Chapter 240

Episode 240:

After taking a night’s rest.

I left the Hongwon family home alone and immediately started moving to find the sacred item.

The priority was gathering information.

The location of the shrine was indicated on the grocery map, but there was one problem.

The place is currently under the management of Sangsalmun (祥殺門).

Therefore, first of all, there was a need to understand the approximate situation in Guangxi through Hao Wen.

As I walked around the streets with a jade plaque symbolizing Hao Wen’s customer attached to my sword, a man in shabby clothes followed me quietly.

After checking the contents of the note the man handed me, I turned around and headed to a nearby guesthouse.

A middle-aged woman who was sweeping the front yard of her guesthouse with a broom found me and spoke to me in a friendly way.

“welcome!”

I didn’t miss the moment when the woman’s eyes turned to my waist.

I knew it intuitively.

That she is also Hao Mun Tao.

“Please come this way.”

Even though I didn’t ask for it, the woman led me to a room on this floor.

As I was sitting at the table waiting, the head of the Guilin branch, Hao Wen, appeared.

“I meet a noble person.”

He was a young man who must have just passed the age of two.

His attire was oddly flashy, but he gave off a strong feeling of being a pillar of the red-light district rather than a young man from a rich family.

“I have a few requests for you.”

“Please speak.”

I obtained the necessary information and requested surveillance of the Iron Blood Demon Army.

After completing all errands.

After leaving the guesthouse with the jade tablet in my arms, I returned to the Hongwon family home and gathered my thoughts.

‘That’s a pain in the ass.’

Currently, the Guangxi Wulin was divided into two, engaged in a fierce battle for control.

Sangsalmun Gate in Namnyeong (南寧).

Gyerim’s Hongwon family and the Guangxi branch of the Murim League.

The Sangsalmun was a truly apostolic school, like the Cheonghyeoldomun in Gwiju.

Not only did it have several outstanding masters, but it also had a tradition of over a hundred years.

A large sect that everyone recognizes as a prestigious sect.

The master of the gate, Gwibaekjo (鬼魄爪), was a strong man who would have been one of the greatest masters in the world if he had been a Baekdo figure. He was an expert in the art of flower painting.

‘The shrine is located in the middle of a street in Namnyeong managed by Sangsalmun’s disciples.’

It was not for any other reason that the information about Bidong was leaked while the Hebei Paengga in the past life was searching for a sacred object.

That’s because the sacred object was hidden in the Sado clan’s sphere of influence, and various problems arose in the process of finding it.

‘You must not follow the same steps as your previous life.’

Care had to be taken not to make noise during the process of obtaining the new object.

In the worst case, there could have been a fight on a massive scale like in the previous life.

‘It was a good thing I sat down as an empty guest in the Hongwon family. Thanks to this, the range of actions that can be taken has expanded.’

First, I planned to find a peaceful solution.

One way would be to help the Guangxi branch and take down the Shangsal Gate, but I had no choice but to be reluctant as that method would require a long time.

In the first place, the premise that if you destroy Sangsalmun, you will be able to easily obtain sacred items, was wrong.

What you need to be most careful about is not the Sangsalmun Gate but the gaze of those around you.

‘The situation in Guangxi is not that bad, unlike Guizhou last year. This is not a structure in which the Sangsalmun side unilaterally holds the upper hand. At least it is safe to say that the balance will not be disrupted in the short term.’

The Guangxi martial arts union, centered around the Meng branch and the Hongyuan family, was strong.

It was different from the martial arts alliance in Gwiju, which was helplessly pushed back by the advance of the Cheonghyeoldomun.

The world’s assessment was that the Sangsalmun’s reckless expansion of territory was being suppressed quite well.

‘First, contact Sangsalmun through the Hongwon family. And...’

It was a time when I was walking along with various thoughts in mind.

A loud voice penetrated my ears.

“Are you by any chance Soun?”

* * *

“......?”

I looked to the side with a puzzled expression and saw an old man with a sturdy physique staring at me.

The old man’s appearance was familiar to my eyes.

I stopped in place with a surprised expression and opened my mouth.

“Commissioner Wang?”

The meal was satisfactory.

After finishing all the food on the table, I drank some strong wine and watched Commander Wang’s thoughts.

“.......”

Looking up at the ceiling with a blank expression, it felt like I was seeing someone whose soul had gone out.

Laughter suddenly burst out.

‘Anyway, was this a bit harsh?’

I got up under the pretext of going to the side room, avoided the gaze of Minister Wang, and called Jeomsoi to do the math.

Then, as if nothing had happened, he returned to the table and patted Secretary Wang on the shoulder.

“Commander.”

“.......”

“Please stand up now. “Shouldn’t we go back soon?”

“......okay. “You have to wake up.”

He lifted himself up with difficulty, holding on to the edge of the table, and took out the wallet from his pocket with trembling hands.

Are you probably picturing your wife’s angry face in your mind right now?

“Whoa.”

Secretary Wang, who had been standing still like a stone statue, finally took a step.

I approached Jeomsoi and exchanged a few words before he narrowed his eyes and looked back at me.

“What are you doing?”

Secretary Wang asks, arching his eyebrows in an inverted shape.

I shrugged my shoulders slyly and responded.

“Now that I think about it, I made the calculation on the way back from the office.”

“Didn’t I say I would buy it?”

“It’s already happened, so what can we do? “If this happens, I will consider it as repaying what I owed in the past.”

“You turned into a snake while I didn’t see you.”

“I will get the food that the Commander-in-Chief buys next time.”

“That really embarrasses people. “It doesn’t make sense for an elder to have respect.”

Secretary Wang smiled bitterly and shook his head.

“There is a lodging nearby where Sega’s family members stay. Would you like to stop by? “It’s been a while since I saw the faces of people from my hometown.”

“no. “I have work to do, so I’ll just head back now.”

“okay. “It’s not like I can take away the time of the Sacheon branch manager, who has a lot of construction work to do.”

Here we go again.

I frowned and muttered to myself.

As I got older, I only seemed to become more persistent.

Secretary Wang, smiling and wiping his goatee, said goodbye to me.

I glanced at his back as he walked away and quietly turned around.

‘......wait.’

At that time, a thought passed through my mind.

The patriarch of the Manjang family, didn’t you say that the previous head of the family was from Namnyeong?

‘I was wondering under what pretext I should contact Sangsalmun and ask for their cooperation.’

Just then, a good excuse came rolling in.

A plan was formed in my head.

After gathering all my thoughts, I opened my guard and followed after Commander Wang.

Was he surprised by the sudden presence behind him?

Minister Wang widened the distance between me and me by jumping around comically.

He quickly turned around and screamed.

“You were surprised!”

“I changed my mind.”

“......?”

“As the Commander-in-Chief said, I would like to go and see the faces of the people in the neighborhood.”

“Didn’t you say you were busy?”

“Now that I think about it, I feel like I have some time left.”

“...What are you planning?”

“Why do you think I have a plan?”

“I know that you are not the type of person to change a decision without a reason.”

Secretary Wang speaks as if he were affirming.

Perhaps because he was someone who had been watching me for years, he seemed like a ghost.

“It seems like you have noticed, so I will tell you frankly. There is one thing I would like to ask of Manjangse.”

“ask?”