Chapter 3227: There Must Lie Behind Him Ten Thousand Bones

The whole process had been full of twists and turns. The battles were truly brutal.

For a general to succeed, there must lie behind him ten thousand bones.

Back then, when Zhuo Cheran forced the surrounding small nations to pay tribute, it was also after a blood-soaked campaign.

He had intimidated those smaller nations into submission, making them too scared to stir up any trouble.

The weapons provided by Yin Qing gave the warlord-like Zhuo Cheran an immense boost of power.

He swept through everything in his path.

But was unifying the continent really such a glorious achievement worth all the praise?

Everything had its own natural course of development.

These modern firearms had already disrupted the natural order of this realm.

Ning Shu let out a long sigh and stretched. She had finally completed her task and was ready to leave.

She didn’t like the ancient realms. Too many constraints came with the tasks there.

In the dead of night, instead of sleeping, Ning Shu sneaked over to the ancestral hall. She fished out the key she had swiped from the steward and unlocked the door.

She walked in, then bowed toward the ancestors and muttered, “Don’t blame me, ancestors. This is all for the sake of Marquis Xuanping’s household. During the holidays, your unfilial descendant will make sure to burn more offerings for you.”

After muttering her piece, she took out her tools and began prying up the gold bricks, removing all the gold that had been laid into the floor.

Ning Shu couldn’t understand why Marquis Xuanping refused to do anything about this.

Did he think he could turn this into some kind of tourist attraction?

With the current chaos in the political situation, this was the perfect time to deal with the ancestral hall.

Since the marquis couldn’t make up his mind and still held onto a shred of wishful thinking, she went ahead and wrecked the place. Once it was all a mess, there was no way he’d let the ancestral tablets remain there.

There was no point in hoping no one would discover the place. With so many people in the residence, someone was bound to brag or gossip about it eventually.

Ning Shu knew very well that this ancestral hall was the final straw that would break the back of Marquis Xuanping’s household.

When the authorities raided the residence, they found a trove of treasures. The golden hall astonished everyone.

All of it was hauled off to the empire’s treasury. Some even ended up in the emperor’s private treasury.

Ning Shu didn’t light a lamp. She felt her way through the darkness, prying up the golden flooring piece by piece.

Even a single brick of this gold could support an ordinary family for a lifetime.

Not only the floor—every wall had been built with gold bricks, disguised with a layer of plaster to keep things low-key.

By the time dawn was approaching, Ning Shu locked the door again, planning to return that night to continue her work.

That day, Marquis Xuanping went to offer incense to the ancestors, asking them to bless the household with peace and safety.

However, the moment he opened the door to the ancestral hall, he was met with a scene of utter devastation.

The gold from the floor had been dug up, leaving behind nothing but uneven pits.

The marquis nearly shrieked like a girl who’d seen a rat. “Ancestors!!”

“Go fetch your eldest miss, now!” he bellowed. His chest was heaving, and his face was flushed red with rage.

When Ning Shu arrived at the study, she first poured him a cup of tea.

The marquis grabbed the cup. He was ready to smash it over her head.

Ning Shu just stared at him calmly. With no outlet for his rage, the marquis could only huff and puff and drink the tea.

It was still scalding hot, and he immediately spat it back into the cup.

“Are you trying to scald me to death?” he roared. “Who gave you the nerve to touch the ancestral hall? It’s bad enough that a woman dared enter it, but you actually messed with it too? Who gave you the guts of a leopard?”

In ancient times, rituals and sacrifices were men’s duties. Women weren’t even allowed to take part.

“I’ve spoiled you too much. That’s why you’ve become so reckless,” the marquis growled. His face turned red with fury.

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