Chapter 20. Liquor and mutton taste good
Perhaps it was due to the fatigue from the journey that the two of them fell asleep chattering.
The night is long and the night wind is cold.
Even though they were covered with single clothes and hay, the cold wind blowing in from the cracks in the rocks still woke the two of them up from the cold. Especially in the second half of the night, maybe it was because they had slept for a long time and it was difficult to fall asleep again.
Ala Yanzong took out the wine bag, and the two of them drank some to warm themselves up, and finally fell asleep again.
After all, he could no longer sleep soundly, so Ala Yanzong woke up early. Seeing that Ula Zhitao was still sleeping, he covered her with all his clothes and piled hay.
There was already light outside the stone house, and Alayanzong got out and blocked the entrance again.
After observing the terrain, I saw a forest not far to the west, so I followed the mountain road at my feet to look for food.
Alayanzong was overjoyed to find several fruit trees. Under the trees, he picked up some jujubes, hawthorns, and even some walnuts.
Perhaps his search for the grass disturbed the birds perched on the trees, and they began to chirp and flutter their wings.
These birds are relatively small, and even if they are captured, they don't have much meat to eat.
Ala Yanzong felt that those dried fruits could only be eaten for one day. If he wanted to accumulate food, it would be better to hunt some prey.
Going west again, the woods here are much higher, but it is difficult to find fruit trees.
Just as Ala Yanzong was hesitating whether to continue walking deeper into the forest, he heard several bleating calls.
Looking for the sound, there were more than a dozen small white dots moving on the mountainside on the north side. Alayanzong knew that they were goats grazing on the mountainside.
Although it is a hillside, it is also very steep. It is difficult for even wolves to climb up such a hillside. When they try hard to catch the goat, they will most likely roll down the mountain.
The goats can continue to jump around leisurely on the mountainside and still look for food. The hungry wolves can only look at the sheep and sigh.
Perhaps the terrain where goats live is relatively special, and this natural protection allows them to continue to reproduce.
Steep hillsides and thick thorns could not stop Alayanzong.
A few leaped over rocks, crossed ravines, and came to the foot of the hillside. They held small trees in their hands and stepped on the rock wall with their feet, bowing and walking. They were as dexterous as apes, sometimes jumping, sometimes climbing, and circuitously going up.
Gradually getting closer.
When more than a dozen goats saw someone coming, they kept making bleating sounds and moved quickly towards the mountain. Occasionally, small stones would roll down the slope.
Ala Yanzong reached out to catch a stone the size of a steamed bun, raised his hand and threw it at a nearby goat. The stone hit the goat's head, and the goat died immediately with a bleating sound, and then rolled down the slope.
Ala Yanzong grabbed the goat's hind legs with his hands, took off the rope from his waist, tied the goat, tied it behind his back, faced the hillside, jumped upside down, and went down the slope.
The goats on the hillside had stopped climbing and were just bleating, looking at this frightening scene. They leaned slightly, then lowered their heads to eat grass again, as if what happened had nothing to do with them anymore.
After coming down the mountain, Alayanzong walked back. As he was walking, he saw a stone slab one centimeter thick, thirty centimeters wide, and fifty or sixty centimeters long stuck diagonally in the mud.
He used his dagger to loosen the sand around the stone slab, washed the stone slab with the stream flowing around him, and carried it back together.
Returning to the simple stone house, Ula Zhitao had already gotten up and fetched a fresh bag of spring water. By the way, he washed himself by the spring water. He looked much energetic and looked even more beautiful than the tired look he had yesterday.
He was very surprised to see Ala Yanzong returning with a goat on his back, so he stepped forward to help him untie the goat and said with a smile:
"It seems that today's harvest is not small, we can make dried meat again!"
Ala Yanzong put down the goat and said: "Today there is not only meat but also vegetarian food."
I took off the bag from my waist and weighed it, and heard a rattling sound from inside.
Ulazhi Peach took it, opened it, and said happily: "So many, and there are also walnuts!"
Then he took out a walnut, broke it open with a small stone, took out the kernel, put one piece in Alayanzong's mouth, and one piece in his own mouth.
"Hmm! It smells pretty good."
With the goats, there is food. Although the goats are still whole and need to be processed, they already have the confidence and are not in a hurry to do this.
The two sat on the stone, took out the dried meat and dried fruits, drank the spring water, talked and laughed, and had a full meal.
After eating, Ula Zhitao went to the surrounding area to find dry firewood, where they planned to roast mutton jerky.
In order to facilitate cleaning, Alayanzong carried the goat directly to the spring.
I found a relatively flat stone, took out a knife and began to dissect.
This is a male goat, not big, only weighing thirty or forty pounds. Considering that if all the internal organs are thrown away, there will be even less mutton left.
Ala Yanzong then used the spring water to wash all the internal organs one by one.
He peeled off the sheep skin, washed away the blood, wrapped the mutton and internal organs in the sheep skin again, and carried it back to the small stone house.
Find a large flat stone again, use a knife to cut the lamb into thin slices, and place it on the sheepskin.
Cut the sheep intestines into small pieces, cut the heart, liver, spleen and kidneys into thin slices, put them together on the sheep skin, and marinate them with salt.
Ula Zitao used two stones to set up a slate in the lee of the small stone house, lit the hay with a fire sickle, ignited the firewood, and burned the slate.
He also took mutton fat and spread it on the hot stone plate to prevent the meat from sticking to the stone plate during the barbecue.
Take out the bamboo skewers from your luggage and use them as chopsticks, spread the mutton intestine slices on the stone slab and slowly grill them.
Soon the aroma of grilled lamb spread.
Wula Zhitao couldn't resist the temptation of the smell of mutton, so she took a piece of meat that was about seventy-eight years old and put it in her mouth and chewed it. Although there was still a bit of fishy smell, the soft and hard texture was still delicious, extremely tender, and salty.
Very easy to swallow.
Ulazhi Peach kept praising it, so he took another piece and gave it to Alayanzong, saying:
"It smells so good! You should try it too."
Ala Yanzong chewed it for a while, nodded and praised: "It's indeed good. Mutton is much more tender and tender than wolf meat. Oh, by the way, we also have white wine. Just use white wine and there won't be any smell."
After that, he got up and went into the stone house, got the wine bag, and Ula Zhitao and I ate roast mutton and drank white wine. The taste was indeed very different.
Although both of us were quite full in the morning, this lunch was more enjoyable.
There are more and more dried meats being roasted, and the sheepskin is still very wet, so it is impossible to use it to hold the dried meats.
Ala Yanzong took the bamboo stick from Ula Zhitao's hand and continued roasting the dried mutton while guarding the stone slab.
Wula Zhitao took a jacket from the previous gangster, took some needle and thread, and made a new cloth bag to hold the dried mutton.
The sun was still very high when the dried meat was roasted, and the amount of dried meat was less than half of the original wolf jerky.
After a brief discussion between the two, Alayanzong decided to hunt another goat, prepare enough food, and then set off.
Chapter completed!