Chapter 79 : Chapter 79
Chapter 79 : Lecher
Hubei Province, Yichang.
"I think it would be better to walk from here."
Coming down the Yangtze River, canyons were prevalent.
Thinking it would be much better to move by carriage than by boat, they docked nearby and unloaded the carriage.
It was also a problem if they continued to ride the Black Dragon Keep's ship and got caught by another Waterway Keep, so the party quickly chose the land route.
"You said you were going to Dongting Lake, right? Then you should go to Yueyang."
"May I ask you to guide us?"
"Umm, I have to go to Wuhan."
If it's Wuhan, it's where the Murim Alliance is located.
"Captain, what should we do?"
At Baek Mu-yong's question, Hyeokryeon Yeom asked for the Young Palace Head, Seol Ye-rin's opinion.
"If we go to Wuhan, I think we will be taking a detour."
"One of the Three Great Towers, Yellow Crane Tower, is in Wuhan, right?"
"That's correct."
"If it's okay, could we see Yellow Crane Tower first before going?"
"Yes, then we will stop by Wuhan."
"She says so."
"Yes!"
Deung Ga-so of Geumgang Escort Agency took the reins.
Thanks to that, Baek Mu-yong became free.
"Rookie, follow me."
"Eh!"
Baek Mu-yong's rookie training began.
Yu So-dong, who had been constantly seasick on the ship, became energetic again as soon as he stepped on land, and while moving, he began to learn about the mindset of a Small Snow Squad member from Baek Mu-yong.
"By the way, Elder. Is it okay to take a detour like this?"
Inside the carriage.
Seol Ye-rin, excited at the thought of seeing Dongting Lake, asked the Divine Physician.
"Of course. Although I am worried about my granddaughter, she isn't in a critical condition where she might die today or tomorrow, so it is fine to tour the Central Plains while sightseeing like this."
"I will make sure we can head straight to Namman after seeing Dongting Lake."
"Thank you for your consideration, Young Palace Head."
"No, not at all. Ah, are you okay, Jin? Not going back to Potala Palace right away?"
"Yes, it is my first time touring the Jianghu too, so I am following along very happily."
Seol Ye-rin held Cheon Deung-jin's hands as if she was very thankful.
"Right, I think I am so happy that I can go around together like this instead of seeing it alone. Let's eat lots of delicious things in Wuhan."
Seol Ye-rin, who was waiting for the day she would die in the Ice Palace until just a while ago, was so happy and joyful with this life now.
Glance-
All of this is thanks to Hyeokryeon Yeom.
Thinking so, Seol Ye-rin looked at Hyeokryeon Yeom, who was unfolding movement arts while escorting the carriage.
He runs around like that every time, yet he doesn't seem tired; although he came into the carriage and talked in between, it seemed Hyeokryeon Yeom was more comfortable unfolding movement arts like that.
"Ah, Young Palace Head! Do you intend to sightsee Yichang as well?"
"Yes?"
"Since we came all the way to Yichang, I thought it would also be a way to try Yichang's specialty, Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Bun, at least once before crossing over to Wuhan!"
Grrrl-
–Come to think of it, I was getting hungry.
–Since I satisfied my hunger by catching fish and grilling them over a fire on the Yangtze River, I was quite hungry.
"What does everyone think?"
"It doesn't matter."
"I like it."
"Big approval!!!!"
Tae Un-seo's shout was heard from outside.
It seems he was very hungry.
Thus, the party's destination was decided.
***
At the point when Hyeokryeon Yeom's party entered Yichang.
Yichang's marketplace.
"Hwi! Hwi!"
"Oh my goodness, she must have lost him again."
"How many times is this already?"
"What kind of senile bastard takes children like this?"
"What are martial artists doing, not searching quickly?"
"She said she reported to the Murim Alliance too, right?"
"Right, it doesn't take long from Wuhan to here, is dispatching a search party that difficult, tsk tsk."
A person who appeared to be a child's mother was seen running around the marketplace.
"Hey, mother. Don't waste your strength in vain and come here and eat some rice!"
They called the woman running around the marketplace from a nearby inn, but things like food did not enter the woman's eyes.
"Would food enter the eyes of a parent who lost a child? Contact the Boseon Sect quickly."
"Aren't the martial artists of the Boseon Sect utterly useless?"
"Of all times, all the martial artists crossed over to Wuhan at a time like this."
"Whoever it is, I wish the guy who kidnapped the child falls backward and breaks his nose! Smash!"
Crash.
"Oh my, you startled me!"
"A-Are you... okay?"
A customer of the inn who tried to help up the fallen man tried to extend a hand seeing the frail man.
Then.
"Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Bun. Give me one."
The man who entered as if running into the inn quickly got up and took a seat in the corner of the inn.
"Ah, yes..."
As the waiter brought water.
"As quickly as possible!"
He urged the waiter.
"Yes, I will relay it."
Han Seol-bi, who entered the inn and ordered one Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Bun, sighed deeply in secret.
Fortunately, it seemed her cross-dressing wasn't caught.
She arrived in Yichang hanging onto the Black Dragon Keep's ship.
While feeling like her belly skin was sticking to her back, Han Seol-bi, hearing Deung Ga-so's story, decided to quit monitoring or whatever and come to the inn faster than the Young Palace Head's party to eat first.
Since she rushed here unfolding movement arts like crazy immediately after making the decision, it seemed there would be enough time to eat.
"Here, the food you ordered is served."
The Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Bun came out.
The dumpling skin was not thick while taking on a soft white color, and the figure gathered plumply at the top so the filling wouldn't burst out was truly art!
Ah-
However, Han Seol-bi was busy stuffing her stomach hurriedly without time to appreciate the beautiful figure of the Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Bun.
Because she had to eat quickly and hide again.
Since the destination of the Young Palace Head's party was practically decided as here anyway, Han Seol-bi did her best with the meal.
"Well, that's a man who eats very well."
Han Seol-bi picked up the dumplings in an instant, enough for the customers inside the inn to watch closely.
"Check!"
"Yes!"
Just as she was about to pay.
"This is exactly the famous restaurant of Yichang!"
Whoosh-
Han Seol-bi, hearing Deung Ga-so's voice, disappeared in an instant without even receiving the change from the waiter.
"Customer!!"
When the waiter tried to give the change, it was already too late.
"Waiter! Here are customers!"
Rumble-
"Ah, yes!"
As soon as the customer with a huge appetite left, ten customers barged in.
"Please grab two tables for us!"
"Understood!"
Small Snow Squad's Eun Bin, Baek Mu-yong, Wi Ji-yeong, Tae Un-seo, and Yu So-dong sat at one table.
The Divine Physician, Seol Ye-rin, Cheon Deung-jin, Hyeokryeon Yeom, and Deung Ga-so sat at one table.
"We ask for Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Buns!"
"Yes? Yes."
"Give us a bottle of Bamboo Leaf Green Liquor too!"
"Understood!"
Thinking there were many orders for Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Buns today, the waiter began to move quickly.
"It is an inn that is managed truly neatly."
Perhaps due to occupational disease, the rookie, Yu So-dong, looked around the inn and spoke.
"Rookie. You must not forget that you are not a waiter anymore."
"Ah, yes!"
Baek Mu-yong took care of Yu So-dong diligently.
Being a former Squad Leader played a part.
Even when in the Ice Wolf Squad, Baek Mu-yong had been in charge of rookie training.
"Sniff sniff, a delicious smell is wafting."
Tae Un-seo also held his chopsticks and kept looking at the kitchen.
"Don't think about cooking here and just think about eating, okay?"
Wi Ji-yeong scolded Tae Un-seo.
Eun Bin examined the customers around them to see if there was anyone targeting the Young Palace Head by any chance.
"...They are outsiders."
"Are they martial artists?"
"The woman wearing a veil looks like a child from a noble family."
"How about asking them?"
"Hey, don't even think about stepping forward. You'll get in trouble getting involved with martial artists."
Perhaps because it was around the marketplace, the voices of merchants chattering could be heard too well.
"It seems... something happened."
"I heard on the way here, apparently a child went missing."
"A child?"
While I was also waiting for the dumplings because I was hungry, Cheon Deung-jin talked about a child going missing.
'A child missing in Yichang?'
Something was on the tip of my tongue.
"Food is served!"
While thinking about what that memory was, the food came out.
My gaze ended up being stolen by the fragrant scent of the Red Chili Oil Beef Steamed Bun.
***
'It was delicious.'
At that time, Han Seol-bi was listening to the story downstairs while concealed on the second-floor pavilion of the inn.
'A child went missing.'
Stories about kidnapping and martial artists were heard a lot.
If it's Hubei Province, it's the region where the Murim Alliance is located, so it was strange that they didn't mobilize martial artists.
Thinking that the Young Palace Head's party wouldn't move while eating anyway, Han Seol-bi began to move.
She had to write in a letter that she arrived in Yichang and send what happened so far to the Palace Lord as well.
At the thought that the kidnapped child might be trembling somewhere, memories of the past surfaced.
-Mother, Mother!
Those who kidnap children must disappear from the world.
Thinking so, Han Seol-bi began to look for the woman who was looking for her child before she entered the inn a while ago.
"Where did she go?"
"Hwi! Hwi!"
The woman's voice is heard.
Han Seol-bi headed in the direction the voice came from.
"Found her."
The woman who was in the marketplace of Yichang had gone outside Yichang before she knew it and was looking for the child.
'To come to such a far place.'
Like that, it seemed the woman would enter the canyon near Yichang.
Thinking that if she took a wrong step in the steep canyon, not only the child would be a problem, but the woman could also suffer an unfortunate event, Han Seol-bi began to unfold movement arts toward the woman.
***
At that time, Yichang inn.
"Ah, I remembered."
I finished eating the dumplings and recalled the information about the story of the missing child in Yichang that I didn't remember a while ago.
In Hubei Province, Yichang, there exists a Lecher who enjoys Plucking Yin to Nourish Yang.
That Lecher kidnapped children, then lured the children's mothers, and committed the act of killing them after Plucking Yin to Nourish Yang.
Since it was a story about a demonic practitioner, it is a story that was widespread in the Demonic Cult.
'I thought, what kind of unfilial son of a bitch demonic practitioner exists like that.'
Probably judging by the time period, the time I heard the rumor and the current time overlapped.
If such a thing is happening right now in Yichang.
"I'll go out for a moment. Keep eating."
"Third Young Master?"
"Where are you going?"
When I raised my body, Seol Ye-rin and Cheon Deung-jin reacted.
"Maybe because I ate something spicy, I want to eat something sweet. I'll go buy some Tanghulu."
"Please get mine too."
"Me too."
I smiled at the two and left the inn.
"The time it takes to buy Tanghulu sold in the marketplace and return..."
Even if I take it long, one quarter of an hour.
I intended to look for exactly one quarter of an hour.