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Episode 190 Hair 3
Excluding things like horses, carriages, and carts, there are only three tools that the martial artists use to transport goods over long distances.
There is no need to prepare a lot of food, and since the martial arts people themselves are faster and stronger than horses or carriages, the martial arts people mainly use two legs rather than horse carriages, so the martial arts people usually use three types of transportation.
First, a bamboo backpack called a gyeop (笈).
Make a square backpack out of bamboo, fill it with items, and use it like a backpack.
It also has shoulder straps, so you can think of it as a backpack, except it’s really made of bamboo.
The Chinese character for ‘Gyeop’ (笈) means a book box, so it was originally used by scholars to store books, but martial artists usually use it to fill clothes and food.
It looks like a Chinese movie, but the square bags made of bamboo that scholars carry around are called geup.
Also, shoulder straps are made from large reed or bamboo baskets and used instead of a backpack.
This is a method often used by women selling vegetables or goods, and is also widely used by martial artists.
Because it’s easy to make and can hold a lot of stuff.
And finally, you can simply cut bamboo and hang baskets on both sides, or just tie things together roughly.
This is something I often saw when I went to a Southeast Asian market in my previous life.
It looks like someone is carrying a water jug or weights vertically.
We were currently using the bamboo basket we had brought from Yunnan as a backpack, but upon closer inspection due to the commotion of the warriors, we found that there was a hole in one corner of the bamboo basket, just like yesterday.
The bamboo basket can be repaired by the warriors of the Beast Palace, so it’s not a problem, but this has happened three days in a row.
First of all, we decided to invite an expert in this field and ask for advice on this case.
Shouldn’t all questions be answered by experts?
“Sister Seol!”
It’s my sister Seol.
If I’m an expert on insects, reptiles, amphibians, and especially poisonous ones, then Seol is an expert on furry things.
Even if this wasn’t Yunnan, it was possible to discover the guys’ identities from the traces they left behind.
Because the Beast Palace is not only knowledgeable about the beasts of Yunnan, but also knowledgeable about the beasts of Seolnui in general.
It clearly looked like the work of some wild animal, but if I knew what it was, I could either defeat it or chase it away, so I called Sister Seol.
“Yeah, Little Dragon. Why did you call me?”
Seol, who was eating meat with slightly sleepy eyes, came running to me at my call.
I pointed to the broken basket and asked my sister Seol, who was pretending to be sleepy and clinging to me.
“Do you happen to know what kind of beast this is?”
“this?”
“Yes, I didn’t tell you, but these guys have been stealing our food for three days now. It’s not a lot, but… The baskets keep getting broken and so… They seem to be animals, but I don’t know much about animals.”
“Okay. Wait a minute. Is that a rat?”
It was the first time Seol Nui heard about this, as it was nothing serious and she had never told anyone about it.
At my request, my sister-in-law began to examine the cross-section of the broken basket.
Sister Seol first examined the cross-section of the basket, then lay flat on the floor and checked the area around the grass where the basket had been placed.
He sniffs something in the grass where the basket was placed, and examines the nearby trees and the ground very closely.
After a while, as if a conclusion had been reached, Sister Seol, who had been examining the floor and the surrounding area very carefully, spoke with her chin held and an expression that showed that she did not understand something.
“Hmm… Something feels strange?”
“What is it?”
“No, there are no footprints, and the teeth marks on the basket are a bit odd. If it had cut the basket, I thought it might have been a rat or some other animal, but here, if you look at the cut surface, it doesn’t look like it was cut with sharp front teeth. It looks like it was just cut with molars.”
Looking at Sister Seol’s explanation, the differences are clearly evident.
I don’t know much about this stuff, so I vaguely thought it might be some kind of rat or rodent, but the cross-section of the bamboo was exactly as Seol-nu had said, with no part broken by gnawing. It looked like it had been chewed, cut, or pulled with force.
“That’s true. It’s not like a rat, is it?”
As expected, Seol’s sister.
As I nodded, Sister Seol continued her explanation.
“Yeah. Usually, rats just gnaw it off with their front teeth. But this one doesn’t gnaw it off, it feels like they’ve grabbed it and tore it off.
That makes it even weirder.”
“?”
“This is a carnivore, or something, and its teeth look like this. But for a carnivore, its teeth seem small… Also, carnivore animals don’t usually touch people’s belongings. That is, unless they’re extremely hungry.”
Indeed, as Sister Seol said, most carnivorous animals prefer to eat food they have hunted themselves, and they do not like their food to smell like humans.
Also, the sense of vigilance is very strong.
So, as Sister Seol said, the strange thing happened.
“And there are also wolves brought by the warriors of the Beast Palace. It’s strange that they come near us. It’s also strange that the wolves are quiet at night.”
Seol’s sister explains that there are a lot of wolves, so it doesn’t make sense why they would come here and steal something.
He also seemed to not understand why the wolves, who have good night vision, were so quiet.
“Hmm… huh?”
Sister Seol, who had been tilting her head, suddenly looked at my face, checked my expression, smiled, and said.
Perhaps he found my serious face funny.
“Don’t worry, Soryong. I’ll take care of you from today onwards. I’ll tell you to sprinkle some wolf urine around before you go to bed and tie up a few wolves near the food.”
“Oh, would you please do that?”
“Then. You should have told me earlier. Did you?”
It’s a small thing, but it would be fortunate if Seol Nui, an expert, took care of it.
As expected, our dependable Seol sister-in-law.
Now that I’m done talking to Sister Seol, it’s time to tidy up the surroundings.
He immediately gave orders to his warriors.
“We will repair the basket and throw away any food that has been touched by animals, just like we did yesterday.”
“Understood, Little Dragon. You heard? Hurry up. We have to leave soon!”
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“Yes, I understand. Your Majesty!”
At my command, the warriors moved quickly, and in an instant, the surroundings were cleared, so our group headed towards Cheonghae.
-Tap. Tap.
An evening with a bonfire burning.
After the meal, Sister Seol gathered the warriors of the Beast Palace and spoke.
“I heard that on the third day, some beast touched the food.
Today, gather the wolves in the area where you have stored up the remaining food after eating. And make sure that the wolves have enough time to urinate around the campsite.”
“Okay, miss!”
Perhaps he had decided to keep the promise he made with me this morning.
Soon after, the remaining food was roughly gathered to one side, and when the surroundings were cleared, the warriors began to dry the remaining meat on bamboo.
It’s a kind of smoking that uses the remaining heat and smoke from a campfire, and I heard that the martial artists make jerky from it and eat a lot of it?
After the work of roughly making beef jerky was finished, the warriors brought in dogs and wolves to guard the area around the remaining meat.
As I watched the dogs and wolves settle in, I threw myself down on the dry grass prepared under one of the trees.
“Oh my, I’m so tired.”
Walking every day is harder than you think.
-Tsrrrrrr.
-Tsurut.
As I threw myself onto the dry grass, the guys immediately threw themselves after me.
As Bin-i and Cho-ga lay down on either side of me, Hwayang-i quickly took her place at my bedside.
On top of my body, Seol, Bing, Dong-i, Hyang-i, Yeon-du, and Hong-dan-i are lying face down.
On the basket we had been given to put the children in, the mosquitoes and the mosquitoes were rustling, and on the tree, the fairy had closed her eyes and made a curtain out of her thread over our heads.
It felt like everyone was dividing my body into their own parts.
It was a bit uncomfortable, but I was well prepared anyway.
“Okay, everyone. Okay, let’s go to sleep. Good night, everyone!”
Let’s say good night to everyone, the guys who cry in response.
-Kkuku!
-Kissit!
-Shaaaaa!
I slowly closed my eyes, listening to their answers as a lullaby.
For this spicy Fabre, the cries of poisonous creatures are a lullaby.
In my hazy mind that was drifting into a dream, I briefly thought about setting up one of the children as a sentry, but there was no need to involve spirits in catching beasts.
I thought that a wolf would suffice and fell into the water.
I was in the middle of a deep sleep, wandering around in my dreams for a while.
A loud noise heard while sleeping.
-Agurur.
-Wake up! Wake up!
“What’s going on… Ugh!”
“report······.”
“No. First, let’s sort it out… tomorrow morning….”
I woke up for a moment because of a loud noise while I was sleeping, but the noise soon died down.
Since he didn’t come and report it right away, it didn’t seem like a big deal, so I just closed my eyes again.
And the next morning.
It was definitely different from yesterday…
‘No, how did things get worse?’
We were greeted by a wolf that had been bitten and paralyzed, and a piece of jerky that was too disgusting to eat.
“It looks like something raided the food storage area at night and got into a fight with the wolves!”
“Did the wolf fight something at night?”
“Yes, he said that the warriors who were standing guard didn’t even see how fast it was.”
First, we examined the paralyzed wolf.
Judging by the way his pupils roll, it feels like he’s addicted to some kind of paralyzing poison.
“No, what the hell? You were attacked by a wolf? No, but what’s with the paralysis? This is clearly a sign of a beast bite.”
Seol’s sister looks at the wolf’s wounds with a look of incomprehension.
“Hwa-eun, could you please look after this child here?”
“Okay, Little Dragon.”
Hwa-eun thought deeply while observing the wolf.
‘Are there skunks in the Central Plains? No, but what about paralyzing poison?’
I was racking my brain trying to figure out if there was any beast like that among the beasts I knew, when I came across a combination that I didn’t understand.
A timid voice is heard from the side.
“Over there···. Cow, cow association.”
When I turned my head, Ji-ryong was standing next to me.
“Yes, Ji-ryong. Do you have anything to say?”
Ji-ryong knew about this incident from the beginning, so I wondered if he had something to say, but when I asked him, Ji-ryong suddenly lowered his head slightly and suddenly apologized.
“Actually, I have something to apologize for.”
“Apologies?”
When I tilted my head at the sudden apology, Ji-ryong nodded with an apologetic expression.
“Yes, actually, I’m a soldier and I should take care of it, but there’s something I missed.”
“Your Majesty the Dragon?”
Ji-ryong is currently in charge of this group’s military mission at my request.
In a previous life, the military would only be responsible for operations, but in this era, the military is like the marching officer of a previous life.
The military is like the mother of the army, responsible for not only operations but also supplies and the mental health of the soldiers.
He was in charge of many parts, so he seemed to have a gap somewhere, and I tilted my head and asked where the gap could have been.
“which?”
Ji-ryong is a person smart enough to be nicknamed Ji-ryong.
Even during the giant bedbug incident, Ji-ryong was so decisive that he decided to set fire to the mountain as soon as he heard the story.
It was a little hard to believe that Ji-ryong, who was quick to grasp situations, had made a mistake.
“Actually, I don’t think I thought about food after I entered the desert.”
“After entering the desert?”
When he looked at Ji-ryong and asked him to explain what he meant, the explanation continued.
“When moving with the martial artists, you can just hunt, so I didn’t really think much about it since I didn’t really need to bring a lot of food… But then I thought about it, I thought there wouldn’t be that many animals once I entered the desert.”
“ah···.”
I felt like I was hit in the back of the head by his words.
Because it was a problem I hadn’t even thought about.
I thought I could just hunt like Ji-ryong, but as he said, if I entered the desert, the story would definitely be different.
But it wasn’t a hopeless situation.
They hadn’t entered the Blue Sea yet and the desert hadn’t appeared yet, so they could just hunt and gather food.
“But we still have a long way to go to the desert, so wouldn’t it be better to hunt a lot and make some jerky before we get there?”
“I think so too.”
As expected, Ji-ryong nods his head to my words.
He said with a smile at his words.
“Well, I guess it’s not something to apologize for.”
Just when I thought something was being done, Ji-ryong’s words continued.
“But, if we’re going to gather food, we’ll have to deal with that somehow.”
What he was pointing at was a paralyzed wolf.
It seemed certain that in order to gather food, one would have to start by thieving.
If we don’t deal with that, food will continue to leak to one side.
He looked at the children and spoke in a gloomy voice.
“Guys, I have some work to do tonight.”
I don’t know who he is, but tonight is his memorial day.