ROMHS Chap 151 - 350

CHAPTER 219:Did you just say Mount Hua? (4)

‘One, two, three, four… five.’

Baek Cheon looked around. The people of the Nanman Beast Palace were approaching them.

‘Can we handle this?’

Beak Cheon thought about it for a moment, and then he realized that such worries were meaningless. The important thing was to not let it escalate into a fight. They hadn’t come here to fight but to achieve their main objective.

“What are you doing?”

The man from the Nanman Beast Palace approached them and brushed past the children. After a while, he stood in front of the Mount Hua disciples. When he saw the sack of dumplings, he frowned.

“Who are you?”

“We are merchants from the Peace Merchant Group. We saw that the children were hungry so we were giving them some food.”

“You were handing out food?”

The man’s face was distorted. It was like he had heard some insult directed at him. Baek Cheon titled his head. He really thought that it was strange.

‘Why is he reacting like this?’

All they had done was to hand food to those who needed it. Shouldn’t they be thanked? Even if they were angry… even if they didn’t welcome outsiders, especially ones that did something like this, shouldn’t they have been glad someone was giving out food?

“Do the people from the Central Plains think that the people of Yunnan are beggars! How dare you do such things!”

The man’s face looked furious.

“This isn’t any sort of medicine. Yunnan is devastated because of what you people did! And now you make fun of us by handing out food!”

Baek Cheon didn’t even think of hiding his expression.

‘H-how did it get to this?’

‘Their hostility is beyond imagination.’

The man in front of them didn’t seem ready to logically talk things out. So, he took the easy way out and bowed.

“I am sorry. We didn’t think that far.”

Baek Cheon bowed despite finding the whole situation distasteful.

‘Come to think of it.’

‘Even though we were giving out food to the children, it makes no sense that only a few adults showed up.’

‘Why would the hungry people not come?’

‘I should have taken into account the fact that the people of Yunnan do not like outsiders.’

They were too late to realize this, but he had to fix this now. Baek Cheon spoke right away.

“I really do apologize.”

Baek Cheon lowered himself even further and the man clicked his tongue.

“Where are you from?”

“We are part of the Peace Merchant Group.”

“Peace, Peace merchant…”

After a moment of silence, the man smiled.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in their group?”

Baek Cheon’s face became stiff. He hadn’t thought for a moment about the possibility of the man knowing them.

But it was impossible for the guards of Kunming to not know who was coming in and going from their city. So, Baek Cheon chose the easiest answer.