Chapter 354 Threat

He looked at Xiao Jingfan, who was sitting at the stone table. Xiao Jingfan nodded slightly to him. He then said, "Brother Qin and I hit it off right away. Brother Qin has helped me a lot before. If you can use me in any way, I will definitely help."

These words were like a reassurance to Uncle Fu.

"Tell me slowly." Du Qian helped him sit down at the stone table. "Who locked Brother Qin up?"

"A bunch of damned villains!" Uncle Fu gritted his teeth. "Not only did they kill the lady, they also threatened the master to do their bidding by threatening the young lady and the young master's lives."

Du Qian was surprised to hear this. The situation seemed a little different from what he had found out. He hurriedly asked, "Tell me more about it. How many people were there in that gang of villains? What were their origins?"

"There are five of them in total, four men and one woman," Uncle Fu said. "They were brought back by the master. He only told us to serve them well and not neglect them, but he didn't specify their specific identities."

Du Qian was puzzled. "There are only five of them. The Qin residence has hundreds of guards. How could they have locked up Master Qin?"

"These five people have some special abilities," Uncle Fu said. "I was away on business and didn't know what had happened. When I returned home, my master had disappeared. Only the fake master was active in the mansion. No one except me noticed that the master had been replaced."

Du Qian was puzzled: "Then how did you find out?"

Uncle Fu said truthfully, "The fake one didn't say the right code."

Du Qian was a little surprised that there was a secret code, and then asked: "Were you injured by that group of people?"

Uncle Fu nodded.

"You said they killed Madam Qin?" Xiao Jingfan suddenly spoke, causing Uncle Fu to look at him.

His attention had been on Du Qian just now, and Xiao Jingfan had deliberately remained silent, so he hadn't paid any attention. But now, seeing him, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but secretly praise him, "What a handsome young man!"

"Who is this young man?" Uncle Fu looked at Xiao Jingfan secretly and looked at Du Qian inquiringly.

"Just call him Young Master Wang," Du Qian said. "Young Master Wang is a trustworthy person. Just tell me what you mean."

Although Uncle Fu was still a little hesitant, he had no choice at this point. He said, "That group tricked Madam into drinking a bowl of medicine, saying it would prolong her life. Unexpectedly, Madam passed away that very night."

"This is a disregard for human life." Du Qian frowned, "Brother Qin, why don't you report it to the authorities?"

"The master was bewitched by that group of people at the time." Uncle Fu sighed deeply. "They said it was Madam's fate and it had nothing to do with their medicine, so the master believed them."

Everyone was speechless. Madam Qin was so unlucky to have such a husband!

Feng Jing and Chu Liuzheng heard the noise and came out to join in the fun. Just then, Feng Jing heard this and said, "Since Master Qin believes in fate, then it's his fate that he's been locked up by that group. Just accept it. Why would they ask you to come to the Du Mansion for help?"

After being scolded like this, Uncle Fu's face, which was already pale from excessive blood loss, turned even paler. He stammered as if he wanted to refute, but he was not a man of eloquence, and for a moment he could not find the words, and finally he could only say: "Master was not like this before."

Hearing this, Feng Jing wanted to say something else, but Xiao Jingfan interrupted him: "What did that group threaten Master Qin to do for them?"

"They threatened the master to help them find someone."

"Who?"

"I don't know." Uncle Fu's eyes flickered slightly, and his gaze was vague for a moment.

There was no shortage of shrewd people present, so how could they not see that he was hiding something?

Du Qian narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Uncle Fu, if you can't tell me the truth, I'm afraid I can't help Brother Qin."

Uncle Fu was silent, his hands unconsciously clenching the hem of his clothes.

Seeing this, Du Qian said loudly: "Come here, send Uncle Fu back to his guests——"

"I only know one thing." Uncle Fu hesitated for a while, then finally said, "They threatened the master to help them find women."

Everyone: ???

Chu Liuzheng asked what everyone was thinking: "When you say you're looking for a woman, are you looking for pleasure or something else?"

"If it was just for fun, it would be fine, but..." Uncle Fu gritted his teeth, a hint of fear flashing in his eyes, "Those women never came out after entering that room."

"I secretly opened the window while the gang was away and looked inside. There was no one inside, only some jars. The room had a foul, rotten smell that made me sick."

Zhou Yuande guessed: "Maybe there is a tunnel or a secret door in the house."

"Impossible." Uncle Fu was very sure. "I'm in charge of everything in this house. If there's a tunnel or a secret door, how could I not know about it?"

Feng Jing touched his chin: "But according to what you said, people can't just disappear out of thin air, right?"

"Maybe it's in the jar." Mitsuki suddenly interjected.

"Impossible, how could one person..." Uncle Fu hadn't finished his rebuttal when he suddenly thought of the size of the jars in the room and their foul smell, and he felt like he was struck by lightning.

Of course not for a whole person, but what if it is cut into pieces?

Thinking of this possibility, he was so frightened that his eyes slowly widened. He opened and closed his mouth several times but no sound came out. He was about to faint from horror.

Siyue quickly gave him two injections, and Feng Jing threw a pill into his open mouth.

The smell was so stinky that Uncle Fu was awakened by it and swallowed the pill in one gulp.

"Even if there really is a corpse in the jar, you didn't kill the person. What are you afraid of?" Feng Jing looked at the old man. "Are you an accomplice?"

Uncle Fu hurriedly shook his head and trembled as he said, "I, I, I didn't kill anyone."

"You are the one who found this person." Xiao Jingfan stared at him, using a statement instead of a question.

Uncle Fu froze for a moment. Under the gaze of everyone, he nodded very slowly and stammered, "I dare not disobey the master's orders. If I had known they would..."

"Even if you didn't know the first time, what about after that? If you didn't have any guesses, why did you sneak into that room to look?" Chu Liuzheng interrupted his self-exculpation and asked, "How many women did you find for that group?"

"Not many." Uncle Fu's forehead was covered in sweat from being stared at by everyone, and he said with trembling lips, "Just eight or eight."

"Eight lives, that's not a lot!" Feng Jing glared at him, "Do you know how difficult it is to save a person?"

"They are all girls from brothels, and they didn't live long anyway. I bought them, and the money and goods were paid. I was just following orders. I didn't want to do this, I..." Uncle Fu licked his dry lips and nervously defended himself under the stares of everyone, his words already a little incoherent.

"Shut up!" Xiao Jingfan interrupted coldly, scaring Uncle Fu so much that he shrank his neck and trembled like a quail, looking at him in panic with his wrinkled eyes.

Xiao Jingfan pressed his brows hard, leaving two bright red marks on his fair skin. He asked in a deep voice, "Are those women from Xiancheng?"

"No." Uncle Fu was so frightened by his aura that he dared not hide it anymore. "Only two are from Xiancheng, the others were bought from other places." Otherwise, this matter would have spread throughout the city long ago.

Xiao Jingfan then asked: "What are the criteria for finding someone?"