"Su Luo, what do you really want? Why are you still unhappy no matter how I try to coax you?"
Ye Beihan pulled Su Luo's hand, his eyes dark and unfathomable, and forcibly pulled Su Luo into his arms.
Su Luo used a clever trick to push him away, but the anger in Ye Beihan's eyes grew stronger and stronger.
"Ye Beihan, haven't you always known what I want? Then give it to me."
Ye Beihan knew this in his heart, but hearing these words from Su Luo's mouth again still made him furious.
"Is Nangong Chiyu really that important to you? In what way am I inferior to him?"
Su Luo's expression was cold and aloof, and the colder she was, the more it pained Ye Beihan's heart.
He had never felt this way before. Only after Su Luo appeared did he realize that he also had people and things he wanted.
"Your Majesty, my promise to you still stands, but you need not worry about what I do."
Su Luo was referring to her promise to Ye Beihan to become his concubine. In order to gain his trust, she had given him the divorce papers she had with Nangong Chiyu.
"Okay...okay...I won't bother you now. Go find Ye Shaorong if you want. Just wait for me for ten more days, ten days will be enough."
Ye Beihan returned with worry and left in anger.
However, Su Luo didn't care about any of that. All she cared about was whether Ye Shaorong would send someone to find her tonight.
Night falls!
Sure enough, someone sent her a letter inviting her to the royal mausoleum.
Su Luo didn't bring Lian'er with her; she went there alone with her autopsy tools.
However, Ye Shaorong did not completely trust her and brought her own people, including two coroners.
"Your Highness, I'm late."
Ye Shaorong glanced at Su Luo and continued to have people tie Ye Qianning's coffin with ropes.
The commotion at the mausoleum was so great, yet no one in the palace knew about it. If Su Luo hadn't been invited by Ye Shaorong, she really wouldn't have been able to get in.
Although the eldest princess seemed to have been exploited by Ye Beihan to the point of having nothing, she was a powerful and well-connected person, so handling this small matter was naturally no problem for her.
“Princess Yu, if Qian Ning doesn’t have the problems you mentioned, you will stay here with her tonight.”
Ye Shaorong couldn't bear it, but she wanted to find the truth, so she had no choice but to do these things, even though her daughter couldn't rest in peace after her death.
"Princess, don't worry. Don't you also find this matter strange? We'll all know the answer soon."
When Su Luo arrived, the coffin had already been dug out, and two guards went over and pried it open.
In an instant, a stench of decay filled the entire cemetery. Even Ye Shaorong, the mother, couldn't help but frown, and then tears welled up in her eyes.
"Go over there and give this princess a good look, so that Qian Ning doesn't suffer too much."
Ye Shaorong pointed to one of the two coroners in the past.
"yes!"
The guards held a lantern for the coroner, who took out all his tools, walked to the coffin, put on gloves, bent down and reached into the coffin.
Su Luo, Ye Shaorong, and the others waited for the coroner to bring out the body after the examination, all wanting to know the true cause of Ye Qianning's death.
Before the coroner could make any further movements, he froze, his eyes widened, one hand clutching his neck, the other seemingly grabbing something.
"Help...me..."
He instinctively stepped back, turned around, and could only mouth the word "help" before collapsing to the ground.
With the guards protecting them, Su Luo and Ye Shaorong could clearly see, by the light, that the coroner was being bitten by a black snake and wouldn't let go.
The black snake then burrowed into the wound on his neck, and the coroner died on the spot.
What's going on?
Ye Shaorong was startled, but her anger instantly turned into fury.
How could there be a snake in her daughter's coffin?
"Coroner Liu, go and take another look."
The first coroner had just died, and Coroner Liu was trembling with fear.
Those of them in this line of work aren't afraid of ghosts or gods, but there were poisonous snakes in the coffin, and he didn't want to die.
"Your Highness, I dare not, I am utterly incompetent!"
"Useless thing!"
Ye Shaorong turned to look at the guards again, and they were all extremely nervous.
Exhuming corpses for autopsies is not scary; what is scary is death.
Su Luo: "Your Highness, why don't you let me do it?"
"you?"
Ye Shaorong was somewhat wary of Su Luo, but instinctively she trusted the people Su Luo had brought with her more.
"Princess, rest assured, an autopsy must be performed by bringing the body out to make a proper examination. Don't you still have Coroner Liu here?"
Looking at Ye Shaorong's arrogant gaze, Su Luo smiled and went to the coffin to get a better look.
Ye Qianning had only been dead for a few months, but her body was decomposed as if she had been dead for several years.
Inside, there was only a skeleton enveloped in the black slime of the night; it was not only disgusting, but the stench was so foul that it made it impossible to open one's eyes.
Su Luo took out a pair of rubber gloves from the toolbox and looked around the inside of the coffin.
The black slime inside the coffin seemed to be moving, and after a while, another long black snake darted out from inside.
With lightning speed, Su Luo thrust her dagger into the black snake's vital spot.
When the black snake died, it was still spitting out green saliva, which Su Luo could feel burning even through her rubber gloves.
"Oh no, that's a poisonous snake."
Su Luo immediately took off the glove. Seeing that Su Luo was alright, Ye Shaorong also came forward and looked at the black venomous snake, a type of snake she had never seen before in Beiliang.
"Princess Consort Yu, how are you?"
Su Luo wiped her hands, shook her head and smiled, "I'm fine!"
Both of them breathed a sigh of relief. Ye Shaorong came to her senses and felt even more uneasy. Ye Qianning's coffin was made of the finest golden nanmu wood.
The putrid liquid inside the coffin was still there. How did those two snakes get in? Besides, the princess's tomb was buried quite deep, and there was no air inside.
How did these two snakes survive? If they were buried with Qian Ning, then they must have survived by eating Qian Ning's rotting flesh.
"No! It can't be, it's not like that, Qian Ning, Mother is so sorry... Qian Ning..."
Su Luo also realized this; it seemed that these two black venomous snakes were no ordinary creatures.
"Your Highness, I have never seen this black snake in Nanning or in ancient books. Is this snake only found in your area?"
Ye Shaorong shook her head. Although she hadn't traveled thousands of miles, she had read thousands of books, and she didn't know what this snake was.
"No, it just looks like a snake. It's covered in slime and doesn't resemble a fish that lives in a murky place at all."
Su Luo had no time to investigate what this was; the important thing was to examine Ye Qianning's body.
"You guys, put on these gloves and carry Princess Qianning's body out."
Since Liu the coroner dared not step forward, Su Luo instructed several guards who had come with Ye Shaorong.
The guards hesitated, their eyes occasionally glancing at the coroner who had been bitten to death by the black snake.
Knowing what the others were thinking, Su Luo spoke to them.
“I have examined it carefully just now. There are no living creatures in the coffin. There are only two snakes. I have already killed one, and the other is inside the coroner’s body. You don’t need to be afraid.”
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