Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 281

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“What’s under the water there?”

At my question, Bin-i and Cho quickly nodded their heads, perhaps out of curiosity.

-Tsuru. “It hurts. It hurts. I did it.”

-Tsurut. “That’s right. It hurts. It hurts. That’s what happened.”

I thought it was just bubbles bubbling, but the fact that the kids understood means that it meant something.

That meant there was a spirit.

Even though the spirits were of different species, they seemed to understand each other’s language, so it was clear that there were spirits in the water.

“Oh, really? Wait a minute!”

I had to hurry because of the sudden appearance of the spirit, but at the children’s words, I stuck my head out the window and looked around.

It was now deep into the night, and Taean was dark except for the lanterns that were lit here and there, but I needed to look around to search that area.

Because it was obvious that the general public would be surprised if they saw the first one, they had to move secretly.

Even when I came here, I moved secretly into the sky at night for fear of being discovered by the public.

On Geumgi Ryong’s boat, he carried Choga Bin-i and Hyang-i one by one to the window.

I quickly stuck my head out the window and looked around the left and right side of the road and the harbor, but there were hardly any people walking around, and only a few soldiers were seen dozing off in the distance near the harbor with the lights on.

In this day and age, people go to bed quite early, so in my previous life, around twelve o’clock would have been considered really deep night.

‘I think it’ll be okay?’

After checking my surroundings, I looked up to the sky.

There is a crescent moon high in the sky, but it is not as dark as a full moon, so I decided to take a look.

I remember looking up at the sky with Bin earlier and seeing clouds passing by one by one.

Because it’s much easier to move when the moon is slightly obscured by clouds.

Let’s raise the Myoaam Night Sky and look at the sky. A group of clouds are coming in from the left.

He quickly told Cho to wrap his body around her.

“Hey, Dad, hurry up and get your body back. Let’s go together!”

-Tsk tsk. “Okay, Dad.”

A flower that instantly wraps itself around my body at my words.

It was when I was looking up at the sky and preparing to signal the swarm by timing it with the clouds gathering.

‘Come quickly… Yeah?’

What is that thing wrapped around your ankle?

As I turned my head to my ankles, the scent was crawling up my ankles.

-Tsururut! “I want to go too!”

The guy in the river might have moved somewhere in the meantime, but Hyang-i said she would follow him.

“Hyang-ah, I’ll be back shortly with Daddy and Sister Cho. Bin and I will wait for a moment.”

-Tsurut!

I told Binnie to wait for me as I was going to be back for a bit. The scent crossed its antennae to make an X.

He was the guy who was copying the X I taught him earlier.

‘Is our daughter a genius?’

The joy of Hyang-i’s cleverness lasts only for a second.

My mind was in a hurry, but I heard Hyang-i’s firm voice.

-Tsururut! Tsutsut! “No! Mom said that if Dad goes somewhere alone without telling Aunt Seol, you have to follow him!”

“What? When?”

-Tsurut! 『Before coming here!』

‘Hwa-eun is a more thorough woman than I thought.’

No, what on earth did Hwa-eun say to Hyang-i before leaving?

I thought it was over with just one word to me, but I didn’t realize that Hyang-i had already been recruited as a surveillance officer.

I had no choice but to let the scent climb up my body and wrap it around me like armor, and then wrap it around me again.

As time was running out, I couldn’t afford to leave the scent behind any longer.

“Okay, let’s go together. Can’t Bi and Bin be alone? The three of us can’t go, so just wait a little bit. Okay?”

-Tsrrrr.

Bin nodded at my words.

How fortunate it is that Bin-i didn’t throw a tantrum.

After preparing the incense and candles again, I looked up at the sky. The clouds were already halfway through the moon.

If I miss this opportunity, I’ll have to wait a long time, and the guy in the water might disappear somewhere, so I shouted at the water right away.

“Hey, let’s go!”

-Tsururut!

A candle that floats up to my signal.

From the hearing room, the candles glided into the dark sky.

And then he began to quickly cross the dark, black flowing Yellow River.

“Hey, let’s go to that island first!”

-Tsur.

First, he said that we should move to the island in the middle of the river, near where the bubbles had risen earlier.

If the guy from before is still nearby, we can just leave him there and look around the thatched cottage.

An island flying quickly over the dark river.

As I stepped, the sand sunk in and swallowed the top of my foot.

It seemed like the sand was piled up high because it was an island made up of sand that flowed down from the Yellow River.

I immediately asked the person who had put down the incense.

“Hey, go and see who’s there.”

-Tsrrrr!

It was the moment when the grass that had put me and Hyang-i down jumped into the water.

-Bugrrrrrr.

-Dudududu.

The island started to shake again, as if an earthquake had occurred, and bubbles began to form at the same location as before.

“What, what!?”

As I was trying to regain my balance in surprise, white smoke suddenly began to rise from under my feet.

If it was water fog, it should have risen from the surface of the water, but it was a strange sight with smoke rising from the sand.

He was startled for a moment and immediately covered his eyes and mouth with his sleeve to warn Hyang-i.

“Hyang-ah, don’t drink this. It looks weird.”

-Tsururut!

And then I called out to him in my mind.

I don’t know what kind of acting this is, but I feel like I have to get out of here.

‘Hey! Come here quickly!’

-Tsurut!

A short period of time waiting for the seconds.

Thickening white smoke.

Now the white smoke was approaching a dense fog or mist, beginning to obscure the view.

Looking at that sight, I had a strong feeling that I shouldn’t stay here any longer.

It seemed like a spirit’s ability, but I had a fleeting thought that if it was poison, it could be addictive.

‘Hyang-ah, Daddy is going to jump into the water, so hold your breath, okay?’

‘Tsk tsk! ‘Okay, Dad!’

I ran along the sandy beach and flew straight towards the harbor.

White smoke that disappears as soon as the body leaves the island.

When I turned my head in the air, the smoke was strangely thick only over the island, and my head was spinning at the moment when my body was flying over the water.

It was clear that he had been poisoned, even though he had not inhaled any fog at all.

‘Oh. What kind of poison is this?’

I quickly observed my body as I fell into sleep and pulled up the poison, but my mind was becoming hazy.

Sleep demons started pouring down like crazy.

My eyelids feel heavy as if they are weighing a thousand pounds, and my body falls into sleep.

-Bam. Kwarrrrrr.

As I fell into the water, the sand mixed in the water tickled my face mercilessly.

This is the Yellow River, full of loess.

My body, unable to move even a finger, was thrown into the river and started to be swept downstream.

I thought I might regain consciousness even a little bit because I was underwater, but I was on the verge of losing consciousness because the water didn’t help me at all.

Maybe it was because my body was weak, or maybe it was because of the scent, but my body rose slightly above the water.

As my head rose, the hazy sight of the yellow water brought into view a swarm of fish swimming quickly towards me.

-Tsrrrr! “Dad!”

The sound of the cries of the grass filled my head and the water swallowed me up.

***

“Confucius? Confucius?”

The snow leopard woke up from his bed at the sound from outside.

It was because a servant outside seemed to be looking for Ryongi in front of Ryongi’s room.

‘What’s going on?’

After getting dressed and opening the door, I looked outside and saw a servant standing there holding food.

The snow leopard asked the servant.

“What’s going on tonight?”

“Oh, sir. The prince inside ordered food for the evening, but there was no answer… It seems he is asleep….”

An uneasy feeling flashed through Seolpyo’s mind at the servant’s words.

As the servant had said, he may have ordered the food and fallen asleep, but the thought of falling asleep quickly disappeared from Seolpyo’s mind.

That’s understandable, because what’s inside is none other than a dragon.

The last words of Hwa-eun, who had sent him and Ryong-i here, came to Seol-pyo’s mind.

‘Sister, you really have to keep a close eye on Little Dragon. Even when both of us are present, he does things that are unimaginable, so if one of us is absent, you never know what he might do.’

‘Don’t worry. I’ll be wide awake with my eyes open.’

Seolpyo immediately told his servant to hand him the food.

“Really? Give it to me. I’ll take it in.”

“Yes? Oh, I understand.”

A pitcher of fragrant duck meat and a pitcher of sour ice.

The sled, which had confirmed that the servant had gone back, stood in front of the door and whispered inside.

[Choya? Binah? Hyangah? Aunt, open the door.]

After saying that and waiting for a moment, the sound of one of the children’s footsteps was heard from inside and the door opened with a click.

-Dodododododo.

-Tsurut?

What poked its head out of the darkness was a pitch-black bean with a body like that of a beanie.

“Binah, are you sleeping, Daddy?”

-Chururur!

“Huh. Are you going to sleep?”

When asked if Soryong was sleeping, Bin-yi nodded, shaking his antennae as if he was a little anxious.

But when I saw the still trembling antennae, it was clear that it was not sleeping.

Bin and Cho love Hyang-i so much that they will unconditionally listen to whatever So-ryong wants to do.

It is said that Hwa-eun did include Hyang-i, but that was only to the extent of telling her to follow her wherever she went when Seol-pyo was not around.

“Okay, then I’ll just put the food down quietly and go. Get out of the way.”

-Chu, Churut!?

As I tried to push Bin, who was flustered, in to go in, Bin blocked the door.

Seolpyo smiled at Bin-i.

“Isn’t Dad here? If you step aside now, Bin won’t tell Mom that you helped Dad do something dangerous. If you don’t step aside, I’ll tell Mom later.

“Mom will be really angry. Oh my, if Hwa-eun gets angry, I’ll be scared too.”

At Seolpyo’s words, Bin-yi’s antennae shook without mercy, and soon a raspy voice was heard.

-Tsurut!

It sounded like a lethal cry, but as I passed Bin-i who had stepped aside and went inside, as expected, Yong-i was not inside.

There was no sign of Yong-i on the bed or anywhere else in the room.

Judging by the open window, it was obvious that he was probably heading somewhere through the window.

-Dalgrak.

He put the food he had received from the servant down on the table, headed towards the window, looked around, and asked.

“Where did Dad go? Bin-ah?”

-Tch.

Bin turned his head away as if he was upset because of the story about his mother.

Seolpyo smiled and patted Bin-i’s body as he spoke.

“Don’t be upset, I won’t tell Mom. I’m just worried that Dad might do something dangerous.”

Only then did Bin-yi pretend to be helpless and point out the window with one of his tentacles.

“I guess he went outside···.”

It was when I turned my gaze towards the window that Bin was pointing at.

A dragon flying towards us, wrapped around the body of a dragon, with a large moon in the background.

“Where on earth are you going at this time of night?”

I was thinking of flying in the sky with Cho for once, but I was worried about Hwa-eun, so I thought I should tell her to be careful or something like that.

The sight of Yong-i getting closer and closer was strange.

‘What? Why so urgent···.’

The grass looked like it was flying towards me in a hurry, and when I focused my gaze on Yong-i, I saw that his body, wrapped in the grass, was hanging limp.

“Dragon!”

The voice of a snow leopard echoes across the quiet Taean riverside in the middle of the night.

Seolpyo looked at Binyi and shouted.

“You guys, you said there was a place where you could talk to your mom!? Quickly, call your mom!”

Bin-i nodded without hesitation at Seol-pyo’s words.

***

“Ahhh… I slept well.”

I woke up from a sweet sleep, and was startled to see Hwa-eun, who shouldn’t have been there, looking at me.

“Ugh.”

“Ugh!”

I sat up in surprise, leaned back against the corner of the bed, and wondered what on earth was going on.

‘Why is Hwa-eun here?’

Let’s take a quick look around, and see Cho curled up next to the bed, keeping an eye out.

Bin-i was watching from the side, and Hyang-i was sleeping with her head on Hwa-eun’s thigh.

And the light green seen behind the fire.

It’s still night outside.

Thinking back, I must have lost consciousness after falling into the water, and the kids must have been surprised when they rescued me and brought me back, and then contacted Hwa-eun.

When Hwa-eun heard that, it seemed like she flew in with Yeon-du.

‘Oh no, I’m screwed!’

I was wondering if I was going to get scolded, thinking that I had probably failed, when I heard a voice.

“So, So-ryong Mo, your body is fine, are you okay? You fell asleep for a day.”

Hwa-eun’s voice trembled with every word she said.

‘Haru!? Are you shaking with anger!?’

At first I thought it was extreme anger.

But the face of Hwa-eun, illuminated by the lantern, is a slightly flushed face.

It was a look of slight embarrassment.

‘what?’

He answered Hwa-eun’s question with a puzzled look and quickly apologized at the same time.

I didn’t mean to, but I almost got into trouble again.

I don’t know what kind of feeling it is, but I quickly tried to apologize.

“Yes, of course. And Mi, I’m sorry. Hwa-eun.”

Then Hwa-eun answered with a blush on her face.

“Oh, no. I heard it happened suddenly. Well, as people live, things like that happen…”

A situation where I somehow can’t get used to the affectionate tone of speech.

I asked Cho carefully in my mind.

‘Hey, Mom, aren’t you angry?’

Then, the first one sent a message saying that he didn’t understand something.

‘-Tsuru. 『You were clearly incredibly angry when you arrived. After I changed your father’s skin, you became like this.』’

‘shell?’

The shell that the first one spoke of was probably clothing.

So, change my clothes and…

‘Gyaaaaaaah!’

So, the story is that I changed my clothes that had fallen into the water and ended up in such an embarrassing state.

My face turned red when I heard that Hwa-eun had changed my clothes, but that was it.

-Bugururur.

The sound of bubbles piercing through the quiet night air from afar.

At that sound, Choga looked at me and said.

『

‘-Tsururut? ‘Dad, he said he was surprised yesterday and wanted to apologize when he woke up. He’s asking if he’s awake?’

‘apologize?’

』

The first words were heard by everyone in the group chat room.

For now, I put aside my petty embarrassment and went to the window. The bird flew towards the thatched island and stopped in the sky above where the bubbles had risen before.

Then, something like a rock covered in sand slowly began to rise from the water.

As the sand on the rock flows away with the water, a golden rock is revealed in the bright moonlight.

No, it was definitely a large golden turtle head.

“Gyaaaah!”

The sand island that suddenly appeared was clearly a large turtle made of accumulated sand.