Chapter 74: Never Again Disregard the Outer Court
As soon as dawn broke, he took everyone out to guard the city gates.
“Captain! Look over here!”
“What is it?!”
“There’s shark skin here!”
“How dare you attempt to smuggle dangerous goods like shark skin into this place?!”
It was to make the White Dragon Hall look foolish.
When he seized on the pretext to halt the cart, the merchant who brought the leather protested with an expression of utter bewilderment.
“Smuggling? That’s preposterous! And how could shark skin possibly be dangerous?!“
”Oh ho! Don’t you smell it? The stench! Just looking at it gives me a headache. It must be coated in potent poison.“
”Poison on shark skin?! That’s utter nonsense!”
Dang Jin-hyeong interjected at the merchant’s rebuttal.
“Huh! You dare contradict the words of the peerless martial artist, Master Jin Mujeon of the Nine Dragons Fortress?”
Having heard my name, the merchant turned to me with wide, startled eyes and stammered.
“No, that’s not what I meant…”
“In any case, this shark skin cannot pass inspection. Find another supplier.”
“I walked a thousand miles to sell this leather. Please, just this once.”
“You dare defy the Outer Hall’s directive?!”
Faced with Dang Jin-hyeong’s fierce glare, the merchant hastily bowed his head.
I grabbed his shoulder and offered a subtle comfort.
The so-called good cop, bad cop tactic.
“Hmm, hmm. Hearing this, the situation seems rather unfortunate.”
“Indeed it is. I trusted only the White Dragon Guild and came all this way, only for things to turn out like this. It’s utterly absurd.”
