Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 24

Chapter 24

The man said with a baffled expression.

“What are you talking about? It’s me!”

“Huh?”

Moon Eun-ji rubbed her eyes and looked back at the man.

But as much as she looked, the person standing in front of her now was not the creature obsessed with the food she had been there a few moments earlier.

How could she confuse that strange appearance of the obsessed creature with food when it had been so intensely memorable?

“Liar!”

Wei Yan-ho laughed between teeth and said.

“If you don’t want to believe it, then don’t.”

“…really?”

“I tell you it’s true.”

“My God… how can a person change so much in such a short time…”

Moon Eun-ji looked at Wei Yan-ho with a stupefied expression.

The skull-shaped face had disappeared and the body, which kept only bones, rose before it a man whose solid muscles were glimpsed between his clothes.

In addition, the visible face under her tightly tied hair, although not exactly of incomparable beauty, was quite attractive.

Could a person really change so much in such a short time?

“How did this happen?”

“Well, I ate well and rested well, so I ended up like this.”

“Liar.”

“What a harsh world! They don’t believe you even when you tell the truth.”

“Are you really human?”

“I knew some ghosts pretty well.”

Moon Eun-ji let a deep sigh escape.

What mattered was not whether he was human or not.

What mattered was that the person in front of him was a terrible slacker, and that solid body of his had been built eating from the estate without paying a single coin.

Thinking about it, it began to seem even more detestable than before. How much rice had I wasted to develop those muscles so solid?

It was certainly an incomprehensiblely strange event, but having grown up listening to countless stories of peculiar people in the world, Moon Eun-ji could let it pass.

Actually, when you thought about it, wandering around with that earlier appearance was more remarkable than this transformation.

Moon Eun-ji turned around and broadcast a sound that went through the air.

“Follow me.”

Wei Yan-ho followed Moon Eun-ji as she walked forward.

Although he was extremely upset, it was fair to make a living. This was not a place where he could loiter at his whim.

The place Moon Eun-ji drove him to was a well in a corner of the estate.

And around that well, the dirty clothes in bamboo baskets were stacked so high that it was enough to leave anyone breathless.

Moon Eun-ji smiled.

“Just wash these clothes for me.”

“All this?”

– It’s not much, is it?

“Not much?”

Wei Yan-ho looked at the clothes stacked around the well.

It seemed that even the clothes Wei Yan-ho would wash in a whole year would be less. No, it would definitely be less. Wei Yan-ho was bothered to change clothes, so once she wore clothes, she wouldn’t take them off for a whole month unless someone complained.

Even when he was at home in the past, it was common for servants or his mother to come every three days about to change his clothes almost forcibly.

“Is this my payment for meals?”

“That’s right.”

“It’s not like I dusted gold dust on my food!”

“All other guests do a lot of work!”

“Liar!”

Moon Eun-ji said with a smile.

“Don’t worry, you just have to do this today.”

“Today?”

Did you think you’d rest tomorrow?

“…”

“Then I count on you! Wash them well! If they are not clean, I will have you wash them again, so be sure to wash them well!”

Moon Eun-ji left those words and slipped away.

‘Let’s see how you prove what adversity is!’

Moon Eun-ji smiled widely.

She absolutely hated lazy people.

While she could not prevent him from leaving because of his father’s orders, she would definitely not let him loiter without doing anything.

Moreover, considering the increasingly difficult financial situation in those days, they could not afford to hire such a cap.

Having grown up seeing only those who studied diligently and sincerely as their motto, Wei Yan-ho was for Moon Eun-ji a piece of sin and a human parasite.

If you can’t finish it all, you’ll have to keep working even after the sun goes down!

Moon Eun-ji hummed a melody.

But Moon Eun-ji could not see the expression Wei Yan-ho was making behind her.

‘Are you going to make me suffer?’

Wei Yan-ho smiled.

“You have the wrong person, miss!”

Although he muttered quietly, supposedly impossible to hear for anyone else, he reached Wei Yan-ho’s ears too clearly.

Wei Yan-ho looked at the laundry.

Ruining clothes to make Moon Eun-ji suffer would also be a decent method.

But for that, he felt sorry for Moon Yu-hwan, who had let him stay for no hidden reason.

“I’ve really changed a lot.”

In the past, he wouldn’t have cared about Moon Yu-hwan’s circumstances.

But the lessons Baek Mu-han had recorded on his body with his fists made Wei Yan-ho aware of things that he didn’t care about before.

In that sense, Baek Mu-han had done something truly good for the world.

“Well, anyway, I have to make a living.”

Wei Yan-ho slowly approached the well.

“Huh?”

Moon Eun-ji called So-mi, who was leaving Wei Yan-ho’s room.

“So-mi.”

“Yes, sister!”

So-mi ran to Moon Eun-ji.

Moon Eun-ji smiled and caressed So-mi’s head.

So-mi was a girl who lived near the estate. When her father died recently and her situation became complicated, the estate welcomed her as a servant.

“I’m sorry, but could you take the food for that room to the well?”

“Huh?”

She’s probably washing her clothes. Could you take her food?

“But was there a person in the room?”

“What did you say?”

“He didn’t seem to be the same guest as before, but there was a different person there.”

“Ah, a different person…”

Wait a minute?

If So-mi didn’t know that the strange person’s appearance had changed, wouldn’t he confuse him with someone else?

So does that mean that person is really in the room right now?

Moon Eun-ji ran into the room and opened the door.

After confirming the person in the room, Moon Eun-ji shouted.

“Why are you here?”

Wei Yan-ho was eating his food in bed with a blanket on top.

Shouldn’t one at least get out of bed to eat? That’s basic human decency!

“It’s time to eat.”

“How can you come to eat here if you haven’t even finished your job! I would have brought it to you anyway!”

Wei Yan-ho said bluntly.

“But I’m done.”

“Don’t joke.”

“No, I’m really done”

“I told you not to joke.”

“Have you been fooled all your life?”

Wei Yan-ho shrugged and ate his food again.

Moon Eun-ji frowned.

“…are you really done?”

“Yes.”

“You must have done it without care.”

“How can that be?”

“You should know that if I check and find it wrong, you’ll have to do it again!”

“Go ahead.”

Moon Eun-ji was furious.

How could a person be so lazy that every word he uttered could irritate someone that way?

“Wow!”

Moon Eun-ji left the room and ran towards the well.

He must have rinsed them with water and said it was over! I’ll make him do it again right now!

But when he got to the well, something completely unexpected happened.

Moon Eun-ji’s eyes trembled as if an earthquake had occurred when he saw the well.

The clothes hung in neat rows and columns on stretchers along the well.

“Huh?”

Moon Eun-ji approached the laundry with a baffled expression.

A large blanket appeared before her eyes.

“… Was this color originally?”

The blankets that had been slightly yellow now shone with a pure white color.

Blankets that didn’t lose their color faded no matter how much Moon Eun-ji washed them, were now as white as freshly bought blankets.

“How did he manage to do all this…”

Moon Eun-ji looked around with a stupefied expression.

Pure white clothes hung in rows. It was so white that it almost blinded.

“This can’t be…”

This was the clothes Moon Eun-ji had prepared to make Wei Yan-ho suffer.

Normally, it would have been necessary to summon dozens of people to work together for a weekend.

But he had finished all that washing alone, and so perfectly, in less than one shijin.

Good.

Let’s just say he finished washing all his clothes.

But what about this color that shames new articles?

Even if I had spent three days working on a single blanket, I wouldn’t have been able to leave it so clean; but how could he have left all those clothes that clean?

Moon Eun-ji would never have imagined it, but Wei Yan-ho had solved all this mess by a very simple method.

He had thrown all the visible clothes into the well, then used his True Solar Force to boil the entire well.

Naturally, it was a shock for someone who had not learned martial arts, and if someone who had learned martial arts found out about it, he would foam in his mouth and faint.

First, the fact that he could release a True Solar Force powerful enough to boil an entire well, and second, the even more amazing fact that he had used such an amazing ability just to wash his clothes.

Of course, Moon Eun-ji did not know martial arts, so naturally he could only be surprised.

Moon Eun-ji ran back to Wei Yan-ho’s room. He opened the door without hesitation and shouted.

“What did you do?”

Wei Yan-ho looked at Moon Eun-ji and laughed between his teeth.

“Why, did something happen?”

“How did you do to wash all those clothes yourself in such a short time?”

Wei Yan-ho said calmly.

“You told me to do it alone, so I did it alone. Why? Was it something I couldn’t do alone? Did you entrust me with an impossible task?”

“…of course not!”

“So what’s the problem?”

Wei Yan-ho smiled widely.

And that expression gnashed in Moon Eun-ji’s heart.

“Did you call people to ask for help?”

“Well, that doesn’t matter. The important thing is that I finished today’s work, and now there’s just rest, right?

Wei Yan-ho said with a smile.

I’m a little tired and I need to rest.

“Puaj…”

“Why, do you have anything else to say?”

“No.”

“Then goodbye.”

Wei Yan-ho covered himself with the blanket and lay down. Moon Eun-ji watched the scene with her teeth tight. She felt deeply aggrieved, angry and frustrated, but had nothing to say.

Wasn’t it Moon Eun-ji herself who said he just needed to do that job today?

She couldn’t take back her own words.

Moon Eun-ji closed the door and left.

Argh, how outrageous!

She was so frustrated she was about to cry.

“Tomorrow! Wait till tomorrow!”

As Wei Yan-ho heard Moon Eun-ji’s voice fade as he cursed, he smiled.

“She’s a young woman full of energy.”

What if it was?

She couldn’t do anything else today.

Wei Yan-ho slowly lifted the blanket from him and then slowly fell into sleep.

But like everything Wei Yan-ho did, this business didn’t end well either.

That night, rice cooked with well water without thinking twice revealed an indescribable smell and tormented everyone on the farm.

Of course, no one dreamed that the cause of all this was Wei Yan-ho.

And Wei Yan-ho scolded Moon Eun-ji for bringing him smelly rice after working so hard.

Poor Moon Eun-ji could only grind her teeth without stopping.