Chapter 34 Chapter 34: Going to the Dungeon, Pearl, Suffering Torture, Resisting the Powerful, Liu Hua, Repaying Your Grace

Not seeing Mingzhu for three days in a row, not only Wei Dongting felt guilty in his heart, but even Kangxi felt gloomy in his heart.In the past two years, Mingzhu has been with him day and night, and the relationship between the monarch and his subjects has gradually deepened. He gradually feels that Mingzhu, like Wei Dongting, is his indispensable person. Wu Ciyou once talked about how to get along with gentlemen and villains in a lecture.He compared water to a gentleman and oil to a villain. He said, "Water has a light taste, its nature is clean, and its pigment can wash clothes. After boiling, add oil without splashing. It seems that a gentleman is tolerant; while oil is The smell is strong, its nature is slippery, its color is heavy, and it can stain clothes. After boiling, water will splash everywhere, and it seems like a villain has no tolerance."

This passage impressed Kangxi deeply, and he often used this theory to study the people around him.Naturally, Wei Dongting was the first thing that came to mind.Kangxi felt that he was loyal and witty, bold and forthright, and mighty like the water of a river.What about Pearl?Smooth and gentle, sweet and fragrant, it seems a bit like "oil".With Wei Dongting, Kangxi has a sense of security.Everything was carefully handled by Wei Dongting, and what he enjoyed was the dignity and authority of an emperor; while being with Mingzhu, he felt a sense of joy, which made him feel superhuman superiority and glory.I remember one time when Wu Ciyou gave a lecture and asked everyone to write down a sentence with all four voices.This seemingly simple question stumped everyone for a while.Wei Dongting thought for a long time before saying: "Thousands of times and hundreds of turns".Wu Ciyou only commented on the word "barely".But Mingzhu raised her eyebrows and said loudly: "Sage of the Son of Heaven!" The two of them were clearly in love with each other.But since oil and water are incompatible and incompatible, why are Wei Dongting and Mingzhu so close?It seems that Wu Ciyou also misread things.

He was thinking about it, when he suddenly saw Zhang Wanqiang poking his head outside, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter? Is it time for dinner?" Zhang Wanqiang originally wanted to call out Aunt Su Ma to talk alone, but he didn't want to be caught by Kangxi, so he came in and said, "Long Live Lord, I can't go to school today. Just now Xiao Weizi said that we can only start the class if we find the Pearl!" " Kangxi laughed and said: "Mingzhu is a romantic talent. I didn't see him for four or five days a while ago. I don't blame him, but recently he has become more and more lazy. Maybe he got stuck somewhere. Little Weizi has also become bold. I'm a little younger, so I won't even let me read books."

Aunt Su Ma interjected, "It's better to be cautious. Now it's not as good as before. It's only been a few days since the mansion was searched. Does this mean the world is at peace?" Kangxi sat down dejectedly and said: "Forget it! I have some new insights in my studies recently, and I am going to ask Mr. Wu to correct them. Mingzhu is really a cunning thief. Where did he slip off?" Then he turned and said to Zhang Wanqiang: "Tell Xiao Weizi to search carefully. I'm going to see Mr. Wu tomorrow." Zhang Wanqiang had no choice but to agree to go on.

Yes, where is Mingzhu now? At this moment, Mingzhu is tied up in an empty house in the garden of Obai Mansion. Since she was kidnapped from Jiaxing Building that night, she was first imprisoned in Bumbleshan Mansion.That Bumble has a lot of kindness and eyes, and he was afraid that the news would leak out and hurt himself, so he sent him to Ao Bai's mansion.At this moment, Mingzhu was lying drowsily on the wet ground with her head resting on a square brick that cushioned the flowerpot.The westward sun shone through the roof, shining brightly and blindingly.There was a dead silence around, and from time to time he heard the mournful cry of wild geese. He tried to move his body, but failed, and his lower body completely lost consciousness.

He had made up his mind when he was kidnapped to Bumbleshan Mansion, and he was ready to endure all tortures, and he had to keep his integrity even if he died. But what kind of punishments are those!First it was the fingers, then it was changed to a leather whip, and then a tiger bench and a stick.Bumblesan said it was "eating sugar cane upside down, the sweeter it becomes." He passed out and was woken up again by the salt water.As soon as he woke up, he heard them ask again: "Where is Wu Ciyou?"Later, Bumblesin ordered someone to burn his chest with a red-hot iron.Mingzhu yelled out in agony, "God, hurry up, save me!"

Bumble, who was sitting on the sidelines watching the execution, said with a sneer, "My class has read the biographies of cruel officials and is familiar with the functions of various criminal laws. Not to mention you, even the Immortal King Kong will speak when he comes here." He motioned to loosen the sentence, Slowly walked up to Mingzhu and said: "You are a smart person, don't you hear that 'if you keep the green hills, you will not be afraid of no firewood'. You fell into my hands. If you don't tell the truth, no one can save you! Doctor Shang, how can I use a knife to kill a nobleman like you? If you tell the truth, I will send you out of Beijing and give you a sum of money—150,000 taels of silver! Enough, you don’t want to embarrass me anymore , I will never look for you again, and I will never worry about it for the rest of my life!" As he spoke, he waved his hand, and Liu Jinbiao branded it with a red-hot soldering iron again.

"My God!" Mingzhu yelled, struggled for a while, then passed out... When she woke up again, she only heard the second half of Bumbleshan's words "...Since you are in Baiyun Temple, you don't have to worry about finding Shangu. shop. Don’t let this person die, send him to Ao Zhongtang!” Lying here at this moment, he thought of this terrible scene.I also feel my heart beating wildly.God!Could it be that I really told the place where the emperor studied in a coma, why didn't I bite off my tongue at the beginning, people, if I didn't fall to this point, I really couldn't understand the sentiment.After calming down and thinking about it, Mingzhu realized what a serious mistake she had made, and what terrible consequences were waiting for her.

In the hallucination, he seemed to see Wu Ciyou's contemptuous gaze, and saw Kangxi, Lagu Su Ma, and Wei Dongting approaching with sneers.These people who are with him day and night are pushed to the bottom of the nine springs by his light "White Cloud View". Wu Ciyou doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but he, Mingzhu, would rather believe in what exists rather than what doesn't.With this loyal, upright, and knowledgeable Wu Ciyou, he is always a little nervous on weekdays, what should he do now?Meeting these people under Jiuquan, how to explain this matter. "What would happen to them if I crashed to death on the wooden pillar in spite of everything during the first trial?" Maybe Wu Ciyou would cry out in the wind and write a tragic poem to mourn himself; Tears; Shi Longbiao will gnash his teeth and swear to avenge himself; during the Ching Ming Festival, Mu Zixu and Hao Laosi will silently add dirt to their graves; The ground servants came up and pulled the grass on the grave... What will happen to Emperor Kangxi? He will sit in the Golden Palace and write an edict in person, granting himself the posthumous title of "Loyalty and Compassion".But what is this now, alas... everything is over!

Ugh…… In this way, Mingzhu was full of worries and thoughts.At one moment, the blood boils, and at the other moment, it feels like falling into a hole in the ice, and the whole body feels a bone-chilling cold.At this moment, there was a "gudong" outside the door, as if someone had fallen, and then there was no sound.After a while, I felt the iron door move silently.When I looked at it carefully, I realized that it was already dark.After a while, the door was gently pushed open, and Mingzhu finally decided that this was definitely not in a trance, and only saw a flash of a figure in front of her at this time.A thin voice whispered next to his ear: "Can you walk around?"

"I'm afraid it won't work..." Mingzhu gasped a little with excitement, she shook her head secretly and asked, "Who is... who is this step?" When he listened carefully, it vaguely sounded like Liu Hua's voice. His heart felt sour and hot, and he choked up and said, "Brother Liu, it's hard for you to come at this time..." Liu Hua helped him sit up, and said in a low voice, "Don't talk too much. In a word, let's go!" "No!" Mingzhu's eyes shimmered in the darkness, "I can't do it, get out of here and tell Mr. Wei to leave Baiyun Temple as soon as possible!" She said; while holding Liu Hua's hand, tightly He trembled twice, "The matter is urgent and important, and it must not be ignored!" Hearing the word "Baiyun Guan", Liu Hua only felt his head humming, and he didn't speak at the moment, he pulled up Mingzhu's arm, put a leg on his shoulder, picked up Mingzhu, and opened the door , rushed out with a stride, and was accidentally spotted by a watchman.The watchman clanged his lamp and clapper, turned around and ran, yelling "There are robbers" like a pig being slaughtered!When he was about to shout the second sentence, Liu Hua took a step forward and slashed the knife, and the man leaned over and fell down. With just one sound, the camp was blown up in Obai's mansion.Waihu, who was guarding the second door, whistled loudly; dozens of Geshha selected from the banner camp and a few underworld friends who were brought down by Waihu from the cottage all rushed out of the room with a "shua".The crooked tiger leaped forward, with the horizontal knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Don't mess around, the thief is in the garden!" Then he dispatched forty Geshhas to patrol around the outside of the mansion, blocking the way out; He sealed the garden gate to prevent thieves from entering the inner house; he brought twenty-five or six people with him, lit torches, and entered the garden to search.Obai heard the alarm at this time, he had already put on his guard, moved a chair and sat at the gate of the garden to catch the thief. Seeing that the general situation was over, Mingzhu whispered anxiously in Liu Hua's ear: "Put me down, hack me to death with a knife, and then say that I ran away...don't...don't...I don't hate you!" Liu Hua didn't say a word, and turned back and forth with Mingzhu on his back, but he felt that there were figures everywhere. In his panic, he heard Mingzhu murmur again: "It's important to deliver the letter... It's about the safety of the emperor... You, you put it down quickly." I'll go alone!" Seeing that Liu Hua still wouldn't let go, Mingzhu opened her mouth and bit Liu Hua's shoulder, "Why are you disobedient? Let me tell you, if you are captured by accident, you should call 'Baiyun Temple' to your heart's content, Someone is going to report the letter, remember..." Before he finished speaking, he fainted. When I was in a dilemma, I saw that the lanterns and torches were getting closer, and there were people on the garden wall. Dozens of glass windbreak lamps illuminated the inside and outside of the wall like daylight.The people who searched the garden didn't yell and talk, they just pushed the grass and knocked on the trees with their knives, advancing step by step.Suddenly someone shouted: "Liu Hua, it's you!" Liu Hua stopped, put the pearl lightly on the ground, lifted the sword and inserted it into the rock crack of the rockery, and immediately broke into two pieces with a "click", and said with a smile, "Crooked tiger! What are you talking about? I don't know What about you? A real man dares to do things bravely, I will follow you to see Ao Zhongtang." Seeing that he was so calm, everyone was momentarily overwhelmed by his aura and kept silent.When Crooked Tiger saw that he had broken his sword, he also put the sword back into its sheath, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Brother Liu is a good man! I won't come here to make things difficult for you. Ao Zhongtang is waiting there, you can decide for yourself. !" After finishing speaking, he shouted, "You are still not serving Master Liu!" Several Goshhas rushed up, clapped Liu Hua's five flowers, set them up, and left. Hearing that the thief was caught, all the people in Ao's mansion were surprised and rushed to see it.Dozens of arm-thick candles were lit inside and outside the Heshou Hall.Aobai sat on the couch with his sword in his hands, when he saw Crooked Tiger and the others coming in, he didn't say a word, he just stared at Liu Hua.Without flinching, Liu Hua stood in front of the court with his neck stiffened, looking at Oboi with his eyes.Aobai smiled coldly and said, "I said the back garden is haunted by ghosts, so it's you! Your name is Liu Hua?" Liu Hua curled his lips into a smile, turned his face away and refused.Seeing him like this, Crooked Tiger came up and slapped him in the face, making half of his face purple and blood oozing from the corner of his mouth: "Master is asking you something, are you dumb?" Crooked Tiger spat a mouthful of blood on his face and asked, "Which family is he my master?" At this time, more than a hundred people in the court, saw that this usually easy-going person dared to be so rude to Ao Zhongtang, and everyone was frightened. Gotta turn pale.Inside and outside the hall, family servants, guards and attendants stood around, holding their breath and holding their breath in silence.But Liu Hua held his head high and held his chest indifferently, and said slowly: "I am the sixth-rank captain of the imperial court, but Zhongtang asked me to work with him, so I will become his slave?" There was only a "slap", and this half of the face was slapped with a crooked tiger again. Crooked Tiger has no fame, so Liu Hua's words are particularly offensive.He felt that he was the most face-worthy person in the Ao Mansion, and today he was buried by Liu Hua because of Ao Bai, and suddenly became furious, his neck became even more crooked, and he pulled out the soft steel whip from his waist with a sullen face, "swish", and "wow" With a sound, Liu Hua was slapped across the waist. "Crooked Tiger!" Oboi shouted suddenly, "Back off!" Crooked Tiger stared at Liu Hua fiercely, coiled up his whip, and retreated resentfully to the side. Ao Bai giggled, got up and came to Liu Hua's side and said: "Liu Hua, you also know that I can't let it go. However, I regret that you are a man. As long as you tell who ordered you, aren't you a sixth grade? How about I praise you as a fourth grade?" Liu Hua snorted and turned his face away.Aobai said again: "If you think you can't afford to offend over there, it doesn't matter, I will give you a sum of money, find a secluded place to be Tao Zhugong, and enjoy Qingfu, how about that?" Liu Hua spat blood on the ground with a "bah" and said, "No one ordered me. You got someone to put in the back garden. I want to see what's going on." After finishing speaking, he kept silent. Aobai asked coldly, "How is your experience?" Liu Hua raised his voice and said, "It doesn't matter. His name is Mingzhu, and now he is the emperor's bodyguard, working in Baiyun Temple!" Hearing these words, there was a slight commotion inside and outside the Crane Hall.Obai knew his intentions, suppressed the anger in his heart and sneered, "You shout! You shouted my Crane Shouting Hall to the ground, and the Baiyun Temple won't hear you!" He turned his face and told Waihu, "From now on, Constantly inspect the inside and outside of the mansion for twelve hours, without my personal permission, no matter who is forced out of the mansion, you will kill him!" "That may not be blocked!" Liu Hua immediately said firmly.As soon as he finished speaking, Oboi stretched out his hand to touch Liu Hua's left flank. Liu Hua immediately felt a sudden numbness and a tremor all over.Obai put his hands behind his back and looked at his distorted face with a smile and asked: "Liu Hua, how do you know that there are people locked up in the back garden? Who else is your accomplice in the house? Tell me! I have ordered you." Congenital essential points, it is tolerable at this time, and after a while, the eyes and skin will be broken, the intestines will be broken, and the lungs will be cracked, it will be more uncomfortable than peeling the skin!" Liu Hua collapsed on the ground, panting and said: "Untie, untie the acupoint...I, I mean..." Xiao Qi, Xiao Zeng, Xiao Wu and the others were all scared and hid behind others. Aobai bent down and patted him on the back, and said, "Okay, I'll untie it for you, you tell me!" Liu Hua lay still, and said, "The rope is so tight, I don't want to talk about it. " Aobai nuzui signaled Crooked Tiger to untie him.Crooked Tiger hesitated and said: "Zhongtang, is this possible?" Obai sneered and said: "With his little skill, I can let him use nothing! Untie him!" When the rope was untied, Liu Hua stood up slowly, moved his hands and feet, pulled a chair and sat down in a grand manner, rubbing his hands and not saying a word. Aobai asked, "Why don't words count?" "I'm a famous wine cat?" Liu Hua said, "What I'm talking about is too big, I have to drink it with a bowl of wine!" "Okay, I will help you!" Obai ordered, "Come, pour him a bowl of Kweichow Moutai bestowed by the emperor!" The wine is poured.Liu Hua picked up the bowl tremblingly, hesitated for a while, raised his head and drank it clean.Oboi didn't say "OK", but suddenly the wine bowl hit his face with a "poof".He had excellent eyesight and didn't dodge. He stretched out his left hand and smashed the bowl in the air with a "snap", and took a step forward to touch Liu Hua's Chiyuan point.Who would have thought that in a flash, Liu Hua pulled out a four-inch long dagger from his bosom with a "swish", and threw himself at Oboi. All the people under the steps exclaimed that it was too late to save him, and Crooked Tiger saw it clearly, and threw a dart, which hit Liu Hua between the eyebrows.Liu Hua didn't even hum, and fell heavily on the ground before dying. Aobai's face turned pale, he rubbed his hands together, and said with a forced smile: "Except for the house thief, it's a great joy!" Although Liu Hua's sudden attack was unsuccessful, it still frightened Oboi so much that his face turned yellow.He forced himself to calm down, and said majestically to the servants and officers in the mansion: "Have you seen it? This is the end of betrayal and rebellion. Whoever dares to leak the slightest information about what happened tonight, I will not forgive you lightly." Seeing the servants Everyone was afraid, everyone trembled, and Oboi was relieved.I thought: "Hmph, you have sent spies to my house. Well, third child, let's see if you can escape this test!" But Aobai was too happy, he never imagined that everything that happened in his mansion in the past three days would be observed clearly by a mysterious person, this person is Hu Gongshan.