The collision was so strenuous that Zhang Yanling almost couldn't breathe with her mouth open. At the same time, she felt something hot flowing on her face and a burning pain. Zhang Yanling knew that her face should have been scratched by something sharp on the ground.
The girl seemed to be very frightened, she was screaming loudly and mumbling something, but Zhang Yanling couldn't understand a word of it.
"Guo...that...brother...what's wrong with you? Are you injured?" The incident happened suddenly, and the guard only reacted at this moment and rushed over and shouted. He was smart enough to change his mind after the Duke of Guo shouted.
mouth.
Zhang Yanling gasped with her mouth open, and pressed her chest with her hands to check whether she had any serious injuries such as broken ribs. Fortunately, although the pain from the impact was unbearable, it subsided quickly and there was no discomfort in her body.
"I'm fine, don't yell." Zhang Yanling said hoarsely.
The girl recovered from the shock, got up and asked, "Are you okay? Thank you for saving me."
Zhang Yanling was stunned and looked at the girl in surprise. He didn't expect that she could speak the Ming language.
"I'm fine. Miss is not injured," Zhang Yanling said.
"Of course I'm fine. It was you who hit the tree. I trained this damn horse for a few days. It finally managed to ride away today. Then it suddenly went crazy. I couldn't control it at all. I have to be nice when I look back.
You can't whip it. Thanks to you for saving me, my foot got caught in the stirrup and I couldn't get off at all. If you hadn't saved me today, I would have been injured."
The girl said softly. Although her accent was a little weird, she spoke Chinese very fluently.
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "I saw it. You must be careful next time. It is very dangerous for a horse to go crazy. Especially a horse that has not been well trained is extremely dangerous and may cause death."
The girl nodded in agreement, stood up, patted the grass clippings and dust off her body, lifted up her golden curly hair, and muttered something unknown.
Zhang Yanling also stood up and touched his face with his hand, which was stained with blood.
"You have a cut on your face. It's all my fault for causing you to get hurt. Wipe the wound quickly." The girl handed over a handkerchief. It turned out to be a high-grade silk handkerchief embroidered with the image of a magpie climbing the plum blossoms embroidered on it.
The pattern looks like a silk handkerchief produced in the Ming Dynasty.
"No, no, it's just a minor injury." Zhang Yanling waved her hand in refusal, turned around and wanted to leave quickly. This is not a place to stay for a long time.
"Why is it a minor injury? Minor injuries also need to be treated. Follow me to my house in a minute. I have medicine at home. I will apply ointment to you. Huh? By the way, who are you? Why are you in the woods outside my manor?
"The girl forced the silk handkerchief into Zhang Yanling's hand, suddenly looked at Zhang Yanling and asked.
Zhang Yanling hummed twice but had not yet answered. The girl said again: "This is a place where others are not allowed to come. What are you doing here? You are not from our country of Franji. What you are saying is what the Ming Dynasty said. You are
Are they from the Ming Empire?"
Zhang Yanling's heart tightened and she thought: The trouble is big. She subconsciously saved people, but she got into big trouble. If this woman found out her identity, she couldn't be allowed to live. It's a pity. I had known this.
I didn't have to save her just now. I saved her, but now I have to kill her with my own hands. What's this?
Evil thoughts surged in Zhang Yanling's heart, and her hands slowly reached toward her waist.
"Oh? I see, are you the cooks hired by the Ming Empire from Governor Goya's Mansion? The cooks from the Ming Empire in Governor Goya's house are very skilled, are you?" The girl suddenly laughed.
"Oh, oh, exactly, exactly. Unexpectedly, the lady guessed it right away. We are exactly... cooks. Cooks from the Ming Dynasty in the governor's family." Zhang Yanling said hurriedly.
"Hehe, I guessed it right away. Okay, you guys sneaked out to be lazy, didn't you? Run to the top of the mountain to look at the scenery, right? Don't worry, don't be afraid, I won't sue you. You work hard,
What's wrong with coming out for some air? Besides, if you weren't here, how would you have saved me?" the girl said with a smile.
Zhang Yanling looked at the girl's cute and lively appearance and felt a little funny in her heart. The girl seemed young, innocent and lively, with the pride and arrogance of a young girl. She thought she was very smart.
"Thank you very much. But we didn't sneak out. We have a day off today, so we went out to play with our brothers. We didn't know that we couldn't come here. We just thought that the terrain here was high and we could see the scenery of the strait. Well, this
Miss, it's time for us to leave. After a while, someone else came and recognized us, and we are afraid that we will be scolded by the governor. Farewell, farewell." Zhang Yanling said quickly, and she handed over her hands and was about to leave.
"Don't go. You are injured and need to get medicine. My home is in this manor castle. Besides, you saved me. I want to tell my father and ask him to reward you. How can I not reward you?"
"The girl said hurriedly.
"No, no, we don't need rewards. We don't need any treatment for injuries. Let's take our leave." Zhang Yanling wanted to run away quickly. If the commotion continued, his identity would soon be exposed.
The girl stamped her feet and said: "No, we can't go. We, the people of Langji, have a proverb that when we receive kindness from others, we must repay it, otherwise God will punish us for being ungrateful. Come with me quickly. I don't want to be an ungrateful person."
, I don’t want God to punish me.”
Zhang Yanling waved her hand and walked away quickly, without looking back: "God won't blame you for the little things. God is very busy, and He doesn't care about such trivial things."
The girl said softly: "If you don't want to come, then I will ask my father to take me to the Governor's Mansion tonight to find you. Thank you in person. My father is the Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Fleet Almeida. He is a good friend of Governor Goya.
."
Zhang Yanling was already walking quickly, but when he heard these words, he suddenly stopped. He turned around and said, "Your father is Almeida, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Fleet? Are you his daughter?"
The blond girl smiled and said: "Yes, can that be false? My name is Helena. You should have heard of it. Didn't Catherine, the daughter of Governor Goya, tell you? She is a good friend of mine, but she is a little jealous of me.
More beautiful than her."
Zhang Yanling laughed, turned around and walked back. He really wanted to leave quickly, but this girl was actually Almeida's daughter, and he actually saved the daughter who was about to become his opponent on the battlefield. What a coincidence.
In other words, this manor is Almeida's manor. Maybe I can do something.
"Is your father at home? If he is at home, I wouldn't dare go." Zhang Yanling said with a smile.
"He's not here. Listen to the sound of cannons on the sea. That's our warships training and firing. I heard that your Ming warships are coming to fight us. My father went to sea to train troops and prepare for battle. By the way,
You are from the Ming Dynasty, don't you know about this?" the blond girl asked with a frown.
Zhang Yanling said hurriedly: "Actually, we are no longer from the Ming Empire. We are here from our ancestors, but we just look like Ming people. Everyone calls us that, and our own language habits have not changed much. But we have nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.
It doesn’t matter. I’ve never been there, so of course I don’t know about these things.”
Of course, Zhang Yanling wanted to distance herself from the relationship to avoid being associated with the blond girl as a spy and arousing her vigilance. This girl's thinking was quick and active, so it was difficult to guarantee that she would not suddenly think of this.
"So that's it. Let's go." Helena held up her skirt and walked around in circles, and finally found her white cloth hat with feathers on the side. The cloth hat was wrinkled and dirty, and the green feathers on it were bare.
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"Humph, this damn horse ruined my hat." Helena stamped her feet and said, "This was my eighteenth birthday gift from my mother. I have only worn it a few times. I am so angry."
Zhang Yanling smiled and said to herself: "It turns out that this little Fo Langji girl is only eighteen years old. No wonder she is cute and childish. At this age, in my Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that she will get married and have children. I don't know if this girl has a husband's family."
Although she is a foreign girl, her looks and figure are first-rate. Whoever marries her will be lucky."
Helena held the hat in her hand and strode towards the manor. Zhang Yanling pointed at the horse that was tied to the branch and shouted: "Is that horse left alone?"
Helena said: "Let it suffer some pain and let the housekeeper come later. I don't want it anymore. It almost killed me."
Zhang Yanling smiled and followed Helena towards the manor. The guard hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "Master... do you really want to go? We have to leave quickly."
Zhang Yanling waved her hand and whispered in a low voice: "It doesn't matter, I have my own plan. You wait here for Commander Chen to lead them back, and ask him to wait for me to come out."
The guard had no choice but to nod and wait.
Zhang Yanling took a few steps to catch up with Helena. Helena turned around and said, "Isn't your friend coming?"
Zhang Yanling said: "No need, he is too timid to come."
Helena smiled and said: "Are you very brave?"
Zhang Yanling said: "The lady insisted on me applying the medicine, but I didn't dare."
Helena laughed and said: "Actually, you don't need to be afraid. We Francois are also reasonable. I know that some of them bully the locals and do bad things. But not all of us are like that."
Zhang Yanling smiled and didn't answer, thinking: What you said is very light. I'm afraid you don't know what you Folangji people are doing, otherwise, you wouldn't be able to say such things.
A young aristocratic girl who has no experience in the world has no idea about the sufferings of the world. There is no need to say these words to her.
Helena led Zhang Yanling along the fence to the main entrance, and soon met two Francois who ran in a hurry.
"Miss Helena, Miss Helena, are you okay? I just heard that the horse was frightened and jumped out of the fence. Are you okay? You deserve to die. If the earl knows about this when he comes back, he will definitely whip me
.Ouch, you really deserve to die." The bald and gray-bearded Franco man came running over with a shout.
"Butler Francisco, don't worry, I'm fine. The horse is trapped in the woods, you can move it back. Starve it for three days and punish it severely." Helena waved her hand.
"Okay, okay. Percy, why don't you go look for horses in the woods ahead? Miss Helena, don't tell the earl about this, or I will... eh? Who are you? Why are there aboriginals following you? From now on.
Where did it come from? Get away, you dirty yellow pig." The housekeeper was still laughing at first, but suddenly he noticed Zhang Yanling following behind, and he immediately shouted loudly.
Zhang Yanling couldn't understand what he was saying, so she could only smile in return.
But Helena understood, so she frowned and scolded: "Butler Francisco, why are you so disrespectful? He is the one who saved me. I almost died just now, but he saved me. Besides, he was the one who saved me.
, he is a local, not a yellow pig. It’s not good for you to do this. I finally know why some people call us white pigs. It’s because you call other people such random names, so others call us that way.”
Francisco glared at Zhang Yanling and said, "He saved you? Why is he outside the manor? Why are they allowed to come here?"
"He is an Oriental chef invited by Governor Goya to come to the mountain to enjoy the scenery. I allowed them to come, why? Isn't it right? Francisco, if you are so rude again, I will be angry. He saved
I'm injured, I want to take him home to bandage him and give him medicine."
"Miss Helena, the Count has said that locals and yellow people are not allowed to enter the manor."
"Butler Francisco, let me say it for the last time, this gentleman saved me. We are friends now. You are disrespectful to my friend by being rude to me and blocking my friend from entering the manor. In the evening I will
Tell your father about this, since you don’t respect me anyway, then you can go back to your country to retire. Aren’t you always complaining that the climate here is too hot? It’s time to go home and retire.” Helena pouted and shouted.
The housekeeper said hurriedly: "Miss Helena, please don't do this. I can't leave. I don't want to leave either. Is this your friend? Then please come into the manor."
While talking, they came to the gate of the manor, and the housekeeper ordered the doormen to open the door. Helena made a gesture of invitation to Zhang Yanling, and took Zhang Yanling into the empty grass courtyard of the manor.