Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 34



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34. My heart is beating (1)

“You’re making a top? Isn’t that the top I know?”

As soon as I left Pojeongsa Temple, Myeonggyeong pressured me. The reputation of the merchant profession has fallen to the bottom. After all, the history of oppressing agriculture and commerce, which regards agriculture as the main occupation and relegates commerce to a secondary occupation, is long, dating back to ancient times.

“That’s right. The top selling things.”

“A shaman’s disciple makes something so wicked?”

“Why is the top so corrupt? It’s one of the honorable professions. And there is no such thing as noble or base profession.”

“Merchants are people who only care about money and have no sense of justice or cooperation. Do you think I don’t know that?”

“People are the problem, not jobs.”

“Is this why you told me not to tell the teacher?”

“yes.”

“This is a scam!”

“Are you saying two things with one mouth? And you’re a non-partisan person at that?”

Myung-kyung’s face turned red and she suddenly lay down on the floor. Naturally, the floor was covered in sand.

“I’m not going!”

“What if you suddenly start throwing tantrums? Death penalty.”

“I won’t get up until you tell me not to make a top.”

“You live here. I’ll go first.”

As I turned my back, Myung-kyung screamed and flailed her arms and legs wildly. As the dust flew up, everyone’s eyes focused on her. However, this was a watershed moment. If I approached Myung-kyung here, I would be admitting defeat. I bit my lips and moved forward.

“Eww!”

However, Myeonggyeongdo was not an easy opponent either. She even started yelling.

“Oh my, oh my. Why is that kind-looking kid acting like that?”

“He’s a bit young to be my dad. Is he my older brother?”

“I don’t know, but my brother is very cruel.”

People always take the side of the weak. What I find unfair is that Myeong-gyeong is not the weak. I am treating her like a death penalty all the time. In a restaurant, it was my job to set the spoons and pour the water. The gossip of people who didn’t know that only made me angry.

I took a step without hesitation and soon found myself in an alley where I couldn’t see the view. Of course, I didn’t go too deep into the alley. I was just waiting to see when he would come back.

“Hhhhhhh… … .”

At first, it was fake crying, but then it turned into real crying and I fell for it. It seemed like he really thought I had abandoned him. No, when I think about it, it was the death penalty, so it wasn’t me, a priest, who had been abandoned. However, Myeong-gyeong was not old enough to think rationally.

“Ugh.”

I hesitated for a moment. In fact, if it were my original country, I would never have gone. Registering the top was a key task for this outing.

But somehow, the sound of Myeonggyeong’s cries pierced my heart like an awl. When I think about it, I never had the chance to make a relationship with a child like that in my previous life. All I had was bearded merchants and officials.

I took out the shaman’s wooden sign from my bosom and looked at it. I was a lay disciple, so I didn’t have a Taoist priest, but my name, Mukhwiyeong, was clearly engraved on it. Below it, the words Daemudangpa (大武當派) were carved in majestic handwriting.

I don’t have any sense of belonging to it. However, I am only repaying the favor. At least Mingjing protected me as a priest. When Zhuge Yan’s bodyguard threatened me, he did not hesitate to draw his sword.

How could he have acted like that in such a meaningless relationship, like a death penalty, where no documents were exchanged? It was even more strange that there was no quid pro quo for his actions.

I turned my back again. I walked back out of the alley and toward the place where I could hear Myeonggyeong crying. The sound of crying gradually came closer.

When I went out of the alley, Myeong-gyeong was sitting there, crying. Several people were already sitting around her, trying to comfort her by giving her sweets and skewers.

“capital punishment.”

I pushed my way through the crowd and approached Myeong-gyeong.

As I approached Myeong-gyeong, the people around me glared at me.

“Tsk tsk, making a child cry like that.”

“It is clear that the way of the martial world has fallen to the ground.”

I tried to ignore what people were saying. Myung-kyung started to sniffle when I showed up. It meant that her tears were starting to stop.

I grabbed the mirror and brushed the sand off my back and butt. There was a lot of sand in front of me, too, as if I had rolled around when I wasn’t looking.

“Huh, huff, huff.”

“I’m sorry. Death penalty.”

Myung-kyung still couldn’t stop crying, so she buried her face in my shoulder and shed the remaining tears. I held Myung-kyung in my arms and patted her back.

Then a man who looked to be in his early 40s spoke to me.

“Young man, let me tell you something. Don’t do anything that would hurt a child. You’ll regret it later. Children always remember.”

The man’s words seemed to contain some regret. His haggard complexion made it seem even more so.

I squinted my eyes. It wasn’t because I was being trained. It was because I felt like I’d seen his face somewhere.

“No, you are a great man.”

“When will you return to office?”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

There were people who recognized it before me. It was coincidentally Hyung-seong, who is currently on leave. The infinite people recognized Hyung-seong right away. On the other hand, I only saw Hyung-seong in his old age, so I couldn’t recognize him right away.

“I spoke nonsense. I’ll go and see.”

When people started to notice Hyeongseong, he seemed uncomfortable and tried to move away. However, I had planned to ask around for Hyeongseong’s house anyway, so I had no intention of missing this opportunity.

“No, sir. Your words are as precious as gold.”

I first bowed my head while playing the lottery.

“Although I am not a great man, I have heard of your great reputation from afar. It is truly an honor to meet you like this.”

“Oh, I see. If you knew, you should have treated me better.”

When I suddenly changed, Hyeong-tae coughed as if it was a burden. He quickened his steps as if he wanted to leave this place quickly, but I followed him while carrying Myeong-gyeong.

“Your Majesty. You have deep worries between your eyebrows. Do you perhaps know the Way?”

“Are you a shaman?”

“I am a non-partisan person.”

“I wondered where I had seen that outfit, and it turns out you are a martial arts person.”

The figure didn’t even look back at me as he followed me around, wondering if I was uncomfortable.

“Sorry, but stop chasing me. I’m busy these days.”

“Are you doing this because of your daughter?”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t know that my daughter is sick?”

That would be true. Around this time, there was an epidemic in Hubei. Since I was in the closed-off Wudang Mountains with clean air, I just didn’t see anyone who got sick.

“But there would have been no one who knew how to fix it.”

The form stood out in my words. Only then did the form look back at me.

“… … Are you one of the same type?”

“Similar type?”

“Those damn quacks who say they’ll cure my daughter’s illness but only take my money.”

The eyes of the form were filled with hostility. There must have been many people like that around me.

“I am a non-partisan. I am not that kind of charlatan.”

“Huh. The doctors that the drones introduced were the same. They just said the same thing.”

“I can cure your daughter’s illness.”

“Everyone said that. Then the plague wouldn’t have spread this far.”

“That’s true. But didn’t everyone say it was a negative sign?”

My words struck me as being unformed.

Disease can be divided into yang symptoms and yin symptoms based on the concept of yin and yang. Yang symptoms progress when activity reaches its extreme, while yin symptoms decline when slowness reaches its extreme.

The epidemic that occurred in Hubei around this time caused many casualties. The reason was that the doctors who treated the patients mistook the symptoms.

“Your whole body will be as cold as ice, your mouth and tongue will be dry, you will keep sighing, your throat will be swollen, and your chest and abdomen will be swollen. If you press on the swollen area, it will hurt, your thirst will not go away even if you drink water, and your urine will be red.”

“… … That’s right. But my whole body is as cold as ice. Does that mean I don’t have a cold?”

“Yes. It is not a negative opinion.”

Of course, I am not a doctor, so I don’t know the exact details. However, I remember it because it remained as an example of medical failure for a long time.

“So you’re saying you can fix it?”

“yes.”

I hesitated for a moment, but I spoke as assertively as possible. In times like these, you have to speak assertively, even if it seems like it won’t work. That was the way to seize the opportunity.

“… … If not, you will have to take responsibility.”

The form spoke as if spitting out words and led us home.

The front gate of the house was lined with red peppers and pieces of white paper. It seemed that a shaman had been called in because the illness was not cured.

“Come in.”

We came in, being careful not to touch the golden rope.

When I entered the room, I saw a young girl covered in a thick cotton blanket, sweating and shivering. I crouched down and wiped the sweat with my fingers, and it was as cold as ice water. It was exactly the same symptom as I knew.

“Many doctors came and prescribed medications, but I just didn’t get better.”

“That would be it. I would have prescribed a Buja-tang (附子湯) to boost yang energy.”

“You’re really a doctor, aren’t you? How do you know so much?”

“No, I just know about this disease.”

I tried my best to pretend to know. Honestly, even I could tell it was a yin yang. If your body is this cold, what else could it be if it isn’t a yin yang?

But I decided to trust my memory. As I recall, this was not a yin symptom, but rather a yang symptom with a yin vein.

The reason there were so many deaths was because they were mistaken for yin deficiency and were treated with bujatang or moxibustion on the lower abdomen to replenish yang energy.

I slowly went back through my memories and recalled how I had treated Che-Gweol.

“First, you need to perform Gongha (功下) to remove the toxins from the body, and then prescribe a herbal medicine that is cold in nature.”

“The congressmen told me not to do that much… … .”

If you think of it as a negative energy, then of course you should do it. If you drain the energy from a person’s body while they are weak, their true source of energy will be damaged and they will be close to death.

But this is a positive symptom. The energy in the body was too much, so it had to be removed.

“Please trust me once.”

Our eyes met Hyeongtae’s. Hyeongtae looked closely into my eyes and then nodded.

“Okay. How can I help you?”

“First, I think we need to induce diarrhea with Ikwitang (益胃湯). In addition, it would be even better if we could induce sweating and vomiting.”

“Okay.”

All I knew was the popular method of convalescence. I also had some medical knowledge. As a merchant, I traveled to many places, so I was familiar with all sorts of endemic diseases, and I made quite a few herbal medicines.

“I will make Siryeong-tang using the Gongha method. Go to the pharmacy and get me some licorice, cinnamon, pinellia, white aloe, citronella vulgaris, ginseng, pigweed, taksa, and hwangchi.”

Hyung-seong nodded and ran outside. Myeong-gyeong, who had stopped crying, looked at me and the girl alternately with a worried expression.

“Priest. Do you know how to practice medicine? If you make a mistake, you’ll be in big trouble, right?”

“it’s okay.”

I reassured Myeong-gyeong and then proceeded with the Gong-ha method.

Gongha is a method of removing toxins by inducing sweat, vomiting, and diarrhea. Gongha definitely helped relieve some of the coldness in my body. It felt like the toxins were leaving my body.

As we were proceeding, we soon heard the sound of running outside. The shape was already taking shape.

Hyeongseong opened the door, breathing heavily.

“I brought it. What should I do with it?”

“Add 3 pun of licorice, 7 pun of banha, 7 and a half pun of baekchul, 1 and 6 pun of siho, 6 pun of insam, 7 and a half pun of jeoryeongha and gyesim, 1 and 3 pun of taksa, and 6 pun of gold and boil.”

“Okay.”

“And since it is not good for too many people to treat the disease, please convey it through this child.”

Myungkyung seemed dissatisfied with what Ira said, but she seemed to know that now was not the time to complain, so she kept quiet.

Not long after, a well-made soup arrived from outside. The girl was unconscious, but fortunately, she was able to resist pouring the soup over her.

As time went by, there was definitely a difference. After nursing for a while, warmth gradually returned to the child’s body.

Now all I had to do was call the form. Finally, I felt the child’s pulse. It was important to feel the pulse when you are in a coma, because you could die from dehydration or exhaustion.

But as soon as he grabbed my wrist, I felt a strange energy on my body. It wasn’t a pulse, it was energy.

It was a strange sensation. The energy inside the girl’s body was responding to the energy inside my danjeon.

I have never practiced the mind method since my previous life. So this was not the energy I had accumulated, but the source of life, the source of energy. That energy felt familiar, as if I had felt it somewhere before.

“Priest?”

Myeong-gyeong must have sensed a strange energy as she opened her mouth.

The energy inside my body and the energy of the girl began to rise at the same time. I tried to take my hand off my wrist, but for some reason it stuck as if it was glued and wouldn’t come off.

I couldn’t even open my mouth. If I opened my mouth now, it felt like the epicenter would slip out.

Suddenly I remembered where I felt this energy.

It was the energy that briefly swirled around in my body when I ate Shinmadan right before I died in my previous life.