Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 99

Chapter 99

Jin So-ah collapsed, forgetting about food and everything else.

Chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing.

“This is delicious!”

“……”

If that person wasn’t in front of me, I think my appetite would come back a little.

He was someone whose reasoning was incomprehensible: why he chose to eat at the same table in Jin So-ah’s room when there were countless other rooms available.

“Don’t you eat?”

Jin So-ah stared at Wei Yan-ho, who was taking the big meat skewer placed in front of Jin So-ah and taking it to his mouth.

“How is it possible for food to go down when you have someone dying of exhaustion right in front of you?”

“Delicious!”

“Wow.”

Jin So-ah massaged his arms and legs.

At this rate, first I will become patient. Nowadays I don’t even have time to study.

“That’s because you’re lazy, lazy.”

“What?”

Jin So-ah touched his ears.

Did I hear wrong?

He never imagined that the day would come when Wei Yan-ho would call him lazy.

Let’s talk about the pot calling the kettle black…

No, this was an insult to pots and teapots.

Even if everyone could talk about laziness, Wei Yan-ho was the only person who shouldn’t say those things.

Jin So-ah trembled and screamed.

Anyone could say that, but young Master Wei shouldn’t say those things!

“Why can’t I say it?”

“Young Master Wei is the number one loafer in the world!”

“That’s exactly why I know lazy people well.”

“… eh?”

Now that I think about it, does it make sense?

Those who have eaten know food well, and those who have drunk know alcohol well, and those who have been lazy know laziness well.

Jin So-ah was surprised nodding unconsciously. He was strangely persuasive.

Anyway, it’s really hard. Can I really develop as a doctor like that?

“Of course.”

Wei Yan-ho said while he was putting rice in his mouth.

Divine doctors are often elderly. Have you ever seen a famous young doctor?

“No.”

There are many wonders in the world, but none in medicine. If one could become a famous doctor by just reading medical texts, then divine doctors should also appear at an early age.

“Please finish what you’re eating before you talk…”

Seeing Jin So-ah’s grimace, Wei Yan-ho snapped his tongue.

That’s because medicine develops by caring for patients! You care for more patients than anyone else, so you can develop more than anyone else.

“Oh!”

Jin So-ah nodded vigorously and said:

“What an incredibly plausible lie!”

“Did I give it away?”

“Yes.”

“But it’s true.”

“…I’ve never seen anyone I can’t trust.”

Jin So-ah spoke dryly and took rice into his mouth. He had no appetite, but if he did not eat, he could not stand the afternoon consultations.

“But what happened last night?”

“Nothing happened.”

At dawn, the members of the Sacred Hand Hall were dragged into the government office. Since Wei Yan-ho had threatened, the Sacred Hand Hall would probably be half destroyed in a day or two.

– Then it will be a victory without bloodshed.

With the only non-competence doctor destroyed, the Sacred Hand Hall would certainly consolidate its position as Hubei’s only major medical clinic.

“Ahem.”

Having finished his meal, Wei Yan-ho slept where he was.

“Now I can just watch the show and eat rice cakes.”

Everything Wei Yan-ho needed to do about the Sacred Hand Hall was practically finished. Now there was nothing to do, even if he wanted to.

Wei Yan-ho thought all the problems were solved and he could stay calm.

No, he thought he could rest.

“Tell the Master of the Hall to come out.”

“Miss, this is problematic for us.”

Tell the Master of the Hall to leave immediately.

The servants were nervous.

A woman at the door asked about the Master of the Hall. Normally, if something like this happened, she would have been thrown out with bamboo sticks immediately, but did not this woman claim to be the elder sister of the Master of the Hall?

If by chance that was true, they could not bear the consequences of treating her harshly. In the end, they had no choice but to grudgingly contact the Master of the Hall.

I’ll inform the Master of the Hall immediately, this is a place with patients, if he keeps yelling like that, he’ll scare them.

By mentioning the word patients, the woman shook and nodded.

The mention that patients might suffer damage seemed to move her.

“Then I will wait here, so please call the Master of the Hall as quickly as possible.”

Wait, please.

The servant left the woman there standing and ran inside.

He thought he would definitely push her away if it wasn’t true, but the impact of a woman claiming to be the Master’s sister in the Hall and asking for him at the door was tremendous.

This made the master of the living room, who never left the treatment room, run barefoot to the door.

“Sister!”

Jin So-ah jumped and screamed when he discovered that Jin Ye-ran was waiting for him at the door.

“Come here.”

Jin Ye-ran called Jin So-ah with a severe face.

“Ah, please come in.”

“Do you want me to go in there?”

Faced with Jin Ye-ran’s sharp voice, Jin So-ah hesitated, unable to do this or that.

What saved him was a low voice that was heard from behind.

“With so many patients here, do you plan on having a family fight in front of them?”

At Wei Yan-ho’s words as he approached slowly, Jin Ye-ran looked around her with a serious face. “The patient line was long. Anything that was said in front of them would be a shame to the Sacred Hand Hall.

“Please come in, sister.”

“Mmm…”

Jin Ye-ran nodded and followed Jin So-ah.

Naturally, she had to pass where Wei Yan-ho was, but even when she did, she did not address Wei Yan-ho a single look.

“A cold wind blows.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled and followed the two to the office of the Master of the Hall.

Upon entering the office of the Master of the Hall, Jin So-ah offered the seat of honor to Jin Ye-ran.

“Please sit down, sister.”

But Jin Ye-ran did not even look at the seat of honor and sat on a side seat. When Wei Yan-ho entered and sat in front of her, Jin So-ah looked around him, not finding where to sit.

What are you doing?

“……”

Jin So-ah looked at the honor seat with worried eyes and then sat down as if he had no other choice.

“What’s this all about?”

Jin So-ah found it difficult to explain it. The question was too broad. I didn’t know where to start.

“First, well…”

“Stop immediately and come back.”

“Excuse me?”

“Medicine is the art of beneficence, it’s not business for merchants, but now you’re doing business with medicine.”

Jin So-ah looked at Jin Ye-ran with a subtle expression.

“Doctors aren’t people too?”

“What did you say?”

Jin Ye-ran looked at him with a slightly surprised face at Jin So-ah’s outburst.

“I said, aren’t doctors people too? Everyone else tries to make money and reach fame to achieve success and honor, so why do doctors always have to live in poverty, eating watered porridge?”

“Have you forgotten the teachings of our ancestors?”

“Sister!”

Jin So-ah said with a severe face.

“These ancestors lived in towering houses. The Sacred Hand Hall building is still there; say nothing more. Anyone can say with their mouths that medicine must be given freely. But did our ancestors not live comfortably also from the money they earned from medicine?”

“That was a natural consequence of practicing medicine. Why don’t you understand that you didn’t make money with the intention of profiting with medicine?”

“It is the Sister who does not understand!”

Jin Ye-ran was surprised by Jin So-ah’s attitude as he looked at her with firm eyes.

‘Since when did this child…?’

She had always thought that Jin So-ah was young, but seeing him look her directly in the eye and express her opinions made her feel upset, but also proud.

That he had his own opinions was very good. The problem was that they were very different from the ones Jin Ye-ran had in mind.

“Medicine is the art of benevolence.”

“I do not deny that it is the art of benevolence. But if doctors must starve to practice charitable medicine, who would want to practice it? It is not I, but the Sister, who does not follow the path of our ancestors correctly.”

“……”

Jin Ye-ran bit his lips hard.

She had tried to raise him as an excellent doctor without defects in inheriting the name of Sacred Hand Hall, but in the end, Jin So-ah had chosen the path of a merchant.

What do you think our late father would think when he saw you now?

Jin So-ah didn’t back down.

“My father wanted to save the Sacred Hand Hall even by betting. If the glory of the Sacred Hand Hall did not depend on money, why would he have chosen that path? My father also knew it. Without money, it would be impossible to spread the name of the Sacred Hand Hall. Why is the sister the only one who does not understand it?”

“Don’t you think that’s precisely why it failed? Because we deviated from the true path of medicine, the name of the Sacred Hand Hall couldn’t last. So, shouldn’t we take the path of medicine, even now?”

“Stop it.”

Jin So-ah rose abruptly.

“I don’t think what I’m doing now is the right path either. I have neither the arrogance nor the presumption that I’m following the right path. But I also know that if we do what the Sister wants, we could spend our whole life without spreading the name of the Sacred Hand Hall again throughout the world. Look. The Sacred Hand Hall, with which we fought for years just to find out that it was ruined, is spreading its name throughout Hubei in just a few days.”

“Ah!”

“I am not one of those who obey the Sister. The Sister should follow her path. I will let the world know, in my own way, that the Sacred Hand Hall has not died.”

“Are you really going to challenge my words?”

Jin So-ah told Jin Ye-ran with his eyes sunk.

“It’s no challenge, sister.”

“……”

“It is not a challenge, but a decision of my own. As much as my sister is my sister, I am the rightful heir to the Sacred Hand Hall. I alone have the right to use the name of the Sacred Hand Hall and to decide its direction.”

Jin Ye-ran’s eyes trembled.

At that time, Jin So-ah was declaring his independence from her.

She had thought that one day he would leave her embrace and spread his wings toward the world, but she had never dreamed that it would happen at this time and in this way.

“I will make the Sacred Hand Hall the largest medical institution in Central Plains as Master of the Hall. So, Sister, please don’t interfere with me any more.”

After saying that, Jin So-ah left the Hall Master’s office with heavy steps.

“Hey!”

Jin Ye-ran called him, but Jin So-ah left without looking back.

Jin Ye-ran, who was staring at the door through which Jin So-ah had gone, turned his head with cold, resentful eyes and stared at Wei Yan-ho.

“Ah, what’s going on?”

Wei Yan-ho, suddenly under a visual attack, shivered and sank into his chair.

“All this is thanks to you, young hero!”

“What?”

“I asked you to lead So-ah on the right path, and this is the result! Even if I die, I will never forgive you. Never!”

“What?”

Jin Ye-ran jumped out of her seat and ran out. “When we saw the scene, Wei Yan-ho sighed deeply.”

“They say that when whales fight, shrimp is broken back.”

Of course, in the case of Wei Yan-ho, it was not because the whale moved violently, but because he was too lazy to move even when he could clearly see the whale coming and was caught in the middle.

Wei Yan-ho repressed his reluctance to get out of the chair and rose slowly from his seat.

“Agh.”

I’d rather die than suffer like that.