Geom Woo-bin nodded willingly when Jeon Yeon-hong asked to go back a little. However, she then asked when the road turned a little rough enough for a squirrel to be able to walk around.
“Why are you going to this mountain?”
“Hopefully you will be able to taste the most delicious tea in the world today.”
Even if the mountain was rough, it was not so different from the flat land for the Blood Lion, and the scenic mountain trail was not bad considering it was a trip.
“Are you doing well? You mean you’re not sure she’s here?”
In response to Seo Seok-san’s question, Yeon Ji-hong nodded.
“The last time I saw you was fifteen years ago.” He thought that three people would rebuke him for coming down an uncertain road, but no one blamed Yeonjun Hong.
Geom Woo-bin became curious about who ‘she’ was. And so he asked, and she replied, ‘Maybe I’ll let her know when I see her.’
There was no road, only the rugged terrain continued with blade-like rocks and cliffs. He climbed a mountain like that by one sijin. Geom Woo-bin, who had reached such a difficult place, looked mystified. He spit out a sigh. There was a pond where a waterfall was located, and the trees around it were full of various flowers. The hut stood in the middle. It was a landscape that made him think that a god would live in a place like this.
“I’ve only heard about it, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it.”
“You haven’t even met a priest?”
Do Pyeong-su said, “The only person I have a relationship with is Geum Hong. We only heard stories like legends.”
“Eww… … I’m really curious about what’s going on.” Geom Woo-bin was surprised to see Jang Man-dok.
“Yes? North Sea Ice Palace?” Embarrassed, Jang Man Dok turned her head and hid her face.
“How do you automatically create facial expressions?” Hyeonmyeonhong, who gave the pint cup, said to Geom Woo-bin.
“Hey, we don’t have her secrets to her executioner, but her secrets about her are with her permission and I want to tell you.”
“Wow! It’s amazing that some priests care so much!”
“Still, the person we care about the most is the death penalty. You know?”
“Sure. I want to meet you soon.” Entering the basin, they approached the hut.
The hut of about 20 pyeong had been neatly maintained and did not seem to have been abandoned. A voice could be heard from behind when Nguyen Hong was just about to announce his visit.
“If he came to avenge an old grudge, he’d better just go back.”
Surprised, Geom Woo-bin turned his body. The fact that he did not feel any presence at all suggested the level of her opponent’s martial arts level. A woman was standing just three steps away. Wrinkles on her face and grayish hair told her age, and she did not look strangely old. Yeon Jeong-hong smiled broadly and said, “I was still living here.”
“There is only one person in the world who will greet me with a friendly face, but not that person. Then who…?”
“Is it that person?” Her woman’s face grew increasingly colored with surprise.
“Maybe golden… Sister?”
“Have I changed a bit?”
“Oh My God! What happened? Anti-labour? Is it really like that?”
“Well, how did it happen?” The woman hugged the aloe vera fiercely. Alchemist Hong patted her on the back.
“I’m sorry I didn’t come here often.”
“It’s not a good place to come here often. Still, sixteen years is a bit long.”
“It’s been fifteen years.”
“Isn’t it more like sixteen years? Well, how are you? Are those who come from the same group as your sister’s enemies?”
“Huh. Now it is the death penalty.”
“Five! Did the bad-tempered demon gentleman finally accept him as a disciple? However…”
The gaze of the pretty old woman stopped on Geom Woo-bin. “What’s that guy that looks like a parasitic brother? Disciple?”
Goosebumps sprung up on the back of the reporter’s spine, which was full of unknown hostility from her woman. Hearing that Geom Woo-bin was called a parasitic brother, the three of them were about to be furious, but Yeon Ji-hong quickly came forward.
“Our death penalty.”
The woman blinked her eyes and asked, “What?”
“Execution.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“I don’t think this is a topic to joke about.”
“No! Demon gentleman, even if that old man is senile, he is still oily! Did you make such a little girl her sister’s death sentence?”
After Geom Woo-bin and Hwajeok Mountain, Do Pyeong-su exploded. “Geum-Hong saw her face and tried to let her go, but the old man is digging the grave!”
“Looking at how you look, it seems that you are an immortal gwido, but I will try to kill something other than fish after a long time!”
“They say that the blood of the Bukhae Binggung girl is cold, yes! Let’s see if that’s true today!”
The Blood Lion couldn’t do an exact pinpointing, so the two backed off, and Hong Yeong-jeon didn’t know what to do.
No matter how much he was found to be a cherished little brother, she treated the raging mountain and Geom Woo-bin as a senile old man and a parasitic brother, so he went out too much.
A white frost spread around her feet as her lady raised her powers. “Two minutes, stop!”
It was Geom Woo-bin who stood in the way between the two of them. “We cannot leave the master and those who insulted the death penalty.”
“Huh! How can that selfish old man be so great?”
“Even if you’re her grandmother, please refrain from insulting her dead father.”
With that, the woman’s expression hardened in surprise. “Are you dying? She’s dead? That magician? The demon gentleman who seemed to survive alone even if all the former Moorim died?”
Almighty Hong said with a long sigh, “Yes, it was only after my father passed away that he accepted us as disciples.”
She told a story about Geom Woo-bin and the frost that had spread around her woman disappeared. Geom Woo-bin appeased Do Pyeong-su, who was still stubborn, to soften her momentum.
“Even the best people in the world die…”
A murmuring sound as if she had accepted the impermanence of her life with her whole body came out of her woman’s mouth. “Eww! She was still the only person who had the coolness of a Moorim.”
Although she was senile, she could tell from those words what she thought of a woman who was angry. ‘You are all old and you have to serve the young death penalty. The woman who muttered, ‘It’s true that she sold her sister.’
With that, the woman headed for her hut. Everyone followed her, and she opened the door to the hut and said, “Wait outside. I dare not let a boy come into my hut.”
As Geum-hong and the woman entered, Seo Seok-san clicked her tongue. “Even after being in hiding for forty years, his temper is still the same.”
“Yes? Here she lived forty years? Alone?”
“Can you imagine living alone in a place like this for forty years? No matter how good the scenery is, if you’re like me, you’ll go crazy.”
“Is it because of the man? I think he hates men very much.”
“Yes. In fact, Eun Bi-yeon is perfect too. He was the Sogungju of Bukhae Binggung, which is not enviable in the world, but he met the wrong man. If Eun Bi-yeon had become the king of the palace as planned, the status of Bukhae Ice Palace would have risen beyond comparison.”
“Is that grandma’s martial arts that high?”
“Did you see that she was peaceful and trying to fight?”
Do Pyeong-su said bluntly, “I win.”
“Of course it is, but it must not have been easy.” Do Pyeong-su did not object to Seo Seok-san’s words. The curiosity about the female high school girl who had a skill comparable to that of a Blood Lion had grown.
They found a large rock next to the pond and sat down, and Yeon Geum-hong and Eun Bi-yeon appeared. They had teapots and teacups in their hands. Seok-san said, “I think I can finally taste the most delicious tea in the world that Geumhongi talked about.”
Do Pyeong-su who had a bad first impression with Eun Bi-yeon, spat out, “If the car is like that, it’s a car.”
Eun Bi-yeon then put the tray on the rock. “Whoa! Making my boys drink my tea.”
“Can’t you even burn poison?” Eun Bi-yeon snapped her finger at Do Pyung-soo’s blunt reply.
“Ah! Good idea!”
“Sit down, don’t say nonsense.”
The car turned out to be a wagon. It looked like it was made from flowers picked nearby. Eun Bi-yeon didn’t want her men to have her knees together, so she sat separately.
“No matter how deep your resentment is, forty years have passed, but now forget it.”
“If I had forgotten, I would have gone out into the world, would I have been here all this time?”
Eun Bi-yeon filled the glass of Almighty Hong sitting opposite her with water, and the other four had to drink on their own. Fortunately, Seo Seok-san was also well versed in the tea ceremony. He warmed the cup and soaked it once to wash away the dust on the car, and the scent of tea came up.
‘Huh?’ Seo Seok-san, who drank hundreds of teas that he said was good, could guess the eighth part of Hyangman tea. She took the glass to his mouth and felt her heart beat for a long time.
In addition to this, the tea that touched his tongue gave him a taste that exceeded his expectations.
“Ah!” He took another sip from Seo Seok-san, who unknowingly burst out an exclamation.
‘The first taste and the second taste are different. The first feeling is refreshing and the second is sweet, so this is the ultimate wagon tea!’
He was not exaggerating when he said that it was the most delicious tea in the world.
“Five! Is this delicious?” Even Do Pyeong-su, who felt the same taste as a silver coin or a single door coin, admired it. They didn’t even pay attention to Eun Bi-yeon because they were sipping tea.
While the men drank tea, Jeon Ji-hong took out a drink. “I thought all my desires had been fulfilled, but I couldn’t forget my sister’s Yeo Geum-ju.”
Geum-hong asked while pouring Yeo Geumju into a glass. “Did you drink a little bit?”
“I’ll have to check it out today.”
When the drink touched her lips, Eun Bi-yeon frowned, but then smiled broadly. “It tastes good!”
With that, the tip passed. The hot water was almost running out, so Seo Seok-san and Eun Bi-yeon’s eyes met while holding the kettle. “Is that person a crocodile?” When he asked Yeon Jung Hong, he found that his gaze was still on Seo Seok-san.
“Huh.”
“The man who stole the hearts of a thousand women and shed the tears of ten thousand women… is called…?”
“The rumors are a bit exaggerated.”
“It’s not an exaggeration, it’s just a rumor. Did the standards for men change while I was in hiding?”
Eun Bi-yeon pointed her finger at Seo Seok-san, who was slowly starting to feel worse. “No matter how much has changed, isn’t it ‘looking like that’?”
“You look like that!”
“Make sure to look at that head. There must be more hair on this rock. Ho ho ho!”
Wow! The glass in Seo Seok-san’s hand was crushed into powder, and as he was about to stand up, Yeon Geum-hong gestured.
“The tea is delicious, so be patient.”
“Little boy.”
Geom Woo-bin, startled, quickly replied.
“Yes!” Eun Bi-yeon patted the seat next to her.
“Sit here.” Geom Woo-bin moved her seat secretly. Eun Bi-yeon looked at Gum Woo-bin briefly.
“Are you really thirteen? You look seventeen… Hey! If I hadn’t met that person, I would have been living happily with one grandson just for you.”
“I’m feeling crazy too. He passed through the face of that parasitic brother-in-law, gave away all the gallbladder, and even handed over the martial arts of the North Sea Ice Palace. Of course, all handsome men must die.”
When Eun Bi-yeon’s chills arose, Jeon Yeon-hong filled the glass with alcohol and read through it.
“Calm down, this one.”
“Okay. It’s all gone. Forty years have passed and his face is now blurred. When you smile, the wrinkles around your eyes look really good.” Her memory was said to be fuzzy, but Eun Bi-yeon remembered even the fluff of her man’s ears.
“If it wasn’t for my sister, I would have spread all the Bukhae Ice Palace weapons without knowing that he was a gossip master. Okay! It’s okay even if you’re an ear-tested gossip! Not all magic is bad! Even her sister’s master, Magun, was cooler than any other faction! is not it? Why would a married man with a child do such a thing! Why!”
It was an intentional approach aimed at the defense of the North Sea Ice Palace, and it was Jeon Yeong-hong who revealed the plot and informed Eun Bi-yeon. He was deceived, not betrayed by the one he loved the most. Eun Bi-yeon’s anger was promptly justified.
It was unfortunate that Eun Bi-yeon was the one who uttered justified anger to the end of her head. She said that the defense of the North Sea Ice Palace was great enough to be covered by the check, but with the half of the sword she stole, she could not afford the complete defense of the great North Sea Ice Palace.
The swordsman, who had a fairly prominent reputation in Gangseo-seong, could not handle Eun Bi-yeon’s anger for even one night. Eun Bi-yeon, engulfed in her anger, did not save not only the warriors but also the women who did not know the martial arts.
Still, her children were saved, thanks to her faint ties of reason, which her nature had grasped.
―Come for revenge! please! I’ll even dry up the seeds of the swordsman!
Even though he said this with such fervor, Eun Bi-yeon, who destroyed the sword, eventually came to a place where no one could find her and took refuge.
After all, it had been a story from 40 years ago.