Miss Witch, it's time to clean up the entries

Chapter 129: The Delights of Life
During Li En's time at Yusof, he was obsessed with sensual pleasures and had no desire to leave.

Mary contacted him several more times later, and each time Li En greeted her in a drunken state. It was almost impossible for her to get more inside information about Blue Moon Territory from Li En.

This led to complaints from Mary's army, especially the accompanying nobles led by War Minister Sting Little.

Because Li En Moriah is too domineering.

He simply didn't understand the joy of having fun with others. Every time he would book the whole place, and the girls in the dim sum shop could only serve him alone.

The most important thing is that he likes to spend money lavishly when he is drunk, and rewards the girls with money and land casually.

Every day, young girls wearing jewelry leave the pastry shop to change jobs. Most of them choose to stay with Li En as maids, or are arranged to clean Li En’s vacant manors and properties.

There were some old, pale and even ugly women left. Sting Litt didn't even want to look at them. He felt that all the prostitutes in Yusofa had been taken away by Lien Moriah.

How could he be so arrogant and domineering?

Sting Little angrily told Mary about this, but Mary completely ignored him.

In her opinion, if Li En Moriah was really such a person, it would save a lot of trouble.

But if Li En Moriah was not such a person, she would like to see how far he could disguise himself.

Moreover, many of those prostitutes were spies he had hidden among them. They followed Li Enmoria and could serve as his eyes.

The information these spies reported to themselves could also corroborate the news sent back by Nancy Scalia. If there was a discrepancy between the two, it meant that there was something wrong with Nancy Scalia.

Although Mary trusted the Heartless, she trusted no one.

Even her former confidant, Nancy Scalia, the deacon of the Rose Thorn, she would not trust 100%.

Every night, women's screams could be heard from Li En's bedroom. Any woman who had served him would be completely devoted to him.

To outsiders, this was Li En displaying his unique masculine charm, but in fact, Li En was just clearing entries and brainwashing these unintentional people, allowing them to break free from Mary's sea of ​​suffering and become people who were 100% loyal to him.

In addition, Li En also discovered that most of the girls in Yousoufa's pastry shop were poor people who were forced to engage in the erotic service industry. Their husbands and children were brutally massacred by the Rose Army, and they were sent to the pastry shop to become playthings of the guards.

Li En owned several large-scale pastry shops of this nature, so he decided to play along and use them to create his image as a decadent aristocrat. He also gave them wealth and land, allowing them to take this opportunity to leave the pastry shops and become maids.

Mary did not miss this opportunity and had someone report all the ridiculous things Li En did in Yusofa back to the Blue Moon Territory, in an attempt to destroy the relationship between Li En and Catherine.

The streets and alleys of the Blue Moon Territory were filled with gossip about Lord Li En monopolizing all the prostitutes in Yusofa.

The nobles also began to panic.

They were afraid that Li En would betray the alliance, abandon Catherine, and stop supporting the Blue Moon Territory.

If Li En betrayed them, it would mean that they would not get the support of Moria and the Simmons family. The nobles were on pins and needles and finally could not bear it any longer and went to look for Catherine together, hoping that the lord could solve this difficult matter.

In the highest conference room of Blue Moon Castle.

The nobles and ministers, with worried faces, expressed their opinions.

"Lady Catherine, have you heard about Lord Li En? He didn't negotiate with Lady Mary about Yusof's redemption. Instead, he indulged in sensual pleasures every day, frequenting pastry shops and even using prostitutes as his maids."

"Yes, Lady Catherine, Lee En Moriah has made Nancy Scalia his mistress, and Nancy Scalia is Lady Mary's confidant. This only proves that Lee En Moriah has betrayed you."

"Lady Catherine, you must find a way to win back the heart of Lord Li En Moriah. We cannot lose his support. Many of his troops are still stationed in Blue Moon Territory. If he betrays you, these troops will no longer be a bulwark protecting Blue Moon Territory, but will become a sharp knife piercing Blue Moon Territory."

"Lady Catherine, you must find a way to find other support besides Lord Li En Moriah. You should perhaps consider breaking off your engagement. The Simmons family showed us their friendship last time. If you can marry Lord Val Simmons, this problem can be truly resolved."

"The entire empire knows about Lady Catherine and Lord Li En's engagement. How could she cancel the engagement now and marry Lord Val Simmons? Has Lady Catherine given up her dignity as a noble? The most urgent task now is to stabilize Lord Li En Moria. I suggest that Lady Catherine send more beautiful maids to Lord Li En to win his heart. We in the Blue Moon Territory are not short of beauties."

"No, how can someone from the Jackson family be so humble? I suggest that Lady Catherine immediately announce the dissolution of her engagement with Lee En Moriah and be with Lady Simmons. With Lady Catherine's current worth, I believe the Simmons family will definitely be willing to marry you."

The nobles started arguing because of their disagreements, and the meeting room was in full swing.

If Catherine had not received the letter from Li En a long time ago, she would probably have been shaken by these rumors.

But now, she believed Li En very much, he was definitely not that kind of person.

She slammed the coffee cup in her hand onto the table, and the nobles' quarrel came to an abrupt end.

They looked at Catherine at the same time, hoping that she would express her decision.

Should he continue to please Lee En Moriah, or switch to the Simmons family?

Catherine knew that the group of ministers in front of her were all very afraid of death, and her ruling position in the Blue Moon Territory was not stable. Many of them were afraid of the power of the Moria family.

But she is no longer a girl with a fragile heart. Even though she knows what these people are thinking, she must solve the problem with the mindset of a mature politician and stabilize this group of uneasy nobles.

"I believe in Li En. He won't betray me, and there won't be any problems with our alliance."

"But...but Lord Li En is a man of the Moria family after all. They are playboys. What if he is really deceived by those Yusofa women?"

the ministers asked uncertainly.

"This is just Mary Frank's plan. She wants to sow discord between me and Lee En, but our relationship is incredibly strong and we won't let these rumors cause any grudges."

Catherine took out a document and threw it to the Home Secretary.

"This is the alliance agreement document that Li En signed with the Simmons family when he left Blue Moon Territory. It's also the engagement gift he gave me. Do you have any questions now?"

"The Simmons family and Blue Moon Territory have formed an alliance?"

The Home Secretary said in surprise.

The other nobles could hardly believe their eyes. But if they looked closely at the contents of the document, they would know that it was a peaceful commercial agreement, or rather a commercial order.

The amount of Blue Moon Mine provided by Blue Moon Territory to El Territory where the Simmons family is located has tripled to three times that of previous years. Green Shade Territory can also provide El Territory with special anesthetics, and the Simmons family will pay half in money and exchange the other half with an equal amount of fine iron weapons.

This order will not only promote the economic recovery of Blue Moon Territory and Green Shade Territory, but also help Air Territory obtain more magical resources and military supplies, and Blue Moon Territory will also be able to obtain more sophisticated weapons.

This was the business that Li En negotiated over dinner, and it was also a move by the Simmons family to resist Mary's expansion plan.

Although it seemed politically meaningless, it had already tied the Simmons family to the chariot. This was because the additional clause of the agreement was that Catherine and Li En had to carry out this order.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend.

Catherine doesn't need to sell her beauty. She can marry into the Simmons family and bind them together simply by relying on interests.

Li En may have anticipated that the ministers would do this, trying to undermine him behind the scenes and encourage Catherine to marry Val Simmons, whose political status was temporarily higher than his own.

Simmons, the old aristocrat, is indeed handsome, and he also expressed his admiration for Catherine at the engagement party, which forced Li En to be on guard.

It turned out that what he did was very effective.

The noble ministers had to admire Li En's foresight and everything he did for Catherine.

With this agreement, if Mary wants to forcibly initiate a war, even if the Simmons family does not participate in the war, they will provide the materials needed for the war, such as fine iron weapons.

Catherine threw another document to the ministers, which was the document for the expansion of the Blue Moon Guards.

In addition to the Red Scorpion Mercenaries that she had found earlier, Catherine secretly sent her spies to find dozens of medium-sized mercenary groups. Although these mercenary groups were too young compared to the old Red Scorpion Mercenaries, they had a large population, mostly composed of homeless wanderers and adventurers. Catherine offered them resident status and land, as well as high salaries, and broke up the mercenary groups and incorporated them into the Blue Moon Guards.

Therefore, the number of Blue Moon Guards has now expanded from less than 3000 to 3.

Including the Red Scorpion Mercenary Group, the number of troops available for defense reached 5.

If the nobles' knightly orders were included, and the newly joined adventure guilds and militias in the Blue Moon Territory were added, the number of people who could be deployed in the war might exceed 7.

This number is not small.

Just when Mary thought that Lee En was delaying the negotiations with Yusofa to paralyze Catherine's nerves, Catherine was also using Lee En to paralyze Mary's nerves and doing a lot of things in secret.

With this army, even if the Green Shade Territory really withdrew, Catherine would still be able to fight Mary, or at least wait for new reinforcements to arrive.

Of course, Catherine was not trying to guard against Li En, but simply did not want to waste Li En's good intentions and wanted to grow up as quickly as possible and become someone who could stand on her own.

She believed that Li En had given her enough and that revenge must be accomplished by her own hands.

The ministers did not expect that Catherine was not only not affected by the rumors during this period, but also did so many things secretly.

They had to admire Catherine's skills and character again.

"Lady Catherine, this is very kind."

"With this army, plus the Simmons family's orders, our Blue Moon Territory can truly gain a firm foothold."

The Home Secretary sighed.

"You have to thank Li En. If it weren't for his dedication during this period, I wouldn't be able to complete this task under Mary Frank's nose."

Catherine had a faint smile on her face and said to all the ministers,
"So, from now on, I will not allow any of you to say anything bad about Li En Moria in front of me. The alliance between Blue Moon Territory and Green Shade Territory will never be broken."

"According to your wishes."

The ministers no longer doubted Catherine's decision, and they were reassured and no longer worried.

"Lady Catherine, Lord Lor's behavior has been getting increasingly strange lately. He has planted many slave girls in the Golden Goddess's church."

The Minister of the Interior watched as the most difficult problem in the Blue Moon Territory was quietly resolved by the new lord. He then remembered the recent situation of another Jackson in the territory and reported it to Catherine.

The female slave vine is a plant, but it is a very special plant. The mature female slave vine looks like a female slave. When its leaves are blown by the wind, they will make a soft whisper similar to that of a woman, hence the name.

This plant was considered by the nobles to be not presentable, but it often appeared in places like pastry shops and was used as an ornamental object.

Catherine turned around and looked at Mina.

Mina was now entrusted with an important task, and all the captured spies and assassins were under her jurisdiction. So Mina was considered Catherine's other eyes.

"Yes, Lady Catherine, Lady Lor has been enjoying growing various plants lately."

Mina confirmed the Home Secretary's statement.

Catherine covered her forehead with one hand and said, "Don't worry about it. As long as Brother Lor doesn't do anything weirder, don't restrict his hobbies."

The Home Minister hesitated to speak.

The other nobles didn't dare to say anything.

They believe that Lor Jackson may have been imprisoned and tortured by Mary for too long, resulting in some perverted habits that are now gradually being exposed.

But since Catherine didn't mind, they didn't want to say it directly.

"Grace still doesn't want to come back?"

Mary asked.

"We've already sent someone to specifically welcome Grace, but Grace is completely uncooperative. Not only has she refused to return, she's also repeatedly humiliated us. She no longer belongs to our Blue Moon Territory."

The minister said this with a look of grievance when he mentioned Grace.

Mina frowned, feeling frustrated.

She never expected that her sister Grace would refuse to return to Blue Moon Territory. She even wrote a letter personally to invite her sister back, but Grace's reply was heartbreaking.

Grace even persuaded Mina to leave Blue Moon Territory as soon as possible, believing that the Jackson family was the culprit behind the disaster in Blue Moon Territory.

Grace has been completely brainwashed and even hates Lol Jackson very much.

And Lore Jackson's love for Grace also changed with the changes in her body. He gradually felt that the quiet slave girl Luo was more in line with his aesthetic taste.

He wanted to serve the Golden Goddess for the rest of his life and wanted the slave girls to accompany him to complete this great mission together.

(End of this chapter)