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Chapter 71 Tsampa Butter Tea

Tsering Quzhen, who was helping her mother, was very happy to hear what Chen Xing and the others said, and said, "My father said that you are not used to eating tsampa, but really, tsampa is delicious."

Chen Xing smiled and asked, "Didn't you go to school?"

Tsering Quzhen's expression changed and he stopped talking.

Tashi said: "Tsering Quzhen wants to stay at home and herd cattle with us, and she is too old to study, so she won't read."

Chen Xing opened his mouth to try to persuade them, but he thought about their situation in his mind.

Nima Zhandui's family is herdsmen, and they raise dozens of yaks and horses. The husband and wife and an elderly mother alone cannot complete the daily operations of herding cattle, milking, etc. that herdsmen need to do.

Reading is of course a good way out.

But I have gone to school, and there is no one to help at home. Besides, young people who have gone to school, would they still want to return to this grassland?

After experiencing a lot, Chen Xing's thoughts have also changed.

But he still murmured: "Literacy is also good."

"I can read, my mother taught me."

"That's still pretty awesome."

Chen Xing nodded and sat on the chair in the living room.

Xie Kaiji and the others were sitting beside them, and whispered, "I'm not very happy to see you, it doesn't matter to us whether other people read or not."

"No, I just thought of a teacher."

Li Shan said:

"Education is not necessarily the only correct way. Look at this family. They raise a large herd of yaks and more than ten horses. This family may be much richer than us. Don't worry, have breakfast. I don't care about tsampa. The taste is very curious."

Xie Kaiji said: "Be careful with diarrhea."

"What's the matter, I searched on the Internet, just wash your hands."

Li Shan didn't care.

What is tsampa?
Highland barley is ground into flour and fried until cooked, then dipped in buttered tea and kneaded into balls for eating.

As long as you wash your hands, there is nothing in this process that will cause diarrhea.

Butter tea and tsampa are ready-made, and Tashi quickly brought them up. The butter tea is in a fruit cooking machine, and when poured out, it becomes hot butter tea. The color is still the color of milk tea, but darker.

Tsampa is still powder.

Chen Xing asked, "How is butter tea made?"

Tsering Quzhen said proudly: "It's very simple, boil the water to make tea, then put the salt, ghee and tea in the blender and stir it without the tea leaves."

Tashi said: "Hurry up and cook the noodles." After driving her daughter away, she said: "Now that the electricity is turned on, this is the way. The traditional buttered tea needs to be beaten by hand. It is a little more fragrant than this kind. If you have time, you can Do it once for you guys."

Xie Kaiji shook his head and said: "We are running out of time, and we have to leave soon."

There are still three days left for their vacation, and they have to drive back to the holy city for another visit, otherwise they will not be in time for work.

"Is this gone?"

"I was short on time, so there's nothing I can do about it, but this time I've seen everything I need to see in Tibet, and I'm right."

Li Shan nodded repeatedly.

Although there are many dissatisfaction along the way, overall it is very satisfactory, expressing the depression of working in a mountainous area for several years.

Chen Xing was thinking about it.

He should have left too, but Jie Ge sent a message saying that the heavy rain yesterday caused a mudslide on the road leading to Ali, and he couldn't find a car for a while, so he wanted to stay here for a few more days and experience Tibet life of nomads.

Tashi taught two people who were eating tsampa for the first time how to knead it.

She feels that people in the mainland have never eaten this kind of food, so it should be difficult to grasp the ratio of flour and ghee.

But both Chen Xing and Li Shan have fished before, haven't they eaten tsampa and kneaded fish feed?So it succeeded when adding water for the second time.

Chen Xing took a small bite to taste.

The flour made from wheat has a smell of wheat, and the flour made from highland barley also has a smell of highland barley. This taste is much more fragrant than the rice at home. Chen Xing does not dislike it. There is also the aroma of milk, the smoothness of fat, and the salty taste of salt in the cake.

Eat a mouthful of tsampa and drink a mouthful of buttered tea.

After going back and forth twice, Chen Xing became familiar with the taste, and it tasted much faster.

He has a high degree of tolerance for all edible things, foods that are not bitter and taste good.

The first bite of butter tea is very strange, but as long as you don't bring this drink into something so sweet and greasy like milk tea, you can quickly get used to the taste.

This is a kind of tea water that tastes salty, has a milky aftertaste, and is a bit oily.

According to the method Tsering Quzhen said before, put tea, salt and water, and then add butter, it should also have the same effect.

But Chen Xing is used to eating, but Li Shan can't do it. He can eat tsampa, but he can't drink butter tea. He has a natural resistance to this kind of oily drink.After eating a few mouthfuls of tsampa, he stopped, and beat his chest quickly.

"Huh, it's killing me."

"I want tea."

Chen Xing reminded.

"I'm not used to drinking, how about you?"

"I think it's okay." Chen Xing said.

"I'm not used to it."

Tashi poured a bowl of buttered tea for everyone, and Xiaobei also sang a sip, feeling that the taste was so unique that he could drink it down.

Xie Kaiji didn't even touch it, he had tried it before and couldn't drink it.

"I'll treat you to a Tibetan meal when we arrive in the Holy City. Sweet tea is delicious. Generally speaking, pastoral areas farther from the city like to drink buttered tea, while people in the city prefer sweet tea."

Xiaobei made a humming sound and kept nodding, then asked Chen Xing: "Are you going?"

"I... I'll stay for another day."

"Okay, then you have to be careful alone,"

Chen Xing smiled and said, "I don't have a car, so the thing you always talk about can't happen to me."

"Be careful, too," he said.

Then the three of them went to discuss how much money should be given to the family. Although they were not used to eating the breakfast and dinner last night and the breakfast and dinner in the past two days, their attitude was very good. If they are not used to eating, it is a matter of personal physique. .

Tashi opened the door and came in with a bucket of milk.

The chat of several people was paused, but they still made eye contact.

Xie Kaiji took out his wallet and counted the money under the table. Chen Xing took a look and found that there was not a lot of cash in it. In modern society, everyone uses WeChat to pay, and it is rare to bring a lot of cash. Xie Kaiji brought these for emergency use.

He took out 600 yuan, took back his wallet, stood up and said: "Sister Tashi, here is 600 yuan, it is our accommodation fee last night, it is not much, mainly because we did not bring much cash out, you I will take it."

"No, no, by the way, no money."

They treated Chen Xing and the others so well, and they didn't want to collect money from tourists.

If it wasn't for Chen Xing and the four of them, Nima Zhandui and her mother-in-law would have stayed outside for how long, and they were an elderly person, so it wouldn't be good to hide from the rain in the car, and it wouldn't be good to come back in the rain after walking several kilometers. Most likely to get sick.

So they were only grateful to Chen Xing and the others, and never thought of charging money.

(End of this chapter)