Yin Ruoxi often attended court banquets in the Yin and Zhao countries. Every year, there were many festivals to be celebrated in the palace, and the princes and nobles had nothing to do but enjoy themselves every day, and most of them loved to hold banquets. She had been to such gatherings many times, but this was her first time attending a night banquet on the grasslands.

  No distinction between upper and lower seats, no kneeling servants with chopsticks, no literary figures making toasts or reciting poetry, nor any soft music or dance. The tribal leader, Wo Du, sat together with everyone else on the grassy ground under the open sky. He even rolled up his sleeves, sat down carelessly and personally roasted the mutton, cutting it into slices with a dagger and handing them all to Yin Ru Xuan beside him.

  Here, men and women, young and old, all love to drink wine, but the wine here is different from that of Yin Guo. It's made with mare's milk and other things, and has a strange sour taste that Yin Ruoxi isn't quite used to.

  "Princess, drink this." Uruzhi Amu brought over a filtered and boiled milk tea. Since there are no tea leaves produced on the grasslands, they were exchanged with merchant caravans that came from other tribes, making them quite precious. "Foreigners usually don't get used to drinking this at first, Princess, try some of this tea-leaf-boiled goat's milk, it's refreshing."

  This way of drinking does not exist in Yin's country. Yin tried it and thought it tasted pretty good.

  Surrounded by unfamiliar Ute tribespeople, everyone was relaxed and freely sat eating meat and drinking wine, with some singing and dancing. Yin Ruxu discovered that the Ute people, whether male or female, all loved to sing, often suddenly breaking into song without warning, and others would join in, until eventually everyone would be singing together.

  Men are especially so; their voices are loud and sonorous, like the beating of a big drum. When many of them get together, they make a noise that is even more thunderous than the drums at a national banquet.

  The men sang songs, and the women held hands and danced on one side. They laughed and responded in a crisp voice, and the colored ribbons tied around their waists fluttered due to rotation, which made the men sitting next to them stretch out their hands to catch, and were kicked up with disdain.

  Wotuo also started singing, his voice covering up everyone else's. These men were like beasts on the grasslands, whether it was their robust bodies or loud songs, they were all ways to attract the opposite sex. Wotuo sang while looking at Yin Ruxue, he hadn't sung two lines before everyone burst into laughter. Yin Ruxue didn't understand what his song meant, but seeing other people's reactions, she roughly guessed what it was about.

  Wo Tu shaved his beard today. Many people came over curiously to look at him, and some children asked: "Chief, where is your beard?"

  Several older women also laughed and said, "The clan leader shaved his beard, and he's almost unrecognizable now."

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