Geom Woo-bin then spoke in a calm voice. “Wouldn’t it be better to find a suitable disciple?”
“If you make a mistake, you will have to suffer for 20 years, but I can’t do that. You are the best lumber I can find. Then see you later.”
At this, Gong Seong-tak disappeared without Geom Woo-bin saying anything. “Why are you always around me… Is such a person growing up?”
Then, Sehwa returned when Geom Woo-bin returned to the manor and finished her two Sijin training. She looked messy with construction work, but her expression was brighter than ever. As she entered the gate, she found Sehwa and four dogs and Kwak Bong ran to her.
“Sehwa Soju. You had a lot of trouble today.”
“It’s hard.”
The expression on her face, which had been agitated by looking at her Kwak Bong, was in full bloom when she saw Geom Woo-bin. “Sabak! I guess you just finished training?”
“Huh. I have something to say to Sajil Sehwa, so I waited.”
“For me? What is it?” Her eyes twinkled with anticipation.
“I think Sajil Sehwa needs an escort.”
“Yes? What do you mean? Did you see it at Oseongiru today?”
For Sehwa, the hanghogiru had already been changed to the fiveseongiru. “It’s a sage-like martial art, it’s wonderful. But it can be difficult to handle on your own.”
“Who will make such a thing?”
“Jo Hwang-se.”
“You mean the owner of Wolhagiru?”
“When I announced today that I was not going to deliver fraudulent liquor, the words I got back were not very good. They know that Sajil Sehwa took over Hanghogiru, so they will know that the scammer will go there too. Then Sehwasajil will be like thorns in Jo Hwangse’s eyes.”
“Do not worry. Because I can protect my own body.”
“It’s all good. I think Uncle Kwak would like to escort you?” Kwak Bong was half-hearted.
“I am amazingly protective of one person!”
Sehwa asked. “Is there no choice?”
“Of course, the choice is up to Sajil Sehwa.”
“Then…” Sehwa’s gaze deviated from Kwak Bong and she went down. There were still four dogs perched waving their tails.
“I’m going to do it with flowers.”
Kung! He barked as if he liked the flower, and Kwak Bong made an expression like a widow left alone in the midst of being bossed as a group.
“My, am I worse than a dog?”
“I think it would be convenient for Kkot to do it.”
“Sajil Sajil, a joke too.”
“Sabak. Isn’t that a joke?”
“Okay? But still….”
After that, there was a lot of strife, and in the end, Sehwa could not overcome Geom Woo-bin’s force and accepted Kwak Bong as her escort. Sehwa looked at Kwak Bong and said coldly. “I carry my luggage well.”
―The place where the qi of heaven and earth are gathered is the white blood, and the place where the yin of all things is absorbed is the place where the yin of all things is absorbed…
When Woo-bin woke up, he could hear Gong Seong-tak’s voice, which had been tormenting him all night. Gong Seong-tak’s message of passing on the Jincheon nookak was day and night, even while Geom Woo-bin was sleeping. He could not sleep well as he continued to listen to electric sounds while sleeping.
On the first day, he had definitely expected this. But on the third day, it didn’t seem like it would end forever.
‘What should I do?’
No matter how angry you are, you should avoid talking to the blood lion. If Geom Woo-bin was said to have had a sleepless night, the Blood Lion would visit Gong Seong-tak and put him to sleep forever. Geom Woo-bin left the manor and walked towards the river. A tent stood on the edge of the river, covered with soft grass. It was the place where Gong Seong-tak stayed these days.
“Mister!”
When he heard Geom Woo-bin’s voice, Gong Seong-tak ran out with a happy face. “Five! Our Woo-bin is here!”
“Uncle…!”
“For a moment! Before you speak, look at this!” Gong Seong-tak suddenly started casting the herbivore of the Jincheon Nookgak.
“Seungryonggak first meal! Waryong Ascension!” Gong Seong-tak was kicking dizzyingly into the air.
“The position of the soles of the feet is important for Seungryonggak! Pay close attention to the position of the soles of the feet as each movement stops!” Geom Woo-bin just watched with a long sigh.
After three consecutive demonstrations, Gong Seong-tak looked at Geom Woo-bin with a face full of anticipation. “How are you? Isn’t it cool?”
Gong Seong-tak’s smile slowly disappeared as Geom Woo-bin just stared at him. “Why… Is that so?”
“Why are you in such a hurry?”
“Well, what is urgent?”
“I want to teach martial arts. Is there anything more important than raising disciples?”
Gong Seong-tak sat down with a sigh. “I really don’t like martial arts. I clenched my teeth for twenty years to avenge my parents, but I never liked it. Now that I have avenged my parents, all I have to do is pass the name of our door to the end. And I… I will become a blacksmith.”
“Are you a blacksmith?”
“Okay. Before becoming a Moorim, I was the best blacksmith in the village. A sword or a sword is fine, a hoe or a pickaxe is fine. This is because I am the happiest when I make something by beating iron.”
Gong Seong-tak’s pitiful expression evoked compassion. However, he was not going to help all the poor people in the world, and Gong Seong-tak is no different. Most of all, he felt sorry for the request, thinking that there might be something that both of them would regret later.
As Geom Woo-bin opened her mouth, a worker at her manor came running in a hurry. “Lord Zhang! It was a big deal! It is said that Lady Sehwa’s kiln is on fire!”
“Are you Oh Seongiru?”
As Geom Woo-bin went down her mountain in amazement, she was jumping over the walls of the Blood Lion Dojowon. Everyone seemed to have heard the news.
They then hurried to the city. It took less than half an angle to reach the burning building. “Sehwa!”
Sehwa, with clothes and hair, came running to him when Yeon Jeong-hong called. “Master!”
“What happened?”
“I do not know. A fire broke out while I was working in the morning and eating snacks.”
“Who was injured?” Geom Woo-bin asked, and Kwak Bong came out of the flames. Kwak Bong jumped off the second floor and held one of his men in his arms. Fortunately, both of them were slightly tanned, but there did not appear to be any particular injuries.
“Anyone inside?”
“There are still a few left!” Geom Woo-bin, the Blood Lion, Kwak Bong, and Sehwa ran into the building at the same time. The building, which was mostly made of wood, was burning fiercely and the smoke was suffocating.
“Cool! Cool look!” Sehwa was a little troubled, but the five of them scattered all over the place as if nothing had happened. Soon, one or two people came out of the burning tower.
Sehwa also rescued a worker and escaped, but a worker who had just escaped from the fire shouted. “Malseok! Malseok is still on the third floor! He couldn’t escape because his legs were uncomfortable!”
Do Pyeong-su then grabbed her arm as Geom Woo-bin was about to blow her dead body away. “The death penalty, it’s too late.”
Kiru was already burning wildly like a tree burning a monk in nirvana. “However….”
Before Geom Woo-bin could finish speaking, someone jumped out of the flame. The person who broke through the veil of flames and smoke appeared was Gong Seong-tak holding Mal-seok. He could guess how desperate the situation was from the fact that his sleeve was on fire.
Before Gong Seong-tak, who had descended to the ground, could sigh, the roof fell with a creaking sound. “Avoid everyone!”
As the hilt completely collapsed, it spewed out a mass of flames in all directions. The fire spread to nearby houses, but the damage was not great because preparations were already being made. “It’s fortunate that no one was seriously injured…”
Geom Woo-bin murmured and looked back at her. The thing he was most worried about was Sehwa. Money was money, but wasn’t it like the things he had prepared with all his might had turned to ashes in an instant?
“Is this okay?” Geom Woo-bin asked Sehwa, who was standing there with her blank gaze. Sehwa, who suddenly regained consciousness, smiled forcefully.
“That’s right.”
“Anyway, it’s a little strange, isn’t it?”
Gong Seong-tak, who mumbled while dusting off his clothes, was not hurt. “I mean, in the morning when there are people there, it was a fire, but you couldn’t put it out and burned it?”
“The fire spread so quickly that I couldn’t even use my hands. I rode too fast because of the wood.”
“Wood seems to burn well, but surprisingly, it doesn’t. Big trees that serve as beams don’t catch fire well. However, if the fire spreads quickly, shouldn’t it be considered that the fire was not in one place?”
Geom Woo-bin asked. “Did someone deliberately set the fire?”
“I can’t be so conclusive, but it’s strange to call it a true story, right?”
Kwak Bong, who had been walking around for a while among the people who had been disrespected, ran up to him.
“Lord Zhang! A few people saw flames rising from all three floors at the same time. If I accidentally fire… … It can’t be, can it?”
The approaching Blood Lion, hearing their conversation, hardened his expression. “You mean someone might have set the fire?”
When she had doubts, Sehwa’s eyebrows stood up in the opposite direction. “It’s a questionable situation. There are others who can set fires.”
“Anyone suspicious?”
When Sehwa said her name, it seemed like she was going to catch him right away. “Sister-in-law. We need to get the evidence first.”
“It’s supposed to come out if you grab the evidence and run away.”
“I don’t want to solve it that way. Because it can hurt innocent people. Let’s think about it first.”
After training, they returned to Oseonjangwon. Sehwa’s shoulders, which had died so much grass, drooped to the point of being buried in the ground. His disappointment would be even greater as he was not a gimmick to open up for his own well-being, but a desire to help the people he was working with.
Geom Woo-bin called the Blood Wind Lions to one place. “I don’t think we can leave Sehwa’s work as it is. Oseongiru is not only the hope of Sehwa sandstone, but it is also necessary for our Oseon Manor. We have to sell scammers.”
Of course, even if they were sent to Wuhan, the demand was sufficient, but their pride could not tolerate that they could not sell fraudulent liquor in Hangzhou. “The death penalty, is this necessary?”
Seo Seok-san put the box containing the hermit and the slip on the table first. Then, Jang Man-dok, Do Pyeong-su, and Geum Hong also handed the money to Geom Woo-bin. “I don’t know if the Giru went bankrupt while it was in business, and if someone set it on fire, did you not touch our Oseon Manor? You can’t go back like this.”
Behind Seo Seok-san’s words, Do Pyeong-su opened his mouth. “In my heart, I want to catch all the suspicious people and kill them all, but the death penalty. Since there is a word, we will elaborately catch the culprit.”
“Is there any way to catch it?”
“Sure. Just trust us. heh heh….”
“Then, I will give this money to Sajil Sehwa.”
Sehwa was sitting in the room with a blank expression on her face without even changing her clothes. Her excitable younger brothers came to her with the hope that she could get back to work rather than the money she lost. A pile of hermits and slips were placed in front of her.
“Sah, Sabaek. What’s this?”
“Money to build a new Oseongiru.”
“I can’t take this. Bed bugs also have a mug. How do you get this money?”
“Then are you going to fall down like this and just cry?”
As she bowed her head, the words of Geom Woo-bin continued. “I only fell once. It is natural for the master to grab the arm of the fallen disciple and raise him up. I think of it as a fraternity and family.”
“But this is all the property of Sabaek-nim and his masters.”
“Then don’t blow it up. Be successful and pay it back several times. That’s it.”
In the end, Sehwa shed her tears. She was born as an illegitimate daughter and suffered all kinds of bullying, but she never felt that she was part of her family. Of course, the Blood Lion was not a friendly teacher. She often grieved and occasionally grieved with speed scraping.
Even so, Geom Woo-bin and the Blood Lion became much closer than her family, whom she left behind to Sehwa. In the past, when someone asked, ‘Do you have a family?’, he answered ‘no’ without hesitation, but now the answer to the same question would be delayed and he may answer ‘yes.’
No, it certainly would.
“Thank you. Sabaek-sama and Master-sama all. For sure, for sure! I will succeed.”