Chapter 1627: Chapter 1634 The Death of Empress Dowager Mo (1)
There was such a brutal murder on the street, people from Yingtianfu arrived quickly. At the sa ti, several court ministers passing by after leaving the Grand Hongyun Theater saw Cai Wei and hurried over to pay their respects.
“Empress Dowager, we were late to escort you, causing you to be frightened!”
Cai Wei was not frightened. A re few assassins could not scare her. She was rely saddened by the innocent deaths of ng Huaian and the coachman.
“I have already identified the murderer, there is no need for you to trouble yourselves with capturing them. Just see to it that they two are properly buried…”
“Yes!”
The arresting officer from Yingtianfu and the arriving ministers replied in unison.
They did not know how the Empress Dowager determined the murderer, but seeing the brutal murder scene before them and the Empress Dowager unscathed and so calm, they realized she must possess extraordinary abilities and felt a sense of awe for Cai Wei.
Truly worthy of being the Empress Dowager, her abilities are indeed great!
Cai Wei’s carriage was damaged and could not proceed. The eldest son of Duke Li Guo, Mo Zijing, offered his family’s horse carriage. The other ministers dispatched their ho guards, grandly escorting Cai Wei back to the palace.
Sitting in the carriage, Cai Wei used her thought to contact Brother Ying: “Where are those assassins? See whom they are contacting? Keep an eye on them, don’t let them escape.”
Brother Ying said: “Master, these people have left the city, heading outside. I don’t know where they’re going, but I’m following them.”
“Continue following, keep an eye on them!”
Cai Wei instructed, not knowing why, she had a subtle premonition that these people might be the sa group that assassinated Zhao Yue. But why did they want to assassinate Zhao Yue? And why her? Who was orchestrating all this?
Throughout the journey, she pondered these questions. Unbeknownst to her, they arrived at the palace gate. As was the norm, the carriage of a minister’s house could not enter the palace. Upon reaching the palace gate, Cai Wei got off and a sedan chair waiting at the gate carried her to the royal study.
It was already noon, yet Cai Wei didn’t feel hungry at all. In front of her eyes, the horrific scene of ng Huaian and the coachman’s death kept appearing, especially the naless coachman, whose body and head were separated, leaving her with no appetite.
However, even if she had no appetite, she had to prepare food for the children. It was already noon, and the little buns in space were already hungry. If it weren’t for Chang i picking a lot of fresh fruits for them and milking the wild buffalo to heat milk for them to drink, they would have revolted long ago!
After entering the royal study, Cai Wei was about to retreat into the tent to enter space, when she saw Chun Liu, with red eyes from crying, rushing towards her. Seeing her, Chun Liu even forgot the decorum, grabbed her hand, and cried: “Empress, sothing terrible has happened, people ca from the Empress Dowager’s palace just now, saying the Empress Dowager has… passed away!”
“What?”
Cai Wei’s body swayed, she said in disbelief: “Say that again? What happened to the Empress Dowager?”
“Empress, the Empress Dowager passed away!”
Chun Liu knelt down, crying as she said: “Just now soone ca from the Jade Palace to report that you quarreled with the Empress Dowager this morning. The Empress Dowager got very angry, and later felt unwell and went to sleep and never woke up, saying… saying it was you who… Angered her to death…”
Cai Wei’s heart sank suddenly, deeply impacted by this account. She indeed quarreled with Empress Dowager Mo this morning and indeed angered her very much, but she never imagined it would anger her to death. Now it’s all over, Nangong Yi would certainly not forgive her.
She bit her lip and instinctively glanced towards the imperial desk, where several morials lay in disarray. The vermilion pen with gold lacquer had fallen to the ground, a sure sign that the owner of the desk had hastily left, knocking things over as he did so…
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