The ancestral tomb of the Liu family lay to the east of the Imperial City, a place said to be the heart of the Great Shu Dynasty's fortune.
The imperial mausoleum occupied the prime spot, surrounded by the tombs of high-ranking officials and nobility, both large and small.
After getting off the carriage and traversing a stretch of mountain road, Huangfu Lingyao insisted on carrying Liu Shimei on his back. Liu Shimei could not resist his enthusiasm, so she let him.
However, as they arrived in front of the burial site, Liu Shimei froze in astonishment. "What's going on here?"
In ancient times, the surroundings of tombs were usually covered in earth. If not tended to, they would be overgrown with grass. Families like theirs used green bricks to build the tombs. Such households had people to guard and maintain the graves.
