The Farmer Who Ended Up Teaching the World’s Greatest Martial Artist - Chapter 109

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| Chapter 109

“Just two rooms.”

“Yes. Understood. The amount is…”

As Ju Yu-ryeon held out silver coins from behind Yoo Eun-hyun, who was about to pay for the rooms, Yoo Eun-hyun turned his head.

“Where did you get money?”

“Heh. I got some pocket money from mom.”

“You said you didn’t like nagging, but you took everything you could get, huh?”

“That’s that and this is this. Haha.”

Seeing Ju Yu-ryeon speak proudly with her hand on her hip, Yoo Eun-hyun thought of Yeo U-hui inwardly.

‘Giving pocket money even though she knows it’ll mostly be spent on useless things… Aunt also doesn’t match her words with her actions.’

And that was probably the heart of a parent too. The contradictory heart that nags a fat child to lose weight but still packs plenty of food for fear they might go hungry.

“Yes. Thank you. Please go to the second floor.”

After the waitress received the remaining payment and the two stepped back, a customer who had finished eating inside approached the waitress as if he had been waiting.

“How much is this?”

“Yes. It’s two nyang. Thank you. Please come again.”

The customer paying for his meal and leaving looked somewhat hurried, and Yoo Eun-hyun, who had been glancing at him, said to Ju Yu-ryeon.

“He left after seeing us come in, right?”

“Yeah. Seems like someone planted him there…”

“Who could it be?”

“Well. Looking at how clumsy he was, it doesn’t seem like we need to worry about it much.”

The two tilted their heads in confusion, but before long they could find out who had been waiting for them.

“Hyung-nim! Nu-nim!”

When the waitress said someone was looking for them and they went downstairs, Ho Won was waiting for the two.

“Huh? Won Jik, you…”

Yoo Eun-hyun looked at Ho Won with a surprised expression, but Ju Yu-ryeon went even further.

“Ah. Right. This guy was here.”

“No way. You forgot about me?”

“No, I didn’t forget.”

Anyone could see she had forgotten, but Ju Yu-ryeon lied without even blinking, and Yoo Eun-hyun wasn’t shameless enough for that, so he let out an awkward laugh.

“So many big things have happened recently that I did forget for a moment. Haha.”

“Isn’t that too much as a human being? I was anxious trying to contact hyung-nim or nu-nim somehow.”

“Hey. For someone saying that, weren’t you too quiet until we came here?”

The fact that the two had forgotten about Ho Won was partly because there had been no contact from Ho Won while they were staying at the Dang Family.

At first, they had certainly been curious about Ho Won’s whereabouts, but the matter regarding Jeokgang Doksi was such a big deal that they had momentarily forgotten.

“Hyung-nim. Don’t even mention it. Do you know what it means to approach the Dang Family right now? If you get wrongly involved, it’s the end.”

As Ho Won said this while making an intuitive gesture near his neck, flicking his hand back and forth to indicate heads flying off, Yoo Eun-hyun lightly smacked the back of Ho Won’s head.

“What exaggeration. You fool. Do you think someone is blind? It was hard to come directly since Jeongdo and Mado were watching closely, but it wasn’t so hard that you couldn’t send a single letter.”

“Eun-hyun is right. You probably just wanted to live like you used to after being treated well at Hunzak Gate, didn’t you?”

Not only Yoo Eun-hyun but also Ju Yu-ryeon each said something telling Ho Won not to exaggerate, but Ho Won, who would normally shrink back, grinned and wagged his finger with an unpleasant expression and clicked his tongue.

“Tsk tsk tsk. You people don’t know anything. Do you think I, who am the small leader of Chukhoban, would be scared of mere Qingcheng Sect or Ami Sect guys?”

“Didn’t Cheonmu Alliance come too? I heard one of the Ten Fingers, Yeonggeop Binghan, is also there.”

“I already knew that too… Ugh! Shh! Shh! Don’t talk about such things in a place like this! Let’s move locations first.”

Ho Won was about to say something but then realized where they were and looked around anxiously while quickly covering his mouth. And this time Ju Yu-ryeon also said something to Yoo Eun-hyun.

“This is your fault, Eun-hyun. This isn’t the Dang Family. Even if we all know what we know, this isn’t something to talk about casually anywhere.”

“Right? As expected of nu-nim.”

When Ju Yu-ryeon unusually took Ho Won’s side, Ho Won brightened up with a triumphant expression, and Yoo Eun-hyun, who inevitably lacked common sense in such matters, could only tilt his head.

“Is that so? Then shall we go to the room?”

“This inn won’t do. There’s no security at all.”

“What nonsense. Before, I talked about entering Ma-gyo and all that, but was that talk that didn’t need security?”

“It’s different from then. Back then no one was paying attention to us, but now surveillance eyes are on us too. You both came here without caring about concealment or anything, just came straight, right? If someone wanted to track your movements, it would be too easy.”

“That’s true too.”

Certainly the situation was different from when they first came to Chengdu. Back then it wasn’t this bad, but now even walking around the streets, you could feel martial artists everywhere, either wandering around or lying in ambush.

“Then shall we move locations? I have a place I’ve checked out.”

Eventually the three went outside and secretly used lightness skills to avoid being detected as much as possible, heading to a tea house somewhat distant from Ilcheon Guesthouse.

The tea house named Nokmae Tea House looked quite luxurious and even had private rooms, and after getting a room and entering, Yoo Eun-hyun said to Ju Yu-ryeon.

“When did you come here before?”

“Come here? Where would I have gotten money before? I heard rumors while wandering around gathering information before and thought I should come check it out once.”

“What rumors?”

Yoo Eun-hyun asked back, but before Ju Yu-ryeon could answer, an employee came in to take their order, and Ju Yu-ryeon quickly answered as if she had been waiting.

“Please give us tea, alcohol, and simple snacks here.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

A young female employee with slightly downcast eyes nodded small at Ju Yu-ryeon’s order and left the room, and her appearance had such elegance that Yoo Eun-hyun thought it was indeed a high-class tea house, then quickly turned his head to Ju Yu-ryeon.

“Alcohol?”

“This is a tea house but they also sell alcohol.”

“Why?”

“It’s that kind of place originally. This looks like a calm tea house on the surface, but it’s also a place for people of high status to secretly enjoy drinking from broad daylight.”

“Do they really need to drink to that extent?”

“People of high status have something called dignity. My situation is different though.”

Seeing Ju Yu-ryeon speak while licking her lips, Yoo Eun-hyun gave up saying anything more. Well, someone who drinks alcohol every other day had been resting for quite a while, so her mouth would be itching.

Saying anything more would just be nagging in place of Yeo U-hui, so he had no desire to be bothersome either.

“Nu-nim is still the same.”

“Do you still like that about her?”

“That’s nu-nim’s charm.”

“Since when is being a drunkard charming…”

Yoo Eun-hyun made an incredulous expression, but regardless, tea and warmed alcohol soon came out, and Ju Yu-ryeon picked up a wine cup as if she had been waiting and asked.

“Do you guys want a drink too?”

“I’m fine.”

“Please give me some.”

Yoo Eun-hyun shook his head, and Ho Won did receive a cup from Ju Yu-ryeon, but since it was broad daylight, he only sipped little by little to wet his throat.

“Kyaa… I’m alive.”

Of course, Ju Yu-ryeon immediately downed a full cup and let out an exclamation, and after Yoo Eun-hyun also took a sip of tea, he left Ju Yu-ryeon alone and asked Ho Won.

“Let’s leave that drunkard alone. Now tell me. How is the Mado side?”

“But is it okay to just talk about this freely… No, hyung-nim and nu-nim aren’t Jeongdo so it should be fine. The power struggle here has nothing to do with our Chukhoban anyway.”

“Kid. We know what we need to know. And it’s obvious anyway. Centered around Hunzak Gate, some masters from Ma-gyo must have been dispatched.”

“Huh? How did you know?”

“It’s obvious. Since Jeongdo is doing that, Mado would naturally do the same. We just don’t know who came.”

Ho Won asked back with a surprised expression, but Yoo Eun-hyun responded as if asking what was so surprising about that, and Ho Won also nodded thinking that made sense, he just hadn’t realized it.

“From Cheonmu Alliance, they say Yeonggeop Binghan So Jeong-dan was dispatched.”

“Right. Who came from the Ma-gyo side? To match the level, it would have to be around Ten Fingers level, right?”

“Yes. Cheon Yeom-eumhwa U Si-rang, the leader of Sohyeol Wongeomdae, is at Chukhoban.”

“Oh. I’ve heard of him. What kind of person is he? Have you met him?”

“Ugh… No. I absolutely don’t want to meet him.”

“Why?”

Yoo Eun-hyun asked back, but instead of Ho Won, Ju Yu-ryeon, whose tongue was starting to get twisted from however much she had drunk, answered instead.

“Cheon Yeom-eumhwa U Si-rang has a bad personality. They say he’s someone who has the ability to solve problems but makes things complicated. And he enjoys watching people around him suffer because of it, then enjoys solving it at the end.”

“What? That’s the worst? But why did Ma-gyo send such a person to a place like this?”

When Ju Yu-ryeon didn’t answer Yoo Eun-hyun’s question because she was drinking, this time Ho Won answered.

“First, he’s absolutely loyal to the current Cheonma, and even though he creates problems, he solves them all himself. In the end, it’s problem-solving! Something like that.”

“As expected of Mado people, very twisted…”

“He’s faithful to his desires.”

“When you say it, it sounds very convincing.”

“Haha. Well, that’s just how it is.”

Ho Won-jik was also a member of Mado, and seeing how he had blindly followed because of his desire for Ju Yu-ryeon, it could be said that Ho Won-jik was indeed an excellent Mado-in.

“But? There must be something else going on for all this chaos to happen, right?”

“Yes. That’s actually why I escaped too. It was about 3-4 days ago, wasn’t it? Suddenly there was a massive movement from Maegyo. From what I heard, two units of Cheonhwangpaeundae, one unit of Amyeong Jincheon-dae, and Mangakjibwondae to support intelligence all departed from Maegyo simultaneously.”

“3-4 days ago? That’s when I escaped from Maegyo, isn’t it?”

“Huh? Is, is that so? Well… it probably has nothing to do with you, right, hyung-nim?”

At Ho Won-jik’s question, Yoo Eun-hyun fell into thought for a moment. If he were to draw a simple conclusion without much thought, it would be right to assume they were pursuers sent after the escaped Yoo Eun-hyun, but with just a little consideration, it didn’t make sense either.

No matter how important Yoo Eun-hyun was, sending over 100 experts just to track down one person didn’t make sense.

It might make sense if it were to prevent someone already found from escaping, but for finding someone, information was more important, so while one or two people might be insufficient, about 10 would suffice—there was no need for as many as 100.

“If they were going to pursue me, they would have done it long ago. It doesn’t make sense to stay quiet when I was escaping and then suddenly swarm out. It’s probably just a coincidence.”

And even if Doyangju had been delivered to Sa Un-sik, he would have secretly sent people to Yoo Eun-hyun to have him return to Maegyo, so Yoo Eun-hyun had no choice but to conclude that this matter had nothing to do with him at all, and that was also the rational conclusion.

“That’s probably right. And though it’s not certain, there are even rumors that Maun Hwansaldae came out too. No matter what, they wouldn’t do all this just to catch you, hyung-nim. With this level of force, they could sweep away even Ami-pa and Cheongseong-pa completely.”

“Then in the end, aren’t they preparing for a collision with Jeongdo? If things go wrong, it could become an all-out war, couldn’t it?”

“Probably so, right?”

Though Yoo Eun-hyun asked back, Ho Won-jik could find no other answer besides that one, so he nodded, but Yoo Eun-hyun had one more thought.

“Or maybe they’re not just planning to sanction the Dang Family, but to completely annihilate them?”

Normally, unless there’s a terrible grudge, they don’t completely annihilate an entire sect or family. They usually finish by eliminating the experts who form the sect’s strength, seizing various interests, and then sealing the sect.

But according to Ho Won-jik’s words, Maegyo had now brought out sufficient force to annihilate the Dang Family, so it wasn’t unreasonable for Yoo Eun-hyun to think that way.

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