Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 98

Chapter 98

Ha Dae-bung had hit the nail with the doctors’ weak spot. Jin So-ah was the same: all doctors were obsessed with improving their medical skills.

This was due to their belief that if their medical skills were high, patients would naturally turn to them.

However, most patients did not want a divine doctor with high medical skills, but simply sought a reliable doctor.

While it would be good to entrust one’s own body to a divine doctor with great medical skills, that would naturally cost a lot of money and most patients did not have enough money to spend generously on doctors.

Therefore, if a reasonably reliable reputation and affordable treatment rates were promoted, patients would inevitably meet.

Ha Dae-bung’s prospect of seeing the clinic not as a sacred place to heal people, but as a business, had triumphed.

“Now we just need to stabilize things.”

What particular problem could there be? I will do what I can.

“Well, who knows, maybe thieves will come in tonight.

“Haha, surely not.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled brilliantly.

***

“Why isn’t there a single patient today?”

U-myeong, the owner of the Sacred Hand Hall, was furious as he looked at the empty courtyard.

More than one shijin had already passed since treatment began, but having no clients was the first time since opening.

“E-That’s…”

A doctor shuddered at the scolding and opened his mouth.

A new clinic opened across the street. Today is their opening day, so everyone came in mass…

“What?”

The blood vessels swelled in U-myeong’s face.

Did they open a new clinic? You stood by and watched everything happen!

“It happened so fast…”

“Idiots!”

U-myeong groaned.

Still, let all patients go there!

“The newly opened clinic is called Sacred Hand Hall.”

“Sacred Hand Hall?”

U-myeong muttered: “Oh, no.”

“If there is no master of the Sacred Hand Hall, how can there be a Sacred Hand Hall? What the hell is going on?”

“This young son of the Sacred Hand Hall is said to have opened the clinic.”

“Grrr.”

U-myeong shook his hand.

First bring me a glass of cold water!

“Yes!”

U-myeong drank the cold water brought by the servant and sat on the wooden floor.

“Sacred Hand Hall…”

Although they also cleverly used the name Sacred Hand Hall, if the real one had returned, it made sense for people to come there.

“That’s why I said to crush them well!”

Everything had gone well since they made the master of the Sacred Hand Hall fall into gambling addiction and ruined the Sacred Hand Hall, but who knew that problems would grow this way.

“What should we do?”

“What do you mean, what should we do?”

No matter what methods they used, it was impossible for a forgery to compete with the real one. Moreover, after using its monopolistic position to generate enough resentment, even at the same price, many more people would seek the real Sacred Hand Hall.

This is a task entrusted by the young master. If anything happens during his absence, everything will be my responsibility.

But there is no way? If we had known beforehand, we could have avoided it with money, but now that is also impossible.

“Hmm, it’s tragic.”

“Excuse me?”

For the young doctor at the Sacred Hand Hall, who barely recovered and died tragically at the hands of the robbers who broke in last night, how tragic is that? Be sure to give a generous donation of condolences at the funeral.

The doctor bowed his head and responded.

“I will make sure that those who suffered misfortunes do not feel despised.”

“Yes, that’s what makes us human.”

U-myeong smiled brilliantly.

***

“Oh, I’m dying.”

Jin So-ah spread out in bed.

“Oh, I’m really dying.”

The number of patients he attended today seemed to easily exceed a hundred. Instead of the patients rushing in as soon as he sent them, the next patient came in and waited while he continued to attend to the current one, which made him beat his heart hard and ran cold sweat all over his body.

“You have worked hard, Master of the Hall.”

Ha Dae-bung smiled constantly and seemed very happy about something.

“Will so many people come tomorrow too?”

About a hundred people were left without treatment because today it was too late. They will return running in the morning, so they should rest in advance.

“Oh God.”

Jin So-ah’s eyes went blank.

“Do I have to keep doing this?”

After half a month, the influx will be reduced a little. Right now, patients who are not so sick also come in bulk for reputation, but later that type of patients should decrease a little.

The doctors I met seemed calmer…

“They were well fed.”

In the cold words of Ha Dae-bung, Jin So-ah trembled.

“But… but you’re saying that after half a month, things will be a little easier.

“That’s not the case.”

“Why not?”

When patients decrease, we will also have to reduce the number of doctors. The basis of every business is investment and economy. We have made all the necessary investments, so when patients decrease, we must reduce the number of doctors to reduce labor costs. In conclusion, the number of patients that the Chief of Room should attend will not decrease.

Ha Dae-bung’s words that reached his ears touched Jin So-ah’s heart.

“Urgh.”

Looking at Jin So-ah, who was half passed out and collapsed, Ha Dae-bung smiled slightly and left.

“More patients are arriving here than expected.”

Although it was a business plan he had devised, the answer exceeded his expectations. This meant that many people had not received the right treatment.

If things go on like this, it would be fine, but doctors could be overburdened right now.

“Hey, is anyone there?”

“Yes, General Manager!”

Tell the pharmacy manager to prepare tonics for doctors to consume. Tell him to spare no expense with the ingredients.

“Understood.”

“They can’t collapse.”

Ha Dae-bung laughed between his teeth.

Everyone was like a gold nugget that generated money. I couldn’t let those people fall apart without making money.

Somehow, squeezing them…

What kind of bastards are these!

“Huh?”

When he turned his head to the place where the sound came from, he saw a group of people in black pajamas jumping over the wall and entering. His appearance — with swords in one hand and pajamas — clearly indicated that they did not jump the wall with good intentions.

“Grrrr…”

Seeing that scene, Ha Dae-bung sighed deeply and pulled a bag of money out of his sleeve.

“A nyang.”

“Grrr.”

Ha Dae-bung opened the bag of money, pulled out a silver coin and threw it into the ceiling.

Hit.

One hand stretched out from beyond the ceiling and grabbed the shiny silver.

– See, I told you they were coming today.

“Grr, I thought it would take at least three days, but they are too impatient.”

Don’t you know the saying “know yourself and your enemy, and you’ll never be defeated”? If you’re going to attack an opponent, at least you should investigate it first!

What general who simply charged shouting “attack” without thinking was successful?

“Grr.”

Normally, even when you infiltrate, wouldn’t one secretly infiltrate or attack after people fell asleep? By watching them jump over the wall openly while people were still moving around the courtyard, you could sense their impatience.

Or maybe they planned not to leave a single person alive inside that night.

“Since you predicted it, you should have prepared yourself for it too.”

Wei Yan-ho jumped off the roof.

“Head.”

Wei Yan-ho, who had slightly lowered his head, began to laugh.

“How dare you try to touch my source of income!”

Wei Yan-ho’s eyes were burning with fire.

How much had I invested in this business and they were already trying to ruin it from day one?

“Those bastards didn’t even hear about the Golden Flowers Hall incident?”

Ha Dae-bung shook his head.

Those who had jumped the wall saw Ha Dae-bung and Wei Yan-ho standing there and spoke sinisterly.

“Head, today is tragic…”

At that time, Wei Yan-ho grabbed a broom and charged the masked men.

You should give them a chance to talk!

It’s not happening.

“Oh dear.”

Ha Dae-bung snapped his tongue.

If what flew up there in the sky were birds, it would have been a beautiful spectacle, but since they were people, it couldn’t help being a tragic spectacle.

Having demonstrated the miracle of blowing humans without wings across the sky, Wei Yan-ho was now demonstrating the miracle of making humans—not hoops—roll on the ground at tremendous speed.

“Kyaaaaaah!”

Good sound.

Ha Dae-bung had no choice but to contemplate what humanity really was as he watched the feast of humans rolling wildly on the ground, jumping into the sky and constantly colliding against the walls.

“…They should have collected information before coming.”

If they had known that Wei Yan-ho had defeated the Black Paper Workshop alone, they would not have dared to think of jumping over the wall of the Sacred Hand Hall where Wei Yan-ho was.

“Well, I guess.”

That’s not something that would come to light even if it were investigated.

While the Wei Yan-ho commotion in the Golden Flowers Hall was known as the “Golden Flowers Hall Incident” and became a famous story in Hubei, since no one directly witnessed the collapse of the Black Paper Workshop, it was not known that it was Wei Yan-ho’s work.

So maybe it was inevitable.

However, it was heartbreaking that they could not wait a day and come jumping over the wall tonight, causing Ha Dae-bung’s precious silver nyang to fly away.

“Kyah!”

“When the previous night’s infiltrator let out a strange cry and fell, Ha Dae-bung shook his head and approached Wei Yan-ho.”

“…You have worked hard.”

“How dare you!”

Seeing Wei Yan-ho full of anger saddened him a little. This gentleman, who used to hate even moving a little bit, was so fast when it came to money, that he inevitably made him reflect on true humanity.

“Urrr…”

Wei Yan-ho grabbed the head of the night infiltrator who had laid in front of him.

Oh, hey, hey, hair, hair!

Isn’t this mask taken off?

Cabello, you got my hair, ay ay!

“Hey, isn’t it working well?”

I’ll take it off!

“…Why are you angry?”

When Wei Yan-ho, slightly sulking, stepped back, the masked man grabbed his mask, ripped it off and threw it to the ground.

“Do we meet again?”

“…do you know me?”

“I’ve seen you once before, Master of the Sacred Hand Hall.”

“Grr.”

The Master of the Sacred Hand Hall, U-myeong, fell heavily on the ground, thinking that everything was ruined. This monstrous guy had left all the martial artists he had cultivated with so much care unable to even serve as guards, rolling on the ground.

The man who went up to heaven to look at the moon earlier… was questionable if he could even walk with his own feet in the future.

“We are…”

“Ah, it doesn’t matter.”

Wei Yan-ho yawned widely and shook his hand.

“I’m not particularly curious to know under what circumstances or who sent you.”

“Even so, it would be appropriate to explain this…”

“It doesn’t matter. I’ve already contacted the authorities, so go and have them investigate you. That’s the task of the authorities, not mine.

The servants tied U-myeong with a rope, who had become like a honey-eating mute.

“This, more or less, sums everything up.”

“You’ve worked hard.”

Ha Dae-bung and Wei Yan-ho looked at each other and smiled. “Now all that money needed to be hoarded in Hubei.”

– But with all this fuss, don’t you wake up?

“…must resemble the Great Teacher of the Hall.”

Wei Yan-ho snapped his tongue as he looked at the tightly closed door of the Master’s room of the Hall that was not opened.

Jin So-ah was deeply asleep in his dreams, not realizing anything.