Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1707: Killing Animals to Entertain Guests

"We have a successful aerial seeding forest in our township. You must go and see it when you get there."

Matsui Zuo had already raised the camera to his chest and started taking pictures outside. He felt like he had come to a mysterious and magical place.

The guards took a winding road and after passing Jiukou Township, they quickly turned back to the Meigu River and then drove along the small road along the river towards Lianhe Township.

It is now the rainy season. The water in the Meigu River has filled the entire river channel. The river water washing over the red soil appears very turbid.

However, the land on both sides of the river is completely different from the winter dry season. Now the land above the river water line is covered with lush crops, the main ones are potatoes and corn, followed by buckwheat, beans, and melons.

However, there are still large areas of open space, still covered with lichens and shallow grass.

"In the future, we will develop these vacant lands into orchards and pastures." Zhou Zhi introduced the agricultural planning of Lianhe Township to everyone while driving: "The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has decided to establish two bases in our Lianhe Township, an American cherry promotion base and a Moroccan pomegranate expansion and hybridization base."

"This is a magical land. The landforms here are completely different from the Shudu Plain, and the people living here are also very different." Jin Chunyi raised his camera and took pictures of the shepherd on the riverbank. "What's that on his head?"

"Damn it!" Zhou Zhi stopped the car, banged on the door and shouted to the shepherd, "Didn't we say to drive the sheep to the back hill? Why are you driving them to the riverbank again?"

"Elbow is back!" The shepherd was the same Erye who had fought with Tuziri before. When he saw Zhou Zhi's guard car, he shouted, "Kid Wu cadre is unreliable. He asked me to buy two sheep, but I couldn't even keep them under control after I brought them into the yard!"

"Everyone, get off the car and catch some sheep. This is our food." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "I bought two sheep from a fellow villager, but they ran away when I didn't keep an eye on them."

A man stays young until he dies. When Dayong, Jin Chunyi and Matsui Zuoyi heard that they were going to catch sheep, they immediately became excited.

"This is the attire of our ethnic minorities. The sharp knot on the men's heads is called a hero's knot. You can't touch it. If you touch it, it means you want to duel with the opponent. Look at Erye's waist. That's the duel weapon. Do you have any ethnic minorities in South Korea?"

He also had a knife with a horn handle that was a foot and a half long on his waist. In fact, its main function now was to be used for decoration, but that did not prevent Zhou Zhi from using it to threaten the two foreigners, asking them to respect their national customs.

"They don't have them, but we do have Ainu, Ryukyu, Yaeyama, Yonaguni, Kunigami, Okinoarabu, Yoron, etc." Matsui said, "There are also Koreans and Han Chinese." Matsui took the camera and took pictures of the sheep: "But shouldn't we discuss how to catch sheep now?"

As the saying goes, if you feed the cow, you get to ride the cow; if you feed the horse, you get to ride the horse; if you feed the sheep, you get to break your skin. Therefore, catching sheep is a very painful thing.

After being chased twice, the two black goats became very agile and ran and jumped all over the river beach.

Zhou Zhi remembered a method of catching sheep that he had seen somewhere. He used two scarves to wrap a stone respectively and tied them to the two ends of a rope to make a "sheep throwing rope".

He held one end and swung it around his head, then let it go. He practiced on a bush for a while and finally gained some experience. Then he held the rope and sneaked towards the black goat.

Quietly walking to a place not far from the sheep, Zhou Zhi waved the sheep-throwing rope. As soon as he let go, the sheep-throwing rope was pulled by the stones at both ends and flew towards the sheep in a spiral.

When the rope touched the black sheep, the black sheep began to jump and struggle, but it was too late. The rope was circled around the black sheep's feet several times. The black sheep only broke free with two legs, but the other two were entangled tightly.

He ran over to hold Yangzi down, and wrapped Yangzi up with a charwa: "What's that thing you have, Elbow? It's quite useful!"

"This thing is called a sheep-throwing rope. It seems that shepherds in the north like to use it." Zhou Zhi began to show off.

As a result, he was only able to boast for a few minutes. He realized that he was lucky to have caught the black sheep with the sheep rope, but he couldn't catch the remaining one no matter what.

"If all else fails, just eat this one first. Does the other one know how to go home at night?"

"That one was frightened and probably didn't dare to go back. It would be a pity if it was taken away by a wolf."

"You idiot, you still don't believe this!" Zhou Zhi thought for a while: "I have internet in my car!" "Why didn't you say so earlier!" Brother Dayong rolled his eyes at Zhou Zhi. Why bother when there is internet!

It is very easy to catch sheep with a net. Just find a piece of grass, spread the fishing net on it, nail the four sides with branches, and then drive the sheep towards the net.

As long as the sheep steps into the mesh of the net, it is basically doomed. Even if just one hoof is caught, it will not be able to go far dragging the net with it.

It took a while, but everyone finally caught the remaining black sheep.

After throwing the two black sheep onto the roof of the car, everyone returned to the grain station happily, just like hunters who had successfully hunted.

"Oh, you're finally back. What took you so long?" Wu Renzhong heard the sound of a car engine at the entrance of the grain station and came out to greet them.

"Where is the sheep I asked you to buy?" Zhou Zhi asked Wu Renzhong after he and his guests got off the car.

"Aren't the sheep in the yard... eh?"

"Hey you, the sheep have all run onto my car, hurry up, let's kill some sheep to entertain our guests tonight!"

The Yi people are a very hospitable people. Even if one is extremely poor, they will still do their best to treat others. When Zhou Zhi first came, Tu Liangzhi wanted to use the eggs that were left for his daughter to treat him. Although Jilie Abi felt sorry for him, he didn't say much.

Beating sheep, also known as "beating animals", is a custom of the Yi people to entertain guests. The identity and degree of intimacy of the guests are treated with cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc. Before beating the animals, the live animals should be brought to the guests and slaughtered after the guests have a look, to show respect to the guests.

When serving cattle and sheep to guests, they did not use knives but instead crushed or pounded them to death with their hands, hence the name "da sheng". The technique was extremely quick and the skin of the animal was often peeled off before it was even dead.

If many distinguished guests come together, both pigs and sheep should be killed, and all the meat for the guests will be cooked into meat balls or in soup.

Generally, cattle are slaughtered to entertain very respected guests, or when many people come from one's uncle's family.

If a pig is killed for guests, half of the pig's head together with some meat and buckwheat cakes should be given to the guests to take away after the meal; if a sheep is killed, the sheep's head and fan-bone meat should be given to the guests to take away after the meal; if a cow is killed, a large piece of meat from the cow's hind leg weighing about five to fifteen pounds should be given to the guests to take away after the meal.

However, guests must give the meat given by the host to a family whose hostess has the same surname as their own and cannot eat it alone.

Many etiquettes are actually quite complicated.

However, when it came to Zhouzhi, some improvements were made. The sheep-beating mode was abandoned and the bleeding was imitated like slaughtering pigs.

The main reason is that I can't bear to give up the delicious food. Not only will the blood choke the meat and affect the quality, but what's more regrettable is that I will miss a portion of mutton blood soup.

With Lao Chi Ri around, slaughtering sheep was a piece of cake. Two black goats weighing more than 60 kilograms were put on the chopping board in minutes.

Put fresh sheep's blood into a basin while it's still hot, filter out impurities with a horsetail strainer, pour into the same amount of fine salt water, stir gently with a thin stick, and after it solidifies, cut it into thick blocks with a knife, slide it into a pot of boiling water, and simmer over low heat until the sheep's blood solidifies like tender tofu.

This process takes about an hour. While the sheep's blood is being drained, everyone starts processing the sheepskin and offal.

Matsui Zou felt reluctant and excited at the same time, but Jin Chunyi didn't seem to care. They were eating dog meat happily, let alone sheep.

Traditional mutton offal includes the heart, liver, stomach, intestines, lungs, tail, hooves, head, and blood. The Yi people also eat the scalded skin after slaughtering the sheep. They use boiling water to open the pores, use iron sheets to scrape off the wool, and eat the mutton with the skin.

This is the same as Jiachuan.