167 Chapter 40 (1/2)
”Hi, dad, hi, mayor, thanks so much for coming here!” With unusual politeness Kanghyok bowed to them.
”Oh, how are you son?” Sungmun recalled that Kanghyok had smallpox when he was a child. So, he asked with a worried look.
”I'm alright, dad. How are you?”
”Don't worry about me. I, too, have been there already as a child.”
The mayor waited patiently until their conversation was over.
If Sungmun had smallpox before and got over it, Kanghyok didn't need to worry about him because he already acquired immunity.
But Kanghyok was not sure if what his father said was really smallpox.
'He might have confused scarlet fever or measles with smallpox.' Patients with such diseases developed rashes on their faces.
”Dad, I think you should still take care. As I have a very effective medicine for smallpox, please take it.”
”Medicine for smallpox?”
”Yes, I have it.”
”How can I ignore your judgement? Got it.”
Obviously, Sungmun's att.i.tude changed after Kanghyok cured his malaria just recently.
Sungmun quickly got off the horse and approached Kanghyok. Then, he waited with a complacent look.
”Are you going to put this into my nostril?”
Sungmun made a frown after looking at Kanghyok's finger coated with something.
”Yes.”
”Are you making fun of me, son?”
”No, dad. I'm a doctor.”
The mayor, watching them on the side, smiled gently. ”Lord Paek, just go ahead. Your son's doing it for your sake.”
”You should get this, too, mayor.”
”Me, too?”
”Yes, if you don't want to have smallpox.”
”Good heavens!”
Sungmun and the mayor suddenly frowned. But in the end, they did as directed by Kanghyok.
”Ugh, it stinks!”
It was a cow's pus, never cleaned before. As it was, Kanghyok had to collect it from the cow's a.n.u.s part since he already collected the pus from other parts of the cow in several syringes and used them up.
'I'm so fortunate.' Dolsok s.h.i.+vered, watching Kanghyok push the cow's yellow pus into the mayor's and Sungmun's nostrils. He thought one hundred shots would be much better than that disgusting yellow pus.
Even the mayor and Sungmun had to ask Kanghyok begrudgingly, ”Was this the only way available?”
Kanghyok just shrugged his shoulders and said, ”Well, I could have put them in your mouth…”
”d.a.m.n it. No way!” Sungmun waved his hand, disgust evident after hearing that.
There were between 50 to 60 servants and soldiers combined who followed the mayor and Sungmun.
”Hey, Dolsok, Yoni. Get me some more pus into the basin.”
”In the basin?”
”Yeah, I need to put them into these patients' nostrils.”
”Oh, got it.”
Dolsok and Yoni gleefully squeezed the pus from the sick cow.
In the meantime, Joon Huh was examining the medicinal herbs carried on the carts. As Joon was new to the mayor, the latter approached the former with a frown on his face.
Several soldiers quickly followed him.
”Who are you?”
”How are you, sir? My name is Joon Huh, a doctor here.”
Joon, who was absent-minded while searching through the medicinal herbs, suddenly lowered his head.
”Joon Huh?”
”Yes, sir.”
”Joon Huh…”
The mayor tilted his head to one side as if he heard of it before.
It was Sungmun who heard that name.
”Do you know Lord Heechun Yu?”
”Yes, I do.”
”I see.”
Kanghyok had also heard of Heechun Yu.
His father said he once worked with Yu at Royal Academy.
It seemed Yu was very close to Sungmun. After he returned to his hometown after retirement, Yu had sent some gifts to Sungmun.
”I heard that someone saved Lord Yu's son, who almost lost his life, and it was you.”
”Oh, now I remember. It's you, Joon Huh!” the mayor now shouted his name as if he clearly recalled Joon's name.
The three began to chat in no time.
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It was the mayor who opened his mouth first, ”Oh, you're on your way to Hanyang now.”
”Yes, sir.”
”I hear you're heading to Royal Medical Service, right?”
”Yes, Lord Yu has recommended me. It's an honor for me.”
Royal Medical Service was responsible for making medicine for the king and palace people, and was also responsible for treating them.
In other words, Joon Huh was on his way to Hanyang to become a royal doctor.