Calamity Messenger

Chapter 150 - 121: Parting in Life (2)

"Dress me, I want to see the Duke Jin!" She paused, then said, "Armor up!"

In no time, Pharmacist’s Wish arrived at Minghe Pavilion within the mansion, seeing from afar the shadows of people singing, dancing, drinking, and enjoying.

This wasn’t uncommon. Yao Shi Moke frequently hosted banquets that went on all night long, unfaltering in merriment, with rivers of fine wine and forests of delicacies. Pharmacist’s Wish didn’t oppose such acts, as the grander the party, the more people served the Duke Jin’s Mansion, symbolizing that more families’ livelihoods were taken care of. It was certainly better than letting grain, pigs, cows, and sheep rot unused in warehouses.

She kicked open the large door of Minghe Pavilion. The singing and music inside abruptly stopped, only some drunken guests remained, obscenely teasing the dancing girls.

Her gaze swept over and spotted her target, striding over to the drunkard who couldn’t discern the situation. He looked up at Pharmacist’s Wish’s icy visage and jested, "Beauty—"

Pharmacist’s Wish grabbed his collar with one hand. Before he could react, she turned and hurled him vigorously! With a scream, he was thrown out of Minghe Pavilion’s door, even across the wall outside, landing on the other side in the lake!

Everyone was stunned. Yao Shi Moke sitting at the head seat shouted loudly, "Nonsense!"

"Is this nonsense?" Pharmacist’s Wish turned, scanning the guests at the banquet: "Pharmacist’s Deep, The Pharmacist Arrives, Yan Zijun, Feng Qian, Yu Yi, good, good, good, you all are gathered here, saving me the trouble! Killing you all would leave the Duke Jin’s Mansion peaceful!"

"Wish, Wish Sister, what’s Training Brother’s offense to you? I’m apologizing on his behalf." Pharmacist Deep stammered, "Why must—"

"You get out too!"

"Stop!"

Although Yao Shi Moke stopped her, Pharmacist’s Wish still threw Pharmacist Deep out single-handedly. He dared not resist, screamed a bit, experiencing a ground-level flight.

Yao Shi Moke was both furious and angry, flipped the table, roared, "Out, all of you, get out!"

Soon enough, only the father and daughter remained in Minghe Pavilion along with the mess everywhere. The scents of alcohol, rouge powder, and meat mingled, intoxicating yet nauseating.

"Showing off outside isn’t enough; you have to come back and do more? Are you pleased?" Yao Shi Moke kicked the wine cup on the floor hard. Pharmacist’s Wish slightly tilted her head, dodging the flying cup, "Now it’s clear to everyone that I, Yao Shi Moke, have failed in raising a daughter!"

"You’ve done more than failing to raise a daughter. With your subordinates’ actions, you’re utterly blind!" Pharmacist’s Wish mocked, "Minghe Pavilion, crane calls in the wild, which among them was a crane? Just a pack of wicked jackals and hyenas! I fought life and death in Jiangnan City for our Yao Family, not to fulfill the luxurious lives of those scum!"

"What’s the matter now?" Realizing Pharmacist’s Wish had returned from battle, Yao Shi Moke softened his tone slightly, helplessly asked, "Who angered you? Did you get hurt? But regardless, you shouldn’t treat Brother Training and Pharmacist Deep that way. They are your cousins."

"Do you even know what your nephews have done?" Pharmacist’s Wish pointed outside, saying, "He directly drove Yongzhou Mansion Soldiers in Fengyi County to raid. Captured women were taken to military camps for pleasure—that’s Fengyi! The core of our Great Zhou! He’s digging up Great Zhou’s roots!"

"It’s not that serious." Yao Shi Moke waved his hand, "He was just attacking the Third-Turn Secret Realm Sound Nest Ruins, not doing malice."

"Conquering a Secret Realm requires plundering and raiding the people?" Pharmacist’s Wish laughed angrily, "Father, are you taking me for a fool or yourself for one?"

"No respect!" Yao Shi Moke reprimanded her, then sighed, "I do know, but Training did what he did with reason. Using Zhuang Linglang could reduce the fatalities among the mansion soldiers, and disturbing the people is inevitable. As long as they accomplish tasks, there’s no need for strict blame."

Pharmacist’s Wish’s face turned ashen. "Disturbing the people? Strict blame? Father, why don’t you say whom you’ve strict-blamed over these years? Besides Zhao Yuanbao, Du Gu Qimitu, those political enemies you cleaned out, have you dealt with anyone else? Helan Family’s rampant behavior you ignore; Yifeng Family’s tyranny over the people you ignore; as for your nephews and relatives, you’ve ignored them all, let them use the Duke Jin’s Mansion as a banner to call the shots outside!"

"If it were elsewhere I’d bear it, but Fengyi County in Huazhou also has mansion soldiers! If Pu Liuru’s family’s Huazhou mansion soldiers trouble Yongzhou mansion soldiers, a battle would be inevitable!"

Mansion soldiers here, mansion soldiers there, each is a landowner with support soldiers. Yongzhou fields are Yongzhou Mansion Soldiers; Huazhou fields are Huazhou Mansion Soldiers. Yongzhou dares to act like this in Huazhou; it’s not that Huazhou wouldn’t dare retaliate equivalently in Yongzhou. Is plundering and raiding a difficult task for these military families?

Yao Shi Moke casually picked up the nearby table’s wine cup, studied the blood-red wine inside, and calmly said, "Anyway, the dead are just from Yongzhou and Huazhou; it’s not much trouble. In recent years people have increased again; it’s time for a cleanup."

Pharmacist’s Wish was stunned, a chill surged into her heart.

She understood, let alone the populace; her father didn’t take the two major military mansion’s tens of thousands of soldiers and thousands of messengers seriously. Zhao Yuanbao’s Yongzhou Prefecture he just temporarily commanded, would eventually return to the Zhao Family; Huazhou Prefecture being Pu Liuru’s family’s territory, what does it matter to him? Let them fight; the weaker others’ power gets, the stronger his control over the Court becomes.

From this point, Yao Shi Moke is not inept but exceptionally shrewd: employing Pharmacist Training and those people, tolerating their lawlessness was to use them to struggle for power and benefit, weaken others’ forces, and when they’re no longer needed, killing them to appease public anger and gain support.