"Ahh ~ Don't lick there! ~" Ji Ran suddenly felt a wet and itchy feeling, and quickly pushed the man away.

"Alright Honolulu, it's okay." At this time, the older old lady said to the strong man.

The serf man named Honolulu nodded and stepped aside.

Obviously, this elderly lady should be the head of these serfs, at least the person with the highest status among these serfs.

All the serfs had great respect for the old lady and looked like a venerable person.

"Girl, where are you from? Why did you come to this manor? The old lady looked at Ji Ran and asked.

Since the old lady spoke human language, although she said it very clearly, Ji Ran still couldn't understand what she was saying.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand what you said." Ji Ran made a few gestures and said in Elfish language.

"Don't you understand me?" The old lady looked at Ji Ran and asked.

"I don't understand, I don't understand the language." Ji Ran gestured very awkwardly, the biggest embarrassment was the language barrier.

Although Ji Ran still has human memories in her mind, the language in those memories seems to be a language called Mandarin, and she can understand humans who speak Mandarin, but she can't understand humans who speak other dialects.

The old serf lady seemed to understand that the two people did not understand the language, and it would be very troublesome to communicate like that.

However, the old lady did not give up, she felt that there was another way to try again, even if the success rate was not large, but it was worth trying.

She took a stick from the side, folded it in half, held half of it in her hand, and began to draw a figure on the ground.

She first painted a lot of mountains, then a lot of forests, a few rivers, and then a manor.

Although she didn't draw well, Ji Ran could vaguely see that she was drawing a map, although the location of the river in some places was wrong, but, in general, it was like this, it was obvious that this old lady was not a simple serf old lady, she must have seen a lot of the world.

"Girl, from this pass to the west is the territory of Lacacia, from here to the north, there is a vast forest, this is a forbidden area for humans, we are in the east of the pass, here is our manor, we are here, which direction are you from?" The old lady asked Ji Ran.

Ji Ran seemed to understand a little now, maybe she wanted to know where she came from.

Ji Ran immediately picked up another wooden stick, then drew a mark on the ground, and explained to the old lady, "I am from Lacazia in the west, I used to live in the forest, but because I made a mistake, I came here with my companion. ”

Of course, the old serf lady did not understand everything, but she understood the main thing, that this beautiful and delicate girl in front of her was from the West, and perhaps her hometown lived in the forest.

"Then why are you here?" The old lady said, drawing a question mark on the ground.

Ji Ran looked at the question mark, studied it awkwardly for a long time, and didn't understand what it meant.

The old lady explained for a long time, but she didn't understand, and finally, in a hurry, the old lady actually began to write.

"I ask why you're here?"

Looking at the font written by the old lady, Ji Ran couldn't help but widen her eyes, it turned out that what she wrote was actually Chinese characters?

Although the pronunciation of the language here is different, the characters are exactly the same as the Chinese characters in memory, but the traditional Chinese characters.

Ji Ran was very surprised, I don't know why people here can write Chinese characters?

Could it be that people all over the universe are learning Chinese characters?

However, it doesn't matter anymore, as long as you can read the text, you can almost communicate.

Ji Ran immediately wrote on the ground, "I came here with my friends because I made a mistake." ”

The old lady didn't hope that Ji Ran could understand it, after all, although the script on the mainland has long been unified, they all use this traditional Chinese character, but the literacy rate has always been very low, except for the children of the nobility who have to learn writing since childhood, there are few civilians who are literate, especially women.

When the old lady heard that Ji Ran came from the forests of northern Lacazia, she thought that Ji Ran's parents were savages, and that savages were a lower race, even lower than serfs.

Because on the continent the commoners were the highest class of ordinary people, the commoners paid taxes for the lords and enjoyed the status of freemen, and the merchants, craftsmen and peasants living in the cities were all freemen.

And under the free people, there are serfs, although serfs are not much different from slaves, but the good peasant slaves belong to the nobility and the owners of the manor, they are also serving the king, therefore, there is a certain identity.

Although the savages did not have to live the life of slaves like serfs, nor did they have to pay taxes for their lords like freemen, they were discriminated against and isolated from civilized society because they did not contribute to the nobility of the country.

After the viciousness of the nobles, the savages were equated with beasts by most humans, and the nobles would not treat the savages as their own kind, and once they found the savages, they would kill them all, and even cruelly eat the meat on their bodies.

Savages have no means of subsistence and are isolated from human civilization, so most of them do not understand human language, let alone literacy.

It was precisely because of this cognition that the old lady did not expect Ji Ran to be able to understand the words she wrote, however, when Ji Ran replied with a simplified version of the Chinese characters, the old lady was naturally surprised and very surprised.

"You can read our language?" The old lady wrote again.

"Yes, I can read it." Ji Ran immediately replied.

"God, it's amazing, you can understand my words, you must know that the people here, only I can write, and they can't." The old lady erased the previous words and continued to write.

"Grandma, you're amazing." Ji Ran praised.

"Child, who taught you your words? If you are not an aristocrat, how can you be literate? The old lady asked strangely.

"I didn't study, I had it in my head." Ji Ran pointed to his head, and then wrote back.

"It's amazing, you're just a princess, it's a pity that your fate isn't good enough to come to us." The old lady wrote, her eyes suddenly turning sad.

"Grandma, what's wrong? Are you having a hard time? Ji Ran asked.

"Yes, life here is simply hell, living in darkness every day, but unable to resist, feeling that life is being overdrawn little by little, but there is nothing to do." The old lady sighed as she wrote.

(End of chapter)