Episode 61. A doctor is also a person with feelings (2)
“I became a courtesan because I didn’t want to starve to death. I’ll treat you one more time, so you know. Dying comes next.”
“Uh sister…”
“I’m leaving. you know I can’t stay here long because there are so many customers.”
“Oh you know. Come on.”
“okay. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Hehehe, yes.”
When Rouge disappeared while wiping away tears, Choseol sighed deeply and took out his longing to look at himself, who had changed so viciously.
“Did I live even if I were alive?”
* * *
Contrary to his concerns, the painter took Obo to Seonhyangru as soon as he heard the words.
“welcome. Mr. Hwa.”
Rouge already knew that the painter was young, so even looking at his appearance, he didn’t doubt or wonder, and immediately bowed his head.
“Where is the patient?”
The painter looked around Seonhyangru. I remember coming here to save baekju in the past.
‘At night, the place was so splendid, but in the daytime, it’s quiet.’
“Follow me as I will guide you.”
“yes.”
When the painter followed Rouge, Ohbo also followed. Obo kept his mouth wide open at the beauty of Seonhyangru.
“Mr.”
Obo called in a small voice that could be heard.
“Why is that?”
“It’s here too.”
“what?”
“Look over there. There is also a pond with big fish there.”
“Kuh-kuh-kuh, you don’t really change either.”
The painter stroked his head. While the two of them were exchanging small conversations, Rooju passed a path through a bamboo forest and arrived at the cottage where Choseol stayed.
“I consider it. First, I will send a message to Choseol.”
“yes.”
Rouge went to the master bedroom and raised a slightly louder voice.
“Oops, the lawmaker I told you about yesterday is here.”
“Your sister. Ask them to come in.”
“Come in, Senator.”
“yes.”
As the painter approached, Rouge worried a little before opening his mouth.
“The appearance of Choseol will be very ugly in the eyes of the Congressman.”
“Don’t worry, we already know what it will be like. See you.”
“yes.”
“Would you like to wait here for a minute?”
“all right.”
drooling.
When the door opened, I saw Choseol lying down covered in a thin blanket. Rouge quickly closed the door when the fireman came in.
“nice to see you. It is a first rumor.”
“Don’t get up.”
After the fireman stopped the snow that was about to rise, he put a chair on the bed next to the bunk and sat down.
“It has come quite a long way.”
“Is that so.”
“Open your mouth wide.”
“Oh~.”
“Stay as you are.”
After looking into Choseol’s mouth, the painter looked at his fingertips and toes. Rouge looked at the painter from the side and was quite shocked inside.
‘Even though I’m a member of the hospital, I could easily get infected… How can I touch it casually?’
Even if you are alone, when you come here, wash your clothes and take a bath that rubs your entire body so hard that your skin turns red.
Maechang was such a fearful and repulsive disease.
ha-!
After a while, a long sigh escaped from the fireman’s mouth.
“At this level, the genital area must have been torn down, right? It will be very painful when you urinate or have a bowel movement.”
In an instant, Choseol’s eyes widened.
If the painter had looked up his skirt, he could have said that, but he only looked at his mouth and his hands and feet.
“Your stomach hurts a lot. There is not a single day where there is almost no blood.”
“You manage to hold it in well.”
“Hehe, if the congressman says he can’t fix me, I’m thinking of killing myself.”
The painter saw the young tears and ooze in Choseol’s eyes and let out another long sigh.
“Originally, we should collect pathogens and test them first… but right now we’re not in a good state to do that. I think we should treat it first, observe the progress, and conduct experiments in parallel.”
“…..”
“What is an experiment?”
“Let’s talk about that later slowly, and first of all, let’s get an injection and look at the condition.”
The painter roughly answered Rouge’s question and took out an injection needle and internal medicine.
“I’m going to stick this needle into a blood vessel, and it will hurt a little bit.”
“yes.”
The painter connected the medicine to the injection needle and tied the upper part of the left arm to expose the blood vessels. After waiting for a while, the needle was inserted.
“Keugh.”
Choseol flinched for a moment, but soon watched the painter with an expression of seeing something strange.
“You treat in a way that is quite different from the way other members of Congress treat you.”
“I guess so. What were the others doing?”
The painter answered and took out another medicine, connected it to the needle, and injected the liquid.
“Usually, other lawmakers take a pulse first, explain this and that, and then prescribe decoctions. The doctor does not take pulses or prescribe decoctions, but uses acupuncture first.”
“I didn’t check the pulse because I already knew the disease. We will have to do it in the future.”
“You already know? Have you ever treated someone with hawks before?”
In addition to the first rumor, Rouge looked at the fireman with young eyes of anticipation.
“Something may or may not be there.”
The painter shrugged.
In fact, in the future, syphilis was a common disease in urology and easy to treat. During my internship, I trained in urology, so of course I met patients with syphilis.
However, it was the first time that even the painter had seen the disease progress like this. This is because in modern times, the disease of syphilis is not allowed to this extent except in developing countries.
“What is your answer?”
“You can say yes or you can say no… well, that means yes. Anyway, don’t worry too much.”
The painter removed the needle, poured spirits on a clean piece of cloth, and pressed it over the bleeding needle mark.
“Hold this down until I tell you to stop pressing it.”
“I gave a cryptic answer that confuses people…”
“I told you to hold down this.”
“yes. Ah yes.”
Choseol pressed the cloth and carefully looked into the fireman’s eyes.
She had been a gisaeng for a long time, so she could get a rough idea of a person’s state of mind by looking at their attitude.
In her eyes, the fireman now seemed too calm.
‘Is it okay to see me with such a disfigured face? Could it really be that he can fix me?’
In the corner of my heart, hope began to bloom.
The fireman took out another piece of cloth and carefully wiped the pus while she held down the needle prick with a cloth.
Then, it was placed in a porcelain bowl and covered with a cotton cloth lid.
“What are you doing with that filth…”
“I have to make a medicine that works well for this filthy thing. It would be nice if I could make something for my skin… Then I could restore my old beauty a little bit.”
“…..”
The painter gave her a slight smile at her tilting her head, then looked at Rouge.
“Here, I have to soak a cloth with this disinfectant and wipe my body, but it bothers me a bit. I want Rouge to do it or call someone else.”
“Oh, I will.”
Rouge immediately stepped out. Until now, he had never laid a hand on Choseol, but he was confident when he saw the painter come forward.
“Are you okay, beginner?”
“Yes. are you okay.”
The fireman taught her to clean every nook and cranny of her body, and after disinfecting her, she went out.
* * *
– The firefighter is ill and has not been to the office since yesterday.
Upon hearing the same answer from several officials, Lieutenant Cho gritted his teeth to the point of making a loud noise.
‘I barely caught the tail… but you noticed and ran away!’
Lieutenant Jo already thought that the firefighters would not be at home, or that he would have fled at night, but he still found the house.
Firefighter’s house was empty, as expected.
He searched every nook and cranny of the house for any clues he could trace, but there were no such things left.
“Haa- nothing! I wasn’t sure, so I did some more research, and that gave him time to get away.”
Lieutenant Cho clenched his fists until his bones were crushed.
If he had brought his subordinates and attacked him the moment he was sure of the suspect by firefighting, he would have caught him. Do we have to miss the guy who stole military secrets like this?
I regretted not being bold enough.
In the midst of such regret, I suddenly thought that there must have been three people who would have played the role of the eyes and ears of the firefighting team.
‘It’s probably one of those guys who’ve met me a lot lately or been around me.’
I tried to narrow down the people I met more than three times a day for a few days, and I came up with only two people.
‘Pulpation and manual. those two guys Both of you are nerds! It could be either or both.’
Lieutenant Jo hurriedly left the firefighting house and went to the official residence where the officials were staying.
It was time for the officials to leave the office and the officials to gather in the official residence as the day was slowly going down.
“Do you have a heartbeat and a manual? He said he had to do what the firefighter told him to do and went outside.”
Officials were not allowed to leave the prefectural office at will, but they could go out if they received an outing pass from a manager such as a firefighter.
aww
At the reply of one of the officials, Lieutenant Cho gnashed his teeth again.
“You don’t know where you went?”
“I don’t know that either.”
The moment Lieutenant Jo was about to let out a sigh, another official opened his mouth as if thinking of something.
“I don’t know about Kodong, but I saw Sudong going towards Gadeokgyo Bridge earlier in the afternoon.”
“Gadeokgyo? You mean the Gadeokgyo Bridge in the direction of Sochon beyond the outer fortress?”
“yes.”
In an instant, Inspector Joe’s complexion turned pale.
Gadeokgyo Bridge was a bridge on the way to Sochon, and there is a fireman’s clothing room in Sochon. If the two officials were, as he had guessed, servants of the fire department, there would be only one person who would go all the way to Shaochon and aim for them.
“This shit. Burners are dangerous.”
Lieutenant Zhao immediately ran to Marsha and rode his horse to Shao Cun.
It is a long distance from the prefectural office to Sochon, which takes about three hours on foot, but it can be reached in about two feet on horseback.
Close to close…..
“The one who just passed by is Lieutenant Joe, right?”
Go-dong and Su-dong, who were hiding near Gadeok Bridge, raised their heads at the sound of rapid horse hooves and were surprised to see Lieutenant Jo pass by.
“That’s right. It’s definitely Professor Joe.”
“Looking at Sochon, they must have noticed our trail. You did well to avoid it.”
“I thought Seok-Pal saw me earlier, but he seems to have reported it to Lieutenant Jo.”
“By the way, you’re alone, so should I kill Lieutenant Joe?”
“Your superiors told you not to touch Inspector Jo. And it’s a bit too much for the two of us to handle.”
“Kuhm, then what? By now, Baek-yoon should have arrived in Sochon.”
“I have to send a jeonseo-gu to get rid of Professor Cho.”
Godong quickly wrote something on parchment paper, put it in a small container, and took out a pigeon from the bag he was carrying on his back.
Then, he hung the barrel from the pigeon’s leg and sent it flying into the sky.
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