The Youngest Daughter of the Hebei Peng Clan Is a Truly a Very Famous Little Heavenly Demon - Chapter 91

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91.

Having successfully obtained a coconut fruit from Gong Haelyeong, I stuffed a mouthful of the pure white flesh into my mouth.

“Eh? It’s not that great.”

“Tsk, really. You begged so much for it, and now that I bought it for you.”

“I thought it would be sweeter.”

Having expected the taste of Co*Palm drinks, the subtle sweetness fell short of my standards. The inner flesh was somewhat jelly-like and soft, but hmm. Well. Hmm.

“You said it doesn’t taste good?”

“Still, since you bought it for me, I have to finish it all. Now that I’m eating it, it’s actually pretty good!”

I happened to be thirsty and it was slightly hot, so it wasn’t too bad.

Even though it’s January, it doesn’t feel much different from Henan’s summer weather. Far from snow, bright sunlight is beating down from above, so most of the locals were wearing sleeveless tops or thin hemp clothing.

Even the martial robes I see quite often look to be made of cool materials.

‘No wonder the long robes were particularly lacking in insulation.’

It seemed to be protective clothing specialized for the subtropical climate that’s hot all year round.

“Master!”

While I was scraping away at the coconut on the pebble-filled beach, a girl in dark green clothing poked her head out from between the rocks.

“You returned faster than expected?”

“Yes.”

She was in her mid-teens with a youthful face that would probably get along well with Dangsoso, who’s fifteen at face value. Her delicate and cute round features were impressive.

I licked my coconut-stained lips while looking at the girl.

Then she jumped in surprise.

“Sister Sohui?!”

“No.”

Gong Haelyeong calmly refuted.

“But you look exactly the same! No, more than that, you told me you were going to bring Sister Sohui back!”

“Isn’t she too young to be Sohui?”

“I thought she might have used Rejuvenation and Youth Restoration one more time! So then, what exactly is her identity…?”

Receiving the girl’s shocked gaze, I chuckled.

“I’m her daughter.”

“Ah.”

Her face immediately showed understanding.

The girl approached me with a quite friendly expression and plopped down.

“I’m Haesu, the first disciple of Haenam Sect. Jin Haesu. I’m about twenty years senior to Sister Sohui.”

“I see. Twenty years senior… twenty years?”

Crazy. She wasn’t my age after all.

Since Ju Sohui entered Haenam Sect in her late teens, that was about forty years ago.

That means this woman has been Gong Haelyeong’s disciple for a whopping sixty years. She couldn’t have entered as a newborn baby, so she must be at least seventy years old.

‘Two grandmothers.’

More precisely, she’s closer to an aunt than a grandmother in terms of family tree.

Anyway.

“If you’re Sohui’s daughter, you must be seventeen? Eighteen? What’s our cute baby’s name~?”

The grandmother who looks like a high school student at best calls me with eyes like she’s looking at a puppy.

“P-Pengdori.”

“Oh my. Look how nervous she is! She resembles Sister Sohui so much, she’s so pretty. Should we pass the title of ‘Most Beautiful in the Martial World’ to the daughter now?”

“I am quite pretty.”

“What did you say? Ahaha! Look at this girl!”

Jin Haesu laughed and smacked my back repeatedly.

Each time she hit me, my body got buried between the pebbles. Half-buried in the ground, I protested with only my head sticking out like a mole.

“It hurts!”

“Gasp! Look at me. I unconsciously hit you like I hit Sohui. -Ah.”

Whoosh.

Gong Haelyeong, who had been watching, grabbed Jin Haesu by the scruff of her neck and threw her into the sea.

“That’s too much!”

“Tsk.”

Gong Haelyeong’s tongue-clicking sound covered Jin Haesu’s fading cry.

She likewise grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and pulled me out like pulling a mole from a vegetable garden.

“That girl is quite a prankster. She’ll try to play tricks on you whenever she gets the chance, so don’t even bother dealing with her.”

“She doesn’t really act her age.”

“She’s not even a hundred years old, so she is on the young side.”

“Ah. That kind of standard.”

The age standards are strange.

“If she’s young in terms of mental age, then what am I?”

“A little blob?”

I was convinced.

Even by my original age, with a forty-year difference, I would be a baby. (I’m even about a hundred years apart from Gong Haelyeong.)

Swish swish.

I rubbed the coconut that had fallen on the ground and threw it toward the sea.

The coconut shell drew a perfect parabola like a basketball and bobbed up on the deep blue South Sea.

“Then I’m baby Dori. Please give me food.”

“Are you hungry?”

“Yes!”

Gong Haelyeong is sensitive to mentions of hunger, as befits a grandmother. She stood up and said.

“Let’s just finish eating at the port and head straight to Haenam Mountain.”

“Master! What about me?”

“Wow.”

I admired Jin Haesu, who had somehow swum back.

Jin Haesu, dripping water all over, walked over barefoot with quick steps.

“Our baby, auntie will buy you food. What snacks do you like? How about yellow mango fruit? Do you like fruit?”

This person is incredibly talkative.

“What’s yellow mango fruit?”

“My goodness! As expected of someone from the Peng Family, you’ve never tried yellow mango fruit? Then there’s a perfect place!”

Jin Haesu grabbed my hand and started running.

Gong Haelyeong tried to stop her but sighed once and followed. Led by her hand, I entered deeper into the marketplace, into a street vibrating with sweet aromas.

“This is yellow mango fruit!”

“Mango!”

Surprisingly, the identity of yellow mango fruit was none other than apple mango!

Moreover, looking around, it was like being in Southeast Asia, with custard apples, pineapples, and various tropical fruits everywhere.

I really felt like I was in the southern region. As I swallowed my saliva, Jin Haesu pulled out a money pouch full of coins and shouted to the merchant.

“Auntie’s treating today! Shopkeeper, give me everything from here to here!”

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Having eaten my fill of mangoes and custard apples, I dangled from Gong Haelyeong’s back and reached the top of Haenam Mountain in an instant.

‘It’s not a sect, it’s some kind of castle.’

This was my first impression of Haenam Sect’s stronghold.

‘They’re rich.’

While Huashan and Wudang are also major sects that would be hurt to be called second in wealth, Haenam Sect’s wealth is quite different from the previous two sects.

“You returned quickly. Ah, I heard from Sister Haesu.”

“You didn’t need to go to such trouble.”

No wonder Jin Haesu bought me fruit and then climbed the mountain first – she seemed to be preparing for a reception.

I opened my mouth in amazement at the bustling crowd lined up in front of Gong Haelyeong, bowing their heads in unison, and asked.

“Tell me honestly, Granny Gong. This isn’t a sect, it’s a corporation, right?”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

Of course, it wasn’t as orderly as an army with everyone lined up in formation and bowing their heads in unison. It wasn’t a formal preparation – it was just people who happened to be around gathering together after roughly hearing the news.

Moreover.

“Welcome back! …Huh!”

“Patriarch! …Huh!”

“Huh! It’s Master Ju!”

That damn Ju Sohui nonsense started up again.

I didn’t have the energy to correct them, so I looked back at Gong Haelyeong.

“Come in.”

“Ah, yes.”

I should take off this damn robe or something.

At first, this kind of reaction was fascinating and amusing, but since everywhere I went people mistook me for Ju Sohui, I was gradually getting tired of it.

And Dangsoso wasn’t beside me either.

“Come on, come on. Look straight ahead and walk properly.”

As I looked around, there was a tapping sound from behind me.

It was Jin Haesu, who had vanished somewhere without a trace. She grinned with a mischievous smile that was hard to believe for someone her age.

“Why are you so surprised? The Forbidden City is much bigger, grander, and more splendid than this~”

“I’d have to have been there to know.”

“Eh! The Empress Dowager must have said she wanted to see you once?! Didn’t she?”

“Would she even know I exist?”

She’s my grandmother on paper, but she feels like a very distant stranger.

I don’t even think of Ju Sohui as my real mother in the first place.

At my casual remark, Jin Haesu’s eyes widened.

“Huh? What do you mean by that?”

When someone who had been grinning constantly stopped smiling, the atmosphere became strange. Her black hair tilted to one side.

“Of course she’d want to see you. Her beloved Sohui lost you, Dori, and even suffered from madness?”

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