Chapter 107
The quadruped carriage moved smoothly towards its destination. Even though it was the same horse and carriage as yesterday, the level of comfort was different. Because the coachman has been replaced.
Hyuk Moo-jin, who barely got out of the coachman’s seat and sat next to me, said with a comfortable face.
“As expected, each person has something they are born with. I drive a wagon because I’m a young man.”
You sound like a Jem disease.
Wolhwa, the head of the Shanxi branch of Haomen, is the one who brought him. Of course, he couldn’t be an ordinary coachman.
Silently holding the reins, he was a level 50 first-class soldier. Coachman and escort warrior, just a picture comes out.
“Mujin-ah.”
“yes?”
“Please, let’s go quietly. Then go somewhere in the middle.”
He always keeps me and says something.”
“It’s because you always talk nonsense, man.”
Wolhwa, who was sitting across from us and watching us, laughed.
“It’s nice to see the two of you casually.”
“That guy is not cheap.”
“It’s not cheap. I wasn’t going to say this, but I’m two years older than the leader. My friends have kids.”
“You are not there.”
“No, what. It is.”
“And even though you are twenty-two, you are younger than me. Anyway, it’s young.”
“What is that? It’s a fact that even mutts in Shanxi know that the captain is just a contract.”
“If you don’t believe me, stick with me.”
“… … There are others, so I will stop here.”
Wol-hwa smiled broadly at Hyuk Moo-jin’s ugly excuse.
“Oh, am I okay?
Naturally, everyone’s eyes are focused on one person.
Jin Moo-gyeong, who had been keeping her mouth shut for a while, flinched and opened her mouth.
“I-I don’t care.”
“……?”
What, is he stuttering now?
When I opened my eyes wide at the unexpected reaction, Jin Moo-gyeong averted my gaze.
‘Uh, more and more.’
I’m not a character like that. He’s the kind of guy who would roll his eyes at you, asking what he’d be looking at.
I asked sincerely.
“Are you sick?”
“… … at all.”
“When you talk, you have to look people in the eyes.”
“… … noisy. Do not talk to me.”
It’s so weird today, really.
There’s no way that a person who was a master at peak would get carriage sickness.
Even until morning, he was active, but somehow he was not in a good condition.
‘Come to think of it, it seems like it’s been that way ever since I got on the carriage.’
The time when I narrowed my eyes and looked at Jinmu-gyeong.
Cook Cook.
Hyuk Moo-jin, who sneakily stabbed his side, whispered in a voice so low that only I could hear it.
“Look at Lee Gongja.”
“what… … ah.”
After hearing Hyuk Moo-jin’s words, a strange sight caught my eye.
I wonder how I hadn’t noticed it until now.
‘what?’
The quad carriage brought from Jinga in Taiwon is quite luxurious. It was quite the size of a room, so the seats were wide. It wouldn’t be too much trouble to burn twice the current number of people.
however… … .
‘Why is he doing that?’
Presently, Jin Moo-gyeong was sitting in a wide seat and crouching in the far corner of the carriage. No, that’s pretty much the compression level.
‘It’s a 9 and 3/4 platform, what is it?’
Are you attending a magic school rather than the Cheonmu Academy?
Meanwhile, Hyuk Moo-jin and I weren’t the only ones watching that bizarre thing.
“Jin Sohyeop. It looks very uncomfortable. Please come this way. There are plenty of seats left.”
A new type of Jin Moo-kyung hardened by Wol-hwa’s alluring voice.
It wasn’t until a moment later that a creaking answer flowed out.
“Okay, it’s okay.”
Doesn’t look good at all. I quietly whispered to Hyuk Moo-jin, who had a similar expression to mine.
“Doesn’t it look strange to you?”
“It’s not that strange.”
“Yeah, I feel the same way.”
We exchanged meaningful glances.
“Who in the world could have imagined that?”
“I know. I would never have thought that the Jincheon sword under heaven would be so shy.”
“I mean those words… … yes?”
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“What is your reaction? You can’t do anything with a person’s personality. A thick-faced guy like me? If you have this, there are timid people.”
“No, wait a minute. wait a minute.”
Hyukmujin stuttered and continued.
“What are you talking about?”
“Of course, Jin Moo-kyung… … “An eerie voice interrupted.
“shut up.”
No matter how wide it is, I can hear it inside the carriage. Seeing Jin Mu-gyeong’s tear-jerking eyes, me and Hyuk Mu-jin shut her mouth at the same time.
It was Monday that evoked the bloody atmosphere.
“Look at my sanity, I haven’t officially greeted you yet. My name is Yuehua, the head of the Shanxi branch of Haomen.”
“… … I am Jinmoo-gyeong from Taewon Jinga.”
“The reaction is very boring. Hey Jinja was very surprised to hear my identity for the first time.”
“I heard about that guy and knew it. He also said that he did a great job for his family.”
Jin Moo-gyeong politely took the gun.
“It’s late, but thank you.”
“It was nothing. It was a fair deal.”
Wolhwa smoothly added a word.
“I haven’t received proper compensation yet.”
“The family will never forget Hao Mun’s kindness.”
It’s still awkward behavior and speech, but it’s much better than the first time.
A picturesque two-shot of a handsome man and a beautiful woman” Hyuk Moo-jin exclaimed.
“A promising young master and a peerless beauty… … Big, just looking at it makes her heart beat. Isn’t it?”
I turned my head and pretended not to hear.
Judging from the lifeless gaze that made his skin tingle, it was clear that there was not much time left for Hyuk Moo-jin’s heart to beat.
Winter’s low temper is impatient.
How far did they move along the mountain road? Soon after, the sun set and darkness came.
It was about midnight, two hours later, when the carriage stopped.
“Im here.”
As soon as I got off the carriage, what I saw was a wooden building of the right size.
You can feel the cool air as soon as you step inside. A statue in the shape of a man looked down on us with dignity. What did they say about this place?
‘Oh yeah. I heard that the shrine is a place where the ancestral tablets of the dead are enshrined and ancestral rites are held.
It reminded me of Guanzhi Temple (關帝廟), which appears when bored in martial arts novels, so I looked at the statue, but I couldn’t figure out who it was.
“It’s an abandoned shrine after a famine several years ago, but even now, it seems that people from the neighborhood come from time to time.”
As Wolhwa said, the inside of the shrine was empty, but there were still traces of people. For example, human footprints on the dusty floor.
“I will prepare a seat.”
We came out of the shrine at the words of the coachman and escort warrior, who is presumed to be Haomundo. No, to be precise, it would be correct to say that one was dragged out by someone.
“Follow me.”
“Ahhh, captain, captain!”
I turned away from Hyuk Moo-jin, who was being dragged by Jin Moo-gyeong by the collar, and looked at the sky. Well, the moon is very bright today.
“what are you doing?”
“Well, as you can see.”
Wolhwa smiled.
“Do you like watching the scenery?”
“It’s getting better lately.”
The view that can be seen in modern times is the night view from a high place. Even those are sad lights created by office workers working overtime.
‘This is the real scenery.’
There are no dense forests of buildings, no apartment complexes, and no factory sites.
Instead of asphalt roads, the whole world is filled with wet roads and fresh air.
‘If I lived in a place like this, I’d be healed properly.’
The problem is that it is a neighborhood where it is easy to get killed. Somehow, people are more frightening than monsters here.
There was no need to go to the chief or assistant, just yesterday at the phoenix inn.
“Oh right. How have they been?”
“If you’re talking about the bandits of the Red Wind Team, they’ve been detained. Of course, I had to call the councilor before that.”
He gave me that much catfish, so he must have needed treatment.
But there was a word that caught my attention more than that.
“The Red Winds?”
“He is an emerging powerhouse emerging from the highlands. The scale is quite large, and above all, it is known that the martial arts of the leader, Jeokpungdanju, are strong.”
Northern Highlands. It was the first name I learned through a map during the war against Hangsan Checkpoint.
One curious thing was that the distance between Honju and Gowon, where the phoenix guest cup was located, was considerable. Even if I run my horse day and night, I know it will take more than a week… … .
“How did those guys get here?”
“Icheonbaek hired a lot of ronin and bandits at the end of the war. Many of them buried their bones in Iron Gate Gorge, but some survived and escaped.”
“Are there red winds among them?”
Wolhwa shook her head.
“Red Wind Danju… He’s faster than I thought.”
“then?”
“He watched the situation until the end. He kept a close eye on the Iron Gate from a distance of two o’clock, and turned his horse’s head when he heard the outcome of the battle. He is accompanied by two hundred men who follow him.”
As little as two hundred people.
What would have happened if the Jeokpungdan had joined the Cheolmunhyeop that day? It might have affected not only the huge casualties but also the victory or defeat of the battle.
“It was fortunate for us.”
“Yes. It was a great misfortune from the point of view of the Hangsan checkpoint.”
Wolhwa continued, pressing tobacco leaves into her smoking pipe.
“The Jeokpungdan went north that way.
They were aiming for the headquarters of the Hangsan Checkpoint, where most of the troops had escaped.”
“… … her.”
He is truly a natural predator.
As soon as the victory of the war tilted to one side, the northward and most of the main force escaped, biting the neck of the Hangsan checkpoint.
Thanks to not participating in the battle, not only did he preserve his troops, he must have taken enough rest, so he must be in excellent condition.
“Even Gongja Jin knows the result after hearing it, right?”
“yes.”
The fierce battle that lasted for two days ended with the victory of the Hengsan Checkpoint. Leaving behind the death of Sosumju, who was to succeed his father.
“But rumors I’ve heard say that there was a mix of ronin and magicians.”
“You don’t call a tiger a dog because it has lost its teeth. There are quite a few ronin attracted by Jeokpungdanju. It would have been perfect to use as a shield.”
Tuck, Tuck
She took out a hwaseopja and lit it, then sucked in the smoking pipe.
“The bandits defeated by Gongja Jin are probably the ones who fled at that time.
Although the Jeokpungdan is like the Majeok and has quite strong discipline, there are no deserters at all. I don’t know what he was doing at Honju.”
“A deserter… …
“Because of that, the area around here has been cluttered lately. Ronin, bandits, bandits, and even black swordsmen are raising their heads slightly, but the power of the Hangsan checkpoint has been terribly reduced.”
“I guess we have no choice but to accept our offer.”
Wolhwa smiled shyly.
“To be precise, it’s Taewon’s true value, not us, right? Well, from my point of view, it is true that it is a good time to persecute the new lord.”
“Here, by the way.”
“huh?”
“Are there any good people coming to the shrine in this weather?”
“It can’t be. Even hunters don’t know. But why is that all of a sudden?”
I pointed to the mountain road. Through the light snowstorm that had begun to blow before I knew it, I could see torches coming up this way.