Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 164
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I’ve barely managed to hold his hand in a hug, but his lips are swollen, no, not because of my eco-friendly lotion, but because we kissed, he emptied an entire tube of lotion.
Although I felt an unbearable anger burning inside me, I smiled awkwardly and answered his question.
“Ahahaha… You had quite a lot of sheep, but it looks like you’ve already used them all up? Th, that’s because I need pearls. I’ll make them and send them to you through messenger when I return to my family.”
“Oh, you don’t have to go that far.”
“Yes? No. It’s not that hard…”
“No, that’s not what I meant. We were planning to visit the party after we finished this work anyway, so would it be okay if we finished and went together?”
I thought he was just refusing me out of politeness, but that wasn’t it. Ji-ryong said he would follow me to the party.
I thought his words were really something.
I felt like I was suffering from withdrawal symptoms because I couldn’t kiss.
‘Has it been a while since you fell in love? Are you in such a hurry? Why are you always piling up on everyone you meet these days?’
But when I looked behind Ji-ryong at the gaze I felt from over his shoulder, I saw Kwon-ryong and Geom-ryong brothers approaching and nodding their heads.
He tilted his head at the sight of the two and asked.
“You two too?”
“That’s right.”
“Then, of course we should go too.”
Judging from the fact that the back peaks and the palace peaks are all looking this way, it seems like they are all going together.
‘We’re not that close to each other that we’d invite you to our house?’
No, I do call him “hyung,” but that’s more of a social title.
When I thought that we weren’t close enough to invite each other to my house, Brother Geomryong smiled and said.
“Only if Ji-ryong gets treated can Eumbong feel at ease.”
“Ah, right. So that’s what happened.”
Come to think of it, didn’t I tell Grandpa Mandokshingun of Jiryong Dangga that I needed to treat him a little more?
I remembered what my grandfather, Mandokshingun, had said: mercury poisoning treatment should be done over a long period of time.
Even the words you told me to come back later.
I also thought that Mr. Peng and his party, who were recuperating at the Beast Palace in Yunnan, might be able to move around a little now.
They had said that they would come to Dangga once they recovered, so I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take Ji-ryong and his party there and let them meet each other.
When we first met, I remembered how Ji-ryong had been worried about Peng-hyung and his group.
“Then, go ahead and do that.”
“Thank you for allowing me to accompany you. Little Dragon Little Alliance.”
Ji-ryong is delighted when I allow him to accompany me.
At that moment, he noticed the warriors of the Murim Alliance disembarking one by one from the boat parked behind him.
‘Oh, I should meet the person in charge.’
“But who is responsible for this incident?”
The thought of having to meet the person in charge came to mind when I saw the warriors of the Murim Alliance.
As soon as we greeted each other, Ji-ryong started talking about lipstick, so our turn was pushed back a little, but we had to meet the person in charge of this matter first.
This was because I had to give the person in charge of this work a detailed explanation that I couldn’t write in a letter, and I also had to discuss things like guiding them to the mountain village and disposing of the items left inside.
Then Ji-ryong smiled and answered.
“Oh, I’m the one responsible for this.”
“Huh? Ji-ryong?”
There must be many high-ranking people in the Murim Alliance, but I tilted my head when I heard that Ji-ryong was in charge of this matter.
Even though they are busy because of the blood sect, I heard that there are two deputy generals for each soldier in the Murim Alliance.
Even though Ji-ryong was rumored to be very smart, it was surprising that Ji-ryong, who had no position in the Murim Alliance, became the person in charge, considering that there were only three people who could use their brains.
Then Ji-ryong explained how he became responsible for this incident.
“Your Majesty is currently dealing with someone who has come down from the court, one of your deputy commanders is commanding an expedition, and the other is commanding supplies, so I cannot leave my post.”
“Oh, so that’s what happened.”
“Yes, so usually when something like this happens, one of our Zhuge family members, who has been in charge of the military for generations in the alliance, would help out, and I, who happened to be in the alliance at the time, ended up taking on this task.
“Because it’s something that just needs to be cleaned up.”
I wondered how a person with no position could be put in charge of this, but I didn’t know there was such a rule.
I felt fortunate that I could deal with it by cooperating with Ji-ryong rather than with someone I didn’t know, but I was suspicious of the fact that someone had come down from the coffin, so I asked Ji-ryong.
“Ah, then that’s good.
By the way, someone from the court came down. I heard that the government is inviolable, but something like this can happen too?”
Judging from the story of the person who came down from the court, it seems like the clumsy princess’s lie worked well.
But I asked, wondering if it was okay for an official to do this, and Ji-ryong answered my question with a sinister smile.
“When the royal family heard that the princess had been attacked, they designated the Blood Cult as a heretical cult and strictly forbade the people to believe in it. They said it was a cult that deceived the world and caused misery to the people.”
“Oh… Is that the way?”
Since he is a government official, he cannot interfere with the affairs of the martial arts world, but if it were a religion, it would be a different story.
If they were to define it as a religion rather than a martial arts force and oppress it, then that was the authority of the imperial family, so there could be no other objection.
I have a feeling that the Blood Cult guys are going to have a hard time.
As I smiled sinisterly at him, Ji-ryong pointed to the ship he had come on and said.
“I think this story will be long, so would you like to go inside and talk about other things? I think I need to hear from Soryong Sohyeop and get help from him.”
“Okay, then excuse me.”
As I nodded, he led me to his boat.
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-Crunch.
As I was guided to what appeared to be Ji-ryong’s cabin and entered, what greeted me were piles of documents and the scent of tea.
As we sat down on the chair guided by Ji-ryong, Eumbong poured us some tea and offered it to us.
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“Here, eat, you two.”
“Thank you, Eumbong.”
Although I’m at an age where I like cold water better than hot tea, I still learned how to drink tea from Hwa-eun when I was at the party.
As I was savoring the scent of tea, I heard Ji-ryong’s voice.
“By the way, the lice are so big and can harm people. When we saw the letter and dried lice you sent, everyone in Meng was shocked.”
Even as I sent the letter, I had a feeling that the general public would not easily believe it.
Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.
They say that seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times, so as evidence, they captured two lice, stuffed them, and sent them to Maeng. From what I heard, it seemed to be very effective.
This is evident from the fact that the investigation team was sent here in such a hurry.
“But I thought it was fortunate that Soryong Sohyeop took care of everything on his own. Oh, and the leader asked me to convey his thanks.”
“Thank you. I’ll just do what I have to do.”
He awkwardly smiled at Ji-ryong’s compliment, brought the tea to his mouth, then took it out and asked.
Compliments are all well and good, but now it’s time to get down to business.
First of all, the blood donation group.
“By the way, I guess we have some remaining work to do now. Have you decided what to do with the large quantity of blood tablets left in the mountain?”
“Yes, he said he would buy them all from the sect. He said it was fortunate because there was a lot of blood donation needed at the time when there was a fight with the Blood Cult.”
I suggested this because I thought I could sell it to the Murim Alliance at a high price at this time.
As expected, the Blood Corps responded that they would buy everything from Maeng.
The reason I thought of selling this to the Murim Alliance was because I remembered that I also ate a lot of the Blood Soup when I was sucked by the Blood Cult Elder.
For that reason, the Murim Alliance, which was fighting against the Blood Cult, thought that it would be better if they had more Blood Corps.
‘I think I have some talent for business?’
Among those who raise living creatures, it is said that everyone gets a treat when they are adopted, but the story goes that the Bohyeoldan gets a treat in the Murim Alliance.
Service is the rule for those who hit the ball.
He did a good deed.
“Then, please take the blood donation first and discuss the amount with my father-in-law, the head of the household.”
“Oh, is that okay?”
“Yes, we can’t load it on our ship and it will be urgent in the mine.”
“Understood, Sohyeop. The leader will be very grateful.”
The largest amount of treasures, the Bo-hyeol-dan, has been dealt with for now, and half of the remaining treasures in the mountain village have been divided among the two.
It was a good deed, as about a third of the village was burned down and many people died.
Of course, I didn’t forget to give him a favor.
Because there is no such thing as a free lunch.
“This isn’t something you just give away.”
“Well, then?”
“First of all, you must never hurt anyone again. If I hear that you hurt anyone, I will not be able to avoid my children’s anger. Do you understand?”
“Yes, that’s right, that’s right.”
“And I heard that there are various rumors about the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River all over the world. Is that true?”
“Yes, that’s right, Little Dragon.”
“Then please collect the rumors I want.”
“which?”
“Rumors of poison and poisonous insects.”
This is a request for a hobby.
Since I had saved the rest as slush funds, I decided to talk about the remaining two issues as well.
“What did you do with the wild vegetables? And the remaining lice?”
The mountain vegetables had to be cleaned up, because if we left them alone, another guy would come and take them over.
We had to discuss exactly what to do with the opposition in the mountains.
Even though it would all disappear within a year anyway, they had to at least post guards in case someone went inside and died.
Then Ji-ryong smiled and answered.
“I’m trying to do both at once.”
“Both at once?”
As I tilted my head to wonder what he was trying to do in one stop, his mouth dropped and I heard something that made me think I had misheard him.
“I’m going to set the mountain on fire.”
“Huh? Are you going to start a forest fire?”
The next words came as I blinked in surprise at the scale of the plan to set fire to the mountain.
“If we burn all the wild vegetables and mountains, we won’t have to worry about thieves or lice anymore.”
‘Is this the scale of the Central Plains? You’re going to start a forest fire?’
When I thought about the fact that he said he would set fire to the mountain without hesitation, I found out that the Zhuge family was a family of arsonists.
‘They say they burned quite a lot at Red Cliffs, right? They say bloodlines never go away, right?’
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As expected, a guy who has experience stealing will try it.
The house that set fire to the house did very well.
I thought he would just burn it since he said the dragon was going to set it on fire.
Rather, they did some preliminary work, such as carefully determining the area and sending swordsmen and warriors to cut down trees and grass along the border to prevent the fire from spreading.
Is that all?
Because the bow and arrow were so sensitive to the wind, they sent the bow and arrow up to the top of the mountain every day to observe the wind for several days.
As expected, the house I visited was different.
“I will burn only this mountain and its surroundings. If it is as the Little Dragon and the Little Brothers said, they would not have been able to cross the water, so the insects would not have been able to cross from this waterway to the other side of the valley.
So all the trees around here have been cut down.”
Ji-ryong explains while looking at a map depicting the surrounding terrain.
The explanation was that fires would be lit at four different locations around the mountain where the wild vegetables were, and that the fires that would be met at the top would burn fiercely and then be extinguished naturally.
‘Fire prevention has its own artistic realm.’
The final inspection has been completed.
He nodded at Ji-ryong’s words and said.
“Okay, then let’s proceed.”
“Gungbong, Hyosi (嚆矢).”
“okay.”
At Ji-ryong’s request, Gung-bong took up his large bow and drew the string toward the sky.
-Thud.
-Beep beep beep beep beep.
A shot fired towards the mountain peak.
The sound from the sky echoed for a while, and then…
Smoke rises from all directions.
After half an hour, the large mountain itself began to burn fiercely as if it had become firewood.
It was so hot that I thought I could feel it if I was watching from a ship far away.
It was while I was watching the huge flames.
I heard my sister Seol’s voice from the side of our boat.
“Hwayang-ah!?”
When I turned my head, Hwayang was crawling out of the cabin and hanging on the railing of the ship, his mouth open in a daze as he stared at the burning mountain.
And then, at that sight, a thought occurred to me.
‘No, wait a minute? Isn’t this a good opportunity for Hwayang to become an adult?’
Although it had been fed a lot of fire recently, it had not become an adult, so I thought that if it was a forest fire, it would become an adult.
If a big fire was really needed, the branch was now.
I quickly went over to our ship in the light air and asked Hwayangi, whose eyes were filled with swaying flames.
“rice?”
Then Hwayang looked at me and slowly nodded.
He quickly flew towards the burning mountain while holding Hwayangi in his arms.
