Chapter 1188 Bonfire Party

The venison provided by the restaurant in Weijian Castle is red deer meat. The cooking method is generally roasted, or it can be stewed in a pot. Han Li did not believe in the skills of the chefs here, so he chose roasted venison.

Sprinkle a little black pepper and salt on the roasted venison. As long as it can be roasted, it tastes better than the venison stewed by English chefs.

Han Li ate two large pieces of venison with beer. After learning the source of the venison from the waiter, he went back to the hotel to rest.

The next day, Han Li did not check out after breakfast. He drove the RV around Weijian Castle and admired the surrounding scenery.

There are many mountains around Weijian Castle. In the distance, you can see Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in England. Every year, it attracts many people to climb mountains to prove that they have conquered the highest peak in the country.

Han Li learned from the information that in terms of altitude alone, Dongling Mountain, Dahaituo, Wuling Mountain, and Xiaowutai Mountain in Mentougou around Sijiu City are far higher than Ben Nevis.

However, due to special geographical factors, the top of Ben Nevis, which is not high in altitude, is covered with snow all year round. It is covered by dark clouds for more than 300 days a year, and the annual precipitation exceeds 4,300 mm.

The weather after entering the mountain is even more changeable. It has rained more than ten or twenty times in a day. Sometimes it is like a competition of putting on and taking off raincoats.

This weird weather may be the reason why many hikers and climbers want to climb it?

After driving around the vicinity, Han Li came to a slaughterhouse that provides venison to restaurants and residents in Weijian Castle.

Here, Han Li bought a lot of deer fetuses, deer penises, deer tails and deer tendons at the price of collecting scraps.

Except for the deer penis, which is a little more expensive, the others are basically cabbage prices.

Just when Han Li was wondering why there were no deer antlers here, the slaughterhouse owner gave him a processed eight-pronged deer antler specimen to thank Han Li for buying his long-pressed goods.

Han Li took it calmly. While the workers were loading the car, he chatted with the boss about the antlers.

Only then did Han Li know why he didn't see any antlers here. It was all because the foreigners didn't know the goods.

Although in ancient times, the red deer was given the symbol of authority, power, elegance and mystery by the Scottish people, and even became a symbol of royal power for a time.

Therefore, the Scottish people prefer antlers, but they only like antlers with eight or more forks.

Those antlers with eight forks of good quality are never lacking in demand. If you encounter antlers with ten or twelve forks, please ask the master to handle them well. Those are items that can be auctioned and attracted bids from the rich and powerful.

However, antlers with less than eight forks are basically ignored. Even tourists who come here don't choose antlers with less than eight forks.

In the absence of a market outside, the slaughterhouse will only keep antlers with eight or more forks over time.

Because antlers are very difficult to handle and take up a lot of space, it takes a lot of effort to dig a pit and bury them.

The slaughterhouse owner didn't want to do this himself, nor did he want to pay someone to do it.

Therefore, he pulled all the antlers below eight forks far outside the town and threw them into a ravine.

Han Li cursed in his heart that it was a waste of natural resources. These antlers were not only the main material for making antler paste, but also used in the skin-rejuvenating cream that Han Li prepared for his wives.

Han Li learned the approximate location of the ravine from the slaughterhouse owner in a roundabout way, and asked for two newly slaughtered red deer, and then drove away in the RV.

After leaving the slaughterhouse, Han Li directly put all these things into the decomposition space. If he had time, he would turn all these things into supplements for his family.

Weijianbao is not a big place, but there are three distilleries that produce whiskey.

Han Li went around all three distilleries in the morning and bought two large barrels of whiskey from each distillery, as well as fifteen boxes of already filled whiskey, because there was no room in the RV.

After buying the wine, it was almost time for lunch. Han Li did not go to the restaurant he had last night. He chose a restaurant with more tourists from other places to eat.

Because Han Li faced two choices next. One was to continue north along the A82.

The other was to go west from Wiskenburg and take the second-level road to the port town of Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland, where he would take a ferry to the Isle of Skye (Skye Island).

Because there is only a ferry from Scotland to Skye Island at present, the Skye Bridge connecting the two places will not be completed and opened to traffic until 1995. I am afraid that it will not even be approved at this time.

In addition, the A82 road that Han Li took when he went north was close to the west coast of Scotland.

When returning to the city, Han Li planned to go back along the A83 road on the east coast, so as to avoid taking these repeated routes and see more different scenery.

Of course, Han Li could also choose to go to Skye Island first, and then drive along the originally planned route after returning.

However, Han Li understood one thing during these days of traveling. Maybe the Scottish Highlands would become better if they invested more money in tourism in the future, but the current era is really bad.

First of all, this season is not suitable for traveling, and the road conditions along the way are very bad, and the various supporting facilities are not up to standard.

Most importantly, many good places are currently under the jurisdiction of the Royal English Army. Those preserved and repaired castles are private sites, and it is simply impossible to visit or play in them.

That's why Han Li was full of doubts about the rumors about the so-called Sky Island. He chose this restaurant with many tourists to eat in the morning just to find out what was going on there.

The largest number of these tourists were climbers climbing Ben Nevis, but Han Li was a child blessed by luck. During the meal, he actually found someone among these people who had just returned from Sky Island.

A glass of beer started the conversation, but this person told Han Li that most of Sky Island is swampland, which is not suitable for pasture cultivation and can only be used for grazing. Therefore, it has always been known as desolate and barren.

However, the island is often shrouded in clouds and mist, and the ever-changing clouds and mist reflected in the sunlight are very beautiful.

Another thing is the weather on Sky Island. If you are not lucky, you can feel the changes of the four seasons there in one day.

The local rainfall is even more speechless. The sun is shining one second, and there may be heavy rain the next second. Sometimes it will rain heavily on sunny days.

Therefore, Sky Island has attracted many photography enthusiasts to take pictures on the island. It is okay for ordinary people to go to the island to experience nature, but the strong winds and changeable weather there will definitely give you an unforgettable experience.

In addition, there are currently only a few very narrow roads between villages and towns on Sky Island. They are so narrow that when two cars meet, they can only find a slightly looser place.

As for other places, there are gravel and muddy roads, so you need to be mentally prepared if you want to drive there.

Because the road is difficult to walk, many people can only pray that they will encounter a farmhouse or ranch cabin when they cannot get back to the village in time, otherwise what awaits them will be an unforgettable night.

Han Li heard that Sky Island was currently in this situation, so he decided not to go there this time.

His main purpose this time was to enjoy, not to suffer. Even if he had a golden finger and a RV and wouldn't suffer much, he still didn't want to go to a place where he would be suffocated even if he was rushing.

But Han Li still had a little regret in his heart, but in the end he comforted himself.

"Sky Island is just a memory I left behind in Scotland in England. When I can travel around the world at will in the future, I will have an excuse to revisit my old place."

Having made up his mind, Han Li went back to the hotel to drink tea and read a book after lunch.

However, when Han Li arrived at the hotel, he opened the window of the room and released all the crows, peregrine falcons, crows, and snowy owls, asking them to try to find the valley where the slaughterhouse owner lost his antlers.

Don’t you want to go to Fort William to see those scenic spots? The answer Han Li gave was not to go.

Although it didn't snow or rain today, the sky was always gloomy and made people feel very uncomfortable.

Besides, there really isn't much to see in Fort Wei Lian. Han Li could see the scenery by the lake while sitting in the hotel room.

The fortress built by King Wei Siyan III is now in ruins. What's the point of looking at a pile of broken stones?

Can I go see the steam train? Those who came to the Sugoland Highlands in later generations almost all had photos describing steam trains.

Steam train? Han Li could only laugh at this, as all the steam trains in the country were now used.

Moreover, Han Li, who has experienced it personally, doesn't understand why those people always talk about all kinds of good things about others as soon as they go abroad.

Let’s not talk about food. For Han Li, the food here can only maintain his own vital signs.

In terms of scenery and scenery, if the scenery caused by the special area of ​​Nevis Mountain is worth mentioning, why can those steam trains that have been almost eliminated in the country become something they show off?

Due to the birds' flying speed and their keen sight, they returned around three o'clock in the afternoon.

After Han Li put them away, he continued to drink tea and read a book. He didn't come out until nightfall. He briefly dealt with them in the hotel restaurant and then went out to the street.

Because when Han Li was eating in the morning, he heard that there would be a bonfire party by the lake tonight with "the coldest wind blowing and the strongest wine".

Everyone can participate, but each person needs to pay a fee of ten pounds.

Han Li didn't care whether he had money or not. Ten British coins was nothing to him.

It didn't matter whether they met by chance or not. Han Li didn't have to experience the local customs every time he went to a place.

The important thing is that Han Li wants to experience this bonfire party. It is said that the style of this party comes from the Viking era.