00:00When the palace maid was filling in the earth to bury the pit,
00:02she was shocked to find that there was actually the sound of something
00:05pounding from the coffin in the deep pit.
00:07She realized there was still someone alive inside.
00:09But the supervisor said,
00:10everyone sent here was a vicious criminal.
00:1219 soul-suppressing males had been driven into the coffin lid.
00:15The purpose was to make sure she would never be reborn after death.
00:17Then the supervisor warned the girl not to meddle.
00:20If she asked one more question, he would bury her in there too.
00:22At night, the girl still could not help sneaking over to check.
00:25She asked whether the person inside the coffin was still alive.
00:28But she got no response.
00:29She thought maybe she had just been overthinking it,
00:31just as she stood up and was about to leave.
00:33The same pounding sound came from inside as it had during the day.
00:36To confirm her suspicion, she got a rope and climbed down.
00:39Then she took a steam bun out of her pocket and said she meant no harm.
00:42She waited a long time, but still got no response.
00:45She leaned closer and looked into the coffin.
00:47Unexpectedly, the next second, a hand suddenly reached out,
00:50scaring her stiff for a long time when she noticed the nail guards on the other person's fingers.
00:54Only palace consorts wore those.
00:56She guessed the person inside was someone important.
00:58Early the next morning, the girl decided to ask the other palace maids for information.
01:02But no one knew where the coffin had come from.
01:04Perhaps the matter was too important.
01:05Even if the other palace maids knew, they would not dare say anything.
01:08However, they discussed a strange incident.
01:10The once breathtakingly beautiful grand princess had been sent to a neighboring kingdom for a political marriage three years ago.
01:16At the time, she left in a phoenix-patterned wedding robe.
01:18And after that, there was no news of her.
01:20Hearing this, the girl instantly felt afraid.
01:23Thinking of the phoenix-patterned wedding robe inside the coffin,
01:25she suspected the person inside was the missing grand princess to verify her guess.
01:29That night, the girl brought pancakes and water again.
01:31To make the other person relax her guard, she told her own story.
01:34It turned out that when the girl was 18, her family sold her into the palace.
01:38At first, she was assigned to laundry duty.
01:40Not long after, a guard took a liking to the girl's beauty.
01:43After someone discovered it, the guard falsely accused the girl of seducing him.
01:47In the end, the girl was punished for violating palace rules and assigned to the abandoned palace.
01:51Never allowed to leave for the rest of her life.
01:53Here she was bullied by the other palace maids, so she had always wanted to escape.
01:57The girl told the other person whether the person in the coffin was the grand princess or not,
02:01as long as she was still alive.
02:03The girl would save her and get her out.
02:05Soon the supervisor discovered that every day when earth was added to the pit,
02:08not only did the soil not seem to increase, it actually had decreased by half a foot.
02:12Little did he know, the girl secretly dug the soil away every night.
02:15At that time, someone complained to the supervisor,
02:17saying the girl was not sleeping at night and wandering around the courtyard.
02:20To set the other palace maid straight, the supervisor whipped the girl,
02:24but the girl still refused to give up.
02:26Late at night, when everything was quiet, she brought food to the person in the coffin.
02:29The other person smelled the smell of blood on her.
02:31The girl smiled and said it was nothing.
02:33She had been tough and rough-skinned since childhood.
02:35At that moment, the other person let down her guard and told the girl that she was actually the grand
02:39princess,
02:40the legitimate eldest daughter of the previous emperor.
02:43Although the girl had long suspected it,
02:45when the other person admitted it herself, she still found it unbelievable.
02:48Then, the grand princess handed a hairpin out from the coffin.
02:51The girl took it and found it was made of pure gold.
02:53Just this one piece would be enough for a palace made to live comfortably for the rest of her life.
02:57The grand princess was not giving the hairpin to her.
03:00Instead, she instructed her to find a doctor in the imperial palace
03:02and exchange the hairpin for gold wound medicine.
03:05The girl knew that gold wound medicine was a forbidden medicine that only masters could use.
03:09If she were caught hoarding it or trading it privately, it would be a death sentence.
03:12The grand princess believed, since the girl now knew her identity,
03:15she could no longer distance herself from her.
03:17Because the skin under the grand princess was already badly ulcerated,
03:20if she still had no medicine, she would not survive for many more days.
03:24At the same time, the grand princess gave the girl a second choice,
03:27trade the hairpin for money and keep it for herself.
03:29Then no one would know, the girl hesitated again and again,
03:32but still followed what the grand princess said.
03:34When the doctor's servants saw the hairpin,
03:36he immediately brought out gold wound medicine from inside the room to trade for it
03:39and warned the girl that no one else could find out about this.
03:42When the girl returned to the cold palace,
03:44she was shocked to find that the original deep pit had actually been filled and already.
03:48To be continued...
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