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# 53
Taejonbirok Volume 3 Episode 3
Chapter 17 – The Sorrow of the Sloth (3)
Wi Yeon-ho quickly wiped the sweat from his face.
Jin Ye-ran came back inside. She looked through the food that was barely eaten and found a chicken leg that had been taken a bite and put down.
“Does the food not suit your taste?”
“Huh? No, that’s… haha, I’m full right now….”
Jin Ye-ran blushed and grabbed the table.
“Please wait a moment, I will bring it out again.”
"yes?"
When Jin Ye-ran approached him without saying a word and tried to take the table away, Wi Yeon-ho unconsciously grabbed the table that Jin Ye-ran was trying to take away.
Come out again!
Judging from the way he speaks, doesn't it sound like he's going to come back with better food?
Wi Yeon-ho put strength into his hands that held the table.
“No, it’s not that I don’t like the food!”
“If I can’t treat my guests properly, my late father will be disappointed. This will make me feel uncomfortable, so please let go of my hand.”
'I'm going to die, you woman!'
Wi Yeon-ho desperately held onto the table.
“No! I’m going to eat! I’m going to eat! I was going to take a short break and then start eating! I’m going to eat! I said I’m going to eat everything!”
Jin Ye-ran looked at Wi Yeon-ho with a slightly suspicious look.
“Are you sure?”
“That’s right! I was going to eat it.”
Jin Ye-ran carefully put the table back down.
Wi Yeon-ho took advantage of the gap and stuffed the chicken and fish on the table into his mouth.
“You’re so stupid.”
Wi Yeon-ho devoured the food on the table without thinking. Once he put it in his mouth, he was so busy swallowing it that he didn’t even notice the taste. He just chewed and swallowed it.
Strangely, it felt like tears were welling up in my eyes.
“Eat slowly. You’ll feel full later.”
'Whose fault is it all!'
Wi Yeon-ho wanted to scream, but he couldn't bring himself to say it out loud, so he just swallowed it inside.
It was a strong opponent.
Of all the strong opponents Wi Yeon-ho had encountered throughout his life, in some ways he was the most difficult person to deal with.
“Then I’ll see you later.”
Wei Yanhao couldn't answer because his mouth was full of food, so he just nodded. As Jin Yeran went out the door, Wei Yanhao swallowed the food and sighed deeply.
“I can’t die because of my name.”
Wi Yeon-ho's eyes turned towards the dining table.
The neatly emptied plates vividly showed Wei Yanho's atrocities. He left his mother's belongings in the battlefield and ate food prepared with borrowed money in such a miserable manner.
“Ugh.”
Wi Yeon-ho's stomach began to flutter.
As I entered the Baekmuhan Cave, the conscience that I thought had separated from my body was poking my stomach.
In the end, Wei Yanhu quietly got up from his seat.
“Okay.”
Then he went out, stumbling around.
As Wei Yanhui went out, he couldn't believe what he was doing.
Thinking back from his childhood, no one had ever made him move on his own. Some people had threatened him, and some had negotiated with him. But now, Jin Ye-ran had made Wei Yan-ho kick the door and come out without asking or threatening him.
If Wi Jeong-han or Baek Mu-han had seen this sight, they would have shed tears and bowed down to Jin Ye-ran to express their gratitude.
“Okay.”
Wi Yeon-ho sighed repeatedly and walked to a corner. Where Wi Yeon-ho went, Jin So-ah was drying herbs.
“Did you say it was a child?”
"yes?"
Jin So-ah was startled by the voice coming from behind her without any warning and turned around. Wi Yeon-ho, with swollen cheeks, was standing there.
“Have you finished eating?”
“Since there’s some left, you eat some too. I ate it cleanly. By the way, how many battlefields are there around here?”
“Why are you looking for a battlefield?”
Wi Yeon-ho let out a deep sigh.
“That’s what happens. Where are you?”
“If you go all the way down there, there is the Galaxy Battlefield. There is only one battlefield around here.”
"thank you."
Wi Yeon-ho sighed deeply and walked towards the battlefield with unsteady steps. Jin So-ah looked at Wi Yeon-ho with suspicious eyes.
Wi Yeon-ho arrived at the Milky Way Battlefield, crawling like a snail. Just as Jin So-ah had said, he soon found a large plaque. Wi Yeon-ho entered a magnificent building that seemed excessively large for a battlefield.
“What brings you here?”
As Wei Yanho entered, the person who had been waiting approached him, clasping both hands together respectfully.
“I came to find something.”
“What kind of object are you talking about?”
“I came to pick up the jade necklace I left at Seongsujang today.”
“Are you from Seongsujang?”
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"yes."
“Please come inside.”
Since it wasn't long before Wei Yanhu arrived and the food was served, Wei Yanhu's guess that it would have been left at the nearest battlefield was correct.
The man guided Wi Yeon-ho into the inner room.
Wi Yeon-ho sighed deeply and followed the man inside. He had no idea what he was doing.
Inside the room, a man who looked like a warm-looking merchant was sitting in front of a large desk. Wi Yeon-ho sat down on the chair in front of the desk.
When the guide whispered a few words into his ear, the merchant nodded vigorously and waved the man away.
widely.
As the door closed, the merchant smiled broadly.
“Nice to meet you. I am Ha Dae-pung, the leader of the Galaxy Battlefield.”
“I came to look for a necklace.”
Hadae-bong shrugged his shoulders as if he was troubled.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t give you that item because it wasn’t sold at the store but was mortgaged and entrusted to you.”
It was a natural thing to say. If you were going to give up all your goods for money, you would sell them, and there would be no need to take out a mortgage. Only when the borrowed money is not returned by the agreed term does the goods become a commodity.
“I came from Seongsujang.”
“I think this is our first meeting?”
“I came today.”
Ha Dae-bong looked at Wi Yeon-ho with sharp eyes and then shook his head.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t give it to you. You or an immediate family member must come to give it to you.”
Wi Yeon-ho nodded.
“Is it okay if my immediate family comes?”
“Yes.”
“Then I’ll bring it. But how much did you borrow?”
“It costs quite a bit.”
Wi Yeon-ho held the pouch in his arms and threw it to Ha Dae-bong. Inside the pouch was the money that Moon Yu-hwan had given him when he left Hanrim University. He didn’t count it, but it must have been quite a lot. It was probably not Moon Yu-hwan but Lee Wang-ya who had given it to him.
“Is that okay?”
Hadae-bong shook his head as if he was troubled.
“It’s not enough.”
Wi Yeon-ho's face hardened. Wi Yeon-ho snatched the purse from Ha Dae-bong and counted the money inside.
“There are more than two nyang worth of silver in it?”
A single nyang of silver could feed a family for several months. It was enough to feed an entire family for a year. Is that not enough?
Did you bring me a lump of gold instead of jade?
“Of course, the amount she took was one nyang of silver.”
“But?”
“In our galaxy battlefield, when you go to collect an item, you are charged three times the amount borrowed. If you don’t collect it within three months, you will have to pay three times the amount again.”
Wi Yeon-ho laughed in vain.
“Three times?”
“Yes.”
“Is it usury?”
“Not at all. It’s just a rule set on the battlefield. If you don’t want it, just sell it.”
A vein appeared on Wei Yanhu's forehead.
That's not wrong, but something kept bothering me.
“So you’re saying that you can’t get it with that money?”
“Unfortunately, that’s true.”
In other words, this meant that Seongsujang, who was worried about running out of rice before entrusting the necklace to him, would never be able to get the necklace back.
There was no way Jin Ye-ran wouldn't know that.
However, when he thought about Jin Ye-ran's feelings of not being able to sell it and having to borrow money while leaving it in the battlefield, Wi Yeon-ho could not give up and back down, saying that he did not have enough money.
In the past, he would have been able to quickly scrape together money by begging, but for the current Wi Yeon-ho, who ate well and slept well at Hanlim University and whose face was covered in oil, it was impossible.
Wi Yeon-ho made up his mind.
“Do you accept items here too?”
“Of course. If you pay me back three times the amount of money I deposited with you. The deadline is three months.”
"is it so?"
Wi Yeon-ho took out the sword in his arms and threw it down on the desk.
“Please lend me the remaining money.”
“This is…….”
“It’s gold, so it’ll be expensive.”
“It is definitely made of gold. Good. For something like this, I will give you one nyang of gold. However, when you pay it back, I will give you three nyang…….”
As he was talking and looking around the small island, Ha Dae-bong's body suddenly trembled as if he had been struck by lightning.
Ha Dae-bong, who should have been happy because he had been offered an expensive item, began to sweat profusely, then kicked the chair away and lay flat on the floor.
“Your Majesty! I don’t know you, and I dared to talk nonsense!”
“What are you talking about?”
Sweat dripped from Ha Dae-bong's face and fell continuously to the floor.
“I, I’m talking nonsense…….”
Hadaebong was completely out of his mind.
If what he had seen was true, he was now in the jaws of a tiger. The bloody jaws of a starving tiger, one that had been starving for a month.
The pattern carved into the small sword clearly meant the Office of the Inspector General. The battlefield was a place where money-related matters were specialized. In order to do such work, you had to know the imperial family and the martial arts world better than anyone else so that you wouldn't get your eyes and nose cut off.
‘Why the Royal Inspectorate… … .’
What kind of place is the Office of the Inspector General? Isn't it a place to catch and punish officials who squeeze the blood of the people, merchants who harass the people, and corrupt people?
If the first target of the Office of the Inspector General was the government office, the second was the Black Sea Breakwater, and the third was the commercial districts like the Galaxy Battlefield.
“What are you talking about?”
But this mysterious guy was still hanging on.
'What should I start with? A necklace made of silver jade that would cost ten nyang and a coin that cost three nyang? Or a loan that would triple the amount borrowed in three months?'
There was too much to take in.
Ha Dae-bong sweated profusely and forced a smile to appear on his lips. However, that smile was no different from a sad face.
“Your Majesty, although the interest I received is a bit high, there are so many people who leave their belongings and never come to collect them, so I had no choice but to compensate for the loss…….”
Wi Yeon-ho tilted his head.
“The interest rate is high?”
“…….”
“Come to think of it, if I were to pay three times in three months, how much would that be? Six percent discount per month?”
Ha Dae-bong waved his hands in fright.
“How could that be! Six percent! Anyone who lends money like that should be cut off! We are definitely not six percent.”
“Three times?”
“Isn’t that when calculated in isolation? We are compound interest!”
"welfare?"
“Yes, that’s right. If you calculate it with compound interest, our interest rate is only four-fifths of a cent!”
“It’s only 4.5 pennies… It’s cheap?”
“Yes!”
When Ha Dae-bong heard that it was cheap, his face brightened. However, as he continued to listen to the story, his bright face began to turn dark and fade.
“If you earn 5 cents a month as compound interest, how much is the annual interest?”
"yes?"
“Do the math.”
Hadae-bong quickly shook his head.
“That’s… not much. Six hundred at most….”
“Huh?”
Wi Yeon-ho smiled faintly.
“Six hundred percent? Not forty percent, six hundred percent? Sixty times?”
Hadaebong's spine went cold. If you look at it that way, this wasn't just a case of extortion, it was almost like extortion. He had to somehow resolve this situation.
“But, Your Majesty, that amount of money…….”
“Six hundred percent? I’ve heard the term six hundred percent in my lifetime. Not six percent, not sixty percent, but six hundred percent?”
“That, but if you think about the price of that item, it’s not that much. That silver jade is worth at least ten nyang of silver, so it’s only worth about sixty-one percent!”
Wi Yeon-ho's eyes sparkled.
“Ten nyangs?”
“…….”
Hadaebong's face was now as pale as a corpse.
"hey."
At Wei Yanho's call, Ha Daebong flinched and shrank back.
"yes!"
“Get up?”
“No, I…….”
“Do you want to get up and get right?”
Hadae-bong jumped up from his spot.
Wi Yeon-ho nodded and tapped Ha Dae-bong on the shoulder.
“Are you sure you can do business well?”
"lol……."
“You lend me ten nyang coins and swallow them, and if someone says they’ll pay you back, you charge them sixty times the interest a year. Wow! This is the level of business you can call it. Right?”
“Hehe, that’s…… sir.”
Phew!
Wi Yeon-ho stretched out his finger and poked Ha Dae-bong's eye.
"oh my!"
Hadaebong rolled on the floor with his eyes closed.
“Are these things trying to eat me up right now?”
He came all the way from Hanlimdaejangwon to Seongsujang, but the doctor was dead and the hospital was going bankrupt. Furthermore, Wi Yeon-ho, who came out of the hospital, had to walk a distance of more than a mile on his own for the first time in his life.
All that anger exploded.
Wi Yeon-ho screamed loudly and ran wild.
“Lock the door! I’m going to finish here today!”
“Oh my, Your Majesty!”
“My lord, you will freeze to death!”
That day, the roof of the Galaxy Battlefield, one of the three major battlefields in Hubei Province, rose into the sky.
Even a lazy person knows that money is precious.