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Chapter 285 - 285: A Golden-threaded Jade Suit Unearthed! The Identity of the Tomb Owner Revealed! (4)
Chapter 285 - 285: A Golden-threaded Jade Suit Unearthed! The Identity of the Tomb Owner Revealed! (4)
Chapter 285: A Golden-threaded Jade Suit Unearthed! The Identity of the Tomb Owner Revealed! (4)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The box was about twenty centimeters long and was not locked.
Luo Feng immediately opened it, and as he had suspected, the contents were just as he had imagined.
[ Jade artifact! Qin Dynasty! Value: ??? ]
Hahaha!
It seemed he was right after all. Luo Feng examined the contents of the box.
His suspicions were all but confirmed.
“What is this?” someone asked.
“Damn, why does it look like a moldy popsicle that’s been sitting around for decades?”
“I feel like I recognize this thing!”
“Yes, I’ve seen it somewhere before!”
Su Meiji was the first to express confusion. “Could it be some kind of organic life form, a rotting structure?”
Luo Feng, with an embarrassed expression, coughed and said, “This is a man’s… you know…”
“Ah? That?” Su Meiji did not seem embarrassed by the revelation, only surprised.
“Yes, that,” Luo Feng nodded.
“What are you all talking about?”
“What’s ‘that’?”
“You fool! You still haven’t got the hint? It’s what your right hand comforts every day!”
“Whoa! Is it a d*ck?”
Gu Santong stared at the object and laughed. “I knew it! I know who this belonged to.”
“Right! It’s Zhao Gao! When I saw the edict, I had a few candidates in mind. It was either Li Si or Zhao Gao, or Zhao Gao’s younger brother Zhao Cheng and son-in-law Xianyang Prefect Yan Le. They were all part of Li Si’s faction. The original edict was altered by them!”
“But I think it’s not the last two! The most likely candidates are Li Si and Zhao
Gao!”
“After seeing this object, it could only be Zhao Gao!”
When Luo Feng’s analysis came out, there were already 60 million people watching the livestream. The reputation of the imperial jade seal and the golden silk jade garment made the chat room lively even though it was already 9 in the evening.
“Should we take a look at the other items in the jade box?” Luo Feng suddenly remembered.
“Yes, Little Cai, go and check it out!” Gu Santong instructed as the box was opened.
Inside the box was an ancient scroll wrapped around a bamboo tube. When unfurled, it revealed a jade tablet shaped like a ceremonial decree, engraved with text.
“The meaning on this tablet is roughly a decree revealing the location of something,” Luo Feng explained, although much of the content would be incomprehensible to the livestream audience.
“A decree for passing on the throne?” Gu Santong asked in surprise. “Could it be Zhao Gao’s collection of decrees for passing on the throne to Qin Er Shi?”
“No, no, no. That wouldn’t be possible for Zhao Gao to take away, because Hu Hai needed it as evidence for his legitimate claim!” Luo Feng shook his head.
“Then whose decree is this from Qin Shi Huang? Is it for Fusu and Qin Er Shi? One is genuine, and the other is tampered with?” Gu Santong was puzzled and extremely curious.
“It’s a decree for Zhao Gao to inherit the throne!” Luo Feng spoke and was rendered speechless.
“What?!”
“Qin Shi Huang passed on the throne to Zhao Gao?” “Are you kidding me?!”
“I won’t believe it unless Qin Shi Huang was a fool!”
Seeing this, Luo Feng laughed. “Calling it a decree might be a bit inaccurate. It should be an abdication. Look at these characters; they say Qin Ziying,’ the last king of the Qin state.”
“That’s impossible, right? Zhao Gao was killed by Qin Ziying. How could he abdicate the throne to him?” Gu Santong shook his head in disbelief.
“Of course, Qin Ziying wouldn’t really abdicate. This was just Zhao Gao’s fantasy. Placed in the ancient tomb, he probably intended to rule as an emperor in the afterlife,” Luo Feng said with a sigh.
“Now that I think carefully about the murals in the tomb, it wasn’t Qin Shi Huang depicted there because the figure had no white beard! Qin Shi Huang definitely had a beard! So the mural was of Zhao Gao, but the accomplishments were those of Qin Shi Huang’s!”
“The previous mural was in the front, followed by the twelve golden men, the Nine Zhou Dings, and the Suihou Pearl! And the Tai’a sword!”
“Suppressing the edict to seal it off! Preventing divine spirits from discovering it, or worrying about what Qin Shi Huang’s ghost might find out after his death!”
“The several large gold ingots were undoubtedly for suppressing the royal aura of the imperial jade seal!”
“Everything points to Zhao Gao’s desire to seize power in life and pursue eternal fame in death!”