Chapter 15: Game and Wine
Originally, he said that he was going to go to the village chief's house for dinner, but Long Yifan thought about it and didn't go at noon, it was already more than eleven o'clock by now, and so many people were so tired that the old man couldn't be busy, so it was better to get some stomach filling at Liu Qingqing's house, and talk about it in the evening.
Liu Qingqing really didn't have much food at home, but fortunately, he thought about it before he came back, and he brought enough food, plus the wild vegetables that Liu Qingqing had dried before, and he had a very tasty lunch. Especially Qi Ruoxuan and Xi Muyun, who had never eaten this kind of pure natural wild vegetables, were full of praise and gave thumbs up again and again. This all-natural wild vegetable is hard to eat in the city.
In the afternoon, the four girls cleaned up their house together, and the small stone house was full of life all of a sudden. After cleaning up, Liu Qingqing led us to familiarize ourselves with the entire Liu Village. Listen to Liu Qingqing: Originally, there were still many people in this Liucun, and the maximum number of households reached 50, and the history of Liucun is said to be more than 500 years. At that time, it was all people with the surname Liu, and when it came to Liu Qingqing's father's generation, they were the only ones left with the surname Liu, and now these are all moved here one after another. Liu's father and mother died very suddenly, to be exact, they disappeared, and suddenly disappeared in the Black Snake Ridge ten years ago, and they didn't see anyone alive, they couldn't see the corpse dead, and they heard the old people in the village say that it was very likely that the monsters of the Black Snake Ridge were eaten.
At that time, Liu Qingqing was only ten years old, Bingbing was four years old, and if it wasn't for the village chief and the villagers to take care of them, their sisters would have starved to death. The village chief's surname is Niu Mingli, he is in his forties, his body is as strong as his name, strong, and he has brute strength, but he is very kind, his lover has been dead for many years, and he does not have a son and a half daughter, plus his relationship with Liu's father, so he treats Liu Qingqing's two sisters as if they were their own.
In addition to getting some medicinal herbs to sell in his spare time like other villagers, Village Chief Niu also often goes to the mountains to hunt, he is a rare good hunter in the whole mountain, and he is only a little worse than Father Liu before he died. There was a huge and ferocious hound in the house, and a black and shiny earthen spear.
When the village chief Niu saw our party coming, he was very enthusiastic, saying that no outsiders had come to their village for a long time, and he pulled Long Yifan to ask them to stay here for a few days, and it happened that Liu Qingqing's house only had two beds, and Long Yifan happily agreed, as for a few days, it depends on the meaning of the women, anyway, when he came, he asked the dean for a few days off.
The village chief's house is not like Liu Qingqing's house, which only has three houses, in addition to three large houses that are taller and much stronger than Liu Qingqing's house, there are also east and west wings, but the door of this wing room is locked with an iron lock, and it should be a long time since anyone has lived in it.
The layout of the three rooms in the main room is different from Liu Qingqing's house, the middle one is behind the kitchen, the front is the hall, and the two sides are bedrooms, the village chief lives in the right bedroom, the left side is empty, and Long Yifan stays in this house.
In order to welcome Long Yifan and them, the village chief was ready to cook a table of good dishes, and seeing that the village chief was busy, several women took back the ingredients they brought back and helped to get them.
After a while, a table of fragrant meals came out, this is not like the city, the dishes are all big porcelain bowls, and the bowls are piled up sharply, Long Yifan and Qi Ruoxuan, Xi Muyun can't stop salivaing. The village chief Niu even took out a big mud jar, slapped it and sealed it, and a mellow fragrance floated in, and he was already drunk before he drank it.
"Uncle Niu, you are partial, many times my sister and I want to drink, but you just don't give it, saying that it is the last altar, and it will be left for us to open when we get married, how can we open it now. Liu Bingbing smelled the wine, and her small mouth was high.
"Hehe, Bing girl, you don't come, do you think I don't know that you stole a lot of my good wine, if I hadn't hidden a few jars tightly, I would have stolen them from you and Ma Erdu. The village chief smiled and looked at Liu Bingbingdao.
Seeing the village chief say this, Liu Bingbing muttered something in his mouth, and lowered his head with a slightly red face. Long Yifan, Qi Ruoxuan, and Xi Muyun looked at her in unison. It turned out to be a little female drunkard. Liu Bingbing was embarrassed to swallow the fragrant tongue.
"I as the head of a village, Liu Village has not seen a guest for a few years, and now there are a few distinguished guests, how can I be the head of the village to show a little landlord, although there is no mountain and sea delicacies and wine in your city, but there are also natural original flavors, game, and home-brewed mountain wine. Come, some distinguished guests, and taste this wine. The village chief lifted the bowl with that.
There can be no wine glasses in the mountains, they all use porcelain bowls to hold wine, and the white porcelain is filled with purple wine, and you can smell the wine from a distance of 100 meters.
Everyone couldn't help but raise the porcelain bowl one after another. Qi Ruoxuan, Xi Muyun, and Liu Qingqing have a shallow aftertaste. Liu Bingbing took a small sip and took half a sip and held it in the cavity, letting the wine search for the entire taste buds, looking intoxicated.
Long Yifan is not in a hurry to drink, he knows that this kind of wine needs to be tasted slowly and savored. When the wine enters the mouth, the taste buds on the tip of the tongue come from the sweet and sour, and then the cavity wall and throat flow clearly, the sour taste of the grapes, the mellowness of the wine, and then a slight sweetness and bitterness, which is wonderful. When it flows into the stomach, the warmth instantly fills the internal organs.
No wonder Liu Bingbing has always been thinking about this wine.
The village chief smiled happily when he saw the expressions of everyone drinking. said: "How is this wine, I made it." The mountain grapes grew the best that year, and now there are only 3 jars left, and the other two jars are kept clear and drunk on the day Bingbing got married. ”
After speaking, he looked at Liu Qingqing and Liu Bingbing, with a look of kindness. Liu Qingqing didn't know whether he thought of something when he heard the word marriage, or the reason why he drank wine, or the loving eyes of the village chief, his little face was red in the white. Liu Bingbing is still enjoying herself with her eyes closed, shaking her little head, which is very cute.
Long Yifan came back to his senses and replied: "The village chief's wine is amazing, although I don't drink much, and the troops often drink some strong wine, but I have never had such a good wine." If this wine is taken outside, you will definitely have to distribute it to the village chief. ”
Qi Ruoxuan also replied: "Yes, yes, it's better than my father's wine." Long Yifan, Xi Muyun, and Liu Qingqing looked at her together.
"What do you think of me, am I wrong?" Qi Ruoxuan asked when she saw that everyone was looking at her.
"Did you also steal wine and drink, did you ever let your father beat him?" Long Yifan teased.
"No, I drank it in front of my dad, but he wouldn't let me drink more, and I saw that he was so drunk when he drank, so I tried it a few times, and I didn't feel anything. This one is different, it's delicious, village chief, can't I drink a little more?"
"Of course you can, isn't there a jar here, I've drunk it all today, haha, come, continue, Xiaolong, let's go one." The village chief replied to Qi Ruoxuan, and then raised his wine to look at Long Yifan.
Long Yifan stood up and raised his wine, "Village Chief, thank you for your wine and hospitality, I respect you!"
After drinking a few times, a plate of game on the table is very popular with everyone, this is a plate of air-dried cured meat slices, it is difficult to know what kind of meat is from the appearance alone, the taste is very fragrant, accompanied by a kind of mountain wildflower fragrance. Worthy of the name of game.
"Village chief, what kind of meat is this, it tastes so delicious, but the texture of this meat slice is a little strange, not like a wild boar or hare. Long Yifan asked while eating slices of meat.
The village chief took a sip of wine from the bowl, and then said with some deep meaning: "A rare wild hand in the mountains, I don't know what the name is, although I have eaten well." ”
Qi Ruoxuan said while eating: "Eat, you Long Yifan, are you still afraid that human flesh will not be successful? Even if it is human flesh, it is so delicious, I will eat it." “
The village chief's expression changed, and everyone didn't notice it, so he said to Qi Ruoxuan: "Xiao Nizi is so guts, if this is really human flesh, you really don't dare to eat it." ”
Qi Ruoxuan smiled and invited Long Yifan to drink.
After dinner, the four girls went home together, while Long Yifan stayed at the village chief's house to rest, and the two went back to their rooms to sleep. Long Yifan may have drunk a few glasses because this wine is too good, don't look at the low degree of this wine, and the stamina is great. It will be a little dizzy, and I hurriedly undressed and fell asleep.
In the middle of the moon, Long Yifan was awakened by thirst and wanted to find some water to drink, so he got out of bed in a daze. When I got out of the room, I was thinking about the cloud kitchen, and I saw the light in the east wing. Who doesn't sleep so late? Except that he only has the village chief, Long Yifan wants to go and see what the village chief is doing here without sleeping so late?
When he arrived outside the east chamber, he suddenly heard a low roar, it was the hunting dog of the village chief, Long Yifan didn't want the village chief to find out, so he glared at the big hunting dog, and sure enough, the big hunting dog didn't dare to speak, and went to the root of the wall to lie down. "Why are dogs afraid of him, and the dog of Chen Youlong's nephew was the same last time. Long Yifan remembered the previous incident with Chen Youlong.
Long Yifan tiptoed to the east wing, the doors and windows were closed, he didn't want to knock on the door, he was afraid that the village chief would misunderstand something, and saw that the window was covered with a thick layer of paper, so he stretched out his finger and dipped it on his tongue and poked it at the window paper. Long Yifan stretched out his head to look in from the hole poked, and this look frightened Long Yifan to sit on the ground.