As the princes and princesses came of age in the palace, they began to marry one after another and moved out of the palace.
Li Yao found the palace increasingly boring, so she began to act as a human detector, using her mental energy to scan every nook and cranny, including wells, lakes, the palaces of the Cold Palace, and the flowerbeds.
Originally, she was hoping to find the money that the eunuchs and palace maids had secretly hidden, or the treasure from her grandfather's generation, just like in the novel.
Unexpectedly, they found many human bones and corpses.
They all looked very old, with many skeletons. Li Yao thought about all the food and drink she ate and drank every day, and almost lost control of her stomach. She quickly used her mental power to probe deeper into the ground.
Fortunately, these places are quite far from the wells of Changning Palace and Qinzheng Hall, and the groundwater is from different waterways; otherwise, Li Yao didn't dare to imagine how disgusted she would have felt.
Although the palace's plumbing system wasn't as advanced as later systems, using pipes and other modern technology, it was very well-designed to prevent leaks and seepage, which is why it remained intact for centuries.
Especially since the Emperor, Empress, and Empress Dowager's drinking water was drawn from mountain springs outside the city via secret passages, this situation was still considered relatively good.
However, some of the lower-ranking talented women near the Cold Palace were already vomiting uncontrollably.
Li Yao: "..."
The Empress and Crown Prince, who rushed to the scene upon hearing that Princess Chang Le had unearthed the body, were speechless.
The emperor, who strode over, was speechless.
Everyone was speechless. What could Li Yao do? She could only endure the scolding and be made to copy several volumes of Buddhist scriptures under the emperor's watchful eye.
In the middle of the night, Li Yao put on an invisibility cloak and quietly collected the bones that were buried a little deeper underground and had not been dug up into the [Infinite Space].
Then he teleported to the desert no-man's-land, cremated all the remains, and finally buried the ashes on a high mountain near the capital, erecting a wordless monument.
Li Yao felt that since she could travel through time and see other people's souls, she should have a sense of awe for many things. The bones that were dug up today would be buried after the Emperor had people from the Daxiangguo Temple chant sutras for them. Those that were buried too deep were dug up by her own secret.
She also spoke at the tombstone about the later practice of cremation, asking them not to be offended.
After burning the paper money, Li Yao used the [Teleportation Gate] to return to her palace.
This time, Li Yao didn't search for anything in the palace. The Emperor and Empress were speechless when they heard that she was looking for treasures from eunuchs and palace maids. They gave her many rewards and told her to do something more serious.
This time, she started rummaging through her own space, tentatively taking things out. She couldn't take out airplanes or cannons, nor could she take out a Desert Eagle. In the end, she could take out an old-fashioned hunting rifle and a Type 38 rifle that she had collected in the 1970s, as well as a melon-shaped hand grenade from the 1970s, and homemade explosives.
This suggests that the world may already possess the rudiments of gunpowder's military applications.
Li Yao had seen fireworks before; during the days when Li Yao gave the emperor grain seeds, fireworks were set off in the palace for several days in a row.
Li Yao then tried a bicycle, an electric scooter, and a car. She couldn't get the car out, but she could get the electric scooter out. Puzzled, Li Yao asked the system, "Is there power now?"
The system replied, "[Host, that's a solar panel. Ancient people have been using solar energy for a long time. According to records, during the Zhou Dynasty, there was a 'yangsui' (阳隧), which used sunlight and the principle of a convex lens to start a fire. The *Mo Jing* (墨经) records the principles of convex lenses and pinhole imaging. There were also ancient inventions like ice beads and fire beads, all using convex lenses to start fires.]"
Li Yao: [Okay, I guess I'm just ignorant.]
Li Yao took out her little electric car, the kind that's similar to the Wuling Mini and Mercedes Mini, with solar panels on the top and a battery inside.
This is from the warehouse of a 4S car dealership in a shopping mall that Li Yao used to collect; it looks like it was sent here for modification.
Seriously, there's one of each of these two models, and they're absolutely adorable. The Wuling Mini is silver-white with a light pink Hello Kitty sticker on it, while the Mercedes has a black SUV exterior but is smaller—very cool and cute at the same time.
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