I Reincarnated as a Legendary Surgeon

Episode 217. You’re not going to treat me? (2)

Lee Dang-ji, who was sweeping the road in front of the gibang with a broom, made a funny expression as he watched the samurai of Seonggajang return.

“Lord Moon, I think you can give me a broom now.”

When the samurai of Sunggajang completely disappeared from sight, Jeomsoi, who was doing chores in the kiln, approached and held out his hand.

Lee Dang-ji held out a broom to Jeom So-yi and put a metal coin in his hand.

“thank you for helping.”

“It’s Moonju-nim’s job, so of course I have to help. By the way, the choir seems to be very poisonous… Will it be okay?”

“You don’t have to worry too much. Because there are all of them?”

“Are you thinking of running away?”

“Why am I running away?”

“If you continue to stay here, even if you are the Moon Lord, it could be dangerous.”

“Haha, don’t worry. I’m leaving, so do your best.”

“yes.”

Jeomsoi tilted her head as Lee Dangji disappeared.

“Tsk Well, Moonju-nim is so good at transforming, so I guess I could have prepared it.”

* * *

Lee Dang-ji, who came out of Giru, was disguised with a completely different face from before entering Giru, so no one recognized him on the street.

After a few days, Dangji Lee became the owner of a fairly large guest cup, and the subordinates who performed gut together became the host or shopkeeper of the guest cup. Their appearances had changed so much that it was unimaginable that they were the same people when everyone had a gut.

“Ha~. Well, there is a beggar village on the Dongsocheon side, right?”

“Yeah, why is that slum?”

Lee Dang-ji, who was having a guest cup, overheard the conversation of the guests, and he naturally listened.

“This year there is a particularly severe drought, so you assured me last time that all the beggars would starve to death this winter.”

“It did.”

“But, a doctor named Hwata treated the villagers for free and untied twenty sacks of grain so they could safely fly this winter.”

At that time, people at the table next to me interjected to see if they were acquainted with the people I was talking to.

“You also distributed grain to the beggar village on the Dongsocheon side. Yesterday, I heard that people from slash-and-burn villages near Munsan were treated and grain was distributed.”

“okay. Whoops, everyone is so hungry that they can barely eat one meal a day. Where the hell did those grains come from?”

“I heard that he healed the jangju of the seonggajang and received grain instead of money and distributed it.”

“Some say that he healed the high-ranking officials who fled from Gwangneung-gun this time and received grain.”

“…..”

Dangji Lee felt great confusion as he listened to the guests.

Now, it was a world where civilians became bandits and bandits to avoid starvation.

Of course, there were people like them who could afford to come to the inn for food and drink, and there were also people who spent hundreds of nyang a night in the barn, but such people were only a small minority compared to the total population.

The rich spend a lot of money to hire escorts, but they do not give alms to the hungry poor. Of course, excellent doctors rarely give free treatment.

That was what Lee Dang-ji had in common with those who had and those who had learned.

‘You said you fixed the family head of the choir that I ate? Even if the city council of Gwangneung-gun came to fix that waist, it couldn’t be fixed.’

Li Dang-ji was curious and asked Hao-wen’s disciples to find out what the doctor called Hwa-ta had been doing in Pyeong’an County.

Since Gwangneung-gun is not the territory of Eulji and Myeongil, it could be said that they did not know each other even though they used the same name as Haomun.

When Lee Dang-ji found out about the fireman through the information brought by the disciples, he put on a look of disbelief.

‘Have there been such righteous people in the three worlds?’

Rumors about medicine to cure diseases called incurable were also great, but I was so surprised to learn that more than 300 families in the slums had already received a bag of grain from the fireman, so I couldn’t keep my mouth shut for a while.

‘I’ll have to meet you once.’

In fact, Lee Dangji also cheated high officials in various forms to help Hao Mundo, who was doing odd jobs at the bottom of the world. But that’s because they have the same semblance of Mundo, but the painter is a wandering doctor with no connection to Pyeongan County.

Such a person is treating the poor and distributing food.

Dang-Ji Lee, one of Hao-Mun’s executives, took a prostitute named So-Hyang, who was caught in a prostitute and was about to die, to visit the painter.

‘Let’s see if it can cure hawksbill, which has been known as an incurable disease as rumored. And see if they really make money and spend it on the poor.’

* * *

‘What kind of guy has so many prostitutes…’

The painter couldn’t hide his bitter expression after examining the Sohyang brought by Lee Dang-ji.

It was not limited to prostitutes who mainly engaged in prostitution, but countless people, from women in slums to high-ranking officials, were caught in prostitution and dying by several every day.

Usually, when people around you die like this, you have to be careful, but people here sold their bodies even though they clearly knew that they were dying from hookworms, and another bought a body like that to solve their sexual desire.

As the vicious cycle was repeated, the behavior of selling oneself did not change even though the patients being treated were educated each time on what to do in order not to get hooked on them.

‘Is it because of the idea that dying from starvation or from stinging with spears… is the same as dying?’

The fireman treated Sohyang in the same way as he did for other thrush patients, telling her about the dangers of thrush, its transmissibility, and what not to do.

“…so you must never break the precautions I gave you.”

“All right.”

After being treated for the first time by Hwabu, Sohyang nodded and left the medical room with Dangji Lee.

Rumbling…..

While walking down the street, Sohyang suddenly shed tears, and Lee Dangji put on a puzzled expression.

“Why are you crying all of a sudden?”

“Heuk, I feel like I’ve been treated like a human for the first time…. I suddenly remember the contempt and ridicule I’ve been subjected to, and I feel full of sadness.”

“Treat people? Is it because of the way you treated pus without paying attention even though it splashed on your face while squeezing pus out of your affected area?”

“There is that… Anyway, when Congressman Hwa treated me, I really felt his earnest desire for me to get better.”

“You felt it? Now that it’s time for you to die, are you able to feel other people’s feelings?”

“It’s not like that. Every single thing he did was so true. In fact, Moonju implicitly keeps a distance when dealing with me.”

For a moment, Lee Dang-ji, who was walking a little further away, turned red.

“Kuhmm, that’s it… Actually, isn’t your face disgusting when others see it? And maybe the hawksbill can catch me.”

Sohyang was covering her face with a cotton thread, but Lee Dangji was aware of the Gombo’s face on the other side of the cotton thread.

“Didn’t he feel the disgust that Moon-ju felt?”

“Since he is a member of the legislature, he will tolerate it even if he hates it. In fact, the clinic sees all kinds of patients.”

“Even so, the pus that splattered from my body could get the doctor hooked too. Even so, it is not easy to be sincere without caring about it.”

“Whoa~. Actually, I was surprised to see that doctor who treats Gombo like you without hesitation.”

Lee Dang-ji, who kept grunting and trying to grab something, eventually agreed to her words.

“Moonju-nim, I also have ears, so I heard what kind of person Congressman Hwa was…. Why do you even bother to check with your own eyes through me?”

If I had only thought about treatment, I could have given money and information.

“The biggest reason is because I can’t believe it. Are there really people who do ridiculous good in this shitty world?”

“If so, what would you do?”

“I have no idea what to do. I just wanted to see with my own eyes if there really was such a person.”

“You say that you accompany me directly like this, who is reluctant to even come close to me?”

Looking at Sohyang with suspicious eyes, Lee Dangji shrugged.

“Whoa~. Actually I don’t know. Me too, why am I doing this? I’m busy slashing the backs of high-ranking dignitaries.”

“…..”

“…..”

“Aren’t you going to slap someone like Dr. Hwa in the back of the head?”

“it’s crazy. If I helped, I helped. No matter how much I like slapping people in the back, I have at least a conscience.”

“Whatever you do.”

“What happens?”

In an instant, Lee Dang-ji realized what So-hyang was concerned about and put on an absurd expression.

“I was worried that Moonju would scam people like Congressman Hwa.”

“How the hell are you looking at me?”

“I’m saying this because you’re looking good.”

“Huh~. Sohyang, no matter how many days you have left to live, you talk too harshly to me, the owner of the door.”

“oh! Life is still bright. What are you talking about? Didn’t you hear that Congressman Hwa would cure my illness earlier?”

“Kuhm! I think you said it was difficult because your disease progressed so much unlike other thrush patients?”

“Still, I said I would do my best to fix it. So I will live.”

“It’s good to live like that. But even if you live, you won’t be able to have the same face as before.”

“Where can I live? And even if I go back to my old face, I won’t be a gisaeng anymore.”

“Then what are you going to do for a living?”

“I’m going to think about that after hearing that the spears are all healed.”

Lee Dang-ji shook his head as he saw So-hyang, who was much bolder than before.

“Okay, I’ll find out what’s going on when it’s all over.”

* * *

Ok-joo tilted her head at Lee Dang-ji and So-hyang as they left the medical room.

“weird. It’s strange…”

“What’s strange?”

When Ok-ju tilted her head, Jang-goe put on a puzzled expression.

“The author who takes the woman caught in the window over there… I think he played the role.”

“what! Reverse use?”

Only then did Jang Goe-do look at Lee Dang-ji and So-hyang as they walked away.

“I’ve been looking at it for days, but it doesn’t seem to be my face.”

“Why was there anything strange about it? I didn’t feel anything.”

“It’s hard for people who don’t know reverse magic to notice.”

“Hmm~. Come to think of it, you had a good understanding of reverse magic.”

“Anyway, I have to tell Danju Eul to follow in the footsteps of the authors.”

“I’ll tell Congressman Hwa to be careful of the authors even from tomorrow.”

After listening to Jang-goe’s words, Eul-ji released a man to follow them, and the painter was surprised to hear Ok-joo’s words.

“Did you play the role? I didn’t feel strange at all, but did you really do the opposite?”

“yes. I looked at it for a few days, and it was such a precise reverse technique that I was finally able to confirm it today.”

“Couldn’t he… be the crazy old man in Namhwa?”

The fireman unknowingly clenched his fists. Even now, when I think of old man Namhwa, I feel my blood gushing backwards.

“Judging from the skin of his hands and feet and his gait, he is not a maniac. They are estimated to be in their mid-to-late 20s.”

“is it so. I get it anyway. When you come for treatment tomorrow, I will take a closer look.”

“yes. I and the other guards will be careful.”

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