"Keueuh."
"Ugh."
"Argh!"
The sound of dying groans, now a symbol of Mount Hua, flowed out one after another.
Baek Chun, which tied several logs into a thick and strong rope, began to pull them all at once, sweating all over the body.
"Ugh."
His arms trembled and his back was tingling.
'What the hell is this!'
There was a dying groan next to him too.
"Ugh, Sasuk...…."
"What?"
"I'm dying."
Baek Chun sighed deeply at Yoon Jong's whine.
He couldn't help but sigh. That's because the view in front of him is so bizarre.
"There! Hold it right there!"
"If you bury it like this, the pillar will be twisted! Dig more! Dig more firmly! More!"
"There shouldn't be a pebble in a place that's going to be a training field! You're not just picking out the stones, you're gonna dig them out, and have to shove the dirt back in. Why can't you understand?"
"……."
Baek Chun closed his eyes tightly.
‘I should have predicted this situation when I heard that he was coming with Elder Hyun Young.'
If Hyun Jong or Hyun Sang had led them, this would never have happened.
But who was Hyun Young?
He is an Elder who is in charge of Mount Hua's finance and a money ghost who can't stand wasting a penny in vain.
Of course, Mount Hua has become such a money-making sect now, but Hyun Young, who has spent his entire life hanging on a penny, could not bear to waste money in vain.
‘No, it's not that bad.'
To be exact, he can't stand spending money where he has to. It was only when he fed the disciples that he splurged on money.
But even so...….
"If you're going to do this, wouldn't it be better to just put a new building on the vacant lot?"
"If you're going to tear down the house and build a new one, why would you buy a hall?"
"And we're not carpenters, so what kind of new building..."
"There!"
The dissatisfied disciples quickly closed their mouths. Before they knew it, Hyun Young was staring at them with his ax eyes open.
"Stop fooling around and move quickly!"
"Yes!"
"Yes, Elder!"
Baek Chun and the rest of the disciples rushed to carry logs.
Hyun Young, who looked at Baek Chun with disapproving eyes, shouted in a loud voice.
"Don't think you're working! This is the place for Mount Hua’s subsidiary sect! Don't forget that you're laying the foundation for Mount Hua’s subsidiary sect now."
That's a good word.
Up to there.
"So don't straighten your back and work! With the thought of digging the ground ten times and stretching your back once! This is all an extension of training. Why do people with strength keep complaining about what's hard! Huh!” (Naegong, 내공도. Mental training?)
Had it not been for the latter, he would have been able to respond with a warm heart.
After Baek Chun put down the log that he was dragging, he looked up.
The disciples were divided into three groups and were working like crazy.
On one side, the collapsed wall was being removed and the new wall was being raised, while on the other side, the entire yard, which should have been a training field, was being dug up.
'If anyone sees it, they'll think we're digging a canal.'
And the most important task is back there.
The half-torn old hall was neatly dismantled to a very fine powder by the hands of Mount Hua disciples, and the work of laying the foundation and raising the pillars was in full swing.
"This way! The pillar should be erected this way. Oh, warrior-nim! You can't do that there! Please wait a moment!"
"Yes! Yes! Just like that! You're so strong because you're warriors. This isn’t something that a person can lift!"
At the site where the hall was raised, there were some people who would wear work clothes, not Mount Hua's uniform.
Chung Myung said, "It's enough if to just roughly raise the hall up," but Hyun Young was a thoughtful person, so he stormed into Eunha Merchant Guild and asked for a carpenter from Young Master Hwang. He chuckled and gladly arranged for the carpenters.
‘Why did you do that?'
‘Don't do that!’
Anyway, that's why they’re in this state now.
"Still, something doesn't seem right?"
"Right...."
Baek Chun looked at the hall as it was taking shape, with trembling eyes.
If they couldn't do it, he would have given up neatly and used the workers. But these Mount Hua bastards have turned into humans who could do anything asked of them.
But.
Come to think of it, aren't these people who won’t say anything when Chung Myung tells them to jump off a cliff with a rope?
For such people, this labor would be nothing.
‘If you think about it that way, it's not a big deal. If you think like that!’
But there was one thing that really bothered Baek Chun.
Glug, glug, glug.
"……."
Glug, glug, glug.
"……."
In one corner, a man was lying down and drinking.
‘What are that ghosts doing, just what! I'm not going to take that!'
When his Sahyung and Sasuk doing in the dirt, that guy just drinking and doing nothing!
Baek Chun glared.
"What?"
However, his sharp eyes became as soft as a willow leaf fluttering in the wind as soon as he met Hyun Young's eyes.
"… Elder."
"What?"
"I’m…I'm not particularly dissatisfied with doing this. It's just……."
"But?"
Baek Chun's eyes glanced at Chung Myung, who was lying on the ground.
"But... I think we should work together if we want to work.…."
"My, my. Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk."
Then Hyun Young looked at Baek Chun with pathetic eyes.
"The great disciple of second-class disciples is so thoughtless."
Baek Chun’s shoulders shrank at Hyun Young's relentless rebuke. Hyun Young asked him.
"Have you ever seen someone who paid work?"
"…Yes?"
"Have you ever seen a man who gave money to a worker to raise a house work together with the worker?"
"……Uh, there isn't."
"Then?"
Hyun Young said with a frown.
“Who has earned all the money to buy this place and materials?”
“…that’s…..”
Baek Chun shut his mouth like a honeyed mute.
‘That damn thing.’
‘It's him. That one.’
Even if the one saying it is a person who'd even bring out sword energy just by mentioning the word 'Chung', this is still an undeniable fact. To put it bluntly, isn't Chung Myung making all the wealth that Mount Hua enjoys now?
"Where in the world does anyone who pays have to work with the workers? You who aimed to be the Sect Leader won’t even understand that!"
"I- I'm sorry."
"My, my. Tsk tsk."
Even after rebuking him once, Hyun Young's eyes disapproval didn’t go away.
"Also, why won’t you be proud for having your cute Sajil resting a bit! Are you saying you have a stomachache because of jealousy! Since when did Mount Hua become such a hard-nosed sect?"
There was too much to refute.
‘Elder…….’
‘First of all, he's not cute.’
‘And secondly, Mount Hua was originally like that..’
‘Where in the world is a more ruthless sect than Mount Hua! Where?’
However, despite the countless words that reached his throat, Baek Chun didn't have the courage to pull it out in front of Hyun Young.
If the most can’t be talked out person in the world is Chung Myung, this person is at least the second.
Then Chung Myung, who was glaring at the situation, tilted his head and asked.
"Do I have to work, too?"
"No, no. What's the matter with you? There are so many things they can do even if you don't do this. This kind of thing will be done by these freeloading bastards, so you stay there! Relax! Take a rest, will you?"
"They say I’m senseless person..."
"What kind of guy gives you that? I'm gonna pull their eyes out!"
"……."
‘Elder.’
‘Why do you say that while looking at me?’
‘Ah... I really hope everything is over.’
Baek Chun eventually sighed deeply and turned his head.
Then someone came and spoke carefully.
"Well…… Baek Chun Dojang-nim. Are you having a hard time?"
Looking back, Wei So-haeng, the child of the Huayin Sect's leader, was looking at him with a worried face.
"No, It’s fine, Somunju." (Note below)
"I'm sorry. Because of us...…."
"Don't say that. This is also for Mount Hua. Why does Somunju apologize?"
‘That guy is the problem! That guy!’
"Still……."
"Hm?"
"……Thanks to the disciple of the Main Sect and Chung Myung Dojang, we have come to this point.”
"…Yes?"
When Baek Chun asked a question with a little bewilderment, Wei So-haeng replied with an awkward look.
"It seems like only yesterday that I climbed Mount Hua with a feeling of grasping at straws because of Jongdogwan...… … but not only did you protect Huayin Sect, but we can now take part in bigger things. It's all thanks to Mount Hua and Chung Myung Dojang."
Baek Chun closed his mouth.
And on one side, he glanced at Wei Lishan, who was busy carrying materials with his disciples.
It would be hard labor, even if they were martial artists, but there was no discontent in Wei Lishan’s face. Rather, he was encouraging his disciples with a lively face.
Wei So-haeng smiled softly and said.
"My father seems to be overjoyed, too."
Baek Chun nodded his head.
'That's understandable.'
Huayin Munju has always shown a calm appearance, but it was easy to guess how difficult it must have been for the subsidiary sect when the Main Sect could not exert its strength.
"My father always wanted to raise Huayin Sect more. He said that Huayin Sect needs to be stronger to help the Main Sect. But he grew older without achieving that dream."
"Oh……."
"That's why I love seeing my father now. It seems like he’s finally achieving a dream that he couldn't achieve in the past. These are all Chung Myung Dojang.…. No, it's the grace of Main Sect."
"No, it's not."
Baek Chun shook his head.
"It's not the grace of Main Sect. This was accomplished directly by Wei Lishan Munju and Huayin’s disciples."
"But……."
"Mount Hua wouldn't have tried to support the subsidiary sect if it wasn't for Huayin Sect. Because it's Huayin Sect, which has trusted and endured with Mount Hua for many years, that we can do our best here."
"……."
Baek Chun smiled at Wei So-haeng.
"So let's do our best together. Mount Hua and Huayin Sect should make a name for themselves in the world, no?"
Wei So-haeng smiles and nods.
But then, a voice that broke the atmosphere rang out.
"Elders, the two of them are playing right there."
"These guys?"
Wei So-haeng and Baek Chun freaked out and rushed back to the material.
'Just when we be thankful.'
‘I'd rather go in somewhere and sleep, please!’
Wei So-haeng and Baek Chun sighed at the same time.
* * *
"……somewhat…?"
"……Wow, this works."
Mount Hua's disciples looked around with thrilled eyes. The hall was seen in the midst of finishing work.
They could erect the pillars, build the walls, and raise the roof, but they had no choice but to entrust the carpenters to the finishing work to create the complete form of the hall.
“Because the outward appearance of the subsidiary sect is also important.”
"That's right."
Baek Chun nodded at Jo-Gol's words.
"But even if we’re stir-frying beans in lightning, and I didn't expect this to happen in seven weeks." (To behave in an impatient and hasty manner)
"If you look at it, Kangho people is the best worker who can act the role of 10 people alone."
They are stronger than horses and cows, and they can do precise tasks that horses and cows cannot do.
Of course, they can't imagine using fighters they've raised so preciously in other sects for this kind of work, but that common sense doesn't work in Mount Hua.
"In any case, since we've raised the hall, can we just open it?"
"Yes, that's just the beginning."
"You all did a great job."
Mount Hua's disciples, who had crossed one big mountain, looked at each other and smiled.
It was a time of hellish nagging of Hyun Young and suffering from going back and forth day and night.
However, looking at the hall that was being completed, the pride of having accomplished another one and the confidence of being able to do anything began to rise at the same time.
But they forgot one thing.
The fact that there are demons behind them.
"You're saying weird things, aren’t you?"
"Huh?"
Everyone looked back.
Chung Myung, who was looking at the hall with a sad face from the back, raised the corners of his mouth as he looked at Mount Hua and Huayin Sect’s disciples.
"Didn't I tell you from the beginning? It's meaningless founding a sect based on Huayin Sect's skills right now."
"……Huh?"
"It's just the beginning."
Chung Myung laughed wickedly.
"Originally, it would take three months, but the time is urgent, so we have no choice but to go a little bit aggressive. Within 15 days, we’ll make them a confident Mount Hua's subsidiary sect."
"…Yes?"
Wei Lishan tilted his head, not understanding what that meant. But Baek Chun closed his eyes tightly next to him.
‘Rest in peace.'
‘If you survive, you'll be strong.’
‘……if you survive.’
*note
So here how it is, “-ju” mean the head or leader. “So-“ refer to someone young. There is Sodanju, Somunju, Sodojang so far but I think there is one in Tang Family too.
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