Chapter 74 - The Roads That Never Appear on a Map

Seon Jeo had already moved Lee Hyeom's grandmother before sunrise, but finding her grandson took considerably longer. The old woman had recognised Hyeom's hurried handwriting the moment Seon Jeo showed her the letter, yet even after she agreed to leave her house, she could not tell them where Hyeom was hiding. She only knew that her grandson sometimes disappeared into the hills when he wanted to avoid the governor's men, and the hills surrounding the village contained enough abandoned huts, charcoal camps and narrow hunting paths to hide twenty men if they knew the area well.