episode_0115

The next day came. After seeing Hongryeon, Chaejin, Hyeonhwi, and Chaeryeon heading to the training center, I returned to my room and was organizing what I had seen yesterday and thinking about what to bring.

-smart.

“Please come in.”

“Guest guest. Do you have a moment?”

It was Sayoon. She smiled awkwardly and stuck her head out, and I stood up.

“Okay. What’s going on?”

“Over there. There’s something I’d like to ask you…”

Sayun, who was hesitant, carefully opened her mouth. The story was that since she had time, she wanted to go buy gifts for her sisters-in-law.

Of course, there is an opportunity to tour Cheongho on the last day, but since we all have to go around together then, it may be difficult to see it properly.

“Actually, I was going to train a little more, but my apprentice said that resting is also important… so. If it’s okay with you, I’d like you to come with me. Because the owner of the house will see things better than me. Can I ask you a favor?”

Sayun glanced at me and smiled brightly.

“I’ll buy you lunch today!”

How can I refuse this?

“Haha. I should have gone out one more time to conduct market research. It just so happened that it worked out well. Come with me. I’ll buy you lunch.”

“What? It’s okay!”

“If you save on that, you can increase the cost of buying gifts.”

“Yes, but…”

“Then shall we go now?”

“Yes!”

After leaving with Sayun, I walked down the streets of Cheongho, which I am now quite familiar with.

While Sayun, who was visiting Cheongho’s Market Street for the first time, was looking around with sparkling eyes, I pointed to one side.

It was a place with small trinkets that women would like. Sayun, who had been staring at it, nodded and walked towards it.

“Oh my! welcome! Are you looking for something?”

“I’m looking for something to give as a gift to the monk’s sisters and teacher.”

“What is your budget?”

Sayoon, who was thinking deeply, whispered to the young mistress in a low tone. While she was showing me various things, I was surprised to see something hanging on one wall.

It was a strangely shaped wooden doll painted in red paint.

I picked it up and checked it, and the hostess who was attached to Sayoon approached me, looking puzzled.

“That’s a Howol doll.”

“How much is this?”

“Please give me ten silver coins. A while ago, someone sold it for 10 silver coins… but it looked strange, so it didn’t sell well. ah. They say if you’re lucky, you can get good ingredients.”

“Have you not tried it?”

“Trying my luck with products is not my style.”

I immediately gave her ten silver coins. Meanwhile, Sayun, who has finished watching, approaches.

“Did you buy that?”

“Okay. What about you?”

“Hehe. I’m going to walk around some more.”

I guess there wasn’t anything I liked. The owner seemed a little disappointed, but he smiled and sent us off, perhaps because he was reorganizing his inventory.

“But what is that?”

“It’s called a Howol doll. It’s a doll made in the north…”

“Isn’t the North a place you can’t easily get to? Now that I think about it, Kinoya is from the north…”

“Okay. Items from the North are not easy to obtain.”

That’s why I bought this doll. In fact, the wood, which was the material of this doll, was more important than the doll itself.

I tried scraping off the paint from the doll with a dagger.

Inside the paint, the original color of the wood that made up the doll was revealed to be black with a subtle sheen.

“What is it?”

“It’s called wall construction.”

A jujube tree struck by lightning.

It was one of the ingredients that was easy to obtain in the north where there was a lot of lightning and where there were many jujube trees, but was difficult to obtain in the south.

“Wow. As expected, the guest owner. You have great insight.”

“Haha. What.”

As the owner who sold it said, this was actually a bit of luck.

Even if you disassemble a Howell doll, there are many cases where you only get pieces of wood instead of wall wood.

Anyway, what I got is what I got, so I’ll have to put it to good use later.

“Now. Then shall we go somewhere else?”

We walked around the market streets of Cheongho, and in the end, what Sayoon chose for the people of Hongseongmun was a small decoration. Jewelry made of red gems and yellow thread.

I bought several items, and since I am also a business owner, I was able to negotiate with the owner and reduce the price considerably.

“Phew… I wouldn’t have been able to survive if it wasn’t for the guest.”

Although the quality is a bit low, the price is still a bit high, perhaps because it is made from processed gemstones.

Even after buying this, I still have quite a bit left over.

Is that why? There was a huge smile on Sayoon’s lips.

“I have quite a bit of money left, so I guess I can use it as pocket money.”

I took a quick look earlier and it looked like there were about 30 silver coins left. When I said with a smile, Sayun shook her head.

“I still have to buy Grandma Yohwan’s too… and.”

Gulp. Sayoon said with a nervous expression.

“There is someone else I would like to give a gift to…”

“Haha. okay. Still, it’s late, so let’s eat lunch first.”

I headed to a nearby guest house with Sayun.

When I ordered something to eat there.

Sayoon looked at me for a moment and then asked.

“Guest guest. Do you have any concerns?”

“Concerned? I worry every day.”

There are more than one thing to think about when carrying out a scenario.

So, I had no choice but to always think about them and think about what decision to make.

“This is a story I heard from my teacher. They say Django makes people complicated. How about just being blank sometimes without thinking about anything?”

“Haha. That is very correct.”

“I always hear only good things from the guest. I also wanted to say this.”

I smiled at her smug look and picked up my chopsticks when the food was served.

“Now. So, shall we hurry up and eat and walk around some more? I think Yohwan would be happy if I bought him ingredients for medicinal herb cooking as a gift.”

“Oh. Then I guess I should go to the apothecary.”

I filled my stomach reasonably with the food in front of me. After eating lunch, we left the guesthouse.

I went to the apothecary to buy a gift for Yohwan, and finally headed to the Cheongho area to buy a gift for my ‘uncle.’

There, Sayun chose a gift.

Blue Dragon Award. The sculpture, made in prayer for the dragon said to live in Cheongho, seemed quite valuable even as a simple decoration.

In fact, it is a valuable item even in the Heavenly Moon, and it is an item that increases your power just by holding it.

Even though I spent almost all my money on it, Sayoon seemed quite satisfied, and I nodded.

As the gifts I receive from Sayun are increasing, I need to buy a bigger safe.

“Oh. Guest owner. Would you like to eat that?”

Frozen Cheongho is a place with a lot to see, so there were many places selling snacks for onlookers.

Sayoon said, pointing to a stall selling hot red bean bread, and I smiled and walked with her.

“I will buy it for you.”

“Hehe. I have a few coins left.”

“What if I use it all up?”

“Because I bought everything I needed to buy. Hmm… When I get back, I have to work hard on making sachets and cultivating medicinal herbs!”

It’s nice to see a lively appearance. Using all the coins she had left, she bought two red bean buns.

When I was walking with a warm food to sit and eat at a table near Cheongho.

Sayun and I stopped walking.

That…

“Uh… that monk.”

What caught our eye was an old monk sitting under a large tree. As we walked towards the old monk, wearing his old and worn robes, sitting under a tree and looking at the frozen Cheongho in a daze, we heard.

-Rurrr

The sound of an old monk’s stomach rumbling. After hearing that, Sayun approached the old monk without any hesitation.

“Monk. Monk.”

“…Hmm? haha. You are a young sissy. What’s going on?”

“Over there. I think you’ve lost your hunger. Can I make an offering?”

Sayun bowed politely and offered him a red bean bun.

Sayoon was taken aback when Noseung, who was staring at the hot, steaming and delicious red bean bread that had just been bought, smiled and tried to shake his head.

“It will be bad for your health if you stay here hungry on this cold day. How about eating this and going somewhere warm to warm up?”

“Tree Amitabha Buddha. But that’s the only thing the donor has.”

“I’m full…”

“Also, this is my first time meeting the donor.”

“What does meeting you for the first time have to do with helping you? Someone I know helped others purely. Isn’t it wrong for me to help others when I am receiving help from that person?”

In response to Sayun’s question, Noseung kept his mouth shut. Then, he smiled softly, put his hands together, and bowed his head.

“… This reminds me of what Buddha said: Compassion exists in this world. I don’t know how to thank the donor for sharing what he has.”

When Sayun offered it again, the old monk smiled and accepted the red bean bread. Only after seeing him chewing it did Sayun smile brightly, and after he finished eating, he stood up.

“I received unexpected mercy from an unexpected place and met someone who knew the value of sharing. How could this lackey just leave?”

After saying that, the old monk, Museong, took out a small mirror from his bosom and held it out.

When Sayun, who received it, was puzzled, I approached the old monk and handed him a hand.

“Meet Monk Museong of Shaolin.”

“Hehe. There is no need to be so polite to an ugly person who has not achieved anything. Wooden Amitabha Buddha.”

The silence of Shaolin Temple.

He is in the same rank as the previous head of Shaolin Temple and was the head of the Shaolin Temple’s eighteen Arhats. However, after retirement, he became an old monk who wandered around the world, claiming that Buddha’s mercy lies in the world.

He could be seen here and there in Heavenly Moon, and he would sometimes give you good things when you met him. Giving something to him was one of the events that you had to do if you found it, like the Nodoin event.

I knew it, so I tried to do it, but Sayoon did it without even knowing.

Museong grinned at Sayun, who was holding a mirror and tilting her head.

“I believe that as the donor grows, he will shed great light on the world. That mirror is the key to seeing yourself. It will definitely be helpful to the master who is learning martial arts.”

He quickly packed his bags, said hello to me, and quickly disappeared into the distance.

Sayoon, who was blankly watching him walk away, looked at me with a puzzled expression.

“Uh… I guess that person just happened to be a great person?”

“Amazing. Anyway, he was one of the eighteen Arhats, and he was the one who once defeated Cheonsal, one of the leaders of the Demonic Cult.”

“Wow… but… what is this? The key…”

Sayoon, who was admiring, looked at the mirror that Mooseong gave her and tilted her head. I laughed.

It was a mirror called ‘Heart Sutra’, a precious object that was composed of one’s own image and was the key to entering the secret realm of the event called ‘Mirror Secret Mirror’ where one could face one’s mind. Passing the secret realm allowed one to advance one level in martial arts.

By the way, it’s hard to find because I don’t have many of these, but I got it with a red bean bun that costs a few pennies.

I smiled at Sayoon, who was looking at me with irritated eyes.

I always feel rewarded for my hard work supporting me. really.