Chapter 307: Chapter 307
“What?”
“I mean I cannot stand to watch you idle around and eat anymore.”
Hong Won-chang frowned as he looked at the lying Jang Sam-tae. Even though several days had already passed, he seemed completely fed up with Jang Sam-tae, who did not even think of returning, nor did he work here.
“I have no place to go, though?”
“Go to the Gold Ring Inn at least and act as a waiter!”
“Eeeek? I ran away because I hated doing that, and you are telling me to do it again?”
“Or work then!”
“Work…?”
Jang Sam-tae picked his nose with an unwilling expression.
He looked at the broom placed carefully in one corner.
Hong Won-chang’s house was smaller than thought, so if he started sweeping, it seemed he could finish within fifteen minutes.
Grinning, he asked.
“Should I do some sweeping then?”
“No, not that! We have servants too!”
Hong Won-chang raised his voice at his mentality of trying to choose only easy work. Although it was a matter of course, since there were servants here too, he did not need to make Jang Sam-tae do minor chores.
Rather than that, was there not a way to use Jang Sam-tae more usefully.
Swish!
Hong Won-chang threw something before Jang Sam-tae’s eyes.
A bundle of papers fell before Jang Sam-tae.
All of them were wanted posters with people’s faces drawn on them.
The moment he saw it, Jang Sam-tae wore an anxious expression.
“What is this?”
“Can you not tell by looking? They are criminals who have recently been notorious throughout the Hunan region.”
“So, what do you want me to do?”
“What do you mean what? Catch them immediately! Even just one!”
Jang Sam-tae was startled at the suddenly erupted shout.
Before he knew it, a broadsword was clutched in Hong Won-chang’s hand, threatening as if he would swing it at any moment.
Jang Sam-tae, who picked up the wanted posters fallen on the floor without realizing, leaped up like a frog and shouted.
“I will do it, okay, I will do it!”
Although he was unwilling, as long as he could not return to the estate, he had to follow Hong Won-chang’s words.
Looking at the huffing Hong Won-chang, he also did not seem to have any intention of backing down easily this time.
‘I can just catch one or two and give them to him.’
With that thought, Jang Sam-tae leisurely went out.
“Phew… such a damnable fellow.”
Hong Won-chang, recalling Jang Sam-tae who had vanished out of sight before long, let out a long sigh. Since he had been living like a slacker for several days already, not just a day or two, he could not express his frustrated feelings.
If he thought about Hong Jin-rang growing up and becoming like that, the future would look bleak.
He again let out a long sigh once more, he turned around.
Soon, bowing deeply at the waist, he spoke politely.
“Is it fine with this?”
“Yes, well done.”
Soon, someone stealthily showed themselves in the space where no one had been.
The moment he looked at the one who appeared, Hong Won-chang broke into a cold sweat without realizing, but slowly calming his mind, he composed his breathing.
“But will it be alright? The wanted posters that fellow took… are composed of Green Forest bandits.”
“Haha, do not worry. Even though he looks like that, he has quite a deep connection with the Green Forest bandits.”
Trickle.
At the heard sound, Hong Won-chang broke into a cold sweat without realizing. Recently, the Green Forest bandits seemed to have come down to this Hunan land and were eagerly searching for someone, and he felt an anxiety whether all of that was perhaps due to the deeds Dan Woo-hyun and Jang Sam-tae had committed.
‘Whatever the case…’
In the end, Jang Sam-tae went to resolve it.
Since the Hunan Dan Family and the Green Forest bandits would naturally clash, it seemed he would not have to worry about the Green Forest anymore.
Hong Won-chang nodded, wearing a happy expression inwardly.
* * *
The Eighteen Strongholds of the Green Forest.
Although no one knew exactly how they gathered their influence, they were indeed a force not to be underestimated that ruled all mountain bandits in the Central Plains.
Among them, there were strongholds ranked in the top ten that had masters whom even the Nine Sects and One Gang could not easily touch.
Since masters who practiced martial arts committed banditry, it was extremely troubling from the perspective of the common people, and they were also the culprits who troubled the government offices.
Bandit members dispatched from the top five strongholds of the Eighteen Strongholds of the Green Forest were stirring up the Hunan land.
The figure at the center of it was the Green Forest King Yu Deok-cheon.
Although his skill was not acknowledged because he was a bandit and he was pointed at by the public, it was certain that he possessed martial arts worthy of entering the top hundred masters, and was perhaps comparable to Ma Jang-gang or even superior.
“Belch!”
Yu Deok-cheon was famous for being a giant, to the extent that even though he held a large saber as befitting one called the Green Forest King, he looked as if he held a tiny wooden stick.
“Is this place truly correct?”
“Since they said they have seen him somewhere in Hunan, it must be correct.”
Slice!
“Uuuugh!”
As Yu Deok-cheon’s blade swung, a man who had been kneeling collapsed.
Although they looked like simple travelers, those who had already become corpses and fell face down no longer made even the slightest movement.
Yu Deok-cheon, as if it were natural, rummaged through their belongings and threw them one by one to his subordinates.
Seeing that he cut down those who did not have much money nor wore clothes that could be called flashy, it seemed Yu Deok-cheon enjoyed slaughter.
“Lightning Feet as you said, right?”
“Yes.”
One subordinate readily nodded.
The culprit who destroyed the Noksu Stronghold and cleaned out all the money.
To the extent that they had searched the entire Central Plains to find that fellow, it was a passage showing how great Yu Deok-cheon’s anger was.
“How dare… he touch the Green Forest, let us see if he can sleep well with both legs stretched out.”
“There is also a speculation that he is a member of the Hunan Dan Family.”
“Speculation?”
Yu Deok-cheon frowned at the word speculation.
If so, it was so, and if not, it was not, so where was there a speculation?
Wondering if perhaps he had brought incorrect information, he sent an uncomfortable gaze.
At that, the second-in-command of the Green Forest, Yang Ja-gang, flinched.
When his mood was twisted, Yu Deok-cheon saw nothing before him.
Since he was someone who would beat or cut off the heads of subordinates, friends, or family until his mood cleared up without a second thought, his body shrunk back for no reason.
“That is… the Haowu Gate is not giving information.”
“What? A mere Haowu Gate?!”
“Yes, it seems they have a close relationship with the Hunan Dan Family.”
Yang Ja-gang intended to hand over everything to the Hunan Dan Family for now.
Although they said it was a simple speculation, since a suspicious point had emerged from the Hunan Dan Family, whatever the case, they would not escape Yu Deok-cheon’s gaze.
It meant it was not a lie to escape the situation.
“These damn bastards…!”
Hearing the words that the Haowu Gate was not giving information, Yu Deok-cheon, whose face turned bright red, clutched his sword.
A face showing clearly that he was angry.
He was like a fierce rakshasa.
“Sweep away every single rat of the Haowu Gate!”
“Yes!”
The loudly echoing word cast a bleak shadow over Hunan.
* * *
“…”
“…”
Gu Mu-ak quietly watched the person standing before his eyes.
Remaining at the Yueyang Haowu Gate branch because of the work Dan Woo-hyun had requested, far from welcoming Jang Sam-tae warmly, he was merely sending an incredulous look.
Jang Sam-tae was lying down.
Lying on the lap of the most popular courtesan in the brothel, he drank wine gulp by gulp and let out pleasant groans.
“Is it delicious?”
“Unhaha, it is delicious, delicious!”
Jang Sam-tae burst into a pleasant laugh.
Simultaneously, the woman also wore a satisfied smile and chimed in.
At that sight, Gu Mu-ak clutched his forehead.
If he were not Dan Woo-hyun’s servant, he would have beaten him severely right away.
‘Trying to do something without paying a single penny is exactly the same as his master.’
A long sigh escaped Gu Mu-ak’s mouth.
“Ahem! Look here, Jang Sam-tae.”
“Why are you calling?”
Without even standing up from the woman’s lap, he slightly rolled his eyeballs to look at Gu Mu-ak.
The attitude of not caring about him in the least was like looking at Dan Woo-hyun, which provoked Gu Mu-ak’s irritation even further.
Gu Mu-ak, whose mouth corners trembled, glared at Jang Sam-tae with a sharp gaze.
It was a murderous intent that would make a normal person’s knees shake.
“Ah, why are you calling me, I ask?”
However, Jang Sam-tae brushed it off lightly.
That level of murderous intent did not even rank as murderous intent.
Although Jang Sam-tae was a third-rate martial artist, the things he experienced while traveling with Dan Woo-hyun were by no means what third-rate martial artists would experience, and the experience of surviving in that mess grew Jang Sam-tae greatly.
Gu Mu-ak frowned.
The appearance of him being unfazed even after receiving his murderous intent.
There was not even a feeling of him releasing momentum to push it back.
What that meant was only one thing.
‘A mere servant fellow is stronger than me?’
Of course, although he would have to face him directly to know, Jang Sam-tae was undoubtedly superior to Gu Mu-ak in terms of internal energy and the mental aspect.
Gu Mu-ak muttered with an unwilling expression.
“Why did you come here, I ask!?”
“Ah, why are you shouting! So loudly!”
“It has already been two hours since you came, and you are just playing around without saying a word!”
“Ah, that?”
Jang Sam-tae smirked.
At first, he had come to ask to find those on the wanted posters.
But no matter how much he thought about it, he did not feel like following Hong Won-chang’s words, and since he was embracing a courtesan without spending a single penny, this was not bad in its own way.
‘I will just settle down and live here.’
Jang Sam-tae had reached such a conclusion in his head when not even seven minutes had passed since he entered this brothel.
“It is nothing, so do not mind it.”
“Then return!”
“Hey, why are you being so stingy between us? I told you I will leave after playing a bit.”
Watching Jang Sam-tae speak indifferently, Gu Mu-ak could not contain his embarrassment. How could a fellow speak that brazenly.
It was even more miraculous that he did not change a single expression.
Gu Mu-ak clutched his throbbing head.
“I am already troubled by the Green Forest bandits, and you are fueling my anger.”
“Green Forest?”
“Yes, Green Forest!”
Jang Sam-tae frowned at the word Green Forest. Because he had destroyed a Green Forest stronghold once with Dan Woo-hyun before.
However, Jang Sam-tae smirked and spoke.
“What is the big deal about the Green Forest? I have already smashed several of them!”
“Huh?”
Gu Mu-ak doubted his ears.
The reason the Green Forest bandits ran amok to that extent was because the Noksu Stronghold was shattered.
The culprit was one named Lightning Feet, but they had not identified who he was yet.
Gu Mu-ak pressed his temples hard and let out a sigh.
“Could… you be Lightning Feet?”
“Huh? How do you know? My title is Lightning Feet, Lightning Feet. Hahaha!”
Jang Sam-tae replied, thumping his chest heartily.
Simultaneously, the courtesan beside him let out a small exclamation of wonder.
Because although the title of Lightning Feet was famous in the Central Plains, there was no one who knew exactly who he was.
“A mere Green Forest? Haha! This Lightning Feet Lord Jang Sam-tae can resolve it, that is what I mean!”
“You are amazing!”
“Hahaha!”
Jang Sam-tae burst into laughter once again.
Since even the courtesan chimed in, the bridge of his nose soared as if not knowing how high the sky was.
“Crazy bastard…”
Watching that, Gu Mu-ak frowned.
The laughter of the fellow who knew nothing of how dangerous the current situation was only looked like he was ignorant of the world.
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