The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

　　 I used to see a professional book published in the 1960s in the study of Nong Bosheng, about the characteristics of the daily life of the nomadic and settled peoples in the ancient North China and the Western Regions.

　　 Zhang Nan's size is also considered a foodie, but I still remember the contents of the book more clearly.

　　According to the description in that book, when the nomads were at their strongest and strongest, it was impossible for ordinary herders to eat meat every day. Milk and blood products accounted for a large proportion of their daily diet.

　　Especially dairy products have the largest proportion in the diet, and plant foods should also be a lot in the warm season, plus some game and fish, there is really nothing to eat.

　　Basically, the early nomads ate fish, but few did not eat fish. The reason for not eating can not escape the later religious beliefs and some more unusual funeral customs. Anyway, it belongs to themselves and can't make it through themselves!

　　 Nomadism means instability. Fighting against the sky and the earth all the time. Not eating fish means losing an important source of food.

　　 As for livestock, they are precious to nomads. It is estimated that, except for aristocrats above a certain level, it is impossible for ordinary people to eat beef and mutton every day.

　　 Cattle and sheep are precious, and horses are the basis for the existence of nomads. If there are no horses, then nomads will be like wild people and nothing!

　　 Horse, the most precious!

　　 Since ancient times, horse meat has also been the most precious food in the diet of nomadic peoples. Normal tribes would only kill horses and eat meat on the most important days. This was the case for the Mongols in the Temujin period.

　　 Not to mention ordinary herders, but the general aristocratic category: usually eat sheep, and often slaughter cattle when there are more important guests. They will only kill horses when they are visited by important festivals, rituals, or extremely distinguished guests.

Until 60 years ago, the Kazakhs in the Soviet Union were basically pure nomads. They had a special liking for horses. They claimed to be "the nation on horseback" and "the most people on horseback in the world." Regarded as the most loyal friend.

　　 The most loyal friend. The way humans treat this type of friend is generally to slaughter and eat meat when the friend is no longer useful. It is not as good as a dog.

Like almost all nomads for thousands of years, it is said that the Kazakhs who "love horses like their lives" do not shy away from eating horse meat, and even like it extremely. Horse meat is even an indispensable item on daily life and holiday tables. Delicious food.

　　Kazakhs often say: "We love horses and we also love horse meat. Almost everyone eats it. This is not a contradiction."

　　 At this restaurant, Livasily said: "Kazakhs say that the world's favorite horse meat is wolves, followed by their Kazakhs themselves.

　　I came here to do errands before, and I would eat horse meat every time. It's actually quite delicious. I really don't lie to you. "

　　 Miss Charlie didn't eat, and Xiang Jianan on one side was also entangled, causing people like the Mark brothers, who usually eat without taboos, to become hesitant, and Vasily had to increase everyone's confidence.

　　 After hearing Vasily's words, Charlize Theron looked around, a little embarrassed, and didn't want everyone to accommodate her because of her feelings.

　　 "Leave me alone, eat whatever you want. It's not very popular in the United States."

　　 Everyone has their own expressions, except for those who have been to Kazakhstan before, there are really few people who have eaten horse meat.

　　Except for the folks from China, like Mark, Randy and others, horses are common, but let alone eating, horse meat has never been seen.

The main ethnic group in the United States comes from Europe. Because of historical religious reasons, horse meat is said to be food for pagans, plus a bunch of messy incidents related to horse meat that have occurred in the short history of the United States. There are very few people in the United States who eat horse meat, or they will not eat horse meat as a last resort.

　　 Even at this conference, politicians such as congressmen often jump out and declare that the slaughter, sale, and consumption of horse meat are prohibited across the United States.

　　Don't think that those politicians are animal protectionists. Most of them just consider and propagate prejudices based on religion and health.

　　 Horse meat is unhealthy?

　　Some Americans still think that horse meat cannot be eaten, it will be poisoned if eaten!

　　 There are a lot of horses raised in the United States, so can all horses in the United States die or be humanely destroyed and treated without pollution?

　　 bullshit!

　　 Every year, more than 100,000 horses are shipped from the United States to other countries to make horse meat for sale. As long as there is a profit in the capital market, nothing will be wasted.

　　 You don’t have to accommodate Miss Charlie’s feelings, just eat. For a group of carnivores, the table full of horse meat dishes is quite tempting.

　　 Zhang Nan used his own chopsticks to make a horse meat dish similar to the combination of "hand-caught lamb" and "potato stew", and stuffed it in his mouth and tasted it.

　　 is not as exaggerated as the rumored "horse meat has a strong smell and the meat does not bite". The taste advantage is similar to the combination of beef and donkey meat, and the meat fiber is not too thick to bite.

　　 The table is basically all kinds of meat made of horse meat. Andre, who is familiar with this place, said that the dish Zhang Nan just ate is the most popular among Kazakhs and can be regarded as a representative of the national cuisine here.

　　 "This is called Beshbalmak, which means'five fingers' in Kazakh. It is more exciting to eat directly by holding it with your hands, but this plate should have been improved, with potatoes added, no dough..."

　　 No noodles, because the boss occasionally eats noodles, but never eats any form of noodles. Tom, the housekeeper, explained to the kitchen in advance.

　　 There is also a similar situation: no vinegar must appear in front of the boss, regardless of rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar, none!

There are many ways to eat horse meat. I’ll hear from Andre that the most common and characteristic dish here is horse intestines. Cut fresh horse meat into strips, sprinkle them with salt, MSG and garlic, and stuff them into horse casings. Seal both ends and simmer on a low heat.

　　 According to the different parts of the horse meat used, the horse intestines that Kazakhs love to eat are also divided into several types, including pure lean meat, full fat meat, and half fat and half lean.

　　 The horse intestines looked a little weird, so Zhang Nan tasted something. When he was eating alternative sausages, he felt that the taste was just like this. It definitely couldn't keep up with the first-class sausages produced by Yanxian Food Factory, which he liked.

　　 One horse meat, one pork, this is more...

　　Zhang Nan likes this comparison, yedi, have any opinions?

　　 For those who love home, the taste of hometown is the best. Until now, every once in a while, a batch of fresh food from the hometown will be shipped to New York by air.

　　 Just like the thin-skinned local cherries from Yanxian delivered last month, the American cherries are big and sweet, but they don’t have the refreshing taste of hometown cherries.

Zhang Nan always pays attention to meticulousness when he has the conditions to eat. This is also a Chinese habit. Kazakhstan's diet is a bit that. This meal is definitely of the state banquet level of Kazakhstan, but for Zhang Nan it is only two words: Rough!

　　 is really rough, out of China, it is really difficult to find some real fine food on the earth.

　　 There are no taboos for a group of carnivores, but they have followed the boss to raise their mouths over the years, and this meal can be regarded as a casual filling.

　　 Charlie got the steak she wanted, and after eating it, she asked: "Vasily, these horse meats are all the eliminated horses raised by the people here?"

　　 If this is the case, it would be a bit cruel, just like the beef that Zhang Nan ate when he was in his hometown a few years ago: the supply of beef is scarce, the people have almost no habit of eating beef, and there is no such thing as transporting from other places.

　　 Cows have been farming for a lifetime. They are old, injured, and unable to work. They are then slaughtered and sold. In the past few years, the beef that people in the small areas of China's farming area eats is basically such a source.

　　 is also a bit like the Chinese pastoral dogs who are housekeepers. They are loyal, but in all likelihood, they cannot escape and end up with a knife. It is really rare that they can die and settle for peace.

　　Don't talk about slaughtered dog meat, even dogs killed by cyanide poisoning!

　　The people in this restaurant are all his own. Vasily doesn't need to hide his words. As long as it is a fact, he doesn't need to be too tactful.

　　 Regarding Miss Charlie’s question, Vasily said: “It’s not those old horses. Kazakhstan has specially bred edible horse breeds and horse farms, and private horse breeding has become common in recent years.

　　 The forage and static feed that horses are usually fed has special attention to it, and it grows fast, so the horse meat of this type of horse has a very good taste and is relatively tender.

If it is an outdated service horse, the meat will be very thick and old, and it will have to have good teeth to chew..." Kazakhstan has more than 1.5 million horses, and the annual output of horse meat is more than 100,000 tons. !

　　 Huaxia’s vegetable beef means that you can’t taste the taste of beef, and it lacks the unique aroma of beef;

　　 Eat beef. For the Chinese people, the slaughtered old beef is the top grade. What is wagyu or snowflake beef, it doesn’t taste like beef at all!

　　 The horse here is good, the horse meat is already thick in fiber, and the meat on the old horse is even more of an "over-exercised muscle". The ya can't bite, and the fast-growing, fattening horse meat tastes good.

　　 "Cai Niu, Cai Ma..." Zhang Nan, who had almost finished dinner, didn't know why, suddenly the word "Cai Ren" popped up in his mind, and he went into a chill.

　　 I stopped eating, so I got up and left the restaurant.

　　 I probably think more about the ancient prairie peoples, it's really a damn-what to eat!

　　……

　　 The environment here is good. Yesterday afternoon, I overlooked the Tianshan Mountain scenery from the hillside.

　　 Well, this place belongs to the Tianshan Mountains.

　　 Go to bed early in the evening, and deliberately wake up very early the next day. The sanatorium is backed by mountains, and a large area of ​​hilly grassland and woods belong to the land of the sanatorium.

　　 The air here will be very good early in the morning, and it should be very fresh. The disadvantage is that it is slightly cooler at best.

　　 Tom, the butler who always runs around with Zhang Nan, laid a thick cushion on a protruding flat rock above the single villa where the boss lives. The boss is going to meditate against the morning sun today.

　　 In the past two days, the incident of Guan Xingquan's Feitian has caused too much ups and downs in his mentality. It will be frightened for a while, joyful for a while, and even when he is moved, Zhang Nan needs to adjust this morning.

　　 In the past few years, I have practiced the Taoist Sutra when I have free time. Although I don’t stick to it every day (you need persistence or lack of nature.), I can obviously feel that my biological state is much better than that of the same period in my previous life.

　　 At this time in my last life, I was experiencing a crazy property market in Qionghai. The pace and conditions of my life couldn't be compared to today. I even smoked a lot less cigarettes than in the same period in my last life. It is strange that I feel bad about myself.

　　 Cross-legged, without thinking about time, just relax and adjust breathing.

　　 Slowly, I no longer need to deliberately adjust my breathing, and even the early morning bird song in my ears is gradually ignored, the whole body relaxes, and everything is natural.

　　 I don't know how long, I got up, refreshed, and I feel that the world is so fresh.

　　 Looking around, I saw from a distance that my brother-in-law and Lin Ming were also exercising. They probably had finished running. They were playing push hands similar to Tai Chi on the lawn, but they were slightly different.

　　 Don't look at the softness of the movements, every effort can kill people!

　　 Taoism is vast and profound. I feel like my brother-in-law and Guan are getting younger and younger in the past two years. In the future, longevity is not always nonsense, but everyone is still looking forward to a long life.

　　 Nephew Xiang Jianan is also there. The young man will not be able to practice this seemingly advanced Taoist classic like his father. Jiang Wangqiu is instructing his fighting skills in the army.

　　 Yuan saw that the young man was already a little hot, apparently someone was teaching him in his hometown before.

　　 Zhang Nan feels that this is very good. Huaxia people should learn a little bit of physical fitness, better than a bunch of young people who indulge in computer and mobile games all day long after twenty years.

　　 Guns are prohibited from knife control. If you don’t practice your own body anymore, what will the young youngsters in the future do besides opening their mouths-cannons and coping with exams?

　　 Zhang Nan’s elementary school physical education teacher said that students with poor health are waste products, and they are even more useless and useless than dangerous goods with ideological and moral problems!

　　 Young people should exercise, otherwise they don’t even have the qualifications to defend themselves and do what is righteous. This requires guns and no guns, or knives and no knives. If you touch a flower arm, you will become a food horse that you ate last night.

　　 20 years later, how many arms are spent. Anyway, Zhang Nan feels more than when he was a young man.

　　 The world will always be cruel, no one will go to poor Caima, except for the kind of Caima.

　　 What is the like of Naima?

　　The slaughter horse!

　　 did not join in the fun, Zhang Nan returned to the villa, and the servants had already prepared breakfast.

　　 Chinese and Western style, porridge, light steamed buns, small pickles, pickled cucumbers, salted duck eggs and bread, cakes, milk, coffee, juice.

　　 Apple juice~www.wuxiaspot.com~ local specialty, there are large apple orchards nearby, and the cold storage in the town has stocks from last year.

　　 Not long after Charlize Theron got up, he said to the waiter as soon as he entered the small restaurant: "Porridge, a small pickled cucumber, a croissant, a light bun, and a cup of hot milk."

　　Zhang Nan is using chopsticks and pickled cucumbers to pull porridge into his mouth. Every time he hears Charlie’s words, he can’t help shaking his head: This is the future emperor?

　　Isn't the style of painting a bit wrong, it is quite standard Mandarin, if you don't look at people and only listen to the sound and the name of the food you want, it really doesn't match the Charlize-Theron in your head.

　　 Seeing as a Western celebrity, her eating habits have long been taken by her into a Chinese girl. Later, she would be even more awkward to see her picking porridge in one hand and a steamed bun in the other.

　　 gnawing buns and still talking to you, or gnawing and saying, "Brother, go riding a horse after eating?"

　　 mumble, mutter is more appropriate.

　　 "Well, I'll change my clothes after eating, and I'll go after a while." Zhang Nan answered vaguely with a steamed bun in his mouth.