Who threatened Cheonma Hara with a knife - Chapter 206
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Who threatened to call me Cheonmahara with a knife? Episode 206
Not eating every day, not eating every day (3)
At a time when construction was in full swing at the site of the former Nancheonhoe Hall.
The person who gave the admonition, “Never work, never eat.” Ilmok slept soundly, and only woke up refreshed in the late morning.
“Whoaaah~!”
A cheerful greeting is heard through the door, along with a yawn as he stretches refreshingly.
The voices of people like Dam-bin and Jin Ha-yeon who always welcomed him.
“Your Majesty! Have you finally coughed!!”
It wasn’t like that at all.
It was the scream of a crazy, interested person.
As soon as he woke up feeling refreshed, Ichimoku sighed and answered.
“Why are you sick again this morning?”
It was a scene that made me think that he might need some counseling.
‘Oh. Talking to you reminds me of that crazy congressman again.’
A certain crazy member of the Magic Hall who insisted on following him came to mind.
It was a good thing, because I was able to escape to the central plains before he could chase me.
While Ilmok was thinking about that crazy congressman for a moment, Baekcheon entered the room with Guyangmun and Hyukryeon Seonah, who were standing guard.
“Your Majesty! Actually, I have come here to ask you a favor.”
“jean?”
Ilmok felt ominous.
Since it was a crazy person’s request, it was bound to be crazy.
But before Ilmok could even utter the word “rejection,” Baekcheon poured out his words like a waterfall.
“At the last meeting, I sang hymns to the accompaniment of the Yegis, and I realized that this was truly in line with Confucius’s will to spread the new religion. So, I came here to see if I could harmonize with the Yegis, even if it was not a meeting.”
Baekcheon recalled the events of last night and had an ecstatic expression on his face.
The sight of everyone singing along to the hymns they were singing to the accompaniment of the instruments.
Even now, when I think back to that ecstatic moment, my body starts trembling.
At the sight of Baekcheon shivering with his eyes wide open, Ilmok couldn’t help but feel goosebumps.
‘Oh.’
But apart from the fact that Baekcheon was annoying, Baekcheon’s request was quite useful.
“By the way, are Captain Dam-bin or Lady Jin awake?”
“Yes, brother.”
“I am teaching Lady Jeong and Lady Ju outside right now.”
“Hmm.”
Ichimoku, who seemed to be thinking for a moment, gave an order.
“Leave the education to the Dambin team leader, and call for Jin So-jo.”
“I will do so, Your Majesty!”
At the order to summon Jin Ha-yeon, Guyangmun left the palace with a very happy face.
A moment later, Gu Yangmun and Jin Hayeon entered the hall with starkly contrasting expressions.
“Miss Jin. I need you to go to the red-light district for a bit.”
Although it was an instruction that could easily be misunderstood, Jin Ha-yeon asked with an indifferent expression.
“What instructions should I give when I go?”
“Baekcheon Confucius wants to work with the rites masters to sing a hymn. Ask the rites masters there for their cooperation. However, you must not bring them here by force.”
If the red-light district’s spectators were fanatics of the Cheonmasingyo cult, there would have been no need to use the word cooperation.
If you just give the order, he’ll come out with his eyes sparkling with madness, saying, ‘I’ll give up my body for the Heavenly Demon Lord!’
But they weren’t fanatics yet, so the word ‘yet’ needed to be handled with caution.
“Also, while you’re at it, please give some money to the lodgers and prepare some food while you’re recruiting applicants.”
“Is this food for them to eat while they are working on the construction site?”
“You got it right. Since the garden is large, not all of it will be under construction, so we can just sing along there.”
“If you do that, I will also prepare food for Baekcheon Gongja and Yegi to eat, and I will also prepare money in advance to distribute to the laborers.”
When Ilmok nodded to Jin Ha-yeon’s words, she showed her respect with a lottery ticket and left the hall.
* * *
A manor where former beggars and a master carpenter supervise construction work, and several of his laborers are sweating profusely.
A crowd of about fifteen people gathered there.
A masked woman, a man with strangely clear eyes, and ten women.
The masked woman and the clear-eyed man were all carrying trays.
“Why don’t you take a break and have something cold to eat?”
As one of the women said this with a smile, the master carpenter who was in charge of the construction, Deok-gwang nodded and shouted.
“Let’s rest for half an hour!”
As soon as his order was given, former beggars and laborers gathered and began eating the food the women had brought.
The angry masked woman who was watching the scene opened her mouth in an indifferent tone.
“Go.”
As soon as her instructions were given, the clear-eyed man and ten women followed her.
Oddly enough, they were headed towards the interior of the manor.
“Where are you going?”
In response to Deok-gwang’s question, the masked woman who was walking ahead stopped and spoke.
“We plan to match the singing and playing in a place where construction is not underway yet.”
“Singing and playing?”
Deok-gwang, who had been stroking his rough beard, soon shrugged his shoulders and turned his attention away.
I thought it didn’t matter as long as it didn’t interfere with the construction.
“Are you going to sing a work song?”
Whether Deok-gwang muttered to himself or not, the masked woman led the group to another part of the estate.
“I think it would be good to match the sum here.”
As the masked woman spoke, their performance began under Baekcheon’s direction.
“First, let’s start with Gwangmyeong-ga.”
The woman who led them stood back a few steps and watched them with an indifferent expression.
Jin Ha-yeon. Her role was surveillance.
This is to prevent the people who came here from doing useless things or leaking information.
It wasn’t.
– Prince Baekcheon is a crazy guy who doesn’t know where he’ll go, so Lady Jin, please watch over him and stop him.
While Ilmok was giving instructions, it was because of a telegram secretly sent by Baekcheon.
There was also one more thing that Ilmok instructed.
Baekcheon and the ten women continued practicing for a while.
After about half an hour had passed, Jin Ha-yeon, who had been watching the practice with an indifferent expression, opened her mouth.
“Take some time to rest.”
Baekcheon rebelled against her instructions.
“It’s still a long way from being enough, what do you mean by rest!”
“Unlike Confucius, those women are not trained in martial arts. Think about their physical strength.”
Another instruction she received from Ilmok was to give her time to rest in between.
Otherwise, it was a foreseeable scenario that the madman would get drunk on practice and continue the forced march until the women collapsed.
– Confucius also said that he would get a sore throat if he did that, so he would moisten his throat with water. There was a message from Confucius that he was worried that his vocal cords, which had the mission of spreading the new religion, would be damaged.
In addition, he did not forget to give advice on how to speak so that Baekcheon would listen to him.
– As expected, Prince Pal was thinking of my precious Sungdae! This hundred-year-old girl. I am so touched!
When Baekcheon looked at her with eyes filled with excitement, Jin Hayeon shook her head slightly.
“Ahem. Let’s take a break for a while!”
Baekcheon, feeling better, gave the instructions and began to moisten his throat with water to take care of his throat.
“Phew.”
The women, who were finally able to rest comfortably, sighed and rubbed their tired bodies and drank water to moisten their throats from playing nonstop.
The women were divided into two groups. Three women who had been dragged from the Nancheonhoe and ended up singing hymns with Baekcheon. And seven yegi who had come to play instruments to match the ensemble.
In that awkward atmosphere of being together but not together, one of the women who had been singing the hymn opened her mouth.
“Aren’t you having a hard time?”
“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t hard, but it was rewarding.”
“Is it worth it?”
“Thanks to the people of Mireukmyungyo, I can now make money. Moreover, I can now work as a shaman without being punished for selling my body. How can I not feel a sense of accomplishment when I can repay this favor with my humble talents?”
This was the biggest reason why as many as seven of them volunteered.
Additionally, since both Giru and Changkwan had the day off due to the rally last night, it was possible because they had some physical strength left.
In the strange atmosphere, Yegi opened his mouth calmly.
“Do you all remember what the incarnation of Maitreya said at the last meeting?”
“Are you talking about not eating or working every day?”
“Yes. I felt the opposite of what you meant.”
“???”
As everyone looked at her with puzzled expressions, she smiled gently and said.
“If you don’t work, you won’t eat. In other words, if you work, you’ll be able to eat. I was sold to another region because of debt. Of course, I didn’t get any money even though I sold my body to work.”
“… … .”
Because of the sad circumstances, no one was able to open their mouths easily.
It wasn’t just out of pity for her, because most of the women here were in similar situations.
Rather than sympathy, it was closer to empathy.
The three women who sang hymns were also not sold to Giru. They were living a life no different from that of Nancheonhoeju’s concubines.
And that prediction was also something he spoke with courage, knowing that they were in a similar situation to him.
With a strange expression of sadness and relief mixed together.
“But now, if you work, you can earn money and live. There is no longer any reason to be punished or beaten for not selling your body.”
Was it because she had the courage to speak out about her sorrow? Was it because everyone felt that they were in a similar situation?
The women, who had been divided into two groups, soon began to tell each other their names and ages and chatter about various things.
And without anyone realizing it.
Jin Ha-yeon, who was watching from a few steps behind, had a very slight smile on her lips.
A smile filled with pride and satisfaction for the person you serve.
* * *
one side.
On the other side of the garden where the women and Baekcheon were singing hymns, those who had finished eating were once again engrossed in their construction work.
“Gwang~ Myung Gwangmyeong Maitreya Myung~ Gyo!”
With the faint sound of a hymn coming from a little distance away.
These former beggars also knew the hymn, having attended the last meeting.
Naturally, they also started humming the song that was so catchy.
“Gwang~ Myung Gwangmyeong Maitreya Myung~ Gyo!”
Before we knew it, even the laborers who had never participated in a rally were humming hymns as they continued their work.
Deok-gwang, who was directing the construction, tilted his head at the sight of workers singing a work song he had never heard before.
“Gwang~ Myung Gwangmyeong Maitreya Myung~ Gyo!”
It was the same as before, a work song was leaking out of his mouth.
And then another two hours passed, and the sun was starting to set.
Those who had been harmonizing the hymns returned to the construction site, and a few new ones appeared in the garden pulling a cart.
The dinner that Jin Ha-yeon had ordered in advance from Gi-ru’s maids was brought in on a cart by several of the attendants.
“The sun will set soon, so why don’t we stop the construction now?”
Deok-gwang nodded at the masked woman’s words.
“That’s enough for today, so eat!”
At his direction, the laborers and former beggars gathered around the cart, and the women who had been singing the hymns also took their places beside the laborers and began to eat.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
When a few of the women greeted the former beggars and laborers who had been working on the construction site all day, the men’s mouths fell open.
“It is fate that we are here together, so let’s do this together.”
Some of the more active people mingled together, ate together, and chatted away.
And right after the eunuchs returned with the eunuchs to receive guests at Giru.
“This is today’s daily wage. Everyone worked hard.”
A masked woman handed out daily wages to the laborers herself.
Those who were former laborers were also satisfied with the daily wages that were slightly higher than their original wages.
“… … .”
The beggars, who had been living as beggars for a while and had finally earned money by working for the first time in a long time, looked down at the wages in their hands with expressions that were difficult to describe.
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