Pimont was trying his best to maintain his aristocratic demeanor at this time, although he was also shocked by what happened on the Pride, but Pimont was Pimont, the young governor still had his own merits, although he was excited, he was able to walk up the steel gangway without being helped, and the two personal servants beside him were long gone.

On deck, Pimont saw two Han Chinese, though strangely dressed, who were clearly the leaders of the ship, and gave them a pious salute with the etiquette of taking off their hats and bowing to meet the King of Portugal.

"Your Excellency Captain, on behalf of the Kingdom of Portugal, I am very grateful for the help you have given us, and I am willing to repay you in the best way for your kindness and generosity, and I will remember this friendship in my heart.

I will report your ship's help to us to the Indian headquarters, and at the same time to the King of Portugal, and Portugal will thank you all again! May God bless you and your crew. ”

After saying this, Pimont and Captain Austin bowed to the end again.

Zhu Beiguo and Jean Li Sanduo bowed slightly, and then arched their hands, although the two did not know how to deal with this kind of big gift for a while, but bowing and bowing seemed to be the etiquette of Chinese to friends.

Obviously, the Chinese spoken by the other party is quite difficult to understand, but fortunately, Zhu Beiguo next to him has made some efforts, he knows a little Cantonese and the southern officialdom language of the mainland in this era - Nanjing official dialect, so Pimont's Cantonese accent mixed with non-standard Nanjing official accent can barely hear a rough one.

So Zhu Beiguo also used non-standard Cantonese and Nanjing official dialect to make a polite statement to Pimont, although what he said was all saliva, but this made Pimont very happy, and also made him breathe a sigh of relief, it can be seen that Pimont is very excited.

Because, judging from the dialogue, the other party must be a normal person, neither a devil nor a ghost, and he does not seem to be a bad person.

Then, the appearance of another young man, a young man who called himself Xu Zhi, saluted again to thank Zhu Beiguo for his response, and the young man actually greeted him in French, so that he was speechless, just as he had when he first boarded the ship.

As a student at the Old World Institute of Foreign Languages, French is his second foreign language, and the reason why he did not use English is because in this era, the mainstream language in Europe is French, especially in the aristocratic class, and not knowing a little French is as unacceptable as not knowing how to use a knife and fork elegantly at the dinner table.

Pimont is an aristocrat, of course, a declining aristocrat but he has received a good French education since he was a child, but as a non-native speaker, he can barely speak and read, so when he hears some strange French words and pronunciations from Xu Zhi's mouth, he doesn't think that there is a problem with the other party's French - in fact, Xu Zhi's French is indeed a bit weird, and there is certainly a difference between seventeenth-century French and old-world French.

However, Pimont did not know this, and he considered it to be his own ignorance, since he had been away from Europe for twenty years.

So, he listened carefully to the questions raised by Xu Zhi, because he listened carefully, he actually understood the approximate questioning, these questions did not have polite content, but directly asked their identities and the reason for his attack.

Pimont realized that he didn't understand who he was other than a governor of Portugal, so Pimont began to tell the saviors about his fate from the deck.

Fortunately, Xu Zhi's French is not bad, and Pimont's French is also passable, the two sides just stood on the deck and talked for nearly ten minutes, Li Sanduo and Zhu Beiguo next to him finally understood who the person in front of them was, of course, the two did not have a clear idea of how much this operation disturbed history.

The ensuing conversation was held in the crew dining room, because Li Sanduo finally realized that it didn't seem to be in line with diplomatic etiquette to let the guests stand on the deck like this, and under Xu Zhi's reminder, he quickly changed the venue of the meeting to the indoor - the crew dining room, of course, talking while eating.

Because it's still breakfast time, and these somewhat embarrassed guests obviously haven't eaten breakfast yet.

The staple food is steamed buns, Dai Xiaoshan manages the canteen, he is not Sun Lao, he has lived to travel through this life, and he is also a single master of the canteen, so he doesn't know anything about cooking and stir-frying, but fortunately, he moved a large number of supermarket fast food to the ship before the Pride set off, so Dai Xiaoshan, the ship doctor and chef, did not have any big pressure.

So Pimont and Captain Phillips ate ham sausages (about to expire or have expired), luncheon meat, canned peas, bagged mustard, canned salted daylily, and the only two fresh vegetables on board: chunks of bacon, salted boiled turnips, and sautéed shredded potatoes.

As for canned fruit, I'm sorry, Dai Xiaoshan didn't take it out, it was a controlled material for his own people to eat.

As Catholics, the two of them quickly finished the pre-dinner prayer, and the end was very sloppy, there was no way, the aroma on the table was overflowing, it was too tempting.

Pimont and Phillips devoured the food on the table so much that they had completely forgotten their mission of meeting and table etiquette, which was simply too good to be felt! The two of them can't wait to chew their tongues and swallow together!

As a foreigner who has been in Macau for a long time, Pimont certainly knows that the Chinese cuisine is very famous, and he has eaten it in Macau, but these delicacies in front of him have not been touched by his taste buds in his life.

As for Captain Phillips, he had already eaten completely oblivion, he had already given up the spoon, and was now drinking soup with a soup bowl in both hands, and his beard was already soaked with his own soup bowl.

Pimont was a little embarrassed, but he peeked at Li Sanduo, Zhu Beiguo and Xu Zhi sitting opposite him, they didn't seem to show disdain, Xu Zhi also smiled and added radishes to the captain's soup bowl.

Well, in the face of such a delicacy, if you look ugly, you will be ugly, we are chased by the Princess Casa and the embarrassed look is seen by others, people are life-savers, no need to pretend, continue to eat!

Thinking of this, Pimont also gave up the spoon in his hand, and picked up the soup bowl like Austen, and the warm radish soup flowed down the esophagus into the stomach, which was really happy, Pimont couldn't help but let out a sigh, and then sighed a few times.

As soon as he raised his head, he met Xu Zhi's kind eyes, so Pimont was really shy, and for the first time in his life, he explained his gaffe at the table of the Pride.

"Looks like the gentlemen enjoyed our food......"

Zhu Beiguo next to him said with a smile.

"Wow......"

Captain Phillips didn't even lift his head from the bowl after listening to Xu Zhi's translation, and he could only make such a sound with a piece of bacon in his mouth.

"Delicious......"

Pimont said as she put a slice of ham sausage in her mouth with a fork.

"May I ask ...... Li Mr. Captain, although I have seen this sausage in Macau, it tastes excellent, and I don't know what kind of meat it is made of......"

"Of course it's pork, Han people like to eat pork......"

Li Sanduo thought about it, and immediately added:

"However, we have added an exclusive secret seasoning - five-spice powder, which is a synthetic spice, compared to the spices of the Dutch, our five-spice powder includes not only nutmeg and cloves, but also several other mysterious spices from the East, I don't know if you have heard of it......"