Chapter 2525: Dreams Are Beautiful, Reality Is Harsh
Man: "I deserve to die ten thousand times over, I beg The Emperor’s forgiveness!"
The Emperor was so angry that the veins on his forehead were bulging, and he gritted his teeth as he said, "You indeed deserve to die ten thousand times over. I entrusted such an important task to you, and you... you... were only concerned with sleeping, ignoring the safety of the Imperial Mausoleum?"
The man had been guarding the Imperial Mausoleum for many years and had never encountered such a situation before. He was extremely frightened, knowing that nothing he said would be of use. He could only kneel on the ground, waiting for The Emperor’s judgment.
The Emperor first led people to inspect the Imperial Mausoleum. He was already furious, and upon seeing the scene, he was so angry that he almost fainted. The corpse of the Empress Dowager was left in an unbearable state, and all the gold and silver jewelry entangled with the corpse during the funeral had disappeared.
That was one thing, but what infuriated The Emperor the most was that even a few gold teeth of the Empress Dowager had been pried off, her mouth was mutilated, and the corpse was clearly beaten, with all limbs fractured.
Originally closed eyes were suddenly open; it seems the Empress Dowager is dying with a grievance.
The Emperor was so angry that he couldn’t stand steadily. If not for the Little Eunuch supporting him from the side, he would have already fallen.
"Investigate, investigate, and find out who did this!"
"Your Majesty, don’t be angry, be careful not to harm your health." The Little Eunuch comforted with a sharp voice.
"The ancestral tomb was dug up, can I not be angry? It concerns the imperial dragon vein. If the feng shui is destroyed, the Zhang family’s dynasty will be doomed." The Emperor was filled with blocked anger, his face turning purple, looking extremely unsightly.
The corpse is already like that, the situation inside doesn’t need to be looked at, all the burial goods have been completely looted.
Most ironically, more than a hundred palace maids buried with the Empress Dowager had vanished without a trace.
"Investigate, investigate, even if it means turning over the entire Capital, find the culprits for me." The Emperor was so angry he could only utter this sentence.
It’s outrageous, the Empress Dowager’s corpse of a dignified nation being made into such a state, if this spreads, people all over would laugh to their heart’s content.
"What’s with the palace maids that were buried? The tomb has numerous mechanisms, how could they possibly escape?" The Emperor was so furious that he pointed at the Tomb Guardian and couldn’t help but curse: "You bastard, so many people escaped, are your ears deaf? Didn’t you hear any sound?"
The Emperor calculated, it was the eighth day since the Empress Dowager’s funeral, those palace maids locked in the tomb chamber without food or drink, most of them probably only had half a life left, and the guardian didn’t hear a sound, he was utterly infuriated.
At the same time, The Emperor felt fortunate that The Late Emperor’s concerns were indeed correct, afraid of grave robbers intruding into the Imperial Mausoleum and everything being looted at once, so he had craftsmen separate each tomb chamber. Otherwise, if The Late Emperor’s tomb was robbed, the dragon vein would truly be severed.
The man guarding the Imperial Mausoleum knelt down with a thud: "Your Majesty, spare my life!"
He didn’t know why, though he would wake up at any slight sound usually, last night he slept so deeply that he didn’t wake until broad daylight.
With such a major incident occurring, The Emperor certainly wouldn’t easily let the Tomb Guardian off. Not exterminating his nine familial connections was already a great mercy, and he still dreamt of keeping his life, in his dreams!
After The Emperor killed all the people guarding the Imperial Mausoleum, he was still not placated. He sealed off the entire Capital and started a large-scale search, wanting to locate those hundred plus missing palace maids and trace the roots to find the grave robbers.
Dreams are beautiful, but reality is harsh.
After searching for several days continuously, still nothing has been found, but it made the common people anxious, not knowing what major incident happened in the Capital? Why would The Emperor make such a big fuss?