Coiling Dragon Book 6 (Chp 8 onwards)

Book 6, The Road to Revenge - Chapter 14, Imprisoned

For the sake of this water jade smuggling operation, the Debs clan had paid a very high price. Bernard ordered his Third Brother to be responsible for this affair, and the Lanseer brothers were his Third Brother's right and left hand men.

Standing in the middle of the meeting hall, Linley remained calm. The Shadowmouse, Bebe, also quietly stood on Linley's shoulders.

The man and the magical beast both just stood there as though nothing were happening, quietly watching it all. Even though he saw the begging look Bernard had trained on him, Linley didn't react in the slightest.

After a while...

The sound of heavy chains could be heard. Two golden-haired men in shackles entered the meeting hall, under escort from the palace guards. These two men were shackled by the feet and by the hands as well. Just judging from the thickness of those leg-irons, the shackles must have been one or two hundred pounds heavy.

Such heavy shackles were used expressly for collaring those warriors with powerful strength.

"Milord clan leader."

Upon entering the discussion hall and seeing Bernard who was kneeling on the ground, strange smiles appeared on their faces. They actually called out to Bernard respectfully.

Standing to the side, Linley understood.

Most likely these Lanseer brothers were two of the major leaders in the smuggling operation who most likely had some secret connection with the Debs clan.

"The Debs clan is going to be in trouble now." Linley just quietly watched.

Seeing those two shackled golden-haired men, Bernard reacted with confusion. "Uh? Lanseer and Langmuir [Lan'mu'er], why have the two of you been imprisoned by his Majesty? Didn't I give the two of you a 100,000 gold coins a few months ago and tell you to go enjoy life?"

Those two golden-haired men were briefly startled, then they laughed.

"Milord clan leader, are you jesting?" Lanseer laughed.

Next to him, Langmuir snickered as well. "What, lord clan leader, do you still think that you can lie and hide? Forget it. You might as well admit your guilt."

A look of rage appeared on Bernard's face. He suddenly rose to his feet, staring angrily at Lanseer and Langmuir. "Lanseer, Langmuir, my Debs clan has raised you and cultivated you since you were little. The two of you should know very well how I have treated you."

"It's true, you have treated us brothers very well. But the two of us have also risked our lives for the Debs clan for many years now." The elder brother, Lanseer, said coldly.

Bernard's rage grew. With a trembling hand, he pointed at the Lanseer brothers. "The two of you truly forget favors and violate justice. True, you two have worked on behalf of the Debs clan for many years now, but all these years, you have been acting corruptly so as to gain money that belonged to the clan. After that event half a year ago, considering that the two of you had worked for us for so long, I spared your lives and even gave you a 100,000 gold coins and told you to go home and enjoy your lives. But...but you...not only are you not grateful, you've now participated in smuggling? And after getting caught, you sully the Debs clan?"

Lanseer and Langmuir were totally caught off-guard, and they stared at Bernard in bewilderment.

"We...we were corrupt? You...you gave us 100,000 gold coins?" Lanseer and Langmuir were totally flabbergasted.

Bernard's rage exploding, he suddenly turned and knelt before Clayde. His tears cascading onto the ground, he said, "Your Majesty, these two are nothing more than a pair of insatiable wolves. When they were young, I saw that they were two pitiable orphans and so I took them in, and later gave them important positions. But they only acted to shovel my clan's wealth into their own pockets. Despite that, considering the many years of affection between us, I spared their lives and even gave them 100,000 gold coins. This can be considered to be extremely benevolent and merciful of me. But now? Now they actually come here to sully and frame my Debs clan. They want to destroy the Debs clan! How vicious! Your Majesty, my heart is broken. My heart is broken!"