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Episode 12

I'll ask you one more thing.

Diabetes has dozens of medicines depending on its symptoms.

Why did you prescribe Palmiwon and Omija?

The patient looked so poor,

I recommended inexpensive herbs.

It seems you've been exerting yourself these past days.

Joon is going to be in charge of the medicine warehouse starting tomorrow.

It's only his third year here.

The ones who've worked for seven, eight years are still grubbing herbs.

Why are you letting him take over the medicine warehouse?

I think Busanpo should take over the medicine warehouse.

Everyone has his own place.

It's too big for me. I can't accept this.

I think this is enough. You're dismissed.

Damn it! Son of-!

Easy man!

- Calm down! - Don't stop him!

Break as much as you can.

If I were you I'd be out of my mind.

Sorry about that.

Shut up! I've never liked you since I first met you.

I did all the dirty things and he's the one who gets everything.

So, how do you feel about getting my place?

Say something with your mouth!

I'm sorry.

How brazen-faced!

You're saying you're sorry and that's it?

Because of you,

Busanpo's seven years of study has come to nothing.

I can't grub herbs for you.

I'd rather quit.

Evil one!

Don't worry. They can do nothing about it.

They will grub herbs for you anyway.

I already knew you were going to be this successful.

I'm at your service.

It seems you've been exerting yourself these past days.

Joon is going to be in charge of the medicine warehouse starting tomorrow.

Ma'am! Ma'am!

Harder... Harder...

This drives me crazy.

Joon! Joon!

What's going on?

She's giving birth now.

Ma'am! Ma'am!

Ma'am, harder... Push harder.

Ma'am.

What's the matter with the baby? Is there anything wrong?

- Harder... - Ohh, this really drives me crazy!

I wish I was her.

Behave prudently.

Yes.

It's a boy. It's a boy.

Joon!

Thank you.

Joon...

Look at him. He's your son.

Thank you.

Why did the doctor summon you?

He put me in charge of the medicine warehouse.

In charge of the medicine warehouse?

You're taking over the warehouse?

Yes.

He knew I had been taking care of

the patients and rewarded me for that.

How great... How thankful...

You've been working hard day and night. The heavens have rewarded you for that.

The heavens have rewarded you for that.

It's so great.

This boy has come to the world to bring you happiness.

Wait a minute.

Take this.

What's this?

When I was leaving Yongchun my lord gave it to me

and asked me to give it to you when you had a baby.

What does it say?

He named my child.

What's his name?

Gyum...

Hur Gyum.

Hur Gyum...

Gyum... Gyum...

Gyum...

Being noble or mean is decided by one's acts,

not by birth or extraction.

Don't misuse your social position and waste your life.

Sir...

Being in charge of the medicine is being in charge of the money.

Why is someone whose background is so vague in charge of everything?

His mother and his wife are subsisting by doing chores

and needle work for pay.

Opportunity makes the thief, I don't think he's so exceptional,

so watch him carefully.

Don't take this too seriously.

Haven't you seen what he's been doing?

We should take action. Otherwise he'll bankrupt our hospital.

How dare he!

How dare he take care of the patients!

You will see. Even with just a tiny little thing,

I'll do whatever I can do to drive him away.

Are you ready?

What is going on here?!

Are you dumb? You're not going to answer me?

Youngdal!

Yes, sir.

What's this?

You jackass!

I told you not to drink alcohol in the mountains in the winter.

You want to die?

If you want to be a good warehouse keeper,

you should control these ones.

As you know, Joon's in charge of the medicine warehouse starting today.

He's going to inspect the herbs that you grub.

Say something if you have something to say.

I still have a lot to learn. I will need your help.

Are you finished? Let's go.

Okay.

How rude they are!

Do you know why I call them jackasses? Because they deserve it.

Jackasses.

Once they grub the herbs, you should write them down one by one.

Then either steam or dry them before you store them in these medicine boxes.

You should check out the medicines that come and go everyday.

And, when the herbal medicine sellers come to this hospital

you should price the medicines by the quality.

OK.

I'm supposed to tell you this tomorrow, but...

When you meet the medicine sellers and talk about this or that

you'll get some drinking money.

Don't spend it on all on your own. Please invite me.

Will you?

Don't be too greedy.

Joon,

check the herbs against this book one by one.

If you need some help, I can help you.

Thanks, but you may go.

Where are you going?

Aren't you going to grub the herbs?

I'll drink some alcohol in the tavern.

You go grub the herbs or do whatever you wanna do.

Well, what the hell...

What're you going to do?

Well...

Let's go.

Where to?

To the tavern.

Busanpo's not going to work. Why should we?

We can have a day off. Joon's not going to say anything about it.

I've been here for almost six years.

I carried water for three years and grubbed the herbs for three years.

But all I got is this scar from the herb-grubbing.

Other herb grubbers sometimes get some white snakes or ginsengs

and make some great fortune. But look at us!

If I had Doctor Yoo's secret book,

I could be a doctor in my hometown and get some respect.

Secret book? What's that?

Why do you think Doctor Yoo became the number one doctor in Korea?

It's all because of the ancestral secret book

that has the special prescriptions for each and every disease.

Does that book really exist?

I heard this from Ohgun the other day.

Doji also became a great doctor at such a young age, right?

It's all because of the secret book.

Congratulations.

I don't think I deserve that congratulation yet.

No, I was surprised at you, too.

You've reached this level in such a short time.

Not everybody can do that.

I think now is the time for me to learn from you.

No, I can't teach you.

This is the medicine list I used to write down.

I thought it would be helpful to your warehouse work.

Thank you.

It's so cold.

How long do we have to wait like this?

It's been two hours already, but there's no wild boar, no roe deer

and no pheasant or anything like that.

It's too cold. Let's roam around, shall we?

Can't you stop talking? We're in the middle of the pass.

If we guard here, they're gonna pass by.

There must be something.

Do you know what this is?

Don't know.

It's a roe deer's dropping.

Put that away!

There must be footprints here.

Damn! It's too cold.

Oh! Joon fathered a cute little son

and became a medicine warehouse keeper.

But my life's so pathetic.

What did you say?

My life's so pathetic.

No, not the "pathetic" part.

Joon became what?

Didn't you know?

He became Doctor Yoo's medicine warehouse keeper.

Why didn't you tell me before? I'm always the last to know.

Let's go.

Where to?

Don't you want to roam around?

I do.

Wait for me!

Arrowroot for fever,

decocted root of spring onion for stomach coldness and stomachache,

peach stone for backache

balloon flower for cough, Cassia tora for constipation...

You surprised me.

You look like a real doctor.

Doctor Hur.

What the hell are you talking about? People are going to laugh.

You revived an almost dead person.

Who's gonna laugh at you, Dr. Hur?

I still have a long way to go.

By the way, what brings you here?

We're here to sell medicine stuff, like always.

Here.

Musk, bear gall, poisonous snake, dried bat...

badger gall and wild boar's penis.

Let me see.

Make us rich.

I'll give you 140 dollars for these.

What did you say, 140 dollars?

Here you are.

Are you kidding? Why are these 140 dollars?

If Ohgun was a warehouse keeper

he would price 300 dollars for them.

If you don't like the price, you can take them back.

We're not utter strangers to you. Give us a good price.

Wait a minute.

Joon...

What is good for us is good for you.

You can use your higher position.

What are you talking about?

I don't care about what Ohgun did. I'm not gonna do what he did.

Take these and go.

Take these and go?

I see. You're trying to forget the old days!

Ilsuh...

How could you!

- Ilsuh! - All right.

I'll remind you of the old days.

You didn't have an identity tag. You didn't have a house.

Let's go, Ilsuh!

I'm not going.

When your wife was sick, I got you the medicine for her.

And who got you the barley?

- You owe me a lot! - Let's go.

Jangswe, Youngdal, hurry up!

Yes, sir!

Thank you, guys.

Why are your net bags empty?

We couldn't find any herbs today.

Right, I couldn't even see a tiny little balloon flower.

I will explain.

Don't make an excuse.

We didn't go to the mountain.

- Well, let's take a rest. - Yes.

You can't go anywhere.

You didn't do what you had to do,

so, chop the dried herbs in the warehouse.

Isn't that your work?

Chop the dried herbs.

What do you think you're doing?

What're you doing, guys? Get this man, right now.

Well? Are you going to chop the dried herbs?

Go to the warehouse.

All right.

Secret book? What's that?

Why do you think Doctor Yoo became the number one doctor in Korea?

It's all because of the ancestral secret book

that has the special prescriptions for each and every disease.

Does that book really exist?

I heard this from Ohgun the other day.

Doji also became a great doctor at such a young age, right?

It's all because of the secret book.

Get up!

What're you doing?

Give me the secret book.

Secret book?

You have the secret book that has prescriptions for every disease.

Give me the ancestral secret book.

What a fool!

I don't have it. Just go. Don't make this into a big issue.

Shut up!

I can't go without it.

If you don't want to die, give me that book, right now.

Since I came here, I've worked for you like a dog or a pig.

How could you

name Hur Joon to

take over the warehouse, instead of me?

I can't work for him. I'd rather die.

I need money to live on.

Give me my seven years of wages

or give me that book.

I don't have it.

If you don't want to die, give it to me, right now!

A book doesn't make you a doctor.

And you will never be able to be a doctor in your life.

Get out of here.

Shut up! Cunning old man!

I don't have time.

If you don't give me that book right now, I'll have to kill you.

Give it to me!

Aren't you going to give me that book? You want to die?

All right, I'll kill you.

Well, I can kill both of you.

You, villain!

Villain!

Die!

Villain!

Dr. Yoo...

Let him go.

He tried to kill you.

Go.

This is all because of me.

I'm not suitable for the job.

I can't accept the position.

It's all due to my lack of virtue.

I promoted you not because of your medical skill,

but because of your heart

that pities the patients.

Don't disappoint me.

Master...

Damn it!

This is not right!

What's going on?

They won't give us dinner for a couple of days.

We work like dogs and they don't give us food?

Do you think that makes sense?

Like Busanpo, I'd rather quit.

Don't say that.

There was a serious crop failure in the south.

And people starve to death all around the mountains.

At least you can eat here.

Let's go, Youngdal.

Where to?

Let's have some rice soup with rice wine.

I can't stand hunger.

You've got money?

- Okay, go ahead. - All right.

I'll join you after I'm finished with the warehouse work.

What're you doing?

Put them down.

Easy, man.

What is good for me is good for you.

As long as I'm the warehouse keeper,

nobody can take the medicine out of the warehouse in that way.

Put them down.

You're such a mean guy.

I wanted to eat. That's all.

Let's see what lies in your future.

You're a bit late.

Joon's not home yet?

Not yet.

How was your day, Gyum?

Dinner is ready in the kitchen.

I'm going to Haman's.

Did you have dinner?

I already have.

Well... See you later.

I'm home.

You've been working so far without having dinner?

I had a lot of work to do in the ward. I didn't have time.

Aren't you going to eat?

I already had some before you came home.

You must be hungry. Eat.

Yes.

Mother!

What?

Haman said soy-mixed water is good for my flatulence.

I feel so bloasted.

What the hell is he doing?

What kind of medicine warehouse keeper carries water?

He washes the towels stained with blood and pus and makes decoction.

That villain!

He knows how to flatter and deceive his master.

By the way, where is Busanpo? What the hell is he doing now?

Rectal prolapse.

Hemorrhoids.

Is that serious?

With single-herbal prescriptions, yours will be healed soon.

Joon, look at me.

What?

How are your studies going?

I'll ask you a question as a test.

This one is hemorrhoids and that one is rectal prolapse.

What would you prescribe?

For hemorrhoids, decoct the fig leaves

and get the steam of it three times a day.

Right.

For rectal prolapse, crush up cockscomb seeds and Bangpung

and take the powder after a meal once a day, Bangpung: A herb used for colds and paralysis

and it'll stop the bleeding from the anus. Bangpung: A herb used for colds and paralysis

Yes, you're right.

Did you listen to him?

Yes.

Go home and do as he said.

- Yes. - Yes.

Great job.

Thank you.

What kind of patients are these?

Rectal prolapse and hemorrhoids.

Untie your waistbands.

Do as you heard, but if you don't get better, come again.

- Yes. - Yes.

The one with rectal prolapse will come back later.

Then you will have to heal the disease with acupuncture.

Where are the acupuncture points?

Me?

Bladder Meridian and Governor Vessel.

How many acupoints are there around Bladder Meridian?

126 acupoints.

What kind of acupuncture would you use?

Bee needle.

It depends on the patient's weight,

but after calculating the elapsed time since the last meal

and checking the point, you have to perform the bee needle.

Depth of acupuncture?

First, you acupuncture to the depth of 1 cm and spill out the Chi

then after 3 breaths of the patient

you acupuncture to the depth of 2, 3 cm

and pull out in an hour.

Is that right?

According to the medical book...

Tell me what you think.

According to the medical book, that is right, but

it depends on the condition of the affected part and of the patient.

The depth and the number breaths

is at the discretion of the doctor.

But that patient's disease was so serious,

you would have to pull out later than what he said.

What're you talking about?

According to the medical book, to spill out or add Chi,

the depth and the breaths

should always be in accord.

There's no "always" in the book.

What?

That's enough.

Not all the symptoms of the disease are in the book.

It's general symptoms.

The treatments are not for all the patients.

And the medical book was not written by a korean.

Our climate and food are different from that of China.

Don't trust the book one hundred percent.

A book doesn't give you knowledge.

Reading without thinking about real meaning

doesn't give you real knowledge.

Joon!

Joon!

What's the matter?

Something's wrong.

Mother!

Joon!

What's going on?

Your wife...

Your wife is being beaten in Jinsa's.

What?

Stop!

I'll ask you again.

Where did you hide the silk?

I didn't hide it.

You're lying again?

Someone saw you selling a silk dress in the street.

You, wayward girl. I'll make you confess.

Start beating her!

The wayward one is you.

How rude you are!

Where do you think you are? Watch your mouth!

The dress I sold in the street was not yours.

It belonged to me from the beginning.

I got the silk from the needlewoman

and I made the dress with it. I didn't steal yours.

Why are you trying to frame me with only one person's statement?

What're you doing? Beat her!

Even if you beat me, I can't make a false confession.

Shut up!

Are you trying to teach me?

Did you say you sold your dress?

How could a low class girl like you afford silk?

If it was not a stolen one, what was it?

I didn't steal it from you. When I was leaving Seoul, I...

Don't touch me! Get your hands off me!

Let me go!

Please, let me go!

What're you doing?

Who the hell is he?

He looks like her husband.

Why are you beating my wife?

Like his wife, he's so rude!

What're you doing? Beat him, too!

Yes, sir!

Joon! Joon!

Joon...

Joon! My Joon...

Joon...

I have to teach them a lesson.

Hey, boys!

Bind them with ropes!

- Yes, my lord! - My lords!

I beg your pardon! Forgive us!

Shut up! Among the low class people,

you're the rudest people I've ever met.

It seems you've forgotten your social class.

It's time for you to pay the price.

Make them go down on their knees!

Joon...

Dahee...

Joon...

Joon...

I'm okay.

Don't say anything.

Being a low class woman is like this.

Even if we are not guilty,

they blame us because we are low class people.

Why did...

why did you cross the line?

Why did you marry me?

Joon...

Don't say anything.

I'm...

I'm all right.

Eat.

I have something to tell you.

I...

I'm going to give up studying medicine.

Joon!

What're you talking about?