The hill referred to by Huang Wude did not originally have a name, but since the founding of the Song Dynasty, eunuchs who died in the palace would be buried here. There has always been a saying that "there are three unfilial things, and no descendants are the greatest". Therefore, no matter how glorious the eunuchs were in the palace during their lifetime, they could not enter the ancestral tomb after their death. Even the eunuchs themselves were unwilling to bury their incomplete bodies in their ancestral tombs because they felt they had no face to meet the dead ancestors. In this case, this hill where eunuchs buried eunuchs had a name called Wuyan Mountain.

Zhao Yan and Huang Wude came to the hillside of Wuyan Mountain, where a stream flowed through the rocks. There was a large open space by the stream. It can be said to be surrounded by mountains and waters. It is a rare Feng Shui treasure land in Wuyan Mountain. Xu Dezu's cemetery is located here.

"This is a good cemetery. My other father-in-law in the palace all took a fancy to this place, but unfortunately they were still taken a step ahead by Xu Dezu!" Huang Wude pointed to Xu Dezu's new tomb in the open space and said with a smile. He and Xu Dezu had no friendship at all. Even after knowing that Xu Dezu was the leader of Yin Mingsi, Huang Wude hated him to the core, so he really hoped that Xu Dezu was buried in the tomb.

Zhao Yan ignored Huang Wude's words and saw him walking around Xu Dezu's tomb. Although the tomb was not very big, it was built very delicately. The round tomb mound was covered with flat blue bricks, and a tall tombstone stood in front of the tomb, with several large characters engraved on it: "Xu Gongdezu ￥∈, ww≌w.'s Tomb". Apart from this, the tombstone was blank and there was no other introduction. However, this was not surprising. Because as eunuchs, their identities were despised, so they would never want to let others know the identity of their eunuchs after death.

"Old Huang. Stop feeling emotion. Hurry up and ask someone to dig up the grave. It's just a few days since the burial, and the body should not have completely rotted. I must see with my own eyes what the dead Xu Dezu looked like?" Zhao Yan suddenly looked up and ordered.

"As for the order!" Huang Wude immediately bowed and replied when he heard this, and then he ordered. The guards following them immediately took the tools and began to dig graves and dig graves. In a short while, the sealing stone at the entrance of the tomb passage was opened, revealing the black entrance of the tomb passage below.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen guards jumped from the tomb passage. After a while, they lifted a thick coffin from it, and then put it on the ground with a "bang". Although Zhao Yan couldn't see what the coffin was made of. However, just by judging by this weight, it was probably a very expensive wood. It seemed that this should have been specially ordered by Empress Dowager Cao.

"Open it!" Zhao Yan ordered lightly, and then the four guards held crowbars in their hands and inserted them into the gap on the coffin, using such very violent means to open the coffin lid, but there is nothing we can do about it. After all, the coffin was sealed when it was buried, and it could only be opened by such violent means.

With the joint efforts of several guards, the solid coffin was finally opened. As the thick coffin lid was lifted down, a rotten smell immediately emitted from the coffin. Fortunately, Zhao Yan and the others had already retreated to the upper wind. When the rotten smell in the coffin was almost blown, they covered their noses with a towel dipped in vinegar.

"Hey. The corpse is not very rotten?" Zhao Yan walked up to look at it, and immediately said in surprise. Although the corpse lying in the coffin was so stinking, there was not much change on the surface. This is really rare in the hotter weather now.

"The prince should not be surprised. The coffin used by Xu Dezu is not simple. The nanmu that the empress dowager specially found from Nanyang. It was originally used for the empress dowager to use as a coffin, but a lot of materials were transported. As a result, the remaining nanmu was given to Xu Dezu by the empress dowager, and it turned out to be made into this small coffin. Although it didn't look big, it could prevent the corpse from rotting." At this time, Huang Wude said with a smile.

"So that's it. I didn't expect that Nanmu has such effects. I want to prepare a portion for myself." Zhao Yan couldn't help but say in surprise when he heard this. He has always had no taboos on life and death, but at his current age, he said such words, which made Huang Wude and others around him feel unacceptable. After all, he is not like Huang Wude, who is mostly buried in the soil. Now he seems a little disgusting to say such words.

However, Zhao Yan did not care about the reactions of the people around him, but began to seriously look at the person in the coffin. Although the body was a little swollen and had dark spots on his skin, it could still be seen that the corpse did look exactly the same as Xu Dezu. Even when Zhao Yan saw him, he began to believe that the corpse in the coffin was Xu Dezu, but soon his reason told him that Xu Dezu would not die so easily.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan put down the towel covering his nose, picked up a pair of scalp gloves and put them on his hands, and then personally checked Xu Dezu's body. First, he determined the authenticity of the body, such as whether there was any tampering in appearance, but he was soon disappointed. There was no trace of artificial transformation on the body. In addition, although Zhao Yan didn't meet Xu Dezu much, he also remembered several features of his face. As a result, these facial features could be found from the body.

"Strange, could it be that this is really Xu Dezu's corpse?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but feel a little suspicious of his previous persistence. The corpse in front of him did not look fake. Whether it was appearance or facial features, they were almost exactly the same as Xu Dezu. Zhao Yan even opened the mouth of the corpse and looked at his teeth, but found no big difference.

"Prince, although I don't have much contact with Xu Dezu, I am acquaintance, so I'm sure that this corpse should be him, and it's absolutely impossible to admit it wrong!" At this time, Huang Wude saw that Zhao Yan did not find the flaws in the corpse, and immediately spoke. In fact, from the beginning, he thought there was no need to open a coffin and examine the body, because so many people in the palace could not recognize the wrong person at the same time, nor could they lie at the same time.

"No, you don't have much contact with Xu Dezu. I have only met Xu Dezu a few times, so our judgment is likely to be wrong. Lao Huang, go to the palace now and find a few people who are most familiar with Xu Dezu. Then let them identify them one by one!" Zhao Yan is usually a very easy-going person and is willing to listen to other people's opinions, but Xu Dezu left a deep impression in his heart, so he absolutely does not believe that Xu Dezu would die so easily.

"Since that's the case, we can only use the last method!" Zhao Yan suddenly gritted his teeth and said.
Chapter completed!