Mulgyeja勿稽子
1Mulgyeja
勿稽子，奈解尼師今時人也。家世平微，為人倜儻，少有壯志。時八浦上國同謀伐阿羅國，阿羅使來，請救。尼師今使王孫捺音，率近郡及六部軍往救，遂敗八國兵。是役也，勿稽子有大功，以見憎於王孫，故不記其功。或謂勿稽子曰：「子之功莫大，而不見錄，怨乎？」曰：「何怨之有？」或曰：「盍聞之於王？」勿稽子曰：「矜功求名，志士所不為也。但當勵志，以待後時而已。」後三年，骨浦、柒浦、古史浦三國人，來攻竭火城，王率兵出救，大敗三國之師，勿稽子斬獲數十餘級，及其論功，又無所得。乃語其婦曰：「嘗聞為臣之道，見危則致命，臨難則忘身，前日浦上竭火之役，可謂危且難矣，而不能以致命忘身，聞於人，將何面目以出市朝乎？」遂被髮携琴，入師彘山，不返。
Mulgyeja was a man of the time of Nahae Isageum. His house had been plain and lowly for generations, but he was a man who would not be bound, and from his youth he held a great purpose.
At that time the eight states of Posang joined in a plan and attacked the state of Ara, and an envoy of Ara came and asked for rescue. The isageum had Naeeum, the grandson of the king, lead the troops of the nearby districts and of the six bu and go to the rescue, and they broke the troops of the eight states.
In that fight Mulgyeja had great merit, but the grandson of the king hated him, and so his merit was not written down.
Someone said to Mulgyeja, "Your merit is the greatest of all, and it is not set down. Do you not resent it?"
He said, "What resentment should there be?"
Someone said, "Why not let the king hear of it?"
Mulgyeja said, "To boast of merit and to seek a name is what a man of purpose does not do. I should only strive in my purpose and wait for a later day."
Three years after, men of the three states of Golpo and Chilpo and Gosapo came to attack Galhwaseong, and the king led out troops to the rescue and broke the armies of the three states badly. Mulgyeja cut down and took several tens of heads, but when merit was weighed he again got nothing.
Then he said to his wife, "I have heard that the way of a subject is to give up his life when he sees danger and to forget his body when he meets hardship. The fighting at Posang and at Galhwa in the days past may be called dangerous and hard, and I could not give up my life and forget my body so that others heard of it. With what face shall I go out into the market and the court?"
In the end he let down his hair and took up his geomungo and went into Sachesan, and he did not come back.