Chapter 1026 No Queen
Ye Wanxi's eyes flickered slightly, and she seemed to sense something as she looked in the direction of the light.
Sure enough, behind Jun Wuduan, a familiar figure held a round, luminous pearl in his hands, staring at him with the same surprise.
After the initial surprise subsided, Jun Wuduan's expression darkened, and he frowned, saying, "Shouldn't I be asking you that? What are you doing here?"
"I've come to find my senior brother."
"Looking for Senior Brother?" Jun Wuduan turned to look at Feng Tianyu in surprise, as if asking, "What's going on?"
Feng Tianyu's expression was really not good. Not many people knew that he was here, and it was easy to guess who the person who tipped off Ye Wanxi was.
"Xiao Jihui told you?"
"Yes." Ye Wanxi betrayed Xiao Jihui without hesitation, and then questioned him, "If he hadn't told me, were you planning to keep it from me?"
Feng Tianyu was caught off guard and speechless.
"What's hidden here? Why are you keeping it from me?"
Jun Wuduan keenly sensed the unusual atmosphere between the two. His eyes flickered slightly, and he smiled faintly as he tried to smooth things over, saying, "Junior Sister, have you misunderstood? We didn't mean to hide it from you. We just felt that this tomb was a bit eerie, and it might be dangerous for you to come along, so we didn't inform you beforehand."
"Really?" Ye Wanxi crossed her arms in front of her, her face saying, "You guys try to make this up, I'll admit defeat if you believe me."
Jun Wuduan touched his nose guiltily: "Since Junior Sister has come by herself, let's go together."
As soon as Jun Wuduan finished speaking, he received two stares that looked at him as if he were an idiot.
Nonsense, we've already run into each other, why would we go our separate ways instead of traveling together?
Jun Wuduan: "..." Going out with a couple is so difficult! If he had known this would happen, he would have...
Well, even if he knew it would turn out this way, he still had to come today.
What started as a solo trip turned into a trip for three. Even when they were traveling together, Ye Wanxi still couldn't get a satisfactory answer to the initial topic. As a result, Ye Wanxi didn't give Feng Tianyu a good look along the way, and even avoided him when he tried to take her hand.
Feng Tianyu was stunned when faced with his junior sister's temper tantrum for the first time. His face darkened instantly, and he once again sullenly resented the untrustworthy informant in his heart.
Xiao Jihui, who was hiding at home contemplating whether to pack his bags and run to the moon overnight: "..." Suddenly he felt so cold. He thought he should run away as soon as possible to survive!
"The layout of this tomb passage..." Ye Wanxi followed the two of them for a while, and that inexplicable sense of familiarity surged into her heart again, causing her to unconsciously stop and turn to look at the two of them, asking, "Don't you think the layout of this tomb passage looks familiar?"
Feng Tianyu froze again when she asked him that question.
Jun Wuduan also avoided her eyes somewhat guiltily, and chuckled twice, saying, "Aren't the designs of these tombs all pretty much the same? Especially the mausoleums of emperors, most of them are designed to match the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, and to secretly align with the stars and the fate of the nation, in order to pray that future generations can preserve the foundation and ensure the longevity of the country. Didn't you learn these things from your master before? It's normal that you find them familiar."
Ye Wanxi raised an eyebrow and asked in return, "Really?"
"Of course it's true, what else could it be?"
Ye Wanxi frowned, but didn't ask any more questions.
Seeing this, Jun Wuduan breathed a sigh of relief without making it obvious, and then turned to exchange a glance with Feng Tianyu as if he had something in mind.
The outer tomb passage was quite long, and it took the group nearly half an hour to reach the first actual burial chamber.
The tomb chamber did not appear to be very large, and several coffins were placed side by side. The coffins were made of nanmu wood, and perhaps due to the passage of time, the exteriors of the coffins had been damaged to varying degrees.
"This tomb should be the tomb of a minister who was buried with the emperor. There are not many funerary items inside, and they are not particularly valuable."
Ye Wanxi nodded and continued walking inside.
The second tomb chamber was relatively spacious, and the layout of the tomb was much more exquisite than that of the first tomb chamber. The coffin was made of more precious sandalwood, and the surrounding walls were carved with beautiful flowers and birds.
"This should be the tomb of an empress or concubine. Judging from the layout and overall style, it seems more suited to burying women. However..."
Ye Wanxi turned to look at Jun Wuduan and asked curiously, "But what?"
"However, these should all be concubines."
Ye Wanxi's eyes flickered slightly, and she immediately understood Jun Wuduan's meaning: "There are only concubines here, no empress?"
"Most likely. Although they are all women in the harem, the Empress is different from the other concubines. For one thing, the size and specifications of their coffins are different. The coffins in this room are all the same in size and material, so they should all belong to concubines."
On this point, Jun Wuduan still has some say.
After all, he had worked in the palace in his previous life. Although he was taken in by his master and left, after his junior sister left...
In any case, he knew everything that the palace should know, and he also knew basically everything that they shouldn't know.
Since he said that, Ye Wanxi naturally believed him.
"Since it's not here, could it be... in the main burial chamber?"
Upon hearing this, Jun Wuduan glanced at Feng Tianyu subconsciously, then quickly looked away, coughed lightly, and said, "Generally speaking, ancient emperors were rarely buried in the same tomb as others, unless the emperor and empress had an extremely loving relationship that was beyond the reach of ordinary people. Compared to the two being buried together, I prefer this emperor to be buried without an empress."
"No Empress?" Ye Wanxi seemed to have discovered something. She stared at her third senior brother for a while, then said with a half-smile, "Third senior brother, do you know something? Why do I always feel that the tone of your voice just now doesn't sound like you're guessing, but rather like you're quite certain that this emperor has no Empress?"
Jun Wuduan's expression stiffened for a moment, but he quickly recovered: "Junior Sister is joking. I don't even know who the owner of this tomb is, so how could I possibly know if he has an empress?"
"Is that so?" Ye Wanxi asked meaningfully, then snorted and strode towards the main tomb chamber.
Seeing this, Jun Wuduan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Taking advantage of his junior sister walking away, he whispered to Feng Tianyu, "What should we do?"
"We'll play it by ear."
Jun Wuduan: "..." The person is already at the door, how can I act according to the situation? Should I cross out those words in front of her?
If it were that easy, that would be one thing. The words on the tomb door were left by someone; they wouldn't be so easily destroyed.
Feng Tianyu was well aware of this, and a sinister glint flashed in his eyes, but he still gritted his teeth and followed.
Ye Wanxi had just reached the door of the main burial chamber and was about to glance at the words on the tomb door that supposedly mentioned her when two familiar sword lights flew over and struck the tomb door hard!
(End of this chapter)
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