Episode 90. The great tree of Muhayujihyang (無何有之鄕) 2014.07.12.
Military officer Hoyeon was agitated by Namgunghyang’s visit. This is because the visit of someone from the Namgung family was unprecedented.
There was tension in the military building for a moment, but the atmosphere immediately improved as soon as the situation was learned.
Since I had always heard that he was a spirited warrior, there was no way he would feel bad, and since the warrior from the Hyeokryeon family who accompanied him asked for active cooperation, there was no need for hesitation.
Promising to let him know right away in case Namgung-cheon, a sword from the previous generation, came to visit, the head of the government, Jeok Cheol-gwan, sent Namgung-hyang off. Jeok Se-ho and Jeok Se-hwa also showed the courtesy of a precious guest and sent Namgoong-hyang off with a smile.
“Seeing that the Namgung family is so active in cooperating with the Hyeokryeon family, it seems like they are firmly prepared to fight against the Blood Bongryan family. If the Sentai Raigeom comes… … .”
Prince Jeok Se-ho muttered after seeing Namgung-hyang off.
However, Jeok Se-hwa’s reaction was reluctant. This was unexpected, considering she was usually active in such topics.
“Well, I see.”
“Why are you doing this? “Is there anything you’re worried about?”
Jeok Se-hwa, who was thinking deeply about something, shook his head.
“No, no. “I’ll go out and come back.”
Jeok Se-hwa left as soon as he finished speaking.
Since his sister’s unexpected behavior was not that unfamiliar, Jeok Se-ho shrugged his shoulders, thinking it was just that.
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Jeok Se-hwa, who was walking towards the main gate of the shabby Seowon, suddenly stopped when he heard a sound coming from inside the door.
“That’s mine. “Stop eating it all the time.”
“Let’s not go too far with sugar, senior.”
“I’ve never had a junior like you.”
“They say they are the Four Sea Brothers, but if they hold the sword first, they are all seniors…” … Ah, this is delicious.”
Jeok Se-hwa slightly stuck his head out to the side of the door.
Despite such careful actions, the conversation was cut off in an instant, and Jeok Se-hwa had to face everyone’s gaze towards him.
An unfamiliar old man, seen for the first time among familiar people, looks at Jeok Se-hwa and speaks with distant eyes.
“Who is that child?”
“Ah, Soger!”
At least Sonbin welcomes Jeok Se-hwa with a smile.
“Oh, hello.”
Jeok Se-hwa greeted with a humble expression.
“Please come in.”
Hearing Son Bin’s words, Jeok Se-hwa went inside.
In addition to the landlady Sun Bin, the old man who was now more of a host than a guest, and Shin Ui, and the cotton girl Dang Yue’er, sitting there was an unfamiliar old man.
I was concerned that Tang Yue’s mood had changed significantly, but now I was more curious about the unfamiliar old man.
“This is the enemy of the Hoyeon military officer. And this person is Noh’s junior… … .”
“I heard there is no junior like that!”
Noh gets angry at Son Bin’s introduction. The gray-haired unfamiliar old man spoke with a naturally virtuous expression.
“But you’re not at Hyeongsan Mountain. Why are you here? “If you are a Namak labor force, you have to protect Namak. If you are everywhere like this, won’t people be confused?”
Thanks to being by God’s side, it’s not that obvious, but he’s so sturdy that even most young men would tell him to go away. That person has a very happy expression and talks like a girl.
“It’s my heart. Besides, where can a two-legged animal go? “Don’t meddle in unnecessary ways.”
Noh spoke grumblingly. The unfamiliar old man grinned.
“Well, anyway, it went well. “I heard that Paegum went to look for his senior, but it looks like he just walked in vain.”
“Paegeom?”
“yes. Oh, is it now a Sentai defeated sword? He’s old now too… … . Anyway, my stomach hurt thinking about him having fun alone, but now I feel relieved. But how can you be the same now as you were in the past?”
“Why are you jealous?”
“No. “I thought it would be better if it were the same as a young man.”
“What is good? “It’s even more annoying to mess with women here and there.”
The unfamiliar old man narrowed his eyes and spoke with a vaguely serious expression.
“You can’t lie and say it’s in the past. “It never happens.”
“Hmm. Well, there hasn’t been so much that it gets confusing… … .”
“Yes? Then, I will introduce you to a true grandmother, so you can have a good time with me… … .”
“I don’t do it.”
“Oh, why!”
“If I had known you were this kind of guy, I wouldn’t have done it from the beginning. “You were pretty fine back then, but why did you become such a squishy bastard?”
“It was like this originally.”
“what?”
The unfamiliar old man shrugged his shoulders, took a piece of sugar, ate it, and spoke casually.
“My specialty is roasting people around me. I’m suffering to death alone, but they’re so carefree that it’s quite eye-opening. Well, thanks to that, Jeondae’s outer Cheongju and inner Cheongju still run away when they see me these days. “Tsk tsk tsk tsk.”
The old man laughed as if he was truly happy.
“So, let’s mix it up…” … .”
“I said I wouldn’t do it!”
“Then I will come until you do it. Oh, now that I think about it, I guess I should contact Paegum and ask him to come here. I must have been a bit pissed because I had to search around Mt. Hyeongsan where no one was around. I guess I had pretty high expectations.”
“Grunt.”
The old man groaned. I felt like I knew why people around me were running away.
“once.”
“Three times.”
“no.”
“Then twice. “I can’t cut any more.”
“Are you the owner? Anyway, it’s good. “Come later at night.”
“Really?”
“okay.”
The old man grinned.
“thank you. “It looks like Hyang-a sent someone to look for me, so I’ll leave then.”
When Noh suddenly frowned, wondering what was going on, the unfamiliar old man turned to Jeok Se-hwa and said,
“Am I right? “Hoyeonmugwan’s young lady.”
“It’s similar.”
Jeok Se-hwa said with a slight smile. Then bow your head and bow politely.
“It’s an honor to meet you. Namgungcheon Grand Hyeop. “I am the enemy of the Hoyeon military officer.”
The unfamiliar old man, the former thunder sword Nangong Cheon, nodded lightly in return.
“Do you even know this place? No, you don’t know. “If I knew, I would have come here myself because of her personality.”
“yes. Namgung-hyang Sojeo thought that Daehyeop might come to Hoyeonmu Pavilion.”
“That kid has a strangely good sense of touch. I actually don’t know anything about martial arts… … .”
Nam Gung-cheon clicked his tongue and muttered. Even so, he was on his way to visit the martial arts officer. But then I immediately changed my plans when I saw Noh’s appearance.
“Please don’t tell Hyang-ah for a while. And I will tell my father that I will visit him someday, so he should work hard to sharpen his sword.”
Namgungcheon’s appearance as he spoke was full of majesty. Until just now, she could not have even imagined that she was an old man who had been jokingly exchanging words with the Namak slave.
“I will.”
Bowing his head, Jeok Se-hwa spoke elegantly.
“Ugh. “Then I will come at night, senior.”
Namgungcheon stood up. And suddenly he looks at Sonbin and sneakily approaches.
“You too, try hard.”
A low voice. Nangong Cheon’s eyes shone sharply.
“Having flowers in both hands isn’t all that good for a man. If it were me, I wouldn’t even go near that silver-haired girl… … . “Well, if that’s what you like.”
“yes?”
“If you act carelessly when you are young, you will suffer when you get older.”
Namgung-cheon tapped Son Bin on the shoulder and said with an expression of disappointment.
While Sonbin was confused as to what this meant, Namgoongcheon hurriedly walked out the door.
The remaining people stood speechless for a moment, feeling as if a typhoon had just passed by.
“He’s an interesting person.”
The person who spoke was Jeok Se-hwa, the military officer of Hoyeon.
“He’s not a fun guy.”
The Namaknogun said as if throwing something.
“It is known that he has a great personality, is excellent at martial arts, and has an impeccable behavior, but if it is for the sake of his family, he will not blink even if it means trial and blood.”
‘Hotang… … ‘I don’t think so?’
While Jeok Se-hwa tilted his head, the Namaknogun frowned and continued speaking.
“There are some strange people among the Sega matriarchs, but this guy is the best among them. In other words, it can be said that it is a work that the Namgung family put a lot of effort into creating. He’s the most human, but that makes him the worst. If he didn’t know that there is a heaven above heaven, he would have already tried to stain the world with blood. “It doesn’t matter to me whether the world is stained with blood or not.”
“If you are that kind of person, why did you allow me to dance?”
At Sonbin’s question, Noh grinned.
“When you see a guy like that, don’t you somehow want to break his nose?”
“well. I don’t really… … .”
“Heul, is that really the case?”
The old man laughed.
* * *
Jerk, jerk.
Namgung-hyang opened his eyes wide when he saw Namgung-cheon walking down a long river with a garden on one side.
“Hal… … .”
She was about to call Nangong Cheon but stopped. And she quietly stood there, adjusting her collar, waiting for Nangong-cheon to approach.
Jerk, jerk.
Namgungcheon Stream, made of luxurious wood and filled with intimidation as if it were filling a tall and luxurious river, approached. It was an overwhelming force, as if the Great Mountain was moving.
Sarah.
Namgoonghyang knelt down and bowed his head. It didn’t matter to her that this place was a wasteland.
“Have you been there?”
“hmm.”
Nangong Cheon nodded lightly.
“Is there a foreign affairs-level expert in the Party that we are not aware of?”
He asked, looking down at Namgoonghyang who lowered his head.
“doesn’t exist. However, I cannot say for sure that this is the case. “It is none other than the party gate.”
“I guess so. Because it’s a party matter.”
Namgung-cheon, who looked into the distance for a moment, asks again.
“Has there ever been a visitor from the temple before?”
“yes. It is a poison sword, said to be the hidden blade of Tangmun. “The fact that its existence was revealed to us is interpreted as showing the party’s trust in this secret agreement.”
The visit was known only to a very small number of people within the Namgung family. If it weren’t for Namgungcheon, Namgunghyang wouldn’t have known either. In fact, Namgung-cheon did not attend, saying he was not interested in such things.
“Was that child strong?”
“no.”
Namgoonghyang answered.
“It is said that although his knowledge of martial arts and level of skill is truly genius, his capabilities are not enough to properly control his own body. “It is said that it is like a living gunshot of extreme poison, and its lifespan will not last longer than this year.”
Nangong Cheon stroked his chin. If you think about common sense, the possibility that they are the same person is infinitely low.
But somehow I don’t feel good.
“Was there a Tang guru here?”
Namgoonghyang asks quietly.
“okay.”
Namgungcheon said.
“I haven’t confirmed it, but it’s clear. There is only one place in the world that can create a monster with such fierce venom. I thought there was no way Meng Hao would disappear so easily… … .”
Nam Gong-cheon said with a bitter smile.
“I was a child who was more afraid of the future than of the present. Killing him on the spot would have eliminated the regret, but since the old man is holding on… … . Tsk.”
“If you say you are an old man… … .”
“There was a Namak labor force.”
Namgoonghyang’s complexion changed slightly.
“Are you talking about this place, Hyeokryun Sega?”
“no.”
Namgung-cheon, who answered briefly, looked down at Namgung-hyang and asked.
“What does it mean if the Tang Dynasty’s foreign minister-level expert, the Namak Laogun, and Shin Sin are together?”
Namgoonghyang was silent for a moment. But she wasn’t long.
“The party never loses money. Unless you are strong, you cannot move the Namak Lao Army. The faithful are those who are bound only to the law of life. So there is nothing that can tie all three together at the same time.”
Namgoonghyang quietly pursed his lips.
“However, everything in the world can rest under the shade of a large tree. There is only one thing that can move people beyond profit and loss, strength, and life and death. “It is only the great tree of the direction of nothingness and existence.”
Nothingness-oriented means a vast empty field where no interests exist.
A place that is a perfect utopia and is sometimes expressed as a world of complete nothingness.
The word that expresses something that transcends this world and that we cannot even know whether it exists or not is nothingness.
“Is it a big tree in a vast empty field…? … .”
The tree is indeed huge, but it is said to be so useless as lumber that the carpenter does not even look at it.
A being that does not get cut because it is useless, and therefore does not harm others, but provides a shade and rest for everything.
That is the huge tree, Daesu (大樹), which is said to be located in Muhayujihyang.
“Sometimes what you say is so profound that even I can’t really understand it.”
Namgungcheon looked down at Namgunghyang with calm eyes.
“I’m sorry.”
“But one thing is clear. In other words, doesn’t it mean that there is someone big enough to encompass all three of them?”
“That’s right.”
“But there was no one like that?”
Nam Gung-cheon said while tilting his head.
“The young scholar’s bet was quite innocent, but it didn’t seem particularly useful. These kids were kids everywhere. Wouldn’t it be more plausible that the Namaknogun was raising Tangmun girls as disciples? “I don’t think that’s possible given that old man’s personality.”
“But… … .”
Crack, thump.
Namgung-hyang was interrupted by the sound of someone rushing down the river. Nangong Cheon turned her head. One of her maids from Hyeokryeon Sega was approaching with urgent steps.
“Heh. The revolutionaries are on fire. “I guess that’s true.”
Namgungcheon said while winking at Namgunghyang.
“How can there be so many people who openly eavesdropped in the living room of one’s own home…?” … . It’s been a while since I used my strength and made it a surprise. “Your ears will go deaf, so you probably won’t be able to hear anything for a while.”
It’s not like I can’t hear anything for a while.
The tremendous force that Namgung-cheon instantly unleashed towards them was such a shock that the weak people vomited blood on the spot.
However, Nam Gung-cheon just grinned as if he had just played a little prank.
“Get up.”
Sarah.
Namgunghyang quietly stood up at Namgungcheon’s words.
“Anyway, we’ll find out tonight. “It will be fun to wait and see who is right.”
Crack, thump.
The maid approaches with a pale face and quickly bows to Namgung-cheon.
“Are you okay?”
“Are you okay? “Is there any reason it wouldn’t be okay?”
“No, that thing over there… … There was a very loud sound from somewhere… … .”
“Didn’t you hear? “Couldn’t it have been a dry thunderstorm somewhere?”
“Well, still… … .”
“More than that, speaking of the welcome dinner hosted by the head of the family today, will there be a pretty singer? I think it would be better if pretty girls came out in droves and danced. “That’s the latest trend these days.”
When Namgung-cheon spoke as if flirtatiously, the maid was so embarrassed that her face turned red.
Namgoonghyang muttered to himself as he watched the scene.
‘The algebra of infinite intention is inherently useless.’
Suddenly, an image of myself sitting and resting under the shade of a large tree came to mind.
A place where a gentle breeze blows and the leaves whisper softly.
But it’s a dream. A dream so sweet, so far away.
‘It’s hot.’
Namgoonghyang turned his head and looked at the garden.
The hot sun of Gangnam was shining intensely.
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martial arts,
