Episode 1555. well. Which one? (5)
The child, whose entire face was soaked in grime, waddled forward and ran forward.
Quadang.
However, it also gets caught on a rock for a moment and falls down helplessly.
It was that moment when tears quickly formed in her big eyes and her face contorted as if she was about to burst into tears.
“Tskcha.”
A hand suddenly came from somewhere and came into the fallen child’s armpit and lifted the child up.
“You can’t cry.”
“Uh…”
The child, who had forgotten he was going to cry for a moment, looked blankly at the person in front of him.
Is he a scary person? or not…?
Even though he is smiling, he doesn’t seem like a very nice person.
When the child didn’t know what to do, the man placed his hand on the child’s head.
“Mom is?”
“Oh mom… mom.”
The child’s eyes filled up again. The man, who was a little embarrassed, rubbed his face with one hand and washed it dry.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry! I was wrong. Mom will be safe, so please don’t cry.”
The man quickly placed the child on his side.
“We should hurry. “Should I go find my mom?”
When the child looked up at the man without understanding what was happening, the man gently covered the child’s face with the hem of his clothes.
“It’s probably better not to look at this.”
At that moment, the man’s prayer changed completely.
“It’s over there!”
“You bastard!”
Two large giants jumped out from between the dense bushes.
The two of them, who were running excitedly as if they were chasing rabbits, were momentarily startled when they spotted the man in front of them.
“What a guy…”
The man’s foot kicked the ground.
Paaaaat!
The man who had disappeared on the spot suddenly appeared in front of Jang Han. A beam of pure white light split the air.
Suddenly!
Jang Han’s head, which was about to yell something, floated in the air with that same expression on its face.
“Hee hee!”
As my colleague’s head was cut off in one go, the other’s face turned pale.
Even in these incomprehensible moments, there was one thing I could completely understand.
A black military uniform with a plum blossom pattern engraved on its chest.
A white sword and high, flowing long hair.
And most of all… those eyes that don’t seem to have a single emotion.
“Plum Sword….”
Suddenly!
Before he could finish speaking, the cold blade sliced his throat.
“…ears…”
The last words fell out of my mouth as I moved away from the body.
Paaaaat!
The man kicked the ground before the two heads that had been floating in the air had yet fallen to the ground.
“Ah…”
As the wind blew away the sleeves that covered his face, the child lifted his head.
A strange world welcomes the child.
The tall trees are distorted and pass behind, and the ground shakes as if it will rise at any moment.
The child opened his big eyes even wider.
‘Wow…’
It’s a sight that seems like it’s not of this world. But strangely enough, I don’t feel any wind hitting my face.
Faaah!
At that moment, the world suddenly turned sideways.
Flap!
Once again, the black cloth blocked my view.
“Cruck…”
A faint, suppressed moan was heard, but it quickly moved away as if it had never happened before.
The moment the black cloth is pushed out once again.
“Tsk!”
Paaaaat!
The world seen through the child’s eyes has changed dramatically again. The trees that had grown thickly were suddenly sucked down, and soon the bright blue sky filled my eyes.
“Ah…”
Blue sky and pure white clouds.
It feels like it’s floating in the middle of the sky.
When the child lowered his head in surprise, a green forest spread out beneath his feet.
As if you were climbing a high mountain and looking down.
The child’s mouth, which was wide open, was shut tightly.
There was no time to be surprised. Losing one’s mind would be a word used in situations like this.
The man muttered.
“Is it over there?”
Soon, the forest that was visible in the distance approached as if surging at tremendous speed.
The child grabbed the man tightly without realizing it. Then, the body that was falling rapidly changed direction smoothly and landed on the tree.
“You can’t pee. “I’m really going to curse you.”
fluttering.
Once again, my vision is obscured by black.
“Bwak!”
“Wow!”
After a few sounds as if the child’s throat had been pressed, the child’s body was pulled upward.
“look. “Is your mom over there?”
The child tilted his head without understanding what was happening. Since I fell out with my mom a long time ago, I’m sure it was much earlier than this…
“Huh!”
At that moment, the child looked for his mother among those who were staring in this direction as if frightened. The child left the man and ran crying.
“mom!”
“Jina!”
The woman who found her child also ran up to her, panting as if she was mad, and took the child in her arms.
“Luckily it’s not too late.”
The man, who scratched his head after seeing that, let out a sigh of relief.
The rest of the people, confused by the incomprehensible events that occurred before their eyes, alternately looked at the fallen villains and the one who had fallen from the sky.
“Poetry fresh…?”
“No, that went too far. “For now, let’s do it as a Taoist monk.”
If someone else was next to me, it was a remark that would immediately be countered by saying, ‘You’re a guru!’
“Thank you. thank you. “I thought we were all going to die here…”
The wrinkled eyes of the old man who came to the front and expressed his gratitude became wet.
“What.”
The man sighed softly as he looked at several people who had collapsed from injuries.
“I’m sorry again for coming late. If they had come a little sooner, those people would have…”
Then, some people lowered their heads, unable to hold back their tears.
The man looked at the old man and said.
“First of all, we’ve cleared out all the junk around us, so you can just keep going like this. If you go forward, you will see a place that temporarily accepts refugees.”
“Are you sure?”
“Don’t worry too much. You will be able to return to where you lived in no time. I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to gather the people who are running away right now. “I have to go help other places too.”
“That’s right. They will find it on their own. Do not worry!”
The man nodded.
In order to save the children, these people sent the children in different directions and moved the adults in large numbers to lure Sapa. Since he has that much wisdom, he will be able to handle it well even without being instructed one by one.
The man was about to turn when he made eye contact with the child looking this way in his mother’s arms. Then, after hesitating for a moment, he approached the child.
chin!
I put my hand on the child’s head and stroked it a little roughly.
“Not even crying. “The price is high.”
The child was just confused. The man chuckled.
“If you don’t have anything to do later when you grow up, come to the volcano in Shaanxi. Hwasan also accepts female disciples. Of course, it will be a bit of a struggle.”
The man, who left something to say to the child who couldn’t fully understand it yet, smiled slightly and turned around.
Paaaaat!
Soon his body became a ray of light and disappeared.
Those who were staring blankly muttered in weak voices.
“Are you really a immortal?…”
“I didn’t say it was a volcano earlier. “It looks like you belong to a certain sect.”
“A clan?”
“There are people like that. “Like that Shaolin.”
“Ah…”
Everyone nodded with a puzzled look on their faces, as if they didn’t know anything.
The mother holding the child checked various parts of her child’s body.
“Jin. “Are you hurt anywhere?”
The child, who was looking at his mother’s worried face, opened his mouth softly.
“Flower…”
“Huh? flower?”
“The flowers were pretty.”
A bright smile appeared on the child’s face.
* * *
There are many types of fights.
While everyone at the front was gaining strength, the heads of Cheonwoomaeng’s forces remaining at the rear were also struggling hard.
“Sangdan lord! They say they can no longer accommodate refugees at the top of the continent!”
Hwang Jong-ui’s face suddenly distorted.
“Does it make any sense to say that it is unacceptable? “How big is the upper part of the continent, and yet there are barely that many people!”
“But there is not enough grain and there is no clothing…”
“Damn it…”
Hwang Jong-ui gritted his teeth.
These guys who travel around the central plains selling grain are running out of grain to this extent? It is more credible to say that the water in the Yangtze River has dried up.
“Say you will pay 20% more than the initially proposed grain price!”
“yes? They say there is a shortage of grain….”
“You can just say that! Then I will accept it!”
“I understand for now.”
“It’s the same for other merchants. If they say it’s no longer difficult, they’ll raise the money. Then the military language will sink in.”
“yes.”
Hwang Jong-ui gripped the brush he was holding so tightly that he felt like he was going to break it.
‘Damn you guys.’
This side is even giving up its family assets to support refugees. However, no matter how much you are a merchant, does it make sense for you to continue doing business while being blinded by the immediate profits?
Even a business may require people. Why don’t we know that no matter how expensive a product is, if there is no one to buy it, it eventually becomes worthless?
“Whoa…”
It was when Hwang Jong-ui tried to calm down his rising anger.
“And set aside the top who said that.”
“…yes?”
“I can’t say anything about a businessman taking advantage of an opportunity to make a living, but he has to pay the price.”
Hearing Lim So-byeong’s words, Hwang Jong-ui looked at him blankly.
“The King of Green Forest. What are you going to do?…”
“Don’t worry. “I’m not going to let the bandits loose and attack the top.”
“It’s all natural. “That’s it.”
“But it might be better. “It’s better than a crazy Taoist taking off his hair and running towards me.”
“….”
Uh….
It might definitely be better to go on a mountain trip. At least the bandits won’t keep bothering you.
“People must have a conscience. Now even the bandits are opening their storehouses. This is why they are businessmen. Tsk tsk.”
Hwang Jong-ui’s head kept sinking as he heard Lim So-byeong’s words. It was almost like he was stuck on the desk.
A merchant spends his entire life swearing like a bandit every time he goes to the mountains. At least they were in the position of cursing at the green forest, not eating it.
But now I couldn’t refute Lim So-byeong’s words at all.
Lim So-byeong smiled.
“Anyway, I’m glad that the commercial world is cooperating to this extent.”
“…thank you.”
The hardships and price Hwang Jong-ui had to pay to make that cooperation a reality were enormous. Of course, most of them were greatly influenced by the family wealth of the clan belonging to the Cheonwoo Maeng family, especially the Namgung family.
“How is it going with setting up branches in each province?”
“It’s half finished. “I will be able to do my part within three or four days.”
“…That’s a good thing.”
“If those damn beggars had moved a little faster, they would have finished the job. Anyway, I’m so lazy!”
It was decided that the command center in each province would be named Cheonwoomaeng Branch. This is a conclusion drawn from the fact that it is too shabby a mountain village to call it a branch, but it is also very ambiguous to call it a command center.
“I never thought something like this would actually be possible…”
As a result of joining together the four sects of Sanggye, Nokrim, Ghost Gate, and Opening, they obtained a system that could deliver instructions to the entire Gangbuk region in just one day.
‘What even the imperial palace couldn’t do…’
How on earth did you come up with this idea?
“Progress is going faster than I thought.”
“yes. It’s fast. It’s fast. However….”
Lim So-byeong stared at Joong-won Jeon-do with a strange expression.
“…I wonder if this is a good thing….”
“Yes?”
“no.”
Lim So-byeong shook his head.
There is no need to say anything because it can only be described as ominous. But no matter how much I think about it, I feel uncomfortable that things are going so well.
‘Jang Il-so. There must be something they’re after.’
Lim So-byeong, clutching the fan in his hand tightly, shook his head.
‘no.’
It’s true that you’re anxious, but there’s no need to get caught up in it.
Just as they don’t know Jang Il-so’s intentions, Jang Il-so also probably doesn’t know everything that’s going on in Gangbuk.
It would be inconceivable that Cheonwoo Meng and Hwasan could call in the spread of power at any time and direct those scattered across the world with their hands as if looking into them.
So, you can respond by any means necessary. certainly!
“First of all, let’s look at the trends of the SPA.”
It was that very moment.
“Old military! Military! “This is news from Gyeongjae!”
“What! “Say it quickly!”
So-byeong Lim scolded the person who came in with deep thoughts. Deep inside, I made up my mind not to be surprised no matter what was said.
But that resolve fell like a rotten tree with the news that came.
“Yangjiang! “It is said that a large fleet is attempting to cross the Yangtze River again.”
Lim So-byeong opened his eyes wide.
“Long… river…?”
Words that had been completely excluded from my mind stuck like a blue dagger.
“What is this…”
Who is riding there?
No, no. It doesn’t matter who’s riding. Unless the boat is empty, there is always someone on it.
But… why?
Jang Il-so dispersed the power of Cheon Woo-maeng and slowed down the joining of the nine factions. If so, now is the time to move the main force and take advantage of that gap.
But in this situation, are you going to distribute that precious power more?
In this wide Gangbuk?
“why?”
why? Aren’t those in Zhangjiajie the main force?
no. That can’t be possible. That’s impossible.
Then why?
Why are you doing something that doesn’t make sense? What if you didn’t intend to lose?
“…What on earth are you planning to do? Jang Il-so…” An
eerie chill ran down Lim So-byeong’s back.
