Qiu Yan: "Are you sure?"

Gu Qian: "Are you sure?"

The two spoke in unison.

Gu Qian had initially wanted to go, but seeing the rows of sword-wielding warriors at the border...

He himself was not afraid, but he was somewhat unwilling to gamble with the lives and fortunes of his family and friends.

After all, life is only once, and they had a very enjoyable trip along the way.

And Qiu Yan,

She also felt that her life was the most important thing while she was in a foreign country.

As for herself, she naturally wanted to sneak in and find out what was going on.

Before He Lin could reply, Qin Susu said, "Confirmed!"

The two children chimed in, "Yes, yes!"

Liang Yuchen gave an awkward laugh and pulled Qin Susu behind him.

Qiu Yan: "Alright then, saving your life is the most important thing."

After nodding, He Lin glanced at Zhan Yue beside him.

He then walked toward the city gate.

Then, he clasped his hands in a fist salute to the city's defenders and presented them with the pass.

The opposing garrison took it, flipped through the pages, and quickly glanced at it.

He mumbled something under his breath: "@#%..."

Then, he returned the travel document, still speaking in a language that Qiu Yan and the others couldn't understand.

Zhan Yue: "...What?"

What were they saying?

Weren't all your previous entry procedures smooth?

He gestured again.

The gist is that this group of people wanted to enter the city to do some small business.

But the opposing garrison soldiers drew their long swords with a swift motion.

He waved and started to leave.

Zhan Yue gestured again, and suddenly the opponent's longsword flashed.

Anyway, no matter what they say, they won't let it pass.

The world is vast, and people come in all shapes and sizes. Who knows if they might be spies in secret?

If we're not careful, the whole country could be in trouble.

Zhan Yue quickly retreated. Fortunately, his martial arts skills were not bad; otherwise, the city's defender would have had a longsword to his neck.

Seeing this, Gu Qian and He Lin stepped forward themselves, but were also blocked in the same way.

They don't speak the same language, and their writing systems are different too.

Nobody here knows them.

Upon seeing this, Qin Susu burst out laughing.

This scene seems familiar.

When she and Xiaoyan first entered the border of Lu Shi, they were also completely bewildered.

Her laughter drew the attention of Gu Qian and He Lin, master and servant, who turned to look at each other. Finally, Liang Yuchen suddenly covered her mouth and nose, causing her to awkwardly stop laughing.

Qiu Yan sighed, clutching the Buddhist prayer beads Vera had given her.

Take a step forward,

He gestured laboriously to these Indian warriors.

The gist is that she had an old acquaintance with the Indian monks, and the guards, out of respect for Vera, allowed her to enter the country.

Furthermore, she also mentioned the words "Sharamon".

They said they were just merchants passing through Dongjin, here only for business.

However, perhaps her pronunciation wasn't precise enough.

It was completely useless.

No matter how many gestures she made, the other person couldn't understand her.

Qin Susu was helpless. Just as she was about to use her blood-pointing technique,

But Qiu Yan immediately stopped her with a wave of her hand.

"Sister Susu, times have changed!"

At that time, Lu Shi only had two soldiers.

But things are different now.

Qiu Yan looked around; who knew if a group of knife-wielding men would suddenly appear?

When you're away from home, your own safety is the most important thing.

She would rather not go into the city than take such a risk.

"Do we have any regrets about coming here?"

Qin Susu had a long face.

"Let's go, let's think of another way," Qiu Yan said.

When you come to someone else's territory, forcing your way in is definitely not the solution.

Gu Qian and He Lin had no other choice.

"Let's go." Gu Qian, holding his daughter in his arms, took Qiu Yan's hand and led the way, followed by He Lin and his servant.

"Gu Qian, Qiu Yan, are you really not going into the city?" He Lin sighed.

"It's not that we can't get in, it's that we simply can't," Gu Qian replied.

Turning to look at He Lin, this was the most authentic and carefree side of my cousin.

“Cousin, unless you have extraordinary abilities and can talk to their guards and get them to make an exception for you.”

"Qiu Yan is right, we can't communicate because of the language barrier. Never mind, let's go back." He Lin sighed and caught up with Gu Qian and the other two.

Qin Susu, trailing behind, stared longingly at the gates of Tianzhu City, her heart filled with resentment.

Suddenly a thought came to mind,

Money makes the world go round.

She pulled out a gold hairpin from her hair, and, bypassing Liang Yuchen, quickly ran to the city gate guards, offering them the hairpin in the hopes that they would make an exception for her.

Unfortunately, those people weren't buying it at all.

He pushed her far away with one hand.

Qin Susu's face turned very pale after being rejected.

"Do we have to be so strict? Do we look like bad guys?"

She had no choice but to back down.

On the road,

Accompanied by Zhan Yue, He Lin walked to the front.

Qiu Yan and Gu Qian walked silently, with the little girl between their hands.

The four of them were thinking about the same question at the same time.

How could they possibly enter this Indian territory?

Qin Susu, who was at the very back, was leading her child when she secretly kicked a pebble to the side of the road.

"Ugh, these soldiers are such a killjoy."

She was extremely displeased by the thought of the guards' rudeness.

She was still thinking about having a good look at the sights.

"Susu." Liang Yuchen gently tugged at Qin Susu's sleeve, signaling her not to be reckless.

"Don't cause trouble in a foreign land."

"Liang Yuchen, the people here are really good at killing! Isn't it said that money can make the devil turn the millstone?"

Qin Susu kicked a pebble again.

Liang Yuchen's heart clenched.

"Susu, don't hurt others and cause unnecessary trouble."

"That must mean they weren't lenient enough!" Qin Susu muttered to herself, thinking about what valuables she still had on her, and then kicked a pebble to the side of the road.

But suddenly, he heard...

o…ch

One sound,

She quickly looked up and saw a tall man with a high nose, deep-set eyes, blond hair, and blue eyes walking towards her.

Qin Susu was startled and quickly lowered her eyes.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

The child beside her, Liang Zaiting, was also startled. "Mother, Father said not to cause trouble!"

Although he was terrified, he still stretched out his arms to block his mother.

Liang Yuchen also stepped forward, opened his mouth, but thinking that the other party probably wouldn't understand his apology, he cupped his hands in a gesture of apology.

The blond man approached, glanced at Qin Susu with displeasure, then pointed to his aching ankle and uttered a string of words that Qin Susu and the other two could not understand.

Liang Yuchen simply clasped his hands in a fist salute.

Qin Susu, despite her face blindness since arriving in the outer borders of India, could clearly tell that the blond man in front of her was significantly taller and larger than the other foreign men.

And their appearances are different.

He had fair skin and was fairly good-looking.

Because of this man, she was no longer blind to him.

Looking again at her ankle, where a slight bloodstain was seeping out, Qin Susu's face turned pale with embarrassment.

Now they've kicked a hornet's nest.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to."

"What happened?" Qiu Yan turned back and looked at Qin Susu and her family of three with a puzzled expression, as well as the blond man beside her with a puzzled and displeased look on his face.

Behind Qiu Yan were Gu Qian and his daughter, as well as He Lin and his servant, all watching the same scene.

Liang Yuchen: "Your Highness, we have inadvertently offended this man."

"Yes..." Qin Susu realized she had made a mistake, and her face turned red.

"Xiaoyan, I'm sorry, I think I've messed up."

The blond man looked across the street and saw a group of pedestrians suddenly appear, especially since they were traveling with their families. He couldn't help but shrug.

He said in Sanskrit, "You woman, why don't you watch where you're going?"

The blond man mumbled something in his tongue.

Qin Susu couldn't understand at all. Liang Yuchen thought the other party wanted to ask for compensation, so he quickly took out a few pieces of silver from his money bag.

"Here, consider this as payment for medical expenses."

But the blond man waved him off.

Qin Susu felt both ashamed and embarrassed as she saw that Gu Qian, He Lin and his servant, and the others were still looking at her.

I might as well offer up the hairpin that I hadn't given away earlier.

"This should be enough, right? We're just ordinary business people, and it's not easy being away from home. Please be magnanimous and don't cause me any trouble, and don't ask for an exorbitant amount."

Gu Qian and He Lin carefully examined the scene before them, constantly thinking about how to escape.

However, only Qiu Yan lowered her eyes and fell into a brief moment of thought.

Finally, she looked up at the blond man.

Ex……

She spoke at length in English, expressing her apologies to Sister Susu.

After speaking, she didn't forget to take out a bottle of her own wound medicine and give it to the blond man in front of her.

He said it again in English:

"This can stop your wound from bleeding and will also help it clot quickly."

"…!" The blond man was utterly astonished upon hearing Qiu Yan's fluent English.

Indeed, his first reaction was that Qiu Yan could speak English.

My second reaction was to take the wound medicine that Qiu Yan handed me.

Curious, he took the medicine bottle from Qiu Yan's hand, sniffed it, and then...

Ask Qiu Yan in English.

What is this?

Qiu Yan...didn't she just say it was a hemostatic and fast-clotting medicine?

It seems the blond man was too surprised to hear what she was saying.

Her explanation of the exit reminded Qin Susu of the time she was trapped in Lu Shi's camp.

It seems that Xiaoyan also spoke the same strange language back then.

Sigh, she had to admire her own extraordinary memory.

Meanwhile, Gu Qian and the others beside him were already dumbfounded.

They were dumbfounded.

Qiu Yan secretly rejoiced, but when she saw the way Gu Qian looked at her,

He looked somewhat embarrassed.

A blond man in English.

"Thank you, I'll accept the medicine. It's just a minor injury, so I'll waive the money."

Then came another farewell, "Goodbye."

We are about to leave.

Qiu Yan hurriedly said, "Wait!"

Then, she walked up to the blond man and asked in English,

"Excuse me, may I ask which country you are from?"

For someone traveling abroad, especially in their current situation, she desperately needs to make a friend from another country.

Especially a blond man, someone you can communicate with and who is also a decent person.

"..." The blond man spoke to Qiu Yan in his own language:

Britain.

Britain? Qiu Yan nodded and continued the conversation in English.

"U.K?"

"...?" What? The blond man clearly didn't understand Qiu Yan's advanced translation.

Qiu Yan shook her head.

"How about we treat you to dinner to express our apologies?"

blond man: "No need for that. We can have a meal, but we'll each pay our own way."

Qiu Yan: "Okay."

Other countries have their own customs. Qiu Yan's goal was to successfully establish contact with the blond man.

In a border town, on her way to a restaurant, Qiu Yan noticed the strange looks from her own people beside her. Her expression remained normal, but she was inwardly uneasy.

Behind him, Gu Qian finally couldn't help but ask:

"Yan Yan, how come you know Indian language?" Then I thought about it again, and realized that she hadn't known it before.

“Uh…” Qiu Yan wanted to say, this is not Sanskrit.

She felt somewhat embarrassed because she hadn't been honest enough.

If she were to be honest, people would only see her as an oddball, and Qiu Yan didn't want that, so she simply kept the matter of her soul being transmigrated to her heart.

"Brother Qian... I'll explain to you later."

If the explanation doesn't make sense, I'll just brush it off for now.

Gu Qian was skeptical, but thinking about how Qiu Yan and Vera met, he figured that Yan Yan might have learned it from him when she went to the Western Regions, so he stopped asking.

He Lin, Zhan Yue, and Liang Yuchen, however, developed immense admiration for Qiu Yan.

I admire her; she can actually communicate with foreigners.

Qiu Yan's abilities truly exceeded their expectations.

There's nothing Qiu Yan can't do, only things they don't know.

A certain restaurant, because it is in Sanskrit,

Qiu Yan couldn't understand the recipe, so she gave the choice to the blond man.

The blond man did not refuse.

The food here is all dishes that Qiu Yan and the others have never seen before.

Along the way, they ate almost nothing they had ever seen before, and because they couldn't get used to some of the food, they preferred to cook for themselves.

The food is now served.

After stir-frying the onions and ginger, sprinkle with masala, and finally add rice to simmer. Serves one to each person.

Another dish was tender mutton, which took nearly six hours to cook.

Because it contains spices such as chili peppers, cinnamon, cloves, and flower petals, it needs to be stirred constantly during cooking, resulting in an exceptional flavor.

Before serving, bean paste and milk are added.

In addition, there is a type of Indian dessert called Kufi, which is made primarily from milk.

This dessert combines milk and spices, giving it a unique flavor. Looking at it, Qiu Yan was reminded of modern milk-flavored popsicles.

The food on the table was mouthwatering, unlike anything they had ever eaten before.

Aside from the first dish of rice, which the group didn't like, they found the other two dishes quite delicious.

The two children, in particular, were tasting this kind of food for the first time and praised it highly.

The stewed mutton melts in your mouth, and the flavors of various spices blend and interact, creating a rich and unforgettable taste.

The milky desserts were especially to the liking of the two children.

Gu Qian and the others also found it delicious, but they were more interested in the blond man in front of them than the taste.

"I never expected that I, Qin Susu, would turn misfortune into a blessing this time." Qin Susu refused while glancing at the blond man opposite her who was also eating.

"I still don't know your name."

The blond man pointed to himself, then looked at Qiu Yan, and asked her to translate.

Qiu Yan first introduced herself.

"My name is Qiu Yan, and her name is Qin Susu. May I ask what your name is?"

"..." The blond man gave his name.

Based on his pronunciation, Qiu Yan gave a simple translation and said to Qin Susu, "His name is Allen."

"Allen?" This time, Qin Susu spoke very clearly.

"The person looks strange, and the name is just as strange as those from the Western Regions. However, it's much easier to remember than those long names from the Western Regions."

Ask again,

Qiu Yan learned that Allen was a court painter.

This journey across the ocean was at the invitation of the King of India to paint here.

Qiu Yan also recounted how she and other business people were rejected.

Allen thought for a moment,

“If you could give me some more wound medicine, I can help you,” Allen said, glancing at the already scabbed wound on his ankle.