This show of respect was worth nothing. As Grand Preceptor, Long Gu considered himself untouchable; throughout all of Dawei, who would dare to play such games with him? Even Jia Lingyun, at the height of his influence, had known that Long Gu was involved in the campaign to "rectify the Emperor’s side" and had still felt obligated to offer him a face-saving exit.
"Why don't you three just take these twenty taels of silver and buy coffins for your heads of the Three Major Families?"
No sooner had the words left his lips than Long Gu smashed his wine cup onto the ground in a fit of rage.
Chapter 503