The Granddaughter of Manhyang Escort Bureau Hides Her Magic - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115

 

The smile disappeared from Shin Ah’s face.

 

“Yes, tell me.”

 

-I finally found someone who says they can get the medicine.

 

“Where? Who’s selling it?”

 

-Well, about who it is…

 

It was the moment Mugyeol was carefully opening his mouth.

 

With a pop sound, Mugyeol’s image disappeared and only Shin Ah’s extremely tense face remained alone in the hand mirror.

 

“Huh? It cuts off here?”

 

Shin Ah’s lips moved wordlessly. She was truly flustered.

 

‘I can’t communicate with Mugyeol for a while!’

 

Currently, Mugyeol didn’t have a fixed residence and was traveling all around the Central Plains with Ok Chifung. So it was impossible to deliver magic scrolls to him.

 

She had no choice but to wait until Mugyeol sent letters…

 

“Aaahhh! I’m curious! I’m going crazy with curiosity!”

 

Shin Ah buried her face in her pillow and stamped her feet.

 

She had always missed Mugyeol, but today she wanted to see him with a piercing longing.

 

* * *

 

In the late afternoon, Shin Ah was leaving work early after finishing her duties at the Chang’an Branch.

 

Since she was leaving early, she planned to make various things like fatigue recovery artifacts.

 

But a commotion happening in front of Manhyang Express’s main gate stopped her in her tracks.

 

“Ah, I really came here to make a request!”

 

“Someone like that steals yakgwa from the kitchen? Get lost before you get roughed up by the Escort Warriors!”

 

‘What’s going on?’

 

Just as the curious Shin Ah was about to call the gatekeeper.

 

The man who had been bickering with the gatekeeper suddenly whipped his head around.

 

“What? I feel like something incredibly precious is coming… Gasp!”

 

The man’s eyes widened as they met Shin Ah’s.

 

In terms of precious metals, it was gold; in terms of weapon materials, it was ten-thousand-year cold iron; in terms of spirit medicine, it was something precious that surpassed even Shaolin’s Great Recovery Pill!

 

While he was momentarily stunned after instinctively discerning the other party’s worth, Shin Ah, who had recognized the man’s identity, looked at the gatekeeper.

 

“Ah, Branch Manager! The thing is, this bastard said he came to make a request but snuck into the escort agency. I don’t know how he got in, but I caught him stealing yakgwa from the kitchen and was about to drag him out. Don’t bother talking to such a person and please go inside quickly.”

 

Letting someone sneak in unnoticed was clearly the gatekeeper’s fault, and he could face reprimand for it.

 

Even knowing this, the gatekeeper revealed his own mistake to prevent Shin Ah from getting involved with that person.

 

While he did care for Chang’an Branch Manager Shin Ah, he could say this because he knew her nature of rationally judging right and wrong.

 

After Shin Ah rose to become the real power, the people of Manhyang Express would honestly admit their mistakes and work to correct them rather than hide them when they made errors.

 

In this way, Manhyang Express was being rebuilt from the ground up.

 

This time too, Shin Ah showed her consistent character.

 

“Don’t blame yourself too much. Even if I had been there, I wouldn’t have noticed him sneaking in. More importantly, sir, you said you came to make a request?”

 

The man’s eyes twitched beneath his lids.

 

Even though he had been caught stealing, he was flustered by Shin Ah’s gentle questioning.

 

And one more thing.

 

“I’m not an old man, you know? I’m twenty-two!”

 

“Ah, twenty-two.”

 

Shin Ah knew this man. She didn’t know his age, but.

 

A braggart who disguised his skills with a light-as-a-feather attitude, but he was the disciple of the Thousand-Faced Divine Thief who had stirred up the Central Plains decades ago.

 

Eyes with a blue tint uncommon for people from this region, a nose greatly bent from being broken and reattached after being beaten by the Thousand-Faced Divine Thief in childhood.

 

Shin Ah remembered him.

 

The request he had made,

 

‘He’ll ask to be taken to the Murim Alliance.’

 

And the consequences that followed.

 

‘But Grandfather refused, and that guy died a miserable death.’

 

This time, she intended to change everything.

 

‘Found it, my package.’

 

Shin Ah grinned.

 

* * *

 

Chief Jangwe Ha Ilju came to So Hyeokho’s office at Wolhwa Hall carrying request forms.

 

Chief Go received the documents and placed them on So Hyeokho’s desk.

 

So Hyeokho looked through the request list placed on top first. It was organized by Ha Ilju according to priority, with various contents ranging from simple letter delivery to escorting celebrities.

 

“Quite a substantial amount.”

 

Even while being busy processing escort mission requests from trading companies they had established relationships with, new requests kept pouring in continuously.

 

Most were requests from Shanxi, Hubei, Hanam, and Ningxia near Seomsu.

 

It was the influence of the rapidly growing Chang’an Branch.

 

A year ago, Shin Ah had introduced an unusual service called ‘Next-Day Express Delivery.’

 

It promised to deliver simple items or letters from one end of Seomsu to the other in just one day.

 

When Hyeokho first heard about it, he thought it would be impossible even with a thousand-li horse.

 

It was because of the general procedures of escort missions.

 

The series of processes alone—receiving requests, setting prices, properly packaging items, and selecting suitable Escort Warriors and courier workers—took two to three days.

 

But Shin Ah compressed all those processes into two steps.

 

One. Set the price according to the size and weight of the package immediately upon receiving the request.

 

Two. Shin Ah personally undertakes the escort mission.

 

Shin Ah declared that she wouldn’t take any courier workers with her for escort missions within Seomsu.

 

It went against the principle that one Escort Warrior and two courier workers formed a basic team, but it wasn’t legally mandated, and since it was delivery within Seomsu, everyone overlooked it without much concern.

 

And since Shin Ah was doing the work herself rather than ordering others around, there was no reason for others to complain.

 

So naturally, the costs associated with escort missions were greatly reduced, and the results were excellent too.

 

True to Shin Ah’s bold promise, Next-Day Express delivery was never late, not even once.

 

There had never been any incidents of packages being damaged or lost.

 

Then distant lovers began entrusting letters as a test, and they were very satisfied with the Chang’an Branch’s delivery speed, spreading word of mouth to those around them.

 

From that point on, more people began seeking out the Chang’an Branch.

 

Then escort mission requests began coming to the Chang’an Branch for deliveries leaving Seomsu. There were so many that the existing Escort Warriors alone couldn’t handle them all.

 

Shin Ah naturally transferred clients from the Chang’an Branch to Manhyang Express.

 

After quite some time had passed since then, money and treasures began accumulating rapidly in the Escort Agency’s treasury.

 

This was the reason Ha Ilju had been so cheerful lately.

 

“I’ve organized them in order of what I consider most important.”

 

Ha Ilju’s priorities were assigned after analyzing the client’s reliability, the size of the commission fee, and the danger level of the escort mission from multiple angles.

 

“What does Chief Go think?”

 

So Hyeokho, who had been reviewing the list, looked at Chief Go standing next to Ha Ilju.

 

“I share the same opinion as Chief Jangwe Ha.”

 

“How unexpected. I thought you would oppose the fourth case here.”

 

What So Hyeokho was referring to was a request from the Sacheon Dang Family to transport iron ore that needed to go from Yunnan to the Sacheon Dang Family.

 

For this, the Manhyang Express Escort Warriors at the Seomsu headquarters would first have to go to Yunnan, then head to Sacheon with the package, complete the delivery, and return to Seomsu again.

 

It was highly inefficient work, as both the route and costs could be greatly reduced by simply requesting the Yunnan Branch directly.

 

Ha Ilju was well aware of this fact. So normally, he would have either transferred it entirely to the Yunnan Branch or pushed it to a lower priority.

 

What could be the reason for putting it at the top of the list?

 

‘Did he receive a request from Biwongak?’

 

So Hyeokho gazed intently at Ha Ilju.

 

“This time, Mangeum Trading Company offered to pay twice the usual escort fee.”

 

Ha Ilju answered as if he had read So Hyeokho’s mind.

 

“Twice the amount?”

 

Chief Go’s eyes widened.

 

“Yes. Money aside, since the Sacheon Dang Family is also the natal family of Lady Yuwongak, I moved it to priority.”

 

After sending So Ilbi to the Sacheon Dang Family in the past, direct exchanges between Manhyang Express and the Sacheon Dang Family had ceased.

 

Since Manhyang Express had Dang Mihee, the Sacheon Dang Family continued their support of Yuwongak through Mangeum Trading Company, but they hadn’t directly commissioned work under the family name like this.

 

With their relationship having become awkwardly strained like this, if they refused even this escort mission request, rumors would surely spread that relations with the Sacheon Dang Family had soured.

 

Moreover, since they were even offering generous payment, So Hyeokho had no reason to refuse.

 

However, he was concerned about the considerable amount of iron flowing to the Sacheon Dang Family.

 

Even so, there was no way to refuse the escort mission.

 

“We can entrust it to Yuwongak then.”

 

So Hyeokho finalized the escort mission request to be raised as an agenda item for the Escort Assignment Ceremony.

 

And now, as he was about to attend to other matters, Ha Ilju hesitated and didn’t leave.

 

So Hyeokho looked at Ha Ilju.

 

“Do you have something else to say?”

 

“I received one suspicious request and one even more suspicious favor.”

 

Ha Ilju’s face was beaming as he spoke as if he had been waiting for this moment.

 

Something interesting must have happened.

 

So Hyeokho intuited.

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