Jinang (3)

 

That evening, after leaving the hearing gate, Mujin and the others borrowed one of Ha Joo-hyun's guest cups.

And once a day, he stopped by the hearing.

The Qingshu dojo, which had been somewhat complicated since his work in Guilin Black City, spent some time here and found his original self a little.

He and Mu Yul and Lingling had begun to mingle with young children in a simple way.

Mujin and Mugung also played with the children, but they also spent a lot of time helping with Baek Ga-ryung's treatment and spending a lot of time with Baek Ga-hwan.

Today, as usual, when Mu Gong and Mu Jin entered the room where the Bai family and sister were present, Bai Gahuan, who was hugging Bai Ga Ling, stood up and greeted them.

"Thank you every time..."

Maybe it's because I can feel my sister's remission... Bai Jiahuan's demeanor, which had been just polite, became more polite in a few days.

In addition, Bai Ga Ling, who could only turn around as Bai Gahuan took care of him, also lowered his head slightly in pain.

"結草報恩 (結草報恩)·"

Her voice was mumbling softly, as if she was dying as an ant, but Mu Jin and Mu Gong, who were practicing martial arts, could fully understand her.

It was a famous ancient language, so it was not difficult to deduce its meaning.

I just felt weird that he was just talking about the old words here.

"Please forgive me for my brother's absence. Apparently, because of my physical disability, it is difficult for me to speak for a long time, and it is a habit that I developed from a young age."

"I didn't swear, I just said I was going to return the favor, how could it be a rudeness?"

Mujin replied appropriately, but he felt strange.

If you can't speak for a long time, I thought it would be enough to just say "thank you."

'Are you a little pretentious apart from being sick?'

Mu Jin suspected Bai Jialing's middle illness in his heart, but fortunately, it was a misunderstanding.

After apologizing to Mu Jin for his brother's absence, Bai Jiahuan looked very sad and opened his mouth to Bai Jialing.

"And the old man... How can you talk about death so easily?"

At the sudden sound of Bai Jiahuan, Bai Ga Ling turned his eyes to the side and avoided his gaze.

"What do you mean? Talking about death?"

Mu Jin asked about the strange conversation between the brother and sister, and Bai Jiahuan replied with a sigh.

"For example, they have a hard time talking for a long time, so they don't say meaningless things. If I had just wanted to say thank you, I would have said 'thank you'. However, the goal of the Eternal Treasure is for the deceased to become a spirit and repay the favor. Now that I am trapped in a sick body, I will return the favor even if I die and become a spirit."

“····”

That one lion word had such a complex meaning? Isn't that just an over-interpretation?

When Mujin kept his mouth shut because he couldn't bear to point out the pain. The white lady who had averted her gaze said in a very small voice.

"Zhang Fan Sect · Yubi (劉備)·"

Mujin also had read the manga version of Three Kingdoms when he was Choi Kang-hyuk, so he was able to grasp the general meaning.

‘··· Just as Yubi abandoned his wife and children for the sake of the future and fled from the Jiangpan Sect with only his generals, do you mean to abandon himself and take care of his brother's future?"

Apparently, Mu Jin's reasoning was correct, Bai Jiahuan looked at his younger brother with an expression of anger and suppression.

"Age! How can you say such a thing?"

I could understand my sister's feelings that she had been causing trouble to her brother because of her illness, and I could understand her brother's sadness when she heard this.

Anyway, the atmosphere had become awkward, so Mu Jin slipped between the two of them.

"Why don't you both calm down and start treatment first?"

Saying that, Mu Jin squinted, and Mu Gong took a quick glance at the Hundred Beast's abdomen and began to infuse the Polar Yang Keeper into his stomach.

But there was still a chill in the room. It was the chill from the silence that he felt even though he was lighting a fire in the corner of the room for the sick Bai Ling.

Mujin opened his mouth to lighten the mood.

"Hmmm· From what I heard earlier, it seems that you are very educated for your age."

And Mujin thought that there was nothing more than praise to lighten the mood.

It would have been different if it was an exaggerated compliment to feed the opponent, but fortunately, Bai Jiahuan took Mu Jin's praise in a good way.

"Hahaha· He's always been smart."

Mujin smiled faintly at the way he was pleased with his younger brother's praise.

"That's just like the one I saw in the novel."

He had forgotten how to smile since his sister had been misfortuned, but he had a lot of pride in his younger brother.

Even though he appears as a jinang in the novel, he says, "Compared to my brother, my wisdom is a little bit of bloodshed." I almost had the words in my mouth.

Thinking that the atmosphere was about to relax, Mujin asked one question after another.

"But where did you learn those tests?"

"In fact, my family was originally a family that was preparing for public service. A few generations ago, he was in office. When I was young, I studied to get a government job, but it was hard because I didn't have enough brains. My sister, on the other hand, was opposed to her studies because she was a woman, but she would memorize and understand books faster than I did, just by watching me study."

I hope you can tell your story very proudly in response to Mujin's question. Bai Jiahuan's expression suddenly darkened.

"But after a few generations of not being in office, my money was running out, and I spent all my money to pay for my brother's medical treatment, and my parents died suddenly."

"Ahem· I'm sorry to ask you so much..."

The atmosphere darkened for no reason, and Mu Jin apologized with a humble expression, and then hurriedly turned around.

"Still, I think the hundred sozers are really good. No matter how young I was to be able to read a book, I still remember the book I saw at that young age."

"Young? What do you mean?"

"There must be quite a difference in age between the two of you, so at the time of Prince Bai's studies, Bai Xiao Ze was very young, right?"

At Mu Jin's question, Bai Jiahuan tilted his head.

"What do you mean? My child and I are only three years old."

“··· Yes?"

Mu Jin looked at Bai Jialing and Bai Jiahuan with a puzzled expression.

"How old is that hundred Confucius?"

"I'm eighteen this year."

"So you mean that a hundred and a little sozer is fifteen?"

"That's right..."

Hearing Bai Jiahuan's answer, Mu Jin looked at Bai Jialing with a strange expression.

"No matter how high you hit it, twelve... Honestly, I thought I was ten or eleven?'

He is about eleven years old. In other words, in modern times, it was considered to be about the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school at most.

Fifteen by the way...

"Ahem· For example, he was not feeling well, so his growth was a little slow since he was young."

"That's right..."

Mu Jin, who answered Bai Jiahuan's explanation with trepidation, saw a strange sight in his eyes.

“··· What are you doing?"

Mu Gung, who was treating the White Family, had been removing the bowels from her abdomen for some time.

'Why are you blushing all of a sudden? It's disgusting·'

Did he notice Mujin's puzzled gaze? Mu Wu sent a message urgently.

– Help me too·

– What can I do for you?

–Hey man! Don't you even know that men and women are equal to each other!?

Only then did Mujin understand what Mu Gong was thinking.

Until now, he looked young, so he didn't seem to have much qualms about treating him.

However, this was an era in which men and women were expected to be equal to each other, and even a woman of fifteen was old enough to prepare for marriage.

In other words, it seems that the innocent guy knew Bai Gael's age and began to recognize her as a "woman".

'Isn't this crazy? You look at her and think she's a woman?'

Of course, she may be a woman biologically, but to see a child in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school as a woman is a woman.

For some reason, Mujin began to worry that he might need physical and mental education.

– Hey· What are you thinking about a child? You are crazy?

– A child! Fifteen is a lady, you ignorant bastard! I'm only three years older than you! He's only four years older than me... I don't even see compatibility... But I've been doing it by hand until now...

The coin muzzle was starting to come, and his face was getting bigger and bigger.

– Is that what a Shaolin disciple would say? For what? Do you want me to get married?

– Ahem· That's not it, but...

– It's just a practice, so it's a cure, man... Don't think of me as a woman, think of me as a patient.

– That's easier said than done.

For Mu Gong, who was in turmoil, Mu Jin came up with a plan to revive Mu Palace's immobility.

– Close your eyes and think about Hyedam Sajo.

It was Mujin who reminded me of the inexhaustible spirit that can be said to be the immobility of human beings themselves.

"Is there anything wrong?"

Mu Gong and Mu Jin stopped the treatment and exchanged glances without saying a word, and Bai Jiahuan asked with an anxious expression.

"Oh... For a while, this guy had a problem and stopped. It's a meticulous treatment, so I thought it would be a good idea to take a break when my mind was complicated."

"Phew· That's what it was. I'm sorry· I think I was just thinking about my brother and urging him for nothing..."

While Mujin moderately soothes Bai Jiahuan,

Closing his eyes tightly, Mu Gong calmed down as he thought of Sazo's sullen and terribly serious face in his mind.

"Phew..."

After a while, Mu Gong came out of the Simma and once again put the heart on Bai Ga Ling's abdomen.

However, Mugung couldn't bear to open his eyes to look at her, so he closed his eyes throughout the treatment and thought of Hyedam.

And in the case of Mujin·

"If you're a little off, let's slap you in the back of the head."

I was preparing endless psychological treatment just in case.

* * *

After a strangely tense treatment... Mu Jin said to Bai Jiahuan·

"Right now, this treatment is just a stopgap measure. As you already know, in order to get a proper treatment, you have to get a special medicine or learn a special technique of qigong."

Of course, there were ways to think of proper treatment. But that was too much to do here.

So the current temporary treatment was a preparation for the upcoming long-distance journey.

Well, it was a long-distance trip that Bai Gahwan and Bai Ga Ling didn't know at all.

"I'm just grateful for this right now. Even in the middle of summer, I have to sleep with the fire on, and my younger brother, who is constantly shivering in the cold, is still sleeping comfortably these days. So I would appreciate it if you could take it easy."

Baek Ga-hwan greeted him politely, and Mu Gong and Mu Jin, who glanced at Baek Ga-ryeong, were leaving the hearing with the group.

Rattle· Rattle·

A wagon stopped at the entrance to the hearing gate. Just like Mujin and the others did a few days ago.

While Mu Jin and his companions looked at the carriage with a puzzled expression, a disciple of Xiao Qingwen who spotted a middle-aged man getting out of the carriage greeted him.

"Welcome· Adult· Let's go inside first."

The apprentice who came into the hearing with the middle-aged man shouted in a cheerful tone. . .

"Moon Hyuk! Do you remember? It's each of the great people who came last time. He came back today to be your father."

"Hehehe... I'm going to come here..."

The middle-aged man, who was called Dae-in, opened his arms with a friendly smile, and a young boy named Moon Hyuk smiled brightly and fell into the man's arms.

"Oh... It wasn't just a place to raise orphans, it was also a place to find new families."

They were thrilled with the beautiful sight and burst out in exclamations.

The middle-aged man patted the head of the child in his arms a few times, and then said that he had something to talk about with Munju, so he put the child down and went to the door.

"Maybe today will be the last day..."

Was it a pity to hear that a child named Moon Hyuk was leaving? The Qingshui dojo smiled faintly at the child and said,

"He's an idiot! He'll come or I'll go to where he lives!"

"Hahaha· That's right..."

Laughing pleasantly, the Qingshu dojo moved out of the way so that the child could make a final fuss with the other children.

After watching the children hang out for a while, Qingshu and Mujin walked out of the small gate and returned to the inn.

Then, before returning to the inn, Mujin began to put on the black robe that he had prepared in Ha Ju County in advance.