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Taejonbirok Volume 4 Episode 13
Chapter 27 – The Lazy Man Takes Up the Sword (3)
The smile of Wi Yeon-ho, who was chuckling, was truly gentle, but to Kwak Do-san, he looked like an evil spirit.
“Oh, Confucius.”
Cold sweat began to flow on Kwak Do-san's forehead.
Who knew that little kid would be such a monster?
“Umm, what should I do?”
“What, what are you talking about?”
Wi Yeon-ho said with a grin.
“Master said that there is no need to catch and beat up every bad guy passing by, but to just leave the bad guys who messed with me alone is no different from insulting Master.”
The strength left Kwak Do-san's legs.
“I feel uneasy about just letting it go. I’m not a good disciple, but I try to follow what our master says as much as possible.”
“Hahaha, Confucius, you are an adult now, so you should go your own way.”
“So I’m going to go.”
"yes?"
“Let’s go.”
“……Where are you talking about?”
“Where did you come from?”
Wi Yeon-ho smiled broadly.
“I felt a little uneasy when I saw what you did at Seongsujang last time. But since that person is so kind-hearted, I just left it alone…….”
Kwak Do-san turned his gaze towards ‘that person.’
The left-hander was sitting awkwardly, not knowing what to do.
As I live, I hear people say that I am a good person.
Now it really seemed like it was time to retire.
“……I think I made a mistake. Isn’t it normal for people to make mistakes once?”
“Hmm, I don’t think it was a mistake…….”
“That was really a mistake.”
Kwak Do-san knelt down on the spot and bowed his head.
“If you forgive me just this once, I will repent and live like a human being.”
Wi Yeon-ho nodded gently.
“It’s a good thing to change your ways. But isn’t it a bit too much to expect people who have sucked people’s blood to suddenly change their ways and believe that?”
“Then what should I do…….”
“Well, killing them seems like too much… I guess we’ll go the same way.”
“Same way?”
Kwak Do-san's eyes turned to the black-clad men lying on the ground.
I came to my senses when I saw the black-clad men lying on the ground with their danjeon blocked.
“Are you saying you will close the power plant?”
“You really understand what I say. I like people who are easy to communicate with.”
“……Is there no other way?”
“Actually, I think it would be very difficult to build a relationship of trust when you are meeting for the first time today.”
Kwak Do-san bit his lips and abruptly got up from his seat.
“I can’t do that!”
For him, who had lived his entire life in the dark realm, telling him to close his dantian was the same as telling him to die.
Kwak Do-san rushed at Wi Yeon-ho without any questions or answers.
“Huh?”
Wi Yeon-ho tilted his head as he watched Gwak Do-san rushing towards him with fierce momentum.
“You have a really short temper.”
Wi Yeon-ho waved his hand.
“Whoa!”
At that moment, Kwak Do-san grabbed his lower abdomen and rolled to the floor.
'All, the dantian… … .'
Kwak Do-san opened his mouth wide and drooled as he felt the emptiness of the energy he had accumulated in his body disappear. Those who have not experienced the feeling of having the energy he had cultivated for decades suddenly disappear would not understand.
Wi Yeon-ho watched the scene quietly and then turned his head to look at Zuo Jie.
“Nice to see you again.”
“Yes? Yes! That’s right, Your Majesty!”
“You seemed like a nice person when I saw you before, but why do you hang out with these guys?”
“……Just trying to make a living.”
“It’s a sad story.”
Wi Yeon-ho approached Zuo Jie and patted his shoulder.
“Then please guide me.”
“Where are you talking about?”
“To that spider room or that black kitchen.”
“…….”
A crunching sound of bones came from all over Wei Yanhu's body.
“Come on.”
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"……yes."
And on that day… … .
The Heukji Kitchen, which boasted the largest scale in Hubei, was completely destroyed.
“Where did he go?”
Jin Ye-ran looked at the dark sky after the sun had set with a stern face.
There were many patients to take care of, but Jin So-ah hadn't been seen since morning and didn't return until the sun had set.
“Abandoning the patient.”
Jin Ye-ran tried to calm her angry heart.
Since he was still young, it was understandable that he would want to play. However, no matter how much that may be, it was absolutely unacceptable for someone who had the profession of a doctor to wander around outside instead of taking care of his patients.
“Why does it only become more and more twisted…….”
Jin Ye-ran sighed deeply.
“Mother.”
Jin Ye-ran wiped away the tears welling up in her eyes as she caressed her mother's remains hanging around her neck.
Jin Ye-ran braced herself as she thought about her mother's will to raise Jin So-ah to be a great doctor and revive the family.
'It's my fault for being lacking.'
It is natural for a child's opinions to become stronger as they grow up, but it was inevitable that they would diverge since they had been treated the same way before.
'I should have paid more attention.'
I knew that Jin So-ah might find the heavy mission given to her difficult. However, I thought that it was something that she had to endure as the successor to the Holy Water Palace, so I had been strict with her up until now.
Jin Ye-ran promised that she would have a more in-depth conversation with Jin So-ah when she returned.
“Sister! Sister!”
At that moment, Jin So-ah kicked open the door and came inside.
“What noise is there at this hour of the night?”
Jin Ye-ran turned her head slightly and wiped away the tears flowing from her eyes. But she also did not forget to be careful not to let any moisture appear in her voice.
“Sister! Come out quickly! Come out quickly!”
Jin Ye-ran got up at Jin So-ah's fuss.
'What's going on?'
Although Jin So-ah is still young, she has a serious nature and is not the type of child to make a fuss over something trivial. If a patient had come, it would have been different, but Jin So-ah’s voice right now was filled with joy rather than urgency.
When I went out of the room, I saw Jin So-ah and Wei Yeon-ho, who looked half-dead, coming in through the front door.
Wi Yeon-ho was wearing a silk robe that looked nice, but it was covered in dust.
'What the hell is this?'
Just like Wi Yeon-ho, Jin So-ah was also a beggar. I thought, "How could she go around like that?"
“Let go! Let go!”
Wi Yeon-ho shook off Jin So-ah's arm that was dragging him away and ran towards his room at an unusually fast speed.
“I did everything I could! I can live here for another ten years and get what I want without you having to say anything! Don’t bother me anymore! I’m going to sleep!”
Wi Yeon-ho gave a rebuke, then slammed the door shut with a loud bang and went into the room.
But what was strange was Jin So-ah's attitude.
Even though Wi Yeon-ho showed his courtesy by eating rice, Jin So-ah kept bowing her head toward the room Wi Yeon-ho entered as if she was happy.
“Your Majesty! Please rest comfortably! Do you not need to eat?”
“I’m not eating!”
“Yes, yes.”
Jin So-ah burst into laughter and ran towards Jin Ye-ran.
“Sister!”
“What’s the fuss?”
“Sister! Sister! Do you know what I did today?”
“Huh?”
Jin So-ah, who usually gets irritated when you raise your voice like this, was not even eating today. Rather than being angry, I was curious. What on earth happened that made Jin So-ah so happy?
“What happened?”
Jin So-ah smiled brightly at Jin Ye-ran's words.
“I paid off all my debts.”
Jin Ye-ran didn't understand Jin So-ah's words for a moment.
“What does that mean?”
“I have paid off all the debts owed to the Seongsujang.”
“……It looks like you had a dream.”
“That’s not it, Sister!”
Jin So-ah explained what had happened since this morning, her mouth agape. From the time she broke into Geumhwajang to gambling and won money, to what had happened since then. Finally, when she told the story of Wi Yeon-ho breaking into Heukji Kitchen and turning it upside down, Jin Ye-ran's eyes widened like a rabbit's.
“I, really?”
“That’s right, Sister! I saw it with my own two eyes.”
"iced coffee……."
Jin Ye-ran covered her eyes while caressing the Baek Eun-ok necklace.
“Now we are free. We will not have to suffer from debt anymore. It is all thanks to the above agreement.”
“I see. That’s really fortunate.”
Jin Ye-ran glanced at the room that Wi Yeon-ho had entered and thanked him from the bottom of her heart.
“You have been greatly blessed.”
“Yes. The above-mentioned person is a good person. Who would have thought that he would come forward like this?”
“Yeah, I see. But…….”
"yes?"
“It was wrong to try to pay off debts by gambling.”
“……Sister.”
“It is something a gentleman should not do. This time, there is nothing you can do, but from now on, you must never go near a gambling establishment. I want to punish you for going to a gambling establishment, but since you have not gambled, I will understand just this once.”
Jinsoah's face distorted.
“Does the method really matter?”
“Those who do not walk the right path are bound to run into a wall. There is a reason why there is a saying that a gentleman walks the great road.”
“If you had claimed to be a gentleman this time, the Holy Water Market would have gone bankrupt by now, and your sister might have been dragged off to Kiru. So, is the method the problem?”
“Yes.”
Jin Ye-ran spoke in an abstract tone.
“Especially, a member of the National Assembly must walk the line. A person who can endanger someone’s life with one mistake must walk the line. Don’t you know what happened to my father who was addicted to gambling?”
Jin So-ah looked at Jin Ye-ran with a face full of complaints and then sighed deeply.
“It’s so clogged up.”
“So-ah.”
“I did my best for you, sister. But you never said a word of thanks and only looked for things to criticize me for.”
“It’s all for you.”
“Look.”
Jinsoa pointed around.
“If I live the life you told me to live, I will spend my whole life here seeing patients. Is that really the right path for me?”
“What other life should a doctor aspire to lead other than devoting himself to medicine?”
“I don't like it.”
“Soya!”
Jin So-ah shouted with a firm face.
“I don’t want to live like that. I want to be famous and make money. I don’t want to live a life where I just take care of patients and grow old and die.”
“How could you say such a thing!”
“The reason Seongsujang was famous in the first place was not because he was good at medicine, but because he was so powerful. No matter how good his medicine was, if he lived his life only giving, who would recognize his medicine? Our ancestors probably didn’t want this kind of life either.”
Jin Ye-ran's body trembled.
For the first time, Jinsoah was rebelling against her.
She had thought that this day would come someday, but it was happening much faster than she had thought. On top of that, Jin So-ah rebelled in an unexpected way, and Jin Ye-ran was at a loss.
“I have a lot to think about after seeing the above-mentioned case. I no longer want to live the way my sister wants me to. I want to live my life, not in the shadow of the Holy Spirit.”
Moonlight slowly spread between Jin Ye-ran and Jin So-ah, who were facing each other.