The Age of Discovery: Chinese cuisine swept across Europe

The language barrier made communication very difficult. Neither side knew what the other meant and could only guess.

After Min Xi and others entered the village, someone pointed to the embers on the open space in the village and showed them. Min Xi looked over and found that the embers were surrounded by stones, tree stumps, fallen tree trunks, and bundles of hay, which formed a circle around the fire.

Min Xi quickly counted and found that there were about thirty seats. He understood: "Seventh brother, General Yan and his men should have stayed here last night."

"It seems so. But why didn't they go back after dawn? Or did they take another route back?" Yun Ji felt that the logic didn't make sense.

Min Xi said, "I guess he was tripped up by something."

At this moment, a few more gunshots were heard faintly in the distance, this time more frequent than before.

Yun Ji looked in the direction where the sound came from: "What's going on? Did you hear it? There was another gunshot."

"I heard it. Is it General Yan and his men?"

"That's probably the case. Let's go and see what's going on." Yun Ji said to everyone, "General Yan and his men may have run into trouble. Let's go and see what's going on."

As they were about to leave, they saw the old man who had led the group before, leading some people out with some fruits held in large leaves, obviously to entertain them. When they saw them leaving, they were all a little stunned.

Min Xi gestured to the old man and said, "Let's go over there and take a look." Seeing this, the old man nodded and watched everyone leave.

They left the village, quickened their pace, and walked up a mountain road behind the village. Yun Ji took out his horn and blew it. Since they had confirmed that the natives here were not enemies, there was nothing to worry about. They hoped that General Yan and his men would hear their horns and hold out until they arrived.

Going up along the mountain road, this mountain was not as high as the one they came from. After they climbed to the top of the mountain, their view became wider. In front of them were rolling hills, all of which were barren, with few plants and the mountain bodies were rusty red.

Min Xi took a look and thought: Oh my god, this area can't be all iron ore! I knew there were a lot of iron ore in Australia, but I didn't know that I could find iron ore just by anchoring on a beach.

Yun Ji took out a telescope and looked into the distance: "I think I saw them."

Upon hearing this, Min Xi quickly raised his telescope and looked: "I saw it too. What are they doing so far away?" The people in the No. 3 formation were still two hills away from them.

"They seem to be walking back." Min Xi said.

"They are heading back. Then let's not go any further and wait for them here," said Yun Ji.

The wind was strong on the top of the mountain, so Min Xi said to everyone, "Let's go down a bit and wait, the wind is too strong on the top of the mountain."

So they found a place to wait for the No. 3 formation in the leeward direction. After waiting for about an hour, the No. 3 formation appeared on the opposite hilltop. After waiting for a long time, they finally ran into each other.

Yun Ji looked at the people in Team 3 and asked, "What's going on? Where have you been? Why didn't you go back as agreed last night?"

General Yan looked delighted: "Sir, we have made a great discovery. Look, we found this!" As he spoke, he took out a brown stone from the leather bag he carried with him.

Min Xi took the stone, looked at the golden spots on it, and took a breath of cold air: "Is this gold?"

General Yan said, "It looked like it to me, so I followed to see for myself. We need to ask a master to identify it to see if it is gold."

Yun Ji looked at the stone and asked, "I heard you guys shooting, what's going on?"

"This indigenous tribe had some grudge against another tribe, so they asked us for help and fired a few shots to intimidate the other side," said General Yan.

Upon hearing this, Min Xi quickly asked, "No one was hurt, right?"

General Yan said: "We didn't shoot anyone, but we did injure a few of them. But it's not serious. We are very sensible."

Min Xi was somewhat speechless: "Didn't I tell you to try not to make enemies with the natives?"

"But the natives here promised to take us to find a gold mine. However, the gold mine belongs to another tribe and they won't let us get close. We have no choice but to take action." General Yan said helplessly.

Min Xi looked at the natives with the No. 3 formation. It seemed that even the natives with low productivity were still very cunning. General Yan and his men were probably taken advantage of by the other side.