Chapter 478 An Ungrateful Dog
When Kong Shanren heard the news of Ji Mingzhu's death on his way to court, his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground.
When he witnessed Ji Mingzhu vomiting blood, he was prepared.
But when this moment really came, Kong Danren still felt that there was a big void in his heart.
"Master Kong?"
When Lin Xiang was about to help Kong Shanren, Kong Shanren put his hand on the ground and said, "I feel a little uncomfortable and want to..."
"Do you want to see His Highness off?"
Kong Shanren was silent.
Since he knew it, it was not surprising that Lin Xiang, whose information network was wider than his, knew it.
"I will go with you."
When Lin Xiang and Kong Shanren were leaving the palace upstream, they were suddenly stopped by someone.
"Aren't the two lords going to court?"
When Lin Xiang saw that it was Censor Zeng who was coming, he explained, "I suddenly encountered an emergency... Zeng Ji!"
When Censor Zeng took out a dagger and stabbed Kong Shanren, Prime Minister Lin stood there in shock.
Zeng Ji failed to kill Kong Shanren with one stab, and his second attack was stopped by Lin Xiang's guards.
"Zeng Ji, are you crazy?" Lin Xiang really didn't expect Zeng Ji to take action.
He was an imperial censor, an official appointed by the court, and he was honest and upright in his daily life, so Prime Minister Lin had no guard against Zeng Ji at all.
What was even more unexpected was that Zeng Ji suddenly went mad and stabbed Kong Danren with a knife.
Zeng Ji did not refute Lin Xiang's question. His eyes were fixed on Kong Danren.
Kong Danren didn't recognize Zeng Ji at first, but when he stabbed him the second time, Kong Danren recognized him.
Back then, Ji Mingzhu saved him, admired him, funded him, and trained him to become a local official and her private minister Chuyi.
In addition to him, Chu Er was also an official appointed by the court.
But they never knew who Chu Er was, and Ji Mingzhu never clearly identified who Chu Er was.
Kong Danren had thought of many people before, but he never thought it would be Zeng Ji.
Zeng Ji was a solitary and upright person, and he offended everyone in the court with just his words.
If Zeng Ji had not saved the late emperor from danger twice, he would have died long ago just because of his mouth.
Zeng Ji seemed to be prepared to have his entire family executed at any time because of his mouth, so after sending his parents away all these years, he never married or had children. He was a true lone minister.
How could such a lone minister be in the second grade of junior high school?
Thinking back to the time in the court, Zeng Ji cursed Ji Mingzhu a lot. He even wanted to exile Ji Mingzhu with the Zhou family and confiscate all of Ji Mingzhu's private property into the national treasury. It was he who proposed it.
Zeng Ji is actually in the second grade of junior high school.
Zeng Ji stared at Kong Danren intently and asked, "Have you ever thought that this day would come?"
Kong Shanren covered his stomach and listened to Lin Xiang beside him anxiously looking for someone to treat his injuries.
He looked up at Zeng Ji and said, "I've thought about it."
The moment he betrayed Ji Mingzhu, Kong Danren knew that those people in the third grade would never let him go.
Zeng Ji was able to injure Kong Shanren because he caught him off guard, not because he was some peerless master like Chu San.
Therefore, Zeng Ji, whose second knife failed to hurt Kong Shanren, had already been subdued by Lin Xiang's men.
"Let me go." Zeng Ji said to the people around him, "Kong Shanren and I have a personal grudge. What qualifications do you have to tie me up?"
Zeng Ji looked at Lin Xiang and said, "You are not qualified either."
Minister Lin looked at Zeng Ji, took a deep breath, and said, "Don't you want to see the princess off for the last time?"
Zeng Ji was silent.
He thought.
So on the third day of the Lunar New Year, they waited in Xiaohe Village for the seriously injured Kong Danren, Zeng Ji who was being watched from both sides, and Lin Xiang who was leading the group.
The moment Kong Danren appeared, the knife in Chusan's hand was pointed at him.
Kong Danren showed a bitter smile on his face. He walked to Ji Mingzhu's grave with a pale face, and knelt in front of Ji Mingzhu's grave under the gazes of Chu San and others.
"You deserve to die."
The knife in Chusan's hand fell on Kong Danren's neck, piercing his skin and causing blood to gushed out.
"I know."
"Kill him." Zeng Ji's words made Zhou Yunqi, Chu San and others look at him.
The Zhou family had seen Zeng Ji before. When they saw Zeng Ji appear here, they subconsciously thought, could it be that he had found another excuse to impeach Ji Mingzhu, or even impeach the Zhou family!
Who knew it wasn't.
"Kill him!"
When Chu San's knife was about to fall, Zhou Jianwu held it firmly.
Chu San looked at Zhou Jianwu's shaking arms and said, "Do you think that I dare not kill you because you are the master's son?"
When Zhou Jianwu was about to give up, Zhou Yunqi stepped forward to help.
"Lord Kong is an important official of the court."
"He's just his master's dog!" Chu San angrily looked at Kong Danren, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "He's an ungrateful dog who stabbed his master in the back."
"What qualifications do you have to live in this world? Everything you have was given by your master. How dare you betray her!"
"For the world, for the people, for the common people." Kong Shanren knelt on the ground and said to Ji Mingzhu's tombstone: "The Great Zhou cannot be in chaos again."
"The princess is the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, she..."
Kong Shanren couldn't say anything else.
Just as Chu San and others said, their existence is to unconditionally support Ji Mingzhu.
He had an affair.
Even this external heart is correct in the eyes of most people.
Kong Danren covered his stomach and crawled on the ground, which was still in pain even though he had applied medicine. He wanted to say "I'm sorry" to Ji Mingzhu, even though the words were particularly pale and powerless.
"Calm down. Murdering an important official of the court is a capital crime." Zhou Yunqi looked at Chu San and advised.
When his grandmother died, Nanny Wang accompanied her. He didn't want anything to go wrong for the family.
"So what?" Chu San didn't care. If he cared, he wouldn't have drawn his sword in the palace.
Like Nanny Wang, when Ji Mingzhu died, Chusan and the others had already made preparations to be buried with Ji Mingzhu.
Since they have made this preparation, Kong Shanren should also be prepared for this.
So after he finished speaking, Chu San kicked Zhou Yunqi away and slashed the knife straight at Kong Shanren's neck.
Screw the world, screw the people, screw the people!
Without the princess, there would be no them, Kong Danren must die!
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Chu San's knife was blocked by an arrow again. When Chu San looked at the person coming, Zeng Ji on the side seized the opportunity, picked up the stone next to him and smashed it hard at Kong Shanren.
Zhou Beifang frowned as he looked at the scene in front of him. He was too late.
Kong Danren still died in front of Ji Mingzhu's tomb. If he had known earlier, he should have been by her side when Zhou Jianying followed the Zhou family to send Ji Mingzhu here.
Screams and laughter filled the area around Ji Mingzhu's tombstone.
By the time Zhou Yunshu arrived at Ji Mingzhu's tombstone after traveling day and night, exhausted, more than one person had already died there.
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