The Granddaughter of the Manhyang Escort Agency Hides Her Magic - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47

Yeongso stopped and blinked his eyes.

At that moment, a dull thudding sound came from near the back of Yeongso’s head.

Every group was bound to have stragglers.

An Iron Needle Bee that hadn’t managed to enter the new beehive barely grazed past Yeongso’s cheek.

The heavy sound of buzzing—not a light wing, but a deep, weighty boom—was more than just simple wing flapping.

“Aaaahhh!”

Yeongso screamed in terror and flailed his hands.

The eyes of Mugyeol, Chilseon, and Juhwa, who were escorting Shin Ah as she carried the beehive, widened.

“That’s our package! Don’t touch it!”

At Juhwa’s warning, Yeongso’s eyes bulged.

Right now, are they worried about bees instead of people?

“I almost got stung! What if I had gotten hurt because of mere bees?”

Yeongso exploded in anger.

Shin Ah, who had been walking in the lead, looked at him with cold eyes.

“Mere bees? They’re precious packages. How can someone who wants to become a Porter not know the value of packages and speak so carelessly?”

The supervisor watching the commotion wrote something in his notebook.

Yeongso’s pupils shook.

“A-anyway, just do well!”

Sensing something ominous from the supervisor’s actions, Yeongso hastily ended the conversation.

“Our bees won’t sting if you don’t bother them. So let’s each mind our own business. Don’t worry about it.”

Losing even one bee would result in point deductions. Depending on who the examiner was, it could even lead to disqualification discussions.

Shin Ah focused all her attention on moving the beehive she held with both hands, while Mugyeol, staying close beside her, quickly opened and closed the beehive lid for the stragglers.

“Well done.”

Shin Ah praised Mugyeol and calmly crossed the examination hall without taking her eyes off the beehive.

That sight was particularly eye-catching.

And for good reason. While everyone else was sweating profusely trying to move heavy, large packages, only Shin Ah’s group overflowed with composure.

Soon they were just a few steps away from their destination.

After confirming the location, Shin Ah smiled brightly and approached Yeongso, who was struggling to move his feet.

She couldn’t stand by and watch someone like Yeongso, who was prejudiced and easily abandoned people, become a Porter for Manhyang Express.

But she couldn’t make the other unlucky team members fail too, so Shin Ah decided to give Yeongso just a little hardship.

‘Well, when you think about it, those guys are just as bad since they kicked out Juhwa.’

“You, what, why, what?”

Yeongso, instinctively sensing a threat, stammered.

“What do you mean what? I came to cheer you on. Keep it up.”

Shin Ah positioned herself where the supervisor couldn’t see well, raised the corners of her mouth, and lightly nudged Yeongso’s package with her knee.

It was a very slight force, but enough to disturb Yeongso’s concentration.

“Ugh!”

The chest slipped from Yeongso’s hands as his strength momentarily gave out.

“Hey there!”

His opponent shouted, but it was too late.

The package fell as it was, and from the impact, iron ore poured out through the cracks of the broken chest.

Yeongso’s face turned pale. The chest meant to hold the items was broken, and it would clearly take a long time to move the heavy iron ore pieces one by one.

This was all because of that wicked little girl.

Yeongso tried to hold Shin Ah responsible with his face boiling with anger.

But he stopped at the buzzing sound of the Iron Needle Bees’ wings from inside the beehive and Shin Ah’s words.

“Mister, when will you finish moving all that?”

Yeongso, pale as a sheet, picked up iron ore, ran, picked up more, and ran again.

The sight of him running around frantically like an animal with its tail on fire, receiving glares from his teammates who were also picking up iron ore, was quite a spectacle.

Shin Ah leisurely crossed the delivery baseline and looked at the supervisor.

“Over here! Please check this.”

Shin Ah nodded and pointed to the beehive.

The bewildered supervisor approached, checked the package from various angles, then raised a flag high.

“Pass, pass! So Shin Ah, Cheon Mugyeol, Jin Juhwa, Gang Chilseon—all pass the Porter 2nd examination!”

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News that Shin Ah had passed the 2nd examination spread quickly.

“What? Shin Ah passed the examination?”

In the bedroom of Yuwon Pavilion, Dang Mihee trembled at the news brought by Iso, who was like her right hand.

Iso glanced at Dang Mihee and moved away the hot tea cup.

She was worried that the excited Dang Mihee might burn her hand on the tea cup.

This might seem like Iso’s touching loyalty, but in reality, it was for her own survival.

If Dang Mihee, who treated her body like gold, got burned, Iso’s head wouldn’t just end up being smashed by the tea cup.

“Tell me exactly what happened. Did you properly prepare the package I told you to arrange?”

“Yes, I did. As you instructed, I gave the package, the paper with the package written on it, and the precious ornaments to the escort warrior I had bribed.”

“Then how did Shin Ah pass the examination!”

Dang Mihee slammed her palm on the table. Iso bowed her head.

“The thing is… they say she moved all the bees.”

“Of course she did since she succeeded in moving the package!”

Dang Mihee couldn’t contain her anger and fumed.

‘How on earth did she move the bees?’

The Porter examination to ‘move bees’ was a trap prepared by Dang Mihee.

All for the sole purpose of making Shin Ah fail the Porter examination.

Bribing the escort warrior assisting the examination, preparing expensive Iron Needle Bees, making Shin Ah fall into the trap in the variable-filled examination hall—all of it cost a lot of effort and money.

Her head throbbed thinking about the money spent to slip the paper with bees written on it to Shin Ah’s group when drawing the package types.

‘I’ve never heard of an escort warrior moving bees instead of cattle, sheep, or horses!’

And not just one, but thousands of them. To think she moved all those bees to different beehives.

Does this make sense?

Did she perhaps bribe the examiners?

Or did she kill all the bees and then move them?

Though these were absurd thoughts, these speculations seemed more credible than the news that Shin Ah had passed the examination.

“Are you certain?”

“I confirmed it repeatedly.”

Dang Mihee, who had been glaring at Iso, let out a sigh.

Iso, who had assisted her since the Sacheon Dang Family, was quick-witted, calculating, and diligent. If she had double-checked, then it must be true.

Dang Mihee’s pupils shook mercilessly.

‘What method did she use?’

No matter how much Dang Mihee racked her brain, no answer came.

She bit her nails with crunching sounds.

“Madam, there’s still a chance.”

“Right, there should be a chance. Do you have any good ideas?”

Seeing Iso’s calm face made her excitement subside a little.

She needed to stay composed at times like this.

It was just one failure. As Iso said, the Porter examination wasn’t over, so opportunities remained.

“There’s Miss Ilbi. The young miss has been learning poison arts day and night lately. How about giving her a chance?”

“Ilbi?”

Dang Mihee had secretly taught Ilbi the Sacheon Dang Family’s poison arts since she was young.

While it wasn’t secret arts, it was sufficient for practical use anywhere. Since Ilbi was a girl who wouldn’t inherit the Escort Agency anyway, whatever she learned would be enough as long as she could become strong and help Mando.

Nevertheless, Dang Mihee had hidden the fact that she was teaching poison arts to her daughter, and that Ilbi had considerable talent for it.

“Secretly poisoning someone is no trouble at all for Miss Ilbi.”

It was precisely for times like this. To use poison in secret.

“Can Ilbi do it?”

“Please trust the young miss. The final test is the only chance to stop Miss Shin Ah.”

Dang Mihee felt somewhat reluctant.

Since the poison arts that others didn’t know about could serve as a lifeline in emergencies, she didn’t want to make Ilbi use them so early.

Wasn’t there another way?

After pondering, Dang Mihee spoke up.

“First, bribe at least one of the examiners or supervisors, and give separate instructions to Mando and Ilbi as well.”

The third Heir Selection Test challenge was to safely guard a package in the deep mountains for three days and bring it back to the Escort Agency.

In the examination hall located deep in the mountains, any kind of accident could happen without seeming strange.

It was a mountain surrounded by rocky cliffs, after all.

There was no way a supervisor could check every corner of the vast examination hall every hour.

Dang Mihee’s eyes gleamed sharply.

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