Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 1221 Countdown to Returning to China (VI) The Story of the Carp

On the first night, Han Li had traveled to many places, so he didn't go anywhere and went to bed early.

Early the next morning, Han Li started shopping at the farmers' market in Renton, buying beef, mutton, eggs, cheese, flour, and everything he could use.

Han Li did some shopping and had a simple breakfast. It was time for the shopping malls to open, so he walked around the malls and started shopping.

Even though Han Li had bought a lot of sanitary napkins during his travels, enough for his entire family to use for two to three years, his main goal in shopping in the many shopping malls in Renton this time was still sanitary napkins.

Because apart from sanitary napkins, the only things you can buy are eyebrow pencils, lipsticks, perfumes, and clothes. However, these things cannot be used in China at present. Just have two pieces of each and draw and wear them at home.

There are many other things like toys and jewelry in Han Li's decomposition space. Except for some newer styles, the others are not on the list.

Han Li also bought more than a dozen microwave ovens that are currently not available in China. He uses these to heat up steamed buns and leftovers. When Han Li wants to have a midnight snack, he can also use them to heat milk for his three hungry sons.

On the night Han Li made his purchase, he went to the most popular bar in the West District to relax, and someone willingly helped him to increase his mental power coverage by 0.05.

The next day, Han Li found the ship owner and got the fifty live haddock that he had ordered.

Han Li went directly to the embassy from the dock, where he got the exact time of his return and related arrangements.

Feeling relieved, Han Li returned to Niujing County that day. After calling his mentor, Professor Rand Swanson, he once again lived his own idle life.

Five days later, Professor Rand Swanson called Han Li to have dinner together in the morning. During the meal, he explained to him the procedures and precautions for the afternoon graduation ceremony.

Because the actual graduation ceremony of Niu Jing University is usually held in June or July every year, and the master's degree will be held in December or January of the following year.

It is only May now. Even if there are seventeen people like Han Li who are about to leave school, it is impossible for Niujing University to hold a special event for them.

So although their graduation ceremony was still held at St. Paul's College, there were not many spectators, and the band only consisted of a few people from the music department.

Everything was so simple that the Church College didn't even allow them to use the dining room, so they could only eat lunch in the restaurant on campus.

Han Li obtained a master's degree this time. In the words of his tutor, this was a special case after he put in a lot of effort.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Han Li was wearing his bachelor's gown and the brand new bachelor's cap given to him by his tutor.

In the presence of Niu Jing University's vice president, the provost, the dean of humanities and social sciences, mentor Rand Swanson, other degree-granting students, their parents, relatives and friends, he received his master's degree and certificate.

Because everything was kept simple, the whole process was just like that, and the principals and leaders left quickly after the ceremony.

Even though this was the first time in Han Li's two lifetimes that he attended such a graduation ceremony, it might be because everyone else was a family, but Han Li was alone.

Han Li felt very bored during this graduation ceremony and did not feel very excited at all.

However, Han Li used his spiritual power to pick up three jade beads containing languages ​​in this church, namely Greek proficiency, Portuguese proficiency and Spanish proficiency. There was also a small jade bead containing Irish harp proficiency. This harvest more or less filled Han Li's lonely heart at the moment.

After the graduation ceremony, the instructor, Professor Rand Swanson, took Han Li and three students who were still studying with him and drove to a very high-end hotel in Renton to celebrate.

When Han Li and his friends arrived here, a former student of Professor Rand Swanson was already waiting here.

After some introduction, Han Li learned that the senior's name was Victor Zachary.

After graduation, this senior started working in the House of Commons in England. Because he was not happy with the work, he later went to work at a research institute in the Kangaroo Country.

The job there was to study the relationship between the indigenous people of Kangaroo Country and the current residents. The salary was high and the work was very easy, which allowed him to return to England from time to time to stay for a while.

During this period, when the senior was showing off his work, he also tried to win over Han Li several times, saying that he could recommend Han Li to work for the company where he worked.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have agreed to this condition immediately. However, it did not make any waves on Han Li's side. Han Li politely declined Victor Zachary's several attempts to win him over.

When ordering food, Han Li ordered Gefilte Fish (fish balls) at the strong recommendation of Victor Zachary, and said that this was his mentor's favorite dish.

Next, with the introduction of Professor Rand Swanson, Han Li learned that Gefilte Fish is meatballs made of carp. He also knew that people in Europe and the United States did not eat freshwater fish at all, but that ordinary people could not afford freshwater fish in the past.

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Professor Rand Swanson said that according to records, carp were first introduced into the ponds of Odili nobles by merchants in 1227, and later spread throughout Western Europe.

Throughout the Middle Ages, carp were kept in ponds in castles and monasteries across mainland Western Europe.

By 1496, carp had become a royal tribute to England, and King Henry VIII generously rewarded anyone who brought carp.

For a long time afterwards, carp was the food of the powerful and wealthy classes in Western Europe. Gefilte Fish was a must-have dish during important church festivals, and ordinary people and the poor had no chance to eat it at all.

In the middle of the 19th century, when many dignitaries and priests from Western Europe came to America, they were shocked to find that there were no carp in the local area.

In 1876, many people wrote to the American authorities, requesting the introduction of carp, saying that they could not let the Lord not see Gefilte Fish on important festivals.

At that time, the influence of the church was very low, so the U.S. authorities initially ignored this request.

However, by 1880, many people could no longer wait, and the head of the United States Fisheries Commission became a believer in the Lord.

Under his efforts, he used heavy deforestation in the United States to deplete native fish stocks in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, necessitating the need for new fish to fill the gap.

Of course, he couldn't accomplish this alone, and Congress continued to ignore this statement.

So they found a fishery expert and a follower of the doctor in the United States and asked him to produce evidence.
(End of this chapter)