As Prophet - Chapter 56



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Episode 56. I am a slave of the Crown Prince

“I was interested in martial arts since I was young. I studied hard. So I thought I was good at it. But these guys gave in and pushed me out. When the prince tried it, I gave in but lost. That’s why the army still doesn’t know my true skills.”

Dalcheon unconsciously scanned the Grand Prince’s entire body with his energy. He is not a weakling, but he is not lacking in anything. However, he is too old. There is a time for studying, and if you miss that time, it will be difficult later. Dalcheon swallowed his saliva as he was about to speak, but the Grand Prince interrupted him.

“Don’t tell me you’re old. Everyone is old, and there are women, so why can’t you do that? Don’t make up excuses to push me away.”

“Mom, the curriculum is a bit rough.”

“I will do it.”

Dalcheon looked at the silent figure at the end of the veranda. He did not say anything and ignored Dalcheon’s gaze. This time, he looked at Baek Ui-hyeong. He was holding the teacup and rolling it around for no reason, but it was no use. Baek I-jeong was wiping the floor with a rag for no reason, but he didn’t seem interested in that either.

“Okay, come tomorrow at midnight. Just wear comfortable clothing.”

“Hahahaha! Thank you. I can’t tell you how anxiously I’ve been waiting to hear this answer.”

I don’t know what number is hidden behind it. Since he is a student, I just have to teach him. I sighed and the prince asked.

“Why aren’t you doing it today?”

“Today is… …um, it’s ministry. We’re preparing the training ground.”

“Aren’t there any slaves?”

Dalcheon bowed his head.

“I am a slave of the Crown Prince.”

“What about the other students?”

“There is not enough time to prepare for the past.”

“So you want me to do the work?”

“No. We will start studying together tomorrow morning.”

“Oh my, I wanted to do it right away today… … .”

“sorry.”

“But let me ask you one thing.”

“Please speak.”

“If I learn from you, will I be able to fly in the sky too?”

I don’t remember flying in the sky. It was the time I showed the students something similar. I think the army must have been carefully researching the information in the vicinity. It’s better to keep it in a visible place than to fight a battle in a place that can’t be seen.

“It’s a bit… … .”

“Are you saying you’re getting older?”

“I must learn my own Qi Gong.”

“I also studied qigong.”

“But you have almost no background.”

“I blew it all while getting drunk on alcohol and women. Why don’t we do it again?”

When your routine is ruined, you can’t do anything. It’s not the alcohol that’s the problem, it’s your ruined routine that makes things difficult.

“Okay, see you tomorrow.”

“No, that’s not it. I was just going to watch you study a little bit before I go… … .”

“It’s martial arts training time now.”

“Okay, let’s see. Don’t worry about the main force, and just do it according to the schedule.”

When speaking to everyone, raise your voice. Dalcheon bowed his head and stood up.

“Today is Gichang. You have to cut down ten of them when you pass by. Others just cut them down and leave, but we have to cut them down and break them. They are made of strong wood.”

“All right.”

The four of them left the main building and ran downstairs. Dalcheon greeted them again at the end of the porch and then went towards the altar.

The four men who brought the horse ran with spears and hit the wooden doll. Dalcheon told them to break it, but they couldn’t break it because they had put in a lot of effort to make it, so they quickly passed by. The four men hit it one by one and passed by. Some people watched the situation and hit only one and left, while others moved quickly and hit two or three.

The general indifferently looks down on the four men training. Dalcheon is making a target for the four sides. Even though he already has a target, he makes it a little bigger. Since he doesn’t have enough boards, he makes it by attaching shorter ones. Since there are no nails, he digs a hole and hammers in a wedge-shaped wooden nail. It won’t be fixed well even if he hammers it in. He touches up what he’s already made several times, sets it up, and then lays it down again to work on it. Now he understands what the government official meant by slave. The workers were building a house. If he had asked them to help, it would have been easy… … It’s a pity to see their eyes.

“Phew.”

It was an inevitable choice to keep him close to me like this. If I don’t become king, I won’t be able to avoid death. My relationship with the Crown Prince is not very good. It’s because of the people who compare me even when I’m still. They’ve been making me compete with them for over ten years. I don’t intend to do that, but we can’t help but live in a world that looks that way. The things that pile up like that will eventually end up as poison.

It is a fight for survival. It is not about becoming a king. If you can’t become a king, you will die. Fortunately, the crown prince doesn’t know Dalcheon’s ability. If he were to say that he is higher than the best swordsman in Samhan, then he is truly the best swordsman in Samhan. No, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say he is the best in the world. The prince entered as a student and studied while trying to find another opportunity.

If I say I’m locked up in a gold mine, people won’t suspect me, so I come here often. I’m nervous about meeting people. I’ve lived in a world where it feels like someone’s watching me for a long time. If I say I’m studying in a military camp, they’ll think I’m crazy.

Fortunately, Guan Zhu has no interest in the world. He has no greed, no small hopes. He wanders around the world as if he is playing with the very shallow thought that if it doesn’t work out, it will work out. How burdenless is he? To him, things on earth may be nothing more than play.

I was debating whether to go this way or that way, and ended up going to where Dalcheon worked.

“why?”

The face that turns its head and asks is that of a child.

“It looks like you’re working, so I came to help.”

“Oh, no. Mom, you shouldn’t do something like this.”

“I heard there is no discrimination in the academy… … .”

Where did you hear that? You say it over and over again, but if there was no one to tell you, you wouldn’t know…

“Still, there is a difference in status.”

“People are all the same. It’s power that makes the distinctions.”

The great general grabbed the four pillars that were standing unsteadily. Dalcheon supported them with one arm.

“If you’re bored, why don’t you go over there and join me in writing a story?”

“This army does not take the military service examination.”

“Then what do you want to study?”

“Studying that makes me a better person.”

Dalcheon flinched. He was repeating exactly what I had told someone. Who could it be? He looked at Mukhyeong from afar with strong doubts, but nothing would change.

“Okay, I understand. Hold on there.”

“What is the problem?”

“It’s clearly erected straight, but when you look from a distance, it’s tilted.”

“Then let’s do this. I’ll watch from afar, and you look down and try to match.”

“thank you.”

When the great army, which had advanced about 50 chapters, raised a red flag that they had picked up somewhere, one side was raised and the other was lowered, and so on. Since two people did it, it was soon level.

Dalcheon jumped far away and stood next to the prince, looking at the target. He tilted his head. It seemed to be straight and at the same time tilted. It was because the surrounding scenery deceived my eyes.

Dalcheon went to the carpenter and asked him, grumbling.

“How on earth do you get it level?”

A carpenter grins as he grinds a thin, square pillar.

“Ahahaha! That’s a person’s eyes. I’ll adjust it for you later.”

“Oh my, even if you’re busy, please do it now. I’m really annoyed by this.”

He went to where the carpenter had set up the target and drove two standard beams into the ground. He used a plumb line to check the vertical, then placed a frame (triangle) made using the old method against the vertical standard beam to check the horizontal, and dropped a string.

“I need to raise this a little bit.”

At the carpenter’s words, two of his men lifted one side. They seemed not to breathe while the carpenter’s eyes glared at them.

“there.”

He placed the wedge underneath, stood a little distance away, and nodded after looking at it.

“This is how you level it.”

“Ah, so that’s how it works. I’m learning again.”

The carpenter smiled brightly, touched the target, looked at the distant mountains, and nodded. Dalcheon quickly filled the bottom to prevent it from moving, and then fixed it in place.

“We’ll stop here for today.”

Looking at the west mountain from the carpenter’s words, the sun is setting.

“Thank you for your hard work today. I am always grateful. Be careful on your way back.”

The carpenter greeted him and his men bowed and went down. Night fell quickly in the mountains. Dalcheon approached the general.

“Your Majesty, the sun is about to set. Aren’t you going?”

“It’s meal time. Are you telling me to go because you don’t want to give me food?”

“that is…….”

Dalcheon scratched the back of his head.

“Actually, we, um… … are having to settle for dry goods since the kitchen maid has gone to her parents’ house.”

“Dry weight? Oh my god.”

“I can’t let you eat dry food, Mom. The sun is setting. You should go home.”

“We will do it together!”

Dalcheondo was not ordinary in his stubbornness, but Daegun was even more so. Once he said something, he would not change his mind. People gathered around to share the meal. It was a meal consisting of beef jerky, millet powder, and water.

The Grand Prince noticed that they were poor. It’s not that they couldn’t cook. There might not be any side dishes. One meal would be fine, but they kept eating like this…

The general who was eating the jerky sighed.

“If it was this difficult, why didn’t you just talk about it?”

“We ended up like this because we spent all our money on building the building.”

“When doing work, you have to look not only forward and backward, but also left and right. If you invest everything in a building, what are you going to do next? They are truly unprepared people.”

“… … .”

The prince scolded Baek Ui-hyeong.

“Even so, if the governor doesn’t know the real situation and lives like this, he should take care of it.”

“I’m sorry. I thought the kitchen maid would come back in a day or two, but she didn’t come, so I waited and ended up like this.”

The Grand Prince sighed. It’s not like he’s helping me just because I’m helping him. There are more than one or two things he can help me with. He seemed to have just eaten a quick meal and taken a walk to digest it, but he immediately started reading. I don’t know where he got the books, but there are as many as there are people.

* * *

During break time, the general called Baek Ui-hyeong.

“What should I do when there are so many things missing?”

“The governor is used to this kind of life.”

“So, does that mean that students can just dry up and die?”

“You will be inconvenienced because there are many things missing.”

“Can I help you with something?”

“No. The governor will say he doesn’t like it. He strongly opposes anything I try to do with my own money.”

“What a stupid and stubborn guy.”

“Because you are a person who is used to living without… … we will try to understand.”

“I don’t understand, what can I do?”

“I will make sure that Your Majesty does not feel uncomfortable.”

“Ugh. Aren’t you trying to make things easier for me right now?”

“To be honest, I don’t know much about the world. I think it’s about getting oil for a lamp from a well.”

“Oh my.”

Given the circumstances, the Grand Prince clicked his tongue late into the night. It seemed that even a temple without any guests would not be like this.

Fortunately, the content of the study was really satisfying. Reading the book of Wujing and explaining the strategy was realistic and three-dimensional, so I felt like I was living in that era.

* * *

The next day, the Grand Prince came with a couple of wagons loaded with a mountain of goods. Dalcheon couldn’t do anything but blink, but the Grand Prince shouted.

“I’m not even going to eat up the food! I can’t do it because it’s inconvenient for me. I told you not to accept money, so I brought only the necessities for daily life, so please understand.”

“mama.”

“Shouldn’t we have a blanket? It may be spring, but the nights are still cold.”

“mama.”

“A slave is only good until the kitchen maid returns. People have to eat to live. How can a person exert strength by chewing on dried meat and eating powdered corn?”

“mama.”

“I brought some seasonings, and side dishes like kimchi and pickled vegetables, so please help me find a location for the kimchi crock stand.”

“mama.”

Dalcheon didn’t know what to do, just kept saying “Mama”. He ordered the general to put down the items he had brought like a commander and told Baek I-jeong to compare them with the inventory.

“mama.”

“Come on.”