Chapter 120 Hongyu's Experience

Hongyu has lived to this day with many difficulties. He is much thinner and frailer than his peers, and half a head shorter. He relies entirely on drugs to keep himself healthy.

When the child was almost ten years old, Prince Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. According to the imperial physician, the child was saved.

As long as you take care of yourself slowly in the future, getting married and having children will not be a problem.

Seeing Er Gege's face crying like a clown, Prince Zhi was panicking. He pretended to be calm and asked, "Don't cry, Er Gege. Tell me how and where you lost it."

"My younger brother wanted to see the lanterns, and my daughter led him. Then a group of people came, the kind of vendors who carry loads on their shoulders and walk through the streets. Many people came to see their new things."

"It seems my younger brother also took a fancy to someone he liked, and he let go of my hand. I clearly held on tightly, but when the crowd dispersed, my younger brother disappeared." The Second Princess said this while crying, and also explained how she asked the guards to look for her but failed to find her.

"Don't be afraid, Father will bring your brother back to you." Prince Zhi put on his hat and walked out quickly.

He first contacted the prefect of Jingzhao and urgently blocked the city gates, allowing everyone to enter and not leave as soon as possible.

They then contacted the Wucheng Military Division and began searching house to house along the section of road where the loss occurred.

After doing these things, Prince Zhi immediately ran to the Forbidden City, took out his badge, and alarmed Kangxi in the middle of the night.

Kangxi walked out of the bedroom wearing his coat. Prince Zhi knelt down at his feet, crying: "Father, Hongyu is gone, and I am dead too!"

Kangxi was shocked and asked, "Why is Hongyu gone? Did you call the imperial physician?"

Prince Zhi stopped crying and changed his way of expression: "Hongyu is missing. I have overstepped my authority and mobilized the troops from Jingzhao Prefecture and Wucheng Bingma Division. Please punish me, Father."

Kangxi waved his hand to show that he didn't care: "You are in the Ministry of War to discuss matters, and it is not presumptuous in an emergency. You stand up first and tell me what happened in detail."

The prefect of Jingzhao grabbed the few remaining hairs on his body and felt that his life was over.

He knew that there was a group of human traffickers roaming around in the capital recently, but the recent focus of defense was on the imperial examination.

After all, the government had limited manpower, so they could only put it aside for now. After sending most of the students away with great difficulty, the prefect of Jingzhao was just about to start the case, but who would have thought that it would become such a big deal.

He is the only son of Prince Zhi!

And he had a son who was notoriously in poor health. Even if the child was found, if anything happened to him due to fear and worry, his small Jingzhao Prefecture could not afford the wrath of the Grand Prince.

"What's going on? Didn't you say they were committing crimes in the west of the city? Why are they here in the east?"

The yamen runners were all beaten with sticks, and they held their buttocks and adjusted their hats: "We were too busy before, and only one brother followed them, and we couldn't keep up, sir."

"You want me to tell Prince Zhi and the Emperor that I lost him?!" Jingzhao Prefecture Governor kicked him, "Why are you pretending to be a cripple? Go find him! No one will survive if they can't find him!"

It was already the next day when Yihuan got the news. Yinzhen did not start farming, but instead wanted to take them back to Beijing.

Hongyu's disappearance is a big deal. It is not appropriate for Yinzhen to take vacation outside at this time. He has to go back and help.

Yinzhen took Honghui and Hongyun and left on horseback first, while Yihuan followed closely behind in a carriage.

She still remembers Hongyu. Yihuan remembered that thin little boy called her "fourth aunt" in a soft voice. He was a quiet child completely different from Honghui.

His body was weak from birth. Yihuan frowned, afraid that it would be too late if she found him.

Jingzhao Prefecture had previously controlled several dens of thieves, and now they have searched them one by one. The prison is already overcrowded, but the human traffickers are nowhere to be seen. "Expand the scope and continue searching, even door to door!" Jingzhao Prefecture Yin wiped the sweat off his forehead, and without caring about the wrinkled official documents, he went to talk to the Prince of Zhi first.

It’s not that we don’t try hard to find them, it’s just that the human traffickers are too cunning. We are still trying our best to find them.

The prefect of Jingzhao expressed a similar attitude, and then asked for advice: "Please forgive my intrusion, but does Prince Hongyu have any enemies?"

How could a sickly little guy like him make enemies?

However, it was different for himself. The expression of Prince Zhi was a little flickering, but his enemies were not something that the prefect of Jingzhao could control.

"You failed to maintain public security, and now you are saying that Hongyu has made enemies with others. I think you, the prefect of Jingzhao, have great power." Prince Zhi sneered.

The prefect of Jingzhao hurriedly said that he dared not, and then fled in panic under the gaze of Prince Zhi.

The people in the Prince of Zhi's mansion have a lot of private soldiers, all of whom are hidden in villages within a hundred miles of the capital. They are people who cannot be moved easily.

Now Prince Zhi was extremely anxious. He knew that he was at great risk of being exposed, but he still sent someone to take his token.

"Break the whole into pieces and go to Beijing."

The Prince of Zhi took a lot of effort to complete the few words of command. He knew that no matter what the result was, this group of troops could not be used again.

Just as the entire capital city was running at high speed, the human traffickers were also panicking.

"Fuck it, who went to pick up the goods this time? Did we bump into someone we shouldn't have? Why was martial law imposed so quickly? Soldiers and officers are arriving in droves and can't even leave the city gates!" The leader was a fat man with a scar on his face. He asked viciously.

"It's either the boy or the girl, they are dressed the best." The skinny man followed the fat man, nodding and bowing, and when his eyes fell on the girl, he always smiled with an ambiguous expression.

The boy is Hongyu. He feels very cold at this moment because his coat is on the girl.

Hongyu stood in front of the little girl. He always felt that this group of robbers had bad intentions, so he tried his best to protect this sister.

"No, if we continue like this we will all be exposed. In this case, we can just sell them in the capital. Third brother, go and see what's going on outside."

The third one was a peasant woman dressed in ordinary clothes. If the fat man hadn't named her, no one would have thought that she was the third in command of the human traffickers.

The third brother went out for a while, holding the basket, and came back soon: "No, several regular customers heard about the child being sold, and they all asked about a little boy. If we act rashly, we will attract soldiers. There are also some people who look like ordinary people but have extraordinary skills who are also looking for a boy."

The fat man with the scar on his face looked fiercely in the direction of Hongyu and said, "I'm looking for you, kid. Who are you?"

"Do you really want to know?" Hongyu suddenly said, and he coughed twice, "How about you let me go now and we will just be strangers who met by chance?"

Hongyu firmly believed that his father would definitely send someone to look for him, and the traffickers' behavior also confirmed this.

The thin man impatiently wanted to slap Hongyu twice, but was stopped by the fat man.

"Your targets are all under five years old, so what's the difference between me and this girl?" Hongyu was a little confused. They both looked about ten years old and didn't fit in with the little kids around them.

"You guys were tricked by someone, weren't you?" Hongyu said, and then he started to cough violently again. "I'm not in good health, you better give me a thick coat, otherwise if I die, none of you will survive."

After hesitating for a long time, the fat man said, "Give him a coat, a clean one!"

Hongyu almost fainted from the smell of sweat on his coat, but thinking that they said it was clean, he forced himself to endure it.