Chapter 137 (2/2)

“Can he direct the performance?”

This time Makbong lowered his head quickly.

“Oh, yes, I'll help him, sir.”

“Okay, it's good to know he is healthy now. Take this pill for him for today.”

Yoni received it..

“Thanks so much, sir.”

But Makbong said, as if he was not satisfied.

“Can you give me some more pills?”

Kanghyok antic.i.p.ated such questions and had the ready answers, too.

Without changing any facial expression, he replied,

“I'm sorry I can't. I can make this much per day.”

“Oh, I see…”

“Yeah, this is pretty precious. This is the one and only pill in the world.”

In fact, he had plenty of pills in the back.

But he had just one at the moment.

Yoni and Makbong were embarra.s.sed and expressed thanks to him, lowering their heads repeatedly.

“Sure, we got it. Thanks so much.”

“If you are not tied up so much, can you come to our performance today?”

Yoni cautiously invited him.

Touching his lower chin, Kanghyok said, “Isn't the mayor supposed to invite people?”

“That's correct, but who can stop you if you want to come?”

Looking around dozens of servants gathered at the large yard, Yoni said.

“Oh, as my father is going anyway, I can go with him anyway,” said Kanghyok.

There was nothing to lose even if Kanghyok to make friends with the higher-ups there.

“See you again at the performance.”

“Yes, sir. We're leaving now. Thanks.”

Stepping back, both of them walked out the door.

Before they disappeared from his eyes, Kanghyok turned his head.

For Sungmun called him.

“Who were they? Looks like they are not normal.”

Given the way they were dressed and spoke, they looked shabby.

Kanghyok had a ready answer to that.

As he gave lots of lectures as a famous professor in modern Korea, he was just eloquent.

“They are the family members of a patent that I treated at the market yesterday.”

“Yesterday?”

“Yes. By the way, are you going to the acrobatic team's performance?”

“Yeah, you said you wouldn't go.”

“I'm going to go with you.”

“You, too? Hurry up now. All the higher-ups nearby come to the performance. So, be dressed up well.”

“Yes, dad.”

“As Kanghyok is coming with me, get him a horse.”

“Yes, sir.”

Kanghyok went into his room right away.

Looking in the mirror, he found his hair disheveled all over.

‘Hummm.. Can I comb it up?'

He recalled Sungmun's nice hair-do.

Taking his cue from it, he mended his hair likewise.

Obviously Sungmun was satisfied with his clean appearance.

“You look much better now. Let's go.”

“Yes, dad.”

The servants brought a horse for Kanghyok.

Sungmun got on a horse skillfully.

Kanghyok has never got on a horse, to the best of his memory.

‘Oh, maybe I did once. In Cheju Island.'

Dolsok quickly helped him get on a horse.

“Thanks, Dolsok.”

“Let's go now.”

While he was riding a horse to the performance place, he kept searching for something.

As Dolsok kept shouting ‘Paek family of Suwon,' Kanghyok knew he was in Suwon now.

‘But I don't see Hwasung Castle here…'

Wherever he looked around, he couldn't see Hwasung Castle.

That meant the old Korea, or Chosun, he was in now was before the period of KIng Chongjo's reign.

‘This must be Chosun in the 16th, or 17th century…'

While he was lost in thought, Dolsok pulled up the reigns quickly.

“We arrived at the destination.”

In the broad yard of the mayor were various acrobatic equipment installed, including the tightropes and swings.

Sungmun headed for the mayor and the governor, and Kanghyok took a seat way down.

Geishas began to sit next to the higher-ups one by one and served them.

Kanghyok looked at the acrobatic team.

In no time Pyonsu came out, who looked healthy like Yoni said.

“Your Excellency, let me introduce ourselves.”

“Sure.”

“We'll do our best to please you.”

As soon as Pyonsu finished introduction, they began to perform.

The performance itself was the same as yesterday.

As Kanghyok instructed, Pyonsu didn't appear until the end of the performance.

When he was bowing politely to them, the mayor of Suwon asked,

“I hear you were almost dead yesterday. Are you okay?”

Given that the mayor knew in detail, obviously some keisha told him about the incident last night.

“Yes, sir. I'm fully recovered now.”

“Who did treat you? Looks like he has awesome medical skills.”

Swallowing dry salivar, Pyonsu looked at Kanghyok.

“Pardon me to say this, but the n.o.bleman over there, scholar Paek has cured me.”

It was the moment that a whole new side of Kanghyok, widely rumored as a sc.u.m in the area, got recognized for the first time by the higher-ups there.

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