episode_0047

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Yaaa

“Oh my~ Our gold~”

The black cat quickly found the real blue snow cat. Well, if you can find it in this big Sichuan province in half a day, you will have found it quickly.

The rumored Cheongseolmyo was smaller than expected.

It was a little over 1 meter tall, so it was almost the size of a large dog, but it was a little too small to be called a tiger.

Today’s client, Kang Chi-san, who loses his snow cat more than four times a year, ran out when he saw a black cat coming into the house with his blue snow cat.

“Teacher! How can you treat our little girl so well! I’d like to be taught my tricks!”

“Hmm… I heard that blue snow cats often run away from home. Is it possible that they are harassing the snow cat?”

“This is a very unfair statement! We’re doing our best for our little ones!”

As mentioned earlier, requests for Cheongseolmyo are requests that come in periodically. Has it been about two years? Originally, a group of four ronin called the Blue Snow Cat Catching Team would catch them professionally, but their strength became so strong that they broke the catching frame. Is this the last time? I know it hasn’t been done since the last time.

“I have seen many people tied up or locked in cages, but I have never seen anyone help them get back on their feet like you did! Please teach me!”

“Hmm. True eyes. You can see the true attitude of a cat lover!”

I just wanted to quickly go back and rest, but in fact, since the black cat had to complete this quest all by itself, I had no choice but to follow the black cat, who was giving out great tips for raising cats.

“Hmm! The items all appear to be valuable, but I don’t think the servants would let the cat scratch them. Please stack logs in one corner of the yard so you can sharpen your toenails.”

“Where does the cat defecate? Please prepare a space by spreading fine sand in one corner of the yard.”

“What is this? Kumquat scent? Peppermint flavor? Clean everything up.”

Meow.

This guy rubs his face against the black cat’s body, as if he really likes the black cat’s intellectual temperament. Like a precious spirit creature, its fur was shiny and shiny, and even though I’m not particularly attracted to cats, I wanted to touch it at least once.

“Thank you so much, teacher.”

After Cheongseolmyo’s position was reorganized under the leadership of the black cat, as if there was really something in common, Cheongseolmyo settled down with a satisfied expression.

“Ah~ I feel good.”

“Um.”

A fat pocket given by Kang Chi-san. When I opened it, it seemed to be roughly 5 times the amount of this request.

In fact, the black cat’s actions are tantamount to cutting off a large source of funds in the future. If you had kept your mouth shut, the blue cat would have continued to run away from home, and every time the black cat would come out and bring it back.

“Senior, you don’t think you’ve wasted the opportunity to make the request to bring the Blue Snow Cat every time, right?”

“No? any? Any thoughts? I didn’t?”

“The way he speaks is completely strange. It’s not a request that can be used for that long in the first place. If it grows just a year or two longer, it will be almost the size of a human, but at that size it can no longer hide in Sichuan Province. If I had run away a few more times, I would have crossed Sichuan Province and returned to the wild.”

“Hmm…”

“I heard that he often runs away from home, so I thought he was just a spirit animal and kept for decoration, but surprisingly, he turned out to be a good-natured person, so I took a look at him.”

I was curious about what he would have done if he hadn’t noticed, but I didn’t want to upset the mood of the black cat who seemed to be smiling for no reason, so I didn’t say it out loud.

“It seems like I have experienced basic requests once in a while.”

“Hmm. is that so. Elimination of blackness. attack. Delivery of Bimucheop. Delivery of a cat that ran away from home… Didn’t you miss out on your application?”

“That is impossible because you are already rumored to be a top expert.”

Roughly speaking, if they are of the same rank, when they dance together, the clan will fall apart. Would it be a blow if the peak was defeated by the peak? Even if it’s an extreme climax that involves dancing, you’ll get criticized.

“So…”

I carefully looked at the black cat for signs, but pretended that it was no big deal.

“Do you have any plans to increase your income?”

“Non-profit?”

It’s just my expectation, but black cats are quite expensive. First of all, the cotton yarn woven from the beard of the Imoogi is a very expensive item, and this is especially true in that there is little concern about the profit from the request.

The amount of money earned by Sichuan ronin is quite high.

A cilantro is a cilantro, and making money is making money. With an amount like this, one would be greedy enough to sleep on it, but it is impossible for anyone to not raise any complaints about this distribution, unless they are rich.

“Hmm…let’s hear what it is.”

“There is a secret village whose traces I know.”

“Senior is like that?”

“When you work as a professional, you are bound to come across all kinds of information.”

At my current level, I wouldn’t be able to eat it even if I knew it, but with the black cat, it’s possible. Reliable ronins lack martial arts skills. However, you never know what might happen if you take a few peak ronin with you.

“It’s non-dong…are you sure?”

“Don’t worry, we’ve checked the entrance to Bi-dong.”

And it is also the final verification of the black cat.

There is nothing more certain in this world than material things.

If I were to say that the person I have built the most trust in while living as Hocheonan… would it be Yeo Jin-sang or Jeong-sam? However, if you take those two to Bidong and see Gijin Ibo right in front of you, I’m not sure if he’s someone you can really trust and have your back on.

It is an unknown matter whether the black cat really did something to me or not.

However, if you look at the attitude of the black cat so far and the actions it will take in front of Kijin Ibo, you will be able to see how much it can be trusted.

“How far is it from Sichuan Province?”

“Would it take about 3 to 4 days to walk?”

“Good! It was already frustrating these days because I was wearing only dark clothes and black lips. Let’s go out~”

The black cat nodded happily, ignoring my nervousness.

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“Going out? Two of us?”

Yoo Yu-yeon looked back and forth between me and the black cat, then pulled my ear.

“Are you guys dating?”

“Is this Gaekju crazy?”

“…Ho Cheon-an, isn’t that something for you to be angry about? If you want to meet a woman like a black cat, bowing a million times won’t be enough.”

It was sad that I couldn’t refute it because it was so true.

“Well, okay. Even so, it was noisy because of Da Jeo-yong, the famous singer at Gyeongyang Restaurant. The members of the Sun Club are fuming and saying they will find the ronin who insulted Dajeoyong, and you say this is what you did too?”

“What is Taeyanghoe?”

Yoo Yu-yeon wordlessly placed her hand on her forehead and gently pushed it to the top of her head.

Well, that means it’s a tight group.

“You can’t look down on the Taeyanghoe. From a master of Yeolyang Qigong to a high-ranking official’s masterpiece. There are members not only in Sacheon but also everywhere in the nine states. It’s especially scary because not all of its members have been revealed.”

“Any member of the Sun Society would be able to recognize him from 10 miles away…?”

“Wig.”

“Ah.”

Right. There must be countless people in this world who are members of the Sunshine Society who live their lives as if they are not tight-lipped, even though they are tight-fisted. I may have touched a group that I could not handle.

It was surprising that I didn’t know about such a large group, but since there was no option in the game to make fun of bald people in the martial arts world, I thought I might not have known.

But now that I think about it, the one who made fun of the bald head was a black cat, so it has nothing to do with me, right?

Well, if it were a black cat, it would easily defeat it even if attacked. At least in Sichuan Province, there is no extreme extreme.

“So, what I’m saying is, when you go out, don’t say “lululala” but change your clothes and leave quietly. Black cats stand out in many ways.”

“Yes. Thank you for the advice.”

“If you want to cause an accident, do it outside in a place that has nothing to do with you and come back, okay?”

Anyone who sees this will think that I am a person who always causes accidents. After being quiet for 7 years, it’s too much to say that a few things have made a fuss these days.

After reporting to Yoo Yu-yeon that he was going out, he left the guesthouse at dawn.

“If you pull out the string here and then fold it like this… the black lip will fold perfectly like a bamboo stick.”

“Hmm, I see.”

The black cat covered its eyes with its bangs. Judging by the fact that the eyes cannot be seen through the hair, it appears that only that part is using black spirit qigong.

It’s not that I wasn’t curious about the black cat’s face. Isn’t there a saying that curiosity kills the cat? I didn’t want to risk finding out, so I left Sichuan Province in moderation.

“Mmm. Several days have passed and it is peaceful without a single bandit in sight.”

In the world of martial arts, if you appear in martial arts with a beautiful woman like this.

[Hehehe!! This body of a mountain lake girl appears!]

[Kkiyoot! You! We will make you pretty so leave the pretty girl next to you behind! Woohyooh clothes!]

It would have been normal for bandits to show up saying bad things like that, but this was Sacheon. Sacheon is full of twisted factions that are thirsty for cooperation and have run out of Sapaga clans.

As soon as a rumor spreads that a penny of money has been stolen by bandits in Sichuan Province, the masters of each faction rush out to capture the person, then tour the entire province and announce that they have caught the bandit.

It is a truly pristine area within a few days’ walk from Sichuan Province.

Black Cat and I arrived in front of Bidong without any interruption.

Bidong!

In martial arts, there are a lot of strange things, and most of them are lumped together with one word, but in the world of martial arts, the strange things are divided into several categories.

One of them is Bidong.

The biggest feature of Bidong is its machinery and testing. And the biggest appeal is that the rewards are processed in an easy-to-use form.

For example, let’s say I met Cheonnyeon Imugi, who supplied the main material for the cotton thread that Heukmyo is currently using. After going through a truly intense struggle and countless hardships, he managed to defeat the Cheonnyeon Imugi. But what are all these ingrown beards given by the Millennium Dragon? It’s material.

Materials have to be processed to be used. If the finished product is produced after processing, the value will skyrocket, but other materials needed for processing must be obtained, or a craftsman must be obtained… The products required to turn the materials into a finished product are not common.

Also, how did you happen to get martial arts? Is this a martial art that I can’t learn right now? I am currently learning Kwaedo, and the martial arts I have acquired is Mangum.

Even if you meet a talented person, this kind of thing is not uncommon.

But Bidong is different.

Since the ability to learn martial arts is judged through the tests and traps of Bidong, if you break through Bidong, you can most likely learn the martial arts within it. Even if what is inside is an elixir or a magical treasure, it is prepared by a person, so it is in a form that can be used immediately without any further processing.

I can say that Bidong is the most suitable opportunity for me now that I have to obtain materials and have no means to process them.

“Let’s go in.”