115 – Let’s make a bet. (One)

Did you hear me wrong?

No matter how I look at it, I don’t think it’s a word that will come out of the current situation.

I keep looking at my father with puzzled eyes, but as soon as he finishes talking, he takes his gaze away from me.

“My lord.”

“I am listening. tell me.”

“Are you on bad terms with the Namgung Family Head?”

My father responded again to my words. The gaze returns to me from the bookshelves piled high on the tabletop.

“Why do you think so?”

“Because that’s what it feels like.”

Namgoong-jin’s reaction and the reaction my father is showing me now somehow made me feel that way.

‘Did something happen between the two of them?’

My father didn’t answer my question. He just looks at me again, looking at me.

I didn’t affirm it, but on the contrary, I didn’t deny it either.

“Originally, I was going to talk about it at night, but now that it’s like this, you can start talking now.”

‘… Are you thinking of ignoring the question I just asked?’

I didn’t hear the answer, but my intuition seemed that I wouldn’t tell her to the end. I don’t think I’ll get a good response if I ask more.

my father tells me

“First of all, it’s the story of Taeseondan that we promised.”

“Yes.”

Come to think of it, I decided to get something like that.

There was a story about going to Hwasanpa and getting a command if you bring Guryunghwa.

‘… I forgot because I ate so many other things.’

From the demon of the volcano to the Magi of Swordsman and the flower of yesterday. I gained so many opportunities in less than half a year. Thanks to that, the body was somewhat saturated now.

Even Mae Hwa Seon has received other orders.

“It must be poison to you now.”

And my father seemed to know that too.

The amount of bet increased even more because of last night’s energy intake.

Thanks to that, the cleanup of the energy that is currently spinning is not over.

So, there was a feeling that it was too much to eat spiritual altars and add energy.

As I was thinking over and over again about what to do, my father suddenly asked me.

“Have you crossed the wall?”

He straightened his back at his father’s sudden question.

He didn’t look at me, but I knew it intuitively. Just now, in an instant, my father went through my body.

lies don’t work It seemed that everything had already been discovered. It wasn’t even something to lie about in the first place.

Finally, after a moment of hesitation, I came up with an answer.

“… passed.”

“Well.”

My father nodded at my words.

“Feel so good.”

At the same time as he spoke, the corner of his father’s mouth went up slightly. I was embarrassed because it was the first time I had seen my father make such an expression.

‘Are you happy?’

It’s too scary for that.

“It is a state of excellence compared to your age, but do not fall into arrogance and devote yourself.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“If you wish, I can give you Taeseondan as originally promised, but is there anything else you want?”

I know it’s not very helpful right now, so it would have been better if I had received something else. Or you can take it and eat it later.

“I think I need some time to think about it.”

At my words, my father nodded again. It’s meant to give you time to think.

And my father never said anything to me.

I waited to see if I was sorting out the words to be brought out, but the words didn’t come back again.

‘… What?’

This won’t be the end of the talk. why don’t you say anything

After arriving as a volcanic wave, the fight against the beasts, the treatment of the aftermath, etc., in a way, there must have been more important things than my peak.

I even wrote it down moderately in the letter, and I prepared an excuse to say in case of this time.

Father never asked anything.

Instead, he asks me with an expression of why are you still here?

“Do you have anything more to say?”

“… That’s what I want to say, why don’t you ask more?”

“What do you mean?”

“Didn’t you write this and that in a letter and send it?”

For at least three days, he had been thinking about how to talk with Shinnoya. It was written after much thought, but it seems that my father is not interested in it at all.

As if to prove it, my father says it nonchalantly.

“As you said, it was all written in the complete book, so what’s the problem?”

“… Is that enough?”

“It’s a nonsense talk, it seems like the important talk is over, so let’s leave.”

Instead of asking further questions, he resolutely tells them to leave. Are you really not asking this?

It was rather fortunate that I didn’t have to talk about what I had prepared.

This made me feel even more uncomfortable.

It was an unexpected part that I really didn’t ask at all.

‘Although I knew my father had that kind of personality.’

Could it be that there is too much of an interest?

It’s a bit absurd.

Whatever it was, I thought it was better and left the room. Something came to my mind and I told my father.

“Gajunim, there is a Yongbong branch, right?”

There is no answer. But I took it out of my mouth and listened. It was because he remembered that Dang So-yeol had said he wanted to go to the Yongbong Branch.

To be honest, I said it because I thought I would be rejected.

“Dang So-jeo said he wanted to go with me. Can I go?”

“You mean our daughter?”

“Yes.”

Already this year alone, the three went out and came in twice.

Considering that in my previous life, before I became Sogaju, I tied it like a leash and put it in Sega, even this was a big difference.

But at this time, sending me to the Yongbong Branch, where there are overflowing people around me? That’s something that can’t possibly happen… .

“Let me go.”

“Of course it won’t work, I’ll go and say no… I beg your pardon?”

“The invitation to the meeting is already there, so I will send it through the general.”

“… why?”

“Well?”

When I asked back, my father made a strange expression.

No, why are you making that face?

“Why are you allowing this?”

“You’re asking something strange. You asked me to send it, so I said yes.”

“Because it’s strange, do you mind if I go outside?”

“If you want it, do it.”

“… what is this?”

Something was going on strangely, isn’t this supposed to be like this? Why are you allowing it?

It was a very different attitude from his previous life. That change in appearance confuses me even more.

‘What could be the problem?’

It wouldn’t be a small story that would make a difference simply because I had reached my peak, but my father had the same expressionless face as at the beginning.

Something seems to have changed, but I couldn’t figure out what.

“Is there anything else you want to say?”

“… There is not.”

“Then let’s go out now.”

In the end, he stood up in response to the resolute order of congratulations. In the meantime, Shinnoya asks me.

[You’re not saying you won’t go.]

‘You mean the Dragon Feng branch?’

[Yeah, he said he didn’t like long distances anymore.]

‘Well… .’

As Noya said, going out of the house again was not good, and he hated long-distance travel even more.

It was important that the Yongbong branch was held in Hanam.

It wasn’t far from anywhere else, and there were people I needed to meet just in time.

I was waiting for the right time because there was no good excuse, but this was a good excuse.

Although there are still several years left in terms of timing, the sooner the better.

It took a little while to go with Dang So-yeol, but that’s about it.

Thinking so, Noya asks me.

[Hanam. Is Shaolin still in Henan?]

‘It’s Shaolin, of course it’s in Henan.’

Shaolin of Hanam.

It is one of the old file rooms and the most influential among the munpa belonging to the political faction.

It was a story that could be understood better considering that the Moorim Meng was located in Hanam.

And, speaking of Shaolin, there is no proper postscript now, but after a few years, it produced a later postscript to occupy the position of Shinryong, which had been vacant for several years after Peng Woojin.

He was also a person I had a close relationship with in my previous life.

[If you go to Henan, can you go to Shaolin?]

‘Are you talking about Shaolin? why?’

[There is something I want to know a little bit. It’s really all you have to do to go and see it, so please do me a favor.]

‘Can I just go and watch without doing anything else?’

[Okay, just looking at it is enough, so don’t worry.]

It was the first time Noya had asked me to do something like this. If you really just want to go and see, there won’t be any big problems.

I was about to go out of the room after roughly organizing my thoughts, but my father spoke to me from behind.

“for a moment.”

I turned around at my father’s voice.

“I have a schedule after a check-up, so I will send you the location separately so that you can keep yourself tidy.”

“A sudden schedule?”

What schedule do you have? After that, I was thinking of going to see Shinui.

I’m puzzled, so my father follows up. Upon hearing that, my expression changed in an instant.

“I have a conversation about your engagement schedule, so don’t be late.”

‘Ugh.’

It was a place that seemed cumbersome and tired just by listening to it.

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After getting out of the housekeeping room, he went to the annex where Dang So-yeol was staying.

There were unmanned soldiers who seemed to belong to the Tang Dynasty.

When I appear, I just bow my head and show my respect, I don’t block it.

Even a blood relative of the Gu family would not be able to come and go this freely, so Dang So-yeol may have put in a separate word.

As I approach the annex, someone jumps at me.

“Old Confucius!”

“hello.”

He hadn’t even entered the annex yet, but somehow Dang So-yeol knew it and jumped out with a pair of tabi.

“Ah, lady! You should wear something!”

“ah… . hit.”

Tang Xiaoyeol’s attendant hurriedly shouted from behind. It was only then that Dang So-yeol realized what he had come out of and hurried back in and out with a reddened face.

Dang So-yeol reappeared, looking much more calm and tidy than before. I had seen him squirming just before, so I didn’t know how to react.

[Just do it. That would be the most convenient.]

Following Noya’s advice, I just laughed awkwardly.

“Thank you for coming.”

“no. I have something to tell you.”

“If I had to tell you, what… ?”

When I said that I would accept the Yongbongji Hoegeon, which was recommended to me the other day, Dang So-yeol was startled and jumped up and down.

“uh. how… ! Really? really?”

“Yes? Yes… . The head of the family said it was okay.”

Would you like something like that? It was also difficult to see a blood relative of a prestigious family doing something like that.

‘I think he said he was going to Namgungbia too.’

He had said that he would go with me if I was going, but since Namgung-jin even showed up to the Gu family, I didn’t know what would happen.

“When should we leave, what should I wear? What should I wear, what should I bring… ?”

“Dang Sojeo, calm down for now… .”

“I couldn’t bring much because I was in a hurry, but in case you like poison… Oh, you said no.”

The smile I was trying to create was almost broken.

To begin with, ordinary people don’t like poison, girl… .

Does the person in question carry poison to drink? No, does poison have a different taste in the first place?

In a previous life, I had met someone from Tang Dynasty who had become a demon, but it didn’t seem like she carried poison in that way.

It’s just that the resistance to poison is stronger than other warriors?

Could Dang So-yeol have reached that level of obsession?

Looking at Dang So-yeol, who is holding on to his reddened cheeks and smiling, he has a complicated mind.

‘… I think it’s true that he has a crush on me.’

It was more difficult not to know how to react openly like that.

[…] That’s it. You have to react openly like that to notice.]

‘…’

Even in the middle of the day, I hated Shin Noya who tried to give me a pick.

‘Why did you have a crush on me?’

No matter how you think about it, it’s questionable. The only thing I’ve seen in this life was face-to-face for a few days at the party meeting.

We didn’t talk to each other, and we didn’t even see each other. There’s definitely not a single point of interest.

I said while watching the dangsoyeol.

“Dang soo-jeo.”

“Yes Yes?”

“You know I’m engaged… ?”

“… ah.”

[This madman… ! How can I say it so openly!]

Shinnoya was angry, but he had nothing to say. The engagement with Namgung was a fait accompli, and he knew very well that it was a lie to himself to say that he had no feelings for Namgoongbia, let alone Wiseol-ah.

Obviously, Dang So-yeol’s recommendation was a good excuse to go to the Yongbong Branch, but if it was true that Dang So-yeol had a different mind from me, there were too many problems to leave alone.

[To act rationally only at times like this… . I really can’t help but say no.]

‘God Noah… . You just don’t like me?’

[…] It’s only when you notice that you’re quick… . Tsk!]

It was a rather unpleasant story for Dang So-yeol. If I don’t have a heart, I’ll feel bad because it was my guess.

Even if it was true, it was not something to say face to face. I didn’t want to go back and say it, so I chose it.

Dang So-yeol quietly looks into my eyes. Dang Soyeol’s eyes looked sad or sorry.

He chewed his lips for a moment and then spoke to me.

“Okay… It’s okay.”

“Yes?”

Before I can ask what’s okay, another word comes out.

“I could. I am.”

“… What, what?”

Dang So-yeol said boldly, clenching his fists as if he had made up his mind.

The problem is that he didn’t tell me what he said he could do.

And.

[…] What did this dog-like world want to show me?]

A Taoist had to feel betrayed by the world quietly behind the scenes.