The Age of Discovery: Chinese cuisine swept across Europe

Chapter 302 Taking care of a baby

The next day, while Yunlin was having breakfast, he suddenly asked, "Brother, can I not go to the school today?"

"Why? Are you feeling unwell?" Yun Ji asked.

Yun Lin scratched his head, then sighed in a dignified manner: "I just don't want to go to school today."

"Don't sigh, sighing will take away your good luck. What about tomorrow, are you going to school?" Min Xi touched Yun Lin's soft hair.

Yunlin nodded: "I will go tomorrow. I want to be with my eldest and second brothers today."

Min Xi said cheerfully, "Then take a day off, give yourself a day off, and have someone ask for leave from grandpa."

Yun Ji looked at him: "For what reason?"

Min Xi thought for a moment and said, "The Qingming Festival has passed, and you haven't gone to pay respects to your parents yet, so why not go today? It's only natural to take your brother with you."

Yun Lin nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, yes! I have never been there either. They said I was too young and in poor health, so they never let me go."

Yun Ji thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let's go to the tomb today."

Min Xi suddenly thought of something else: "Is there any rule that says how many children cannot go to the tomb sweeping ceremony?"

Yun Ji didn't know either, so he asked Yun Lin's nanny, who said, "Here, children under five years old are not allowed to go to the tombs. Lin is five years old now, but he's still not in good health, so it's better for him not to go."

Yunlin said: "I'm in good health. Have I not taken any medicine this year?"

The nurse looked at him helplessly: "That's because I'm very careful in normal times. When you go hiking in the suburbs, you sweat and get blown by the wind, and you might catch a cold."

Min Xi looked at the sunlight and said, "It's okay. It's summer now and the weather is warm. It's not easy to catch a cold. We just need to pay attention to adding clothes so that he won't be too tired."

So Yun Ji actually agreed to let Yun Lin skip class and took him to the suburbs to pay respects to the ancestors.

Yun Ji rode a horse, Min Xi and Yun Lin sat in a carriage. Yun Ji rode the horse parallel to the carriage, and the three of them chatted through the window.

Yun Ji said, "I never thought you would agree to let him not go to school. When I was a child, I didn't dare to skip classes unless I was too sick to get out of bed."

"Is it that tragic?" Min Xi said in disbelief, "Who stopped us?"

"My mother is very strict with me. She said that since we have few children, one of us should be able to do as many as others."

Min Xi thought of the term tiger mom.

Yunlin poked his head out and said, "Brother, is mother so strict?"

"Well, her academic requirements are a bit strict. But she is also very easy to talk to. Although she requires me to learn a lot of things, she does not force me to take imperial examinations. She said that what I learn is my own, and fame is to prove to others." Yun Ji said.

From this perspective, his mother is a smart and elegant woman.

Yunlin didn’t quite understand this, but he still instinctively felt that his mother was very kind: “Mom is so kind!”

"So she will protect big brother and Lin'er to be safe and healthy." Min Xi rubbed his soft hair.

"I will also bless my second brother." Yun Lin said flatteringly.

Min Xi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "If your mother knew me, she would probably do the same."

Yun Ji sat on his horse and looked at Min Xi with burning eyes: "My mother must know you."

"That's right. My mother has gone to heaven. She must know about the things in the human world." Yun Lin asked again, "Brother, what does mother look like?"

Yun Ji thought for a moment and said, "Mom is very beautiful and loves to laugh. I'll draw her for you later."

"it is good!"

Generally speaking, few people who live in the capital have ancestors from the capital, and the same is true for the Yun family. It is said that they are from the Yun family of Langya County, and are descendants of the Jin Yun family. However, Yun Ji's ancestors had moved to Dadu in the previous dynasty and spread out in Dadu. In his early years, he was in poverty and could not afford to return to his ancestral home for burial, so he was buried in the suburbs of Dadu. Later, when the Yun family became prosperous, they bought a piece of land in the suburbs as an ancestral tomb, which was convenient for their descendants to pay homage to them, and they never thought of moving back to their ancestral home. Otherwise, the two brothers would have to go to Shandong to pay homage to them.

Yun Ji's parents were buried in the mountains west of the city. The weather at this time was not too hot. Spring had just passed, and the mountains and fields were full of pleasant wild flowers and grasses. The deep and light green made people happy.

Yunlin grew up in a courtyard and had never been out of Beijing, so he had no idea what the suburbs were like. He usually just looked at the flowers, plants and trees in the garden and had never come into contact with real nature.

As soon as he left the city, he felt like a bird out of a cage, clinging to the car window and unwilling to let go. His eyes were a little overwhelmed by the sight, all of which were unfamiliar to him. There were so many flowers, trees, chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, it was simply too interesting.

He was like a question machine along the way, constantly asking questions this and that. Min Xi patiently answered all his questions. If he couldn't answer a question, he would say that he would think about it and tell him the answer after he had thought it through.

During the sacrifice, Yun Ji personally cleared the grass on his parents' graves. His movements were so skillful that even Tao Xing and Tao Sheng felt ashamed of themselves. They had no idea that their cousin could use a hoe, and use it so well at it. This was all something he learned from growing vegetables in Europe.

The brothers Yun Ji and Yun Lin added a handful of soil to their parents' graves, kowtowed and burned incense to them respectfully.

Min Xi had never met Yun Ji's father and mother, but he still respectfully burned incense and kowtowed to them. After all, he was Yun Ji's adopted brother in name, which was equivalent to his adoptive father and mother, and he was also half a son. Another thing was that he always felt guilty towards them. If it weren't for him, Yun Ji might still have seen his father.

After the tomb sweeping, they took Yunlin to play in the suburbs for half a day, picking wild flowers and vegetables. Yunlin had a great time. When they returned, Yunlin was so tired that he fell asleep. This experience was so special that he had never been so happy in his life.

The nurse said with some concern: "Will he get sick from exhaustion?"

Min Xi said, "Don't worry! I have changed his clothes. It is good for children to have more contact with nature, so that their body resistance can be better. I was also prone to illness when I was a child. Later, I returned to my grandparents' home in the countryside and rolled around in the mud in the countryside. My health gradually got better."

"But I'm worried that there are a lot of dirt in the wild, and Lin Ge'er is weak and can't handle it." The nanny's worries are not unreasonable.

In the past, Min Xi would have certainly said "A gentleman does not speak of strange things," but he could not explain his own origins clearly, so he could only say: "Then let's be more careful, and if anything goes wrong, we will do what we need to do." He knew that there was a technique called Zhuyou in traditional Chinese medicine, which was used to treat those inexplicable diseases, such as children crying at night.

It turned out that the nanny's worries were not unnecessary. At night, Yunlin had a slight fever. It was because he was too excited during the day and played too hard. In addition, his body was weak and he could not keep up with the mental consumption, so he fell ill.

Min Xi, Yun Ji and the nanny were watching over Yun Lin who had a fever. The nanny was calm and said that there was no need to call a doctor for the time being. She would first use the common method to reduce his fever. If the fever did not go down, she would call a doctor tomorrow morning. She put a wet towel on Yun Lin's forehead to dissipate the heat, cracked a raw egg, massaged Yun Lin's belly, and then wiped his belly clean.

After seeing this, Min Xi thought that this was a physical way to cool down, after all, raw eggs are cool. He asked someone to find strong liquor and wipe Yun Lin's neck, armpits and elbows to dissipate heat.

While Yun Ji was wiping the wine off his brother, he comforted Min Xi: "Don't worry, it's normal for children to have a fever. They will get better soon."

The nurse consoled Min Xi: "It should be fine. Brother Lin has been sick for several times in previous years. This is the first time this year, and the fever is not serious."

By midnight, Yunlin's fever had finally subsided. Yunji and Minxi took him to their side and watched him sleep all night. They woke up several times to check on him, but he was no longer feverish.

After waking up, Yunlin was in good spirits, completely unaware that he had a fever. He ate breakfast and insisted on going to the cram school.

Min Xi said, "I am sick today, so I will take a day off and not go to the school."

Yun Lin stared at Min Xi with wide eyes, then smiled: "Second brother, did you often skip classes when you were a child?"

Min Xi sighed: "No, your second brother never skipped classes when I was a child because I couldn't find anyone to ask for leave for me."

"Does asking for leave mean asking for leave?" Yun Lin asked.

Min Xi smiled and nodded: "So I want to make up for my childhood regrets with you. With your intelligence and talent, you will definitely be able to handle it easily without having to attend classes for two days."

Yun Ji listened to their conversation and raised his hand to touch Yun Lin's little head: "You can study at home, and recite it to the teacher after you go to the school."

"Okay!" Yun Lin's uneasiness caused by skipping classes completely disappeared. Now that he had two backers, it seemed that the teacher was not so scary anymore.

On this day, Yunlin rested at home and taught himself the rest of the content. Bawang stayed with him and was more patient with him than with Min Xi and Yun Ji. Perhaps animals are more patient with children than with adults.

Yun Ji and Min Xi went to take care of the business in the shop. Although someone went to pick up the goods that were shipped back yesterday, they also had to go and take a look. The shop was entrusted to the eldest brother of the Yun family. Now that they were back, they had to go to thank him, say hello, and find out about the situation. After all, this was his business, not Yun Zhen's.

Min Xi and Yun Ji acted separately. Yun Ji went to find Yun Zhen, while Min Xi went to the shop to check on the goods that had been moved back, and also visited various shops to understand the situation. After all, he was still the general manager of Yunxianghao.

Min Xi went to various shops, and the shop owners all recognized him because after his reorganization, each shop of Yunxiang had changed to varying degrees. Among them, the biggest change was the Yunxiang Restaurant, which is now the most prosperous restaurant in the capital.

When Mr. Fang, the owner of Yunxiang Restaurant, saw Min Xi, he was extremely enthusiastic and personally served tea and water. It seemed that last year's harvest was quite good.

Min Xi asked for the restaurant's accounts after the renovation and saw that the turnover had at least quadrupled compared to before. Manager Fang proudly introduced that it was hard to get a seat at Yunxiang Restaurant now, especially the private rooms upstairs, which often needed to be booked in advance. When the dignitaries in the capital wanted to entertain guests, Yunxiang Restaurant would be their first choice.