Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 1307: Chapter 1303: Blind

These old men usually only care about antiques, rarely concerning themselves with other matters. Unexpectedly, they were actually trying to push Brother Liu into marriage. Huo Sining found it truly eye-opening.

However, what Su Zhongqing said about the identity background of this Li Hang surprised and enlightened Huo Sining.

When Huo Sining first met Li Hang, she felt he looked familiar. Now, knowing that Li Hang is actually a Luli person, a flash of insight struck her mind, and she immediately remembered.

She knew she had seen Li Hang somewhere before. Last year, when she was an exchange student in Dongyang, during an antique shopping trip with Nara Nigawa, she encountered a young couple in a Samurai Sword Shop.

Because the couple spoke Huaxia fluently, Nara Nigawa, trying to be friendly, approached them to ask if they were Huaxia people. The woman in the couple retaliated, calling him a mainland bumpkin. Huo Sining argued with the couple but ended up being called a China pig.

This matter happened more than half a year ago, and Huo Sining almost forgot about it. But when Su Zhongqing brought it up, it suddenly came back to her.

Although it was the woman who argued with her at that time, Huo Sining still remembered the man standing beside her. After comparing him with Li Hang, who was just being held by Xing Jiaojiao, the two images in her mind overlapped.

Well, wasn’t the man who stayed silent at the Samurai Sword Shop Li Hang?

Huo Sining finally understood why Li Hang was hostile towards her as soon as he entered the door. It turned out that he recognized her upon entering and probably remembered being scolded for betraying his ancestors at the Samurai Sword Shop that day, which is why he found her unpleasant and kept picking on her.

However, Huo Sining also realized why Li Hang suddenly became Xing Jiaojiao’s boyfriend.

Because of the woman’s rude words at the Samurai Sword Shop, Huo Sining stealthily sprinkled itching powder on the woman’s neck as a punishment. The itching powder must have worked, and like Wu Jingyi, the woman probably broke out in a rash, which scared Li Hang into dumping her. After returning to the country, he got together with Xing Jiaojiao.

Huo Sining couldn’t help but shake her head and sighed heavily.

Xing Jiaojiao dumped Brother Liu and turned to a man as unreliable as Li Hang. How blind could she be? Marrying such a man of poor character, how could the future be dependable?

Huo Sining expressed deep doubt, thinking that Xing Jiaojiao would suffer in the future.

Su Zhongqing’s birthday banquet ended, and shortly after, exciting news came from Xianyang about new progress in the archaeological excavation of the Thousand-Year Ancient Tomb,

The Water Silver River around the tomb had been sealed with a special method, and when the archaeological team entered the tomb passageway, they discovered a living figurine matrix.

What are living figurines? In ancient times, people of status would have living people accompany them to the grave, including concubines, maidservants, and palace slaves, in hopes of enjoying a comfortable afterlife with people serving them.

Such barbaric and brutal practices were even condemned by Confucius, who rarely criticized others, saying, ”The originator of figurines, shall he have no descendants?” The idiom ”originator of figurines” we often use today originates from this.

However, the living figurines discovered in the Thousand-Year Ancient Tomb had differences.

According to Zhou Shitao, this living figurine matrix was active and contained mechanisms. Several sound-sensitive detectors were buried in the tomb, and if anyone entering made noise or touched the detectors, it would trigger an attack from the living figurines.

Even more astonishing, these living figurines were encased in pottery as if forcibly embedded inside. The pottery figurines were held together by tough, durable silk threads. Like marionettes, once the mechanism moved, these living figurines would move and even spew corpse poison from their abdomens.

”It’s unknown what kind of treatment those living figurines underwent, but the bodies are fresh! The preservation is as intact as the millennium-old female corpse Xin Zhui unearthed at Mawangdui back then, which was unfortunately destroyed upon contact with air. Since the Yunling Ancient Tomb had exposure to air, the oxidation might have been severe, and it’s uncertain how much can be preserved,” Zhou Shitao couldn’t help but lament.

Such a large-scale burial figurine group fascinated Zhou Shitao, with both the Han Dynasty’s preservation techniques and the peculiar mechanisms intriguing and exciting him.

The artifacts and collections in this ancient tomb hold an extraordinary significance for studying Han Dynasty history.

But thinking about the destruction of the tomb, Zhou Shitao felt both excitement and overwhelming regret and restrained anger.

Huo Sining didn’t know what to say; the tomb’s current state was because of the tomb robbers. But one of those tomb robbers happened to be her father.

Huo Sining didn’t understand why Liang Ruining followed the tomb robbers into the tomb, but she was sure that if it weren’t for these tomb robbers, this thousand-year tomb might have remained safely hidden underground.

”I also heard about what happened in Myanmar. The Liu Family dared to do such things, they have to bear the consequences. Not letting the Liu Family go bankrupt was a lenient move! You don’t need to be troubled by this; the Yangon Public Plate matter has come to an end either way.”

Zhou Shitao, worried that Huo Sining might be psychologically burdened by the previous kidnapping incident, couldn’t help but console her.

For the safety of Liang Ruining, Huo Sining had to conceal what she discovered earlier. Zhou Shitao treated her genuinely like his granddaughter, which made her feel both touched and ashamed. After a moment of silence, she only managed to reply with a ”yes.”

”Oh yes, I forgot to tell you, I’ve also looked into the golden-threaded Jade Clothing concocted by that Dongyang ghost last time! It was smuggled out of the country by some Dongyang ghosts!”

”Though we still haven’t traced its exact origins, nor confirmed its authenticity, Dongyang has been heavily promoting news of unearthing a golden-threaded Jade Clothing in their own country. I bet they’re planning to alter our country’s history again.”

Zhou Shitao’s voice carried righteous indignation, clearly furious at the shameless behavior of a certain Island Country.