Episode 349. How much will it be?
Yeon Jeok-ha was nervous, but Man-hwang-ju took another bite.
“Isn’t that the case? The defense master and the person who went out did not return until midnight. The question and answer ceremony is right around the corner, but it’s not like they’re close, so let’s share good things together.”
“There is nothing good, but even if there is such a thing, why do I have to share it with you? In return for telling me a person’s name, I took ten nyang and left it.”
“So you’re saying you’re going to pay me now?”
The conversation is back to square one.
It is said that dogs can only see poop, but if they open their mouths, they are talking about money.
Eventually, the annoyed Yeonjeokha let out a low growl.
“Hey. mister. Go when you say good things. Can’t you see I’m reading the scriptures hard right now? I haven’t spoken to the master of defense and I have nothing to tell you. So turn it off.”
When Yeon Jeok-ha let out a little bit of life, Man-Hwang-Ju was startled and stepped back.
I thought it was an easy opponent, but I was embarrassed to suddenly show my teeth.
“You’re talking to a senior from your hometown. Don’t think I’m going to pass on this.”
“What are you going to do?”
“The interest ends.”
Manhwangju gnashed his teeth, but he couldn’t do anything more because of Yeondubi’s momentum.
“If you have nothing more to say, go away. I am a busy person.”
Manhwangju clenched and opened his fists at the ridiculed congratulatory order, then quietly turned around.
When Manhwangju disappeared, Yeonjeokha turned his gaze back to ‘Nanhwa Jinkyung’.
“I don’t know why people are easygoing when you hang out with them a little. Do I look like a hedgehog?”
When I thought about that, ‘Did I send the Manwangju well for no reason?’ I regret doing it.
“no. have to be patient He might be an alumni.”
A few hits are enough for someone passing by, but alumni are different.
We had to see each other’s faces from now on, but it was uncomfortable for both of us.
Moreover, nokrim tae sanghobeop yeonjeokha fights with practitioners in the shaman faction?
It would be embarrassing for a non-partisan factionist or merchant of heaven and earth to know about it.
***
But the troublesome thing happened the next day.
He sent 10 female disciples as trainees from Baekhwagung in Mt.
Including the existing seven female practitioners and the female disciple of Baekhwagung, there are seventeen.
A major change has come to the practitioner’s residence of the Dragon’s Palace.
Master Chun Myung, the owner of the Ohryong Palace, dispersed the 15 male trainees from ‘Ha Seon High School’ to ‘Nam Chae Hwa’, ‘Lee Chul Goe’, ‘Han Sang Sang’, ‘Jang Gwa Ro’ and ‘Cho Kuk Gu’.
And the Haseongo was filled only with female practitioners.
I had to move the dorm to ‘Namchaehwa’ in the middle of the day.
However, for some reason, Manhwangju Cheon Sang-dong was also assigned as ‘Namchaehwa’.
The atmosphere of ‘Namchaehwa’ was cheap.
Even though Yeon Jeok-ha and Manhwangju Cheon Sang-dong came, the other practitioners did not pay attention.
The practitioners of ‘Namchaehwa’, who had made friends among themselves, did not show interest in new people.
No, it was blatantly ignored.
It was the same in ‘Haseongo’ anyway, so I accepted it casually.
However, Manhwangju and Cheon Sangdong were different.
They were diligently running around meeting new people.
In the meantime, strange rumors spread among the practitioners of ‘Namchaehwa’.
after breakfast.
A man in his thirties sneaked up on Yeon Jeok-ha as he left ‘Nam Chae-hwa’ to attend the lecture.
“Little brother.”
“yes?”
“Can I have a moment?”
“why?”
The man grabbed her collar and pulled her to one side.
Not knowing why they were dating, I followed him as he rushed back to the back of the palace.
“What are you doing?”
“I am Lee Cho-ryang from Hogwangseong.”
“Oh I…”
“I know. Yondubi from the opening?”
“yes.”
Yeon Jeok-ha nodded, and Lee Cho-ryang spoke with a servile face as if complaining.
“I said this in the first meeting, but please help me.”
“You want help?”
“I must pass this question and answer ceremony. I’ve been walking in place for six months already.”
“I don’t know what you’re asking for help with, even now my nose is three feet long.”
Yeon Jeok-ha looked at Lee Cho-ryang with puzzled eyes.
Asking for help from someone who is not familiar with Taoism like you?
“I know you are getting information from the masters of the Dragon Palace.”
“Me?”
“There are rumors about ‘Nam Chae-hwa’, but are you going to say no?”
“Not at all? Who said that?”
I was nervous even when I asked him about his relationship.
Anyway, I was wondering who found out about the meeting with the merchant of heaven and earth two days ago.
“No. You said you spent money to find out the examiner’s name? is not it?”
Yeon Jeok-ha looked at Lee Cho-ryang with an ambiguous face.
It is true that he found out the name of the Blue Bull with 10 coins. But I didn’t feel like saying that.
“Who said that?”
“It doesn’t matter. Do you know who the examiner is for this month’s Q&A? Don’t you know?”
“i know.”
Lee Cho-ryang’s face, which had been hardened for a moment, brightened.
“I knew it. Let me know too. I don’t have the money to survive in ‘Namchaehwa’ anymore.”
Yeonjeokha tilted her head.
Money to survive in ‘Namchaehwa’? I don’t know what you’re talking about.
“Do I have to pay to stay at Namchaehwa?”
“Did you not know? If you want to stay at the Pavilion, you have to pay a monthly donation to the Dragon Palace. Did you really think that the Dragon Palace would feed you and sleep you for free?”
“…”
I looked at Lee Cho-ryang with a confused face.
He came on the recommendation of his uncle, the Sword King, and did not know such a secret thing.
I just came to find out that I was going to learn.
There was no talk of donations from non-partisan faction leaders or thousand-myeong masters.
However, it seems that others were living by paying monthly donations.
In the meantime, Lee Cho-ryang put his hands together and begged.
“I beg of you. Let me see your ejaculation. In my hometown, there is an old mother and a family member who are waiting for me to learn magic and come back.”
“I understand the circumstances, but I didn’t find out for free.”
Yeon Jeok-ha stared at Lee Cho-ryang with hard eyes.
I couldn’t just tell you the name I bought for 10 nyang.
“…how much will it be?”
“No, you must have met most of Oryongchilsa in the six months before that, didn’t you?”
“It did. I’ve been through all of them except for the blue fire furnace.”
‘Tsk tsk! Such an unlucky person.’
How bleak it would be to know that the young man was the examiner for this month’s question and answer ceremony.
“Then can’t you figure out the question roughly?”
“I want certainty, not roughness. If you know who the examiner is, they will be able to give you the answer you want. Please help me.”
Despite Lee Cho-ryang’s continued pleading, the couple did not waver.
It was a sound that would not be eaten by him, who had lived among thieves without blood or tears.
“I want to help too, but as you know, I have to raise a donation.”
Of course, donations are lies.
I have no intention of paying it, but I will not ask for it either.
He wanted to recover even a little of the ten nyang he had paid.
“Grunt! How much will it be?”
“Five nyang.”
I decided to pass it on for half price.
Lee Cho-ryang, who had been struggling for a long time with a deep sigh, moved his hand into his arms.
That wasn’t the end.
Starting with Lee Cho-ryang, three more people came to Yeon Jeok-ha that day alone.
They were in the mood to believe that they were spending money on guru to get information.
I knew that it was Manhwangju and Cheon Sangdong who were enemies, but I pretended not to know that there was nothing to lose.
That’s how he earned 20 nyang for four people in one day.
that evening.
When Yeon Jeok-ha was happy with his unearned income, Man Hwang-ju and Cheon Sang-dong called him out.
“why?”
Yeonjeokha looked at the two with crooked eyes.
Every time I see them, they are people who want to rip off something, so now I get annoyed just by making eye contact with them.
Manhwangju, perhaps, skipped the conversation and held out his hand without hesitation.
“Give it up. You’re not going to eat alone, are you?”
“What?”
“I sold it to you. give me half Then I will send more people in the future.”
“I don’t know what you are talking about. What did I sell and what are you sending me?”
This time, Cheon Sang-dong suddenly intervened.
“Little brothers, are you trying to pretend when we have our eyes wide open? If you earned 20 nyang by selling the name of Cheongbulno, share it.”
“I don’t know what you mean. If you want to make money, don’t use me, you guys do it yourself. When did I ask for it and did you send it to me?”
“joy! If you’re going to come out like that, we won’t stand still either.”
“What if I don’t stay still?”
“You’ll know when you see it. let’s go! ten thousand brother.”
When Cheon Sang-dong turned around, the hesitant Man-hwang-ju followed him and disappeared.
“Anyway, there are people like that everywhere. I thought it would be a little cleaner here.”
The serial enemy shaking his head excitedly moved to ‘Nam Chae-hwa’.
The next day, three more people came to visit Yeonjeokha.
However, no one after them clung to them like flying flies.
In two days, he earned thirty-five pieces by selling the name of ‘Cheongbulno’ to seven rivals.
***
The day before the question and answer ceremony.
Ohryonggung.
Geumjeonggak.
around noon.
A ceremony was held at Geumjeonggak, which was used as the office of the head of the Oryong Palace.
“Huh! what kind of weird noise is this? No matter how ordinary people are, how is this? Tsk tsk!”
Master Cheonmyeong, who had clicked his tongue, put the book down on the table.
It was a letter with no record of who wrote it.
Yeon Doo-bi from ‘Nam Chae-hwa’ is conducting an immoral business targeting trainees?
The Master of Heaven, who had been tapping the table with his fingers, shouted outward.
“Is anyone there?”
“Yes, my lord. It is an old month. What are you doing?”
“Go and call Master Bangmu from ‘Ha Seongo’ and Master Yuun from ‘Namchaehwa’.”
“yes.”
With the answer, the footsteps in the yard faded away.
Shortly thereafter, Dosa Bangmu and Yuun entered Geumjeonggak.
The elder, Dosa Yuun, asked the representative.
“Did you find it?”
Instead of answering, Master Cheonmyeong held out the letter he had just received in front of the two.
Master Yuun and Master Bangmu, who were silently reading the letter with their eyes, frowned.
It was the first time for both of them to do something like this, so they didn’t know what to say.
“Did you see it? A trainee named Yeon Doo-bi found out who the examiner was for tomorrow’s question-and-answer ceremony and sold that information to the trainees of ‘Nam Chae-hwa’. I got five pieces each.”
“…”
Master Yuun felt responsible and lowered his head.
Master Cheonmyeong, who had been watching such Master Yuun, continued.
“Even if it is futile to know the examiner’s name, you shouldn’t trade with it. I called the master of defense because I wanted to hear about Yeondubi. I would have watched it longer than Master Yuun. What kind of person is he in your eyes, Master of Defense?”
“What kind of person do you mean?”
“I’m talking about what your temper looks like.”
Master Cheonmyeong tried to confirm his personality first because he was accepting a disciple from Ohryonggung.
“He had an ugly face, but he was zealous in reciting and preaching, and he did not neglect to find people. I never thought he would cause such trouble.”
“You mean you didn’t look like someone special?”
“I don’t see him as a person who will cause problems, how can I know the inside of a person. To be honest, that’s why I am more shocked.”