On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 489 This was truly something Li Shiyue had never expected!
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Of course, there were soldiers guarding the prince's tomb. Such a loud noise would definitely attract the attention of the soldiers down the mountain.

Anyone who isn't a complete idiot would definitely send a small team up the mountain to investigate where the noise is coming from.

This means that Li Shiyue's time is limited!
She had to find the embroidery needle in the shortest amount of time!

Relying on the mask, Li Shiyue bent down and crawled into the cave before the dust in front of her had settled.

In the blink of an eye, Li Shiyue descended from the hole into the tomb chamber.

The tomb was pitch black, but thankfully the mask Li Shiyue was wearing was not afraid of the dark and had its own night vision function.

Li Shiyue looked up at the hole, and good heavens, she had made a hole right above Liu Shu's tomb and fell right down.

Turning her head again, she saw a fine pine coffin lying quietly in the center of the tomb. The coffin was carved with exquisite patterns, clearly belonging to royalty or nobility.

Li Shiyue seized the moment, stepped forward, and placed her palm on the outer coffin. Even though it was nailed tightly shut, with her immense strength, she managed to slowly push open the outer cover.

Liu Shu was merely a prince who had not yet inherited the throne when he died; therefore, his coffin consisted of only one inner coffin and one outer coffin.

After Li Shiyue pushed open the outer coffin, he used a little force to open the lid of the inner coffin as well.

A pungent smell, a mixture of herbs and decay, wafted towards us.

Fortunately, the mask also had a gas-proof function, so the poison gas could not harm Li Shiyue.

Liu Shu's body was preserved surprisingly well.

He was dressed in magnificent clothes, his hands folded in front of his chest, his face serene, as if he were simply asleep.

The body was coated with a special waxy substance, which clearly indicated that it had undergone special preservation treatment.

Looking at the corpse, Li Shiyue frowned, which made it more difficult for her to remove the needle.

The embroidery needle was deeply embedded in Liu Shu's brainstem, and to remove it under these conditions, a knife would be necessary.

Li Shiyue thought that so much time had passed, Liu Shu should have long since turned into a skeleton.

In that case, she could simply open the coffin lid and search around the skull to find the embroidery needle.

But who knew that the Liu family would use embalming to bury corpses!
Li Shiyue took another deep breath under her mask and took out a slender scalpel and tweezers from her system space.

This was something she picked out from the first-aid kit Zhang Lanlan had given her, and it was proving useful now.

"Liu Shu, Liu Shu, I had no intention of doing anything to your body, but who told you to leave that needle in your brain?"

As Li Shiyue spoke softly, she turned the corpse inside the coffin over.

Having found the spot, the scalpel precisely cut open the back of Liu Shu's neck.

The preservative wax hardened the corpse's tissues, so Li Shiyue had to increase her efforts, cutting through the wax adhering to the body, then the skin, and finally reaching the brain tissue.

Withdrawing the scalpel along the same path, Li Shiyue used one hand to open the incision, and with the other hand, she used long, thin tweezers to carefully and slowly remove a tiny embroidery needle.

It worked!
Without bothering to disinfect the tools, Li Shiyue threw them all into her system backpack, quickly straightened the body, closed the coffin, used her waist and abdomen to propel herself up through the coffin, and jumped into the hole above the tomb chamber that had been blasted open by the "Mountain-Breaking Thunder".

After climbing out of the cave, Li Shiyue quickly ran towards the depths of the surrounding woods.

Outside, apart from the howling wind, there was nothing else to hear. Li Shiyue called for the golden eagle again, and the eagle quickly swooped down from the night sky.

As the golden eagle soared into the sky, Li Shiyue, now far away, could see the scattered sparks beneath the Liu family's grave. He assumed the deafening roar of the "Mountain-Breaking Thunder" had drawn these people to investigate.

However, hehe, she has already retrieved the embroidery needle!
By the time Li Shiyue was brought back to the riverbank of Lijiatun by the golden eagle, it was already past midnight.

Fortunately, at this time of year, even after dawn, the sky is still pitch black.

Li Shiyue waved for the golden eagle to leave. She quickly returned to the Li family home, put on a mask, and took out a scalpel, tweezers, and embroidery needle from her system backpack. She carefully wiped all these items with alcohol three times while wearing gloves. Only after overcoming her mental hurdle did she tidy herself up and lie down again.

After taking a short nap of half an hour, Li Shiyue got out of bed feeling refreshed.

The first person she saw when she stepped out of the house was Qin Fen, who was carrying firewood.

"Brother-in-law?"

"Hey! October's awake?"

"What's this?"

"Today we're going to Sanshan County. Where in that county is it free?"
"Load this firewood onto the cart; we can use it when we're in Sanshan County, and it'll save us some copper coins."

Li Shiyue looked at Li Qiutian who came out of the kitchen, and she didn't dare to say anything more, only replying, "Sister is right."

Seeing that Li Shiyue had stopped nagging her not to come along, Li Qiutian nodded at her with satisfaction.

For the next half day, the Li family was extremely busy.

Not only were Li Qiutian and Qin Fen, who were pregnant, going to Sanshan County with Li Shiyue, but Li's mother and Shi Tou were also going along.

Even though she packed a lot yesterday, now that it was time to leave, Li's mother looked at all the things she had accumulated since arriving in Lijiatun, and she couldn't bear to part with any of them, wanting to take them all with her.

Having experienced the hardships of fleeing famine, Li's mother knew that traveling light was the only way to increase speed; otherwise, in the dead of winter, when would they ever reach Jian'an?
Then, while the Li family was busy, Li Shiliang, along with Zhao Min, Gu Lanzhi with Dana, Sun Xiuxiu, Erdan, and the two young men Wang Shisan and Yangzai, all arrived at Li Shiyue's doorstep.

Before they could speak, Li Shiyue could tell from their expressions that they all planned to go to Jian'an with her!

This was something Li Shiyue had never expected!
The families who met at the Li family's door looked at each other with a mixture of surprise and delight.

For these people, going to Jian'an with Li Shiyue was truly a desperate gamble.

Although they were determined to follow Li Shiyue, they couldn't help but feel some anxiety about their future.

But seeing familiar faces now, not to mention the two bachelors, Yangzai and Wang Shisan, even those with families like Li Shiliang and Zhao Min felt more confident.

After all, there are concerns about only one family going along;

But if other families go along too, then they'll have company, right?
That's how people are. When you have someone by your side, even if you know there are difficulties ahead, you'll have more energy to move forward!

Even though she already had a guess in her heart, Li Shiyue still asked Li Shiliang and the others, "Third Brother, Sister-in-law Min, Madam Gu, Dana, Aunt, Erdan, and Thirteen, Yangzai, what's going on here?"

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