The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 965 Encountering the First Emperor

Because of their striking resemblance, although she could tell that the script of the fragmented character differed slightly from that of the Wei Kingdom, she did not consider it to be the script of the Yong Kingdom.

Deep down, she never felt that Meng Shisi was a person from the State of Wei.

“It is very similar.” Ma Ji seemed to be recalling something, and after answering this, he fell silent.

Meng Shisan didn't let Ma Ji remain silent for too long. She pointed to the incomplete characters on the tombstone and asked, "Do you know what those illegible characters are?"

Ma shook his head quickly: "I can't see clearly, but..."

It was true that he couldn't see clearly, but the turning point was that he didn't know whether he should say it or not.

So he fell silent again.

“Logically speaking, this is your young lady’s tombstone. Even if you didn’t carve the inscription, you must have had it carved.” Meng Shisi was Ma Ji’s master, and Meng Shisan felt that given Ma Ji’s loyalty to his master, Ma Ji couldn’t possibly be unaware of this.

In other words, even if Ma Ji couldn't decipher the characters, he should still know roughly what was engraved on them.

Ma Ji did not immediately deny Meng Shisan's words, but remained silent for a while before slowly and truthfully saying, "Just as Miss said, this is my young lady's tombstone. I was also there when she was buried."

"You are here?" Meng Shisan seized on the words in Ma Ji's words that felt abrupt to her.

“Young Miss is indeed perceptive.” Ma Ji knew that Meng Shisan would understand the hidden meaning in his words. “I was there at the time, along with Miss’s family. The tombstone was commissioned by Miss’s family, and the words on it were also decided by them. Although I was there, I was just a servant. I was still young at the time, and I had no right to say anything to Miss’s family, nor was I qualified to participate in the many matters of Miss’s burial. It was only afterward that I secretly came back and examined the tombstone carefully.”

"Do you remember?" Meng Shisan learned about the general circumstances of Meng Shisi's burial back then, and then asked the part she wanted to know.

Ma Ji nodded quickly: "I remember the gist of it."

“If you remember, things will be much easier.” Meng Shisan stood up excitedly. “Now, I’ll ask, and you answer.”

After saying that, she didn't ask any questions immediately, but waited for Ma Ji's approval.

"Alright." Ma Ji pondered for three breaths, then nodded again.

"Does the inscription on the tombstone mention the identity of the male corpse inside the coffin?" Meng Shisan asked his first question.

Ma Ji replied, "Yes."

"What's your name?" Meng Shisan pressed.

Ma Ji replied, "...Li Shize."

Meng Shisan had never heard of this name before: "Who?"

The horse replied swiftly, "The First Emperor."

"The First Emperor..." Meng Shisan wanted to continue asking who the First Emperor was, but before she could finish uttering a single word, information about the First Emperor that the original owner already knew surfaced in her mind, "...Emperor?"

Her face was full of disbelief, and Ma Ji confirmed it: "Just as Miss thinks, it is the founding emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, Emperor Li Shize."

Meng Shisan slowly turned to the side, then slowly turned back to face Ma Ji. She hesitated for a few moments, then turned her face to her left, staring at the dilapidated tombstone, her eyes filled with disbelief. The information from the original owner of the body told her that the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty by Emperor Li Shize was 140 years ago, meaning that Meng Shisan was at least 140 years old.

She asked Ma Ji, "How old is Miss Meng Ying? Is your young lady a mortal?"

“When I met Miss, she said that she had just turned three hundred years old and had just successfully transformed into human form, finally able to roam this mortal world in human form.” Ma Ji directly answered Meng Shisan’s question about whether Meng Shisi was a mortal by using his age.

Meng Shisan was a demon herself, so accepting other demons was as easy as drinking tea for her. Therefore, she wasn't bothered that Meng Shisi was also a demon like her, but instead asked the key question: "Her true form is..."

“Earthworm,” Ma Ji replied.

Meng Shisan was stunned: "An earthworm?"

“Miss should be familiar with it, after all, there’s an earthworm raised in the dark red soil in front of the main house in her courtyard,” Ma Ji explained.

Meng Shisan nodded, turned her toes and turned her back. When she turned back, she nodded to Ma Ji again: "I know... earthworm."

She had no idea that Meng Shisi was actually from the same family as her!
When she heard that Meng Ying's nickname, Meng Shisi, was so similar to her given name, she suspected that it was too much of a coincidence. But the current situation could no longer be explained by mere coincidence.

"How old was your young lady when she met the First Emperor?" Meng Shisan then asked.

Ma Ji thought for a moment and said, "Back then, I had been by your side for fifty-seven years, and you were three hundred and fifty-seven years old. Before we knew it, you were already five hundred years old this year."

Meng Shisan thought for a moment and did some mental calculations: "So, you mean Miss Meng Ying was encountered around the time of the First Emperor's founding of the dynasty?"

Ma Ji's face was somber: "Yes, it happened the year before the first year of the First Emperor's reign. Later, the young lady died in the year she turned three hundred and sixty."

“Only three years have passed in between…” Meng Shisan continued, “The First Emperor founded the country 140 years ago, and Miss Meng Ying passed away two years later. So, by that calculation, your young lady is indeed 500 years old this year.”

She asked, "What exactly happened in these three years? How could your young lady, who was clearly a demon with over three hundred years of cultivation, have returned to dust so early? And how was her body kept so fresh after burial?"

"Love and romance, entangled in resentment and bitterness, it was ultimately Miss who blindly trusted the First Emperor, and for that she paid the price with her life." Ma Ji did not elaborate, only giving a general explanation.

"For love?" Meng Shisan frowned. "Humans and demons cannot be together. Your young lady should understand that."

"Understanding is one thing, doing is another." Ma Ji once advised Meng Shisi, but unfortunately his young lady did not listen. "Once you go astray, you don't even have a chance to repent."

"Did your young lady say this?" Meng Shisan asked.

"These are the heartfelt words of the young lady before her death." These were indeed Meng Shisi's words to Ma Ji before she died.

"She loved the First Emperor, but died because of him. Did she regret it?" Meng Shisan disapproved of love between humans and demons because in the end, all such relationships ended in regret.

If the outcome is the same, then there's no need to start.

Even now, when Ma Ji recalls the scene, he still feels sorry for his master: "Miss regrets it, but there is no medicine for regret in this world."

"Then what caused Miss Meng Ying's death?" Meng Shisan subconsciously felt that it shouldn't be because of a demon slayer or demon hunter.

Ma Ji paused, then finally said, "The young lady gave birth to a daughter for the First Emperor, but was weak after childbirth, and because she violated the moral code between humans and demons, she lost all her demonic power..."