Chapter 198
The Youngest Son of the Eunhae Trading Company Chapter 198
Chapter 198. Jin-ho's Spring (2)
After finishing dinner, I looked around the trading company for a moment.
I had been away for a long time, so I had to check if anything had changed or if there was anything unusual.
At that moment, Jin-ho came walking slowly from the other side and was surprised to see me.
“Um... When did you arrive?”
“What do you mean? I sent you a letter saying I would arrive today.”
“Oh... Did you? Anyway, I'm glad you had a safe trip. I heard you won the competition to supply silk to the royal family. Congratulations.”
“Thank you. But what are you so busy with these days? You didn't even come to pick up your only brother?”
“Just this and that…”
He trailed off and avoided my eyes, which was very suspicious.
“I'll go first.”
“Yeah.”
Jin-ho hurriedly left, and I frowned as I watched him walk away.
He was so different from the Jin-ho I usually saw.
What was going on?
Did he seem to be hiding something?
Come to think of it, Jin-ho had acted a little strange in my previous life as well.
What was the reason for that?
“Pal-gap. Don't you think Jin-ho looks suspicious?”
“He definitely looks suspicious.”
“Aren't you curious?”
Pal-gap smiled and bowed his head.
“I'll find out.”
Pal-gap was definitely very good at gathering information. It wasn't even dark yet, and he already knew something.
Should I have made Pal-gap a member of the intelligence team?
No.
Pal-gap had to be by my side.
In his previous life, he suffered all kinds of hardships while serving me, so this time, I had to let him enjoy wealth and honor by my side.
“Captain Jin-ho says there is a young lady who has caught his eye lately.”
“What? Hyung-nim Jin-ho has a woman?”
“Yes. She is the daughter of Head Escort Ha Cheol from the Changin Escort Agency.”
Wait a minute, Ha Cheol... Could it be Young Mistress Ha Soo-min?
Pal-gap confirmed my thoughts.
“Her name is Ha Soo-min. She turned nineteen at the end of October.”
“....”
Damn, how could I forget that?
I remembered his older sister, but I hadn't thought about Miss Ha Soo-min.
In his previous life, Jin-ho didn't get married. It was because his first love was so painful.
The flames of his passionate love lost direction and eventually burned Jin-ho's heart black.
It was only much later that I found out everything.
And that was when Jin-ho's condition started to become a little strange.
But at the time, I was too busy with work at Eunhae's fabric shop to pay much attention to Jin-ho.
Besides, even after I found out about it, I was so busy that I didn't think much of it, as it was already in the past.
Anyway, what should I do...
“What's wrong?”
I sighed and shook my head.
“Nothing.”
“Is there something wrong with Miss Ha?”
“No. I support Jin-ho.”
It's true.
The problem is... Miss Ha Soo-min is going to die soon.
Miss Ha isn't going to die in an accident or get caught up in a fight.
A year from now, she will suddenly die of an illness.
It is an incurable disease called “three-yin pulse.”
Three-yin pulse is a disease in which the three yin meridians are blocked, preventing blood from circulating properly, resulting in a shortened life.
Jumyeok is a terminal illness caused by excessive yin energy blocking the blood vessels, preventing proper circulation of qi and blood, resulting in a short life.
In my previous life, I wondered why Miss Ha Soo-min had jumyeok.
But now I think I know the reason.
Changin Escort Agency was established by Master for the reconstruction of Seolpung Palace.
This means that most of the head escorts working there are disciples of Seolpung Palace.
Seolpung Palace is a place where people learn Bing Gong, which is a martial art of yin energy.
The way of the world is mysterious, and just because a father has mastered the martial art of yin energy does not mean that his children will also be born with yin energy.
Usually, children are born with a balance of both, and then grow up slightly differently depending on their upbringing.
However, there are exceptions.
There are cases where one side is abnormally strong from birth.
This manifests as a broken pulse.
One of the reasons for a broken pulse is excessive influence from one of the parents, but honestly, that is also luck.
Miss Ha Su-min was just unlucky.
In any case, if Miss Ha Su-min dies, Jung-ho will remain single for the rest of his life.
Then he will surely bother me, saying that he is bored every day.
I have to do something.
A weak pulse is not an incurable disease, but it is difficult to treat.
There is a way to cure it, but it is difficult to treat.
I must bring Elder Heukjeok.
He is an expert in diseases caused by constitution.
As I was walking to my annex with that in mind, a question crossed my mind.
Heukjeok is the palm print of my master, the Palace Head of Seolpung.
If the daughter of a disciple of Seolpung Palace had contracted such an intractable disease, Master would have asked Elder Heukjeok to help.
No matter how aimlessly Elder Heukjeok wanders, Master would not be unaware of his whereabouts...
Could it be that he doesn't know she's sick?
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The next morning.
After finishing my breathing exercises, my master came to the annex courtyard.
How does he always know exactly when I finish?
“I had a good trip to Beijing.”
“I heard you achieved good results. Congratulations.”
“Thank you, Master.”
“Song Head Escort told me you did quite well this time...”
“Ah...”
He was referring to how I had teased them by interfering with the Jin Trading Company and Daeung Trading Company.
I scratched my ear and said,
“I was just bothering them, so I gave them a little payback.”
“Song Head Escort said it was the first time he had laughed so hard that his stomach hurt.”
I chuckled.
It was really exhilarating to see them rolling down the cliff below us.
Ah! This is a good opportunity to ask about Miss Ha.
“Master, is there anyone named Ha Cheol working at the escort agency?”
“Yes, he is my colleague.”
“He must be a head escort as well.”
“Considering how long he's been working as a Head Escort, he's a year or two older than me, so I guess you could call him my senior.”
My Master smiled faintly.
“On the surface, yes, but he's actually a disciple of Seolpunggung.”
Just as I expected.
“I heard he has a daughter named Ha Sumin?”
“Yes, that's right. She is a very lively and talented child. She is smart and talented in martial arts.”
My master asked me.
“Are you interested in her?”
“No, I'm not!”
“I'm glad to hear that.”
“Huh?”
“The king's brother is interested in her, so he visits her about once every three days.”
“....
You're really serious, Jin-ho.
”Actually, I know that you have feelings for her. That's why I asked.“
”I see. In that case, you don't need to worry.“
My master smiled.
”She is one of the five best women I have ever met."
I see.
Master doesn't know that Miss Ha Sumin has a three-beat heartbeat.
I heard that she died suddenly in her previous life...
But if he knew about her illness, he wouldn't have said she died suddenly.
The fact that Master doesn't know means that there are no symptoms.
If she were going to die in a year or so, she would have shown symptoms by now.
Why are there no symptoms yet?
“Then who is the first one?”
“My wife.”
“...”
You asked something too obvious.
“Do you have any other questions?”
“No.”
“As I said before, you no longer need to learn the Jinseolshik Sword Technique from me. You have already learned the true Jinseolshik Sword Technique from Master Cho.”
That's right. I am already at a level where I can perform the Jinseolshik Sword Technique more smoothly than my Master.
Of course, if I spar with my Master using only the Jinseolshik Sword Technique, I will lose.
The difference in inner arts and experience cannot be ignored.
Then are you telling me to leave the mountain as is?
In my previous life, I only learned the Jinseolshik Sword Technique, and when I had mastered it, you said there was nothing more to teach me and stopped coming to see me the next day.
Ah, you did come to see me one more time.
That was when he entrusted his son, Kwak Joon-ha, to the Eunhae Trading Company.
However, what came out of my master's mouth was completely unexpected.
“It is time for you to learn another sword technique.”
“Another sword technique?”
I looked puzzled on the outside, but inside I was happy.
Unlike in my previous life, it meant that my connection with my junior brother would continue.
“The sword technique I will teach you is the Snow Soul Sword Technique. To be honest, I have not mastered it perfectly, so I cannot teach it to the king, but thanks to the secret manual containing the insights of the monk you rescued, I have made great progress.”
Come to think of it, my master once said...
"Actually, I was learning another sword technique, but while I was learning it... Anyway, I cannot pass on martial arts that I have not mastered properly.“
That's what he said.
The secret book Master was talking about must be the book I found at a bookstore in Luoyang.
It was a book that began with ”The beginning of Tae-eum..." and when Master saw it, he was very surprised.
After a while, I noticed that my master's prayers had changed, and I knew that he had achieved complete mastery of that sword technique.
That sword technique was the Seolhon Sword Technique.
“Now I can pass on the Seolhon Sword Technique to my disciple, the king.”
From that day on, I began to learn the Seolhon Sword Technique from my master.
The Seolhon Sword Technique was not a sword technique I had learned in my previous life. That meant I was learning it for the first time.
However, I knew it intuitively from the very first day.
This is a martial art that is superior to the Jinseolshik Sword Technique.
Come to think of it, my master was the Palace Head of Seolpung Palace, and it seems that there was a problem at Seolpung Palace while he was learning this sword technique...
That means this sword technique was the one he learned when he was the Young Master.
Usually, in martial arts, there are martial arts that only the Clan Head and Young Master learn.
Could this Seolhon Sword Technique be a martial art that only the Palace Head and Young Master learn?
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I headed to the dining room to eat breakfast.
Soon, my family arrived, and the maids brought the food.
After we finished eating, my grandfather said to me as we were drinking tea.
“So, Hee-ah took care of your 20th birthday?”
“Yes, Grandfather.”
I put down my teacup and answered my grandfather's question.
“My aunt held a banquet for you.”
“She is my daughter, but she is very thoughtful. I should send her a letter to thank her.”
My grandfather smiled happily, and my father and mother also smiled subtly, looking satisfied.
“But still, it's your 20th birthday, so I don't think we can let it pass like this.”
My mother agreed with my father.
“I agree. Above all, in our Trading Company, we consider twenty to be the true age of adulthood. So, although it is late, we have decided to hold a birthday banquet for you.”
“Hahaha.”
I laughed awkwardly.
Actually, a banquet had been planned for my birthday, but Jungho collapsed from overwork, so I had no choice but to participate in the imperial silk delivery competition in his place.
So I thought my birthday banquet had been canceled.
Actually, I didn't feel too bad about it because I had already had a grand banquet for my announcement as a junior captain.
But my parents didn't seem to feel the same way.
Even though it was very late, they still wanted to hold my birthday banquet.
“All right. But I think it would be better to scale down the banquet a little.”
“If that's what you want, then so be it. But shouldn't we contact the Jegal Family and the Sichuan Tang Clan?”
“Ah...”
Come to think of it, there were those people.
My 20th birthday party was a meaningful occasion, and if I didn't invite them, they would surely be disappointed.
As a merchant, I had to be meticulous about such things and manage my connections.
“You're right.”
At that moment, I noticed that Jin-ho looked a little dazed.
For Jin-ho's sake, I had to cure Miss Ha-min's illness. But in order to cure her, I had to diagnose her illness first.
Once her illness was revealed, Jin-ho might feel even more heartbroken, but in order to cure her, I had to reveal her illness first.
As things stood, no one knew what was wrong with her, not even the others.
Perhaps someone with a deep knowledge of pulse diagnosis or medicine would have been able to tell, but that was unlikely.
It was not right to grab the wrist of a young lady for no reason.
And the fact that no one has noticed it until now means that it would be impossible to diagnose her illness with ordinary skills.
Therefore, as I thought at first, Black Doctor must examine her pulse himself.
While I was wondering how to call Black Doctor and have him examine her pulse, I had a good idea.
“Father, I will deliver the invitations to some people myself.”