Wei Jeong-han's face contracted sharply when he heard the voice coming from somewhere. In contrast, Wei Yan-ho's face lit up with joy instantly.
"Mom!"
Han Sang-ah.
Wei Jeong-han's wife and Wei Yan-ho's mother approached them.
Wei Yan-ho looked at Wei Jeong-han's expression.
However, although at first glance it seemed that he was reading Wei Jeong-han's mood, he was not actually reading Wei Jeong-han's mood at all, but was explaining the situation to Han Sang-ah.
Nodding.
Han Sang-ah captured Wei Yan-ho's intention and nodded.
She snapped her tongue as she looked at Wei Jeong-han.
"What a good thing you're doing!"
"Khrm."
Wei Jeong-han coughed loudly with an expression of disgust.
"Get out of daylight and make noise in the neighborhood at this time… what kind of behavior is this?"
"How can there be day and night when it comes to educating a child?"
"There is day and night when it comes to causing riots."
Wei Jeong-han remained like a mute who had eaten honey.
"Yeon-ho."
"Yes!"
"It's too late today, so come in now."
"Yes!"
When Wei Yan-ho was about to head to his room with joy, Wei Jeong-han looked at him with murderous eyes.
Wei Yan-ho shook, shrunk his neck and stopped at the place.
"Now Sang-ah!"
When Wei Jeong-han's voice rose, Han Sang-ah's eyes narrowed.
If you scold a child who is already lazy until so late, what will happen tomorrow? If you really want to discipline him, you should discipline him early tomorrow.
"But…"
"Am I wrong?"
"No."
'I absolutely had to fix that brat's insolence today!'
Wei Jeong-han stared at Wei Yan-ho and shouted.
But don't think it's the end! Tomorrow! If you're not training when I get back from my tour tomorrow, I'll fix your insolence!
"When will you be back?"
Why do you need to know that?
"So I can make a plan and…"
When Wei Jeong-han picked up the switch that had fallen to the ground, Wei Yan-ho cut his words and said clumsily.
I guess there's no need to be so curious, I'll do what you say.
"Kkeung."
Wei Jeong-han grabbed his forehead.
The next day.
Wei Jeong-han headed for the front door with quick steps.
The sun was already setting behind the western mountains.
I was back from attending the 60th birthday celebration of someone I was usually close to.
But Wei Jeong-han's head was filled only with thoughts about Wei Yan-ho.
He'll train today, as lazy as that brat is!
Wei Jeong-han thought this way, but on the other hand, he also recognized the reality that this was a foolish expectation.
He was his son.
The son he knew was the best under the sky to crush people's expectations and the greatest of all times to be lazy.
But I'm sure he'll at least pretend he's doing something, or at least he'll be at the training camp.
After getting so angry, if he hadn't even done that, where would his humanity be? If he were a human being with human skin, he couldn't ignore it and just lie down.
"Have you returned?"
The Wi-sa guard guard guarding the front door bowed his waist.
"Open the door quickly!"
"Yes!"
Kiiiiik!
The door opened and the training camp appeared in sight. Wei Jeong-han's gaze quickly moved from one side to the other.
'It's not there!'
The veins swelled on Wei Jeong-han's forehead.
"Where's that brat?"
"What do you mean?"
Yeon-ho, that brat didn't come to the training camp!
Wi-sa smiled clumsily.
"I haven't seen him today…"
"*Kkeueung*."
Wei Jeong-han tightened his fist and headed for Wei Yan-ho's quarters.
– That can't be.
Probably not.
Still, I was human, and after seeing such an angry appearance yesterday, I couldn't sleep peacefully.
I'm sure you don't!
Hit!
Wei Jeong-han opened the door abruptly and entered Wei Yan-ho's room.
And Wei Jeong-han could see that his thoughts were wrong.
Since Wei Yan-ho was also human, it seemed that he could not sleep calmly after seeing Wei Jeong-han so furious.
But the problem was that even when he was awake, he was lying in his bed.
"Are you early?"
"…"
Seeing Wei Yan-ho half incorporated and grasping his blanket, Wei Jeong-han's energy was completely exhausted.
Wei Yan-ho also let out an uncomfortable laugh, as if the current situation were very embarrassing. That's when his plan to go out and pretend to train was revealed just as Wei Jeong-han returned.
Wei Jeong-han closed her eyes as she looked at Wei Yan-ho's uncomfortable smile.
If I couldn't find peace of mind, I could end up having a funeral here.
Didn't you hear what I said yesterday?
– Of course I heard it. I have ears too.
"Then?"
"I was going to train…"
"Was you going to?"
Wei Yan-ho smiled clumsily.
Well… I was gonna get some rest before I started, but before I knew it, time had…
"Kraaaak!"
Wei Jeong-han fell over Wei Yan-ho.
"Aaaak!"
Wei Jeong-han grabbed Wei Yan-ho's neck and lifted him up in the air, screaming.
You have no choice! Today I will tear away the laziness that you have embedded in your bones!
"Shut up!"
Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.
"Yes, Father! I think you should calm down! You're getting older, you should also worry about your health.
Without saying another word, Wei Jeong-han threw Wei Yan-ho on the bed.
Deaf noise!
"Aak!"
Wei Jeong-han raised his hand.
"We're going to kick your ass today!"
"Calm down, I said!"
That day, the sound of a pig being sacrificed resonated in Guangdong's Wei family.
* * *
"Let me see."
"It hurts!"
"Relax!"
Han Sang-ah rubbed the basin from his son's eye, which was bruised and blue.
"Oh!"
Han Sang-ah hit Wei Yan-ho's back.
Hit!
Why are you hitting me again?
That's why I keep telling you to moderate your laziness!
"I was really going to get up before Dad came back."
Looking at Wei Yan-ho complaining, Han Sang-ah let a deep sigh escape.
"It's all my fault."
Han Sang-ah looked at Wei Yan-ho, who was pouting his lips out.
It wasn't like he liked seeing his son so lazy.
However, the reason Han Sang-ah protected him so much was because she was partly responsible for Wei Yan-ho becoming so lazy.
Wei Jeong-han had departed on his martial journey when Wei Yan-ho was young.
At that time, Han Sang-ah had just given birth to Wei Su-ryeon, the younger sister of Wei Yan-ho. Therefore, Han Sang-ah had to take care of the newborn while she was dealing with all important and small family matters.
Filling the void left by her husband, who had suddenly left, was already a heavy task. Moreover, raising a newborn was even more difficult.
Not even ten hands would have been enough and, exhausted by working and caring for children throughout the day, she often fell asleep exhausted.
Still, she paid attention to the eldest son Wei San-ho and the newborn Wei Su-ryeon, but she was also human, so there were limits to what she could do, and she couldn't help but neglect Wei Yan-ho, who was clumsily trapped in the middle.
Only after Wei San-ho went to the academy to train and Wei Jeong-han returned to assume the role of head of the family, Han Sang-ah realized that his second son had become the most incomparable lazy boy in the world.
And she could see that the reason was because she had not received proper attention at an age when she should have been growing up and receiving the love of her parents.
"It's all my fault."
When she realized that the cause of all this was in herself, that she had not been able to pay attention to her while the child was growing up, and in her father who had abandoned him, it could not be hard only with Wei Yan-ho.
Thanks to this, Han Sang-ah had become an infinitely weak mother to Wei Yan-ho, unlike Wei San-ho or Wei Su-ryeon.
"Smashing a child like that"
Han Sang-ah's eyes narrowed coldly.
Although she hurried to be late to take Wei Yan-ho, by then Wei Yan-ho was already blue and black.
"My God, this man."
Han Sang-ah squeezed his teeth, grr grr.
It's okay to hit the kid!
When it comes to disciplining, you may detect a switch!
But how could you make such beautiful eyes on such a child!
How long are you gonna stay so lazy?
Wei Yan-ho shivered and shrugged.
Han Sang-ah let a deep sigh escape.
From tomorrow, you should also stop being lazy so your father doesn't get mad anymore. Do you understand what I'm saying?
"Yes!"
Han Sang-ah let another deep sigh escape as he watched Wei Yan-ho, who smiled brilliantly.
"Kkeueung!"
Wei Jeong-han held his head and let a groan escape.
"Are you worried about the second young teacher?"
Cho Bang, the main steward of Guangdong's Wei family, comforted Wei Jeong-han.
"If it's not that brat, what else could I worry about?"
Cho Bang smiled.
"The young master will soon come to his senses as well."
"Has he come to himself?"
Wei Jeong-han shook his head vigorously.
"No, no! Look what that brat does! He's not one of those who comes to his senses so easily!"
But the young master is also the son of a martial artist. Even if he is a little lazy now, he will soon walk the path of a martial artist.
"Kkeung."
Wei Jeong-han held his head.
Walk a martial artist's way?
Easy to say!
What kind of martial artist is a brat who locks himself in his room for four days sleeping when you tell him to train!
"Why did you let the child come like this?"
Cho Bang spoke with a face that clearly showed that he felt wronged.
"How could I touch the young master who receives the lady's protection?"
"Kkeung."
Wei Jeong-han let a deep sigh escape.
"It's all my fault."
Wei Jeong-han had left on his martial journey when Wei Yan-ho was two years old.
He thought it would be a martial journey that would end in about two years at most, but as he became involved in several incidents, he could only return home after eight full years passed.
Thanks to this, he was able to win the excessive nickname of Sword of the Righteous Hero, but what he lost was too big.
When he returned home, he discovered that his wife, who was once modest, had become more frightening than a tiger, and the boy who once loved as the girl in his eyes had transformed into a lazy one who was afraid only to look at him.
Did they not say: "Cultivate your being, regulate the family, order the state and bring peace to the world"? It is not wrong for a martial artist to take a martial journey to temper himself.
Chief butler Cho comforted him.
But Wei Jeong-han did not find it pleasant to hear those words.
"Are you saying I was too obsessed with self-cultivation and couldn't control my family?"
"That's not what I meant."
– Well, so what? It's the truth.
Wei Jeong-han's sigh became deeper.
First of all, I wasn't supposed to leave the house.
He thought it was the style of a martial artist. He thought that if he grew old, he could not leave. He wanted to be a respectable martial artist before protecting his family.
No, maybe the weight of having to carry the family and get out was too heavy.
But that martial journey had ruined his son.
"Uf"
"…"
Chief butler Cho smiled.
"Don't worry too much."
"Doesn't it look like I'm gonna worry?"
"Head of the family, the second young teacher is smarter than he thinks."
"Hmm?"
As a young man, he was certainly much smarter than the first young master. I even thought that the family hierarchy could stagger if things went on like this.
"Is that so?"
Chief butler Cho smiled.
It has excellent foundations.
"Only the fundamentals will be excellent."
Wei Jeong-han outlined a bitter smile.
What good are the excellent foundations? Your mental state is terrible from the beginning!
"I wouldn't say rotten…"
"Do you know what other people call our son?"
"…"
They call it lazy turtle, they treat the second son of Guangdong's Great Wei Family like a turtle!
"Lazy turtle…"
Wei Jeong-han's eyebrows rose slightly.
"You think it suits you right now, don't you?"
Chief butler Cho shook his hands.
"How can that be!"
"Kkeung."
Wei Jeong-han jumped out of his seat.
This can't be! I can't face my father even dead! I have to fix that brat's mind somehow!
"But would it be easy?"
"If Sang-ah didn't interfere, he could fix it even by hitting it!"
Wei Jeong-han's voice was tempered by repentance.
But after leaving his home for eight years, he became a man who became infinitely small every time he stood in front of Han Sang-ah.
"I sigh, it's all my karma."
Wei Jeong-han's sigh became deeper.
Cho Bang smiled itchyly.
"Even so, there must be a way."
"Away?"
"Yes. Have you forgotten? That person will be back soon.
Wei Jeong-han's face lit up.
"That's right, that's right. Yeon-ho, that brat is going to meet the parca.
Wei Jeong-han smiled with pleasure.
The person Wei Yan-ho most feared in the world was approaching the house.