Chapter 577 - The Ming Dynasty’s Letter of Credential (2/2)

Surprised, Su Hui asked, “You’ve agreed?”

Qin Haodong laughed and replied, “Why would I refuse such a good invitation?”

“That’s great. Let’s go together tonight.”

Su Hui had a relieved smile on her face. These days, she’d have quarrels with Zhu Chunmei, who shouted every day that she should take Qin Haodong back to have dinner and said that since Su Hui would not have a relationship with a boy, then she could help her.

Soon the class bell rang. When Zhang Xiaoyan saw Qin Haodong, she just nodded slightly as if she didn’t care about his absence in the past few days.

Since the teacher did not ask then Qin Haodong did not explain. After school, he followed Su Hui to her grandfather Liu Qigong’s house.

“Qin, where have you been for the past few days? Why didn’t you come here to sit for a while?”

As soon as Qin Haodong entered the door, Zhu Chunmei enthusiastically took his hand. The way she looked at him was as if watching her grandson-in-law.

“Little Qin, you and Huihui can sit here and chat with each other. I’ll make some good food for you.”

Then she went into the kitchen and at that moment, Liu Qigong came out of his room. When he saw Qin Haodong, he said with surprise, “Little Qin, here you are. Come to my room quickly. I have something good to show you.”

After that, he pulled Qin Haodong into his room without an explanation. Su Hui shook her head slightly and followed them in.

“Little Qin, I really need to thank you this time. If you hadn’t given me that jade pendant, this archaeological exploration wouldn’t have been completed so smoothly.”

Last time in the tomb, after the evil spirit invaded his body, the archaeological exploration was suspended. After Qin Haodong cured him, Liu Qigong took the crystal pendant into the tomb to continue.

Sure enough, as Qin Haodong had said, people within ten meters of the pendant would be fine otherwise they would feel cold all over and would get sick if they stayed outside that range for too long.

With this pendant as a guarantee, the archaeological exploration went smoothly. Just yesterday, all the complete work was finished and he had just returned to Shanghai this morning.

Qin Haodong said, “It’s good that everything went well. You can take this thing with you and it will be useful when you enter tombs in the future.”

“Little Qin, take a look. We had a huge harvest in this time. Guess whose tomb that was?”

As Liu Qigong spoke, he turned on the computer and began scrolling through the images of the archaeological finds.

These images were all internal records, which were absolutely inaccessible to outsiders. He was sincerely thankful for Qin Haodong’s help, so he was sharing his most precious things with him.

Qin Haodong moved the mouse and taking quick glances at the pictures on the screen. To be honest, he was not very interested in these archaeological finds.

However, this tomb was very luxuriously constructed and had a wide space. The collections in the tomb were really rich and they looked very exquisite. He asked cooperatively, “Mr. Liu, whose tomb is this?”

“Wei Zhongxian! It’s Wei Zhongxian’s grave!” Liu Qigong said excitedly. “After the research and verification by us, we have confirmed that this grave belongs to the lead eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian.”

Su Hui asked, “Wei Zhongxian? Wasn’t he killed by Emperor Chongzhen? How could he have his own tomb?”

“It’s not surprising. This is the cenotaph that Wei Zhongxian prepared for himself in advance.”

Speaking of his work and passion, Liu Qigong said eloquently, “According to our inference, this tomb belongs to Wei Zhongxian. He probably predicted that he would have no good ending, so he built this tomb in advance.

“The location of the tomb was very furtive and his skeleton was also not there. He should have prepared it in advance but later, Emperor Chongzhen directly killed him without giving him a chance to enter the burial. ”

Qin Haodong asked, “Since he was not buried, why are there so many burial items?”

Liu Qigong replied, “At that time, Wei Zhongxian had the power to conquer the court and held great power. He had uncountable wealth, so it was normal for him to put some things in it for himself in advance.”

“Oh!” Qin Haodong nodded and continued looking at the pictures on the computer. He looked through them quickly.

Suddenly, a picture attracted his attention. It was an opened scroll. It looked like an imperial edict but was not one. It was written in ancient Huaxia language which meant a letter of credence and there were many small characters below it.

The writing was very good. It was vigorous and powerful, and there was a big red seal at the bottom.

Qin Haodong was a little interested to see this. He stopped and asked, “Grandpa, what is this?”

Liu Qigong replied, “This is a letter of credence. It was given to the Ming Dynasty by the Koryo and below it is the seal of the King of the Koryo.”

“It turns out to be a letter of credence.” Qin Haodong asked, “Grandpa, since it’s a letter of credence from another country then why is it in Huaxia’s language?”

Liu Qigong said, “At that time, Ming Dynasty was the most powerful country. In order to express their respect, the subordinate countries would write it with help from the ministers who were proficient in Huaxia’s language.

“It’s ridiculous that some countries are still arguing about the history. This letter of credence is the best evidence that Huaxia was very powerful.”