Chapter 2674

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Old Man Hou Guangbi spent it at the Su family home. However, Hou Dayi, Hou Dajun, Hou Wenhai, and Hou Wenchang also rushed to the capital to accompany Hou Guangbi for this Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Shangjun County, celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival usually means the whole family gathers together to eat crabs, eat mooncakes, and drink osmanthus wine. In short, there are several foods that must be eaten and drunk.

However, in the capital, there are no big crabs like those in Shangjun County, and osmanthus wine is also hard to find. One must know that in Shangjun County, there is a great deal of osmanthus.

This time, Hou Dayi, Hou Dajun, Hou Wenhai, and Hou Wenchang brought many traditional Shangjun Mid-Autumn foods from Shangjun County, such as crabs, water caltrops, lotus seeds, osmanthus wine, and osmanthus sugar, which made up for this regret of the Su family.

Especially the crabs; such food must be eaten alive and cannot be mailed. The express delivery that had just emerged in this era took at least three or four days from Shangjun to the capital. In such a long time, the crabs would definitely be dead, and it would be impossible to eat them.

Hou Dayi and the others naturally took a plane to the capital so that the crabs would not die.

The crabs they brought weighed over twenty jin, which allowed everyone to have a good crab feast. Su Xinghui also sent half to Old Yu's house so they could also get a taste of the fresh catch.

As the saying goes, "When the autumn wind rises, the crab legs are fat." The Mid-Autumn Festival is a good time to eat crabs. However, eating crabs during the Mid-Autumn Festival is actually a little early, especially since this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is in mid-September, which is earlier than in other years, so most of this year's crabs are not particularly plump yet.

Hou Wenhai specifically went to buy the crabs, and he had already asked people to specifically select large and plump ones, but the largest crabs this year were only three liang, and the others were about two liang.

However, this was enough to surprise the Su family. They hadn't expected that they would still be able to eat crabs this Mid-Autumn Festival.

On this day, it was again the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Guo Suhua and Lu Xiaoya, who cooked a table of authentic Shangjun dishes. On the table were several dishes that must be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Shangjun County, such as braised chicken with chestnuts, steamed pork with taro, stir-fried water caltrops, stir-fried pork with lotus seeds, and so on. Of course, the main big dish was steamed crabs.

When that large basin of steamed crabs was served on the table, Su Wenjun smiled at Hou Dayi, "Brother Dayi, thank you. You brought so many crabs from so far away. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to eat crabs this Mid-Autumn Festival."

Hou Dayi smiled, "Dr. Su, you are too polite. What is this little bit of stuff? My father has been bothering you for so long here; we should be the ones saying thank you."

Su Wenjun said, "Eh, how can you call it bothering? It is our honor that Old Man Hou can live with us!"

Hou Guangbi smiled, "I am not a celebrity, nor am I a political figure, just an old man. How can there be any honor? I have lived here for these two months, and it has been truly relaxing and comfortable. I should thank you for your care!"

Su Xinghui said, "Grandpa Hou, feel free to live here as long as you like."

Hou Guangbi shook his head and said, "That won't do. The weather will turn cold soon. After this Mid-Autumn Festival is over, I will just go back to Shangjun County with them, otherwise, my coughing problem will flare up again."

What Old Man Hou said made sense. The capital was about to enter autumn, and even in autumn, it was a bit chilly, which was not good for Old Man Hou's cough. Moreover, the air quality in the capital was far inferior to Shangjun, and the air here was relatively dry, so returning to Shangjun County would be good for his health.

Su Wenjun said, "Are you going back right after the Mid-Autumn Festival? Isn't that too rushed? It would be fine to go back after a while. Your health is good now, and even if the weather gets cold, there are electric heaters in the room, so the cough shouldn't flare up again."

With Hou Guangbi here, Su Wenjun often checked his health. Hou Guangbi's health was taken care of meticulously, and his old coughing problem was almost cured.

Hou Guangbi shook his head, "Better not. An autumn rain brings a chill. I'd better go back to Shangjun; I'm more accustomed to the climate there."

Su Xinghui said, "That's fine, then you wait until the weather gets warm to come to the capital to play!"