Tsampa is fried and ground into fine powder with barley. When eating tsampa, mix it with strong tea or milk tea, ghee, milk residue, sugar, etc. together. Tsampa is easy to store and carry, and is also very convenient to eat.

When Tashi went to shepherd sheep every day, he would go out all day, so when he went out every morning, he would use a small sheepskin bag, put tsampa, and then put ghee and milk residue. He could eat it any time he was hungry and would not have to come back all day.

My wife was a little surprised to see that Taxi brought back more than a dozen strange foreigners.

However, when I heard that these people were Han merchants, I became enthusiastic. The herdsmen living here were isolated from the outside for a long time. Not long ago, the new outsiders of the Mongolian and Han ethnic groups, their different ways of dealing with things made the herdsmen more fond of the Han people. Especially the herdsmen are generally very enthusiastic about the businessmen walking on the grassland.

Zhang Huangyan took out two daggers, a dozen wooden bowls, and an iron pot for the Zhaxi family as a gift for the visitor. These things together were actually not worth a silver dollar. However, in the eyes of Zhaxi and his family, this was a very precious commodity, and they were unwilling to accept such a heavy gift, so they only accepted eight wooden bowls in the end.

This kind of wooden bowl is not afraid of the bowl, and it is not afraid of hot milk tea. It has always been the favorite of herders, but the key is that it is not expensive.

When other herders by the lake heard that Tsashi brought back a caravan, they rushed over.

In the black tent made of cow hair and wool, Tashi suddenly became lively, the oil lamp lit up, and laughter continued.

Zhang Huangyan also became a businessman, letting the guards act as partners, picking up a pack of goods from yaks and horses, and selling them to the herdsmen.

The waist knife, dagger, wooden bowl, iron pot, tea, salt, sugar, cloth and other products are all popular among herders.

Three sheepskins are exchanged for one pound of tea bricks, one sheep is exchanged for one pound of tea bricks, one horse is exchanged for eight pounds of tea bricks, one yak is exchanged for ten pounds of tea bricks, and one camel is exchanged for fifteen pounds of tea bricks.

These tea bricks are actually just ordinary tea leaves. A tea brick is exactly one pound, and the silver is less than a silver dollar. However, when you go deep into the Qinghai-Tibet pastoral area, you naturally cannot be the same as the purchase price in the city. The price given by Zhang Huangyan is actually far beyond the purchase price that the herdsmen trade with caravans.

Since the herdsmen's property is full of cattle, sheep and fur, and there are very few currencies such as gold and silver, they are more bartered when trading. The two parties agreed to use tea and sheep as currency settlement units and trade after conversion.

All caravan goods are priced with tea. The herdsmen's goods are priced with sheep, and then the exchange ratio between tea and sheep is agreed, so they can trade happily.

Three sheepskins or one sheep can be exchanged for a pound of tea bricks. The price of herders all feel that it is fair and they all want to take the opportunity to buy more goods.

The herders exchanged more cowhide and wool, cow wool, and some wild sheep, foxes, wolves and other skins. Few people are really willing to trade livestock.

In their eyes, livestock is the most important property and the foundation for the family to survive. The Taxi family has more than 200 sheep, more than 40 cows, two horses, and five dogs at home. This is hundreds of miles away, and they are all very wealthy herders.

Taxi used the fur of cattle, sheep and prey accumulated at home to exchange for a lot of tea bricks.

It is better to give up three meals and not give up a single tea, and the herdsmen have a great demand for tea.

Taking advantage of the good quality of tea bricks, the price was low, and the price was low, and the Tsaixi bought twenty-four tea bricks at once, which was enough for a long time. Then he bought a few more knives and two wool shears. Wool is also a relatively important source of income for the Tsaixi family. In the past, they used a sharp knife to cut wool, but it was easy to cut sheepskin.

The wool shears brought by the Han merchant were very sharp, so he tried it. He found that it was much more convenient than using a knife. Although the price was not cheap, he still bought two.

In addition, he also bought some salt and sugar, and with Zhang Huangyan's recommendation, he bought a few more pieces of cloth. The colorful floral cloth is much more beautiful than the cloth woven with wool yarn by herdsmen.

In addition, he also bought some of the needle money. Finally, he found that the fur was not enough to pay for it, but he was reluctant to sell livestock.

"Or why do you exchange jerky and ghee!" Zhang Huangyan gave a solution. Although he is not a real businessman, he also knows that the transaction must be fair. Even if he is willing to give it to him, Taxi will not accept it.

There are a lot of dried meat and air-dried blood sausages in the tent of Tashi. These are all native products made by herders. Compared with live livestock, these are easier to carry. Especially ghee, which is a treasure in the pastoral area.

The amount of ghee in each family has even become a symbol of wealth. Ghee is refined from milk, which is very troublesome. Pour the fermented milk into the ghee barrel and keep pushing it until the ghee is separated from the milk. This process is long and hard. The herdsman's wife has to milk at least three times a day, and spend half a day in the milking and ghee.

The Taxi family can produce about 100 kilograms of ghee a year. There is a wooden box in his tent that specializes in storing a bunch of ghee, just like a baby.

Herders usually do not have ghee, whether they make glutinous rice cakes or butter tea, especially ghee made with yak milk, which has higher taste and nutritional value and is more popular among herders.

Even the Qinghai-Tibet chieftains taxed the herdsmen, and they used ghee and sheep.

Zhang Huangyan had heard from military doctors that yak butter is extremely helpful for living in Qinghai-Tibet, strengthening the body and making people more adaptable to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Yak ghee is now a tight-selling product in the Central Plains. It is more expensive than ordinary beef and sheep ghee and is more popular among people in the Central Plains.

"Two pounds of yak butter are exchanged for a tea brick, and five pounds of olive butter are exchanged for a tea brick!" Zhang Huangyan quoted a price.

"Okay, I'll change." Taxi was very satisfied with the exchange price.

When other herders heard about the price, they were also very moved and expressed their willingness to take out some ghee to exchange.

Taxi finally changed all the goods he wanted, and piled the goods he had exchanged into a corner of the tent with satisfaction. Then, while asking his wife to use the new tea bricks and the sugar she had just exchanged for to make butter tea, she asked her father to go outside and catch a sheep.

He is going to kill sheep tonight and celebrate the guests. This is also the way for simple herders to entertain guests. Transactions are transactions, and hospitality is hospitality. They will not care about how much it is to kill a sheep.

There was still a lot of blood in the slaughtered sheep cavity. Tashi's sister brought the newly washed intestines, while Tashi's mother mixed the freshly chopped lamb and barley flour together, then mixed it with fresh sheep's blood, poured it into the intestines, and the fresh blood sausage was prepared.

Taxi's wife had already used a wool blower to dry the cow dung fire. The water in the iron pot that had just been exchanged was boiling. The pot was very big, and Taxi's wife liked it very much. It was much more convenient to boil water and cook rice in such a large iron pot, and the price was very reasonable.

The blood sausages were put into the pot and started cooking. Zhaxi took a knife and started chopping the lamb into large pieces of bones. After a while, they stewed them directly. They prefer to stew them while eating mutton, but they are not used to barbecue.

Zhang Huangyan liked the hospitality of the herdsmen very much, and he also brought out several jars of fine wine.

With wine and meat, butter tea and glutinous rice cake, everyone enjoyed the dinner.

The night is so cold and long, but the hot and fragrant blood sausage, mutton and butter tea, and the fine wine, make the blood boil all over the body.

This dinner was eaten for a long time, and it was eaten by more than twenty herdsmen nearby. Everyone brought barley, ghee, jerky, salt, sugar and so on from their homes, and made this sumptuous dinner together.

After drinking and eating, the herdsmen did not disperse immediately.

They lit a bonfire and started dancing outside the tent.

The dance the herdsmen dance is more like a tap dance, with a clear rhythm and a heroic and lively.

At this time, Zhang Huangyan, who was a little drunk, realized that the women who had just helped make dinner had changed into colorful clothes, colorful and colorful.

Especially with the dim fire and moonlight, he found that the women's faces were all made up below their eyes and above their mouths. They covered their faces with a layer of orange, which was said to be made of butter and sugar.

Herders have always had the habit of applying ghee to their faces. Ghee is applied to their faces, which are bright and red, which can prevent wind and cold. Now, cosmetics made of precious sugar are applied to their faces, which makes them look a bit solemn.

After a while, the women wearing colorful clothes and mixed butter and brown sugar on their faces made of cosmetics came to invite Zhang Huangyan and his subordinates to join the dancing crowd.

Zhang Huangyan, who was once a scholar, was still a little embarrassed and felt that this was a way to teach and not get along with other people's wife and daughter, but the herdsman men such as Taxi didn't mind at all, and even took the initiative to ask their wife and daughter to pull them down to dance.

This is the first time Zhang Huangyan has been dancing such a dance with a strange woman in his arms, and he is both novel and a little excited.

Under the slightest intoxication, he became happier and happier and happier as he jumped.

Moonlight night gradually hid in the clouds. At some point, the dance had stopped. The herdsmen went home. Zhang Huangyan and his subordinates were helped into the tent by their own dance partners.

When he woke up, the tent was already bright, and the sun shone through the skylight above the tent on Zhang Huangyan's face, awakening him.

Opening his eyes and rubbing his head that was still a little hungover, Zhang Huangyan suddenly woke up.

The scenes of last night flashed in his mind, and he quickly sat up, his upper body was naked. Then he lifted the wool blanket, which was also shiny inside.

Finally, I remembered everything. Isn’t my dance partner last night, Tashi’s wife Baima?

They, they seemed to be last night

Those pictures flashed through his mind, reflecting his guess. It's over, how did he do that kind of thing? (To be continued.) Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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