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Chapter 130 From Shuo Country
The post station in Dongchuan County was some distance away from the imperial army camp, but it was also outside the county town. The five men rode there in about an incense stick's time.

The postmaster over there probably didn't expect that such a big shot would come here. When he took the special golden waist badge of the Golden-faced Censor handed to him by the talisman, his hands couldn't help shaking. He didn't dare to look at it for many seconds. He hurriedly returned it, and led a few people in with great fear and trepidation, and then arranged for others to prepare food and drinks.

The post station in Dongchuan County was much better than the one in the desolate mountains where Zhu Yu, Lu Qing and others had stayed before. It was not only cleaner and tidier, but also more staffed. In a short while, they prepared a sumptuous meal and hot dishes.

The postmaster was also a discerning person. When he saw the way these people were dressed, even though he was just a small postmaster in this remote place and didn't know any of the Golden-faced Censors, he knew that it would be inconvenient for them to eat outside in their attire. So he asked someone to bring all the food, drinks, and hot water for washing upstairs and directly deliver them to the room.

Zhu Yu was already hungry, but it was uncomfortable to stay in the mask all the time, so she chose to go back to her room to wash up first, then put on a veil and went to Lu Qing's room to eat.

Unlike the last time at the post station, Zhu Yu felt much more relaxed this time. After all, there was a big difference in mood between coming out voluntarily and being deceived and abducted.

She knocked on the door, went in, took off her veil and sat at the table.

The unique medicinal fragrance of bath beans turned into a breeze that blew across Lu Qing's face as she sat down. He was slightly distracted and looked up at Zhu Yu. Seeing that she looked normal, she picked up her chopsticks and started eating after sitting down. He also picked up his bowl and chopsticks, and ate quietly without saying anything.

Yan Daoxin was there too, of course. As soon as he saw Zhu Yu come in, he wanted to talk to her. Seeing that she seemed very hungry, she started eating as soon as she sat down. He was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to open his mouth, Lu Qing stepped on his foot under the table.

The sudden kick was quite strong, and he gasped in pain, and the words he wanted to say were suddenly choked back in his throat.

So none of the three of them spoke, they just focused on eating, and it didn't take long for them to finish all the food on the table.

Fu Wen Fu Lu had not taken off his mask yet. The two of them cleared the dishes on the table and sent them out, then stood guard at the door so that the three people in the room could have a safe environment to talk.

"Can I speak now?!" Yan Daoxin glared at Lu Qing with some displeasure.

Lu Qing ignored him and asked Zhu Yu, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

"Yes." Zhu Yu had finished her meal, and the feeling of fullness made her feel a little relieved. She hadn't intended to hide this from Lu Qing, and she would have to tell him sooner or later. "I don't recognize all the poisons that Captain Pang showed today, but I do know the source of one of them."

When Yan Daoxin saw Zhu Yu took the initiative to bring up this matter, he quickly adjusted his sitting position and put on an attitude of listening attentively.

Lu Qing poured her a cup of tea and said, "I'd like to hear more about it."

"When I was fifteen or sixteen, I once went hunting with my father and brothers." Although Zhu Yu was mentally prepared to speak frankly, she couldn't help but feel a little uneasy when she really opened her mouth. "At that time, all the men in the family went horseback hunting, and a few of us sisters were on a meadow, some flying kites, and some making small things with straw to pass the time.

My youngest sister was only seven or eight years old at the time. She picked a lot of flowers and plants to weave a grass ring to wear. While she was weaving, she was seen by a maid who was serving nearby. Her face turned pale with fright, and she hurried over to pick out a few blades of grass.

She told us that the grass was called lychee, and while it wasn't inherently scary, it could sometimes become infected with a disease, causing something called a lychee to form between its seeds. While the seeds were ordinary, the lychee horns were potentially life-threatening.

The nanny said that when she was still a little girl, before she was chosen to serve the nobles in the palace, she worked on the farm all day. At that time, she saw someone who had accidentally eaten a licorice horn and became like a possessed person. It was broad daylight and there were people from the farm around him, but he was terrified and insisted that everyone else was a monster with three heads and six arms.

Others thought that he had accidentally bumped into something and was possessed by an evil spirit, so they wanted to find a fortune teller to exorcise the evil spirit for him. However, before the fortune teller arrived, the man rolled on the ground, saying that his whole body felt like it was on fire. He screamed for a while and then died.

Afterwards, the authorities took the body away for examination and found that the man's arms and legs were covered with fresh blisters, as if he had been really burned.

If there weren't so many people watching nearby and there weren't witnesses, he would have been mistakenly believed to have been murdered.

Later, someone remembered that he was chewing a straw in his mouth while working when the accident happened. The government coroner hurriedly pried open his mouth and found a piece of horn between his teeth. It is probably difficult to explain this matter clearly.

The maid said that even if someone gets medical treatment in time, their fingers and toes will eventually rot and they will be left disabled.

When Lu Qing and Yan Daoxin heard her say that it felt like being burned by flames, they immediately understood.

"This thing called Lai Jiao is only found in the land of Shuo Kingdom, right?" Yan Daoxin now guessed the reason for Zhu Yu's strange expression.

Zhu Yu nodded calmly.

Lu Qing seemed to be lost in thought, then turned his gaze to Yan Daoxin: "What about you? What are you hiding today?"

Yan Daoxin grinned: "I didn't find any poisonous weeds unique to Shuo Country, but... it does have some connection with Jie Country."

Lu Qing nodded, motioning him to continue, and Zhu Yu also turned his gaze to Yan Daoxin.

She suddenly remembered what the blisters on Captain Pang's limbs might have come from, and her heart immediately fell into a state of nervousness, panic, and confusion. In addition, she had to examine the corpse and deal with the aftermath, so she did not notice what kind of reaction Yan Daoxin had.

Only now did I realize that he had also discovered something.

Yan Daoxin looked at Zhu Yu and said, "You said you didn't know where the other signs on the centurion came from.

I'm just the opposite. Aside from the blisters, which I'm a little confused about, I already know where everything else is."

(End of this chapter)