"The fish meat was not successfully deodorized and the cooking time was not long enough. A strong fishy smell came into my mouth, so I couldn't eat it."
Liang wiped his mouth and analyzed the reason why this pot of pickled fish failed: "And..."
"I'm also curious about how you came up with the idea of using this stuff to stew with fish." Wein poked the tawny pickled cabbage with a fork.
No, this is not sauerkraut at all, because...
"Who knew this was bitter?!" Liang slapped his forehead, "It looks almost exactly like sauerkraut, but it turns out it's even bitterer than traditional Chinese medicine!"
He suffered a big loss from another world. Who knew that this thing that looks like pickled cabbage would taste so bitter.
Fish with a strong fishy smell and "bitter vegetables" that taste similar to traditional Chinese medicine... How can this guy Wei Yin still swallow it?
Leon instantly felt admiration for Wei Yin.
"This is called 'Maowil Cuisine', and it is the traditional food of the islanders. They have a special liking for this thing."
Liang suddenly realized: "Islander? No wonder the boss who sells my dish has a dark complexion and looks different from other people."
The islanders are indigenous people who were discovered living on the islands in the sea during the exploration and development of the endless ocean in the south. Similar to their previous lives, these indigenous people were unfortunately enslaved by navigators with advanced technology and sold to the southern states near the sea as slaves.
Cheap labor slaves.
"Speaking of which, Caspars is not close to the sea. I didn't expect to meet the islanders here." Leon scratched his head. At that time, he had not yet connected the vegetable seller with the islanders he read in the book. Now
When I learned that the other person was an islander, I felt a sense of surprise as if I had met a foreigner in a small inland town in my previous life.
"It has been more than a hundred years since the Age of Discovery, and many islanders have gained freedom in some ways. Don't think that you will only see them on plantations." Wein said, "And for the islanders,
He said that they were more willing to run north because the duchy in the south still retained slavery, and unlike Caspars who completely followed the laws and regulations of the central region, the local nobles in the duchy had certain limited legislative powers.
, local laws can be enacted. In some noble territories, islanders do not have human rights. If you encounter an islander without an owner mark on the street, you can tie him up with a rope and take him away. If the islander resists, he will be arrested by the guards.
Even shot to death."
"It's so outrageous." Leon sighed, "This is not treating the islanders as human beings at all. It's just like catching a stray cat or dog from the street."
Just by shouting, "My family has found an islander, he wants to go home with me," he can capture others and make them his slaves. This is something that Leon, who grew up in a modern society under the rule of law that emphasizes human rights equality, would find it hard to imagine.
"It is human nature to pursue a sense of superiority. Even within us, we all like to divide people into upper class, middle class, and lower class, let alone treat a group of aliens?" Wein shook his head, "Slavery takes this point to the extreme.
To the extreme, even the anti-slavery congressmen more or less have a sense of superiority towards the islanders, seeing themselves as the islanders' 'saviors' rather than seeing the islanders as people like themselves.
Their attitude towards the islanders is not so much 'sympathy' as 'pity'."
Leon understood what Wein meant. In his context, "sympathy" was a kind of empathy, while "compassion" contained a sense of superiority between those in a higher position and those in a lower position.
It can only be said that the idea of equality is not achieved overnight, especially in this world where extraordinary power exists and nobles are really "noble" than civilians. In Leon's view, it is good to have "compassion" first, and it is better than treating oppression as
It's only natural that it should be better.
"So, how do you prepare lunch?"
After Wine expressed his views on the situation of the islanders and slavery, he brought the topic back to the world of the common people.
"Well... Anyway, I don't want to eat this pot of food." Liang wanted to refuse to admit that this was his cooking.
"I don't want to either. Sometimes it's necessary to give up the virtue of frugality." Vin snapped his fingers, "Then let's order takeout."
"Takeaway?" There are no two big companies in this world: yellow and blue. Leon has never seen a boy who is suspected of delivering food on the street. So far, it was only last time at a high-end restaurant that Wei Yin asked the manager to order a pizza for delivery.
come over.
“There aren’t that many options for takeout, and most of the food is difficult to package and ship, so it’s just pizza, pizza, pizza.”
Using the landline phone, he ordered a pizza from Vin Familiar Restaurant. The two of them were waiting for the takeout to come to their door. Leon asked, "What did you eat before I came here?"
Shouldn’t he be taking out pizza every day? Leon felt that if he ate like this, he would either feel sick to his stomach at the sight of pizza, or he would be assimilated by pizza and become a pizza star.
"I also cook occasionally."
"Huh? Then why haven't I seen you cooking since I came here?"
"Because someone else is doing it for me, I'm too lazy to move."
Leon: "..."
Why is this man not dead yet? We should ask the "King Slayer" to come and collect this evildoer as soon as possible.
Dong dong dong——
There was a sudden knock on the door of the office, and Liang was startled: "'Regicide'?"
"It's the delivery boy." Wein glanced at Leon, "You must have wanted the 'Kingslayer' to kill me early."
Leon: "..."
Can't refute.
However, when he opened the door, there was neither a terrifying killer nor a kind delivery boy outside, but...