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Chapter 54 The Princess Takes the Blame and is Granted Death (54)

The former site of the Mausoleum of King Lu.

As for the materials used in the Mausoleum of Prince Lu, they were made in a hurry. Due to the urgent work of cleaning the Taimiao and the requirement of confidentiality, it was impossible to mobilize too many people. No one was willing to conduct a detailed analysis to determine which materials were fragments from the Mausoleum of Prince Lu and which were fragments from other royal tombs.

Even if some individuals find problems with the materials.

I'm too lazy to cause any trouble because of this.

So the supervisors of the Lu Wang Mausoleum, who had been worried and anxious for half a month, were lucky enough to get away with it.

Not only is everything fine, I even got a new appointment.

That is to order them to stay in the original fiefdom of King Lu, re-select a Feng Shui site, and seize the time to supervise the construction of a simpler Mausoleum of King Lu.

So that King Lu's body can be buried in peace as soon as possible.

This time they did not dare to embezzle much of the newly allocated money for mausoleum construction, because the amount of money allocated was originally small.

At the same time, it is required to be completed within six months.

If they wanted to be greedy again, they would probably have to treat the mausoleum builders extremely harshly. But this time, the superiors no longer required the mausoleum builders to be buried alive with the emperor. When they finished their work and returned, it would be a shame if rumors spread that they could not even get enough food to eat while building the prince's mausoleum.

How can their supervision have a good ending?

So I have no choice but to be less greedy.

Recently, as the new Mausoleum of Prince Lu is about to be completed, the supervising eunuch Wang Hongwen, who had previously strongly advocated burying Dingshui's coffin in the accompanying mausoleum and buried it in a random pit dug within the mausoleum because the construction of the accompanying mausoleum had not yet begun, suddenly fell ill and did not come to the Mausoleum of Prince Lu.

Of course, all of this is actually fake.

He was not sick, but used his illness as an excuse to avoid going to the Mausoleum of King Lu. He secretly ran to the burial area of the former site of the Mausoleum of King Lu. It took him only half a night to create a miracle and dig out Ding Shui's coffin.

After all, I just dug a hole and buried it.

Compared with tomb robbing.

It is undoubtedly much simpler and easier.

Then, as a matter of course, he tried to find a way to slowly pry open Ding Shui's coffin without damaging it, in order to take away the burial objects inside.

According to what he inquired from the servants in Prince Lu's mansion, there were quite a few burial objects for the Princess of Lu. Almost all the dowry that was brought with her that could be conveniently placed in the coffin was stuffed in, and the coffin was filled to the brim.

Don't stop until you can't fit any more.

But when he opened the innermost coffin with great anticipation, what he saw was not jewels and precious stones, nor the unpleasant smell of rotting corpses, but a whole coffin stuffed full of bones. Then he was scared to death. It's not an adjective, he was really scared to death.

The eunuch was in poor health and had been exhausted after a night of overwork and extreme fear, so it was normal for him to be unable to hold on.

At this moment, a few eunuchs came out from the dark corner. They didn't know that there were only bones in the coffin. They walked around and said smugly:

"Brother Wang, thank you for your hard work."

"Although you've worked hard, as the saying goes, whoever sees it gets a share. Please share it with us equally and don't hurt the relationship. Otherwise, you will definitely be sentenced to death!"

"I was wondering why you suddenly fell ill out of nowhere, as you've always been so healthy. You're hiding something from us, hoping to make a fortune on your own. You think you're too smart and we're too stupid."

Perhaps it was because he was too happy and proud, and because it was dark and there was still nearly an hour before dawn.

So they didn't notice Wang Hongwen's expression was off, probably thinking he'd collapsed because he was overjoyed and frightened by their presence. It wasn't until they finally approached to admire what they thought would be the most lavish burial objects for Princess Lu that a few more people peed themselves.

"What...what's going on?"

"Wang Hongwen, you're kidding us. Have you already replaced the burial objects in this coffin?"

"It shouldn't be!"

"No, look at his face, and his clothes are all wet. If he planned all this, he shouldn't be like this. And he doesn't have such good acting skills, right? What's going on?"

The rest of the eunuchs recovered.

Soon they began to question or grumble.

Wang Hongwen undoubtedly calmed down at this time:

"You are too despicable. Never mind. There is no point in saying this now. As you can see, there are no burial objects in Princess Lu's coffin, only a pile of bones. It seems that we are not the only ones who are eyeing these burial objects. Someone else has already got there first."

I can assure you that I have nothing to do with this and I have no idea why this happened.”

"Is there anyone brave enough to come forward and take a look at whether there are only bones inside Princess Lu's coffin, or if there is something buried beneath the bones? My legs are a little weak!"

There was undoubtedly another round of excuses afterwards, but seeing that it would be dawn soon, they finally discussed it and no one dared to take the risk alone. They could only support each other and walk back to the newly opened coffin.

He was sweating and trembling as he dug at the bones.

After digging for a long time, they were forced to accept the tragic result that there was nothing valuable in the coffin except bones.

Then they collapsed on the ground, feeling devastated, looked at each other with bitter smiles, and discussed the matter in whispers.

"How could this be?"

"Not only are there no burial objects, but even the body of Princess Lu is missing. Who did this?"

"And where did all those bones come from? It's not easy to collect so many bones. How many graves would have to be dug? Whoever did this is so shameless."

"Could it be the servants in Prince Lu's mansion who did it?"

"Are they that bold?"

"We're all risking our lives to do this, so why should they be afraid..."

"Wait, I suddenly remembered something. Didn't people say that the reason the Prince Lu's garden turned into a big pit was because all the bodies that Prince Lu had buried underneath disappeared?
There were also many children among the corpses.

You saw the bones in the coffin just now. They were very thin and small. They must be children's bones.

Those bones inside the coffin.

Could it be the part of the body that disappeared from Prince Lu's mansion, mainly the child's body?"

"It's really possible. Otherwise, where would so many children's bones come from? Prince Lu is really a sinner. So the person who did this is most likely the one who killed Prince Lu."

"My ancestors used to make coffins. Although they never made such high-end coffins, I can see that this coffin has never been opened since the nails were hammered in. So how did these bones get moved in? And how did the large number of burial objects inside get moved out?"

"Have you forgotten that lady?"

"You're saying that all this is because of that lady...wait, that lady couldn't be Princess Lu, right?"

At this point in the discussion, the eunuchs present fell silent. Their brains raced, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt it was indeed possible. A distinctly female voice, and one that was primarily directed at Prince Lu, and most importantly, the Princess's body had also vanished. They wouldn't believe it if they were told it had nothing to do with it!

"Could it be that he ascended to become an immortal after death?"

"It's also possible that they turned into ghosts and gods after death."

"Or perhaps he will come down to earth to experience the calamity?"

After the three people proposed three different possibilities, their faces suddenly turned pale, and then they kowtowed in front of the open coffin, muttering that they would never dare to do it again and would burn incense and offer sacrifices in the future.

Then he began to tidy up the mess.

Reseal the coffin.

Ding Shui had previously worried that the people from Prince Lu's palace wouldn't be able to find the missing bones and would open the coffin. So, he had left a trace of spiritual energy on his coffin, so that if anyone tried to open it for inspection, he could respond immediately. But it wasn't that no one checked, and everything went smoothly.

So Ding Shui forgot about it.

It wasn't until Wang Hongwen opened the coffin that Ding Shui realized what had happened and remembered it. However, her soul was far away in the capital. Even if her soul traveled quickly at night, it couldn't rush back in an instant. So by the time she returned to Prince Lu's fiefdom and found her coffin, it was already daybreak. And the coffin was no longer in its original location.

It was moved to the side tomb chamber of the Xinlu King's Mausoleum.

Those eunuchs were in the side tomb chamber, burning incense and paper money, and reciting some special scriptures for the salvation of souls. It seemed that they had done something wrong and were afraid that Ding Shui would come to find them. At the same time, they were also saving the souls of the bones in the coffin.

"That's not enough!"

"There is a space beneath the main tomb chamber of the former Luwang Mausoleum. It contains the bones of the remaining people killed by Luwang. You must hurry and dig out those bones, and then transfer them to the main tomb chamber of the current Luwang Mausoleum.

When the tomb of Prince Lu is completely sealed.

I want to see the remains of King Lu buried beneath the main tomb chamber, and the people he murdered in the main chamber."

"This will atone for my sins."

It just so happens that they seem to be quite obedient.

So Ding Shui simply used the voice of his soul to instruct them to complete what they were originally planning to do.

The reason why Ding Shui dug a space under the main tomb chamber of the original Lu King's Mausoleum to store the bones was not only because the bones really needed a place to be stored.

The most important thing is that she wanted to wait until the tomb of King Lu was sealed and then complete the replacement work, throw King Lu's body into the space below, and transfer the bones of those killed by him to the main tomb chamber and bury them in peace.

Although there is no practical benefit in doing so.

But I will feel a little better.

But wasn't the Lu Wang Mausoleum later taken away and smashed by Ding Shui? So the matter was delayed, and now that there were people to order around, Ding Shui was too lazy to do it himself and decided to let them complete the task.

When Wang Hongwen and his group heard Ding Shui's voice again, although they knew the risk was great, they all said it was okay out of fear of ghosts and gods.

I must do as the Empress instructed.

"good!!"

Ding Shui replied to them with satisfaction and left, but he did not return to the capital directly. Since his soul was out anyway, he might as well take a walk around and collect more species to facilitate his synthesis experiments when he returns.

It was not until Ding Shui had left for a long time that Wang Hongwen and the others looked around hesitantly, stared at each other for a while, and stood up with their calves feeling weak.

"That lady should have left, right?"

"My Lady, are you still here? Is there anything else you need me to ask you? Just speak frankly!"

After waiting in silence for a while and finding no response, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to each other, "I'm scared to death."

It took a long time before they started discussing the real business.

“Are we really going to do this?
This is even more dangerous than stealing the burial objects from the princess's coffin. If caught, you'll probably be executed by slow slicing."

"You're talking as if we're not going to lose our heads for what we're doing now. As long as we're careful, the chances of success are still pretty good. Once the tomb is sealed, no one will know what's inside unless someone robs it.

Don't forget what happened to King Lu.

According to the Empress, our souls would be scattered and we wouldn't even have the chance to be reincarnated. This is the end of our lives. We can't even be considered complete men. We're dead, so we're dead. We can still hope for the next life. Besides, if we really die because of this, given the Empress's avenging nature, she would at least take some care of our souls after death.

Or let us be born into a good family in our next life!"

"It seems that the lady is most likely the Princess of Lu. I think we should not only do a good job in what the lady has asked us to do, but also do it beautifully. When we keep vigil in the future, we should offer incense to the lady every day.

Maybe seeing how pious we are, we can help one or two people.

There aren't many opportunities like this to curry favor.

You know, the Empress is very likely a deity, or at least a spirit. Even the Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han dreamed of making friends with her, so how could we miss out?

"That's right. We don't ask Her Majesty to take a liking to us, but if She can remember us or mention us to others, that would be a great opportunity."

"Then let's hurry up and complete the tasks assigned by the Goddess. Then, we can erect a memorial plaque, carve a statue, and offer incense to the deity. Er, I'm not sure if it's fulfilling a vow, but rather reporting the results. I'm afraid not many people know the Goddess's true identity, and even fewer still worship her devoutly.

This might even be considered a divine deed."

After some discussion, they all agreed that working for the gods was much better than being a eunuch guarding a tomb.

They have no hope in this life, and at most they wish for a peaceful old age. Now that they have the opportunity to fight for the next life, they are still very willing to invest in it.

So they soon became busy.

There is no way. Didn't the original Mausoleum of King Lu collapse along with a small hill? King Lu's coffin had not been sent in at that time, so there was naturally no need to dig it up. It is still the same as it was before.

They certainly couldn't recruit people at this time, so they could only try to do it themselves first.

But after digging for a few days, they gave up.

At their current rate, it would take them another decade or eight to reach the space Ding Shui had described. To complete the Empress's mission quickly, they quickly changed their plans and sought to purchase the land at the site of the Lu King's Mausoleum, including the collapsed hilltop.

Under the pretext of building a farm there to make it easier for them to return and guard the mausoleum of King Lu, they recruited people to clear the broken hilltops.

With the participation of people from the surrounding villages, the speed increased by more than a thousand times. However, they still had to do the final excavation work themselves. Finally, three nights before the closure of the Lu Wang Mausoleum, after three sleepless nights, they successfully dug out the space that Ding Shui mentioned, and then transferred all the bones inside to the new Lu Wang Mausoleum.

After that, they mainly used some operations to deceive the public, replace the truth with the truth, and deceive the emperor. Although they were not very skilled, they succeeded in the end.

After completion, they specially built a temple for Dingshui next to the Mausoleum of King Lu, carved a statue of the god, made a gilded god tablet, and knelt in front of the statue to give a project report.

However, Ding Shui was not aware of this.

Because she didn't use her mental power to observe.

By this time, she had already collected enough materials and returned to the Shuguo Mansion in the capital, where she began to experiment extensively with synthesizing new species. Relying on her extremely pure force and exhaustive synthesis methods, she gradually synthesized many new species that were either useful or strange.

For example, the flame cabbage tastes very spicy, the rhubarb radish tastes like ginseng but has no actual ginseng effect except for its bitter taste, the cucumber tastes like bitter melon and the bitter melon tastes like cucumber, and the little boar whose lard turns into yellow chicken fat.

Another example is the starchy pumpkin, which is very filling and has a high yield. There is also high-quality forage grass that can grow in saline-alkali land, can grow for decades, and can only be harvested once a year. Each tree produces 400 kilograms of water willow rice, which means the water willow tree does not grow leaves but grows rice ears instead.

There are also buffaloes that never grow up, black-bone chickens that inherited the reproductive ability of quails, peacocks that can live as long as turtles but do not grow hair, and pandas that can eat iron ore and poop black feces that are 999% pure iron.

These are relatively successful cases.

There are even more failures.

The appearance of the golden pheasant became like a phoenix, but it lost its fertility. The black python grew antlers and eagle claws, but lost its hunting ability and eventually starved to death. The meat became extremely tender. The fragrant pig only ate feed and did not grow meat.

And the black iron wheat that yields 20 kilograms per mu...

Faced with these achievements, Ding Shui is still a little hesitant. He doesn't know what method to use, or who to ask to get these things out and promote them.

It can only be stored in the synthetic storage space first.

At the same time, because Ding Shui has recently focused more on synthesizing various species, she inevitably neglected the situation at home. She didn't know that her biological parents were very worried about her third sister's marriage at this time.

To sum up, no one dares to marry her.

After all, it was the Princess of Lu who was married off by the emperor. Even if the marriage had not taken place and the prince of Lu was dead, and even her burial alive with the emperor was cancelled, no family would dare to take the risk of proposing to marry her. After all, who knew whether the emperor Tianwu was thinking about this matter, and whether he would be angry or dissatisfied because of it.

It's just a wife, you can find one anywhere, why take the risk of offending Emperor Tianwu to ask for her?

So although Meng Xuan is fine now.

But marriage did become a big problem.

(End of this chapter)