A sharp dagger was pressed firmly on the man's carotid artery, and it was feared that blood would splatter on the spot if he moved.

“Wang Yuantao, it’s you.” Zhao Lei looked at the man approaching with a torch in his hand, his eyes suddenly widened, and he suddenly realized: “No wonder we have been resisting the cruel official of the county magistrate for so many years.

They have not done anything yet and have all suffered a severe blow. It turns out that you were the one who tipped them off."

The other people who came with Wang Yuantao also looked at him in disbelief, "Why did you betray us?"

Liu Huai looked at An Xin, who looked calm, with an embarrassed look. He opened his mouth but said nothing. In the end, he could only say with shame: "I'm sorry, I didn't know him well enough."

It was he who introduced to An Xin several people who had come to Lingnan for work over the years and whom he thought were good people and who he got along relatively well with. He didn't expect that there would be spies among these people.

Wang Yuantao looked at An Xin and Jiang Zhou, Jiang Chenxi, Feng Yujue and the others following behind him, and ignored the questions from his long-time friend Zhao Lei, as well as Zhang Qingping, Liu Yawen, and Fang Jianping who were glaring at him.

"You...what are you doing? I just drank too much water at night and came out to relieve myself..."

Looking at Wang Yuantao's defense with flickering eyes, An Xin gave Chen Runzhi a look with bright eyes.

The girl immediately took out a stack of papers with something written on them, pulled out one and read aloud: "The leaders of the Daniu Ridge stronghold are the ones who escaped from exile."

Chen Runze also took one from his sister and read: "After driving away the bandits who originally occupied Daniu Ridge, there are suddenly many more people here. I think there must be some premeditated plan for them to be exiled here..."

Seeing that Chen Runzhi and his brother were still reading the message he had conveyed on the note, he gritted his teeth and shouted with an extremely unpleasant expression, "No need to read anymore."

"I lost. It turns out that I was discovered when I first passed the message to the outside world." Wang Yuantao laughed at himself: "I thought I was doing it very secretly. I think you are all fools and idiots."

"It turns out that I am the fool."

"A fool?" An Xin raised her eyebrows: "You should have reported this situation to your master when we were trying to escape to the mountain last time."

Seeing Wang Yuantao's surprised look, An Xin raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, "Let me guess why no one has come here to arrest us until now."

"That's because your master is in a high position in Lingnan Prefecture. He doesn't care about us who are exiled to the mountains and plan to become bandits. Do you think I'm right?"

Wang Yuantao lowered his eyes. He had to admit that the woman in front of him had guessed accurately.

At that time, the people above were only focused on attacking Zhao Lei and his group of nearly a thousand people who had gathered together to resist the County Magistrate's Office. They really didn't take An Xin and the dozen or so escaped exiles seriously.

When he followed Zhao Lei and his group who had failed in their rebellion against the county magistrate up the mountain, he saw that there were many strong men here. He felt something was wrong and wanted to spread the news.

Wang Yuantao looked at the note in Chen Runzhi's hand that contained the message he had given him, and his expression became dejected, with a hint of panic.

Jiang Chenxi and Feng Yujue received a signal from An Xin and had Wang Yuantao taken away for interrogation.

Because one of them works in the Dali Temple, and the other, Jiang Chenxi, worked in the Ministry of Justice some time ago. They are better at interrogating prisoners than anyone else here.

The occasional howling in the middle of the night made the timid ones wake up in the morning with big dark circles under their eyes, obviously because they did not sleep well.

The next day, An Xin washed up and came to the meeting hall.

When he saw Jiang Chenxi, the future ruler of Duke Cheng'en's Mansion, and Feng Yujue, the heir of Marquis Xuanping's Mansion, he discovered that when the two looked at each other, their eyes were flashing with ambiguous light.

An Xin: "What's wrong with you guys?"

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“…Nothing.”

An Xin looked at them strangely, with a look of disbelief on his face.

Feng Yujue and Jiang Chenxi looked at each other and quickly looked away.

Could they say that they were all surprised by the way the other party interrogated the prisoner last night?

When Feng Yujue was interrogating him, he used a method that did not draw blood but also made Wang Yuantao suffer from excruciating pain, so he confessed part of what he knew in order to get out of the interrogation.

This broadened Jiang Chenxi's horizons, as he had seen a lot of torture in the Ministry of Justice.

Just when Wang Yuantao thought he had explained something and fooled people, it was Jiang Chenxi's turn to take action.

Then the screams in the second half of the night scared away the wolves on the distant mountains.

Because the wolves felt that the howling sound was more frightening than their own barking.

This time it was Feng Yujue's turn to be shocked. He never expected that Jiang Chenxi, although young in appearance, could be such a ruthless person when interrogating the criminals.

However, the method he used was to make it so that no scars could be seen on the prisoner's outside, while his bones might have been broken and his internal organs were severely damaged. His main goal was to appear kind on the surface.

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At that time, looking at Wang Yuantao's leaking teeth and chopped off fingers and toes, the culprit acted as if these were not his work, and walked away with the confession obtained from the interrogation with a normal expression.

This also made Feng Yujue truly realize the true meaning of the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover, don't judge the sea by its depth".

An Xin saw the two of them looking at each other with disdain and a hint of admiration. He smiled and didn't ask anything else. He took Wang Yuantao's confession from them and looked at it.

The others noticed that after An Xin finished reading, he held his chin and frowned, lost in thought, and they all quietly left the lobby.

What made An Xin fall into deep thought was not Wang Yuantao's confession that he was from the county magistrate's office, nor was it the other things he confessed, but a seemingly insignificant sentence in all the confessions.

An Xin took another look at the confession.

The eyes that were originally full of doubts seemed to slowly clear away the clouds and mist to reveal the bright moonlight.

She frowned and muttered, "Things are getting more and more complicated. I don't know if those two guys can handle it."

Li Ziyu and Kong Xun, who are being remembered by An Xin, are now being harassed by the young ladies from the two major mansions in Lingnan.

The young ladies from other mansions who were invited out by them were jealous when they saw Si Lingling and Xin Weiwei showing off the two handsome men, Li Ziyu and Kong Xun, as Hermes, and they wanted to beat them up.

Don’t these two people know what it means: when you are eating delicacies in front of a poor person, you can not share, but at least you should not smack your lips. Is this also a kind act?

Kong Xun and Li Ziyu, two men who were like banished immortals, were not as well-off as the Liangwang Mansion and the County Magistrate's Mansion because of their inferior family backgrounds.

But you have either designed or forced her into your house, so could you please not bring her out and make them jealous?

After seeing such a handsome and elegant man, how can they ever look down on other mediocre men again?

(End of this chapter)