Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 154
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At my words, the leader of the group looked at me with a blank expression as if he had been hit in the head with a sword.
And then the other enemies’ dumbfounded expressions turned towards me.
It seems absurd to say that I did something I didn’t do.
‘Why? What? Inma. What do you want me to do?’
But in times like this, being as shameless as possible is the best.
As I looked at the guys with a puzzled expression, the leader of the group waved his hands with a puzzled expression, saying that they had never done such a thing.
“Wh, what the…. We just came to check out a ship without a flag passing through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River…. We didn’t even get on the ship, and we just had to pay a small toll outside…. No, a little too much….”
The type of people I hate the most are not people who are rude or ill-mannered, but people who lack tact.
Why? Because it’s frustrating and makes me talk more.
‘Your mouth hurts?’
Even when broadcasting, I would forgive viewers who made jokes that crossed the line or made gags that were too obvious, but I would block viewers who couldn’t understand and talked nonsense.
He glanced at the leader of the group, then called Cho over and patted his head as he spoke.
If they couldn’t remember what they did, they should have been reminded.
It seemed like he was suffering from short-term memory loss, and the best treatment for any type of amnesia is shock therapy.
“Oh my. Are the kids hungry? Choya, are you hungry? Do you want something to eat? They’ve just been washed in water and are plump and plump…”
-Tsurut? 『Eat? What?』
‘No, Dad was just joking.’
-Tch? “Why?”
‘Uh… That’s why… Are you trying to surprise the old man?’
-Tch? “Why are you surprising me?”
‘···.’
Look at this.
If I had understood it clearly, wouldn’t I have been bothered by the ‘Why?’ of the beginning?
While I was struggling with the question of why my illness was getting worse, the leader of the bandits, who had finally noticed, crawled towards my feet like a caterpillar and shouted with desperate eyes.
“Oh, come to think of it! That’s right, that’s what we did! Hey, I guess I was so surprised by the spirit that I lost my mind for a moment and didn’t remember anything!”
“We were so blinded by the wealth that we tried to storm the Tang family ship and plunder their treasure! Yes, that’s right!”
The leader of the group says that memories came back to him after receiving a strong shock to the brain.
Well, to be exact, it’s definitely a memory that doesn’t exist, but when a person’s life is at stake, even non-existent memories tend to come to mind.
I decided to carefully take care of the memories he had missed.
Because I forgot something important.
“Oh my, why did you leave out the part where you insulted the daughter of the Tang family!?”
“Mom, that’s an insult! We’re going to kill him!”
“And why did you break the family flag to avoid the unwritten rule?”
“Oh, that’s right. The family crest! We broke the family crest too!”
The pirates all nod their heads in unison at the pirate leader’s shout.
Immediately after, not only the leader but also the subordinates took turns answering my questions.
“Yeah, who broke the family crest of the Tang family?”
“This guy! This is him! I saw him!”
“Yes, that’s right. I broke it! Your Majesty! I broke it.”
“But where did that family tree go?”
“Oh… That’s right! W, in the water! It sank in the water!”
“Did the flag tied to the tree sink in the water?”
“Huh! That, that can’t be true! We, we tied it to a rock and sank it! Yes, a rock!”
Now we are the ones who are making up the defendant, the witness, and even the circumstantial evidence.
He crossed his arms and muttered to himself with a serious expression.
“Oh my… Now that I think about it, it really is a death sentence.”
“That’s right. Little Dragon? Isn’t that a bad thing that you should catch them all and throw them to dog food, or rather, to the spirits?”
A girl who puts a new twist on a situation.
My younger brother sang and my older sister played the drum, so our rhythm matched very well.
“Oh my! Please save me!”
“Confucius, please be gracious!”
A bunch of people are drenched in water and whining, not sure if their tears are real or if they’re just pretending to cry.
-Tsrrrr!
When he growled once, as if he was amused by the reaction of the thatched-roofed thugs, a few of the faint-hearted ones froze in their tracks.
‘This should be enough.’
Now that the amnesia of the enemies has been cured and they have all confessed their crimes, it feels like they are in a basic state of mind to talk about the terms of the settlement.
I quietly let my luck run wild.
“Yes, he seems to be the leader of the bandits…. What’s his name?”
“Now, I am the Tongue of the Three Heroes of the Yangtze River, Blood Wind Sand Worker, Lee Tae!”
In the world of martial arts, a nickname is a name given to someone, usually not by the person themselves but by others out of respect.
It is given based on the characteristics of the opponent’s martial arts or personality, and Hwa-eun’s nickname, Dok-hwa-wolgye, also implies a beautiful woman who uses poison.
The meaning is that poison is like the thorns of a rose and its beauty is like a flower.
But there’s no way anyone would give a nickname to a number, so he said with a smirk that it was clearly a nickname he had made up.
“Aha, now I see that you are the great swordsman of the Blood Wind Sagong.”
“A, a great swordsman? Oh, that’s too much praise.”
“Yes, well, anyway. Blood Wind Master, you are very much at fault, but I don’t like seeing blood. So I think I’ll just accept a proper apology and end it. What do you think?”
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As soon as I finished speaking, a light of hope appeared on the faces of the dead men who had turned black.
It’s a situation where you tremble in fear, thinking that you’re about to see inside the stomach of a giant raccoon or spider, but now you see a way out.
How could one not grab hold of the life-saving rope that has been extended to them?
He gave a scolding order to his subordinates.
“Go, thank you. Your Majesty! Thank you! What are you all doing! Aren’t you all apologizing!?”
Tae Lee, the leader of the bandits, who said that he would accept an appropriate apology, is urging his subordinates to apologize.
At his shout, the others all bowed their heads in apology.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty!”
“Please forgive me, Confucius!”
“I was wrong, Your Majesty!”
When I said I would accept a proper apology, it seemed like he was just trying to reach an agreement with his mouth shut, which was difficult.
I am a person who has lived in a capitalist world.
That’s why oral apologies meant nothing to me.
People say that an apology is important because it is sincere and comes from the heart, but the heart is something that cannot be seen with the eyes.
In capitalism, verbal apologies are meaningless because if you take the heart as the standard, you cannot evaluate how much reflection there is on the other side.
Because you can’t gauge the other person’s sincerity.
So how do we measure the sincerity of an apology in a capitalist society?
The weight of money.
If you pay 100 won, you get 100 won worth of apples, and if you pay 1,000 won, you get 1,000 won worth of apples.
‘I don’t really need the money, but that’s the rule. That’s the rule.’
After listening to the apologies from the crowd, I asked Itaewon during a moment of silence.
“I heard from Hwa-eun a little while ago that the person who broke the unwritten rule must give an apology gift as an apology···.”
Then Itae flinches.
He took notice and explained in an earnest voice.
“Oh, Confucius. People often misunderstand us when we say that we are plunderers in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, but we are not that wealthy.
In order to avoid the government troops that occasionally wander around, you have to choose a foggy day or a day when there are no government troops, and you can’t even set sail on a day when the water level is high due to the monsoon season.
Do you think that’s all?
The number of ships protected by the five great families of the old school has increased day by day, so much so that even if they were to fish, they could barely make ends meet. Recently, the number of ships suddenly increased, and ships could not sail for more than ten days.
“After eating only fishy fish for ten days, I came out naked today because they said a ship without a stool passed by···.”
At Lee Tae’s words, the men behind him nodded their heads and held back tears.
“I wanted to eat rice···.”
“Ugh… We’re not that bad of guys.”
‘Hey, these kids are doing a tearful operation?’
That’s when the guys were trying to poke my stomach with bare apples.
“Oh, oh …
“A Taoist priest?”
While we were talking, one of the boatmen and the sailor who had disappeared towards the cabin hurriedly ran towards me and reported.
“Oh, the lady is running wild and throwing people towards the boat, and the boat is leaking water again!”
‘What the hell.’
I was carefully climbing the Yangtze River Three Gorges, where the current was strong, in case water leaked in because of the temporary repairs, but the thatch was flying around, so it seemed like there was something wrong with the temporarily repaired part.
“Do you pee a lot?”
“Yes, I think we need to hurry up and get our stomach checked somewhere!”
When asked about the condition of the ship, the captain said it needed urgent repairs.
As I made a defeated expression, I heard the voice of Lee Tae, the leader of the bandits, from the steps.
“Oh, Your Majesty! We can repair that ship!”
“You can repair the ship?”
When he made a face that said, “What kind of people can repair a ship? Aren’t you just trying to survive?”, Lee Tae continued to shout.
“Excuse me, we have an excellent shipbuilder in our base!” “Shipbuilder?”
As I tilted my head at the word ‘Joseonjang’, which I heard for the first time, the Taoist priest next to me answered on my behalf.
“I am a craftsman who builds boats.”
Then Itaewon nods his head.
“Yes, I am a shipbuilder. How could we sink ships so well? Because I know everything about ships. Trust me! I am a shipbuilder from Fujian Province!”
“Fujian Province!? Is that true!?”
“Then how could I lie in this situation?”
When I looked at the Taoist monk who was delighted at the mention of Fujian Province and asked him to explain, he explained why he was delighted.
“If you are talking about a shipbuilder in Fujian Province, you are the best shipbuilder. Our ships are also ships made in Fujian. If what the author says is true, you will definitely be able to see our ships well.”
“Oh, is that so?”
When I showed interest, Itaewon giggled and said,
“Your Majesty, we will repair the ship as a gift of apology…”
It seemed like he was suggesting that we replace the gift with a boat repair, but before he could finish speaking, she nodded and answered.
“Yes, I will accept that ship captain as a gift of atonement.”
10:0 Because it was a gift of apology that was perfect for the accident.
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As we headed to the enemy’s base to receive the offering of atonement and to mend our stomachs, the topic of conversation about the names of the two poisons came up.
First, Seol-ni and Hwa-eun were wondering whether Bing and Seol-i’s baby name should be Naeng-i or Dong-i.
“It’s ridiculous that I saved the little dragon and it doesn’t have a name. I need to come up with a name as soon as possible.”
“Yeah, I guess I can’t call you a baby forever.”
It’s ridiculous that he didn’t even have a name when he was the one who saved me.
“So Dong-i···.”
“So, Naeng-i···.”
That was true, but I shook my head as I spoke, feeling that the opinions were still tense and not resolved.
“Let’s name it whatever the baby likes.”
“A baby?”
“The baby?”
“Yes, I call him by his name because he likes it. Not because they’re both good names.”
To be honest, I could make the decision as I please as the owner, but if I did that, Seol-nu and Hwa-eun would be upset and wouldn’t leave me alone.
This time, I caused you all to worry because of Wolyoung’s poison, and if I were to handle this on my own, I would be resentful, so if the two of you can’t decide, then the one who gets the name should make the decision.
Then it was clear that neither of them could say anything else.
“Baby, do you like the name Naeng-i or Dong-i?”
When I put Seol-i and Bing-i’s baby down on the table and asked, the boy tilted his head.
-What?
-Kkuku.
-Kkuu.
The guy who had been tilting his head at my question heard something from Seol-i and Bing-i, then crawled up onto Hwa-eun’s shoulder and answered.
-Kyuuuu.
Looking at her face, which seemed to be smiling, I got the feeling that she liked Dong-i.
“Do you like Dong-i?”
-Kyuut!
“Why! The cold isn’t bad either!?”
Seol-nu looked very upset, but what can I do if Dong-i, the person involved, likes it?
That’s how Dong-i came to be called Dong-i.
And the next one to be put on the chopping block was Wolyoung.
There were opinions that it was not appropriate for a guy with the poison of both rivers to have a name that symbolizes the negative energy of Wolyeong.
“We should also give Wol-yeong a new name. Wol (月) means moon and Yeong (影) means shadow. Both symbolize yin energy, but they are not suitable names for a child with the poison of both sides.”
“Yeah. Ryong-ah, the name Wol-yeong is insulting to him.”
Certainly, we have been giving names to children that fit their appearance and characteristics, but considering the characteristics of a fire-eating creature, a name full of negative energy would not be a suitable name.
‘Hey, Choya, can you ask Wolyoung if she wants to change her name?’
-Tsurut!
When I checked Wolyoung’s intentions through the first letter, I got the feeling that she really liked it.
It seems that she didn’t like the name very much, as it was given by nuns who had starved for ten years.
I decided to leave the guy’s name to my sister Seol.
To ease the disappointment of not being able to name Dong-i.
“Sister Seol, please give Wolyeong a new name.”
“Me, really!?”
Seol’s sister, who was sad that she couldn’t give her child a name like Naeng-i, was delighted when she was asked to give her child a name.
Seol-nu thought for a moment and then suggested a good name.
“Then, how about Hwayang?”
“Is it Hwayang?”
“Yeah. Wolyeong means shadow of the moon, right? So if you do it the other way around, it should be Ilyang, which means the sunlight, but that sounds too boyish, so I think Hwayang would suit any name, whether it’s a boy or a girl. I don’t know the gender right now.”
“It’s Hwayang···.”
If we interpret it literally, it means scorching sun.
A name that probably suits a prickly guy who would throw water on a nun.
“How about Hwayang as your new name?”
The guy shook his hind legs as if he liked my question.
In that case, the guy’s name will be decided as Hwayang.
“I think he likes it too, Sister Seol. I think it’s a good name too.”
“That went well!”
It was after I nodded to my sister Seol and answered that it was a good name.
It passed by as if nothing was happening, but I felt like something was slightly bothering me.
As I tilted my head and wondered what on earth it was, something strange that I had overlooked came to mind.
‘Wait a minute!? All, your legs!?’
Rubbing my surprised eyes, I checked again, and saw that my leg had grown a lot in the two days that I had been poisoned by the guy’s poison.
The guy’s hind legs had already grown tall and proud.
