A Bowl of Jjajang, The Son-in-Law of Jegalse - Chapter 575



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Episode 575: The Reverse Scale

“But who followed Yeong-yeong? Cheong-i asked me to accompany her, so of course she would have followed Yeong-yeong…”

Mimi heads downstairs with him and he asks who went out today, and Mimi laughs awkwardly.

Mimi answered, looking up at me while holding my arm tightly.

“Everyone left except me. My lord. I wonder what kind of person Aunt Cheonma, no, Cheonhwa, is…”

Since Cheonma was apparently a Westerner, it seemed that the other wives followed her out of curiosity, but it was puzzling that they all left except Mimi.

It was strange that Mimi did not go out while all the other wives went out together.

Usually, six wives hang out together like one body.

“But why didn’t you follow me, Mimi? Are you feeling unwell?”

Then Mimi answered, shivering.

“Auntie, I’m a little scared.”

It seemed that the martial arts of Cheonma that had been shown to Okso-gyo at the main house were still lingering in Mimi’s mind.

Other martial artists might be inspired by that sight, but Mimi’s duty is as a thief, so she feels like she has to run away when she meets someone strong.

‘I guess I need to recharge my minerals to get my courage up.’

It’s precious to see Mimi looking scared, but I can’t just stand by and watch my wife get scared.

I decided to fill Mimi’s mouth with courage.

“Then, I have to give you courage.”

“courage?”

-Churup.

Mimi tilted her head at the words that said it would give her courage, but then turned bright red when minerals were forcibly injected into her mouth.

After a while, Mimi, who was full of courage, whispered softly in my ear and grabbed my hair tie.

“By the way, there’s no one at the spot? Sir. Nang. Gun. Sir.”

It feels like only the other side’s courage has greatly increased.

He said, holding Mimi’s hand tightly, that if her hair tie came off, she would never be able to go out to find Young-young.

“Honey, shouldn’t we go find Aunt Cheonhwa?”

Then Mimi, who was startled, said with a regretful expression.

“Days like this don’t come around very often···.”

“My group, I’ll find some time soon somehow.”

“Really?”

If someone caught it, it wouldn’t end quietly, but what could I do?

You have no choice but to figure it out as you see fit.

In short, all social life is about tricks and intuition.

‘Well, this isn’t social life, but… it’s no different.’

Once we calmed Mimi down and arrived downstairs, we found our mother and Chobin waiting for us.

When the two of them saw us, they got up from their seats at the table and quickly came towards us.

“If you’re going to find Cheonhwa, let’s go together. Even though I have daughters-in-law, I’m worried because it’s Cheonhwa’s first time in the Central Plains. And the concubines too.”

“Okay. Let’s go together, Cheongun-nim.”

Mother’s acting continues like flowing water.

As expected, my mother had a lot of experience, so her acting fundamentals were extraordinary.

Because, regardless of his speech or facial expression, it was an expression and voice that was truly worried about his younger brother, Cheonma.

‘Is this the inner acting?’

“Would you like to do that?”

So, he took his mother and Chobin out and headed to the author’s home.

I don’t know if he’s still with the author, but he was Young-young’s primary destination author.

As we arrived at the author’s house along the beautiful sky road created by the sunset, it was quite crowded with people finishing up their day’s business and people starting their evening business. I asked a familiar street vendor who was wrapping up his business near the entrance about Yeong-yeong’s whereabouts.

“Oh my. It’s been a while since I’ve been here.”

“Ryu Daein? What are you doing here at this hour?”

“Oh, do you know where Young-young is? I came out to pick her up because she was late.”

“Oh, Miss Young-young. Is that what you mean? Miss Young-young passed by here at noon and went to the royal palace.

“On the way, you said that you were beaten up by two people at Baekga’s house and Noga’s skewer shop? The author was making a fuss today, saying that the owners even shed tears.”

“Ah, thank you. I guess I should go to the front.”

As I walked inside the building, saying nothing of the fact that I had been scolded, my mother, who had been following me, came up to me and asked with a worried expression.

“Is Young-young doing something bad to the people of the author? It doesn’t seem like it. How can a black thug do something like that… Even the new religion forbids it….”

As the daughter-in-law of a gangster family, he seemed to be curious about whether Yeong-yeong would bully the merchants, and he snickered at that question.

If it’s an allowance, it’s a candy in the shape of an animal that Yeong-yeong likes.

And if it’s a skewer shop, it probably means a snack that they enjoy occasionally, but when they say they gave me a treat, it clearly means that they increased the sales of both stores today.

“That’s not it······.”

As I was passing through the author’s office explaining the whole story, I just happened to pass a silk shop.

The silk shop owner ran out and grabbed my hand.

“Oh my, Mr. Ryu!”

The reason the silk shop owner welcomed me like this was because he had made sure that I was given priority in receiving the silk products coming from Goryeo.

I was allowed to receive the goods before other merchants because my arms were bent inward, and that’s why they treated me so politely.

“Ah, Songga. Long time no see. How have you been?”

“That’s right! This Songga is doing well day by day under the care of Ryu Daein.”

“Yeah, what’s going on?”

Mimi waves our hands apart as Songa, who is like a wild boar, nibbles at my hand in gratitude.

Song Ga, who saw our fallen hands, smiled awkwardly and answered.

“Ahahaha…. No, while I was at the coffin to take care of some business today, didn’t Miss Young-young come by?”

“Oh, is that so?”

“Yes, you asked if you could buy a hair tie. Instead, the owner of the lumber store next to me who was looking after the store told me that he couldn’t sell it because I wasn’t there. So, I told you to take the hair tie with you. Hehe.”

Song Ga took out a bundle of hair strings from inside her sleeve.

And then he continued speaking, holding it in my hand.

“Please tell Miss Young-young that the hair tie is made from leftover silk scraps, so you can take it whenever you want. I have prepared it so that everyone else can take care of it as well.”

“No, but it’s silk···.”

Song Ga becomes serious after being politely refused once.

“Oh, Ryu Dae-in, if you always help me and even take money for this kind of silk scraps, the author’s people will point fingers at me. Let’s stop and go to sleep.”

When he arrived at the royal court, putting the silk strings he had been forced to accept inside his sleeves and asking about Yeong-yeong’s whereabouts, the merchants all pointed to one place.

“You said you were going to the deserted beach over there to catch clams.”

“Oh, thank you.”

I thought we would go catching clams tomorrow, but Young-young is doing several things in one day.

As I was riding on Mimi’s back, thinking that it was Yeong-yeong, Mimi’s new body shot in the direction where Yeong-yeong had disappeared.

And a little later, a beach a little bit away from Bokju.

I noticed my wives playing on a small white sand beach inside a crescent-shaped rock formation.

“Gyarrr···.”

“Whoa!”

“Auntie, let’s go in too.”

“I don’t really have any thoughts.”

“Don’t do that.”

“···.”

Wives who are laughing while lifting their skirts up to their thighs and wetting their feet in water as if they are so excited about something.

On one side of the sandy beach, Yeong-yeong was pulling a Cheon-ma with an embarrassed expression.

Biyeon and Okryung are together even though they joined at some point.

As we got off on one side, the surprised wives quickly pulled down their skirts and ran towards us.

“Sir, sir. And mother···.”

“Eun-gong… If you could bring your mother, I would appreciate it if you could…”

Sister Maeng-hee didn’t seem too awkward because her basic outfit was a miniskirt, but So-sona and Ga-ryeon seemed embarrassed in front of their mother.

My mother said with a smile.

“It’s okay. It’s just between women, so what? It’s okay, so you can do more.”

“Me, really?”

“Are you okay?”

As expected from someone who uses the art of seduction, my mother has an open mind.

I wondered if it was true that my mother said it was okay for the wives to add more, or if she was just being polite.

“No, let’s go in too.”

And then I could hear Young-young’s voice, still struggling, from the side.

I approached Cheonma, who was struggling not to be dragged away by Yeong-yeong’s hand, and asked him.

“Aunt Cheonhwa, did you have fun today?”

Then, Cheonma’s gaze became very subtle.

Are you kidding me? That was the expression on his face.

‘Have you been through a lot?’

She looked at the nearby Okso Bridge, which was standing alone, and her expression seemed to say that she had given up on everything.

Since it was now something that could not be changed even by changing the friend settings, I smiled at Cheonma and said.

“It seems like the first day of sightseeing was a bit tiring for you?”

It was the moment when I had just finished asking Cheonma that question.

I can hear Young-Young’s voice.

“huh!?”

Yeong-yeong, who was holding my wrist, looked at the sleeve and asked.

“Gaga, what is this?”

It seemed that the hair tie that had been put inside the sleeve while being carried on Mimi’s back had come off.

“The silk shop owner Songga told me to share it with the ladies.”

“Oh, Songga? Where are you looking!”

At Yeong-yeong’s urging, Song-ga took out the silk hair tie that had been given to her and checked it.

The silk string is about three centimeters wide and is surprisingly elaborate, with one end sewn inside out with a needle.

There were seven hair ties in total, dyed in red, blue, green, white, black, purple, and gold.

First, I handed the green one to Young-young.

No matter what anyone says, the color that suits Yeong-Yeong the best is green.

Because it is the color of poison.

“Then Young-young is green.”

“It’s my favorite color.”

And he handed the red one to Mimi, who was next to him.

For Mimi, who is learning the martial arts of the two rivers, the color red is the answer.

“Okay, then Mimi is red.”

“Thank you, my lord.”

Next, for Cheong, of course, it’s blue.

White is a color that reminds me of milk to Garyeon.

Soso is the black color she chose.

After giving the purple color, which is two colors mixed together like two dogs, to Sister Maeng-hee, there was only one color left.

As Yeong-yeong looked at her wives, holding the last remaining golden silk hair ribbon in her hand, she quickly stepped forward and said.

“Oh, that’s a good thing! Aunt Cheonhwa’s hair tie was old. I can give that to you. That’s why I went to the silk store earlier. I was going to give you mine, but it’s the same color as your hair, golden, so it’s the icing on the cake!”

I thought Yeong-yeong needed a hair tie again, but Yeong-yeong said she wanted to change Cheonma’s hair tie.

Yeong-yeong snatched the golden hair ribbon from my hand and ran towards Cheonma as she spoke.

“Auntie, this is just the right time. This silk hair tie is just the right hair tie for you. I’ll untie the old hair tie and replace it with this one.”

And the moment when Yeong-yeong’s hand inevitably touches Cheon-ma’s hair string.

“Young-Young, you can’t!”

A huge shock and the angry voice of the Heavenly Demon surrounded us, along with the urgent cries of the mother.

-Kkung!

“Hey, don’t touch my hair tie!”

“Keuuuuuu!”

As I was struggling to fly backwards with the sand, Mimi suddenly flew in and caught me.

As the sand settled, I saw Cheong-i, who was holding Yeong-yeong in her arms as she flew away, approaching me, and the other wives, her mother, and Bi-yeon Ok-ryeong with surprised expressions on their faces, with Cheon-ma in the middle.

Everyone looks tense at the energy swirling around Cheonma.

‘Damn. The hair tie was some kind of inverted scale.’

I thought it was just a dragon from this world, but it was actually a Heavenly Horse with a reverse scale that would make the dragon get angry like fire if touched.

“Hey, Aunt?”

“Auntie, are you sure it’s the culprit?”

“W, martial arts···.”

Soso, Ga-ryeon, Maeng-hee, and even Bi-yeon and Ok-ryeong are overwhelmed by the energy of Cheon-ma and don’t know what to do.

I felt like I had to quickly resolve this situation and seal the reverse scale.

Everyone gathered here is me and Cheonma’s people, so we’ll be able to handle it quickly, but if we leave it as it is, it’s clear that something big will happen sooner or later.

“I’m sorry, ladies. I lied. Aunt Cheonhwa is not your aunt, but the master of the Cheonma Sect, Cheonma. I hid my identity because you said you were attending the wedding.”

“Hey, Cheonma!?”

“That woman is Cheonma!?”

“Aunt Cheonhwa is Cheonma!?”

“If it’s Cheonma, then it’s the Cheonma of the Shingyo!?”

Yeong-yeong is surprised for the second time, but her expression is one of disbelief.

Cheonma asked with a cold expression, still angry.

“Is this the end for you, Aunt?”

Perhaps he thought that his aunt’s entertainment was over because he had explained everything to her wives, but he shook his head and answered.

“No. How could that be? Our promise still stands. However, since our identities have inevitably been revealed, we have asked for the understanding of those around us to join in on our fun.”

Then, he took the golden silk hair ribbon that Yeong-yeong was still holding and walked towards Cheon-ma and said.

“Perhaps that old hair tie held some precious or sad memories. I’m sorry I didn’t have time to look into it.

“Because it’s normal to throw away old things and replace them with new ones.”

Then Cheonmaja repeated with his sunken eyes.

“When something is old, it is thrown away and replaced with a new one···.”

The feeling of chewing on something.

He said, taking another step towards Cheonma.

“But those are meaningless things. Meaningful things have to be done a little differently.”

A heavenly horse looking at my face.

She seemed curious about what would happen next, so she continued speaking while pulling on one side of her hair tie.

“If you are afraid that you will lose the item that holds your precious memories, you can cover it with beautiful memories to keep it from disappearing.

If it’s an object that holds painful memories, there’s a way to cover it with happy and beautiful memories so that other good memories come to mind along with it.

“If you give me your precious hair tie, I will put it in here so that I can keep it for a little longer.”

At my words, Cheonma’s eyes flickered with complex and subtle emotions, and he earnestly begged in his heart.

‘Can you please let me put it in?’

Because I had to include it