Chapter 1481 - 300, Go to Sleep (17)
In an era where aquaculture entirely depended on the whims of nature, crabs were not a year-round delicacy. Generally, from mid-September to December was the maturation period for river crabs. Around the fifteenth of September, female crabs had full, bulging shells with tender meat, while in October, male crabs were rich in creamy roe and had plentiful, delicious flesh—all prime time for eating crabs.
Now, in the late autumn, was the perfect time to enjoy female crabs.
When Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng returned to Dong Tian, Xu Muqing and Wei Borong were in the backyard bickering over a basin of river crabs!
Yes, bickering!
"Hey! Why did you hit me, huh? You domineering brute, how could you hit someone?" This was Xu Muqing’s voice.
"Humph, I did hit you! Who else should I hit when you’re obviously the smallest and thinnest? Haha!" That was Wei Borong’s voice.
Hearing Wei Borong’s words, Lin Yuan couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows, even Xia Zheng burst out laughing. The smallest and thinnest? Was he talking about Xu Muqing, that fatty? It seemed there was a reason why the people of the Capital city called Wei Borong ’Second Fool’.
But when the two approached the pair quarreling by the basin, they couldn’t help but snicker.
This wasn’t them fighting at all; it was clearly the crabs in their hands that were battling!
Wei Borong was pinching a large crab that shimmered with a blue-black glow between his two fingers, making it raise its large pincers to attack the smaller crab opposite.
To call the one in Wei Borong’s hands a ’large crab’ was an overstatement, as it was only slightly bigger than the rest in the basin, and was only about as big as a man’s palm.