The Age of Discovery: Chinese cuisine swept across Europe

Yun Ji said sternly: "General Yan, no matter what the reason is, you have violated orders and acted on your own. Do you accept the punishment?"

General Yan was stunned. Looking at Yun Ji's serious face, he knew that he was not joking. He looked at his comrades standing behind Yun Ji and Min Xi, bowed and clasped his fists: "I accept the punishment!"

Zhang Meng on the side hurriedly said: "Sir, we were unable to return to the team in time because of something. Please be lenient with us, General!"

Yun Ji did not comment: "Let's go back to the village first."

So everyone returned to the indigenous village along the way, and along the way, they learned the whole story from the members of Team 3.

The No. 3 formation also walked in the direction chosen by Min Xi and Yun Ji yesterday. Later, they found that the mountain was indeed a bit far away and they might not be able to come back if they walked there, so they decided to return.

On their way back, they encountered aboriginal hunters who were hunting kangaroos. When the aboriginal hunters were hunting kangaroos, they were attacked by male kangaroos. Since the aboriginal spears could not fight back at close range, two aboriginal hunters were kicked by kangaroos and were seriously injured.

General Yan and his men took the initiative to help drive away the kangaroos and rescued the two seriously injured natives. In line with the principle of sending the Buddha to the west, they helped send the natives back to the tribe. After arriving at the tribe, it was already late and they could not identify the direction at night, so they had to stay there for one night.

Yun Ji said: "Even if you can't make it back at night, you should return to the camp immediately after dawn instead of looking for mines on your own."

General Yan nodded and said, "Your Excellency is right. I know I was wrong and will never act on my own again."

Yun Ji thought for a moment and said, "You were meritorious for discovering the gold mine, but you were wrong for acting on your own, so your merits and wrongs should be offset. Do you have any objection?"

General Yan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head vigorously: "No, no, I have no opinion!"

When Min Xi heard this, he couldn't help but laugh. Isn't this equivalent to no punishment? However, this is indeed a good way to deal with it. It will not embarrass General Yan and can convince others.

As for the reason why General Yan did not rush back to the camp to join everyone after daybreak, it was because they found gold ore in the native tribe. General Yan asked about the origin of the gold ore, and the natives wanted to repay them, so they took them to find gold after daybreak.

General Yan felt that this was a rare opportunity, so between going back to report and going to see the mine first, he chose to go and see the mine, which delayed his return.

After returning to the aboriginal village, Min Xi asked the imperial physician who was accompanying him to see the two aboriginal villagers injured by the kangaroos. The imperial physician checked the pulses of the two aboriginals and their injuries, but since they could not communicate with each other, he could only give a 70% and 80% diagnosis.

The imperial physician said that they had suffered serious internal injuries and one of them had two broken ribs.

Min Xi guessed that their internal organs were injured, and they might even be bleeding internally, so he asked, "Doctor Qiao, do we have any medicine for them?"

Doctor Qiao said, "Yes, but most of them are on the ship. I don't have them with me. I'll see if there's anything I can give them."

Before Doctor Qiao found the right medicine, Yun Ji said, "I have some Panax notoginseng on me. Give them some and ask them to grind it and take it orally."

Doctor Qiao looked at Yun Ji in surprise: "Master Yun also understands medical principles?"

"I taught myself a little." Yun Ji said as he took out a piece of Panax notoginseng from the leather bag he carried with him.

Min Xi leaned over curiously and asked, "Seventh Brother, what did you bring?"

Yun Ji showed him the leather bag, inside which there were some small medicine bottles with labels on them, including Golden Wound Medicine, Zixue Pill, Zhibao Pill, Angong Niuhuang Pill, Ginseng Slices, etc., all of which were life-saving medicines.

"Seventh Brother, are you still carrying it with you?"

"Well, it's good to have time in case of any unexpected events."

Doctor Qiao had already taken the Panax notoginseng and was grinding it for the patient to take. It seemed that the natives trusted them very much and did not stop them for giving the patient something they did not know about.

What Min Xi didn't know was that this tribe had previously had a case of someone dying after being kicked by a kangaroo. These two people were seriously injured this time and might not be able to survive. Now that these outsiders were willing to treat them, it was natural to give them a try. Maybe they could be saved.

After Doctor Qiao gave the medicine to the two patients, he returned the remaining Panax notoginseng to Yun Ji. Yun Ji said, "No need to give it to me, leave it to them." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to call over an indigenous woman who had been watching from the side, made a gesture of grinding Panax notoginseng on a stone, and pointed at the two patients.

The woman was not stupid and nodded to show that she understood.

Min Xi asked: "Doctor Qiao, how many times a day should I take it?"

Doctor Qiao said, "Twice."

Min Xi called the woman and drew a sun and a moon on the ground. He pointed at the sun and then at the moon, and then stretched out two fingers to indicate two times, day and night.

The woman nodded and held up two fingers to show that she understood what he meant.

It was noon, and the men, women, old and young in the village brought all kinds of meat and fruits to entertain Min Xi and his companions. There were nearly a hundred people in their group, all of them young and strong, and if this backward village wanted to entertain them with a full meal, it would probably cost them everything.

So Min Xi and his men only accepted the fruits provided by the other party, and used the dry food they brought with them. This action puzzled the natives, who thought they disliked their food. Min Xi pointed at the food and then at themselves, and told them to eat by themselves. Min Xi also asked everyone to share some of the dry food they brought with them for the natives to taste.

After tasting the food, the natives believed even more that Min Xi and his people did not want their food because their food tasted better.

When they left, all the men, women, and children in the village came to the entrance to see them off. The old man in the lead gave Yun Ji a small bone knife. Yun Ji had seen the weapons of the local indigenous people. More than half of the spears were tied with stone-polished spearheads, and there were not many bone spearheads. It can be seen that their tools were very simple, and this bone knife was considered a better tool. Yun Ji waved his hand to indicate that he had better tools and did not need a bone knife.

The old man looked at the dagger in Yun Ji's hand eagerly, but still handed over his bone knife. Min Xi reminded Yun Ji: "Seventh brother, you should accept it. I think what he meant is that this may be a token of love. We will come here again in the future and bring them some knives when we do."

Yun Ji accepted the knife and bowed to express his gratitude.

Min Xi and Yun Ji led their people and left the indigenous village in a mighty procession. Although they wanted to go to the gold mine, considering that everyone was still waiting in the camp, they decided to go back first and then find a way to go to the gold mine.

In order to save such a long distance, they could move the boat to a different position and get closer to the creek and the mountains where the indigenous tribes lived.