What a joke, a huge joke.
With her tiny hands, she could easily open the coffin lid with a simple tap.
Didn't she see the scene of the dozen or so imperial guards making a move?
The people of Ye Kingdom began to feel agitated and angry again, but because the Crown Prince was present, they could only condemn and curse her in their hearts. However, what they did not know was that the generals of Julu Kingdom had inexplicably fallen silent.
Three palm strikes.
Bang.
The people of Julu Kingdom immediately tensed up. Some couldn't help but take a step forward, but were forced back by She Kou's fierce glare.
After Zheng Quchi struck her three times, her tense expression relaxed, and she spoke.
"You've gone to great lengths to make this plain coffin into a large dovetail mortise and tenon mechanism box. After all, no one would have guessed that someone would make a coffin into a mechanism that requires special techniques to open."
"To open an ordinary coffin lid, you simply lift it up and carry it away. But this plain black lacquered coffin is different. You need to loosen certain boards, shift the stuck parts, and finally... from a specific angle, slide it off the bottom of the coffin in one go."
Thud—
The fourth palm strike.
The coffin lid, which had been tightly closed, finally moved under everyone's watchful eyes. It was pushed out of place by Zheng Quchi's light palm, revealing a gap about two fingers wide.
In an instant, the hall fell silent. Everyone was stunned, staring blankly at the coffin lid that had been slightly opened.
It's really open?!
Just like that, so casually, they slapped the coffin open four times and that was it?
But what they couldn't accomplish despite their best efforts was solved so easily by her... Is she just too amazing, or are they just too stupid?
The people of Ye were stunned, but the people of Julu had extremely ugly expressions, especially She Kou, whose eyes were fixed on Zheng Quchi, both surprised and suspicious: "How did you know... that this is a dovetail tenon and mortise mechanism?"
Dovetail tenon and mortise mechanism? What is that? It sounds pretty amazing. The officials of Ye looked at each other, trying to find an answer in each other's eyes, but after looking around, they were all completely baffled, and none of them could do anything about it.
But the general's wife knew, and not only did she know, she even released the person on the spot...
To be honest, her unexpected behavior would make these civil and military officials so embarrassed and ashamed that they would be unable to back down, especially those who had been jumping around the most earlier. Now, they would be getting a more humiliating slap in the face.
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