Chapter 995

After leading Lu Su to settle down in their new residence, he went to the market to purchase some daily necessities.

Su Xuan then said to Lu Su: "I have something to do and need to go out for a while. You just stay here!"

"Okay!"

Lu Su nodded, indicating that she would not run around.

After Su Xuan finished instructing Lu Su, he left Xianyang City and went to a certain place outside the city.

Mount Lishan.

This was the location Ying Zheng had chosen for his imperial mausoleum.

It was unknown exactly when the mausoleum project had begun.

What could be known was that building the imperial mausoleum required conscripting many laborers; it was a project that took a very long time.

Basically every day, laborers performing corvée labor from various places arrived here under the leadership of the pavilion chiefs. Besides the laborers conscripted from all over the country, there were also the families of disgraced officials and criminals from the Six States who were all sent here to perform corvée labor.

The Official Slave Camp was such a place.

It was also because the people in the Official Slave Camp were families of disgraced officials and criminals from various places that the people here received harsher treatment than ordinary laborers. They moved heavy objects like stones and wood day and night with very little food. If they did not work hard, they would be whipped by the Qin soldiers guarding them.

Also due to this harsh environment, the interior of the Official Slave Camp was full of intrigue, presenting a scene of survival of the fittest.

The strong bullied the weak and snatched their food; such things were everywhere.

Gao Yao had never been a strong person.

He was a weakling through and through, and now, he had been in the Official Slave Camp for a long time. During this time, he had suffered endless torture, and anyone could bully him.

If it were not for the obsession with returning home hanging in his heart, he would have long since been unable to hold on.