Bai Meiyue turned and whispered something in Bai Jixuan's ears. Her voice was controlled, and Fox couldn't hear a thing. He frowned, wondering what the woman was trying to do, but his confusion didn't last for long because a few seconds later, Bai Jixuan appeared in front of him. Fox frowned even harder when he saw what the man was clutching in his hands. It was a dirty rag.
"What? What are you trying to do?" he asked Bai Meiyue, even though he already had a very good idea what the woman was trying to do.
Bai Meiyue simply smiled. She replied, "Can't you see? We are going to stuff this rag in your mouth to silence you."
"There is no need to do that," Fox said hastily. He looked at the dirty rag in Bai Jixuan's hand and shuddered. "I will not scream and stay quiet."
"That won't do," Bai Meiyue corrected him with a shake of his head. "You are a hostage, and we have taken you under our control with force. If you stay well-behaved, then Yu Miaomiao will think that you are on the plan with us. We cannot allow that to happen, can we? So you need to play the part very carefully."
"Hostages are not treated well; they are tied up and thrown to one side. They are treated roughly to make sure that those who need to be subdued are subdued properly. If you are treated nicely by us, would Yu Miaomiao be worried about your life and death? No. Since that is the case, we can only treat you roughly for a few hours. Don't worry, Mister Fox, we will make sure to hold back."
She then turned to look at her brother, who stood behind her, and without saying anything, stepped aside. Realising what Bai Meiyue wanted him to do, Bai Jixuan didn't say a thing and moved forward. He raised his hand and stuffed the rag in Fox's mouth. With the handcuffs tied around his wrist, Fox was like a doll in the hands of Bai Jixuan and Bai Meiyue.
He didn't even have the strength to stand up straight, so how could he even fight Bai Jixuan? He could only watch the man stuff his mouth with a dirty rag and sighed. He knew that Bai Meiyue was taking revenge on him for all the trouble that he had brought her by stealing the soil from her greenhouse.
Bai Meiyue then said, "Tie him up, Second Brother. We cannot leave him alone; what if he runs away?"
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