Chapter 28 Section 2 Eats everything except shit

Chi Dao's life fell into a trough, but Zhong Feng's life was flourishing.Facing the life encounters of these two friends, I don't know how to comment. After making a fortune in speculative business, Zhong Feng fled quickly and did not engage in jade gambling business anymore.He said that speculative business, like stocks, is full of unpredictable ebb and flow.If you don't run away from the sea and climb up the embankment when the tide is high, then when the tide goes out, you will be wrapped in the sea.Zhong Feng, who used to be in the cultural relics business and was cheated out of his money, has learned a painful lesson about speculative business.

That summer, Zhong Feng and others invested and opened a restaurant. The restaurant was not big, only two floors; the restaurant was also very remote, dozens of miles away from the city center.However, Zhong Feng said that the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, and their restaurant is a "special operation", and the rich in the city will drive dozens of miles just to have a meal. It was a long time before I heard someone talk about the "special management" of this restaurant.It turned out that Zhong Feng and the others were selling wild animals.Every day at dusk, this restaurant will open for business. The entrance of the hotel is full of various high-end vehicles such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW.The rich people in this city were tired of eating chicken, duck and fish, and began to eat some wild animals that they had only heard of but never seen.It is said that the aborigines of this city have a tradition of eating all kinds of animals, and dare to eat any animals.They don't care whether these animals are cherished and protected animals, no matter how many of these animals are left in the world.

It is said that there is an underground chain of interests in the theft of wild animals.There are some people who catch wild animals in the deep mountains and old forests and the Gobi desert. These animals are sold to restaurants in this city through the hands of traffickers, or smuggled out of the country.The range of stolen animals is very wide, ranging from hawks flying in the sky to poisonous snakes hiding in the grass. As long as they are rare animals, they can be smuggled; and the rarer they are, the higher the price. I have heard local people say that two animals are eaten, one is a mouse and the other is a snake.The mouse is a suckling mouse that has just been born for a few days. It is caught from the mouse hole and soaked in honey.The mouse that has not yet grown fluff is soaked in honey so that its body is round and crystal clear; then the mouse is fished out and placed on a plate, and the diners take a knife and fork to cut the mouse, whichever piece they want to eat; just cut which piece; the knife and fork go down , the mouse squeaked, and the diners tasted the delicious food amidst the painful cry of the mouse.Snakes are poisonous snakes, and the venom is removed. The diner holds a clamp, clamps the head of the poisonous snake, cuts the body of the poisonous snake with a knife, cuts off a section, puts it into the boiling soup, and then fishes it out to taste. The snake was still shaking its body in pain.It is said that eating such fresh snake meat can prevent rheumatism.

There are more cruel eating methods, one is called donkey rolling, and the other is called monkey brain.Donkey rolling is to tie the donkey to the side of the diners. If the diners want to eat a piece, the chef pours boiling water on the donkey, plucks the donkey hair, cuts off the donkey and puts it into the hot pot soup under the sad sound of the donkey. inside.Then, the diners exchanged glasses amidst laughter, while the donkey was in pain.The monkey brain is to lead the monkey to the table. The table is similar to the ancient shackles. The middle can be divided into two, each half has a semicircle; put the monkey in the middle of the table, the table is closed, and the monkey's neck is fixed on the table In the middle, neither up nor down.The diners took a hammer and knocked open the monkey's skull, exposing the steaming brain.The diners picked up the spoons and scooped up the brains to taste. At this time, the monkey was not dead yet, and was still screaming miserably.

I have seen a chicken eating method with my own eyes. The chef puts the chicken in an iron pot, and puts a bowl in the iron pot, and the seasoning water is filled in the bowl.Firewood is stuffed under the iron pot, and it is heated slowly. The chicken is thirsty and will drink the seasoning water continuously. After an hour, there is no movement in the iron pot, and the chef uncovers the pot.Watching the diners eat the chicken that was still squawking just now, smiling, I stepped aside. I don't know who invented these cruel eating methods, but diners who taste this eating method must have a cruel mentality in order to be able to swallow the so-called delicious food.

People here have a wide range of diets. It is said that everything that flies in the sky except airplanes and anything with four legs except benches can enter their stomachs. In the far north and southwestern highlands, there are a large number of wild animals entering here almost every night. A forest policeman told me that only a few rare wild animals are included in the diet, and more rare animals are smuggled out of the country.Many rare wild animals are on the verge of extinction, and human greed is the culprit. During the Chinese New Year after the unannounced visit to the theft gang, I went back to my grandmother's house to celebrate the New Year.I spent a lot of my childhood at my grandmother's house.Grandma's house is in a remote mountain village, isolated from the world. It used to be full of singing birds and fragrant flowers, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, but now it is difficult to see even magpies, let alone those animals that are listed as first-level and second-level protected animals in the country.That day, when I was walking in the fields, I felt the boundless silence all around me. The emptiness and silence reminded me of a book I once read.This book says that due to the widespread use of pesticides, all kinds of insects are extinct when spring comes, and in mountain villages like my grandmother’s house, because of the rampant poaching gangs, all kinds of wild animals that grew up with us when we were young are no longer there. There was no trace of them.In the vast mountains, human beings live alone.Human beings are really great, as Hamlet said, he is the primate of all things and the master of the universe.In order to survive better for himself, he does not allow other animals to live together.

In the entire natural world, human beings are the only animals that do not live according to the laws of nature. This was not the case in the countryside 20 years ago.At that time, every night, the owls would come out and perch on treetops or cliffs.I've seen owls countless times on my way home from mowing grass.Owls roost in their nests during the day and come out to feed at night.Its eyes cannot be exposed to strong light, so it chose to be nocturnal.Whenever an old man in the village is about to die, the owl will land on the courtyard wall and treetops of his house.Grandma said that when a person is about to die, a special smell will be emitted from the body, and the owl will follow the smell and wait over the family's yard.The old family said, "Magpies call joy, and owls cry mourning", which seems to be very reasonable.

In addition to owls in my hometown, there is also a kind of eagle bird called kite.Unlike owls, kites forage during the day.In a clear sky, we can often see a small bird flying slowly in the high sky, its wings are longer than its body, that is a kite.Grandma often told us not to let the hens go outside the village to look for food, because the hens that ran out into the wild became the prey of the kites, and there were often wandering dogs on the village roads, and the kites did not dare to swoop down.On the eve of summer showers, when the sky is dark, the kite will fly very low.Many a time I have seen a kite chasing a sparrow or a swift in an overcast sky, its body many times larger than these small birds.

At that time, snakes were often encountered, and snakes were lurking in the grass, nest after nest.Every time we mow the grass, we have to tap the tops of the grass with a sickle to make the snake run away.We dare not go deep into the grass, because it is said that there are thick boa constrictors there.Sometimes, when we were mowing, we suddenly heard a squeaking sound, and we followed the sound and saw the snake catching the field mouse.The snake wrapped its flexible body around the body of the field mouse.In the struggle, the field mouse gradually drooped its head.And at dusk in summer, lazy snakes can often be seen falling from the beams of the house, and then fleeing in a hurry in people's sight.People in the village said that there are many snakes hidden in every household, but people don't know it.Shady snakes usually hide on house beams, in cracks in walls, or in deep holes under foundations.Snakes are not as ghastly as humans imagine, and they will preemptively strike only when they realize that people will hurt them.

The biggest wild animal I saw as a child was the leopard.It is tall and majestic, with beautiful patterns, so beautiful that it is fascinating.That afternoon, a small ox in the village was grazing at the foot of the mountain. After the leopard killed the ox, it dragged it to the mountain, where it was discovered by people farming on the slopes.The man shouted loudly, and the whole village chased after him with farm tools.The children follow behind the adults.I saw it standing on a hill from a distance, looking at the chasing crowd with disdainful eyes, then put down the little scalper, and ran slowly towards the deep mountain.The patterns all over its body trembled, like fine spots sprinkled by the sun.

At that time, there were still many wild animals in the countryside. Falcons often appeared on the cliffs suddenly, which surprised us who were collecting firewood and mowing grass; foxes hid in the woods and made faces at us passing by. Beauty, no wonder there is the word "humei"; the mink stood on the bank, saw us, and then ran down the furrow, its fat and round buttocks trembling all the way.When the autumn wind blows and the weather is cool, a group of wild geese fly south, forming a line for a while, and a human for a while... The countryside at that time was full of life.All kinds of wild animals live in harmony with humans. Even if they encounter large raptors, humans just drive them away.Owls, kites, falcons, kraits, coronas, foxes, minks, leopards... These animals that later became national protected animals often appeared in our sight at that time, but now they are in our sight Disappeared quietly. I have imagined countless times that when I have a child in the future, I will put the child in my hometown and let the child grow up freely in nature; like a weed, let the child know all kinds of wild animals and animals that cannot be seen in the city. Wild plants; Let children know that the creatures on earth are not only human beings who walk on two legs.And now, what is the difference between the silent country and the city? During those days, I contacted Zhong Feng many times, wanting to visit his wild animal restaurant.I think it's a good subject.However, Zhong Feng knew that I was a reporter, so he refused every time with various excuses, and he didn't even tell me the origin of those wild animals.My interview was deadlocked.