Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 181
Tenchong Volcano (腾冲火山) 4 illustrations (with)
Seol’s sister answered the village chief’s question.
“You asked for help from the Beast Palace? I’d like to hear more about that story. I’m on my way back from running an errand in the Central Plains, so I don’t know the details.
“I had some business to do at Mount Deungchong in the future, so I was planning to stay for a few days.”
The villagers’ faces darkened at the older sister’s answer.
The village chief spoke with a slightly embarrassed look.
“Ah… I see. Then, please come in.”
As we followed the village chief into the village, we saw black tortoise shells sticking out here and there, indicating that the village was built on volcanic rock.
The village looked like it was reminiscent of Jeju Island, and as I was walking around the village and reminiscing about old memories, I heard Seol’s voice.
[While looking for Yong-ah Hwa-jeong, I have to help this village as well. I can’t pretend not to know as a Beast Palace person. After listening to her for a while, step forward and offer to help. I’ll also let the tribe know about you.]
We weren’t the reinforcements that had set out from the Beast Palace, but since we were planning to stay in the village, we couldn’t ignore it.
It was a story that felt somewhat familiar, and since Seol and I were from the Beast Palace and were planning to stay in the village for a while, it was a situation where we needed to help each other in many ways.
In Yunnan, the Beast Palace is like an older brother to the ethnic minorities living scattered throughout the subtropical jungle.
Moreover, in this day and age, the host was responsible for housing, meals, and even laundry during the stay, so they had to pay for the meals.
I nodded at my older sister’s words.
‘Okay, I know what you mean.’
So, as we followed the village chief into his house, he brought out some tea and some snacks and put them down before he spoke.
“Where should I begin? Oh, right. It was about a month or two ago. It started when some of the villagers said they saw a group of rats leaving the village at night.”
“Are the West getting out?”
“Yes, like running away from something.”
The fact that the rats ran away means that the rats were scared by something in the village and ran away.
As expected, when I heard the story from the Lord of Sacheon, it was just as I expected.
‘So, all the rats ran away?’
When I heard the story from the Lord of Sacheon, I thought the rat had probably run away since it disappeared, but here, someone said that he saw it really run away.
As I nodded, the village chief continued speaking.
“And after that, the beasts in my heart disappeared one by one every night. We raise a lot of pigs in our village, and half of them disappeared, so we hurriedly sent people to the Beast Palace.”
“Hmm… I see.”
“Yes, we can’t do any farming other than dry field farming because there’s a volcano nearby. So we raise pigs and use them as our main source of food, but that’s already half of our income…”
As soon as the village chief finished his story, Hwa-eun’s voice was heard.
[Little Dragon, isn’t this similar to the story that the Four Heavenly Lords told you?]
Hwa-eun, who heard the story from me, seemed to have similar thoughts as I did.
First, he nodded to Hwa-eun’s question and joined in on the village chief’s conversation with his sister Seol.
“You’ll have to stay in the village for a few days anyway, so let’s help you. Sister Seol.”
Then the village chief looked at me, tilted his head, and asked.
“This person···?”
“Oh, that’s my little brother. His name is Soryong.”
“Oh my! You are the successor to the Beast Palace!”
The village chief is startled when he hears that Seol’s younger sibling is his sister.
No, I don’t think he’s the successor since he’s a son, but he bowed his head and said not to worry.
I don’t know what kind of giant insect it is, but this spicy Fabre will solve it in no time.
‘I told you the village chief is a very lucky person?’
“Don’t worry too much, we’ll definitely help you with this. I’ve heard of similar cases before.”
“Oh my. Really?”
I smiled at the village chief who asked me with wide eyes in surprise at the mention of having knowledge.
“I’ll have to check it out, but I think it might have been caused by a giant worm.”
“That, that huge lump!?”
To reassure the village chief, we reveal some information. The village chief is surprised to hear that it might have been done by a giant dragon.
He nodded and explained.
“Yes, I said I found footprints somewhere else. Oh, and if I were to help the chief, would it be okay if I brought my children who are waiting outside the village?
“If those kids are there, it would be good to protect the village…”
Before entering the village, I asked if I could bring the children who I had told to wait outside in case the villagers were scared, and the village chief nodded happily.
Perhaps he was friendly with the Beast Palace and had welcomed the beasts of the Palace as guests.
“Oh, you mean the beasts of the Beast Palace? Sure. It doesn’t matter. It’s famous that the beasts of the Beast Palace are docile.
“If the beasts of the Beast Palace protect us, we will be safe.”
Well, it’s not a beast of the Beast Palace, but it’s a spirit that’s been poisoned by the Beast Palace, but it’s okay since I got permission.
I immediately sent a signal to the first person who was waiting for my story in his head.
‘Choya, bring the kids in. Daddy will come out to pick you up.’
‘Tsk tsk.’
The first one to answer right away, as if he had been waiting for it.
“Then I guess I’ll have to go out and bring the kids in.”
“Okay. Then, I should go see the beasts of the Beast Palace for the first time in a while.”
As we ran out to the village entrance with the village chief who was going to see the beasts of the Beast Palace, a little while later, a demon in the form of Hwa-eun with a flower crown on its head, and a Bin-i with a black shell on one side and an emerald shell on the other, and a choga appeared at the entrance to the village.
These guys are really shiny even when seen from far away.
‘Wow… Whose daughters are they? They’ve grown up well. They’ve grown up well.’
As I was admiring the two boys’ shiny appearance, probably because I usually wiped them well with a dry towel, I heard the village chief’s trembling voice from the side.
“Sir, really?”
Perhaps it was a question as to whether the two coming over were the right ones, but the village chief answered the question while patting the heads of the three who quickly approached him.
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“Yes, my daughters. Aren’t they pretty? Should I introduce them to you?”
-Tsrrrr.
-Tsurut.
-Kishi.
The three of them bowed their heads and greeted me when I told them to.
The father’s heart was touched by the sight of his son showing off his good education.
Isn’t it true that greeting adults well is a way to show that you were raised well at home?
The village chief looked at me blankly and asked in a trembling voice.
“Oh, so you’re saying that was definitely the work of a giant insect?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“···.”
The village chief’s eyes were trembling terribly.
When I think about it, I get the feeling that they’re wondering if it’s right to bring in another giant bug to chase this one.
I quickly explained it so there would be no misunderstanding.
Because our children are fundamentally different from livestock and wild insects that steal and eat.
Because our children are educated children.
“Our children don’t eat pork or anything like that, so you don’t have to worry. Furthermore, they have grown up with people since they were little, so they don’t harm people. They were taught well.”
Only then did the village chief’s mouth drop and a voice that seemed to reluctantly welcome him flow out.
“Wow, welcome.”
***
“Let’s start with the hot springs.”
“That would be good. I really want to wash.”
“me too.”
The desire of women who sweat a lot while passing through the jungle to wash.
First, I decided to unwind and go to the hot springs to wash off my body.
I also looked for a flower arrangement while I was at it.
“Yes, that’s right.”
For that reason, we arrived at the mountain after walking for about an hour.
As we arrived at the valley where the spectacular sight of white steam flowing down the winding valley unfolded, Changryong guided us a little further upstream.
“Over there.”
As I followed the dragon and dipped my hand into the stream water, the water was, as expected, hot.
The water wasn’t boiling, but was just the right temperature for submerging your body.
“When we came here last time, the place where the water was gushing out was a bit hotter, and the water flowing here wasn’t that hot.”
As we climb upstream and look at the place Changryong pointed to, what comes into view is a place like a Yongcheon (湧泉) with bubbling water gushing out.
After passing by a few places like that, I thought I heard the sound of water falling from a valley in the distance, and then a shallow waterfall appeared.
The height isn’t that high, it feels like about three meters.
-Whoa.
Changryong explained in a place where the sound of flowing water was refreshing.
“It was here. While avoiding the dragon, Seonhwa and I were looking for a quiet place, and we found it here on the ground.”
They decided to quietly ask him later that night why he had avoided Gyu-seong and sought a quiet place, and instead let Hwa-eun and the other women wash up first in a suitable place further upstream.
And then I decided to come right back and check out the bottom of the waterfall.
It was a waterfall that wasn’t that deep, about a meter deep, so I thought I would be able to see it clearly.
“Well then, let’s start by looking at the floor here.”
“Then, should I take a dip?”
“I was really looking forward to it too.”
In this day and age, men would take off their outer clothes and go in wearing only trousers to wash.
A group of men looking forward to a hot spring bath decided to jump inside and rummage around on the floor while soaking.
Because the water was cloudy due to the bubbles falling from the waterfall, I felt like I had to look directly to see what was under the water.
“pooh···.”
A repetitive process of diving, coming out, taking out stones, and checking them.
Even though Gyuseong, Jiryong, Kwonryong, and Geomryong came to the hot springs and worked hard to check the stones as if they were doing hard labor, Hwajeong was not easily found.
“Phew… As expected, it’s not easy to find.”
“It is a treasure, but would it come out so commonly?”
“I’m hungry, so let’s eat something and go back. By the way, I heard that there are a lot of pigs disappearing from the village, so we’ll have to hunt them ourselves.”
“Would that be so?”
“Yes, sir. I am very curious as to how our Changryong came to visit Geombong and this place in secret.”
The other brothers nodded their heads at Ji-ryong’s words.
It was clear that all the men had similar thoughts.
***
“Rise, Dragon. It’s your turn.”
“Whaaaaaah. Already?”
“okay.”
I was taking a short nap when Brother Gyu-seong woke me up.
We decided to take turns guarding the village because they kept saying that beasts were disappearing.
“If you’re sleepy, should I stand for you?”
“No, brother. It’s my turn. I have to go and check on Chona and Bin too.”
When Gyuseong saw me yawning, he asked me with a worried look on his face if I would mind doing the work for him, but I couldn’t do that.
I can’t sleep alone, with my two daughters standing guard at my side at my request.
First, I decided to call down the first person who was floating in the sky and checking on the village at my request.
‘Honey, daddy’s up. Come down for a minute.’
‘Tsk tsk.’
There is a call and a moment later a voice from heaven.
‘Tsk tsk.’
I rubbed my eyes and raised my head, and pitch black darkness filled my eyes.
Today the moon is covered by clouds, making it amenorrhea.
After a while, a thatched roof appeared next to the lantern hanging in front of the house.
“Tsrrrr.”
“Okay, Choya. Let’s go upstairs with Dad.”
I asked the grasshopper to wake me up and check out the view of the town, and the grasshopper wrapped around my body and started to fly up.
Perhaps because there was no moon, there wasn’t much to see except for the lanterns lit here and there in the village.
‘Bina, are you okay?’
‘Tsurut!’
A guy who asks Bin in his head if there’s anything else going on, and he answers yes.
At that moment, in the air where no one was there and Bin couldn’t find us, he suddenly rubbed my cheek.
‘Tsururut.’
“I told you, our first daughter is so cute?”
A spirit that becomes clearer and clearer in the wind and the slightly chilled bark of the grass above.
It was when the ball was pushed by the poisonous fangs of the grass and became a funny sight.
Suddenly, a strange sight began to come into view down there.
‘What is that?’
The lanterns that had been lit here and there around the well in the center of the village began to turn off one by one, as if a switch had been turned off.
The village was plunged into darkness in an instant when all the lanterns that had been left on to begin with went out.
-Bye!
Soon after, a short, faint sound of something could be heard in the night sky, and Bin-yi’s warning sound filled my head.
“Here, Dad! Here!”
Bin’s cries, as if he had clearly discovered something.
He asked Cho to come down, and called out loud to Gyuseong, who was still asleep in the air.
“Mr. Gyu-seong!”
-Bam! Bam!
As expected, my brother runs out of the bamboo house, which is covered in darkness.
“Wh, what’s going on!?”
“Something appeared!”
“Fire!?”
He got down to the ground, quickly used the torch to light the lantern, and asked Bin-i in his head.
‘Bin-ah, where are you!? It’s dangerous, don’t come near!’
Then, one word came to my mind.
water.
There was no stream or anything like that around here, so if there was water, it would probably be a well.
As I ran towards the well, holding the lantern, Bin-i was sticking his head into the well and making a loud warning sound.
-Tsururut! Tsururut!
“Binah, step back.”
As Bin-i steps back and the lantern is lowered into the well, the figures quickly scatter along the cave wall.
And then I noticed a large hole in one wall of the well down there.
‘What is that?’
The afterimage of what had disappeared remained blurry in both eyes.
