Crossing the Condor Heroes: The First Sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 186 Language Barriers
The innkeeper brought them to a guest room. Although this room was a whole lot better than Lin'an City, it was not bad in this wild place.

Li Qingwei helped the girl to lie down on the bed.

The woman said to Li Qingwei with her weak voice: "Thank you, Mr. Ben."

Li Qingwei replied: "You're welcome, I think it's because we are all from the Central Plains." Before Li Qingwei finished speaking, the woman passed out.

However, her face did not have the previous sad look, but a very reassuring look.

Li Qingwei grabbed her wrist and felt her pulse.

Fortunately, it was just fainting caused by physical weakness.

Half an hour later, the doctor came slowly.Although Li Qingwei couldn't understand what the barbarian doctor was talking about.

But this doctor was very skilled. He boiled the knife in boiling water, and then bit by bit the knife gouged out the pustules on the woman's body, and then removed all the rotten flesh from the wound.

Including the places where she had scabs before, she also used a knife to goug out the scabs.

After that, he sprinkled golden sore medicine on the woman's body, and then carefully bandaged her up.

After that, the doctor said something to Li Qingwei, but he still didn't understand.Now Li Qingwei is one of the first two. Although Zhao Ke, Tang Lan, Zhuge Qingyun and others all speak with accents from their hometown, they still speak Chinese. Although there are some differences, they can all understand.

But in the face of these barbarians, without an interpreter, he is really one head and two big.

Facing the two people who did not understand the language, the doctor also expressed his helplessness.

Li Qingwei had no choice but took out a pen and paper, and asked the doctor to write what he wanted to say on it.

Although the two of them cannot speak the language, they can make gestures with their hands.

The doctor understood what Li Qingwei meant, so he wrote his instructions on the paper, as well as the prescription for follow-up treatment.

Li Qingwei looked around and found that these characters were crooked, like ghostly drawn symbols.

He also couldn't tell whether it was Mongolian or Arabic, or what other scripts it was.

Li Qingwei is now really grateful to the land of China for the birth of Qin Shihuang, who unified the writing, language, weights and measures, otherwise, the Chinese Han soil alone would not know how many writing and languages ​​there are.

However, there is also something Li Qingwei can understand, and that is Arabic numerals.

Arabic numerals have been introduced to China with Buddhism since the Tang Dynasty, but the Chinese didn't need them at that time, so they were not taken seriously.

The Chinese really began to use Arabic numerals to count from the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was because modern mathematics was introduced to China, because it would be too troublesome to use Chinese characters to calculate modern mathematical formulas. Really used by the Chinese.

The doctor wrote five pages in one breath and put them on the table. Finally, he took out two bottles of medicine from the medicine box and put them on the table.

Then he stretched out his hand to Li Qingwei, and the other hand stretched out five fingers.

Li Qingwei understood what it meant, the doctor was asking for medical fees and medical fees.

Li Qingwei looked at his fingers, took out twelve taels of gold from his pocket, and handed it to him.

The barbarian doctor looked at it, and then hurriedly waved to Li Qing slightly.

Seeing this scene, Li Qingwei took out another ten taels of gold from his body, and put it into the doctor's hands.

But the doctor waved his hand again, just when Li Qingwei was about to give it.

The doctor put down an ingot of gold and ran out, Li Qingwei felt a little strange.

"Could it be that I didn't give you enough money? He doesn't look like him either! Could it be that I gave too much? Wouldn't it be better if I gave too much? Then why would he show his hand?" Li Qingwei was full of doubts.

Although he is in Han, he now feels like he is in a foreign country. He wants nothing else but an interpreter.

The doctor came back after a while, and smiled and gave Li Qingwei three Persian gold coins.

Then the doctor picked up his medicine box and left.

After another two hours, the sky gradually dimmed. At this time, the owner of the inn knocked on Li Qingwei's door.

Then the boss stood at the door with a smile. He could not speak Chinese either. He originally wanted to find someone who could speak Chinese as an interpreter, but he couldn't find one.

After all, those Semuren merchants were not worth less than him, and they would not condescend to be some kind of translator.

But he still gestured to Li Qingwei, and he made a gesture of eating with his hands.

Li Qingwei imitated his movements and did it again, then nodded and stretched out his thumb again.

After that, the boss asked Li Qingwei what to eat with gestures.Li Qingwei was speechless. He looked around and saw the menu hanging in the lobby.

He turned somersault downstairs, which startled the waiter in the inn, and then Li Qingwei walked to the counter.

Although he couldn't understand what was written on it, he could understand the price on it.Because it is also written in Arabic numerals.

Li Qingwei didn't care about three seven and twenty one, and only picked expensive ones.Li Qing ordered a little too much, the boss touched his stomach, and then made a motion of vomiting.

Li Qingwei understood what he meant, he said so many things that Li Qingwei couldn't eat.

Li Qingwei looked at the guests who were dining in the lobby. All the food here is from the Western Regions. If you want to eat stir-fried vegetables, you definitely don't have it.

Li Qing took a look, there are wine, hand-picked rice, delicious roast lamb, yak meat, as well as naan and barley porridge.Li Qingwei casually pointed to those things, and then pointed to upstairs.

Only then did the boss understand what he meant, and then asked him to go upstairs and wait.

Li Qingwei gave the boss the three gold coins given to him by Doctor Hu just now, and then went upstairs.

A moment later, the knock on the door rang again, and the waiter brought all the delicacies that Li Qingwei pointed out to Li Qingwei's table.Then he left respectfully.

And the smell of the food also awakened the woman on the bed.

The woman slowly got up, and then touched her dizzy head.

Seeing that she woke up, Li Qingwei was about to say something, but when the woman saw the table full of food, she ran over with all her strength, staggered, and began to eat in big mouthfuls.

Now she does not have the elegance that a woman should have, but like a wolf that has been hungry for a long time, she grabs the mutton on the plate and delivers it to her mouth, one bite of mutton, one bite of rice.

Li Qingwei poured her a glass of wine, and he said, "Eat slowly, don't choke! No one will grab you."

But the woman didn't seem to hear Li Qingwei's words, she still ate voraciously.

She had been starved for several days and hadn't eaten any water or rice. Now that she saw a table of sumptuous meals, she couldn't help it.

At this time, she choked, and she kept choking, trying to swallow something down.Her tears had come out by now.

Li Qingwei handed her the wine glass full of wine.

She took a sip of the wine and took a long breath before recovering.

"How long has it been since you have eaten! Why are you so hungry?" Li Qingwei asked.

"Reporting to my benefactor, I haven't eaten for three days. Those people were afraid that I would escape, so they locked my hands and feet with iron chains, and then starved me for three days. Give me some water, otherwise I'm afraid I won't live today." The woman said panting.

(End of this chapter)