< High-spirited Death 6 >
“You’re going to sue me and kill me?”
“Kill me and sue me?”
My older sister and Geulhwang looked at me with expressions of incomprehension when I said that I would kill them in a dignified manner.
How many people would understand that someone would be killed out of nowhere?
Everyone seemed to not understand, but it was clear that if you use mealworms, you can eliminate the target very safely without having to poison just the food.
If he added mealworms to everyone’s food on the day he came to the casino, he would die while no one else would die from eating them.
It was a way to kill the bastard perfectly without arousing suspicion.
‘It’s so delicious and tasty that I could just eat it and die.’
The reason I guarantee that I can kill a bastard by feeding it random mealworms.
If a person is the type that gets sick from eating crabs or shrimp, it means that he has a shellfish allergy, and the root cause of shellfish allergy is Tropomyosin, a protein that makes up muscles and is contained in muscle fibers.
Trypomyosin is found in most animals, including crabs, shrimp, spiders, molluscs and even insects, but trypomyosin in vertebrates is non-allergenic, whereas trypomyosin in invertebrates is allergenic.
That’s why eating things like shrimp causes allergic symptoms.
If you look into it, allergies caused by house dust mites are due to the trypomyosin inside the house dust mites.
Therefore, since mealworms, which are also insects, contain a lot of trypomyosin, it was clear that if he ate a mealworm, the anaphylactic shock that almost killed Young-Yeong would kill him.
Even when eaten in the same amount as crustaceans, mealworms contain much higher trypomyosin content.
“First, let’s bring the yellow dust and talk about it. Please give me the old armor.”
I smiled to myself and asked the old master to hurry up.
A smile naturally appeared on my face because I felt like things were going to work out well.
“Oh, I understand, Little Dragon.”
So, the old master of the Gupae family left for Dangga to get the yellow worm, and although he clearly said that he would talk once he got the yellow worm, he heard questions from his older sister and Geolhwang.
“So-ryong, you told me to bring you some yellow worms, so it looks like you’ll be using them. Are you saying that you can kill people with yellow worms?”
“What is the yellow bug? I’m dying of curiosity. After hearing the story, it doesn’t seem to be a poisonous bug.”
There is someone else who is going to die, but the two have expressions of being curious and dying, and the woman has an expression of not understanding and not knowing what has been going on since earlier.
But I repeatedly asked him to wait a moment, as a complete explanation was impossible without tasting it.
How can you discuss gosoa-ae without trying it?
“Would you please wait a moment so that I can give a proper explanation once Huang Bunchung arrives? Hwaeun, please be patient for a little while too.”
“Ahem. Okay, I understand.”
“Okay, Little Dragon.”
An awkward moment of drinking tea like that.
As if he had been out on a horse, the old man entered the reception hall in a hurry, carrying a wriggling cotton pouch.
“Master Soryong, I brought it as instructed, but···.”
The old man who brought me a pocket full of mealworms that he had bred at my request.
The pouch he held out was wriggling with the mealworms moving inside.
“Let’s see, you’ve grown up so well.”
Let’s take a look inside the pockets. They are very plump and well-fed.
I could eat them just like that, but I asked my sister to make them easier to eat.
“Where is the kitchen?”
“The kitchen? It’s over there…”
I followed my sister, who had a drowsy expression, to the kitchen where I arrived, quickly boiled water, blanched half of the mealworms that Gupae Daeju had brought, took them out, and fried them in a Chinese pan.
A typical way to eat insects is drying them.
This is because the most basic way to eat insects is to steam or boil them once in water and then dry them in hot air or sunlight.
After a while, the mealworms became glossy and delicious, and the completed dried mealworms were taken to the waiting room and offered to those who had been curious about them.
“Now, this is the yellow radish, everyone, please try it.”
“What, you want me to eat it?”
“You want me to eat this?”
“Are you talking about this?”
Although she was a woman, she could be embarrassed, she nodded to the old lord who was causing trouble while leading subordinates who could even eat rats.
He told me to try it first as a representative.
Of course, it was only natural that I showed an example.
I put a deliciously fried mealworm into my mouth.
Then a delicious sound is heard.
-Ouch.
“It’s so delicious when you eat it like this. Oh my, it’s so delicious.”
The taste of mealworms is similar to that of peanuts and beans when eaten raw, but when dried and eaten like this, it has a more savory taste, like a shrimp snack.
So, the name given to me in my previous life in Korea was also ‘Go So-ae’.
The old master put one in his mouth with a look of discontent at my direction, then rounded his mouth and quickly put another one in his mouth.
“Why is this so delicious? It’s even savory?”
Then comes the tasting.
Geulhwang, Noonim, and even a woman named Naok all put fried mealworms in their mouths and looked slightly surprised.
“Is it really delicious and tasty?”
“No, what kind of bug is this delicious?”
“It’s really amazing.”
People holding a handful of mealworms in their hands and constantly putting them in their mouths.
He looked at the three and asked.
“How is it? Isn’t it very delicious?”
Then, people nodded their heads in unison.
“Yeah, it’s really tasty. Are you adding poison to it?”
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“Little Dragon, it is as you said, but···.”
“Yes, Little Dragon. It is very delicious.”
Now that I’ve shown you what mealworms taste like, it’s time to explain.
He spoke while looking around the room.
“Since Your Majesty is here, I will explain in detail. There are things that are nothing to some people, but poison to others.”
“Is it similar to being sensitive to bee venom like Young-young So-jeo?”
“Oh, that’s right, Hwaeun. Didn’t His Majesty explain that if he ate things like crabs and shrimp, something would happen to his body?”
“Yes. I’m sure our children will find out.”
“Yes, that means crabs and shrimp are poisonous to him. That’s why I prepared this yellow worm. This yellow worm contains something that is poisonous to him, although it is harmless to ordinary people.”
People nodded as I explained it to them in a way that suited their level.
“Are you talking about the yellow worm?”
“It looks completely different from crabs or shrimps. It’s amazing.”
“So what you’re saying is that crabs and shrimps are poisonous to it, but eating this bug would have the same effect?”
“Yes, that’s right, sir.”
Everyone seemed curious about my explanation, but after hearing the whole story, Geulhwang held up a mealworm and asked.
“But how do you feed this to him? It’s just like this. This seems harder than feeding him crabs or shrimp.”
It certainly looks more repulsive than crabs and shrimps, just as he said, so it’ll be hard to keep it that way.
After asking the pharmacy to borrow a pestle and mortar, he ground up the mealworms and showed them to the King again.
“You don’t have to feed it whole. If you grind it up and add it to other foods, it will only make the food taste better. Well, the more you feed it, the more it will die, so make sure to feed it plenty.”
“Oh, my. You’re going to change it? That’ll definitely work.”
The amount that causes an allergic reaction can vary from person to person, so our goal is to feed him a large amount.
That’s why I explained that you just need to add a lot of it to the food he eats in powder form.
I hear my sister’s voice from next to me.
“Ah! I have a good idea. Little Dragon!”
When I looked at my sister who said that she had a good idea, she shouted outside.
“Is anyone there!?”
Then, the voice of the squire is heard.
“Yes, miss, I’ll be waiting outside.”
“Oh, that’s good. Go out and buy some old and new rye taragons.”
“Are you going to Ryeotagon?”
When I tilted my head at my older sister’s sudden request to buy a rolling donkey, a woman named Na-ok said,
“It’s a banquet food. It’s made from glutinous rice with red bean paste inside.”
“Oh, is that so?”
‘Is it glutinous rice cake?’
It feels like the explanation is like rice cake.
As expected, what Sibi brought inside a little while later were two kinds of glutinous rice cakes with red bean paste inside.
One is covered in yellow soybean paste.
One is just glutinous rice cake.
And when it arrived, my sister rolled rice cakes without soybeans in the mealworm powder I had ground, and said,
“Ryeo-tagon is a glutinous rice cake coated with soybean paste, just like a donkey rolls around and creates dust. It is a food that no one dislikes, and it is simple and refreshing, so it goes well in places like gambling houses.
“Sometimes you roll the soybean paste after spreading taffy on the outside, but wouldn’t it be perfect if you mixed the soybean paste with the powder of this yellow moss and rolled it?”
“Hoo···.”
I was thinking of sprinkling it on soup or other dishes, but I didn’t know there was such a great dish.
This was truly a dish made for assassination.
It’s glutinous rice cake soaked in a lot of yellow sesame powder.
And on top of that, it’s sticky?
As the rice cake passes down the esophagus, it gets stuck around, and what happens to the nearby airway?
One of the causes of death from anaphylactic shock is asphyxiation due to airway obstruction.
I looked at my sister with eyes full of affection and thought to myself.
‘Is this really the husband singing along with the wife?’
Then, from the side, a voice came from Geulhwang, who seemed to be having a lot of fun.
“A martial artist’s last meal is a lytagon covered in bug powder? Isn’t that a death truly fitting for a stray like you? A meal that suits his situation very well, where he will die rolling around on the floor kicking up dust.
Hehehe. I guess it was a good idea to come and see it.”
Thinking about it, the excited King’s shouts made me realize that this is a place that is extremely disgusting and is called Nalyeotagon (懶驢打滾).
According to what I heard from my older sister, if you fall while fighting, it is a dishonor even if you live. In that sense, if the reason for the death of a martial artist was eating a ryeotagon, it was clearly a dishonor.
‘No, have you heard how the third son of Taehwamun died?’
‘No, I didn’t hear that?’
‘They say he died suddenly while eating Ryeotagon?’
‘A martial artist riding a horse? Phew!’
What if these rumors continue?
And when the cooking was decided, Na-ok, who had been relatively quiet until then, asked for a favor.
“Ryeo, I know how to make a Ryeotagon! Please let me make it!”
Saying that you want to take revenge with your own hands.
Since the table was already set, everyone in the waiting room nodded in agreement at his words that he wanted to make the food for revenge.
“Then, you must take revenge with your own hands.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Go, thank you!”
And then the detailed plans began to take shape.
“Then we can tell the casino owner that if we bring the woman to him, he’ll let us work in the kitchen for a day. Can’t we just tell him that he’s half out of his mind and that if we let him work in the kitchen for a day, he’ll come with us?”
“Oh, that would be fine.”
“And just in case, we’ll gamble with him at the casino that day. And if he collapses······.”
“Khehe. Just listening to the story is refreshing and fun! Oh my! It’s really a shame that Nobu can’t go to the gambling house!”
It’s a plan that he can never escape death.
***
When Taehwamun’s third son, Jin Dae-seung, arrived at the top floor of a gambling house that only catered to big players, unexpected people were waiting for him.
“Hwa, Miss Hwa-eun?”
“Who are you?”
“Oh, my name is Jin Dae-seung, the third son of Taehwamun.”
“Ah, so you are the true great swordsman of Taehwamun?”
A boy who doesn’t fit in with the gambling world and a direct descendant of the Tang family, Dang Hwa-eun.
The two were gambling at the Tubo table, a dice game that Jin Dae-seung always played whenever he came to the casino.
I heard that they came once a few days ago, but I didn’t know they would be here today too.
“Oh! That’s right!”
“Oh my, Little Dragon, you’re amazing!”
“Haha, is that so?”
The appearance of Dang Hwa-eun, one of the Three Flowers of the Murim, flirting with a young boy.
When he asked the warrior who followed him who the boy was, the warrior whispered quietly.
[I heard that Dokhwa has a fiancé, but I think it might be him.]
[Fiance? A young guy like that?]
[Yes, Your Majesty.]
Jin Dae-seung’s heart swelled with anger at the thought of such a petty brat taking possession of a beautiful woman like Dang Hwa-eun.
Because he has never held such a pretty woman in his arms.
And it seems like it will be impossible in the future.
The only woman Jin Dae-seung can count on one hand is the woman from Song Ga-chon from a few years ago.
However, because he was caught with bloody clothes by his older brother that day, he was forbidden from going out alone outside the house, and the only place he was allowed to enter with the warriors was this gambling house, so now the only women allowed to Jin Daeseung were the prostitutes at the gambling house.
‘Shit.’
Jin Dae-seung sat down, feeling regretful that his older sister, who was rumored to be prettier than him, was not there that day.
However, with Dang Hwa-eun’s arms resting on the table and her expression completely absorbed in the boy sitting next to her, gambling was unlikely to go well.
Since he was more focused on Dang Hwa-eun’s appearance than gambling, there was no way gambling would go well.
That’s why Jin Dae-seung only lost for a moment.
When you lose about half of the money you brought with you and think you need to come to your senses.
The voices of people heard from the side.
“Why are you suing me like this?”
“This rye tagon is really delicious today.”
“It’s much tastier than what the author sells?”
At a table next to a gambling table, where drinks and food were placed, the sight and voices of people enjoying something delicious could be heard.
“Is that tasty?”
“Yes, Your Majesty, please try it. It is strangely rich and delicious.”
I was hungry, and this was a food I didn’t dislike when I was sick.
Jin Dae-seung took a ryeoggon from the plate the warrior handed him and took a big bite.
Then you feel the rich taste.
As people said, the rye-tagon was quite tasty, so I quickly chewed and swallowed one, enamored with its chewy and rich taste, and then took a big bite of the second rye-tagon.
“Ugh… Ugh. Knock. Knock.”
A foreign body sensation in the throat.
A bursting cough.
My hands and feet started to feel numb, and soon I started to feel short of breath.
This is a similar situation to the one I had when I was young, after eating crab by mistake.
“Ugh···. Sa, sa.”
“Oh, Your Majesty! Your Majesty!”
When he collapsed with his legs loosened, the warriors came running, and when they saw him struggling to breathe, they tried to help Jin Dae-seung.
A woman’s voice was heard.
“What’s going on?”
“Oh, the prince has collapsed.”
“Well, I am a member of the family, so I will take a look at it.”
Then, in my blurry vision, the figures of Dang Hwa-eun and the young boy came into view.
If they are from the Tang family, they are also skilled in medicine.
Dang Hwa-eun’s hand touched Jin Dae-seung’s chest as he fell to the floor.
And the words I hear.
“I’ll try to give you some breathing room by adding some history.”
“Yes, go, thank you!”
The story of the warriors thanking Dang Hwa-eun for her help and waiting for relief, but it did not enter their bodies.
Immediately after, instead of the history, a cool sound came into Jeon Dae-seung’s ears.
[Did you think you would live? You are destined to die today by eating a rye bread and rolling around in the dirt like a donkey.]
Jin Dae-seung opened his eyes wide at the sudden, murderous words, but the last thing he heard was one word.
[Songga Village]
“Keep going!”
I don’t know how it happened, but I feel like I know what I’ve done.
Jin Dae-seung, who felt that the party was trying to take his life, struggled with all his might.
I wanted to somehow convey this fact to the nearby warriors.
But the voice of a young boy is heard.
“If a sick person like this struggles, I won’t be able to put in any effort, so everyone, please hold onto the body!”
In the end, the helping hand he had hoped for turned into a restraining hand at the young boy’s words, and after a while, Jin Dae-seung’s vision was completely darkened.
The delicious taste of something lingering in his mouth became his last memory of life.
