The strategist then voiced his cunning schemes.
Like attracts like, and people are grouped by their peers.
Wei Jin appreciated him, probably because of his abundance of wicked ideas.
This strategy was indeed vicious: it turned out that the strategist had a distant relative who had contracted smallpox some days ago and had not survived.
And somehow, some of the child's belongings were still kept.
They were just locked away in a cabin in the mountains, not discarded in time.
The strategist then thought of a ruthless method.
Wasn't Wei Shu intending to suppress the bandits? At that time, they would find someone who had recovered from smallpox to wear those virus-infected clothes, pretending to be kidnapped by the bandits. When Wei Shu came to the rescue, that person would take the opportunity to approach Wei Shu and transmit the smallpox virus to him.
As long as Wei Shu contracted the virus, his chances were slim.
