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I want you to take over my life's dream.

This diseased body is yours.

Make sure to dissect my body and tear my flesh before it rots.

This is the way he will live forever.

This is the way he will live forever.

What kind of man are you? How can you do that to him?

It was his wish that I do this.

I don't want to see you again.

Let's get this straight,

I'm going to sell this hospital. So, leave here immediately.

I've said what I wanted to say. Let it be done.

Let's go.

Episode 31

Be careful with that.

Hurry... this way. That one goes here.

Come on, quickly.

Carry it with care.

Yes, this way.

Take it out.

- How is it going? - It's nearly finished.

We have a long way to go, so hurry.

Yes, ma'am.

What should I do with the medical books Dr. Yoo used to read?

Medical books?

Shall I take them to Seoul, so Master Doji can read them?

He said there are plenty of rare books in the palace library.

Doji can read those as much as he wants.

It's just more things to carry, throw them out.

Yes, ma'am.

How cruel.

Hansang, I can see your loads are full.

Haven't you forgotten the crossbeam?

Then what will happen to the hospital?

I thought Gyum's father was going to inherit it.

But I guess I was wrong.

What are you smiling about?

Are you happy?

Then should I cry?

Oh, my...

It must be hard living with her.

She is so immature...

What is that for?

That's my wife.

I'm not wrong though.

You seem to know a human's vital spots well.

There was a scamp in China called Jangwee, who was so good at fighting.

He knew a human's vital spots very well. Later he learned

medical skills with that knowledge and became an excellent doctor.

If we don't make him a doctor,

he will use his skills for the wrong things and just kill people.

It feels so empty.

We're like a dog being kicked out after losing his owner.

Thank god the doctor gave me the secret of making plaster.

Without that, I wouldn't have been able to make a living.

Secret of plaster?

Did he teach that to you too?

Yes.

I thought he had passed it over just to me.

Is anyone there?

We're closed.

Who is it?

We don't see patients anymore.

Haven't you heard that we don't see patients?

Haven't you heard?

I'm the new owner of this house.

Doctor Hur, I think you need to come outside for a minute.

What is it?

This herb storage is good.

I'm sure this is not a jar stand, for food, in front of the herb storage.

What are these jars for?

As we have written there, we have put in different types of water.

Water is all the same. Are there different types of water?

Get rid of these jars.

Yes, Doctor.

Move it.

I will use them for soy sauce jars. So be careful not to break them.

He doesn't know how valuable they are...

Are you sure you're a doctor?

Yes, I am.

Did you just call it a mistake?

After killing a patient who came wanting to live, with your rotten water

would you still say it was a mistake?

I'm new to this job,

so I didn't know which water was being used as medicine.

Shut up!

It was a mistake... I didn't know...

You can make excuses after killing someone?!

A doctor's hands are more scary than

the warrior with knife or an animal with evil intentions.

A doctor's hands cannot be forgiven

for even just one mistake!

Are you Doctor Hur?

Are you Doctor Hur?

Yes, I am.

I'm Jang Mansoo, a doctor from Chunsoo village.

Looking at the poor state of the hospital,

Dr. Yoo, who was the best doctor in Korea, must have been not so great.

I have heard about you.

Why did you want to see me?

What are you going to do from now on?

I'm asking whether you will open a medical center somewhere in Sanum.

I bought this place after selling all my other assets.

I mean, I risked everything for this.

But if you open a medical center near here,

then I will go bankrupt.

I don't have any plans to do so, so don't worry.

Then why don't you come and help me?

I will pay you enough.

This place has been run by Dr. Yoo's predecessors.

Don't mind me and take good care of the patients who come here,

in the name of Doctor Yoo.

So please excuse me.

That's very good...

What are you going to do now?

I don't have a family to support,

I can go anywhere to make my living.

I'm thinking of going to Guhchang with Ggukswe

and sell plasters.

What about you?

I think I will take some time off at home.

My life over the past several years

passes through my head very quickly.

Once, I wanted to become the greatest doctor in Korea, like the teacher.

But I just called myself a doctor...

Instead, I ended my dream as a patient recorder.

Life is uncertain...

You're just like any other doctor if you exclude pulse and acupuncture skills.

With your skills, you would be able

to open a medical center in Gyuchang.

Are you making fun of me?

If a doctor can't read the pulse or apply acupuncture, then he's not a doctor.

You don't make sense at all.

Go to Samjeok temple first.

If my situation allows, I will call upon you again.

Yes.

It's nothing.

Bye...

What do you mean?

Then, are you going to let the medical skills you've gained go to rust?

I mean I will concentrate on preparing for the national examination.

Don't you know how difficult it has been for Dahee?

It would be good if you just open

a medical center, since everyone knows you...

While preparing for the exam, I will have to study the properties of medicine

by climbing Mt Jiri and collecting herbs.

And, if I sell them and plant a garden,

I will be able to earn our living, so don't worry.

If we were to live like this without a plan, it would be difficult.

But if I treat your dream as my dream,

then I can bear this difficulty.

Joon, have something to eat.

You go ahead too.

I have eaten with Gyum.

I met the school teacher.

And he says Gyum is the smartest among the kids at the school.

Gyum, why don't you show him what you have been learning?

Okay.

These five items of virtue are originating from the heavens(gods) and human beings.

Love between father and son. Justice between king and retainer.

Division between husband and wife. Faith among friends.

Order should be there between adult and child.

Originally, it was the law of god and the root of human-kind.

Don't look down on the poor because you're valuable ...

Don't look down on the small ones because you're big ...

Don't think the opponent is easy, trusting your own bravery ...

It's great that of

Dong Mong Sun Seup and Myung Sim Bo Gam,

you know both so well.

I think you can start on the Seven Chinese Classics.

How fortunate to have Hur Joon,

among dull boys like you bunch.

You should follow his example

and concentrate on learning.

We will finish here.

Why do we have to study with a boy of such low status?

Can a noble one and a low one study together?

Low one? His father is an official of this town.

So what? His mother is a concubine.

A concubine?

Gyum, let's go.

Grandma, I will take the basket.

You're all grown up now to think of

your grandmother.

No, I will carry it. Let's go. - See you.

What are you thinking about?

If he doesn't stop at understanding principles and writing his name,

and really enjoys studying, what will you do?

For people like us, the more we study,

the more tears we will have.

Not just tears, but tears with a grudge.

That kind of experience was enough for me.

I didn't want to pass it to my son.

Then you mean you want to raise him as an illiterate?

Perhaps, that is a better way.

I understand why you say that.

But I won't raise my son as a stupid illiterate.

4 bags of barley is enough for a season.

So even if I have to starve, I will send him to school.

After Gyum finishes the 1,000 Chinese characters,

and if he tries to go on to read Dong Mong Sun Seup,

Myung Sim Bo Gam, Non Uh and Sigyung,

then we are giving him more pain.

Since you were raised in a family with social standing,

you probably don't know how painful it is.

The reason you learned medical skills faster than others

is because you grasped physics.

The reason you could sit for the exam

is because you learned to read and write.

You said we will have a chance to turn things around if you

became a royal physician at the palace, didn't you?

I believe he will be like that too.

I will leave it to you.

But don't put your greed onto our son.

Don't expect anything either.

For people like us, it is a very long and difficult road.

What is it?

The queen shows signs of pregnancy.

What? Is that so?

I believe it is certain.

What great news.

I will report it to the King. So, you take special care

with her health.

Yes, sir.

You're very lucky.

The queen's pregnancy is the best news for you.

If she gives birth to a baby without a major problem,

then your rank will go higher.

However, it also means that if one thing goes wrong,

it may bring substantial misfortune.

Hansang, are you there? Hansang?

Yes.

You go to market street or Samgae ferry point

and bring a carp now.

It must be fresh and big.

Yes.

What is the carp for?

The queen is pregnant.

Since carp is good for a pregnant woman, I'm making a decoction.

It's great news that the queen that you are in charge of

is pregnant.

But I would like to give it to my daughter-in-law, too.

You've been married long enough, you should have a baby by now...

Hello, sir.

Boil this carp and make a decoction.

I have written down other medicines to add in.

Yes, sir.

What smell is this?

I have boiled carp.

A carp?

Yes, Doctor Yoo gave us a carp to boil and serve to the queen.

so I boiled the carp and made a decoction.

Who is this for, then?

This is also for the queen.

You mean this is also for the queen?

Yes, it's been about 10 days.

Where is he?

He went to the queen with the boiled carp decoction.

Oh, dear...

Your Highness, please take this.

I had that in the morning, do I need to take it all day?

This is decocted carp.

It is specially made for you,

so please take it.

Alright.

Your Highness, Royal Physician Yang Yesu is here.

Let him in.

Sit down.

Yes, Your Highness.

What brings you here?

The king has ordered me to look after you well,

so I have come directly.

Dr. Yoo is looking after me very well,

so don't worry.

He came with a decoction of carp, as you can see.

Your Highness.

Please don't take that decoction.

What do you mean?

Is there something wrong with this?

I don't mean that...

I am preparing a separate medicine for you,

so I think you should take that.

Let's do that then.

It's very difficult to take a decoction every day.

Sir, I bought the carp from Samgae ferry point

and decocted it with medicinal herbs that are good for pregnancy.

Why are you asking her not to take it?

Be quiet!

You have nearly put her in danger.

Sir, I'm not sure what you are saying...

Tell me what decoction you are giving her.

The queen was coughing a lot

so I used asparagus cochinchinensis merrill.

Don't you know that if you use carp with asparagus, you become addicted?

If something happens to the queen and her baby,

then you're dead!

My knowledge wasn't enough to look that far ahead.

Please forgive me.

You take charge of the queen and the prince's health.

Yes, sir.

Send Dr. Yoo to the decoction room for now

and let him learn the basics of decoction.

Yes, sir.

Are you inside?

Come in.

What is it?

Have you heard about Doctor Jang,'v who took over Dr. Yoo's hospital?

You won't believe it.

His tyranny is very serious.

People without money can't even enter the place,

while people with a little money can go in,

but the treatment and medicine fees are unreasonably expensive.

So people are complaining

that if you go there once, you'll be ruined.

And they say men are guarding the front of the hospital

and if you don't pay first, they don't allow you in.

Damn it!

When we try to sell them bear's gall, musk and wild pig's gall bladder

they act so stingy...

I can't stand it anymore!

I don't know why that kind of man came there.

They say they miss Dr. Yoo desperately.

Please let us see the doctor.

You need to pay money first if you want to see the doctor.

Look at me.

I don't have money right now. But, when I finish barley threshing,

I will bring it then. Please let me in.

- Please... - You can't go in without money.

Please have some mercy. Please...

It won't be solved with anger,

so hold it.

Bring that patient now.

For stomach inflammation, you need to calm the fever with boiled marrowroot

and drink decocted bark of Amur cork tree

or powder Codonopsis pilosula and Polygonatum odoratum var. Pluriflorum

and eat it with honey, then you will get better.

Thank you, thank you.

Do as he says, okay?

I'd better open a medical center.

What?

To open it, I need a herb collector and a records keeper.

Yangtae, you go to Samjeok temple and bring Sanghwa.

I will go to Guhchang

and bring the previous record keeper and Ggukswe.

Alright.

You find a carpenter.

I will need to make a herb storage in my garden and also a medical center.

Alright.

Haven't you had lunch?

Is that all you can do?

Hey, Mr. Kim.

You need to put in some strength.

You need to tie it firmly.

Jangmandori.

Here is the plaster, place it on the diseased area

and if you take it off after 3-4 days, the wound will be gone.

Thank you.

Doctor Hur...

Hello.

Doctor Hur! Please come out.

Doctor Hur is here.

Doctor Hur!

Have you been well?

Truly sympathizing with the patient and curing him

is the true duty of a doctor, isn't it?

If I had to find just one person

to kill in the whole world,

it would be him.

Although we are very poor,

we give plaster to the poor for free.

Wouldn't that be the love

of a doctor towards the patient?

That is what we need to do as doctors, as taught by the teacher.

Doctor Hur, I will follow you.

Thank you.

- Hurry. - Okay, okay.

Not there, here.

Ogeun, where have you been?

Have you been well?

Is the priest well?

Yes, after hearing about your plan,

he told me to leave right away.

Joon, the herb storage is finished.

We cleaned the room, so it can be used for the medical center.

Thank you.

Sanghwa and Ggukswe,

please go and collect the herbs needed to run the center.

Yes, okay.

You go and tell people we are open.

And can you please get some towels to use?

I will.

Why have there been no patients for several days?

I'm not sure why.

Doctor... doctor!

What is it?

Hur Joon has opened a hospital in Sanum.

All the patients are rushing there.

What?

Take one of these tickets each.

Doctor Hur! Are you there?

What is it?

Don't you know why I'm here?

Didn't you agree with me that you won't open a hospital in Sanum?

And what is this?

What about our agreement that you would look after the patients well,

so that it wouldn't ruin

Doctor Yoo's name?

You are the one who didn't allow moneyless people to enter

and charged unreasonable prices to the patients.

You are the one who made the poor unable

to visit there.

You are the one who broke our agreement!

Doctors need a source of living too.

Doctors need to earn money, right?

My teacher told me that being a doctor is not a way to earn money.

A doctor's primary and secondary duty is to look after the patients.

He told me not to become a doctor who looks at the status of

the patient and not his pain.

Ask the patients you treated

what kind of doctor you are!

Let the next patient in.

Joon, Doctor Jang is here.

What is it now?

Doctor Hur, I was wrong.

For a fortnight, not one patient came to my hospital.

Like you said, I was busy earning money.

From now, it won't happen, so please send me some patients too.

That is not right.

I can't tell them where to go at my discretion.

Doctor Hur!

I will beg you on my knees.

I can't live starving.

I will charge more to the rich and less to the poor

and make it an easier place to come.

Please understand my situation.

If you make it cheaper, the patients will come to you.

I said it is not my business.

Doctor Hur! Please help me.

I will do whatever you say.

I won't charge anything for the poor.

I promise in front of you.

Doctor Hur! Doctor Hur! I promise.

Doctor Hur! Doctor Hur!

Please help me, Doctor Hur!

I will think about it, please go back.

Thank you, thank you, Doctor Hur.

I will wait, I will wait.

Doctor Hur... Thank you. I will wait, okay?

Doctor Hur! Doctor Hur!

Doctor Hur!

I went to the market street for the herbs

and met a doctor living in Guhchang,

and he says the exam date is set.

When is it?

It is in about a month.

And unlike the last exam, this one will have a first exam,

where you write answers to 5 questions.

And in the 2nd exam, you need to be baegang.

Baegang/ Exam you open a medical book and memorize it.

Baegang?

So it means it will be much harder than the last one.

Actually... I'm thinking of sitting for the exam,

will you help me?

I went to Seoul with Doji for the last exam, right?

I was given an admission ticket,

but I couldn't even enter the examination site.

Whether I pass or not, I don't care. I'm a doctor too.

I need to sit for the exam at least once, don't I?

I'm so embarrassed.

But I don't have enough skill.

So ...

as you are studying,

if there is something that you think may be on the exam,

please tell me.

Then I will memorize it by heart

and make use of it.

Please help me, okay?

Huh? Say yes.

I will do that.

You go and study.

Go in.

Until when do I have to be stuck in the decoction room?

Until when?

Are the admission tickets being given out well?

Yes.

Since the royal physician does not favor you,

please don't make any mistakes this time.

Yes.

Keep at it.

What is your name?

My name is Lee Myung Hun.

Where do you live?

I'm Ogeun Lim from Sanum.

Where do you live?

I'm Hur Joon from Sanum.

Keep up the good work.

Look over there, it's Doji.

Look at him giving commands to people.

He must be in a high position.

Where are you going?

I'm going for a walk.

Hello? Are you there?

Ms. Hadong?

Hi...

Ms. Hadong, are you there?

Miss...

Who is it?

It's the record keeper from Sanum medical center.

Sanum?

Say your greeting. It's the wife of Doji.

What about Miss Yejin?

Doji!

Doctor Yoo, I would like to offer my greetings.

What are you doing in Seoul?

I have come to sit for the exam.

Haven't you thrown away your false hope yet?

I have prepared with the help of Doctor Hur.

Is he here, too?

Yes.

Let's go in anyway.

I have come to ask you for one thing.

Consider that you're saving one poor person

and teach me if you know any useful information for the exam.

What are you talking about?

I could say... the tendency of questions?

It would be much better if I could know the questions directly.

Oh, dear!

Oh, dear?

What do you think palace doctors are?

The Medical Department is not the kind of place where some small town doctor

can think of entering, with skills he's gained just from watching.

You are wrong to think that you can pass the exam,

based on luck.

I don't know the questions

and even if I did, I can't tell you.

So, please leave.

Doji...

His talent of making people angry is getting better and better.

What? A false hope?

Then are you not a small town doctor?

You, who passed with a rock of gold,

are talking about luck?

What a bastard! He should be hit by an epidemic!

Ms. Hadong...

Ms. Hadong?

I shouldn't have come here.

You are defeated by Hur Joon,

You were born with a different nature,

You won't be as good as him in the end,

Watch me.

I won't be defeated by Hur Joon.

I won't be outdone, whatever it takes.

You're here.

Madam, bring a table of drinks.

Yes.

A drink? The exam is tomorrow.

There is no chance for me anyway...

I know you think so.

Doji's words are not wrong.

How could a person like me think of entering the medical department?

Have you been to Master Doji's house?

He railed at me saying I shouldn't have

false hopes...

But you prepared hard this time, didn't you?

If you do your best, the result will be good

so don't give up too early.

Cancel the drinks

and go over the questions I wrote for you.

Shall I?

Where are you from?

Commence...

Yes.

10 am, Nov. 13th in 1575. The exam will begin now.

- Open the questions. - Yes, sir.

It's only 12 pm, isn't it?

Bring his answer sheet.

Yes, sir.

Here it is.