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    [Episode 277] Journey to Shaolin

    The day after tomorrow is July so it should be raining but I can’t even imagine this. I guess I was a bit thoughtless.

    However Qing always had no thoughts other than killing people and eating so no matter how much he reflected on it it would always happen in the future.

    Cheongdo was not without its share of injustices.

    A life wandering around the rivers. Even though I now have a small place to return to at the priestess’ gate I’m still wandering around anyway.

    The land mass of the central plains is not only very large and wide but the elevations above and below sea level vary widely. Some are rivers some are deserts and some are beaches. So the climate was different so there was no sense at this point whether it would rain or be hot.

    As I hurriedly left the room a boy who had been dozing off near the entrance suddenly woke up.

    When it rains Piu’s selling boy sneaks out from somewhere and takes a seat next to the entrance to the guesthouse.

    In fact it can be said that it is the business of inn owners who are trying to make extra money in bad weather by being the son or daughter of someone who works at the inn.

    Since it was a luxurious guesthouse it was even equipped with umbrellas so I thought everyone but me must have thought it was going to rain.

    “Hey. “Just two banggats.”

    “oh. Fairy! “Here!”

    The boy who woke up to see Cheong’s beauty suddenly handed out something similar to a large basket without taking any money.

    “How much is it?”

    “oh! right! “It’s just one cat.”

    “this? Did you plan it that well?”

    Then the boy shrunk.

    “Two for one…”

    It was a miracle that the price suddenly became half price but it was still a generous discount.

    “You know my room right? “Bring me a bunch of raisins.”

    “The errand fee is…”

    “You buy two Bangats for five times the price of ten.”

    “yes…”

    Surprisingly the child was unable to bargain further at the exact price and backed out.

    Of course even though he was a child in the middle of the country he had a strong business mind but it was largely because he was fascinated by Cheong’s appearance that he could not display his reading mind.

    So I put on two banggats and come out and the sound of both banggats hitting each other is loud.

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    To put it simply a Banggat is a very large Gat. It is worn on the head covering the front and back covering the bottom of the buttocks and then bending outward to drain rainwater.

    The downside was that it was heavy and when it rained it got even heavier and the rainwater that fell backwards flowed like a waterfall and hit below the ankles.

    However Cheong’s super-strong cervical vertebrae can easily withstand that weight.

    So I came out and um. yes. It’s very dark…

    Heavy rain is basically accompanied by very thick rain clouds and there is no electricity at night in the barbaric central plains.

    The greatest invention in human history which involves boiling water and turning a water wheel has not yet appeared.

    First Cheong went out into the street.

    Cheong’s vision which is also transcendental to that of humans gradually outlines the outlines of the night.

    Where is Seol Sojeo?

    Didn’t you say you’ve been homeless a lot?

    As an expert on homeless people (beggars) Cheong started by looking for a restaurant and hurriedly visited places that caught his eye.

    But there is none.

    And then an urgent thought comes to mind.

    Isn’t it because I’m a poor homeless person that my knowledge is poor? It’s not like you’re crawling under a bridge to get out of the rain right?

    The water rises faster than expected and a torrent is a violent disaster that is much more difficult to control than expected.

    Cheong then ran along a tributary of Hanam and looked under the bridge.

    And yet there is none.

    No if you don’t have a good place to sleep or under a bridge where on earth are you supposed to sleep?

    Or did you just go home because it was raining?

    When I thought about it Seol Sojeo was a great man who deserved it.

    If you want to go home you have to say something. What if I leave without saying anything to make people worry?

    I was the only one running around in the middle of the night.

    Still it would have been better to go home.

    If you’re not sure why not just go in?

    Cheong who had been wandering around looking for it for about half an hour finally caught sight of it.

    He said it was dark under the lamp and he was squatting under a piece of cloth that looked like it had been put up by the owner of a street stall fixed to the wall in front of the guest room that Cheong had taken.

    In fact Cheong had half-jokingly said that he could run away at night so he settled down in a place where he could watch the entrance.

    Even though Cheong had a brain with superhuman computing power he had no thoughts so he ran around in the rain on a moonlit night for no reason.

    However Cheong has a stamina of steel and is already impervious to the cold.

    If your body was good you wouldn’t suffer that much even if your head was bad.

    “No Seol Sojeo. Was it raining all the time? Why are you foolishly getting caught in the rain? “Isn’t it cold?”

    “It’s much colder in the North Sea.”

    The North Sea peoples live on frozen lakes all year round so summer and winter are just a flow of cold days and colder days.

    “This is a really hot day.”

    “My voice is shaking right now.”

    “No no. “Not at all.”

    In fact if you have to ask whether it is cold or not cold now the answer is not cold at all.

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    Rather it is closer to a pleasant coolness.

    It was a weather where you could even feel a very refreshing sense of freedom like in a movie throwing your umbrella high in the sky and giggling as it rained.

    However for a long time the rain was so thick as droplets that it felt like it was hitting my body.

    This is completely different from whether it is cold or not.

    This is because human body temperature is designed to be regulated through the atmosphere so the wet body is constantly deprived of warmth as it is constantly hit by new raindrops.

    “madam. I heard you were homeless a lot? Are you sleeping outside in the rain in the North Sea? “If this continues I will have to clean up the invoice.”

    “I guess it’s okay…”

    However even though I didn’t apply much force it obediently came and raised itself so I thought this wasn’t a good thing.

    When I returned to the room I noticed that as expected my complexion was so pale that I looked sickly but my lips had lost their saturation somewhere between purple and blue and had turned black.

    Fortunately the boy with the umbrella arm brought a lot of dry cloth so Cheong started by rubbing his face and wiping it wringing out his hair and the clothes that were completely wet were sticky and did not come off easily so he whimpered and wiped off the moisture with the dried cloth.

    After laying him down on the bed and putting blankets on him I wondered if this was all a hard time taking care of a child and once again I felt the great grace of my parents who taught me to be true and to be right…

    “Why are you staying overnight in the rain?”

    “yes.”

    After wiping off all the moisture and burying herself in the bed Seoliri began to speak again.

    “And then you die. Being cold and being rained on are completely different things. “I heard you stayed overnight a lot?”

    “It doesn’t rain in the North Sea.”

    “Isn’t it going to snow? “You stay overnight there and get caught in the snow?”

    “no.”

    “Is there anyone you know who was exposed to all the rain like that?”

    “Because it’s rain not snow.”

    There is not a single word that can be expressed in words.

    Cheong clicked his tongue and only then began to wipe his wet body.

    I wore a hat but the rain was so strong and I was running around (uselessly) so the only parts that were intact were my head and shoulders.

    Seoliri’s gaze moved to Cheong’s figure then to the towel she was wiping her body with and finally to her black arm which had swelled to twice its size and she watched helplessly unable to go anywhere else as if nailed to the ground.

    Anyway after going through all the trouble at night Cheong felt mentally tired (his body felt fine) and relieved so he felt like he would fall asleep any time soon.

    Cheong who had only roughly drained the water snuggled into the blanket.

    Then Seoliri opened her mouth.

    “excuse me.”

    “why?”

    “I can’t sleep when someone is around.”

    “Then you are not sleeping. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep anyway even if it was raining outside. “Then wouldn’t it be better not to sleep on a warm comfortable bed out of the rain?”

    “…”

    Seoliri pursed her lips as if she were angry.

    “So it’s up to you whether you sleep well or not. “I need to sleep.”

    “…”

    Are you surprisingly proud?

    Since there was no answer Cheong thought it was just something. however. Why is my breathing so deep?

    “Seol Sojeo?”

    “…tease.”

    Cheong frowned.

    Are you saying you can’t sleep when someone is there?

    As soon as I say something like that I go to sleep.

    —-

    There is a saying that if you do it you will.

    And as expected Seoliri caught a cold.

    “No some unmanned person catches a cold.”

    “My wife.”

    “My nose is completely blocked. “Your nose is running now.”

    Seoliri wiped my nose with the blanket.

    “Bean water wife.”

    “It’s really varied…”

    You can catch a cold on a deserted island.

    It is a very difficult task but it is so.

    For example if you are hit by pouring rain and do not protect your body with internal energy it is no different from an ordinary person with a strong body getting hit by the rain.

    So Seoliri caught a cold.

    It also hung very tightly.

    “It was raining and you weren’t even using your skills?”

    “Come on.”

    In other words there are about 10 days with bright sunlight during the summer at the Ice Palace. On days like that everyone thinks it’s really cool today and goes outside to enjoy the sun.

    And even the coldest day of the year in the central plains was much warmer.

    Now the extreme heat at the end of June almost makes Seoliri feel like she is in a boiling water in hell.

    So I worked hard to keep cool by turning on the ice ball so when the heat subsided at night I got lucky and recovered and continued to wear the ice ball during the day and so on.

    “I used up all my energy to cool off so my Danjeon was empty at night?”

    “my. And please don’t talk nonsense.”

    “under. Isn’t it only funny if you draw a line with a nose-blind sound? “Can you pronounce it correctly?”

    Seoliri glared at Cheong fiercely.

    Cheong answered him.

    “Do you want to wipe your nose first and try? “Honestly it’s really funny right now but are you holding back?”

    “Tch.”

    “Anyway I’ll buy you a hearty breakfast so eat it and then go back. No I’ll give you a room and food to help you get over your cold so you can rest for a day.”

    You catch a cold on a deserted island but you get better quickly.

    Even if it’s just a nose cold if you feel good for a day and get better it gets better as if it never happened.

    “Sing uh yo”

    Even if I stopped saying something to try to pronounce it clearly it wouldn’t clear my stuffy nose for air to flow.

    I would say it was a pitiful attempt.

    “Why are you stubborn enough to keep following me? It’s the rainy season now so it’s going to keep raining right? “You don’t even have a change of clothes let alone money?”

    “yes.”

    Stubbornness is stubbornness and I’m getting sick of this.

    Besides isn’t there a degree to which there is no solution?

    Since Cheong does not show infinite mercy with a mother’s heart there is no reason to take care of a woman who draws a line not to be in the group.

    I don’t know if it’s a bit unpleasant but other than having a pretty face and cute things there’s nothing in particular.

    hmm? If you have a pretty face and cute things you do it seems like you take the trouble to take care of it right? Is it usually called a pet?

    Cheong shook off his useless thoughts.

    After all you’ve been through it once so you probably know how scary rain is.

    “joy. Well then just figure it out. “I’m going Seol Sojeo lives here.”

    “Jangkang. “It’s shameful.”

    Seoliri has no clothes to change into.

    It had been raining all day long and it was still refreshingly cool in the morning so there was no way my clothes could dry during that time.

    While Seoliri was startled and jumped down from the bed holding on to her wet underwear and hesitating Cheong who was a wandering expert had already changed into a change of clothes and was fully prepared to go out.

    “I’ll give you one spare banggat so you can use it or throw it away. then. “See you later or not.”

    Cheong waved his hand over his shoulder and walked out.

    Let’s see. What should I eat for breakfast?

    Since it’s raining I’m really craving green onion pancakes…

    Still the advantage of being in the ancient uncivilized Central Plains rather than the Western world was that similar food did exist.

    And there was a food similar to pancakes: pancakes.

    When you think of jeonbyeong in the hometown of the Qing Dynasty it looks like kimchi dumplings made with buckwheat but in fact the original jeonbyeong is called jeonbyeong a type of dough made with a thin layer of flour or similar dough spread on an iron plate.

    It was also a breakfast that people from the Middle East liked to eat simply.

    “Then would you like a bottle of Hwangju? After all pajeon should have takju together. “Something sweet.”

    While Cheong was pondering for a moment the sound of the door opening the sound of footsteps sounding like rushing and the sound of a sigh sounding like a sigh of relief were all connected in one flow.

    No that thing is following me.

    It’s a very leech and it’s also a cold leech.

    Cheong sighs and turns around –

    They say it’s hot in the central region but Seoliri’s clothes were also light and thin with the top and bottom being a jeogori and a skirt.

    However as the less dry clothes stick to the body there are particularly prominent protruding parts on the upper body one on each side.

    Cheong was scared and screamed.

    “Miss what is it! Like that now…! “Why don’t you come in right now!?”

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