Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 209
Kong Wenshi thought for a long time before he decided to spread out the paper and prepare to dip in ink to write his suicide note. He decided to change his old writing style of chasing gorgeous words, and prepared to use simple and easy-to-understand words to warn his soon-to-be-farewell child what to do. A straight man.

But just as Kong Wenshi wrote the poem, there was a sudden clang of iron locks being undone outside.

Suddenly, it was Wang Chengen who walked in.

After Wang Chengen waved his hand to the jailer who wanted to call Kong Wenshi to drive him, indicating that he did not need to disturb Kong Wenshi, he quietly walked up to Kong Wenshi himself.

Kong Wenshi thought it was Yuan Keli who came to persuade him again, so he didn't raise his head, and replied directly: "You don't need to waste your words in vain, Kong knows that he has sinned deeply, even if he is sentenced to Ling Chi, he doesn't care, and he dare not resent His Majesty, I just hope that I can die in a worthy place and protect my thousand-year foundation of Confucian scholars."

"Mr. Kong is indeed a foolish and shameless person who has no eyes on the emperor and only sees the clan. Even now, he is still complacent about covering up the murderer. I have a thick skin but not as thick as you," Wang Chengen said. Then he sneered, looking at the handsome-looking font with his eyes, he couldn't help but feel sorry for himself, thinking that it's embarrassing for such a talented person to be so dull.

Only then did Kong Wenshi realize that it was not Yuan Keli who dared to come to see him at this time, and his voice seemed to be eunuch.

In fact, I still hoped that His Majesty would open his eyes to Kong Wenshi, who hurriedly raised his head, and saw Wang Chengen wearing a python robe and a three-mountain cap, which was exactly what he saw at the Qufu County Government Office that day. The great eunuch who was accompanying His Majesty, Kong Wenshi couldn't help but suddenly had a strong desire to survive.

"The guilty people have seen the father-in-law, but I don't know why the father-in-law came here?"

Although Kong Wenshi did not intentionally show his worry about being tortured by Ling Chi, Wang Chengen still saw in his eyes the instinctive reaction that he did not want to be hacked into pieces, so he said to Kong Wenshi deliberately and severely: "I am Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the chief inspector of ceremonies. I am here to take Kong Wenshi, who was sentenced to Ling Chi, to patrol the streets by His Majesty's decree."

After speaking, Wang Chengen turned around and said, "Let's go, Kong Wenshi."

The last thing Kong Wenshi wants to hear now is the word "Ling Chi", and the last thing he wants to think about is the fact that he is about to be Ling Chi. Last night, he didn't know whether Yuan Keli did it on purpose or just happened to be the couple next door to him. The prisoner talked about the tragedy of Ling Chi for two full hours, which really frightened him, a scholar who dared not even kill a chicken, all night.

Now, when Wang Chengen said the word "Ling Chi" on purpose, Kong Wenshi felt even more afraid of death. He didn't know why His Majesty asked him to patrol the streets, and he was even worried that His Majesty would be afraid of death because of He hated himself and wanted to execute himself in front of the entire Qufu Township Party before he was escorted to Beijing.

Wouldn't it be true that all the neighbors would know that I was a heinous person who was executed by Ling Chi, and if I really let the neighbors know that I was a beast that mutilated young girls, I'm afraid my reputation would be ruined. Not good, and my child will not be able to hold his head up for the rest of his life.

Kong Wenshi, who always cared more about reputation, became more and more frightened as he thought about it, and finally he could not help but ask Wang Cheng'en: "Dare to ask Wang Gonggong, I don't know why His Majesty wants to offend the people parading the streets, can you please tell me something."

"Your Majesty's meaning, I don't know, just let you parade through the streets, let's go! What are you waiting for, is it possible that you still want to resist the order?"

When Wang Chengen said this, Kong Wenshi had no choice but to ask again, so he had no choice but to drag the heavy shackles and follow the gorgeously dressed Wang Chengen out in a plain white prison uniform.

As soon as Kong Wenshi came out, he saw a carriage parked outside the prison door, and Wang Chengen sat on it first, and waved to Kong Wenshi, "Get in the carriage."

Isn't it a parade? Why not a prison cart but a carriage?

Although Kong Wenshi was surprised, he didn't dare to ask further questions. Once he got into the carriage, Wang Chengen directly ordered the soldiers driving the carriage outside: "Go to the Kong's Ancestral Hall first."

Kong Wenshi really wanted to ask why he went to the clan ancestral hall, but seeing that Wang Chengen didn't want to talk to him, he didn't ask.

But after a long time, when the carriage stopped, Wang Chengen asked Kong Wenshi to get out of the carriage and have a look.

Kong Wenshi got out of the car, but accidentally stepped on a wooden sign. He almost fell, but when he stood still, he suddenly yelled, and immediately knelt down on the ground, holding up the missing piece. Half of the wooden sign wailed loudly.

"The children and grandchildren are not filial, the children and grandchildren are not filial!"

Seeing this, Wang Chengen was a little stunned, so he hurried over to take a look, but saw the words "No. 60 Six generations of descendants of Duke Kong Wenxuan, Royal Conferment of Guanglu doctor Kong Hongshan" written on the wooden sign.

Now Wang Chengen also knew that the father of Kong Wenshi was Kong Hongshan, so after seeing the wooden plaque, he also guessed that this was probably the spiritual tablet placed by Kong Wenshi's father in the Confucian ancestral hall of the Northern School. This branch was expelled from the clan by Kong Yinzhi, so Kong Hongshan's spiritual seat was also kicked out of the ancestral hall.

Wang Chengen couldn't help but said: "Come on, then I don't have to tell you about the removal of the Kong family by the son of the family who was saved by you. You probably understand it yourself. If you are really worried, you can go to the notice booth in front of you." Find out."

Before Wang Chengen could say this, Kong Wenshi hurried over, seeing the content of the notice, he couldn't help but burst into tears: "Why is this, why is this?"

Seeing that he was heartbroken, Wang Chengen was deeply afraid that he would take this opportunity to commit suicide and spoil His Majesty's plan in vain, so he ordered the officers and soldiers around him: "Go and bring him back, and then we will go to his family's ancestral tomb. "

Kong Wenshi was dragged back, as if he had lost his soul.

However, when the carriage reached a small mountain depression, he suddenly recovered his expression, and hurriedly pointed to the outside and shouted: "My Jiezitang, who burned my Jiezitang, and my tens of acres of land?" Why have all the peach trees been cut down, who, who did it! What about Mrs. Gu, where is Mrs. Gu!"

"Don't worry, you will see your wife and children. If you don't understand, get out of the car and ask. It's better than standing in the car and shouting." Wang Chengen ordered people to stop the car while Kong Wenshi ran down. Grabbing a tenant who was dragging a piece of wood home, he asked, "This is the camphor tree I planted 15 years ago. Who asked you to cut it down, and this place is my family's ancestral property. Who told you to move it?"

"It's my uncle's order. The status quo of the hundreds of acres of property here is now my uncle's property!"

Kong Wenshi knew that the uncle they were talking about was Kong Yinzhi, and when he heard this, he sat on the ground numbly, speechless for a while.

Wang Chengen ordered people to carry Kong Wenshi into the car, and then ordered to move on. When he arrived at the ancestral tomb of Kong, he suddenly saw more than a dozen coffins in the wild grass not far away. A corpse fell out.

But Kong Wenshi recognized his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents immediately.

"No!"

Kong Wenshi yelled and ran out of the car by himself, then ran to the ancestral tomb, knelt down in front of a pit that had been dug and was left with only a rainwater, and touched the smashed tombstone Weeping, and what was written on the tombstone was the epitaph about his father written by Wen Zhenmeng, the No. [-] scholar in Tianqi's second year and also his friend.

(End of this chapter)