Tang's dining table

Chapter 3: Don’t let down the delicious food!

"Mom begged Uncle Jiesga to get you a horse, so that you no longer have to ride on the old argali to chase Miman and the others."

Naha's hot breath made Yunchu's ears itch. He slapped Naha's butt with his backhand and said, "Who did you learn this from?"

"Follow mom, that's how mom talks to Uncle Jiesga. Uncle Jiesga's face is so dark and red that he doesn't even know if the milk bumps on his hands have fallen off."

"Don't talk to people like this in the future!" Yun Chu felt that his educational tasks seemed to be even more arduous.

"Mom said that men like women to talk to them like this, and she wants me to learn from it..."

"I said - no learning!"

"I don't!"

Naha got angry, grabbed Yunchu's long hair with both hands and shook it hard.

Beating Naha once a day was a rule Yunchu set for himself, otherwise Naha, who was always naughty and making mistakes, would be in a state of crying all day long.

Obviously, Naha also knows her brother's rules and has mastered the loopholes in the rules. Often after being beaten by her brother, she will become more arrogant and unscrupulous.

Yun Chu patted the head of the black-eyed ram angrily. The black-eyed ram immediately kicked off its hooves and ran to the front of the team, running toward the tent without hesitation.

"Ouch -" more shouts sounded, and more shepherds drove their sheep out of various mountain cols. The foot of Tianshan Mountain suddenly became lively.

Yun Chu carried Naha on his back and looked back at the snow-capped Tianshan Mountains. He had been looking at this scenery for 13 years, and even the best scenery was a bit boring.

If, if Selema really wants to enter Jiesga's tent, he wants to leave here and go to Chang'an, which is haunted by dreams.

Let’s see if the Chang’an in the books becomes as prosperous as imagined.

You are not a Uighur in the first place, so you can't cover your ears and think that you are a Uighur.

In addition, the life of the Huihe people is really not suitable for him.

Yun Chu was afraid that if he stayed here for a long time, the civilization in his mind would pass by little by little, and eventually he would forget all those things.

A fat marmot rolled down the grass slope, and Naha immediately jumped off Yunchu's back.

Two guys who were almost equally fat bumped into each other hard. Naha obviously won with her height advantage. She strangled the marmot's neck with both hands and shouted anxiously to Yun Chu: "Brother, hurry up and light the fire."

The marmot was strangled by Naha's neck and struggled for a few times before becoming motionless. Its originally fat body hung freely, making it look a little slender.

Yunchu rescued Big Fat from Naha's clutches, and the guy immediately squatted next to him and called out "chirp", pointing one paw at Naha who was staring at him eagerly to vent his dissatisfaction.

He took out two milk lumps and fed them to Dafa. Dafa immediately forgot about the humiliating scene just now.

This guy is the spy in the marmot group, a spy who belongs to Yunchu alone. He has no sense of honor of the group and the consciousness of living and dying together with the group.

Ever since Yun Chu rescued it as a young child from the claws of the golden eagle and met on the grassland for a long time, its feelings for Yun Chu were deeper than those with the tribe.

As long as Yunchu goes to herd sheep, it will appear around Yunchu, and will also lure other marmots over for Yunchu to catch and burn.

Marmots are strange animals that trust their companions almost unconditionally.

Of course, the big fat one must be removed, it is the scum of the marmot group.

As long as Da Fei leads them, they will come in groups... At this time, Yunchu only needs to use a leather bag to cover one of the marmots, and then give some food to the other marmots. This group of marmots is led by Da Fei. They left with satisfaction. As for the lack of one or two companions, they didn't seem to care. Maybe they didn't know how to count.

As long as Yunchu is willing to give it, he will come over next time to ask for high-calorie food like milk pimples. As for missing some companions, it is a trivial matter.

Wherever the marmot appears, the golden eagle will definitely come as promised, just like it is normal for Naha to drool a lot whenever she sees a marmot.

The golden eagle flew silently high in the sky, and Big Fat gave out a shrill warning sound. The group of marmots immediately got into the grass and fled along the way they came.

Yun Chu said goodbye to Da Fei with the leather bag that kept shaking, and Da Fei once again stood on a high place and shouted to Yun Chu, somewhat reluctantly.

When they return to the cave, they may blame the loss of one or two companions on the golden eagle.

At this time, Naha had forgotten her brother's weird method of catching marmots. She just wanted to go home as soon as possible so that her brother could burn the marmot for her to eat.

The marmot's sharp claws had scratched the pocket. Yun Chu took out a baseball bat he had cut out from the back of the black eye socket, and beat the marmot to death in the leather pocket with one blow.

Black Eye socket took the sheep into the sheep pen by himself, while Yun Chu carried the marmot to the sheep feeding trough, preparing to take care of the marmot.

If you are not a Huihe person, you cannot understand the Huihe people's love for marmot meat.

Yunchu's identity as a Uighur was imposed on him by his mother, a Cypriot who obviously had pale skin, chestnut hair, and green eyes.

The reason why the Cypriot people can be called Uighurs is that the Cypriot tribe exchanged 500 beauties, tens of thousands of sheep, thousands of cattle, hundreds of camels, and hundreds of fine war horses.

In the past, they had another name - Jiuxing Tiele - Xue Yantuo - Uihe tribe - Sai tribe.

The reason why he has such a long name is entirely because no one can beat Sai with chestnut hair and green eyes.

As long as it is a powerful tribe, they will choose to fight first and then surrender.

Under normal circumstances, tribes that surrender directly without fighting will be killed directly by others, and only those tribes with fighting ability will be accepted by other powerful tribes.

Every tribe on the grasslands, Gobi, and desert must ensure that their expansion behavior can make themselves stronger and stronger, not weaker and weaker.

The Cypriots' strategy is to fight if they can win, and join if they can't. The Cypriots can be Huns, Turks, or of course Tiele people. If the countries with the nine surnames of Zhaowu are not too far away, the Cypriots In fact, there was discussion about joining them.

With the identity of Huihe people, we don’t have to worry about other barbarians coming to kill or rob them, which gives us a sense of security.

They also followed the Tang army to pick up cheap pastures and cheap cattle and sheep. Therefore, they believed that surrender was the right thing to do. The only worrying thing was that it was difficult to find a boss as powerful as an evergreen tree.

However, since he chose to surrender, being enslaved by others became a matter of course.

Every year, the Cypriots pay the most cattle and sheep, the most materials, and bear the heaviest combat tasks to the Uighurs. In exchange, the Uighurs only allow them to call themselves Uighurs.

The Cypriots seem to be very satisfied, and Selema and the others also seem to be very satisfied. Therefore, the living habits of the Cypriots are rapidly approaching those of the Uighurs.

For example - eating marmots!

This little rodent, Squirrelidae, has a thick and fat body, a thick neck, a broad snout, small ears and thin eyes, thick and short limbs, and a lot of fat in the body. It is a rare delicacy in the eyes of the Uighur people, and naturally it has become the favorite of the Sai people. food.

This kind of thing has nothing to do with taste, only to do with flattery.

Just think about it, if there is only salt as a condiment, how delicious is the marmot meat, no matter how delicious it is?

Of course, the marmot meat cooked by Yun Chu is not included in this list!

Different from the common Uighur barbecues and stewed marmot meat, Yunchu has its own unique cooking method.

After catching the marmot, Yunchu likes to insert two sticks into the marmot's butthole and pull out the entire intestines by turning them. Since the intestines of the marmot are very tough, the advantage of doing this is that it does not contaminate the edible parts of the marmot. .

After the dirt is extracted, the marmot's butthole is sewn up, and then the marmot's head is chopped off, so that there is a natural leather pocket.

At this time, insert a knife into the marmot's trachea a few times, pour some salted water into it, chop up the edible offal and put it in, and then put in some Tianshan-specific black plums. This stuff is very sour and can be released very well. Bring out the delicious taste of marmot meat.

If you want to eat a good meal of marmot meat, the root of Imperata cogongrass is indispensable. When it is heated, it will release a light, almost fragrant smell, especially when mixed with cumin, a specialty of Tianshan Mountain. , the strong body odor-like smell of cumin will be alleviated, and after reacting with the fat of the meat, only the strange fragrance will remain.

Just let such a marmot-skin bag sit for half an hour, while you make a fire in the sand and throw some pebbles into the fire.

When the bonfire heats up the sand and the stones become very hot, the hot stones are put into the closed skin bag and buried in the sand to stew.

This is a very efficient cooking method that maximizes the use of heat.

It only takes a moment to ripen, and the marmot skin bag buried in the sand will emit hot steam. The steam is shot out from the gaps in the leather bag. At this time, the entire leather bag is no different from a weakened version of a pressure cooker. big.

After waiting patiently for another half hour, a round marmot skin bag appeared in front of people.

Use a knife to scrape off the burnt fur, and a bright yellow food similar to a hanging oven roast duck appears in front of people.

Place this thing on the old sheepskin, scratch it lightly with a knife, and the rich oil will come out automatically. If you continue to scratch deeper with the knife, the tight marmot skin will automatically separate to both sides, revealing the rich oil inside. Ingredients, and so - a plump marmot dinner appeared in front of people.

The first thing that catches the eye is the shiny and slightly yellow marmot fat. This thing is cut off with a knife and tremblingly placed on the tip of the knife. When it is put into the mouth, it quickly melts in the mouth without biting and turns into liquid. The fat rolled down the throat, and before it could fall into the stomach, it was absorbed by the hungry body.

While the body was absorbing the fat, the Uighur people's eyes had already fallen on the red marmot heart and the slightly black marmot liver. The heart was brittle and chewy, and the liver was as soft as French foie gras. When you put it in your mouth, it felt like... It's like putting a piece of silk into your mouth. You don't need to chew it, and it will fall into your stomach smoothly...

The marmot skin is extremely crispy at this time. Sprinkle a little salt and put it in your mouth, and the crispy skin will quickly become soft and have a melting feeling.

There is a reason why Selema likes to eat marmot skins.