Episode 1228 I don’t know. (3)
“Aren’t you standing up straight?”
“⋯⋯.”
“You told me to stand up straight?”
Hyungwook’s expression was just devastated. Don’t people have their own common sense? Anyone who encounters the sight of escaping from there would be embarrassed.
Of course, if you keep your mind wide open, you can somehow understand it.
The menacing men who defeated the evil thugs of the fearsome scam group with a single sword suddenly start beating up their colleagues like catching rats, and the fact that the person wielding such violence is even the youngest-looking person among the group… can somehow be understood.
But…
‘Isn’t this a bit too much?’
It wasn’t shocking to see him, who looked the youngest, craving another person in front of him.
Except that the person who became the target of that greed and became sullen was not a person but an animal.
“If you go the other way in the middle, it will leak.”
“⋯⋯.”
“If I think you can run while taking some rest, I will also get a suitable scarf. Do you know what I mean? Even if we live, we must die together, and if we die, we must die together!”
“Cheongmyeong. Even if we live, we live together.”
“That’s it!”
“It’s a lot different…”
“anyway!”
Cheongmyeong glared at Baekah as if he was going to eat her, then took something out of his arms and waved it in front of the black nose.
“This is the Manlijeong that that beast palace lord gave me… Thousand miles… Anyway, something like that. You said that you can smell this scent from thousands of miles away, so if you feel like it’s even a little late, you’ll really be gone. okay?”
“⋯⋯.”
“Did you understand?”
Baek-ah, who had a small bag hanging around her neck, nodded with a sullen face.
“Tsk!”
Cheongmyeong clicked his tongue and looked at Baekah as if he couldn’t trust him at all.
“Anyway, you have to be able to trust it!”
Despite the unbelievable sight, the people around them were just calm.
“Well… I can’t help it. “Let’s go.”
Kiyi!
Baek-ah turned around.
“I’m really asking you to be straight… hey! I’m not finished talking yet! hey!”
Baek-ah ran with all her might without even looking back and disappeared in front of Cheongmyeong.
“Wow, look at the speed.”
“That’s really fast.”
“You’ll be there in almost a day, right? “What’s so urgent?”
“⋯⋯You’d rather just run than listen to that nagging. “I would say the same thing.”
“I agree.”
Everyone shook their heads as they saw Cheongmyeong shaking his fist and screaming behind Baekah, who had already moved away.
Cheongmyeong, who had lost his appetite after losing his prey, suddenly turned his head and looked at Lim So-byeong. Lim So-byeong, who flinched, busily rubbed his blue-stained eyelids.
Cheongmyeong opened his mouth.
“you also! “Maybe…”
“Are you saying that if you don’t properly rescue people, you will be defeated?”
“That…”
“And you’re telling me that if it gets out that the rotten Sapa bastards have been rude to people, they’ll rip you off?”
“Jeol⋯⋯.”
“The cliff we passed by would be difficult for ordinary people to pass through, so did you write in the letter that we should take another route instead of that one?”
“⋯⋯.”
Cheongmyeong was speechless. Lim So-byeong smiled triumphantly and opened his fan.
“Hehehe! Who am I! This green forest king, Lim So-byeong, is the right-hand man of the Hwasan Swordsmen and carries out his orders perfectly ⋯⋯. “Aaaah!”
Lim So-byeong, who was struck in the middle of his forehead by the flying sword sheath, rolled around on the floor.
“Who’s the right hand man, who! You Sapa bastard! Some bastard using the Chinese character evil is trying to invade the body of a sacred Taoist! “I’m the bastard, I used to be the one who wouldn’t even drink water within a five-mile radius, let alone get sick with the Sapa bastards!”
Baekcheon sighed as he watched Cheongmyeong catch Lim So-byeong again. And he took his gaze away from that area and spoke to Hyeong-wook.
“Never mind.”
“⋯⋯Yes.”
“More than that…”
He said after clearing his complexion.
“No matter how late, the people who will take you will arrive within five days, so you just have to wait until then.”
Hyeong-wook looked at Baek-cheon with a face that did not know what to do.
“Warrior… I’m really… I’m really sorry. “I didn’t mean to say that…”
“I know.”
But Baekcheon calmly shook his head.
“I did not take action reluctantly because of blame. “I just corrected it because I learned something new that I didn’t know before.”
“How shall we repay this grace…?”
Baekcheon smiled wordlessly as Hyungwook was unable to form words out of gratitude, apology, and embarrassment.
“If you really appreciate it, please tell us the story you told us when you go to Gangbuk. “If people there ask you the reason, just tell it as it is, without adding or subtracting anything.”
At that moment, Hyungwook’s complexion became slightly pale.
This is because he could guess how his fellow warriors would react if they found out about the shameless act he had committed.
But Baekcheon seemed to have guessed such concerns and shook his head.
“They are not like that.”
“⋯⋯.”
“The reason I’m asking this is because they need to know what the people suffering in Gangnam are going through and how they feel.”
“Warrior…”
“We are not as great as you think. It’s just that I know how to swing a sword better than others. “You may think that we know about it but ignore it, but the truth is that there are many things we don’t do anything about because we don’t know.”
“Ah…”
Hyungwook nodded as if he understood what I meant.
“So, please tell it as it is, without any additions or omissions. “The reward is enough.”
Hyungwook nodded with a stern face. Even if he gets criticized, he seems determined to keep his word.
Baekcheon smiled as he looked at that solemn face.
“Well, we’re busy on the road, so we’ll just go.”
“I may be an uneducated and ignorant person, but I know that these are people whose feet should not be held up by polite words. So, I just wish you good health with all my heart.”
“yes.”
Those who were watching their conversation from behind smiled at Hyungwook and turned around.
“Then pay attention!”
Tang Xiaoxiao smiled brightly and waved his hand.
Those who had been fed by her came to the entrance and looked at Cheon Woo-maeng and his group leaving, but they still could not easily reply or say hello. I just watched, not knowing what to do.
However, Tang Xiaoxiao bowed his head with a wrinkled face and turned around. Because I know that if they keep looking at me, the burden they will feel will increase.
“Let’s go!”
“okay.”
Cheon Woo-maeng and his party moved away in an instant.
Those who were staring at the scene in a daze took turns looking at the road they had left and the grain piled up in the center of the village.
In silence, an indescribably complex expression appeared on their faces.
“Hyungwook, you are there…”
“Don’t say anything.”
Hyungwook sighed deeply.
“I was swearing at the Sapa guys, calling them animals… “When I really think about it, I feel like I’m just like an animal.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Huh…”
Hyungwook, with his shoulders slumped, headed towards the house where his father was lying in bed. The village people stared at his back with complicated faces.
Paaaaat!
Those led by Lim So-byeong ran like the wind.
Time was delayed due to something unexpected. To make up for it, I needed to speed up even if it meant taking a bit of risk.
Baekcheon, who had been running in silence for a while, glanced sideways at Cheongmyeong, who was running next to him. He was looking straight ahead with an expressionless face the whole time.
Baekcheon sighed briefly and looked ahead again. This was inexcusably his fault.
Because my field of vision was so narrowed, I couldn’t even think about having someone next to me who could be of use. He was disqualified not only as the leader of the party, but also as Hwasan’s deputy.
But there was something else that really complicated Baekcheon’s mind.
Only this time, thanks to the Green Forest King, I was able to somehow find a solution. But what would you have done if you were in the same situation and there was no Green Forest King by your side? Was it really a question with an answer?
“I have a lot on my mind.”
At that time, a harsh voice pierced Baekcheon’s ears. Baekcheon sighed involuntarily. Anyway… this guy doesn’t miss a single detail.
Cheongmyeong said.
“There’s no need to make it complicated.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Because things in the world are not always as simple as you think. “There is never a perfect solution that will satisfy everyone.”
“⋯⋯.”
“But those who lead must provide answers even in the midst of all this. “That’s why it’s difficult.”
Baekcheon nodded.
“Are you thinking about what you would have done if the Green Forest King wasn’t there?”
“⋯⋯How did you know?”
“Tsk tsk. Dongryong, Dongryong. “Why on earth do you overestimate yourself so much?”
“⋯⋯.”
“No one shows their thoughts on their face as well as you, but I heard you know that you are a very serious person and good at hiding your true feelings.”
“Okay.”
Cheongmyeong laughed and shrugged his shoulders.
“What answer is there?”
“⋯⋯.”
“It is foolish to try to find an answer to an unanswerable problem.”
“Then…”
“The important thing is not finding an answer that doesn’t exist. “You don’t create such problems in the first place.”
“huh?”
Baekcheon looked puzzled and asked back, and Cheongmyeong let out a long breath.
“That’s why it’s a volcano, and that’s why it’s a natural disaster.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Get rid of the arrogant idea that just because you become an assistant manager, you have to shoulder everything and make the right decisions. It’s not because I don’t have enough private accommodation. “No one in all of history has ever done something like that.”
Baekcheon closed his mouth.
“Both the founder and our ancestors knew that it would be difficult, so they created a clan and gathered people. Even that wasn’t enough, so we joined forces with more factions and gathered opinions. “If just one person adds strength, we can do more.”
Baekcheon, who had been listening quietly, opened his eyes slightly.
He knew it too. No, rather, I knew it all too well.
Still, I completely forgot about it.
“This wasn’t something we could have done because of the Green Forest King. He only had the King of Green Forest, so he could only do that much. “If the Ghost Gate had come together, it would have been faster, and if the Great Gate Sect had come together a few more times, the Sapae-ryeon bastards wouldn’t have been able to set it up like this in the first place.”
“⋯⋯I see.”
“The answer Sa-suk was looking for is where she is going now. Negotiation is not everything. “If more people believe in and put into practice what Sasook believes in, we will end up in a world where problems without answers do not exist in the first place.”
Cheongmyeong, who had been speaking quietly, suddenly clicked his tongue with a displeased expression.
“So don’t think about unnecessary things, just look ahead and run. “If you run, the day will come when you will find the answer.”
“⋯⋯For a young bastard to say trivial things.”
“that’s right.”
“You’re so cheeky, Assistant Manager Jang Moon!”
“That bastard needs to be disciplined!”
“What?”
A playful voice came from behind. Baekcheon smiled slightly. I felt like I understood the meaning of Cheongmyeong’s words.
‘There’s nothing wrong with worrying.’
The important thing is not not to worry, but to persevere in your own path. If reaching an agreement was that easy, why is the word “consultation” gradually disappearing from the world?
It is a path that you choose yourself and a path that you believe in. So, we have no choice but to push forward with more confidence.
Those who are running behind him now and those who are watching him from afar will help.
“⋯⋯This is not the time to waste time talking nonsense, so let’s hurry!”
“yes!”
Baekcheon kicked the ground first and shot forward. Hwasan’s disciples and small lords from other sects also followed closely behind.
Cheongmyeong laughed as he looked at the backs of those running out first.
“They are really hard-working people.”
Taaaaaaa!
Soon, he too ran quickly along with the group.
The destination was south.
Haenam, the furthest place from Jungwon.
