Chapter 156: An Impartial Arbiter (2/2)
Other than Wu Lie, there probably would not be anyone else ould dare to throw insults back at the military heroes, the duo of saber and sword!
Not even the emperor himself dared to spew insults the way Wu Lie had
He had even said it so righteously, passionate and heroic!
With his oords, it would probably go, ”Your father has done no wrong to heaven and earth, the monarch nor the people! So what if you're much more influential and skilled? Why does your father have to be afraid of you?”
The civil and hter when they saw both nant disbelief
These two arrogant old thugs had beentheir way in the iht to see the both of the to donate another five hundred thousand silver taels!”
An old official with gray hair stepped out ”I’ll donate it even if I have to surrender ratified to watch these two old rascals being insulted! It is fortune well spent!”
It was Chancellor Du Ruobing
The oldflower; he had endured both of these two old thugs’ cavalier ways his entire life and had thought that he would not have the chance to seek vengeance anymore since he was old and at the end of his life Now that soate for him, how could he not chip in the money for the ticket?
”It's too bad that this old man only has five hundred thousand taels as my funeral fund Otherwise, it would be worth it even if I had to chip in another one million taels!”
The old chancellor looked contented and at peace with himself
His Majesty smacked his forehead with his palm
He could see that the old chancellor could die without any regrets now Otherwise, he would not speak of things like this
The emperor had collected a lot of silver taels in this donation drive, brutally harvesting nineteen aining a fortune that fell froh of relief, he could not help thinking, ”These rascals are all problematic… especially a few of the bunch If they only depend on their salary, they wouldn’t be able to take out such a sum even if they fast for another hundred years I have never heard that they have any sort of business running in their family as well Where does this fortune that they have donated coaze towards the handful of people turned chillingly cold
The officials were relieved that they had finally completed the donation drive personally chaired by the e
”Next, my dear officials and I shall donate a few iteain some more silver taels this way It’ll probably be sufficient, in addition to the donation amount today”
The emperor revealed another card, uncertain that the amount of wealth collected was sufficient for his needs
All the civil andsimultaneously
Your Majesty, it looks like wealth is at the top of your priorities today
…
Theasseate, Old Marshal Qiu Jianhan was in front of hi his way as he looked up at him
”What?” Wu Lie looked at Qiu Jianhan warily
Old Marshal Qiu was the head of the Es; his recklessness had always been infa for Wu Lie to retort and insult the old marshal but it would not be a surprise if the old marshal decided to pick up the tab afterward and beat hi of silver taels over saying, ”This is two thousand silver taels that this oldto you as a loan Re this to you, not just giving them, understand?”
He then turned to leave without another word
Wu Lie sed dryly as he hugged the bag of silver taels; he felt war hi back to last night
It was late last night when Wu Lie washed his wife and fed her the roan; his son had gotten up to wash but had stumbled due to his blindness It was a difficult task toso weak, so he had crashed to the floor rather painfully Wu Lie gave his son some medication quickly and picked him up to carry him to bed When he was about to fall asleep frolided into his room like a cloud
”Sir Wu”
”Who is it?” Wu Lie remained calm even then
”Sir Wu and I are familiar with each other” The person had come all dressed in black and was masked, but his voice rehth of the Nine Supremes, Supreme Wind”
As he spoke, he raised his hand and wind blew softly through the room that had its s closed
The wind danced around the roo up iteently Throughout the entire time, the man dressed in black had not moved his limbs except for the initial wave of his hand
”Is it really you, Supreme Wind?” Wu Lie was shaken
”Hush, there is no need to speak anymore I can only hope that Sir Wu can keep the information that I’m still alive a secret” Suprenificant prowess because I’ve heard that Sir Wu’s wife and young master have been stricken with illness”
Translator Note:
1donkey (驴lǘ): an insult meant to disrespect the addressee to be as stupid as a donkey