Ash sheep soup, Tang Ling couldn't imagine what it was? In his understanding, is it to chop the mutton, chop it as fine as dust, and then boil the mutton mush?

In fact, I can only praise Tang Ling's imagination, the real ash mutton soup is very labor-intensive, and it requires more than ten kinds of special spices on the grassland, put together with the pickled mutton, add the underground spring water, a kind of water with a quality between the tertiary drinking water and the secondary drinking water, put it in a special casserole, and bury it under the fire to simmer.

The fuel of this fire is still exquisite, and what it is, Tang Ling doesn't know.

All he knew was that it took more than three hours for the soup to be simmered in the fire, because the whole pile of firewood had to be turned into ashes before it was good—hence the name of the ash sheep soup.

By the time a large pot of soup was served, it had gone from nearly 10 minutes of dusk to a drizzling night.

The rain on the grassland is precious, at this time in the past, Valencia will be excited, after the rain in the grassland there are always some fresh 'chews' will emerge, such as the unique mushrooms of the grassland or something, go out, come back is slowly a basket of fresh wild vegetables.

Eminem's pancakes couldn't be more fragrant, but today Valencia was not in the mood.

Looking at the rain outside the window, she sighed faintly, and was afraid that she would snub Tang Ling, and occasionally reluctantly smiled at Tang Ling.

Her father, Wen Bu, was still able to maintain his composure, and after the ash mutton soup was served on the table, he was responsible for lifting the lid, taking out the mutton inside, cutting it piece by piece, and placing it in front of Tang Ling.

And the haggis was left in the soup.

The soup is delicious, transparent and yellowish, with a lot of spices floating on it, and it tastes rich and mellow, making people's tongues fly, accompanied by a slight milky aroma.

The tender mutton fished out of the soup is served with a little stir-fried, coarse salt with spices, dipped in fine water, and then eaten with a piece of rice garlic and swallowed together with a large mouthful of meat, which is really a unique taste in the world.

Tang Ling originally made up his mind to Sven, but as soon as he took a bite, he couldn't help but eat two large pieces, there was no way, the meat was delicate, without the slightest smell, and when he bit down, it was full of gravy, mixed with a slight amount of oil and gas, which satisfied all people's fantasies about eating meat.

It's much more refined than the food culture of Safe Zone 17.

Such a food with a strong local color made Tang Ling involuntarily think of the food of ancient China.

Although this village is shrouded in sorrow, some inheritances have been preserved under such sorrow.

For example, food is a culture that sustains it.

This made Tang Ling feel a little emotional, and he was also a little moved by the existence of human beings.

After eating three pieces of mutton, Tang Ling stopped, he wiped his hands, took a sip of rich and sweet milk tea, and looked at Wen Bu with a grateful look: "Thank you for your hospitality." ”

"What do you say? No matter how difficult it is, the grassland people will not neglect their friends from afar. Winbu took a sip of mare's milk wine, and the two reddens on his rough face became more rosy.

He put down his glass and continued: "If I believe in my daughter, I must believe that you are a funny, friendly person. ”

Tang Ling didn't say a word, just smiled, the rain outside the window was a little more urgent, and it made a crackling sound on the tent, which made people feel safe, but it made people easily sentimental.

Therefore, the Valencia family always can't erase that deep worry between their eyebrows.

In fact, it was already very touching, and Wembou stepped in to get rid of Baltu, 'This is my daughter's guest. Baltu, you are not yet my Wembo's son-in-law, and you do not have the right to speak in this family. If you don't welcome my daughter's guests, you can leave. ’

How rare is it to be able to maintain this kind of uprightness in the Purple Moon Era?

Or maybe this is a grassland, a grassland sandwiched between the mountains, and it has always been a place of tranquility.

The herding life makes the people here not wealthy, but also not lacking food and clothing.

The huge mutation in the Purple Moon Era broke the shackles of evolution, and made this already somewhat barren landscape and grassland become abundant.

Their lives are good, so they can still inherit a kind of spiritual beauty.

Is this going to disappear too? Tang Ling held the milk tea cup, a little hesitant and a little sad.

He believes that extreme fatigue is a thing that challenges human nature, and when it is pushed to the limit, what kind of will is needed to make it so that it will not show its animal nature?

But Tang Ling didn't ask anything, but chatted casually with the family, and by the way, he also inquired about the black market.

As expected, there is really no black market in this village, and there are only caravans that come once a month.

These caravans will bring some necessities such as salt, iron tools, etc., and will also bring cultivation resources for great warriors and high-end hunters, such as all kinds of high-grade meat and so on.

This requires the people of the steppe to produce a large amount of special products in exchange.

Tang Ling touched his chin, such a caravan would definitely not be able to meet his needs, and according to the time, it would take three days for the caravan to come to Barbato Village, and he could not afford to delay.

This made Tang Ling realize that if he wanted to find a place with an underground stronghold in the black market, he was afraid that only places above the safety zone, or that kind of huge village that occupied a geographical advantage.

The villages you pass by along the way are probably not very possible.

**

After some conversation, it was already late at night.

The night on the grassland was even colder than in the mountains and forests, and Valencia's family, after a tiring day, finally fell asleep.

As a distinguished guest, Tang Ling was arranged next to the fire pit with a brazier, and Eji of Valencia pounced on a thick layer of animal skin for Tang Ling and prepared a wool blanket, apparently worried that this thin young man would not be able to bear the cold of the grassland.

It's a pity that Tang Ling couldn't enjoy this good intention immediately, after the Valencia family fell asleep, Tang Ling quietly walked out of the tent, found a place to shelter from the rain, and began to cultivate under the purple moon.

It seems that the moonlight on the grassland is even more abundant, and it originally took four hours to reach the limit of cultivation, but it took more than three hours to almost reach the limit.

Tang Ling opened his eyes suspiciously, and heard bursts of intermittent cries.

In the middle of such a rainy night, it feels very bleak.

Tang Ling frowned slightly, stood up, and quietly walked over.

It turned out that by the stables outside the tent, Valencia was leaning against the pillars of the stables, hanging her head and weeping mournfully.

I couldn't see that such a hearty girl also had such a weak side, Tang Ling thought like this and walked over.

"Hey, Black Girl." Tang Ling squatted down and greeted Valencia.

Valencia was slightly startled, saw that it was Tang Ling, and heard the title of the black girl in his mouth, and couldn't help but say: "You are black, you are as black as the charcoal in the firepit!" ”

"Not only the village of Barbato, but the villages around here are the most beautiful to me." Valencia was so agitated that she blistered as she spoke.

"Haha." Tang Ling laughed all of a sudden.

Valencia was so angry that she couldn't help but give Tang Ling two punches.

In fact, where is this grassland girl not beautiful? The wheat-colored skin is so healthy, the thick eyebrows, the slight red on the cheekbones, the plump lips, the large, somewhat sunken eyes, full of youthful vitality, like a hot flame, the heart of the young man on the scorching prairie is hot.

Only Tang Ling, the characteristics of attention are very special.

In fact, whether it is black or white, there is no difference in Tang Ling's eyes, it is just a characteristic. However, I can't explain it to a girl like Valencia.

After arguing with Tang Ling for a while, Valencia's mood calmed down a little.

And Tang Ling sat down next to Valencia, pulled out a piece of grass and put it in his mouth, and said, "Are you reluctant to be a warrior?" ”

"How do you know?" Valencia said she was surprised.

"Do you still need to guess? The warrior is very healthy, and it seems to be a long-lived horse, but you cry while watching it cling, isn't this just reluctant to be a warrior? As Tang Ling spoke, he turned his head to look at the warrior and patted his horse's leg with his hand.

"Be careful." Valencia couldn't help but open her mouth to remind, as the saying goes, the horse's fart is slapped on the horse's leg, which means that the horse's leg is a relatively dangerous action.

But the strange thing is that the warrior seems to have an indescribable fear of Tang Ling, not only did he run so far in the afternoon, but he didn't react when he was patted on the horse's leg.

This took Valencia by a slight surprise.

"Why should you be reluctant to be a warrior?" Tang Ling lay down in front of the stable, the rain gradually became a little lighter, and the thick dark clouds that shrouded the night sky became much thinner, and at this time the unique height of the grassland night sky finally appeared.

"Because, it is my family's most valuable property, even if it is my partner, it can't be kept in the face of this incident." Valencia said in disappointment.

"It's not as valuable as the melon seeds I gave you, is it?" Tang Ling asked tentatively, if he could actually help the family solve the trouble, Tang Ling didn't mind taking out another melon seed.

Although, he didn't have much inventory, but before heading to the Grand Canyon, he met a thousand vine sunflowers, and he happened to take them.

"No, why are you stupid all of a sudden? You also told me on the road that don't reveal the matter of melon seeds, it will invite disaster. At this time, you..."Valencia didn't understand whether the pout-faced boy in front of him was really a little stupid or smart.

"Are you stupid? You can completely say that you picked it up, it was robbed, how did it come about, anyway, others can't find the second one in your house. "The only trouble will only be left to Tang Ling, after all, the Valencia family suddenly has a so-called holy fruit, and a strange young man's guest came, these two things are easily linked.

But at that time, Tang Ling had already left, and it didn't matter what they thought, could it be that they could still guess their identity?

"Donnie, I don't want to." Valencia whispered, "It's not that I'm reluctant to bear the holy fruit. However, such a holy fruit will create a strong man for most of the Yavadidi. ”

"After they have more strong people, they will only bully our village and other villages even more."

"They are no longer from the steppe, they are traitors, they have taken refuge in those who carry the stars."

"Someone with stars?" Tang Ling silently recited a sentence in his heart, and then sat up: "What is a person with stars?" ”

"Those people were dressed in ornate uniforms with stars embroidered on their chests. We all call them the ones with the stars. Valencia explained.

Tang Ling stopped talking, but was thinking about something.

"Are those people bad? Why don't you take refuge in them? After five seconds of silence, Tang Ling asked such a question.

Is the hand of the Council of Stars already here? Such a peaceful grassland with no quarrel with the world.

What do they want to do?

"I don't know if they're bad or not, but they ask us to send our loyalty, to graze and mine for them from now on, and they provide us with shelter."

"The point is, they're going to make us give up the glory of our ancestors. The demand is that there is no more Barbatto Village, there is only one of their subordinates or something..."Valencia had never walked out of here, and she didn't know how to describe the relationship.

But as soon as Tang Ling heard it, he understood that the Star Council's decision to subdue all the villages here, turn this place into their territory, and let the people here collect the resources of this land for them was actually a disguised occupation.

When the time comes... Is the Council of Stars trying to establish a Kingdom of Stars?

Seeing that Tang Ling didn't speak, Valencia continued: "Actually, the temptation is still very big. In this day and age, survival is not so easy, and we are always faced with various disasters. ”

"What's more, our children don't get a good education and don't get outside resources."

"They say they can provide everything, such as beautiful clothes, powerful weapons, etc. There were quite a few people in the village who were shaken. ”

"It was a group of people led by my father who refused, and they said, 'These people with stars will actually educate the children here as slaves.' Take away our freedom, let our grazing and mining become a job in their service, and do it forever'. ”

"I believe in my father." Valencia said faintly.

"And then? A few of your villages have not compromised, and most of that Uvadedi has compromised? But so what? Tang Ling raised his eyebrows.

He knew that under the pressure of the Council of Stars, this place would change sooner or later, and compromise was the general trend.

But isn't it enough that the whole village is enveloped in an atmosphere of sorrow? As a nomad, even a sheep is reluctant to kill a sheep, how difficult is it? However, this village is rich in cattle and sheep resources.

"Because, the wolf plague is coming. In two days at most, the wolf plague will come..."Valencia said this, burying her head and unable to continue.

"What is the Wolf Plague? Does that have anything to do with the fact that you're going to give a warrior? Tang Ling had actually guessed a little, but he still asked.

"Because, we need most of the Yavadidi to send warriors to help us defend the village." Valencia replied.