Chapter 141 (2/2)

As Kanghyok didn't expect much in the first place, he wasn't disappointed, either.

‘I wish I could remember what I did right before I came here.' He could recall that he did touch something. Though he didn't know what it was, it was of use anyway.

“Oh, I see. Thanks for letting me know,” said Kanghyok.

“Sorry to have let you down.”

“No, that's alright. Keep asking, will you?”

“Yes, master. Let me ask the patients furtively.”

“Sounds good. Thanks.” After he sent her back, he looked around the yard. There were lots of people crowded already even early in the morning.

‘The sun is getting hotter…' It's already early summer. It was around early spring that Kanghyok traveled back into old Korea, so time pa.s.sed very quickly. But he couldn't find any clue to go back to modern Korea. There was a growing possibility that he might have to settle down here.

‘d.a.m.n it. Let me just focus on work and make money.' The more he makes money, the better. That would be the same in old Korea as modern Korea.

At Dolsok's handing out patient tickets, the patients gathered around him.

“Dolsok, get me a patient now.”

“Yes, master. Now, our master will start his work. Come inside in numerical order.”

They then rushed in all at the same time.

“Hey hey, come in one by one!” Dolsok didn't hesitate to point his finger at them even though they were all n.o.blemen. So, even a higher n.o.bleman had no choice but to wait for his turn.

Kanghyok asked an old man on the bed, “So, how about your condition now?”

“Much better since I took pill you gave me.”

“I see. Let me check…”

When he put the stethoscope on the man's belly, he rarely heard any bubbling up now. “You don't have to worry as it's not an infectious disease. You don't have to take medicine anymore.”

“Thanks so much, sir.” The patient unloaded a bag of rice on the cart in return for his service and then left.

‘That's more than enough for Dolsok's one-day meal.'

The patients offered various types of payments in kind. Typically n.o.blemen gave leather, slices of boiled meat or fish meat, while commoners usually offered rice.

A certain patient received his treatment and tried to take back rice, but usually it was Makbong or Yoni who handled patients like him.

“You a mean rat! How can you steal before my eyes?” Yoni shouted at the young man who was taller than her.

“Oops, I've done something wrong. Forgive me.”

“I can't let you go like this.” Then she bounced up and kicked his shoulder with her heel.

“What a life!” he groaned.

Looking at that spectacle for a long moment, Kanghyok came out of the examination room.

“Are you hurt?”

“Yes, sir. Please forgive me.”

“Looks like your shoulder got loose as you fell. Let me fix it. Eighteen kilograms of rice for your service, okay?”

“Eighteen kilograms of rice? That's too much…”

“Otherwise I'll report you to the police for stealing. Makbong!”

“Yes, master.”

The guy was white-faced now.

“Got it, sir. Will do as ordered,” the guy said.

“You will feel a bit hurt, so endure it.”

Kanghyok put his shoulder in its original place miraculously.

Looking at his shoulder here and there, he kept lowering his head and said, “Thanks so much. Thanks.”

“Okay.”

“Let me go now then, sir.”

“Crazy, man. Hey, Makbong. Follow him and exact the rice from him.”

“Yes, master.”

At that moment Kanghyok looked out the examining room as he heard disturbances outside.

“Who are they?”

It looked like another high-ranking official stopped by. With an official belt around his waist, a n.o.bleman on a horse was looking down with arrogant eyes.

“Clear the way, you b.a.s.t.a.r.ds! Here comes the governor of Ansung County!” Petty officials moved around with clubs.

Kanghyok was aware of the ranks of officials in old Korea. The mayor of Suwon belonged to the third highest rank group. On the other hand, the county governor was only in the sixth highest rank group. Though Kanghyok had no official rank t.i.tle, he was not the type of person that the Ansung County Head could treat arrogantly.

Besides, Kanghyok was now in the boundary of the Suwon mayor's residence.

‘He is new to me. It looks like he doesn't know this house is the Suwon mayor's.'

Without paying attention to him, he saw his patient as usual.

While he was in the thick of treating a patient, a petty official came to him and asked, “Where is the doctor? The Governor of Ansung County wants to see him. Come out quickly!”

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