The punishment lasted for three days, during which the victim was given a life-threatening tonic such as ginseng decoction, so that the victim could bear the entire entire process of the punishment. For this reason, the requirements for the executioner are also very strict, theoretically until the last stab into the heart is considered to be completed, if the punishment is not over and the torturer is already dead, then the executioner also has to bear the relevant responsibility, the punishment is light, the death is heavy.

Ma Degong and Huang Shu's ghost crying and howling outside the city continued day and night, and almost all of their strength was used on this.

At the same time, there were also some noises in the praise of Chen Kai inside and outside the city. These murmurs came from some of the Zheng disciples of the Zhongzuo Institute, because they did not know where to get the news that Ma Degong had coerced Zheng Zhilong and the Zheng clan in Anping Town, causing Zheng Hongkui to send a batch of ships to Ma Degong and let him escape. This is the truth, but it adds fuel to the dispute between Chen Kai and Zheng Hongkui, coupled with Chen Kai's efforts to persuade Chen Bao and Hong Xu to intercept and kill the Qing army and the Zheng clansmen who have not sent an army to protect Anping Town, the spearhead quickly turned to this brother-in-law and brother-in-law who suddenly began to look down on him recently.

"Chen Kai, there is no Zheng family in my heart!"

"Pity the sister who cherishes fate, what a good girl, she was promised to such a scumbag, Uncle Hongkui and Damu are also blind!"

"That's it, what the fifth brother said is right, this guy only has his fame and fortune in his heart, our Zheng family is just a stepping stone for him, let it go, sooner or later it will become a big trouble for our Zheng family!"

“……”

The whispers gradually spread among the Zheng clan on Xiamen Island, but Chen Kai had just defended the Zhongzuo Institute, and almost all of them had annihilated the Qing army, and their reputation was unrivaled for a while, and they had nothing to do. In addition to whispering, I had to try to seek some powerful support.

"Uncle Hongkui is still missing?"

"I still don't want to meet, I guess I've been angry with that Chen Kai, and now even I and others have been affected."

"Think about it, Uncle Hongkui is the worst, the marriage contract has been decided, Chen Kai's wife is still very valued by Da Mu, and the sister is definitely going to marry, and Uncle Hongkui will not be distressed to death at that time."

“……”

Since Chen Kai sent troops to intercept and kill the Qing army, and executed the two masterminds of Ma Degong and Huang Shu outside the city of Zhongzuo, Zheng Hongkui has never met again, not only did he not enter the Zhongzuo Institute, but even the people from Zhongzuo, even Chen Bao, Hong Xu and Chen Kai, who is about to become his son-in-law, are completely gone, let alone these distant relatives of the Zheng family.

Since Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, the center left was taken by Zheng Cai, and most of the children of the Ishii Zheng family have been idle. Then Zheng Chenggong rose against the trend, and became stronger and stronger with the assistance of Chen Kai, and last year he annexed most of the forces of Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian's brothers, but the children of the Zheng family are still very few in the army and in the official yamen, and more are still those with foreign surnames who defect to the old department, scholars, local tyrants and village warriors. These people held almost all the important positions under Zheng Chenggong's command, with exceptions, such as Zheng Tai, who was only a civil official in charge of maritime trade, and this time also went to Japan to expand business. The only thing they could find for a while was Zheng Hongkui, but if Zheng Hongkui didn't see anyone, they would also be affected by the pond fish.

"Uncle Hongkui refuses to see anyone, let's just wait for Damu to come back!"

"Counting on Oki? Chen Kai has also made a great contribution to what he said, what can Damu do with him, what will he do with him? ”

"What will happen? Don't forget, that guy didn't have the right to be arbitrary, but he killed Uncle Zhiwan, Uncle Zhiwan is Damu's own uncle, why wouldn't he be punished? ”

"I don't think so, Damu's temperament is unlikely."

"Actually, it's not that it can't be, what we say may be useless, but some people may not be able to convince Damu ......"

………………

Inside and outside the city, the people were still immersed in the feast of revenge on the enemy, and those Zheng disciples had already begun to whisper. In contrast, Zheng Chenggong's mansion, which should have been the most lively, is now as quiet as an ordinary family's house, forgotten in this conspicuous "corner".

In the inner house, in the small ancestral hall of the Zheng family, Dong Yougu and Zheng Jing are bowing to a statue made of gold by skilled craftsmen.

This is a statue of Zheng Chenggong's mother, the Weng Lady. When Zheng Chenggong was born, his father Zheng Zhilong left Japan early for participating in the Yan Siqi group's plot to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, and even Zheng Chenggong was raised by his mother until he was seven years old, and his father was rarely seen. Because of this, even if Zheng Chenggong later returned to his father, he couldn't suppress his longing for his mother, and for this reason, he was once laughed at by the uncles and brothers of the Zheng family as a child who didn't grow up.

When Emperor Longwu ascended the throne, Zheng Zhi sent people to Japan to welcome back Weng and Zheng Chenggong's half-brother, but they were rejected by the Tokugawa shogunate, as they had been a few years earlier. However, due to the authority of Zheng Zhilong at that time, the Tokugawa shogunate's method was more tactful, using the condition that if Weng wanted to go to China, the second son must stay in Japan as a condition to allow him to make a trip, in an attempt to force Weng to give up the idea of coming to China with the inseparable relationship between mother and son, but Weng weighed the pros and cons, remembering that when her husband and son's career was still developing, she needed to wait for the morning and dusk.

Before leaving, Weng repeatedly told her second son: "Woohoo, I will give up my son!" I pity my father, my brother, and my son, and I send my son to a merchant ship with some gold at that age. Woohoo, I'm going to die! Although, do not forget your father and brother, and do not forget the China where your mother has gone." As the representative of the Zheng group in Japan, Tagawa Nanazaemon, who succeeded to the Tagawa clan, asked Zheng Chenggong several times to return to China to participate in the war against the Qing Dynasty and avenge his mother. Even his descendants once restored the Zheng surname.

Weng died in the first year of Longwu, and this incident added family hatred to the national hatred in Zheng Chenggong's chest, and further strengthened his will to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Burning clothes in the Confucian Temple and raising troops, Zheng Chenggong soon found someone to cast this golden statue for his mother, and decided to save the province in the morning and dusk, not daring to forget it for a day. However, in history, the Qing army attacked the left office, Zheng Zhiguan fled, and the golden statue was left in the mansion, and the result was Zhang Xuesheng's income, melting gold ingots, which Zheng Chenggong knew, regarded as a broken mother's corpse, and hated it deeply.

This time, Chen Kai forcibly reversed the decline of the Ming army, and the golden statue failed to fall into the hands of the Qing army. However, there was chaos at the time, and somehow a corner was broken, and in the past few days, Dong Yougu has quietly found someone to repair it, striving to look the same as before, lest Zheng Chenggong know about it and cause dissatisfaction.

After deducting the head, Dong Yougu left here with Zheng Jing. Back in the main room, the housekeeper came to report that a few distant brothers of the Zheng family had come to pay a visit.

"It's nothing more than gossip that has come true, expecting my wife to tell her husband for them. Just tell them that I feel a little sick and it is inconvenient to see people, so I will call them back. ”

For Chen Kai, Dong Yougu was initially very happy to have a husband who had real skills to help him, and she should be able to help her son in the future. But when Chen Kai seemed to have a connection with Zheng Xiyuan, she was afraid that Chen Kai would fall to Zheng Hongkui, and she was not relieved until she heard Zheng Chenggong's words. Next, Chen Kai and Zheng Xi were married, and she was busy hinting at Chen Kai's identity as a brother-in-law and uncle, but after a few days of being happy, Chen Kai killed Zheng Zhiguan in front of her and Zheng Jing.

Chen Kai at that moment was so terrifying that she struggled to leave Chen Kai's sight that day, but the placket inside was already wet with cold sweat.

If it's just that she's afraid, the problem is that her son is even more afraid of this "uncle" than her, and even during Chen Kai's defense of the city, she didn't have the idea of taking her son out of the house to put on a show, so as to increase her son's prestige, but once she mentioned it, she only had to cry like looking for death and life, lest she would see Chen Kai again when she left the mansion.

"Perhaps, this brother-in-law will become a threat to his son in the future."

Such thoughts have been haunting her mind since they surfaced, and they cannot be dispersed for a long time. An opponent like Chen Kai is really terrifying, not only killing Zheng Zhiguan this time, but even not mentioning those things in Chaozhou and Guangzhou, just saying that the unfathomable knowledge and strategic prediction ability like divine help mentioned by her husband are enough to make people desperate.

"It's not enough to rely on these guys, you need really powerful people to balance this person."

………………

Coincidentally, Dong Yougu made such an exclamation, and within a day or two, in Gaoqi in the north of Xiamen Island, Shi Lang sent away a group of Zheng children who came to visit, and then returned to the room, but his face was full of sneers.

Because of his opposition to King Qin, Shi Lang angered Zheng Chenggong and was sent back to the center left to "recuperate". He came back with Zheng Hongkui, and when he heard that Chen Kai was still holding on to the city, he knew that he would not play a role in Zhongzuo and Shenqianwo, so he asked Ling to bring a team of followers to capture Gaoqi, thinking that he would block the escape of the Qing army.

Arriving by boat, dozens of people landed, and immediately routed the Qing army guarding this place, and then held this place to prevent the Qing army from fleeing.

This is a great achievement, but compared to Chen Kai's miraculous achievement, it is still a difference between one day and one place. This is intolerable for a person like him who regards Chen Kai as a competitor as soon as he joins Zheng Chenggong's command. In the future, Chen Kai took Chen Bao and Hong Xu to intercept and kill the Qing army, and then made miraculous achievements. But what followed was not only praise and praise, but also some strange thoughts emerged, and even appeared in front of his eyes.

"Handsome?"

"Ignore them, they're just small fish and shrimp, and they can't touch Chen Kai's hair. If you want to bring down that guy, the weight of their words is not enough! ”