bookrebus Chapter 250 The Vault Was Stolen
Chapter 250 The Vault Was Stolen
Xiao Mo and Ye Jintang raced against time and finally arrived in Quyang Prefecture three days later.
The assassins sent by Imperial Noble Consort Dehui arrived half a day later than them and could not assassinate them halfway. They could only wait for them to come out of Quyang Prefecture and make other plans.
"What a bunch of rubbish! Xiao Mo and his family must be traveling very slowly with so many carriages."
"They were all lightly equipped, but they couldn't catch up. How can I expect them to help me in the future?"
Noble Consort Dehui looked at the secret letter in her hand and was so angry that she almost fainted.
The people she sent out this time were all elite troops in her hands. She also planned to send people to ambush Xiao Mo as soon as he left the capital.
As a result, he ran faster than a rabbit, did not stay in an inn, and rushed to Quyang Prefecture day and night.
Seeing that Imperial Noble Consort Dehui was about to get angry and throw things again, Che Xiang quickly whispered to comfort her.
"It's not important to assassinate the King of Qin there. What's important is to kill him."
"I believe that General Zhou has a clear idea in mind and will not delay Your Majesty's business."
"I hope so. If Xiao Mo leads his men through Quyang Prefecture, there will be half as many people who can assassinate him, which will be a troublesome matter then."
"Didn't General Zhou say that his people would disguise themselves as bandits? It wouldn't hurt to have a few more people then."
"Well, he usually does a good job. I hope he won't let me down in this matter."
Seeing that Imperial Noble Consort Dehui was in a slightly better mood, Che Xiang immediately brought her more calming tea.
Apart from Xiao Mo's matter, Imperial Noble Consort Dehui has been living a relatively comfortable life recently. Ye Yanran has also been very honest and has never caused any trouble for her.
Leaning on the soft pillow, she took a sip of calming tea and was about to take a look at the account books that had been presented to her in the past few days.
As soon as I opened the account book, a young eunuch came hurried over.
"My Lady Imperial Concubine, I just saw several bloody footprints on the rockery. They were as big as fists and looked like they were from some ferocious beast. But the palace has been peaceful in the past few days and there have been no ferocious beasts walking around."
"Which rockery?"
Imperial Noble Consort Dehui's heart tightened. How could there be a ferocious beast in the palace?
Even if there are any, they are just toys raised in the garden for fun.
"Closer to the vault."
When she heard the word "vault", Imperial Noble Consort Dehui lost her composure.
She knew best what was kept in the vault, and it was not impossible that a ferocious beast might smell the scent and come looking for it.
"Che Xiang, take a few people to the vault to take a look."
"Yes, slave, go right away."
Che Xiang had been to the vault several times and was very familiar with the place.
The door of the vault opened, and the person standing in the front smelled a fishy stench rushing into her nose. Before she could react, she cried out and vomited everything in her stomach.
The people behind her immediately covered their noses and stepped back, fearing that they would be nauseated and vomit by the fishy smell.
"What's going on? Why does the vault smell so bad?"
"Aunt Che, why does this servant smell like a rotten odor?"
The palace maid who was patting Che Xiang on the back frowned, with a bad feeling in her heart.
"It's a bit like that."
The smell of the car was so strong that it filled the air, but even though he felt unwell, he still forced himself to open the door of the vault.
As the vault door opened wider, the stench became stronger.
Che Xiang saw the dead poisonous snake at the door at a glance.
At first she thought the stench might have come from a few dead venomous snakes.
When she walked into the vault and looked along the stone path, she saw the corpses of poisonous snakes rotting into a pile of rotten meat. Some live poisonous snakes were slowly crawling through the rotten meat.
Che Xiang couldn't help it and started retching again.
There were so many dead venomous snakes that there was almost no place to step on the entire stone road.
The palace maids and eunuchs following behind Che Xiang were also frightened half to death by what they saw, and none of them dared to take another step forward.
It was obvious that those half-cut poisonous snakes did not die of natural causes. Che Xiang did not dare to delay and said, suppressing her nausea, "Go out first and report to the Imperial Concubine."
Che Xiang is also a woman. Seeing such a disgusting and horrifying scene, she was already frightened out of her wits.
After coming out of the vault, it took her a long time to recover. Even when the sun shone on her, she felt a biting chill.
When Imperial Noble Consort Dehui received the news, she was also shocked. This kind of thing had never happened before. And because it involved the treasury, she immediately brought people over in person.
The poisonous snakes in the vault were specially raised by someone. The snake keeper in white clothes entered the vault first and led all the poisonous snakes into the cave and sealed them up.
As soon as they entered the vault, they were frightened by what they saw.
When they saw that the two giant pythons were both bitten to death by wild beasts and even the snake heart fruit was pulled out by the roots, the snake keeper became nervous and hurried out to report to Imperial Noble Consort Dehui.
"What, both pythons are dead? How is this possible?"
The two giant pythons in the vault have been raised for twenty years, and Imperial Noble Consort Dehui knows best how powerful they are.
Not to mention ordinary people, even the secret guards in the palace would have to pay a huge price to kill the two giant pythons.
As for the ferocious beasts, Imperial Noble Consort Dehui simply did not believe that such powerful beasts would enter the palace.
The guards patrolling the palace are no pushovers. How could they not see ferocious beasts entering the palace?
"Open the vault door. I want to go in and take a look myself."
The giant python was killed and the snake heart fruit was dug out. Imperial Noble Consort Dehui couldn't help but tremble a little. She didn't dare to think any further.
There was no time to clean up the poisonous snake corpses on the stone road. Consort Dehui's gold-threaded mandarin duck shoes stepped on the rotten snake corpses, and the disgusting juice stained her shoes.
But she couldn't care about these things at the moment. The gold and silver in the vault were her focus.
From a distance, the wooden boxes in the small safe were neatly arranged and did not look like they had been moved by anyone.
Seeing these wooden boxes, Imperial Noble Consort Dehui finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that the people came for the snake heart fruit, not for the gold and silver in the vault.
so far so good.
If the snake heart fruit is gone, the worst that can happen is that she can send people out to find it and cultivate it slowly. Anyway, she is still young and has no need for the snake heart fruit for the time being.
"Che Xiang, go check the 11th vault to see if there's any sign of anyone moving around."
"Yes."
Che Xiang's face turned pale as she went to check the No. 11 treasury.
Most of the wooden boxes filled the No. 11 safe, leaving only a small empty space. She checked carefully and found no signs of movement.
Che Xiang subconsciously reached out and pushed a wooden box closer to the front. The feel of a box filled with items was different from that of an empty box.
As soon as she pushed it, she felt that the wooden box was a little too light.
"Come here, both of you, and take this wooden box down and have a look."
The two young eunuchs stepped forward to move the wooden box, and their faces turned pale with fright.
Is the wooden box empty?