The Apothecary Diaries - Vol. 7 Ch. 33 - The Devil's Trumpet

[JaneJeon]

@zenono it's like House - when you're right so many goddamn times, people just shut up and listen to you.

 

[sssr]

@Kaarme A servant in the Chinese imperial palace can be disposed of by anyone above their station without repercussion BECAUSE they're a free person. They are not considered property of anyone, so a myriad of excuses can be used to justify the murder. It was actually a common trick used by imperial consorts and concubines to eliminate ladies-in-waiting who knew too much or to dispose of a rival's loyalists. In fact, there are recorded cases of one concubine having another concubine's servant killed over a made-up insult to discredit her mistress. It was also expected fate for servants of the keepers of secrets in the administration, many of whom were educated and literate men like their masters. Servants were being asked to lay down their life all the time to defend their master's honor or to pay for slights real or imagined. Basically, being an imperial palace servant was as low as a human could get in life.

In contrast, killing eunuchs was considered a crime because eunuchs belonged to the emperor himself. Also, many eunuchs were highly educated at the emperor's own expense.

 

[Lux]

@Brutu It doesn't bring back to life lol, it just makes appear someone dead for a while.

 

[Kaarme]

@sssr I'm surprised they aren't all dead after a few years if it's indeed such free estate that anyone can kill anyone without repercussions.

Good servants are hard to find and school further. And then someone can just kill the servant and you can't do anything about it. No wonder the imperial dynasty in China was a laughing stock for the West and ultimately collapsed under the pressure of the Japanese, communists, and CNP. I knew it was bad but I had no idea it was that bad. I stand corrected, but I will still keep thinking the guard was especially prepared by the ultimate mastermind to keep an eye on anything abnormal that could threaten the plan. If you look at the plan as a whole, it was exceedingly carefully crafted over a long time, from seemingly independent pieces. It would only make perfect sense they would also try to remove the chance of sudden disturbances with a simple solution. It's just a lookout. Great many criminal operations use lookouts because they are effective, valuable, yet cost practically nothing.

Oh, since the guard is a free person as well... You know what his fate is going to be. Tough luck.

 

[IlsaTilsaKilsaMilsa]

Maomao is a scary little lady. Definitely related to that old geezer.

 

[Tych]

I sware always reading this is always a trip Maomao best girl PERIOD

 

[JumboWheat01]

Maomao creeping out those around her. Perfect.

 

[NamelessSoldier]

Goddamn Mao, you really are god-tier.

 

[Ironclad]

She found her Moriarty.

 

[moderateTrouble]

Never change Mao, never change.

 

[MCX01]

By this point the plot is thick like custard.

 

[LazyDays]

So cute.
What a maniacal little detective she is.

 

[Aran1]

honestly i dont know what sort of reaction they were expecting from her on the topic of drugs and poisons shes never used before.

 

[Ringz]

This girl....🤣

 

[monopolica]

Ahhh our sweet lil pea is back at it again...

 

[Morose]

@anewpop @WillLi: If its about Jinshi, then rather than saying "thanks", i can see him apologizing to Mao instead.

Because it was his fault that she ended up getting hurt to save him unknowningly. Not to forget. it was Jinshi who brided Mao with that "Ox Bezoar" and forced her to investigate the things relating to the cases that have been going on, which eventually lead Mao to save the targeted person from getting killed (eventhough she didn't know that person was).

 

[ninjadork]

@Kaarme For all the great things China achieved in its early years, its obsession with the Heavenly Bureaucracy, the social concept of Face, and their casual contempt for human life led to the country as a whole stagnating and rotting by the time of Charlemagne. It would coast on the achievements of its predecessors for the next thousand years or so, and would have occasional "reformations" where those who held power got sick of this shit and purged the ranks of the excessively corrupt. But it would never actually get rid of or reform these core ideological flaws. By the time the PRC came around, it was moderately popular because (to the average person's eyes) there wasn't really all that much different between the thuggish royal families of the Qing dynasty and the thuggish revolutionaries of the CCP. With the CCP (falsely, of course) promising to adopt the same mechanisms that made Western countries and companies so unassailable, it was an easy choice for many.

 

[chusetto]

My girl is back on business

 

[bringmemyoppa]

I’m so sad I caught up since now I have to wait a month for the next chapter 😩😩😭😭

 

[YamiryuuZero]

Are we sure she isn't the bad guy in this story?
Because that was some serious villainous laugh right there!