Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 179
Tenchong Volcano 2
-Swoosh!
Something red that was sucked into Hwayang’s mouth in an instant with a slurp sound.
The stone the guy had in his mouth disappeared into his mouth.
“My, my stone! My milestone!”
“Hwayang, this guy! Huh! Huh, hurry!”
At that sight, I rushed over and tried to open Hwayang’s mouth, but the boy gulped and did not spit out what he had swallowed.
“Hwayang! Can’t you spit it out quickly!?”
-Cluck.
Then comes the sound of something being swallowed very cleanly.
Despite Hwa-eun’s nagging and my attempts to open his mouth, Hwayang, who had been chewing on the stone until the very end, eventually gulped it down.
“Oh no… My, my mark… My stone that Yangrang gave me as a gift….”
The swordsman looked at her with a blank expression at the sight of her missing wedding gift.
It must have been a very meaningful gift as a proposal, but Hwayang swallowed it whole.
But there was no need to worry.
I don’t know what that is, but if it’s a stone, Hwayangi won’t be able to digest it and will end up spitting it out.
Even if they swallowed a stone and it went into their stomach, amphibians such as frogs and toads could spit out their stomach.
An animal that can turn its stomach inside out and spit out its entire contents.
Frogs and toads have no teeth, so they have to swallow their food whole. That’s why they have evolved to be able to spit out their entire stomach if they accidentally swallow something poisonous, like a bee or a spider, and it causes problems for their body.
This is called stomach washing in amphibians, so it was obvious that if I waited a bit, it would probably come back out again.
“Don’t worry, Geombong. I don’t know why this guy is doing that, but he’ll probably spit it out soon. He can’t digest rocks.”
“Me, really?”
“Yes. If you wait a little, it will probably spit it out. It will know it is not its food.”
Everyone was tense at my words and stared at Hwayang for a long time.
Hwayang’s body suddenly starts shaking.
Hwayang-i, who had been writhing like a cat spitting out a ball of fur, spat out his entire white stomach after a while.
And then I hear the sound of something hitting the floor of the pavilion.
-Thud. Crunch.
“It came out!”
“It’s out!”
“···uh!?”
“···huh?”
The long-awaited stone of the sword rolled out, but the moment the stone was confirmed, people’s voices of bewilderment followed.
It was clear that what Hwayang had swallowed was a bright red stone, but what rolled out of Hwayang’s mouth, covered in saliva, was a transparent stone out of nowhere.
“This, this is···.”
“uh···.”
“My, my stone···.”
The embarrassed voices of me and Geombong Hwa-eun followed.
“Tsk, that’s probably because of the saliva. I’ll just wipe it off first.”
I quickly wiped it with my clothes to remove the saliva from Hwayang, but what was clearly a red stone had turned into a small hexagonal transparent stone.
I wanted to believe it was because of the needle, but the stone had completely lost its color.
Wiping it didn’t help.
“Sorry, sorry. Sword.”
“I’m sorry, Seonhwa.”
What should we do if the child has a serious accident?
It’s only natural that parents should apologize.
Moreover, since it wasn’t just an object but a proposal gift, Hwa-eun and I folded our waists like folders.
When I first glanced at it, it was clearly a beautiful red color like blood, but now it has changed to look like crystal.
The stone I gave him made a sad face as he looked at his own stone, which had become like a crystal when he picked it up with his fingers.
“Yangrang’s standard… My standard… It’s a red stone, just like the color of my lips. Yangrang said that we should not change like the stone’s unchanging color….”
Like a faded stone, Geombong’s lips had also turned pale.
It was a gift that I received with meaning, but its color has faded…
Geom-bong was shocked to see that his own sign had faded, and Hwa-eun and I felt sorry for Geom-bong and didn’t know what to do.
‘Hwayang, this guy is really!’
I knew that when raising children, there would be times when I would have to apologize, but I never thought that my first apology would be to Hwayang.
That was when.
The voice of Changryong, who had been observing the situation until now, was heard.
“Seonhwa, the stone is just a gift. My feelings for you will not change, so please do not attach too much meaning to the stone.”
“Hey, Yangrang···.”
‘Wow, goosebumps.’
Changryong was a simple, plain person, but who put butter on him?
No, did you fall into cheese fondue and come out?
Or maybe you grilled pork belly and drank the oil that came out in one shot?
Or is that the sweet central man?
They say that if you love, you become a poet, but that’s a bit…
As all the men, including me, trembled at Changryong’s touching comments, he continued speaking.
“And isn’t So So-hyeop the old man who enlightened me from my foolishness and brought us together? I hope you don’t scold me too much.
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“I’ll give you a better gift. Ahem···.”
“Oh, I see. Yangrang.”
After finishing their conversation, the two exchanged a heated gaze, then started holding hands and clung to each other again, making people look at them with disgust.
“Heh heh···.”
“This is really difficult.”
The incident of Ji-ryong’s contact was also quite groundbreaking, but to that extent, it was just public skinship.
Even though hot glares poured down from all around him, Geombong was hugged tightly by Changryong and looked at him with deep eyes.
After the satisfying hug, Hwa-eun and I, who had been watching each other, apologized again.
“I’m sorry. Changryong. Geombong.”
“I’m sorry, you two.”
So Hwa-eun and I apologized again, but Geom-bong seemed to feel better after hearing Chang-ryong’s words, so he shook his head and said.
“As Yangrang said, the stone is nothing special, so don’t worry about it too much, you two.”
“Thank you, Geombong and Changryong.”
“Thank you both.”
“Thank you. This is not enough to repay my debt to So So Hyup.”
Changryong was a more loyal man than we thought, and although the clever Geombong who led us through the Yunnan jungle risking our lives to the border has become a bit simpler, it is fortunate for us in many ways, as he is becoming more like Changryong.
It was after I said hello to them both again.
Without hesitation, both Hwa-eun and I turned our heads toward one guy at the same time.
Now that the apology is over, it’s time to punish the one who deserves to get punished.
“Hwayang?”
“Hwayang?”
It seemed like he thought we were too busy apologizing to notice his movements, but neither Hwa-eun nor I could miss his movements.
So, Hwayang, who had been sneaking out of the pavilion and crawling home, flinched at Hwaeun’s call.
-Beep···. Beep?
The plump potato couldn’t turn its head, so its whole body slowly turned to our call.
Before the guy’s body could even fully turn around, Hwa-eun and I each grabbed his front paws.
And then, with one of Hwa-eun’s front legs held in my hand, he was dragged straight to my place.
“Let’s talk, Hwayang.”
“Hwayang, I need to talk to you.”
“Sister Seol, please take care of the guests instead. I think I should take Hwayang with me for a bit and talk to her before I come back.”
“Okay, I understand. Just go and don’t worry about this.”
Hwayang, who was dragged away with both arms held, looked at me and Hwaeun alternately with a bewildered expression.
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“Come on, eat.”
-Beep···.
There was no need for me to go to verse 2.
Just the first verse of Hwaeun alone broke Hwayang’s mentality.
I went out for a while to light a lamp and bring it home for dinner, but Hwayang pretended not to see the food he liked so much.
“I told you it’s okay?”
A guy who doesn’t seem interested in food even though I kept urging him to eat it.
Hwa-eun nodded with a cold expression at that sight.
“I think it’s fortunate that Hwayang seems to be reflecting on her actions. Okay. Well then, let’s skip school today.”
As expected, Hwa-eun was a scary person when she got angry.
Just because the guy hesitates, you’re just throwing the food away.
I don’t know if the guy was angry or reflecting, but when he refused the food, Hwa-eun quickly took the lamp away.
It was clear that he was probably going to use this opportunity to break his habit, but I was still worried about his appearance.
I saw a different side of them in my mind, and I couldn’t act so decisively because they were like my daughter and younger sister.
That’s why I was a little worried when I saw him fasting, even without rice.
Well, if my younger sister said that she was starving in her previous life, there would be many opinions that she would immediately order chicken.
‘Is it okay?’
I was a little worried, but on the other hand, I thought it would be good to stop doing things like going to the kitchen and stealing fire, and that’s how the night went by.
The next morning.
Geombong, who came to see us early in the morning, spoke in a bright voice.
“Hwa-eun, look at this. It just seemed to have faded for a moment. I’m sorry I was so sensitive yesterday.”
For some reason, the red stone in the swordsman’s hand had returned to its original red color from yesterday.
It was very fortunate that it was restored to its original state.
“That’s good, Seonhwa.”
“Thank goodness, Geombong.”
It was at this time that they were celebrating the restoration of the color of the stone.
A thought that comes to mind at that moment.
‘But why did Hwayang swallow a stone?’
He was a guy who only ate fire, so there was no reason for him to swallow stones.
I didn’t think about it because I was busy apologizing and scolding Hwayang, but it felt strange.
And as I was thinking about that fact, a story that I had heard yesterday suddenly came to mind.
‘I stopped by a hot spring near Tengchong Volcano Mountain in Yunnan, and Yang Lang gave me this thing he found there…’
That stone that Geombong treasures.
It reminded me of something I had heard was discovered in a hot spring near a volcano.
‘Is this it?’
After thinking about it carefully, it seemed strange that Hwayang was complaining.
In nature, fire does not occur except in forests, and fires can only occur when lightning strikes or when densely growing trees rub against each other due to strong winds.
At first, I thought I would just dive until a natural fire formed, but is that possible when natural forest fires can only occur once every tens or hundreds of years?
In reality, if Hwayang is a guy who lives in a lava zone and stocks are like that, then I could understand Hwayang’s behavior yesterday.
Also, why did the stone change color?
‘Could it be that that is the opposite of the Bingok that Seol, Bing, and Dong-i eat?’
If that’s the case, then it makes sense that it lost color yesterday.
The Bingok used by Seol, Bing, and Dong-i for food is a bead that draws in the cold air from its surroundings and fills it with cold energy.
If that was a stone that attracted and retained the opposite yang energy, it could explain the color returning in just one day.
“Excuse me, Geombong, but could you lend me that stone for a moment? It seems like there’s some kind of secret there, and there’s something I’d like to confirm.”
“Here? Check?”
“Yes, I just wanted to check.”
“is it so.”
Perhaps because of what Changryong said yesterday, Geombong surprisingly readily gave his permission.
I took it and quickly ran to my grandfather’s place.
“Grandpa! Grandpa!”
“What’s going on, Little Dragon?”
As I rushed into the room, I saw an old man tilting his head from reading a book at the desk.
I showed my grandfather the stone I had borrowed from Geombong and explained what had happened yesterday.
This is what Hwayangi said, swallowing the red stone that Geombong picked up near the volcano, and after a day, its color returned to normal.
“You picked it up near the volcano?”
At my words, my grandfather took out one of the many books on the shelf, flipped through it for a while, then pointed to a place and spoke.
“I guess it’s something like this?”
“Oh oh?”
One of the books that my grandfather pointed to.
One clear sentence.
Fire crystal.
The word ‘Jeong’ means ‘correction’, so in Korean it is translated as ‘uncorrection’.
It was a hexagonal crystal shape, so that was probably the right shape.
“Hwajeong, a crystal filled with yang energy···.”
And my grandfather’s words made me think of that.
‘Hwayang, then, is it because you overate yesterday and didn’t eat, rather than reflecting?’
Well, that’s right, that’s right.
I said that somehow Hwayang seemed to be reflecting.
Hwa-eun would be shocked if she found out, so I kept it a secret. But I thought I had to go and find that thing more than anything else.
If you ask Geombong or Changryong, they might give it to you, but you can’t take away their marks.
Because I felt like I needed something a little bigger.
