<strong>Light Novel: Volume 6 Episode 19</strong>


    <strong>Manhwa: N/A</strong>


    Last year and in the spring of this year, a series of big events happened in Chengdu. Both of those events greatly shook Chengdu and left great scars. However, after a few months passed, the people of Chengdu regained their stability again as if nothing had happened.


    When shops opened their doors, the streets soon became full of people buying things. Among them were many merchants from outside Sichuan.


    Chengdu is a very attractive ce for merchants. This is because items brought in from Xizang and the specialties of Sichuan were avable at the same time.


    If they take the goods they get here in Chengdu to another city and sell them, they can make a pretty good profit, so many merchants and escortpaniese in every day.


    Somyeong Escort Corps¹was also one of the escortpanies that came in. Somyeong Escort Corps is argepany with twenty chief escorts, fifty escort warriors, and more than twenty masters.


    It is quite remarkable for ny people to be mobilized for an escort service.


    It has been more than a hundred years since the Somyeong Escort Corps was established, but only three votes were mobilized by all personnel. And for the first time in decades, the entire group members were mobilized.


    Only Seo Guksang, the owner of the escortpany, knew what the client had requested to deliver.


    Seo Guksang carried a box containing the items in his carriage and set out to march. There was only one box, but more than ny people were protecting it.


    However, none of the members of the Somyeong Escort Corps were dissatisfied.


    Someone might criticize them for unnecessarily deploying a lot of personnel, but in the first ce, the more important the item, the more people were mobilized.


    The chief escorts and warriors of the Somyeong Escort Corps entered Chengdu while guarding the carriage on which Seo Guksang rode. They drove their horses nonstop and arrived at their destination which was the Snow Cloud Vi.²


    Snow Cloud Vi was a new manor in Xintian Road.


    Even in Xintian Road, which was filled with luxury mansions, the Snow Cloud Vi boasted such a huge scale that it could be considered as one of the best.


    When the Somyeong Escort Corps arrived, the huge door of the Snow Cloud Vi opened.


    The first thing that caught their eyes was therge training hall that could amodate more than ny people.


    In the training hall, an old man with a thick beard and dozens of warriors, greeted the procession of the Somyeong Escort Corps.


    “Wee. You’ve worked hard on your journey.”


    “No. I should be the one to thank you for greeting us personally like this, Mister Yu!”


    “Heh heh! You brought a valuable item to the main house safely, so of course I have to greet you myself.”


    The old man with a thick beard was Yu Gi-cheon, the owner of the Snow Cloud Vi.


    Yu Gi-cheon originally operated arge merchantpany in Hunan province.


    He founded it with his own hands and made it into a hugepany, but when his health deteriorated, he decided to return to his hometown of Chengdu.


    Although he retired from the front line, the merchantpany he built continued to be run by his children. The scale was now twice that of when he was the owner. Thanks to this, he was still earning a great amount of money even if he was sitting still.


    Seo Guksang wink at two of the chief escorts.


    The two chief escorts took out arge box from the carriage of Seo Guksang.


    “This is the item that Mister Yu’s son told me to deliver.”


    “Oh!”


    Yu Gi-cheon’s eyes widened.


    There was an emotional expression on his face.


    The two chief escorts set the box down in front of Yu Gi-cheon.


    Yu Gi-cheon carefully opened the box. Then he saw booklets with yellowish pages. The titles written on the old booklets were also worn out and had a sour smell.


    The escort warriors looked at the booklet that came out of the box with a puzzled expression.


    They were wondering what those books are, and howe a person like Yu Gi-cheon, who is considered as the richest man in the world, has such a moved expression on his face.


    Yu Gi-cheon took out a booklet from the box and opened it carefully. The paper was full of strange characters whose meaning was unknown.


    They were characters that could not be read even by looking at them.


    “It’s the original.”


    Yu Gi-cheon muttered as he carefully ced the booklet into the box.


    The books in the box were considered sphemous.


    A high priest in Jungwon brought the original copy to Seo Guksang a long time ago.


    All the Buddhist scriptures that exist in the present Jianghu are only trantions of the originals contained in the box.


    Yu Gi-cheon had been searching for the original copy for a very long time.


    After retiring, he became immersed in the teachings of Buddhism. Btedly falling into Buddhism, he pondered what would be the most meaningful work in hister years.


    At that time, he heard the rumors that an original script of the Buddhist sutras existed. So he searched everywhere to find the original copy.


    Fortunately, his son was able to obtain the original from Shaanxi Province, so he sent it through the Somyeong Escort Corps.


    ‘If I send this sutra to Shaolin Temple for storage in the future, they will like it.’


    Until then, he was thinking of tranting the Buddhist scriptures by himself.


    After ordering the escortpany to move the box of Buddhist sutras to his residence, Yu Gi-cheon looked at Seo Guksang.


    “Thank you very much for safely transporting this precious treasure here. I will definitely pay you for this.”


    “Don’t worry. Your son has already paid for it.”


    “Heh heh! That can’t be! Do you already have a ce to stay?”


    “Not yet.”


    “I own the Grand Guest House in the center of Chengdu. If you are resting there, I will have the secretarypensate you.”


    “Oh you don’t have…”


    “I insist.”


    “Then I will be grateful for this favor, Mister Yu.”


    Seo Guksang could not refuse any more and epted Yu Gi-cheon’s offer.


    He thought he had hit the jackpot.


    If he can strengthen his rtionship with Yu Gi-cheon, he can continue to do business with their merchant group where his son is the owner.


    It was very important for an escortpany to secure stable business partners. More so if their customer was one of the top-ranked merchantpanies in the world.


    Seo Guksang thanked Yu Gi-cheon again and again, before going out of the Snow Cloud Vi.


    The Grand Guest House was huge enough to amodate arge group of up to ny people.


    Seo Guksang said to the chief escorts and escort warriors.


    “Everyone should stay and rest well here until I receive the reward from Mister Yu. I will pay for the alcohol today, so eat, drink and unwind as much as you like.’


    “Wow!”


    “My lord, you are the best!”


    The members of the Somyeong Escort Corps cheered.


    They immediately ordered drinks and food.


    Chief escort Sagong Yun also drank with his colleagues.


    Sagong Yun was a man in his early twenties. He actuallycked the experience and skill to be a leader. Nevertheless, he became one of the chief escorts because he was the nephew of Seo Guksang.


    Sagong Yun was the only one with a dissatisfied expression on his face while everyone was busyughing and talking.


    ‘Shit! How can I enjoy alcohol without the presence of a girl?’


    He was originally famous for being a yboy in his hometown.


    His father, who could not handle his antics, asked Seo Guksang to take him into the Somyeong Escort Corps. He thought that Sagong Yun woulde to his senses if he wandered around the world and learned to work as an escort warrior.


    Seo Guksang treated Sagong Yun like any other escort. He may have the title of a chief escort, but his job was no different from that of an escort warrior. So he had time to rest because of the arduous schedule.


    The biggestint is that he couldn’t even smell a woman.


    ‘They don’t even have a girl by their side, so what are they so happy about?’


    He looked at the chief escorts and the escort warriors whoughed and talked around him like they were idiots. Although they were drinking in the same ce, he could not assimte at all with the people around him.


    He eventually slipped out of his seat.


    “It’s better to go to a brothel at a time like this.”


    He had enough money. It was thanks to his mother who generously took care of him.


    He didn’t find it too difficult to find the streets where the brothels were concentrated. He only needed to look for a ce where rednterns were lit up brightly.


    Fortunately, there was a red light district not far from the Grand Guest House.


    Sagong Yun confidently headed to the red light district.


    “Hm?”


    Sagong Yun suddenly stopped.


    Because a particr girl caught his attention.


    “Oho!”


    An exmation came out of his mouth.


    The girl looked like she was only about thirteen or fourteen years old.


    The air around her was different.


    She was walking with her head and eyes slightly lowered, and her brightly white neck which was exposed could not anymore be so attractive.


    Sagong Yun lost his mind as he looked at the girl’s back.


    Sagong Yun had dealt with many women before, but it was the first time for him to find a girl with such a unique and dreamy atmosphere.


    It didn’t matter to him that the girl was still a young child.


    Sagong Yun unknowingly followed the girl.


    Whether or not she knew that fact, the girl continued to walk.


    After following the girl for a long time, Sagong Yun suddenly felt a strong sense of difort.


    ‘That bitch, she’s blind.’


    On her way here, the girl never looked around her surroundings.


    When she was standing at a crossroad, she would prick her ears and fumble along the wall with her hand to determine the direction.


    A person with normal eyes wouldn’t act in such a cumbersome way.


    A small smile appeared on the corner of Sagong Yun’s lips.


    ‘It’s even better now that I know she is blind.’


    His whole body suddenly heated up, and he felt hisher region tensed up.


    He followed the girl more carefully.


    However, the direction the girl was going was strange.


    ‘That’s the street where the Snow Cloud Vi was.’


    From what he heard, only prominent people with power in Chengdu were able to settle down here.


    ‘I’ll be in trouble if I mess with the wrong person, won’t I?”


    But he soon shook his head.


    His target was a blind girl anyway.


    Even if hemits a sin to his heart’s content, she won’t be able to recognize his face anyway. When he thought that he couldmit the perfect crime, his remaining caution disappeared.


    Sagong Yun boldly followed the girl.


    The girl stood in front of a mansion with an impressive red pine tree.


    She must have arrived at her home.


    The girl knocked on the door and a servant came out to greet her.


    Thud!


    The door closed and the girl disappeared into the mansion.


    He couldn’t stand it any longer.


    Sagong Yun flew over the mansion wall. The fence was quite high, but that didn’t stop him since he had learned some martial arts. He climbed on the wall lightly like a stray cat.


    It was quiet inside the mansion.


    If he hadn’t seen the girl entering, he would have mistaken it for an uninhabited ce.


    Amp was lit in one of the rooms.


    It was clear that the girl who had just entered had turned on the light.


    ‘She’s in that room.’


    Sagong Yun’s eyes gleamed with excitement.


    Now that he has confirmed the room, all he has to do now is to go in andmit the crime. Furthermore, there seemed to be no security in the mansion. It was like an empty mountain without an owner.


    Sagong Yun did not hesitate any longer.


    Hended lightly on the floor.


    That was then.


    “Who are you?”


    He suddenly heard a child’s voiceing from behind him.


    For a moment, Sagong Yun felt the back of his neck bing stiff.


    “Hyuk!”


    When Sagong Yun hurriedly turned around, he saw a boy about six or seven years old, smiling brightly. Seven rings hung around the boy’s neck like ornaments.


    ‘There was definitely no one there?’


    He felt like he was haunted.


    He asked cautiously,


    “Who are you?”


    “Me? I’m a person who lives in this house.”


    The boy answered with a characteristic bright expression.


    “Then what about the girl who went in a while ago?”


    “My friend!”


    “Don’t lie. I could tell at a nce that she is a lot older than you.”‘


    “I’m sorry, brother, but it’s true. Something’s wrong with me so I don’t look my age.”


    “What nonsense—”


    “But, do you know?”


    “W, what is it?”


    “The fact that you are the 15th person who tried to sneak into this ce.”


    “What?”


    The boy, Soma, grinned.


    “Whenever Eunyo would go out ande back, flies would always follow her around like this. It’s bing really annoying.”


    In an instant, Soma’s eyes changed.


    “Hyiik!”


    Sagong Yun freaked out.


    The boy’s eyes were hurting his own, as if being stabbed by a needle.


    Sreung!


    Soma pulled out one of the rings he was wearing around his neck and said,


    “Because of you, your family will bepletely ruined.”


    “What the hell are you talking about?”


    “You’d better believe what I say. All the families of the fourteen guys who have crossed the wall of this house without permission have already been ruined.”


    “Stop saying bullshit.”


    Unable to withstand the pressure, Sagong Yun drew his sword.


    Now that things have reached this point, he ns to kill the boy and forcibly take in the girl, beforepletely destroying the evidence.


    Shiak!


    A gruesome sound rang out.


    For a moment, Somaughed.


    “You can’t really don’t get it, do you?”


    <strong>SoundlessWind21’s Notes</strong>


    Thank you for reading!<ol><li>Somyeong Escort Corps. Raws: ????(昭明鎌局). <ul><li>昭 Bright, luminous, illustrious</li><li>明 bright, light, brilliant, clear</li><li>鎌 sickle</li><li>局 bureau, office, circumstance</li></ul></li><li>Snow Cloud Vi. Raws: ???(雪雲荘) <ul><li>雪 xue, snow, wipe away shame, avenge</li><li>雲 yun, clouds, Yunnan province</li><li>荘 zhuang, vige, hamlet, vi</li></ul></li></ol>