Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 304 Kong Sizhen's Choice, Prison Ghost

Prince Regent's Mansion, in the back garden.

In the cold weather, Kong Sizhen wore tight-fitting clothes and her hair was carefully pulled up with a net bag, still dressed like an army general.Holding a long sword in her hand, she spread her body and jumped around, the dancing sword flowers covering her body airtightly.

"Good skill!" Standing in the gazebo, Dong'e applauded.

After Kong Sizhen escaped from Kaifeng City, he came to the capital and lived in the Prince Regent's Mansion.She was about the same age as Dong E, and the two quickly became acquainted.

Dong E looked at Kong Sizhen's sassy figure and sharp sword moves, envious, and thought to himself: "I also like women disguised as men, but just to go out of the house to play. Sister Kong's demeanor does not let men, don't have a certain style! Hey, if only I could dance with a sword, it’s a pity that Ama won’t let me dance with a sword..."

Kong Sizhen finished playing a set of sword moves, put away the sword, took the hot towel handed over by the servant girl and wiped her face, went to the gazebo, picked up a curved bow, and plucked the bowstring with her fingers.

"Sister Kong, take a rest." Dong E smiled.

"No, I'm not tired yet. Even if I'm tired, I can't relax. I have a blood feud!" Kong Sizhen gritted his teeth.

She took two steps forward, her feet firmly planted in the snow, she drew her bow and arrow, and said angrily: "Gege, do you see the yellow leaves under the bird's nest? Let me shoot it down!" "

Dong Go followed Kong Sizhen's gaze and saw a tall tree at the courtyard wall. There was a bird's nest on the treetop. Under the bird's nest, a solitary yellow leaf hung.

"The distance is so far, the yellow leaf is so small, can you shoot it down?" Dong'e expressed doubts.

Kong Sizhen didn't answer, but twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, then fixed his eyes on Huang Ye.After a while, the feather arrow shot out, and it hit the target, and the feather arrow pierced through the yellow leaf and fell to the ground together.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Dong'e cheered, feeling admiration from the bottom of his heart.

"That's right, it's very good, the accuracy is as good as most of the archers in the Eight Banners Army!" Dorgon's voice came, and he appeared in the back garden with a few guards.

"I've met the regent!" Kong Sizhen hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

Dong E shouted: "Ama, Sister Kong is so powerful, she is my Hua Mulan in the Qing Dynasty, right?"

Dorgon walked to the pavilion, took Dong Go's hand and smiled fondly: "It's cold, don't stay outside for too long, so as not to get cold. Go and say hello to your mother-in-law. I have something to say. Talk to Sizhen."

"Understood." Dong E bowed and said, "Sister Kong, I will come to you later."

When Dong'e left, Dorgon looked at Kong Sizhen and said, "Let's live! There is a banquet in the palace today, and this king has spent a lot of energy in order to save your life. At the insistence of this king and Prince Li, the empress dowager named you Heshuogege, and wants you to enter the palace..."

Kong Sizhen hurriedly said: "I want to report to the Regent, my daughter doesn't want to be a princess, nor does she want to enter the palace!"

"Then what do you want to do? Your father, Kong Youde, was a hero of the Qing Dynasty. He died in the battle, and the court will naturally treat his orphan generously. This king has spent many days thinking about this matter, and finally calmed down the opposition of many people. Are you still not satisfied?"

"Regent, I don't want glory and wealth, I just want to avenge my family!"

Dorgon seemed to have expected Kong Sizhen to say this, with a satisfied smile on his face, but he pretended to ask: "Revenge is not easy, you have to suffer and suffer that ordinary people can't bear, you, a girl, can do it." ?"

"I'm not afraid of hardship!" Kong Sizhen mustered up his courage, and looked up at Dorgon firmly.

"Okay, you come with me." Dorgon said.

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Kong Sizhen followed Dorgon to an alley northwest of Zhengyang Gate. When he got off the carriage, he looked up and saw a tall and solid building made of bricks and stones, which was heavily guarded.

Walking in, Kong Sizhen felt that the atmosphere was overwhelming, and this atmosphere made people think of death involuntarily.

She asked, "Prince Regent, what is this place?"

"Are you scared?" Dorgon narrowed his eyes, and said, "This is the Fusi Prison of Jinyiwei North Town in the Ming Dynasty. This king wants to take you to see a prisoner."

Kong Sizhen couldn't figure it out, what was he doing to see the prisoner in such a good manner?She didn't dare to ask any more questions, so she bit the bullet and walked in.

From the tunnel to the interior of the imperial prison, I saw many horrible scenes, even though Kong Sizhen was usually courageous, he also felt horrified at this time.

But Dorgon kept walking, and didn't stop until a stone house at the end of the corridor.A solid and heavy iron gate was installed on the west wall of the stone house. There were more than a dozen soldiers in full armor standing at the gate, each of them vicious and inviolable.

There were two big locks on the iron door. One big lock was opened by the cell head, but the key to the other big lock was in Dorgon's hand.

Seeing this formation, Kong Sizhen thought to himself: "Who is behind the iron door, and he actually needs the regent to keep the key himself?"

The iron door opened with a clatter, but it turned out to be a stinky water prison.Kong Sizhen looked into the water prison with the flickering light of the torch, and vaguely saw an iron cage hanging in the center of the cell, and a person was imprisoned in the cage.

"Bring him out." Dorgon ordered.

Not long after, several soldiers took the man out of the dungeon and tied him to a cross stake.

The soldiers repeatedly confirmed that there were no mistakes, and then they all exited the stone house.It is obvious that when Dorgon interrogated the prisoner, everything was kept in a state of extreme confidentiality.

The prisoner's clothes were soaked in blood and turned dark red.He drooped his head, his blood was exhausted, his limbs were swollen, and there was only one breath left in his throat, as if life and death were in an instant.

What surprised Kong Sizhen was that the prisoner was a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old in terms of figure and appearance.At such a young age, what kind of heinous crime did he commit to make the regent feel like an enemy?

"Do you know who he is?" Dorgon glanced at Kong Sizhen, pointed at the prisoner and said angrily, "This thief is the murderer who assassinated Fan Wencheng, and his name is Wang Yi. Hmph, this kid is very stubborn. I tried my best but couldn't pry his mouth open, and the spies sent to the south found out his name by accident."

Kong Sizhen had heard about Fan Wencheng's assassination, and couldn't help staring at Wang Yi carefully.She wondered: "Prince Regent, how did this person kill Mr. Fan?"

"That's why this king brought you to the jail to meet this dog thief." Dorgon clapped his hands, and the jailer walked in holding a leather box.

While opening the box, Dorgon said: "This dog thief ambushed in the woods of the Temple of Heaven and killed Fan Wencheng. Probably God had eyes and let the poisonous snake bite him. He was poisoned by the snake, fell into a coma, and was killed by the soldiers. We found it, along with this curious gun in a box."

"After examining Fan Wencheng's body, it was confirmed that Fan Wencheng was shot three times in total and the bullets were still in his body. This gun is very rare. I asked the best firearms experts in the army to see it, but they couldn't explain why. , just tell me that with the existing firearms manufacturing technology, it is simply impossible to create this kind of musket."

Kong Sizhen became interested, and looked at the gun with shock and curiosity.

Dorgon continued: "I asked the best musketeers in the army to test it several times. This gun has a long range and high accuracy. It is really a weapon for assassination! Kong Sizhen, if you want to avenge your father, you might as well learn from this dog thief. , become an assassin."

Kong Sizhen finally understood Dorgon's intentions, and said: "It's just that my daughter has never used a musket, let alone this is a rare gun in the world, I'm afraid I..."

"Where there is a will, there is a way. Your archery skills are superb. As long as you are willing to endure hardships, you must be able to control this musket. It's just that there are only a dozen or so bullets left. You can practice with ordinary muskets first." Dorgon said.

Kong Sizhen took the gun and couldn't put it down.

Dorgon had already stood up, walked to Wang Yi, and pulled off his clothes.Wang Yi's body was covered with abscesses and scars, as if he had crawled out of a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire.

"Dog thief, tell me, what do you need to pay attention to when using this kind of gun to kill people!" Dorgon roared sharply.

Wang Yi's drooping head moved slightly, but he didn't make a sound.

Dorgon furiously scolded: "This king comes to interrogate you every once in a while, but you are stubborn, that's all, it's okay if you don't speak, I have plenty of time to torture you, so just treat you as my punching bag!"

It turned out that since Wang Yi was arrested and imprisoned in the imperial prison, Dorgon would come to interrogate Wang Yi whenever he was in a bad mood.

At first, he wanted to get some secrets out of Wang Yi's mouth, but when he saw that Wang Yi was stubborn, Dorgon tortured him to vent his anger.

During the recent period, news of the Ming army's siege and the Qing army's defeat continued to spread. Dorgon became even more resentful and used all kinds of torture. Almost all the torture in the imperial prison was used on Wang Yi.

Dorgon pinched Wang Yi's chin and said coldly: "Thief, when you were poisoned by snake venom, I asked the shaman to save you, just to prevent you from dying so easily! I will torture you endlessly, Until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Did Chongzhen really think that by sending you to kill Fan Wencheng, the Ming Dynasty would be able to compete with the Qing Dynasty?"

While Dorgon was scolding, he picked up an iron brush and brushed it on Wang Yi's chest.Wang Yi's body shook violently, his chest was bleeding profusely, and he made a "ho ho" sound from his mouth.

"Let's have a taste of the soldering iron again!" Dorgon turned around, picked up the red-hot soldering iron from the brazier, and stabbed Wang Yi in the stomach.

A burning smell wafted up, Wang Yi straightened up suddenly in pain, and the howl echoed in the stone house.

Kong Sizhen's heart trembled, and he couldn't stand it any longer, so he backed out with the leather box in his arms.

Standing outside the stone house, she could still hear Dorgon's endless curses: "Bitch thief, sooner or later, I will cut you into pieces, peel off your skin, beat your tendons, and castrate you... Yes, one day This king is unhappy, so I will castrate you so that you can no longer be a man!"

Wang Yi's laughter suddenly rang out in the stone room. The sound was low and hoarse, like the screams of ghosts deep in hell.

Kong Sizhen shuddered and thought to himself: "This man has some backbone... No, I shouldn't sympathize with him. He is a killer trained by Chongzhen, an enemy of the Qing Dynasty, and that is my enemy!"

(End of this chapter)