episode_0296

Choi Yang-soo, head of the Naknyeong branch of Jangheung Sangbang, was restless and uncomfortable, as if he was sitting on a very thorn cushion, or, to put it in Jungwon style, on a log bed.

Even if news from the central plains is slow, would it be slow even in a neighborhood where upper street manors are concentrated?

Moreover, merchants are basically people who keep their ears wide open and keen to see if there is anything that could make them money.

Still, it’s an opportunity that comes once every ten years or so.

Hasn’t the time come when grain turns into gold?

At this golden opportunity, I heard the news that a serial killer was approaching, defeating the superiors one by one. Naturally, I felt uneasy, and I couldn’t help but feel uneasy in one way or another as I couldn’t sit comfortably.

Still, I did a lot of preparation.

Unlike the small merchants in the land of Naknyeong, the great Jangheung merchant, the best merchant in Shaanxi Province, is a great merchant known throughout the world.

So, unlike other corner stores, the relationship with the government officials was so strong that Naknyeong Hyeonseung decided to personally lead the police and block the gate.

“Branch leader!”

“So, did you go back? That bitch, you’re back!”

“It came into the manor-”

“No! how!? Hyeonseung Nari promised to guard the entrance!?”

“Hyeonseung Daein is still guarding the entrance, but that bitch broke down the wall and came in… … ”

The branch manager’s clothes were blown out.

Breaking down the wall and coming in was really something a band of thieves would do.

No, not even a band of thieves can break down a wall, so they don’t just break through the entrance or climb over the wall, but break in.

“You mean, wait a minute, Master Hyunseung is guarding the entrance? Still?”

“Yes. He said he would continue to guard the entrance as he promised… … ”

The branch manager’s clothes were doubled over.

I asked them to guard the entrance, but they said they were only guarding the entrance even though a group of thieves had broken in.

In any case, since the request was granted, it was an unspoken pressure to pay the bill strictly.

In fact, it is a trick to just watch the thieves who ask you to stop them and proudly charge the price for guarding the entrance, so is it for no reason that the old proverb of merchants not to interact with government officials was passed down?

As the branch leader is pounding his burning heart, a subordinate comforts him.

“But didn’t you gather all of Naknyeong’s disciples? You will not be able to ignore the Naknyeong military officer in Naknyeong land.”

“Branch leader!”

As soon as he finished speaking, another employee rushed in.

As soon as the branch manager saw the employee’s expression, it was as if he heard what was said even without hearing it.

“Ha. Why did the bandits just pass by?”

“That. I think we knew each other originally.”

“What. He’s a military officer from this village. I didn’t have much expectations in the first place. If someone with a little bit of fame stops by, they’ll wag their tails.”

Still, to do business in Naknyeong land, the most effective way was to give gold and silver to the Naknyeong military officer, so in the first place, he only borrowed some of the prestige of the Naknyeong military officer.

Rather, I had a different belief.

“For the elderly?”

“You’re probably facing that bitch right now.”

“Okay. If the elders step forward.”

The elder is truly an expert in flower painting, a world-class expert whose name is widely known throughout the entire Central Plains.

I am no match for such an arrogant, evil, rude and ignorant little girl.

The branch manager’s expression became relaxed.

There is a saying that the central world is universal.

It means one person dealing with 10,000 people, and originally refers to the famous anti-aircraft gunman, the best and unprecedented war machine in the Central Plains.

Xiang Yu was a true god of war who not only excelled in military power, but also reached the ultimate level of strategy and tactics.

They have a serious lack of tact, and they tried to solve everything through war and ended up ruining it.

In any case, I would say that this is a situation where the phrase “universal cognition” comes to mind.

The enthusiasm of the crowd, who had been greatly inspired by the momentum radiated by one absolute master, was extinguished like a candle in the wind.

First of all, Cheong looked closely at Noh Go-su’s face and looked at the numbers that came to mind. He wasn’t a particularly good person, but he couldn’t be said to be a bad person either.

Cheong is naturally kind to people.

Since creatures with high levels of bad karma are not humans in the first place, Cheong has always been kind to humans.

As long as the first impression is not very cheesy, he is one of the few educated people in the Middle Ages who knows how to show basic courtesy.

Cheong folded his hands and bowed.

“Hello. The girl is called Seomuncheong. May I ask the elder’s hamza?”

The old man’s demeanor softened slightly due to his extremely polite attitude.

“Bonno is called Yuradal.”

The sound of breathing in air.

Is he famous? I don’t know… … .

But if you don’t know, there is a way.

Cheong inhaled together and exhaled air at the right time.

“Yura Dal!” “Cheonhaoran!” “Gujeolronin!”

If you don’t know something, you can pretend you know just by shouting its name.

It is considered polite to recognize a famous person, so I don’t know who Cheong is, but I tried to pretend to know him.

I was a bit confused as to whether it was the finale of the climax or something more than Hwa-kyung, but looking at the reaction, I think it was Hwa-kyung.

I don’t know about Cheong, but Yuradal, who is Gujeolnang, is originally a very famous person.

Because of his background rather than his skills, he is a wandering ronin who came from a byeolho.

Cheonhaorang refers to the five people known to be the strongest among the ronin, meaning that even if they are the most powerful among them, they are ranked as the fifth among the wanderers in the central plains.

But Cheong doesn’t know.

All I know is that the old man is a famous expert whose name everyone knows.

At least it was something I had just found out.

And 36 points of bad karma.

For a swordsman, thirty-six would be considered very good, so he is not a bad old man.

That’s why Cheong tried to start a conversation and start talking first.

“Elder, there is a great disaster in the city right now-”

“Stop. Bonno doesn’t know about such things.”

Yuradal, who had achieved the great feat of blocking the jaws of Cheong’s hell without even realizing it, spoke after that.

“As you know, Bonno is a ronin. A ronin is a sword that one has to pay for to use. Does a sword cut a person? Bonno has already received a generous reward, so he is just a sword to be wielded in his hand.”

It was just something an old ronin would say.

It was also a sound full of pride that he could say because he had lived as a ronin for a long time.

“I was asked not to let anyone pass, so Bonno will do that. If you really want to pass by, isn’t this something that needs to be resolved in an unmanned way?”

Then, he grabs the hilt of the sword on his waist and pulls it out, but something continues to drag out without end.

So what poured down on the floor was an iron piece made up of nine iron bars, a device called Gujeolpyeon.

It was also a German weapon that made Yuradal called Gujeolrongin.

Unmanned in an unmanned way.

Of course, you are right.

Cheong asked back in bewilderment.

“Elderly? Haven’t you already passed the realm of flowering? I thought they would usually give up the number of ten or say something like that.”

“Kkk. Was Bonno a Hwa-gyeong from birth? What is the reason to endure disadvantages just because you survived long enough to become old?”

“Yes… … .”

Is it because I’m a ronin?

That’s true, but I also think it’s somewhat cruel.

In fact, if you ask me whether I am confident or not, of course I am confident.

I caught it at the peak, but I guess there’s nothing I can’t catch now at the peak.

Of course, it seems that Hwa-kyung received some kind of teaching at that time and was as hard as a rock, but very slow, or something like that.

Now I can use Ganggi too.

Cheong said, pretending to hold his hand.

“Murim late study, Seo Mun-cheong, a foreign affairs scholar of Shinnyeomun, asks the elder to learn.”

“But, how much hospitality do you have to give in order to have a person of high stature, the size of an elderly person, be your guest?”

A subordinate suddenly asked the branch manager, who was feeling much more comfortable, as if he was curious.

The original temperament of merchants is that they want to be the head of a snake rather than the tail of a dragon.

Rather than working for someone else, I want to become independent and open a small business someday.

Of course, the best situation is to work under someone else and then get eaten by someone else, but wouldn’t it be a situation that doesn’t even work for a huge company like Jangheung Sangbang?

Therefore, when working under someone else, you should learn as much as possible from mutual understanding, so the question was, how much money should you spend to hire a master at Hwa-gyeong?

“If you want to serve a world-famous master, gold and silver are all you need. Why would a coriander, who has gold and silver rolling in wherever he goes, feel sorry for money?”

“Then, what do you think… … ?”

“Keuhum. Human will. phosphorous. In the past, a woman came to us carrying a sick child and boldly said that this child was the blood of Gujeolronin and that if she could make it better, she would receive a great favor.”

“No, do you mean that luck rolled in on its own?”

“But catching the luck that rolls in is an ability. Huh.”

The branch manager noticed this and lowered his voice before continuing.

“A prostitute dressed in rags suddenly comes to me and says that my child is the child of a world-class expert. If you were like me, you would just say yes and give me treatment? Not even a stranger. It means that he was a cheap prostitute that even the gatekeeper recognized.”

“Hmm. Still, how much does treatment cost? If you can save money with that little money, isn’t it a very profitable business?”

“Tsk tsk. You’ve already heard it, so I’ll say it. If a prostitute with a familiar face comes to you and insists that my daughter is actually related to a world-class expert, would you believe her? Are there just one or two scammers coming to the upper level? Are you going to accept it all because it doesn’t cost you a penny? Do you do charity work? Are you not going to do business?”

When a child is sick and there is no way, mothers do not hesitate to deceive others.

Still, all kinds of scammers come to the upper world.

From medicine sellers who are said to have refined good medicine, they say they are here to sell family heirlooms, or that there is a good business opportunity.

What about prospectors who claim they have found a vein of gold and demand money?

Fraudsters who say they have obtained a grocery card but are trying to sell it to them because they are not capable of doing so always visit at least once a month.

“So, the Lord’s wisdom in distinguishing between lies and truth shone through. Or.”

Or, even if it was a lie, they thought they could get it back later because it was the girl who was hurting.

The branch manager swallowed his words.

Anyway, after that, there was a time when Gujeolronin appeared in the market, and he met his daughter, Hosoin.

I don’t know if he had paternal instincts, if he had any other way to find out, or if he just decided to have her as his daughter in his later years, but she took off the label of a petitioner and became a real daughter.

Then Yuradhar said-

‘Bonno was so stupid that he didn’t realize that he had a blood relative, and he was so poor that he almost didn’t realize that he lost him forever to a trivial fever. I received the price of my daughter’s life as an advance payment, so as a ronin, I can only continue to repay it.’

-You said that.

“Oh. It’s a great story.”

“Right? Moreover, it had already been more than five years since he had been sitting in the upper room like that as a diner. Nevertheless, since you say that your daughter’s life is still worth the money, I can only envy the Lord’s merits.”

So the branch manager also relaxed to some extent.

How could he possibly betray the grace that saved his child’s life?

Yuradal paused.

“Wait a minute. The priestess’s gate? How can a disciple of a priestess wander around alone? Isn’t it a mystical sect that, once initiated, completely cuts off ties with the world and never comes down?”

“It is true that the girl only accepted Seomun Surin Dogo as her teacher and did not register her as a teacher at the Shinnyeomun Gate. However, even if that were not the case, if she was a disciple who was able to protect herself, she could get permission to go down the mountain.”

The Shinnyeomun was not a closed sect.

Once you reach the level of a disciple, when you want to go out, you can just ask for permission and go out.

How could it happen that a disciple of the female priest sometimes meets a man and lowers his name?

Since we can’t meet men at Sinnyeobong Peak, a sacred place in Geumnam, we all go out to play and meet each other in the eye, on the mouth, and on the stomach.

Yuradal’s expression became even more determined.

“Wait a minute. just now. Are you Seo-moon’s immediate past student?”

The immediate past disciple refers to a disciple who is accepted by the teacher as a disciple but keeps a distance from the recluse.

Of course, one should not teach the seasons of a monk.

This means that they were successful even though they could not be admitted to the monastery for some reason, so most of the previous disciples were particularly close to their teacher.

Other unique types of disciples include Jeokjeon disciples and Named disciples.

A Jeokjeon disciple is a successor who completely passes on everything to his teacher.

On the contrary, registered disciples are cults.

Only the teacher’s name is lent to the disciple.

You may be wondering what it is, but it was common for Buddhist or Taoist sects to join the Buddhist and Taoist schools by donating, learn only the basic exercises for half a year and a year, and then receive a Taoist name or Buddhist name.

If you’re interested, come and stay at the temple! Since he would have been spitting out Western words, in fact, the form was not even remotely different from that concept.

Anyway, Cheong’s eyes widened when he heard the words Seomun senior.

No, do you have a hunch of connections here?

“Oh. Do you know Master?”

“Keuhum. no. You should have said that first.”

Yuradal said that and swung the sword in a stylish posture, and the long weapon wound up smoothly and was stored in his waist, leaving only the handle.