Chapter 18
“…Where am I? Here.”
Shin Junho, who opened his eyes with difficulty, frowned.
Even if he tried to move his body, his whole body was stiff, making it difficult.
“For now, please rest. It will be difficult to move right now.”
“Excuse me? …Ugh.”
Shin Junho turned his head quickly, then grabbed his left shoulder and shrank back.
It was a reaction to suddenly moving his muscles after being unconscious for a long time.
“Sir, you were unconscious… I mean, how many days was it?”
“…Ah, Junho. You were unconscious for over a week. So, if you move your body suddenly, your body will be surprised, so just lie down and rest for a bit.”
Park Hoyeon belatedly explained as Kang Taehan looked back.
Shin Junho looked at the two alternately with surprised eyes.
“Now that I see it… it’s a hospital? What’s going on?”
“How far do you remember.”
“Uh… the mountain was so beautiful that I took a picture. But the angle was a little disappointing, so I was about to move…”
He rolled down.
Shin Junho, who belatedly remembered, lowered his head for a moment with a confused expression.
And it wasn’t just Shin Junho who was confused.
‘What is going on?’
Park Hoyeon, trying to maintain a calm expression, looked alternately at his friend Shin Junho and Kang Taehan.
Shin Junho was unconscious for an unknown reason.
To put it a little seriously, he was in a vegetative state.
He guessed that a concussion was the cause, but to be honest, it wasn’t that serious.
It can only be seen as a case of being extremely unlucky.
It wasn’t a common case, but people often ended up in a vegetative state due to relatively minor accidents like this.
He told his sister-in-law that he would do his best and that he would be fine soon, but to be honest, he didn’t know what to do or when he would regain consciousness.
‘But…’
But now he regained consciousness.
After that young man checked his pulse and touched the back of his neck once, he regained consciousness within a few minutes.
Was it a coincidence?
While Kang Taehan was roughly doing something, Junho happened to regain consciousness at that moment.
There is a possibility that it was just that, but the timing is too perfect to be purely coincidental.
‘”I think I can help him.”‘
He suddenly remembered what Kang Taehan had just said.
At that time, he wondered what he was talking about, but looking at it this way, it sounds like he found a solution.
“…Hoyeon, I’m sorry. I’m indebted to you again.”
“Huh? What.”
Park Hoyeon reacted belatedly to Shin Junho’s words.
“It looks like your hospital.”
“Ah. Don’t worry. My sister-in-law took care of the bill.”
“That’s not what I meant… never mind. But, more importantly, who is this?”
Shin Junho asked, pointing at Kang Taehan.
“This person? Say hello. This is your benefactor.”
“Benefactor?”
“You rolled down the mountain in Gyeryongsan trying to take a picture, and he rescued you himself, and…”
Park Hoyeon hesitated for a moment.
No matter how much he thought about it, it seemed that Kang Taehan had helped Shin Junho regain consciousness, but as a doctor, he still couldn’t understand this phenomenon.
“…He also helped you regain consciousness.”
But it is not right to hide his contribution.
Park Hoyeon added belatedly.
Kang Taehan stepped forward after the introduction.
“Hello, I’m Kang Taehan.”
“Ah, yes. I’m still not in my right mind, but… it seems like I’m very much indebted to you. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. I’m glad you seem okay.”
It seems like there will be no problem digging up medicinal herbs on the mountain.
Sometimes, just by holding hands, you can know the depth of emotions.
While shaking hands with Shin Junho, who held out his hand in gratitude, Kang Taehan smiled contentedly.
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“This is really strange.”
Wednesday at the massage shop.
When a massage therapist who was looking around the store muttered, Manager Hwang, who was next to him, turned his head.
“What?”
“People are bustling these days, but when Wednesday and Thursday come, it’s like a lie, people suddenly disappear.”
“Compared to the past, there are a lot more people, Seonghun.”
“That’s true, but it’s noticeably reduced compared to other days, that’s what I’m saying.”
The man called Seonghun scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
Kim Seonghun.
He is one of the massage therapists working here, and until Kang Taehan came, he was the one who attracted regular customers to this massage shop, a massage therapist known for his skills.
His skills haven’t gone anywhere, so many regulars still come to him, but it’s true that his impact is somewhat lacking compared to Kang Taehan’s lately.
“Is there a fun drama on Wednesday and Thursday these days?”
But only he doesn’t know.
Kim Seonghun tilted his head with a truly curious expression.
“No, were you really asking because you didn’t know?”
“What is it. Tell me.”
“Mr. Taehan isn’t here on Wednesday and Thursday.”
“Mr.Taehan? …Ah, was he the friend who was going to be in charge of the Master Course with me?”
“…Aren’t you too uninterested?”
Manager Hwang laughed in disbelief.
He knew that he was a person who didn’t pay much attention to others, but he didn’t know it was to this extent.
“I haven’t met him much in the waiting room. I think I ran into him three or four times while drinking water?”
“Well, Mr. Taehan is busy… He spends a lot of time meditating quietly in the waiting room.”
“Meditation?”
“Yes. He told me not to bother him as much as possible.”
Kang Taehan, who enters meditation as soon as he uses the Star-Absorbing Great Method. Meanwhile, Kim Seonghun made an impressed expression after hearing the word meditation.
“Wow… that’s cool. He looked like he was in his mid-twenties, but he seems to have a strong sense of professionalism.”
Meditating means concentrating on the next customer even during rest time.
Kim Seonghun was also passionate about his work, but he had never thought of doing that.
“It’s not just professional. His skills are amazing.”
“Oh, really?”
Manager Hwang is not a person who exaggerates.
Kim Seonghun reacted to his exaggerated tone.
“I had a stiff neck the other day, and he just glanced at it and it disappeared like a lie.”
“…That sounds like a lie.”
“That’s why I said it disappeared like a lie.”
Manager Hwang chuckled.
“Honestly, I don’t think he’ll be here for long.”
“Why. What’s wrong with here?”
“It’s not that our massage shop is bad, it’s just that he’s that good. He’s young too.”
He’s staying here now because various conditions are met, but he’ll probably leave when the time is right.
He seemed like a young man who would do much better than now, no matter what he did.
“…Then, does he have more customers than me?”
Kim Seonghun casually asked a topic that bothered him.
Manager Hwang made a strange expression.
“I knew you weren’t very interested, but I didn’t know you were this uninterested, even though there are only two people in charge of the Master Course here.”
“No, just answer my question.”
“Look at this.”
Seeing is believing.
Manager Hwang displayed their appointment schedules on the monitor.
Kim Seonghun also had a lot of appointments for the first few days, with hardly any empty spaces, but for Kang Taehan, you had to book a week later, and even then, only during unpopular times.
“T, this much…?”
“I’m not exaggerating.”
Kim Seonghun looked at the monitor with a surprised face.
However, the surprise soon turned to curiosity.
How could he be so good?
A faint smile appeared on his lips.
“I’ll have to see how good he is.”
“What are you going to do after seeing it?”
“Well… if he’s really good, maybe I’ll take him as my master?”
As if you would.
At Kim Seonghun’s playful words, Manager Hwang chuckled and replied lightly.
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“So, you came all the way here from Seoul?”
Shin Junho looked at Kang Taehan at Park Hoyeon’s words.
Kang Taehan scratched his head with an awkward expression.
“Well… it doesn’t take that long by train.”
“Still, it’s not easy. You even came down here to help a complete stranger.”
“My hometown is Daejeon, so I came here for various reasons… and you’re not a complete stranger because I helped you once, so you kept coming to mind.”
And he wanted to get the elixir more confidently.
Actually, this was the most important reason, but Kang Taehan decided not to say it.
Meanwhile, Shin Junho was deeply impressed by Kang Taehan’s words.
His mouth, which had opened with a gasp, didn’t close easily.
“This… you are truly my benefactor. I want to repay you somehow.”
“Come to think of it, I think Mr. Taehan said he wanted to visit your mountain once.”
Park Hoyeon, who was looking at the diagnosis results, suddenly spoke as if he remembered something.
Not saying it directly but having someone else bring up the main point.
It’s a very ideal picture.
It was a very satisfactory development for Kang Taehan.
“I also sent you a text message yesterday.”
“Mountain… which mountain are you talking about?”
Which mountain.
Doesn’t he own just one mountain?
Kang Taehan was impressed inside.
“This guy is a land tycoon.”
“Hey, what land tycoon. You have to have land in Seoul to be a land tycoon. This is embarrassing, but one is an ancestral grave and the other lands are not that big.”
Shin Junho waved his hand and said.
He seemed to have been greatly misunderstood once because of a similar incident.
“Ahem, so, which one are you talking about?”
“When the incident happened in Gyeryongsan, I received a bottle of bellflower liquor from Jo Wonho…”
Kang Taehan explained the whole story.
That the bellflower liquor tasted so good, that his father also liked homemade liquor, so he was interested, and that if it was okay, he wanted to dig up some medicinal herbs there too.
“Of course it’s okay if my benefactor asks. Mr. Taehan, you can even take a few cows from our barn if you want.”
As soon as Kang Taehan finished speaking, Shin Junho nodded readily as if he had been waiting.
He fumbled in his pocket and realized belatedly that he was wearing a hospital gown.
“Hoyeon, where did you put my phone?”
“I gave it to my sister-in-law?”
“…Then give me yours for a second.”
Shin Junho opened a map application on the smartphone he received.
After searching the map for a moment, he zoomed in on the screen and showed it to Kang Taehan.
“I think this is the mountain Wonho is talking about.”
“…Hmm. It’s definitely a mountain with good energy.”
Kang Taehan muttered involuntarily as he looked at the screen.
It’s a place where anyone who can read the terrain can tell at a glance that it’s unusual.
The mountain range continues from Gyeryongsan, the Geumgang River flows in front, and across the river is the sacred mountain of Baekje, Chilgapsan.
The terrain where the energy of the two spiritual mountains, Gyeryongsan and Chilgapsan, harmonizes and even has the condition of being near water.
In short.
‘It’s truly worthy of being called a blessed place.’
Expectations rising in real time.
Kang Taehan swallowed his laughter.
