The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 225

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Chapter 225

Won Gijun was a reporter for a small local newspaper.

He mainly covered social issues, but when news broke, he would go cover any kind of story.

For example, yesterday’s articles covered topics like spring flower festival locations, the city building a new public parking lot, and a small library receiving an award.

Incidents and accidents didn’t happen very often. Most of them were just fires.

But a hat scam ring that had been operating around Gyeongnam was caught in Miryang? This was big news.

“I heard the new police officer at the local station is really enthusiastic? Go get an interview with him.”

Won Gijun immediately went to interview the police officer, welfare center staff, and residents who witnessed the situation.

“Oh, it was amazing. They were so analog that if we hadn’t caught them at the scene, tracking them would have been difficult.”

“The student who called me apparently called all the welfare centers and senior centers in the Gyeongnam area? I thought I should do something, so I worked hard to stall for time.”

Clinic directors from Busan and Gimhae had tracked the swindlers all the way here.

This was the most interesting case he’d heard in at least a month.

When he got their contact information and requested direct interviews, both gave positive responses.

Won Gijun went to Gimhae first since it was closer.

“Doctor Han jumped down from the cliff going ‘Thud! Thud!’ and caught the criminal, then did a takedown!”

“…?”

“It was an incredible performance. If Doctor Han hadn’t noticed the hat scam ring’s scheme, we might never have known!”

There were several elderly residents who said similar things.

They said he ran after and caught the swindler who broke dishes and tried to escape.

He thought it was the usual exaggeration that elderly people do, but even the clinic director was telling this story?

When he wrote an article based on what he’d covered so far, it was closer to an action movie scenario than a news story.

Would she say the same things? Won Gijun visited Seongsuhanuiwon Clinic in Busan to meet Director Han Yewon with half anticipation, half apprehension.

‘She said she has many patients, so I should do the interview quickly before treatment starts.’

Won Gijun arrived at the clinic early to avoid being a disturbance.

If they hadn’t opened yet, he was prepared to wait a bit.

“Oh? This reporter came too?”

“KNS was contacted too? When they said Prince Faisal’s secretary, I thought it was some tabloid nonsense…”

“If they sent it there too, it must be real.”

But there were many reporters besides Won Gijun.

Moreover, they seemed to know each other.

“Where are you from?”

“KNS…”

“Goryeo Daily…”

Several broadcasting stations and major daily newspapers. They said they received tips and came just in case.

Being the only one who didn’t know what was going on, Won Gijun waited for Director Han Yewon.

“Hello, Hello~~~!”

And suddenly.

A Middle Eastern prince appeared.

‘What in the world! What’s happening!’

As camera shutters went off like crazy, Won Gijun hit his own head.

Was he dreaming?

Other reporters rushed at the prince to take photos and ask questions, but he couldn’t collect himself at all.

This was really happening? He’d just come to interview a clinic?

Shortly after, Director Han Yewon appeared.

“Everyone come up to the 3rd floor!”

Following her invitation, he was swept into the clinic with the crowd.

Since everyone was filming the prince’s acupuncture treatment, Won Gijun joined in without understanding why.

Could he write this kind of content for a local newspaper? The editor-in-chief might find it interesting.

“Reporter? You have the worst turtle neck here. Would you like to lie down?”

“What? Me?”

Moreover, when he came to his senses, he was lying on a chuna bed.

With dozens of people watching him.

“Ugh… Oh!”

He didn’t even know he was tense, but his neck felt refreshed.

He had the worst turtle neck among all these people?

“The attending physician…”

“The pharmaceutical company…”

“Formally requesting…”

Many things happened in an instant.

Everyone seemed like important people, but since he was the only one who didn’t understand the situation, he couldn’t hear clearly.

“Excuse me, who is that person?”

“What? That’s the ambassador, isn’t it?”

When he asked about the identity of someone who mediated and made a deal happen, this person was actually the Korean ambassador.

Won Gijun was startled.

‘Nobody will believe this without a recording!’

He kept his mouth agape until the situation ended and the reporters left.

“Take care~!”

After all the people who had finished interviewing the prince had left.

‘Should I, should I also leave?’

Won Gijun hesitated at the entrance of the traditional Korean medicine clinic.

Originally, he wasn’t such a timid person. How could he do reporter work if he was afraid to talk to strangers?

But now it felt like he was in a different world.

“Ex, excuse me!”

Won Gijun barely managed to gather his courage.

The prince was the prince, but he still had to write his original article.

Though not as much as this incident, the hat scam case also couldn’t be understood without his explanation.

* * *

“I’m really sorry. I completely forgot and didn’t take care of you. You must have been very surprised, right?”

I quickly seated the reporter and served him freshly brewed tea.

The man’s hands trembled slightly as he received the tea and handed over his business card.

“You must be very busy… Thank you for making time like this.”

“No, usually things like this almost never happen. Today was really quite a coincidence.”

Even though it was probably just a polite remark, he looked extremely grateful.

Although strange people do barge in occasionally, today was really unprecedented.

I was flustered too.

“Ah, yes, phew, thank you, thank you… How did you end up chasing the scam group?”

I tried to ease the reporter’s tension as I brought up that story.

So many things had happened in such a short time that even though it hadn’t been many days, it felt distant.

“I went on volunteer work and found out that a grandmother had been scammed. She held out bean sprouts asking me to brew them, and I immediately knew she’d been scammed.”

I explained the story in detail and answered his questions sincerely.

“I heard you jumped off a cliff, is that true?”

“The cliff was only about 4 or 5 meters high. I just went down a bit quickly.”

“A bit quickly… I see…”

Won Gijun’s eyes had lit up when I was talking about how I came to chase them.

But for some reason, when the situation of that day came up, his pupils wavered again.

“Haha, everyone please be careful, and I hope this kind of scam doesn’t happen again in the future.”

Still, we somehow finished the interview and did separate filming too.

He said he wanted to write an additional article separate from the scam group incident and requested to film the clinic, so I allowed it.

“Wow, many celebrities and athletes come here too.”

“Not many, just a few people come occasionally. Oh, please send me one when the article comes out. I’ll print it and put it up there.”

“Yes, what?”

Perhaps because there had been too many surprising things today, Won Gijun startled and shook his shoulders even though it wasn’t a big deal.

“Don’t you usually put up articles when they come out?”

“But, but, but, but, still my article being here…”

For some reason unable to find where to look, he clenched his fist tightly saying he would write hard.

“Is your neck okay? You’re getting too tense today.”

“Ah, yes! Of course! It really feels refreshing. Thank you so much for giving me this interview today and even treating me.”

“If it’s uncomfortable for you to appear in other newspapers or broadcasts, I’ll tell them to leave you out.”

“I don’t mind at all!”

I treated him while we were at it, but receiving thanks for it made me a bit embarrassed.

Anyway, I finished a satisfactory interview with the very last reporter.

An Juhui had already gone downstairs saying to call her if there was anything she was needed for.

I told Seo Inae that I would start treatment right away.

“Phew, it’s finally over. You can send patients to the 3rd floor now.”

“Wouldn’t it be okay for you to rest a bit more?”

“It’s fine. You said there are patients waiting for me too, right?”

Since we had been delayed for over an hour, most of my patients had received treatment from Lee Ahreum, but there were also patients who insisted on waiting to see me specifically.

“What happened?”

I sighed and explained the situation to them.

“A Middle Eastern prince barged in with a whole bunch of bodyguards.”

“Oh my!”

“What did he come for?”

“He came for treatment.”

“It wasn’t that he fell for you at first sight?”

“He fell for me and asked me to become his personal doctor.”

“Oh my!”

“Really?”

The middle-aged women asked if it was really true and were amazed, saying they should have secretly come down to see.

Seeing this fuss and shock, I finally felt a sense of reality too.

“I’ll probably be on TV later too.”

“You’re not going to abandon us and leave, are you?”

“Of course not. I’m not going anywhere. Now, lie down! Today it’s shoulders, back, and left finger again, right?”

“Yes, yes. After cutting with a knife, even my wrist hurts~.”

As I diligently treated my regular patients, it was soon lunchtime.

I called all the staff together to tell them what had happened.

I also sent a message to Hwang Sanghun, who didn’t come to work today.

Still, I should be the one to tell him. How bewildered would he be if he suddenly saw this on TV?

“Ugh, finally it’s over!”

It had been such a long day.

It wasn’t even a day with many patients, but I was mentally exhausted.

Having barely finished today’s consultations, I stretched.

“Clinic Director!”

“…You came.”

But unfortunately, I had to abandon my plan to go home and regain peace of mind through breathing exercises.

Park Seon-yun was waiting at the door.

‘I was wondering why he wasn’t coming.’

Behind him, Kim Jinsang bowed his head slightly.

It was really fortunate that the two of them seemed to have completely reconciled now.

“I guess you heard the news right away today.”

Neither the ambassador nor the prince seemed like people who would be slow in handling matters.

Had they already organized the details and delivered them?

“Clinic Director, you’re truly amazing. We tried so hard to make contact during Prince Faisal bin Amir’s visit to Korea, but thanks to you, they contacted us first!”

“Ah, is that what it was?”

“I heard the story too! You’re finally expanding!”

Park Seon-yun hugged the documents tightly and shouted with an extremely excited face.

I really had no plans for the time being, but it turned out that way.

By the way, it was quite surprising that Park Seon-yun’s side wanted to contact Faisal first.

Was he somewhat… no, actually an incredibly expensive figure? Not just some attention-seeker who shows his face everywhere?

“That’s how it turned out. Do you think we can proceed with PK?”

Of course, we’d still need to do a lot of reviewing and meetings, but someone like Park Seon-yun would probably have a rough idea.

I inquired whether it seemed like there was a possibility of success.

“Of course!”

Then Park Seon-yun smiled brightly and handed me the documents he had been hugging tightly.

“It’s not like last time when we only had a rough idea. We’ve reviewed it for all kinds of situations. If you just give the okay, we can get board approval right away!”

“What?”

Those documents were none other than an incredibly thick business plan.

“Did you have something in mind beforehand?”

“I had been researching since around the time I brought up the investment talk last time. The plan was written after receiving this proposal, of course.”

“…”

…He made this today?

Calling it a pile of documents wasn’t enough.

Without the slightest exaggeration… this was just a brick.

It was much thicker than a brick, and despite being made of paper, it was heavier than a real brick.

“Take your time reading it. Shall I explain it to you?”

Park Seon-yun smiled innocently.

“Ha, hahaha.”

I just followed his lead and smiled brightly as well.

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