Chapter 23: Compromise

"Aside from you and the big man, the rest of you have broken English that means you're foreigners. And the scarface, who kept muttering at me in my native dialect, I knew six languages, and although I didn't know Swedish, I knew Danish. Besides, I'm a soldier, and even though I'm not in the navy, I can tell that your way of fighting is that of a deck sailor, and now there is only one ship in the port of London that belongs to a foreign warship! The Earl of Essex raised his chin, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said arrogantly.

Xu Mo was speechless, he finally understood where the uneasy feeling came from before he acted. He noticed the difference between the Swedes and the English, but he didn't notice the accent.

Actually, he can't be blamed for this, he and Aran are both reincarnated, and the Law Body automatically translates any language, whether it is the Swedish spoken by Blakeney or the English spoken by the Earl of Essex, there is no difference in his ears. And when he spoke to Blakeney, it was Swedish, and when he spoke to the Earl of Essex, it was English.

Any reincarnation person knows that the Law Body can translate any language, but they don't take this detail to heart, and they don't go out of their way to let the soul imprint adjust their language accent in this world. After all, it's okay to be able to communicate freely with the plot characters, who still cares that the accents of the plot characters will be different. In addition, he was not an experienced bandit, so it would be good to think of concealing his physical features, so he naturally neglected the accents of other sailors.

In Europe in this era, because there were many countries, and the great nobles had to communicate with the nobles of other countries frequently, so when these nobles were young, they would do a lot of language enlightenment, and almost every European nobleman with a strict family education would be fluent in several languages.

Swedish and Danish both belong to the North Germanic language family, just as people in other parts of China can't understand Sichuanese, but as long as you hear the word "turtle son", you know that the people in front of you are Sichuan gentlemen, and the Earl of Essex, who is fluent in Danish, can of course hear that they are Swedes from Frieza's native dialect.

"Lord Earl, you shouldn't have told me who we are!" Xu Mo suddenly calmed down at this time, with a smile on his face, his right hand on his shoulder, and he bowed gracefully to the Earl of Essex, "Alfred, the knight of the Swedish Anderson family, salutes you!" ”

Seeing Xu Mo saluting himself and reporting his name, the Earl of Essex's face changed drastically, and blurted out: "Do you understand the consequences after killing me?" ”

"I understand very well, so I wanted to let you go, but you shouldn't tell me who we are!" Xu Mo sighed, "You let me have no choice, kill you, we still have a chance to cover up this matter, if we don't kill you, but I can't believe that you will choose to forget this matter in large numbers." ”

"You weren't aiming for me, were you?" The Earl of Essex said with a gloomy face. He also understood that he had made a mistake, and after being frightened by Frieza, he thought that Xu Mo approached him with a knife to kill him, so he blurted out that he would threaten Sweden with two great powers.

"No, our target is you, this thing in your wagon, to be exact!" Xu Mo took out the battleship construction drawings from his arms and raised them to the earl, "It's just that we didn't know that you were the Earl of Essex, and when we knew, it was already too late!" ”

After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, a strange expression appeared on the count's handsome face, as if he was considering something. However, after seeing Xu Mo's fierce eyes and getting closer to him again, the Earl realized that he was afraid that he had not much choice, and finally said with a deep groan: "Knight Alfred, in fact, we have another solution to the problem!" ”

"Another way?" Xu Mo smiled dumbly, "Lord Earl, with all due respect, as far as the current situation is concerned, I really can't think of any other way for us to solve the problem between us. We can't trust each other, we can't buy each other, we don't have common interests, we don't even have a common enemy! ”

"Knight Alfred, I can tell from the faces of those sailors that their respect for you is from the bottom of their hearts, you must be a great knight with great combat skills!" A smile appeared on the handsome face of the Earl of Essex, which made people feel like a spring breeze.

"I'm the stormtrooper captain of the Vestelos!" Xu Mo said expressionlessly, "Lord Earl, if you have any other solutions, I suggest you finish quickly, we have already delayed a lot of time, and Goddess Hull will be impatient!" ”

Seeing Xu Mo's appearance of not being able to enter the ground, the Earl of Essex cursed the Viking barbarian helplessly, so he had to speed up his speech.

"Your Excellency Knight Alfred, forgive me for being offended, although you are a nobleman, you are used to fighting, and you don't seem to be familiar with the communication between nobles! You must know that there is no real unresolvable disagreement between the nobility and the nobility, the key is whether the two sides can understand each other! It seems to you that there are no common interests between us, there is no common enemy, we can neither trust each other, nor buy each other, but it seems to me that the opposite is true. ”

"Oh, then Lord Earl, please speak carefully, but I would like to remind you again that you must be direct and brief. If I find out that you are just stalling for time, I will send you directly to the Lady of Hull, who may be a little more patient than I am! Although Xu Mo's tone was still sharp, he could hear from the earl's words that the earl was telling the truth, and he couldn't help but rekindle a little hope in his heart.

The Earl of Essex saw Xu Mo lower the sharp knife in his hand and no longer aim at him, and his eyes lit up. He was favored by Queen Elizabeth not only because of his handsome face and elegant temperament, but also because of his military prowess and ability to read words and faces. Now the earl had understood that the killing intent in Xu Mo's heart had begun to waver.

"Before I speak, I would like to ask Lord Alfred to bring me the paper and pen and ink that can be written in the carriage. I think we'll use it later! The Earl of Essex said with a smile.

Half an hour later, Xu Mo put a piece of parchment into his arms and cut the rope in the earl's hand with a knife. The Earl smiled and bowed gracefully, "Mighty Knight Alfred, I will await the good news in London." ”

Looking at the handsome man in front of him silently, Xu Mo felt for the first time that the elegant smile on his face was so annoying, and he had no intention of being polite to him at all. The earl seemed to know what Xu Mo was thinking, covered his mouth and chuckled, and turned to leave.

"Your Excellency, just let him go?" Blakeney looked at the figure who had gone away. Seeing that Xu Mo and the earl's negotiations were over, they also returned to Xu Mo's side from a distance.

Xu Mo took a deep breath, turned around expressionlessly, and said to everyone: "I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to listen to first?" ”

(Hull: The daughter of Loki, the god of fire in Norse mythology, is the god of death and rules the netherworld.) )