The Farmer Who Ended Up Teaching the World’s Greatest Martial Artist - Chapter 35

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| Chapter 35

“It’s late, so the gate will be locked.”

“What? Then how do we get in?”

“How do we get in? We open the door and go in. We’re not guests. We’re the owners of this family estate.”

Yeo U-hui shrugged her shoulders and approached the gate, then began pounding on the door vigorously. It was certainly immoral behavior for midnight.

But Yeo U-hui didn’t seem to care about such things as she raised her hand and began counting time by lifting her fingers one by one.

And exactly when seven fingers were raised, there was a crashing sound from inside, and the gate burst open as fierce-looking men holding weapons came rushing out.

“Who goes there! An attack… Huh? Ch-Chief!”

“Seven seconds to come out. Not bad. You weren’t dozing off, were you?”

“Ha, haha… With sentries properly standing guard, how could we dare…”

“You say that because you have a record, right?”

“It’s because we have a record that we don’t do that. Haha…”

For having rushed out with such fierce momentum, his expression was quite awkward. As the man scratched his head, Yeo U-hui grinned and said:

“Move aside so we can enter.”

“Ah. Yes. Of course. But who is the person behind you…?”

“You don’t need to know.”

“That’s problematic. From tonight, all outsiders entering the family estate must be recorded in the registry. You know this too, don’t you, Chief?”

“That’s why I’m saying this. He’s not an outsider, so that’s not necessary.”

At the words that he wasn’t an outsider, the man glanced at Yoo Eun-hyun.

That was understandable, since Euiseonsu-ga didn’t have that many members compared to other major sects.

Nevertheless, since Yoo Eun-hyun was a face he’d never seen before, it wasn’t unreasonable for the man to hesitate.

“I’ll take responsibility for what happens later. Don’t worry.”

“If you put it that way… Haha. Please put in a good word for us with the Deputy Chief.”

The man smiled awkwardly as if he had been waiting for Yeo U-hui’s guarantee, but another voice came from behind.

“That won’t be necessary. The person in question has come here directly.”

Breaking the silence came a man’s voice that sounded somewhat frivolous. The man who had somehow approached nearby was holding a lantern that was bright enough to be excessive even for such a night.

“U-jong? You were painting again, weren’t you?”

Yeo U-hui spoke to the man with a surprised expression. Indeed, as she said, the man’s clothes were stained with various colored dyes here and there.

“U-hui. You’re still the same.”

“Hey. I didn’t do it on purpose. There were reasons I had to arrive at this time. Why are you being so cold?”

Yeo U-hui waved her hands good-naturedly with a laugh, but the man frowned as if dealing with such a Yeo U-hui was tiresome.

“What’s the reason for visiting at this late hour? This is something that will be reported all the way to the General Manager, so you’d better speak well.”

Unlike Yeo U-hui who stepped forward without the slightest wavering, the man’s attitude was sharp. At this, Yeo U-hui let out a small sigh. Euiseonsu-ga was a family that had never easily accepted outsiders since ancient times. Such wariness was only natural.

“Eun-hyun?”

“Yes. Aunt.”

The moment he heard the title “Aunt,” the man’s eyes twitched.

“Aunt? Did you pick up some kid somewhere?”

“Your way of speaking… I may be an aunt with no blood relation, but you’re not in a position to say such things, are you?”

“What? What are you talking about right now?”

The man asked back as if he didn’t understand, but Yeo U-hui only shrugged her shoulders. Then she turned her head toward Yoo Eun-hyun and said:

“Eun-hyun. This painter here is called Won U-jong… Let me see. He would be your uncle-in-law.”

“Uncle-in-law?”

Yoo Eun-hyun asked back, but Won U-jong asked back in an even louder voice.

“Uncle-in-law? What are you talking about… Who is whose uncle-in-law?”

“You’re this kid’s uncle-in-law. Eun-hyun’s mother is your wife’s older sister.”

“Ji-seon’s older sister… What? You’re saying he’s Lady Hwa-seon’s son? Really?”

“Why would I tell a lie that would be exposed? Besides, Hwa-seon is here.”

When Yeo U-hui spoke triumphantly, Won U-jong had no choice but to close his mouth. Though he still couldn’t believe the truth of it, Yeo U-hui wasn’t someone who would concoct such an obviously exposed lie.

And if it were true, then Yoo Eun-hyun was definitely not an outsider. No, he was even more of a direct descendant than Won U-jong himself, who was an adopted son-in-law!

“I certainly heard that Lady Hwa-seon had married… Fine, I’ll find out the details tomorrow anyway.”

In the end, Won U-jong had no choice but to let the two pass after holding up his lantern to illuminate Yoo Eun-hyun and examine his face. And Yeo U-hui, watching Won U-jong leave, clicked her tongue and said to Yoo Eun-hyun:

“That guy is still the same. Now, what do you want to do? It’s gotten quite late, but… it would be better to go straight to where Hwa-seon is, right?”

“Yes. Aunt. Thank you for bringing me here.”

“Hoho. I had quite a bit of fun too. And it’s not like we won’t see each other again, so don’t say such things. Come, let’s go. I’ll take you there personally.”

Yeo U-hui began moving quietly, relying only on moonlight as if she was familiar with the interior.

Before long, the two arrived in front of a building.

“This is Suwon-jeon. It’s where the family head lives, so we can’t enter carelessly in the middle of the night.”

Yeo U-hui guided Yoo Eun-hyun to what was clearly the largest building within Euiseonsu-ga.

And unlike before, when she lightly knocked on the entrance, a servant came out from inside, and when Yeo U-hui said something to the servant, the servant went back inside.

“She’ll come out soon.”

As soon as Yeo U-hui finished speaking, the door opened again. Soo Hwa-seon came walking out from inside looking slightly disheveled.

“U-hui, even if you have something to give, if you came late, you should rest and give it tomorrow. What could be so precious that you’d give it…”

Soo Hwa-seon, who had been muttering and speaking like that, saw Yoo Eun-hyun behind Yeo U-hui and froze in place. No matter how much it was the middle of the night and dimly visible in moonlight, there was no way she wouldn’t recognize her son.

“…Son?”

“Mother.”

Yoo Eun-hyun slowly approached and he and Soo Hwa-seon looked at each other without hesitation and embraced. Yeo U-hui, watching this scene, waved her hand and turned away.

After stroking Yoo Eun-hyun’s back for a long while, Soo Hwa-seon separated her son from her embrace and asked:

“Eun-hyun, what on earth is going on? Why are you here?”

“It’s a long story.”

“Is that so? Let’s go inside first. I never thought you’d come to your maternal grandparents’ house like this…”

It was certainly too late at night, and it wasn’t a very good place for conversation, so Soo Hwa-seon first led Yoo Eun-hyun inside.

“Miss? Who is this person?”

“This is my son. He’ll be sleeping in the room with me, so could you prepare some bedding?”

“Ah, your son? I understand.”

At Soo Hwa-seon’s command, the servant looked startled and stared intently at Yoo Eun-hyun.

And seeing this, Yoo Eun-hyun smiled bitterly. How little must there have been talk about him for everyone to have such reactions?

“Please understand. While it’s quite well known that I married, only certain people in the family estate know that I have a child, and this would be the first time actually seeing you.”

“It’s not particularly unpleasant or anything. Those people wouldn’t have known anyway. The person who actually hid everything and didn’t say a word is someone else entirely.”

As Yoo Eun-hyun said this, he glanced up at Soo Hwa-seon meaningfully. Soo Hwa-seon, who immediately understood who he was referring to, coughed and turned her head away.

“How much you must have missed this mother’s embrace to abandon even all the farming and come looking for this place.”

Soo Hwa-seon led Yoo Eun-hyun inside like that. Yoo Eun-hyun also had no intention of staying outside like this, so he followed Soo Hwa-seon who was pulling him along inside.

“Be careful not to trip.”

Since it was the time it was, the inside was dark, but Soo Hwa-seon seemed familiar with the interior as she moved here and there like navigating a maze and entered a room.

“Is this Mother’s room?”

“That’s right. It’s a room I’ve lived in since I was very young. Now that I’m married, it would be reasonable to clear it out… Your grandfather said not to clear it out until he dies. Thanks to that, I’m using it well.”

Soo Hwa-seon’s room had been said to be empty for a long time, but it seemed to be well-maintained as there was no musty smell at all.

Soon a servant brought more bedding, and it became a room with no problem for two people to stay in.

“Now. Tell me what happened. The peaches should be growing well right now, but for you to abandon all that and come here, there must have been something important, right?”

Soo Hwa-seon asked Yoo Eun-hyun with her playful expression erased. And since Yoo Eun-hyun wasn’t sleepy at all despite the late hour, he began telling the story of what had happened, as if lamenting.

“So that day, it was a rainy day…”

Yoo Eun-hyun’s story ended when dawn was breaking and driving away the night.

It took longer because he told everything without hiding anything, including learning internal energy cultivation from Sa Un-sik and learning Mu Dong-hwan-mu from So Bi-won.

She had maintained a consistently gloomy expression throughout listening to the story, and only after Yoo Eun-hyun’s story ended did she open her mouth with a somewhat choked voice:

“I made you suffer too much. Even while you were going through such hardships, this mother was here doing this… It would be natural for you to resent me.”

While Soo Hwa-seon, being from the great family of Euiseonsu-ga, roughly knew the situation in the martial arts world, Yoo Eun-hyun was still a child who hadn’t even been able to go outside.

No matter how grown a child might be, they still look like a young child to their parents, so how much more so for Soo Hwa-seon looking at such a Yoo Eun-hyun.

But in such a situation, the parent who should have been the first to protect and comfort the child was absent, so she felt sorry to the point of even feeling guilty.

And even though Soo Hwa-seon had been away from the martial arts world for a long time, she knew better than anyone the weight that the people Yoo Eun-hyun had met carried in the martial arts world, so she couldn’t help but worry about the future.

“No. Looking back, it seems like it was quite fun in its own way.”

Having told Soo Hwa-seon everything, Yoo Eun-hyun felt somewhat relieved and spoke with a lighthearted expression.

Soo Hwa-seon also didn’t want to ruin their long-awaited reunion by starting with heavy topics, so she spoke with a light smile.

“Hmm. Is that so? Yes. It seems like there were some interesting events too. What are you planning to do about that child called Sa Yeo-un?”

“What do you mean what am I going to do? Didn’t you hear what I said? If I get caught next time, I’ll die.”

“Right. In the martial arts world, it’s better not to get unnecessarily involved in things that seem dangerous for no reason. You’re okay with that, right?”

“I’m not thinking about it.”

“But I wonder if things will really go as planned… You don’t know what kind of person Cheon Se-hyeon-ma is, but he’s someone who never compromises when he wants something.”

When Soo Hwa-seon spoke with a worried expression, Yoo Eun-hyun also recalled Sa Un-sik’s appearance and nodded gloomily.

“He did seem that way.”

“This is one of the other methods, but you could just meet him honestly and talk it out. If you can’t avoid it, shouldn’t you think about confronting it head-on to resolve it?”

“I’ll think about it if I happen to meet him unintentionally later. Just because that’s an option doesn’t mean I need to go around forcing meetings when I might die, right?”

Saying this, Yoo Eun-hyun frowned and changed the subject. There was Soo Hwa-seon’s concern, and there were still other problems remaining.

“But what about the martial arts issue? I ended up lying to my aunt about it.”

“No. You did well. The more people who don’t know about this kind of thing, the better. That aside, an internal energy cultivation method you learned from Cheon Se-hyeon-ma… Hmm. Let’s rest for a bit first and consult your maternal grandfather about this matter.”

“My maternal grandfather?”

At that moment, Yoo Eun-hyun’s eyes widened. Soo Hwa-seon, wearing a gentle smile, nodded slightly.

“Yes. He’s the head of Uiseonsu-ga, right here.”

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