The Five-Year-Old Baby Princess Rules the Palace - Chapter 74

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#74. I Am This Country’s Prince Consort

“Goodness, is that really true? I am truly amazed!”

Lady Han, who had sprung up with a surprised expression while gently grasping Eunhye’s hand, looked back at the path they had run down.

“By the way, will Lady Park really be able to find us well?”

Eunhye nodded her head toward the worried-looking Lady Han.

“Don’t worry. Uncle can also see spirits like me, so he will surely see Master Choi and follow him.”

“Ah…”

Lady Han, who slowly nodded at the miraculous fact that was unbelievable yet had to be believed, firmly grasped Eunhye’s hand and began walking quickly forward.

However, the anxiety creeping up from the depths of her heart had not completely disappeared. What if, as Princess said, the spy sent by Lord Jeongbin had fallen from his horse, but what if he was better than expected and could walk?

If such a situation arose, would she really be able to defeat that bastard?

Lady Han quietly let out a heavy sigh, hoping that Lady Park would not be late.

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“Is anyone here! Urgent message, is no one here!”

Jihoo, who had slipped into the shop at the very end of Paper Goods Alley, looked around in confusion, turning his head this way and that.

Surely, they said it was the house at the very end of Paper Goods Alley on Yuk-eui-jeon Street, but isn’t this the place? Why can’t I see anyone?

“Is anyone here? Ahhh!”

Jihoo, who was calling for people once more as if screaming, was startled by a suddenly appearing figure and sat down hard.

“Geez, making such noise that one can’t even take a shit… Just how urgently do you need to buy paper?”

On one side of the face of the man who walked out slowly while tying his trouser strings, a scar that was clearly a knife wound was clearly visible. Jihoo, who licked his lips with his tongue and swallowed dry saliva, jumped up and thrust out the red tassel he was holding in his hand.

“This!”

Then the man, who instantly changed his lazy eyes to sharp ones, firmly grasped Jihoo’s hand.

“What is this! What happened to the one who gave you this!”

Jihoo tried to calm his trembling voice in surprise and conveyed exactly what Park Jeong-bin had told him to say.

“He said to tell you ‘Princess Eunhye suddenly disappeared in front of Wunjong Pharmacy’ and then went to ch-chase after someone.”

Wheeeet!

As soon as Jihoo finished speaking, the man put two fingers in his mouth and blew a long whistle. Then, from the empty shop, men dressed in black mourning clothes suddenly burst out!

In the eyes of Jihoo, who gasped in shock, he could see tassels tied with the same knots as the one he had brought, attached to the sword sheaths at their waists.

“Young Lord, return home now. And forget completely about coming here today. Only then will you preserve your life. Understand?”

The man who finished speaking distributed papers with Eunhye’s face drawn on them to each of the men in black mourning clothes, having prepared them at some point.

“Everyone must move secretly. Signal immediately upon finding Princess and bring her here.”

“Yes!”

The men in mourning clothes raised their right hands to their chests in response, then instantly rushed out of the shop and disappeared like smoke.

The scarred man looked at Jihoo, who was still standing in the shop, frowning and tilting his head.

Then he slowly approached and lowered himself toward Jihoo’s sweat-soaked face, asking in a rough voice.

“If you’ve delivered your message, it would be proper to return, so why is Young Lord still standing here?”

Then Jihoo, his chest heaving, looked at the man with eyes that had somehow filled with tears and opened his mouth.

“I’m worried that something might have happened to Princess… That’s why. Will they be able to find Princess and bring her back safely?”

What a strange fellow. Seeing that he came running with the captain’s token, I can tell his spirit is extraordinary, but is his loyalty also deep?

To worry so much about the safety of Princess, whom he surely met for the first time today.

The scarred man, who had been looking into Jihoo’s clear eyes for a moment, slowly straightened his body.

“What is Young Lord’s relationship with the person who gave you the red tassel?”

“A man I saw for the first time today.”

“Hmm… Then is Young Lord perhaps acquainted with Princess Eunhye?”

Then Jihoo, who had briefly lowered his tear-filled eyes, slowly raised his head and looked straight at the scarred man as he spoke.

“I am the person who will become Princess Eunhye’s prince consort in the future!”

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Amyeongdae, please find Princess Eunhye safely!!

Park Jeong-bin, who was running while chasing Lord Jeong’s spy with his teeth clenched so hard his jaw might break, prayed again and again in his heart that Amyeongdae would safely find Princess Eunhye.

Although he had taken the dangerous action of giving his token to a young lord he met for the first time today and telling him to find Amyeongdae’s safe house, that was the best choice.

Park Jeong-bin made the painful choice that catching the spies of Lord Jeong and Lady Gyeongbin, which could even lead to treason, came before the safety of this country’s princess.

He was running while praying again and again that his Amyeongdae would surely find his niece safely.

Princess Eunhye must be safe.

Niece, please be safe.

Park Jeong-bin’s eyes grew hot as he recalled his young niece who had left the palace dressed in colorful traditional clothes like a daughter of a noble family.

Although they were nieces and nephews not related by a single drop of blood, Park Jeong-bin loved and cherished Eunhye and Lee-hwan like real blood relatives.

From when his sister Park Ji-hee was pregnant with these children through their birth and growth, his nieces and nephews whom he had never failed to love even once… that love was loyalty and love for his sister who had treated him, who had suddenly become her younger brother one day, with consistent affection.

Park Jeong-bin, who was running frantically in the direction the apothecary owner had pointed while hoping for Eunhye’s safety, frowned as he saw a whitish spirit floating toward him from a distance.

How bothersome.

The white smoke-like spirit continued to follow and hover in front of Park Jeong-bin, who passed by quickly as if it wasn’t even worth a glance.

What is this? It’s different from other times?

Usually, the spirits were only visible to his eyes, and if he didn’t acknowledge them, they would just pass by.

But this spirit kept flickering in front of his eyes as if telling him to follow.

When a fork in the road appeared, Park Jeong-bin slightly slowed his running pace and saw the spirit moving back and forth toward the right.

Unbelievable, yet unable to disbelieve this unsettling feeling.

Park Jeong-bin rolled his eyes left and right, then began running hard toward the right path where the white spirit was floating.

But then!

Wasn’t there a sight in the distance of a colorful traditional jacket waving both arms toward him and bouncing up and down!

Hearing his heart pounding loud enough to burst his chest, Park Jeong-bin ran toward Eunhye and Lady Han.

“Uncle! Why are you only coming now? I waited so long.”

Park Jeong-bin looked at Eunhye, who was smiling brightly at him, blinking his eyes as if he couldn’t believe it.

“No, this is… what happened, niece?”

Then, unlike Eunhye, Lady Han, whose entire face was covered in sweat, waved her hand tiredly and pointed ahead. There, wasn’t a man dressed as a soldier lying face down with his tongue hanging out!

“Huh! Who is that man?”

“Ah, what’s there to ask when you came late. Just hurry up and tie him up. That’s the bastard who came to that pharmacy before us and took those mushrooms.”

“What?”

“Well, you can hear the long story later, but anyway, when that bastard fell from his horse, he must have fallen head first. When we chased after him, he was already like that.”

Park Jeong-bin alternately looked at Lady Han, who was dusting off both hands with a dazed expression, and the man who was lying face down as if dead with his ankles tied with a woman’s hair ribbon.

What kind of ghostly situation is this? How is it that the niece I ordered Amyeongdae to find is smiling like this before my eyes, and how did Lord Jeong’s spy fall from his horse—though it’s a good thing—and end up lying face down on the ground?

Eunhye, who had been grinning while looking at Park Jeong-bin standing with a stunned expression, smiled brightly at Lady Han, who was lowering her rolled-up sleeves.

In fact, when Lady Han and Eunhye arrived, the spy who had fainted after falling from his horse and hitting his head on the ground was just regaining consciousness. Seeing this, Lady Han had kicked the spy’s head hard, making him faint again, then untied her hair ribbon to bind his legs.

“See, Song-i, just as I said, Uncle found us well, didn’t he?”

Eunhye said with a triumphant expression, looking up at Lady Han.

“That’s right. Just as Princess said, we caught this bastard and this person came too!”

At the sight of Lady Han waving both arms widely and pointing to the spy and Park Jeong-bin as if dancing, Eunhye’s laughter burst out once more.

Park Jeong-bin, as an urgent measure, stripped off the fallen man’s upper garment and tied his arms and torso together as if making a bundle, while looking at Eunhye.

“What do you mean by that, niece?”

Then Eunhye smiled brightly and pointed to Master Choi standing beside her.

“Uncle can see Master Choi here, right? Hehe, thanks to Master Choi, we were able to catch this spy.”

“What?”

Looking at Park Jeong-bin’s surprised expression as he asked, Lady Han let out a long breath through her nose as if exasperated.

“Ah, why do you keep being surprised? Lady Park, you can also see such people like our Princess. Well, I can’t see them…”

At Lady Han’s words, Park Jeong-bin glanced beside Eunhye and looked at the white spirit that had been floating and guiding him along the path.

“Ah… so that… person.”

Then Eunhye nodded vigorously and raised the corners of her mouth widely.

“Yes! This Master Choi here brought Uncle to this place. And the spirits Master Choi knows startled the horse that bastard was riding and made him fall off.”

What…! How could such a thing happen!

They say when you’re too shocked, you lose your words. Park Jeong-bin, who had come to his senses and was firmly pressing down on the spy’s back with his foot as the man began to stir, could only keep his mouth half-open, unable to continue speaking.

Just then, a long whistle sound came from somewhere, and two men dressed in black martial uniforms appeared and bowed respectfully toward Park Jeong-bin.

Startled by this sight, Lady Han quickly stepped forward to shield Eunhye behind her.

“Chief, you were here.”

Then Park Jeong-bin, his expression completely different from his earlier bumbling appearance, nodded to them.

“I will escort my Princess Eunhye back to the Palace first, so take this bastard away, strip him of everything he carries, and extract all information from him. You may kill him.”

“Yes, sir!”

The spy, hearing the words “you may kill him,” looked up at Park Jeong-bin with a noticeably stiffened expression.

“If you confess everything you know, I will spare your life.”

With Park Jeong-bin’s low murmur as the final word, the men in black martial uniforms struck the spy’s neck with their palms to knock him unconscious and hoisted him up.

“Then, we’ll see you at Angang!”

One of the men in martial uniforms took out a small whistle from his chest, blew it, and quickly disappeared with his colleague who was carrying the spy.

Eunhye and Lady Han, who had been watching the entire situation with shocked eyes, let out involuntary exclamations.

“Wow…!”

Then Park Jeong-bin, who had instantly returned to his usual expression, quickly knelt down and began examining Eunhye all over.

“Let me see, are you hurt anywhere?”

Eunhye giggled as if it tickled her.

“Hahaha! I’m perfectly fine. Our Han, no, Song-i had a hard time carrying me on her back and running.”

“Is that so? What a relief. Truly a relief.”

Then he looked up at Lady Han, whose face had become haggard unlike when they left the Palace, and replaced words with a brief silent bow.

Thank you.

That was when it happened.

“But Uncle.”

Eunhye grabbed Park Jeong-bin’s sleeve, her jet-black eyes sparkling brightly.

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