86 Advisor Of Heo Jun 1 (1/2)
”Gw.a.n.ghae?”
”Hiss! How dare you call him without t.i.tle?”
Heo Jun stopped Ganghyuk after his rude remark.
He was always wondering how a son of a famed scholar could act like that.
His father, Baik Seungmun, was one of the greatest scholars in Joseon.
How could his son be such a scoundrel?
On the other hand, Ganghyuk thought of Gw.a.n.ghae while Heo Jun stopped him from speaking by covering his mouth with his hand.
'Gw.a.n.ghae?'
He remembered he was the king who was dethroned by King Injo.
Therefore, he could not have a posthumous epithet like Jong and Jo. He had to use the name he used when he was a prince.
'When I was a child he was a crazy king.'
When he was a secondary school student, he learned Gw.a.n.ghae was a terrible king.
He was compared to Yeonsan.
History books wrote that he was someone more notorious than King Seonjo.
'But these days, they have reevaluated Gw.a.n.ghae.'
In that world, there were more scholars who evaluated King Injo as the man who dethroned the evil monarch Gw.a.n.ghae.
He could not remember the exact time, but the evaluation for Gw.a.n.ghae was changed to a more favorable one.
Ganghyuk himself agreed on the new evaluation.
Gw.a.n.ghae showed impressive activities in Imjinwaeran.
He showed different aspects from King Seonjo who was too busy running away.
He governed the people quite well and he even fought with the j.a.panese himself.
”Heum”
Ganghyuk made himself released from the fist of Heo Jun.
Ganghyuk tried to comfort him.
”Don't worry. I was surprised to hear the unexpected name.”
”Did you? Eum.”
Heo Jun looked at Kyehan with a worried face.
Fortunately, Kyehan was sleeping, snoring hard.
It did not mean it would be a good idea to call the name of a prince carelessly.
'Gw.a.n.ghae?' How dare him call the prince's name without his t.i.tle?
If somebody heard and reported it to the authorities, he could be accused of treason.
It was a rough time.
”Please be careful.”
”Yes. Haha. Anyway, where is the sick prince Gw.a.n.ghae? Why are you so worried?”
”I am afraid to say this, but I really don't understand what the problem is. It is the conclusion I have made.”
Heo Jun took out a scroll from his chest.
The edges were worn. Perhaps he was always carrying it in his chest.
Considering his loyalty and perfectionism, he must have been thinking about it nonstop.
Being moved by his diligence, Ganghyuk received the scroll.
”He tried to pull the arrow, but he failed. It seemed his hand did not have any strength left. He felt a painful sensation in his hand for quite a long time after that. It was trembling.”
”He slipped his sword during the practice. He told me he felt needles in his hand. He could not hold the sword for a while.”
”He sighed, placing the brush during calligraphy. He suffered from pain. He was very much worried about it.”
Such symptoms were written in the paper.
Heo Jun followed Prince Gw.a.n.ghae and recorded what he observed.
”Eum.”
Ganghyuk read the symptoms as he rubbed his short beard.
When he read a few sentences in the beginning, he thought it might be a cervical spinal disc.
Soon he shook his head.
He had a different symptoms to be diagnosed as a disc.
'It seems symptoms are caused by the movement of the hand.'
If it is a disc, he should feel needles puncturing his arm or he should have difficulties to lift his shoulder.
Of course, there is a possibility for Heo Jun to miss the symptoms.
'No, he cannot miss such symptoms.'
The record he made could be mistaken to have come from an obssesed stalker.
It had all the details a human being can observe.
It was nearly impossible for Heo Jun to miss something.
Therefore, it might be a different problem.
That is much better for Prince Gw.a.n.ghae or Heo Jun.
'It is nearly impossible to operate a cervical spinal disc.'
He did not have the courage to break somebody's cervical spine without proper facilities.
Furthermore, the patient is a prince of the nation where Ganghyuk lives.
If he made a mistake, he might pay for it with his life.
”Eum”
When he made moaned for a second time, Heo Jun approached him.
He looked at Ganghyuk with eyes filled with curiosity and expectations.
”What do you think? Do you have any disease in mind?”
”I would like to ask first. What treatments did you give him?”
Trials and errors of others can help people much.
That is why people want to read books regarding experiences of other people even though they were failures.
Ganghyuk belived people in Joseon had already known that.
After all, they made the saying 'Learn wisdom through the follies of others.'
”I…I thought…I am ashamed of presenting this…”
”It's ok. It is difficult for me to diagnose him with the symptoms we have.”
”Okay. Then I will tell you what I have done.”
Heo Jun sighed.
He opened his mouth looking around Dolseok, Yeoju, and Yeoni in the room.
”I judged it was because his highness did not have enough stamina.”
”Okay.”
It was natural for an oriental medicine doctor to think so.
The hand may tremble when blood sugar was too low or when the patient was deficient of other major nutrients.
Of course not onlythe hand, but other limbs tremble together.
Such as the muscles around the eyes, eyelids, or mouth.
”The symptoms were not limited to his hands. Therefore the restorative tonics I prescribed did not work.”
”Heum”
Heo Jun was an extraordinary man.