Episode 1357 That means he’s coming. (2)
“Supply?”
Yunjong swallowed the meat in his mouth and tilted his head.
“Is there really a need for supply? There are also convenient people who hunt for meat when they need it. “Wouldn’t it be okay to just hunt from time to time like now to make up for it?”
Yunjong glanced at Cheongmyeong, who was tearing into deer meat next to him.
Cheongmyeong is the greatest hunter he knows. It can be said that if only he were there, there would be no need for at most a hundred people to go hungry.
But Baekcheon didn’t seem to agree with that.
“If things in the world just went on so easily, there wouldn’t be anything to worry about.”
Baekcheon sighed deeply and began to explain.
“No matter how fast you catch it, hunting is hunting. In any case, it will inevitably take time to find and catch the animal and return.”
“That’s right…”
Yunjong nodded, as if it was difficult to refute those words.
No matter how fast Cheongmyeong hunts, it takes time.
Besides, there’s no guarantee that next time you’ll be able to hunt as fast as now, right?
“You may not know it now, but if the enemy approaches within close range, you will have no choice but to hurry on your way without any time to rest. Are you still planning to go hunting then?”
“That is correct.”
Since the enemy wasn’t always behind me, I didn’t know how many times I would have the chance to distance myself from the enemy and rest like I did now.
“Haenam’s disciples are already very tired. “Isn’t the burden doubled by carrying the injured people around?”
“yes. “Sasuk.”
“If you don’t eat proper food, the ending is obvious.”
Yunjong’s eyes became a little more serious.
“You’ll need food you can eat while running. But then, wouldn’t it be better to make beef jerky in advance now?”
“It takes time to dry the beef jerky… Besides, are you going to feed jerky to unconscious patients?”
A groaning sound came out of Yoonjong’s mouth.
Among the injured in Haenam, many are barely conscious.
There was no way such people could chew hard jerky.
Isn’t it a situation where even the meat that Cheongmyeong cooked cannot even enter the mouths of the injured?
“In the end, there has to be grain.”
“That’s my opinion too.”
If it is grain, you can roughly chew and swallow it while running, and if you grind it into powder and mix it with water, you can use it as a substitute for rice in a hurry, so you can also feed it to the injured.
“But where among these mountains do you get grain…”
The first solution that came to mind was to find a nearby private house, but Yunjong had no choice but to quickly shake his head.
It is not easy to find people who live deep in the mountains, but they are usually people who make a living through hunting.
There is no way they could have enough grain for their needs.
Even if they had it, there was a high possibility that it was precious grain that could not be sold for money.
Unless you plan on plundering, there is no room to even think about it.
‘But then how?’
Where do you get grain in these mountains?
“What do you plan to do?”
“You have to choose. “Why not take the risk and go down the mountain and look for grain in the village…”
“It is impossible for all these people to go unnoticed if they are to get enough to feed the Yangtze River. “Couldn’t the scammers come running like crazy?”
“I have to endure it.”
“⋯⋯.”
A sigh escaped Yunjong’s mouth.
When you solve one problem, another problem arises, and when you solve that problem, another problem arises.
Waging war against a strong man was like carrying water in a leather sack with many holes in it.
“If we could get grain that way, we might consider taking the risk, but I don’t think there will be anyone who will sell grain to us.”
“Why?”
“Isn’t this Gangnam? Since this is a place where Sapa rules, being careful in everything you do will be ingrained in you. Therefore, they would not readily hand over their grain to strangers who suddenly appeared. “I know something will happen later.”
Baekcheon tilted his head as if he didn’t understand. A wry smile appears on Yoonjong’s lips when he sees that.
Baekcheon, who grew up without any shortcomings and has never been afraid of powerful people, must feel incomprehensible.
This is how sheep who have to live in the same place as starving wolves feel about the world.
“Anyway, it is not easy to buy grain at once. Then, we have to split people up and buy them little by little… “That would take too much time.”
“Um…”
A deep look fell on Baekcheon’s face.
Being in enemy territory turns even these minor problems into serious ones.
I felt like I could understand, at least a little, why so many sects were trying to expand the area under their influence.
“Then what should I do?”
It was a time when Baekcheon frowned.
“What are you so worried about?”
“huh?”
Cheongmyeong walked up to them and threw the newly polished deer bone in front of them.
“If there’s a problem with not selling the grain, you can go to the people who will sell it, right?”
Yoonjong frowns.
“Didn’t you hear what I said? Are you saying that there are no people in Gangnam now who can sell a lot of grain to strangers? “I will try to cross the stone bridge after tapping on it.”
“No, I mean. “Wouldn’t it be okay to ask people who are not unfamiliar with us to sell to us?”
“Where in this Gangnam land are there people who are not unfamiliar to us?”
Yoonjong, who was speaking, pauses and looks at Cheongmyeong.
“You’re not talking about a room full of people, are you?”
Everyone who heard those words turned to Yunjong. Yunjong flinched under that focused gaze and waved his hand.
“Oh no, that’s not it…”
“Have you been executed?”
“⋯⋯That’s not it, man! “Isn’t it because you always say crazy things like this?”
“There are degrees of crazy. Is going to everyone’s house and buying grain something a sane person would do? “Did you happen to get a knife stuck in your head somewhere on the way?”
“⋯⋯.”
He was able to endure Cheongmyeong’s accusatory gaze towards him.
What was difficult for Yoonjong to bear was the gazes of others other than Cheongmyeong that were filled with the meaning of ‘That person is also delicious.’
Jogeol gently pats Yoonjong’s shoulder as he lowers his head helplessly.
“I understand. execution.”
“…Get away from me.”
Baekcheon takes his gaze away from the depressed Yoonjong and asks Cheongmyeong.
“Then where are you talking about? “Where are the people who are close to us in Gangnam?”
“I may not be a close friend, but I know people who have surplus grain and can sell it.”
“So who is that?”
“You saw Sasuk too.”
“huh? On the way?”
Baekcheon seems to be thinking about something and then his eyes widen.
“ah! “Them!”
“okay.”
Cheongmyeong says with a grin.
“There was grain in the village we stopped by on the way to Haenam. “I’m talking about the grain that those scammers gave me.”
“For sure…”
They even cooked rice with the grain. Not much time had passed, so not all that much grain would have run out.
“Others may be unfamiliar to us, but there is nothing particularly unfamiliar to them. “It’s roughly spherical.”
“It’s not that far from here?”
“okay.”
“Hmm.”
Baekcheon nods.
Cheongmyeong is a bastard, but the relationship between that village and the people of Cheonwoomaeng was not simple enough to express.
He didn’t ask for anything in return, but wasn’t he a lifesaver anyway?
I’m not asking for free grain, but paying money to buy grain won’t be a problem.
“Oh no. wait for a sec.”
“huh?”
Jo Geol speaks with a worried face.
“But that village didn’t really have any grain left. “If we buy up that grain, what will the village do?”
“Are you a death penalty idiot?”
“huh?”
“Village people can go down to the city and buy grain. “They might not sell it to us, but there’s no reason not to sell it to them.”
“uh?”
Is that how it works?
“Oh no. “It’s obvious that if they buy grain in large quantities, they’ll get strange looks…”
“Did this person really enter the world with his head in Sacheon? It’s okay if you don’t buy it all at once. “We have to buy a lot because we have a long way to go, but those gentlemen can just buy a little bit from various places.”
“Is that so?”
Cheongmyeong clicked his tongue.
“The problem was that there was no grain in the market, but that bastard Jang Il-so was scattering grain everywhere, so the grain that had been hidden must have ended up in the market. “It may be a bit expensive, but that’s something we can do if we pay a lot of money.”
“⋯⋯.”
“It’s good for us to take care of the grain we lack, and it’s great for those noblemen to make enough money to buy more grain and have a surplus! “This is good for my sister and good for my brother-in-law!”
Baekcheon looked at Cheongmyeong with admiration.
Anyway, that person was truly born with a small head.
No way, this is the only friend I have in Gangnam… No, I never thought someone would use a relationship that is embarrassing to even call a friendship like that.
In any case, it was a plan that would benefit both parties as long as they left no traces of their visit to the village.
“By the way, Cheongmyeong.”
“huh? Why again?”
“It’s a little embarrassing to say this, but there is a fundamentally big problem with that plan.”
“What problem?”
Baekcheon opened his mouth with an awkward expression.
“That… “I think we’ll need a lot of money to do what you said, but unfortunately I don’t have that much money right now.”
“⋯⋯.”
Cheongmyeong looked at Baekcheon with eyes that asked, ‘What is this bastard talking about now?’
“Didn’t you take any money?”
“I took it with me when I left… But the money was also given to the villagers at the time…”
I don’t think I will need the money when I return, so it would be better not to say that I gave it to the people of Haenam in moderation. Because that money ghost is sure to turn a blind eye.
“You don’t have any money?”
“Oh, it’s not like there’s nothing…”
It was when Baekcheon was trying to come up with an excuse.
“What am I saying again? I care about everything. are you okay. are you okay.”
“Huh?” Baekcheon’s eyes widened. There’s no way that money-crazy guy would be so calm after hearing that he doesn’t have any money…
“It’s not like we’re going to pay anyway.”
“huh?”
At those words, Baekcheon’s head naturally turns to Namgung Dowi.
Then Namgung Dowi shook his head as if he didn’t have any money with him, and Dangpae also shrugged his shoulders.
Lim So-byeong even turns his sleeves over and reveals his teeth.
“Now are you going to kill the bandits at least?”
“I don’t think it’s a new thing anymore.”
“So you don’t think it’s more of a problem? yes?”
Anyway, it seemed like there wasn’t enough money to pay for everything.
“I heard that’s true?”
“Anyway, these are useless things to use in medicine.”
“I think that’s a bit twisted…”
“Who wants you to pay?”
“Then?”
“Why do we pay when there are others to eat? It’s there. “Noble people brought all kinds of expensive and valuable things with them when they left home.”
“huh?”
“excuse me.”
Everyone’s heads turn towards Cheongmyeong’s chin gesture.
And they saw.
Cheongmyeong is literally a rich man who left home and gathered up all the important valuables he could find.
“There is.”
“I guess there is.”
“Fortunately.”
Geumyangbaek, a long-time servant from Haenam who has now joined them, trembles with an eerie feeling.
“What what?”
A happy smile bloomed on the lips of the Heavenly Demons.
The smile that resembles that of Cheongmyeong, who is standing in the back.
