Episode 1277 I’m not wrong. (2)
Gu Hong looked at Yu Gong with complicated eyes. Yugong chewed his lower lip at the strong resentment in those eyes.
“Death penalty…”
“Call me brother.”
Yugong spoke briefly and coldly.
“We are no longer Haenam’s disciples.”
“⋯⋯Yes, brother.”
Go Hong looked at the other Haenam disciples standing next to him.
Their village, Cheonghae Village, is the largest among the villages adjacent to the coast. As a result, many of Haenam’s disciples who had come down from the mountain were staying here. Now Yugong has summoned them all.
“⋯⋯You know, but we have to drive the ship.”
“Oh no, brother!”
Go Hong shouted in a voice filled with evil.
“We are from Haenam. “Are you saying that because you really don’t know what will happen if you get on that ship?”
The other Haenam disciples did not speak, but they were looking at each other in the same way as Go Hong. Although receiving a look of resentment, Yugong answered calmly.
“then?”
“yes?”
“Are we all going to die here?”
Everyone closed their mouths at those words. Yugong continued speaking as if chewing.
“If it only ended with us dying, I would at least think about it. But that’s not the situation now, is it? “If we don’t come forward, everyone in the village is going to die, so you’re telling us to just sit back and suck our fingers?”
“Ha, but the death penalty. “No, brother!”
Go Hong said, unable to hide his anxiety.
“It is true that we can drive a ship, but we are not very skilled, are we?”
“But you can still drive it.”
“No… if it’s like that…”
“then?”
Yu Gong cut off Go Hong and glared at him.
“Are you saying you’re going to put villagers who don’t even know how to learn martial arts on that boat?”
“That…”
“I don’t want other people to do what I don’t want to do. At least if the situation gets dangerous, we can jump off the ship and run away. “Even if you enter Gangnam, you can try to run away when you feel like things are not going well.”
“⋯⋯.”
“But other people don’t have the power to do that, right?”
Go Hong bowed his head.
It’s not that wrong. The men of Haenam have slightly different levels of skill, but they all know how to drive a boat to a certain extent. The disciples of the Haenam faction were not that different. So driving a boat itself is not a big problem.
The really big problem was that the boat they had to drive was none other than the boat carrying the Sapaeryeon, and the one they were trying to drive after was the Haenam faction that those gathered here had abandoned.
“There is no need to say much.”
Yugong said with a stern face.
“Wasn’t the reason we came down from Haenam in the first place because of the family members who remained in the village? “There is no reason to worry now.”
“That’s true, but…”
At that time, Damhwan, who had been silently listening to Yugong, opened his mouth in a distorted voice.
“I don’t know why it has to be like this again.”
“What do you mean?”
“That may sound good, but isn’t it actually okay for people other than us to go? All you need is someone to drive a boat, and there are people in this village to drive boats other than us.”
“Are you saying that?”
When Yugong asked as if reprimanding, Damhwan laughed openly and said,
“Don’t show off. Death penalty.”
“what?”
At the words that came out of nowhere, anger flashed in Yugong’s eyes for a moment. However, rather than being scared, Damhwan actually came out more crooked.
“Aren’t we the people who abandoned all the monks and the death penalty and ran away just to live?”
Yugong closed his mouth as if speechless for a moment. He wanted to refute that no, but he knew best that what he said was not wrong.
“But now you have to risk your life just because there is great good will and agreement? “If that were the case, I wouldn’t have come down from Haenam.”
“This guy…”
“I won’t do it.”
“Damhwan!”
Damhwan gritted his teeth and said.
“For those of us who hesitated to come down, what would happen to the rest of our family after we die was none other than the death penalty. After hearing those words, I dug out my name from Haenam’s gravestone with my own hands. “I came out on my own to Haenam, a place I said I would never leave!”
“⋯⋯.”
“But now you’re asking me to risk my life again? Now you want me to do the right thing? Why should we do that? “Isn’t the death penalty the right thing to do when you say it’s right to take my own life first?”
“Isn’t the situation different now?”
“Are things really different?”
“⋯⋯.”
“really?”
Yugong closed his mouth. He clearly thinks the situation is different, but this is not an issue that can be discussed and reached a conclusion. Because we think differently and accept different things.
Then Damhwan raised the corners of his mouth and sneered.
“I don’t know if there is any conscience that needs to be kept anew by the great people who broke down, threw away all the death sentences, and ran away for their own lives. You’ve already come too far to question your conscience, right? A mean person must live like a mean person. Whether you go by boat or not, the executions are at your own risk. Even if it’s not me, someone will go.”
“Does that mean it doesn’t matter to anyone? “This is the town where we grew up.”
“Haenampa was also where we grew up! Damn it!”
When Damhwan shouted loudly, Yugong was startled and trembled slightly. Damhwan, who was glaring at Yugong with venomous eyes, gritted his teeth.
“If you’re going to pretend to care for others like that, you should just swing a sword in Haenam. What are you doing here? “It would have been better if we had fought together over there… at least.”
Damhwan was about to say something, but closed his mouth and shook his head. It was because I thought that whatever I said would be meaningless now.
He knew it too. No matter how much Yugong stabbed himself in the side, in the end it was he who made the choice.
And that he must bear the full cost of that choice.
“⋯⋯Anyway, I don’t do it. Take care of yourself. “I’m not very good at handling boats anyway, so I won’t be of any help.”
Damhwan coolly turned around. Then he suddenly stopped and said.
“Oh and…”
“⋯⋯.”
“The feeling of guilt is not something that is alleviated. If that’s going to happen, you shouldn’t have committed the crime in the first place.”
With those words, Damhwan walked away with a nervous gait.
Yugong opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he only let out a deep sigh. Taking advantage of that gap, another voice hurriedly joined in.
“I think the death penalty would be a little difficult for me too.”
“me too. As you know, my father is sick and there is no one to take care of him when I am away.”
“sorry. Then…”
The other two disciples also watched and slowly took their steps away. Afraid that Yugong might catch him, he ran away without looking back.
Yugong clenched his fists. His trembling fists were showing his current state of mind.
After closing his eyes and calming his mind for a while, Yu Gong looked at Gu Hong. Go Hong was giving a dissatisfied look.
“Aren’t you going?”
“Me?”
“Don’t you have a sick old mother too?”
“Nomo?”
Go Hong asked crookedly. But even so, his feet did not leave the spot.
Go Hong, who was silent for a moment, laughed self-deprecatingly.
“I expected something like this to happen from the moment the death penalty was called.”
“⋯⋯.”
“So, when I told my mother that I needed to lose some weight, do you know what my sick old mother said?”
“⋯⋯I don’t know.”
“If you’re going to be a burden, I’d rather drown in the sea.”
Yugong bit his lips.
“The woman from Haenam said so. “When I open my eyes, my husband, who I lived with, falls into the sea and dies. I slept another day, and when I open my eyes, one of my children becomes food for a fish.”
“⋯⋯.”
“But rather than sucking her fingers and waiting in sadness, the women of Haenam live tenaciously, gritting their teeth and earning money to feed their remaining children. So, you won’t see your son of a bitch using your excuse to get his ass kicked because he doesn’t want to go to the sea.”
Go Hong laughed heartily as if he was dumbfounded.
“He coughs like that every time he utters two words.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Your mind is going back and forth. If I drive that boat away, even if the villagers live, it will be like killing a criminal with my own hands. “It seems like your thoughts don’t go that far.”
“Go Hong…”
“But what should I do? If you’re going to deal with a crazy old man, you need a sane person to keep him in his element. At the very least, shouldn’t you make it so that before you die, you won’t hear that your son is a coward who drove others to their deaths? “If they don’t all go, it looks like they will get the death penalty.”
“That’s…”
“Your father went out to sea bravely to feed you and died, so he is the one who always said that you should be proud of him for the rest of your life. And he is proud of the fact that he single-handedly raised his son and made him a proud disciple of the Haenam School. My mother doesn’t even know that I came down from Haenam. But… how can you say that I can’t go when I face him?”
Yu Gong could not bear to open his mouth. Gohong muttered self-deprecatingly.
“If I had known this would happen, I would have just stayed in Haenam. “What should I do? I came out of Haenam…”
Yugong lowered his head without realizing it. A strange silence passed between them.
To shake off this awkwardness, Yu Gong turned his gaze towards the other remaining disciple.
“you?”
“Well, it’s similar.”
“⋯⋯Okay.”
Yugong nodded and opened his mouth.
It is not a good situation to continue the conversation, and there is no time to do so. First I had to do my job.
“Since they said they won’t go, we’ll have to hire more people than originally planned. Make sure there are at least two people on each boat. “Only one person will be on our boat.”
“Yes, death penalty.”
“⋯⋯I understand, brother.”
“Let’s move.”
Yugong sighed deeply as he watched the priests quickly running away. When I turned my head and looked at the sea, it was indifferently blue.
“I’m ready.”
“It took a long time.”
Hu Jiaming looked at Yugong with dark eyes.
“⋯⋯It ended quickly.”
“hmm.”
He nodded as if he somewhat liked it.
“I take it to mean that they selected those who are good at driving boats. “If you delay, you will pay the price.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Let’s go.”
“⋯⋯Yes.”
Yugong turned and headed toward the boat. The others were already on board. Just get on the boat and we will set off.
Yugong, who had been forcing his feet away, inadvertently turned his head. Villagers were gathered on the shore.
From those who look at him with gratitude, to those who watch with blank faces, to his priests who look at him with hostile eyes.
Yugong’s eyes stop on one of them.
His wife was looking at him with wet eyes. Yugong, who could clearly see the young son in her arms, closed her eyes for a moment as if that image would disappear.
‘I will come back alive.’
Definitely… He will definitely come back alive.
No matter what you do.
After seeing Yu Gong get on the boat, the blood sword danju monster asked Hu Jiaming in a sour voice.
“Is there really a need to take people like that? “Do you think it would actually be a hindrance?”
“I don’t know.”
“hmm?”
“The scariest thing in the world is not the enemy.”
“⋯⋯.”
“He is a traitor.”
After hearing those words, Goeryang looked at Yugong’s back as if he was a little interested. A voice mixed with laughter was heard.
“There is nothing worse than a traitor with a guilty conscience. You will soon find out.”
A smile spread across Hu Jiaming’s lips.
