"So it really is General Guo's tomb..." Li Bai's eyes were slowly overtaken by fear. "Wasn't he supposed to have died in battle at Spring God Lake? How... how did his remains end up buried here?"
Burying a Former Dynasty general on one's own estate was a grave taboo. If any officials of the current dynasty found out and submitted a memorial, the emperor would be furious, and Zhennan Hou would have no way to explain himself. Everyone could tell that a great secret was hidden here.
Jiang Cheng looked around. Beneath the layers of overgrown grass stood more than a hundred other graves nearby. The people buried there were clearly from the Former Dynasty, and they were most likely the officers and personal guards said to have died alongside General Guo at Spring God Lake. Who could have imagined that their bodies were all buried inside the marquis's estate?
"What do we do now? We've been gone long enough. If we don't go back soon..."
As the sky gradually darkened, Li Bai grew worried about the situation here. Besides, they had left only Old Mr. Zhang behind in the room. If anything changed, he probably wouldn't be able to handle it alone.
"Not yet. Let's find some tools we can use. I'm opening the coffin."
The moment Jiang Cheng finished speaking, Yao Shunyu, Li Bai, and the Fatty were all stunned.
"Open the coffin?" The Fatty went pale. They had just pulled up the man's gravestone, and now they were going to open his coffin too. Did they really think the Former Dynasty's General Guo had no temper?
Yao Shunyu furrowed his brow, as if he had realized something. "Do you suspect there's an empty coffin underneath?"
"Whether it's empty or not, we have to open it and take