They called over the clerks from the Ministry of Rites and the soldiers guarding the mausoleum to help. First, they pushed over and carried away the stone tablet that was two people high.
Not long after entering the tomb passage, they encountered a massive Duanlong Stone, used for anti-theft.
After a lot of effort to no avail in moving it, Li Shimin, who was waiting nearby, became impatient.
"It's going to be blown up!"
Fang Er: !!!
"Why are you so brutal?"
He glanced at Li Xiuning, only to receive a nod in response.
"Well, one doesn't care about her sister's tomb, and the other doesn't care about their own tomb. KANSHUWU.XIA.
"Blow it up, then. Who's afraid?"
"Your Majesty, please wait, I'll go get something."
With that, he turned and left the tomb passage.
Walking far away, to a place where no one was around, he took out a cordless drill from his spatial storage and carried it back to the Duanlong Stone.
Screech screech screech~
After drilling holes in the corners of the Duanlong Stone with the electric drill, he inserted a hand grenade and, after signaling everyone to move away, pulled the pin.
Five seconds later.
Boom!
The sound of the explosion echoed in the tomb passage, and a strong gust of air swept past everyone's bodies from the direction of the Duanlong Stone.
After everything calmed down, Fang Er took the initiative to step forward and check the Duanlong Stone.
The heavy Duanlong Stone only had some stone fragments chipped off and was not significantly damaged.
Boom!
Boom!
After two more explosions, long cracks appeared on the Duanlong Stone.
Boom!
After the fourth explosion, the Duanlong Stone was reduced to rubble.
Fang Er, along with the tomb-guarding soldiers, entered. The decaying smell from the tomb assailed them. He took out a mask and gave one to each of the soldiers who followed him, and then they wound their way through to find the main burial chamber.
A coffin was placed in the center of the main burial chamber.
Everyone worked together to move the coffin outside the tomb and place it on the open ground.
Li Xiuning's faint voice sounded from the side: "Open the coffin!"
Fang Er: ???
"Old Li wanted the coffin opened to see if anyone was inside. What do you mean by opening the coffin?"
The officials from the Ministry of Rites, with the help of the clerks, used tools to pry open a gap in the outer sarcophagus.
A coffin is two things; the inner coffin is the coffin, and the outer is the sarcophagus.
The inner coffin was made of wood, while the outer sarcophagus was carved from a single piece of stone. After the lid was pried open, the wooden coffin was revealed.
Li Xiuning boldly walked over, took the crowbar from a clerk's hand, and forcefully inserted it into the gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body, making Fang Er's forehead sweat.
Opening one's own coffin was truly an unprecedented event in history.
Bang!
The bronze nails on the coffin lid were pried out one by one, a total of sixty-four.
After the last nail was removed, Li Xiuning let out a long sigh, gripped the edges of the coffin lid with both hands, scanned the faces of everyone present, and then suddenly exerted force.
Clang!
The heavy coffin lid was directly thrown off. Li Shimin rushed forward immediately and peered into the coffin.
It was empty!
Li Shimin couldn't believe his eyes. He had personally witnessed his sister's body being placed inside.
Could it be that the current sister wasn't from a parallel dimension?
Fang Er was also stunned. What was going on?
If Li Xiuning was simply summoned across time, then to everyone in the Tang Dynasty, she would have only been considered missing, not dead.
Therefore, her tomb wouldn't exist.
But if she was from a parallel dimension, why was the coffin empty? There wasn't even a skeleton, let alone a body.
"System, my dear grandmother, can you explain why?"
Fang Er, unable to figure it out, turned to the system for help.
System: "Guess!"
Fang Er: "Guess if I want to guess or not?"
System: "Guess or don't guess, as you damn well please!"
Fang Er: sig
Not long after leaving Chunming Gate, past the Longshou Canal, was the Fangjiazhuang Workshop. Qi Sui, who was patrolling with his subordinates, immediately spotted the two of them and Chai Yue holding Fang Xin.
"Guard, Qi Sui, pays his respects to the Duke and Madam!"
Fang Er nodded slightly and then told him to notify Old Ma Tou and the others to meet at his home.
Soon after he arrived home, a large group of people arrived upon receiving the notification.
Old Ma Tou, Old Sun Tou, Liu Lao Si, Zhao Neng, and some managers from the workshop and school were all present.
"Duke, is the young master's health alright?"
The old men, upon meeting, first asked about Fang Xin.
Fang Er was the present of Fangjiazhuang, and Fang Xin was the future of Fangjiazhuang; this was an undeniable fact.
"He's very well."
Fang Er replied with a smile and then asked about the matters concerning the manor.
"How is this year's harvest?"
Old Ma Tou replied proudly, "Duke, the cotton on the manor is growing very well. We are already starting to pick cotton."
"The strong young men are bringing water back from the Wei River to irrigate the fields, so the drought has almost no impact on us."
Fangjiazhuang did not lack food. The young men were provided with meals and money for their labor, and they were eager to be busy every day.
It could be said that for the cotton in these fields, if the expansion of the variety was not considered, the input and output were completely disproportionate.
"Duke, our pig farm also deserves credit for this cotton!"
The farm now housed tens of thousands of pigs. The manure from the pigs was brought back by the young men almost every day.
Liu Lao Si finished speaking, slapped his forehead, and continued to Fang Er, "Duke, that Zhu Bajie you sent back is truly skilled at raising pigs."
"For the same litter of pigs, the ones he raises gain at least ten catties more in a month than mine!"
After the two elders reported the situation, other craftsmen also spoke about the matters in the workshop during this period.
In short, there were no major issues, orders were constant, and nothing particularly noteworthy required attention.