Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 20

Chapter 20

“Thank you.”

“However, from our side too…”

“Yes?”

“We have principles.”

“Huh?”

When Wei Yan-ho bowed his head, Jang-il explained instead.

“Information fee.”

“Ah, information rate? How much?

“Five nyang.”

“That’s not much.”

Wei Yan-ho took five coins out of his pocket and handed them to him.

“……”

“What?”

“Even if they mocked us, we couldn’t resist, but if we didn’t get the information fee, we couldn’t provide it. Even if they killed us all, the principles of the Hao Clan wouldn’t change.”

“What are you talking about?”

Jang-il touched Wei Yan-ho’s ribs.

“Five silver nyang!”

What kind of information fee is so expensive?

It includes first-class information. That’s why the price is a little high.

Five nyang silver?

Wei Yan-ho began to take out all the coins he had stored in his pocket and count them.

“…I don’t have enough”

“I’m sorry, but if it’s not enough, we can’t provide the information.”

“You can’t just sell me the value of a separate silver nyang.”

“That’s hard.”

“Then there is no choice.”

Wei Yan-ho turned around without any regrets.

“Where are you going?”

“I have to go make money.”

“Huh?”

If I don’t have enough money, I have to earn it.

– No, no, you can’t, you can’t!

“What can’t I do? What should I do then?”

“Keuheuk, in the end it all comes to this.”

Jang-il could not control the tears that flowed from his eyes.

In the end, Jang-il was taken all the money Wei Yan-ho had previously earned for him, along with his hidden emergency funds, and even had to write a promissory note to cover the remainder.

‘My heart hurts.’

Wei Yan-ho snapped his tongue as he looked at Jang-il crying without stopping at the corner.

“You really are a fool, a complete fool.”

This was how Wei Yan-ho achieved his goal, even by extracting hidden emergency funds from Kaifeng’s general branch office.

Gui Nang-nang delivered the documents and Wei Yan-ho examined the materials he received.

It’s a different level than the materials the beggars picked up. It seems that their information organization is on another level.

Hey, motherfucker, after you took me out to the emergency money I had on my bones, is that what you have to say?

“But it’s the truth.”

Wei Yan-ho shrugged.

“And I have one more request.”

“Please go ahead.”

“I’d like to send a letter. Is it possible from here?”

“It’s possible.”

“Then please send him to Guangdong. Is it expensive?

“It is more expensive than courier service. However, in this case, we can replace the fee by answering some questions.”

“Well, if you do that, it will be good for me.”

Gui Nang-nang asked quietly.

“What’s your name?”

“Wei Yan-ho.”

“Age?”

“Let’s see, I’m seventeen.”

You’re younger than me!

Jang-il rushed forward as if he felt wronged.

Wei Yan-ho casually threw the hasty Jang-il into a corner and looked at Gui Nang-nang.

‘Seventeen.’

Gui Nang-nang wondered whether he should trust Wei Yan-ho’s response, which did not coincide at all with his appearance.

“His martial dexterity and appearance are definitely not those of a seventeen-year-old boy.”

“Please tell me precisely.”

“But is it true?”

“Wei Yan-ho, Wei Yan-ho…”

After murmuring Wei Yan-ho’s name for a moment, Gui Nang-nang’s eyes lit up.

“Guangdong. Wei Yan-ho. Will you be the young master Wei Yan-ho, the second son of Guangdong’s Wi family?”

“Hey, you know me?”

“Gui Nang-nang nodded.”

“I know you. How could I not know the second son of the Wi family? Besides, the Wi family once commissioned us to find the young teacher, so I know it even better.”

“Really? Me?”

At that moment, Jang-il screamed surprised.

“Hey, Wei Yan-ho, the second son of the Wi family, are you San-ho’s younger brother?”

“Hey, you know my big brother?”

Gui Nang-nang sighed.

“The second son of the Guangdong Wi family, who was known to have died, has returned. If you had returned just a year earlier, we could have received the commission. What a pity!”

“The family charged you?”

“Yes.” They said they would give us a hundred guan of gold if we found the young master.

Jang-il nodded.

“Mmm, we also received such a commission.”

“One hundred gold guan? Wow, how rich our family is!”

Although he spoke calmly, Wei Yan-ho had to grab his tingling nose.

His family had been looking for him all this time, and they had contributed as much as a hundred guan of gold.

“They couldn’t have prepared that much money easily.”

He could feel how desperate they should have been.

If he could follow his heart, he’d want to come home right away.

If it weren’t for Baek Muhan’s inner core embedded in his body, Wei Yan-ho would have gone straight home without thinking twice.

“Is the letter addressed to the Wi family?”

“Yes.”

– I’ll take care of it. Do you write it now?

“Please do it.”

When the paper, brush and ink were prepared, Wei Yan-ho wrote a letter to send home and handed it to Gui Nang-nang.

“Here you go.”

“The letter will take at least ten days to reach Guangdong.”

I’ve waited five years, what’s ten days?

“Excuse me for the misunderstanding, as much as I saw it, you looked like the Beggar Sect…”

“After rotting in the mountains for five years… at first I was pretty soft and gentle, you know?”

“And this…”

He pulled a red cloth out of his chest and extended it.

“What is this?”

“It’s a sign that you’re a premium customer of the Hao Clan. If you tie it where you’re staying, our agents will find you.”

“Is it because I paid a lot of money?”

“It’s not that. Please consider it delivered with our apologies.”

“Is it free?”

“That’s not all either.”

Wei Yan-ho seemed down.

“Then it doesn’t have much meaning.”

“It’ll be more useful than you think, we don’t give it easily.”

Gui Nang-nang smiled.

A 17-year-old with the ability to subdue Gong-mu and Sa-geom in one day?

She could guarantee that there was no such person in the present central plains.

It would take at least a generation back to find someone with similar abilities.

In the martial world, where martial dexterity was the most important thing, someone with a force that did not correspond to his age was an extremely important existence.

It wouldn’t be wrong to create this connection.

“If you insist, I’ll give up the information fee only next time.”

“Really?”

“I’m doing it on purpose. We don’t want what happened here to distance the relationship between the Hao sect and you.”

– But nothing really happened, did it?

At the words of Wei Yan-ho, Jang-il clenched his teeth.

“I even had to write an IOU and I was completely broke!”

– Well, that’s common, because you’re naive.

“I’m not!”

“Well, since everything is fixed, I’m leaving.”

“Good journey.”

After Wei Yan-ho and Jang-il left, Gui Nang-nang spoke.

“Gong-mu.”

“Yes, leader.”

“Call headquarters immediately. The second son of the Wi family has returned.”

“Yes.”

Gui Nang-nang began to think while listening to Gong-mu’s voice.

At this time, this fact was known only to the Hao Clan and the Mendigo sect.

It would have been better if the Beggar Sect didn’t know either, but it was still valuable information.

‘I need to use this.’

Information has value when it is scarce.

‘Besides…’

It wasn’t just the simple fact that he had returned as a teacher that was important.

While facing Wei Yan-ho, Gui Nang-nang had tried an unimaginable level of fear.

If that were possible only through martial dexterity, Gui Nang-nang, who regularly met with the leaders of the Hao Clan and influential figures of the martial world, would not have experienced it for the first time.

‘There’s something there.’

Wei Yan-ho had some sort of secret.

Finding out that was what Gui Nang-nang needed to do from now on.

‘I’ll be busy.’

After leaving the Hao Clan, Jang-il dried up his tears.

“My money…”

Money comes and goes and a beggar should not be obsessed with money. You must be faithful to your true vocation.

“Keuung.”

Jang-il wanted to beat that odious bastard to death right away.

But what could he do when he lacked strength?

“Now you have all the information, right?”

“Mmm…”

“So there’s no more business, is there?”

“Well… there’s a little problem.”

“What now?”

“Hmm, I need to go pretty far…”

“Then?”

“I have no money to travel.”

“……”

Can’t I make some money here before I leave?

Tears flowed from Jang-il’s eyes once again.

After Wei Yan-ho again extracted supplies and other things from Jang-il, he packed his belongings.

Although he wanted to stay a little longer, with the thought that he needed to finish the tasks that his master had left him as quickly as possible to return home, he contained his laziness of his own free will so it was practically the first time in his life.

So great was Wei Yan-ho’s longing for his home.

“Well, I’m leaving.”

“…Please go, just go.”

“If you keep saying that I won’t leave?”

“Please go.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll go. I’ll see you soon.”

“I won’t see you! I won’t see you! I won’t see you again even if I die!”

“Really? Then there is no choice.”

Wei Yan-ho left the cabin.

At the same time, all the beggars at Kaifeng branch shouted hurrah!

“He’s gone!”

“He’s gone!”

To think I’d live to see someone plucking beggars!

“The worst test of my beggar life has passed!”

“Buda, please watch that scoundrel’s way and make sure he never comes back here!”

Wei Yan-ho left for the road to receive a great farewell.

And seeing the Wei Yan-ho figure walk away, Jang-il kept thinking.

“The second son of the Wi family…”

The Kaifeng branch of the Beggar Sect.

The branch located right in front of the head office.

As the head office was in Kaifeng, the branch had virtually nothing to do.

It was a name only branch; the actual role of the Kaifeng branch was separate.

To train future leaders to lead the Mendigo sect and nurture them.

Therefore, the post of head of Kaifeng’s branch was traditionally occupied by the Little Beggar’s Beggar Sect.

The next leader of the Beggar Sect, Little Mendigo Jang-il, smiled as he watched the retired Wei Yan-ho figure.

“San-ho, it’s a little different from what that friend said, but it’s definitely a unique guy. San-ho would love to know.”

Jang-il returned to the cabin to write a letter to send to Wei San-ho.

While doing so, he looked at Wei Yan-ho one last time.

“It’s unique, but I don’t want to see it again.

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Wei Yan-ho walked slowly with his backpack on his back.

“Is this the beginning?”

He had obtained information about the places his teacher had mentioned.

Now he had also decided where to go.

Although he might have to travel far, his real journey was just beginning.

“I need to finish quickly and go home. I want to see Mom, Dad and also Su-ryeon. My older brother? My brother… mmm, is he going to hit me?”

Wei Yan-ho walked down the street whistling.

Normally, it should have taken ten days to get to the first destination.

However…

Neither Wei Yan-ho nor Jang-il knew.

That the speed at which an ordinary person moved and the speed at which Wei Yan-ho moved were in different dimensions.

Wei Yan-ho, who thought ten days of provisions would be fine, realized when he ran out of all the provisions that had not even reached a quarter of his destination.

Since he repeated the pattern of walking for two shijin and sleeping for twelve shijin, there was no way the provisions would last.

Thus, when Wei Yan-ho came to his first destination by grasping his hungry stomach, it had already been a full month since his departure.

***

“At that time I really thought I would never see him again.”

Guangqushen shivered as if he was shivering through the spine.

“No, I shouldn’t have known him. I should have cut off all relationships with that guy. I shouldn’t have done stupid things like contacting this San-ho guy!

The historian had doubts in observing Guangqushen’s appearance.

No matter what, Guangqushen was someone who had served as leader of the mass sect called the Mendigo sect, and even now he was someone called a martial world legend.

No matter how big it was said to be Wei Yan-ho, how could he shake Guangqushen to this point?

“Well… except for his somewhat peculiar personality, doesn’t he seem to have any particular problems?”

At that time, Guangqushen fell over The Historian like lightning and grabbed him by the neck.

“Do you believe that?”

Keulleok!

Guangqushen released him and sighed deeply.

“Actually, I thought so too.”

“Excuse me?”

“I thought he was an interesting guy, even if he was unique and strange, at the time, of course.”

“What do you mean?”

“I should have cut off all ties then. If I had, I wouldn’t have experienced such terrible things later. Among those who got involved with Wei Yan-ho, not one had a good experience! Not a single one!”

“……”

Guangqushen continued with a trembling voice.

“Just take that place. Yes, the first place that guy went.

“Where did he go?”

Where do you think it is?

“I wouldn’t know.”

“The least suitable place for that guy, a learning room where books live and breathe.”

“Don’t tell me?”

“That’s right, the Academic World. That quiet and peaceful study hall began to suffer sudden storms when that guy appeared.”

“……”

“The truth is that this guy brings disasters with him wherever he goes. Even if it’s not intentional, accidents never stop where he goes. I should have known then.”