Zhida: "Second cousin, when we were little you would share your food with me."
Chu Xia couldn't help laughing and said to Jiang Zhida, "Da Zi, you have grown up now. You must learn to be self-reliant."
Jiang Zhiyi was struggling with a crab. When he heard Chuxia's words, he laughed at Jiang Zhida without any hesitation: "Hahaha, cousin, you are so childish. I can eat crabs by myself! Otherwise, when you become Lulu and Weixian's age, someone will help you peel them."
Zhang Lu and Jiang Weixin didn't know how to peel crabs, but with the help of Zhang Lu's father, Aunt Li and Jiang Zhida, they had no worries about not having enough to eat.