Chapter 229
The Youngest Son of the Eunhae Trading Company Chapter 229
Chapter 229. Jin-ho's Wedding Banquet (4)
I looked at Mister Bangjin and continued.
“Just tell him to use medicine that will give him an upset stomach.”
“What do you mean? You won't stop him from using medicine that will give him an upset stomach?”
“Because that's the only way to bring down Captain Bang-woo for sure.”
I smiled wryly.
“So, will you leave this matter to me?”
“You want me to leave this matter to you?”
“Yes. After all, Mister and I have the same goal. And I'm quite confident in my abilities when it comes to matters like this.”
Someone like Mister Bang Jin would know who I was.
“I have heard of your reputation, Captain Eun, but why did you call me here?”
“You need to know the situation so you can prepare, don't you?”
“I see... You want me to get rid of Woo and prepare to take his place as captain.”
I nodded.
“That's right. If we're not careful, the wrong person could become the Captain.”
I heard that he had many half-brothers.
“That can't be allowed.”
He clasped his hands together with a determined look on his face.
“Then I will leave it to you. I will leave this matter to the Captain and make preparations. Now, I must go.”
With him and his men gone, only our group and Heukwa remained.
I looked at Heukwa and made a suggestion.
“Would you do something for me?”
“....”
“If you refuse my offer, I will lock you in a room surrounded by mirrors for the rest of your life.”
A threat disguised as a proposal.
But I didn't hesitate to threaten him like this.
He deserved it.
He was the one who made the first potion that ruined people's appearances.
It was probably to take out his anger at his own hideous appearance on others.
It was a case of “I'm ugly, so you have to be ugly too.”
This guy deserved to be treated this way.
Besides, in my previous life, my family had almost been killed by a medicine he made.
In other words, even if it hadn't been for this opportunity, he was someone we would have had to catch and punish someday.
“What shall we do?”
“...”
Heok-wa still didn't seem to have any intention of speaking.
He seems to be trying to gauge whether I'm serious or not.
“You're not answering, so I can't do anything.”
“So that's why you had a room filled with mirrors built. Now I understand.”
As expected, Pal-gap is quick-witted.
“Should we put him in that room?”
“We should tie him to the pillar in the middle of the room.”
Lee Pil and Yeo Eung-am also became quick-witted after spending several years with me.
“Can we make a bet on how long he'll last?”
“The mirrors in that room are all top-of-the-line, so they reflect everything very clearly…”
“I'll do it! I'll do it! Just please don't lock him in that room!”
Finally, Heuk-wa sighed deeply and declared his surrender.
He asked with a resigned look on his face.
“What should I do?”
“It's not difficult. Just give the fake medicine to the Captain of the Guard.”
“That's all I have to do?”
“And tell him to make as much medicine for stomachaches as possible.”
“...I understand.”
But I know Heuk-wa's character.
If I just let him go, he will most likely tell Captain Bang-woo that I found out about his plan.
And there is a high possibility that he will not obey my request.
Why do I think so?
Because Heuk-wa is a person who is filled with twisted rebellion against the world.
And he will think that he can just run away and hide again.
That's why I'm going to put shackles on him so he can't do that.
“Jinyu, samurai.”
“Yes.”
“Keep an eye on him, and if he tries anything, stab him with your sword.”
“Yes, sir.”
“....”
“So let's do this right. Okay?”
“Yes, I understand.”
Heuk-wa replied with a sad face.
He wanted to hand him over to the authorities right away, but it wasn't time yet.
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A few days later.
Finally, it was Jin-ho's wedding day.
Guests from all over had been arriving for several days, and today everyone had arrived.
Later, Jin-ho would go to Miss Ha's house and bring her to Eunhae Trading Company.
Originally, the wedding ceremony was supposed to be held at the bride's house, but it was too small to accommodate all the guests.
However, it was too much of a burden to hold a banquet at Changin Trading Company.
Changin Escort Agency was an escort agency established by the survivors of the Seolpung Palace, which had been destroyed, and it would not be good for its true identity to be revealed.
Bang, bang, bang!
From early in the morning, loud music echoed throughout Eunhae Trading Company. It was to drive away evil spirits.
As expected, there were many martial artists at Jin-ho's wedding banquet.
Some came through Hyung-nim's connections, but Jin-ho had made quite a few friends after earning the title of “Chin Ho Chang-woong.”
All of them attended the wedding banquet.
The guests enjoyed the banquet, eating and drinking.
Heok-wa faithfully carried out my plan.
Actually, as I expected, he tried to escape at first.
However, after being stabbed in the thigh with a dagger thrown by Jin Yu, he gave up his escape.
I heard that Jin Yu said a few words to him, but I wonder what he said to make him give up his escape.
In any case, it was important that he carried out my plan.
At that moment, I saw Bang Woo, the leader of the Dao, talking with my father.
He must have come on behalf of Captain Jin, who was ill.
On the surface, he appeared very polite and well-mannered, but knowing his true colors, I was filled with contempt.
Yes, keep up the pretense.
Your end is near.
* * *
After greeting Eun Gil-sang, the head of Eunhaesang Trading Company, Bang-woo smiled as he looked at the guests filling the banquet hall.
“Just as Heuk-wa said, it was worth preparing all those cancellation letters.”
If they all rushed to Jinse Yakbang to buy medicine, the profits would be immeasurable.
Furthermore, his position as captain, which was still unstable, would become solid.
Then, he spotted familiar faces among those dressed as Eunpungdae warriors.
They were Bae Cheol and Go Ju-sang.
They were the ones he had personally recruited as spies. They were also the ones who had actually put the poison in the food.
“They only ask for useless information, but at least that makes it worthwhile for me to have planted them as spies.”
Annoyed that Bae Cheol and Go Ju-sang were asking for more useless information than he had expected, he ended up planting one more spy.
He placed him in the most important department of the Eunhae Trading Company, the finance department.
“They are still apprentices, but if they become official members and get promoted, they will ask for useful information.”
Thinking about how he would strike a blow against the Eunhae Trading Company, he couldn't help but smile.
“This is a win-win situation.”
If he made Jinse Yakbang a success, solidified his position as the captain, and defeated the Eunhae Trading Company, it would be perfect.
For him, who was dreaming of inheriting the Jinse Trading Company, the fastest-growing trading company in Hubei Province, the rapidly growing Eunhae Trading Company was a thorn in his side.
But... something was wrong.
It was about time for the food to start causing stomachaches, but no one showed any signs of it.
“What's going on? The delivery should have arrived by now...”
However, even when Eun Jin-ho brought his bride, and even when night fell and the wedding ceremony began, no one showed any signs of stomachache.
His face turned pale.
He had invested a considerable amount of money to make the medicine that was now piled up in Jinse Yakbang.
He had used his own money to make the medicine to make himself stand out, but...
In particular, he had made medicine with a short expiration date in order to make a lot of it cheaply, so if no one got stomachaches today, he would have to throw it all away.
“My money...”
Realizing that he had wasted a huge amount of his own money, he sat down on the spot.
* *
I smiled happily as I looked at Captain Bang Woo, who was being supported by others, his face pale.
Hah!
If you mess with Eunhae Trading Company, you're done for. So why did you mess with them?
And you tried to mess with their guests, no less.
Bang-woo must have planned this to ruin Eunhae Trading Company's reputation.
I worked so hard to build up our reputation, I can't let him get away with this.
Unlike the others who were enjoying the banquet, Captain Bang-woo's face was grim.
Anyone watching would think he was the tragic hero who had been in love with Miss Ha but lost her to Jin-ho.
The reason I didn't tell Mister Bang Jin in detail last time was to gauge his abilities.
Of course, I already know something about his abilities from my previous life.
However, I don't know what his abilities are at this point. It was a long time after he became the captain.
I also wanted to use this opportunity to find out whether his abilities at that time were those of the Trading Company or his own.
In order for our Eunhae Trading Company to become the best in Hubei, we must surpass Jin Trading Company.
With that in mind, I looked at Jin-ho.
Wearing his wedding attire, Jin-ho was all smiles.
He's so happy. Jin-ho.
His bride, Miss Ha, was also smiling at him.
They were a perfect couple.
“Is that the man with the spear?”
“Wow! What a handsome young man!”
“The captain of the Eunhae Trading Company must be very happy.”
I felt proud when I heard the voices around me.
It was because I felt that it was worth it to give Jin-ho the elixir Cheonhyangroju and cut off the spiritual beast's blood to put on a play for him.
Everyone cares about their reputation, but martial artists are especially concerned about it.
That is why they commit evil deeds or do good deeds to make their names known.
In the martial arts world, an individual's martial arts skills are the most important, but achievements and fame are equally important.
Huh?
Suddenly, I felt a familiar yet different energy.
This is... the energy I felt when I met the disciples of the Northern Sea Ice Palace at the inn in the Northern Sea Ice Palace before.
Turning his head toward the source of the energy, he saw a figure wearing a white martial arts uniform and a bamboo hat.
Luckily, the figure lifted the hat slightly, revealing that it was a woman.
She was looking at Miss Ha with a longing expression.
No ordinary emotion could produce such an expression...
“...!”
Something flashed through my mind.
Could it be?
Miss Ha's mother?
It was unlikely that a child born to a man and woman with yin martial arts would have a three-syllable pulse.
However, compared to when only one parent had yin martial arts, the probability was higher.
Come to think of it, I had never heard that Miss Ha's mother had passed away...
Now I understood why.
Seeing her daughter happy, she also smiled happily. Then she quietly disappeared.
The martial arts of the Northern Sea Ice Palace are powerful.
I seem to remember hearing that they deliberately keep their children away from them so that they don't get involved in anything.
However, the bond between parents and children is not so easily broken. Even animals know the value of their young.
Of course, there are some who are worse than animals.
As a mother, she came all this way because she wanted to see her daughter's wedding.
She must have been curious to see the face of her daughter's future husband.
Ha Head Escort must have sent a letter.
I looked at Jin-ho and scratched my ear.
Ah, Jin-ho.
You'd better treat Young Mistress well.
Otherwise, you might get scolded by your scary mother-in-law.
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The wedding ceremony was over.
People gave gifts and offered words of encouragement to the newlyweds.
At that moment, I heard Seo Woo's telepathy in my ear.
- Captain Bang is meeting with two warriors right now.
Oh, then I should go.
- Where is it?
* *
Bang Woo was in a corner a little away from the banquet hall.
In front of him were warriors Bae Cheol and Go Ju-sang.
“What on earth is going on?”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn't you say you put poison in the food?”
“Yes. We did as you ordered.”
“Then why is there no reaction?”
Hearing this, the two warriors replied with expressions of innocence.
“We don't know anything about that.”
“Maybe the poison was wrong?”
“Damn it!”
Bang-woo yelled at them in a nervous voice.
“How much money have I spent on you guys? Get some results! You're useless! Even worms are more useful than you!”
The two warriors gritted their teeth at the humiliation. Bang-woo had scolded them before, but never this harshly.
Perhaps because of that, they began to feel resentful without realizing it.
However, they couldn't openly show their feelings, so they held back.
“What's going on?”
“...!”
Bang-woo was startled by a sudden voice.
When he turned his head toward the clear voice, he saw a very handsome young man.
Bang-woo was unconsciously nervous.
“Could it be... he caught me?”