Habuk Pengga Swordsman Genius - Chapter 418



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418. Crows Fly and Pears Fall (5)

As Youngho tilted his head, the soldier shouted at the man in scholar’s clothing.

“I’m going to strike you with a stick, so keep your mouth shut!”

The scholar waved his hand at the soldier’s voice that was like frost.

“Oh, I understand. Don’t shout like that.”

The scholar slowly retreated to the back.

The soldier’s expression softened and he coughed in vain.

“I understand, so I’ll stop.”

The soldier quickly approached the entrance to the village he was guarding.

Thud thud.

The scholar sighed as he watched the soldier walking back with the sound of his boots clanking.

“phew.”

When the soldier left, only Youngho and Seo-saeng remained.

Yeong-ho quietly looked at the wall surrounding Jumun-hyeon.

Zhumen County, the entrance to Hubei Province, was not a very large village.

Because of this, it was possible to completely blockade it with a small force.

Since this was a covert mission, we couldn’t act rashly here.

Youngho’s face was filled with worry.

In some ways, this could be his last mission in the shadows.

This is because the head of the household, Wi Sang-ho, promised that once this matter is over, he would help her come out into the open by giving her a position in the Justice Alliance as a member of the Wisse family.

Youngho has been living in darkness.

I lived as a killer for twenty years from the moment I was born.

In those twenty years of murder, he never once failed.

Until I saw the sword drawn by a certain unmanned person.

That day too, Youngho went about his murderous act as if he was sleeping and eating.

The opponent was bathed in moonlight.

Youngho was aiming at him in the darkness.

The target was dancing with swords under the moonlight.

I was planning to dig in when the sword dance was over and they let their guard down.

When the sweat cools, the mind also calms down.

If you dig into that time, it would be a hundred percent success.

But Youngho couldn’t draw his sword.

Yeong-ho remained as a stone statue with his eyes half-asleep as if he was drunk until the man left.

It is not taken in an abstract sense, but in practice.

In the opponent’s sword dance······.

The sight of the moving target’s blade in the moonlight intoxicated him.

It made me feel like I was floating the moon on my sword.

There are not one but twelve moons in the sky.

I later found out that it was the Moonlight Sword Technique of the Wei family.

When Youngho was unable to move, a voice was heard.

It was the voice of Sang Wi-ho, the head of the Wei family.

From then on, Youngho became Sanghyo’s right-hand man and began to learn the sword of a martial artist rather than the sword of an assassin.

The day is not far when the sword can be shown to the world.

That was when.

An unfamiliar voice woke Youngho from his thoughts.

“I guess you have a reason to come in here too.”

I looked up and saw the clueless scholar I had seen earlier.

Yeong-ho narrowed his eyes and examined the student.

Just like when I saw him before, he didn’t show any clues at all.

Because he had awakened his imagination, which was still filled with hope, with a loud voice.

Despite Youngho’s gaze, the student continued speaking.

“Oh, this is really bad. I have to stop by the Man-geum battlefield······.”

Youngho came to his senses at the scholar’s words.

Since the destination was the Mangum Battlefield, I thought there might be some information there.

Youngho wiped away his annoyed expression and spoke.

“What are you doing on the Man-geum battlefield?”

“I have to deposit money in the Man-geum battlefield, so it’s a big problem.”

“Did you say you were going to deposit the money just now?”

“Yes, it’s a lot of money, so I can’t just take it with me. I have to leave it in the battlefield and get it later… No matter how I look at it, there’s no room to get in. Even if I climb over the fence, the soldiers keep chasing me. I wondered why, but it was the opposite….”

The scholar covered his mouth urgently.

Then he glanced at where the soldier was.

That was the kind of thing that a plague was.

If rumors spread that a plague was spreading in Jumunhyeon, the entire Hubei province would be thrown into chaos.

It is only a matter of time before the chaos spreads throughout Central Plains.

That’s why early response to the epidemic was important.

The first response was a thorough lockdown.

The next step was the entrance exam.

Finally, all that was left to do was wait for the Emperor’s decision.

Fortunately, the soldier just glanced at me and stayed in his position.

Youngho felt burdened by the clueless scholar.

But now, I had no choice but to use the scholar.

Youngho grabbed the student’s sleeve.

The scholar cried out in surprise.

“Why are you like that?”

“Now, be quiet for a moment. Let me talk to you for a moment.”

Youngho grabbed the student’s sleeve and walked towards the bushes a little distance away.

Yeong-ho asked after confirming that the soldier had moved away.

“Are you saying that the security inside is that tight?”

“I took a quick look and it seemed like they came from the Golden Guard. It also seemed like soldiers from Hubei Province had gathered there. They all had their faces covered. It must be the plague······.”

“Shh, lower your voice.”

“Yes, I understand. But······.”

The scholar looked Yeong-ho up and down.

Youngho asked, as if he was shocked by the student’s appearance.

“Why are you doing that?”

“······.”

But the scholar narrowed his eyes and looked at Yeong-ho again. The scholar tilted his head and continued speaking.

“I see you’re a martial artist······.”

“Yes, I am a martial artist.”

“Then, can I ask you a favor?”

“Please······.”

“Please escort me.”

“that······.”

“I’m worried because I have a lot of money. I have to leave it in the battlefield and go… But that’s not possible right now.”

“How much money do you have to do that?”

“Well, about two thousand nyang of gold······.”

When the student trailed off, Yeong-ho opened his eyes wide.

Two thousand taels of gold would be enough for several years’ budget for the entire Hebei Province.

No, it could have been more than that.

It was an amount of money that matched the amount he had entrusted to the Man Geum battlefield as an errand boy for the Wisise family.

At that moment, Youngho’s eyes lit up.

It seemed like I wouldn’t have to go through all the trouble of finding money on the battlefield.

You’re telling the people of Murim how much money you have?

The opponent was clearly a scholar who did not know the ways of the world.

He would stay by my side under the pretext of escorting me and then take my money. That would be it.

“Okay. If you pay the appropriate fee, I will escort you.”

“The best wage I can give is a big one!”

The scholar raised one finger.

In that moment, Youngho’s eyes widened.

“A piece of gold······.”

“No, it’s just a piece of iron. It’s not my money, so I can’t spend it carelessly.”

The scholar pointed to his bosom.

Youngho swallowed dry saliva for a moment.

I was convinced that the scholar really did have that much money.

If he had said it was one nyang of gold, Youngho probably wouldn’t have believed it.

Isn’t there a saying that those who have more are the ones who suffer the most?

It was clear that the scholar had received a thorough education at home.

When Youngho was unable to control his expression, the student asked.

“You don’t like it? It’s not a total of one iron coin, but one iron coin per day.”

“Hmm, good. I’ll escort you.”

Youngho gave a small gift to the student.

The scholar laughed heartily at that sight.

“Haha, that’s good. Please take care of me, Musa.”

“Yes, but there is one condition.”

“What are the conditions?”

“I have someone I need to serve. I need to drop by nearby to send a letter.”

“Where are you going to send the letter?”

“I don’t know if you’ve heard of Haomen.”

“Can I come and look around?”

When the student smiled awkwardly, Youngho nodded.

“It’s not that difficult. Okay. Instead······.”

“Instead? Do you need money?”

“No, that’s not it. Just stay quiet.”

Youngho put his lips to his index finger.

Haomen was a place that Hubei’s martial artists would frequent like their own home.

It didn’t matter if I revealed my identity or went to Haomen with him.

No, rather, I was in a situation where I had to take her even if she said she would wait here.

That way, you can steal the money the scholar has.

When the student nodded, Yeong-ho quietly went ahead.

That was when.

The student who was following behind asked.

“Where do you usually go, sir?”

“Hmm, I have to go all the way to Yangju-hyeon, Hanam······.”

Youngho, who was speaking, turned his head.

Come to think of it, I didn’t ask the student where he was going. I thought that my plans might have gone awry if I wasn’t careful.

Then the scholar smiled brightly and continued speaking.

“I’m glad I got to go there too.”

“That’s fortunate.”

Youngho felt relieved inside and moved forward again.

* * *

Two hours later.

The place where Youngho arrived was where Haomen’s Hubei branch was located.

They were standing in front of a store selling bamboo crafts.

The store clerk in red glanced at the student and then his expression changed.

A clerk who instinctively lowers his head.

But the clerk soon erased his expression and turned his gaze to Youngho.

“How did you come here?”

“Can you float me a snail?”

“Of course. Come this way.”

The clerk guided Youngho into the interior of the store.

The entrance was an ordinary store, but as we went inside, endless passageways appeared.

The clerk guiding them and Youngho, who followed them, passed through the passage without a problem.

However, the student following him simply walked around, looking around.

Youngho had to keep looking back to check on that student.

The scholar looked around the Hubei branch of the Haomen with a curious look, as if he were looking at another world.

The more this happened, the more Youngho became certain that the scholar was just an ordinary young master from a wealthy family.

I didn’t notice it before, but now that I look at it, the guilt was running down his face, and it seemed like this rich family wasn’t your average rich family.

Yeong-ho was so busy checking on the student following him from behind that he was out of his mind.

At that moment, the clerk who was walking ahead stopped.

A dead-end passageway with all sides blocked.

At the end of the passage was a red room.

There were a few pigeons cooing softly in the room.

Old. Old. Old.

Next to the cage where the pigeons were kept was a pile of small pieces of paper, and next to that was a neat row of thin brushes.

That was when.

The scholar’s thin voice rang in my ears from behind.

“I’m sorry, sir, but······.”

Youngho turned his head at the sound of gears moving in.

There, the scholar was fidgeting and sweating profusely.

At that sight, Youngho asked urgently.

“Why are you doing that?”

“I think I have to go to the back room.”

Yeong-ho ground his teeth at the scholar’s words.

The seemingly innocent scholar was strangely getting on his nerves.

Youngho collected his expression and looked at the clerk.

The clerk quickly approached the student and spoke.

“Come this way. The passage is narrow, so if you solve it here, you’ll be in big trouble.”

“all right.”

As the student nodded, the clerk in red quietly took the lead.

When everyone disappeared, Youngho nodded and picked up a brush.

Youngho wrote down on a piece of paper what he wanted to send to Gaju.

Swish. Swish.

As the brush stopped moving, Youngho grabbed one of the poles on the side.

Then he folded the note as thinly as possible, put it in a small pouch, and closed the lid.

Then he lifted one of the cages and caught one of the pigeons inside.

The pigeon here was not Haomen’s.

It was a pigeon that someone had left in charge.

The cage that Youngho had just lifted contained the pigeon he had entrusted to him.

Because of this, Haomen also does not know the destination of this pigeon.

There was no way to know the contents of the message carried by the pigeon.