Episode 1447 I can’t do it alone. (2)
The people who were frozen and silent suddenly turned to each other. When they saw the surprise in each other’s eyes, they trembled for a moment.
Let the woman learn martial arts.
In some places, it may not be such a big deal. But at least not in the party.
What would happen if Shaolin decided to invite a nun to its grounds? If Amina Botaam, a sect comprised only of women, said she would accept male disciples, what kind of sadha would come out?
The meaning of what Tanggunak said just now was not much different from that. This means that they will completely destroy the laws of the Tang family that have been in place for hundreds of years and the laws that our ancestors have strictly followed to establish the foundation of the Tang family.
“Go, matriarch!”
While everyone was frozen, Dang Sang-su opened his mouth urgently, his voice growing louder.
“Are you saying that you will teach the women in your family the art of heart training and boxing?”
“Ah…”
Sighs came out here and there at Dang Sang-soo’s words.
If you think about it, the Tang family’s martial arts is not necessarily limited to dragon poison or dark techniques. Even in Tangga, the basic Naegongsimbeop and Gwongakbeop clearly exist.
Of course, the previous Tang Dynasty placed strict restrictions on teaching the method of engraving except to a select few. But in the current situation, wouldn’t it be possible to relax that level of restriction?
A great sense of relief came to some people’s minds, while others tried to hide their disappointment.
But then Tanggunak spoke firmly.
“no. “I teach everything about Tangga.”
His eyes fell on the women of the Tang family.
“If the parties wish.”
A heavy silence came. It felt like a huge lightning bolt had struck. An even greater shock than when Tanggunak was first declared swept over the Tang people.
“Go, matriarch…”
“No!”
Someone shouted loudly.
One of the surviving elders was a party leader who had kept his mouth shut because of a sin he had committed.
“This cannot happen, matriarch! It is an old rule of the Tang family not to impart poison or memorization to women!”
The party leader looked around with a distorted face. His eyes were filled with anger, as if he would not forgive anyone who agreed with that absurd opinion.
In normal times, it would never have happened that a party leader, no matter how elder he was, would directly contradict the words of party evil.
However, those who were now receiving the attention of the party leader lowered their heads, unable to face him.
The two words, ancestors and additive law, that the party stood behind were as strong and solid as they were.
So much so that even the women of the Tang family, who had had the two letters of hope blooming in their eyes, even if only for a moment, had no choice but to turn their heads.
However, only one person, Party Gunak, looked directly into the eyes of the party leader.
“Why can’t I change it?”
“Matriarch!”
“Answer me, Elder. Why is it impossible?”
“Are you asking because you really don’t know that?”
The party leader spoke evilly.
“The poison of Tang family is useless once it is detoxified. “Countless Tang people have sacrificed their lives to protect the secret of that poison!”
“⋯⋯.”
“The memorization method of the Tang song is the same! Unlike a sword, once it leaves your hand, you cannot change direction! If the path becomes known, its power is bound to be halved. Moreover, isn’t the memorization of Tang songs always used in conjunction with poison? “How can you pass on such uneducated knowledge to women?”
His voice was shaking with excitement. As if unable to calm down their excitement, the party leaders shouted one after another.
“What if all of this is an attempt by the head of the family to exercise authority by taking advantage of the absence of elders, including elders outside the party! “I will risk my life to stop this!”
In a way, it was a statement that directly opposed the authority of the head of the family. However, instead of getting angry, Tang Gunak calmly asked back.
“Answer my question first, party leader.”
“⋯⋯What do you mean?”
“That is just a comment to discuss the weaknesses of the Tang family’s martial arts, but it is not a reason why they cannot learn the martial arts.”
At that moment, the party leader stared at the party music with a blank face, as if he had been stabbed in the back. He was wondering if Tanggunak might have gone crazy due to the shock of the Dokgo burning and the collapse of the attack and defense.
“Matriarch. “They are women.”
“I know.”
“Please listen until the end, matriarch. This is not to disrespect the women of the family. “I’m just saying that they are the ones who will leave the family someday!”
“⋯⋯.”
“Who is to say that people belonging to other families will keep my secret for the rest of their lives? woman? Did you say woman? Are the laws of the Tang family directed only at women? The same goes for boys! Don’t you know, the head of the family, that a person who has mastered the martial arts of the Tang family cannot abandon the Tang family name as long as he lives!”
The Tang family name cannot be abandoned.
It may seem like an obvious statement to hear, but in party circles, it has a different meaning. When a person who has learned the family’s vision is at odds with the party or refuses to belong to the party, the party uses all its power to kill him. That is how the party has maintained its vision for hundreds of years.
Tanggunak took a deep breath and continued speaking.
“Of course, I know that maintaining the vision is extremely important. However, if the method has become old and meaningless, it is also the duty of descendants to find a new method.”
“⋯⋯What do you mean by that?”
“I will give them a chance to learn martial arts. “It’s poison or whatever!”
“Let’s go…”
“step!”
Tang Gunak looked at the party ticket with resolute eyes and nailed it.
“The laws of the Tang family will be equally applied to women who have learned the martial arts of the Tang family. They cannot become monks and must become ghosts of the Tang family.”
“What nonsense is that… “Are you saying you’re going to keep them in the party for the rest of their lives?”
“There’s nothing that can’t be done, right?”
Tang Gunak shrugged his shoulders.
“There are already quite a few female sects in Gangho who have studied martial arts all their lives. There is no reason why Tang family women cannot choose the path they have chosen. I don’t mean to force you to live that life. “I just want to open the way for those who want to walk that life.”
The party leader’s face turned red.
Even though I racked my brain, I couldn’t think of anything to retort. The reason for not passing on the martial arts of the Tang family to women was to prevent the leakage of their vision. If they lived their whole lives in the Tang family along with the Tang family’s sons, wouldn’t the risk of leakage disappear?
“But that’s not the way our ancestors decided!”
The party leader’s face hardened at the party leader’s shout.
“Dang Ga-in! Anyone who uses the Tang family name is sacrificing themselves to protect the Tang family! But what is it about you, the head of the family, that you want to deny and change the method that the ancestors of the Tang family have thought about for a long time?”
“⋯⋯.”
“Isn’t the current head of the family saying that he is better than all the previous head of the family and greater than all the ancestors of the party family? “That is arrogance and evil!”
At that moment, Tang Gunak glared at the party leader with extremely cold eyes.
“Didn’t you hear me?”
“house owner!”
“I already said it. “What value is there in the fame and wealth they gained by sacrificing their lives?”
“Now the head of the family…”
“Our ancestors are just humans and not flawless!”
“What are you saying now?”
The shocked party leader was speechless. Tanggunak spoke with a voice that did not waver at all.
“If I have to deny them in order to change my family, I will do so. “If I have to become the greatest head of the family to change the family, I can do that!”
“house owner!”
“Listen to the end!”
Tanggunak shouted. His voice was uncharacteristically angry, but because of that, his every word seemed to penetrate everyone’s body.
“I cannot give up my family’s honor. “That’s why I became the head of the party.”
“⋯⋯.”
“But the head of the party family has to be the parent of all family members. “I will not take Gasol’s sacrifice for granted.”
Tang Gunak looked at everyone one by one as if he was engraving them in his eyes.
“It’s not just women. Even though they belong to this poison-making, memorizing Tang family, they are looked down upon because they are not of the Tang family name, and even outsiders who have to live as if they are not part of the Tang family even though they are clearly part of the Tang family!”
“⋯⋯.”
“Currently, it is impossible to embrace them all and restore the glory of the party. This is impossible for anyone but me. “Then there is only one way left!”
Tanggunak, biting his lip, declared.
“It’s just that the party price changes.”
The party leader asked back as if he was possessed.
“Do you mean that the head of the family has the ability to do that?”
“⋯⋯.”
“Answer me. Are you saying that the head of the family has the ability to embrace all of that and make the party a better place? “What has no previous head of the family been able to do?”
Danggunak, who was facing the party ticket, eventually shook his head.
“no. “I don’t have the ability to do that.”
“Look at that!”
“There must be one in the party. That’s why we gathered everyone together. “If there’s something I can’t do alone, we can do it together.”
“⋯⋯.”
“It’s the same for everyone.”
Tanggunak shouted firmly.
“It is meaningless to discuss only complaints about each other. Even if I try to gain more rights within a tight framework, I am only wasting my life away. What you really have to fight against is not each other! “It is the law of a tightly packed party family.”
The people of the Tang family looked at the Tanggunak with mesmerized faces. Numerous things appeared on their faces and disappeared repeatedly. I understood it intuitively. Perhaps at this moment, they are going through something bigger than their family burning down.
“Think. Think and present. How can you do the things you wanted to do? What should I change? And what should I change?”
“⋯⋯.”
“If that’s just my will, it’s overstepping my rights. But if that’s what everyone thinks!”
Now everyone was looking at Tanggunak as if they were fascinated.
“That is the will of the party.”
Gasol bit his lip. It was because there was an uncontrollable passion surging into a corner of my heart.
Just by looking at their expressions, the party leader could sense that it had already become impossible to go against the trend. He let out a groaning sound and then spat out the last words in a suppressed voice.
“⋯⋯You must remember, matriarch.”
Tanggunak looked back at the party ticket with cold eyes.
“The world is not so easy. Everything happens for a reason. There must be a reason why our ancestors created the laws of the Tang family. If what the head of the family is trying to do now fails, the head of the family will be remembered as the person who ended the history of the Tang family with his own hands.”
It was a curse disguised as worry. However, Tanggunak, who received the curse, smiled faintly again.
“The elder doesn’t know what a family head is.”
“⋯⋯Yes?”
The green long cloth wrapped around Tanggunak’s body fluttered in the wind.
“A person without that level of determination cannot become the head of the Tang family.”
The party leader moved his lips several times as if he wanted to say something, but eventually lowered his head. Tanggunak, who was staring at the scene, looked around at everyone and said.
“Speak.”
“⋯⋯.”
“If you don’t talk, nothing will change! “Say it out loud!”
Tanggunak’s gaze turned to the party flag.
“Sogaju!”
“yes.”
“Speak!”
He looked at the Tang military music with his eyes filled with calm and cautiously opened his mouth.
“Matriarch. “If we bring our thoughts together, will we be able to surpass the wisdom of our predecessors?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“You are saying the obvious. “Doesn’t the question you asked already have an answer?”
“⋯⋯Yes?”
Tanggunak smiled slightly.
“It is none other than the teachings and efforts of our ancestors that have made us who we are today.”
“⋯⋯.”
“There is no way that our decision is wrong. Our predecessors must have taught us how to overcome this crisis. Each of our concerns and thoughts contains the will of our ancestors. In the end, our will is the will of our predecessors.”
Cheongmyeong, who was listening from afar, immediately clenched his fists. His mouth suddenly opened.
“Continuing…”
“That’s what continuity is all about! “Don’t doubt yourself!”
Tanggunak completed what he said.
Cheongmyeong closed his eyes.
– Brother. Still, in the end, I am a member of the party.
The words he said with a smile seem to be heard again in Cheongmyeong’s ears.
Those who were encouraged by the words of Tanggunak began to open their mouths one by one.
Cheongmyeong, who was looking at the people who quickly became noisy, looked back at Tang Soso, whose eyes were filled with tears, and shrugged his shoulders.
“Now, shall we cook some rice?”
“⋯⋯Death penalty?”
“It’s going to be long.”
Cheongmyeong glanced back at Tanggunak, who was surrounded by everyone, and smiled.
“Because that’s what moving forward is all about.”
As Cheongmyeong said, the situation that started like that did not end for a long time.
When Tanggunak got up after a long conversation and stood face to face with King Hyeonjong, the morning sun that had risen was about to set over Seosan once again.
