It was impossible for Xiao Nanhui to really bring Su Pingchuan into his room.
The other party's identity is different from Hao Bai's. If she really did this, A Kuang and his gang would easily become suspicious.
So even though she felt reluctant, she still had Su Pingchuan locked up in a makeshift cell and pretended to starve him for three days, under the pretext of waiting until he had lost all his strength before taking action.
Although A Kuang didn't say it, she guessed that someone from the Bai family might come to pick up the person in a few days.
She was extremely anxious, but she had to appear calm on the outside. By the third night, she had finally gotten those bandits drunk.
He sent away the Nanqiang man guarding the door with a few words, and after repeatedly confirming that there was no one around, he let Hao Bai go in to check on the unfortunate guy's injuries.
About half an incense stick of time later, Hao Bai came out carrying his small box.
Xiao Nanhui was waiting, rubbing his hands and stamping his feet, when he saw this, he hurried over to meet him.
"how?"
Hao Bai put his hands into his sleeves with an unfathomable expression.
"He was hit by a poison dart, a type of frog venom commonly used in Southern Qiang, which can instantly render a person completely weak. Fortunately, he is in good health, so even though he has been suffering for these days, it is not a serious problem. However, the tendons in his hands and feet are blocked, and he has lost his strength. He needs to find an antidote and take it before he can recover."
"So you might be able to detoxify?"
The other party snorted coldly, his voice filled with inflated self-confidence and contempt for someone's ignorance.
Xiao Nanhui slapped him hard and shouted at the bottom of his voice, "If it can be cured, then it can be cured. Why are you humming for no reason?!"
Hao Bai glared at her fiercely, and it seemed that he wanted to fight back, but when he thought of the strength of this woman's hands, he retracted his claws awkwardly and went back to his room with the medicine box carrying some resentment.
Xiao Nanhui stood outside the prison door for a while, and only stepped in when he thought Su Pingchuan should be dressed properly.
This cell was built by someone she had previously sent. Although it was a bit simple, it was still clean. The only problem was that the lighting was a bit poor. Now it was late autumn, and the nights were very cold.
Su Pingchuan's armor was nowhere to be found. It was probably stripped off by A Kuang's men and sold for money. There were faint bloodstains on the white clothes inside. He huddled in the corner and didn't even look up when he heard someone coming in.
Xiao Nanhui coughed lightly. After a while, Su Pingchuan finally raised his head, speaking in a bad tone.
"What are you doing here? Are you trying to see if I'm dead?"
She wanted to offer some words of comfort, but upon hearing these words, she became angry: "If you really wanted to die, you would have already died long ago. Why would I need to come and see you in person?"
Su Pingchuan snorted coldly and fell silent.
After all, he was still a half-grown child. Apart from his armor, he was no different from the young men from the famous families in Que City.
She sighed, took out two steamed buns from her arms and handed them over.
Looking at the two steamed buns that were taken out from his inner garments and not even wrapped in oil paper, Su Pingchuan turned his head away and said, "I'm not hungry."
Xiao Nanhui slowly tore off the thin layer of dough from the bun and stuffed it into his hand. "A general who has been defeated dares to find fault with a white flour bun. If this gets out, I'm afraid everyone will laugh to death."
Su Pingchuan hadn't eaten a grain of rice for several days and only survived by drinking dirty water. There was only bitter water left in his stomach. After struggling for a while, he took a big bite.
After eating a steamed bun, the other person's expression finally relaxed a little, and she handed him the water.
"Tell me, how could you be so careless as to allow yourself to be captured?"
Su Pingchuan drank half a bag of water in one gulp, wiped his mouth, and then said bitterly, "If someone hadn't leaked the route of this raid, how could the battle at Famang Ridge have gone so wrong?!"
This was beyond Xiao Nanhui's expectations: "What do you mean? Are you saying there are Bai clan members secretly working within the Tiancheng Army?"
"The Guangyao Battalion has always been the strictest in identity verification. I don't believe there are spies among them, but the fact is that my subordinates and I have already suffered a great loss. If we allow the spy to continue, wouldn't it be..."
"Do you have any suspects or any clues about the spy?"
Su Pingchuan suddenly stopped, as if he was choked by the last bite of steamed bun, and it took him a while to squeeze out two words.
"No."
Xiao Nanhui wanted to roll his eyes for a moment, but considering the other person's mood at the moment, he held it back.
"It's alright. All's fair in war. It's just the same for both of us."
Su Pingchuan cast a strange look at her: "Could it be that you are also a spy?"
This damned brat, his words were so harsh. I shouldn't have cared about him just now, I should have ridiculed him harshly.
She was about to open her mouth to retort when the other party continued, "I heard that someone had delivered the Bijiang terrain map to the army. I never thought it was you. However, this surprise attack failed, and the Bai family will also be aware of it. I'm afraid you shouldn't stay here for long."
Xiao Nanhui blinked and swallowed the unpleasant words back into his stomach.
She had only met General Zuo a few times, but it was not difficult to see that he was a simple-minded young man. He might be a little arrogant and aloof, but he was not a bad person.
How could such a noble and not very smart person be sent to carry out the military order of encirclement and surprise attack?
What's more, King Xuanyuan only has this one son, so how could he be willing to send him to this Shura field?
"I say," she thought for a moment, and decided it would be better to ask directly, "did you escape on your own during this expedition?"
As soon as she asked this question, she saw the other person's expression had relaxed a little, and then she became unnatural again.
The answer is obviously about 70% to 80%.
Think of how she worked so hard to build a career, and how she risked her life to accept the mission assigned by the emperor. But here, someone would rather stay in a safe place and squeeze into this place on the edge of a knife.
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