Episode 187: First Guest (2)
After careful consideration, Jinsan Yu purchased the manor.
The price was reasonable, but most of all, my granddaughter liked it.
There was no inconvenience at all in living.
Everything was perfect. Except for one thing.
‘There is so much yang energy during the day, so how can yin energy be so strong at night?’
Jinsan Yu was wandering around the yard with his back turned.
The atmosphere at night and day was completely different.
Is it because it is between a mountain and a valley? The strong humidity even felt gloomy.
But what about anyone? If you don’t pay attention, that’s it.
‘I guess I’ll have to buy some lanterns from the market tomorrow morning and hang them up.’
Other than that, there were no other problems.
After looking around the manor, Yu Jin-san went back to his sleeping quarters in the palace.
When I was living a nomadic life, I slept with my granddaughter, but now there was no need to do that.
Therefore, the granddaughter’s bedroom was made separately on this floor.
He should be asleep by now.
Yu Jin-san, who was lying on the bed, lay on his side and raised the blanket to shoulder height.
After a while I closed my eyes like that.
It was my granddaughter’s voice. What can suddenly happen at bedtime?
“...hmm?”
Yooseol came down from upstairs and hugged the grandfather’s back and neck tightly from behind.
“Grandpa, I’m scared~”
Jin-san Yu gulped as if he was suffocating because he was smaller than his granddaughter.
“Ugh! what’s the matter? “Did you see anything strange?”
“...no. “I’m just so scared.”
Yu Jin-san burst out laughing. This is because I remembered what a shaman I met at Mt. Manggong Mountain told me the other day.
“If there were a ghost, it would see our Seol and run away. “There is General Guan Yu behind you. What are you afraid of?”
“The general said he would protect me?”
“okay. Didn’t the guy who looked after that say that at the time? “Don’t worry.”
“Uncle Manho?”
“OK. Long ago, Emperor Liu Bei of the Shu Dynasty was the ancestor of our family. “I heard that his sworn brother, General Guan Yu, came to you to protect his brother’s righteousness.”
Apparently, a shaman named Man-ho said that, but Jin-san Yu did not believe him.
It was just something I said to reassure my granddaughter.
“Then who will protect Grandpa?”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. “Go up and sleep.”
Jinsan Yu waved his left hand behind his back as if to tell him not to worry.
However, Yoo Seol seemed to not feel reassured and buried her face in the grandfather’s back.
“I want to sleep next to my grandpa.”
It was literally laughable.
Even though he is a martial arts expert, he is afraid of non-existent ghosts.
Eugene San closed his eyes.
Judging by my granddaughter’s breathing sounding a little heavy, it seemed like she couldn’t sleep.
“Didn’t you say you wanted a house? If you regret it, tell me. “If I sell it again, that’s it.”
“no. “I will continue to live here.”
This was the granddaughter who ran around just for fun during the day.
It feels a bit gloomy at night, but what about everyone else?
It will be okay as time goes by and you get used to it.
“Hey, starting tomorrow, let’s start a garden in the backyard.”
“Yeah, good.”
A happy smile appeared on Eugene San’s face. Because it reminded me of a long time ago.
The time when I stayed in an abandoned hermitage on Mt. Yangju. Memories of cultivating the field with my aging granddaughter, who was a baby, came flooding back to me.
“But you’ll need some labor to do the clearing work. “I’m worried.”
“I’ll bring some people.”
“who? “You can’t force someone to work for you.”
“Don’t worry, grandpa. “I’m not a bad person.”
At that time, Eugene San remembered what his granddaughter said a few days ago.
Even though my grandfather is a bad person, didn’t he say that he doesn’t bully the weak?
When I thought about it again, I was dumbfounded, so I asked in a questioning tone.
“I heard before that spending money is bad? “So Seol, are you the only good person?”
He did not deny the rumor and was laughing.
There’s nothing I can say to that smiling face.
Jinsan Yu sighed and turned his head again and closed his eyes.
“Where?”
“Uh, with us?”
Yoo Seol pulled the children from behind and headed towards the main gate of Paedo Gate.
“Hmm, I’ll find out when I get there.”
Hohyeon’s market is always full of food.
Early in the morning, children were sitting around a street vendor in the marketplace.
“Have you guys ever eaten anything like this? “My grandpa says it’s the future of Zhejiang Province.”
Yuseol tore open the smoked chicken and eagerly placed it on the children’s plates.
“...delicious.”
“This is my first time eating something like this.”
“Wow~”
Yoo Seol smiled happily at the sight of the children eating deliciously.
“But the food I made tastes better. Do you want to go to my house? “I’ll cook you something delicious for dinner.”
“I haven’t even talked about it yet?”
“I want to go, but what if my uncles worry?”
Yoo Seol grinned as if he knew that would happen.
“don’t worry. Because I told Uncle Baek-gyu in advance. “They say you can have fun and sleep.”
Cheongpung asked with shining eyes.
“Can I sleep over?”
“Yes, really. Let’s go and make a garden together and eat some delicious food. how is it?”
These were children who had devoted most of their lives to training.
I had no idea what the garden was, but it was like a heart-pounding adventure.
The children nodded without hesitation at the offer they could not refuse.
“I want to follow.”
“me too!”
“It will be fun...”
Yu Seol was looking at the children with a smile of conversion.
“Grandpa, I brought my friends!”
Jin-san Yu, wearing a straw hat, approached from somewhere in response to the granddaughter’s cry.
Grabbing a pitchfork and rolling up his pants, he looked like the son of a country farmer.
“Hello, Grandpa!”
“Uh, okay. “Cheongpung is here too?”
Cheongpung was the strongest child at the Amisan training ground and was the child he named and sent to fetch his granddaughter.
I felt a sense of pride at the sight of Cheongpung growing rapidly.
“Grandpa, we will help you.”
“OK. “Our Seol has good friends.”
“huh. “What should we do first?”
Yu Jin-san grabbed his waist and looked around.
His gaze was immediately fixed on the location where the training ground would be built. To be exact, it was a winged goat statue standing there.
The more I saw its ugly appearance, the more I hated it, so I wanted to destroy it as quickly as possible.
“You and your friends, please remove the goat statue over there. “I’ll go ahead and prepare some snacks.”
I couldn’t help but feel reassured by my granddaughter today.
‘As expected, our Seol is just like Haejabi and is good at housework.’
Yu Jin-san went into the kitchen and took out the Hapmilgwa (哈密瓜) he had bought in advance.
It was a high-quality fruit with a strong sweet taste and crunchy texture that was used as a gift to the emperor in the past.
I was holding a kitchen knife and cutting it for a while.
A huge roar was heard outside.
It looks like Yuseol probably broke the goat statue with his fist.
Now all we have to do is remove the debris.
It was when I lost interest and continued what I was doing.
“Grandpaeeee!!!”
It was the shouting of an urgent granddaughter.
What is happening all of a sudden? Jinsan Yu put down the kitchen knife and ran outside.
“what’s the matter?”
Not only the granddaughter but also the other children had thoughtful expressions on their faces.
Everyone was pointing their fingers to the floor where the statue was.
“Grandpa Hal...”
Eugene San, who was squatting down to look, was so startled that he almost fell.
“What is that!?”
An animal corpse was half sticking out of the ground.
The shape was so disfigured that it was difficult to recognize what it was.
But how is it that it is moving?
It looked like it was going to come out any moment as it was shaking like crazy.