"Hurry up, untie me! Can't you hear me? Everyone's dead, aren't they?!"
"..."
The man's roars continued to echo above the old house, his voice gradually becoming hoarse, yet he kept shouting at the top of his lungs.
The old house in the east of the city was where the Mu family used to live. The house was very grand, but because it was a bit far from the city center, the Mu family moved there a few years ago to their current location, Maple Waterfront. The house has been empty ever since, with no one living there, except for regular cleaning by someone.
Xia Quan'an was bound hand and foot, blindfolded, and tied to a golden nanmu wood chair in the yard.
Xiao Fang squatted on a step not far away, a foxtail grass dangling from his mouth. He stared at Qingyun, who was resting with his eyes closed, for a while, then spat out the foxtail grass from his mouth and asked Qingyun, "How long are you going to let this old man yell? He's going to deafen me! What did the old man and the boss say? Do they want his hand or his leg broken? Let me do it!"
Qingyun finally opened his eyes and replied, "The old man means to find out who else is in his group besides Ji Nian."
"You should have said so earlier! I'm good at this!"
As he spoke, Xiao Fang suddenly stood up and took a few steps to Xia Quan'an.
Hearing footsteps, Xia Quan'an yelled at the top of his lungs, "Finally dared to come out, huh? I'm warning you, let me go right now, or you'll regret it..."
With a "thud," before Xia Quan'an could finish his sentence, he rolled to the ground along with the chair, landing face down with the chair strapped to his back, looking like a clumsy turtle—a truly comical sight.
Xiao Fang ripped the cloth strip off Xia Quan'an's head. Xia Quan'an's eyes couldn't adjust to the sudden bright light and couldn't open them. After a long while, he managed to open his eyes, his face pressed to the ground, tilting his head to look at Xiao Fang.
"You...it is you."
Because Xiao Fang often followed Mu Nanxun, Xia Quan'an recognized him. He just hadn't expected that the person who kidnapped him was Mu Nanxun's personal bodyguard, and there was another one he seemed to have seen somewhere before.
"You're Mu Nanxun's bodyguard, right? Quick, untie me! There must be some misunderstanding. Let me go first, and we'll talk this out." Xia Quan'an struggled to drag the chair toward Xiao Fang.
Xiao Fang squatted down and sneered, "Let you go? We went through all the trouble of kidnapping you, and you think I'm just going to let you go like that? Do you think I'm just bored and have nothing better to do?"
"No... this, this must be some misunderstanding. You know the relationship between my daughter and your young master, and the relationship between me and your old man. Our two families have been friends for generations. You must have mistaken me for someone else. I am Xia Quan'an, Xia Quan'an of the Xia family."
“Then that’s it.” Xiao Fang stood up, stretched his limbs, and started warming up. “How about this, you tell me who your accomplice is, and I’ll go and plead with the boss to let you off the hook.”
Upon hearing this, Xia Quan'an's lips twitched, and he stammered, "Wh...what accomplice? I don't understand what you're talking about."
"It's okay if you don't understand, but do you recognize what this is?"
Xiao Fang clenched his fist and waved it in front of Xia Quan'an.
Xia Quan'an nodded, but before he could even speak, Xiao Fang punched him in the head, knocking out a front tooth and causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.
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