- The Death of Gim Hyung-yul’s Third Daughter
- 1 Gyung-suk had the three men carry away the medicine cabinet, the chest, the pestle and mortar, the herb cutter, the clothes rack, the poems that were on the walls, a picture frame, the wallpaper, and the dust swept from the floor.
- 2 Before going out into the wind and rain, he handed Hyung-yul twenty won, saying, “Please use this meager sum of money to buy medicine for your ailing daughter.”
- 3 When they reached the village gate, the rain and lightning ceased, and the wailing of mourners could be heard coming from Hyung-yul’s house.
- 4 Soon someone from the house came running with news of the daughter’s death.
- 5 This was the fulfillment of Sahng-jeh-nim’s words, “This medicine cabinet peacefully and painlessly leads to the grave.”
- 6 This was foreshadowed when Gyung-suk wrote the character deceased mother instead of the character queen.
- (JSD Dojeon 11,22)
