Episode 57. Landlord (1)
“Hae-su and Hae-won’s grandmother’s birthday is today, so you should take them to Sochon.”
Dongchul slightly frowned at Chae-gwang’s words.
There was a scar on Dong-chul’s cheek that the painter had stitched up with a needle, but when he frowned, the scar wriggled like an earthworm.
“Brother, do I even have to train my younger classmates?”
“Someone has to go. Do you feel sick? It’s either me or you.”
“Can’t we just look at them and tell them to come and go?”
“Then what if you run away or something happens to beggars or poor people? Do you say things like that even when you see Roo-ju investing a lot in Hae-soo? If you don’t want to go that way, quit. I won’t go.”
“Whoa- I know. I’ll just go.”
Dongchul finally agreed and shook his head.
After a while, Hae-soo and Hae-won appeared with two luggage.
“Hello warriors. I came because Ruju said that if we go here, there will be a samurai who will accompany us.”
“I will go with you.”
When Dong-chul stepped forward, Hae-soo and Hae-won bowed their heads to him.
“i look forward to.”
“It’s Grandma’s anniversary?”
“yes.”
“Then, is the sacrificial food in the bag?”
“yes.”
“You eat food you couldn’t eat while alive until you die.”
“…..”
At that moment, Hae-soo and Hae-won, who had been laughing brightly, turned sullen.
“Hemm, let’s go.”
“yes.”
When Dong-cheol took the lead, Hae-soo and Hae-won hurriedly followed with their luggage.
It was a long distance from Gibang to Sochon, taking two hours at a fast pace.
When Hae-soo and Hae-won struggled because of their heavy luggage, Dong-cheol slightly frowned and took the two luggage and put them on his shoulders.
“Come on. I will listen.”
“We can listen to it…”
“It’s too heavy for you to carry around for a long time. Didn’t the hostess pack your lunch?”
“yes. It’s in it.”
“If you walk about a corner, there are shaded trees and a place where a stream flows, so let’s go eat there.”
“yes.”
After walking further, we came to a really good place to rest with a flat rock under the shade of a tree and a stream running in front of us.
The three of them were sitting on a rock, taking a break and eating lunch, when eight beggars sneaked up from afar.
Startle.
The beggars looked at Dongchul and hesitated for a moment. And came back cautiously.
“What?”
Dongchul asked with an annoyed look.
Then an old beggar, the thinnest of the beggars and stooped, stepped forward and opened his mouth.
“Hehe, Mr. Musa, we had only water for several days. It’s okay for me to starve, but please let my youngsters here at least look at grains of rice.”
Sureureung.
“go away.”
Seeing the beggar’s face, he could have sympathy for him, but Dong-chul coldly refused, taking out his sword and aiming it at the beggars.
“Don’t do that, Musanari, just give me a piece of rice ball. Really young bastards…”
At that moment, Dong-cheol took a big step forward and placed his sword on the old man’s neck.
The old man stopped talking and the beggars next to him hesitated and retreated.
“I’ll count to ten from now on. If you don’t go out there, I’ll cut your throat. One, two, three…”
Dong-chul’s spirit must have been quite ferocious, and when the old man stepped back, the beggars next to him began to run away one after another.
In the end, the old man also ran away.
“Because I am so dirty. Hey, you bastard swordsman with scars on your face…”
The old man who ran away spit in Dongcheol’s direction and tried to curse.
pug.
“Kuuk!”
However, when Dong-cheol picked up a stone and threw it at the old man, the old man was hit in the stomach and fell down.
As Dong-cheol drew his sword and ran toward the old man, the fallen old man staggered to his feet and ran to his death.
Dong-cheol ran about ten paces and came back to eat the remaining rice balls.
When Dong-chul returned, Hae-soo put on a slightly disappointed expression.
“Musa-nim, it’s only a rice ball, isn’t it too rude?”
Dongchul put on a slightly puzzled expression.
“If it wasn’t for me and you guys were here, would the beggars ask for just a bowl of rice balls?”
“…..”
“They probably rushed in droves and took away even the food from the grandmother’s ancestral rites and even took off the clothes she was wearing.”
“Please don’t stand. We’ve been through this place before, but they haven’t taken anything from us.”
“In the past, do you mean when you guys came out of Sochon?”
“yes.”
“At that time, you guys were not very different from those beggars. Of course there is no room to touch. But how are you guys now?”
“…..”
“If I take off the clothes and accessories and sell them, ten of those beggars will be able to eat their fill.”
“That’s like that…”
“It seems like you know that Rouge gave me to you guys for no reason, but Sochon isn’t much different from a group of beggars. I put it on because it was so dangerous.”
“So So Chon is different.”
Dong-chul’s words made him feel bad, but Hae-won, the younger brother, got angry.
“What is different?”
“Beggars suck, but at least the people in Sochon don’t. Everyone lives by working somehow.”
“I will do the work. But do you work like that and eat at least one meal a day? Since they can’t eat and live, aren’t they even catching and eating mice?”
“I can’t eat it, but I still don’t damn it.”
“How do you all know whether you are fucking or not? And even if you don’t borrow money, you will be greedy when you see the riches of a person.”
“What riches do we have?”
“The clothes and accessories you wear are your wealth. And Hae-soo, you guys are… no. Anyway, there is nothing to be busy being careful. And you don’t have to pity the beggars. They are scum who don’t work even though they can work and only think about fucking.”
“I don’t know about the beggars, but the people of Sochon won’t take away our clothes or jewelry even if there is no samurai next to us.”
When Haewon snapped at him again, Dongchul laughed.
“Then I’m glad. After all, hometown is important to everyone.”
“You dare to say that Uncle Chet knows anything about Sochon.”
“I was born and raised in a slum. Of course, it’s similar to Sochon, so you know it well. But the villagers, not my hometown in my memory… they weren’t very nice people.”
“Even if it is a slum, it is different for each village. Don’t judge the people of Sochon arbitrarily.”
“I hope I am wrong too. That way, there will be no need to pull out this sword in Sochon.”
Dong-chul finished his speech and looked at Hae-soo.
A year ago, when I came to Gibang with a dirty look, the girl who wanted to be something had a cutie on her face in just one year.
Gisaeng is often called a thousand things.
It sounds like you’ve been treated with contempt. However, gisaengs who appear to have grown up as nobles, in other words, do not carelessly call them heavenly.
It was because gwiti gave off a nobility that was one step higher than beauty.
A parasitic who seems noble.
Of course, it is bound to be popular with wealthy people and dignitaries.
The seawater was flowing steadily from now on, when such a cutie had not even officially registered his name as a miracle yet.
If this state lasts for a few years, Cho-hyeon’s wealth and high-ranking officials will be wrapped up in her skirt width.
‘A kid who hasn’t even come out yet is a cutie! It’s not that Rouge sent someone like me as an escort for no reason, and Susu prepared food for the ancestral rite.’
There is no favor in the world without reason.
Although she is still young, she is just grateful because she does not know her own value.
‘Perhaps as time goes by and you get older, you’ll know how much Rouge is a person who only fills his stomach.’
After lunch, the three of them walked another hour to reach Sochon.
“uh!”
“what!”
Hae-soo and Hae-won’s eyes naturally widened as they walked towards the house where they lived with their grandmother.
“Why? Is that the house where you guys lived?”
“yes.”
Dong-chul looked at the old house, puzzled by their reaction.
The old house was surrounded by a low bush clover fence, so you could clearly see what was going on inside even from the outside.
There were three benches in the yard of the old house, and people who looked sick were sitting and talking. And a boy dressed as a Confucian scholar was examining such people, giving them acupuncture or prescribing something.
“The courtesy of! It looks like a doctor’s room. Did you sell your house by any chance?”
“no.”
“No. Then, is your house being used by someone who does not know you without permission?”
“no. It’s not unauthorized. It was because Bo oppa said that someone who was doing a gong party would use our house, so he rented it instead.”
“Why are you so surprised when you rent and rent?”
“I didn’t know you were dressed like that.”
“Hmm- that’s definitely surprising. It would be hard to make money if you were a doctor in a slum like this.”
“But there seem to be a lot of patients.”
“Do you charge less for treatment?”
“To go to the doctor’s office… it must cost a lot of money…”
Hae-soo and Hae-won tilted their heads and headed toward the doctor’s room, when a familiar face came out of the doctor’s room.
“Only Mister, Mister.”
When Hae-soo and Hae-won called almost simultaneously, Aman turned his head and made a puzzled expression.
“Who are you… uh! Aren’t you a Haewon?”
“yes. that’s right.”
“Heh, he said he went into Gibang-el, and his face has improved a lot.”
“Hehe, you don’t starve there.”
“thank god.”
As Ah Man only knew Hae Won, Hae Soo pouted her lips.
“what. Uncle, why do I pretend not to know?”
“If you are Haewon, are you Haesu?”
“what? That awkward attitude.”
“Looking at the way you talk, you’re right.”
“Of course you are.”
“While I couldn’t see you, you became a virgin. He’s tall, and he even puts powder on his face.”
“I am twelve now.”
“Are you twelve already? In a few years, I’ll get married… Khumm, anyway, a lot has changed.”
“I just put powder on my face and it looks like that. By the way, where are you sick?”
“It’s me, my legs have been hurting since before.”
Aman is an ex-soldier who retired after a broken leg that was not properly articulated.
As a result, I always had a limp in my legs.
“Can’t you mend your legs, uncle?”
“Yes, I can’t fix it, but after getting acupuncture instead, it’s much easier to move.”
“I guess you made a lot of money. I’ll go get acupuncture.”
“Where is my money? My legs are like this, so even if I work as a laborer, I can only get paid in return.”
“How do you go to get acupuncture when you have no money?”
“ah! You don’t live here, so I don’t know. Mr. Hwa treats the poor for free.”
“yes! You say they treat you for free?”
Not only Hae-soo and Hae-won, but even Dong-cheol made faces of disbelief.
“huh. Come to think of it, Mr. Hwa’s medical room is your house. Come on in. Thanks to you lending your house to the painter, the villagers are receiving a lot of help.”
“yes yes.”
“But what did you come for?”
“Because today is Grandma’s anniversary.”
“Has it really happened already? He died last fall, so it must be around this time.”
“I can’t come on other days, but I really wanted to come on the due date.”
“Hey, you’re welcome. You went through a lot of hard work raising you guys, but at least I have to give you the due date.”
“yes. I will come again next year.”
“It should be. Anyway, I’m busy, so I’ll have to go.”
“yes.”
Hae-soo and Hae-won looked at Ah-man, who limped away, for a long time.
“Mister Mann, you walk much better than before.”
“Looks like my sister. In the past, I limped very badly, but today I see only a slight discomfort.”
“Is a person called a chemist good at medicine?”
“Will someone with excellent medical skills treat you here for free? By the looks of it, she looks two or three years older than her sister, so she must be a medical doctor.”
“Well, since it’s a medical doctor, he’s probably getting treatment here for free. By the way, I have to offer a sacrifice today, but there are a lot of people, so it’s a bit harsh to ask them to leave.”
“Before, when Oppa Bo came, he said that we would come for the ancestral rite, so perhaps even a painter would know.”
When Hae-soo and Hae-won enter their old house, Dong-cheol follows.
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