Chapter 356: Luxurious! Simply Luxurious! Burial Grounds Befitting an Emperor! (3)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“The tomb of Zhao Gao must at least contain the imperial jade seal. What other treasure could be more incredible than that?”
As the livestream audience chatted, Master Gu who was leading his team on an archaeological exploration of the upper level had heard of the massive scale of the tomb below, and naturally, they descended to investigate.
“Master Gu, you’ve made it!” Luo Feng greeted him upon noticing his arrival.
Ahead of them lay the entrance to a corridor, guarded by a two-meter-high stone stele.
“Yes, I heard that you’ve discovered a grand tomb, so I came down to join the excitement!” Gu Santong shone his flashlight on the stele, puzzled, “It’s blank. There’s nothing on it?”
“No inscription?” Luo Feng also looked over, stroking his chin in contemplation. “Haha, no need to examine it further. The tomb’s owner must have been killed by the emperor!”
“What?” Su Meiji was confused. What was going on?
“A tombstone without inscriptions indicates one of two things,” explained Luo Feng. “First, the original stele was replaced with a blank one. Second, the tomb was completed, but the owner hadn’t died yet.”
“Luo Feng, didn’t you say that for high-ranking individuals in ancient times, tomb constructions wouldn’t stop until the owner died?” Su Meiji interjected.
Take, for example, the tomb of Qin Shihuang. Construction work had continued until his death. Even after the tomb was completed, they would still find trivial tasks to do, just to continue working on the tomb, as doing otherwise would imply that he was already dead. Emperors, like most other people, did not appreciate people cursing them to die. Influential figures likely shared the same mentality.
As for lesser figures? Even if they held such thoughts, it would be futile. Did they have the money to maintain a group of workers to continue construction? Of course not.
“This is a sealed stele! The tomb’s owner must have faced a great calamity, uncertain if they could survive. So, they prepared a sealed stele!”
“That means if they survived, they would inscribe it!”
“If they didn’t survive, it would remain a blank stele!”
“Clearly, there are no inscriptions, so the owner didn’t escape the calamity!”
“Considering the grand scale of the tomb, the only person with the power to target such an important figure would be the emperor! ”
Su Meiji blinked a few times before nodding. “Indeed, your analysis is well-reasoned!”
“However, because of this, the identity of the tomb’s owner remains a mystery!” lamented Qin Rubing.
“That’s not necessarily true! Let’s open the coffin and see. There might be a surprise waiting for us!” Luo Feng pushed open the coffin lid, not the central large coffin, but the smaller one beside it.
“Are there any remains in there?”
“Yes!” Luo Feng nodded. “The tomb’s owner was not buried here, but there are people in the accompanying burial coffins. This is getting interesting!”
Were these women? Had they died from illness beforehand or were they killed for the burial?
Without hesitation, Luo Feng proceeded to open the second, then the third coffin. All of them contained human remains.
“Is it possible that all these women fell sick and died prematurely?” “Or were they unwilling to be buried with the owner and were killed instead?”
“However, the tomb’s owner would typically kill them right before his own death and place them inside.”
“But the owner wasn’t buried, so how could he have killed the women first?”
Luo Feng did not ponder this further, immediately opening the large coffin meant for the tomb’s owner.
“Empty?”
“Nothing at all?”
Luo Feng laughed, “What a ruthless person, not even attending his own burial, yet killing the women one by one beforehand!”
“Let’s move on. Since it’s empty, we should search for other tombstones,” Luo Feng suggested.
“But doesn’t the tomb owner already have a blank stele?” Qin Rubing asked.
“Since the women were buried prematurely, there must be tombstones for them! However, because the owner never entered the tomb, their tombstones might be placed outside the burial chamber,” Luo Feng explained..
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