A Romantic Story of a Girl from the Qin Dynasty

"Mom...Mom? I'm going to Xi'an tomorrow. I have an archaeological job asking me to go. I have to go on a business trip for a few days. Can you help me pack my luggage?"

Shiyan walked into the house, but didn't hear a response

"Mother……"

She saw her mother in the living room and looked at the family portrait in front of her in a daze.

"Mom, why are you looking at this photo again? Is there anything wrong with this photo?"

My mother pointed at the photo and said

"Yan'er, look, there is an empty seat here for no reason. I always feel... there should be someone here, but who... I can't remember."

She said as if talking to herself

"It should be a very important person, but I can't remember it."

"Who else could be there? I'm the only daughter in the family. All the relatives in this photo are here, who else could be missing? It's just that we didn't pay attention when we took the photo, so there was an extra empty seat!"

Shi Yan hugged her mother

"Stop thinking about it every day. Can you help me pack my luggage? I still have several documents on hand that I haven't written yet! If the director finds out, I should be scolded again!"

"But……"

Mother's eyes are a little red

"I always feel like there is an important place in my heart that is empty..."

The mother and daughter were chatting when a little old man came down the stairs.

"What? Are you going to dig up our ancestor's tomb again?! That's really a big sin!"

"Grandpa said this again. Every time I go to the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, grandpa says these strange things, and what else... We are the descendants of Ying Zheng. I have heard so much since I was a child that my ears are calloused!"

"You do not believe?"

Grandpa adjusted his glasses

"Our family heirloom dagger has the blood of many famous people on it! You really can't believe it!"

"Okay, okay! I believe it! I believe it..."

Shi Yan held his grandfather's shoulders and joked with a smile.

"You are obviously an archaeologist and have participated in many major projects. Why do you have such a big reaction when the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is mentioned? You were asked to direct it in the first place!"

"I won't go, how can I dig my ancestors' graves!"

Grandpa pointed at Shiyan and said

"Although we have a surname now, our surname was Ying in the past. We changed our names to avoid being hunted. If our ancestors hadn't been clever and risked their lives to send our lineage out of the palace, we might have been persecuted!"

Although I have heard these words since I was a child, Shiyan has always taken them as a joke and will not delve into them at all.

"Then grandpa, please tell me which of Qin Shihuang's favored concubines our ancestor was? There is not much record of this in history!"

"Concubine? How could she be a concubine? She must be a queen!"

As soon as these words came out, Shi Yan even smiled.

"It is said that Qin Shihuang never had a queen, but why is grandpa so stubborn? He must think so!"

She patted her grandfather on the shoulder and said

"I'm going to write some information! Let's talk about these topics for grandpa when I get back to Xi'an!"

Seeing that his granddaughter didn’t believe it and went upstairs alone, grandpa smiled and said somewhat mysteriously

"If you still don't believe it, maybe the passers-by passing by you one day may be your ancestors!"

The archaeological excavation of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum has been continuing. Shiyan regarded this task as an honor and naturally took it very seriously. She followed the large army into the newly discovered site and began to work intensely.

"what?"

But the excavation progress was only two days old, and she found something strange.

"what is this?"

There was a shiny stone on the ground. When she swept away the surrounding sand, she couldn't help but say

"It turns out to be a fish-shaped jade pendant!"

--over