NOVEL NEXT Chapter 145: Turn a Blind Eye
Several people only felt that after Wang Ye inserted the silver needles into their bodies, they alternately wanted to laugh and cry.
Laughter mingled with loud wailing.
Along with this, there were sensations of itchy feet and stomach pain.
The feeling of laughter and loud wailing was already making it hard for them to catch their breath, but the inability to scratch their itchy feet or rub their painful stomachs made them suffer immensely.
Five minutes later.
Wang Ye removed the silver needles.
All three men were gasping heavily, their eyes filled with fear as they looked at Wang Ye.
They would rather Wang Ye whip them thoroughly than subject them to such inhuman treatment again.
Wang Ye looked at the three men and asked, "Are you going to talk?"
"If you don't talk, I'll randomly pick one of you for interrogation. I stopped just now, but next time, I won't stop; it will go on continually."
"Until you die. If one dies, I'll then continue with the next one."
As Wang Ye spoke, he fiddled with a few silver needles in his hand.
Tan Long had also arrived by now, standing together with Su Wanqing.
Watching Wang Ye play with the needles, Tan Long couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement, not expecting that acupuncture in Wang Ye's hands could also become a means of interrogation.
If he could learn it, then the troubles he encountered when interrogating others wouldn't be troublesome at all.
Upon hearing Wang Ye's words, the three men immediately showed terrified expressions.
The sensation they had just experienced was unbearably distressing; having endured it once, they certainly did not want to experience it a second time.
Let alone dying amidst such agony.
The three men rushed to speak, "I'll talk!"
"Let me!"
"I am from the Zhao family; it was the Zhao family that sent us!"
The three men jostled to speak first, and Wang Ye quickly learned from them their identities and the reason for their presence.
All three were from the Zhao family.
And the reason they had come here was due to instructions from the Zhao family, which had led them to this place.
In the eyes of the Zhao family, the things that had disappeared from the Wang family should belong to the Zhao family.
After all, from the beginning when Wang Ye's father started out, it was due to Wang Ye's mother, Zhao Ke, using the resources of the Zhao family that Wang Ye's father, Wang Zhongmin, was gradually able to grow and succeed.
The reason the three men didn't attend the gathering in the bar last night was simple.
The Zhao family, being a powerful clan in the provincial city and possessing more detailed clues, naturally wouldn't mingle with the forces and families in the bar.
Yet unexpectedly, even so, they were still caught by Wang Ye and trapped here.
"Was what you said just now true?"
Wang Ye asked again, this time inquiring about the earlier statement made by the middle-aged man.
Wang Ye already knew the clues to the Wang family's disappearance and now needed to investigate the whereabouts and situation of the missing Wang family members, and how they were faring.
"It's not."
The middle-aged man shook his head, "For matters like this, the higher-ups in the Zhao family might know, but we truly have no idea. This simply isn't something we would be privy to."
"The reason I said what I did earlier was to try to bluff you, to make you trust me more."
"So, it was because of that you saw through me?" Wang Ye asked with a smile.
The middle-aged man hung his head, not wishing to respond to Wang Ye's question.
In fact, even if the middle-aged man hadn't spoken as he did, Wang Ye would have still picked up on certain clues, given the elderly person's breathing was there.
But Wang Ye just wanted to say so, to aggravate the middle-aged man a bit.
The three looked dejected, watching Wang Ye with some worry in their eyes.
Even though they had told Wang Ye everything, they weren't naïve enough to believe that after telling him, he would truly let them go.
But they heard Wang Ye speak to them:
"Then you three should leave for now, go back and tell the Zhao family that the reason I'm letting you go is because I want to make peace with the Zhao family, hoping to learn about my parents from them."
After speaking, Wang Ye pulled out the silver needles from their bodies.
The three were pleasantly surprised to be let go by Wang Ye and hurriedly left the place.
As Wang Ye interrogated the three and conversed with them, the elderly person had considerably recovered.
With open eyes, he sized up Wang Ye, Su Wanqing, and Tan Long.
"Wanqing, go get some water from the car."
Wang Ye said to Su Wanqing, who complied with an, "Okay," obeying Wang Ye's order and went to fetch the water.
"Tan Long, you sit in the car and keep watch in case someone comes."
"Yes, Master Wang!"
Upon hearing Wang Ye's command, Tan Long immediately went out and sat in the car.
Obviously, Wang Ye had deliberately sent Tan Long away.
Earlier, Wang Ye suspected the middle-aged man knew what he was saying wasn't the truth, which is why he let Tan Long hear this information while he was present.
But now,
the elderly person really might have information about the Wang family. In such a case, Wang Ye naturally couldn't allow Tan Long to be there, so he sent him away directly.
After sending Tan Long off, Wang Ye approached the elderly man, focusing on him, and asked, "Old man, hello, my name is Wang Ye."
"Wang Ye... Wang Ye... Wang Ye."
The elderly person might have a poor memory, or it could be because he was just locked up in a cupboard for a long time; though somewhat recovered now, he wasn't completely back to normal.
So upon hearing the name "Wang Ye," he didn't completely recall anything immediately but started murmuring it to himself as if trying to remember something.
About thirty seconds passed before the elderly person looked at Wang Ye with surprise and said, "So you are saying, you are the boss's son, Wang Ye?"
"Correct, in the year the Wang family had trouble, I was sent away."
"I know, I know."
The elderly person took Wang Ye's hand, "When you were a child, you often came to see me, calling me Old Li and asking me to take you out to buy things to eat."
"Although you lived with the Wang family and never lacked for food, your parents worried about your safety and restricted your movements. That's why you used the excuse of asking me to buy snacks as a way to go play outside. Actually, hey! You just wanted to go out and have fun."
"In reality, the boss and your mother knew about it too, but with me accompanying you, they were reassured, so they turned a blind eye."