Episode 224. Critical big brother (1)
“Yes! You said your brother fell down?”
Returning to Chohyeon’s painter’s shop, the painter hurriedly opened the book and read it, seeing his mother handing out the book with a worried expression.
Looking at the handwriting, it seemed that it was written by a sister-in-law, not an older brother.
The content of the letter was that the eldest brother, Hwa-bok, seemed to be having a hard time with his excessive workload for the past few years.
Although he fell down, he did not lose consciousness, but he could not stand up because he could not balance, and he had chills all over his body and vomited more than 10 times, and later only yellow gastric juice came out.
‘If you can’t balance, you must have a problem with the cochlear side of your ear.’
The first thing that came to mind was otolithiasis, but Meniere’s, a bigger disease, is also sufficiently suspected.
‘It’s difficult to infer the disease based on the contents of the book.’
The painter frowned and pondered.
“The world has become ugly and wars are breaking out everywhere, so it seems that Bok-gi has been paying too much attention to it for a long time.”
The face of the mother who saw the letter for the first time was very worried.
“They say that Joe has become the governor of Donggun, so I will treat his illness and ask him to look after him.
While the painter was going to see his older brother, he thought that he should strengthen the relationship between Jojo and his older brother. He intends to be a wandering councilman for the rest of his life, but his older brother is the one who will manage Jojo’s territory from now on.
“Alright, while you’re at it, come and see if our painter’s eldest son, Deok-i, is growing up well. I want to go with you, but it’s not easy to go on a long journey because there is a war going on everywhere.”
Hwa-bok, who got married a few years ago, had a four-year-old son.
“I was planning to keep Mrs. Seon-i Kheum at home until she gives birth because she has a baby, but please take care of me while I go to see my brother.”
In an instant, Mrs. Hua’s eyes widened.
“Your daughter-in-law has a baby? Such a slope! If you had a meeting, you should have said it when you came earlier.”
“In the evening, when Boone hyung came back from the office, I was going to talk about it at a dinner party where the whole family gathered. It’s good news, but I think we should hear it together.”
“Yes, but no, that is not the point now. Where is my beautiful third daughter-in-law now?”
A big smile bloomed on the lady’s face.
“I was a little tired from the long trip, so I asked him to lie down on the bed.”
“It’s in your place. I get it.”
When Mrs. Hwa stood up in a hurry, the Hwa-bu put on a worried expression at night.
“It’s time for mother and wife to be the most careful right now…”
“I know that much. I am better than you about the things to be careful of when you are conceived. No, don’t worry too much.”
Mrs. Hua gave instructions to the maids and left.
The hwabu smiled at the sight of the missing mother.
“True mother… would you like that too?”
Mrs. Hwa’s attitude towards Pyeonseon changed in an instant.
After leaving the office, the flower pot, who came in with her brother-in-law (Ban-hee) carrying a baby piled up in violence, was surprised by her mother’s pampering attitude, and soon realized that Pyeon-seon had conceived and congratulated the younger couple.
The family laughed for the first time in a long time by talking about congratulatory words, precautions to be taken when pregnant, and Ban-hee’s childbirth experience.
“I can imagine how difficult it is for my brother right now as I am also serving as a prefecture. This place is far from the battlefield, but Don Gu-hyeon, where my older brother is, is raising an army, so there are not just one or two things to be on your nerves.”
The painter listened to the second brother’s words and thought that the position of the lord was not always good.
If it was a hyeongryeong who sucked the blood of the people to fill his stomach, there would be no stress, but the two older brothers were benevolent hyeongryeong. The mental stress was so great.
‘Stress is the cause of all diseases.’
It is best to get rid of stress for diseases caused by stress, but if that is not the case, the mental shock had to be alleviated in other ways.
The fireman knew quite a few such methods.
“Then when are you going to see your brother?”
“I’m thinking of leaving tomorrow.”
The painter’s tone toward his brother had changed from engineering to anti-communism. Most of the nobility in this era get married and form a family, and even older brothers and sisters cannot curse at their younger siblings even as a joke, and younger siblings do not show respect to their older brothers.
“tomorrow? Still, I’m back after a long time, so why don’t you wait for a few days?”
“I want to do that too, but seeing the tearful letter sent by my sister-in-law, I couldn’t wait. If the predictions are correct, my older brother will probably collapse again sooner or later.”
“Are you going to fall again? It was written in the letter that he got much better after receiving Hyun-ui’s treatment.”
“If my predictions are correct, it is a disease that will naturally get better without the treatment of Hyun-ui. But it relapses a few times. So I have to go quickly.”
If the predicted disease is correct, it is a disease that can develop into anxiety disorder or panic disorder if left untreated.
“Did you notice what kind of disease it was?”
“I’ll have to take a pulse to know for sure, but I’m guessing anyway.”
“okay. Isn’t it a disease that won’t live long?”
“If you are treated and managed well, you can live a long time without any problems in your daily life…. But if you keep neglecting it, you will lose your hearing… It’s not good anyway.”
The painter could not bear to talk about the symptoms of anxiety disorder or panic disorder. If you say such a story, people of this era will probably accept it as a diagnosis of ‘crazy’.
“That’s right. I need to go as soon as possible.”
“yes.”
The painter felt a slight shadow cast over Pyeonseon’s face, but thought it was inevitable.
After dinner that day, the fireman returned to his residence and gave Pyeonseon a hug and comforted her, who must have been saddened by the separation from him.
* * *
Phiing…..
‘Again?’
Hwa-bok turned her head to the window while rubbing her stiff neck, and when she felt dazzled and dizzy from the light from the window, she reflexively realized that the symptoms that had occurred before Dalpo had returned.
“Call the councilor… Call the councilor…..
” Hey, call the councilor right now!”
Hyeonseung was frightened and shouted outside, and after a while, Hyeonseung came in.
After being supported by people, Hwa-bok lay down on a bed and closed her eyes and received treatment from a doctor.
When I opened my eyes, the dizziness got worse and I couldn’t stand it.
The congressman put acupuncture on, but the vomiting and chills continued.
‘Is this how it hurts to die?’
Until now, I had done a lot of trivial trifles, but I had never felt the shadow of death so clearly.
‘Duck is only four years old… If I die, my wife will be a widow, right? I shouldn’t die yet…’
As soon as he thought about dying, he was more concerned about his family after he died. And the more I did, the more I wished that the fireman would come quickly and fix me.
In fact, the current doctor treating himself was not much different from a doctor who opened a doctor’s room in the county and saw patients. No, in some respects it can be said that it is more backward.
I couldn’t believe that I was being treated by this kind of doctor, and the city council of Donggun, who had been dispatched a while ago with the consideration of Jojo, came after all the symptoms had already disappeared, so I wrote a prescription for my daughter and went.
‘Whoa! Father, I have to come quickly.’
I felt the chill, so I wrapped myself in several layers of blankets and lit a fire pit, but my body shuddered.
“honey!”
“dad! AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhII again? ”
While doing so, when his wife and son appeared, Hwa-bok tried to force himself up to show that he was healthy.
Stumble.
However, I barely raised my upper body, and the world started spinning.
He wanted to lie down again, but seeing the tears welling up in his son’s eyes, he couldn’t.
Hwabok gritted his teeth inwardly and laughed hard on the outside.
“Duck-ah, it was because I was tired for a while. Don’t worry, you’ll feel better when you wake up.”
“Ahhh, when is Uncle Su coming? Uncle says he is the best name in the world, but why isn’t he coming when Dad collapses and is in so much pain?”
“I sent you a letter, so I will be back soon. Stop crying.”
Hwa-bok held her son in her arms and signaled to her with a gesture so that the son could not see her, so that she could quickly take her son out.
Recognizing her husband’s gestures, the wife shed tears and took her son outside.
Hwabok was only then able to lie down.
Dripping…..
Tears flowed from Hwabok’s eyes as well.
‘Come here, Wonhwa!’
Suddenly, when the painter said that he would become a member of the council, he remembered his own act of turning on the light in his eyes and opposing it.
Why would you do that?
Now, the fireman’s reputation is much higher than his own, the county governor of Dongu County.
And now, thinking that I might die like this, I realized how necessary and great a person like a younger brother is.
‘At that time, I was immature and made a mistake… Please come quickly and save me!’
* * *
“Stop!”
Upon entering the border of Donggun, the first thing Hwabu and his party were subjected to was a check.
In the past, inspections that would have been formal were greatly strengthened, especially when there were many escorts on horseback, such as the fireman’s party.
When it seemed like it would take a long time, the fireman took out the fisherman and showed it to the inspectors.
Thanks to this, he was no longer subject to inspection, but the fact that the fireman came to Donggun reached the ears of Jojo through his superiors.
Jojo has been in a complicated state of mind lately.
Although he absorbed the group of black bandits and became the governor of the Dong Army, news came from the Cheongju side that hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans had broken out, and Li Gaksa, Guaksa, Zhangjie, and Fanjo, who raised an army of 100,000 in Yangju, advanced to the imperial palace to avenge Dong Zhuo and defeated Lu Bu. There was also news that the emperor was in his hands again.
He wanted to immediately run to Chang’an and take the emperor into his own hands, but the Yellow Turban enemy, who raised hundreds of thousands of troops in the back of his head, was in his mind. If the Yellow Turban enemy occupies the Eastern Army while fighting Li Gao Guo’s army, his base will be lost.
Hearing that the fireman had come in a situation where he had to make a difficult decision, he was glad for nothing, and he thought that maybe he could openly talk about his troubles now.
“what! Wealth has come. So where is he now?”
“They say they are going to Donguhyeon.”
“Donguhyeon! Oh, you’re going to meet your brother. Come to think of it, he said he collapsed a while ago, so I guess that’s why he came.”
Although Jojo was distracted by the war, he was still paying a lot of attention to Hwa-bok, Hwa-bu’s older brother. It was for this reason that, upon hearing the news that he had collapsed, they sent the city council of Donggun to treat him.
“Hello.”
“Yes Taesu.”
“Prepare to go to Donguhyeon.”
“All right.”
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