The image of the yurt became clearer and clearer, and finally appeared in front of Gao Yan. Maybe it's been some time, and the white yurt is a little yellow. In the open ground in front of the yurt, a tractor is parked. Looking at the tractor in front of her, Gao Yan guessed: It seems that this is his guide. In front of the Inner Mongolia bag, Gao Yan shouted softly: "Is there anyone?" ”

Maybe Gao Yan was a little hungry, and before there was an echo in the yurt and heard laughter inside, Gao Yan directly opened the thick curtain and walked in.

As soon as he saw Gao Yan walk in, the owner in the yurt immediately stopped laughing and looked at Gao Yan, an uninvited stranger, with strange eyes. Gao Yan was puzzled, thinking that the other party did not welcome her and wanted to quit the yurt. Seeing this, the hostess of the yurt hurriedly stepped forward and told Gao Yan about everything that had just happened.

It turned out that before Gao Yan walked into the yurt, the son of the hostess of the yurt was telling her about a scene he had seen on the way home: a mainland woman was driving alone in the grassland, and it was past noon, and there was no sign of leaving. The young man was worried that something would happen to the woman.

When the hostess heard this, she suddenly felt extremely uneasy in her heart, the woman in the mainland was not familiar with the situation in the grassland, and it would be very dangerous if she really got lost, so she blamed the young man for not coming forward to help. The young man was worried that he would be overzealous and that he would cause misunderstanding. The young man also told his mother that if he encountered such a thing in the future, he would definitely come forward to help.

While the mother and son were talking, Gao Yan walked in. Looking at Gao Yan, the young man couldn't help laughing, and the hostess suddenly understood everything.

After listening to the hostess's introduction, Gao Yan couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and her face was crimson. The shy young man sat in a corner of the yurt like a child who had made a mistake, looking at Gao Yan from time to time with guilty eyes, his face full of smiles. The hostess is kind, the young man is honest, and Gao Yan feels that the family is very kind.

"It's fate." The other party was indeed very kind, and without interrogating Gao Yan, he handed over the stool. After Gao Yan sat down, he served Gao Yan a cup of hot milk tea, and suddenly, the mellow milk fragrance came to her nose, Gao Yan was really thirsty, and felt that the milk tea was very expensive, and she was a little embarrassed, so she wanted a cup of boiling water to quench her thirst. The hostess was delighted when she heard this, and told Gao Yan that in the grassland, water is more expensive than milk.

After drinking a cup of milk tea, Gao Yan's physical strength recovered a lot, and her spirit was also boosted, and she talked more and talked with the hostess. I have learned more about the hostess's family: the hostess has a family of five, two daughters are married, the son graduated from high school this year, and today he just came home from selling sheep on the flag, and his wife went to graze with dry food.

In the conversation with the hostess, Gao Yan had a deeper understanding of the prairie, especially the people living in that hot land: the vast and sparsely populated prairie is not as beautiful as the mainlanders imagine, the wild flowers are fragrant, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep, the eagle soars, the horse gallops, and more disasters.

In the spring, the wind and sand are raging, and if you are not careful, the flocks of sheep and some people will be swept away by the wind, and then the misfortune will fall from the sky. This is especially true in winter, when heavy snow can kill hundreds of cattle and sheep overnight, and suddenly, hundreds of thousands. Even if the livestock barely survived, it is difficult to survive the cold winter, the loss is huge, and the more worrying thing is the safety of people, once they go out and encounter wind and snow weather, it is easy to get lost, and the snow freezes, it is easy to have accidents. So, the people living in that hot land want to open, look down, and get used to it, too many tribulations make the grassland people develop an open-minded and cheerful, casual and peaceful character, it seems that drinking has become the only pleasure of the herdsmen, the life is downplayed, more cherish life, and the boldness is injected into the blood. The grassland people are a family, as a nomadic people, lush grass and water sources constitute the elements of their home, and they have no fixed place, live scattered, sometimes they can't see a yurt in the vast expanse of dozens of miles, especially in the past, even if they can't meet wolves and other beasts, cold and hunger are also very easy to put people's lives in danger, grass people are a family, no matter who encounters difficulties, others will lend a helping hand, especially those who are lost will be taken home, like relatives and hospitality.

Gao Yan is naturally no exception. The mistress of the grassland knew that Gao Yan had not eaten, and besides, because her son went to the flag to do errands, he was also hungry at this time, so she asked her son to kill the sheep. The hostess told Gao Yan that the grassland was different from the mainland, there was no food, there was a lack of electricity, and there were few refrigerators at home, so a sheep had to be killed at every meal.

Although she didn't know much about the grassland, Gao Yan felt that what the other party said was not necessarily what she was talking about, but she felt the other party's strong enthusiasm in her heart. Gao Yan really couldn't think of a reason to refuse, so she had to let the other party go. Because of his arrival, another lovely sheep lost his life, and Gao Yan's heart was extremely guilty.

Gao Yan had never seen a slaughtered sheep before, so she was very curious, so she followed the young man out of the yurt.

The young man first found a plank, and then walked towards the sheepfold. Gao Yan was puzzled when he saw a wooden board on the dry firewood pile next to the sheepfold, and a layer of black things was drying on the wooden board. The young man told Gao Yan that it was the cow that was dry. Gao Yan was even more puzzled, and her eyes were full of confusion: Is beef jerky such a drying method? The young man told Gao Yan that after the autumn of each year, when the cattle were fat and strong, some grassland people began to kill the cattle to prepare the food for the New Year, and in order to save feed, in addition to selling a part, cut off some of the good fresh beef, soak the materials, put it on the wooden board and keep drying, after nearly a year of air drying, it is particularly delicious.

The young man said, picked up a piece and handed it to Gao Yan, Gao Yan was quite puzzled: "Isn't this just raw beef?" The guy smiled slightly and said, "It's been air-dried for a year, and it's no longer raw beef, only meat fiber remains." As he spoke, the young man picked up a piece and put it in his mouth and chewed it. Gao Yan gently put the beef jerky into his mouth, and sure enough, as the young man said, he chewed it lightly, it was very crispy, and it was much more delicious than the beef jerky in the mainland. Gao Yan liked it very much, so she picked a piece of food, and all this was seen by the young man.

After the hostess heard about it, when eating, she specially served a plate of Mongolian beef jerky for Gao Yan, Gao Yan was very happy, and when Gao Yan left the yurt, the hostess also specially filled a convenient bag of beef jerky for Gao Yan. Later, Gao Yan learned that even in the grassland, similar beef jerky was rarely eaten, and it was the host who specially entertained distinguished guests.

The young man saw Gao Yan tasting beef jerky, so he walked into the sheep pen and brought a fat local sheep, he was used to seeing goats, and Gao Yan was a little puzzled in the face of such a fat local sheep. The young man told Gao Yan that there are also goats on the grassland, but there are very few, in addition to the goat's temperament is not as tame as the sheep, the goat's ability to gnaw is particularly strong, sometimes even the grass roots are uprooted, the damage to the vegetation is too great, and the meat quality is not as delicious as the local sheep, in Caoyuan, few people breed goats.

The young man led the sheep to the plank. Gao Yan thought that killing a sheep was a terrible thing, and his heart was full of fear, but he seemed to be very curious, so he stood not far away and watched. Unexpectedly, the sheep seemed to be very obedient, lying on the plank and not moving. The young man turned the sheep over again, then held the sheep with one hand, and took out a long bamboo stick from his coat pocket with the other, and a sharp knife. The sheep seemed to have a premonition that it would not be long to survive in this world, and it was kicking its hooves and making a final struggle. Seeing this, Gao Yan stepped forward to help, and in the chaos, he was almost kicked by the sheep and broke the bracelet on his hand, which was the dowry given by Gao Yan's mother when she got married. Seeing this, the young man was worried about injuring Gao Yan by mistake, so he asked Gao Yan to stay away.

The young man took a sharp knife, gently cut a small slit under the abdomen of the sheep, put his hand into the abdominal cavity of the sheep, seemed to grasp something, pulled it hard, and then used a bamboo skewer to gently pin the knife edge that had just been cut. The sheep didn't seem to be in any pain. The young man stood up lightly and said to Gao Yan with a confused face, "It's over." Gao Yan's eyes were full of puzzlement, and she thought: Kill a sheep in such a short time. At the same time, it also indicates that another life has been lost.

The young man seemed to see Gao Yan's thoughts, so he said to Gao Yan: In the grassland, the sheep and the owner get along day and night, have feelings, the way of slaughtering is different from the mainland, the mainlanders kill the sheep is to stab the knife to the artery of the sheep's neck, and the sheep shed the last drop of blood, so the means are very cruel, the sheep's blood and flesh are full of anger and pain, and the slaughtered sheep is not delicious enough. When the grassland slaughters the sheep, a small opening is made in the abdomen of the sheep that can only be reached into the hand, and the sheep do not feel pain because there are fewer nerves in the abdomen. Then he reached in and pulled the heart artery directly into the sheep, and the sheep soon lost its vital signs. Because the sheep is less painful, the lamb is extra delicious.

When Gao Yan walked into the yurt again, a smell of delicious meat came to her nose. After a short time, a sumptuous whole sheep feast was placed in the center of the yurt, which was extremely delicious and rarely eaten in the mainland. The hostess welcomed Gao Yan, an uninvited guest, with great hospitality.

Before the meal, the hostess specially asked her son to sing a grassland song for Gao Yan. The young man did not refuse, took the horse-head violin, and sang while playing, like the sound of heaven, long and long, extremely beautiful. Gao Yan closed her eyes slightly, admiring the beautiful singing of the young man, as well as the sound of the horse-head qin, as if she was in the vast prairie, and she saw the broad mind of the grassland people, which was intoxicating.

After admiring the young man's singing and the melodious sound of the horse-head harp, Gao Yan glanced at the hostess's house again, and the hostess's yurt was extremely simple: a somewhat oily dining table, several stools of different lengths full of grease stains, and an old-fashioned television ....... What makes Gao Yan even more puzzled is that although the furnishings at home are simpler, the spirit is very full, whether it is the hostess or the young man, there is always a smile on his face, which is from the satisfaction and pleasure of the heart, Gao Yan is very envious in his heart.