ebookland Chapter 182 Finally Meets
Chapter 182 Finally Meets
"Pedro went to visit Marquis Harold's house yesterday and hasn't come back yet. If he knew you were in London, he would be so happy. Please come in and sit down first. He might be back soon. Tell me how you got to London." Lord Fernando said as he pulled Yunji's arm.
Yun Ji stood still: "Your Excellency, I have something else to do, so I won't wait for the Baron for now. Min and I opened a restaurant outside London. We have guests at noon today, so I have to go buy food. But we don't have any guests in the evening, so I will pick you up in the afternoon to have dinner at our place, and chat about our respective experiences."
When Lord Fernando heard this, he smiled and said, "Great! You are really great. You have opened a restaurant in London. But we can't go this afternoon. We have something to do today. We will go tomorrow. We will find you wherever you are."
Yun Ji said, "Then let's meet at noon tomorrow. I'll come pick you up tomorrow morning. I'll live in a rented yard on the outskirts of London and open a small restaurant. I'll only host one table of guests per meal."
"A table of guests! How do you make money?" said Lord Fernando.
Yun Ji smiled and said, "Our fees are relatively high, so we'll make a little bit of money. Actually, our purpose is not to make money, but to find a place to stay and wait for your news, and to earn some living expenses at the same time."
"Very good. Then you go ahead and do your work. See you later," said Lord Fernando.
Yun Ji waved goodbye to him: "Goodbye!"
When Yun Ji met Lord Fernando and learned that both brothers were fine, he was completely relieved and hurried to buy groceries.
After buying the vegetables, Yun Ji hurried back excitedly, and the horse ran faster than usual.
As soon as he got home, before he saw Min Xi, he shouted loudly: "Ninth brother! Ninth brother! I saw Fernando, they are all safe!"
Min Xi was killing a chicken in the backyard. When he heard this, he didn't kill the chicken. He threw the chicken and the knife away and rushed out: "Really? Have you seen the lord and the baron?" The chicken, whose life was hanging by a thread, escaped and immediately flapped its wings and chirped loudly, celebrating that it was still alive!
Yun Ji was still unloading the backpack under the porch when he saw Min Xi rushing out like a cannonball. He quickly stretched out his arm to support Min Xi.
Min Xi took the opportunity to hug his neck and jumped on him excitedly: "Haha, that's great! I knew they were not dead!"
Yun Ji was a little confused. He had never thought that Min Xi would take the initiative to throw herself into his arms. He took the opportunity to hug her tightly, and his heart skipped a few beats: "I only saw the Lord. The Baron seemed to be visiting his future father-in-law. I invited them to come over for lunch tomorrow at noon."
"Well done!" Min Xi got off him.
Yun Ji had no choice but to loosen his arms: "Now you should be relieved, I said they will be fine."
Min Xi couldn't suppress the smile on his face. He couldn't help being pessimistic sometimes. After all, the sea was not controllable by human power. In addition, there were wolves in front and tigers behind. It was a blessing to be able to survive. Brother Fernando was also a blessed man.
Min Xi suddenly remembered something: "Oh no, the chicken I was going to kill ran away!"
Yun Ji showed a helpless yet doting smile on his face: "It's okay, I'll go catch it."
There was a commotion in the crowd, and the chicken that had escaped was ultimately not able to escape.
The next morning, Yun Ji rode into the city. He was going to buy groceries and pick up Lord Fernando and others.
When he arrived, Baron Fernando had already gotten up. He knew he had to meet Min Xi today, so he didn't sleep in. He didn't come back yesterday afternoon, and the lord sent someone to deliver a letter to him, telling him that Min Xi and Yun Ji's whereabouts had been found. He couldn't sit still anymore, and quickly said goodbye to Harold's family and returned to the official residence.
If the Lord knew Min Xi's address, he would have come here himself.
When he saw Yun Ji, the Baron gave him a hug that was even more enthusiastic than the Lord's: "I missed you so much! My friends, you have no idea how happy I am to know that you are still alive! These days since I left you, I have been blaming myself all the time. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have abandoned you!"
The captain on the side apologized to Yun Ji: "I'm really sorry, another pirate ship was attacking us at the time, for safety reasons, we left without waiting for you."
Facing the captain, Yun Ji changed his expression: "I can understand that you didn't wait for me, but I can't accept that you sneaked away and left us there to attract the pirates' firepower. Even if you don't care about us, don't your sailors care about us either?"
As a captain of a ship, shouldn't he be responsible for the safety of all the crew members? It is really unacceptable that he escaped by stepping on the dead bodies of his companions at a critical moment.
The captain was anxious: "This is definitely not my intention. When we evacuated, I sent someone to inform you."
Yun Ji sneered when he heard this: "But we didn't receive any notification."
The captain thought for a moment and his face darkened. “The messenger must have failed to complete his mission. Sorry, we are very sorry!”
Yun Ji said: "The ones you should feel sorry for are the four gunners who were with us. They went into the sea in a lifeboat and their lives are still unknown."
Baron Fernando thought of many reasons, but he didn't expect that the messenger didn't deliver the letter at all. He patted Yun Ji on the shoulder and said, "Fortunately, you are lucky enough to have escaped this disaster and arrived in London safely. Tell us what happened to you later."
Yun Ji said, "I am here to invite you to have dinner at my place. Let's go to our place first and we will talk later."
"By the way, I heard from my eldest brother that you opened a restaurant in London. You are amazing! During these days of separation from you, I really missed Min's cooking skills. Take me to see him quickly!" Baron Fernando was a little impatient.
"Then let's go now."
"it is good."
All the members of the delegation went, including the two captains. Yun Ji didn't want to invite the captain who abandoned them, but he came on his own, saying that he cared about Min Xi and wanted to apologize to him in person. Yun Ji couldn't just say he wouldn't go.
Once we got out of the city, it felt like we were getting further and further away.
Baron Fernando leaned out of the car window and chatted with Yun Ji who was riding a horse: "Yun, why did you open the restaurant in such a remote place? Can customers come to eat here?"
"Yes, quite a lot. Sometimes you need to queue up. We only sell two tables of food a day at most, and reservations need to be made in advance." Yun Ji explained.
Baron Fernando remembered: "Is it the private restaurant with expensive food that you told me about before?"
"Yes. Our minimum charge for a table is £1 for four people, six courses, plus a main course and a dessert."
Baron Fernando gasped: "One pound for a table of food? So many people come to eat?" He knew what one pound meant. In Lisbon, one real could buy a table of good food. In the UK, the price increased 1 times. Wasn't it surprising to him?
"Yes, all the nobles from London come here to eat."
Baron Fernando laughed and said, "Well done! You should make these British guys pay more! Besides, I think your cooking skills are worth the price. We Portuguese are so lucky to have such cheap and delicious Chinese food."
"It was a different time. We had just arrived in Lisbon and had nothing and no reputation. We urgently needed to open up the market to make a living. It was different in the UK. We didn't need to make money to make a living. It was just a matter of mutual consent. Our idea was to open a small restaurant, earn some living expenses, and wait for your news."
"So you made a fortune while waiting for us, right?" the baron laughed.
"Not that I got rich, it's probably about the same as the restaurant in Lisbon. After all, there are only two tables a day, and there are not customers every day. It was only after I prepared a banquet for the Queen that the business became popular."
At this point, the baron became excited and said, "I heard that it was you who helped us pass the message to the queen, so the queen sent people to find us, right?"
Yun Ji said, "Yes. We actually arrived in England very early. We landed in Southampton about a week after the accident and arrived in London the next day. We came here to inquire, but there was no news about you. We had no choice but to stay here while asking for news about you. We all firmly believed that you were safe, and it was indeed the case."
The baron asked curiously: "I remember that the ship had been pierced, how did you get ashore?
"The pirates came up before we could escape. But we took the opportunity to hold the pirate leader hostage and forced them to send us ashore." Yun Ji said lightly.
The baron was horrified: "Did I hear that correctly? You captured the pirate leader? You are so awesome! Brother, did you hear that? Not only were Yun and his men not captured by the pirates, they also captured the pirates! By the way, which country are those pirates from?"
Yun Ji turned his head and looked at the Baron: "Are you sure you want to know?"
Baron Fernando leaned against the wall of the carriage and said, "Forget it. It's better for me not to know, so as not to hurt the relationship."
The pirates active in the English Channel were either from Britain, France, or the Netherlands. Britain was their ally, and the Netherlands also saved them, so no matter what the outcome was, it was a sad thing.
Yun Ji smiled slightly and did not continue the topic.
Soon after leaving the city, they arrived at Bright Manor. Fernando looked around and said, "You two really know how to choose a place. I think this place is much more interesting than London. The environment is good and the air is fresh. It's the best place for people to live."
Yun Ji curled the corners of his mouth. Who was it that disliked the remoteness before?