"Let me go! Let me go! Ama! Save me! Ama..."
When several yamen runners began to drag Longkodo forward, he finally panicked.
He struggled hard to break free from the shackles, and at the same time cried out for help to Tong Guowei in a heart-wrenching voice.
Tong Guowei was frowning and thinking about Ma Qi's words. When he heard the noise, he immediately looked up. When he saw this scene, his eyes suddenly turned blood red.
If he still can't guess who is targeting Longkodo, he might as well find a piece of tofu and kill himself!
Tong Guowei couldn't understand why Kangxi, who had always been tolerant and loving towards the third son, suddenly wanted to kill him.
He raised his foot to step forward to stop him, but was pulled back by Ma Qi.
"Master."
Tong Guowei flicked his sleeves,
"Get out of here!"
Ma Qi was not angry even when he was pushed away. After all, the other person's son was about to die, so it was normal for him to be irrational.
But seeing Tong Guowei running straight towards Longkodo, Ma Qi quickly spoke up.
"What are you standing there for? Stop the Duke!"
When the imperial censors who were watching the excitement heard this, they had no choice but to stop Tong Guowei.
"Master, this is against the rules!"
"Master, please don't make things difficult for us..."
Tong Guowei's original intention was to ask Longkodo what stupid thing he had done.
In fact, when he was imprisoned on the first day, Tong Guowei asked him this question when he went to the prison to see him, but Longkodo said that he had not done anything recently.
The third brother looked aggrieved at the time, saying that he was under his watch every day and he knew exactly what he did. Apart from bringing back a concubine from his wife's family, he had not done anything out of the ordinary.
Tong Guowei believed it.
After all, after the autumn hunt that year, he would ask about the whereabouts of the third brother every few days. He didn't say that he knew everything the third brother did outside the mansion, but he knew about 80% of it.
But today's verdict made him doubt his judgment.
Facing the crowd's obstruction, Tong Guowei glanced around coldly and forced everyone to retreat in an instant.
"roll!"
Everyone shrank back, and Tong Guowei took advantage of this opportunity to quickly catch up with the yamen runner.
Longkodo was still struggling, his face pale with anger and panic. He turned around and saw his father catching up with him. He shouted loudly,
"Ama, Ama! I want to see my cousin! I want to see my cousin... Ama!"
"stop!"
Tong Guowei shouted sternly.
The yamen runners stopped as he wished. Just as he was about to step forward to ask, two expressionless guards blocked his way.
"Sir, please stay!"
Tong Guowei was about to yell when he looked down and saw the two men were wearing the uniforms of the imperial guards, and his heart suddenly sank.
Tong Guowei's face turned pale, and his hands hanging at his sides clenched into fists. Is his good nephew really so heartless?
The imperial guards waved to the bailiffs, and the team moved towards the prison gate again.
"Ama!"
Longkodo was panicked.
Tong Guowei looked past the two imperial guards and looked at Longkodo.
"Idiot, what the hell did you do?!"
Until now, Tong Guowei still doesn't believe that Kangxi would want to kill Longkodo for no reason.
"No! My son didn't do anything!"
Looking at the prison gate so close at hand, a thought flashed through Longkodo's mind, and then he shouted loudly,
"Father, he's silencing me! He's silencing me..."
Tong Guowei's heart sank completely to the bottom of the sea when he heard this.
He watched his son disappear in prison, staring at the two imperial guards with resentment in his eyes.
"The hatred I have blocked today will be repaid in the future..."
After he finished speaking, without waiting for the two to react, he turned around and hurriedly ran towards the palace.
The Inspectorate Office was neither far nor near from the Palace of Heavenly Purity, only about a mile further than when he usually went to court.
But today he felt as if there was a chasm between the two places. He tried his best to just see the gate of the Qianqing Palace.
In the eastern warm room, Kangxi was correcting memorials with his pen. The room was silent, so quiet that only the rustling sound of the brush scratching on the paper could be heard.
Kangxi looked calm, but Liang Jiugong sensed a hint of impending disaster from the force with which he scratched the memorial.
Not long after, a young eunuch slipped in from outside. Seeing this, Liang Jiugong quickly went over.
Kangxi's hand movements stopped.
"Your Majesty, Duke Tong requests an audience."
"not see!"
Kangxi spat out two words coldly, and then threw the memorial in his hand aside as if nothing had happened.
Liang Jiugong bowed,
“Yeah.”
After receiving instructions from Kangxi, the young eunuch turned around and ran out of the warm room.
Liang Jiugong returned to Kangxi's side, and his breathing could not be slower.
Today will probably be a long battle, he has to stay alert at all times.
After half a cup of tea, the eunuch who was in charge of the message came back into the warm room.
"Your Majesty, the Duke is kneeling at the door and refuses to leave."
Kangxi frowned, and his voice was as cold as ice.
"If he wants to kneel, then let him kneel!"
Time passed minute by minute, Tong Guowei knelt at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, the cold temperature of the stone slabs could not compare to the chill in his heart.
The Tong family assisted Emperor Kangxi wholeheartedly for nearly forty years. Even if they had no merits, they had worked hard.
No matter how much of a bastard Longkodo was, he was still his cousin. Was there anything that couldn't be laid out and explained to him clearly?
Longkodo didn't commit the heinous crime of treason, so why couldn't he be given a chance to reform?
Tong Guowei thought of the words "silence" that Longkodo said before he entered the prison gate, and the chill in his heart became stronger.
At the same time, Kangxi also heard about this incident from the secret guard.
“Bang!”
He broke a writing brush with his own hands.
What a good way to silence someone!
Kangxi's heart was filled with murderous intent.
"How are you doing with the tasks I assigned to you?"
"Your Majesty, I have already ordered people to start planning. It will only take two months at most. All those who know about this will go down to accompany Master Tong..."
Kangxi snorted, indicating that he understood.
During the time when Tong Guowei went to the palace to plead for mercy, the news that Longkodo had been sentenced to death quickly spread throughout the capital.
There was an uproar in the capital.
This news was like a nuclear bomb to them.
Who is Longkodo?
The Emperor's cousin, the heir chosen long ago by Duke Tong, was sentenced to death so simply?!
This is too outrageous!
In the eyes of many people, Longkodo's crimes only seemed serious on the surface. In fact, as long as one was an official, he would have the need to socialize. Once he went out for socializing, he could not avoid those charges.
If we really investigate officials in this world according to the law, I'm afraid few of them will have clean hands.
Even those sons of nobles who had always been at odds with Longkodo could not help but feel a sense of grief.
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