Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 335

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The incident of King Joo Cho-wi (走肖爲王)

Even though I am a poisonous person with no common sense, am I not a highly educated person?

I remember this incident very well, especially since insects appeared at the forefront of history.

‘Because our insect friends are coming out.’

What is the Joochowiwang incident?

The 14th year of King Jungjong’s reign in the Joseon Dynasty.

In order to eliminate the opposition, some ministers wrote on leaves with honey the words “Juchowiwang”, which means “Jowiwang”, which means that the Jo clan will become king.

This incident targeted Jo Gwang-jo, the leader of the opposition party, and involved having insects eat parts of the letters written with honey on leaves and showing them to the king, which angered him.

‘I know from heaven that Jo Gwang-jo will harbor rebellious thoughts!’

This incident was the starting point of the Gimiosahwa (己卯士禍), in which the opposition leader Jo Gwang-jo and other ministers were killed.

When I showed the emperor the letters made with a fox, I was imitating that.

I just wrote it to mean to be careful, since a eunuch can’t become a king.

I thought that since it was a world where ghosts and spirits could actually be confirmed, it would be much more appealing if I showed them the letters made with a raccoon.

Of course, the results were excellent, just as I expected.

“Arrest Eunuch Heo immediately!”

The emperor gave solemn orders to the royal guards in front of the peony bushes and then began his procession.

People were rushing out of the sponsorship hall behind him.

It seemed likely that they would immediately arrest Heo Tae-gam and interrogate him.

‘Things went well. Goodbye, Eunuch Heo.’

Of course, the incident of King Juchowi is fictional.

Because bugs that eat leaves don’t eat honey, and bugs that eat honey don’t eat leaves.

Do honey bees eat leaves to get honey?

That’s nonsense.

Insects aren’t stupid and idiotic, so they gnaw at leaves while trying to lick honey?

What on earth do we see in our insect friends?

I was so embarrassed by such nonsense.

The opposite is also true.

Leaf-eating bugs include beetles, ladybugs, caterpillars, and butterfly larvae. First of all, caterpillars are the larvae of the American white moth, so they did not exist at all during the Joseon Dynasty.

This is because they are friends who prospered by mixing in goods from the United States after the Korean War.

Before, it was a bug that didn’t even exist in Korea.

Also, since caterpillars such as beetles, ladybugs, and butterfly larvae do not eat honey, this is a completely false story.

If they had tried to make the Zhouchowiwang incident scientifically sound, it should have been like this.

It is about applying something else to the leaf other than the letters to protect it.

For example, spreading grass and drying it.

Then, since insects cannot eat the part where something is spread, they will eat only the part where the letters are. After the insects have eaten all the letters, if you wash the leaf with water, the leaf that the insects have eaten in the shape of letters will be completed.

‘I’m telling you, the thoughts of real non-experts are full of holes?’

Anyway, I’ve managed to move the Hwangsim by making letters with a raccoon, so now it’s time to get out.

I decided to wait for the plan to take me back to the Golden Guard.

The reason why she can’t move around with the Geumuiwi or Dongchang warriors is because if a palace maid moves around with men, she will be noticed.

‘Can I play with you guys for a bit? Oh, you cute guys. I can touch these little guys without worrying about them biting me.’

As I was playing for a while with the foxes that had come out at my request and then crawled back into the dark grass, I heard the sound of grass rustling along with the light from the lantern.

The maid from earlier was looking around and approaching me.

He seemed to be looking around very carefully.

There was no need to do that since the guards nearby were our people, but the emperor seemed nervous about going to open the national gate.

[Cow, cow association?]

The maid leaned forward and stuck her head out in front of the bush where I was hiding, perhaps because it was dark and she couldn’t find my location.

[yes.]

[Hic!]

The maid was so startled by my answer that she fell on her butt.

[Are you okay?]

[Joe, I’m just a little surprised.]

The palace maid, who crawled out of the grass and made a worried expression, quickly covered her legs and looked embarrassed.

The maid quickly adjusted her clothes and spoke urgently.

[Okay, let’s go now. We have to move quickly. If it gets any darker, we won’t be able to walk around the palace.]

The court lady had a slightly tired and dazed look on her face, perhaps because her work was over and she was relaxed, which was a stark contrast to the determined manner in which she had delivered her prepared speech to the emperor earlier.

[Okay, thank you for your hard work.]

[Oh, no. I’m glad it helped.]

That’s how I got out of the peony bushes with the palace maid named Unmirang, passed the emperor’s bedroom, and returned to the royal palace.

It was the moment when I turned a corner after walking along the wall for a while.

Something running out of the darkness collided with Unmirang, who was holding a lantern.

“Whoa!”

It was when I was barely able to support the court lady who was rolling around.

A rough voice comes from in front.

“Oh my, I’m sorry about that. Are you hurt?”

The moment when Unmi picked up the lantern that was lying on the floor and the surroundings became bright.

The surprised voice of Unmi-rang was heard.

“P, Crown Princess!?”

If he is the crown prince, he is the next emperor.

When I was startled and flinched along with him, the prince, who had learned martial arts, came over in an instant and roughly covered Unmi-rang’s mouth.

“fizzle!”

“Sigh.”

The prince also instructs me to be quiet with his finger.

As Unmirang and I quietly nodded our heads, he smiled and released Unmirang.

[Your Majesty, I meet the Crown Princess.]

But when Unmirang greeted him, the prince waved his arm without hesitation.

An action that seems to tell you not to say anything.

He crouched down with us and whispered with a smile.

[I am going to see the national library without telling my eunuchs, so be quiet. I am running away because they told me to lose the books day and night.]

Yeah, studying is something no one wants to do.

Unmirang nodded her head and then nodded again, so I quickly followed suit.

Then the prince left his greetings and went on his way.

[Then, good work.]

Although I was surprised, I saw the king and the crown prince up close.

There was a moment when I thought I had seen everything there was to see in the palace.

The prince, who was walking his own way, suddenly turned around and came towards us again.

Then he came up to my nose and looked closely at my face.

[Come to think of it?]

‘What, what’s wrong?’

My heart was pounding as if I had caught it.

He clearly looked like someone who couldn’t be mistaken for a man, but is it because the prince has a good eye for detail?

When Unmi and I were really nervous, the prince’s question was heard again.

[But where are you, maids?]

[I belong to the Emperor’s War Council.]

Unmi-rang quickly answers on my behalf.

The prince suddenly came close to me, grabbed my chin, and asked with a sensitive expression.

[Your complexion is very pretty. Yes, yes, what is your name?]

I was relieved that my identity had not been discovered, but the questions that followed sent cold sweat running down my spine.

I looked at Unmi-rang in a critical situation.

I was wondering if you could just make up a name or something instead.

But all I could see was the sweet and tender figure of Unmi-rang.

It seemed like he had never thought of such an unexpected situation and was unable to deal with it.

‘I guess I’ll have to do it.’

I had never done it before, but I answered the prince’s question with my voice as thin as possible and covering my mouth.

Since you can speak quietly, there’s less worry about getting caught.

[My name is So, So-hwa.]

Then the prince smiled and whispered softly in my ear.

[I like it. I will ask my emperor to send you to my residence. Wait. Hehe.]

The prince gently stroked my cheek, then, perhaps thinking I was cool, turned around and walked forward, waving his hand.

Goosebumps rising from the sensation left by the prince’s hands.

Next to me, Unmirang was looking at me with a bewildered expression.

‘I’m also shocked.’

***

The next morning.

“Hahahahaha!”

“Khehehe!”

The prison cell of the Golden Guard, where the groans of sinners usually flowed out, was bursting into laughter.

And in the meantime, I hear Hwa-eun’s voice in my ear.

“‘So-ryong, last night the Jinuiwi broke in and arrested all the people working at the kiln run by Heo Tae-gam, who belongs to the Odukmun.’

‘Yes, I know. It was noisy last night because I was torturing you all night long.’

‘How did things go?’

‘Yes, I think I’ll be able to go back soon.’

‘You’ve worked hard. When you come back, you must tell me everything that happened at the palace.’

‘···Okay, I understand.’

When I paused, thinking I couldn’t tell the whole story, I could still hear laughter in my ears.

“Hahaha!”

“Ugh. Ugh…”

Now it was a laugh that was almost breathless.

I hear from the Golden Guards’ brain prison that you are torturing me with laughter?

I could think that way because laughter is the hardest thing for people to endure, and if it continues, it turns into pain.

But that was absolutely not the case.

Having been busy interrogating criminals all night, she finally got to see General Maeng, his son, and Eunuch Wi in the morning. When General Maeng and Eunuch Wi asked if anything had happened on the way back last night, Unmi-rang reported what had happened with the crown prince, and the three of them looked at each other and burst out laughing.

The reaction was that although it was pretty to see her dressed up as a woman, she didn’t know that she would be able to flirt with the crown prince.

“The Crown Princess is extremely picky when it comes to women, but you made her fall in love at first sight. How amazing. What a coward. Keke.”

“Is the next Empress Dowager decided with this? Hahaha.”

“You three, stop. We thought we were in big trouble.”

“I’m sorry. But I can’t help but laugh at the thought of bewitching the prince.”

“Heh heh heh. If there was a way to become a woman, the next Empress Dowager could really be Sohyeop. What a shame.”

‘Okay, just take it out to play and then put it back where it belongs.’

Since they were all high-ranking officials, I held back with superhuman patience until the three of them stopped laughing, so I asked them how things were going.

I was trying to ask how things were going, but the three of them kept laughing, so I couldn’t ask.

“If you guys are serious, stop teasing and tell me what happened.”

“Oh, I see. You must be curious about Sohyeop too, right?”

At my words, the general’s son began to explain while wiping away tears.

“First, Eunuch Heo confessed that he was a member of the Odokmun. The Odokmun approached him and said that if he helped them, they would allow him to have descendants.”

“Are you talking about descendants? If he’s a eunuch, then…”

Eunuchs are people who have no children, but they are allowed to have descendants.

The explanation continued with a sense of danger in his expression as if to say, “Does that make sense?”

“There are two types of eunuchs: those who were injured in an accident when they were young and became eunuchs, and those who were castrated by the nobles. Eunuch Heo is the former.

So it seems that he was trying to do something by planting the seed of the Odokmun.”

“What about the hundred beauties?”

“He’s not a man of the Odokmun clan, but his face is like magic. It was Eunuch Heo’s plan.”

“Is this a reverse tactic?”

When I asked if it was okay to die innocently, I was told it was a reverse talisman.

Reverse magic is a martial art that changes one’s face.

Come to think of it, the liver planted near the leader of the martial arts world was also said to have been used in reverse magic, and it seemed like it might be the same this time.

But the explanation that followed was slightly different from what I expected.

It wasn’t something that Odokmun had planned, but something that Heo Tae-gam had planned.

“It was not an order from the Odokmun, but an act done by Eunuch Heo because he wanted to ride. The Emperor was so angry at Eunuch Heo for imitating the face of the Empress Dowager that he sentenced him to be a chieftain and to be skinned. He also ordered the white beauty to have her face skinned.”

‘Wow, this isn’t a joke? If I get caught using you, I’ll… Eek…’

If you are a chief, you have to pull out the intestines. If you are a flaying person, you have to peel off the skin.

As I looked shocked at the brutal punishment, I heard the order of the last emperor.

“Just like the Blood Cult, the Odokmun was also treated together and an order was issued to execute them immediately if it was confirmed that they were involved.”

Judging from the fact that the Great Lord has died, it is clear that Odokmun knew that the Bloody Evil Great Lord was captured by us.

Other places may have already prepared for this, but it was at that moment that I felt I had to release the information I knew to both the public and the government.

I heard Hwa-eun’s urgent voice in my mind.

“‘The little dragon, Moji, and Soji are wriggling!’

‘yes!?'”

He was startled and told the adults.

“I think I should go back quickly. Something urgent has come up on the ship! I have something important to tell you, but I’ll get back to you later.”

“Huh? Okay, then let’s go back quickly. This part is all done, you know. Take the small group to the boat.”

“Yes! I understand!”

As I was running after the warriors, I heard the elders talking behind me, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying.

Because it seemed like Moji Soji was becoming a fable right now.

I couldn’t concentrate on other stories.

“Hey, even if you’re in a hurry, clothes….”

“Little Dragon, you guy. Clothes···”

‘What are you saying?’