Chapter 143

Chapter 143

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva (3)

‘Doing thumb sound.’

Already my brows were tightly crumpled after.

‘Confiscate drama viewing rights for a week.’

[No!]

‘Add recording ban.’

[Too much!]

The underworld messenger stomped feet as if unfair.

[What did I do wrong.]

‘Asking because don’t know?’

[Asking because don’t know.]

The underworld messenger tilted the head.

[Because the treatment too shabby so?]

‘I was just going to come and go quietly as if there or not.’

Because the only curious was our parents’ life and death safety.

But the white tiger and Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva for some reason caused a fit enough for breath to stop.

[Keuheongeoeok!]

“Th, the treatment so shabby? Will try even more best and step forward to guest reception!”

No, I was going to come and go quietly?

Ah, forgot because possible to converse with the underworld messenger inside.

Somehow seems can’t hear even my inner words and can only hear the underworld messenger’s words.

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva with head buried on the floor shouted like a scream.

“You guys, not come out right now? Wanting to see the appearance of someone dying like this?”

“Going, going!”

Doors of the mansion all opened with a whoosh and women in colorful hanbok wearing white conical hats jumped out in a group.

“Bring all the paper money offered from the safe! Raise sacrificial rice to offer gosure! Gather all folding screens and hang the Heart Sutra!”

“Aigoooo!”

They ran out making wailing sounds.

Whether the hanbok skirt fluttered and the underskirt revealed or not.

Whether the white conical hat turned over on the head fell on the floor or not.

Women who ran out barefoot holding this and that in an armful moved hands even faster.

“Emergency! Move faster!”

“If not hurry die!”

“Going crazy! Raise the ember in the brazier to burn paper money first!”

“Now even the Heart Sutra came out! Where did the wooden fish go?”

In an instant.

Began to make a path by urgently unrolling the rolled cotton cloth and neatly laying on the stone floor heading to the shaman house veranda.

A child in hanbok holding a flower paper basket began to scatter flower paper toward me.

Flutter flutter.

Sounded music with all kinds of instruments, five-direction flags fluttered on the veranda.

Wooden fish tok tok, bonfire whoosh, paper money bundles stacked full in boxes fluttered in the wind.

But Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva didn’t stop.

“Not dancing fan dance? Who is the kid in charge of sword dance? Want to ride the blade like that?”

“······.”

A matter accomplished in the meantime of all saying ah.

I couldn’t hide the bewilderment at the series of situations.

The dazed expression was the same for grandmother.

“There bodhisattva? Why suddenly doing this?”

“Apologize. Next time will prepare even more grandly, the children slow also I will scold sharply later, please don’t get angry.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva prostrated flat on the floor and bowed the head.

Of course toward the underworld messenger.

But no way the underworld messenger visible to ordinary people’s eyes.

Political and business world famous figures gathered in the yard began to whisper small looking at me and grandmother.

“There not Taeseong’s chairman madam? Came together with the grandson.”

“Why is Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva flustered toward Taeseong’s chairman madam?”

“This time also the chairman madam overturned from the meal table and tore the bodhisattva’s hair?”

Eyes met in the air.

At the end of the path split like the Red Sea and pierced the central intelligence director and I were.

Interested eyes.

“Taeseong’s youngest grandson.”

No, how did a figure who is the central intelligence director recognize me?

The central intelligence director walked toward me with heavy steps.

“Anyway contact would have gone into Taeseong. His Excellency wants to see.”

“Who? Our dad?”

“No, you.”

Me?

Common sense does it make sense the president pointing an eight-year-old kid and wanting to see separately?

“Soon there is a domestic high-performance tank performance test at the tank factory. Invited there.”

Sounds of inhaling breath flowed from here and there.

“His Excellency calling Taeseong’s youngest grandson separately? Moreover to the domestic high-performance tank performance test?”

“Inviting such a child to a seat calling prominent generals from all over the country.”

“Didn’t know His Excellency would favor Taeseong so much. A seat even the Taeseong Group head hard to join.”

A faint smile hung on the central intelligence director’s mouth corner.

He bent his waist and whispered small in my ear.

“Have to convey only to your dad. His Excellency is preparing one gift for the merit of cleanly solving the U-gwang union protest.”

No, why is the central intelligence director secretly conveying such words to me?

In that person’s eyes I would be at most an eight-year-old kid?

“What His Excellency is interested in is Taeseong’s brain.”

Surely noticing that I am Taeseong’s anonymous sponsor······.

“If not seen at the Hyunmu Hotel drinking place couldn’t even guess. Taeseong’s brain was such a young friend.”

······Didn’t know.

“Will move so no matter of holding you as hostage so if conveying no need to worry will understand.”

“······.”

“Consider the debt from the bribe ledger matter last time repaid with this.”

The central intelligence director straightened his waist and stroked my head.

“Then see later.”

With those words the central intelligence director turned his back without lingering and left the shaman house.

Eyes went back and forth among politicians.

All went out in a group following the central intelligence director.

For me a quite fortunate matter.

Grandmother muttered as if absurd.

“No, what is all this matter? Why is Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva like this, why is the central intelligence director like that again?”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva raised the head and smiled brightly.

“Taeseong family chairman madam please wait in the separate building for a moment?”

“Yes?”

“Came to receive the wedding day of the son and daughter-in-law?”

Grandmother not even opened the mouth, began to recite line by line.

While continuously smiling brightly.

“First offer the ritual then receive the wedding day.”

“Ah, yes. But······.”

“Worried a lot because of the killing gate opened in the Taeseong family? Will look at the son and daughter-in-law’s four pillars again, consider exorcism.”

“Ah, yes. And······.”

“Will also take responsibility and look at the youngest grandson problem said no connection with the Taeseong family. A person who will become the Taeseong family’s main pillar.”

“Ah, yes. So······.”

“Just shut up and sit in the separate building a bit? I have a conversation to share with the grandson first.”

Grandmother had no choice but to give the same answer this time too.

“Ah, yes.”

No, our grandmother lost in the spirit fight?

* * *

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva said.

“Precious person please command anything. This humble one will honestly report all known, and act according to the command.”

I couldn’t hide the bewilderment.

In many ways.

“Seems the seat changed?”

“Because there is the upper seat.”

Even so.

Why sat me on the silk cushion the shaman sits.

The underworld messenger has been rolling around saying the silk cushion soft and likes since earlier though.

“No, then who sees the fortune?”

“Naturally I see.”

“From there?”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva was sitting on the bare floor at the end of the room over there opening as many as three sliding doors.

Of course the transparent white tiger with head bowed together beside.

Even by distance it was 30 meters.

“Hard to handle even at this level of distance. Because the halo too dazzling.”

Halo?

“How much merit accumulated in the previous life.”

“······.”

“Surely saved the country in the previous life? Now almost saint no, living Buddha level. Seems enough to go to heaven right away if die.”

“······.”

“This level of halo I also first time seeing in life. Moreover attaching a messenger as guardian deity also an unheard matter so bewildered.”

“······.”

The answer the underworld messenger did instead indifferently.

[King Yama’s meaning.]

“Aigoooooo! No wonder the halo not ordinary! This humble one living and living a precious person who received King Yama’s blessing first time in life!”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva wiped the continuously flowing sweat with a cotton cloth handkerchief.

“But this really strange. A shaman originally sees the past as if putting the palm in but the future hard to see clearly. But the precious person······.”

Glanced eyes then closed eyes tightly and said.

“The halo amazing to the extent I dare hard to gauge the future. With this level even if called the best lucky person since similar not know whether my fortune has meaning.”

“The meaning that my future not visible at all?”

“So too strange. The four pillars the precious person told earlier clearly visible.”

What words?

“Clearly not the past but the future yet can’t understand why so clearly visible.”

I couldn’t help but make a strange expression automatically.

‘Surely because that is the past I lived so clearly visible?’

[Would be.]

The underworld messenger nodded.

[Promised will honestly report all known, and act according to the command how long ago. Reporting as seen enough.]

“Thank you for permitting, messenger. Then I also close eyes tightly······.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva closed eyes tightly and held out a hand.

“Please give a bit of offering money.”

“······.”

“A shaman can’t see fortune without compensation. Then receive heavenly punishment for the crime of leaking heaven’s secret.”

“······.”

“First even 100 won good so······.”

I opened the coin wallet and took out a 100,000-won check.

“Sincerity has to go and come with sincerity. Thank you, thanks to that seems can say more······ heok.”

Tak.

I overturned the coin wallet and poured money with a clatter on the small table the shaman uses.

“If paying all this as offering money.”

An amount that would be at least a million won.

“Can look in detail even mine and our parents’?”

“Will report in detail as much as strength reaches.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva quietly looked down at the paper with our parents’ four pillars written.

“Really a strange matter. These people still alive?”

“Yes.”

“Mother last year, father this year’s first month, both a destiny of dying unnaturally by human disaster and short life.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva shook the shaman bell and closed eyes.

“Really strange. The child these two saw is an amazing child heaven gave but no connection reaches whether maternal or paternal family so lost parents and no relatives and wander the streets and short life child. How came holding the Taeseong family madam’s hand.”

Short life?

I died at 52 by accident.

With that level hard to say short life?

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva overlapped the paper with my four pillars written on top of the parents’.

“A destiny of dying at 22.”

“Not 52?”

“Of course death luck entered then too. In fact a destiny full of all kinds of accidents and misfortunes so passing several death crises a year so no strange whenever die.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva swallowed while speaking.

I tilted ears to hear the later words.

But Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva completely pushed the parents’ four pillars aside and stared only at my four pillars.

“Looking and looking again this really bizarre. The precious person’s four pillars too extreme. Opposite to the halo playing separately truly······ dirtily thin.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva made an aching sound.

“Even if selling the country in the previous life not selling largely hard for a four pillars that received heavenly punishment to this level to come out?”

I smiled bitterly.

Already known.

“Every connection met only bad connections, every work done receive heaven’s obstruction, a destiny of struggling alone lifelong in betrayal and sowing discord, fraud and knife fights and dying unnaturally.”

That also know.

“Life is darkness, a situation of standing barefoot on a blade. Since the four pillars plastered with gold lifelong living a war-like life with money and knife stabs······. How can pass the death luck of 22.”

Then the underworld messenger opened the mouth.

[There is. A method.]

“With an ordinary exorcism shaman no way. Unless the best exorcism shaman of the era bets life and offers ritual and devotes lifelong.”

Exorcism shaman?

I don’t know such a person.

[This guy’s destiny has to be seen as double destiny. Because received two destinies from the king in the underworld.]

“Double destiny! This a legendary matter only heard by word for generations!”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva trembled and held a brush.

“Then how is the second four pillars?”

Second four pillars?

[The day returned again.]

Suddenly a date floated up.

The day I returned from the underworld and woke up.

The very day that always pierced the chest because the day mother passed away in the past.

‘If four pillars have to know even the time?’

Ah, looking into confirmed father’s watch.

While picking up the jewelry box dropped at the public phone in our neighborhood alley.

Just then the underworld messenger personally did the countdown so the returned time can reverse calculate.

“Heeeok!”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva who received my second four pillars had a fit enough for breath to stop.