[The Three Kingdoms] Golden Sun Exhibition

77 – After the battle (4)

When I was a kid.

There was a day when my adoptive father, my second father, who took care of me, collapsed.

I went all over the place with my young body to get his medicine, and I stole from others to get the money for it.

‘Even if I got hit, I did something cheap.’

It was right.

At the time, my father was not seriously ill, just a minor illness, so he scolded me severely, asking me why I was trying to cure myself by stealing from others.

No matter how poor you are, you must not steal from others.

To teach me that, he only used violence against me once.

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It was a huge shock that my father, who had never hit me, hit me.

Now I understand why he said and acted like that, but at the time I truly didn’t understand.

Everyone in the world lives by stealing from others, so why do we have to live by being robbed?

What did you say at that time?

I think he said something while pounding his chest.

‘Live without being ashamed of your heart. Was it?’

I couldn’t remember it very well until now.

That may be because we are already living that way, but also because there is no need to recall the memories.

Since I have never stolen from others or done anything dishonorable, I have no need to look up to heaven and feel ashamed.

Although I sometimes worried about things beyond my ability, I have tried to protect what is mine, at least except when it is necessary to protect what is mine.

And now that I have the luxury of giving a little to others… .

“So you gave me food? The lunch box that you brought yourself?”

“Okay. You can just make the lunch box again. Don’t we still have enough to eat?”

In winter, food does not spoil easily.

Especially if you make it as a preserved food, you can eat as much as you want.

so… .

“Ui-ya. Will you please lighten the mood now?”

“Oh my, you’re making me feel better? Do you really think I’m angry at Master for giving me a packed lunch out of good intentions?”

Sima Yi’s grinning mouth was smiling, but his eyes were not smiling.

“I saw that even though his lunch box was stolen by a poor person, he kindly patted his head and handed over the food. He is such a compassionate person, so I’m sure your father will like it.”

“Master, don’t worry. I’m doing this because it’s the last homemade lunch box.”

“Seo, sister. I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about not punishing someone who stole someone else’s property and ran away.”

I’m angry.

“You should have cut off one of your fingers to prevent you from stealing again.”

“Did he do it because he wanted to steal? If he really did steal because he was hungry, he would have eaten and run away before he was caught.”

He stood and shrugged his shoulders slyly.

“Anyone who has ever been hungry will understand that feeling.”

“…….”

Sima Yi has lived a fairly prosperous life until now.

Even after coming to Sugyeong Academy, I fed her well from a young age, so I can confidently say that she grew up without knowing about hunger.

It must have been the same when he was in Xia, and even now when he was at Shujing School, Sima Yi was never poor and hungry.

“I am not acknowledging the theft. If it were a peaceful era, it would be right to rule according to the principles of the legal system, but could it be that they did it because they wanted to?”

“sure?”

“It’s because we’re in difficult times.”

I don’t really mean to blame you.

However, as someone who was once in the same situation as them, I hoped that Sima Yi would understand at least a little.

“If it had been a theft out of greed, I would have condemned it. But it was a theft for survival. You can tell by looking at her eyes. That woman… had the eyes of a woman who had been eating nothing but grass porridge for at least a week.”

“…Are you depressed for a week?”

“Yes. It was the kind of hand that used to dig up snow fields and tear off ferns and kudzu.”

“…….”

Sima Yi kept his mouth shut.

She seemed to have a lot to think about, and I didn’t want to disturb her thoughts.

What is an ‘inevitable choice’ may vary from person to person, but if you are in a situation where you can give recognition, isn’t it a good thing to do so?

“Let’s leave quickly. I can only hope that she eats quickly to get rid of the smell.”

We are the ones leaving.

If he wanted to take responsibility, he would have taken them, but he didn’t seem like the kind of person who would follow them if they were taken by force.

“If you think you can’t live, you will come to Hyeongju.”

Like the refugees in Xuzhou, if she leaves Luoyang, she will definitely come to Jingzhou.

‘There will be one more farmer.’

“Heh.”

I did one good thing.

* * *

Jerk, jerk.

The woman walked along the wide road holding a bamboo bucket.

She crawled into the crack of the collapsed castle wall, avoiding the eyes of others.

This is the imperial palace in Luoyang.

After Dong Zhuo burned everything down, everyone snooped around to see if there was anything to eat in the imperial palace at least once, but they left in disgust at the horrors, leaving it a veritable ruin.

Wow!

“…Ugh.”

The woman placed her hand on her forehead, looking at the white bones covered in snow.

The entire imperial palace burned down, and the number of dead reached thousands, and the bodies of those who could not even be properly buried were left abandoned.

There was no need to tell what was infesting the dead body.

Over the past few years, thieves and people were not the only people who came to the imperial palace in Luoyang to ask for food.

Squeak.

A rat was watching the woman closely from afar.

At first, the woman thought she was looking at the bamboo tube she was holding, but she was horrified to feel that the empty black eyes were looking at herself rather than the bamboo tube.

“Uh, uh…!”

The woman burst into tears.

He was overcome with paranoia that even a mere rat would jump in and bite him, making him cry again and again.

In the middle of winter, the woman was devastated by the arduous march.

Sigh.

The woman opened the gates of Daejeon, which was supposed to be the imperial palace.

The door, which had been burned to the ground by less than half, looked as if it would fall off at the slightest impact, and the remains of the collapsed ceiling were lying on the floor in the middle.

Where the ministers were supposed to be standing, there were tramps lying on several layers of wooden planks.

“…Look here.”

The woman brought a bamboo tube.

“Hurry up and eat. Gwa-in gets some food….”

The woman’s eyes became red even as she spoke.

“I…got some food.”

“Well, Your Highness….”

The man, who would not be surprised if he died soon, stretched out his hand with difficulty.

The woman approached with joy, thinking it was reaching for the bamboo tube, but the man only placed his hand on her shoulder.

“Be firm in your resolve… Your Majesty is yours.”

“Wake up. Come on…!”

“Your conviction has already lived a long time. Feed it to others, young people. Your conviction….”

The man lifted the corner of his mouth with difficulty.

The woman opened the bamboo container, and inside was cold rice pressed tightly to fit the size of the bamboo container.

“As I get older, all I need is a grain of rice….”

“How can you say that? Come on, eat it, come on.”

“Ha, hahahaha. But I guess heaven hasn’t abandoned this country yet.”

Unlike the man who looked like he was about to lose his breath, his voice gradually began to become clearer.

“Please live. By all means. And….”

“…….”

“A man’s life will not be easy, but if he wants to live….”

dump.

“As a man, you must continue to live as the Son of Heaven….”

The man’s hand fell to his side.

My eyes gradually lost focus, and the last thing I looked at was an ornament that had been burned and torn at the bottom.

“…….”

The woman held the man’s hand tightly and lowered her head.

I didn’t even have the energy to wail loudly, so I couldn’t even make a sound and wailed in silence.

Sigh.

“Um, Your Highness…?! Ah…!”

The man who had newly entered the palace came running with a rabbit’s ear in his hand.

“Whoosh, again…!”

“…….”

Who can say that these people in Daejeon are civil, military, and civil servants?

The only people who exist are those who are dying and those who will die.

“Look, even if it’s light, weep, have a funeral….”

“You must avoid it…!!”

“!!”

“It is said that Lee Gak and Master Kwak’s group have now appeared to the west of Luoyang Castle!!”

The woman dropped the bamboo tube.

* * *

That time.

There were three horses running east of Luoyang.

Except that they were dressed in civil servant uniform, their faces looked as if they were about to die.

However, there was hope in their eyes.

“Hey!”

The civil servants who paused for a moment each had silk wrapped in their arms.

They kept the silk in their arms and checked and checked it again and again.

“Whoa, whoa.”

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The civil servants stopped talking for a moment.

Now the three civil servants had to run separately in three directions.

One towards Yuan Shao.

One towards Jojo.

One towards Yupyo.

“Let’s meet again alive.”

“These three who can rush to Luoyang right now are the ones who can protect him.”

“…I don’t know if all three will come or if no one will come.”

The three hugged each other and shed tears.

“For Han.”

“For one country.”

“Hey!”

The three of them each rode their horses and headed north, east, and south.

among them.

“…….”

The civil servant, who was running south, stopped after the other two were far enough away that they could not be seen with the naked eye.

The horse stopped quietly in the snow and began to eat the weeds buried in the snow, and the civil servant took out the silk from his arms.

He spread the silk straight across the back of the horse’s neck.

“……hmm!”

Suddenly.

The man cut his own arm with a dagger.

The blood that splattered forward soaked the inside of the silk, and the contents began to become soaked and stained with blood.

-…Accordingly, an order was given to the head of the Jingju company…

“flaw.”

The man shook his head from side to side and threw the silk aside.

Then he took something out of the silk in his arms.

“…Han is ruined.”

The man took out the black pig decoration in his arms.

hahahaha.

As the man blew hot breath and wiped the pig’s back with his sleeve, the black color was wiped away and gold light began to sparkle inside.

“I can’t live like this. If I’m going to be a loyalist but live as a beggar, I’ll go down south and live as a rich man.”

The man turned his nose southwest.

“We’re going all the way to Yunnan.”