
Ungodliness.
A small town in the middle of a barren wasteland, a trading town in silk lanes. In this small town Princess Inmyeong leads a life as a commoner named Deok Man. Due to the harshness of her life, Deok Man grows up to be a strong tomboyish girl.
As always Deok Man would do anything to help the family economy, he was eager to go to Rome. Not for travel, but for the sake of curing lung disease suffered by So Hwa.
So Hwa manages to build a simple inn and tavern with the help of uncle Cartan. Cartan's uncle was a benevolent merchant who came from Rome. Uncle Cartan meets So Hwa and her baby while lost in the barren Sahara Desert.
Deok Man loved his uncle Cartan. Deok Man already considers uncle Cartan like his own biological father, especially since the baby Deok Man does not have a father figure. Similarly, Cartan's uncle loved Deok Man as much as his own daughter, let alone most of his life spent moving from one city to another.
Uncle Cartan was already considered a family by So Hwa and Deok Man. From childhood, Cartan's uncle taught Deok Man many things. Starting from how to trade, count, read and write in various languages. And most importantly uncle Cartan teaches open-mindedness and accepting new things for Deok Man.
That morning Deok Man visited Taklamakan market. It just so happens that today at the Taklamakan market there is a traveling circus show. Deok Man was eager to watch the circus show.
There are many different performances presented in the circus around this time. There are games of dexterity, accuracy, immunity there are also games of illusion.
Deok Man enters the small bridge as the entrance to the market environment, where the circus roving in the title. At the end of the bridge an officer charges an entrance fee to the Market. Deok Man pays the money to enter the market, then head to the circus. Deok Man chose to see an immune show.
"Wow!" Deok Man clapped his hands, watching the two small-bodied men bend iron spears. The iron spear at each end was placed on the neck of the circus player, then they both walked forward, pushing each other's iron spear to bend.
"Ajeoohsi!" Deok Man is shocked when the clothes on the end of his back neck are pulled by Chil Sook. It turns out that Chil Sook has been following Deok Man since entering the Taklamakan market environment.
"Didn't you promise to introduce me to someone?!" Chil Sook pulls Deok Man's clothes. He walked while pulling Deok Man up to the middle of the bridge entrance of the market environment.
"Ah... That one?!" Deok Man replied without paying attention to Chil Sook. His eyes were still fixed on the immune show in front of him.
"Fulfill the promise you said yesterday?!" Chil Sook is leaning on Deok Man's head, as Deok Man is still cool looking at circus shows rather than watching him talk.
"Ahh... yes, is that it?! Follow me." Deok Man said to Chil Sook, his eyes rolling looking for someone. Deok Man pulls Chil Sook's hand, after seeing Cartan's uncle.
"Cartan Ajeosshi!" Deok Man calls uncle Cartan. Uncle Cartan made some merchandise transactions, with local merchants.
"Ohh... The deokman! So... Is he?!" Uncle Cartan turned towards Deok Man. Deok Man pulls Chil Sook closer to Cartan's uncle. Uncle Cartan looked at Deok Man and Chil Sook with a smile.
"Yes, he, Chilsuk Ajeosshi. Pretty amazing, I heard he's from Gyerim?! Pretty amazing, I heard he's a former soldier?! I feel like he's not good at using your language." Deok Man stands beside Chi Sook, introducing Chil Sook to Cartan's uncle
"Ehh... Ask him directly!" Deok Man spoke to Cartan's uncle, his hand moving holding Chil Sook's arm pulling him forward and passing him off.
"My name is Cartan." Uncle Cartan looked towards Deok Man, before introducing himself. Then looked towards Chil Sook while saying his name.
"I'm Chilsuk." Chil Sook bowed his head in honor of Cartan. The professional attitude of the soldiers still carried over until now.
"I'm counting on you." Uncle Cartan hugged Chil Sook from the left, then moved to hug from the right. Both of Cartan's uncle's hands patted Chil Sook's back, while sliding down until pant*t. Uncle Cartan Merem@s panta*Chil Sook.
"What are you doing?" Chil Sook spontaneously took off Uncle Cartan's embrace, holding his sword doing a middle horse. Uncle Cartan just laughed.
"That's the way he said hello, in his homeland." Deok Man laughed, looking at Chil Sook's silly behavior. Deok Man walks to the middle, between Chi Sook and uncle Cartan. Deok Man stood beside uncle Cartan looking at Chil Sook.
"How's it?" Deok Man said as he looked towards uncle Cartan, confirming his opinion.
"Wow... He's quite skilled! I'm sure he'll be useful?!" Uncle Cartan the mangosteen looked at Chil Sook, then looked at Deok Man with a smile.
"I told you, right?" Deok Man smiled towards Chil Sook who was standing pecking.
Some merchants arrived at the place.
"Deokmann." The potbellied merchant called Deok Man. They were all speechless, some of the Chen Daren soldiers were doing the inspection patrol.
"The others are waiting, let's go. Things are getting bad here." Potbellied traders turn left and right, ensuring safety.
"Where is the place?" The distended merchant drew his head closer to Deok Man and reduced the volume of his voice.
"Everyone, come with me." Deok Man spoke softly, his hands waving a gesture to follow him.
"Come on, follow him." The potbellied merchant led the other traders following the Deok Man move. Similarly uncle Cartan, after a few steps of walking he turned around. Cartan's uncle's hand waving invites Chil Sook to join. Chil Sook follows Cartan's uncle who walks in front of him.
After their departure, a battalion of Chen Daren troops arrived at the site. The troops were fully dressed in war. Armored and armed with spears.
"Search all places! Hurry along!" The Chief of the Army gave command to his soldiers.
"Ready!" The troops answered in unison, rushing to spread throughout the Taklamakan Passage.
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Deok Man leads the traders to a designated spot. Behind the simple inn that belonged to So Hwa. They headed to a pile of dried bricks. Deok Man laughed, cleaning up the straw that covered the pile of dry bricks.
"That's right here." Deok Man walked first, leading the way of the merchants behind him.
"it's impossible to recognize, isn't it?" Deok Man shows the neatly arranged yant bricks in the backyard.
"Yes. This. named.brick tea. Dried tea in stone!" Deok Man replied with a smile to the merchants.
"Wow! Really similar." Uncle Cartan was amazed to see the creativity of Deok Man.
"This is real stone! they won't be able to find it." The potbellied merchant was amazed at the sight before his eyes.
"Wow.. This is really amazing." The black merchant smiled, holding an artificial brick tea at Deok Man's proposal.
"They took the tea leaves and the soil and put them in a mold, after they were formed into blocks and dried." Deok Man began to explain the process of packaging tea by Sui merchants.
"Then, how do you drink this?" Uncle Cartan asked Deok Man.
"Like this." Deo Man answered Cartan's uncle's question while picking the Sui merchant's brick tea.
The merchants took tea from the broken bricks. They checked the authenticity of the tea stored in the bricks. Without them realizing their conversation was heard by the Soldier who was on patrol.
The soldiers surrounded them from all directions. Deok Man immediately covered the bricks with straw.
"Tea leaves?! here hold them all!" The Chief Soldier gave command to the soldiers to hold and confiscate the tea as evidence.
"Ready!." The Soldiers immediately cornered them on one side.
"We received information that you wanted to smuggle tea." The head of the Soldier rebuked the merchants there.
"Tea?! It's impossible." Uncle Cartan's alibi to the Chief Warrior.
"Search all places!" The Chief Soldier gave command to his subordinates.
"We have arrested the Sui Trader, after he sold you tea! Surround the house!" The Chief Soldier again gave the order, after inside the house there was no evidence.
"Ready! They said there was tea around here. Quick find!" The Right Hand of the Head Warrior received the order, then ordered his confidant to act.
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Inside the inn.
"Ready! Move aside! Go!" Soldiers yelled at the servants blocking the way. They checked carefully in every corner of the inn that belonged to So Hwa.
So Hwa finds out it immediately follows them to the 3rd floor and almost falls on the hit by the soldiers.
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Outside the inn.
"We found nothing inside. There's no there either." The Soldiers report to the head of the Soldier.
"No way! Did you look for him carefully?" The Chief Warrior asked his subordinates.
"Yes, we checked every corner. There really isn't. That must be wrong information." The right hand of the Head Warrior reported after coming out of the inn and found nothing.
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Inside the 3rd floor.
The Soldiers entered So Hwa's room and unpacked his alamari. The relics of His Majesty King Jinpyeong stored in the box fell apart.
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In the back yard of the inn.
So Hwa walked out slowly from inside the inn. Silently, Deok Man took a magnifying glass from his pocket and pointed it toward the sun. He intended to burn the evidence using a spark.
"Surge! What'sthat?" The Head Warrior saw a pile of bricks spewing out smoke. He approached her, but the merchants stopped him.
He threw the merchants one by one, side by side. Remaining Deok Man stood in front of a pile of stone rocks that emitted smoke.
The bricks behind Deok Man suddenly burned. So Hwa who had the Phobia of fire immediately shouted in fear.
"Mother!" Deok Man shouted as he ran towards So Hwa's place. Deok Man immediately hugged So Hwa who was confused because of his fear with fire.
Chil Sook watched everything with sharp eyes, beginning to suspect something.
After seeing the burning bricks. The Chief Warrior realized it was tea in packs. Immediately ordered his soldiers by shouting, "Hold them all!"
"Ready!" The Soldiers moved to surround the Merchants in front of him. A frightened Deok Man and So Hwa are also taken to Chen Daren Fortress for execution.
Seriate.