< Five Poisons 1 >
“A human-faced spider! Why, how did a guy who went to get food for a stone bowl end up bringing a human-faced spider!? And that ferocious human-faced spider is so docile!”
“Son-in-law, where on earth did you catch that human-faced landowner!? And what’s more, the landowner looks like our Hwa-eun! What’s going on here?”
“Oh my! This is the human-faced pillar! It really looks like Hwa-eun.”
The surprised voices of the Mandokshin-kun grandfather, father-in-law, and mother-in-law who saw the fairy tale.
The family members of the party bustling behind also quickly nodded their heads to the three people’s voices.
If the family becomes more poisonous every time a son-in-law leaves, it is bound to be surprising.
The mulberries are already piled high on my shoulders.
He answered with a strange feeling of arrogance and politeness coexisting, an expression that seemed nonchalant.
“It just so happened that way.”
It means, ‘I picked it up on the street.’ or ‘This is all I can say.’
Then, the adults nodded their heads with pleased expressions, wondering if this level of arrogance was acceptable if they had caught the teenage poisonous man-faced snake.
“Yeah, if you catch a human face, then the man can stand tall and proud. Hahaha.”
“You’ve worked hard, Little Dragon.”
It was in such a friendly atmosphere that I was heading to the Sihewon used by the direct descendants of the Tang family.
My older sister, who was following me, asked the adults in a cautious voice.
“But, father. As far as I know, the Inmyeonjiju only has a human face, so why does this child have a human body as well?
At first, I was really worried about whether it was a face-lift or not.”
If the name is Inmyeonjiju, it means a spider with a human face, and as my older sister said, our Yohwa is a child with a human body.
If you want to call that child properly, you should call him a human body pillar or a human body pillar.
My older sister confessed that she was cautious even though she had acquired teenage poison, so I was curious and waited for my father-in-law’s answer.
Then the smiling craftsman answered.
“It seems you have only read the martial arts books and not properly read the Cheonha Dokmul Bi-rok (天下毒物祕錄). That is because this child is a female. What Hwa-eun knows is that it is the male of the Inmyeonjiju. It is called Inmyeonjiju because seeing a Ja is more precious than seeing a bear. They are both the same Inmyeonjiju. You could say that you have caught a more precious one.”
“I see. So, the fairy wasn’t just imitating a woman’s appearance, but was actually a woman?”
As my sister has just learned, I already knew that our fairy was female.
It’s all because I checked the pedipalps of the fairy.
There were two reasons why I checked the pedipalps of the fairy that had transformed into her older sister: one was because I was curious about the creature’s mimicry abilities, and the other was because I was curious about the creature’s gender.
It was understandable that the demon would eat my yang energy and transform into my older sister’s appearance, but it was not explained why it would eat yang energy and recreate even the mole on Namgung Seol’s chest and other parts that others could not see.
Because it was thought that it would be impossible to perfectly mimic even the secret features of a body if it was a mimicry that depended on the memories of a man who had consumed yang energy.
So I checked the guy’s pedipalps, and as expected, the parts that I didn’t know about(?) weren’t reproduced properly, and when I asked the fairy why, instead of answering, the guy secretly ate my sister’s hair.
And then the guy’s impersonation becomes perfect.
Only then was it perfectly explained why the guy was able to transform into Namgung Seol so perfectly.
It was because he picked up and ate Namgung Seol’s fallen hair while he was practicing martial arts.
If you eat yang energy, you can take on the appearance of someone you think is beautiful, but it seems that a perfect impersonation requires hair.
And additionally confirmed the guy’s gender.
Male spiders are unique creatures in that their reproductive organs develop on their pedipalps, which are antennae.
Therefore, if a spider has genitals on its pedipalps, it is either male or female.
However, since the tentacle legs of the fairy mimicked those of a human body but had no genitals, it was naturally thought to be female.
Moreover, female spiders are originally much larger than males, so if the demon were male, the female would be even larger, which is really out of line.
The expression on my sister’s face as if her doubts have finally been resolved.
The craftsman who answered my question about the true identity of the fairy patted my shoulder and laughed.
“Hahaha. So, you are now completely our son-in-law?”
“Oh, now that you mention it, that’s true. So the promise between you two has been fulfilled?”
“Huh! Th, how did you do that!?”
The expressions and replies that showed that they knew about my deal with my sister.
When I opened my eyes wide in surprise, the craftsman answered with a smile on his face as expected.
“What does that matter? What really matters now is that we’re family.”
When I turned my head, my older sister was avoiding my gaze.
My older sister was looking up at the moon with her flushed cheeks.
I’ve been worrying about what to do about this for a while, but it looks like my sister has already told all the family members about our deal.
And then the grandfather’s words continued.
“Haha. Then, starting tomorrow, Soryong, go to the river and catch a live goose.”
Grandfather’s words to catch a goose out of nowhere, and a live goose at that.
When I blinked at the words telling me to catch a live goose, my grandfather spoke again with a voice full of laughter.
“Hey, you. Shouldn’t you prepare the goose for the engagement ceremony yourself? I can’t give you the wedding ceremony right now because you’re not old enough, but I can give you the engagement ceremony.”
“Son-in-law, before the formal wedding, the engagement ceremony is a ceremony where you swear in front of many people that you will get married later. Son-in-law, and the reason why you have to kill a goose is······.”
After hearing my mother-in-law’s explanation, everything made sense.
I wondered why Grandfather Mandokshin told me to catch a goose, and it was all because of the symbolism of the goose.
Geese are animals that stay with their chosen mate for life, so they are considered an essential bride gift at an engagement ceremony.
It was widely believed that the bird was a migratory bird that flew north in the spring and returned in the fall, and that it knew the harmony of yin and yang, so it was said that it was absolutely necessary for an engagement ceremony.
Then came the craftsman’s nagging voice.
“If we get engaged, even if you happen to hate Hwa-eun later on, you will never be able to run away.”
So the adults are saying that my engagement ceremony will be held soon.
Now, I really feel like I have been confirmed as the son-in-law of the Sacheondang family without any hesitation.
***
It seemed that Yohwa liked the large tree planted in the middle of Danggasan Mountain, near the well in Dangga Village.
I was wondering where to make the house, but as soon as I told him that this mountain was where the Yohwa would live, he ran to the well that was visible in the distance.
The boy climbed up and down a large tree planted by the well a few times and then sat down on the tree.
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Although it is large and sedentary, I thought it lived on the ground like a ground spider, but it seems that it did so because there were no trees it liked.
The guy immediately started building his web on the tree.
A web that is somewhat cocoon-like in shape, rather than the familiar spread-out web.
“Do you like it here?”
-Kishi!
A fairy nodding her head to my question.
“I’ll tell you where I sleep, so just follow me.”
I took the guy to my place, told him where to go, and told him to come to me if he was hungry. He tied a thread so thin it couldn’t be seen on the window of my room.
“What is this? A fairy tale?”
-Kissit!
A guy who spins a spider web with his feet when asked what the thread means.
“If you bounce, it will come?”
When asked if his thoughts were correct, Yohwa nodded.
The fairy was a really smart guy in many ways.
So now that the house of the fairy has been decided, all that’s left are the stone tools.
Since the stone slabs cannot be placed in a poison source or a poison potion tank, they were placed in the inner room for the time being.
Because he was so puppy-like, I couldn’t leave him alone.
Only after all the new family members had settled into their new homes could I finally wash up and go to sleep.
***
The wedding was nothing special.
Except that, for me, who had not been able to catch a goose for two days, the demon slew me at night and caught one for me.
Because the engagement ceremony was a simple ceremony where the elders of the family were invited and gifts were presented to the older sister in front of them, promising to marry her.
However, there was a slight problem in preparing the gift.
There are three gifts for the engagement ceremony: one is a goose, another is a letter I wrote myself, and the last is a gift I prepared.
The geese were ready and the letter was written right away, but the problem was the last gift.
I wanted to replace the gift with a norigae made from the knot that Namgung Seol had given me in return, but my older sister embarrassedly suggested that I use stone tools as the gift.
“Little Dragon, I have a gift for you. Would a stone slab be okay?”
I knew that Sister Hositamtam was after the Seokchuks, but I never thought she would say something like this so openly.
I felt like I was hit in the back of the head.
I racked my brain like crazy and answered my sister.
Of all things, if I refuse this as an engagement gift, my older sister will tell me all about it for a long time.
“Hwaeun, originally, gifts should be unchangeable. Giving a goose is a way to say that the relationship between the two will not change, and giving a personally written letter is a way to swear that nothing will change. So, shouldn’t it be an unchangeable object like a jade?
“And when we have the wedding, everything that is mine will become Hwaeun’s…”
My sister’s cheeks turn red at my answer.
My older sister turned her face away as if embarrassed and answered with a trembling voice.
“Is that so? Then I will follow the little dragon’s will.”
‘Nice! Good job myself!’
The engagement ceremony was concluded after Seok-Cheok successfully appeased his older sister and prevented the robbery.
After the wedding ceremony, my father-in-law and Mandokshin-gun’s grandfather called my older sister and I to the family shrine.
It looks like something like a proverb will follow.
As we entered the Gajujeon, the craftsman and the old man Mandokshin spoke.
“The reason we have called you here to Gajujeon is because of the Great Law of the Little Dragon.”
“Are you talking about the Great Law?”
When I tilted my head, wondering if there was something like reporting to the relevant authorities, like a marriage registration, when I heard my older sister’s explanation.
“Learning the Tang sect’s internal energy method and accepting poison is called the great method.”
“Oh, you mean the one that accepts the ten poisons?”
“That’s right. Little Dragon.”
Okay, now that I’ve caught the teenage poison, I need to go through the process of accepting the poison into my internal energy method.
As I nodded, Grandfather Mandokshin continued his explanation.
“This time, it was really good of you to catch the Inmyeonjiju, the poison of the Inmyeonjijuju, which is the weakest of the ten poisons, is also good for absorbing poison.
If I had caught a highly toxic one, I would have had to use the Dafa method several times to soften the poison.”
It is said that the poison of the fairy flower is weak and it is easy to absorb the poison.
At this point, I thought that maybe heaven was helping me.
“I’m glad to hear your story. Then, will you go straight into Dafa?”
Looking at the Tang family members, they seemed to have a hasty personality, so I asked if they would go straight into Dafa, but the two of them shook their heads.
Grandfather Mandokshingun said.
“Listen carefully, Little Dragon. If you hadn’t brought the Inmyeonjiju, I would have made you and Gaju a different offer.”
“Any other suggestions?”
“Yes, as I was looking at the poisons you have and will bring, I remembered something else that the family had forgotten about.”
I looked at my older sister and asked her to explain, but she looked like she was hearing it for the first time.
Grandfather Mandokshingun opened a book and spoke.
“Do you know the exact meaning of the five poisons?”
A question from a grandfather who asks what Odok is.
It seems like I’m talking about the misreading of the Odok Gwiwon Gong that I’ve learned, but I don’t know the exact meaning.
My older sister explained from the side.
“Little Dragon, the five poisons are Wukong (蜈蚣), Si (蛇), Hu (蠍), Seokcheok (蜥蜴), and Shaanxi (蟾蜍). They are five poisonous substances.”
An explanation of the five poisons, namely the five poisons of the fox, snake, scorpion, lizard, and toad.
Now that I have the two species I’m talking about, I’m starting to get really curious about what other suggestions there might be.
