Chapter 148

Chapter 148

Said Heaven’s Bond?

Sitting quietly kneeling, the little kid said like a sigh.

“There was a beauty here enough to shake this country. Eight directions beauty, national beauty.”

The little kid’s eyes began to close gradually.

Conversely the vermilion bird sitting on the shoulder began to enlarge the body gradually.

When the vermilion bird that was chick size grew enough to touch the room ceiling.

As the vermilion bird opened the beak, simultaneously the little kid began to recite line by line with a voice drowsiness caught.

“No day wind will calm in the place this woman stays. In various meanings plain wind waves, ups and downs so life quite arduous.”

Of course back alley thugs even national gangster bosses and prostitution kings.

All a woman who eyes reddened and anxiously tried to snatch.

“This side also heavenly punishment, that side also heavenly punishment. This also husband sings wife follows so in some meaning a match made in heaven.”

Flinched at the part of match made in heaven.

“A tilting scale. The woman too excessive for the man to embrace.”

Words heard sickeningly repeatedly.

“Water more than the vessel naturally overflows, treasure fallen in the hands of a powerless person like a disaster.

I had nothing but youth.

Also became the successor of Myeongdong Falcon for a moment, because when branded as a traitor overnight and beaten with clubs and chased empty-handed.

Three people make a tiger.

Because the brothers put mouths together and put a false accusation.

“The man will also suffer a lot because of the woman.”

Well. I never thought of that as suffering even once.

Not even taking out of the mouth, the little kid snorted as if to show.

“Body suffering wandering aimlessly for 12 years, heart suffering unable to resolve the boiling longing and resentment inside.”

“Ha······!”

“Put the self-chosen heaven’s bond far and spent youth on the streets, if that not suffering what is suffering.”

“······Heaven’s bond? Not bad connection?”

“Said the connection with spouse the only heaven’s bond that can choose.”

Heaven’s bond the connection heaven tied speaks of three.

Connection with parents, connection with spouse, connection with children.

Parents and children can’t choose directly, but spouse can choose.

So parents and children 1 chon, spouse 0 chon.

“Hit by knife trying to protect own woman.”

The little kid with eyes closed raised a finger and pointed.

“Cut own finger trying to find own woman.”

Threw to the Namsan Leech as information fee.

“Even removed kidney and sold to make travel money.”

Poor love became a sin in itself.

To find the woman who evaporated without even a trace needed money. Needed power. Needed people.

Had nothing but the body so had to sell even one of the two attached kidneys.

Made that seed money and jumped into the private loan market.

“Unavoidable death luck overlapping consecutively, crossing the river that can’t return repeatedly, a thin connection that can’t be tied while living until the end.”

“Haa······.”

“So heavenly punishment.”

Each word stabbed the chest like a needle.

Even though all known facts.

A bitter smile flowed automatically.

“How did a woman who has to straighten body posture, mind posture and accumulate merit lifelong form a connection meeting such a thin man no matter how meeting.”

The little kid tilted the head even while dozing.

‘So. How did you end up falling into my arms.’

In the deep night of Cheonggye Mountain past midnight on a secluded mountain slope.

The woman appeared in front of the eyes like a ghost with hair loosened and white mourning clothes.

Even I who was interrogating threatening the traitors with live burial, the woman who suddenly rolled and fell, even the traitors buried in the pit all surprised and screamed simultaneously.

That was our first meeting.

“Seems this side also committed a large sin in the previous life. Looking even well a destiny of falling to the entertainment world, if worse than that shaman or nun.”

Wait.

“Not opposite?”

Not that I don’t know how entertainment world women live.

“What sound! This face, this body, this atmosphere if fell to the entertainment world would have secured even the chaebol house concubine seat long ago and more.”

“Ah······.”

“So have to see the side that fell to the entertainment world rather luckily destiny unraveled well.”

“······So.”

“How much even the god coveted and tried to bind in the shrine. Because that level the sound of a destiny that received heavenly punishment can’t help but come out.”

“······.”

I naturally turned eyes toward the vermilion bird.

“Even the god coveted and tried to bind in the shrine······.”

The vermilion bird spread wings wide and cried threateningly [Kieeek!]

Flames whooshed up from the whole body.

Thud.

The little kid collapsed sideways like a kite with string cut and began to snore.

I crossed arms.

“This kid when normal pretends cute and cheeps, as soon as losing the mind reveals the true color?”

[Hmph, didn’t you also covet this child the same? I saw all!]

“Then since saw will know.”

I covered the blanket on the little kid who rounded the body and slept.

“What I asked this kid earlier was the connection with the woman woven with me.”

[So?]

“Not that there were many women in my life, only this one woman, that said heaven’s bond that is a match made in heaven.”

[But?]

With this much should understand.

I swept the hair.

“While organizing the information I heard yesterday and today there was something that caught in the heart even so?”

[Hmph, if have something called conscience naturally have to have something that catches in the heart!]

“The calculation a bit not matching.”

[Calculation?]

“Before I firmly believed this woman the same age as me. But not? Two years younger than me.”

[What’s the problem with that?]

Bird head?

“Said married that husband guy at twenty.”

[······.]

The beak that was well vomiting flames whoosh whoosh and talking back until earlier closed tightly.

“Said saw the daughter obtained between that husband guy at twenty-one.”

[······.]

“Knew met with me at twenty-two. So firmly believed I a foreign substance mixed in this woman’s life. But looking into our age difference exactly two years?”

[······.]

So conclusion.

“That guy said husband was me?”

[······.]

“Was I the cuckoo who raised others’ child not even knowing I have a daughter?”

[······Because that is heavenly punishment.]

The vermilion bird turned eyes pretending not to know.

So even more flabbergasted.

“Haa······. Going crazy.”

I did dry face wash.

Couldn’t believe.

Not believed.

“I had a daughter?”

Saw.

The time coming and going until the threshold wore out for three months at the Samcheong-dong shaman house.

The baby shaman who sat side by side on the veranda and kept me company.

At her funeral held my hand and cried endlessly, an amazing beauty who resembled her mother exactly······ damn!

“Why not answering? Said the baby shaman’s first fortune. Going to do the first customer so roughly?”

[This impudent guy!]

“Said scanned all? Correct that this woman met misfortune because of me and hair turned white?”

[Dare raising the neck in front of whom!]

The vermilion bird that enlarged the body full in the room looked down at me with blazing eyes.

[Yes, because of you our child climbed Inwangsan every winter and suffered that! For as much as thirty years detached own lifespan······ keeeeek!]

Smack!

The vermilion bird held the back of the head with the wing and groaned.

The underworld messenger who revealed appearance like smoke from behind the wall with hands behind the back made a dissatisfied sound.

[Impudent guy dare raising the neck in front of whom?]

[Me, messenger! Sorry······ keek!]

Smack!

[Who dare carelessly leaked heaven’s secret in front of this messenger?]

[Aigo, messenger. I momentarily excited······.]

[Shut up.]

Smack!

The vermilion bird shed tears a bit, but couldn’t make a sound.

[If four directional deity all? Forgot whose area here?]

[Si, sorry!]

[Who already dementia because not bird head? Sold the possession regulations?]

[Will correct!]

[Bird head, bury the head. Implement.]

[Implement!]

The vermilion bird immediately buried the head.

Certainly put hands behind the back with the wing.

[Left the shaman mouth to use when? Who keeps chattering the beak because not magpie cousin?]

[Did wrong!]

[Will receive heaven’s secret leak misfortune and after underworld emergency audit ‘damn, X became!’?]

[Sorry!]

[This side a precious person this messenger protects. Carve correctly in the head.]

[Heok! Didn’t recognize! Committed a crime worthy of death!]

[Will watch.]

The underworld messenger made a motion of alternately poking own eyes and the vermilion bird’s eyes with two fingers.

[Do according to eyes.]

[Yes, understood!]

[Original position.]

[Original position!]

The vermilion bird immediately returned to attention posture and stood behind the little kid.

Then smiled servilely and began to rub the trembling flame wings sha sha shak.

[Precious person, what curious? Will answer sincerely. Cheep cheep cheep!]

I silently pushed my second four pillars.

* * *

Unsettled.

Even though the evening table the whole family sits around and eats after a long time the rice not going down.

“Precious person older brother, no appetite? This delicious.”

The little kid picks galbi jjim with a children’s fork and puts in my rice bowl.

Still can’t even use chopsticks so with fork······.

When to raise all this······.

“Haaaa······.”

“If keep sighing in front of the meal table the eating luck falls.”

“That superstition, idiom?”

“Idiom? What god is that? I know a bit about superstition!”

“······.”

Don’t speak.

I blankly looked at the kid eating rice sturdily holding the children’s fork.

While munching and smiling brightly well every time meeting eyes with me.

“If returning late grandmother not scold?”

“Why scolded while doing exorcism? I will keep being here?”

“Keep? How much?”

“So one night, two nights, seven nights, nine nights, five nights, four nights······.”

“You finger counting ban.”

“Too much!”

Mother smiled looking at us.

“The two already became quite close. Good to see.”

Father also smiled gently.

“Jeong-hyeok can’t take eyes off Yerin. Good to see.”

“Yerin?”

The little kid smiled brightly.

“Me. Baek Yerin.”

Her age properly known after thirty years.

Her name properly known after thirty years.

“I Cha Jeong-hyeok.”

“Precious person older brother’s name is Cha Jeong-hyeok. Cha Jeong-hyeok. Jeong-hyeok older brother.”

The name she called for the first time after thirty years who lost words.

We turned and turned a far path and exchanged names for the first time like that.

“Haaaa······.”

Because of the words the vermilion bird chattered through Yerin’s mouth earlier.

“Older brother sigh ban.”

“Haaaa······.”

You can’t remember the words done with your mouth so.

If you also remembered that would have only sighed deeply like me?

“Kids don’t need to know.”

“Older brother also a kid.”

“Different from a child who can’t even use chopsticks.”

“Too much!”

Yerin puffed the cheeks.

Earlier when possessed even difficult words did skillfully well.

Looking like this unmistakably a six-year-old kid.

“Haaaa······.”

I eventually put down the spoon held.

“Why? Somewhere hurt?”

“Not such.”

“Then why not eating? Heard from Madam Ok-bun skipped breakfast and lunch too.”

At the words I starved all day father also put down the spoon and looked worriedly.

I waved a hand.

“No particular matter occurring starving about a day.”

“A child starving three meals a day a big matter. No. Let’s go to the hospital.”

“Enough. Nowhere hurts. Just the inside a bit stuffy so.”

“The inside stuffy? Then let’s eat medicine. Where is the children’s digestive?”

“Enough. Nothing eaten what eating digestive.”

“Won’t go to the hospital either, won’t eat medicine either, won’t eat rice either. What to do on earth?”

Realized the words I often did to her when hurt.

So was it.

Unconsciously looked back at Yerin.

Yerin quietly put down the children’s fork and children’s spoon held.

“Older brother doing so probably because of the words I said earlier.”

“Yerin? What said?”

“That, I, saw fortune, so saw the first fortune after receiving divine descent.”

While won’t remember.

Said completely loses soul when looking ahead to an area can’t handle.

Said divine fortune not words spit with normal mind so if the normal mind returns won’t remember the words oneself said.

I know all that dozed right away as soon as seeing my four pillars.

“I later growing······.”

Yerin lowered the head deeply and fiddled fingers.

Yerin’s face reddened like a well-ripened apple long ago.

“So I older brother’s······ eum······.”

A six-year-old child doing this in front of the meal table so mother and father quietly tilted ears.

Even grandmother Ok-bun and helper aunts who were making food all stopped the work doing and gathered gazes.

Mother couldn’t endure and asked playfully.

“Why? Later growing will marry our Jeong-hyeok? Become Jeong-hyeok’s wife?”

“No! That absolutely no!”

Yerin shook the head fiercely and waved hands.

“How dare I marry older brother and become the wife?”

“Then?”

“I older brother’s lo···, lo······, so lo······.”

“Lover?”

Yerin tightly gripped both fists and shouted resolutely.

“Will become the concubine!”