Chapter 1707: Killing animals and entertaining guests
“There is a successful aerial seeding forest in our village. When you get there, you must go and take a look.”
Matsui Zuo has already raised the camera on his chest to look at it. As I started taking pictures outside, I felt like I was in a mysterious and fantastic place.
The guards took a winding road, and after passing Jiukou Township, they quickly turned back to the Meigu River, and then drove all the way towards Lianhe Township along the small road along the river.
It is now the rainy season, and the water in the Meigu River has filled the entire river. The river water washed over the red soil looks very turbid.
But the land on both sides of the river is completely different from the dry season in winter. The land above the waterline of the river bank is now covered with lush crops, the most important of which are potatoes and corn, followed by buckwheat, beans, and melons.
However, there are still large open areas, still covered with lichens and grass.
“In the future, we will open up orchards and pastures in these open spaces.” Zhou Zhi introduced the agricultural plan of Lianhe Township to everyone while driving: “The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has decided to build two in our Lianhe Township. Base, American cherry promotion base, and Moroccan pomegranate propagation and hybridization base.”
“This is a magical land, and the landscape here is the same as that of Shudu. They are completely different, and the people living in them are also very different." Jin Chunyi raised his camera and took pictures of the shepherd on the river beach: "What is that on his head?"
< br>"What a shame!" Zhou Zhi stopped the car, slapped the car door and shouted to the shepherd: "Didn't I tell you to drive the sheep to the back mountain to graze? Why did you rush to the river beach again?"< br>
"The elbow is back!" The shepherd was the one who had fought with Tu Ziri before. When he saw Zhou Zhi's guard car, he shouted: "You can't trust Cadre Wu. Ask me to buy two sheep and let him enter the yard." You can’t even stand it!”
“Everyone, Get out of the car and catch the sheep, this is our food." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "I bought two sheep from a fellow villager, but I didn't notice and they ran out."
A man is a boy until he dies, Brother Dayong, When Jin Chunyi and Matsui Zoichi heard that they were going to catch sheep, they immediately became excited.
“This is the costume of the ethnic minorities here. The sharp knot on the man’s head is used as a hero’s knot. You can’t touch that. If you touch it, it means you will fight with the opponent. You can take it for granted. Yes, that is your duel weapon. Are there any ethnic minorities? "
There is a knife with a foot and a half long horn handle on his waist. In fact, its main function is for decoration, but it does not prevent Zhou Zhi from using it to threaten the two foreigners. Ask them to respect national customs.
"They don't have it there, but in our country there are Ainu people, Ryukyu people, Yaeyama people, Yonaguni people, Kunito people, Okinagabu people, Yoron people, etc." Matsui said: "There are also Koreans and Han people." Matsui took a camera and started taking pictures of the sheep: "But shouldn't we discuss how to catch the sheep now? "
As the saying goes, if you feed the cow, the cow will ride, and if you feed the horse, the horse will ride. Feed the sheep and make them lose their skin. Therefore catching sheep is a very painful thing.
We drove twice. The two black goats were very nimble 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 pieces of handkerchief to wrap a stone and tied it to both ends of the rope to make a "sheep throwing rope".
I held one end and swung it in a circle over my head, then let go and released it. I practiced on a bush for a while, and finally got some experience, so I held the rope and secretly touched the black goat. past.
Quietly walking to a place not far from the sheep, Zhou Zhi waved the sheep rope, and when he let go, the sheep rope was pulled by the stones at both ends and flew towards the sheep in a swirl.
When the rope touched the black sheep, the black sheep began to jump and struggle, but it was too late. The rope circled the black sheep's feet several times. The black sheep only broke free on two legs, but the other two were Trapped to death.
And Ye ran over to hold the sheep down, and wrapped the sheep with Charwa: "What do you have that elbow? It's very easy to use!"
"This thing is called throwing. Sheep rope seems to be used by shepherds in the north." Zhou Zhi began to play the harp.
The result was less than a few minutes. It was a stroke of luck to catch the black sheep just now, but the remaining one could not be caught no matter what.
"If it doesn't work, just eat this one first. Does the other one know how to go home at night?"
"The other one is frightened and may not dare to go back. It would be a pity not to be picked up by the wolf. "
" Damn, I still don't believe this!" Zhou Zhi thought for a moment: "I have an internet connection in my car!" "I didn't tell you earlier!" Brother Dayong rolled his eyes at Zhou Zhi. What's the point of having an internet connection? strength!
Catching sheep with a net is too simple. Find a piece of grass, spread the fishing net on it, nail the four sides with branches, and then drive the sheep in the direction of the net.
As long as the sheep steps into the mesh, it's basically doomed. Even if just one hoof gets caught, it can't drag the net far.
It took a while, but everyone finally caught the remaining black sheep.
Throwing the two black sheep on the roof of the car, everyone returned to the grain station happily like successful hunters.
"Oh, you are finally back. Why did it take so long?" Wu Renzhong heard the sound of the car engine at the entrance of the grain station and came out to greet him.
“Where is the sheep I asked you to buy?” Zhou Zhi took the guests out of the car and asked Wu Renzhong.
"Aren't the sheep in the yard... Huh?"
"Hey, you ghost, all the sheep ran into my car, hurry up, hunt the sheep to entertain guests tonight!"
The Yi people are a A very hospitable nation, even if they are extremely poor, they still treat each other with all their heart. When Zhou Zhi first came, Tu Liangzhi wanted to keep it for his daughter, so he only had eggs at home to entertain him. Gillette Abi Although I felt distressed, I didn’t say much.
Sheep beating, also known as "beating animals", is the custom of the Yi people to entertain guests. The guests are treated as cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc. according to their identity and degree of intimacy. Before killing the animal, the live animal should be brought to the guests, and the guests should look at it before slaughtering it to show respect for the guests.
When treating cattle and sheep to guests, they do not use knives. They crush or beat them to death with their hands, so it is called "beating animals". The technique is very agile, and the skin of the animal is often peeled off before it is dead.
If many distinguished guests come together, the pigs and sheep will be killed in pairs, and all meat served to the guests will be cooked into lumps of meat or soup.
Usually when very respected guests come, or many people come from the maternal uncle's house, the cow is killed to entertain the guests.
If a piglet is being killed for entertaining guests, half of the piglet's head, along with some lumps of 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 should be fanned after the meal. Bones and meat are given to guests as gifts; if a cow is killed, a large piece of meat from the hind legs of the cow, weighing about five to fifteen kilograms, should be given to the guests to take away after the meal.
But the guests must transfer the meat presented by the host to a family whose hostess has the same surname as themselves, and they cannot eat it alone.
Many etiquettes are actually quite complicated.
However, when Zhou Zhi came here, he made some improvements and gave up the sheep-beating mode, and still imitated the killing of pigs and bled them.
The main reason is that I can't bear to eat delicious food. Not only does the blood in the meat affect the quality of the meat, but it's also a pity that a portion of the sheep's blood soup is missing.
It was too easy when Old Chiri was killing the sheep. Two black goats weighing more than 60 kilograms were put down on the chopping board in minutes.
Put the fresh sheep blood into a basin while it is hot, use a horsetail basket to filter out impurities, pour it into the same amount of refined salt water, stir it gently with a thin stick, and after it solidifies, cut it into thick pieces with a knife. Slide it into a pot of boiling water and heat over low heat until the sheep blood solidifies like soft tofu.
This process takes about an hour. While tightening the sheep's blood, everyone begins to process the sheepskin and haggis.
Matsui Zou felt unbearable and excited at the same time, but Jin Chunyi seemed indifferent. They all ate dog meat happily, let alone sheep.
Traditional haggis includes heart, liver, tripe, intestines, lungs, tail, hooves, head, and blood. The Yi family also eats blanched skin of sheep, which is to use boiling water to open the pores and scrape it off with iron slices. Wool, eating mutton with the skin on.
This is the same as Jiachuan.