Chapter 452: Yu Lingye is back from digging graves
The emperor frowned.
He only remembered that after he entered the operating room, the door of the operating room closed automatically.
He and the guards were all shocked.
Xie Yingmian explained that the doors of operating rooms are all designed like this.
Later, he found a strange statue that looked like a dog, a cat, and a pig.
When he unknowingly walked to the statue, his memory was cut off.
According to the secret guards, they heard Xie Yingmian trying to call him, his voice was loud and anxious, but he always kept a distance from him.
The guards' words, the time provided by the Queen, the degree of sunset, and the distance the sundial moved...
All of this proves that he was in the operating room for a very short time.
It was so short that it wasn’t even the time of a cup of tea (a cup of tea is about ten minutes).
Not even half a cup of tea.
During this period of time, Xie Yingmian should not be able to do anything to him under the noses of the four secret guards.
The emperor was extremely suspicious.
He was still worried, so he sent a palace maid to invite Nanny Yu, who was by the Queen Mother's side.
Aunt Yu went into seclusion a while ago and only came out yesterday.
Nanny Yu examined the emperor and came to the same conclusion as the head of the Imperial Hospital: he was in good health and showed no signs of poisoning or witchcraft.
He also asked Madam Yu to check the four secret guards.
There was nothing unusual about the four secret guards either.
The emperor felt a little relieved.
He attributed his discomfort to the peculiar meteorite in the strange sculpture.
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Prince Ling's Mansion.
When Xie Yingmian returned to Danyue Courtyard, there were no candles lit in the room.
The lanterns hanging outside the house were also moved outside.
The sun sets and it's dark.
The room became even darker.
Yu Lingye sat in a dark corner, staring at one place in a daze.
Xie Yingmian called out, but Yu Lingye didn't respond.
Xie Yingmian leaned over to take a look, and finally saw clearly what Yu Lingye was staring at.
That is a pot of flowers.
A pot of very strange looking flowers.
Judging from the shape of the flower alone, it looks a bit like a lotus.
But the color of lotus is either pink, white or purple.
The flowers in this pot of flowers are transparent, shining with a faint cold light in the dark like night pearls.
The flower looks like a lotus, but the petals are uniquely streamlined.
In the night light, you can faintly see silver lines flashing on the surface of the transparent petals.
The silver lines kept flashing, like the embodiment of the cosmic code.
Xie Yingmian hugged Yu Lingye's neck and blew into his ear: "What kind of flower is this? It's so strange."
Yu Lingye's ears turned red from the heat of Xie Yingmian's breath.
He grabbed Xie Yingmian's hand and pulled her into his arms.
Xie Yingmian sat in Yu Lingye's arms.
Yu Lingye: "I don't know what kind of flower this is."
"I only know that this flower cannot see the light. If it does, it will wither."
"During the day, I covered it with a cage covered with a thick, opaque black cloth. I only removed the black cloth after dark."
"After removing all the candlelight inside and outside the house, it bloomed. The flowers were like glass, showing a very beautiful transparent color with silver spots. It was very rare."
Xie Yingmian: "Where did you find it?"
Yu Lingye: "Graveyard."
Xie Yingmian:?
She later realized that today was the day when Yu Lingye dug the grave.
She became interested: "Tell me in detail."
Yu Lingye said: "I took people to the cemetery and found Chen Yu's grave."
"While we were digging the grave, there happened to be villagers working nearby. They told me that this grave was a bit strange. The other graves were covered with grass, but this one was completely barren."
"Some people say that when they passed by this place at night, they saw ghost lights floating around."
"Some people also say that strange noises are often heard from this tomb."
"There's even a story from someone who got lost while passing by this place in the middle of the night. No matter how hard they tried to escape, they couldn't get out. They were so exhausted they fell asleep. When they woke up the next day, they realized they'd been walking near the grave all night. They weren't lost, but had encountered the legendary ghost wall."
"The rumor about the haunted cemetery spread like wildfire, and word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, until it finally became known that this particular grave was haunted."
Xie Yingmian asked, "Have you dug yet?"
Yu Lingye: “I dug it.”
If his wife gave the order, he would dig it even if it was a ghost grave.
"Did you find a ghost?" Xie Yingmian asked.
Yu Lingye chuckled: "Even if there are ghosts, they wouldn't dare to appear in broad daylight."
"When I dug up the grave, the coffin was still intact, with almost no signs of decay, except for some mottled wood chips."
"Yan Qing said that the original coffin should have been double-layered, with the inner layer made of dark wood and the outer layer made of ordinary elm."
"After the outer layer of elm wood rotted, the dark wood inside was exposed. Dark wood does not decay for thousands of years, and it can also protect the corpse from decay."
When Xie Yingmian heard that the corpse was not decayed, her eyes widened slightly: "You mean..."
Yu Lingye said, "Don't get excited yet, listen to me."
"Coffins made of dark wood are indeed not rotten for thousands of years. Dark wood is very rare and is considered a very precious wood. The outer layer of elm can fool tomb robbers, but it can't fool some animals."
"The dark wood coffin has been taken over by a pack of weasels."
"Somehow the weasels managed to drill a hole in the coffin, and they've been burrowing around in it."
"Those will-o'-the-wisps, noises, and even ghost walls the villagers are talking about are probably the work of those weasels."
"The sunken wood was damaged, allowing air and rainwater from outside to enter the coffin. Naturally, the body couldn't help but decay. When we opened the coffin, the body had become a mummy due to some special circumstances."
"The mummified body is still well preserved, and the weasel hasn't destroyed the body."
"We checked the burial objects and found that there were no burial objects in the tomb except this pot of flowers."
"It's not quite right to call it a pot of flowers. This pot of flowers grows on the dark wood. In order to bring this pot of flowers back, I specially cut a piece of the dark wood and brought it back."
The light is very dim.
If Yu Lingye hadn't mentioned it, Xie Yingmian wouldn't have noticed that the flowerpot under the transparent flower was made of sunken wood.
Xie Yingmian: "Those weasels tried every possible means to get into the dark wood, are they after this glass lotus?"
Yu Lingye had the same idea.
"It looks like they are guarding the flower."
Xie Yingmian: "I heard that weasels are very vengeful. We dug out the glass lotus from the coffin, and they might come after us."
Yu Lingye: "Those weasels don't look wild."
Xie Yingmian: ...
Are there still people raising weasels?
She thought of a special profession - tomb raider.
"Could it be that some tomb robber raised these weasels and let them hunt for treasure?"
Yu Lingye: "It's unlikely. The tomb robbers' goal is to resell the burial objects, while the goal of these weasels is to protect this flower."
Xie Yingmian thought it made sense.
After a while.
She asked, "How do you know the weasel was raised by humans?"
She was very curious, who could make a rebellious and vengeful creature like a weasel recognize its master?
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