He did not know why, but he felt that there was a... strange intimacy in the few words Yan Wang spoke about Gu Yun.

It was not very pleasant to hide in the barren grassland on a rainy night. Fortunately, the Western patrolmen came quickly. A moment later, some people already came while cursing in a foreign language. There was the slight trembling sound of horses’ hooves on the ground. Only then did Gu Yun, who was still playful and smiling, suddenly frown and whisper, "Strange."

Xu Ling was startled as he saw his surprised reaction, he quickly asked, "Marshal? What's strange?"

"The people coming... Three, four, five... How come there are so little?" Yan Wang on one side lowered his voice and said, "The Westerners' patrol appears like child's play."

"I don't know," Gu Yun shook his head. "Let's deal with it first before anything else - does anybody know their language?"

He had just finished, but everyone's eyes already focused on Chang Geng in unison. He and twenty soldiers looked at each other for a moment. "What are you all looking at me for?"

Ge Chen was shocked, "Yan Wang does not know how to speak a foreign language?"

Chang Geng was puzzled: "... I can speak some Suzhou slang, but when did I ever know how to speak a foreign language?"

It turned out that over the past year, people had either thought that he was unpredictable, or that his heart was bottomless, or simply that he was a capable person, always assuming that no matter what he encountered, he should always have a solution, that he knew a little bit of everything.

At that moment, Deputy Inspector Xu on one side suddenly said, "This officer actually understands a little."

Only then did the eyes on Yan Wang shift collectively — plus Yan Wang's own pair.

Xu Ling coughed but did not show his timidity. He said, "To tell you the truth, when Marshal and Your Highness guarded the gate of the capital city, all the magistrates followed the Emperor up to the gate, this lowly official also joined in, I could truly feel the uselessness of a scholar then. However, I was not well-versed in the six skills, with no strength to kill the enemy, thus I had made up my mind to learn the language.

"If there is to be another fight in the future, even though I cannot don armor, I could follow behind to be a servant for the generals, run errands, and speak the language, it could be considered that I have not been born into this body in vain."