Traveling through ancient times to escape famine, the prince led me to rebel

Chapter 176 Backer

"Is the King of Yan behind you?" Luo Xiaoran went straight to the point.

Before Yun Hu could say anything, Qiu Niang, who was sitting next to him, grabbed Luo Xiaoran's hand and exclaimed, "Xiaoran!"

"Is King Yan behind you?" Luo Xiaoran ignored Qiu Niang's shock and asked Yun Hu again.

Yun Hu looked at Luo Xiaoran, who had a serious and solemn expression, and narrowed his eyes slightly with an unclear expression.

Back then, on the official road, the bandit leader's head rolled to the side of Luo Xiaoran's shoes. Although she was horrified, she still had the mood to make a fried pork loin at night, which made her always have a little doubt about her.

Later, Luo Xiaoran introduced several ingredients he had never heard of, such as peppers, sweet potatoes and tomatoes, which made him suspect that this little girl was not an ordinary person.

So after returning to Yizhou, in addition to ordering people to look for three crops: peppers, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, he also asked people to focus on investigating Luo Xiaoran's background.

According to information from all sources, she was just a little girl who fled north to escape famine and finally settled in Hexi Village.

As for why she knew about crops such as peppers, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes that no one else knew about, Yun Hu thought that perhaps someone in her family knew about them and passed them on to her, or that she had read about them in some rare book herself.

After all, after she settled in Hexi Village, she built a house and bought land, which shows that her family must have been wealthy in the past, and those who have abundant money are willing to spend money on buying books.

But Luo Xiaoran asked such a shocking question today, which really shocked him.

Yun Hu walked closer to Luo Xiaoran step by step, frowning, and said in a gloomy voice: "Why do you ask?"

"If so, can you continue to be my backer, just like when we took the official road back to the North together?"

Luo Xiaoran did not directly answer Yun Hu's question, but continued to ask questions of her own.

"Tsk!" Yun Hu's mouth twitched, his temple throbbing, "Luo Xiaoran, don't think you can be clever in front of me just because you cooked a few meals for me. Answer my questions quickly."

"I'm not trying to be clever!" Luo Xiaoran looked innocent.

"Xiao Ran has cooked no less than a hundred meals for you!" Qiu Niang looked indignant.

Yun Hu: ...Where are you two focusing on?

Yun Hu suppressed the urge to arrest the two people, took a deep breath, and asked patiently:

"Why do you think the King of Yan is behind the Dongfeng Caravan? Answer this question first so that we can continue our conversation."

Yun Hu really didn't know where he had made a flaw, and how this little girl Luo Xiaoran had discovered it.

"My guess."

Luo Xiaoran replied calmly. Seeing that Yun Hu was obviously not satisfied with this answer and was still staring at her expressionlessly, she continued in a very polite manner:

"At that time, we encountered a group of refugee bandits on the official road, and you were even teased by the bandit leader..."

"Get to the point!" Yun Hu interrupted Luo Xiaoran sinisterly.

Luo Xiaoran tried her best to suppress the upward curve of her lips. She brought this up on purpose because she felt very happy to be naughty.

“It was because you were teased that I discovered your true identity.

After you were teased, weren't you particularly angry? Then you asked your men to kill the bandits.

Don’t you think that the physical skills of your men have been specially trained?”

"What's so strange about this? Our Dongfeng Caravan has business all over Daliang. How can the guys in the team not have some Kung Fu skills?"

Yun Hu felt that Luo Xiaoran's explanation was a bit far-fetched.

“Because your Dongfeng Caravan is doing well in business, there must be some big shot backing you up.

You often go to the northern border, and the guys in the team give me the feeling that you are soldiers, so I naturally associate you with the King of Yan who guards the northern border."

"Can you tell other people's martial arts moves?" Yun Hu's tone was full of disbelief.

Luo Xiaoran touched her right thumb and index finger together, and stretched the other three fingers forward while bending them:

"I can see a little bit, and with the help of other clues, I can make that bold guess."

"Other clues? What else did you find?"

Yun Hu couldn't help but ask, wondering in his heart whether he had revealed other flaws.

“The three people who help with housework in my family were bought from the Dongfeng Caravan.

When I bought them, I learned about the slave trade of the East Wind Caravan, which always brought people from the south and sold them to people in the north.

The North is vast and sparsely populated, with a large amount of wasteland that no one has reclaimed. Even after soldiers died in battle, there are no reserve troops available. All these show that the North needs population.

And isn’t the East Wind Caravan’s business of human trafficking just about sending people to the North?

Who would want the population of the North to increase? I can't think of anyone else except the King of Yan."

At this point, Luo Xiaoran paused for a moment, a sly smile on her lips:

"Later, I used sweet potatoes, which have a very high yield, to test you. You are indeed very interested in this thing that can fill people's stomachs. The North is in urgent need of food, so I naturally connected you with the King of Yan."

“What you said is just speculation. Our caravan is engaged in business. The North is short of people and the price of slaves is high, so we like to sell people here.

As for sweet potatoes, if they are really as you said, with a yield ten times greater than grain, how much money can they bring to our caravan? I am naturally interested."

Yun Hu rejected Luo Xiaoran's temptations one by one, "As for what you said about my men having military style, most of them are indeed children of military households. Isn't it normal for me to ask some skilled military households to help me escort the goods?"

After listening to Yun Hu's explanation, Luo Xiaoran nodded sincerely:

"You are right! It seems that you are not King Yan's man."

Yun Hu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but Luo Xiaoran's voice sounded again:

"An Luhai, the magistrate of Fuyuan County, indulged his son without limit. His son An Ruquan abducted women and persecuted boys, committing many evil deeds. Do you care about this?"

Yun Hu: ...

It seems that all my explanations just now were in vain. I am not even the King of Yan's man, so how can I care about the affairs of the county magistrate?

"But you don't have to care about An Ruquan's matter. After all, he has been killed, which is really gratifying! But his father An Luhai slandered my sister as a murderer and even used lynching. Do you care about this?"

"I'm just an ordinary businessman, how can I possibly care..." Before he could finish his excuse, Yun Hu seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly a subtle expression appeared on his face, "What's your sister's name?"

"Du Kongqing."

"Last name Du?"

"That's right!"

"Okay, I'll take care of this!"

Yun Hu's tone suddenly rose a lot:

"Although I am just an ordinary businessman, punishing evil and promoting good, and upholding justice have always been my purpose in dealing with people. Don't worry, I will definitely deal with An Luhai and make sure he doesn't cause you any more trouble."

Luo Xiaoran: ...Why did you make such a 180-degree turn of attitude?

Before Luo Xiaoran could figure out this problem, Yun Hu sent someone to escort her and Qiu Niang back to Hexi Village.