Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 44

Chapter 44

I once had a conversation with that fellow Peng family member.

I was quite puzzled when I first saw him, but that fellow Peng family member was equally formidable.

Disconcerting, really, of course it was disconcerting.

Anyone would be puzzled to see something like that.

What am I talking about?

Well, it’s about that escort mission.

During that escort mission, the fellow Peng family member met Wei Yan-ho, and the circumstances of his meeting were extremely strange.

What was weird about that?

How should I explain this?

It’s just inexplicable.

***

The man was lying on the ground, with his arms stretched out, deeply asleep.

It was an absolutely brazen act, as if he were asking to be treated not as a person, but as a burden.

How long have you been sleeping?

“Well, continuously since I left the Grand Hanrim Academy…”

“Here?”

“Yes, it is.”

Gok Bi-hang looked at Wei Yan-ho with curious eyes.

The place where Wei Yan-ho lay was on top of a freight wagon.

A freight wagon was literally a cart for transporting goods.

It was not a carriage for passengers, but a carriage for loading goods. As it was not made with precision, anyone who rode it would inevitably feel constant shaking.

As such, the comfort of the trip was shameful, and even experienced companions ended up in pain all over the body after traveling for a while.

Being able to sleep lying on top of that load, especially full of bumps, was not something a normal person could do.

‘Don’t you get angry?’

For an ordinary person, sitting in a place where the load bounced would be uncomfortable, but this guy could sleep like this: what were his nerves made of whale tendons?

«In a sense, it is impressive».

Gok Bi-hang snapped his tongue.

“What did they say at the academy?”

“Well… they said to give him three meals a day, like cattle or chickens, and that he would behave well until his arrival, so there was no problem.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

“Mmm.”

It was even more incomprehensible.

Occasionally there were people who wanted to accompany cargo escort missions for urgent matters.

I had thought this would be another similar case, but what the academy said was rather strange.

“The payment?”

“We were given four times the cost of transporting a person.”

“I don’t understand anything.”

Gok Bi-hang shook his head from one side to the other.

Anyone who tried to see the Wei Yan-ho issues through the lens of common sense was destined to experience great despair.

Gok Bi-hang made a decision.

I didn’t know how the situation would develop, but first I had to wake this man up.

“Hey.”

“……”

“Hey!”

“Mmm.”

Wei Yan-ho turned around.

Gok Bi-hang sighed and shook Wei Yan-ho to wake him up.

“Hey!”

Wei Yan-ho frowned and raised his head slightly.

“What?”

“……”

When asked “What?” so directly, Gok Bi-hang did not know how to respond.

“Ahem, I am Gok Bi-hang, the leader of the escort in charge of this mission.”

“And?”

This escort mission isn’t about accompanying people, it’s about transporting cargo, so it might be pretty awkward if you come in. You’ll be okay?

Wei Yan-ho responded with indifference.

“Don’t worry, I’m registered as a burden, not as a person.”

Gok Bi-hang looked at the escorts who had brought him in.

They nodded silently.

“Ahem, but how could we treat a person as a burden?”

“You don’t have to worry, just give me one meal a day and I’ll sleep quietly.”

“Besides this?”

“Where else would the goods be loaded if it weren’t in the cart?”

“……”

The words were correct.

“But it must be very uncomfortable.”

“Well, I have to put up with that. They said if I stood still, they would take me to my destiny.”

“You’re a pretty positive guy.”

Gok Bi-hang decided to think as favorably as possible.

Since things had turned out this way, it was better for him to have a good attitude: that was his philosophy.

“But the Great Hanrim Academy said it would give you three meals… did you just say you’d only eat one?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“How can a person eat three full meals? People are busy too.”

At first glance, it seemed like what a very busy person would say, if not for the words that followed.

Gok Bi-hang was confused.

He had also made a living working as a companion until then. He had met many people and forged friendship with many. However, he could not understand what kind of person this young man was in front of him.

Gok Bi-hang reluctantly nodded.

In any case, it was a cargo, registered for his escort mission, his mission was to transport it safely and smoothly.

“Then we’ll leave.”

“Yes, please take good care of me.”

The freight wagon carrying Wei Yan-ho headed for Hubei for three days without incident.

Wei Yan-ho slept in the car during the day and ate with the people of the escort company at night before sleeping.

At first, people cared and paid attention to him, but after about three days, no one paid attention to him. As soon as Wei Yan-ho got into the cargo car, he slept peacefully, as if he had really become a burden.

Later, people forgot their existence to such an extent that Wei Yan-ho was a burden, and the burden was Wei Yan-ho: he had reached a state of unity between me and object.

“I don’t know if I call it awesome…”

Gok Bi-hang was amazed.

He had never even thought that there might be someone able to sleep so comfortably on that wobbly freight wagon.

Wei Yan-ho wasn’t just sleeping on top, he really didn’t move, as if he himself was a burden, to the point where no one was aware of him.

“My God, at this rate we are actually carrying a load instead of a person.”

“Isn’t something even more surprising?”

“What’s that?”

“That young man sleeps all day except at lunch.”

“Could I have any illness?”

“So it seems, judging by their fate.”

“What is your destiny?”

“Probably Seongsu-jang (Place of the Sacred Hand)”.

“Bah, bah, bah! Then he must be sick. That would explain it: how else could someone sleep so many hours? It turns out that being able to sleep all day, or even in a freight car, is because his health is very precarious.

“Will your illness not be aggravated if that person travels in that type of car?”

“Mmm, there could certainly be a problem. It’s your decision, so it’s not up to us to say anything. However, tell the cart driver to be more careful driving from now on.”

“Understood.”

“At such a young age, poor thing… tsk, tsk.”

Thus, Wei Yan-ho instantly became a pitiful and ill-healthed young man who had taken a freight wagon to look for a famous doctor.

A misunderstanding that would make those who knew Wei Yan-ho grasp the stomach of laughter was gradually intensifying here.

On the fifth day since I left the Grand Hanrim Academy.

“Yaaawn.”

Wei Yan-ho was very tired.

«This work is also not worth doing.»

When he was awake, he slept, and when he slept, his fraudulent master appeared to him in dreams to torment him.

He was very happy to see his teacher again, but the teacher who appeared to him in his dreams only made him repeat the training mechanically and dryly. Moreover, as Wei Yan-ho’s will was somewhat limited, he could not really enjoy it.

The problem was that this training in dreams also affected reality.

In the days when I trained too much in dreams, that fatigue did not abandon Wei Yan-ho all day long.

Then when he lay down to sleep a little longer, he had to meet his master again in sleep.

It was a repetition of situations in which I could not do this or that.

‘How long do I have to do this?’

He was told that the Dream Training Method would disappear once he completed his martial arts, but he did not know when. He also had no idea what level of mastery he was referring to.

He had asked his teacher about this once, but each time he only heard that he would know when he completed it.

‘At this rate, won’t it really last a lifetime?’

Wei Yan-ho’s body trembled.

It was really a horrible thought.

That’s why Wei Yan-ho couldn’t stop this training.

Even if his body did not explode and kill him, as his teacher said, he could not live like this all his life. The only way to live the rest of his life in peace and beauty was to quickly finish the training his teacher was talking about and escape from this damn Dream Training Method.

Or maybe find and eat some dragon’s inner core somewhere.

“I’m really going to die.”

Wei Yan-ho sighed deeply.

After looking into the sky for a long time, Wei Yan-ho went back to bed and tried to sleep.

Even during this time, the car rolled well without incident.

“Wait.”

Then Gok Bi-hang stopped the car.

Deaf noise.

The cars stopped abruptly.

Gok Bi-hang got out of his car and shouted loudly.

Who is the hero? Gok Bi-hang, of the Dragon Fast Escort Company, requests audience!

Wei Yan-ho opened her eyes.

Then the car driver sat down and whispered softly to Wei Yan-ho.

Looks like there’s people, don’t get out of the cargo.

“Bandidos?”

The leader of the escort will take care of it, so keep the body down.

Wei Yan-ho nodded.

Whether they were bandits or whatever it was, it was primarily Gok Bi-hang’s responsibility. Gok Bi-hang watched the forest with serious expression.

This was not a good situation.

If they were bandits, they would have blocked the road. If they didn’t pretend to be enmity with the escort company, they wouldn’t attack the wagons either. Taking so long meant either they were novice bandits who knew nothing, or a really dangerous person attacking the wagons… it was one of the two cases.

“I hope it’s the first thing, but…”

He could know they were in the woods, but judging by how difficult it was to detect their presence, they were definitely not novice bandits who knew nothing. That point made Gok Bi-hang even more anxious.

I will say it once more. I am Gok Bi-hang, leader of the Fast Dragon Escort Company. Please leave your hiding place in the forest. Otherwise, I will consider it an intention to attack the Fast Dragon Escort Company.

Cracked.

After a moment, the forest shook and a person appeared slowly.

“Mmm?”

Gok Bi-hang frowned.

The person who appeared unexpectedly was a young man who still kept a certain youth. On the back of his red clothing, the character of a sword was embroidered in large letters.

Gok Bi-hang guessed the young man’s identity by clothes.

‘Red clothing, the character of a sword embroidered on the back… Peng family?’

Peng family.

A renowned family of swords located in Hebei and one of the Five Great Families.

In other words, a family with fame and prestige in the Hebei region that was no less than that of the emperor.

The problem was that this young man who appeared to be a member of the Peng family was currently covered with wounds all over his body.

Gok Bi-hang’s complexion got dark.

He seemed to have gotten involved in some nasty business.

The young man, holding his deeply wounded chest with one hand, opened his mouth with difficulty.

“I am Peng Daoji of the Peng family of Hebei.”

“I am Gok Bi-hang, of the Fast Dragon Escort Company (Swift Dragn). What brings a Peng family descendant to this journey?”

Peng Daoji continued with a dark expression.

“I can’t get rid of them by myself. Please help me. This could become a crisis for the martial world.”

Gok Bi-hang swallowed saliva with difficulty.