Chapter 4

The moment the middle-aged man wearing the sheepskin robe heard Xia Mingyu's words, he quickly stood up, and a trace of embarrassment clearly appeared on his wrinkle-covered face.

He scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, placed the gray rabbit he was carrying respectfully on the ground, and prepared to turn and leave.

The blonde girl beside him, seeing this, hurriedly called out to the middle-aged man, and after they exchanged words in a language Xia Mingyu couldn't understand, the middle-aged man showed a look of sudden realization.

He smiled restrainedly at Xia Mingyu, said quite a bit more to the blonde girl, and only then left satisfied.

Returning to the wooden house, the girl stood in front of Xia Mingyu, holding the rabbit's ears in one hand and extending her slender fingers with the other to point at herself.

"Anliya."

The girl said gently to Xia Mingyu.

"Anliya." Xia Mingyu slowly read the girl's name.

Hearing this, the girl's mouth corners lifted slightly, revealing a brilliant smile, as warm and bright as the winter sun.

Xia Mingyu was stunned for a moment, but fortunately, Anliya quickly turned and walked toward the kitchen, not noticing his gaffe.

Under Xia Mingyu's gaze, the girl tied up her hair, put on a burlap apron, and skillfully processed the rabbit on the cutting board with a kitchen knife.

Her hands were nimble and powerful; with just one knife, she accurately chopped off the rabbit's head, then peeled the fur, removed the internal organs, cut it into sizes and shapes suitable for cooking, and sprinkled vegetables on it...

In just a short moment, the fat gray rabbit was put into the pot and boiled together with the cut mushrooms and some wild vegetables he didn't recognize.

A faint aroma of meat began to permeate the room.

The girl, who had finished all this, seemed a bit tired, and quite a few beads of sweat appeared on her fair forehead, wetting the golden hair between her forehead.

Seeing this, Xia Mingyu thought for a moment, used a wooden bowl to scoop half a bowl of water from the water vat, and handed it to Anliya.

But the girl's reaction was very strange; she waved her hands repeatedly with a terrified expression, as if he had done something he shouldn't have.

It wasn't until Xia Mingyu insisted on handing the water bowl to Anliya that she accepted it with difficulty, a look of obvious gratitude appearing on her beautiful face, as if she had received a huge favor.

It was just handing over a cup of water... Xia Mingyu's mouth twitched.

After the girl drank half a bowl of water, she pointed her finger at the remaining water in the bowl and said:

"Water."

"Water."

Xia Mingyu followed and read; he knew the girl was teaching him the language here.

"Meat."

"Bamboo shoot."

"Slayer."

In the following time, Xia Mingyu stayed in the wooden house and learned the language with Anliya; every day, the middle-aged man in the sheepskin robe would respectfully send food, most of the time it was rabbit, and sometimes it was a basket of fruit or a lamb leg.

For some reason, Xia Mingyu seemed to have divine help; he would instantly remember and understand what Anliya taught without forgetting, and could even draw inferences to deduce the names of other things.

In just three days, he was already naturally having daily conversations with Anliya.

At the same time, he finally understood what kind of place this was and why the people here were so respectful to him.

According to Anliya's account, this was a village on the edge of the Black Wolf Territory—the southern border of the Sosia Kingdom on the Western Continent; because it produced high-quality fruit, it was called Fruit Basket Village, and the lord was the noble Viscount Hughes.

The forest where he got lost was called Wolf Howl Forest, where quite a few wild wolf packs lived, and it was even rumored that fierce magical beasts—Black Abyss Wolves—lived inside.

As for why the villagers here were so respectful to him... Xia Mingyu glanced at the reflection in the water vat, at the long string of white text above his head, and his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

In this world, all higher intelligent creatures, such as humans, elves, orcs, etc., would have an identity tag appear above their heads, either commoner, noble, or king.

The cause of the tags could no longer be verified; some said it was the noble Creator of the world, and others said it was the great Seven Gods.

These tags were not just decorations, but would also bring their owners various wonderful abilities; for example, a noble tag could improve a person's appearance, physique, talent, and even ethereal luck, while a commoner tag could also make people more resistant to hunger.

To thank these tags for the beauty they brought, people called these tags—Blessings, meaning the protection of heaven.

And the Blessing above Xia Mingyu's head translated to—Kingdom Heir of 1.4 Billion Citizens; of course, it could also be simply called Kingdom Heir of 1.4 Billion Citizens, or National Heir of 1.4 Billion People, etc.

He could be considered to understand why these villagers knelt down the first time they saw him; imagine if he were a villager in the Middle Ages who had never even left the village, and saw a person with "gorgeous" clothes, fair skin, and no calluses on their palms, wearing such a badass Blessing, he was afraid he would also be the first to kneel and kiss the other party's shoe tips.

By the way, since Blessings would bring wonderful abilities, that meant... thinking of this, Xia Mingyu's eyes narrowed.

He focused his gaze on the text above his head in the water vat; after staring for about three to five seconds, a new line of text appeared below the white text.

Language Proficiency: Communication is the first priority of understanding; you can learn a language in an extremely short time and reach a native level.

Just this?!

Are you worthy of your such long word count!

Xia Mingyu sighed, only feeling that the future was pitch black.

That is to say, after he traveled to this medieval-like other world, his only golden finger was just being able to quickly learn the local language; besides that, he had no relatives, no land, no friends, and not even a single coin...

His only property was the set of modern clothes on his body and a phone that had run out of power and shut down, and he couldn't even afford the food expenses for Anliya taking him in these days...

"What should I do now?"

Xia Mingyu collapsed on the floor of the wooden house, his brain buzzing.

The people of this world, the moment they saw his Blessing, would probably think he was a prince of some super kingdom; after all, the number of 1.4 billion citizens was simply earth-shattering in the Middle Ages!

But only he himself knew... hehe, there were 1.4 billion minus one such heirs on Blue Star.

"I can't keep pretending until I really build a country of 1.4 billion people!" Xia Mingyu mocked himself.

This cold joke amused even himself.

"Respected His Highness Mingyu, the village chief of the village, who is also my foster father, Mr. Robert, he wants to request an audience with you."

At this moment, the door of the room was gently knocked, and Anliya's soft voice came.

Even though Xia Mingyu had asked the girl several times to just call him by his name during the three days of learning the language, the girl still maintained an attitude of respect that made him feel embarrassed.

(End of chapter)