Chapter Twenty-Four: Traveling South and North

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According to the procedure of the grassland wedding, the bride Pang Dong Dong was first unveiled in a ceremony, and the wedding celebrant Tangnur wrapped colorful strips of cloth around his wrists and held a colorful horse whip in his hand.

He sang the opening lines of the unveiling ceremony with subtle humorous and comical lyrics, a fixed and cheerful tune of the Kazakh people, and the lyrics were sung improvisedly, as long as they made everyone laugh.

The crowd at the wedding burst into laughter as Donnoor sang "Beitshaer" (The Unveiling Song), provoking the bride's veil with a colourful horsewhip.

Pang Dongdong saluted his grandparents and elders one by one, and after the wedding ceremony, Uncle and Aunt Hemiti served a variety of food and delicacies to the guests.

On the grassland, the herdsmen also held entertainment activities such as "girl chasing", "sheep holding" and "wrestling" to help the fun.

In the evening, the young people on the grassland played the dongbula and sang all night, singing and dancing, so lively.

The wedding of Hemiti and Pang Dongdong was held in the grassland for three days, and they were married in singing and ended in singing.

In the hearts of Kazakh herders, Ma and Ge are their inseparable friends.

Pang Dongdong's marriage leave was very long, and she lived with her newlywed husband in the Guozigou grassland for a week.

Early in the morning, she and Hemiti went out for a walk after breakfast, and there were many yurts in the distance, and the two of them held hands and walked towards the yurts in the distance.

Uncle Gappa had a foal tethered to his yurt, and a herd of horses swept their heads and tails not far away, driving away the flies, gadflies, and heat that harassed them, and endured the fullness of RU juice.

After a while, several Kazakh women carried pails to milk mare's milk, and the mare's milk in the pails was fermented into a delicious mare's milk wine.

Hemmiti's cousin, Paruk, rode his boots and rode a tall horse across the grassland, and his fierce and dashing figure disappeared into the hillside.

Parukh's daughter-in-law, Mayinur, is making yogurt gnocchi in front of the yurt.

Yogurt gnocchi, called "Kuleti" in Kazakh language, is one of the handmade dairy products of the Kazakh ethnic group, with a rich milk flavor and rich in a variety of nutrients, and is one of the must-choose snacks for female compatriots of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.

To make yogurt gnocchi project, first pour fresh milk into a pot, boil, let it cool and then pour it into the "shaban" to add yogurt to ferment.

Ferment into a very thick yogurt, pour it into a gauze bag, and beat the gauze bag with a wooden stick (or rolling pin) to separate the water and oil in the yogurt and skim off the ghee.

The remaining yogurt is poured into the pot to boil, evaporate the water, wait for it to become a paste, then pour it into a gauze bag, drain the excess water, dry and knead into lumps, which is yogurt gnocchi.

Mayinur is doing the final process, which is to knead the pasty yogurt into lumps by hand and place them on a clean board ready to dry.

Pang Dongdong washed his hands and made yogurt gnocchi, and the two of them were gossipy, and they were busy pinching the yogurt gnocchi in their hands, laughing loudly, and Hemiti stood in front of his newlywed wife, looking at his beautiful bride with tenderness.

On the days of the wedding vacation in the grassland, Pang Dongdong and Haimiti happened to witness the passage of their grandfather's boiling eagle.

A while ago, Paluk caught a young eagle on the Guozigou Mountain and handed it to his grandfather, who was the most famous eagle trainer in the Guozigou grassland.

The Kazakh nation is not only an expert in animal husbandry, but also an expert in steppe hunting.

Kazakh herdsmen riding tall horses, in addition to the inseparable hounds next to the horses, also hovered with steppe goshawks hovering overhead.

When hunting in winter, the sturdy Kazakh hunters gallop across the snow with fierce falcons in their hands and hug by the hounds.

Every time you go hunting, you never return empty-handed, and there is always a catch, from a yellow sheep or a fox to a pheasant or a hare, thanks to the dexterous and brave falcon.

The eagle is a bird of prey, not easy to tame, so that it obeys the hunter's taming must be "boiled eagle", a good falcon needs the hunter to put all his efforts into careful feeding and careful care.

After being carefully fed by his grandfather, this young eagle has grown a weak fat, and when the weak fat becomes chicken, the young eagle has the strength to start training.

When training the eagle, first give it a fat, do not feed the young eagle, but also clean its stomach, and then bathe the eagle with hot water, let it sweat, and cover the eagle's head with a leather blindfold so that it can not see anything.

Hemiti and Pang Dongdong watched as Grandpa tied the eagle's feet with a leather stumbling block, and Grandpa had been boiling eagles for several nights.

That night, Haimiti asked his grandfather to go back to the yurt to rest, and he took Pang Dongdong to his grandfather's yurt room.

Seeing the blindfolded eagle standing on a thick rope suspended in mid-air, Haimiti pulled the thick rope back and forth, preventing the eaglet from standing still or sleeping.

Pang Dongdong looked at the poor young eagle and felt compassion, reached out and grabbed her husband's hand and begged, "You just let it sleep for a while, just for a while." ”

Haimi looked at his beautiful wife, "Wife, you must be ruthless when training eagles, and you can't be soft-hearted, otherwise you will give up halfway." I'm going to stop now, Grandpa's hard work in the last few days was all in vain (all wasted). ”

Looking at her husband's resolute expression, Pang Dongdong knew the truth inside, and she shook the thick rope with Haimiti.

The eaglet, which had been suffering for a week, was so exhausted and ecstatic that it could no longer survive when the eastern sky turned white, and fell from the rope to the ground with a "plop".

In a short time, the grandfather came to the yurt, looked at the young eagles on the ground, stroked his beard with his right hand and laughed, and said happily in Kazakh: "This is one of the most tormented eagles I have ever seen, and in the future it will be a Bolgut eagle." ”

The end of the eagle boiling stage is just the first stage to complete the taming of the young eagle, the first step of the Great Wall.

Cousin Paruch took a basin of water and went into the yurt and poured cold water on the head of the young eagle that had fallen to the ground.

Seeing that the young eagle had woken up, Hamiti brought over the salt water that had been prepared and put a small bowl in front of the awakened young eagle, and the young eagle drank water greedily.

Listen to Haimiti said, during this period of time, only feed the young eagle water, not any food, half a month later, when the young eagle is so hungry that only skin and bones are left, there is no energy, obey the training of human beings, grandpa will feed it.

The ten-day marriage leave is coming to an end, Hamiti and Pang Dongdong reluctantly left the Guozigou grassland, and when they broke up with their grandparents, their grandfather invited the next year's Nawu Rouzi Festival, and Haimiti and his daughter-in-law must come to the Guozigou grassland for the holiday.

Pang Dongdong and Haimiti rode the most majestic and powerful black horse in the Guozigou grassland towards Guangren Township, and Pang Dongdong, who was worried about the young eagle, decided to come to the Guozigou grassland next year to visit his grandparents and other relatives, and also to visit the skinny young eagle by the way.

There is a local saying in the countryside of Guangren Township: "The old man is Han, the old two traitors, the old three lines, the old four and the fifth ghosts are clever, naughty and mischievous." ”

This local saying is still more appropriate for Tian Kunhe's family.

The eldest Tian Miao is a conscientious and silly boss, who is honest and sincere, and can take out his heart for his younger siblings.

The second Tiansui has been flexible since he was a child, and the third Tianzhuang is upright and righteous, and he is a good hand at work; The old Si Tian Xin and the old Wu Tian Cao are smart-witted, and the old Yu Tian Shan (dog leftover) is much more cheerful under the care of his cousins, and he has recovered the boy's heart, and he goes up to the house all day long to climb trees and dig birds' eggs.

Tian Sui, whose name fell to Sun Mountain in the college entrance examination, did not listen to the dissuasion of his relatives and worked hard in society early.

When he borrowed money from his second aunt Zhang Hua to do business, he was unwilling to return empty-handed, he was unwilling to face the loess like his father all his life, and after planting in his own field with his father Tian Kunhe for a year.

Tian Sui rushed to Urumqi and took more than 40 yuan from his eldest brother Tian Miao to start his wandering life.

He returned to his hometown in Yangzhou, and saw that the men and women in his hometown were wearing really good clothes, not Xinjiang polyester clothes, he saved money and bought a few bundles of really good cloth and returned to Guangren Township, just shouted a few times on the street, and a few rolls of cloth were rushed to buy.

Looking at the 80 yuan in his hand, he decided to start a cloth business, shuttling back and forth between Guangren Township and Yangzhou several times, and his pockets began to bulge.

However, the reselling of cloth is not easy to do, and those who are afraid along the way are afraid of being snatched away on the road and afraid of being caught in the rain, and there is still a certain risk.

He decided to buy and sell agricultural and sideline products, and after driving his old ox cart to the people's homes to collect flax and safflower, he drove a cart of agricultural and sideline products to the oil mill in Yining City to sell them at a high price, and then bought some sunflower in Yining City and sold them in Guangren Township or other townships.

Tian Sui kept the old oxcart from emptying every time, and he came and went, earning a lot of money.

With the development of the economy, Tian Sui found that the shuttle bus passing through Guangren Township would stop at the Muslim canteen of Che Laohan's house in Guangren Township to eat, and the passengers either ate a cold powder, asked for a plate of noodles, or drank a bowl of sour and delicious noodles and lungs, and Che Laohan's canteen business was very prosperous.

Che Laohan is a Hui who used to work as a master chef for the commune, and his cooking skills are extremely high.

Tian Sui decided to change careers, and also rented a storefront on the side of the road and opened a small canteen to do a catering business.

Tian Sui, who made up his mind, said that he would do it, he learned the experience first, and spent a week eating in Che Laohan's canteen.

After eating all the meals in Tian Laohan's canteen, Tian Sui found that Che Laohan's canteen was best at noodles and lungs and choppy soup, which were sour, refreshing and delicious.

Che Laohan's canteen is not as good as his aunt Tian Kunrong's noodles, and his family's cold noodles are not as high as his mother Ji Yue'e.

After careful observation, Tian Sui knew that Che Laohan's best noodles and lungs and choppy soup in the canteen were the craftsmanship of his daughter Che Guihua, and the noodles were at the level of his son Che Ma Nai, who specialized in making cold noodles.

Tian Sui looked at Che Guihua, who was two years younger than herself, with a standard melon seed face, and a beautiful Hui girl with a delicate face, still waiting for the boudoir.

Thinking in his heart that he must invite a capable master to open a canteen, if he marries Che Osmanthus, won't he save money, as soon as this idea arises, he began to pursue Che Osmanthus.

Tian Sui went to Che Laohan's canteen early every day to help Che Guihua cook, Che Guihua was washing her face and lungs, only to see Che Guihua holding a sheep lung, and there was about a kilogram of flour, an egg, a little clear oil, and some salt in the basin on the board.

Che Guihua made good flour with his hands and feet, put it in a basin of clean water, and kept grasping and kneading the dough with both hands for about 5 minutes.

She cleared the dough water, fished out the dough with a grate, and continued to wash the dough with water, washing the dough three times to form gluten and then set it aside.

Under the command of Che Guihua, Tian Sui squatted on the side and washed the sheep's lungs, at least five or six times, and they were pink and white.

The osmanthus on this side clarified the dough water that had just been poured out, and then poured the prepared clear oil into Tian Sui's cleaned lungs.

She asked Tian Sui to blow into the lungs, and after blowing the lungs, she poured the egg liquid into the lungs, and then began to pour the clear batter into the lungs.

After the filled lungs become full, the osmanthus is tied with a string, put it in a pot of boiling water and cook for an hour, and turn it over for a while until it is boiled out of the pot.

Che Guihua cut the boiled noodles and lungs into pieces and put them on a plate for later use, and these lumpy noodles and lungs can be dipped in juice or eaten in sour soup.

Che Guihua added the gluten that had just been washed, added baking powder, steamed for half an hour and steamed for 20 minutes, the steamed gluten can be eaten cold, it is an excellent cold dish.

Looking at the skillful and diligent Che Osmanthus Hua, Tian Sui confessed bluntly: "Osmanthus, marry me." ”

Che Guihua looked at the handsome Tian Sui, and said in a low voice in a Hui tone: "Look at you (beauty) panic, I am a Hui person, I don't eat Qiaoxi Ka (don't eat pork)." ”

Tian Sui looked at the beautiful girl with burning eyes and said honestly: "My family has been in the Sixth Brigade for more than 20 years, there are many Kazakhs, Uygurs, and Hui in the team, and my parents follow the local customs, and I haven't eaten big meat (pork) for many years, it's okay, I don't eat big meat." ”

Seeing Che Guihua biting her lip shyly, her face turned crimson, and she didn't pay attention to him.

Tian Sui worked harder again, and used his true feelings to win the favor of Che Guihua, "If you dislike me for eating big meat before, or I'll go to the county hospital to clean my intestines." ”

In Guangren Township, when Han and ethnic minorities intermarry, if an ethnic minority family proposes to let the Han daughter-in-law who marries in or a Han boy who has married his own daughter wash her intestines, the Han girl or boy must go to the hospital to wash her intestines, indicating that she will never eat pork and eat halal meals in the future, otherwise the marriage will be ruined.

Listening to Tian Sui's words, Che Guihua was tempted, but she was still very hesitant.

On this day, Tian Sui, as always, came to Che Laohan's canteen to help.

Business was particularly good today, the small cafeteria was full of customers, and a thin eater was sitting at a table outside, eating a bowl of noodles and lungs with his head down.

Tian Sui, who was carrying a teapot to pour tea for the diners, accidentally saw the diners outside with their backs to the door of the cafeteria, squirming something from their jacket pockets and putting it in the bowl.

Seeing this scene, Tian Sui didn't care.

Immediately, I saw the diners outside who were putting things in the bowl shouting, "Old man Che, come here." ”

When Tian Sui heard the sound of the urn, he was bored, and it turned out to be Zhang Zhongming, who he hadn't seen for a few years.

When the old man who was busy pulling slivers for diners saw the diners outside, his smiling face suddenly fell, and he was almost dripping with water, and cursed in a low voice: "Nangsi (damn), it seems that this leper is going to slander people again." ”

Seeing that Che Laohan's face was like cold ice and walked out, Tian Sui also followed, only to see Zhang Zhongming looking at Che Laohan obliquely.