Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 25

Chapter 25

The next day.

“All this?”

Before the sick voice of Wei Yan-ho, Moon Eun-ji cheered inwardly.

“That’s right!”

“…… do you want me to divide all this?”

In front of Wei Yan-ho there was a pile of wood.

Looking at the wood stacked up on a person’s head, Wei Yan-ho was stunned.

The firewood found there was firewood that the Great Hanrim Mansion had diligently collected to survive the winter. It was the amount that dozens of people could hardly burn throughout the winter, so the amount could not be small.

“It’s no big deal!”

Wei Yan-ho shook his head vigorously.

Humanly speaking, isn’t it unreasonable to ask me to divide all this into one day?

“Why, can’t you do it?”

“Of course not. Who could divide all this in one day?”

Moon Eun-ji smiled with itch.

You have to make a living, give it to me today, or you can go.

“…I have no choice.”

Wei Yan-ho dragged his steps.

“Where are you going?”

“To your father.”

Moon Eun-ji blocked Wei Yan-ho’s road.

“Why my father?”

“Even if I leave, I should at least say goodbye.”

“Are you going to leave?”

“I have to go, what else can I do? I could never divide all that in a day, even if it cost me my life.”

Moon Eun-ji smiled slightly.

– That’s too bad.

Well, I’m leaving.

Moon Eun-ji watched Wei Yan-ho’s back as he walked away obediently, preying on a strange sense of apprehension.

“E-wait a minute!”

“What?”

“What are you going to say to Dad?”

“What do you mean? I should thank him and tell him I’m jealous of him.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I should thank you for letting me stay so far and tell you that I’m jealous of you because you can hire a worker who can split such a pile of firewood in one day.”

In an instant, Moon Eun-ji’s face became pale.

“T-you!”

“The truth is I’d like to see that person once. It’s amazing. But if that person were here now, I wouldn’t have given myself the job, so I’ll just say I’m jealous of him and I’ll leave.”

Moon Eun-ji’s face was contorted.

“N-no, you can’t!”

“What?”

“Dad is busy, so you can leave without saying goodbye!”

Wei Yan-ho shook his head.

“A person cannot do that after receiving kindness.”

“No, still…”

“Don’t worry, it’s just a quick goodbye.”

Finally, Moon Eun-ji surrendered.

“Well, I get it, then finish it in a week.”

“A week?”

“Yes.”

“That’s a little short…”

“One week is enough, what more do you want? I can’t make concessions beyond that.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled with itch.

“Okay, I’ll do it during the week, if I finish a little earlier, I can rest, can’t I?”

But if you don’t finish in a week, I won’t let it go!

“Ufff, what a fear!”

Moon Eun-ji frowned.

She really hated that shameless attitude about him.

With every gesture and word, he irritated people: he was a real troublemaker.

“In a week! Understand?”

“Yes, yes, of course.”

Wei Yan-ho walked away with a cheerful smile.

“Where are you going?”

“To rest.”

“Rest?! Why rest? Why?! I told you to finish all that in a week!”

“I will.”

– Then where are you going?

“Don’t worry, I’ll finish it in a week.

“Hey!”

“I told you not to worry.”

Wei Yan-ho laughed between his teeth and went to his room.

Moon Eun-ji observed the Wei Yan-ho figure moving away and clenched his teeth.

“Try not to finish in time!”

Then I would definitely expel that detestable person from that place.

Moon Eun-ji solved this problem over and over again.

One day passed, two days passed and another day passed, but Wei Yan-ho showed no sign of functioning.

Unable to bear it further, Moon Eun-ji broke into Wei Yan-ho’s room.

“What exactly are you doing?”

From inside a cocoon made of blankets, Wei Yan-ho’s head emerged slowly.

“……what now?”

“You’re not going to work?”

“I will.”

– Then why are you like that!

“There are still three days left.”

– You’re not planning on saying you can’t do it on the last day and then leave, are you?

Wei Yan-ho’s face got pretty serious.

“What a clever idea!”

“You really are…”

Wei Yan-ho laughed between his teeth.

“Then throw me out when the time comes.”

“Do you think I’m doing this to kick you out?”

“You’re not?”

Moon Eun-ji stuttered confused.

“N-not so.”

“Then it doesn’t matter.”

Moon Eun-ji had nothing more to say and could only look at Wei Yan-ho without understanding.

Although what he said was technically correct, who would be so direct about it?

– Anyway, you have to finish in time, or I won’t let it go!

“I said I got it.”

Wei Yan-ho made a gesture of disdain with his hand, upset, and then wrapped himself back in the blanket and fell asleep. Moon Eun-ji glared at him before leaving the room.

“I really won’t let it go!”

After getting angry for a while, Moon Eun-ji turned so abruptly that it seemed to blow a cold wind and drifted away.

Wei Yan-ho opened her eyes slightly.

“She’s desperate to torment people.”

What a woman with such a strange personality!

A week later.

“Oh, my… ”

Moon Eun-ji looked forward with a stupefied expression.

“How could he do all this?”

In front of her eyes, the wood mountain was perfectly cut and stacked. Not ten strong men worked for ten days in a row, they could end up with this amount.

However, that impossible person had somehow ended that enormous amount in just seven days and seven nights.

No, not seven days and seven nights.

Had he not seen with his own eyes that he was simply loitering without working until yesterday?

In the end, the time Wei Yan-ho actually worked was half a day at the most.

In just that half day, I had accomplished this tremendous task.

“What kind of person…”

Moon Eun-ji called a passing servant.

“Wait a minute.”

– Yes, ma’am. What’s going on?

“Did you see this wood cut?”

The servant shook his head with perplexed expression.

“I didn’t see it…”

“Was this here yesterday?”

“I wasn’t even there last night, so I thought the lady had bought firewood. I found it strange that the original logs had disappeared…”

“…I see.”

– Yes, then I’ll go.

Moon Eun-ji looked at the pile of wood with a startled expression and then turned around.

What trick did he do?

Moon Eun-ji let a loud voice slip and ran to the rooms of Wei Yan-ho.

“What exactly did you do?”

Moon Eun-ji opened the door abruptly and entered, about to scream, but she closed her mouth.

“Where did he go?”

Wei Yan-ho wasn’t anywhere.

The blanket Wei Yan-ho always wrapped with was empty inside and strangely looked like muted skin.

Moon Eun-ji clenched his fists and looked around Wei Yan-ho with an expression of grievance.

She thought this time I could definitely kick him out!

To break all that wood in one night, firewood that ten strong men working for seven days and seven nights could not finish!

What’s the point of this?

Ahhh, that’s frustrating!

She couldn’t contain her irritation and screamed.

Where did that man go?

Wei Yan-ho whistled.

“Ah, this is problematic.”

The voice coming from below punctured the ears of Wei Yan-ho.

Wei Yan-ho smiled with itch.

“What a grumpy lady!”

Wei Yan-ho bowed his head back slowly.

The blue sky was visible.

Although the weather was still cold, the roof with its wind blowing was not so bad either.

Not being able to cover yourself with a blanket was unsatisfactory, but being able to avoid the looks of that annoying woman was an advantage enough.

“But why is this woman so desperate to get rid of me?”

Wei Yan-ho laughed between his teeth as he listened to Moon Eun-ji’s screams.

He looked like a docile lamb in front of his father, but towards Wei Yan-ho, he acted with more raving than a wild cat, it was really strange.

There could be several reasons.

Since she was a woman raised in a place like Hanrim Grand Estate, she might not like every action of Wei Yan-ho, or perhaps the behavior that that woman was showing now was her true nature.

His true nature, which he did not dare to show before his strict father, could have surfaced within him by knowing the variable called Wei Yan-ho.

“It doesn’t matter in any way.”

Wei Yan-ho leaned comfortably on the edge of the eaves. Then, a fresh breeze blew and tickled his nose.

This was a luxury he could never enjoy while living in the cave.

Hot meals and comfortable bedrooms.

And only the absence of a teacher to encourage him to train was enough to satisfy Wei Yan-ho with this life.

But this life couldn’t go on forever.

“What am I supposed to see and feel, Master?”

He had come to the academic world and had seen many things, but nothing particularly caught his attention.

Even the academic world was not very different.

Some people dedicated their lives to research and worked diligently, but others simply had books open without knowing what they were doing.

Some people did the best they could for what they thought was right, but they had no doubt that it was really right.

The only thing Wei Yan-ho felt when he came here was that they were not different from ordinary people either.

“I don’t feel anything particularly.”

Wei Yan-ho closed her eyes.

If he didn’t learn anything from the academic world, he might have to go somewhere else now.

There was no guarantee that the prohibition imposed by his teacher would be lifted simply by staying in the academic world.

“Where are you!”

Wei Yan-ho shivered at Moon Eun-ji’s keen voice coming from below.

«One thing I understand: I have to be careful with women.»

This could be some kind of lighting.

Wei Yan-ho carefully climbed the eavestower to avoid being caught by Moon Eun-ji, who was looking for him.

As the sun was warm and pleasant today, it would be good to sleep on the roof.

“Ah, this is nice.”

Wei Yan-ho, lying on the roof, whistled softly.

***

“He hasn’t caused any trouble, has he?”

“…… do you believe that?”

“Yes.”

Guangqushen sighed deeply.

“If you think so, so be it.”

Sagan looked at Guangqushen with suspicious eyes.

“The real problem is just beginning.”

“Does it just start?”

Guangqushen nodded.

“Didn’t I tell you? Wherever that guy goes, agitation never ends. Who would have imagined that this quiet urbanization would suffer such a serious incident overnight? And without any warning sign!”

“What exactly happened?”

—Well, nothing important. Only the Office of the East moving, the Imperial Censorship moving, participation in betrayal, and the family almost destroyed overnight.

“Huh?”

“What are you so surprised at? Where that guy goes, that level of incidents is routine. Basically, you have to experience at least that to think: “Ah, Wei Yan-ho was here.”

Historian ran out of words.

What exactly had happened on that peaceful estate to bring forth such frightening words?

“Have I not been telling you continuously?”

Guangqushen had a bitter smile.

“Don’t expect common sense from that guy. You’ll always see beyond what you imagine.”

“……”