The Age of Discovery: Chinese cuisine swept across Europe

The pirates were startled by the gunshot and realized that the two people they met today were not good people.

Yun Ji said to Min Xi, "Ninth brother, we can't keep these guns. Throw them all into the sea."

Min Xi looked down at the pile of hunting rifles on the deck and said, "Okay." Then he threw the gun in his hand directly into the sea, and then grabbed another one and threw it down.

This action stunned the pirates. The pirate leader was relatively calm at first, but when he saw Min Xi like this, he became a little anxious: "Wait a minute, please wait a minute, don't throw your gun! We can talk it out!"

Min Xi grabbed two more guns and prepared to throw them down, but the pirate leader said, "Sir, please don't throw your guns down. I will agree to whatever you want."

"I don't know how many innocent people you have killed with these guns. These guns are all murder weapons. Why do you keep them?" Min Xi said angrily.

The pirate leader said: "I assure you, we have never killed anyone!"

"Do you believe what you said? You haven't killed anyone, so does the ship you sank with your cannons count?" Min Xi rolled his eyes.

"We have robbed many merchant ships and sunk some ships, but we have never shot or killed anyone," said the pirate leader.

"You are lying to a three-year-old child! Your men threatened me before, saying that if I couldn't pay the ransom, they would kill both of us." Min Xi said.

The pirate leader said: "He was just joking with you. The ships we robbed came from various countries. There is no way for us to contact their families to collect ransom. It is too difficult and risky for us. I was just joking with you!"

Min Xi couldn't help but pick up the butt of his gun and hit the pirate leader in the abdomen: "Then you also said that each of us should pay a ransom of 500 pounds. Are you kidding me?"

The pirate leader covered his stomach and tried to smile: "Of course I'm kidding! Which sailor can afford a ransom of 500 pounds? You can't earn that much money in your lifetime."

Yun Ji saw Min Xi hitting the pirate leader with the butt of his rifle and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Min Xi repeated the pirate leader's words: "Seventh Brother, do you think what they said is credible?"

Yun Ji glanced at the pirates coldly: "They can't be innocent if they did this robbery. Maybe their purpose was not to kill people, but they definitely killed a lot of people. The people on the ship that was sunk by the shells, and the ship owners and captains they robbed who lost their fortunes and families, don't they have anything to do with it?"

"Seventh Brother, you are right! What should we do next?" Min Xi said as he threw the gun in his hand off the boat again.

The pirate leader was anxious: "Please, don't throw it away! We got these guns with great difficulty. I promise you, we will send you to England safely."

Min Si said, "We are going to London!"

The pirate leader was embarrassed and said, "We can't go to London, but we can go to Southampton. Southampton is not far from London. Once we get there, you can go to London."

Min Xi frowned, thought for a long time, and finally said: "Can you guarantee that during the time you are in England, you and your men will cooperate and not embarrass me and my brothers? When we arrive at your territory, you will not let your people attack us?"

The pirate leader raised his hand and said, "I swear in the name of my daughter that I will send you to Southampton safely and will not embarrass you. If you betray my oath, I will never see my daughter again."

Min Xi snorted: "Who knows if you have a daughter."

The pirate leader was anxious: "Of course I have daughters, and more than one!"

"Yes, yes, the eldest boss has three daughters." The pirates quickly came forward to help prove it.

Min Xi said, "Let's just believe that you have a daughter. It's useless if you swear alone, what about others?"

The pirate leader looked at his brothers and said, "You should also swear quickly."

The rest of the pirates also swore to keep their promise and send them to England safely.

Min Xi told Yun Ji about their promise. Yun Ji frowned and said, "I still don't think it's credible. There are only two of us and they have so many people. If we make a mistake, it will be irreversible."

Min Xi said: "But we don't have a better solution. This ship will sink sooner or later. Even if we can seize the pirate ship, we can't reach England by ourselves."

European sails are different from Chinese sails. Chinese sails are easy to operate, and even one or two people can operate them. However, European sails are extremely large and have great power, but they require many people to operate, and they cannot be done by just two people.

Min Xi thought for a moment and said, "I have an idea. You watch them while I go find something."

Min Xi held a gun and took a torch from a pirate, then went into the kitchen, mixed some flour, added soy sauce and some spice powder, and kneaded many small brown flour balls, then put them in a wooden box and took them out, saying: "I still don't trust you, so you must take this."

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment: "What is that?"

Min Xi said: "This is poison from China. If you don't take the antidote within seven days, your intestines will rot and your stomach will perforate, and you will die a miserable death."

Everyone changed color.

Min Xi said: "If you can get us to our destination safely within seven days, I will give you the antidote. Don't worry, as long as you don't have any bad intentions, you will be fine. Brother Qi, I will feed them some poison."

Yun Ji instantly understood Min Xi's thoughts. Without waiting for the pirate leader to refuse, he put his dagger against the other's neck, pinched his jaw with his other hand to make him open his mouth, and nodded to Min Xi.

Min Xi quickly threw a flour ball into the pirate leader's mouth, and Yun Ji closed his jaw. The pirate leader had no time to resist and felt the thing rolling into his throat. Sweat broke out on his forehead.

"You, you, you..." The pirate leader stared at Min Xi in horror, but in the end couldn't say anything.

Min Xi smiled and said, "Don't worry, if you sincerely cooperate with us, there won't be any problems."

He put the box on the ground again and said to the pirates, "Take it yourselves. Cooperate!"

No one dared to take it.

Min Xi said to the pirate leader, "It seems that your men don't care about your life or death. Forget it, since we can't cooperate anyway, I'll just throw away all these guns." Then he picked up two more guns and prepared to throw them into the sea.

Seeing that only half of the guns were left, the pirate leader said, "Eat them all quickly! I've eaten them all, what are you afraid of!"

Min Xi held a gun in his hand and hung another gun on his shoulder, pointing the gun at the pirates: "Come one by one, and eat them all."

At this time, Yun Ji exerted force and removed both arms of the pirate leader. He screamed in pain and everyone looked over.

Yun Ji said to Min Xi, "Tell them that it was just a dislocation and will be reattached soon."

Min Xi told the truth. The pirate leader looked at Yun Ji with horror. This man was too scary. If he wanted to, he could probably give him a hundred ways to die.

Yun Ji picked up the wooden box from the ground and said to Min Xi, "Let them come one by one and open their mouths. I will feed them so that no one will be dishonest."

Min Xi did as he said. Two of them, one holding a gun and the other holding a meatball, lined up and opened their mouths. Yun Ji accurately shot the pill into each of their throats. After they finished eating, they all pinched their necks, trying to spit out the pill that had entered their throats, but they stopped vomiting under Min Xi's gun barrel.

After feeding more than a dozen people meatballs, Min Xi said, "Okay. Go ahead and move whatever you need to move."

Yun Ji also walked over, put the pirate leader's arm back, and said to Min Xi: "Tell him that if he doesn't cooperate well, I have a hundred ways for him to die."

Min Xi said to the pirate leader: "My brother is a killer. He is very skilled in martial arts. He has killed at least 800 people, if not a thousand. He has hundreds of methods. So you'd better cooperate with him and don't mess with him."

The pirate leader could never imagine that Yun Ji, who had an angelic face, would be a killer. But who could say for sure? Anyway, he had never seen or even heard of his methods.

In fact, Min Xi's image in his mind was not much better. He had heard some rumors that some indigenous tribes in Indochina had a strange magic that could control people by feeding them insect eggs. He felt that Min Xi was such a person.

The pirate leader felt a little regretful at this moment. Why did he provoke these two evil stars? Now he has taken their poison and is in danger of death. He doesn't know what will happen next.

Yun Ji bent down, collected all the guns on the ground, took a gun and hung it on his shoulder, tied the rest together, held them in his hand, and said to Min Xi, "Ninth brother, let's go collect our things."

Min Xi put away all his pots, pans, and utensils. These were tools for cooking and he couldn't let them get lost.

The pirates looted everything on the ship. In fact, they didn't find much. The most valuable things were the eight cannons, but they couldn't be taken away at all because the small boats couldn't bear the weight of the cannons. They could only sink to the bottom of the sea with the ship.

Therefore, this robbery was actually not worth it for the pirates. Not only did they not get any money, but they also put their lives in the hands of others.