coobybook Chapter 517: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (267)
Chapter 517: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (267)
Chapter 517: The Imperial Concubine Is Pure and Elegant (Two Hundred and Sixty-Seven)
When Wu Lan learned that they had not seen the bodies of the elders, she became hopeful. She did not have the energy to settle accounts with them for the time being. After sending these people away, Wu Lan asked the remaining members of the Wu tribe to clean up the ruins and bury the bodies of the tribesmen.
After clearing a passage in and out of the original residences of the clan leader and elders, Wu Lan entered the room where the clan leader originally lived and tried to find the secret passage. This secret passage connected the various tunnels of the Wu clan, and the mechanism had been destroyed. She spent some time and asked people to start digging from the vicinity of the secret passage entrance. After opening the secret passage entrance, Wu Lan hurriedly entered the secret passage with a lamp. After an incense stick of time, she gave up and left the secret passage.
"The altar and the blood pool have been destroyed. The elders all died by the blood pool. Leave a team in Wu Valley to handle the funeral of the tribe members. The rest of you come with me!" Wu Lan wanted to confirm whether the Wu clan's treasure house was still safe. She was worried that someone would find the treasure map hidden by the Wu clan and follow the treasure map to find the treasure. If the treasure disappeared, the Wu clan's hope of making a comeback would be slim! The Ji Kingdom royal family would no longer respect the Wu clan as an equal! Having enjoyed the high status in the past, how could Wu Lan allow the Wu clan to be despised!
When Wu Lan rode her horse at full speed to the place where the treasure was hidden, the treasure house was already empty. If it weren't for the footprints left on the ground and the traces of the original box, she would have thought she had found the wrong place.
How could she accept this? She immediately searched everywhere, but found nothing for two days. She had no choice but to contact the new emperor and local authorities, asking them to search for suspicious individuals in an attempt to reclaim the treasure.
After receiving Wu Lan's letter, Ji Mingjie cursed her as "waste" a few times, and then issued an imperial edict to local officials, asking them to assist Wu Lan.
Moshe just came to report that King Lounan had escaped. Ji Mingjie had sent people to ambush on the road. King Lounan was shot in the back, but escaped on horseback. It is estimated that he has returned to the Lounan tribe and will be a serious threat to the court.
Ji Mingjie received such bad news again, so he couldn't help but complain about the uselessness of the witch clan.
"I wonder who ended up with that treasure? Instead of letting someone else take it, the Wu Clan should have presented it to me long ago. The Wu Clan has a history of thousands of years, and I don't know how many valuable things it has. Back then, the dowry from my mother and aunt was said to have drained out a third of the Wu Clan's savings. I've seen that dowry, and it's indeed very valuable. My mother gradually gave most of it to me and my younger sister. Now it seems that these are just the Wu Clan's superficial wealth. They even have a treasure trove. If that treasure had been used to support the army, perhaps the Liang Kingdom would have been destroyed long ago. These cunning Wu Clan people are despicable!"
Moshi was speechless. How could someone's treasure be selflessly donated to become war supplies for the army? Who knows where it ended up in some official's vault? Surely, apart from the successive Wu Clan leaders, few knew of the Wu Clan's treasure trove's existence or whereabouts? Otherwise, given the imperial family's greed, they would have seized it long ago.
After listening to Ji Mingjie's complaints, he hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, when the Wu Clan was attacked, you left Chief Wu Lan in the palace, leaving the Wu Clan defenses empty. Will she blame..."
"How dare she! If Wu Lan knows what's best for her, she should assist me well and not have any ulterior motives. Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless to the Wu Clan."
Ji Mingjie's eyes widened, and he suddenly put down his teacup, soaking the imperial edict on the table. Moshi offered a few more words of comfort, but Ji Mingjie already harbored resentment towards the Wu Clan. Now that he knew the Wu Clan had suffered a great disaster, their foundation destroyed, and their treasures stolen, he felt that they were unworthy of being a partner of the royal family.
Although his mother was a member of the Wu Clan, he was never allowed to learn witchcraft. He had only been to the Wu Clan once, and was forbidden to enter or see anything. He was treated poorly in the Wu Clan, unlike his younger sister, Ji Mingyue, who had received the true teachings from the old woman of the Wu Clan and was able to learn everything. Ji Mingjie felt that the Wu Clan always treated him as an outsider. He had previously been undecided between him and his fourth brother, but later supported his father and wanted to kill Moshi and others to weaken his power.
After Mosh left, Ji Mingjie met the Queen Mother again who came to plead for mercy. After receiving Wu Lan's letter, the Queen Mother realized that the Wu Clan had suffered such a heavy blow. She cried and asked Ji Mingjie to help the Wu Clan find the treasure. Ji Mingjie agreed to the Queen Mother's request.
On the surface, Ji Mingjie agreed, but in fact, he secretly ordered that if anyone found the witch clan's treasure first, he would secretly take it for himself and put it into the emperor's private treasury.