episode_0018

“Sorry.”

“What is it?”

Come morning. Elthea came to me separately and apologized. They probably came to check if I was bothered by Elin’s injury yesterday.

“Don’t worry. Children can make mistakes.”

“No. I should have paid more attention to Elin.”

“I understand your heart. But that doesn’t change anything, does it?”

Elin will also want to do something on her own. It’s not like your mother can do everything forever, and you yourself will want to do it like a normal person.

Elthea was also unable to respond to my point, whether she knew this rationally.

Well, it must be difficult for her too.

I think I could help her a little. Because I desperately need Chloe’s help when she gives birth.

“Excuse me, but may I touch Elin’s body?”

“Yes?”

At my question, Elthea broke into a cold sweat and asked me a question back in a trembling voice.

“Do you have lust for children?”

When I figured out why she was like that, I immediately responded.

“That is absolutely not my intention!”

For a moment, I almost became a pedophile bastard.

. . .

A merchant considers everything based on profitability.

Is this to your benefit? The deal had to be concluded after thoroughly calculating whether there would be any loss.

However, Elsia’s father lacked these talents to become a merchant.

Although my father was quick to calculate, unfortunately, he was not cool-headed. When it comes to important transactions, I always make wrong choices due to my emotions.

In particular, Elthea thought that the business failed because it was always sold at low prices in her hometown of Rugeron Village.

Elsia, who was disappointed by her father’s appearance, tried to become a more cool-headed merchant than anyone else.

Although her father’s business failed and she had to settle down in a remote rural village, Elsia wanted to make her children successful as merchants.

That was how she ended up marrying a man named Garom.

Although there is a limit to the wealth that can be accumulated through farming, one can quickly accumulate wealth through embezzlement by taking advantage of being a mill owner, and compared to farming, one has the advantage of being able to focus on educating their children as they have more time than usual.

Also, a man named Garom had low self-esteem, so it was easy for her to take the lead at home. However, he was extremely jealous of Ian, the hunter who was an outsider, and his obsession with Sylvia was strong.

Elthea also had feelings for Sylvia, the most beautiful woman in town.

If it weren’t for her, he would have accumulated more wealth through the support of the men in the village, and when he saw her smiling brightly at everyone, unlike himself, he felt like he was being denied something.

However, Elthea thought that this was a meaningless feeling as a merchant.

Because the number one thing she thinks about is money. Unlike his incompetent father, he thought he was in control of his emotions.

But for the first time, her fluctuating emotions led her to make a wrong decision.

It was because of my daughter Elin.

The daughter, who took after her father Garom and was born lame, was defective by Elthea’s standards. An unhealthy child, a child who cannot do anything on his own.

If she had been Elthea, a cold-hearted merchant like usual, she would have treated Elin as a non-existent child and had a new child. But Elsia couldn’t do that. He could not bear to give up on his daughter, whom he had given birth to because of a stomachache, and put in a lot of effort for Elin.

However, as time passed, Elsia gradually became devastated.

Elin, who was born with a limp, couldn’t do much, and her husband and father, Garom, didn’t care about his daughter and was only interested in Sylvia, the most beautiful woman in town.

And in the end, he abandoned himself and his daughter and ran away.

In such a desperate situation, Elthea met a man named Sian.

“Elin. My brother is going to touch me, are you okay?”

“It’s okay.”

“Because this isn’t strange. Please know.”

“Yes. I trust you, Sian.”

“Can’t you call me ‘oppa’ instead of ‘Xian’? Oppa, you want to become friends with Elin?”

“Sian oppa?”

“Yes, yes.”

He was a man whose value could not be determined even in the eyes of a merchant.

Amazing hunting skills, knowledge reminiscent of a scholar, excellent work skills, and even the physical strength to support them.

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If he had met this man first, he was such an amazing man that he would have used any means to marry his daughter Elin.

If there is a flaw, it is that, unlike his adoptive father, Ian, his appearance is slightly disappointing and, like his father, he is weak in affection.

She tried to join his family on the condition that she become his concubine, but he accepted her and Elin as family members, not as concubines.

And even now, he was spending a lot of money for Elin.

“Smells good.”

“Hyangyuya. Oil is needed for massage.”

Does he know? How much effort is required to obtain that perfume.

Elthea tried to calculate why he cared for her daughter so much, but could not come up with an answer.

Sian began to touch Elin’s thighs with his oiled hands.

“Ugh, it’s cold.”

“Hold on a little, it will get warm soon.”

“Wow, it’s really warm.”

“Hmm… As expected, the length of the legs do not match. Is this a genetic disease? And I walked in the wrong posture and my pelvis was slightly distorted. ”

Sian said while holding Elin’s thighs while holding his body close to Elin.

“Wait a minute, Elin, it’s going to hurt a little.”

“Yes… ”

A crunching sound came from Elin’s thigh. Elthea was surprised, but Elin showed no signs of pain.

“Does it hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt, and it feels refreshing.”

“Then everything is going well. Just a moment.”

This time, Sian looked at the condition of the knee and carefully pressed and massaged it.

“Does it hurt here?”

“Yes, it hurts a little.”

“Hmm… okay. Will you give me back?”

“Yes.”

He touched Elin’s waist and buttocks, who had her back to him, and a crunching sound was heard again.

“Hyaaa-it’s cool.”

“It’s good if it’s cool.”

After massaging Elin’s body a few times, he stabbed Elin’s left knee with a sharp needle. Elthea was startled by that sight, but Elin had a calm face.

“Aren’t you sick?”

“Yes. Mom, it stung, it doesn’t hurt.”

Elin lay still like that for a few minutes, and Sian checked her feet and started making something with her woodworking skills.

“Phew… For now, it’s over.”

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Sian, who didn’t sweat even when doing most of the work, probably because she was concentrating a lot, wiped her sweat and said while looking at mother and daughter Elthea and Elin.

“To explain, Elin’s disability appears to be a type of genetic disease. I think it’s from my father’s side, and I didn’t have a measuring device to determine the exact length, so I checked it by eye, but maybe because I’m still growing up, there’s not a big difference in the lengths of the two. Elin, would you like to wear this on your left foot?”

Sian held out the item he had made to Elin, and Elin carefully put it on.

Then, miraculously, Elin, who had been lame, began to walk without any problems.

“Uh, Mom, I’m walking. Walk properly.”

“Uh, how… ”

Elin began to cry at that fact, and Elthea was speechless and could not say anything.

“You will be able to walk temporarily with this. However, the muscles in my left leg are not yet developed, so running is dangerous. Okay Elin?”

“Yes!”

“Lastly, this is important. How old is Elin now?”

“I’m 15 years old.”

“Then the growth plate is still open.”

After thinking carefully about Elthea’s answer, Xian said while holding Elthea’s hand.

“You can fix it by combining exercise and massage, and stimulating the growth plate on your left leg with acupuncture.”

“What, what?”

“We can fix Elin’s disability!”

“Really?”

“Did you see that I lied?”

At Xian’s confident words, Elthea began to shed tears, as if the emotions she had been suppressing until now burst out.

Seeing her mother like that, Elin hugged her mother and started crying.

Xian looked at the scene with satisfaction and quietly left the place.

. . .

‘Kiya, did you just admit that you were almost at the level of a doctor? Oh, I admit it.’

Anything you learn is useful.

This was a lesson my biological father taught me in my past life.

And the oriental medicine that my father, who was an oriental medicine doctor, forcibly instilled in me was being used well in other worlds.

However, it is a pity that it is only half knowledge.

‘If it were my father, he would have done better.’

When I was young, I had no intention of becoming a doctor.

However, my father, who is a master of Oriental medicine, taught me Oriental medicine by force when I was young, and the knowledge I learned through cramming is still engraved in my mind, and I still remember the memories of that day.

– ‘Juan, please know whether this is the growth plate or not. You can make money later.’

-‘Aaaah damn dad! Why are you testing me!!!’

‘Let’s stop reminiscing.’

Anyway, it was fortunate that there was a solution to Elin’s disability thanks to her father’s indoctrination.

‘If you do it consistently, there will be no problem, and if you get the chance to make custom crutches, make them made of durable black wood.’

Thinking about what happened next, I told Chloe what happened today.

“Thank goodness.”

“Right?”

Although I couldn’t have sex with Chloe for a while now that she was pregnant, we would meet each other at night and talk about what happened that day.

But suddenly, Chloe became curious about something and asked me a question.

“Honey, how do you know such knowledge?”

“That’s it.”

I wondered if I should tell my wife, Chloe, about my past life, but only for a moment.

Because it’s not right to keep secrets from her, who is my life partner.

“That’s right, I… ”

smart.

Just as I was about to tell Chloe the secret, someone knocked on the door.

Who’s at this hour?

Puzzled, I opened the door. Elthea was standing there. I thought she had come to ask me about something that happened today, but I was surprised to see her looking more decorated than usual.

Before I could say anything, Elthea opened her mouth and spoke.

“Today, I have come to serve you as a concubine.”

I reflexively closed the door.