episode_0160

I hurried my steps.

In the process, a few familiar faces passed by, but unfortunately, unlike usual, I didn’t have time to pretend to know them. It was because my head was filled with only one thought.

The inner garden is reached by passing through the entrance of the government office and walking along the gravel-paved road.

This place boasted stricter security than any other place, as it was where the chief minister of Jinan stayed, but no one stopped me.

Is it because my face is so stiff right now?

That was why I held the paper door in front of me and rubbed my face with my palm a couple of times. Of course, I didn’t know that even if I washed my face repeatedly like that, the strength in my chin would be relieved.

Is it because it has the power to not fall out even if you try to pull it out? Despite the fact that we had advanced so far without hesitation, we did not give up easily.

So I hesitated a bit… but maybe he noticed my shadow glimmering through the paper taped to the door.

“Are you going to keep doing that outside?”

“···.”

“Because of you, the congressman is nervous and can’t do his job.”

JoJo’s voice came from beyond the door. His voice was a little weaker than usual.

Nevertheless, the reason I first breathed a sigh of relief was because of the fact that I heard a voice.

I was literally heartbroken when I heard that Jojo had fallen from a horse during an inspection, but looking at his voice, it looks like his condition isn’t that bad.

‘Well, he’s also learned Uicheonmu in his own way.’

Jo-in, who is normally suspiciously afraid of Jo-jo but becomes merciless when it comes time for training, said, ‘This is a level where you won’t get beaten up anywhere,’ so even if he fell from a horse, he wouldn’t have fallen helplessly like ordinary people. .

Thinking, no, I was certain that it must have been so, I pushed the door aside.

And it was scary to do so.

I saw Jojo sitting on the bed with a piece of cloth the size of my palm attached to his cheek, perhaps after falling from a horse.

As I felt the emotions that I had managed to calm down at the sight of me start to well up again, the overall appearance finally came into view.

Now I see that the wound on my cheek wasn’t even a wound.

Because there was one place that looked truly serious.

Did it break?

Jojo’s right arm and right ring finger were each covered with splints of different sizes. And a person who appeared to be a member of the National Assembly was preparing to wrap cloth over it.

The congressman who was sitting in front of JoJo, as if he was nervous about my sudden appearance through the door, began to look sideways at me.

It was after receiving a signal from Jojo that she did not need to worry that she started moving her hands again.

“Then, Soin, I will leave now.”

And as soon as the lawmaker, who had done his duty, stepped back and left the bedroom…

“So, what happened?”

asked Jo Jo.

The gaze itself was clearly directed towards the bed where Jojo was sitting… but that didn’t mean he was only asking Jojo.

Because what just came out of my mouth was targeted by someone other than JoJo.

Join, who was standing slightly away from the bed with a sad face, also had the same goal as me.

As someone who has a particularly good sense for these things, did he sense my intention right away? As soon as he asked the question, Jo-in’s round shoulders, which had been slightly lower than usual, flinched significantly. But then the shadows became even darker on my already dark face.

Whenever something happened, Jo Jo would catch Jo In like a rat, and Jo Jo looked at me and said, as if he felt sorry for his depressed cousin.

“This incident was just an accident. So don’t say anything to Jahyo (Join’s son).”

“I guess so.”

I didn’t mean to be sarcastic.

Rather than saying that with that intention… it was closer to sincerity.

What was the reason we decided to put the seal next to Jojo in the first place?

This was because he was confident that as long as Cao Ren was next to Cao Cao, the Jinan Cartel would not be able to touch Cao Cao’s finger no matter what they did.

In other words, a wailing wall that is not only alive but even moving has been placed next to Jojo, so who would dare break through it? In order to break through Jo-in’s defense, someone with at least the same level of skill as Jo-in, that is, what people commonly call S-class, would have to take the mound.

And what if someone with that level of skill came here to Jinan?

There was no way we wouldn’t have noticed that fact.

Honestly, this was inevitable because one of the things I did every morning and evening was to check with the soldiers to see if anyone with unusual hair color or eyes was introduced.

‘Well, there’s no way a weapon with an ability similar to Joe’s would be common in the first place.’

Anyway, for that reason, Jo Jo’s security was entrusted to Jo In, and in the case of me, Sister Hahoo, and Hee Ji-jae, we focused on carrying out Jo Jo’s orders… I never thought something like this would happen.

It was a situation no one expected, so it had to be checked.

What happened?

So I tried to keep my expression as detached as possible, but maybe I could sense from my expression that I wasn’t going to move on until he told me. Jojo let out a soft sigh and began to unravel, or rather explain, the story.

“Just… I don’t know what surprised Jeolyoung, but she suddenly started running wild.”

“Jeolyoung?”

Jeolyeong was the name of the horse that Jojo rode.

I told you the other day that while I was visiting a horse market on the outskirts of Luoyang, I saw a boy who refused to eat and chose to die on his own. I was strangely struck by it, so I brought him to the mansion and took care of him personally until he opened his heart… Maybe that’s why. I don’t know, but he was a guy who was as harsh as sandpaper to other people, but was especially friendly to Jojo.

‘It’s a mare, by the way.’

Anyway, if you only put Jojo on his back, the guy who was so docile as a spring breeze, which doesn’t suit his size, suddenly ran wild…?

“Yes, so stop rushing to get off…”

Jojo explained that because he was in a hurry, he landed incorrectly and badly sprained his finger and arm.

‘Luckily, I guess it wasn’t broken…’

If it is a sprain, it will return to its original state within a few weeks at most.

“Then what about the cheek?”

“Oh, this? It looked like something that looked like a flying stone had grazed her cheek while Jeolyoung was running wild.”

“That means he wasn’t seriously injured either.”

“Why? Are you worried that there will be a scar on my face?”

I thought someone’s heart was really falling, but they just grinned without knowing how fast people were…

“Who is the stable keeper who took care of Jeolyeong? Have you ever been interrogated?”

“In that case, I did it myself. ···There was no particular income.”

Indeed, is that why this incident was called an accident?

Still, the reason why doubt never leaves my mind is probably because of what happened in the past.

In the first place, those belonging to the Jinan Cartel did not welcome Jo Jo’s appointment.

Originally, they changed their attitude like flipping the palm of their hand after realizing that Jojo was not an easy person, unlike the previous superiors they had dealt with so far.

What’s the point of being connected to those Sipsangsi guys? Jojo’s grandfather is the person who makes even those Sipsangsi guys not dare to mess with him and chooses compromise.

For that reason, the cartels controlling the Jinan area tried to appease Cao Cao by using all possible methods.

Not only did they offer all kinds of valuable things as gifts to celebrate their new appointment, but they even held a banquet with their own money and tried to attract not only handsome men, but also beautiful women.

It might be a sad story for the cartel guys, but Jojo didn’t pay attention to all of that.

And in that situation, when Cao Cao’s plan to rebuild Jinan began… like the Jinan people who were suspiciously sincere about ancestral rites, they began to subtly pressure Cao Cao instead of appeasing them.

‘At first, it was a threat that nothing would be good for either of us if we continued like this.’

Our side ignored even that, so they ended up showing off their skills as if they were in a bad situation.

The first thing the cartel mobilized were assassins.

It may be obvious, but those who were mobilized in that way could not even touch Jojo’s body.

It was because everything was blocked by the wall called Join.

Thanks to this, the number of people executed near the government office increased day by day, and the cartel members seemed to think that there would be no answer to this, so they made threats through more shady methods.

‘Poison’.

Of course, they didn’t all go beyond join.

Anyway, this wasn’t the first time I’d done that, so even after hearing Jojo’s words, I couldn’t calm my doubts…

“Are you that worried about me?”

“What…?”

“If you were that worried, why would you personally protect me for a while?”

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At the very moment when Soo-hyeon was shocked and confused by Jo Jo’s sudden and sudden action, a very secret meeting was taking place somewhere in Jinan.

“What happened?”

“It is said that they succeeded in knocking the target off the horse.”

“Finally…!”

“But…”

“Just?”

“He said it didn’t look like he was seriously injured.”

Was it something that wasn’t very welcome?

Clicking tongues erupted from all over the place.

“I was sure of success this time, but I failed again…”

“That’s right. Nothing more, nothing less, just enough to get someone to step down from office, so why is that so difficult…”

It must have been a moment when everyone was saddened by the failure they had experienced once again.

“Now that it has come to this… How about changing your approach?”