Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 57

Chapter 57

This is a medical clinic. I may not know anything else, but hygiene is fundamental. If someone with dirty clothes and body wanders around a place frequented by patients with health problems, it will hurt them. So, please wash.

Wei Yan-ho nodded with a serious expression.

Jin So-ah’s face was illuminated by the thought that Wei Yan-ho had finally understood his words. However, he could not help but feel discouraged by what happened next.

Don’t worry, I won’t leave here, if you really mind, I won’t even open the door.

Jin So-ah looked at Wei Yan-ho with empty eyes.

No matter what I said, no matter what I asked, no matter what methods I used… this was fundamentally a broken human being.

I was closer to a beast than a human.

‘At least animals hunt when they are hungry and go to water sources.’

He was no worse than a beast!

What Jin So-ah could not understand was how such a person had received a letter of introduction from his uncle. Moon Yu-hwan, known as the Great Scholar of the Three Excellencies, was famous throughout the world for his noble character even before being his uncle.

Jin So-ah could not understand at all how Moon Yu-hwan had written a letter of introduction for such a lazy man and had sent him there.

‘Is it a fraud?’

To be a fraud, it was worrying that he knew about the relationship between Moon Yu-hwan and his late father.

Jin So-ah, who had been watching Wei Yan-ho empty his food table for a while, shook his head and rose from his seat.

“Please enjoy your food.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled brilliantly with duck fat spread around his mouth.

Even that vision was terrible for Jin So-ah.

“Is that person still doing the same thing?”

Jin So-ah shivered as if he didn’t want to think about it.

Yeah, sister, since day one, he’s been stuck on the floor without moving out of his room, except to eat or go to the bathroom, I’ve never seen him standing, let alone sitting, it’s been more than seven weeks.

Jin Ye-ran laughed at Jin So-ah’s complaint.

How long has it been since your younger brother expressed emotions this way?

After the death of their father and the deterioration of the family situation, he had always behaved like an adult who did not correspond to his age. It seemed that the guest loitering in the room had taken Jin So-ah out of his mind.

“What do you dislike?”

“I have never seen such a lazy person in my life.”

“Then has that person hurt you in any way?”

“That’s not all.”

Jin Ye-ran nodded.

“Then you should not speak ill of that person either. As much as you dislike him, he is someone who came from our late father’s connections.

Jin So-ah, who would normally have agreed, could not back down this time and responded with a dissatisfied expression.

“It doesn’t matter if he’s our late father’s guest, I don’t know how long we’ll have to feed and house someone who isn’t of any help.”

“He said he came to observe the medical clinic, so if he sees or feels anything, he’ll be on his way.”

How can you observe a medical clinic from your room? And what about the price of the food you eat?

“You don’t need to worry about money.”

“But…”

You’re a doctor, focus on saving people, leave me with trivial matters like money.

Jin So-ah’s face still reflected dissatisfaction, but he did not respond. Since his father’s death, no, even before, Jin Ye-ran had been like a mother to him.

Jin So-ah stood up.

“I’ll get out.”

“Okay.”

Jin So-ah opened the door and went out. Looking up into the sky, Jin So-ah sighed deeply.

“I sigh.”

Creeeak!

At that time, the door of Wei Yan-ho’s room opened and Wei Yan-ho wobbled out with his eyes half closed.

Seeing this, Jin So-ah lit up and approached Wei Yan-ho.

“You’ve decided to wash!”

Wei Yan-ho looked at Jin So-ah from top to bottom as if to ask him what he was talking about and then said with indifference.

Today it’s a little cold in the room, so I’m going to sleep on the roof.

“Excuse me?”

It’s hot and it’s nice. You want us to go up together?

Jin So-ah looked at Wei Yan-ho with a downed expression and shook his head.

“No, thank you.”

“As you wish.”

Wei Yan-ho laughed between teeth and leaped quickly to the straw roof. Jin So-ah looked at him with surprise.

‘He was a martial artist?’

Someone who could jump onto a one-jump roof had to have learned martial arts.

‘Still…’

As good a martial artist as it was, such a lazy person could not have skills superior to those of others. It was probably something he had learned here and there.

” Tsk tsk. ”

Jin So-ah snapped his tongue and turned around.

Whether Jin So-ah snapped his tongue or not, Wei Yan-ho yawned as he lay dispatched on the straw roof.

“l yawn.”

Since he learned the Dream Training Technique, as much as he slept, he continued to feel sleep. The Dream Training Technique that Baek Mu-han had taught Wei Yan-ho for fear of her laziness had actually made it worse.

It was an unexpected side effect that even Baek Mu-han had not thought about.

“As much as I sleep, I still feel sleep…”

Wei Yan-ho had always been someone who eight sleepshijins a day found insufficient, but after learning the Dream Training Technique, he felt an excessive dream that even he considered excessive. As much as he slept, he had to train in his dreams, so his fatigue did not diminish and ended up sleeping even more.

– I don’t know, then I’ll sleep more.

Wei Yan-ho just thought about it.

If worrying about it produced no solution, it was better at least to reassure him.

Wei Yan-ho turned his head slightly to look down.

Jin So-ah was touring the rooms to check the patients.

The daily routine of the physician that Wei Yan-ho had observed was quite simple.

He examined the conditions of patients who came to visit or care for patients whose conditions were critical enough to require a stay at the clinic for treatment.

“It’s not a particularly difficult job…”

Knowing the medical arts was difficult, but practicing them did not seem difficult. Observing patient details, applying acupuncture and preparing medications seemed to be all that needed to be done.

The real challenge was not to treat patients.

“You’re better now, so you can go home.”

Thank you, but I have nothing to give you right now.

“When your circumstances improve later, help me then.”

“Doctor, how can I repay you this kindness…”

Wei Yan-ho snapped his tongue.

Acupuncture did not cost money, but using medicines did. Medicinal herbs were expensive because they were difficult to get, and medicines made with expensive herbs could not be cheap.

Using such expensive herbs to treat people and not receive payment meant that the clinic’s finances could not survive.

Because they did not receive the right payment, they always lacked money and, because of that, it was impossible to even dream of really expensive herbs or expensive procedures.

As a result, people with money went to other clinics, and only people without money came to Sacred Hand Hall on word of mouth recommendation. In the end, with the influx of people without money, the more the clinic operated, the more money they lacked: a vicious circle.

The reason Wei Yan-ho had a hard time finding the Sacred Hand Hall at first was also because of this. They had provided so many free treatments that people called it “Free Medical Clinic” instead of “Sacred Hand Hall”.

If Wei Yan-ho had asked where the place providing free treatment was, he could have found it easily without having to go through several people.

“They are digging their own grave in business.”

While others might be moved by the good hearts of the clinic, Wei Yan-ho instead found them pathetic.

Right then.

“Is anyone there?”

A group of people ran into the clinic.

Jin So-ah was startled by the crowd approaching and shouted.

“What’s going on!”

Behind the group, about ten patients were taken on stretchers. Jin So-ah, who had become pale, asked about the situation.

“What happened?”

They are workers of the quarry! There was a detachment of rocks and they were seriously injured! We only brought those who were still breathing!

“Oh, no…”

At first glance, there were several patients who seemed so critical that they could die at any time.

Sister, please come out quickly!

The door opened suddenly and Jin Ye-ran ran away.

Looking around and instantly understanding the situation, Jin Ye-ran shouted.

Classify the patients! Send the critical patients to the inner rooms immediately and the non-critical patients to the outer rooms. Quickly!

“Yes, sister!”

Jin So-ah shouted.

“Take this patient, that patient and that patient from there to the outside rooms and prepare hot water.”

“Yes, doctor!”

“And the remaining patients…”

Jin Ye-ran shouted.

“Put them down!”

“Excuse me?”

There’s no time to get in. Throw those people down on the ground right now!

Before Jin Ye-ran’s authoritarian voice, those who carried the patients on stretchers hurriedly laid them on the ground. Jin Ye-ran ran immediately to them and pulled golden needles out of his chest.

Then he began to insert the gold needles through his clothes.

“Sister!”

You don’t see the other patients, you think you’ll let them all die?

“Ah, understood!”

Jin So-ah also hastily sold the blood-bearing wounds and inserted golden needles into the acupuncture points of the patients.

‘There aren’t enough hands!’

Jin So-ah moved his hands urgently, but the number of patients he could attend simultaneously was limited. There were about seven patients who would die if they did not receive immediate treatment, but it was impossible for Jin So-ah and Jin Ye-ran to attend to them all alone.

‘If only one more person…’

The only ones able to provide proper treatment at the Sacred Hand Hall were Jin So-ah and Jin Ye-ran. The butler, with some experience in emergency care, had gone to look for medicinal herbs, and the medical auxiliaries who attended patients did not have the necessary skills to help.

“Wow.”

Jin So-ah cursed as he bandaged the chest of a trembling patient.

The chest was open and if I let him go now, the patient would die.

“Cough!”

At that time, a patient standing right next to him started coughing blood.

“ Gorgoteo! ”

Jin So-ah’s face paled mortally. His spitting blood blocked his airways. If not immediately, the obstruction could cause death. But he couldn’t let it go, and Jin Ye-ran seemed to be in the same situation.

‘No!’

At that moment he saw someone’s legs in front of him.

Jin So-ah looked up with hope. Wei Yan-ho snapped her tongue with her face covered in tears.

“Tsk tsk, they are seriously injured.”

Wei Yan-ho looked at the patients lying on the ground moaning, then snapped his tongue and shook his head.

“You should be more careful.”

Then he snapped his tongue and turned around.

Jin So-ah screamed in panic.

“Where are you going?”

To my room?

“Please help us!”

Wei Yan-ho bowed his head as if he were asking what he was talking about.

“Help? How can I help with the medical arts? It would be much better to ask the servants for help than me.”

“I heard martial artists learn some degree of emergency treatment for external and internal injuries in case of injury!”

“That’s right.”

—So you should be able to perform emergency treatments in patients with external injuries like these, right?

Wei Yan-ho shook his head.

“It should usually be like this, but I learned everything in a hasty and rough way, so I don’t know.”

Jin So-ah’s face was contorted.

Then Wei Yan-ho protested as if he had been hurt.

“It’s really true!”

It was true, but given what he had done, who would believe Wei Yan-ho’s words? Even if they hurt him, it was all karma of his own actions.

“It’s true though…”