NOVEL NEXT chapter 40
40 – Second Disciple (2)
The Western Zhou massacre left a great shock to many people on the continent.
However, just like me in Jingzhou, I only had the feeling, ‘Ah, a massacre occurred in Xuzhou!’
The people of Xuzhou are different.
They saw and experienced what happened in Xuzhou firsthand and took refuge in Jingzhou.
People of all ages and genders are being murdered.
The land was devastated, houses were destroyed, and people died without distinction.
I think this is probably the situation where the largest number of people have died in a short period of time in the last ten years.
-Ryan, I have to say hello.
-…….
-I’m sorry. I think I got aphasia after seeing what Seo Joo did. He was a smart and bright kid… .
And because of that, the little child was deeply hurt.
Zhuge Liang, that child saw human death at a very young age.
A death called cruel murder.
Humans feel the greatest fear when faced with death.
Any human being is afraid of disappearing or dying.
No matter how much you are the best being in the world, you cannot easily be resolute in the face of death.
Whether it was your own death or someone else’s death.
‘They say you shouldn’t even show a young child the death of an animal.’
What is the death I saw?
The first ‘human death’ I saw was simply starvation.
The earth was full of people who died because they had nothing to eat.
Even before the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, there were already many people starving to death in the world, and I, along with my first teacher, collected their bodies and held funerals for them.
Attending their funerals gave me a chance to think about death, and now that I am an adult, I have become quite accustomed to the deaths of others.
Death is fear.
Because we do not know how death will approach, it is even more fearful and scary.
However, whether it was starvation, old age, or accidental death, it could not be said to be cruel or heinous.
Atrocious dance too.
What happened in Xuzhou was ‘evil’ itself.
The massacre itself was so cruel that I could not simply say that the price of my land had tripled.
You can tell without seeing it in person.
I could tell by looking at the faces of those who came here to avoid the tragic scene and who came here to see it.
Quantity.
Zhuge Liang.
The young child who lost his words seemed soulless.
A child much younger than Sima Yi, only less than 15 years old, seemed to have closed his mind after seeing the cruel death of a human being.
The child has already lost his childlikeness.
The child suffered mental shock due to the harsh and cold reality.
“Whoop, whoop…!”
Nausea suddenly rises.
The sour substance that came up from my stomach fell on the flower bed.
It was even more disgusting because what was still in my stomach came out.
While I was here oiling the ship, the people of Xuzhou died.
This is different from when people who were far away died simply due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
I was very happy inside, thinking that I could ‘profit’ through this.
“I-I’m the crazy one…!”
When it comes to Seo-joo and the suffering of others, he becomes disillusioned with himself for thinking simply, ‘Let’s not show joy.’
‘How can you be happy about someone’s death!’
I am angry at Sunwook and Sunyu for not being able to stop Jojo’s madness, and I am angry at myself for not even thinking that Jojo would do such a crazy thing.
I feel ashamed of myself for trying to live quietly by sitting on the ground in Hyeongju and living in inaction.
“Master….”
Sima Yi came up to me from behind and patted my back.
That made my stomach feel even more bitter.
I can’t believe I became an adult and received comfort from a child.
How weak and insignificant this being is.
“Uiya.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Your teacher was a monster. He was a monster of hypocrisy and material greed, eating rice and meat stained with human blood.”
“Not at all!”
Sima Yi shouted strongly and pulled my shoulder.
“Master, you are someone who cares about the people more than anyone else! Even before the refugees from Western Zhou came, you had already persuaded the Cai family to give them land for the landless people of Jingzhou! How can you disparage and mock yourself like that?”
“…Because my wealth is forged in blood.”
“Master, did you advise Cao Cao to push out Western Zhou? Did you contribute to the massacre that occurred in Western Zhou? No, it is true that Master benefited from the massacre of Western Zhou. “It’s not a reason to be embarrassed.”
Sima Yi handed me the water he had drawn.
I took the bowl, rinsed my mouth, and sat down next to the flower bed.
My legs were already too weak to just sit down.
“If I had worked under Cao Cao. If I had advised her like Zhang Liang next to her, would Zhou Zhou have been at peace?”
“She is a woman who does not listen to the staff right next to her. But did she understand what Master said? No, Jo Jo is just such a crazy b*tch. A crazy b*tch did something crazy, and there is no reason for Master to suffer over it!”
“is it.”
I looked up at the sky.
The sky was still clear and blue.
The people of Xuzhou will also be looking at this clear sky without a single cloud.
However, while grain oil flows in the land of Jingzhou, blood flows everywhere in the land of Xuzhou.
“…decided.”
I barely managed to get up with Sima Yi’s help.
“Up until now, I had tried to live comfortably and inactively. I tried to live day by day, drinking honey. But… I realized through this incident that that was wrong.”
‘Seoju’ changed my perspective at once.
It was like volunteer work, but it made me open my eyes and look at reality.
“We must make the world a place free from war.”
We must not sit still and wait for the Peaceful World to come.
If you truly want a peaceful era, you must use your body and your head to bring about that era.
however.
“……I?”
Not me.
I am not talented enough to do that.
At best, he is a person who thinks about how humans can live in the world with ease, not a person who stands above others and guides them.
“…….”
There are few heroes in the world.
If I were to leave this place called Sugyeong Academy and be assigned somewhere else.
If you don’t directly move for the people and the people in public office, not in politics.
In the end, no matter how much I talk about here, it is nothing more than fiction.
If you know something is wrong but don’t put it into practice, what’s the use?
however.
Let me make a little excuse.
Even if people criticize me for being trashy, I have to make an excuse.
“Your teacher is a coward. Even though he knows it’s wrong, he can’t go to public office because he’s afraid of losing his head. Above all, he’s a petty man who values his own life and tells others to fight to the death, but he himself runs away. .”
If I were a yellow bird.
I would have surrendered to Sun Jian right away.
If I were Dokyeom.
He would have fled to the south right away.
I am a man who does not possess the basic qualities of a military leader, general, or strategist.
“Your teacher is not a righteous person worth throwing away his life like stubble for something.”
“What you said is correct, Master.”
Sima Yi came up behind me and hugged me.
“Master, you are an ordinary person. However, you are different from any other ordinary person in the world. You may think of yourself as an ordinary person or a petty person, but it is different for me, your student.”
“Uiya.”
“Who was Jiang Zia’s teacher? What about Zhang Liang and Han Xin? What about Sun Bin’s teacher, who wrote Sun Tzu’s Art of War? Were they heroes? If they had responded to the call of the times and wanted to quell the turbulence, they themselves, not their students, would have taken action. I will.”
“that….”
know.
That Sima Yi was saying these words to comfort me.
That voice is so sweet, it gives me such sweet comfort.
But that doesn’t mean I-
“Master, please stay where you are. The disciple will step forward and calm the chaos.”
“…what?”
“Master, you are not a petty person. You call yourself an ordinary person. That’s right. No matter how objectively you try to look at yourself, the way others see you and the way you see yourself are different.”
Sima Yi raised my head to the sky from behind.
We held the underside of our chins with both hands, lifted our heads onto our shoulders, and looked up at the sky together.
“That is Master.”
“…The sun?”
“To me, Master, you are the sun floating in the sky. The sun floats still in the sky, but it is the being that grows the crops that are rooted in the ground. Where would the sun come down directly from the sky and exert influence? The work of the earth is done by the people of the earth. “I have to do this.”
“That is sophistry.”
I know what Sima Yi wants to say.
I understand your desire to comfort me.
“Master, you once said something like that. If I become a greater person than Hanshin, I hope you will take good care of me then. That’s right, Master, you are already doing your job well enough.”
Sima Yi buried his head on my shoulder and whispered lowly.
“…Because you are the teacher of the one who will rule the world.”
The trembling was the nervousness of revealing my true feelings that I had not told anyone.
It was a feeling that could not be easily revealed, no matter how much you trusted someone or even if you were family.
pride. Or reverse mind.
And since I am such a treacherous person, I had no choice but to rely on what Sima Yi said.
“Uiya.”
“Yes, Master.”
“…Can I consider you my pride?”
“of course.”
“Can I console myself that I am not just being idle, but that I am raising a hero who will conquer the world in the future?”
“Of course. Master just lives in heaven. Didn’t they say that men are heaven and women are earth? So, the work on earth is….”
Sigh.
Sima Yi’s hand came down and hugged my waist.
“Please leave it to me, Master.”
I am.
He is a coward.
* * *
“Thank you Teacher Su-kyung and Teacher Taeyang for their consideration.”
Zhuge Hyeon is about to leave.
“Yes, Master Zhuge.”
“What’s going on?”
“Are you going further down from Jingju?”
“…No. We are planning to find a new location in Hyeongju and Yangyang.”
thank god.
I bowed to Zhuge Hyeon.
“If it’s okay with you, how about having the children learn at Sugyeong Academy?”
“yes?”
At my words, the white-haired girl behind Zhuge Xuan was startled and took a step back.
I approached the girl, squatted down, and stretched out my hand.
“If you want to learn, come anytime. You…”
I reached out my hand to the girl, Liang.
“I’ll tell you the whole world.”