Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Chapter 3

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Taejonbirok Volume 1 Episode 3

Chapter 1 – The World's Laziest (2)

Wi Jeong-han's face suddenly distorted at the sound of a voice coming from somewhere. On the contrary, Wi Yeon-ho's face suddenly brightened.

"mom!"

Han Sang-ah.

She, Wi Jeong-han's wife and Wi Yeon-ho's mother, was approaching them.

Wi Yeon-ho looked at Wi Jeong-han's expression.

On the surface, it looks like he's watching Wei Jeong-han's expression, but in reality, he's not watching Wei Jeong-han's expression, but rather explaining the situation to Han Sang-ah.

Nod.

Han Sang-ah nods after realizing Wi Yeon-ho's intentions.

She looked at Wijeonghan, clicking her tongue.

“That’s a good thing.”

“Ahem.”

Wi Jeong-han coughed loudly with a trembling face.

“What are you doing here at this hour of the night, making a lot of noise in the neighborhood, in broad daylight?”

“How can there be day and night in the education of children?”

“There is a day and a night for making a fuss.”

Wi Jeong-han became a mute who had eaten honey.

“Yeonho.”

"huh!"

“It’s late today, so you should go in now.”

"huh!"

As Wi Yeon-ho was about to head to his room in a cheerful mood, Wi Jeong-han glared at him with eyes that seemed to want to kill him.

Then, Wei Yanhu was so shocked that he stuck his neck out and stopped in his tracks.

“One ivory!”

As Wi Jeong-han's voice grew louder, Han Sang-ah's eyes narrowed.

“There is a time for learning. If you continue to scold a lazy child all night, what will happen tomorrow? If you really want to discipline that child, you should discipline him early tomorrow morning.”

"but……."

“Am I wrong?”

"no."

'I really had to fix that damn hair today!'

Wi Jeong-han glared at Wi Yeon-ho and shouted.

“That’s all for today. But don’t think this is the end! Tomorrow! If you haven’t been practicing by the time I return from my trip tomorrow, I’ll really fix your arrogant self! Do you understand?”

“When are you coming?”

“What are you going to do about it?”

“Then I can make a plan too……”

When Wi Jeong-han picked up the reed that had fallen on the floor, Wi Yeon-ho cut him off and spoke awkwardly.

“I don’t think there’s any need to be particularly curious. Let’s do that.”

“Okay.”

Wi Jeong-han grabbed his forehead.

the next day.

Wi Jeong-han walked quickly towards the main gate.

The sun was already slowly setting beyond the western mountains.

I was on my way back from attending the 60th birthday party of a close friend.

But Wi Jeong-han's mind was filled only with thoughts about Wi Yeon-ho.

'I'm going to practice today! No matter how lazy I am!'

Wi Jeong-han thought so, but on the other hand, he also acknowledged the reality that it was a foolish expectation.

He is his child.

The son he knew was the greatest in the world at crushing people's expectations and the greatest in the world at being lazy.

'But I bet he'll at least pretend to do something. Or he'll be at the training center.'

If you don't do that much when you're that angry, what kind of person are you? A human who has the courage to ignore all that and just lie there.

“Are you back!”

The guard guarding the main gate bowed.

“Open the door quickly!”

"yes!"

Squeak!

The door opened and a smokescreen appeared. Wi Jeong-han's eyes moved quickly from side to side.

'does not exist!'

The veins on Wi Jeong-han's forehead stood out.

“That guy?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Yeonho! Didn’t that guy come out to the training ground?”

The clerk smiled awkwardly.

“I didn’t see you today…….”

“Ugh.”

Wi Jeong-han clenched his fists and headed towards Wi Yeon-ho's residence.

'No way.'

no way.

But he's still human, so he probably wouldn't be sleeping calmly after seeing you so angry yesterday.

no way!

Bam!

Wi Jeong-han opened the door roughly and entered Wi Yeon-ho's room.

And Wi Jeong-han could see that his thoughts were wrong.

Wi Yeon-ho was also human, so it seems he couldn't sleep calmly after seeing Wi Jeong-han so angry.

The problem was that I was lying in bed while awake.

“You’re here early?”

“…….”

Wi Jeong-han felt his spirits drop at the sight of Wi Yeon-ho, half-awake and clutching the blanket.

Wei Yanhuo was also laughing awkwardly, as if he was very embarrassed by the current situation. It was the moment when Wei Yanhuo’s plan to go out and pretend to train when Wei Zhenghan returned was exposed.

Wi Jeong-han closed his eyes as he looked at Wi Yeon-ho, who smiled awkwardly.

If I don't find peace of mind, I might end up here in mourning.

“Didn’t you hear what I said yesterday?”

“Well, I heard it. I have ears, too.”

"however?"

“I was trying to practice…….”

“Did you do it?”

Wi Yeon-ho smiled awkwardly.

“That… I was going to start after taking a short break, but time has passed already…”

“Kwaaah!”

Wi Jeong-han rushed to Wi Yeon-ho.

“Ahhhh!”

Wi Jeong-han grabbed the back of Wi Yeon-ho's neck and lifted him into the air, shouting.

“You won’t do! Today, I’ll beat out the laziness that’s ingrained in your bones!”

“Hey, calm down!”

“Relax? Did you say calm? Calm?”

“Yes, Father! I think you should calm down! You’re old, and you should think about your health too.”

Wi Jeong-han threw Wi Yeon-ho onto the bed without saying a word.

Bang!

“Ahh!”

Wi Jeong-han raised his hand.

“Let’s get fit today!”

“I told you to calm down!”

That day, the sound of pigs being slaughtered resonated through the streets of Guangdong.

* * *

“Let’s see.”

"it hurts!"

“Be quiet!”

Han Sang-ah rubbed her child's bruised eyelids.

“Ouch!”

Han Sang-ah hit Wi Yeon-ho on the back.

Crack!

“Ah! Why are you hitting me again!”

“You deserve to be punished for what you did! That’s why I told you to stop being lazy!”

“I really was going to get up before my father came.”

Han Sang-ah let out a deep sigh as she looked at the grumbling Wi Yeon-ho.

'It's all my fault.'

Han Sang-ah looked at Wi Yeon-ho, who was sticking out his mouth.

It was not pleasant for her to see her child being so lazy.

However, the reason Han Sang-ah was so protective of him was because she was also the reason why Wi Yeon-ho was so lazy.

Wi Jeong-han went on a military expedition when Wi Yeon-ho was young.

At that time, Han Sang-ah had just given birth to Wi Su-ryeon, Wi Yeon-ho's younger sister. As a result, Han Sang-ah had to take care of the newborn and manage the family's affairs.

It was a burden to fill the empty space left by her husband who suddenly left the house. Raising a newborn was even more difficult.

Even if I had ten hands, it wasn't enough, and after being busy with work and childcare all day, I would often fall asleep from exhaustion.

However, she was interested in her eldest son, Wei San-ho, and her newborn daughter, Wei Su-ryeon, but as she was also human, there were limits to what she could do, and she could not help but neglect Wei Yan-ho, who was stuck in the middle.

After Wi San-ho left for the academy to train and Wi Jeong-han returned to take on the role of head of the household, Han Sang-ah realized that her second son had become the world's greatest lazy bum.

And I could see that the reason was that they did not receive proper attention from their parents at an age when they should have been receiving a lot of love and growing up.

'It's all my fault.'

When he realized that the cause of all this was himself, who had not paid attention to his child when he was growing up, and his father, who had just left, he could not be cruel to Wi Yeon-ho.

Because of this, Han Sang-ah became an extremely weak mother to Wi Yeon-ho, unlike Wi San-ho or Wi Su-ryeon.

“You beat a kid like this.”

Han Sang-ah's eyes narrowed slightly.

Although he rushed in late and brought Wei Yanhui, Wei Yanhui had already become a snowball and a night owl.

“My gentleman.”

Han Sang-ah gritted her teeth.

It's good to hit a kid!

If you scold someone, you might get a cane!

But where did you make your precious son-in-law's eyes like this!

“How long are you going to be lazy like that!”

Wi Yeon-ho felt a sting and lowered his head.

Han Sang-ah let out a deep sigh.

“Starting tomorrow, you shouldn’t be lazy so that your father doesn’t get even angrier. Do you understand what I mean?”

"huh!"

Han Sang-ah sighed deeply again as she looked at Wi Yeon-ho, who was smiling brightly.

“Ugh!”

Wi Jeong-han groaned, clutching his head.

“Is it because of the second young master?”

The general of the Guangdong Wei family, Jo Bang, comforted Wei Zhenghan.

“What would I worry about if I wasn’t that guy?”

Jo Bang smiled.

“Your Majesty, you will come to your senses soon.”

"steel?"

Wi Jeong-han shook his head.

“No, no. Look at what he’s doing! He’s not the type to come to his senses that easily!”

“But you too are a son of a warrior. You may be a little lazy now, but you will soon walk the path of a warrior.”

“Okay.”

Wi Jeong-han grabbed his head.

Walking on an unmanned road?

Easier said than done!

If you tell me to practice, I'll lock myself in my room for four days and sleep. What kind of a person is that, a martial artist!

“Why did you leave him like this!”

Jo Bang said with a look of obvious resentment on his face.

“How could I possibly touch the young master who is under my lady’s protection!”

“Okay.”

Wi Jeong-han let out a deep sigh.

“It’s all my fault.”

Wi Jeong-han set out on a journey of invincibility when Wi Yeon-ho was two years old.

I thought it would be a misfortune that would last at most two years, but I got involved in various incidents and was finally able to return home after eight long years.

Thanks to that, he was able to earn the undeserved nickname of “Jeonghyeopgeom (正俠劍),” but the loss was too great.

When he returned home, his once cautious wife had become more fearsome than a tiger, and his precious child had become a lazy bum that was too precious to look at.

“Didn’t they say, ‘Cultivate yourself, regulate your family, govern your country, and bring peace to the world?’ It is not bad for a martial artist to leave behind his non-martial ways and cultivate himself.”

General Cho comforted him.

But Wi Jeong-han did not like those words.

“Are you trying to say that I couldn’t achieve anything because I was too obsessed with receiving?”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“……Well, what do you think? That’s true.”

Wi Jeong-han's sigh deepened.

I wasn't planning on leaving home in the first place.

I thought it was an unmanned path. I thought I wouldn't be able to leave when I got older. I wanted to stand up as an unmanned person first, rather than protect my family.

No, in fact, the burden of having to carry the family may have been too heavy.

But that inaction ruined his child.

“Phew…….”

General Cho smiled.

“Don’t worry too much.”

“Do you look like you have nothing to worry about?”

“Your Majesty, the second son is smarter than you think.”

"huh?"

“It’s true. When I was young, I was definitely much smarter than the eldest son. I even thought that if things continued like this, the family hierarchy might be shaken.”

“Is that so?”

General Cho smiled.

“He is fundamentally a great person. So…….”

“It must be good at its core.”

Wi Jeong-han smiled bitterly.

“What good is it if the fundamentals are great! If your mental state is already bad!”

“I even ate it…….”

“Do you know what other people call our child?”

“…….”

“Donkey, donkey! Lazy turtle! The second son of the Daegwangdongwi family is being treated like a turtle!”

“Donkey…….”

Wi Jeong-han's eyebrows rose slightly.

“You, I thought you looked good together just now?”

General Cho waved his hand.

“How could that be!”

“Okay.”

The wise man suddenly stood up from his seat.

“This won’t do! If I continue like this, I won’t be able to see my father even after I die! I have to do whatever it takes to fix that guy’s mental state!”

“But would that be easy?”

“If only Ivory didn’t get in my way, I could beat him up and fix him!”

Wi Jeong-han was choked up with regret.

However, after abandoning his home for eight years, he became a man who felt infinitely small whenever he stood in front of Han Sang-ah.

“Ah, it’s all my fault.”

Wi Jeong-han's sigh deepened.

Jo Bang smiled brightly.

“There must be a way though.”

"method?"

“Yes. Have you forgotten? He will be back soon.”

A bright color came to Wei Zheng's face.

“Yeah, that’s right. Yeonho, he’s going to meet the grim reaper.”

Wi Jeong-han smiled pleasantly.

The person that Wei Yanhu feared the most in the world was approaching the house.