Disease rights policy

The dungeon in the detached courtyard was rarely used; it was so clean it didn't look like a place for interrogating prisoners. There were even winter vegetables piled up in the corners because there was no room for them in the kitchen. Only on the left side of the entire wall hung the chilling instruments of torture, their sharp blades gleaming in the candlelight.

Xie Laoshi walked quickly, with his guards following behind. As they walked in, he said, "The two people who were captured, a man and a woman, both claimed to be the mastermind. They both have some martial arts skills, but they are relatively average."

Xie Laoshi sneered, "A pair of doomed lovers."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a long scream came from the cell where he was being held, and someone shouted, "A man's word is his bond! Chen Jiu, you've gone back on your word, it's despicable! Liar, liar! Didn't you say you wouldn't arrest me?"

Qiao Ran's voice was hoarse from shouting, and she muttered in a wronged tone, "Men are all the same, no matter how handsome they are."

She managed to escape the village, but the area was already full of ambushes. Only after she was caught did she realize that Chen Jiu had deliberately played a trick on her and wanted to make a fool of her.

"Stop shouting, someone's coming." Qin Huai, who was slightly injured and sitting opposite Qiao Ran, said this with a disheveled look on his face.

Qiao Ran felt even more annoyed when she saw him, and muttered, "And you! Didn't you already leave? Why did you come back?"

Qin Huai smiled helplessly, his eyes narrowed. "I was thinking of collecting your body, but I ended up getting myself involved."

Upon hearing his words, Qiao Ran's eyes immediately welled up with tears.

Qin Huai had indeed left. After he led the remaining brothers out of the mountain and ensured everyone's safety, he returned alone, intending to scout around the perimeter to see if Qiao Ran had escaped danger, but...

Even if he regrets it now, there's nothing he can do.

"That's them."

Qiao Ran and Qin Huai looked in the direction of the voice at the same time. It was a man with a cold and stern face who looked like he was not a good person. He had a goose feather knife hanging at his waist and his aura was imposing.

“He,” Xie Laoshi said, pointing at Qin Huai, “bring him out.”

Qin Huai was stunned for a moment, "No, hero, what are you doing?"

Seeing someone rush in and drag Qin Huai away, Qiao Ran immediately panicked. "Where is Young Master Chen? Let Chen Jiu come see me! ...Why are you arresting him? He should take responsibility for his own actions. Arrest me!"

Xie Laoshi glanced at her and sneered, "A nobody like you dares to meet my young master."

"Where is your integrity?" Qiao Ran screamed from inside the cell, "Your young master said he would let me go, so why are you resorting to torture? This is outrageous..."

These people don't understand any of the rules of the underworld.

Xie Laoshi: "You have endangered my young master's life. It would not be too much to cut you into a thousand pieces."

"Qin Huai!" Qiao Ran cried out in distress, kicking the cell door violently. "What are you going to do to him? I'm the one who arrested your young master, and I'm the one who kicked him! Take it out on me!"

"You're next. Today, I, Xie Laoshi, will send you two lovers to your deaths on behalf of the young master." Xie Laoshi turned around and ordered his men to tie Qin Huai up, then sat down in the center of the execution ground.

Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Qiao Ran became even more convinced that Chen Jiu had orchestrated everything. Seeing that Qin Huai was about to be beaten to death because of her recklessness, she immediately burst into tears, "I've been tricked, but I refuse to admit defeat! You bunch of bastards, you have no sense of rules! I'll haunt you even as a ghost!"

"Qin Huai... don't die, Qin Huai."

"Help me..."

"Murder! The prime minister's son has murdered someone!" Qiao Ran wiped away her tears, and hearing Qin Huai's screams, she cried even louder. "I kidnapped him, what does it have to do with him? You're killing innocent people indiscriminately! Help..."

Qiao Ran howled so loudly that it lasted for half an incense stick's time, her voice echoing throughout the entire dungeon. Qin Huai had only received two lashes and hadn't suffered much torture yet, but Qiao Ran's howling almost made him faint.

Xie Laoshi, unable to bear it any longer, ordered, "Gag her."

Upon receiving Lao Shi's instructions, someone immediately went to confront Qiao Ran. Qiao Ran bared her teeth and claws, entangled with the other party. Because she was a woman, and a woman who resembled Diao Chan, the guards did not use excessive force for a moment. She escaped from the cell like an eel.

"Someone else, tie her up."

Sure enough, another person came in and sandwiched Qiao Ran from both sides. Seeing that she was at a disadvantage, Qiao Ran quickly begged for mercy, "I won't make trouble anymore, I won't make trouble anymore, please, brothers, don't tie my hands. My skin is so delicate, it would be heartbreaking if you tied it up badly."

Upon hearing this, Xie Laoshi scoffed, "Glib talker, shut up."

"How can you be so heartless? Soothing... Waaah..."

The two guards quickly gagged Qiao Ran, tied her hands, locked the cell door, and left.

The cell was dark and gloomy. As Xie Laoshi interrogated Qin Huai, Qin Huai's painful groans could be heard from time to time.

“You scoundrels, you should have died the moment you even entertained the idea of ​​robbing my young master.” Xie Laoshi had followed Chen Jiu for many years and was extremely loyal. He never showed mercy to those who harmed Chen Jiu.

Qin Huai swallowed the blood in his mouth and pushed his eyelids up slightly. "We have no intention of harming your young master. Although our business is shady, we have never done anything immoral or immoral over the years, and we would never take a life for money."

"Nonsense!" Xie Laoshi retorted angrily. "A thief is a thief, a despicable profession. The imperial court will wipe you all out sooner or later. Attack!"

"Hiss—", Qin Huai couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of blood.

I wonder how Qiao Ran is doing. There's been no news of her at all.

Did you faint from fright?

Clearly, Xie Laoshi also sensed something was wrong; he could still hear Qiao Ran banging on the door just now. He turned his head and said, "Let's go check it out."

Immediately, someone ran towards Guan Qiaoran's cell, glanced around, and exclaimed, "She's gone!"

Qin Huaidu was jolted back to his senses and immediately opened his eyes wide.

The cell door was gently closed, but the lock had already been opened. The key and the ropes binding the people were still hanging on the door, disappearing right under the noses of Xie Laoshi and the others—a blatant provocation.

"How did my key end up here?" The guard who had been ordered to gag Qiao Ran picked up the key and exclaimed in panic, "Head Guard, I really don't know when the key got away."

Xie Laoshi's face darkened, and the group exchanged bewildered glances.

Qin Huai laughed mockingly, "You dare to approach the body of the contemporary Ghost Hand? You're lucky you haven't been stripped naked."

As expected of the "second-in-command" he had painstakingly recruited, he had never lost a fight.

Old Shi Jie gritted his teeth, "There are guards at the door, she can't get out, she must still be in the dungeon, search!"

Feeling humiliated at being tricked by a cunning woman, everyone chorused, "Yes."

Qin Huai was tied to the torture post and couldn't move. He closed his eyes and prayed that Qiao Ran would escape.

A gust of wind swept through the dungeon, and suddenly, with a "whoosh," all the flames in the wall grooves went out, plunging the entire dungeon into deathly darkness.

Qin Huai felt someone touch his hand from behind, and immediately held his breath, his heart pounding in his throat.

Qiao Ran untied Qin Huai and whispered, "Go towards the dungeon entrance. I'll lure the people away, and you run."

"..." In the darkness, Qin Huai wanted to say something, but he moved his lips and swallowed a mouthful of blood.

It's not that he didn't want to run, the key question is, what kind of place is this? Can the two of them even escape?

Qin Huai's idea was quickly confirmed. Qiao Ran dragged Qin Huai a few steps before the lights in the dungeon were turned back on, and a sharpened, deadly blade was placed in front of the two of them.

Xie Laoshi: "Where do you want to run?"

Qiao Ran felt a chill run down her spine from the sight of the knife, but she still tightly protected the injured Qin Huai behind her.

“It was I who kidnapped your young master. He was just a friend I met a few times and had nothing to do with this matter,” Qiao Ran said in a trembling voice. “Release him and do whatever you want with him.”

Xie Laoshi said coldly, "Neither of you are leaving. Tie both of you to the torture pillar."

"..." Qiao Ran glanced at the blood-soaked pillar, fearing it had only been fed with Qin Huai's blood. After struggling a few times, she was still thrown against the pillar.

"Qiao Ran!" Qin Huai also struggled fiercely. He had experienced Xie Laoshi's methods firsthand; they were truly ruthless. "Let her go!"