Episode 109. Pheasants instead of chickens (2)
Perhaps because of the rumor that the painter cured half of Hwang Wan, the Kwon Moon family sent people every day to request a visit to the painter.
The painter came to visit today at the house of Chaeyu, a farmer in the great village, and the person receiving treatment was Chaeyu’s grandson.
Since Chaeyu was in the palace, the person who greeted the painter was his son Chae-jeong.
“What kind of disease is it that the child is sick so often?”
The painter smiled bitterly after the exhaustion of Chae-deok, who was very bloated for an eight-year-old child.
‘This is malingering… I can’t say it’s malingering, so how do I explain it?’
In fact, the painter was not happy that he had been called to such an illness.
There are so many people who are seriously ill with a fatal disease and are at the crossroads of life and death.
The painter looked at the child’s anxious, trembling eyes before speaking to Chae-deok.
‘Yes, how much you didn’t want to do it, you must have feigned illness.’
I was annoyed, but it was better to be considerate of the child’s feelings.
“Didn’t you call other clinicians to examine you before I examined you?”
“I was examined.”
“What disease did they say?”
“I didn’t have any particular disease, but I was told that I often got sick because my intestines were weak.”
‘It’s a problem because his gut is weak, but he’s too strong.’
If you take medicine that makes your already strong intestines stronger, your body will enlarge.
“I’ve been taking decoctions constantly, but there’s no improvement, right?”
“That’s right. Do you have a disease that other members of Congress have not discovered?”
“Whoa-. I don’t know how to say this.”
“Don’t worry, just tell me. I’ve already heard the rumors about you, so I’ll follow your words even if it’s different from the prescriptions other members have given.”
“Aren’t you going to make this kid sit and read all day these days?”
“Isn’t that natural for a nobleman?”
“Yes, it is, but it is a disease that cannot live because it is so painful to sit still when the energy inside the body is vigorously extending outward. That’s why this child’s body is showing these symptoms to survive.”
“You’re sick to live? Does that mean that if I keep studying like this, I will die?”
“They won’t die, but don’t plants grow well just because you give them too much water? Rather, the roots may rot. This child may also become rotten at the excessiveness.”
“Then what should I do? You can’t just stop studying, can you?”
“When I was studying in Xuzhou, I had to learn martial arts more than once a day. Wise scholars did so because they knew that reading too many books would lead to this disease. Let them have fun at least once a day. As long as you do that… In fact, you don’t even need to take the decoction.”
“is it? Actually, both literary and martial arts… well, that’s not bad. I get it. From now on, I will make sure to learn martial arts for more than one time.”
“It’s better to let them play than to do martial arts.”
When the painter tried to get up from his seat, Chaedeok made a puzzled expression.
“Is it over already?”
“Okay then, let’s go.”
When the painter left, Chaedeok stood for a long time with a bewildered expression and repeated watching the painter move away from his son.
“Hey, Mr. Hwabu.”
As the fireman walked towards the door, Chae’s general manager followed him.
“yes.”
“How much is the medical bill?”
“It’s a piece of gold.”
“yes! A piece of gold? No, I didn’t do anything, but a piece of gold?”
“If you can’t pay because you haven’t done anything, you don’t have to. Then let’s go.”
The fireman turned his back on whether or not the commander-in-chief spoke.
“I hope there will be no calling from the farmhouse in the future.”
“Oh no… Mr. Hwabu. That’s not it. Here it is. It never meant that.”
The fireman slightly bowed his head after accepting the money offered by the general.
“thank you. Then let’s go.”
“yes.”
* * *
“Mr. Eat this.”
Ok-ju made a puzzled expression when the painter handed out the decoction.
He was injured in a raid on the Taepyeonggyo branch in his hometown, Maengjun County, and took decoction for a while, but now he is all better and does not need to take the decoction.
However, when he was suddenly given a decoction, he was confused.
“Wasn’t the treatment over then?”
“This isn’t a cure, it’s a drug that builds up your history.”
In an instant, Ok-ju’s eyes widened.
“You want to increase my strength? Are there any medicines like that?”
“It is my own recipe. I don’t know if any other congressman made this drug.”
Okju’s eyes flashed.
I knew the painter was a great doctor, but I didn’t know he could make such a ridiculous drug.
‘If the existence of such a drug is known to uninitiated people… there could be an uproar!’
It is a battle of warriors that life and death depend on how much or how little one has. Thinking about the value of the medicine gave me goosebumps all over.
Ok-ju received the medicine bowl and drank it in one gulp.
Seeing Ok-joo licking the medicine bowl with her tongue as if every last drop was a waste, the painter smiled.
“I wanted to make medicine for Mr. Zak a long time ago, but it took me a while to get the medicine because it was precious.”
“Thank you.”
Ok-ju bent her waist so deeply that her head almost touched the ground.
“I shouldn’t tell anyone that I made this medicine.”
At the painter’s words, Ok-ju opened her mouth with a determined expression.
“of course. I will take this secret… to the grave.”
‘No, to the grave… It’s not that great of a drug. Awesome!’
“Your man has already improved his constitution to some extent, so you will only need to take the medicine for about three months.”
“I will repay Hwata’s kindness with my life.”
“I just gave you medicine that is good for your body, so don’t think too grandly of it.”
When the painter disappeared with the bowl of medicine, Ok-joo stood in a daze for a while.
After a while, I started practicing Qigong as a test.
After sweating for a long time, Ok-ju tilted her head.
‘I don’t think there’s much difference… Is it because I took the medicine for the first time today?’
It was a little disappointing, but I was grateful to the fireman nonetheless.
* * *
There was also a branch of Taepyeonggyo on the imperial capital of Luoyang.
However, they did not dare to send the executioners even though they knew that Ok-ju was with the fireman.
The Yellow Island is a place where the Taepyeonggyo branch has a lot of watchful eyes, and if it makes a mistake, its roots can be cut off entirely.
Because of this, Taepyeonggyo was sharpening its sword while waiting for the fireman’s party to escape from the imperial capital.
“Obviously, those bastards say they fixed Hwang Wan, so why are they still clinging to Hwang’s family?”
As the man gnashed his teeth, those around him shrugged.
“Calm your anger, Executor. Anger must be expressed when meeting an enemy, not against subordinates.”
As the man with the literary style appeased him, the man called the executioner let out a short sigh.
“Because it’s frustrating, yes, it’s frustrating.”
“Taewi even went to the palace yesterday, but that’s about as good as it gets, so won’t the painter and Okju go back to Paeju soon? If you wait a little longer, you will be able to avenge the grudge of the guards in Mengjun County.”
“ha-. There’s no other way but to wait…. I’ll have to wait. shit! Why do you suffer when I’m not there?”
The executioner closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.
“By the way, Lion. Ok-joo, the branch manager of Cho-hyeon, was judged to have superior strength than expected, but are they really alone?”
The man with the Munsa style refers to B-level enforcers and Byeong-level enforcers.
“Are you doubting the skills of my men?”
“I believe in your skills, but… Maeng Jun-hyeon’s followers were massacred. No matter how much effort is lost, as the person in charge, I cannot but feel old.”
“If only half of the men here had remained at the branch, Ok-ju would have died.”
“Among the laymen, there were also those who were executors in the past.”
“Chief Ho.”
“yes.”
Huung.
In an instant, the mood of the executioner suddenly changed.
Obviously, I didn’t do anything and just stared at it, but there was an eerie feeling as if a blue blade was slicing through the stem of my neck.
The branch manager covered his head involuntarily and took a step back.
“As long as I exist, Ok-ju will surely die.”
“sorry.”
Branch Manager Ho bowed his head toward the executioner in a cold sweat.
The attitude I had maintained until now changed in an instant.
“I’ll go in first and rest, so call that bastard Okju when he comes out of the ecliptic.”
“yes.”
Branch Manager Ho lifted his sleeve and wiped the cold sweat as the executioner disappeared.
‘To the point of making me nervous by venting my life… I’m not an executioner for nothing!’
* * *
The fireman who returned after meeting Hwabok made up his mind to return to his country that day. Hwa-bok hadn’t been to the dorm for a while, but after meeting Hwang-wan, he said his workload had decreased.
The painter visited Hwangan the next day.
“Are you going back?”
“Your crown prince.”
When the painter said that he would return to his defeat now that his treatment was over, Hwang Wan looked worried for a moment.
“Hmm~. Then, enter the palace with me tomorrow and see His Majesty.”
“yes! I have to go see your majesty and go… As a citizen of Daehan, you are given the great honor to see His Majesty’s face. thank you Taewi.”
The fireman hurriedly changed his words when he became aware of the momentarily chilly air.
‘Damn it, I might just pretend tomorrow.’
The next day, Hwabu entered the palace with his older brother and was immediately called to Hwang Wan’s residence in the palace.
While following Naegwan Jeong to the royal palace, he passed hundreds of civil servants and nine men.
When I entered the palace, I saw the emperor, Taewi Huang Wan, and a few high-ranking officials in the distance sitting and chatting.
The painter immediately bowed down upon seeing the emperor.
“Are you the doctor who healed half of Taewi Hwang?”
“Your Majesty the Emperor. This is the hwabu of the lawmaker who is in the middle of defeat.”
“Come closer.”
“yes.”
As the fireman approached, the emperor and those who were with him widened their eyes as if slightly startled.
“Raise your head.”
“yes.”
“I couldn’t believe it when I heard from Taewi Hwang…. You’re really young. There are many talented people in the world, but a doctor who can open stomachs and fix half of them. Who did you learn medicine from?”
“While studying abroad in Xuzhou, I heard that my mother had a terminal illness, so I read numerous medical books and studied to try to cure it somehow. There is no special teacher who attended and learned from. Your Majesty the Emperor.”
As the painter spoke, he broke into a cold sweat without realizing it.
It doesn’t make any common sense at all, and it sounds ridiculous in some ways, but I couldn’t help but say this.
The painter naturally knew that the emperor would be angry at what nonsense he was talking about.
However, the emperor had a very interesting and curious expression on his face.
“As expected, Ki-in directors are geniuses who deviate from common sense. Did you heal your mother after realizing that?”
‘what? Does the emperor like novels?’
The fireman naturally relaxed and the words came out a little more comfortably.
“I experimented with medical techniques that I had realized through animals such as pigs and dogs in advance, and later healed patients with similar diseases and then cured my mother’s disease as well.”
“Ho-. You did the test first and fixed your mother. Surprised, I heard from Hwang Tae-wi that the poets are already calling you Tah.”
“yes. The city doctors took good care of the small man’s small talent and gave him an undeserved title.”
“I fixed my class, so it deserves to be called that. The emperor wants to give you a small reward, perhaps because he is grateful, and many ministers are not against it, so I’m thinking of giving you a small reward.”
“Seo Seong-eun is embarrassed.”
The fireman wanted to decline if he was given an official position, but he couldn’t do that in this place.
“Didn’t Jin-gyu of the defeated country give you an inspection plaque to inspect the prefecture’s wishes?”
“It is. Your Majesty the Emperor.”
“That’s why I will also grant you the authority to supervise courts across the country. However, the request of the imperial family is excluded.”
“The castle is ruined. Your Majesty the Emperor.”
The fireman’s body trembled.
If he had to stay in the imperial family because he was tied to an official position, he was thinking of making a bottle and running away, but the emperor, not the emperor, was giving him wings.
“Jong Eosa Daebu. Put down the shea sapae.”
“I take orders. your majesty.”
After a while, the eunuch left the sire sapae and the royal paper with the emperor’s seal in front of the hwabu and withdrew.
“You must know how to use that hand, right?”
“Your Majesty, I know your convictions.”
After hearing a few more words from the emperor, the painter came out of the royal palace with the sire sapae and the religious paper.
When I squeezed the shea sapae with strength, a smile came to my lips.
‘By the way, did I suddenly become a secret agent?’
If necessary, Sieosa also had the authority to briefly hire troops stationed in states or counties to bring corrupt officials to immediate trial.
Of course, it couldn’t be because the emperor ordered it to be used only for inspecting Uicheong, but since the shea sapae was not just for that purpose, it could be used for various purposes if you wanted to.
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