Salted Fish Escape

Chapter 109

Graves. Graves everywhere.

All kinds of them. Some had tall eaves built over them, some even had main halls and side rooms, and some had little pavilions in front, complete with a table and four stone stools, as if inviting someone over for midnight mahjong.

Li Wenchuan was not too surprised. He only found it unbelievable that graves in this style still existed in this day and age. Since cremation had been promoted, most people ended up in public cemeteries. Who could put on such a grand display there?

Judging by those tombstones and the blue bricks in front of them, ordinary families could never afford such extravagance. This posthumous glory was built by desperately burning through the money of the living.

And what did they gain from it? Face, nothing more.

As for whether the people underground could see it, neither Li Wenchuan nor Jiang Hansheng had ever seen the so-called Underworld. They only knew that if it truly existed, they would not be unable to see other ghosts.

Li Wenchuan had never once seen his deceased imperial father, so what posthumous enjoyment could there possibly be?

"My God, this is way too..." Tang Jingran could not find the words.

None of them really dared to go closer. They simply watched Li Wenchuan walk forward fearlessly, pausing before every tombstone. Then they heard him say, "They're all joint burials for married couples."

But these joint burials were rather strange. "A lot of them were very young, only in their twenties or thirties when they died. Their other halves were in their twenties or thirties too."

"What does that mean?" Gu Xiaoyou asked. She did not quite understand.

Tang Jingran caught on and raised his voice. "How is that possible? Is burial sacrifice still a thing now?"

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