Since it was already the second half of the night, there was silence in the Xia family's house.

Except for a few blood servants who were on duty at night patrolling the clan mansion, the vast majority of the Xia family members had already fallen asleep.

In this dark night, Xia Fan walked out of his mansion silently with two blood servants and walked towards the center of the family house.

As for the short and stout man who had been knocked out by the bloody hand before, he was carried on his shoulders by the blood river at this time, and the cultivation of a nine-rank martial artist had been completely abolished by the blood river.

Within any high-ranking clan, there is almost a place similar to a private prison.

Although according to the laws of the Daqian Dynasty, this practice of setting up private prisons was not allowed, in fact, this kind of law restricting wealthy families was never really strictly enforced in the territory of the Daqian Dynasty.

In the final analysis, the law is only a tool used by the ruling class to rule the people, and the so-called equality before the law and the content of the law that restricts the high lords are actually only to give the people some psychological comfort that can be used to hope for luxury.

No matter how ruthless the exploiters are, they still hope that the exploited class will be numb to accept all the injustices they face.

Therefore, under such a premise, the vested interests do not mind expressing hypocritical goodwill to the ruled class through some actions that have no practical meaning.

Naturally, there is a private prison in the Xia family's house, but most of the Xia family people don't know anything about it.

Since it is called a private prison, of course it cannot be built in a place that is easy to be discovered, and the private prison in the Xia family mansion is set up under the ground of the patriarch's house, and there is a hidden mechanism at the bookcase in the study.

When activated, the bookcase automatically opens sideways, revealing a deep passage behind it that is large enough for one person to pass through.

The place where Xia Fan and the two blood servants were going was here.

Along the way, except for a blood servant who was patrolling the night, he didn't meet anyone else, and he came to the patriarch's house in the center of the family house, and the blood river knocked on the door of the house, and then several people accompanied by the old housekeeper who came to open the door, and entered the house to wake up Xia Ya, who had fallen asleep.

"Who is this man?"

In the living room of the house, Xia Ya, who had just been woken up and was still a little sluggish, looked at the short man who was carrying Xuehe on his shoulder, and asked in dismay.

The old butler also had a puzzled expression.

"Father, this person is the reason why I have to disguise himself as a seriously injured target during the day, and it is also the reason why you asked some clan doctors to go to my courtyard to consult me before, he is the killer of the black hand, I need to make everything reasonable, so as not to arouse his suspicion, in order to ensure that he is captured alive without fail, so that he does not notice the problem and flee in advance."

Xia Fan owed a debt and replied without any concealment.

Xia Ya, who was originally sitting in the chair, suddenly got up, the boss with his mouth open, and at the same time stretched out his hand to point at Xia Fan, as if he wanted to say something with a shocked face, but he didn't know what to say because his brain was blank.

The old butler's eyes also widened instantly, and his body, which had always been slumped, straightened up involuntarily, and his two eyes looked straight at the short man who was carrying the blood river.

"Black hand? Which black hand? ”

Xia Ya subconsciously asked rhetorically.

"Father, it seems that there has never been a second black hand in the entire Southern Regions, right?"

Xia Fan said with a smile.

"Shhh

Xia Ya and the old housekeeper gasped at the same time.

The two glanced at each other, and then the old housekeeper rushed straight out of the house, and Xia Ya rushed to the front of the blood river in an arrow step, carefully observing the short man on the shoulder of the blood river.

After a while, the old housekeeper returned to the house, walked back to Xia Ya's side quickly, and said, "No one woke up, and I was the first to go there when the blood river called the door before, so it should be no problem." ”

Xia Ya nodded, then turned his head to look at Xia Fan, and asked in a very serious tone, "Have you met anyone on the way here?" ”

"If you go home, you just met the bloody clothes who patrol the night, and you haven't met anyone else."

The bloody hand replied.

"Well...... Uncle Zhou, please go and rearrange other blood servants to replace the bloody clothes to patrol the night, and then focus on tonight's events to him, and don't mention it to anyone. ”

The old butler immediately agreed, and then left the house in a hurry.

Seeing the old housekeeper hurriedly close the door of the house and leave, Xia Ya turned around and walked towards the study.

Xia Fan and the three followed, watched Xia Ya enter the study, activated the mechanism leading to the private prison, and then under the leadership of Xia Ya, entered the secret passage behind the bookcase.

As all the people walked in, the bookcase that had been open on the side was 'Gragra' again, and the whole study was once again quiet in its original state.

The dark passage is not long, and after walking a distance of about ten meters diagonally, Xia Ya lit a torch.

A private prison with a small area but complete with torture equipment was presented in front of the eyes of several people.

Watching as the two of them began to tie and fix the unconscious stout man to an upright cross-shaped bracket, Xia Ya asked, "Who hired you to kill you?" ”

"Although there is no evidence, there is a good chance that it is my eldest brother."

Xia Fan squinted his eyes and said.

"You already knew that there would be someone with a black hand who would do it to you? That's why during the day, I will use duels to play with one stone and kill two birds with one stone? ”

After hearing Xia Fan say that it was a killer hired by Xia Junkai, Xia Ya's eyelids jumped obviously, and he immediately frowned and asked.

"Sort of, this guy is only the lowest-ranking killer in the Black Hands, so it's not difficult to discover his existence. I know what you're worried about, but rest assured, I'm absolutely sure I'll handle this. ”

Xia Fan nodded and said.

Looking at Xia Fan's confident face, although Xia Ya was still full of worries, he didn't continue to express his doubts after all, just nodded, and then said, "Do you need me to do something?" ”

"You should not know anything about this, the reason why I came here at night is just to borrow this private prison, after all...... There is no place in the family other than here, where the torture equipment is complete. ”

Xia Fan said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll go up first, although I want to know what exactly you plan to do, but since you don't want to say, I won't ask, you just know in your heart."

Xia Ya sighed and said helplessly.

Seeing Xia Ya turn around and leave, Xia Fan asked the blood river and the bloody hand to leave with Xia Ya, until only him and the short man who was fixed on the cross-shaped steel frame were left in the private cell, Xia Fan stepped forward and punched the short man in the lower abdomen hard.

With the power of this punch, through the way of vitality shock, the short man was awakened from his coma.