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“What!?”
The owner of the casino looked dumbfounded at the woman’s cries of refusal.
The casino owner glared at the woman as if to say, “What kind of nonsense is that?”
Then, perhaps frightened by the firm shouting, the woman crouched down in a pile of rags and trembled.
“Okay, I was wrong!”
“Do you know who these people are? How dare you! Follow me today!”
The angry voice of the casino owner is once again directed at the woman.
It must have been hard to watch the master nag, so the older sister stepped forward and explained to the woman.
“Young lady, I promise to treat you well, not just the master but also the young lady. If you have a family, I will have to check, but I will make sure that your family can live at Sacheondangga as well.”
But the woman’s answer was one that she didn’t think about for even a second.
“Poetry, I hate it.”
“No, really! Do I have to fight again today!?”
“That, that won’t do! I will never follow you!”
As the two’s conversations continued at parallel lines, the older sister first checked with the casino owner about the woman’s location.
Although there are no official slaves in the Central Plains, there are people who work like slaves for money. Judging from the woman’s current appearance and the way her master treats her, she seems like a slave, but judging from the way she rejected our offer, she doesn’t seem like a slave either.
“Is that woman in debt? Or is she working for someone else? Does she have any special needs for working here?”
Then, in response to the older sister’s question, the master waved his hand as if to say that it was absolutely not like that.
“No, how could that be? I have no debt. But I am not a paid worker either.”
“?”
A somewhat ambiguous answer, saying that he was neither in debt nor formally employed.
The casino owner continued his explanation.
“That, that… It was about five years ago? I accepted it because they said I didn’t need any wages as long as I gave them work, but I didn’t look like I needed to receive guests… Ahem… There was nothing for them to do besides chores, so they just made food for me… ”
The owner said that a few years ago, he showed up at the entrance of this casino and asked to work for him since he didn’t need a salary, so he let him work for him.
In addition to gambling, the casino also forces women to sell their bodies to customers. Since the women were unable to serve customers, they were made to work in the kitchen.
But the answer was that because the food tasted strange, he was kicked out of the kitchen and was now in charge of managing smelly crickets.
When you find the owner’s explanation strange.
The voice of the old lord is heard.
“Miss, may I step out for a moment? I sensed something about me from that woman before I entered the party.”
‘Do you feel like you’re seeing yourself?’
I don’t know what the similarities are between a hairy man and a gothic woman with her hair covering most of her face, barely showing her eyes, but it seemed like my older sister had something to say about the old man’s words.
The older sister’s eyes sparkled at the words of the old man who said he could see himself in the woman.
My sister nodded quickly.
“Okay, then.”
And the offer of the old master to the owner of the casino.
“Master, can we take that woman for a day and come back? We’re not taking her forever, but we’re going to feed her some good food and try to convince her.”
“Oh, man. Persuasion. If you go out for a moment, I’ll beat you up and make you follow me. Where’s the club? Oh, that would be good! Thud, thud!”
The owner of the gambling house seemed to be trying to lure the woman by taking her to a place to work and feeding her delicious food, but the owner of the gambling house grabbed a broom that was rolling on the floor and even spat on her hand.
As the casino owner approached the trembling woman, his older sister stopped him.
“Wait. I would like you to leave it untouched. You might become one of our people, and I don’t want to see you get hurt.”
“Ah, oh dear. That, that’s right. This guy was a bit hasty. Na-ok, go follow these guys!”
“Poem, I hate it···.”
The woman was about to say no again, but suddenly she shivered as if she had been struck by lightning, opened her eyes wide with dark circles under her hair, and looked at the old man.
Then he nodded quickly.
It feels like the old master has probably sent a signal.
“Then, we’ll take you and come back. Do you understand?”
“Is there any possibility?”
“Okay, see you tomorrow.”
A woman whose eyes have changed from blank to possessed.
Whenever we said no, the woman would follow us, looking at the old master with bewitched eyes, as if she had fallen in love with him.
The place he took the woman in his carriage was not Sacheon Dangga, but a street in Seongdo lined with high-class restaurants and pharmacies.
The entrance to the magnificent inner courtyard.
As we arrived at the entrance to the large private residence with the luxurious reception hall next to it, we were greeted by familiar faces.
“Are you here, Miss?”
“Yes, I’d like to stay for a day. Please give me a room. Oh, and before that, please show me to the reception hall. Please give me tea and some light snacks.”
“All right!”
The Tang family’s warriors were guarding, so I wondered what was going on, but then I heard the elder brother of the Gupae explaining.
“This is like a branch of the Sacheondangga of the Seongdo. That hospital is run by the Dangga, and this house is also owned by the Dangga. The two inns, eight pharmacies, and five restaurants you see in this alley are all owned by the Dangga. I will show you the top and the signboard later.”
The answer is that the entire alley belongs to the Tang family.
Honestly, my grandfather and father-in-law don’t do anything every day, they just practice internal energy and martial arts like gymnastics, so I wondered how the family could run, but I never thought there would be such a secret.
In the end, saying that it belongs to the Tang family means that it will all belong to my older sister later on, and my older sister···.
A useless cough escaped from within.
‘Ahem···.’
The reception hall that Musa arrived at a little later.
A woman who went into the reception hall and was served some food and tea, but showed no interest in either the tea or the food.
The woman’s eyes continued to follow the old master, but the old master, unable to stand it any longer, smiled awkwardly and said.
“Okay, tell me what’s going on? Maybe we can help. It’s definitely a grudge, isn’t it?
Don’t worry, I’ll tell you. This is Sacheondangga.
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The woman hesitated for a moment at the lord’s question, then got down from the chair and lay down, revealing her face that had been hidden by her hair.
“That is···.”
“How can a woman have such scars on her face?”
Then, a red burn mark is revealed.
The original had a cute face, but the face of the woman named Na-ok was covered in scars that clearly showed faint burn marks.
And between the pitiful older sister and the voice of the great man, the woman’s story began.
“My name is Song Na-ok. So, I’m from Songgachon, not far from here······.”
It was a clear voice, different from before.
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The sisters Song Na-ok and Song Na-eun were quite famous in Songga Village, a small village near Sacheon-seongdo where the Song clan made up the majority of the population.
It was famous that Na-ok raised her younger sibling in place of her parents who passed away at an early age, and that the two were good-looking.
Their skin was as white as jade, which was particularly envied by people, so the people of Songga Village called the two sisters the Jade Sisters.
“Sister, of course you’ll come home early today, right?”
“Yes, it’s not far from the next village. I’ll help with the banquet and come back right away, so just wait a little bit. I’ll bring you some delicious food too.”
“But I don’t want to be alone today. I’d rather follow my sister and help her with her work…”
One day, I decided to help out at a banquet hall in the next town in exchange for some wages.
The younger brother throws a tantrum by hanging on to Na-ok’s arm as she tries to leave the house.
Her younger brother, now a grown man, followed her and offered to help her with the work, but Na-ok just patted his head.
It was the same old fight, but I knew why my little brother was acting up like this today.
“I’m sorry for a day like today. But I don’t want to make you suffer on a day like today. After all, I promised my parents that.”
“But I’m all grown up now, right?”
Although her younger sibling is now an adult, she is all grown up, but to her older sister, Na-ok, she still sees her younger sibling as a cute child.
Moreover, it was a promise I made to my parents before I passed away from tuberculosis.
Na-ok, who had promised to raise her younger sibling well, spoke while looking at the small bowls placed on one side of the room.
“You must be bored, but go play with the Silsols.”
Silsol, who cried as if asking if they had been called.
-Crunch, crunch.
Silsol, who started raising her younger sibling who had to be left alone until she returned home when she went out to work.
There are now quite a few Silsols who become friends with their younger siblings when they are not confident, and Naeun opened her mouth to speak at Naok’s words.
“They say that playing Tushitsu is more fun when two people do it together. Hehe.”
The reason why it’s so hard to leave my little brother alone today is because today is Naeun’s birthday.
Na-ok had no choice but to go into the kitchen, take out the incense sachet that she had hidden in a bowl to give to her younger brother as a birthday present after he came back from work, and tie it around her younger brother’s waist.
“You said you wanted this sachet last time, right? My sister bought it for me to give you as a birthday present this time, but I’ll give it to you first, so please wait nicely today.”
“Huh, a scented bag!? But, this is expensive···.”
His younger brother looked at him with wide eyes at the incense bag tied around his waist.
“Last time, I helped out at the home of Mr. Ho-jung, who works at Pyo-guk, and he gave me some because he said he bought it cheap in Gwangju.”
“Go, thank you, sis!”
The face of my younger brother, hanging on Na-ok’s neck, rejoicing.
He said there was agarwood powder in his pocket, and the fragrant scent came rushing in along with my brother’s body odor.
And only then did her younger brother see Na-ok off with a smile on his face.
“Okay, you have to come as soon as possible.”
“Okay, I got it.”
The feast held in the next village was quite busy.
There were more guests than the owner had expected, and even though it was way past the appointed time, he had to work longer than he had expected for the feast that followed.
Although she received a lot of extra food and extra wages, Na-ok, who had promised to return quickly with her younger brother, hurried ahead of the group she had gone with without even a lantern.
Today is my younger brother’s birthday.
Because I wanted to celebrate my little brother’s birthday with a delicious feast before it passed.
“Naok, it’s dark here. You’ll get hurt if you keep going. Go slowly.”
“No, sir. You must be starving by now. We must hurry.”
The people who went to work with Na-ok tried to stop her from hurrying, but Na-ok hurried her steps, using the moonlight as her companion.
And by hurrying like that, you can arrive at the entrance of Songga Village much earlier than others.
Songgachon arrived earlier than everyone else.
I had just entered the village and was hurrying inside.
The moment when the bright moon was slightly obscured by clouds.
The shock felt when turning the corner.
“Ugh.”
“Gyah!”
Na-ok bumped into someone who was running towards the village entrance without a lantern.
When Na-ok quickly apologized, the man shouted with a serious expression and hurried out of the village.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
“Hey, Joe, be careful!”
Na-ok picked up the bundle of food that had fallen and got up from her seat again.
Naok tilted her head.
Songga Village was a place where only the Song family lived, so outsiders were hard to come by, and when I bumped into the man, I could smell the scent of the incense sachet I had smelled when I saw my younger sister off.
But the doubts were fleeting.
Since it was something even a man could have, Na-ok shook off her body and looked through the bundle again before hurrying home.
And the entrance to the house we arrived at like that.
The front door, which should normally be closed, was open, but strangely, the lights inside the house were off and it was very quiet.
‘Did you try to save on fuel? Or did you fall asleep early while waiting?’
It was obvious that his younger brother would not eat anything while waiting for him.
Naok went into the kitchen first, put down the food she had brought, and called her younger sibling.
It was because I wanted to feed him something and put him to sleep.
“Naeun-ah! Naeun-ah! Wake up now! My sister is here.”
But the younger brother doesn’t answer.
Na-ok, who had searched the stove to find a spark to heat up food, lit a lamp and opened the door to find her younger brother, who seemed to be fast asleep.
“!”
-Bam.
The room was dyed red, perhaps not just by the light of the lamp.
The lamp fell to the floor from Na-ok’s surprised hands.
The house was a mess, as if he had resisted something, and my younger sister’s white skin, which was the envy of other women because she had ice-cold skin and jade bones, had become even colder.
“Na-eun-ah! Aaaah …
A scream burst out of Na-ok’s mouth as she held her younger brother in her arms, and flames rose from the lamp that had fallen to the floor behind her.
And then, like a funeral march, the sound of the pine trees began to resonate throughout the room.
-Crunch, crunch.
-Crunch, crunch.
