The birthday guests and the elderly all came, and the luncheon also kicked off.
First, some ingredients and side dishes are presented to the table. After the supplies and side dishes are complete, the host invited by the host makes a speech first and then serves the main course.
The first dish prepared by the host is the Cow Head Feast.
The Cow Head Banquet and the Whole Sheep Banquet are the most solemn banquets of the Mongolian people. The Cow Head Banquet is very ceremonial. The cow head is actually a braised cow head. The braised cow head is covered with a red flower and is placed on a wooden plate.
The cart rolled up to the banquet.
When the cow's head is put on the table, the host proposes a bowl of wine to the most distinguished guest at the table, and asks him to make two cross-shaped cuts on the cow's head, then cut it into pieces, and then invites the guests to eat.
After eating the beef head, the eldest or most distinguished person at the table and everyone else must say "all have been used" in order before the wooden plate can be removed. If the elder does not speak during the dinner, or there are still guests eating,
Neither can be withdrawn.
After the wooden plate is removed, the guests all have to drink some porridge cooked by the host. Drinking porridge means eating the bull's head feast. If you don't drink porridge, it means you have eaten the bull's head feast.
The cow heads used in the cow head feast require very sophisticated craftsmanship. Lejia had no time to make them, so they ordered them from a professional hotel in Ximeng City and transported them back to the grassland from Ximeng overnight last night.
In addition to cow heads, there are also whole sheep and roast beef and mutton meat, which were just shipped back from Ximeng City last night.
Leshi and the helpers invited to cook the stew, grilled the skewers on the fire, baked pancakes, cooked soup and porridge, and heated the braised beef head and whole lamb, but they were still too busy to touch the floor.
It was the first time for Le's parents, Zhou Qiufeng and Leshan, to participate in the most primitive Mongolian feast. They were also affected by the solemn ceremony. Their emotions were aroused, and they felt excited and excited.
The dishes are also served according to the order of honor, from west to east, starting with the oldest and most distinguished guests at the table, and then serving the dishes in a clockwise direction.
Old Mrs. Baoyin was the birthday girl, so her table was served first.
The host asked the old lady's mother-in-law to make the first cut. Le's father had no choice but to drink a bowl of wine, took away the red flowers from the cow's head, and made two more cuts on the cow's head.
He completed the first process, and the person at the same table who was responsible for pouring wine and serving dishes then changed the knife and evenly cut the meat into small pieces, and then asked the old lady and the old lady's mother-in-law to take one piece first, and then eat the rest.
Only the guests start.
Shortly after the first main course was served, Le Jian and his brothers and sisters held a saucer with a khata and toasted to their old mother and the guests from her mother's family.
After they finished the toast, the brothers and sisters of the Yun generation of the Le family made another toast, and then the Shu generation made a toast.
Then representatives of the Le family formed a team to toast.
After a round of toasts, the cow head was almost eaten, and the plate was removed.
After the guests drank the porridge, and before the second main course was served, the host made a speech and explained that the second main course was a gift from Grandma Baoyin's family.
The host explained the origin of the dish, and he and his family toasted to the old lady's family, and then he and the guests toasted to the old lady's family to express their gratitude.
After that, the second course officially appeared.
Le Xiaoluoli brought nineteen braised whole lambs. Although it was not enough for each table, a lamb divided into four portions was enough.
The rich aroma of braised whole lamb overpowers the aroma of other delicacies.
Platefuls of mutton were served on the table, followed by several people carrying steamed buns and baking bread on carts.
The number of flower buns is limited, and they are placed on several tables where the most distinguished and respected old people sit. Each of the other guests gets a piece of fragrant toasted bread.
There are more than 900 toasts, so you don’t have to worry about not having enough.
The braised mutton is so brown on the outside and crispy on the inside, the meat is so soft that even a toothless old man can eat it, but it is extraordinarily tender and fragrant, leaving a lasting aroma in your mouth.
The mutton also comes with side dishes, pieces of green vegetables that look like kelp slices, which are crisp and delicious to bite. When eaten with toasted bread, the taste will linger in the world even if gods taste it.
The hosts and guests tasted the braised mutton and were all in high spirits.
After the stewed mutton, there is the local mutton stew. The stewed mutton is cut into pieces. Each table has a large plate of stewed mutton, as well as white soup and mutton offal.
The guests ate the stew for a while, some played the morinouqin, and some went to sing and dance on the outdoor lawn.
After the song and dance ended, the men and women served wine with khatas and toasted to Mrs. Baoyin and her family.
They paid tribute to the old birthday star, and the brothers of the host family paid tribute to the men and women who sang, danced and played the Morin Fhuur.
After the first wave of people, the second wave of people sang and danced to wish Mrs. Baoyin her birthday and toasted to her.
The host responded with equal enthusiasm.
Afterwards, waves of people came to wish the old lady her birthday.
Men, women and children on the grassland are all good at dancing. Even if they sing the same song or dance the same dance, they have different charms.
Every time a group of people toasted the birthday boy, they also toasted themselves. Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, didn't refuse anyone who came and drank it without hesitation.
The couple was generous and the guests were particularly happy.
Le Yun was a good person who did not drink. Every time she touched her lips, she received the guests' affection and affection. The two siblings enjoyed watching people singing and dancing.
All the guests sang birthday songs and toasted the birthday star, including the guests from other provinces who were invited by the villagers in the same village.
Do you think this is the end?
Wrong, after the first round of singing and dancing, waves of men, women, old and young went to sing and dance, and sometimes people from the host family also joined in.
Mrs. Baoyin was no exception and went to dance and sing with the guests.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, also went because the guests took them to dance, and they were so warmly welcomed. Even though they just followed the clumsy turns a few times, they won warm applause from everyone.
The kitchen constantly delivers barbecue, kumiss, and milk tea to the banquet, and there is never an empty plate at every table.
Here, men, women, old and young on the grassland were singing and dancing, and the luncheon was very lively. On the grassland twenty or thirty miles away from the herdsmen's settlement, several people were also eating.
In the depths of the prairie, there is no human habitation, only grassland dotted with flowers of various colors.
Two of the most inconspicuous vans in the city were parked quietly behind a hill. The doors were open and the air was flowing inside.
There was no one inside the car. Several people spread out a cloth in the shade between the two cars and placed the food they brought with them to have lunch.
People sit opposite each other, three on one side and two on the other.
On one side of the three people were an old woman and two middle-aged men. The old woman wore light makeup, making it difficult to tell her true age, but the nasolabial wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were difficult to hide, and her gray hair all showed that she was no longer young.
On one side of the two people is an old man and a middle-aged man. The older man looks to be in his sixties or seventies, with sparse hair mixed with gray on his temples.
The old woman and the elderly man put their sunglasses on their foreheads while eating, while the other three kept their sunglasses on their faces while eating.
The faces of the old woman and the elderly man were exposed, and they all had ordinary faces, without any features that would make people remember them at first sight.
Lunch was finished quickly, and the man in sunglasses cleaned up the mess and handed bottled water to his boss.
The old woman rinsed her mouth with water first, then took two sips, tightened the cap of the bottle and asked: "How are you preparing?"
"You don't need to worry about us here. Our elders have said that we can take action. After the matter is completed, the elders will ask her some things alone. The rest will be handled according to the old rules."
"make a deal."
"Moreover, you have to ensure the authenticity of the information you provide. Don't use false information to deceive your teammates. If someone from the monk family is secretly lurking nearby, targeting us and exposing us, our elders don't have a very good temper.
good."
"The information I have here is 100% accurate. It's just her family, she didn't bring any bodyguards, and no one from any sect or family came to the grassland.
This is the only opportunity. If she misses this opportunity, once she becomes defensive and suspicious, and wants to test her again, she doesn't know that she will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse.
The success of the action is not only important to you, but also important to me. Naturally, I will not do stupid things that harm others and myself.
Do you need someone on my side to cooperate?"
"unnecessary."
"A friendly reminder, she is not only good at medicine, she is also very talented in poisoning. I'm afraid her methods of poisoning can be easily seen through."
"You don't have to worry about how we act. When it comes to poison, no one knows it better than our elders."
The elderly man glanced at the old woman and said, "The information has changed." He got up and got into the van behind him and closed the door.
The man in the sunglasses closed the door on the other side, got into the cab, started the car, turned around, and headed straight to the north.
The white bread gradually went away, and the old woman also got into the car.
A middle-aged man wearing sunglasses also got into the car and drove away from the spot, going in the opposite direction of the car that left first.
On the vast grassland, there is no settlement area, no traces left by cattle, sheep or carriages and horses, and it stretches for thousands of miles.
The van carrying an elderly man drove through a grassy field without any roads. After driving for a while, it turned around and headed in the direction of Xingmeng.
During the drive, we passed through several herder settlements and pasture areas contracted by herdsmen, and entered the savanna grassland of Xingmeng from the grassland area affiliated to Ximeng City.
The van drove to a sparse forest far away from human habitation. When the van reached a hidden place in the woods, the two people in the van got out of the van and walked.
After walking a few hundred meters, several tents most commonly used by travelers appeared on the grass in the forest.
There were more than ten people meditating in the tent area, either sitting on the grass or inside the tent, and two people were standing guard.
The sentry saw an old man and a middle-aged man approaching, but did not stop them.
The elderly man walked across the grass and walked outside a tent in the middle. He sat down quietly and waited for the people in the tent to finish practicing before answering.
The person meditating in the tent was an old man who was about seventy years old. He had a normal face, with regular features and a goatee.
He was wearing an ordinary shirt and slacks, and his black hair was still neatly combed. If you put him on the street, he would be the most inconspicuous passerby.
No matter how vulgar it is, even if you throw it into a crowd, you won't be able to pick it out.
If the old man was thrown into the crowd and couldn't be picked out, he slowly opened his eyes after the people who came back sat down. Those eyes were far different from his appearance. There was a divine light in his eyes, and his gaze was as sharp as a knife.
His voice was not as sharp as his eyes, but it was very cold: "Luo San, how did the conversation go?"
