It has become a weakness for us humans in our livelihood that we are always attached to worldly things. We forget that these things are life tools and we need them, but they are only our servants, our needs while we are alive. But we are dazzled by these inanimate objects, we go after them and collect them, no longer out of necessity, but out of greed, out of greed so we collect as much as we can. After that we become worldly servants, we attach ourselves and we have changed our minds into those things!
So we always defend the mundane desperately. We can no longer live without him, physically and spiritually. Losing property is a very great and painful thing. Searching for and collecting possessions is the most important thing in our lives, so if necessary in the pursuit of worldly things in the form of possessions, position, glory and so on, we do not hesitate to elbow elbows, trips, kills among others. man! Then it will be HAPPY HE WHO HAS BUT DOESN'T HAVE, in the sense of the word, has anything in this world because there is a connection, because there is a need, only has an outward appearance, but does not have an inner heart at all, is not at all bound or attached so that he has or does not have is not a matter of importance anymore!
It was because of this greed that the Emperor's entourage soon suffered the consequences after the large entourage fled until they reached the Ma Wei checkpoint located in the western Shen-si Province, where this small group ran out of rations. The few remaining rations were meant for the Emperor and his family and the nobles. The bodyguards who were suffering from fatigue and hunger became restless. There were faces imagining curiosity and anger, dissatisfied voices were heard among the members of the troops.
This stop at Ma Wei was used by Yang Kok Tiong to hold meetings with the Tibetans. Yang Kok Tiong attempted to establish contact with the Tibetan Government to assist the Emperor in dealing with the rebellion and persuaded a Lama priest who was among the Tibetans to convey his request for assistance. His heart was also restless when he saw how dissatisfied the men of the guard were getting. But the Emperor, who was already feeling tired and grieving, did not know about all that and he drowned his grief-stricken self in the comforting arms of his concubine.
None of the nobles knew how extraordinary things had happened outside. A young man and a beautiful girl sneaked in among the locals, approached the resting place of the guard troops and these two young people whispered to the troops. They are none other than Bu Swi Nio and Liem Toan Ki!
As we know, Liem Toan Ki, the young hero from Hoa-san-pai is An Lu Shan's spy and Bu Swi Nio, The Kwat Lin's student, ends up becoming An Lu Shan's helper because he is carried away by Liem Toan Ki who becomes his fiancé. Now, while spying on the state of the fleeing Emperor, Bu Swi Nio remembers the death of his older brother, so he decides to take revenge on Yang Kui Hui who caused the death of his older brother, Bu Swi Liang. After conferring with their lover, the two of them then slipped among the residents, made contact with the commanders of the guard troops, and started agitating them.
"Look, we are struggling, half to death from exhaustion and hunger to protect the Emperor's safety, he himself even has fun and doesn't care about us, drunk on Yang Kui Hui's seduction of the kuntilanak devil!" Bu Swi Nio, among others, incited.
"Look at that older brother who became prime minister. Secretly holding negotiations with the Tibetans. It was he and his beautiful snake sister who became traitors and sold the country. Remember, wasn't An Lu Shan taken by Yang Kui Hui? silence became his lover! The country had been sold by Yang Kui Hui, given to his lover, An Lu Shan. And now it seemed that Yang Kok Tiong was going to sell the Emperor's safety to the Tibetan people! Ouch, it really made people almost die of curiosity. The Emperor was toyed with like that, yet stayed silent being intoxicated by the beauty of that vicious she-devil Yang Kui Hui!” thus Liem Toan Ki added oil to the fire that was started by Swi Nio.
Indeed, the troop members were already restless and lost their composure. They felt miserable and their fate was still undetermined. Maybe they would all die ridiculously if they could be overtaken by the rebel forces. Hearing the incitement, they became increasingly agitated and finally heard screams that were secretly preceded by Swi Nio and Toan Ki.
"Hang the traitor!" "Kill the country peddler!" "Drag Yang Kok Tiong!"
"Yang Kok Tiong is a traitor, must be put to death!" "Before the seller of the country is killed, we don't want to go!"
These screams grew louder and now the whole army had risen up, brandishing fists and guns towards the buildings where the royal party was. One can imagine how shocked the Emperor's heart was when he heard those screams. Also the others were shocked to death, especially Yang Kok Tiong himself. He was negotiating with the Tibetans, when suddenly the Emperor and his personal guards entered the place.
The Emperor looked angry. "Who are they??" he snapped, pointing at the seven Tibetans who were there.
"Servant... I am negotiating... asking the Tibetan Government for help," Yang Kok Tiong replied.
"Arrest those Tibetans! Who knows they might be robber spies!" The Emperor's order was obeyed by the guards and the seven Tibetans who did not dare to put up a fight were arrested.
Meanwhile, the shouts outside for Yang Kok Tiong's death grew louder. The Emperor's servants came in droves, gathering at Yang Kok Tiong's place, who was sitting with a pale face hearing the demands of the troops outside.
In front of everyone's eyes, Yang Kui Hui shamelessly threw his arms around the Emperor's neck while crying. "Please, Your Majesty, help my brother... hope you save my brother...," the concubine cried.
Embraced and weeping over his beloved concubine, the old emperor immediately rebuked the chief of his bodyguards, "Catch that troublemaker!"
The commander of the guard stood up straight and replied, "Forgive me, Your Majesty. However, it was the entire bodyguard who made a fuss!"
"My Lord... help my brother... save him...!" Yang Kui Hui burst into tears.
Yang Kok Tiong also fell to his knees before the Emperor's feet. "I can only hope for Your wisdom and put my life in Your palm...!"
"Drag Yang Kok Tiong the traitor out!" screams came from outside.
"Take the beast out, or we're rushing in!" This sound was followed by the sound of banging on the door from outside.
"Catch him...!!" The emperor ordered and pointed his finger outwards.
The commander of the bodyguard was about to open the door, but suddenly a bodyguard who was guarding outside jumped in from outside, his face was pale and his body was shivering and he fell down on the floor facing the Emperor while saying, "They... they... will attack ...!"
By the chief bodyguard, the Emperor and his entourage were escorted up to the attic. Then the Emperor came out and looked at his troops who were rebelling outside. As soon as they saw the Emperor appear, the troops shouted in disarray, demanding that Yang Kok Tiong be given to them. The head of the bodyguard who saw the bad behavior, then secretly knocked the prime minister and brought him down again outside the Emperor's knowledge, then he opened the door and pushed the prime minister out.
Many hands filled with vengeful hatred greeted. Yang Kok Tiong's body was dragged around, a shower of punches and insults, insults and spit were directed at him. When Yang Kui Hui, who heard his brother's screams, came out to the Emperor and looked down, he screamed and embraced the Emperor, then wept. The emperor himself was wide-eyed at how his prime minister, the older brother of his concubine, was tortured by the troops, beaten and cursed at.
"Help my brother... help him" Yang Kui Hui whimpered and cried.
The emperor then shouted downwards in a loud voice, "Haiii! All my troops! Hold on! Don't
keep up the craziness!"
"Stop...! You evil devils...! Uh-huuuuhhh-huuuu!!" Yang Kui Hui also screamed and finally
covering his face, so did the Emperor when he saw how Yang Kok Tiong had fallen and could not move anymore, his body broken and covered in blood.
Suddenly, from within the group of troops and village people who had gathered in that place, a man's shrill voice sounded, "Drag down the she-demon Yang Kui Hui! She's the culprit! She's the culprit!
who brought down the kingdom by teasing His Majesty! Since he was around, the kingdom has become weak and ruled by traitors!"
Followed by a woman's voice, "Kill the kuntilanak! She's a female demon! She's the second Tiat Ki! She's committing adultery with
An Lu Shan, he gathered his family to rule the kingdom! He should be hanged!”
This voice is the voice of Mrs. Swi Nio who wants to avenge her brother's death. He mentions the name of the heroine Tiat Ki, who in historical tales is a Rase demon who incarnates women as the Emperor's concubine and drags the empire into ruin as well.
Hearing these inflammatory shouts from Liem Toan Ki and Bu Swi Nio, the bloodthirsty and dissatisfied troops then shouted, pointing at Yang Kui Hui while demanding that the beautiful woman be hanged!
"No...!! You guys are crazy! Nooooo!!" The emperor hugged his concubine's pale body and almost fainted
then pulled him in, followed by the screams of the troops and the local people.
The emperor with his face red with anger embraced Yang Kui Hui who was sobbing. All members of the entourage looked with pale faces, what else did they hear noise outside the house and now the door was pounding again.
"Hang Yang KuiHui!"
"Kill the demon!"
"Otherwise, we will burn this house!!"
Of course the Emperor and the others became even more panicked. The emperor slumped onto the chair, his face pale and sweat dripping down his face. Meanwhile Yang Kui Hui was kneeling near the Emperor's chair, embracing the Emperor's feet and showing a very pitiful attitude, his body trembled because of the sounds from outside that sounded, the voices demanding his death were like the tips of swords being stabbed into his body. his heart....
The banging on the door grew louder, the screams grew louder, while the Emperor waited for the results of the commanders of the guard who had come out to pacify his men. The wait is gripping and nerve-wracking. Suddenly, screams of the troop commanders came out and spoke, voices
the screaming and banging on the door stopped.
The Emperor's heart was relieved, he lowered his head and exchanged glances with his lover. Those beautiful eyes that had never lost their power to dazzle the Emperor were now filled with tears. But only for a moment their hearts were comforted and their hopes aroused, for suddenly there were louder screams followed by banging on doors and walls. Not long after the chief bodyguard and his assistants entered with pale faces.
Immediately they fell to their knees in front of the Emperor. "Servant is ready to accept punishment because all of you failed to subdue their anger," said the commander of the bodyguards, looking down.
The emperor rose to his feet and at that moment a voice sounded, “Kill the demon Yang Kui Hui! Otherwise, let's just kill them all!”
"No! Noooooo...! Fuck you...!!" The emperor screamed and his left arm wrapped around his concubine's neck, as if he was protecting his beloved lover.
"Dar-dar-darrrrr...!" the door was banged from outside. "Just destroy the tyrant and weak King...!"
"Just burn this house if Kui Hui is not executed!"
The situation is very dangerous and tense. All the nobles present had turned pale. The Crown Prince immediately dropped to his knees in front of the Emperor.
"Under these circumstances, why is Your Majesty still firm?" The Crown Prince was crying.
The dignitaries loyal to the emperor also persuaded, even the chief of the thaikam who was the Emperor's confidant and who was secretly personally hostile to Yang Kui Hui, said, “Hope Your Majesty would consider things in peace. dammed and if you refuse, of course you will be in danger, even your whole family. Are you willing to sacrifice your own safety and that of your entire family for just one person who you won't be able to save anyway?"
The Crown Prince turned to Yang Kui Hui and said, his voice loud and demanding, “A person who has earned the glory and grace of the Emperor for decades, would he forget that tribute that is greater than life at times of threat?”
Yang Kui Hui turned pale in the face. He knelt down before the Emperor, embraced the Emperor's feet as he wept and said, "Let me repay Your Majesty for all your kindness "
No...! No... Ohhh, Kui Hui, no...! Don't !"
However, many hands snatched the body of the beautiful concubine from the Emperor's arms, then handed it over to the thaikam chief. The concubine was dragged by the head of the Thaikam to the top of the pagoda and not long after, the cheers of the troops could be heard seeing the body of the beautiful concubine hanging from the pagoda, hanging from her neck and twitching for a moment and then fell silent.
"Long live the emperor !!"
"The culprit of weakness has died !!"
"We will escort the Emperor to the last drop of blood!"
Inside, the Emperor, who had been crying, widened at a completely different scream. He was confused did not know what happened, looked to the right and left. "Where is he...? Where is Yang Kui Hui?!"
The whole family fell to their knees. "He... has sacrificed his life for the sake of your family's safety"
"KuiHui...!!" The emperor ran up to the attic, then collapsed unconscious seeing the motionless body of his lover, hanging from the pagoda.
This event is a historical event which became famous throughout China for centuries. For those who feel sad and touched to hear the story of this very sad ending of a love relationship, they think that the Emperor is weak and has made a big mistake. This event became so famous hundreds of years later, it was even made into a staged drama and the subject of countless stories to be composed. Even more famous after the writer Po Cu I wrote it under the title 'Eternal Error'.
Weak and full of sorrow, the Emperor's entourage continued their journey to flee to Secuan. The death of his beloved concubine paralyzed the old Emperor's life. However, on the way back a great event occurred. When the group was resting and spending the night in a small hamlet in a quiet area on the Secuan border, that night suddenly there was an uproar because of the murder of one of the princes who had taken refuge. This prince is the younger brother of the Crown Prince.
In that very quiet night, two shadowy figures flashed on the roof tiles of the houses where the Emperor's entourage rested. They are none other than Bu Swi Nio and Liem Toan Ki. After successfully instigating the guards' men to kill Yang Kui Hui and his brother, as spies An Lu Shan the two of them secretly followed and shadowed the group, looking for a good opportunity to kill the Emperor! This was their goal, because the Emperor's death would be a great victory for An Lu Shan.
However, they both entered the wrong way! They entered the young prince's room which was next to the Emperor's. When the two swords in their hands moved, the body on the bed, inside the mosquito net that was pierced by the sword and let out a death shriek was not the Emperor's body, but the prince's body! Only then did these two people realize that they had been mistaken. Quickly they jumped and out of the room through the window.
"Catch the criminals!" "Catch the killer!!"
In the twinkling of an eye the two spies were surrounded by dozens of guards and ambushed. Of course Bu Swi Nio and Liem Toan Ki defended themselves and responded with powerful attacks. A mob battle ensued in the well-lit room and more and more guards came to gang up. Facing the mob of a large number of high-skilled bodyguards, the two people became troubled too.
Standing back to back, Swi Nio and Toan Ki protect each other. Their swords moved swiftly forward, right and left to fend off all the weapons that came raining down on them. The loud sound of clashing weapons interspersed with the screams of the mobsters broke the silence of the night in the hamlet. No less than eight of the mobsters were knocked down by their swords and now the guards, on the orders of their superior officers, locked them up and arranged ranks.
This opportunity was used by Mrs. Swi Nio to move her legs backwards until her back collided with Liem Toan Ki's. Then he whispered, his voice filled with emotion, "Sorry, Koko. I lured you here so you also face the danger of death"
"Hushhh..., dead or alive we are still together, Moi-moi"
"I'm not afraid of death, but... I haven't had time to repay all your kindness, Koko"
"There is no good between us. We love each other, right? Love until we die together!" Toan Ki's words awakened Swi Nio's heart. While holding the sword tightly and his left hand clenched into a fist, he said. "I would feel proud of you, Koko!"