How To Live as a Civil Servant in Murim

“ Oh. Did you bring the elixir?”

In response to Yeon Woo-hyuk’s question, Dangdeung made a slightly embarrassed expression.

“Did you need an elixir?”

“It’s not absolutely necessary, and I feel the limitations of self-studying martial arts by myself…”

Dang Deng could never have imagined that the Podu in front of him had taught himself to the brink of first class by himself.

“Elixir… Mmm. We cannot easily give our elixir to an outsider.”

“Isn’t that the case with all five generations?”

“no. I don’t mean that. It is because of poison.”

‘ah.’

Yeon Woo-hyuk understood what he meant.

The martial art practiced by the warriors of the Tang Dynasty was a specialized martial art in a completely different way because it was called self-defense.

Of course, the elixir suitable for such martial arts is from Germany.

“If it’s not an elixir, did you bring memorization?”

“Wait, can Fodu use memorization? I think I can hear Madou.”

“……”

Yeon Woo-hyuk made a complicated expression, but Dang-deung didn’t notice and continued talking.

“Let me meet Cheong Heo Jin.”

“?”

Dangdeung said it meaningfully, but Yeon Woo-hyeok tilted his head, not understanding the value.

Since it was neither the old school nor the five generations, I did not immediately understand what that was about.

“No, don’t you know how great it is to meet Cheong Heo-jin!?”

“I don’t know, but…”

“ah. I guess.”

It was only then that Dang Deng remembered that the Po Du in front of him was not from Oh Dae Se.

“I heard that you were born with an upper chamber open and your life is in danger, so I sent several letters to the people around you. I was wondering if someone who was good at magic wouldn’t know about this.”

“…a colossus!”

When Yeon Woo-hyeok tried to express his gratitude, Dangdeung waved his hand in disgust.

“Cheongheo Jinin is a person who is good at this kind of magic even within the shaman faction. He is such a newcomer that it’s hard to meet even a person with a long career, but he said he would meet me if I was lucky enough to solve this problem. In fact, it seems to be interested in you.”

“to me? Why?”

“Do you mean that?”

“ah.”

This time, Yeon Woo-hyuk was embarrassed. Well, I solved it so that rumors spread like that, but I might be interested in it.

“By the way, great deal. Doesn’t this mean that you have to mediate between the two countries to meet them? How can I convince them both?”

“Listen. Stop whining. Originally, the two weren’t that bad. But now, when the two of them went out to Gangho for the first time and acted as knights, they subdued a fairly large wild plant and picked up gold nuggets.”

“Did you have an iron chest next to you?”

“…?!!!”

Dang Deng was astonished as if he would faint.

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“D-Have you finally reached the point where you can find out about the past by using ghosts?”

“…I thought that if there were gold nuggets in the wild, there would of course also be iron rails to store them. You can’t just store gold nuggets in a mountain hut full of thieves, can you?”

“ah. I guess.”

In fact, Yeon Woo-hyuk asked a question to see if it was a case he knew about, but Dang-deung didn’t notice.

After all, if there was a nugget of gold, there must have been an iron rail next to it. It was something I had felt before, but there were many times when Fodu’s words felt overly meaningful.

The words I just said could easily be overlooked, but when this guy uttered it, I felt like I saw right through it…

“If it was another bastard, I would have just taken the gold nugget. In fact, if I had just taken care of it, the relationship wouldn’t have been so twisted. If it were me, I would have just taken it… Anyway, these two found the gold nugget and shouted like this.”

-This gold nugget was made by bandits extorting the property of the surrounding people, so we won’t have it and will return it to the coffin. I’ll keep an eye on the officials to see if they distribute this gold nugget fairly to the common people!

‘and. What a waste.’

Inside, Yeon Woo-hyuk suffered as if it were his own work.

No matter how cooperative it is, to just give up such a lump of gold. After all, a knight was not something that could be done with a normal mind.

“The problem is now after that. Originally, there were six gold nuggets in total. Jeong Gang-pyo Guk, three gukju. There are three gukju from Changchun. that’s how i found it However, when they found this, the fighting was still in full swing, so the two of them put the gold nugget in an iron chest, locked it, and then went to fight again.”

Yeon Woo-hyuk nodded and listened to Dangdeung’s story. Dang Deng continued to explain, wondering what the young Bu Du was thinking.

The sanchae was quite large, and the warehouse where the two soup stocks were located had already killed all the bandits.

And after the subjugation was completely over, he held out an iron chest in front of the military officer who had brought soldiers to help and declared.

-I will return the goods stolen by the thieves here to the people! Anyone who steals this gold nugget or uses it arbitrarily will be punished!

At the proud declaration, not only the Murim people who were present, but even the soldiers shouted. It was the moment when his reputation as a knight spread rapidly.

The problem was then.

– Exchanged five gold nuggets and distributed them to the people. Great deal!

-what? five. What do you mean? There must be six gold nuggets?

-All, five. How dare you tell lies?

“They both put three each and locked the chest, but when I went to the coffin, there were five. Isn’t this what ghosts are supposed to do?”

They should have put in three each, but when it came to a total of five, the two governors had no choice but to doubt each other.

Gukju of Jeonggangpyo Country suspected that the lately added Gukju of Changcheonpyo Country was cheating, and Gukju of Changcheonpyo Country suspected that the national juice of Jeonggangpyo Country was playing tricks and then putting the blame on himself.

Suspicions piled up and turned into resentment. In the end, the two countries had a quarrel, so I had no choice but to say that it was because of the gold nugget.

“Who do you think is suspicious? I’m suspicious of Changchunpyogukgukju. Didn’t you put it in too late?”

“Surprisingly, the officials don’t suspect it, do they?”

“That’s right, officials shaved as much hair as they could.”

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Dangdeung said bluntly.

After this incident, it was the officials in charge of the gold nugget who received the most suspicion.

Officials, starting with the military officers, received all sorts of threats and were robbed, but surprisingly no gold nugget came out.

-No matter how big the lump of liver is, there’s no way you’d steal a lump of gold stuck in something like this!

– Right, right. Just in case, everyone attended and opened the iron ark together.

“When I first heard it, I thought one of the officials stole it, but if not, it must be Changchunpyo-guk gukju. ruler. What do you think?”

“no.”

“no!? Wait, so you’re guessing who’s the culprit?”

“yes.”

“…!”

Dangdeung looked at Yeon Woo-hyuk with admiration. I hadn’t heard the answer yet, but I didn’t think Podu’s guess was wrong.

Guessing who the culprit is just from what I’ve heard now.

“If the national state of Changchun stole, there is no reason to steal so blatantly and brazenly. Can’t we just say that we found two from the beginning?”

“Yes… I see. Certainly that is true. Then who the hell stole it?”

“If you don’t think it’s difficult, it’s a simpler problem than you think. If it wasn’t a government official or a national steward, it would be one of the Murim people who were in the wild that day.”

“……”

Dangdeung made a confused expression despite Yeon Woo-hyuk’s reasoning. It was not an answer I liked.

“Why is that?”

“No, of course there were other Murim people there, but taking them was unreasonable. That doubt is a doubt that other people who know this story have also done.”

Dang Deng explained why other Murim people in the wild could not take it.

After finding a gold nugget and an iron chest in the warehouse, the two feared that the surviving bandits would secretly steal the gold nugget and run away.

After thinking about it, the two resolved it in a way worthy of Moorim people.

The warehouse was barred and the front door was firmly blocked.

“It is said that the last remaining Gukju of Changchun Pyoguk bolted the door and came out through a hole in the attic. When I checked later, no one touched the bar, and the dust in the attic was still the same, so other Murim people can’t touch it.”

“Just because you lock the door doesn’t mean you can’t steal it.”

“That sounds like a Seon dialogue… Are you a Cheongheo Jin person?”

Dangdeung covered the iron coins on the table with the teacup he was holding.

“How can you steal something like this?”

“I can steal iron coins here without touching the teacup.”

“!!”

Dangdeung was surprised.

I couldn’t believe it, but I didn’t know that Podu’s supernatural power might have something he didn’t know about.

“Try it.”

“I already did.”

“what? really?”

Dang Deng raised the teacup. The iron railings remained intact.

“what…”

Only then did Yeon Woo-hyeok pick up an iron coin and insert it into his front pouch.

“I didn’t touch the teacup.”

“……”

When Dangdeung’s face contorted like a demon, Yeon Woo-hyeok thought he should stop talking and explain.

I thought it would be a little awkward if I answered too quickly, so I set the mood by throwing Zen dialogues, but it seemed to be counterproductive to the people in the party.

“What I want to say is that even if you lock the door, there are always gaps. great deal. For example, weren’t there other Murim people in the warehouse when the gold nugget was first put into the iron box?”

“okay. I heard that there were a few more guys escorting the area and standing guard.”

“Then I could have stolen it.”

Dang Deng said as if he was disappointed.

“At the end, I checked the six national wines of Changchun Pyogu and locked the iron box. Stealing is unreasonable.”

“Great bargain. Please answer my question. When Jeonggangpyo-guk Gukju was put in first, was there anyone who received it and put it in instead?”

“…!”

Dang Deng opened his eyes wide.

Surprisingly, there was one that fit the situation Fodu pointed out.

“…there was. He said that a guy named Gwak Seon cleaned the dust inside the iron box and put in gold nuggets.”

“He stole a gold nugget. Aren’t you a b*tch?”

“Did you finally lock the iron box after checking the six pieces of the state of Changchun?”

Instead of answering, Yeon Woo-hyeok split an iron coin in half.

Seeing this, Dangdeung received a realization like a thunderbolt striking his head.

“Yeah, that’s right!”

“You can’t make it complicated. What intricate scheme could have been unfolded in that chaotic place? The person named Gwak Seon must have thought that the lumps of gold were so uneven and of different shapes that he would not notice even if he split one in half. So I put one in my sleeve and split the remaining one to make three. It’s not the gold nugget he found, so it’s more than just three, he must have locked it up.”

“This… this guy who’s going to kill me… wait, then why did the officials in the government office say five of these?”

“Perhaps the blacksmith glued a piece of gold that had been split in half? It fits perfectly when attached, so I would have thought it would have split while moving.”

“Why didn’t these guys say that!”

“I think he was frightened because the Murim people came and threatened him. They probably wanted to avoid knowing what kind of retaliation they would face if they said that they had been split into pieces by mistake.”

“Damn it…”

Dangdeung muttered with a dejected expression.

To think that the reason why the two lords were so arrogant was the thoughtless theft of a mischievous bastard.

Yeon Woo-hyuk said with a worried expression.

“However, I don’t know if it will be possible to solve it because so much time has passed. What if a man named Gwak Seon doesn’t pretend?”

When Yeon Woo-hyeok originally solved the case, it was over when he found out the correct answer, but in the case of Moorim, it was not the end even if he found out.

In the case of an incident like this where time has passed, there will be no answer if the opponent catches it.

“huh?”

“So, if a person named Gwak Seon says there is no evidence…”

At Yeon Woo-hyuk’s words, Dangdeung burst into laughter.

“You know how to solve what happened a thousand miles away, but you don’t know what will happen within ten miles. follow me! Let me know how I handle it.”

***

Gwak Seon, who was nicknamed Kang So Il-kwon when he was young, became a military officer and lived as a respected person around him.

Even the Murim people could not carelessly touch such a person. It was as if he had washed his face with gold powder in half, and since it was also connected to the government office, there was nothing good about touching it.

To persuade Gwak Seon, Dang Deng inserted acupuncture needles into eleven blood points and injected six types of poison into the body cavity.