Chapter 1010 How come you can speak our language?
Chapter 1010 How come you can speak our language?
Inside the carriage, Ouyang Yunyao, who had been lazily leaning against the cushioned seat, listened to Princess Ronghui chattering about interesting things happening on the street.
Suddenly, a strange, garbled shout came from behind her. Her eyes, which had been slightly lowered, suddenly lit up. The words spoken were clearly English, which she knew all too well from her previous life!
She immediately reached out and lifted the curtain of the car window, her eyes following the sound to the street ahead. At the same time, she instructed Xiao Cui beside her, "Xiao Cui, go outside and see what's going on up ahead!"
Just as Xiao Cui was about to reach out and lift the carriage curtain, the carriage slowly came to a stop.
Sitting next to the coachman, Wei Lei turned to Ouyang Yunyao inside the carriage and reported, "Your Highness, it seems that the soldiers ahead are from the Jingzhao Prefecture. They are arguing with those strange people that the princess mentioned earlier. The road is now blocked by a crowd. Should we take a detour?"
"Oh? What's gotten into this argument?" Ouyang Yunyao raised an eyebrow and leaned out of the car to look ahead.
Not far ahead, at the street corner, a group of soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the Prefect of the Capital were blocking two decorated carriages and talking to each other.
A large crowd of onlookers had gathered around, and the main road was completely blocked, making it impossible to pass through.
Several tall, thin men had already disembarked from the peculiar carriage that was surrounded.
Xiao Cui lifted the carriage curtain, and Ouyang Yunyao and Princess Ronghui stood at the carriage door, clearly seeing the people surrounded by a large crowd.
Just as Princess Ronghui had described, those tall, thin men had high noses, brown eyes, and even blond hair.
Princess Ronghui pointed at them excitedly and said repeatedly, "Your Highness, it's them, it's them! These are the people! Their hair is golden."
Ouyang Yunyao nodded slightly. At this moment, she saw the crowd of people gathered around, all filled with righteous indignation, pointing at the people and shouting, "Arrest them! Arrest them! It was their carriage that almost hit the child!"
The blond men looked around, showing no fear in the face of the accusations, and arrogantly chattered on and on to the soldiers of the Prefect of the Capital.
The surrounding people, listening to the incomprehensible language, began to discuss among themselves, "What are they saying? We can't understand them!"
"Yes! Yes! We don't know which country these people are from! We can't understand a word they say! What are the people of the Jingzhao Prefecture going to do?"
The soldiers of the Jingzhao Prefecture were truly unable to understand what they were saying. They looked at each other blankly, completely at a loss for what to do!
"Where is your man who speaks our language? Tell him to come and talk to us!" a soldier shouted at the group.
The blond men were completely bewildered, not knowing what the people from the Western Chu Kingdom were saying to them.
They were getting impatient being blocked. A blond man was yelling at another man, "Where's Henry? Why isn't Henry coming over? This place is so backward, and the people here are so rude. Are they going to fight us?"
The other person helplessly spread his hands and shook his head, saying, "I don't know! He just said he'd be here in a bit."
Ouyang Yunyao heard everything clearly from the carriage. She was taken aback. These people were really bold, daring to act like this on the street without a translator. It was truly strange. If a conflict were to break out, it would be the innocent civilians who would suffer.
As they pondered this, the atmosphere ahead became increasingly tense. Neither side could understand the other, and their eyes were filled with hostility.
As expected, this was a prelude to action. At that moment, Ouyang Yunyao's gaze sharpened as she noticed the weapons in the hands of the blond men. She was taken aback; apart from one man wielding a longsword, the other three were holding muskets, their dark muzzles pointed at the officials, soldiers, and civilians of the capital. Ouyang Yunyao's heart tightened instantly.
Seeing that those people were about to fight the soldiers, Princess Ronghui grabbed the edge of the carriage door with one hand and drew a whip from her waist with the other, saying to Ouyang Yunyao, "Your Highness, these people have gone too far! Let me teach them a lesson."
Ouyang Yunyao quickly reached out and grabbed her arm, "Princess, you don't even know what they're saying, are you going to go and teach them a lesson?"
"Didn't the people say that they hit children on our main street?" Princess Ronghui said angrily. "They come to my Western Chu Kingdom and dare to be so arrogant!" Princess Ronghui said fumingly.
In fact, Ouyang Yunyao had already understood what the blond men were saying in fluent English! This made things much easier for her.
She never expected that her English from her past life would come in handy here. Then her brows furrowed again, a hint of doubt creeping into her mind: Could this world be the same as her past life? Is the people on this continent speaking Chinese, while the people on the other continent speak English?
As she was pondering these situations, she saw those people preparing to attack the soldiers of the Prefectural Governor's Office. She quickly stood outside the carriage and shouted to the soldiers, "Sirs, hold your fire! Let me ask them a question!"
Her clear voice instantly drowned out the noise of the street. All eyes turned to the woman standing on the carriage.
She was dressed in a light purple dress with a white cloak over it, and her hair was simply adorned with a white jade hairpin.
The people recognized her and immediately exclaimed, "It's Princess Jing! It's Princess Jing!"
Some people regained their senses and quickly called out to Ouyang Yunyao, "Princess Jing, we don't know where they came from, and they don't understand our language." They were essentially telling Ouyang Yunyao that she couldn't find out what these people wanted.
Some people were saying, "They can't understand what they're saying, yet they're just arrested."
When the blond men saw Ouyang Yunyao, their eyes lit up, a hint of amazement flashing in their eyes.
Another person exclaimed in their own English, "Beautiful lady! Beautiful lady!"
Ouyang Yunyao looked at them, taking in their reactions, a faint smile playing on her lips. She then spoke in fluent English, "Hello everyone! What happened here today? Do you need my help?"
Upon hearing Ouyang Yunyao's words, the blond men froze on the spot, their eyes wide with disbelief as they stared at her. Two blond men also stepped down from the carriage behind them, looking at Ouyang Yunyao in surprise.
A moment later, one of the men looked at Ouyang Yunyao excitedly and said, "You... how can you speak our language?"
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