Chapter 336
The Youngest Son of the Silver Sea Trading Company Chapter 336
Chapter 336. This is Trouble (5)
The person who rushed over was a woman, and when the Poet saw her, his eyes widened.
“Isn't you Ja-ryeong's maid?”
“Your Excellency! Miss Ja-ryeong has fainted and won't wake up.”
What do you mean?
The daughter of the head of the royal guard has fainted?
“What?”
The head of the royal guard rushed to the main house, and we ended up following him without thinking.
The house was quite spacious and comfortably furnished, and it seemed that he had put a lot of effort into it for his daughter.
But was it okay for me to enter the main house like this?
“Jaryeong! Jaryeong!”
Po-jeong-sa called out his daughter's name and entered her room. I could see a young lady lying on the bed.
She looked pale, but her features were distinct, and I could tell that she must have been quite beautiful when she was healthy.
Even though Po-jeong-sa called her repeatedly, she did not move.
“What happened?”
The maid answered his question.
“Miss has not been feeling well since this morning. Then she started coughing repeatedly and suddenly fainted.”
Seeing Po-jeong-sa and the other servants looking anxious, it seemed that this was the first time she had fainted.
“Physician!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
“How is my daughter?”
The physician answered his question with a cold sweat.
“I have no idea what the cause is.”
“You don't know the cause?”
“Her pulse is normal, but…”
At that moment, I had a feeling of déjà vu.
Her pulse is normal, but strangely, her condition is gradually worsening?
I quickly extended my energy and examined the teapot next to Miss.
“...!”
It was a familiar energy.
The energy I had felt before.
“Excuse me, but what is Miss's illness?”
The physician answered my question.
“It is a disease I have never seen before.”
“Does Miss say she is thirsty, but cannot drink water and insists on drinking tea?”
“Yes, that's right.”
The maid answered my question.
I continued to ask her questions.
“Does she sweat a lot?”
“Yes.”
“Even in the middle of winter... Oh, it's hot here, so I don't know about that. Does she complain of feeling stuffy every morning?”
“Yes, she does.”
“Does drinking tea help?”
“Yes! That's why she loves tea so much.”
Everything I had asked her so far were symptoms she had experienced when her condition worsened due to the poison she had been given by Baekbaekhwa.
Yes, Miss So was not sick, she was poisoned.
“Excuse me... Who are you?”
I didn't answer the maid's question and asked her another question.
“Is there any tea called Hwajo Cheong-eum, Maejung-myeongwol, or Nokmi-in among the teas that Miss drinks?”
She was startled by my question and asked back.
“How did you know that? She loves those teas very much. That's why she drinks those three teas every day.”
“Does she drink jujube tea too?”
She nodded to my question and opened a box next to her.
It was filled with dried jujubes.
Damn it.
I'm facing that poison again.
Hwajo Cheong-eum, Maejung-myeongwol, and Nokmi-in.
These three teas are mixed with poison in a balanced ratio, so the symptoms do not appear, but when the poison in the jujubes breaks the balance, the symptoms appear.
It was the poison that killed the empress in my previous life and poisoned the head of the Jaegal Clan in this life.
I asked a series of questions, and Po Jung-sa asked me if I was puzzled by the fact that all my questions were correct.
“What on earth are you talking about? How do you know about Ja-ryung's symptoms?”
“Actually, I was once invited to the Jaegal Clan. I can't tell you the details, but there was someone there who had the same symptoms as Miss Jae-ryung and nearly died. That's why I asked you those questions.”
“Then you know why Jae-ryung is sick?”
“Yes, I do. Miss Jae-ryung has been poisoned.”
Po-jeong-sa was shocked by my words, but he quickly regained his composure and looked at me.
“Poison? Who would poison Ja-ryeong?”
“I don't know either. Today is the first time I've seen Miss Ja-ryeong.”
“That's true. Today is your first time here…”
He blinked at me for a moment. He seemed to realize that I had come here without thinking.
I quickly clasped my hands together and bowed my head.
“I apologize for entering your private quarters as an outsider. Please forgive me for coming here under such circumstances.”
“No, it's all right. The situation was urgent, so you had no choice. It was my fault for not showing you to your quarters first.”
He continued.
“More importantly, can you treat Ja-ryeong?”
“I am a merchant, not a physician. However, I know someone who can treat her.”
“Who is he?”
“Do you know Baekbalhwa?”
The physician standing next to me answered my question.
“Baekbalhwa, isn't that someone in Hubei Province?”
“That's right.”
The physician quickly told the magistrate.
“If Miss Dae-in has been poisoned, we must call him immediately. He is unrivaled in the art of antidotes. I am a doctor, but I am not knowledgeable about such poisons.”
“Bring him here immediately! It doesn't matter how much it costs!”
“Yes!”
He looked at his daughter with teary eyes.
“Jaryong, I brought your eyes to show you...”
“From what you said, he should regain consciousness in a few hours. Don't worry too much.”
“That's good.”
“Then you can show him his eyes then.”
“Yes, thank you. We must have hope.”
He said to me.
“I will give you a place to stay, so please go there.”
“Then I will take my leave.”
I left the main building with the attendant and was led to a guest room in the outer quarters.
I sat on a low table and thought about what had happened.
I never thought I would meet Mugak here.
That poison was made by the Martial Alliance. I know that it is difficult to use and expensive, so not just anyone can use it.
Is the Martial Alliance behind this?
What is their purpose?
Is it to eliminate the Po-Jeong-Sa and install someone from the Martial Alliance as the new Po-Jeong-Sa?
But then, why the daughter of the Po-Jeong-Sa and not the Po-Jeong-Sa himself?
And in my previous life, Po-jeong-sa was still the Po-jeong-sa of Gyeongju even when I died.
Then, was the daughter of Po-jeong-sa the target from the beginning?
Let's summarize again.
The daughter of Po-jeong-sa was clearly killed by the Insight Trading Company's prank.
Could it be that it wasn't just a prank, but something they brought with them worsened my daughter's symptoms of poisoning?
If it was an unexpected incident even for the Martial Alliance, they may not have been able to achieve their goal.
In any case, now that this poison has been found here, it is highly likely that someone from the Martial Alliance is around Miss Jaryeong.
Judging from the fact that the maid and the physician answered my questions obediently, it seems unlikely that they are members of the Martial Alliance...
I hope Baek Baek-hwa arrives soon.
Now that I have mentioned that Miss's symptoms are poisoning, I cannot leave this place until Baek Baek-hwa arrives.
Of course, I could have left without saying anything and just taken the reward from Po Jeong-sa.
But I cannot do that when someone's life is at stake.
Then Pal-gap said to me, "Master, you should wash up and change your clothes.
“Young master, you should wash up and change your clothes.”
“Yes, you're right.”
I washed up with the water that had been prepared and changed into clean clothes. After eating a late lunch, I was looking through some books when the attendant who had brought me here came to find me.
“Captain Eun Seo-ho. The Grand Master is calling for you.”
“Yes. Did Miss wake up?”
“Yes! She just woke up. But…”
He hesitated and then asked me.
“Is Miss all right? Will she recover?”
“I'm sorry. I'm not a physician, so I can't give you a definite answer.”
“…”
He apologized to me with a look of regret on his face.
“I asked you a difficult question. I apologize.”
“No, it's fine.”
I realized once again how important Miss Jaryeong was to the people here.
I followed him and said,
“You seem to care a lot about her.”
“Of course. Miss is our joy. We were so happy that she had found a good marriage,” he said.
Come to think of it, Miss Ja-ryeong said she started feeling ill when she was sixteen.
Sixteen is the age when a marriage is usually arranged.
We arrived at the entrance to the main building.
Po-jeong-sa was standing in front of it.
“Have you been waiting for me? I came when I was called.”
“My daughter has awakened. She said you brought her eyes, and she wants to see them now. Bring them here.”
“Yes, sir. I will do so.”
I immediately returned to the entrance of the main building with the cart.
However, the cart was larger than I had expected, and it couldn't pass through the entrance to the main building, so I had to carry the box inside.
When Seo Woo and Jin Yu carried the box inside, Po Jeong-sa was impressed.
“It looks heavy. You are amazing.”
“My bodyguards are quite skilled.”
“You are a good man. Please take that box to my daughter's room.”
“Um... Is it okay for us to enter the main building?”
“You've already been inside once, haven't you?”
“That's true.”
With that, we entered the main building.
As we approached Miss Jaryeong's room, the window opened.
A young lady wearing a veil was looking at us.
It was because of that veil that the guard allowed us to enter.
“It is a pleasure to meet you, Miss. I am Eun Seo-ho, the captain of the Eunhae Trading Company. This is my attendant and my guards.”
“Nice to meet you. My name is Ja-ryung.”
Her voice was very soft.
If she sounded this good while sick, how pleasant would it have been to hear her voice when she was healthy?
“I heard you brought me some eyes.”
“Yes. Your father prepared them for you.”
“You must have gone through a lot.”
“Of course it was hard. But a merchant will do anything to satisfy his customer.”
I signaled to my bodyguards, and they opened the box.
Then I opened the box inside and took out the plate containing the snow and handed it to her.
“Miss, this is snow.”
As I said that, I let out a slight cold breath.
The snow inside the box was fine because I had put cold air in the box, but the snow taken out of the box could melt quickly due to the high ambient temperature.
“This is... snow.”
She held out her hand with a trembling voice, but stopped immediately.
“Can I touch it?”
“Of course.”
She slowly, very slowly, reached out her hand to the snow she was seeing for the first time.
Tap.
Her hand touched the snow.
“Ah... it's cold.”
“That's because it's your snow.”
I continued.
“When the weather gets cold, rain falls and freezes in the air, changing its shape to this. Snow is also a type of ice.”
“I see. But I've never seen ice like this before.”
Then she took off her veil.
“Jaryong...!”
“I'm sorry. But I can't see the snow properly with my veil on.”
She smiled.
“It's white and shiny... It's beautiful.”
She looked so happy that I felt a sense of fulfillment.
“I heard that you can play many games with this snow.”
“That's right. When I was little, I used to play with the snow by throwing it at each other, and I also made snowmen.”
I continued.
“I also wrote my name in the snow. There was a saying that if the name written in the snow didn't disappear until the new year, you would live to be over 100 years old.”
“Is that... true?”
“I'm not sure if it's true.”
Then she began to write letters in the snow.
“Huh?”
But the letters she wrote were not her name.
“Are those your father's and mother's names?”
“Yes.”
She smiled shyly and said,
“My father told me that this ornament keeps the snow from melting.”
“Yes, that's right.”
“If it's not a keepsake, would you sell it to me? Or even just lend it to me? I want to keep it until the new year so that the snow doesn't melt.”
“Is that so that your parents' names won't disappear until the new year?”
“Yes.”
She nodded.
“I want my parents to live to be over 100 years old.”
“...”
I was speechless for a moment.
How could someone be so kind?
I understood why everyone here loved and cared for Miss Joo-ryung.
How could anyone not love someone with such a kind heart?
Hearing her words, Po-jeong and the middle-aged woman behind him wiped their tears with their sleeves. Judging from their clothes and appearance, they seemed to be Miss's parents.
Then a question suddenly popped into my head.
“But why didn't you write Miss's name?”