Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 242

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That evening.

After finishing my meal, I was lying in my room, lost in thought about why there was no picture of the Golden Crown Prince.

‘Why on earth was that the only thing missing?’

‘What is it, Little Dragon?’

‘Gyaaaah!’

‘Cow, little dragon?’

While I was lost in my own thoughts, I suddenly heard Hwa-eun ask me a question.

I got up in surprise and checked my surroundings, but as expected, Hwa-eun was not around me.

Because it is not a sound heard with the ears, but a sound transmitted to the heart.

I’ve gotten used to sending my heart to the kids, but I still haven’t gotten used to sending and receiving my heart to Hwa-eun.

So sometimes I make mistakes, but it’s clear that I said I was thinking about it alone but sent my feelings to Hwa-eun.

‘Oh, no. That’s···.’

The reason I was surprised, no, the reason I accidentally sent the wrong message to Hwa-eun in the middle of the night, was when I heard a knock on the door.

-dripping.

‘Could it be that you were coming to find me? No, we were stuck together all day?’

“Is it Hwa-eun?”

I thought it might be Hwa-eun who was coming to visit, so I went outside to check who it was, and contrary to my expectations, I heard Seol’s voice.

“It’s not Hwa-eun. It’s me? Ryong-ah, you’re not sleeping, are you?

“Oh, you’re Sister Seol? Oh, no. Sister Seol.”

“Then let’s go in.”

“Yes, Sister Seol.”

As I sat up from the rags, my sister opened the door to my dark room and came inside.

Because of the children, the lanterns are not placed inside, so the place is dark.

Sister Seol, who had come inside, came over to the rags near me and lay down diagonally as she spoke.

“I just couldn’t sleep so I came out to play.”

“Oh, I see.”

It was a very familiar sight until I entered the room and sat down roughly on the rags.

This was because it was quite frequent for my older sister to visit my residence like this.

Because Sister Seol is always bored.

Thinking that he was just bored, I was about to lay down again after putting Bin-i down when my heart started to pound involuntarily at the sound of someone’s voice.

Oh my, I forgot about Hwa-eun for a moment while I was bringing my sister Seol into the residence.

‘Little dragon? Little dragon? Why did you stop talking?’

‘Oh, I’m sorry. Sister Seol couldn’t sleep and came over to visit.’

I quickly answered Hwa-eun’s question.

If you’re late, you’ll get scolded again for being late.

‘Oh, really? Then, I want to go too!’

‘No, we were together all day today···.’

“yes?”

‘Oh, no. Come quickly. I’ll be waiting.’

Damn, I can’t distinguish between my thoughts and my feelings for Hwa-eun.

When I was feeling a sense of crisis that something really big was going to happen, I heard Seol’s sister calling me from next to me.

“Dragon?”

“Oh, yes, Sister Seo, Seol.”

“Are your feet okay?”

“yes?”

“I mean, your feet. Your feet. When you were down, I kept applying ointment to them, but how much has it healed?”

“aha.”

When I showed her the soles of my feet in the dark, Sister Seol’s eyes sparkled and scanned my wounds.

And after a while, Sister Seol, who had checked my wounds, nodded and said.

“It looks like it’ll stick well. It’s not completely stuck yet, so I’ll have to be careful for the time being.”

“Yes, Sister Seol.”

As Sister Seol said, the wound on his foot is almost healed.

Now only a red mark remained, but even so, it had only been about ten days, so if I was not careful, the wound could have opened again.

“By the way, the family home is so quiet, maybe because most people are out searching.”

Sister Seol brought up the search story as soon as she noticed the wound on my foot.

Since I came back from Hwa-eun’s thoughts and didn’t hear the story, I decided to ask Seol-nu for an explanation.

“Oh, by the way, I didn’t hear that story. Can you tell me how you decided to search?”

“Yeah. I understand. So, you’re falling into a fantasy with Hwa-eun······.”

According to Sister Seol, in the ten days that Hwa-eun and I were lying down, the guests had already led their own sects and secretly set out to search for their targets.

“Secretly?”

“Yeah. Ji-ryong said that we are trying to fool them just as they tried to fool us.”

He said that several small and medium-sized factions in Sacheon Seongdo disguised their disciples as nuns from the Ami faction or martial artists from the Cheongseong faction and headed to Inhoe where the Hogwonmun was located, and that the real search party centered around Cheongseong and Ami secretly headed to the east of Sacheon under the cover of darkness.

Cheongseong gathered the martial artists from northern Sichuan to form the border between Sichuan and Shaanxi, while Amiga led the martial artists from southern Sichuan to form the border between Sichuan and Junggyeong.

Since Dangga and Hwa-eun were lying down, my father-in-law and grandfather did not personally go out, but the elders of the family took the warriors and participated in the search.

The party decided to split the budget in half and support both sides, explained Sul Nui.

“Oh, so it looks like everyone’s eyes are focused on the Ho-kwon-mun Gate?”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

“By the way, if it’s not a blood sect, and there are Odokmun guys behind you, you have to be especially careful···.”

It was a good operation, but on the other hand, I was a bit worried.

The Blood Cult guys have bleeding toxins and coagulants, so they can be dealt with fairly easily, but the tricky part is the poison gate.

Those guys not only have a monster hunter, but they can also create artificially poisonous spirits.

It wouldn’t be strange if something popped out while searching.

“Don’t worry, Yong-ah. Ji-ryong said it was fortunate that he found out that there were Odokmun guys behind the Blood Cult before departure.

That’s why I divided the Tang family’s warriors in half. Furthermore, since I received support from the masters of the Eumgong from the Wolyeonggung (月影宮), the Eumbong sect, you don’t have to worry too much.”

“Oh, so that’s why our family was divided in two?”

“Yeah. I split it in half to prevent overwork, poison, or anything like that from coming out.”

The story goes that the Tang family’s warriors have finished preparing for the mysterious man.

Then, as I was thinking that I was relieved, I heard Hwa-eun’s voice coming from outside.

“Little Dragon, I’m here.”

“Come in, Hwa-eun.”

Hwa-eun, who ended up coming.

He called Hwa-eun into the room, thinking that it might be better to just get married and be with her 24 hours a day.

-Squeak.

The door to the residence opens and Hwa-eun steps inside.

Hwa-eun seemed well prepared, as she was wearing light clothing and covered with a blanket.

“Sister!”

Hwa-eun was delighted to find Seol-nu in the darkness, but unlike Hwa-eun’s delight, Seol-nu said something that sounded a bit absurd.

“Hwa-eun came too? She was stuck there all day?”

‘That’s what I’m saying. Sister Seol!’

The story of Seol Noo-ni continues in the dark, secretly nodding my head at Seol Noo-ni’s comment that makes my heart feel so cool.

“Just tell your family elders and ask them to hold the wedding ceremony first, even if it is late.”

“Hey! Sister!”

“Seo, Seol, sister!”

Hwa-eun and I were shocked by Seol’s words that if it was going to be like this, we should just live together.

The meanings are a bit different though.

It would be embarrassing for Hwa-eun, and I had the same thoughts as Seol-niu a little while ago, but it felt a little different when I attempted suicide and when someone else attempted to commit murder.

Seol’s sister’s bold and fastball continues.

“No, if you want to stick together all day, you should get married quickly. If you keep doing this, you’ll really have a nephew.”

“Hey, sis!”

‘No, being stuck together 24 hours a day, maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing?’

When I thought about Seol’s words for a moment and thought that married life where you are together 24 hours a day might not be such a bad thing, Hwa-eun suddenly waved her hand and changed the subject to something else.

“Oh, that, that’s right. Little Dragon. What was missing earlier?”

“Are you missing?”

“That’s what Soryong sent me earlier. He said, ‘Why on earth was that the only thing missing?’”

“Oh, that.”

“What is it, Little Dragon? What are you talking about?”

I was a little sad that the story was cut off, but since Seol-niu was also curious, I leaned over to Bin-i and explained what I was thinking.

“Actually, I was thinking about that because I couldn’t understand why there was no picture of the King of Geumgwansa in the Cheonha Dokmul Birok.”

“Is that a problem that you can understand or not? Could it be that you just missed it?”

But as soon as he brought it up, Hwa-eun made a face that said she didn’t understand.

Seol and I answered Hwa-eun’s question almost simultaneously.

“That’s not it. Hwa-eun.”

“That’s not it, Hwa-eun.”

“Huh? You’re saying no?”

Hwa-eun tilted her head at Seol and I’s reactions.

This might still be a difficult point for Hwa-eun to understand.

However, since it was a problem that those like Seol and I who had achieved something could naturally sympathize with, Seol explained it to Hwa-eun in a very affectionate voice.

It seemed like he was trying to explain it at the level of the general public.

“Well, Hwa-eun might not understand, but let’s say there are ten beasts among the beasts. If you write them down in a book, what if one of them is missing? That’s because they can’t sleep. No, they can’t close their eyes even after they die.”

“Of course. Of course. As expected, you are Seol’s sister.”

I nodded my head at the perfect explanation, then looked at Hwa-eun. I saw her blinking her eyes without hesitation, as if she still didn’t understand.

“Ah, is this still not an explanation?”

Sister Seol looked at me with a frustrated expression.

I’m telling you to explain it instead because it’s frustrating.

Certainly, Sister Seol’s explanation was a bit difficult, so I decided to explain it again.

“What do people like me and Seol enjoy raising animals or poisonous things like that? When you raise poisonous animals or poisonous things, you start to develop a kind of inner goal, something like that?”

“Goal?”

“Yes, all poisonous beasts are precious, but I need to collect these in various colors. I need to raise them and increase the number of offspring, things like that.”

“That’s right. As expected, Soryong knows better.”

Seol-nu agreed with my explanation, but Hwa-eun blinked as if she still didn’t understand.

I tried to explain the concept in a way that the general public could understand, but it still felt difficult.

Hwa-eun asked why it had to be like that.

“Why, why are you doing that?”

I wanted to explain more, but from here on out it was a matter of virtue, so the explanation was vague.

“Well? It’s hard to explain, but it happens as you raise them.”

“That’s right. It’s hard to explain in words, but that’s how it is. I also raise three types of wolves: black, white, and brown.”

“Oh, I see?”

“Yes, anyway, that’s why I don’t understand why that was the only thing missing from the book. If I hadn’t filled this in, I wouldn’t have been able to close my eyes easily even after I died.”

“It’s definitely weird.”

Seol-nu, who was listening to me, held her chin and thought deeply about something. Then, as if something had just occurred to her, she turned to Hwa-eun and asked.

“Oh, that’s right! Hwaeun-ah, aren’t there any records or anything like that left by the previous heads of the family? If you look at the records of the head of the family at the time or the records of the family’s major and minor events that remain, there might be records of the person who wrote the Cheonha Dokmul Bi-rok. There are some in our Beast Palace.”

Then Hwa-eun clapped her hands and shouted.

“Oh, there is. Something like that!”

“Oh, is there something like that?”

“Yes. The diary of the head of the household. There might be something written there. The old records were almost completely destroyed in a fire. It would be worth looking into.”

When I heard that there was a family diary written by the heads of the household, my sister Seol and I jumped up from our seats and shouted.

“Let’s go!”

“Let’s go!”

“Right, right now?”

“Of course. I can’t sleep if I don’t check this.”

“Then. I told you that I won’t be able to sleep if I don’t check this?”

Hwa-eun sighed as she looked at me and Seol-nu, and led us to the library of the Dang family in the middle of the night. As we entered the library in the darkness, a musty smell greeted us.

“But can I see it too?”

“It’s an old record, so it doesn’t matter, Sister. It doesn’t have anything to do with martial arts. Oh, here. The person who wrote the Cheonha Dokmul Bi-rok was definitely the youngest son of the third generation head of the Tang family, Tang Mun-ryong, Tang Hwa-seong. Where is the third generation? Oh, it’s here···.”

“hmm···.”

“Eh… It’s only one volume?”

It was said that it was destroyed by fire once, and only one volume of records of the three generations of the family remained.

There was only one volume left, and even that had quite a bit of burn marks on it, and it was so old that it looked like it could fall apart if I was not careful.

“I can’t touch this?”

As I spoke in an embarrassed voice at the old appearance, Hwa-eun took out a new book from under the burnt one and said.

“This is a newly copied copy, so let’s take a look at it together and check it out.”

“Oh.”

For a long time, leaning against the light of the lantern in the darkness.

Near the end, a line that seemed to be written by the three heads of the family caught my eye.

“Yesterday, Mars let it go from the party, but today Mars disappeared too.”