After getting angry for a while, Kang Mazi gradually calmed down and thought about it. He had sent many people to protect his father, and the white-bearded venerable was the best among the masters.

Kang Mazi thought to himself: "Although there are many idle people in the world who are dissatisfied with the imperial rule, it is not something that ordinary people can do to steal their father away quietly like this!"

Two names quickly popped into Kang Mazi's mind, 'Tiandihui' and 'Pingxi Prince's Mansion'!

Now it seems that only these two forces can do this in the world. Thinking of Kang Mazi shouting into the dark: "Come out!"

A man in black wearing a mask, covering half of his face, emerged from the corner of the study room and knelt in front of Kang Mazi.

Kang Mazi raised his hand and asked: "Has there been any news from the Tiandihui recently?"

The man in black shook his head and continued: "Before Feng Jizhong went to Hejian Mansion, he sent a message to his subordinates, and he never came back! And Qian Laoben from Jingzhong also disappeared recently, so I sent someone to

I’ve looked at all the strongholds of the Tiandihui in Beijing, and they’ve all been deserted. I’m afraid they’ve been exposed!”

Kang Mazi frowned and asked, "Where is Wu Liuqi?"

The man in black still shook his head and said: "Half a month ago, Wu Liuqi sent a message to the Thirteenth Yamen, saying that Fang Dahong, the incense master of Hongshuntang, came to find him and asked him to follow him to do a big thing, but what was it specifically?

I haven’t found out yet! I haven’t received any messages since then!”

Kang Mazi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. Going to do something big? Could it be... He said sharply to the man in black, "Why didn't you report it to me earlier?"

The man in black was so frightened that he knelt on the ground again and said, "The servant wanted to wait for Wu Liuqi to report back to him what exactly happened before he reported it to the emperor!"

Kang Mazi stood up from the dragon chair, turned around twice, and then asked: "Is there any movement at Prince Pingxi's Mansion?"

The man in black said: "There is not much movement over there in Kunming, but..."

After Kang Mazi heard bad news again and again, he became a little impatient. He patted Long An and said, "Don't hesitate!"

The man in black then said: "It's just Wu Yingxiong's side. We lost him shortly after leaving the capital..."

In fact, the people who followed him were killed by the secret guards of Pingxi Palace. But now, Kang Mazi was so angry that the man in black dared not say anything. He only dared to say that he was lost!

In Kang Mazi's mind, Wu Yingxiong still had an image of being ignorant of the world, and he couldn't help but think to himself: "Wu Yingxiong has lost his way? It's suspicious, but can Wu Yingxiong, who is a bit stupid, be able to handle such a big thing?"

Kang Mazi thought for a while, Pingxi Prince's Palace and Tiandihui were both suspicious, who could have done it? If Tiandihui did it well, if it was Pingxi Palace that did it... then he asked again: "That

Have you recruited the old monk?"

The man in black thought that he seemed to be asking questions today and didn't know what he was asking. He was afraid that he would be in trouble today. He said tremblingly: "Not yet... not yet! That old monk is very tough-talking, and the slave will let people suffer all kinds of torture."

After using it, he just doesn’t say anything!”

Then Kang Mazi got angry again, grabbed the small copper incense burner on the dragon table and threw it at the head of the man in black. He said angrily: "This is how you do things for me!!!"

Although the man in black could hide, he didn't dare to hide. He caught the incense burner with his forehead, and his forehead suddenly started bleeding!

The man in black then kowtowed repeatedly and said, "This slave deserves death for his crime, and his crime deserves death for his crime!"

Kang Mazi finally calmed down and said, "Then what have you found now?"

The man in black hurriedly said: "I have found out the details of this old monk. This old monk's name is Chengguang. He was originally an eighteen Arhat of Shaolin Temple. He was sent to Qingliang Temple to be the abbot for unknown reasons a few years ago!"

Kang Mazi listened and turned around a few more times, then said: "Take me to see, I want to see how hard this old monk's mouth is!"

After the old monk Chengguang was sent to Beijing, he was taken directly to the palace and locked in a secret prison in the palace.

The man in black took Kang Mazi out of the study room and came to a small palace with no signboard on the west side of Qianqing Palace.

Although there was no signboard at the entrance of the palace, two young eunuchs were guarding the palace. When they saw the man in black arriving, Kang Mazi quickly knelt down and saluted!

Neither the man in black nor Kang Mazi paid attention to these two people. After entering the room, there were only some simple furniture placed in the room.

The man in black took Kang Mazi behind the screen, then opened the floor, and a secret door appeared. Under the secret door was a downward staircase, and there were torches on the wall next to the staircase!

The man in black said rudely: "Your Majesty, please slow down!" After saying that, he walked down first, and Kang Mazi followed.

After going down to the basement, a musty smell mixed with the smell of blood came toward Kang Mazi. The room was filled with various instruments of torture. At this time, old monk Chengguang's pipa bone was penetrated by an iron chain, and he was also chained to the ground. The monk's clothes It was in a state of disrepair, and two men next to it were beating it with whips.

Chengguang's body was already covered in scars, his eyes were half closed, and he looked motionless as if he was dead!

To the inside of the room were cells, and some people were imprisoned. All of these people were skinny and looked like they were dying.

In addition to the two men who whipped Cheng Guang, there were eight or nine guards in the secret cell. When they saw the men in black bringing Kang Mazi down, they all immediately knelt down and said, "See you, Your Majesty, may your Majesty be blessed!" "

Kang Mazi raised his hand and said: "Everyone, get up!" and then walked to a place one meter away from Chengguang!

When the old monk Chengguang listened to the guards in the prison greeting him, he opened his half-closed eyes and looked at the pockmarked face of a young man wearing a yellow robe with auspicious clouds embroidered on the clothes and a dragon shape in front of him.

Old monk Chengguang couldn't help but feel a little sad: "There have been rumors among the people that the little emperor has a pockmarked face. I thought it was just a deliberate slander, but I didn't expect it to be true. If I had known this, I would not have mistaken Wu Yingxiong for the little emperor!" Then! He thought to himself: "Even if the identification is correct, considering the people Wu Yingxiong brought to Qingliang Temple at that time, the result will not change!"

Kang Mazi suddenly felt relieved. He looked at the old monk who had no good spot on his body and asked: "Old monk, if you don't tell me who captured my father, is he alive or dead now?" , don’t blame me for being rude!”

Old monk Chengguang still didn't speak, but looked at Kang Mazi with clear eyes!

The man in black next to him put his foot on Chengguang's pipa bone and said, "The emperor is asking you a question!"

Monk Chengguang had been tortured for several days, and his body was already weak. After being kicked down, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

Although Gu Chengguang didn't mean it, he couldn't control it at this time. The blood was flowing straight towards Kang Mazi!

Seeing this, the man in black quickly stood in front of Kang Mazi. Almost all of the clear blood sprayed on the face of the man in black, but a few drops still landed on Kang Mazi's face!

Even though the man in black is wearing a mask, you can still guess the panic on his face at this moment!

The man in black knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said, "This slave deserves death. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Kang Mazi got a few drops of blood on his face, and felt very unhappy. He put his foot on the shoulder of the man in black and said, "Slave dog, you beat the old monk to death. Where can I go to find out the whereabouts of my father?"

After finishing speaking, Kang Mazi looked at the old monk Chengguang and said, "I have found out your details very clearly. I know that you are from the Shaolin Temple..."

Listening to Kang Mazi's words, Chengguang felt desolate in his heart. He didn't know that Kang Mazi was going to use the Shaolin Temple to threaten him like Wu Yingxiong!

Old monk Chengguang didn't wait for Kang Mazi to finish what he said. Chengguang, who had no strength at all, suddenly shouted the Buddha's name: "Amitabha!" interrupting what Kang Mazi wanted to say!

Then he raised a somewhat heavy hand and pointed into the distance, then a smile appeared on his blood-stained face, blood continued to flow from his mouth, his eyes closed, and there was no movement!

Kang Mazi stared at it for a moment, then said to the man in black on the ground: "Why are you standing there in a daze? Go and see what's going on. Do you want me to do it myself?"

The man in black stood up suddenly and began to check the old monk Chengguang's mouth, nose and eyes.

Then he turned his head and said to Kang Mazi with a guilty conscience: "Your Majesty, he bit his tongue and committed suicide!"

Kang Mazi nodded slightly, his eyes resting on the arm raised by the old monk Chengguang before committing suicide.

The man in black is a member of the Thirteenth Yamen. Although he behaved a bit poorly today due to some reasons, he is not really stupid, otherwise Kang Mazi would not let him stay with him.

The man in black said softly: "Your Majesty, the direction the old monk pointed before committing suicide was to the west... that is also the direction of Kunming!"

Kang Mazi put his hands behind his back and said, "Do you think the old monk wants to tell me that Prince Pingxi's palace did this?"

Another person nodded, his previously submissive eyes now flashed with a hint of wisdom, and said: "That's right!"

Kang Mazi asked: "But why didn't he say it directly and just pointed in a direction before committing suicide?"

Without waiting for the man in black to answer, Kang Mazi said to himself: "Yes, as soon as I mentioned Shaolin Temple, this old monk committed suicide. Obviously he didn't want to get involved with Shaolin Temple. Neither I nor Pingxi Prince's Palace are Shaolin Temples."

He can't afford to offend him, so he committed suicide!"

The man in black immediately flattered him and said: "From the slave's point of view, Prince Pingxi's Palace is just a local chicken and a dog. This old monk is obviously afraid of the emperor, so he pointed out that Prince Pingxi's Palace did this. Later, he felt

I feel sorry for the emperor, so I committed suicide!"

Although Kang Mazi knew that what the man in black said was not entirely true, he felt very satisfied. Kang Mazi was a scheming and cautious person, and he still had many questions in his mind, but the smell in the secret cell also made Kang Mazi uncomfortable. Now

The old monk Chengguang is dead, and it is useless to stay here. It is better to go back to the study and think slowly, so he said: "Let someone bury this old monk. At least he finally revealed the whereabouts of his father."

!”

After saying that, he led the man in black out of the secret cell and returned to the study. Kang Mazi sat on the dragon chair with his eyes closed and didn't know what he was thinking about. The man in black was waiting beside him!

After a while, Kang Mazi opened his eyes and asked the man in black: "Do you think my father is dead or alive now, and whether Prince Pingxi's palace did this?"

The man in black said sternly: "Your Majesty, I thought that the person who could do this was either Pingxi Prince's Palace or Tiandihui. Although Wu Liuqi had previously sent a message saying that Tiandihui was going to do something big, I thought that Tiandihui should be forty years old.

The matter in Chapter Two should have nothing to do with the old prince! Then the only one left is Prince Pingxi’s Mansion. If the people from Prince Pingxi’s Mansion capture the old prince, they should not take action against the old prince for the time being!"

After hearing Chapter 42, Kang Mazi showed a trace of disdain on his face, but he was still more concerned about his father's affairs, and then asked: "How sure are you that this matter was done by Prince Pingxi's Palace?"

The man in black thought about it seriously and said, "In addition to the accusation made by the old monk before he died, I am at least 80% sure!"

Kang Mazi sighed. Although Kang Mazi had previously said that he would cut his father's captors into pieces, when he really knew that it was the Pingxi Prince's Mansion that had done it, he felt a little panicked!

It would be very troublesome if his father really fell into the hands of Prince Pingxi! And why did Prince Pingxi know that his father was still alive? And Wu Yingxiong... Kang Mazi had some guesses in his mind, and couldn't help but secretly thought: "I will let Wu Yingxiong go."

Leaving the capital...seems like a mistake!"

Kang Mazi had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He thought about it and asked, "Do you think Wu Sangui or Wu Yingxiong led this matter?"

The man in black secretly raised his head and glanced at Kang Mazi's face, and then said cautiously: "I think this matter... must be related to Wu Yingxiong, otherwise Wu Yingxiong would not have disappeared suddenly by such a coincidence!"

After listening to the words of the man in black, Kang Mazi felt even more regretful and asked, "Then I have been deceived by Wu Yingxiong?"

The man in black said: "Your Majesty, after Wu Yingxiong came to Beijing, he has been living in the viscount's palace, playing with his maids all day long! What kind of person Wu Yingxiong is, I dare not say! But Fang Guangchen, the counselor beside Wu Yingxiong,

He is very talented. According to the slave's estimation, Wu Yingxiong should just be a person who eats, drinks and has fun, and other things should be arranged by Fang Guangchen!"

Kang Mazi felt a little relieved after hearing this, as long as Wu Yingxiong didn't cause the matter! What's more important now is to rescue his father!

Thinking of this, Kang Mazi said to the little eunuch next to him: "Bring me the map!"

The little eunuch quickly took the map and spread it out on the dragon case. Kang Mazi looked at the map and calculated in his mind.

It should have been almost ten days since his father was captured. Wu Yingxiong and the others should have taken his father to Yunnan. According to the itinerary, if they kept going without stopping, they should be almost in Shaanxi by now.

If you want to save your father, you have the last chance in Shaanxi. If you wait until Wu Yingxiong enters Sichuan and Guizhou, you will have no chance!

Kang Mazi knew very well the Pingxi Palace's purpose of arresting Emperor Shunzhi. If Wu Sangui held his father's head from a high place and shouted loudly, the court would be in danger!

Kang Mazi thought for a while, with a hint of determination in his eyes. Now it seems that he can only take action in advance and take a preemptive strike! He didn't care that it was already late at night, and said to the young eunuch: "Zhao Prince Kang Jie Shu, Suo Etu, Nalan Pearl

And ministers from various ministries came to see him!"

The little eunuch said: "Cha!" He hurriedly left the study room and went to Chuan Zhao.


Chapter completed!