Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1650 Good Dog

The Yi people have two kinds of wine. In the past, the wine was brewed from buckwheat. When they gathered together, it was placed in a ceramic jar with straws inserted into it and everyone took turns drinking it like drinking straws. It was called "Gan Gan Wine".

Buckwheat wine has a low alcohol content and is now almost extinct. It is being replaced by corn wine brewed by small wineries and exchanged for corn from the Yi people.

Corn here is called corn, so this wine is called corn wine.

Most of the Yi people like to drink. This corn wine has a very high alcohol content, usually 68 to 70 degrees. When Zhou Zhi drank it for the first time, he felt that it was almost the same as drinking alcohol, but people like it.

Moreover, they can drink a lot. Zhou Zhi's drinking capacity is considered good in Jiachuan, but it is not at all ranked here.

But today was his first day here, so Zhou Zhi didn't dare to say he wouldn't drink. Besides, the real drunkard at home didn't seem to be at home. Tu Liangzhi's drinking capacity was something Zhou Zhi could bully in Lianhe Township, so he was not afraid.

Although a good cook cannot cook without rice, Gillette Abi still tried its best to make the guests feel a little bit of "sumptuousness". In addition to the braised meat and cured meat brought by Zhouzhi, Gillette Abi fried beans and peanuts, and then cooked a pot of pumpkin soup with some sauerkraut stalks, and fried some dried potato chips, which seemed to be pretty good.

The Yi people's sauerkraut is made from a kind of mustard called "round root vegetable". Like the Miao people's mountainous areas, the Yi people's mountainous areas also lacked salt in ancient times. So they used fermented sour water to make sauerkraut, or made it into dried vegetables after slight fermentation, which was used as a means of preserving vegetables. It was very common.

Of course, Lianhe Township is no longer short of salt now, but this kind of sauerkraut is still made by every household every year. From the beginning of autumn to the beginning of spring, sauerkraut and dried round root vegetables are still the most common dishes around the Yi people's fire pit.

Perhaps due to the limitations of altitude and soil, these two dishes cannot compare with the rich fermented aroma of Jiachuan's sauerkraut and sprouts, so the locals often stew them together with sweet foods such as pumpkin and sweet potato.

However, there is one very deceptive aspect of this method, which is the scraping of fat. When Zhou Zhi ate this for the first time, he accidentally ate a little too much. By midnight, his cheeks were so wet that he was drooling. In the end, Gillette Abi cooked him a bowl of lard noodles to "cure" him.

It was also because of this shadow that Zhou Zhi brought dozens of kilograms of lard and vegetable oil this time. He was really afraid of the flood.

Therefore, Zhou Zhi specially asked Gillette to add lard to the soup tonight, and also threw two canned luncheon meat slices into it, which made it more fragrant.

There was also a wall in the big house that was covered with wooden nails, on which were hung all kinds of strange and bizarre objects.

Zhou Zhi didn’t understand it before, but now he knows that those are the magical instruments and tools used by Bimos.

Ritual instruments and tools are the means and basis for Bimos to carry out ritual activities. They are tools with special magical powers that Bimos rely on to communicate with gods, exorcise demons, ward off disasters and misfortunes, and pray for blessings.

In Liangshan area, the ritual instruments and tools commonly used by Bimos include ritual fans, ritual hats, ritual bells, lottery tubes and scriptures. The tools they carry with them include ritual nets.

The guardian instruments include eagle claws, pig tooth collars, tiger teeth, etc. The guardian instruments in the hands of a "great Bimo" of the Nohe level like Tu Liangzhi's father Jike Chiri are extremely sophisticated.

Therefore, there are even leopard skin, tiger skin cloaks and two tiger paws on this wall.

"Where is the old man?" Zhou Zhi asked Tu Liangzhi when he saw that the dishes were almost ready.

"He took the dog out early in the morning." Tuliangzhi said, "You see, what I said about him was useless, right? He was so good, how come he couldn't predict that there would be guests at home?"

"How do you know I didn't expect that?" Tuliangzhi had just said this when an old voice rang out from the door: "I expected that you couldn't afford to entertain them, so you took Heilong to the mountains to look for game."

The old man had a thin face full of wrinkles, dark skin, a long hero knot on his head, and a "charva" cloak made of undyed felt. He was accompanied by a fierce black dog. The firelight from the fire pit flickered in its pupils, like an evil spirit from the underworld. "Old man." Zhou Zhi quickly stood up and saluted the old man: "I am sorry to bother you by coming here uninvited."

"Good boy, here comes a rare guest." The old man had his hands behind his back before, but now he showed his hands, holding two fish in his hands.

"Abi, make a fish for the guests." The old man handed the fish to Gillette Abi.

"This old man is amazing." Wu Renzhong touched his forehead with his hand: "The calculation is so accurate!"

Then he asked, "Are you taking Black Dragon fishing?"

"The Bimo family doesn't hunt." The old man smiled bitterly. "The Bimo only eats domesticated animals. Wild animals also have spirits and cannot be eaten. The horses, donkeys, cats, and dogs that work for us and guard the house cannot be eaten either."

"Where did these two fish come from?"

"I went to Yiqugu Village to exchange them." The old man sat by the fire, took out a few eggs from his pocket, and beat them into the pickled cabbage luncheon meat soup. "Old Qu Bidino from his village was not in good health. I went to his house to sing, and his son caught two fish for me from the pond."

"He was going to give me a chicken, but I refused. I just took a few eggs." The old man placed the last egg on the doorstep. The black dragon stretched out his pink tongue and licked it clean in two licks.

Tu Liangzhi remembered that his wife was reluctant to take out the two eggs just now, and now his father took the last egg and broke it to feed the dog. He couldn't help but secretly look at Zhou Zhi, fearing that he would think his family was stingy and get angry.

"Grandpa has taken great care of Black Dragon." Zhou Zhi was indeed looking at Black Dragon with envy in his eyes. Compared to this dog, Guan Tingting's glutinous rice balls were simply waste.

"Little kid, do you really understand?" The old Yi man expressed his disbelief.

Zhou Zhi was amused. This limited knowledge of his was actually passed down to him by the old man in his previous life. But now it was just right to use it to build a closer relationship: "If we are not mistaken, the black dragon is a burning head with red and green armor."

“Hey! The little kid really knows!” The old Yi man was so happy that all the wrinkles on his face flew up: “Hahahaha, let alone the Han people, now even many Yi people don’t know the ins and outs of this! No wonder the black dragon didn’t bark when it knew a stranger came in, it knows you understand it!”

The dogs raised by the Yi people in Liangshan are called "Nanshan Dogs", which are actually a kind of small hunting dogs.

This kind of dog has many characteristics, and if it is a purebred, many of these characteristics will be very obvious.

First of all, the body shape. This kind of dog is about 30 to 50 centimeters tall and weighs no more than 40 kilograms. It has a slender waist and a very obvious abdominal line. These characteristics show that this kind of dog is a breed that can move freely in the mountains and forests, and it is very flexible in speed and body shape.

The head must have droopy ears, which are set high and in an inverted triangle shape.

The eyes must be pure triangles with brown pupils. The nose tip is black and moist, and the nasal cavity is relatively large in the facial structure.

These characteristics indicate that this dog has extraordinary vision, sense of smell, and endurance. The mouth is straight and full, with few pointed mouths. It belongs to the compound fighting type. It can fight against animals larger than itself, and is also good at hunting prey smaller than itself.