My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 30
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30.
At Seol Mujin’s call, the window creaked open and Yeon Gok’s face appeared.
“Oh! Captain Seol, you’ve come?”
“Are you currently treating a patient?”
“His condition is not good.”
“Please stop the treatment.”
“What?”
“They say Murim handles its own affairs, so it’s not our concern.”
“If Captain Seol says so.”
Yeon Gok turned around and spoke.
“The treatment is finished, so please leave now.”
Then a voice rang out from inside the room.
“What do you mean! You won’t treat him!”
“From what I can see, your subordinates seem to have been rude to Captain Seol, and that won’t do here in Jinan.”
“We already told you who we are, didn’t we?”
“Who doesn’t know you’re from the Hwangbo Family. But still, what’s not allowed is not allowed.”
A middle-aged man appeared at the window.
His appearance with a large nose and thick lips looked sturdy.
“We’re from the Hwangbo Family. Why do you want to make enemies with us?”
“I’d like to ask you. Why does the Hwangbo Family want to make enemies with the Government Office?”
“Given the circumstances, we’re simply preventing outsiders from approaching.”
“You decide that on your own and block Government Officials from entering? In my eyes, you look like nothing but criminals. Physician Yeon, please come out.”
“Very well.”
The middle-aged man blocked Yeon Gok’s path with his sword as he turned around.
He hadn’t drawn the sword, but it was a threat that he would cut if necessary.
“Hurry up and treat him.”
Yeon Gok was also someone who had experienced all kinds of hardships in the Demonic Sect in the past.
“Threatening the physician who should be treating? That’s not wise.”
“Physician!”
“Go find another physician. Though I don’t know if there’s a physician who can cure poisoning.”
“Are you saying you can cure it?”
“It’s Seven Stone Poison. Among plant poison, animal poison, and mineral poison, it belongs to mineral poison. It’s called Seven Stone Poison because it’s a poison extracted from seven different stones.”
The middle-aged man, who had been looking back and forth between Seol Mujin and Yeon Gok, spoke to Seol Mujin.
“Please come in.”
Seol Mujin, accompanied by the Triplets, entered the treatment room.
On the bed lay a young man with a pale complexion.
Not only his frame but also his facial features were prominent, and if he were in normal condition, he would be a young man who exuded strong masculinity.
The unconscious young man’s breathing was precarious, as if it might stop at any moment.
Yeon Gok wiped the young man’s saliva as he spoke.
“It looks worse than it actually is, so it’s not dangerous yet. But if left untreated, he’ll die within ten days.”
Seol Mujin asked.
“You said it was an injury, but I don’t see any wounds. Where was he poisoned?”
The middle-aged man who received the question did not readily open his mouth.
So Yeon Gok said.
“He probably can’t answer. Judging by the symptoms of the poison’s spread, he must have been slowly poisoned over a long period.”
“Then he must have been poisoned within the Hwangbo Family Estate.”
“That would be jumping to conclusions.”
He didn’t pay attention to the middle-aged man’s words.
Seol Ryeoseon asked Yeon Gok.
“How long will the treatment take…?”
“Well… Hm? About two days or so?”
“That long…?”
“Mineral poisons originally take a long time to leave the body. Two days is just to put out the urgent fire, but he’ll need to take medicine for over a month.”
Yeon Gok subtly mixed the pronunciations of informal and formal speech.
“Who are these kids…?”
After Yeon Gok said “You don’t need to know,” he asked Seol Mujin.
“Should I treat him?”
“I can’t just stand by and watch someone dying.”
“Since Captain Seol says so.”
Yeon Gok began performing acupuncture on the young man.
The Triplets’ gazes toward Yeon Gok were not kind.
‘He called us for something so trivial.’
There was no threat, and it wasn’t a situation where a fight would break out.
As the treatment time grew longer, the middle-aged man spoke to Seol Mujin.
“I am Baek Seongun, head of the Hwangbo Family Seonuidan.”
“Captain Seol Mujin.”
“What is your relationship with that physician?”
“I’m usually indebted to him.”
“Do you think he can treat the Second Young Master?”
“Any illness that Physician Yeon can’t treat would be difficult even if the royal physician came.”
Seol Mujin evaluated Yeon Gok that highly.
Upon hearing those words, Yeon Gok’s shoulders rose about a span.
‘That bastard. He’s praising me.’
Seol Changho said.
“Brother, it seems like there’s nothing for us to do here, so let’s go.”
Yeon Gok, startled, stopped his acupuncture.
“You’re leaving? I mean, going? Leaving me alone?”
Seol Mujin said.
“There’s General Manager Byeon.”
Byeon Taebang was officially the general manager of the brewery.
“That fellow isn’t very trustworthy…”
Yeon Gok dismissed him, but Byeon Taebang wasn’t someone who deserved such dismissal.
With the Triplets’ help, he had mastered the Hyeongi Brilliant Flame Heart Method and Ten Thousand Changes Sword up to the seventh level.
In terms of pure martial arts alone, he wouldn’t fall behind even the elders of the Nine Great Sects.
“They’re from the renowned orthodox sect, the Hwangbo Family. What could possibly happen? Don’t you think so?”
Baek Seongun nodded at Seol Mujin’s question.
“He’s the one who will treat the second young master, so we must protect him with our lives.”
“Are you saying a situation will arise where you’ll have to risk your lives to protect him?”
“It’s just a figure of speech. Hahaha!”
“If even a finger of Physician Yeon gets hurt, I will definitely hold the Hwangbo Family accountable.”
Baek Seongun was dumbfounded.
A mere constable threatening the mighty Hwangbo Family?
The Hwangbo Family was a place where even the Magistrate of Jinan had to show respect.
Seol Mujin stared intently at Baek Seongun as if urging him to answer.
His head nodded involuntarily, probably because of those eyes.
Seol Mujin possessed the kind of gaze that could chill even a first-rate master like him.
“Understood.”
Seol Mujin left the medical clinic after telling Yeon Gok, “I’ll come early tomorrow.”
Walking through the darkened streets, Seol Changho spoke.
“Something seems to be happening within the Hwangbo Family.”
“It’s not our concern.”
At Seol Mantong’s indifference, Seol Changho asked, “Is it really?”
“What’s bothering you?”
Instead of answering Seol Ryeoseon’s question, Seol Changho directed his question to Seol Mujin.
“What do you think, hyung?”
“You’re wondering if only the second son was poisoned at the Hwangbo Family, right?”
Seol Changho nodded with an “As expected!” expression.
“Physician Yeon will get tired. Will those sparks fly to me too?”
“The Hwangbo Family people came looking for you right away. Think about making a house call to the Hwangbo Family. Do you think they’d go without you?”
Seol Ryeoseon joined the conversation.
“If there are poisoned patients at the Hwangbo Family, oppa will go together with Yeon Gok?”
“It would be a kind of escort duty.”
Seol Mantong flared up.
“How dare that bastard use hyung as an escort?”
Seol Mujin calmed Seol Mantong down.
“He’s just asking for help. Physician Yeon certainly deserves that much. Let’s not worry about something that hasn’t even happened yet.”
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Hwangbo Hyeonguk was awake.
Yeon Gok, his face full of fatigue from treating patients all night, spoke to Seol Mujin.
“After treating him, I found his condition was more dangerous than expected. I almost had to call for Captain Seol.”
“Why me?”
“Because that man could have died.”
‘That man’ Hwangbo Hyeonguk bowed his head.
“I am grateful for the grace of saving my life.”
“I just treated you for money, what’s the big deal. Oh right! I haven’t mentioned the treatment fee!”
Though he spoke as if he had forgotten, the perceptive Seol Ryeoseon could tell.
‘That bastard waited until my brother arrived. Just how much is he planning to charge.’
Baek Seongun asked as if he would pay any amount.
“I will pay now.”
The amount Yeon Gok called out made Baek Seongun’s hand flinch as it moved toward his pocket.
“One thousand nyang.”
“What? One… one thousand nyang?”
Seol Ryeoseon shook her head back and forth.
‘I knew he would do this.’
Seol Ryeoseon thought it was greed, while Seol Mujin and Seol Changho thought Yeon Gok had used his head.
“Are you saying the life of the Hwangbo Family’s second son isn’t even worth that much?”
“Setting aside putting a price on human life, there’s something called common sense in all pricing. A treatment fee of one thousand nyang. Such an absurd…”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s voice was heard interrupting Baek Seongun’s words.
“I’ll give it. One thousand nyang.”
“Young master!”
“However, there is a condition.”
“I refuse.”
“Without even hearing the condition…”
“You want me to go to the Hwangbo Family Estate and treat another patient.”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk was greatly surprised.
“How did you know that?”
“Seven Stone Poison isn’t something you can be poisoned with by accident, so it’s not difficult to deduce that there might be another poisoning victim at the Hwangbo Family Estate.”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk bowed his head.
“Please, I beg you. She is someone I must save.”
“I have many people here that I must save too.”
But Yeon Gok was currently only making tonic medicine.
“Please, save my older sister.”
“Why would I take such a risk?”
“A risk?”
“Have you caught the culprit who poisoned you and your sister? You probably didn’t even know such a person existed. Since you didn’t know about the Seven Stone Poison either.”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s silence was an affirmation.
“If I go to treat someone who tried to kill me, do you think that criminal will leave me alone?”
“We will risk our lives to protect you.”
“When you can’t even protect your own lives?”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk twisted himself down from the bed and dropped to his knees with a thud.
“Young Master!”
Startled, Baek Seongun tried to help him up, but Hwangbo Hyeonguk shook off his touch.
“I beg you like this. If anything happens to the Physician, I will offer my life. So please go to the Hwangbo Family Estate and treat my sister.”
That earnestness seemed to move Yeon Gok’s heart, as Yeon Gok looked at Seol Mujin.
Seol Mujin said.
“Let’s finish treating this person first.”
“My treatment can be done on the way.”
Seol Mujin was someone who was firm with evildoers, but couldn’t just pass by those in distress.
When Seol Mujin was about to speak, Yeon Gok beat him to it.
“I absolutely won’t go unless Captain Seol comes with me.”
Yeon Gok’s behavior didn’t deviate from Seol Mujin and Seol Changho’s expectations.
‘What an obvious person.’
Seol Mujin said with a sigh.
“Let’s leave in one hour.”
Seol Mujin first went to the Government Office to inform them he wouldn’t be able to come to work for a few days.
Since they had originally said attendance was flexible, Go Bongsu had nothing to say about it.
“Murim is a dangerous place. You must be careful and careful again.”
Go Bongsu conveyed his sincere concern.
“I’ll be back.”
After greeting him, the next place Seol Mujin headed was Yeonji-ru.
“Physician Yeon took on a troublesome patient.”
Hwa Seonhwa lightly blamed Yeon Gok and left him with words of caution.
And he received money and a black box from Yeon Seobi.
“What’s this?”
At Seol Mujin’s question, Yeon Seobi shrugged her shoulders.
“He said he didn’t know either.”
“Did you take your share, sister?”
“Of course. That slit-eyed guy was so scared he gave me an extra thousand nyang separately. I couldn’t keep it all, so I donated it to Cheonae Orphanage.”
Cheonae Orphanage was an orphanage that Seol Mujin had established about a year ago.
“Sister should hurry up and save money to get married too.”
“If only there were someone like you, Mujin-i, but my standards have gotten too high now.”
Seol Mujin chuckled and went home to pack some clothes before returning to the Medical Clinic.
He carelessly tossed the box he received from Yeon Seobi into the wardrobe.
In the meantime, preparations including the carriage were completed.
Even though the Hwangbo Family Estate was in the same Jinan, it was quite a distance away.
This was because Jinan was about five times the size of an ordinary county.
Since it also involved treating Hwangbo Hyeonguk, it would take a full day.
The Triplets rode in the carriage with Hwangbo Hyeonguk, while Seol Mujin rode on horseback at the rear with Yeon Gok.
Because of Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s condition, they couldn’t rush, so it wasn’t until the next morning that they could see the Hwangbo Family Estate.
Seeing the Hwangbo Family Estate from afar, Seol Mujin clicked his tongue.
He knew it was one of the Five Great Families wielding tremendous power.
That tremendous power was fully displayed in the buildings of the Hwangbo Family Estate.
It was so vast that its area was impossible to estimate, with over forty buildings of various sizes.
The training grounds and practice halls positioned throughout were paved with marble, reflecting the pale sunlight.
Yeon Gok narrowed his eyes and said,
“It’s rather small compared to its reputation.”
“You call that small?”
“The Demonic Cult has an entire town within it. It’s easily ten times larger than that.”
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