The Age of Discovery: Chinese cuisine swept across Europe

Upon learning that they opened a restaurant in London, Anderson insisted on getting their address and said that he would definitely go to their restaurant for dinner next time he went to London.

Min Xi smiled and said, "Next time you come over, I'll treat you to a meal, and you don't have to spend any money."

"Why, are you worried that we can't afford it?" Anderson said.

Min Xi smiled, really worried that they couldn't afford it: "No need. You came to London to see me, so you are my guests. I can't let you spend money."

After dinner, they went out for a walk and talked a lot along the way. They left each other their addresses and said they would keep in touch after returning to London. Min Xi also wanted to ask them about the biology professor, as he might have to go to Oxford again.

After returning to the hotel, Yun Jicai asked Min Xi: "Are we going back to London tomorrow without waiting for the biology professor?"

Min Xi sighed, "Yeah, I don't know when he will come back. The corn is not ripe yet, so we can't harvest the seeds. It's better to come back later."

"Yes, when he was not here, we didn't recognize those plants and didn't know which ones we needed," said Yun Ji.

Min Xi was silent for a moment. In fact, when he went to the botanical garden in the afternoon, he thought that he might as well confess his origins to Yun Ji so that he would not have to hide it in the future. He thought that Yun Ji would not treat him as a freak.

But this is not an imaginary era. If he asks about the future, he will reveal a lot of secrets. Will he be punished by heaven and killed by lightning?

"Well, then let's go back first." Min Xi said.

"Okay." Yun Ji almost unconditionally supported Min Xi's decision.

The next day, the two packed their luggage, checked out and took a car back to London. This time they chartered a car. Although the carriage was only short of one person to be full, they really didn't want to suffer in the same carriage with several British people.

They got on the carriage amidst the strange looks of a group of British people. In their eyes, these two people were definitely suckers who had too much money and didn't know where to spend it.

They set out in the morning and arrived in London in the afternoon. The two gave the coachman a few pence more and asked him to take them home.

They were away for four days in total, and when they returned home, they felt that home was still the most familiar place.

After putting the luggage away, Yun Ji went to Green's house. Before they went out, they sent the horse back to Green and asked him to help take care of it. Now that they are back, they naturally have to take the horse back. After all, they can't do without it when they go out every day.

Green still didn't say anything. When he heard that they needed to lead the horse, he led Yunji to lead the horse.

Yun Ji saw that the vegetables planted in Green's backyard garden were all lush and fresh. This guy was really good at farming, so he said, "Green, I want to buy some vegetables from you. I'll pick some and give you some money later."

Green shook his head violently, and Yun Ji looked at him in confusion: "Not selling it?"

Green stammered, "No, no money."

Yun Ji understood: "I'll go pick them, and you can help me get some eggs. I'll give you the money as well."

Yun Ji went to the vegetable garden to pick a few cucumbers, and pulled out a few parsnips, some lettuces and some arugula. When he came out of the vegetable garden, he saw Green standing outside waiting for him with an egg in his hand.

Yun Ji asked, "Do you have a basket? I'll return it to you later."

Green blushed and went to get the basket. Yunji filled the basket with things and gave Green three pennies.

Green felt that it was too much and was unwilling to accept it. Yun Ji put the silver coins on the wooden block next to the stable: "I put the money here, remember to take it, I'll take the horse away."

Yun Ji walked out, holding the basket in one hand and leading the horse in the other. Green looked at his back, scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, picked up the three silver coins, and put them carefully into his pocket.

Yun Ji carried the basket and looked at the juicy vegetables inside. He thought Min Xi would be very happy. He prepared dinner without any trouble. After entering the yard, Yun Ji called out, "Ninth brother, look what I brought you."

Yun Ji didn't hear Min Xi's answer, and he was a little confused. Where did he go? He put the basket under the porch and led the horse to the backyard. He saw Min Xi bending over and working in the backyard, and he seemed to be holding a shovel in his hand: "What are you doing?"

Min Xi was almost startled when he heard his voice. He stood up straight and said, "Seventh Brother, you are back."

"Well, I also bought some fresh vegetables from the Green family's vegetable garden. They grow cucumbers." Yun Ji said as if asking for credit.

"Cucumber? Oh, okay, eat it cold in the evening." Min Xi was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was talking about cucumber.

Yun Ji locked the horse in the stable and planned to get some grass for the horse to eat. Before leaving, he went to see what Min Xi was doing. He saw him digging soil into a basin with a slightly wilted vine next to it. "What is this?"

Min Xi smiled and said, "I got it from the glass greenhouse in the botanical garden. Let's plant it and see if it can survive."

Yun Ji frowned and looked at him, his face not looking very good: "You don't even know what it is, why do you want to bring it back? What if it's poisonous?"

Min Xi said: "I don't think it's poisonous. Look, I brought it back and nothing happened."

Yun Ji took a deep breath and tried to suppress his anger: "Min Xi, why are you always so willful, doing whatever you want without considering the consequences! It was like this last time with the persimmons, and it's still like this now! Have you forgotten what you promised me? You don't take your life seriously, do you?"

Min Xi looked at him in astonishment. This was the second time he saw Yun Ji angry. The last time was when he was eating tomatoes. Yun Ji always obeyed him in everything, which made him almost forget that he also had a temper.

"I'm sorry, Brother Qi, I didn't consider your feelings." Min Xi said.

Yun Ji's expression was very serious: "This is not just my feeling, but you don't care about your own life! You treat life so triflingly, what do you want the people who care about you to do?"

Min Xi reached out and took Yun Ji's hand: "Seventh Brother, come and help me plant it first, I will have something to tell you later. I have my reasons for doing this, you will understand it in a moment."

Yun Ji wanted to shake off his hand, but when he heard him say that, he glared at him fiercely, his eyes showing both love and annoyance. Min Xi grinned at him: "Although my actions seem a bit impulsive, when have I ever made any mistakes?"

Yun Ji thought of the past, gritted his teeth and said, "You are lucky!"

Min Xi said with a smile: "Luck is also a part of strength. Besides, my sense of security is also given by you, Brother Qi. Who told you to be so reliable?"

Yun Ji was completely out of control now. After hesitating for a while, he came over to help Min Xi plant sweet potatoes: "If the reasons you give me can't convince me later, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!"

Min Xi didn't say anything else. He divided the half-meter-long sweet potato vine into two sections and planted them in two pots respectively.

Yun Ji asked: "How did you know to do this?"

"That's why I planted it this way. But summer is almost over, and the weather is getting colder day by day. I don't think it can grow roots." Min Xi sighed when he said this.

After planting the sweet potatoes, Min Xi took the bucket used to feed the horses and poured some water into the sweet potato pot, saying, "Okay, they will be alive in a few days."

"How can he still be alive when he's so weak?" Yun Ji said in disbelief.

"Even without leaves, it can survive with only the vine." Min Xi said, "Let's go and wash our hands."

Yun Ji became more suspicious as he listened. His words became more and more incomprehensible, as if he knew this plant. "Who told you that?"

Min Xi did not explain. He walked to the front yard, scooped water from the well to wash his hands, then picked up the basket under the porch and took a look: "These cucumbers are quite fresh, even the tops haven't fallen off." He took a cucumber, walked to the well, washed it with water in the bucket, broke it in half, and handed half to Yun Ji who had already washed his hands.

Yun Ji shook the water off his hands and took half a cucumber.

Min Xi walked to the corridor, sat down on the steps, and looked up at Yun Ji in front of him: "Seventh Brother, do you feel like you have entered a dream since you fell into the sea?"

Yun Ji looked at him for a while, then sat down next to him: "Yes, a little bit."

Min Xi took a bite of the cucumber, chewed it and ate it, looking at the Viburnum arborvitae in the yard whose flowering period was about to end, and murmured, "Do you know why I can speak Flungji and English? Not only that, I can speak Greater Luzon, and I know a little German, French, and Russian. If you go to Greater Luzon next time, I will lie to you again, I am a genius who can learn Greater Luzon. By the way, we don't call Greater Luzon Greater Luzon, that's the name in your era. By our time, it has been unified in transliteration and is called Spain. Flungji was called Portugal in our time."

Yun Ji was about to eat a cucumber, but when he heard this, he was shocked and turned to look at Min Xi. What was he talking about? "You mean, you would say these things anyway?"

Min Xi shook his head: "Of course I wasn't born with this talent, nor did I learn it after coming to Europe. I can be considered to have a talent for languages, but I definitely can't learn it in one go, and I'm not necessarily more gifted than you. I started learning English in elementary school, and by the time I finished college, I had studied it for more than a decade, so I speak it most fluently besides Chinese. I've studied the other languages ​​for a total of four or five years, so I'm not that good, but I can still communicate in basic ways. Do you really think I learned English well in just a few days?"

Yun Ji dropped the cucumber in his hand. He heard every word Min Xi said clearly, but he didn't understand. His mind was a mess and he couldn't organize the words for a while.