Born As The Daughter Of A Lowly Concubine [EN]: Chapter 37

“Can’t you go away?”

As the child shouted and waved his arms, the crow flapped its wings, trying to fly away.

Flap, flap.

“Ah, what!”

But the crow, trying to escape, couldn’t fly away, as if caught on something, and fluttered.

“Eek!”

Instinctively closing my eyes, I quietly opened them when the surroundings suddenly became silent.

The crow that had been attacking above my head was now safely held in the child’s hand.

“Are you okay? This guy has no fear, attacking people. I guess he was tempted by the shiny hair ornament, noona [older sister].”

“Ah. Um, thank you.”

Usually, there are so many people around me that crows wouldn’t dare to attack, but it seemed like I looked like an easy target when I was alone.

Well, a child is small, and shiny things are tempting.

“There’s a string caught on the crow’s foot. It seems like it couldn’t escape because of this. Is it a necklace?”

“Ah.”

Clang-

I was so distracted that I didn’t notice, but the jade ring, pulled out of my clothes by the string, made a clear sound as it bumped against something.

“That’s a relief. I almost lost it.”

“Is it important?”

“Yes.”

It was the last thing the deceased Crown Prince Seongwon gave me before he left that day.

I hadn’t taken it off my body since that day.

“Take it off while I hold this guy.”

“Such an impudent crow.”

As I tried to untie the knot tangled in the crow’s toes, the crow started to resist again.

Caw-

“Ah.”

“Be careful!”

Since its wings were held, it seemed like it was trying to peck me with its beak.

I had to get my face close to untie the knot, but if I got hurt like this… nearby crows might be massacred by someone’s order in anger.

“I have no choice, let’s cut the string with a knife.”

“You carry a knife?”

“It’s a trinket ornament.”

An ornamental silver knife might seem a bit dangerous for an eight-year-old, but it was surprisingly useful, so I used it often, mostly when cutting bread or something.

‘In the first place, the original purpose of the silver knife is close to a fruit knife.’

I cut the string near the tied part of the crow’s leg, and after confirming that I tied the knot and put the ring back in my arms, the child finally released the crow.

Caw-

The child shouted at the crow cawing at him, as if threatening it.

“Don’t come again, I’ll teach you a lesson if you come again.”

“Haha. If they come in a flock, we’re the ones in trouble.”

If they come again later, I’ll call someone and threaten them with a bow to chase them away.

Just you wait.

Thinking that, I turned my head and realized something soft touched my lips.

I was in the child’s arms, and I had unintentionally kissed the boy on the cheek.

‘No, what is this…….’

The child seemed to realize it too, his eyes widened, and he hurriedly stepped away from me.

It was because the posture became strange while protecting me from the crow earlier.

‘It’s nothing to get a little kiss from a kid.’

I checked the child’s arm for scratches as he hesitated, wondering what he was thinking, and thanked him.

“Thank you for helping me. Are you hurt?”

“Just a little scratch.”

The child smiled and slipped away. Oh ho? Shy?

His eyes wandered, and he touched his cheek, so it must have been a shocking experience for him.

‘Well, even kindergarten kids are dating.’

I heard that kids these days are precocious, and kids in this era are no different.

“Um, there’s blood from the scratch.”

“It’s nothing.”

I can’t see it if I cover it with my sleeve, though.

“Even if it’s nothing, you have to disinfect it.”

“Disinfect?”

I took the child to a place where water was flowing, washed the wound, took out a handkerchief, and tied it around the injured area.

It’s a pity that there is no disinfectant, but just washing it with clean water will be much better.

“When you get hurt, wash it with clean water and apply medicine. If you don’t have medicine, wrap it with a clean cloth so it doesn’t touch. Got it?”

“Yes.”

He listens well, so cute.

But who is he? Crows are surprisingly big and strong to children, but when I saw him earlier, he didn’t seem to be struggling much even when he grabbed the fluttering crow.

“Are you perhaps from a military family?”

“Hmm? Um. My father is currently a Jiedushi [military governor], but our family was originally a Munban [civil official family].”

Jiedushi refers to Jong 2 rank Byungma Jeoldosa (Military Commissioner) or Jeong 3 rank Sugun Jeoldosa (Naval Commissioner).

I heard earlier that his father was in the Northern Military Camp, so he was a Byungma Jeoldosa.

If this child’s father is a Jiedushi, it meant that this child was from a fairly high-ranking family.

‘If you came to the palace to see the Queen, it’s only natural.’

“Then you don’t learn martial arts?”

“I learn archery and horse riding, but… everyone tells me to study harder.”

“Well, I guess so.”

Whether it was a military or civil family, if you were a nobleman, horse riding and archery were a must in this country.

In the first place, if you want to succeed, you have to pass the Daegwa (Grand Examination) and start as a civil official.

‘Jiedushi family, and Junggungjeon [Queen’s residence], he said he came with his sister. Then maybe??’

“Is she a Crown Princess candidate……?”

In Junggungjeon, they said, how about looking at Crown Princess candidates from military families, for sure.

“What?”

“Little boy, you said you came with your sister, right?”

“Little boy again?”

“Anyway. How old is your sister?”

“Uh, fourteen……. Why?”

The Crown Prince is also fourteen now, so the age is right. It would be a good age to promote it from now on, hold a wedding around fifteen, and bring her in as the Crown Princess.

‘Ah? Come to think of it, is she perhaps the female lead?’

The female lead of seemed to have a similar setting.

I hadn’t thought about the novel’s setting for a while because I was so distracted, so I rummaged through it. I don’t have a perfect grasp of the past, but I still remembered the female lead’s past in relatively detail.

Thanks to that, I also remembered the most accurate way to confirm whether this child’s sister is the female lead.

“Let’s go with me now.”

“Huh? Where?”

I grabbed the child’s hand and started running towards my destination.

***

Usually, people who realize they are possessed in a book try to record the contents of the original work that they remember.

But that was quite difficult for me.

First of all, I started as a baby, and it took too long to grow to an age where I could grab paper and a brush, scribble something similar, and hide it.

‘Imagine a two- or three-year-old grabbing a brush and writing letters they haven’t even learned. They’d be called a prodigy.’

Besides, due to the problem of developing the small muscles in my hands… writing proper letters with a brush, not a pencil, was too difficult for me.

Thanks to that, the original novel in my memory is now a bit of a mess, mixed with the drama settings.

To be honest, I was confused about which setting was which, and which worldview I was in now.

‘That’s right. In the drama script, the female lead definitely had a younger sibling.’

The female lead, who realized that the younger sibling she came with was lost in the palace, meets the male lead while searching for her sibling, and that was their first meeting.

The drama moved from the perspective of the female lead, who was the practical protagonist, so it started from the female lead’s childhood.

It’s a pity that I might have remembered it better if I had watched an actual historical drama because it was a video.

Thinking that, I was running towards Donggung [Crown Prince’s residence] when I found a familiar back of the head and stopped.

Thanks to that, the child who was running after me bumped into my back with a puzzled face.

“Huh? Why? Are we there yet?”

“Be quiet.”

“?”

I covered the child’s mouth and quietly pulled him back. The child didn’t know what was going on, but he obediently followed my words. Maybe it’s because he ran, but the child’s body temperature was hot.

Hiding behind a pillar and sticking my head out, a scene of a pair of handsome men and women shyly making eye contact against the backdrop of pink petals flying in the wind came into view.

As if they were the male and female leads, they were creating a picture-like first meeting.

‘It’s like a scene in a historical drama.’

Well, that’s it.

It’s not bad to see a scene from a historical drama that I couldn’t see in my past life.

‘Even if the original work has been greatly distorted because of me, can’t I deviate from the big picture after all.’

Whether this is good or bad. Anyway, it was positive that the two met.

Suddenly, when I looked behind the Crown Prince, I saw Eunuch Song, who always followed the Crown Prince, hiding behind the building in a similar posture to me.

When our eyes met, we both put our index fingers to our lips and nodded.

And I focused on the Crown Prince’s love affair.

‘Wow, what, what is it, did they fall in love at first sight? In the script, the male lead was a bit like, ‘You’re the first woman who treated me like this.’ I wondered if our kid could do that?’

I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to watch their romance without laughing because they had become too much like real siblings, but it was more exciting than I thought.

Enjoy this moment.

I want to chew popcorn, but there’s no popcorn here.

As a compromise, I took out the castella that I had been eating earlier and handed a piece of bread to the female lead’s younger sibling (presumably) who was bewildered behind me.

“Eat this and be quiet.”

“……Okay.”

He listens well, so good. After all, food is the best for kids.

Hiding behind the building and perking up my ears, I could vaguely hear the voices of the two.

“I do not wish to become the Crown Princess.”

“Why is that? The Crown Princess is also the position to become the future Queen.”

Ah, I think there was a similar conversation in the original work.

“I have something I want to do. But if I become the Crown Princess, it will be difficult to achieve.”

“May I ask what that is?”

As the Crown Prince asked the girl, the wind blew again, and the petals fell splendidly.

‘Is it the protagonist’s buff.’

Whether I’m thinking nonsense or not, I heard the female lead’s dignified voice.

“I want to become a doctor. I will learn medicine and save people. Would you say that I cannot because I am a woman?”

Oh, that’s right. The female lead was like this.

As a daughter of a noble family, she could have risen to the position of Crown Princess, but she said she wanted to become a doctor and save people. It was the female lead’s wish that her mother, who died early from illness, did not receive proper treatment.

In this era, it was common for women’s diseases not to be properly treated because men and women were different. There were definitely skilled female doctors, but there were so few that it was difficult to find them.

‘There are also male doctors from noble families, so what’s the problem with her becoming a doctor, she said confidently.’

The still young female lead was actually obtaining and memorizing medical books within the range she could obtain, and was also studying herbs.

She wanted to find a teacher to teach her medicine, but it was difficult to find an eccentric doctor who would accept a noble woman as a disciple. In addition, due to family circumstances in which her mother had passed away and even her father was away on an external position, the female lead had to take care of her young sibling.

To such a female lead, the male lead said, ‘I like you even more. That confident aspect, that fearless spirit. Won’t you be my Crown Princess?’ He would have said something like that.

‘Um. No, I don’t think our kid has the personality to say that.’

Besides, the Crown Prince was using polite language from the beginning.

“……No, there is nothing wrong with that statement. If a woman from a noble family becomes a doctor, it will be much easier for women of noble families to receive medical examinations from doctors. You are intelligent, so it will definitely be possible.”

Huh?