When Yinzhen was rushing back from Liyang, he was robbed by pirates on the road.
If he hadn't been alert, he might have really capsized in the ditch.
But even so, seven of the guards who followed him openly were killed.
When the three brothers met at Yinzhen's residence, Yinzhen told Yinreng and the other two about the thrilling experience that day with lingering fear, and Yinreng immediately caught the key words.
——On the surface.
Kangxi really released them as bait for fishing, otherwise he would not have secretly sent more troops to protect them.
Except for Yinreng who had his own guards, the other princes had not yet been granted titles, so they had no personal guards.
But this time when he went out on business, Kangxi selected more than 200 people from his own personal army and assigned them to Yinzhi and others.
In other words, Yinzhi and his men brought sixty guards with them when they went out.
With the guards being highly skilled and equipped with muskets, these sixty men could take on two or three hundred bandits who were only equipped with machetes.
Those who truly become bandits are not stupid. How could they not know who they can rob and who they cannot rob?
Kangxi held a literary gathering in Suqian, but none of the princes showed up. People in the officialdom could probably guess what they were doing.
Yinreng didn't believe that the bandits who were able to gather in such a large scale under the noses of the government had no channels to learn this news.
With the previous experience of Yinzhen as a lesson, Yinreng's worries about Yinzhi deepened.
Could it be that the old man really has gone too far?
And the fifth brother, Yinzhen has already returned, so he should be here too. Why is there no movement yet?
The three brothers stared at each other in the palace.
Fortunately, Yinqi returned safely the next morning.
The brothers felt much more at ease.
This time the gathering place was changed to Yinqi's courtyard.
"Old Five, why are you back so late?"
As soon as Yinreng saw Yinqi, he got straight to the point.
Speaking of this, Yinqi found it a little difficult to speak, but facing three pairs of concerned eyes, he finally told them everything he had experienced.
It turned out that when he passed by Fu Ning, he kindly saved a woman who was selling herself to bury her father.
Who would have thought that the woman not only did not feel grateful to him afterwards, but she actually started to rely on him.
What’s the difference between this and repaying kindness with enmity?
He originally wanted to hand the woman over to the local county magistrate, but when the woman saw the county government office, she burst into tears and said that she had no one to rely on in this world and it would be better for her to die.
He couldn't bear to just ignore it, so after two or three days of tossing and turning, he ran into a scholar who had been cheated by the woman. Only then did he realize that the woman was a "professional" swindler.
They rely on him because they see his extraordinary magnanimity and want to rely on him to live a life of wealth and glory.
He was able to escape only after sending the man to the county government office.
Yinreng and the others were speechless when they saw Yinqi's frightened expression.
If any other prince met that woman, he would not be as silly and cute as the fifth prince.
If Yinreng met that woman, he might be able to tell at first sight that she was a liar.
Yinqi also knew that what he did was very stupid, and he fell silent after he finished speaking.
Yinyou was kind enough to make up for him with a few words.
Under normal circumstances, Yinreng would have laughed at Yinqi, but Yinzhi's life or death was still uncertain, so the brothers had no mood to joke.
But just waiting was not a solution. Six days had passed since Yinreng received the news of Yinzhi's disappearance. The actual time Yinzhi had been missing would only be longer, so Yinreng went directly to Kangxi and asked for permission to go to Changfeng to look for Yinzhi.
"no!"
Kangxi looked quite haggard, but after hearing Yinreng's words, he refused without thinking.
Yinreng frowned.
"Why?"
"An army of three thousand men failed to find Yinzhi. If you go, you will only distract them from you."
Kangxi's tone was light, but it blocked Yinreng's way out of the argument.
Yinreng clenched his fists and said helplessly,
"My son knows."
After Yinreng left, Kangxi's face became extremely gloomy.
At first, he planned to use his sons as bait and sent them out to investigate the administration of officials.
Only Yinreng was not among the baits.
Longkodo also obeyed his instructions and began to intensify the investigation, even at the cost of exposing the whereabouts of his own people, just to force the White Lotus members to take desperate measures.
However, more than 20 days passed and there was no movement from the White Lotus Sect.
Kangxi was thinking of making some noise and putting the blame on a family involved in the case.
So it was he who planned Yinzhi's pursuit.
However, some mistakes occurred during the operation, and Yinzhi panicked and rushed into a branch of the White Lotus Sect.
Now, the fake pursuit turned into a real pursuit.
Now Yinzhi’s whereabouts are really unknown.
The troops he sent had been searching the local area for several days, but there was no news of Yinzhi at all.
Although that branch was wiped out by Longkodo and his men, and some key evidence was obtained, no one could take the blame for the disappearance of the third brother.
Kangxi was filled with regret.
Why had he been so possessed by the devil in the first place that he wanted to send his sons out as bait?
As time went by, the atmosphere became increasingly quiet.
Yinreng and his three younger brothers repeatedly requested permission to go to Changfeng County to find Yinzhi, but were rejected by Kangxi.
The four of them became increasingly anxious. To ease their emotions, they gathered in Yinreng's yard every day to practice Bu Ku.
He waited for another five days, but did not receive any news from Yinzhi. Instead, he received news that Zeng Heguan, the prefect of Chizhou, had been arrested.
In addition to him, several county magistrates under Chizhou, the Huizhou merchant Jiang family, and the aristocratic Jiang family, all members of these two families were arrested.
At the same time, evidence that Zeng Heguan colluded with the White Lotus Sect and intended to murder the prince was also made public one by one.
The Huizhou officialdom experienced an unprecedented earthquake.
However, there was still no news about the third prince Yinzhi.
Everyone thought that Yinzhi had been killed and that even his body might not have been left.
But Kangxi did not give up and sent another 2,000 troops to search upstream along the river near Changfeng.
Yinreng looked at him coldly, and his expression changed from full of confidence at the beginning to one full of worry later.
However, after he accidentally showed some sarcasm in front of Yinzhen, Yinzhen began to pay attention to his attitude when he mentioned Kangxi and Yinzhi.
Later one day, after Yinqi and Yinyou left with heavy hearts, Yinzhen blocked him in the study.
"Second brother... do you know something?"
"Know what?"
Yinreng asked back.
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