The night is as thick as ink, deeply covering the bright moon and starlight, and the majestic Wansheng Villa has also lost its color, like a black village built on the mountain, if it were not for the hanging lanterns and swaying torches to add some warmth, I am afraid that people will think that it is a magic cave.

In the depths of this villa, near the back mountain, there is an unknown secret passage, which was originally built by the previous owner to hide the gold and silver treasures, but since Wansheng Villa spent a lot of money to buy here, sent people to rebuild, not only opened up the secret passage, became a way to escape, but also dug a dark reservoir in the middle of the secret passage, attracting mountains and water to pour in, forming a dark water prison.

At this time, there was a strong man in the water prison, his hands were pulled by two thick iron chains, his feet were just able to step on the ground, and he was imprisoned alive in the shape of a cross, and he was completely soaked in water from the thigh down, and his long black hair was hanging down scatteredly, his head was shrugged, and his spirit was sluggish.

Suddenly, there was a slight metallic sound from the door of the water prison, and the heavy iron door slowly opened with a piercing "creak", and a middle-aged man in rich clothes walked in slowly, descended the stone staircase, and slowly walked to the front of the cistern, looking condescendingly at the imprisoned prisoner.

"Zeng Kun, if you keep it locked up, you will really die, and you still refuse to say it?"

This prisoner who was locked up in the water prison was none other than the mention of the Imperial City Division, the husband of Emperor Jiade Zhao Yupan, and the concubine of the dynasty.

In the face of the threat, he raised his head with a fierce smile, his sharp eyes stared directly at the middle-aged man in front of him, although his voice was low, but with a cold killing intent: "Wan Qiansheng, you'd better count on me to die!"

This middle-aged man is Wan Qiansheng, the owner of Wansheng Villa, seeing that Zeng Kun is still tough, his upright-looking face instantly reveals ruthlessness: "There has been an order from above, if you still refuse to tell where the real Zhongli Hao is hiding within two days, then don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Zeng Kun sneered: "If I say it, I won't die? If you want to kill, you can kill, don't talk nonsense with me!"

"You are smart, but it has already been said above, as long as you tell where Zhong Lihao is hiding, and follow us to kill him with your own hands and intercept and kill Zhu Bocai as a vote, transfer to the command of Master Tong, help get rid of Zhao Bufan's party, and clearly report to the queen that Zhao Bufan is a fake prince here, then you still be your Imperial City Siti, be your concubine, no one will dare to kill you!"

"That dead eunuch asked me to be his lackey?" Zeng Kun laughed miserably, his voice getting louder and louder, and in the end he was already crazy: "Earlier, the evidence was insufficient, I was not sure, but now I really believe more and more that Zhao Bufan is the real second prince, what are you going to do secretly to confuse the public with a fake second prince? I have a family background that has received the emperor's favor, and His Majesty will also give me Pan'er as his wife, you let me kill Zhao Bufan, the widow of the royal family? Let me kill my beloved wife's brother with the same father and mother? Who are you and me?"

Wan Qiansheng's voice instantly raised, and he reprimanded sharply: "Zeng Kun!! Do you think this matter is only done by Master Tong? Let me tell you, this matter has already involved the dispute between the royal family, it is a cannibalism within the royal family, it is far more complicated than you imagined, what does it matter to you? You might as well think more about yourself, you switch here, and at least in the future, you can at least save your wife Emperor Jiade from being implicated!"

"The battle of the royal family?" Zeng was stunned, his expression uncertain. "Crown Prince Zhao Huan?"

"I don't know this, the above just asked me to convey this sentence, you can do it yourself!"

Zeng Kun's heart was shocked.

No, I can't die, the queen and Pan'er don't know anything at the moment, if they are calculated, then even Pan'er will be implicated in the future, and my Zeng family will also ......

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, his hands struggling violently, the chains clanging, and the blood flowing from his wrists continued to drip down his arms.

Wan Qiansheng watched coldly, letting him struggle wildly.

"The chains made of cold iron, you also have them in the Imperial City Division, and you haven't seen them before, so why bother?"

"You must not die well!!" Zeng screamed with grief and indignation, and his mournful voice lingered in the empty water prison for a long time.

Wan Qiansheng looked at him like this, and a strange smile appeared on his face: "Howl! Howl! You can howl happily! There is a sentence that I forgot to tell you, the above wants you to live to switch, but I want you to die, God knows if you will retaliate against me if you go out alive, so you are dead, you know what I mean? You will slowly rot in this water prison!"

"Wan Qiansheng!! you will be cramped and peeled sooner or later!!!"

"Let's wait until that day!"

Wan Qiansheng smiled nonchalantly, turned around and left.

At this moment, a cold voice came from the iron door above the stone staircase, and instantly echoed throughout the water dungeon.

"What are you waiting for? Today is the auspicious day of the zodiac, and it is a good time for you to die!"

"Who?"

Wan Qiansheng's hair stood on end in an instant, and when he looked up, he saw a swift figure rushing in front of him, and the cold palm power hit his chest directly.

He didn't care much, and hurriedly slapped a palm.

"Bang!"

The two palms intersected, and Wan Qiansheng flew out in an instant, and with a loud thud, he fell into the reservoir hard.

Yang Yizhong and Shang Kunyang, who were following behind Zhi Yuezhi, immediately jumped into the water and quickly restrained him.

All this happened very quickly, at this time, Zeng Kun saw the person who spoke earlier, and the color of surprise was overflowing, I am afraid that I have never been so happy to see a person in my life.

"Zhao Bufan, why are you here?"

Zhao Bufan smiled and strolled down the stone stairs: "Lord Zeng, why did you do this, you have nothing to do to experience the life of the water prison?"

"When is this, you still have the heart to laugh, let me down!" Zeng Kun scolded angrily.

Yang Yizhong, who was next to him, couldn't help laughing, and quickly searched out a bunch of keys from Wan Qiansheng's hand, and tried them one by one for a long time, before revealing the locked chains.

Zeng Kun, who had lost his restraints, moved his hands and feet, and his murderous aura boiled instantly, and with red eyes, he kicked Wan Qiansheng to the steps, followed by him, grabbed his hair and threw him up the stone stairs.

"He can't die now!" Zhao Bufan hurriedly spoke out to persuade him.

Zeng Kun slapped him twice in a row, pulled Wan Qiansheng's hair and lifted his head, half-squatting and staring at his blood-covered face, and squeezed out a fierce voice from between his teeth: "Wan Qiansheng! Wan Da Zhuang Master! Don't you want me to rot alive? How do you guess you will die now?"

"Ahem!!ahem!!"

Wan Qiansheng coughed violently, blood overflowed from his mouth, and his whole face was completely numb with despair, he already knew in his heart that he was finished!

Seeing that Zeng Kun's emotions were extremely excited, Zhao Bufan couldn't help but walk up to him and gently patted him on the shoulder: "The big thing is important, just bring it back and let you torture it yourself, and give him a good time after the torture!"

Zeng Kun snorted coldly, and directly mentioned Wan Qiansheng and left, until he climbed the steps and came to the iron gate, he suddenly remembered something, and suddenly turned his head and asked, "Lord Zhao, when did you arrive?"

"Even when you scolded them for not dying well, I also heard this voice and came over, what's wrong?" Zhao Bufan asked strangely.

Zeng Kun thought about it, shook his head and said, "It's nothing, just ask!"

"Just ask?"

Zhao Bufan looked at his back suspiciously, and couldn't figure out which tendon was wrong with him, shook his head at the moment, and followed out of the water prison, and then he investigated in the secret passage next to each other, and found nothing else, so he left the secret passage and returned to Wansheng Villa.

At this time, Yang Bangyi had already cleared the people of Wansheng Villa, and a large number of officers and soldiers were searching everywhere.

After a long night's work, it wasn't until the next morning that Wansheng Villa calmed down, Zhao Bufan didn't rush to leave, but tortured the captured ghosts on the spot, as for the ghost families who did not resist, he ordered Yang Bangyi to disperse in time and let them go with their property.

Two days later, the Shura ghost could not bear the torture and expressed his willingness to tell everything he knew.

Zhao Bufan got the report and hurried to the room that was temporarily used for torture.

At this time, the Shura ghost who was tied to the torture rack was almost inhuman, his eyes were deep-set, his face was defeated, how could he still have the slightest master's demeanor, Zhao Bufan looked at it for a moment, waved away the others, closed the door, and sat quietly next to the stove.

"You don't have to tell me complicated confessions, someone will come to record a confession for you later, so I'll ask a few simple questions!"

"Just ask if you want!" the Shura ghost's voice was very weak, as if it was about to die at any moment.

"Back then, there was a horse thief called Wind Maniac outside the Saiwai, who crisscrossed between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, and was later subdued by Zang Zheng, the prince of Xige City......"

Before Zhao Bufan finished speaking, the Shura ghost was already weakly said: "I am the wind maniac, I didn't die back then, I just served Tong Guan, at that time, Tong Guan had just risen, and he was planning to form a ghost pawn, seeing that my martial arts were good, he asked Senior Brother Shen to persuade me to join the ghost pawn, eliminate dissidents for him, and do things that are not visible!"

"Who is your Senior Brother Shen, what is your identity as a ghost pawn, and how is your martial arts?"

"His name is Shen Hanyang, Tong Guan's entourage, his martial arts are even higher than mine, he will be able to, when I was still in Xige City, he had already served Tong Guan, and it has been nearly twenty years, let alone so far!"

Zhao Bufan frowned when he heard this: "More than 20 years? At that time, Tong Guan had not yet risen, how did he accept your junior brother? How did he and Tong Guan meet?"

Speaking of this, Shura's ghostly eyes showed a look of memory: "My master and Shen Hanyang's master are from the Western Regions, and we have two major hobbies in our lives, one is killing, and the other is lewdness, in the war, we successively picked up the young me and Shen Hanyang, taught us martial arts, taught me to kill, and taught Shen Hanyang to be lewd, and then the master secretly went to the Xixia Palace to rob women on a whim, and I didn't want to be killed by the master of Xixia Yipintang."

At that time, I was twelve years old, Shen Hanyang was sixteen years old, we went to the junction of Song and Xia, when there was an old eunuch named Li Xian in the Great Song Dynasty, who was not small, and often led troops to fight with Western Xia in Western Xinjiang, and he was the teacher who taught Tong Guan martial arts and the art of war, and he was also the eunuch he took Tong Guan to be. Because Li Xian led troops in Western Xinjiang all the year round, Tong Guan also mixed up in Western Xinjiang when he was young, Shen Hanyang once went to rob the people's daughters and was caught by Tong Guan, but Tong Guan let him go, and the two met.

More than ten years later, Shen Hanyang and I became a martial arts master, I went to be a horse thief, Shen Hanyang doesn't like to kill indiscriminately, only likes women, he heard the people in the side of the country say that the women in the south of the Great Song Dynasty are especially delicate and delicate, so he came to the Great Song Dynasty, and since then he has been separated from me, and when he meets me again, it is already when Tong Guan came to fight against Zang Zhengpu, I was defeated and captured, and it was Shen Hanyang who persuaded me to join the ghost pawn!"

Hearing this, Zhao Bufan's brows furrowed more and more, and he asked in a deep voice, "Tong Guan beat your junior brother Shen Hanyang when he was young?"

"Tong Guan's martial arts are higher than me and Shen Hanyang, but he likes to pretend to be very weak, he doesn't like to show his martial arts in front of people, he likes to run away, otherwise, he was defeated in Fangzhou at the beginning, and was chased and intercepted by Wang Qing's masters, where could he be injured and escape!"

There was a hint of admiration in the weak voice of the Shura Ghost, and he took a deep breath and continued: "In fact, in terms of martial arts alone, Tong Guan can be called a generation of grandmasters, he won the strengths of a hundred schools of thought on the basis of the martial arts taught by Li Xian, and created an evil skill, which only eunuchs can practice, named Sunflower Divine Skill." At the beginning, he and your master grabbed the Yang Zhigang Nine Turns Golden Yang Divine Skill, just to perfect his Sunflower Divine Skill, but he didn't grab it, in fact, he didn't know your master's identity at first, everything was only understood later, if he had known earlier, he shouldn't have killed your master!"

Hearing him mention the events of that year, Zhao Bufan's heart instantly felt an evil fire, and he said coldly: "The last question, who injured my master back then!"

Tong Guan and ...... Well, Shen Hanyang!"

"Okay! I know everything I want to know, and someone will come to ask you about the crimes committed by Tong Guan later, as well as the ghost strongholds and personnel, you can say as much as you know! You should know that whether you say it or not is already doomed to your end, it is better to suffer less!"

Zhao Bufan stood up and threw down this sentence, took one last look at the Shura ghost, and slowly walked out of the door, and when he came to the courtyard, he couldn't stand the joy in his heart, raised his head and looked at the sunshine in the sky, feeling the warm warmth, and the gloom that had been suppressed in his heart for many years seemed to be swept away.

Master, your revenge is about to be avenged......

Three days later, Zhao Bufan instructed Yang Bangyi to bring a letter from him and Zeng Kun to return to Beijing secretly, and was also responsible for escorting the evidence of Shura Ghost, Jin Ghost and Tong Guan, in order to prevent accidents, Yang Bangyi took almost half of the officers and soldiers under his command.

Because Zhao Bufan had already informed Yang Bangyi that he would be promoted to be the patrol envoy of the right army of Kaifeng Mansion, the Yang family's family members also wanted to move to the capital, but for safety reasons, they did not go all the way with Yang Bangyi, but were led by the five sons of the Yang family to the north by another road.

As for Zhao Bufan himself, he didn't plan to return to Beijing immediately, because the Shura ghost recruited his lair, and out of precaution against Tong Guan, he hid Tong Guan's incriminating evidence for many years in his lair, as long as he got those incriminating evidence, then Tong Guan would no longer have any leeway.

Things have come to this point, Zhao Bufan naturally can't let go, there are a lot of various corroborating evidence at the moment, Shura ghost madness can also be regarded as a key human witness, but the key physical evidence is still lacking, in order to be safe, he is determined to get the physical evidence hidden by the Shura ghost, and according to what the Shura ghost said, he is hiding these things in Hangzhou......