Episode 44. And the road continues2014.02.01.
In a quiet and calm tone, Son Bin roughly told Sa Su-yeon what had happened.
After she was stabbed by Geomhee’s ice sword, Sajahyeok was bound.
And after Sajahyeok, who outwitted the Okryong and freed himself from its restraints, defeated the Okryong with a three-way attack, Soryong appeared and the snow field collapsed and swept him away.
“Your father… … .”
Sonbin suddenly felt a lump in his throat and could barely speak.
“You said you would like me to buy it.”
Sa Soo-yeon, who sat right next to the bed, silently listened to Son Bin.
She didn’t cry out loud or shed any tears, but her white hands that were clutching the hem of her clothes so tightly that they tore showed how she was feeling.
“After that, did I meet Confucius?”
Her voice trembles slightly. Sonbin nodded her head.
How long had he been so silent? Suddenly, Sa Su-yeon stood up.
Sweet.
“Sozer!”
Was it because her complexion looked unusual? Her son Bin unconsciously stretched out his hand and grabbed her.
“I need to go and see.”
Sa Su-yeon said without even looking at Son Bin.
“He might still be waiting somewhere. Even if I had to dig up all that snow pile… … No, we have to find it even if it means overturning the entire snow mountain. Dad will definitely be alive. There’s no way he could go that way. It must be somewhere… … .”
Sa Su-yeon muttered and tried to leave without hesitation.
Sonbin grabbed her arm with both hands to stop her, but he couldn’t stop her.
“Sozer! Calm… … . Ugh!”
Kudangtang.
Sonbin, who was holding Sasuyeon, fell off the bed.
The intense pain that had calmed down runs through my body again, and I let out a moan without realizing it.
“Ugh.”
“Confucius!”
Sa Soo-yeon turned around with a surprised face and knelt down to help Son Bin, who had fallen.
“You must not go, Soger.”
Sonbin, who only raised his upper body from the floor and his face was contorted in pain, grabbed Sasuyeon and said.
“Sojeo’s body is not normal right now. If I go up to the snowy mountain like this… … .”
“It doesn’t matter what happens to me! Dad… … .”
“My father.”
Sonbin said while looking straight into Sasuyeon’s eyes.
“You were the one who worried until the end. But are you still willing to give up your life to find him?”
I couldn’t say that it was useless to look for it. Those were words that Sonbin himself could never accept. Even if it is a reasonable and correct conclusion.
“It is you whose life is in danger now. “I can never let you go.”
Sonbin’s hand strongly grasped the hem of Sasuyeon’s clothes. As if she could never let go.
“but… … .”
Sa Su-yeon’s big eyes filled with tears.
“I decided that I would definitely save him… … . Once this life-or-death crisis is over, I will do whatever it takes to save you. But, but like this… … .”
Again.
Tears rolled down my cheeks, drop by drop.
“like this… … .”
Sonbin stretched out his hand and hugged her head.
“I know.”
Sonbin said. His voice was also full of sadness that threatened to burst out.
“i know.”
In the conversation between Sa-hyuk and Ok-ryong, Son Bin finally learned what kind of situation he was in.
And I was able to understand why Sa Su-yeon behaved like that towards Sa-hyuk.
Sa Su-yeon knew from the beginning. The fact that his father, Lion Hyuk, chose to die himself.
And she made up her mind. When the life-or-death situation is over, I will definitely save Sajahyeok no matter what happens.
But the result was like this.
Sonbin pulled her head and held it against his chest.
Sa Su-yeon followed Son Bin’s lead and weakly leaned her head against his chest. And she began to sob softly.
“Sobbing.”
Sonbin closed his eyes and raised his head. He still can’t believe it himself.
If I wait like this, I feel like Sajahyeok will suddenly appear one day and casually say, ‘Let’s leave.’
Even Sonbin said that, so Sa Soo-yeon was so embarrassed.
Swallowing his sorrow, Sonbin quietly stroked her head. Sa Su-yeon’s crying did not stop for a long time after that.
* * *
“I’ll go first.”
Sa Su-yeon, who was getting into the carriage, spoke to Son Bin in a lonely voice.
“Please proceed carefully.”
Sonbin smiled and said to her.
Sonbin, who had not yet recovered, was standing leaning on a thick wooden cane.
“I want to go with you, but that would actually make it even late. Please go to the clinic as soon as possible and receive treatment. “You understand, right?”
He said that to save Sa Soo-yeon’s life, a congressman with outstanding skills is needed. Sonbin was at a loss, but fortunately, there was a congressman that Sasuyeon knew.
He was a congressman whose name I didn’t know, but since he was recognized by Sajahyeok, it seemed like his skills were at least certain to be there.
Sonbin couldn’t help but worry. She looked fine on the outside, but in fact she was in very dangerous condition.
Maybe she was overdoing it even now. As she felt, she wanted to accompany her, but her councilor waved her hand away saying no.
They told me not to move for at least a few days. In the end, Son Bin had to wait for his body to recover in this village and had to leave for Sa Su-yeon Hall.
“Are you going to write a book?”
Sa Su-yeon, who was looking at Son Bin blankly, suddenly asks. Sonbin smiled bitterly at her.
“Well, I’m not sure right now. I also lost all the books I had written down… … .”
I don’t even have the energy to pack my luggage or even find it.
Thanks to this, I lost all the books I had recorded and the little luggage I originally had, and all that was left was the handle of the Hoa sword and the white sword of the Egret.
‘Only other people’s things remain.’
Sonbin smiled empty-handedly.
The handle of the Hoa sword belongs to Seolgeom Danghwaryeon, and the Seongeom Baekro must be given to a young master named Seorin.
So in the end, it could be said that there was nothing left of Sonbin.
“I’ll think about it slowly later.”
Sa Su-yeon nodded slightly. Sonbin hesitated for a moment, then gathered courage and asked.
“again… … Can we meet?”
Sa Su-yeon looked down at Son Bin with lonely eyes. And after a while she answered in a low voice.
“I don’t know.”
Sonbin was discouraged. Is she, after all, a person from a different world from her bastard like herself?
“Right now, I don’t know.”
Sonbin raised his head.
“Then, later… … .”
“sorry.”
Sa Su-yeon shook her head.
“I can’t think about anything right now. But one day, when the waves subside and there is a quiet dawn… … .”
Sa Su-yeon said, recalling a lonely smile.
“There may be times when mist rises quietly below the river.”
Sonbin nodded silently.
“Please proceed carefully.”
Sonbin said. I’ve already said this, but right now there’s nothing else I can say.
“yes.”
Sa Su-yeon answered. Then he got into the carriage and closed the door.
As soon as she got up, the coachman drove the carriage without delay.
“ha!”
Cluck, cluck.
The small carriage pulled by two large horses immediately began to run away.
As she watched the carriage moving away, Sonbin prayed in her heart that she would reach the doctor safely.
The carriage became smaller and smaller and eventually disappeared. Sonbin, who had been standing and watching until then, slowly moved her body and went down next to her.
Even just walking is difficult, as if my whole body is creaking. Sonbin found a long chair roughly made of wood and leaned against it.
“Whoa.”
As I sat quietly and calmed my breathing, I heard the leisurely sound of birds from afar.
tweet.
Sonbin closed his eyes and quietly savored the sunlight. A soft breeze passes by my cheek.
It was a little dazzling, but sitting under the warm sunlight seemed to brighten my mood.
‘ha.’
Sonbin slowly recalled the past times.
The long and tiring life at the academy, the joy of passing the civil service exam, the despair I felt when I failed the college exam, and the anger I felt when I found out that I had actually been pushed out, somehow seemed like a very long time ago.
‘If you think about it, it actually hasn’t been that long… … .’
Sonbin smiled empty-handedly.
‘Now it feels like a long time ago.’
It’s not just a thing of the past, it seems like something that has nothing to do with you and something that happened to someone else far away. On his way home with anger and sadness, Son Bin met Sa-hyeok Sa-hyeok.
While running away from him, he received help from Sa Su-yeon at Hwanghakru, and eventually ended up accompanying Sa Sa-hyuk.
‘Water fog below the river… … .’
The name Kang Ha Soo-yeon really suited her.
During the journey that started like that, I happened to stop by at a guesthouse and saw Sa-hyeok Sa-hyeok and Wei Ga-jin dancing, and also saw an unknown beauty who offered to be the best in the world.
And then he met Dosa Noh, the easy-going yet somewhat vain person who was Sa-hyeok’s first life-or-death opponent, and his young disciple Seo-rin.
‘I was in charge of a white heron for him… … .’
Sonbin picked up the egret and placed it on his lap. Her scabbard is so simple that you wouldn’t even be able to tell it’s a sword.
‘I don’t think it will be easy to hand over this sword.’
When I think about it now, it seems like there was something going on. A young man named Seorin also didn’t seem out of the ordinary.
‘Anyway, if it wasn’t for this sword.’
He wouldn’t have been alive.
Sonbin shook his head and lightly stroked the egret in his hand. It felt like she could feel a soft, gentle warmth beneath her hand.
‘and… … .’
In Xi’an, I heard about Nanhyang’s Chilhyeongeum, an artist who can be said to be a poet.
I met the fierce tiger of Sichuan, who was my second life-or-death opponent, and I met the bold and sharp woman, the snow sword Dang Hwa-ryeon. She was then forced to take the handle of Hoagum.
‘Maybe she didn’t mean to.’
Sonbin chuckled without realizing it. The image of Tang Hualian came to mind, as if she was raising sharp thorns.
Even though it was different from her intentions, Hoa Gum saved Son Bin’s life anyway. So maybe he should be thankful to her too.
‘I met Confucius Mo Yong at Ayang Lu.’
Gunjageom, who had the spirit of a gentleman, and his son, Cheolgeom Mo Yong-jin, who told me to visit him someday, were comfortable people, unlike the people I had met so far.
And just as Gunjageom worried, Jade Dragon was different from anyone else.
‘Jade Dragon.’
Sonbin shook his head without realizing it. He still couldn’t figure out or understand anything about the jade dragon.
It seemed like he was persistent and meticulous, but he also showed an incomprehensible composure and ease.
But one thing was clear. He was stronger than anyone else, and more lonely than anyone else. Just like lion leather.
‘In the end, it disappeared like that… … .’
After being defeated by Sajahyeok’s Powell Samsik, the Jade Dragon disappeared between the collapsing snow fields.
We haven’t seen the last of him, but there’s no way he could be alive. Powell Samsik, because obscurity announced his end.
‘Doeun is unknown… … .’
Sonbin trembled slightly without realizing it. What should he say about what he saw? Even now, I shudder when I think of that third meal.
It cannot be explained in words or understood. I am just in awe and astonishment in front of it.
“As expected, you are amazing.”
Sonbin muttered that and raised his head. The sunlight is dazzling in the endless blue sky.
Even though Sonbin raised his hand to block the sunlight, he continued to look at the sky.
“ha.”
I sighed for no reason. There is no Sa-hyeok and no Sa-su-yeon. There is no more watching and recording.
Sonbin knew for sure.
“Now, it’s over.”
It’s over now. The short and long journey she had with Lion Hyuk.
* * *
After three days, when Sonbin had no more discomfort in his movements, the doctor handed Sonbin two small pouches.
“What is this?”
When Sonbin asked, the lawmaker said it was no big deal.
“These are your travel expenses. Yes, she was left in the care of that wife. And this too… … .”
Jinglang.
There were several gold and silver coins in the pocket, which were definitely not a small amount of money for Son Bin.
“This is the money left after deducting the cost of the herbs. “I gave too much in the first place.”
Assemblyman Noh spoke grumblingly.
“I didn’t give it to you, so I can’t receive it like this. Moreover, you saved our lives… … .”
“Then you can keep it and give it to your wife.”
Sonbin was speechless at Rep. Roh’s words.
“The cost of the herbs is enough. Because life is inherently priceless. Or, since you said you were a lifesaver, would you be my servant for the rest of your life?”
Sonbin was speechless at Rep. Roh’s words.
“All right. So, if there’s anything I can help with… … .”
“okay? Then sell me a horse out there. “I’m getting old these days and it’s hard to even walk.”
What the congressman was referring to was the horse that carried Son Bin. Since he was planning to leave this place anyway, Sonbin willingly handed over the horse to the congressman.
The congressman said he would pay, but Sonbin tried to refuse.
Sonbin packed his bags and left the congressman’s house. In fact, he had little to worry about.
It was not difficult to find a wagon going from the village to the big city. After being seen off by a lawmaker riding a small horse, Sonbin got into a wagon.
chin.
‘long time no see. Even a carriage like this.’
When I traveled with Sajahyeok, I rarely rode in a carriage with many people.
A fairly luxurious, fast carriage running without hesitation along the stretch of Guando was part of my daily life with Sa-hyeok.
However, Son Bin originally traveled in this slow and shabby carriage. He sometimes cherished Lao Tzu and did not mind walking far for a meal.
Rattling, rattling.
When Sonbin got on, the carriage began to move slowly.
Sonbin waved his hand at the congressman. He saw Sonbin off until the end with a smiling face.
‘ha.’
Feeling the rattling movement of the carriage with his whole body, Sonbin curled up in a corner of the carriage and closed his eyes.
In the past, I could easily doze off even under these circumstances, but now, strangely, I couldn’t sleep at all. I just feel like something is empty in my heart.
Rattling, rattling.
Eventually, Sonbin gave up on dozing off and opened his eyes. The peak of the white snowy mountain overlooking me was slowly moving away.
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