51. Do you know that I was really scared when I got angry?

Behind Chic sat Lee Da-hee, wearing a gorgeous pink hairpin and a beautiful pink hanbok costume, and behind her sat Kyu-ha, wearing a dignified yungbok.

“You may have heard the explanation, but when you signal while waiting, you can run and drop into the safe place. Then we will begin right away.”

As Chic, carrying Kyu-ha and Lee Da-hee, reached the far end of the field, director Kim Jong-nam’s signal dropped and a bright red flag waved.

Seeing the flag, Gyuha’s eyes lit up and muttered something while stroking Chic’s neck.

“Yeah?”

Lee Da-hee, who misunderstood that he was talking to herself, asked back, but soon after, Kyu-ha grabbed Chic’s reins and lightly kicked Chic with his heel.

“Here”

Humidity

It refers to the maximum galloping ability of a horse, and the speed reaches 60 to 70 km per hour. Gyuha’s posture was different from that used in Korea. Korean horseback riding was mainly optimized for educational and competitive purposes, while Gyuha’s Mongolian horseback riding was for hunting and living.

Since it was common to run across the central plains and Mongolia on wide grassland roads with no slopes in their primitive nature for days and days, there was no need to worry about when to give the spur. Therefore, unlike Korean horse riding where the calves and thighs do not tighten the body, Kyu-ha maintains body balance through the strength of the calves and knees.

“You are too fast.”

On top of the galloping horse, there was nothing Lee Da-hee could do except hang her head in fear like Jang Ok-jeong in fear.

In the blink of an eye, when he reached the point where he fell off the horse, Kyu-ha gave a signal to Chic again with his heel, and Chic, who was running, slowed down and immediately lifted his front foot.

“Hee hee hee.”

At the same time, Kyu-ha wrapped her arms around Lee Da-hee’s waist and fell to the grassy meadow and rolled with Lee Da-hee.

“Big cut! hey go fast it’s okay!?”

It looked so real that I was worried that it was not a staged fall, but a real fall. Contrary to their worries, however, Kyu-ha and Lee Da-hee jumped up and dusted off their clothes.

“Uh huh are you okay? You seem to have fallen badly, but are you not hurt?”

Lee Da-hee checked her body condition and shrugged her shoulders as if there was no problem at all.

“Not at all. It’s very good. Actor Song, are you okay?”

“I have no problem either. The filming must have gone well.”

Seeing Kyuha calmly tidying up her disheveled hair as if asking what had happened, Lee Dahee shook her head.

“Even after that dangerous shoot, there is no change in his expression. What the hell are you doing? Are you a former stunt actor?”

Clearly, the shooting scene was so difficult that even a senior with a higher age than himself could not do it easily. Nevertheless, it was surprising that not only did it finish in one cue, but it was also a perfect fall, and there was not a single scratch, let alone an injury.

“It was… a perfect landing.”

It was a stunt that was so perfect that even thinking about it in retrospect, it could be said that it was crazy.

“It’s absolutely perfect. I was nervous about getting hurt, but thank you again as a director for allowing both of them to come out in such a wonderful scene without getting hurt.”

Director Kim Jeong-nam couldn’t hide his excitement when he was able to film a falling horse scene that was more realistic and thrilling than he had imagined. The moment he was agonizing between his own greed and reason, his gratitude and trust in Kyu-ha, who solved the problem like a lie, grew even more.

“I really found a treasure in Taebaek… He is a really great actor. It will become bigger in the future, Song Gyu-ha.”

***

7 years after Gapsulhwanguk.

Sukjong’s love for Jang Ok-jeong (Jang Hee-bin), whom he loved so much, gradually cools down. It was because Jang Hee-bin got sick and had boils on her body and swelling on her head.

It is said that there is no filial son in a long illness, and there is no filial piety in a long illness.

King Sukjong could confidently love another woman at any time as a king, and as a king, he had an obligation to make efforts to give birth to a son. At this time, he met Choi Suk-bin, who was well-known as Dong-i, who was from Mussoo-ri to Queen Inhyeon.

When Queen Inhyeon, who suffered from a long illness, eventually died, a movement was developed to reinstate Jang Hee-bin as queen.

Did you say that there is no man who does not succumb to a lawsuit over pillow hair?

The beginning of Jang Hee-bin’s death began with Choi Suk-bin’s secret information.

“majesty. In fact, Queen Inhyeon was killed not by illness but by the curse of Heebin Jang. It is said that Jang Hee-bin secretly installed a shrine to the west of Chiseon-dang and prayed for Min to die whenever he could.”

In fact, Jang Hee-bin installed a shrine in the west, but it was to pray for the recovery of crown prince Lee Yoon from smallpox, not to curse Queen Inhyeon.

On the surface, it seemed that Suk-bin Choi could not forget the favor she received from Queen In-hyeon and couldn’t stand her grievance, so she reported it.

Two days later, King Sukjong informed the ministers of his intention to study Jang Hui-bin.

“your majesty! We must preserve Jang Hui-bin, the biological mother of the current crown prince, in order to preserve the crown prince as well. Please contact me.”

“I am issuing this order for the sake of the state and crown prince, not merely for entertainment. If you don’t handle it well at first, the anger will grow and you will surely become an endless worry.

“But, Your Highness, please think about it one more time.”

When Seungji So Jeong-heon and Yoon Ji-in strongly and earnestly tried to dissuade him, Sukjong also took a step back.

However, King Sukjong’s anger eventually exploded at the continued dissuade of the ministers.

“majesty! You must not make decisions on important national issues with an angry heart. You can’t study Jang Hee-bin, Your Highness.”

“what? Did the Prime Minister think that I made this decision out of personal feelings!?”

In the end, Yeonguijeong Choi Seok-jeong confronts Sukjong to prevent the death of Jang Hee-bin, and then goes into exile. Even in the midst of this, King Sukjong issued an unexpected order as many of his subjects, including the monks, appealed against it.

“In the future, designate by national law that Bin cannot succeed the position of the pick.”

Crown Prince Yi Yun, who later became King Gyeongjong, begged the courtiers.

“Please save my mother. Please.”

However, none of the servants could reverse King Sukjong’s determined mind, and eventually Jang Hui-bin drank poison.

King Sukjong ordered Jang Hui-bin with a terrifyingly calm face.

“Since the crime has already been revealed to the whole world, if you act leniently, it will be difficult to put into words the concerns of the future. Hee-bin Jang, let him do it voluntarily.”

Jang Hui-bin calmly accepted King Sukjong’s order, not feeling a single ray of sympathy.

“I have to volunteer here so that my son Yuni will not be harmed.”

And Jang Hui-bin put the poison into his mouth without any resistance, and soon fell to the floor with his face turned white.

The moment he collapsed, Jang Hee-bin’s mind flashed through memories of the deep love he had with King Sukjong from the first time they met.

“majesty….”

Jang Hui-bin’s eyebrows trembled, and sad tears flowed down her cheeks, and her movements gradually stopped.

Her age was 43 years old.

***

“Cut! Ah~ It was so good. Give everyone a round of applause.”

clap clap clap clap.

“Wow, Hong Da-eun isn’t kidding about acting either. Did you see the tears shed as she collapsed at the end?”

“But King Sukjong is too much… he sends them away without mercy.”

When the director gave an OK sign, Hong Da-eun stood up, wiped her tears, and approached Kyu-ha.

“Thanks for your efforts. I’m talking about this because my filming is over today, but do you know that Kyu-ha was really scared when she got angry while acting as Sukjong? I also thought that at my age, I wouldn’t be fooled by acting anywhere, but it was Kyu-ha who broke that stupid idea. Anyway, I learned a lot.”

Gyuha scratched his chin at the sudden praise.

“Today’s acting, Da-eun, was not arrogance, but self-confidence. I also learned a lot.”

“Ho-ho-ho. Didn’t you know that not only me but other actors were so immersed in the role that it was hard to approach Kyu-ha because he felt like a real king?”

Kyu-ha just knew that everyone was shy, but he didn’t realize at all that he couldn’t approach him because he was difficult.

“Anyway, I think I’ll see you often if I’m in this industry, but then we get closer. And it would be better if you let me get to know Geumbi a bit later… No, it’s not like that.

“Yeah. I’m fine. Thank you for your hard work today.”

In that way, Hong Da-eun also reaped the beauty of the end of Jang Hee-bin’s death, and the filming was almost in the second half.

The second half of the film was planned to be filmed not as the bloody court, but as the ruler of the people who loved the people by going undercover with his attendants.

After Jang Hui-bin’s death, King Sukjong’s absolute kingship had practically reached the stage of completion, and the ministers of the court were in a hurry to take care of Sukjong’s eyes no matter what they said.

As King Sukjong carried out his return to the country three times, winds of blood blew every time, and the floor was soaked with the blood of dead ministers, but despite this, history did not call Sukjong a tyrant. The reason was that King Sukjong was a monarch who worked for the country and the people and had the idea of loving the people.

***

King Sukjong hid his identity and accompanied only one attendant to go undercover in order to investigate the public sentiment of the people. Then I saw the house of the official’s house, which was huge like a whale’s back, and I approached it.

“It doesn’t sound like a house where there are young people living there.”

King Sukjong turned away with an uneasy feeling.

Then, I passed a mountain village where the poor people lived together, and I clicked my tongue when I saw a shabby thatched house in the distance.

“Tsk tsk, can you really live in a house that’s all run down?”

However, the closer you get, the more laughs come out of the shabby thatched house. King Sukjong was puzzled when he heard laughter from people he hadn’t heard even in the rich village where huge tile-roofed houses were gathered.

Sukjong, intrigued, entered the thatched-roofed house to find out the identity of the laughter.

“Look. As a passer-by, can I ask for a bowl of water?”

At the same time as I was talking, I quickly looked around the room through the crack in the door, and saw an old man with a white beard talking with his grandson while twisting a rope.

The elderly mother could be seen helping out by picking straw.

In addition, a net made by the landlord was placed in one corner of the room, a woman who seemed to be his wife was mending clothes, and young children who were all busy listening to the story of an old man who seemed to be their grandfather and devoted themselves to studying writing.

It was only a brief glance, but everyone’s faces were so bright and happy that there was no concern.

So King Sukjong asked the master.

“The situation doesn’t look very good. Is there anything good going on? Everyone’s expressions are really bright and the sound of laughter can be heard from outside.”

To Sukjong’s question, the landlord answered this.

“I’m just living rich, paying off my debt and saving. I think that’s why I naturally laugh.”

After King Sukjong, unable to understand the owner of the house, secretly asked someone to find out about the house, it was just an ordinary house.

Unable to contain his curiosity, King Sukjong went back and asked the owner again.

Then the landlord laughed and replied,

“Supporting my parents is paying off my debt, and since I’m raising my children to rely on when I’m old, isn’t this what saving is all about? So, can’t you proudly say that you are rich?”

“Ha ha ha, that person is really rich. You taught me that happiness is not determined by the size of the roof. The word Anbin Nakdo (安貧樂道) fits perfectly… I have to do better to keep their smiles.”

Even after that, King Sukjong went to many secret places to look at the people’s livelihood, secured ample finances in the national treasury during his reign for 47 years, enforced the Daedong Law even in Jeolla-do, and expanded the Sangpyeong Tongbo nationwide in earnest to lay the groundwork for the development of the commodity currency economy. This was the reason why King Sukjong was not called a tyrant, even though he came with a bloody wind.

“OK! Thank you all for your hard work!!”

“Wow~~ Thank you for your hard work.”

In this way, the long and long 7-month filming of the last filming of The Most High came to an end.