Chapter 117: Night Battle at Yingchuan! (8.238k)_3

There was also a plate of bitter herbs.

Zhao Rong glanced at Nan Shan Shi at another table, he was the first to pick up his chopsticks and directly reached for the bitter herbs.

Seeing this, one could tell that the trickery here had little to do with the Songshan Sect.

Bitter herbs are a type of chrysanthemum that blooms before the early summer, its color yellow and white, generally picked around Qingming Festival.

If not eaten with sauce, the bitterness is hard to neutralize.

Yang flowers had sauce, bitter herbs did not, this might indicate deceit.

Most poisons are not colorless and tasteless, if mixed with the bitter herbs, one might mistake the poison's taste for the bitterness of the herbs. If mixed with sauce, there would be an odd taste that people from Jianghu would recognize upon tasting.

Nan Shan Shi had always been with the Datong Commercial Association, passing on numerous messages as an inside agent.

But he lacked experience in Jianghu.