Chapter 1394 Burial
A pile of bones.
It's frightening at first glance.
It would be inappropriate to say that they were shocked, but they did have that feeling in their hearts.
The piles of bones seemed to maintain the same general posture.
There is only one possibility, that is when they died they just sat there quietly, not moving, not struggling, not running away, they just sat there waiting to die.
Could these be the original people in the palace?
They still had their clothes on.
Only the white bones of the hands and head were exposed.
Those clothes look very exquisite.
Many people wear the same clothes, and you can roughly tell the gender from the clothes.
Xiao Lanyuan recalled some books about Dong Qing that he had read before. There were some pictures on those books that depicted the palace maids of the Dong Qing Palace. Now, looking at these costumes, some of them matched.
"Don't run into them." Xiao Lanyuan said.
Everyone responded immediately.
"Roughly count the number of people." Xiao Lanyuan gave another order.
Everyone immediately walked over and started counting.
There are too many people here.
And they were all in a sitting position, of course some of them had fallen down. From the looks of it, it was clear that they were not lying flat, but were at the end of their lives, unable to hold on and just fell sideways.
"Your Majesty, there are about 200 people here."
Two hundred people.
Xiao Lanyuan closed his eyes, then opened them again and suppressed the discomfort in his heart.
He imagined the situation at that time.
These people have given up on escaping, and perhaps they cannot escape, so they just sit here and die together.
It is not known whether they did it voluntarily or were forced.
But the royal empress was not there at that time, so who could force them?
"Your Majesty, here is a book."
Xiao Lanyuan walked over.
It is more like a book than a hastily sewn booklet, with each page filled with words.
And they are all in different handwritings.
A handwriting covered half a page.
He could now roughly understand Dong Qing's words, so he turned the page.
These were actually written by these people.
Everyone wrote down their name and their original status in the palace, and also wrote one or two sentences of their own wishes.
Each name above corresponds to each corpse here.
They were indeed all palace maids of Dong Qing, and the top-class palace maids in each palace.
Everyone was silent and the atmosphere was a little depressing.
But this is not the end.
There is a passage inside.
"Let's go." Xiao Lanyuan took the lead and walked over again.
There were many sarcophagi inside.
There were many stone coffins neatly arranged in the spacious stone chamber. Counting them, there were at least forty of them.
There are also words engraved on these sarcophagi.
Xiao Lanyuan looked at the bodies one by one and saw the names on them. Many of them had the double surname Xuanyuan.
The royal family of Dongqing is Xuanyuan, so everyone here is a royal family member.
Qing Yi and others also saw it.
They all looked at Xiao Lanyuan.
"Your Majesty..."
Will the prince feel very uncomfortable?
Nothing could be seen from Xiao Lanyuan's expression.
They were two generations apart from him, people he didn't even know, so he wasn't really sad at all. However, he still felt heavy and uncomfortable when he thought about all the members of the Dongqing royal family dying here.
He continued walking forward, and saw many dead officials and guards kneeling beside the coffin.
Inside was another stone chamber, where many pieces of armor and weapons were placed, and each piece of armor had a name engraved on it.
There is a stele next to it, which states that these armors belong to the royal guards.
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