RHE - Chapter 1958: The Truth! (II)

"Everything felt very strange to me, but we slaves of the palace have no right to refuse the requests of our superiors. I quickly started the fire, and that man passed the thing over to me. He said that these were discarded books from the palace that needed to be burned.

"We of the Compassionate Virtue Hall do not look before burning, simply setting ablaze everything our superiors send us. This doesn't include just memorials, but also other things, like discarded books.

"Eunuch Zhang had also sent over books, but the books on that day were of different quality than the ones from the past. They felt soft, meticulous, and compact to the touch. This old man still remembers how they felt even now.

"More importantly, when this old man took those old books, he felt golden threads on the covers. Only the best books of the palace used this, and those books were extremely precious. In normal circumstances, someone could go their entire life in the palace without touching one. At the time, I determined that the books sent over contained extremely important information and were not discarded books at all. Thus, this old man began to pay attention, knowing that tonight was not normal!"

"And after that?" Wang Chong nervously said.

If the books were all burned, he probably wouldn't be able to get his hands on them.

"Although I sensed something was not right, I could not stop it. That lordship was watching from the sides as those precious books were thrown into the charcoal basin and burned. I slowed down and intentionally stacked them atop each other so that they would burn a little slower, but some things can't be stopped.

"The fire burned for an hour, and all the books had been thrown in. Seeing that all the books were on the verge of being burned, that lordship nodded in satisfaction. I thought that he would wait until the end, but at this moment, a guard walked out from the distance, apparently calling him over for some other matter. That lordship hesitated a moment, saw that the flames were just about done burning, and orde

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Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 1958: The Truth! (II)

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