200 Lin Zhou: General Hu (2/2)

”Nothing...” General Hu answered, but he seemed to be deep in thought. ”Do you know who spread the rumor about the attacked wedding entourage?”

Yao Ling shook her head. ”No... but someone said that some people passed by the entourage when they were attacked. However, they didn't dare to help. The rumor probably came from them...” Yao Ling guessed.

Yao Ling deliberately tried to clear up Xiao Fang's name in front of the general, but she didn't dare to do it in an obvious way --- she would take it slow. At least, the doubt in General Hu's eyes already lessened for a bit. Yao Ling felt like someone had been feeding misleading information about Xiao Fang and probably including her family. Did someone want to target Xiao Fang or her family?

For handling Xiao Fang, she presumed they didn't need to involve a general. She had never asked but she wondered what kind of background that Xiao Fang had --- it seemed like her father was a high ranking official in the Han Kingdom.

Yao Ling asked, ”Gong Zi, what happened to you if I may ask? This poison is quite rare...”

General Hu nodded and answered her, ”Someone attacked me and my friends. Gu Niang, do you know about this poison?” General Hu didn't divulge any information but he was interested in the poison.

They brought one physician on their side and he couldn't find out what kind of poison was this, but it seemed like this gu niang knew about it.

Yao Ling nodded. ”This is a poison that came from the Qin Kingdom. I used to follow my old master to treat patients and learn more about poison, hence I have a quite vast knowledge about poison.” Yao Ling didn't even bat an eye when she was lying.

”Qin Kingdom?” General Hu was quite surprised by this revelation. If this was Qin Kingdom's poison, didn't it mean those bandits should be from there? Or someone deliberately wanted to frame the Qin Kingdom? He thought that a simple young miss like Xiao Fang wouldn't be able this far ahead.

”Yes... The Qin Kingdom.” Yao Ling said confidently --- she was the one who prepared it so she should know better. She chose one of the Qin Kingdom's rare poison --- it was actually easy to make once she had enough ingredients. Wang Luo Hai knew this talent of her and he was the one who provided her with the ingredients secretly, so no one in Wang Fu would be able to find out her talent.

For this trip, she had prepared several poisons, who knew that it would actually come in handy.

”But why would...?” General Hu almost blurted out something but he held himself back. He almost discussed this with the beautiful woman, luckily he stopped in time.

Yao Ling asked quizzically, ”Why would what?”

General Hu knew that if he stopped midway, the beautiful woman would feel even more suspicious. ”Why the Qin poison ended up in the bandits that attacked me?”

”Ah! you are also attacked by bandits...” Yao Ling pretended to nod in understanding. ”Where did they attack you? Qin territory or Han territory? If Qin territory, you shouldn't be this surprised... So... I think it should be in Han territory, right?”

General Hu hesitantly nodded, hoping that she wouldn't put him together with the wedding entourage. He didn't trust her enough to give her his real identity.

”Haiyah~ it seems like Han territory isn't that safe anymore. If you want this kind of poison, even though it's rare but it's easy to find them on the black market,” Yao Ling said. Then she added in confusion, ”But... why would they go as far to buy poison from another country.”

Yao Ling shook her head and exclaimed, ”So weird!” She pretended to be oblivious.

General Hu nodded his head a few times. Indeed, this matter was too weird. There were only two possibilities... The Qin Kingdom wanted to frame the Shu Kingdom or the other way around. General Hu didn't realize that he already excluded Xiao Fang from this matter.