CLS-Chapter 189

Chapter 189

In various ways, the family members looking at Wei Yan-ho were feeling very restless.

How joyful must their hearts be, seeing their son and younger brother who had returned after five years?

But that family member—that fellow who had been so lazy that he seemed useless even as fertilizer for the vegetable garden—had actually not wasted those five years and had returned as a master. Their pride and satisfaction were truly beyond words.

Especially the pride that Wei Jeong-han felt was beyond the emotions of others.

Slam!

Wei Jeong-han opened the door to the room where Wei Yan-ho was lying and entered, glaring at Wei Yan-ho with bulging eyes.

“Are you sleeping?”

“……”

“Are you sleeping?!”

“Ah, I’m not sleeping.”

Wei Yan-ho stirred and sat up.

In the past, he would always dawdle like this until Wei Jeong-han flipped over his bed, only then waking up. Thinking about such things, Wei Yan-ho had indeed developed a lot.

“Sleeping is fine, but a person needs to eat to have strength. I bought some sweets on my way back. Eat some of this.”

“Huh……”

Wei Yan-ho trembled as he looked at the sweets Wei Jeong-han offered.

“What’s wrong?”

“I’m wondering if you’re really my father.”

In his memory, Wei Jeong-han was always like a goblin who was frustrated that he couldn’t devour him. But now that Wei Jeong-han was buying sweets? This is why people say you need to succeed and then see.

“Ahem.”

Wei Jeong-han cleared his throat and placed the sweets on the table before turning around.

“You haven’t been eating properly all this time, so you need to take good care of your meals. A warrior’s body is his wealth.”

“Yes.”

However, Wei Jeong-han’s worries were essentially meaningless.

Because there was someone who expressed affection for the son she met after five years in a completely different way from Wei Jeong-han.

“……Mom, this doesn’t seem right.”

Wei Yan-ho trembled as he looked at the table filled with delicacies from land and sea.

“You have to eat. Your current state is terrible. Before you left home, you were plump and manly, but now you’re so skinny and unsightly.”

“Really?”

While being plump being manly was debatable and could be considered a matter of personal taste,

What Wei Yan-ho really couldn’t understand wasn’t that, but these mysterious foods placed on the table.

“What’s this?”

“Ginseng stir-fried soup.”

“And this?”

“Eel sweet and sour.”

“Then what’s this?”

“That’s made with very precious ingredients. It’s famous as food that His Imperial Majesty enjoys.”

“Something about the long, elongated shape gives me an aversion, what are the ingredients?”

“Just eat it.”

“……Isn’t there anything normal?”

“You shouldn’t complain about side dishes.”

Wei Yan-ho could feel his mother’s determination to definitely see grandchildren in the foods that filled the table. What was the intention of feeding such foods to a son who wasn’t even married?

For Han Sang-ah, she had come across such foods while looking for good food, but for Wei Yan-ho who had to eat it, it couldn’t help but be quite an ordeal.

“Mom, eating stuff like this would be useless for me.”

“If you eat it, it will all help you later.”

“……I don’t think there will be any occasion where it would help.”

“Come on, eat quickly, quickly.”

“Mmm.”

Wei Yan-ho trembled as he looked at the foods with bizarre forms.

‘Is this some new form of harassment?’

Sometimes affection comes in misguided forms.

Though there were some problems, Wei Yan-ho was enjoying days that were like heaven anyway.

Except for going out to the training ground once a day to torment some spirited kids a little, there wasn’t really anything he had to do. Thanks to this, Wei Yan-ho was able to be lazy to his heart’s content with a comfortable mind for the first time in a really long while.

After seven weeks passed like this, changes began to come.

Bang!

“Hey, you rascal! The sun is high in the sky, high in the sky! How is it possible for a person like you to go into the bedroom saying you’re going to sleep before sunset, then not come out even once and stay lying in bed until the sun is high in the sky! Don’t you even need to pee, you rascal!”

“……If I don’t drink water, it’s fine.”

“Graaaaaah!”

Wei Jeong-han rushed forward like lightning and grabbed the bed where Wei Yan-ho was lying.

“Huh, why are you doing this!”

“Damn it! What’s the use of becoming a master and returning! If you don’t even leave your room, what good is being a master!”

“……I was originally like this.”

“Right, you were.”

Wei Jeong-han ground his teeth.

In the joy of meeting his son after five years and the pride that his son had returned as a strong warrior who could compete equally with Four Heavenly Kings, he had temporarily forgotten.

His son was like a natural blood pressure raiser who could increase a person’s blood pressure just by watching him.

“If a man has such ability, he should have ambition or dreams! What exactly are you planning to do in the future!”

“……Father.”

Wei Yan-ho sat up from the bed he had been lying on. At his serious posture, Wei Jeong-han also relaxed the strength in his hands that had been gripping the bed.

“Yes?”

“I’m not someone without dreams either. Who would be such a person?”

“Ho?”

Wei Jeong-han looked at Wei Yan-ho with a somewhat expectant expression.

“Then what are you thinking of doing now?”

“Actually, I earned quite a bit of money, didn’t I?”

“That’s right.”

According to what he had heard from Wei Yan-ho and Cho Hyeon, Wei Yan-ho was currently accumulating tremendous wealth. Even if the entire fortune of the Guangdong Wei Family were gathered, it wouldn’t match the money Wei Yan-ho earned in three days.

“Actually, people dream of various things, but among them, you can’t ignore earning money. You need money to eat and live.”

“That’s right.”

Wei Jeong-han, as someone leading a family, couldn’t ignore the power of wealth either.

“So I can be seen as having already almost achieved my dream. Since I’ve earned enough money to eat and live for a lifetime, now I’m just going to spend that money and live comfortably.”

“……”

Wei Jeong-han’s head began to tilt to one side.

“You said you had dreams?”

“Hey, that’s not it. To be precise…… I had dreams, but I’ve roughly achieved all of them.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled brightly.

“I achieved in my youth dreams that others couldn’t achieve in their entire lifetimes, so isn’t this already a successful life?”

Wei Jeong-han also smiled back at Wei Yan-ho.

Then he put strength in his hands and flipped over the bed just like that.

“You damn rascal!”

The desperate cries that had echoed through the Guangdong Wei Family were now being repeated at the Righteous Martial Alliance.

An emergency family meeting was convened.

Wei Jeong-han and Wei San-ho, along with Wei Su-ryeon and Han Sang-ah, sat facing each other at the table with stern faces.

‘Why am I……’

Gong Mu-jin, who had been semi-forcibly made to participate in another family’s family meeting, turned his head with a displeased expression.

‘And why are you here?’

While his participation was understandable, why was Lee Seol-hwa here at this gathering when no one had even called her?

‘And who is that woman?’

The woman sitting next to Han Sang-ah was beautiful enough to make even Gong Mu-jin’s eyes spin.

‘Was it Jin Ye-ran?’

At this point, it was questionable whether this was a family meeting or an emergency response meeting.

The first to speak was, as expected, Wei Jeong-han.

“Regrettably……”

Wei Jeong-han opened his mouth with a very bitter and sorrowful tone.

“Too regrettably, we have come to realize the reality that Yan-ho hasn’t changed even a little bit, not even an eyelash’s worth.”

All the family members nodded.

“How can a person be so consistent?”

“I understand what unwavering determination means now. If he had studied with that attitude, he would have easily passed the civil service examinations.”

Maintaining such laziness continuously wasn’t something an ordinary person could do either.

After all, if you asked a normal person to live just one day the way Wei Yan-ho lives, most people wouldn’t be able to endure the boredom.

“While it’s not particularly surprising that he’s the same lazy bum as before, the problem is that during the time that fellow was away from home, he achieved unbelievable accomplishments.”

Everyone agreed with Wei Jeong-han’s words.

“One!”

Thud!

Wei Jeong-han struck the table.

“No matter how sharp a famous sword is honed, if you don’t continuously maintain it, it will rust and become unusable. Even though Yan-ho has achieved unbelievable accomplishments compared to his peers, if we leave him like this, he will only regress before long.”

“Regression aside……”

Wei San-ho spoke up.

“Even if it’s a treasured sword, if you just keep it enshrined in a room, it has no meaning, doesn’t it?”

“That’s also significant.”

Wei Jeong-han sighed deeply.

“I was so excited because my son returned as a master, but if it was going to be like this, it would have been better if he had remained useless like before. At least then I wouldn’t have any expectations.”

As criticism toward Wei Yan-ho flowed, Han Sang-ah began to show signs of discomfort.

“But Yan-ho has suffered a lot during this time. It might be okay to let him rest a little……”

“He’ll end up resting forever.”

Han Sang-ah couldn’t particularly argue against those words either and kept her mouth tightly shut.

“Great Hero Gong.”

“Yes, Great Hero Wi.”

Wei Jeong-han sent an earnest gaze toward Gong Mu-jin.

“What do you think we should do about Yan-ho?”

“Why are you asking me that……”

“He’s my son, but I don’t know that fellow well. When he was very young, he was away from home, and when he got a little older, I only saw him being lazy. Then I didn’t see him for five years and now I’m seeing him again…… Embarrassingly, I can say I don’t really know what kind of fellow my son is. But Great Hero Gong spent quite a long time with that Yan-ho fellow, didn’t you?”

Gong Mu-jin laughed helplessly.

“……He’s exactly as you see him, what could I do?”

“Hmm.”

“And for something like that, wouldn’t it be better to ask Young Hero Su-ryeon, who is family, rather than me? She spent about as much time with him as I did.”

At Gong Mu-jin’s words, Wei Jeong-han’s head turned toward Wei Su-ryeon.

“Dad, well, there’s nothing to see or say…… He’s completely the same as before. He’s just big brother who got a little stronger.”

“Hmmmmmm.”

Wei Jeong-han made a groaning sound and slumped over the table.

“They say raising children is the hardest thing in the world.”

Others might say how nice it must be to have two sons famous throughout the realm, making comfortable remarks, but Wei Jeong-han felt his stomach twinge just thinking about Wei Yan-ho.

“No! I can’t leave it like this! If I die like this, Father will beat me like a dog in the afterlife! I can’t let the name of the Guangdong Wei Family fall like this!”

Wei Jeong-han jumped up from his seat and shouted.

“Find it! We must somehow find a way to cure Yan-ho’s laziness! Somehow!”

At Wei Jeong-han’s resolute cry, Wei San-ho, who had been quietly watching the situation, spoke up.

“Father.”

“Yes?”

“I think I might have a method.”

“Oh?”

Wei Jeong-han’s eyes widened.

Come to think of it, wasn’t Wei San-ho the one who handled Wei Yan-ho the best?

In the moment when everyone was paying attention, Wei San-ho slowly opened his mouth.