Chapter 130
Winters in the outskirts are harsh. The middle-aged man shivered as the wind pierced his collar.
“Ugh, it’s filthy cold.”
The man, Seokchil, is the master of the Seongwoon Pyoguo (盛運鎌局) in the southern part of Shanseo Province.
For more than a day and a half, my whole body was drenched with sweat after pulling a cart that weighed more than 100 pounds, and when I took a short break like now, I had to fight a tremendous chill.
“Hyung-nim, leave the cart quickly and come quickly to warm up the fire. Then you will freeze to death.
Jasu Jang, who was squatting in front of the bonfire, said. Seokchil replied bluntly and moved on.
“You bastard, I have five mouths to feed. I’m a long way from dying.”
“That’s right. I can’t die thinking of my fox-like wife and rabbit-like children.”
“What is a fox? A bear, a bear.”
“Is that your last will? If your sister-in-law hears it, she’ll break her neck.”
“It’s a law to curse at Nara-nim when you’re not there. I don’t know?”
Seokchil moved closer to the campfire.
Using horse manure as firewood gave off a foul smell everywhere, but to him, who had been embroidering for nearly 20 years, it was as familiar as the smell of cooking rice.
“Okay, now I’m going to live.”
“By the way, bro, aren’t you being too mean?”
“huh? What nonsense is this?”
My colleague Jang Ja-su laughed and chined his chin.
“You should also bring a newcomer. Where is the law that he suddenly comes to live alone?”
Seokchil, who was warming his frozen hands, turned his head. At the end of his gaze, he saw a young man sitting on a snow-covered rock with a bemused face.
‘That guy, he’s doing that again.’
The young man is a newly saved number of farmers in Henan. According to Song Pyo-du, who is in charge of this ticket trip, he accepted it because he thought he could afford it.
‘Well, because people are always lacking.’
The problem is that there are many times when the young guy is completely lost in what he is thinking.
Seok-chil, who clicked his tongue, was asked by his colleague Ja-soo Jang.
“Why, are you a little weird?”
“Do your job well. It’s more powerful than it looks.”
“Well then, what?”
“What happens? It’s because it’s frustrating to see a young guy doing that on a fictitious day.
That’s when I… …
“Do you want to say that you lived hard every day with a dream of good fortune?”
“Then, if you’re a man, you should know how to set grand goals and move forward.”
“That lofty goal wouldn’t have been the number one winner in the world.”
“This child from earlier.”
In response to Seokchil’s hot reaction, his colleague Jang Ja-su turned the topic.
“By the way, what is that friend’s name?”
“Blue wind.”
“Ahh, what a cool name. They fit well too.”
“That’s right.”
Although Seok-chil was disapproving of the young man and Cheongpung, he fully sympathized with his words.
Looking at the sad face and clear eyes, strangely, my heart felt at ease and my anger subsided.
“Look, newcomer!”
At the words of his colleague Jasu Jang, Cheongpung turned his head.
“Me?”
“Then who else is new here besides you? Come over here and warm the fire. If you sit there, your ass will get ripped off.”
“That kind of experience isn’t bad either.”
“Experience? What experience?”
“It’s an experience of getting your ass ripped off.
Because I’ve never done that before.”
Jasu Jang, who was silent for a moment, whispered to Seokchil.
“What is that guy doing?”
“I don’t know, he’s a little weird. I must have eaten something wrong.”
Cheongpung tilted his head.
“I ate two dumplings for breakfast.”
“… … My ears are clear. Okay, so come and sit down.”
“Maybe?”
As Cheongpung, who had trudged along, sat down in front of the campfire, the usual questions flew in.
“Where are you from?”
“I am from Hanam.”
“He was from Hanam.”
“I was in Hubei a month ago.”
“Eh, Hubei is good too.”
“Before that… … Jang Ja-su said to Seok-chil.
“It hits the goal.”
“yes? Talking about it makes me feel weird.”
“How did you last for months with a guy like this next to you?”
“So, you haven’t talked to me lately, so it’s been about 30 years since I last talked to you?”
Cheongpung replied with a serious face.
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“Four days and three o’clock.”
The two of them barely suppressed the desire to punch Cheongpung in the head.
“So where are you?”
“I lived in the mountains.”
“That’s not what I mean… … No, thank you for answering that.”
“you’re welcome.”
Strangely, when I see Cheongpung smiling brightly, my anger subsides.
Unpredictable, erratic words and actions, innocent laughter like a child. I was curious about the strange species I had never seen before.
“By the way, did you live in the mountains?”
“It’s true. Since I was young, I’ve been farming in the mountains and gathering herbs. Besides that, I’ve lived doing various things.”
The two assumed that Cheongpung was a slash-and-burner.
Most of the slash-and-burn villagers went into the mountains to avoid the eyes of the government officials because they could not stand the tyranny of the vicious landowners or because they committed sins big or small.
“You must have suffered a lot.”
“Did I have fun?”
“Oh yeah?”
Can slash-and-burn life be fun? For a moment, such a thought flashed through Seok-chil’s head, but she didn’t feel the need to ask.
“Then what motivated you to descend the mountain?”
“Life in the mountains is getting boring. I wanted to see the world, and there were people I wanted to meet.”
“That’s why you came to Hanam.”
you]. Somehow I stumbled upon it… … It’s not bad even now. It’s also quite fun to be a ticket.”
“You say Pyohaeng is fun?”
Cheongpung replied with a wide smile.
“People-watching is fun, looking at the ground and sky. It’s fun to think about.”
For Seok-chil, who has been working as an embroiderer for a long time, it is a disgusting sight.
People who are exhausted from exhaustion and worries about their livelihood. The wet ground and the razor-sharp wind blow. My head is filled with just how much allowance I will receive for this vote.
‘Well, it’s something I can say because I’m still young.’
Moreover, since they are from slash-and-burn farmers who have lived in the mountains all their lives, it must be so.
Wouldn’t it be like yourself when you get to know the cold reality soon and gradually get older?
There was a time like that too.’
Seokchil looked at Cheongpung with a mixture of envy and regret, then opened his mouth.
“Think of it as nonsense and listen.”
I know it’s pointless, but I wanted to let this naive young man know the reality.
Isn’t life too prosperous to start with the number of workers and grow old and die with the number of workers?
“There is nothing to do for a while. It is said that the future is hard to see in ten or twenty years. No matter how many times you fly or crawl, you have to be able to make ends meet. I’d rather learn at least a third-rate martial art from a local military officer and start as a leader. That’s much better.”
Cheongpung blinked his eyes.
“Oh, is that so?”
“Is that so? It’s too late to learn martial arts, but do you know? Surprisingly, he will become a top-notch master because he has excellent martial arts.”
“A first-class master… … Fellow Jasu Jang, who had been listening quietly, clicked his tongue.
“Isn’t that blowing too much nonsense? It’s not even the name of a dog that is a first-rate master.”
“That’s what the horse is, the horse. Does it make sense to be satisfied with the number of winners at that age?”
“Well, that’s right. If I were 10 years younger, I wouldn’t be doing this here.”
“Look.”
Seokchil tapped Cheongpung on the shoulder.
“Did you hear? It is much better to save a year or two and register for nothing.
Until then, I will keep you informed.”
Cheongpung tilted his head.
“A day is a year?”
“Why, is it too long? I think it’s because you don’t know the world, but it’s not like one or two pennies. No matter how small it is, a year is…”
“Oh, because I’m quitting before then.”
“You quit? When?”
“Now.”
“huh?”
”Eh?”
Cheongpung smiled brightly.
“I don’t know the way to Shanseo. There was a ticket to Shanseo, so I asked to be included.”
“… … so?”
“Now, since Taewon is one more day away, I’m thinking of breaking up at this point.”
Seok-chil and his colleague Ja-su Jang faced each other with faces wanting something like this.
“What is he? Didn’t Pyo Song say that he signed a one-year contract?”
“I know that too. That’s why I put it on for the oldest brother to learn.”
Seokchil asked Cheongpung with a confused expression.
“Hey, did you settle for something when we joined in Hanam?”
“Ah, yes.”
“Give me that if you have it.”
Cheongpung took out a strip of bamboo from his bosom and showed it to him.
It was a contract stating that he would work for the next year at the Seongwoon Pyo Bureau as a stand-in, and that he would pay for the part-time departure protest.
“Do you know how to read?”
“When I was four years old, I had three best views.”
“Don’t talk nonsense like that. read there yeah, that part. Loudly.”
In a clear voice, Cheongpung read the part Seokchil had told him.
“It cannot be reversed at the time of the settlement, and in case of unauthorized departure, a penalty of 50 nyang of hermit or equivalent price will be paid.”
“I know how much 50 hermits are. Do you know what it means to pay for it?”
Deep in thought, the blue wind tapped his forehead.
“Are you going to fill it with your body?”
“Yes, you stupid fellow. Did you think that the flag country was a place where only the goalless people gathered?”
Seokchil’s blood pressure rose and the back of his neck pulled. It made me want to split the top of his head to see what was going on in this guy’s head.
‘How come all these guys are here? Is it because he only lives in the mountains?’
The dangers of transporting goods across the world are beyond imagination. Even bandits, brigands, bandits, all kinds of thieves, and even checks on competing flags.
Even if you overcome all the obstacles, if you encounter a natural disaster once, your trip will fail.
It was a mark of thoroughness and roughness as much as, or even more than, the moderate Moorim school.
‘By the way, what did you do after filming the finale?
Shall we part at this point?’
This young guy in front of me doesn’t know the world, but he doesn’t know too much.
Seokchil opened his mouth with the thought of saving his beloved’s life.
“I’m telling you just in case, stop thinking about running away early. Just think about earning money for a year and work. Got it?”
“A year is too long. I think I can work until tomorrow.”
” Hey, this baby! ”
“Brother, brother, calm down! I get tired just looking at Song Pyo-doo.”
“Let go! Won’t you let go?”
It was at that time that Seokchil’s eyes turned upside down.
“Uh, isn’t this enough for a cancellation fee?”
stumble.
The two of them opened their eyes as they confirmed Cheongpung’s outstretched hand.
It was shaped like a horseshoe and glittered with silver, whiter than snow.
“Silver, silver wonbo?”
“Two of them!”
There are as many as two silver coins worth 50 hermits.
A hundred nyang of a hermit is a huge amount of money that is difficult for a single earner to earn even if he works hard for ten years.
I never thought that such a large sum of money would come out of the arms of a young man from slash-and-burn.
“Uh, uh, uh, how.”
“I just got some old money on the way out of the house.”
The two of them opened their mouths at Cheongpung’s innocent reply.
What kind of family is the son of a hermit giving 100 nyang as free money?
Even looking at the sagging anterior chamber like small balls, it seemed that that was not the end.
“I think I can solve the penalty with this… … The two nodded frantically.
“It’s possible. Don’t be.”
“Why are you suddenly using honorifics?”
“It’s just because it’s comfortable.”
“you’re right. It is the most comfortable in the world.”
“Ah, if so what?”
Cheongpung looked at the two as if they were curious, and handed them two silver treasures.
“I’m going to go now. Please tell me this is a penalty.”
‘Gee, are you talking about all of this?”
“There are too many… …
“If there is extra, the two of you share it. I don’t know how to spend money. Buy warm clothes and put them on.
One with expensive fur.”
Seokchil hurriedly opened his mouth at the sight of Cheongpung trying to leave with a bag on his back.
“Ho, is your name by any chance?”
“It’s a blue wind. I lived in Henan until 15 weeks ago, in Hubei last month, and in Shamseo before that.”
After answering, Cheongpung started walking towards Taewon.
The sky was blue, and premature buds were sprouting above the damp ground.
“Would you like to come a little early this spring?”
He thought with a broad smile. I hope plum blossoms will bloom profusely this spring.
Suddenly, I remembered Yeonhwabong (蓮花峰) of Hwasan (華山) that had sneaked out a while ago.