Chapter 336: The Qingyang Tribe of the Yi Nationality (2)
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Is that...a look of contempt?
Zhao Hongrun recalled what he saw in Mi Jiang's eyes before she turned away. It was obvious that this scheming woman must have seen the Shen girl teasing Zhao Hongrun just now, or in other words, showing her love to him.
It's inside.`
Aren't you jealous?
Zhao Hongrun turned around and smiled evilly at Mi Jiang.
Although it is not clear what the reason was that led to a tacit understanding between him and Mi Jiang, this kind of tacit understanding is really incredible.
No, Zhao Hongrun obviously didn't speak, but Mi Jiang seemed to be aware of what he was thinking, so she suddenly turned her head again and glared at Zhao Hongrun angrily, startling the latter.
I really don’t get used to it. This kind of telepathy feels weird...
Zhao Hongrun scratched his face and gave up his plan to continue provoking Mi Jiang. After all, he felt that the sinister woman was surprisingly angry, or in other words, ashamed and angry.
At this time, Amutu, the leader of the Qingyang Tribe, said a few words of Sheang language that Zhao Hongrun could not understand. Immediately, the girls of the Shei people who had just poured the wine walked in together holding a huge wooden plate.
Inside the tent, what was placed on the wooden tray was a huge roasted whole lamb.
Is that a lamb? Why is it so big?
Zhao Hongrun was very puzzled. After all, logically speaking, the lambs used for roasting lambs should not be that big. He almost remembered the adult sheep from the Wei Kingdom.
Seemingly noticing Zhao Hongrun's puzzled look, Zhao Yuanli explained in a low voice: "This is the Sheep, a sheep regarded as a treasure by the Sheang people."
Is this the ibex?
Zhao Hongrun, seeing the real thing for the first time, nodded suddenly.
As far as he knew, sheep were sacred animals in the eyes of the Sheang people, or a divine creature given by God.
From sheep, the Yi people can obtain the necessities that enable them to survive on the barren grasslands.`
For example, the clothes worn by the Yi people are sheepskin jackets or sheepskin skirts sewn from sheepskin.
Another example is goat milk wine, cheese, mutton, etc.
Even the sheep's bones and horns can be fully utilized by the Yi people: they make the sheep's horns into wine glasses, and sharpen the sheep's bones to use as bone blades for spears. It is no exaggeration to say that every part of a sheep's body is
The Yi people can make full use of the parts.
It is precisely because of sheep that the Yi people can survive even if they do not cultivate food like the Wei people.
It is precisely because of this that the Yi people regard sheep as a sacred animal and have formulated many regulations and customs related to sheep.
Here, any activity or celebration of the Sheo people is inseparable from sheep.
At the same time, the Yi people are not allowed to hurt sheep unnecessarily. Even if there is a conflict between two tribes, they will never kill the sheep of the other tribe. This is a tacit rule.
Among all the sheep, the ibex, a kind of horned sheep that is larger than ordinary sheep and has long white hair all over its body, is regarded as a more sacred treasure by the ibex people. If it is not a major celebration, or in other words
If there are distinguished guests, they will never be slaughtered otherwise.
It can be seen from this that the status of Zhao Hongrun and his sixth uncle Zhao Yuanli as a distinguished guest in this Qingyang tribe is indeed not low.
As several Yi girls from the Qingyang tribe placed the wooden plate containing the roasted Yi lamb on the ground, the tribe leader Amutu picked up a small golden dagger, stood up and walked towards the lamb.
This Zhao Hongrun understands: This is the custom of sharing food.
In older ethnic cultures, the habit of sharing food is still retained. For example, the Yi people do not roast many lambs at a time. They give each guest one, and they will only choose the fatter one.
The lamb is slaughtered and roasted, and different parts of the meat are cut from the lamb with a sharp butcher's knife, and the meat is divided among the guests or family members according to the status of the guests.
In fact, the Wei people originally had this custom. For example, in the ritual of worshiping the heaven, Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, cut off the flesh and blood from the cow as a sacrifice, and dedicated the best flesh and blood to the heavenly father or the earth mother, and the rest
Flesh and blood were eaten by the court officials and the people who gathered around to watch the sacrifice.
This is the best example.
But it is undeniable that this custom of sharing food has been gradually forgotten in Wei State, and is only used when offering sacrifices to heaven and earth.`
Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the tent, the patriarch Amutu divided the lamb quickly and distributed it to different people according to their status.
For example, Zhao Hongrun's sixth uncle, Zhao Yuanli, was given a whole sheep's head. Logically speaking, the head of the sheep is the most noble, and only the tribe leader is eligible to enjoy it. From this, it is not difficult to guess that Zhao Yuanli, as a guest,
His status in the Qingyang tribe is really high.
In addition, Zhao Yuanli's Zongwei and Zhao Hongrun's Zongwei received a hind leg and a front leg respectively.
When eating pork, the meat of the front legs is more delicious than the meat of the hind legs, but when eating mutton, it is just the opposite. Since the explosive power of the sheep is in the hind legs, the meat of the hind legs is tougher than the meat of the front legs, especially
It's lamb, and the meat is tender and chewy.
From this, it is not difficult to see that under the pressure of these Yi people, the "distinguished guest status" of Zhao Yuanli's clan guard is obviously higher than that of the clan guards behind Zhao Hongrun.
But when it was Zhao Hongrun's turn, he couldn't help but feel a little stunned because he got two balls.
The Yi people call this part the sheep ball, while Zhao Hongrun calls it sheep.
No matter what he called it, it has to be said that when Zhao Hongrun saw his portion of food, he was stunned.
It’s not that this part is not good. In fact, the sheep’s balls and sheep’s eyes are one of the most valuable parts of the sheep. Under normal circumstances, the Yi people will give these pairs of sheep’s balls to the most anticipated young people in the tribe. This is very
But the implication of big supplements is also very good.
It's just that in Zhao Hongrun's view, this is a bit subtle.
After all, the person who brought him the wooden plate with a pair of sheep balls was the same Sheng girl who had teased him just now. At this time, the Shen girl was looking at him affectionately.
Zhao Hongrun raised his head and secretly glanced at the patriarch Amutu and the rest of the Yi people in the tent, and felt deep "malice" from their smiling expressions.
"The Yi people are not allowed to waste the food they get from sheep, especially the food they get from precious sheep... If you don't want to be enemies with them, you have to accept your share of food honestly and eat it all.
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On the side, Uncle Liu Wang Zhao Yuanli chewed the eyeballs obtained from the sheep's head while "adding insult to injury" with a wicked smile on his face.
At that moment, Zhao Hongrun seemed to feel that everyone in the tent was looking at him. This made him feel very uncomfortable.
That's all, just do as the Romans do.
After comforting himself, Zhao Hongrun reached out and grabbed a sheep ball, put it in his mouth, took a bite, and chewed slowly.
To be honest. As the most nourishing part of the sheep, the mutton ball tastes very delicious, but its location is a bit subtle.
No, Zhao Hongrun could feel it. When he was chewing the sheep balls, Princess Yulong behind him had already blushed with embarrassment, and even Mi Jiang's face was flushed. Only the heartless
Xi Rui was eager to destroy her share of food with gleaming eyes.
Maybe it was a psychological effect. After Zhao Hongrun finished the pair of sheep balls with goat's milk wine, he felt as if a ball of fire was ignited in his body. At the same time, the eyes of the Yi girl became more fiery and gentle.
, looked straight at Zhao Hongrun.
Not so good...
Zhao Hongrun quickly lowered his head.
You should know that in the customs of the Yi people, the customs of unmarried girls and married women are different.
For example, the men of the Hei ethnic group will offer their wives and concubines to distinguished guests to sleep with, but if they touch the untouched young women of the Hei ethnic group, they will be held responsible.
Is it possible that when I go back to Daliang, I have to take a girl from the Yi ethnic group back with me?
Well, actually there's nothing wrong with that...
Zhao Hongrun secretly raised his head and looked at the Yi girl.
It is undeniable that this kind of exotic Yi girl is very different from the Wei girls and Chu girls that Zhao Hongrun has seen in the past. The biggest difference between them is their enthusiasm and openness. For example, even if it is their first meeting, this beautiful Yi girl
He had the courage to express his love to Zhao Hongrun and tease him.
But to be honest, Zhao Hongrun felt a little overwhelmed by this fiery enthusiasm.
Not to mention that there was Mi Jiang behind him, staring at him eagerly. Although the two were actually not related, Zhao Hongrun had a vague illusion of having an affair with another woman in front of his wife.
After the ibex lamb as the main course, the dishes are more common, such as a pot of mutton soup. Although this pot of mutton soup is delicious and rich in meat, in fact it is not as good as the ibex lamb dish just now.
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But in the eyes of people who don’t understand the culture of the Yi people, maybe this pot of mutton soup is a real feast.
Afterwards, the Yi people offered sheep cheese as dessert and a kind of food called sheep cakes to those who were not full.
In fact, tearing the sheep cakes into pieces and throwing them in the goat milk is the most daily food for the Sheang people. Slaughtering sheep is not that frequent for them.
After having their fill of wine and food, the men of the Qingyang tribe in the tent took their leave one after another and returned to their own tents.
Zhao Yuanli also talked with Amutu, the leader of the Qingyang tribe, about borrowing the road.
Amutu can speak Wei language. He told Zhao Yuanli that there were about fourteen relatively large tribes of the Shei people in the camp this time, accounting for about half of the large tribes in Sanchuan, and
More than half of these fourteen large tribes are suspicious of borrowing the road.
"...Including my Qingyang tribe."
Amutu very bluntly expressed to Zhao Yuanli that he was wary of Wei.
Zhao Hongrun was not surprised at all. After all, for the Yi people in Sanchuan, Wei was a huge country with a regular army for war, and its weapons and equipment were all decades ahead of the Yi people.
For example, iron swords, which are precious to the Yi people, are everywhere in the Wei state.
What's more important is that the land of Sanchuan where the Yi people live was once taken from the Wei State. Therefore, the Yi people have always been wary of the fact that the Wei State would start a war with them in order to regain the territory and drive them to the next time.
To the far, barren north.
"So... what about the Jie people and the Yi people?"
Zhao Yuanli asked seriously.
Amutu crossed his arms and shook his head slightly.
That day, Zhao Hongrun learned that the Yinrong people in Sanchuan could be roughly divided into three categories: the peace-loving Yi people who had many contacts with the Wei people, and those who were once regarded as inferior by the Yi people and now treat them as inferiors.
The Yi people who were unclear about Wei's attitude, and the Jie people who regarded the land of Sanchuan as their own and strongly refused to allow Wei to use it.