Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 732: Engagement (4)_1

Chapter 732: Chapter 732: Engagement (4)_1

Although there were chickens and geese at home, they were still young and not yet ready to be eaten.

The two maids took several Wen of copper coins given by the old lady and joyfully went off. Before long, they returned with the slaughtered chickens and geese. Cai Wei ordered Huan Qiu and Dou Momo to also help in the kitchen. With everyone helping, a decent meal was quickly prepared. Although they were just common dishes like chicken, duck, and fish, the pure green food stewed in a large iron pot from ancient times was still worth a taste.

By the time of dinner, Zhang Biaotou and his brothers had returned one after another. They were all thinner and darker than before, presumably due to the fatigue of spring farming, but they seemed more spirited than before. Seeing Cai Wei, all the brothers were very happy. After greeting Cai Wei, Zhang Biaotou got up and went back to his room. When he came back, he had a thick ledger in his hand which he respectfully handed over to Cai Wei.

"Miss, this book records all the income and expenses of the manor this month, including purchasing seeds, farm tools, hiring workers, and buying poultry and livestock. Please review it!"

Cai Wei casually put the ledger aside and said with a laugh, "Trust your people and they wouldn’t give you reasons to suspect them. Zhang Biaotou, as long as you report the total income of the manor to me at the end of each year, it’s fine. As for these miscellaneous accounts, it doesn’t matter if I don’t check."

Feeling trusted by Cai Wei, Zhang Biaotou’s family was deeply moved. They owed her a lot, and they could not express their gratitude in a few words, thus nobody said anything. They held their gratitude deeply in their hearts and started eating.

After the meal, Cai Wei, accompanied by Huan Qiu and Dou Momo, left in a horse carriage. Zhang Biaotou wanted to accompany her back, but was rejected by Cai Wei. She still had a lot of things to do. With Zhang Biaotou there, it wouldn’t be convenient.

Once they were out of the manor, Cai Wei told the coachman, "We’re not going back to the city yet, we’re heading to the royal hunting ground."

The coachman asked in surprise, "Miss, it’s already dark, why are you going to the hunting ground? No one dares to move around there at night, because that’s when wild animals come out."

Huan Qiu coldly retorted, "If you’re scared, you can go back first. We can accompany the Miss."

Realizing something was wrong, the coachman reluctantly said, "It’s my bad for being over-talkative. I’ll take you there."

In the carriage, Cai Wei released Brother Parrot and asked him to find snakes in the woods. It didn’t matter what kind of snake as long as there were a lot of them...

The manor was only three miles away from the royal hunting ground, and the carriage arrived in a quarter of an hour. Cai Wei instructed the carriage driver and Dou Momo to wait outside while she and Huan Qiu stepped out of the carriage and calmly entered the hunting ground.

Seeing Cai Wei and Huan Qiu, two delicate women, entering the hunting ground without hesitating made the coachman look pale. He wanted to stop them but was scared off by Cai Wei’s chilling gaze. But if he didn’t stop them and Miss ended up being eaten by wild beasts, his life as a servant would not be spared either.

He spun around frantically, almost weeping. When he saw the Miss and her maid leisurely entering the hunting ground and vanishing into the vast forest, he finally slapped himself in the face, complaining to Dou Momo with a whimper, "Oh, dear old mum. Why didn’t you try to dissuade her? If something happens to the Miss, any hope of us servants surviving will be..."

Dou Momo was very calm. Although she had never personally witnessed Cai Wei’s abilities, her master had once told her that Miss Cai Wei was no ordinary woman. Whatever happened to her, there was no need to panic. The only thing she needed to do was to keep things secret.

So, she didn’t find it strange that Cai Wei could be carried off by a tiger in the royal hunting ground, and she didn’t think there was anything wrong with her escaping from the tiger’s mouth.

She glanced at the coachman and warned, "Boy, as long as you can keep your mouth shut, I guarantee you will survive. Otherwise, well, it would be hard to say!"

In the darkness, Dou Momo’s stern face had an indescribable weirdness that made people who saw her shudder.

The coachman shrank back, quickly covering his mouth and nodding. A look of reverence appeared in his eyes when he looked at Dou Momo.

Huan Qiu and Cai Wei entered the hunting ground. By this time, it was completely dark. Should she go find a kind of grass that could give off light in the night, and Cai Wei wanted to catch snakes, but she couldn’t tell her this. So, she had to use this clumsy excuse to distract her.

Just as Huan Qiu was being sent to Cai Wei, Nangong Yi had also told her the same words as Dou Momo. So, she didn’t stop her mistress’s daring behavior, but silently followed her instructions to look for the grass that might not even exist!

There were many snakes in the hunting ground, of all kinds. There were small snakes as thin as fingers, large pythons as thick as water buckets, and poisonous snakes spitting out black cores. No matter what kind of snake, Cai Wei didn’t let any of them go, she collected them all in her space...

Half an hour later, Cai Wei returned to the carriage parked by the roadside. Huan Qiu also returned, but her hands were empty, and she had not found the kind of grass that Cai Wei mentioned.

"Miss, I’m incompetent, I didn’t find the grass you mentioned!"

Cai Wei opened her hands, laughed and said, "It turns out that we can’t trust the words of a sorcerer of Jianghu. There is no such thing as glowing grass in the world. It seems we need to find another way to cure Wener’s headache!"

After saying these words, she boarded the carriage and softly ordered, "Let’s go!"

Slapping his chest, the coachman’s anxiety finally subsided. He was filled with gratitude, realizing that the Miss had risked her life to find the non-existent grass for the sake of curing her brother’s illness.

While thinking about it, he cursed at the irresponsible Jianghu sorcerer for his nonsense that had misled the Miss into such a dangerous place in darkness. If anything happened to the Miss, not only would her beautiful face and young age be a pity, but his own life would also be at stake!

He had both elderly and young to take care of!

In the carriage, Cai Wei activated her Inner Vision and inspected her space. She saw hundreds of different types of snakes writhing about freely inside, which made her hair stand on end.

She had been afraid of soft-bodied animals like insects, earthworms, and snakes since childhood. She believed that such creatures should be wiped from the face of the earth. If it weren’t for the fact that she needed these snakes to deal with the evildoers of Duke An’s mansion, she would never have collected these snakes in her sacred space!