Chapter 1466: Chapter 1473: Helana’s Death (4)
After the al, Cai Wei went to the warehouse to find Du Yongqi, intending to collect the glass.
As soon as Du Yongqi saw her, he knelt down without waiting for her to speak, crying out, “Empress, help !”
Cai Wei said, “If there’s sothing wrong, stand up and talk, don’t just kneel and kowtow, what happened, has soone offended you?”
Du Yongqi replied, “No one has given any grief, it’s just that my sister Madam Yue was abducted by a group of masked n two months ago, and her fate is still unknown. I hope the Empress can help search for her.”
“Rest assured, I’ll take care of this matter.”
Cai Wei quickly agreed, saying, “Next ti I co, I’ll surely find Madam Yue and bring her back for you.”
Hearing this, Du Yongqi was so grateful that he nearly kowtowed to Cai Wei, but she stopped him. “Let’s open the warehouse now, I’m here to collect the glass!”
Hearing this, Du Yongqi hurriedly opened the warehouse. Cai Wei was shocked at the sight— the warehouse was filled to the brim with glass, nearly overflowing!
“Empress, these are one hundred and fifty thousand pieces of glass, all produced these past few months. Miss Zhao Yun has already paid over thirty thousand taels of silver, and the remaining hundred and ten thousand sothing taels are still unpaid.”
Cai Wei nodded: “I understand!” As she spoke, she silently chanted, “Collect!”
And just like that, the warehouse full of glass disappeared in an instant.
A mont of astonishnt flashed in Du Yongqi’s eyes. He quickly lowered his head, shielding from his gaze the tumultuous shock within. He knew that the Empress Dowager had magic skills, not just today, but every ti he saw it, he would still be so startled that he couldn’t sleep for days and nights.
Truly, the Empress is aweso, no wonder she could beco the Empress Dowager. They all thought she beca the Empress just because she was beautiful, capturing The Emperor’s soul and thus, climbing up to his level. Now it seems it’s not sure who is reaching up to whom!
After collecting the glass, Cai Wei went to Tuoba Hong’s king’s tent. Regardless of everything, Lady Yan of Helan had passed away, and now that she had co to Lingbei, it would be improper not to offer her condolences.
For the condolence visit, she purposely changed into plain and simple clothes and did not wear any bright jewelry on her head.
When she entered the king’s tent, the coffins for Helana were already set in place. The aristocrats of Lingbei were dressed in white mourning clothes, wearing mourning caps, holding both hands in front of them and singing spiritual songs, slowly walking past Helana’s coffin to bless her and her unborn children’s souls.
Dozens of pitiable young maids were kneeling on the ground, their crying earth-shattering. So were already in hysterics. They were designated to be buried alive as part of the funerary ritual and were soon to be walled into the periter of the grave.
Seeing this, Cai Wei couldn’t help but feel secretly relieved that she had arrived just in ti. Otherwise, the fate of these poor maids would have been unspeakably tragic!
When Tuoba Hong saw that Cai Wei had also co to offer condolences, he quickly invited her into the king’s tent, personally accompanying her. Cai Wei consoled him superficially for a while, then paid him the remaining sum of one hundred and ten thousand taels for the glass.
At that mont, a maid brought over tea. Cai Wei inadvertently glimpsed the maid, was startled, and with astonishnt asked, “Aunt, how co you’re here?”
Du iren gently replied, “Thanks to Your Grace’s rcy in releasing us from the palace, I ca here with the Handmaid Book and Nong Mo to look for my father and brothers.”
During the last Autumn Hunt, Cai Wei had already decreed the release of the unfavoured concubines from the palace, and even those who had been favoured but had no heirs and were of lower rank were also released by her. Now, only about a dozen High Concubines remained in the palace, mostly those with high standing or who had given birth to princesses, as those who had princes were already sent away to join their sons’ fiefdoms.
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