Chapter 694 - 687_1
Quan An was in such severe pain that he could only hope that Lin Yue would let him off soon. He answered every question like beans spilling from a bamboo tube, not caring whether he should reveal such information. It could have been that the pain had muddled his brain. Only after speaking did it occur to him that something might not be right. By saying such things, would it make Lin Yue even angrier and result in harsher treatment?
Listening to Quan An’s words, Lin Yue also began to understand their meaning. It turned out that while Ceng Lu had his sights set on her, it was Quan An who instigated this incident. It was not Ceng Lu’s doing at all, which explained why Liu Aniu’s spies and bribed informants detected no abnormalities. It was all because Quan An had stirred up trouble just to curry favor with Ceng Lu. However, this showed that Quan An’s audacity was quite over the top.
Although the Jiang Family’s Hidden Guard remained expressionless, he was very adept at reading people’s expressions and words. Seeing the displeasure on Lin Yue’s face, he knew that Quan An’s actions had greatly dissatisfied her. Thus, he intensified the force of his movements, and Quan An’s wails of agony grew louder. He pleaded for mercy, "I’ve told you everything you want to know. I won’t dare do it again. Please spare me, ah, the pain is killing me! Do whatever you want with me, ma’am, I dare not provoke you ever again. Just let me off this once. Besides, those children are unharmed, and you haven’t suffered any loss, right?"
Lin Yue would not take Quan An’s words to heart. The words of a petty person like Quan An had no credibility, especially when they were spoken under such circumstances. They were merely the product of his fear of pain and his desire to escape his predicament. She suspected that while his mouth spoke so, his heart was probably plotting how to seek revenge later.
Having committed such actions and touched her bottom line, harming Dalang and his brothers and causing her to live in fear and anxiety, Lin Yue had no intention of easily forgiving Quan An. Yet, now was not the ideal time to punish him. The urgent task at hand was to rescue Dalang and his brothers. Although Quan An claimed that they were unharmed, who knew if this was just a temporary surrender to avoid pain or a deception? Lin Yue couldn’t feel truly at ease until she saw Dalang and his brothers safe and sound before her.
"Speak! Where have you detained Dalang and his brothers?" Lin Yue demanded. The Jiang Family’s Hidden Guard applied even more force, turning Quan An’s face deathly pale with cold sweat streaming down, his speech becoming somewhat slurred from the pain.
"They’re, they’re locked up in the warehouse behind the Government Office. Please let me go. I will lead you there right now," Quan An, thinking of cursing his own mother from the pain, had in mind that this woman allowed her subordinates to torture him like this and once they reached the Government Office, his domain, he would surely extricate himself. Then he would return the pain he endured a thousandfold, a hundredfold.
Lin Yue had already stationed people to watch the Government Office. Particularly after Dalang and his brothers were kidnapped, she had sent a substantial number of operatives. If anything were to happen there, she would know, yet no one had reported any unusual activity at the warehouse behind the Government Office. It was evident that Quan An was lying.