Chapter 149 True Identity
Ouyang Zhi walked in the dark tunnel, following two fierce and loyal dead men, but he couldn't feel safe at all. This underground area with darkness, gloomy and dampness only brought people a sense of horror, but Ouyang Zhi had to come here because his son was here.
A faint scream came from the depths of the tunnel. Ouyang Zhi couldn't help but stop. Lin Xitang noticed his fear and smiled and said, "Mr. Ouyang, if you are not at ease, you can find some more people to accompany you. If four are not enough, you will have ten, and if ten are not enough, you will have one hundred. Let's all listen to the emperor."
Ouyang Zhi finally shook his head, continued to follow, and came to the torture room.
The torture chamber is located in the deepest part of the dark tunnel, covering an area of dozens of square meters, surrounded by large and small prison cells. In the center of the torture chamber, Ouyang Yunyi was tied up on the wooden frame with his limbs, and there was no thread on his body. A prison guard was waving a long whip beside him. His whole body was dark, probably because he had sweated too much, his knotty muscles were emitting oil, his clothes were covered with stains, and the dark brown blood stain emitted a stench, which made people even more disgusting.
"Yun Yi..." Ouyang Zhi saw clearly that his son was on the punishment rack and rushed over without hesitation. At this time, Ouyang Yunyi had already been punished several times, his face covered with tears, a mixture of snot and saliva. His originally handsome face was twisted in a mess, and his eyes were so blurred that he could not open. He heard Ouyang Zhi's voice and started crying.
At this point, crying is of no use. Ouyang Zhi comforted him a few words, and only then did he observe his son's injuries. He found that Ouyang Yunyi was not seriously injured. The prison guard must have extraordinary interrogation skills. All the whips fell on Ouyang Yunyi's two white buttocks. These two palm-sized parts were interspersed with countless whip marks. The whip marks were blood red, but the skin between the whip marks was bruised. From a distance, they were countless lines and color blocks, just like a student who was newly studying oil painting randomly.
Although it is just a physical injury, the humiliation and pressure it brings to people is unbearable to ordinary people. Looking deeper, Ouyang Yunyi's key organ is unscathed and he can do so many skills in a small space. Ouyang Zhi, who has been living in the world for many years, has never seen a similar master. He even believed in his heart that the person who caught his son was extraordinary.
"Don't worry, Ouyang Yunyi is still your son!" Li Junduo appeared behind Ouyang Zhi at some point and said with a smile, but he bit the word "Son" very hard, awakening Ouyang Zhi who was checking his son's key parts.
"How do you call a hero?" Ouyang Zhi calmed down and said.
Li Jundu smiled and said, "That's strange. You want to kill me, but you don't recognize me."
Ouyang Zhi frowned, and Li Jundu said bluntly: "The King of England Li Jundu is also..."
As he said that, Li Jundu had already sat down safely. Not only Ouyang Zhi was shocked, but the guards following Ouyang Zhi were also shocked and drew their swords to warn him. However, King Ying was silent. Li Jundu raised his legs and Lin Xitang stood aside with a knife in his arms. The black prisoner was not disturbed and cleaned up all kinds of torture instruments.
"Put down the young master." Ouyang Zhi ordered.
The two guards went forward to remove the ropes on Ouyang Yunyi's body, but the King of Ying was silent. Ouyang Zhi was nervous and a little scared. He never expected that the King of Ying was the King of Ying in the dynasty. He thought his son had just provoked some figure in the martial arts world, a wanderer. Since he was the King of Ying, things were completely wrong.
"Tell me." Li Jundu said lightly.
"What did you say?" Ouyang Zhi asked.
Li Jundu smiled: "Tell me about your orphans in the past Ming Dynasty. I think you must have a tragic story in it, which may also be related to our Li family."
Ouyang Zhi felt nervous. It was obvious that his son could not bear the punishment and had already taken all the possible attacks. But he didn't quite understand why the King of England knew that he was a traitor who assassinated the king and killed the emperor, so how could he let someone take the interrogation? Instead, he deceived him in this way.
"What will happen if I say it, what will happen if I don't say it?" Ouyang Zhi asked.
Li Jundu tapped the table with his finger and said, "If you don't say it, I will kill your son, and then catch you for interrogation. If you say it, it depends on you...whether you are useful to me."
One move targeting Ouyang Zhi's son was to block Ouyang Zhi's lifeline. He had only one son. Thinking of his wife's entrustment before his death, Ouyang Zhi hesitated. He was not afraid of death, but he didn't want his son to take his life.
Ouyang Zhi's story is indeed a bit miserable. He was originally a gentry family in Fujian. When his generation was not smooth, he had to do business. He was in Fujian, and tea was the main commodity he operated, so he took the way of the Zheng family. Later, when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, Ouyang Zhi did not want to shave his hair, so he fled to Xiamen Island with his wife and children. He relied on the path he had made in business before and started smuggling. Until Zheng Chenggong dominated the anti-Qing forces in the Southeast Sea, Ouyang Zhi's family was also punished.
In combination, Zheng Chenggong and the Empire had always been inconsistent. In order to avoid the rise of the southeast, he restricted the development of the Yanping vassal and imposed an embargo and trade restrictions on the Yanping vassal. The Qing Dynasty moved the boundary to ban the sea. The Yanping vassal was scarce. Ouyang Zhi's parents died of malnutrition caused by hunger. His wife also lost her life due to lack of medical treatment and medicine. The deep hatred of blood was recorded by Ouyang Zhi and his son. Both the Qing Dynasty and the Empire became enemies in their hearts.
After the empire restored the Central Plains and the Qing Dynasty fled to the north of the desert, the only enemy that could be touched was the empire.
"Tell me about your organization. As far as I know, you handled the Tongguan Fuqiao case and Chaoyangmen Assassination. You must be an important figure in the organization, but you are not the core leader, right?" Li Jundu asked indifferently.
"We will never betray our brothers even if we die!" The guards brought by Ouyang Zhi shouted at the top of his lungs.
Li Jundu nodded and looked at Ouyang Zhi: "Are you willing to contribute your life to keep it confidential? Oh, by the way, and Ouyang Yunyi, your son, is also your only relative in this world."
Ouyang Zhi didn't say anything. His clenched fists and his constant changing expression in his eyes were enough to see how conflicted he was at this moment. Li Jundu spread his hands: "It's a dilemma, Mr. Ouyang, you have to solve this situation."
"Mr. Ouyang, let's fight out and rather die than cooperate with Dongfando!"
"Yes, Mr. Ouyang, I would rather die while standing than live on my knees."
The two guards were passionate, but Ouyang Zhi suddenly turned around, pulled out the short swords from the two of them, and stabbed them into their abdomen. The two guards never expected that Ouyang Zhi would suddenly hurt people. They held his hand tightly. Ouyang Zhi closed his eyes and prevented the tears from flowing down. However, the blade was stirred in mercy. Until the two of them fell down without any chance, he sat down dejectedly, with his face as if dead.
"Not poisonous, husband, okay, okay, Mr. Ouyang, it seems that our days will be very long in the future." Li Jundu looked at everything in front of him coldly, just patted his palms gently, and then ordered Ouyang Yunyi, who had been greatly damaged on his butt, to treat the wounds of Ouyang Yunyi, then took Ouyang Zhi out of the torture room, and secretly arrived at a private house on the surface, making tea and treating guests, which was extremely natural.
Obviously, Ouyang Zhi finally chose the safety of his father and son, and cooperated with Li Jundu. If he took this step, it would be difficult to turn back.
"Now tell me about you." Li Jundu poured a cup of tea for Ouyang Zhi who had just finished cleaning his hands.
Ouyang Zhi did not hesitate to say everything he knew. The so-called orphans of the Ming Dynasty originated from the Tiandihui founded by Yanpingfan. When Zheng Chenggong resisted the Qing Dynasty in the southeast. In order to unite the inland anti-Qing forces, disturb the rear of the Qing court, and collect intelligence and raise materials, his military advisor Chen Jinnan came forward to establish a civil society, called Tiandihui and Earth Society to the outside world and Hongmen to the inside. This organization was filled with a strong anti-Qing color from the beginning, but the empire revived China and expelled the Qing Dynasty from the border walls. The Tiandihui, which took the anti-Qing as its mission, could not be managed.
In fact, there were signs of this. The Yanping vassal states were based on the Zhoushan Islands and the Jinxia Islands. The main anti-Qing forces were in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. The Tiandihui was mainly in these two provinces, especially the Yanping vassal states’ hometown, Fujian, which were the first areas to be revived by the empire. After the restoration, the villages were settled and the order was redefined. Originally, there were very few uprisings in the poor people caused by the relocation of the boundary and the harsh laws of the Qing Dynasty. The people had clothes, clothes, food, and land to grow. The Qing Dynasty was expelled from their hometowns, so naturally there was no need for the Tiandihui. Therefore, the Tiandihui was severely damaged at that time. Later, China was restored, but the Yanping vassal state was liquidated with the pseudo-Ming regime. King Zheng of Yanping died in the Zheng Jing rebellion (fake death). The Zheng family was either imprisoned or surrendered to the Xin Dynasty, and the Tiandihui was even leaderless.
In the era of dynasty changes, the Heaven and Earth Association, which originally took anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty as its mission, began to transform, attracting forces dissatisfied with the New Dynasties, and mixed together to form the orphans of the Ming Dynasty, and the goal also changed from anti-Qing to anti-Xing Dynasty. This organization has been backbone from members of the previous Tiandi Association, and has attracted remnants of scholars and officials, cult groups and declining literati. They have taken restoration of the Ming Dynasty as their mission. Their main job is to fight with the New Dynasties through various illegal publications, while Ouyang Zhi and his group are mainly responsible for assassinating important figures in the empire.
"Who is your boss?" Li Jundu asked directly.
Ouyang Zhi answered simply: "I didn't know that I was originally ordered by the Heaven and Earth Association. When the Heaven and Earth Association collapsed, someone came to me through previous contact channels. I have been accepting its instructions and supplies over the years. I don't know who the core figure of the organization is. Some people speculate that King Yanping has not died and lurked to lead the organization. Some people say that Chen Jinnan is still the leader, but I have never seen it before."
Li Jundu frowned slightly, his heart full of suspicion. It was true that Zheng Chenggong was not dead, but he could not control the organization. After the emperor asked Zheng Chenggong to commit suicide in Shandong, the Security Bureau controlled him for a while. He went to Nagasaki, Japan two years ago. It is said that he became a monk and someone has been monitoring him. Chen Jinnan has some possibility, and he disappeared after the battle in Shandong.
Li Jundu asked Ouyang Zhi several more questions, and only then did he realize that Ouyang Zhi wandered around the world in his early years, with his skills and was entrusted by the organization to train various killers. The two he killed just now were his students.
"I have already said everything I know and am willing to write a list of members I know, just asking the prince to let my son go afterwards. He really doesn't know anything." Ouyang Zhi begged.
Li Jundu smiled, "Do you think I want to catch you all through you?"
Ouyang Zhi widened his eyes. Is there any other ending? Li Jundu smiled: "Mr. Ouyang, you guys are also very valuable to me, especially the little girl named Han Zhiwei, Mr. Ouyang, I really need you to help me achieve great things."
"We, Han Zhiwei?" Ouyang Zhi was puzzled by the deep meaning.
Li Jundu clapped his hands and said, "You just need to do what I told you."
Two days later.
Han Zhiwei was reluctantly taken to a pharmacy by her father Han Junyi. After the incision was made, the two entered the backyard and saw Ouyang Zhi. Han Zhiwei looked cold: "I have met Mr. Ouyang, but you haven't seen it for many days."
"Yes, I haven't appeared for many days. I didn't expect you to be so promising and have entered the Royal Academy. You are truly worthy of being Mr. Han's daughter." Ouyang Zhi said with a smile.
Han Zhiwei lowered her head and said nothing, Han Jun also hurriedly rescued the situation: "Mr. Ouyang, please don't blame me."
"Haha, what's there to blame for? Miss Han, do you know what I'm going to do during this period?" Ouyang Zhi smiled and handed a newspaper to Han Zhiwei.
Han Zhiwei took a look and found that there was no important information on it. According to her usual habits, she only noticed an obituary, which was from a certain imperial duke. Han Zhiwei didn't understand why she showed herself a newspaper about Shen Jing.
"The assassination of King Ying by Chaoyang Gate failed, and Mr. Han and many brothers were unfortunately captured. I thought about it and only by capturing important figures in the empire could I rescue them and Awu from the Security Bureau. However, as soon as the assassination case occurred, the capital must be alert, so I took people south to Shenjing. Thinking that many imperial ministers were going to move there, there were many opportunities, I chose the third-class duke. I never thought that the action would fail. Although I killed the old dog, I could not realize the original plan......" Ouyang Zhi sighed and said.
Han Zhiwei's eyes lit up. Her father opposed her plan, but her plan coincided with Mr. Ouyang.
"Mr. Ouyang, what are you going to do next?" Han Zhiwei asked.
Chapter completed!