Episode 150. Giant’s Way (1)
The fireman’s wagon had special devices on the roof and other places, so the appearance was a little different from the general wagon.
Perhaps for that reason, as time passed, many people recognized the wagon and realized that there was Myeonghwata where the wagon was.
Even while the painter was on the way to completion, he would treat an urgent patient who could only be cured by himself. Because of this, the completion that can be achieved in a few days has not yet been reached even after 10 days.
“Now, if we cross this mountain, we are close to completion. How is the war situation going?”
“Two days ago, Zhu Jun’s army attacked the castle, killed Han Chung, and seemed to have succeeded in recapturing the castle, but Cao Hong and Son Zhong’s troops belatedly joined and counterattacked, so the castle was taken away again.”
“It seems that Zhou Jun’s vanguard, Sun Jian, hasn’t joined yet.”
“Your Sun Jian hasn’t joined yet, and Liu Bei’s sworn brothers seem to have done a great job in this war as well.”
The painter listened to Eulji’s words and nodded.
‘They are Liu Bei’s sworn brothers…’
The feeling is new.
Meeting Jojo and Zhuge Liang, but feeling the love I saw when I was young or the characters I only saw in studies related to each Chinese history are so close.
If the three of them went out, perhaps Hanchung would not last long and collapse.
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At that time, Janggoe, who was going ahead and was looking at the road, gave a loud shout and swung his spear to knock out several arrows.
“What kind of guys are they?”
The fireman was startled when he heard Janggoe’s shout and looked around the forest.
A large crowd, well over two hundred, appeared in the distance.
“Bo, ah, and good all go inside the wagon. And prepare for the poison shot.”
“Your master.”
As the three disciples entered the wagon, the wagon’s lid rose three inches high, revealing dozens of coffins.
Eulji was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a bandit and looked at his subordinate executioner.
“What is it?”
“That I don’t know either. Obviously, there were no signs until yesterday.”
The fireman looked at the bandits running in the distance.
They disguised themselves as bandits, but they were outnumbered and, moreover, their movements were systematic like those of soldiers. It’s not to the extent of the imperial army, but it’s not to the point of being seen as just a bandit.
“It is possible that Han Chong’s men, who were defeated by Zhu Jun’s soldiers, could have settled on this mountain in one day. For now, it’s not important, so let’s run away.”
“Guard Zhang is still… well, if he were escort Zhang, he would have to run away.”
Eulji erased his worried expression as he watched the Janggoe riding his horse towards him.
Even as Janggoe ran away, he looked behind him and shot the flying arrows with his spear.
It was a body movement and spearmanship that was almost divine.
The fireman could kill more than half of the bandits with the wagon’s secret weapon, but he didn’t use it right away.
The fireman’s party hurriedly ran back the way they came from.
“under! There are troops behind you!”
However, the fireman, who was riding ahead, had no choice but to grab the reins and pull the reins when a group of about a hundred people appeared at the foot of the mountain.
“Sir, it looks like you’ve been surrounded.”
The fireman gritted his teeth as he saw the bandits running around him on both sides.
‘Do I have to fight?’
Then, for some reason, a bandit leader who had been riding ahead on horseback held up a large iron club to stop the advance.
“Everyone, stop.”
“Why is that? Boss.”
“That carriage… isn’t it familiar?”
“uh! Come to think of it, that carriage looks like Hwa-ta’s carriage.”
“Right. My eyes weren’t wrong.”
When the bandit leader stopped advancing, the bandits coming up from the bottom of the mountain also switched from running to walking.
By the time the bandits were doing this, the fireman also saw the face of the opponent sitting on the horse’s head.
‘That scar that stretches from the face to the neck… I think I stitched it up.’
I couldn’t remember the name of the other person or where the surgery was performed. It’s just that he and his disciples are the only doctors who sew wounds like that, so he’s just guessing.
“Are you angry?”
The bandit leader came to the wagon with only a few of his men.
“Yes, I am angry. Haven’t you been treated by me in Taesan County, Yeonju before?”
I don’t remember, but I guessed from the state of the scar, so I tried to find out where I was at that time.
“Hahaha, to think you remember me among so many wounded….. I don’t know what to do.”
The bandit leader got off his horse and slightly bowed his head to the fireman, shaking his head, and the fireman also bowed his head.
They laughed at each other, but the atmosphere was still vicious.
“Did you become a bandit after being healed by me?”
“Kuhm Rather than being a bandit, even if it’s just money on the way home… As you can see, he has a lot of subordinates.”
The bandit leader was strangely flustered.
“Where are you going?”
“I haven’t decided anything, and I’m thinking of looking for a place to set up for the time being. But if you go this way, it’s the capital of Wan… Why are you going there where the war is going on?”
“Since the war is long, we are going to treat the wounded and abandoned.”
At the fireman’s answer, the bandit boss avoided his gaze and blushed.
“It looks like we got in the way when we were going to do something important. I’d like to give you something, but as you can see, our circumstances are in need…
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“sure! It should be. If things get better later, I’ll help out a little bit.”
“Yes, thank you for doing so.”
The bandit boss said thank you for treating him in the past and gave way to his men.
The fireman frowned at the men with stitches here and there as he rode through the bandits on horseback.
When they made eye contact with the fireman, they lowered their heads in greeting and averted their gaze.
‘Whoa! I didn’t expect to be healed just because I was treated, but I can’t believe I’m still a bandit.’
The painter felt a sense of shame when he saw those bandits.
Since the people caused the rebellion, they treated the enemy without distinguishing between them, but it was complicated.
tall.
The fireman stopped talking and looked up at the sky.
When the painter stopped, the others stopped, and eventually the carriage.
The bandit boss and his subordinates, who had followed the fireman with a shy expression, also stopped and looked at the fireman who gave off a strange atmosphere.
“Bishop B.”
“Yes, Senator.”
“Didn’t I tell you to pity the grassroots who are swept away on the battlefield and die without knowing why?”
“yes yes. I have said that.”
“Is that still valid?”
“…..”
“Healing people has been worthwhile, but today I feel a bit skeptical.”
“…..”
“Let’s go.”
“yes.”
As the painter drove the horse again, the carriage and the other horses also moved.
The bandit leader, who had been following the fireman, felt deeply remorseful when he heard what the fireman had said.
Bandit leader Haman was originally a fallen nobleman in Gyo-dong, Cheongju.
Although he has now become an executive envoy of the Taepyeonggyo Bridge, became a general of the Yellow Turban Red Army, and then became a bandit leader, he is a person who knows the way of a human being fundamentally.
‘A great righteous man who couldn’t come out in such a barren era only because of a guy like me… he has no face to see his ancestors!’
He didn’t feel ashamed of rebelling against the rotten imperial family and officials and becoming a general of the Yellow Turbans. However, after he broke away from the battlefield and became a bandit leader, he was actually very shy.
The fireman’s words triggered an alarm in Haman’s conscience.
cooong.
Haman got off his horse, put down the iron club he was holding, and knelt down to face the fireman.
“Hwa-ta, if you’re disappointed in a guy like me and don’t want to treat the wounded abandoned on the battlefield… please change your mind.”
The fireman did not dismount and looked at Haman.
“No matter what you do, I will continue to heal people. It’s just a little disappointing.”
The fireman’s long sigh could be heard by most of the bandits around him. The bandits were so solemn that no one dared to cough.
“I will disperse the people and stop banditry.”
thud.
After the fireman finished speaking, Haman put his head on the dirt floor.
As Haman pounded his head on the dirt floor, some of the bandits suddenly knelt down at the fireman and started stamping their heads on the floor. Most of them were treated by firemen.
The fireman looked at the bandits whose mood had suddenly changed with slightly bewildered eyes.
“Are you sure you want to stop banditry?”
“yes. In fact, there may be some who do it because they like it, but most of them do it because they have no choice but to do it even if they don’t like it.”
The fireman looked at the bandits and didn’t say anything for a while.
He looked up at the sky again, thought about something, and opened his mouth.
“Only if you promise not to bandit anymore, I will gladly treat the wounded in the future.”
“We will not do banditry any more.”
“I will return to my hometown and start farming again.”
“…..”
Most of the bandits now put down their weapons and bowed their heads toward the fireman.
When their action was over, the fireman turned around and said,
“Thank you for making me proud of my life’s karma of healing people.”
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‘The reason why so many bandits have changed their minds is probably because the work he is doing is so great.’
In Eulji, the leading painter felt like a giant. And relatively, he felt proud of his job of assisting such a fireman.
‘It’s also a big deal to be the foundation for the big things he does.’
Eulji looked at the fireman and then turned his head to look at the executioner and Okju.
Their eyes looking at the fireman were not very different from his own.
‘After all, life is to die once born… Yes, I have to dedicate my life to such a person.’
Eulji made a firm resolution inwardly.
Until now, he had been helping the fireman, but his mindset had changed.
In the future, I thought that I should be more careful not to run into bandits like today.
“I can open a medical clinic in that village.”
The fireman pointed with his hand to a village that was reasonably far away from where the war was taking place.
Eulji listened to the fireman’s words, looked around, and nodded.
“There’s a stream nearby and it’s not too close to the battlefield, so I think it’s not a lot.”
“Then let’s go to that village.”
“yes.”
As the housekeeper’s party entered, the villagers sent a lot of wary eyes.
Eulji visited the village headman and told them the purpose of their visit, got an empty house and a large vacant lot, pitched a tent, and started treating patients in the village first.
The villagers, who were initially wary, knew that the firefighters were members of the council and rather helped them with this and that and even brought them food.
Two days had passed since the fireman had healed in a village called Haengsong, when Haman appeared with a group of people.
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