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Chapter 213 Grassland Wine Table Culture
When it was getting dark, a huge bonfire was raised on the grassland.

But at this time, there are only a small number of Inner Mongolians and a large number of tourists, which shows that this event is still being managed by someone.Possibly the owner of this horse farm.

Make these tourists happy and go back to publicize, and maybe more people will come next year.

Ye Kai wanted to participate but couldn't.

Follow Battelle to a hotel in a small town for dinner to celebrate the victory of the competition.But what Ye Kai didn't expect was that the people he saw when he entered the private room were not the people he knew.

The big round table that can seat 20 people is full, and the ingredients on the table are obviously not cheap, such as expensive abalone and sea cucumber, lobster and sea crab in Inner Mongolia...

In the middle of the dining table is a large plate covered with tin foil, which may be a roast suckling pig in shape.

Seeing Battelle bring Ye Kai in, everyone hurriedly welcomed Ye Kai. In Battelle's circle, Ye Kai was indeed a new face that he had never met.

But it's not unfamiliar, many people have seen Ye Kai on the racetrack.

With a horse randomly selected in the racecourse, he finished third. This kind of riding ability is enough to be respected in Inner Mongolia. Open in awe.

It's okay to be thin and thin. If someone rides a horse better than you, he should be respected.

Ye Kai's personal affinity also made everyone accept him quickly. At this time, two waiters brought the last dish, and after setting it on the table, one of them poured white wine on the dish.

The long lighter pointed towards the dish, and a flame of forty to fifty centimeters appeared on the dish.

"Please take it easy." The waiter spoke standard Mandarin and exited the private room.

The wine glass is filled first.

Battelle stood and talked for a while, and then everyone yelled and drained the wine in the glasses one after another.

When Ye Kai was about to drink, Battelle stopped him, and said: "Ye Kai, you can drink as you like. When we are toasting, you can drink as much as you want, and you don't need to drink up."

It's a bit embarrassing...

But Ye Kai still nodded and drank half a cup.

This wine is not as strong as the wine in the mainland, so you won’t feel nauseated if you sip half a glass of it, but it’s still not very comfortable, after all, it’s not a low-alcohol beer.

The dish wrapped in tin foil in the middle of the table is indeed roast suckling pig.

It feels a little cruel to eat like this.

But the taste is really good.

Really fragrant.

Ye Kai has no taboos about what to eat. The creed of protecting wild animals is to protect the environment and save rare wild animals, not to stop eating meat from now on.

For the group of teammates that Ye Kai met in Africa, almost every meal has meat.

With Ye Kai, they sometimes use Chinese when chatting, such as asking Ye Kai about things in the mainland or Ye Kai’s work, how many years have you been riding a horse...

Ye Kai casually said: "About ten years."

If Ye Kai really insisted that he just learned to ride a horse not long ago, maybe not a year, then the atmosphere at the wine table would not be as lively as it is now.

Sometimes white lies can also pull the relationship between the two parties.

After three tours of wine and five flavors of food, a group of bands with musical instruments came in from outside the door.

Ye Kai came here for the first time, Battelle explained to Ye Kai: "After the consumption here reaches a certain point, the boss will invite the band to perform music."

Someone smiled and said to the band: "We all live nearby. The little brother over there is from the mainland. It's the first time we come to Mongolia..."

The members of the band all looked at Ye Kai, smiled and nodded.

Someone took out hada and wine from the basket containing musical instruments, and walked towards Ye Kai. Is this for giving me hada?This is the first time.

I have traveled so far in the snow area and met some friends, but I have never encountered such a thing.

"Take the wine glass first." Someone reminded Ye Kai.

Ye Kai took the wine glass.

The wine glass looks like a black bowl, about the size of Bo Zai Gao's bowl. Ye Kai drags the bottom of the bowl with five fingers of his left hand. The clear liquid inside reflects the bright lights on the ceiling and Ye Kai's face.

The band members put Hada on Ye Kai's neck.

When he looked up, Ye Kai saw that the band began to slowly offer hada to other people here.Because I am a guest from afar, I will give it to myself first, right?
The khatas of boys are blue, and the khatas of several girls are white, which distinguishes genders.

After drinking the wine, put down the glass and continue eating.

And the band started to sing Mongolian music. Ye Kai didn't quite understand the content of the lyrics, but the melody of the song and the emotions contained in it were very simple, so there was no need to understand the lyrics.

The band has Matouqin and Hoomei. Of course, Hoomei cannot be called a musical instrument, but a unique vocal technique.There are also two musical instruments that Ye Kai doesn't know.

Take Humai out of the song alone, no one can understand Humai when you hear it for the first time.

But after integrating Humai into the music, Ye Kai can feel the power brought by Humai from the music, as if all kinds of sounds in nature are gathered together.

For the things of the ancients, you need to think more, and you can discover the beauty of a traditional thing from the obscurity.

For example, Beijing opera, with less than one level of experience, it is difficult to immerse yourself in listening to an opera.

The aesthetics of modern society has been biased by the Internet. Many people, especially the new netizens and children who have increased rapidly in recent years, like some Internet songs.

These traditional things, not even ancient times, the singers and songs that Ye Kai's generation liked in the past ten years have been regarded as outdated songs.

So Ye Kai cherishes this opportunity very much to enjoy the performance of Mongolian singers up close.

After the band sang two songs, on the wine table, a 40- to [-]-year-old elder brother tapped the table with his hands to beat the beat of a song. The band understood it in seconds and played a song.

He first uttered a few rhythmic voices of unknown meaning, and then slowly, almost everyone at the wine table beat together.

Ye Kai also didn't care about eating, and clapped his hands.

He can't sing.

Why did they start singing embarrassingly after a disagreement.

When singing, this group of people even horribly separated the high and low voices, like a well-trained choir, but Ye Kai knew that they were definitely not a chorus.

At most, it is just a group of friends who often meet together.

Although I don't know what they are singing, but the singing is inexplicably beautiful, Sailu Riwai Winter Competition?What does this mean in Mongolian?
Well, Ye Kai turned into sincere applause.

Really nice.

A song that everyone knows, but I don't know it, it will be a little embarrassing at this time.But you are just a foreign tourist, do you need to know this song?

Maybe they will be surprised if they can sing.

After singing for about two and a half minutes, the song stopped, and Ye Kai clapped his hands and said, "It's so nice, what's the name of this song?"

Someone said: "Folk song, our local folk song in EEDS, probably means that the wine glass has been filled with mellow wine, brothers and friends gathered together to have a drink together."

"Come on, cheers."

Ye Kai stood up involuntarily and drank a glass of wine with them.

The nightmare begins.

Guests in Mongolia need to be treated solemnly, and here Ye Kai is their Mongolian guest.The so-called grand treatment is toast your wine.

Everyone said that Ye Kai could drink as much as he wanted.

But other female friends drank wine in one gulp, and Ye Kai had the nerve to just take a sip?After opening this head, Ye Kai began to drink a cup of wine.

The food on the table was eaten at the beginning, but now few people moved their chopsticks into the dishes, and started singing with their wine glasses, one by one, and soon it was Ye Kai's turn.

He was dizzy, but singing should be fine. He said, "I don't know Mongolian either. Let me sing a Chinese song."

"It's okay, just sing."

"Understand, let's sing."

This song was heard by Ye Kai a long time ago, and its name is also called Toast Song.

Everyone quieted down and prepared to listen to Ye Kai's singing, and the band also stopped. They didn't know what Ye Kai was going to sing, and Ye Kai didn't tell them.

Tapping the wine glass with chopsticks, he sang: "The fragrance of the wine~ the singing is flying, friends, please have a toast, have a toast. The triumphant October will never be forgotten, and the glass is full of tears of happiness..."

This is not a modern song, it is likely that this song is older than Ye Kai.

But it is very appropriate to sing this song here. In fact, their singing style is not modern pop songs, but all Inner Mongolian folk songs.Ye Kai's song should also belong to folk songs.

Even if they can't speak Chinese proficiently, they have no problem understanding Ye Kai's singing.

The band also started to play. This song may not be heard by some young people, but it is still a Chinese song that is widely spread in the grasslands.

"...Soothing wine, thick and beautiful. You won't get drunk after thousands of cups..."

Someone applauded and said, "That's a good song."

"Yes, very professional."

"The breath is very good. As expected of a man who has been riding a horse for more than ten years, he sings really well."

If someone shoots a Douyin or other short video at this time, it may have more than 100 million views every minute. After all, Ye Kai has always been a celebrity active in other people's Douyin.

What happened in XXX, do you think it is Ye Kai?

Or somewhere to take a photo with Ye Kai.

There were so many mainland tourists during the previous competition, maybe the third-person video of Ye Kai riding a horse has already appeared on the short video platform, and it is not necessarily true.

But they didn't record it.

Ye Kai sang this song for a long time, and he was very serious.

Everyone could tell that Ye Kai was drunk, his standing body was a little crooked, but his singing breath was not disturbed at all.

When Ye Kai finished singing, even the band became a little curious and asked, "Little brother, what on earth do you do? You sing so beautifully, you can't be a singer, right?"

"If you sing well, you're a singer? No, I'm not. I have a Weibo. It says that I'm a traveler, writer, singer...but I'm really not a singer."

Battelle said: "Forget it, this little brother is drunk, let's continue, let him go to sleep."

Drinking in Mongolia is generally not drunk.

When Ye Kai met Battelle, he told Ye Kai that the Mongols would not drink alcohol to their guests, as long as they drank the first cup, they can do whatever they want afterwards.

Compared with the business wine tables, the wine tables here are worthy of the name of 'drinking happily'.

But the Mongolians like to toast very much. If there are guests, at least they have to toast the guests with a glass of bar?So there are more than ten people here, how much is it if each of them opens a cup to Ye?

Although the wine glasses were small and Ye Kai didn't clean every glass, he still got drunk quickly.

Ye Kai is very interesting when he is drunk, he will not fall asleep quickly, but will be refreshed for a while.I won't go crazy with alcohol, it's not much different from normal.

It's just that there is no memory of this time the next day.

Like this part of the song.

Ye Kai couldn't remember clearly.

Midnight,

Ye Kai was a little thirsty, sat up lazily from the bed, picked up a pot of tea poured by someone else beside the bed and drank it, gulped down the tea, Ye Kai pursed his lips, and looked at the surrounding environment.

I sure as hell got drunk again.

This is a hotel room, filled with the smell of disinfectant, the air conditioner above the TV is blowing warm air, keeping the room temperature around [-].

Ye Kai picked up the remote control Didi and lowered the temperature, covered the quilt and continued to sleep.

He didn't notice that the latest reward in the upper right corner of his line of sight had changed from a horse racing reward to another one, and now it was slowly fading away.

It's what he wants most, and the drink rises.

At about ten o'clock the next day, someone knocked on the door and woke Ye Kai up.

Brother Battelle had something to do and left in the morning, and this person in front of him was going to take Ye Kai back to ZGEQ. All Ye Kai's belongings were in the car, so of course he wanted to go back earlier.

After calling and talking to Brother Battelle, he got into the car with this man.

Another bump in the road.

Grasslands, deserts, trekkers on the Qinghai-Tibet line.

In the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer people riding XZs, but more and more people are walking on foot. Some are dragging a small car, and some are only carrying a bag and live broadcasting with a selfie stick.

On the way, Ye Kai also saw someone unable to go on, so he sat on the side of the road hugging a tree and cried bitterly.

Tsk, if you don't want to leave, just go home by car.

If you want to continue, put away your tears and continue walking. The more deserted the place, the more useless the tears.

The driver drove very fast, and took Ye Kai to ZGEQ in just over an hour. The car that was parked two days ago was still in the original location, and he was not towed away or issued a ticket.

This is not a paid parking lot, so Ye Kai doesn't have to pay the parking fee.

Seeing Ye Kai getting into the car, the person who saw Ye Kai off said, "You are welcome to visit EEDS next time, my friend."

"must."

Ye Kai also saluted him, watched him drive away before returning to his car.

Wrangler beautiful car interior ah.

After two days, he finally returned to his nest in Inner Mongolia. Ye Kai felt very calm and comfortable. He lowered the window and continued to sleep in the back seat.

It cannot be said that I got up early today, but I am still a little sleepy. I will sleep for a while to see the situation before choosing whether to go to HLBE today.

In fact, Ye Kai’s imagination of the HLBE prairie has been divided by EEDS. Inner Mongolia is not only HLBE, but also has many cities and tribes with unique traditions.

Every place has unique stories, and these stories are no more monotonous than the HLBE prairie, in fact, they echo the HLBE prairie, and jointly compose the beautiful legend of the millennium nomadic pastoralism in Inner Mongolia.

(End of this chapter)