After saying that, she stepped onto the window edge and jumped down...
She thought she was selfish, because she didn't say the last half of the sentence: If she couldn't come back alive...she wouldn't allow him to give up on her! She would rather let her selfishness go, even for a lifetime, and let him wait.
!
"Su Tong!" Xuanyuan Hao roared angrily, wanting to rush down and catch her, but his thoughts gradually became blurred under the influence of the drug, and he could only feel that the scenery in front of him was shrouded in darkness bit by bit...
"Su Tong..." The moment his consciousness disappeared, he murmured, still holding the wine glass tightly in his hand, letting the edge of the porcelain penetrate deeply into his flesh, and he didn't even notice that the blood was dripping...
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Downstairs of Yage, there was a small wheat stack, which Su Tong had explored early in the morning. She jumped down from the upstairs and landed on the wheat stack. Then she turned over neatly and hid in the alley, looking at the big coffin.
The procession passed slowly down the street.
Her eyes narrowed vigilantly, and her eyebrows relaxed a little until she saw the red boxes and cloth following the team - this was what she was really waiting for!
When the emperor was buried and his body was sent to the imperial mausoleum, a large number of tributes must be brought along with him. Generally, for the sake of good luck, these tributes would be wrapped in red silk, which formed a sharp contrast with the silk of the procession in front.
Su Tong curled her lips and smiled slightly. When a large red carriage passed by, she walked around to the blind spot of the accompanying guards, jumped up, and sneaked directly into the carriage——
There were far fewer guards around the funeral objects than there were around the coffin, so it was easier for her to get hold of them.
The carriage bumped along and continued to move forward. From time to time, the cries of the people and the sobbing of the buried maids could be heard from both sides. Su Tong frowned, gently opened the curtain on the carriage and took a look outside - Fortunately, there was nothing.
People discovered that she had come in!
In the distance, Huo'er, who had been hiding in the corner, watched the team go away. He let out a "gurgling" sound in his throat and ran away, turning around the path towards the imperial mausoleum.
It remembered what Su Tong told him yesterday, and it also had its "special mission".
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Imperial Tomb.
The emperor's coffin has stopped beside the big stone at the entrance, and the envoys from various countries and the royal ministers have also taken their places. The maids used for burial and the tributes used for sacrifice are all stopped beside the coffin.
, and the people across from the recipient burn incense and worship.
There was no one watching over him, so Su Tong was able to lift the curtain and look at the surrounding situation openly, sizing up the people attending the funeral, and thinking about countermeasures in his mind.
"I don't want to die..." A palace maid next to her who was sobbing all the way suddenly covered her mouth and cried out, squatting helplessly on the huge altar, "I will be able to leave the palace in half a year.
, why should you be buried at this time?"
"Sister, don't cry!" A younger palace maid next to her comforted her with red eyes and advised pitifully, "This is our life!"
"Why is my life so miserable..." When the little palace maid next to him said this, the man couldn't help but cry even harder, and even lay on her shoulder, crying without any worries.
"Don't cry, all of you." The person standing next to him choked and roared, and wiped his face vigorously, "The palace ordered us to smile, in case anyone sees us.
I cried, but I will be killed on the altar! When the time comes, my body will be exposed in the wilderness, and even the imperial mausoleum will not be able to enter..."
The more she said it, the sadder she became, which made a pair of palace maids have red eyes, but they restrained their emotions and did not dare to cry anymore, nor did they dare to let the guards and eunuchs who were watching from a distance see their desperate and sad expressions.
appearance.
"Alas..." Sighing heavily, Su Tong couldn't help but roll her eyes. She felt pity for those palace maids, but she didn't sympathize with them at all - because they brought this on themselves!
They are all going to die anyway. Since you are not willing to give in, why not give it a try? Maybe the blind cat can escape successfully after encountering a dead mouse?
People who don't even dare to resist are the ones she, Su Tong, would despise!
She turned sideways, looking past the pessimistic and desperate palace maids, towards the boulder not far away - a few guards were fiddling with something there.
She understands this!
She checked in the book: The huge stone at the entrance of the imperial mausoleum is specially made, so the key used to open the imperial mausoleum also needs to be specially refined. That key is called a spirit stone, because the process of refining it is complicated and expensive.
, so even the royal family can only make one in a few decades, which is in line with the rule of "the emperor changes every few decades."
I just vaguely feel a little strange: the "key" that the queen used to open the imperial mausoleum last time, I wonder if there is anything in it?
While he was thinking about it, the carriage trembled, and the ground also shook, causing the palace maids next to him to stumble to the side, and each of them turned pale with fright.
"The door is open! The opportunity is here!" This was the only thought in Su Tong's mind.
Taking advantage of such a tremor, Su Tong gritted his teeth, quickly jumped off the carriage, landed next to the group of palace ladies, and then ran towards the emperor's coffin.
"ah!"
Seeing the person who suddenly jumped out of the carriage, the maids around were so frightened that they screamed, and the scene fell into a slight panic.
Su Tong frowned, and once again confirmed in her heart that the death of the palace maids was not a pity. She turned her head and saw the guards looking in this direction. She put two fingers into her mouth without risking anything, and blew out a clear sound the next second.