Stolen Ch 2 part 1

“What kind of medicine is this?”

Yi-ryung looked at the man as she brought the bowl of medicine up to her lips. He had been preparing the medicine since this morning.

Yi-ryung now knew that this man woke up at dawn to start brewing this medicine.

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At first, she took the medicine without knowing what it was or where it came from. But now, she knew that the man made the medicine himself.

She was curious as to why the man got up so early in the morning and went out, so she quietly opened the door and peered out. She saw the man preparing the medicine on one side of the yard.

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She didn’t know what kind of medicine it was, but it must have been made just for her.

Whenever Yi-ryung asked what kind of medicine it was, the man merely handed her a piece of finely sliced taffy instead of answering her question.

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The man’s daily routine was simple.

He woke up early in the morning, brewed some medicine, and prepared breakfast for Yi-ryung.

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Then, he would sharpen his knives and axes after trimming the hide off of the livestock he had slaughtered the day before.

Around this time, YI-ryung would wake up. He made sure that she ate her breakfast and took her medicine before going out with an empty water bucket. He’d get some water and fill a large jar in the yard.

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After filling the jar with water, he prepared lunch for Yi-ryung and went to the slaughterhouse that was set up in the backyard of the house to slaughter some livestock with the knife and axe he had sharpened in the morning.

When the sun began to set, the man would light a fire in the brazier, load the meat of the slaughtered animals into a cart, and take it out of the house, only to return after dark.

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Once the sun set, the man’s day ended. He would sit across from Yi-ryung, eat dinner, spread out the blankets on the cold floor, and go to sleep.

During all this, there was no conversation between the man and Yi-ryung.

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Yi-ryung knew that the man could not speak.

The reason why the man became mute was unknown, but since he could not speak, Yi-ryung couldn’t ask why.

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And it wasn’t like a man who worked as a butcher would know how to read and write.

Since he could not read and write, he would not be able to communicate through writing. In the end, there was no other way than for Yi-ryung to ask him questions and him answering back with gestures.

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Since the man’s work was simple, Yi-ryung’s work was even simpler.

Her daily routine consisted of simply sitting in her room or on the floor and watching what the man was doing.

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This place was unfamiliar to her, so she didn’t go outside the fence. She had never done any housework before, so she didn’t know how to do anything.

She couldn’t even fetch water, and she didn’t know how to do laundry.

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She didn’t know how to light a fire or cook.

But she never once felt bored. Because every movement the man made seemed new and fascinating to Yi-ryung.

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To him, it might be a trivial household chore and an ordinary act, but to Yi-ryung, it was all so fascinating.

Until now, Yi-ryung had no idea how the food she had put into her mouth was made or what he had to do to light a fire in the brazier.

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But as she watched his movements, she realized that everything she had enjoyed was handed to her after other people went through such trivial hardships.

It was all so fascinating to her.

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So when the man left the house with a cart to sell the meat he had slaughtered, Yi-ryung’s job was to sit on the veranda and wait until the sun set for the man’s return.

That’s all Yi-ryung did for the past ten days.

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She watched the man’s actions all day long and then waited for him to return when he left the house.

And when the man came back, they had dinner together and lay down on either side of the brazier and fell asleep.

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It had already been ten days since that routine had started repeating itself.

“Shouldn’t I know what this medicine is before I take it?”

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But even if she asked like this, it wasn’t that the man was refusing to give her an answer. It was that he couldn’t.

She knew that too.

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She knew, but she was still curious.

What kind of medicine was this? And why did she have to take it twice a day for the past ten days?

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Yi-ryung gave up expecting an answer from the man and swallowed all the medicine in the bowl.

Then she took the piece of taffy from the man’s hand and put it into her mouth.

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The sweetness that followed the bitterness was incredibly sweet.

“Are you going to kill the rabbits you brought home today?”

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Today, the man came back with an empty cart and brought rabbits with him.

The man usually left with his cart loaded with slaughtered meat and came back with a cow or a pig.

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The next day, the cow or pig would be slaughtered and put back on the cart and taken out.

It was the man’s job to bring livestock that was to be slaughtered, slaughter them, and bring back the meat.

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But this was the first time he had come back with rabbits.

The white rabbits had very pretty eyes, and Yi-ryung quite liked them.

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The man shook his head in response to Yi-ryung’s question.

It meant that he wasn’t going to slaughter them.

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“Then are you going to raise them?”

As expected, the man nodded.

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Yi-ryung grinned at the fact that they were going to raise rabbits.

Yi-ryung had never raised an animal before.

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But she felt like she could raise rabbits if she tried.

“Can I raise it? Of course, I don’t really know how to raise one, but I feel like I can do a good job.”

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The man nodded.

It was only then that Yi-ryung realized that he had brought the rabbits back on purpose.

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He must have brought the rabbits because he thought she would be bored with nothing to do other than watch him all day.

So the rabbits were a gift for her.

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She felt even more joyful than if she had received silk, gold, or jewelry.

For the first time since coming here, Yi-ryung flashed a bright smile.

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When she smiled, the man’s eyes slightly widened.

His eyes shone pleasantly, as if he really liked her smile.

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* * *

As winter approached, the days grew extremely cold. Fortunately, there was still grass left around the fence to feed the rabbits.

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The first thing Yi-ryung did right after breakfast was pull out some grass around the fence and feed it to the rabbits.

While Yi-ryung was picking some grass to feed the rabbits, the man built a rabbit enclosure.

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When the man put the rabbits in a wooden enclosure, Yi-ryung fed them some grass.

“Look at them. They’re eating so well. They’re making crunching noises as they’re eating.”

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Yi-ryung burst into laughter as she watched the rabbits eating the grass from her hand, making crunching noises with their teeth as they nibbled on the tips of the grass.

There were three rabbits in total, and they all had white fur.

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Their eyes were red, and Yi-ryung thought they looked like red jewels embedded in white silk.

“Shouldn’t we make them a roof? It’s going to snow when winter comes.”

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The rabbit enclosure the man made had no roof.

But winter was coming soon.

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Yi-ryung worried that the rabbits would get cold when it snowed.

“And when winter comes and it snows, the grass that the rabbits eat will all die. What should we do? What can we do?”

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It hadn’t even snowed yet, but she was already starting to feel very anxious.

The man listened to Yi-ryungs worries and tapped her shoulder.

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He was telling her to follow him.

In the past ten days, the man had never once touched Yi-ryung’s body.

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He always kept his distance, sitting or lying down far away from her before falling asleep. Whenever he had something to say to her, he would cautiously tap her shoulder with the tip of his finger.

Even Yi-ryung could tell that the man was being as considerate as possible so that she wouldn’t be scared.

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Yi-ryung was also aware of this man’s consideration for her.

When she first saw him, she thought the man who was walking away so quickly from her was very rude, but she now realized that he was intentionally keeping his distance because he thought she’d be scared.

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The place the man took Yi-ryung was a little further up a low mountain, away from the fence and behind the house.

The mountain wasn’t that steep.

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Since it was basically a shallow hill, it wasn’t difficult for Yi-ryung to climb up.

“There’s a lot of grass here.”

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There was a little grass around the fence for the rabbits to eat, but on the mountain where the man had brought her, there was still plenty of green grass left.

She was sure he’d brought her here because he had heard her worrying about running out of food for the rabbits.

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The man pulled out some grass and pretended to blow it.

It was obvious that he was trying to teach Yi-ryung something.

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“Pull this out and blow on it?”

Yi-ryung did exactly what the man did.

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The man pointed to the sun above their heads with his hand.

And then he pretended to dry the grass he was holding in his hand in the sun.

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“Pluck it out, shake it, dry it…”

Only when the man pretended to eat the grass did Yi-ryung realize what he was trying to say.

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“So you’re saying we should pick the grass, dry it in the sun, and then feed it to the rabbits later?”

The man nodded.

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“That means even if it snows in the winter, the rabbits won’t starve. Then, from today on, I’ll have to work hard to dry them before it snows. Winter is quite long.”

She finally had something to do.

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Now that she started raising rabbits, the number of things to do had naturally increased.

* * *

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“Blood…!”

Yi-ryung screamed as she saw red blood dripping from the man’s hand as he entered the room.

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He had cut his hand with a knife while slaughtering livestock.

“What should we do…”

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The man entered the room nonchalantly, took a cloth out of a drawer, and wiped the blood with it. But Yi-ryung’s face grew pale.

Yi-ryung had been afraid of blood since she was little.

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She couldn’t help it. Because the memories of that scary day when she was ten, a day when she saw dark red blood stains all over the house, still lingered in her mind.

That night was a bloody night, and the terrible memories of that day never left her.

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That’s why Yi-ryung was terrified at the sight of blood.

The man’s injury was on his right hand.

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The man was right-handed.

The wound was so deep that no matter how much he wiped it with the cloth, the bleeding would not stop.

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The man took a needle and thread out of the drawer and struggled to thread the needle with one hand.

But it wasn’t easy to thread a needle with one hand.

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She was terrified to see blood up close, but Yi-ryung mustered up her courage and sat down next to him.

Then she snatched the needle and thread from his hands.

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“I’ll do it.”

She didn’t know how to do anything, and she didn’t know what to do or how to do something for someone who was hurt like this. But at the very least, she could thread a needle.

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The thread was silk.

After threading the thin silk thread through the eye of the needle, Yi-ryung handed it back to the man.

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Poke-.

Without any hesitation, the man pricked his flesh with the needle and began to stitch the wound with the silk thread.

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Yi-ryung’s face turned pale as she watched the man stitch up the deep wound on his hand with the silk thread.

It looked painful.

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It must definitely hurt.

But the man showed no sign of pain and sewed up the wound on his hand with the silk thread.

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After all the stitches were sewn, the man cut the thread and wrapped the cloth tightly over the wound. Taking the cloth from the man’s hand, Yi-ryung helped him tie the cloth into a firm knot.

“Won’t the wound fester?”

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Was it really okay to do it like this?

Didn’t he need to apply medicine or visit a doctor?

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What if the wound healed poorly and he ended up losing his hand?

“I think you should let a doctor look at it…”

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The man shook his head.

However, Yi-ryung continued to worry about the wound.

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That day, the man pulled the cart with one hand while his other hand was wrapped in cloth. He returned after the sun had set, having delivered all of the slaughtered meat.

And that night, the man groaned in pain.

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It was the first time Yi-ryung had seen the man so sick.

From the moment she first met him, he seemed as solid as a rock and as sturdy as a large tree, so she never imagined he could ever fall sick or collapse. She thought something was strange when he didn’t even touch his dinner. But soon after she went to bed and turned off the lamp, she heard him groan.

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His breathing didn’t sound like it normally did.

The breaths were ragged and choppy as if he were in pain.

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“Ugh, uh, ugh…”

His breaths were ragged, and his groans were strained.

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Eventually, Yi-ryung got up and approached him.

She carefully pulled the brazier over so as not to wake the man. Under the light, she could see that his face was covered in cold sweat.

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‘His forehead is hot.’

His forehead, face, and hands were hot.

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And not just his face and hands.

She lightly touched his body by lifting the hem of his clothes. His entire body was feverishly hot.

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Yi-ryung was startled when she realized that his entire body was hot as if it had been dipped in boiling water.

Yi-ryung had no idea what to do or how to care for a sick person.

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What should she do with this man who had a boiling fever?

‘I need to bring down the fever.’

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She didn’t know if there was any medicine in the house or not.

Even if there was medicine, she didn’t know how to brew it.

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She didn’t know anything about herbs that reduce fever.

Yi-ryung opened the door.

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It was dark outside.

It was dark and windy.

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Yi-ryung, who was afraid of the dark, trembled for a moment as fear suddenly rushed in.

But she couldn’t just sit still because she was afraid.

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In the end, Yi-ryung mustered up all the courage she could manage and went outside.

She had never gone out alone in the middle of the night without the man before.

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Whenever she woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to do something outside, he would always go out with her.

But now, she had to find the courage for the sake of the sick man.

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Yi-ryung walked over to the water jug and filled a large bowl with water and quickly returned to the room.

“Haa, haa.”

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Her heart was pounding even though all she did was bring back a bowl of water.

Just going out on her own made her feel like she had done something incredibly amazing.

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“Try drinking some water.”

She shook the man’s shoulder, but he did not wake up.

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Finally, Yi-ryung soaked a clean cloth in the water and spread the man’s lips apart before squeezing the water out of the wet cloth.

The water dripped from the cloth, wetting the man’s lips as it flowed into his mouth.

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After making the man drink water like that several more times, Yi-ryung folded the soaked cloth and placed it on the man’s forehead.

Whenever she had a fever, her servant Eunah would do this for her.

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“Ugh.”

Yi-ryung took the clothes off the man’s body.

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After struggling to take off the clothes that were drenched in sweat, she began wiping his feverish body with another wet cloth.

That was all she could do.

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When the cloth on the man’s forehead became lukewarm, she would change it and wipe every nook and cranny of his body with cold water. That was all.

However, just in case he might be cold, she placed the brazier next to him and occasionally stirred the wood inside to keep the fire burning. That was all she could do.

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It was the first time that Yi-ryung learned that a badly injured hand could cause a fever.

She also learned that even a man as strong as a rock could get sick.

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She also realized for the first time that she, who was seemingly completely useless, could be of help to someone.

“Your beard is too long.”

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Yi-ryung murmured softly as she looked at the man’s face as he groaned.

His hair, which was tied up haphazardly, was matted as if it had never been combed. And his beard was so thick that it nearly covered his entire face.

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What did his face look like behind the beard?

Was it as kind as his eyes?

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“Get well soon. Don’t be sick.”

Yi-ryung murmured as she gently grabbed the man’s hand that was wrapped tightly with cloth.

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It felt like the man’s hand was touching hers.

Even though he was groaning and unable to come to his senses due to the raging fever, Yi-ryung felt like the man’s hand was tightly holding hers, as if he understood what she was saying and was telling her that he’d be okay.

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