Unparalleled Treasures

Zheng Dabao personally drove a car, and invited Wang Qian and Zhang Can to sit in his car. He wanted to chat with Wang Qian and Zhang Can. Although Zhang Can was young, he was definitely the one he had seen so far. The most powerful person.

Su Xue followed Zhang Can indiscriminately. Wang Qian saw that his niece obviously wanted to take a car with them, so he smiled and sat in the front passenger seat, side by side with Zheng Dabao, and Zhang Can sat in the same car. At the back, Su Xue got into the car and sat beside him.

Originally, Zhu Senlin wanted to sit with Zhang Can, but when he saw Su Xue and Zhang Can sitting together, he was embarrassed to squeeze any more. The main reason was that he was too big, and the three of them sat in the back row. No problem at all.

Seeing that Zhu Senlin wisely went to another car, Su Xue didn't say a word. There are so many cars, she can sit in any one, and there is no need to be crowded. Besides, in the bottom of her heart, the place where she and Zhang Can sit is a deadly place. It would be quite uncomfortable if the fat man forced his way in.

Another subordinate also brought Zheng Dabao's Black Wind Mastiff into the car, Zheng Dabao smiled and said: "Hei Feng is just like my relatives, he will follow me wherever I go, and never leave him. It has saved my life several times!"

The car drove out from Shizhuzi Township and went west on a road. Within a few minutes, the scenery in front of me changed 180 degrees. It was like a desert everywhere, with a yellowish-brown gap, In the distance, I saw a stretch of rolling snow-capped mountains. The scenery of the snow-capped mountains is quite beautiful.

Zheng Dabao pointed to the snow-capped mountains in front of him and said with a smile: "It looks very close? Hehehe, in fact, there are still more than 200 kilometers away. It is close in front of us, but it is far away in the sky. This is the characteristic of our desert scenery!"

I heard that it was hundreds of kilometers away, both Zhang Can and Su Xue were still a little surprised. It really didn’t look that far away, but Zhang Can felt relieved after thinking about it. This was the same as his situation at sea, and he clearly saw the coastline. , but the real distance is actually at least a hundred kilometers away.

The road was a bit tortuous, the Humvee could not run at full speed, and the dust was extremely heavy. Su Xue and Zhang Can quickly pushed up the window glass. Looking from the rear window of the car, the dust mist twisted by the wheels raised five It is six meters high, so the cars behind can't follow too closely. They have to be more than ten meters away, and the distance between the five cars is almost more than [-] meters.

Along the way, Zheng Dabao was talking to Zhang Can about this and that, and Zhang Can answered seriously. Zheng Dabao also asked questions about antique identification, but before seeing the real thing, Zhang Can was just To answer based on experience, without real objects to give him a perspective, it can be said that his strengths will not be shown at all.

An hour later, the few people in the car, except for Zheng Dabao who was driving the car, the other three fell asleep. After a long journey, the energy is still quite exhausted.

It was not dark yet, but when it was almost dark, the five Hummer convoys arrived at their destination, the edge of the desert, and then there were rolling mountains, but there was no snow on the mountains at the bottom. The snowy mountain looks no different from what I saw before, it still seems to be right in front of my eyes, but it is far from that simple to climb up.

As soon as the car stopped, all the sleeping people in the car woke up. Zhang Can and Su Xue opened the door and jumped out of the car, and everyone else got out of the car, including that black wind, and quickly ran to Zheng Dabao's house. Beside, licking on his leg, very affectionate.

Zheng Dabao patted it on the head, yelled, and then went to the right, Zhang Can and Su Xue looked over, there was a large herd of cattle and sheep, at least thousands of head, on this side, there was a stream from the mountain When you come down, it will be different if you have water. There is a large piece of grass here, and you can't see the grass.

In a piece of flat grass, there are dozens of tents, beside the herd, there are more than a dozen people scattered on horseback to guard the herd, and more than a dozen shepherd dogs are running around, picking up the scattered small animals. Cattle and lamb chased back to the large group, very responsible.

Zheng Dabao laughed and said: "Here, this is my old book. Everyone will spend the night here tonight. We will start on foot tomorrow. Let's have a barbecue meeting tonight!"

After Zheng Dabao finished speaking, he ordered his subordinates to prepare. The other herdsmen also rode over and greeted Zheng Dabao, but they spoke Xinjiang dialect, which Zhang Can and the others could not understand.

But it can be seen that Zheng Dabao obviously asked them to go out to slaughter cattle and sheep while preparing tents for accommodation. Herdsmen often do these jobs without hesitation.

The living habits of Uyghurs, Huis, and Tibetans are basically a knife. The knife was given by his father when he was very young. The knife is very sharp, and he is a nomad. It is also more dangerous. Carrying knives is their living habit, and it is also authorized by the state. Ordinary people are never allowed to carry knives with them when they go to the mainland, but these ethnic minorities can, because they have such living habits since childhood. Inseparable from the knife.

Zhang Can had never seen cattle and sheep being slaughtered, so he followed him to the small river curiously. The river here is very clear, and occasionally he saw short fish swimming in the water nimbly.

Squatting down, Zhang Can put a handful of water into his mouth. The water was a little cold, but it seemed a little sweet. Then he looked at the place where the river stretched far away. The two sides of the river were red and green, the grass was green and fat, and there were many small flowers. The scenery It is very beautiful, and it is definitely different from the desert that I saw before.

More than a dozen herdsmen and the five subordinates brought by Zheng Dabao caught cattle and sheep and came to slaughter them. Zhang Can was watching all the time, Su Xue followed closely, and Zhu Senlin was also shaking his fat body. All ran over, only Wang Qian did not come, Zheng Dabao was talking with him in the tent.

The situation of this slaughter is far different from the pig slaughter Zhang Can has seen in the mainland. In Zhang Can’s hometown, his parents have to feed pigs every year until they are slaughtered during the Chinese New Year. In boiling water, a few people pressed the pig onto the bench, and the butcher stabbed the pig’s throat with a butcher’s knife, released the pig’s blood and caught it in a basin, then poured the boiling water into a large wooden tank, and then put the pig’s blood into the large wooden tank. Lift it into the vat and roll it, wait for the boiling water to soften the pig body, then shave it, and then carry it out. The final process is to cut it into small pieces and hang it in the room with a fire kang. This is the Tujia style. bacon.

The slaughtering methods of these people are different, and the killing is almost the same. After cutting the throat with a knife, after the blood is drained, the cattle and sheep are hung on the tree trunk racks that are erected, the skins are peeled, and the internal organs are cleaned.

In particular, the peeling process is the most careful. After a piece of skin is peeled completely, the selling price will be much higher in the future. For this alone, Zheng Dabao's annual income is over several million. Of course, this It's just his old foundation of starting a fortune. Of course, this is not the one who really made a fortune, but he doesn't have to abandon his old family business after he gets rich, because he is still making money.

Some herdsmen built several large fires, each with a barbecue grill, and then roasted the six cattle and three sheep that had been slaughtered.

Zhang Can watched carefully. Before grilling, they had cut the meat with a knife and sprinkled a lot of condiments and salt powder. In this way, the taste could be better, but the meat was not cut open. Come on, it's still a whole one.

Not long after the roasting, the tangy aroma rushed into the nostrils. It was indeed very fragrant. A lot of butter oozed from the skin of the cattle and sheep, and fell into the fire drop by drop. The yellow epidermis looks very appetizing. It made Zhang Can, Zhu Senlin and the seven bodyguards in front of the king swallow their mouths. This thing is so appetizing. It is more appetizing than any food in the restaurant. allure.

These herdsmen have lived like this all their lives for decades, so they are naturally familiar with it.

But Zhang Can was a little curious, and asked, "How could so many be slaughtered? Why can't we just eat so much? We can't finish a cow."

One of the Muslims who was barbecued replied: "Boss Zheng will prepare this. You will eat it after you go up the snow mountain. He prepared some dry food, and here he prepared some fresh food. He said that it will take at least ten days to half an hour." Monthly food intake, there are sixteen or seventeen of you in total, these are not many."

Although the Chinese of this herdsman is not very fluent, he can still understand it. Obviously, they are not the minority in the most remote areas. Some of them can’t understand or speak any other language except their own language. .

At this time Zheng Dabao also came out with Wang Qian, and asked his subordinates to bring everyone a leather cushion to the fire, and then everyone sat down around the fire, and gave each of them a knife.

In fact, this knife can be called a dagger. It is naturally different from the ones used in the mainland. Zhang Can has never used a dagger, and has only used kitchen knives and fruit knives. This dagger looks very sharp.

The barbecue has been roasting for nearly an hour, and the seasoning is still added while grilling, until the skin layer of the beef and sheep is golden and clear, no longer dripping oil, and it is still at the level of burnt, and then cut it with hands. The knife cut off a piece of meat weighing at least two or three catties, and presented it to everyone.

Zheng Dabao knew that Zhang Can, Zhu Senlin and others must have never eaten like this, because he had a different view on Zhang Can, so he also said enthusiastically: "Xiao Zhang, have you never eaten like this? Hehe, come on, let me teach you !"

As Zheng Dabao said, he took out the knife, stabbed the knife on the piece of meat, and then brought it to his mouth and took a hard bite, biting a large piece of meat into his mouth, the oil flowed from the corner of his mouth, but he chewed hard I am happy and enjoy it very much.

Zhang Can was hungry a long time ago, so he was being polite, and everyone else started to do it one after another. They stabbed a piece of meat with a knife and handed it to their mouths, and then started chewing.

Only Su Xue didn't pick up the big pieces of meat, but just cut a small piece from the hanging whole sheep to eat, and cut it after eating.

Originally, Zheng Dabao and the others hated guests doing this the most, but Su Xue is a girl and Wang Qian's niece, so she didn't care about it.

Zhang Can took a bite and put it in his mouth. Although the oil splashed and flowed down the corner of his mouth, it was really delicious. He didn't expect it to taste so good. When he was in Jincheng, he also ate Xinjiang people at the night market. The kebabs taste good, but compared to now, it's still a bit worse.

Zheng Dabao and the others ate a lot and wiped the grease from the corners of their mouths with their sleeves. Only then did Zhang Can understand why the sleeves of Xinjiang people are much greasy.

"Take out the wine!" Zheng Dabao ate the barbecue, and then ordered his subordinates to fetch the wine from the tent. Zhang Can thought it was packed in leather bags, but he saw on TV that Mongolians, Hui and Tibetans used leather bags to hold wine. Yes, but what Zheng Dabao's subordinates took out was a big copper pot, the spout was still steaming, the wine was heated in a pot, and the other two brought out a large stack of bowls.

Zheng Dabao said with a "haha" smile: "Men need to use bowls for drinking, men need to burn knives for wine, and men only need to boil knives!"

The men made Wang Qian laugh too, and said, "Old Zheng, you have only been in the Mainland for a few years, but you have learned some slang and know how to call men, haha!"

Zheng Dabao smiled again, opened his mouth, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly saw the beautiful Su Xue again, with a embarrassed face, he swallowed the words forcibly, lifted the pot and just poured the wine.