Chapter 84

The protagonist who knocked out the sailor's front teeth with "empty husband" was soon tied to Lorraine.

He is a beautiful yellow man with black hair and brown pupils. He is only in his early seventies, but his limbs are symmetrical and his fingers are slender.

He was wearing a blue and white striped T-shirt and loose black cotton trousers. His belt was bright but tasteless red, and his scarf was the most tasteful big red.

Lorraine was not sure which country he was from.

According to the calculation of time, the Qing Dynasty is now closed to the outside world, and the trend of studying abroad in future generations is far from flourishing.

What's more, his hair just reached his shoulder and was scattered. It was tied under the scarf. It looked lazy and thick. He neither shaved his hair nor tied into the money mouse shape of the Qing Dynasty.

His French is also very good. Although his English is awkward, his pronunciation is more like a Paris accent, which is not difficult to recognize and has nothing to do with the word "foreign".

Is it difficult... Overseas Chinese in the East Indian colonies?

Lorraine said coldly, "name."

"Wang Ye."

"Gender."

Wang also turned his eyes helplessly: "Mr. captain, do you think I look like a woman?"

A rebellious fellow soul

Lorraine shrugged and said to the sailor, "throw it into the sea. Don't waste the boat."

The sailors rushed up, rubbing their hands.

Wang also turned pale with fear, pulled his neck and hissed, "man! Man! I'm a man! If you don't believe it, you can take off your pants!"

"It's better to be so early." Lorraine sighed, and then turned to his concern. "Nationality, sir."

"The Qing Dynasty." Wang Zhengshen, "the mysterious oriental country, in the easternmost part of the Asian continent, there are porcelain, silk and tea..."

"And dirty pigtails like money rats." Lorraine waved and interrupted him. "Mr. Wang, I don't know nothing about the Qing Dynasty. You ask all men to wear pigtails. It seems that there is a national policy, what's the name... Keep hair instead of head?"

"How dare you speak Chinese?"

"It has nothing to do with you." lolin smiled, stood up and looked down at Wang Ye. "Mr. Wang, you said you were from the Qing Dynasty, but you didn't have the braids that can best prove your identity. Do you think I should believe you or don't believe you?"

"I have been wandering in Europe for nine years. In our words, I am a foreign student..."

Wang also began to talk about his life.

His parents died and abandoned him in the mountains. He was adopted by a Taoist monk and grew up to ten years old in the Taoist temple.

At the age of ten, when Jiangxi was in famine, most of the martial brothers in the temple starved to death. When their master starved to death, a group of children left the dilapidated Taoist temple and begged all the way to Guangdong.

It was in 1768, when Zhong Yin was governor of Guangdong.

A French businessman named Lawrence intended to open up the trade line of the Qing Dynasty, so he scanned the rules of the Qing Dynasty among his peers and turned to the governor to launch a silver bullet attack.

He successfully won the favor of Zhong Yin.

However, the Qing Dynasty had strict control over trade licensing, and bribery obviously could not be used as a reason for issuing licenses. Lawrence still needed to contribute to people in order to achieve his goal smoothly.

Zhong Yin means to ask Lawrence to pick a small town, build bridges and roads, accumulate good friends, and then be recommended by the squire. Three please be the people, and he can push the boat along the water to deliver the thin permit.

The problem is that Lawrence doesn't understand.

The simple French gentleman thought and thought, and finally told Zhong Yin that he was going to fund 12 young people with national aspirations of the Qing Dynasty to study in Paris to learn mathematics, art, music and philosophy and open up the wisdom of the people!

God special code opens people's wisdom!

If he hadn't received too much money from Lawrence, Zhong Yin would like to catch the foreign devil on the spot and send him to Beijing for punishment.

So the good play began.

On the grounds of cleaning up the city appearance of Guangdong, Zhong Yin catches wandering young beggars all over the street, washes them, sends them to the gentry's house, and enthusiastically introduces Lawrence to those gentry.

Through the mouth of the translator, Lawrence spent nine cattle and two tigers' silver to persuade the squires to hand over the aspiring children of the family, that is, these carefully packaged little beggars, which met his noble wish to open the wisdom of the Oriental people.

Wang was sent to a strange Europe in 1769 when he was 11 years old.

At the beginning of coming to Europe, Lawrence did his best. He not only sent them to the famous church school in Paris for three years of adaptive learning, but also enthusiastically provided them with translators to help them through the most difficult language stage.

Three years later, when the schoolchildren saw Lawrence again, most of them were already fluent in French.

Lawrence held a grand banquet for them and told them excitedly that they had completed the admission procedures for the University of Paris. As long as they chose their major, they could enter the University for further study soon.

The schoolchildren shed tears of gratitude and excitedly told him that he had been cheated.

Overnight, Wang was also swept out, from a link between eastern and Western civilizations to a Paris tramp with a strange Oriental face.

He has no money, no home, a person wandering in the Champs Elysees, accidentally saw a chef school enrollment notice.

Eat, live, learn first, then pay.

He successfully passed the interview and studied in it for a whole year. He owed the school 17 pounds. When he left, he took away three pounds worth of food and tools. He fled to the Netherlands as a wanted criminal and began to sail around on sea ships. He hoped that one day he could go back to his hometown with the ship

The story... Is roughly like this.

Lorraine looked at the smiling Wang Ye. His eyes were not his eyes and his nose was not his nose.

"So the reason why you don't want to get off the ship is..."

Wang also spread his hand: "Dear captain, my wanted warrant in France is still valid. If I float back to shore from this position, I have to go to prison as soon as I get ashore. I asked that twenty pounds is enough for them to lock me up for twenty years, which is not in line with my life plan."

"Are you going to..."

"Are you short of cooks on your ship? I am proficient in all Eastern and western delicacies, and my craft will never disappoint you."

"Cook?"

"Yes, you can try my craft first. Foie gras, snails, salad, or English favorite black pudding, English pastry and fried eggs, as long as you can say..."

"Buddha jumps over the wall." Lorraine slowly said three big words in pure Chinese.

"Jump what?"

"If you can't, Dongpo meat, potted chicken, squirrel perch, dried bamboo shoots and old duck?"

"Er... Mr. captain, you are actually a noble of eight flags, aren't you? Is it because you lost too much blood that your skin looks pale?"

"It seems you can't do it."

Lorraine ignored Wang Ye's words, quietly called pierce over and asked about the existing ingredients on the butterfly.

A moment later, he looked up: "my boat has butter, lettuce, and a small amount of onions and garlic. You have 15 minutes to cook a lettuce with minced garlic for me. If you can, you'd better cut another pair of chopsticks."

"Is this a formal interview?"

"If you like to call it... Yes, this is an interview, which will decide your future."

Ten minutes later, Lorraine ate the first taste changed Chinese fried dish in his life. It was fresh, salty, fragrant, greasy and crisp. It was very different from Western cooking.

Wang Ye's craft is far from as good as he claims, but at least above the level line. More importantly, he has proved that he can really cook Chinese food.

It seems that... That's enough.

Lorraine pushed away the plate, stood up and wiped his mouth gently.

"Mr. Wang Ye, chef, congratulations. You've been accepted." he held out his hand to Wang Ye, smiled and said, "introduce yourself. I'm your future captain and employer. My name is Lorraine, Lorraine Jonathan Drake."