Chapter 40

Episode 40. If you don’t want to get your legs cut off, teach me how to do it. (1)

“Hey, it doesn’t matter if you go, but I apologize to our congressman Bong and go.”

At that time, Congressman Bong’s servant Ho stood in front of the man.

Although Ho was a servant, he was a servant like Congressman Bong’s right-hand man, and he was quite equipped with martial arts.

Naturally, the man hesitated at the momentum of the favor.

“What are you?”

“I am a servant of the Bongauibang.”

“what! Bonga’s room! The Bonggauibang, one of the three major uibangs in Chohyeon?”

“I guess you’ve heard of our congressman’s reputation.”

“Is that really the Bongdeok member of Bonga Uibang?”

“Yes.”

The man Dan turned his head and looked at Congressman Bong.

‘Come to think of it, this isn’t the kind of outfit you’d wear in a place like this. What’s more, if you’re accompanied by a servant like this...’

“Are you really Congressman Bong of the Bong Family Room?”

“Yes. It seems to me that you have tetanus.”

Stumble.

At Bong’s assertion, Dan stumbled for a moment, losing his balance.

When Ojang quickly helped him by the side, Dan sat down on the bench with a rapidly darkened expression.

“How could this happen to me...”

“There is no need to despair so much. Although tetanus is a fatal disease, of course, it is still in its infancy and can be sufficiently cured.”

Dan raised his head in disbelief at the fireman’s words.

“Can you fix it? Tetanus?”

“yes. It will take some time to fully heal, but it can be fixed.”

The painter had not yet experimented with killing staphylococci with penicillin he had made, so he took this opportunity to test it slowly.

In fact, if the experiment is successful, the disease doesn’t take too long, but we have to look at the penicillin’s perfection

...

Although the painter felt sorry for the clinical trial as a doctor, he convinced himself that it was reasonable in that he did not receive money.

“Can you really fix it?”

“yes.”

With the fireman’s firm answer, the darkness that had been cast over Dan’s face was slowly clearing.

Congressman Bong, who was next to him, listened to the fireman’s assurances and pretended to be okay on the outside, but on the inside he was tilting his head.

‘Cure tetanus? Did you say that if you cut off your ankle right away, you can cure it because the tetanus won’t spread? Well, if it’s a fireman’s medicine, even if he cuts off his ankle, the bleeding will be minimized, so he’ll be able to save it.’

Congressman Bong misunderstood because he did not know the existence of penicillin.

In the medical practice of this era, amputation of the part closer to the heart was the only way to increase the chances of surviving if one contracted tetanus.

Congressman Bong later discussed how the fireman would amputate the ankle, and thought that if he could assist, he should do it.

“If you make me well, I will just give half of the herbs I will call to you. Oh, please forgive me for what I said earlier. I made a big mistake because I was so dark.”

Watching Dan bow his head, the painter put on a non-trivial expression.

“It’s true that I’m young and hard to trust, so I don’t pay much attention to those words.”

“I’m really, really sorry.”

“Because it’s okay. By the way, are you really going to give me half the next time I gather herbs?”

“yes.”

“You may regret it later.”

“If you cure tetanus, I will do it unconditionally. Trust me.”

“Well, we’ll see if that’s really the case later. Disinfection isn’t over yet, so take off your shoes.”

“yes.”

“Look.”

“yes. Senator.”

“Go to the warehouse and bring me the one I made yesterday.”

“That...that you made yesterday?”

I couldn’t even bring the word mold out of my mouth. Whether or not he knew Bo’s heart, the fireman responded calmly.

“huh. Bring water to drink as well.”

“All right.”

After a while, Obo brought what the painter had said (penicillin).

The painter boiled the pig’s intestines, sterilized them with distilled spirits, made thin cloths, sewed them together, and filled them with penicillin to make them into small capsules.

“All right.”

“Hey there, but... I mean.”

“yes.”

“It’s shameless, but can you teach me how to do that...?”

“Hmm- I’m sorry about that, but I can’t teach you.”

“Why but. I’ll pay any price.”

“It is not a slander that can be paid for with money. So don’t be greedy.”

“I will become a disciple of Confucius. In fact, while learning vascular repair from Confucius, I felt that I was lacking a lot. So please accept me as your disciple.”

“Even if you become my disciple, I cannot teach you the slander of curing tetanus. So, learn only blood vessel suturing and focus on the doctor’s doctor’s office. In fact, I’ve been here all along, so aren’t most of the medical offices open? Then I will starve to death.”

When the painter stubbornly refused, Congressman Bong was ready to kneel.

Hey hey.

At that time, Prince Hwang arrived in front of the medical room, got off the horse, and hurriedly entered the medical room.

When the painter welcomed Gunhu Hwang, Congressman Bong followed after him, unable to beg any more.

* * *

After a while, when Lieutenant Jo and Count Huang entered the medical room, people all stood up and bowed their heads.

The painter took Gyowi into the master bedroom, and Hwang Gun-hu stood guard in front of the master bedroom like a guard.

While Prince Hwang was doing this, people were only snooping outside and did not dare to enter the main room.

The painter didn’t like Prince Hwang’s threatening attitude for some reason, so he deliberately opened the door to the main room and let Prince Hwang out of the room.

“You want me to leave?”

Hwang Gun-hu put on a slightly bewildered expression.

“yes. Because of Hwang’s high-handed attitude, everyone here is uneasy. So go to the carriage.”

“Go to the carriage.”

“All right. Instructor.”

Hwang’s consort hesitated at the fireman’s words, but when Lieutenant Jo spoke, he immediately answered and went outside.

Rep. Bong asked if he was embarrassed to see Lieutenant Jo or if he had something to ask Hwang.

“It’s been a while.”

The hwabu looked at Gunhu Hwang and Congressman Bong, who had gone outside, and soon lowered his head slightly toward Lieutenant Jo.

“How have you been?”

“Yes, as you can see, I am doing well.”

“I’m sorry for making you lose your way that day. sorry.”

“It could be because my brother is in critical condition. Belated condolences. In my family, my eldest brother went to the condolences as a representative, so I did not go.”

“Know. By the way, I heard from Prince Hwang that they are treating people here, so it’s very shabby. Is this really a medical room?”

Even among the shabby houses in the slums, Lieutenant Jo looked around the shabby clothes of the fireman.

This place without a common signboard looked more like one of the many houses in the slums than a doctor’s room.

In fact, it was one of several houses.

“I’m a medical student who hasn’t even taken the medical exam yet, so there’s nothing special about it.”

“It doesn’t seem like too much. Anyway, it seems that there are patients in the doctor’s room.”

Lieutenant Cho pointed to Dan, who was sitting on a bench with a bandage on his foot.

“Because it is a poor village where the four other members do not pay attention, patients are treated by people like me, an unqualified member who has not even passed the medical school.”

The painter mentioned that he was unqualified for a long time, as if he wanted to let people know that he was carrying the incident he had suffered the other day in his heart.

Lieutenant Jo was slightly offended by the fireman’s attitude, but since he was the one who regretted it, he changed the subject without voting.

“Looking at the bandage on your foot, you must have injured your foot?”

“You’re a herbalist. It looks like you stepped on iron bars scattered by bandits while you were gathering herbs at Maseok Mountain.”

Startle.

Instructor Jo’s eyes widened slightly at the word ‘striking’.

“If you stepped on a stinger... is it festering?”

“Your festered salve.”

“Since it was a plaster and couldn’t be cured with the plaster, you must have come to get treatment, right?”

“Yes. The extent of the festering was not wide, but unfortunately I got tetanus.”

“tetanus!”

“.....”

Ha-.

For a moment, a look of sympathy appeared on Inspector Jo’s face.

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