Chapter 3 Wilderness (Part 2) It wasn’t until the dinner party that Li Xu got out of his dizzy state. This was not because of his strong concentration, but because the growling sound in his stomach forced him to return from his dream to reality, eating and sleeping in the open air, eating every day.
Most of the food was dried meat, hard biscuits and cold water, and the appetite was reduced by half. At this time, the temptation of the hot meal was far more real to the traveler than the beautiful girl.
The grassland is vast, so the eating habits of the Hu people are in line with the surrounding environment. They use large copper bowls to drink wine and large cowhide bags to hold the wine. The so-called dishes are so big that they need two plates.
It would take a strong man to carry it to the table. It was a whole boiled sheep, head and tail. The "grass" and "stones" distributed around the sheep's body were obviously whole and whole.
Wild onions and whole large white mushrooms
The oldest elder in the clan was invited to the banquet. After singing a few words of congratulation that no one could understand, the old man picked up a knife with trembling hands, cut a long strip from the fattest part of the lamb's back, and placed it on the lamb's back.
A small copper plate was served to Li Xu personally. This is the dining etiquette of the Lin people. It comes from their daily life. In the season when food is scarce, the youngest person always gets the first piece of meat at every meal. Only in this way can it be guaranteed.
The whole tribe lives forever
Li Xu took the copper plate with a smile. Although his stomach was turned up and down by the aroma of the meat, he refused to take the first bite. Instead, he gently grabbed the short knife inserted on the sheep's back and cut off the horns on the sheep's head.
There is also a thin layer of meat connected to the horns on the top of the head, which is served on a copper plate and presented to the longest person in the seat.
This is what a grassland boy should do in return. It not only expresses respect for the elders, but also reflects gratitude to the host. Before heading north, Li Xu and his father practiced this set of dining etiquette many times, so he could do it meticulously.
Several elders of the Xi clan smiled happily. They felt that they were right. The boy who was accompanied by a wolf in front of them was indeed closely related to the Saishang people. It seemed that Changshengtian was taking special care of the Su Chuo tribe this year. Before winter, he not only sent
Tea, cloth, and signs that herald the prosperity of the tribe came.
Patriarch Su Chuixil clapped his hands, and two teams of dressed-up girls walked in again, each holding a bowl of kumiss, holding it high in front of a guest, and sang in unison, their voices melodious and loud, mixed with the aroma of the wine, making people intoxicated.
Li Xu blushed again, because this time it was still the girl in blue shirt who was toasting him. The girl's mouth was slightly pursed with a smile, and her eyes clearly showed a bit of mischief. With the experience of being teased last time, Li Xu did not dare to
This made the girl angry, so she took the wine bowl and drank the wine in one gulp.
There was a hint of approval in the girl's eyes. She was still singing the loud and long tune, but her hands were not slow at all. She picked up the leather bag closest to her and neatly filled Li Xu's wine bowl again.
"Still drinking?" Li Xu asked with his eyes, but couldn't see any answer in the girl's eyes. Fortunately, at home, he was already used to drinking his uncle's private brew. Although this kumiss was stronger than ordinary rice wine, it was far stronger.
It can’t reach the level of close brewing of uncle Zhang Baosheng.
Li Xu picked up the wine bowl and drank the wine in it again. The girl's eyes became brighter and brighter, blue, like the waves of spring water in a lake, reflecting the color of the sky.
The third bowl of wine was raised in front of Li Xu. The young man felt the heat in his belly, and he took the copper bowl with pride. Without asking, he quickly let the girl reveal a slight smile at the bottom of the bowl, revealing a row of beautiful braids. Before Li
After Xu admired the flower-like smile, the fourth bowl of wine was brought to him.
Li Xu's face began to turn red. This time it was not because of shyness, but because of the strength of the alcohol. Although the kumiss was not strong enough, he drank it on an empty stomach. The wine that was full at the moment seemed to have turned into blood and flowed along the meridians.
His whole body felt that his head was a little big and his feet were a little soft, but he refused to lose his etiquette in front of the foreign girl. He held on and poured the fifth bowl into his stomach.
The girl's song was as bright as an oriole coming out of the valley. The sixth bowl of wine was brought to Li Xu again. This time, before he could finish it, a low voice came to his ears: "Zhongyuan Yaozi, you can drink slowly.
Yes, I can’t let your wine bowl be empty before the singing stops!”
"Ah!" Li Xulu was stunned for a moment, and found that the girl was looking at him with a smile, as if he saw another monster. The pair of delicate lips did not sing along with the other women. Obviously, the kind reminder came from this girl.
Li Xu smiled awkwardly, and when he looked up, he found that other vendors were holding wine bowls and drinking wine slowly. No one was as ready as him. Several elders in the tribe were smiling and whispering to each other. It was obvious that he was reckless.
His actions have become a topic of conversation again
Li Xu used a wine bowl to cover his blushing face. This time, he finally persisted until the end of the long song. The banquet immediately became lively. The guests and hosts began to exchange glasses, and the girls who had finished paying respects to the guests happily divided their heads.
The musicians who left the big tent in batches adjusted the strings and played cheerful and lively tunes
The vendors have always been thrifty. Except for Li Xu and Xu Dayan, the dry food of everyone else along the way was rarely meaty. After all the dining etiquette was over, who was willing to cut it with a knife and grab it with his hands? In the blink of an eye, a whole sheep was seen.
When the owner of the snow-white skeleton saw that the guest liked his food, he clapped his hands in great joy. Immediately, a strong man came in and carried away the remaining bones. Then, another complete boiled sheep was served to the dining table.
As the sky gets darker, the vendors gradually slow down in eating meat. Although the mutton on the grassland tastes good, it is far fatter than the sheep raised by the people in the Central Plains. People with such fat meat cannot eat too much, no matter how good their appetite is.
Duowang Mazi, Du Scaru and others were holding wine bowls and looking around, as if they had lost something important, with anxious expressions on their faces.
The Pei people are known as the Bai Pei. The women in the tribe have skin as white as gel and eyes as blue as the clear sky. Their hair is white or golden and shines like a waterfall. According to the rumors of travelers, the women of the Pei tribe are the most generous. They belong to this tribe.
The grasslands may invite you to crawl into their felt tents, but they have never thought of being entangled with you from now on.
At the most desperate moment after losing traces of the Xiren tribe, the legendary affair was once the motivation for Wang Mazi, Du Scaru and others to move forward.
"Full, warm, and full of lust!" Xu Dayan's eyes once again revealed a bit of disdain for the entire audience. His eating appearance was the most elegant. He didn't drink as much as Li Xu did, nor did he drink as much as the others.
He gnaws the meat like a hungry wolf, but uses his fingers to tear the meat into thin strips, and slowly sips on the wine in small strips.
The family never gets tired of cooking, which allows Xu Dayan to easily distinguish the quality of the food. Apart from wild onions, mushrooms and salt, there are no other seasonings in the boiled whole lamb, which suits his appetite and he likes it.
This kind of honest and natural taste, but I really don't like the companions who drink with me. In Xu Dayan's opinion, these vulgar, philistine, narrow-minded and easily satisfied vendors are simply not worthy of the host's warm hospitality, no matter what you give them.
When the two parties start trading, they don’t want to let them loose the price even a little bit. On the contrary, they will not hesitate to increase the price according to the wealth of the tribe and the thirst for tea, silk, pottery and other Central Plains materials.
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The patriarch of the Su Chu tribe did not feel that the guest's behavior was impolite at all. In his opinion, any behavior after drinking can be regarded as a manifestation of human nature. If a man has no need for women, he will lose the ability to become stronger.
Motivation So, just when Xu Dayan was ashamed of his companion's behavior, Su Chuixil clapped his hands again
The cheerful music suddenly stopped. The musician drank a bowl of wine, tuned the strings, and changed to another soothing and lingering tune. A group of beauties from the Xi tribe slowly walked in, dancing with their arms and ankles in front of the table.
The silver bell shakes, and every time it raises its hand, it attracts countless souls
It was already dark, and the young men of the tribe were carrying a huge copper brazier. Inside the brazier, fine charcoal was dancing with a faint blue light. Li Xu was very hot by the fire, and heat seemed to be flowing upwards inside and outside the body. The dancing woman
There were no two girls who teased him and Xu Dayan. They were older than the girls who were toasting, and they were more attractive. Their dancing to the music seemed to have a kind of charm, making it difficult for people to look away from them.
The clothes on their bodies were actually a little scanty, with no shoes or socks on their feet, and no traces of hair on their arms. Their white arms and legs slowly unfolded in the music, just like the slow night-blooming night-blooms in the middle of the night.
Slowly blooming petals Li Xu didn't know if he described it right, and he didn't know if he was violating the duty of a scholar by watching the songs and dances with such intent. Examples of ancient sages and sages interacting with women. Li Xu didn't know much about it. He was so drunk that he was so drunk.
In the middle, he only heard the gentle singing of the people
"Brother came riding a white horse, holding a scimitar in one hand and orchid in the other..." He couldn't hear the next sentence clearly. His attainments in Turkic language were really far behind Sun Jiu and others.
"I would like a bouquet of wild flowers to fall apart just for you!" Before falling drunk, Li Xu vaguely heard these words. It was really an illusion. He didn't figure it out many years later.
The Lin people paid great attention to the caravans coming from afar, and made an exception to prepare a felt tent for each vendor. In a daze, Li Xu felt that he was being carried into a very warm tent, and someone placed a tent for him at his feet.
The brazier made him hot and thirsty. When he opened his eyes, Li Xu came out of the felt tent to find some well water to sober up. However, he was surprised to find that there was a person sleeping next to him, and he bumped into a person with a body completely different from his own.
Immediately, Li Xu woke up from the drunkenness in his heart and opened his eyes wide. He took a closer look with the faint light emitted by the charcoal fire. He found a girl lying next to him with a slender head and eyebrows, and her skin was like gelatin. In comparison, as the ancients said,
"Add one point is too long, subtract one point is too short; apply Zhu and it will be too red, apply powder and it will be too white" seems really pale and blurry
This was the girl who had teased him during the day and let him go at the last moment. Li Xu felt that his scalp was exploding and his whole body began to feel uncomfortable.
"Some tribes will let the women of the tribe sleep with distinguished guests." Before heading north, his father once jokingly said how to deal with it, but he never gave him any guidance. Maybe his father had never encountered such a situation and just regarded it as a problem.
It was just a funny rumor, but the father and son never expected that the legendary thing happened to Li Xu.
Li Xu hugged his arms tightly, not daring to close his eyes or move. His legs were as stiff as wood, stiff and straight. The charcoal fire in the tent was getting stronger, and waves of heat hit him from his feet.
Come up, over the thighs, over the lower abdomen, over the chest, over the top of the head
At this moment, the sleeping girl suddenly turned over and the silver bell on her arm "dinged" and gently hung on Li Xu's chest.
Drunkard's Note: For the legend of the Turkic ancestors, see "Book of Zhou"
