~ Episode 7 ~
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What is better because Bong Sam joined us and made the Stable bigger?
Man Chi! Every man has
his own capability. Songpa Stable
is beyond your capability.
So...
I am low in ability?
Bong Sam...BONG SAM! BONG SAM! I DON'T EVEN WANT TO HEAR THAT NAME!
BONG SAM THIS BASTARD!
Is Songpa Stable something you can decide to eat or not?
This stable Hyungnim and I cultivated,
does it look like a pile of crap to you!
Do you even know what it means to be the head?
Being the head of a merchant group, do you know what is it?
It means you are responsible from head to the tail.
What I mean is that you are responsible to feed several hundred mouths.
Do you know how lonely that position is?
How scary that position is?
To be the head of a merchant group means to put your neck on the line.
I won't do it!
I'd rather die before I become the head of a merchant group.
The Head Broker of Songpa Stable for the 2nd generation is...Bong Sam.
What?...
2nd generation Head Broker is who?
This crappy stable, I'll destroy it! [Song Man Chi, Songpa Stable General Manager]
We are like brothers, so what's the big deal giving me this mere stable?!
Right.
This measly stable...
Is that you Man Chi? What are you doing there?
This is the deed for Songpa Stable, right?
You...what are you trying to do now?
Uh right. This is the deed for the Stable.
This is the deed for the Stable, right? I am taking what is mine.
Man Chi!
Oh right...
I have something else that's mine here.
Give that to me! [Bang Geum, Jo Seung Joon's wife]
Man Chi! Let go!
Do you think I am a piece of pork meat?
-Come here.-Don't come, don't come. Why are you like this?
Let's go back, huh?
Let's go quickly! It's still not too late yet.
I won't! I'll never go back.
They say that a man is either a child or a dog. Are you a child?
Right. I've lived as a child all this time, but
from now on I am going to live as a dog. A dog!
Fine! You're all that!
Either live as a mad dog or a stray dog! It is your business!
Bang Geum. Bang Geum!
Bang Geum! Don't go! Jo Seung Joon only needs Bong Sam!
I have nothing!
Bang Geum! Don't go!
Hey girl! You were mine!
Not Hyungnim's but my girl!
-Good work Hyungnim. -You all worked hard.
The stable is awesome. It is about time we get settled down.
Bang Geum, you should manage the household for the stable.
That wouldn't be bad for me.
I've been suffocating with guys feet smell and sweat...
and bitten by fleas. I am about to get sick of traveling anyway.
We are celebrating, so what's with complains to ruin the taste of booze...
No. I am just saying...I want to be a regular housewife now..
Ah, is that what you were saying?
This is the only thing my mother had left.
-Come quickly.-Bang Geum, it hurts. Hey, hey, hey, let go of this.
It hurts, It hurts. Let go, let go of me.
Hyungnim will misunderstand if he sees.
Don't you have something to give me?
Give you what?
What are your thoughts on your hyungnim asking me to marry him?
Hey, you wench. Why are you asking me about your marriage? Why are you curious about what I think?
I don't know. I'm curious about Song Man Chi's thoughts.
Can I marry Jo Seong Joon?
Aigoo, Sister-in-law. Your fate
has now flourished like a lazy dog in May and June.
Your easy life awaits as the Lady of Songpa Stable.
Yeah, yeah, congratulations! Yeah, yeah--
Sister-in-law, we have distinction between man and a woman.
If Sister-in-law slaps her brother-in-law like this,
Of course Hyungnim will misunderstand.
So?! What do you want me to do?
What am I supposed to do?!
Those good times have passed,
what is it you want me to do now? You stupid idiot!
What are you telling me to do now?!
Port of Uiju
Hyung, let's continue after taking a small break.
-Let's do that.-Aigoo.
Aigoo.
Aigoo. I am dying.
This load is extremely heavy!
Aigoo. I am dying.
Ahew...
Ahew my joints hurt.
-Buy some eggs! Eggs!-Thank you.
There are boiled eggs here! Ah, hello.
-Just give me one row.-Yes, yes.
What's the use of thinking about the place you just left? [Cheon Bong Sam]
Hyungnim Man Chi and the Head Broker
will forget about it and go on to their merry way.
And have good times! Ah huh!
No, is this a boiled egg or an egg made out of a stone?
Give me a different one, a different one.
[Songpa Stable]
Hyungnim! All members are uneasy and
don't know what to do.
It's been past five days already.
If he was going to return, then he should be back already.
Just the direct employees are 87 and
including their families, 400 people belong to this stable
might be on the street in the middle of the winter and freeze to death.
Hyungnim, what's even more scary is that rumors can spread. Rumors.
The customers who house their cattle here
are all being meddlesome
about the vendors who supply the cows feed and rice for us. They're all poking around.
At this rate, to collect money,
they'll rush in like a mob.
Wang Bal and Chae Dol, follow me.
We are going to the headquarter of the peddlers' market in Gyeonggi Province
You are going to pass around the circular letter?
C-Circular letter! Doesn't it...
mean death?
You're not going to Jo Seung Joon.
You're not jumping into my embrace firmly either.
Then why did you follow me and make me nuts, girl!
I'm not going! I'm not!
Even if I die, I won't go to Jo Seung Joon!
You know nothing...
Rather than kneeling down to Jo Seung Joon and kissing up to Cheon Bong Sam,
I'll bury my tongue into the sand in Songpa beach and die!
Fine! Let's see how far we can go!
So, then whether we live or die. Better yet, even if both of us die!
Get up. Hurry!
What is it? Lay down some more.
I'm just going to eat.
Go! Go to Kim Hak Joon in Ganggyeong.
What are you saying right now?
Why would Kim Hak Joon come up in this conversation?!
The deed that you stole from our Stable,
Where can you liquidate it for cash in Joseon other than that place?
The only merchant, a cash cow that will go crazy and offer to exchange that for money
is Kim Hak Joon bastard only. Get up.
From my Songpa Stable,
I am looking for a bi*ch and a bastard that ran away after violating the rules.
Please do an anonymous circular letter.(Sabardongmoon- an old scroll of an anonymous circular letter. Like an "Anonymous" Wanted Poster.)
[Circular letter: Names listed in a circular shape to hide the ringleader]
[Notice]
[Wang Bal]
[No Kyu Jin]
This headquarter of peddlers market in Gyeonggi Province,
cannot forgive these criminals who deserve to be beaten to death.
You fellow merchants, don't rest
and pass that circular letter to the headquarters of peddler markets to each of the 8-provinces of Joseon.
And catch Song Man Chi who deserves to be beaten to death.
As soon as you see him, report either to any of the 8-headquarters for each province
or to the Head Broker of Songpa Stable.
Yes, Leader!
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Aigoo, My Lord. My Lord.
You must be busy with the government work, but I asked for your visit.
Meeting with the useless politicians,
I like this is much better and beneficial.
This Kim Bo Hyeon has to push power to the Great Head Merchant.
Aigoo, thank you. Now, now, let's go inside.
Uh huh.
How blessed you are
since you have such a warm relationship with the Great Head Merchant.
Jehchuri? (Hemp restriction=An order to restrict hemp trading from the peddlers to gain exclusive rights to trade)
That's right.
Since July next year is a leap month, ("Leap months" were ordained to align the lunar calendar with the solar)
will you gain exclusive rights in advance for funeral attire made of hemp?
There will be a lot of complains.
Will Japan restrict the trade as well?
That's right! It is not like we have a Royal funeral service. We have no justification for the restriction.
This year particularly Yukuijeon had to support a lot of palace construction.
Starting with the renovation of Gyeongbok palace, Yukuijeon's back is about to break.
If the Great Head Merchant ordered the restriction, then we just need to obey it.
Why do we need to continue talking about it?
All of you are most influential people in each of the 8-provinces of Joseon.
Each of you go home and restrict the trade of hemp cloth.
Just bug the hemp trading peddlers.
Right! You are right! The Great Head Merchant is a true faithful subject.
Who else will support the Royal Family better than him?
Not only for the hemp but even more than that
we must follow calls for restriction on other items.
I-I-I'm late.
I apologize, My Lord.
G-g-great Head Merchant.
So why are you so late Head Peddler Choi?
There was a very funny matter.
Tell us the story. You have to pay the price for being late.
The Songpa Stable has broken down.
No...what do you mean?
Songpa Stable...
was growing pretty steadily for the past 10-years.
Ah, that's right. They said they were going to become the best stable in Joseon in a few years.
Everybody was jealous about it.
The Merchant Elder's wife, that wench
is having an affair with a man who is a brother like to the Head Broker
and ran away with the deed to the Stable.
Even though they are lowborn their morals have completely disintegrated.
Song Man Chi finally stabbed Jo Seung Joon in the back
and broken up the Songpa Stable.
What is so funny?
It's funny. It's really funny, Brother.
Come in slowly. Put it down here.
Yeah.
By any chance, do you recognize me?
Ui Ju is quite large and have many doctors.
I'm sorry, My Lady.
You are a precious patient to visit this place in a long time.
Go up. Here, let's go up.
Grandpa, I'm here. Bong Sam is here.
Have you been well?
Since you were the one who saved my life,
please taste this delicious pear.
This is quite delicious.
Grandpa. By any chance, did Cheon So Rye come here?
Did you not see my noona come to search for me? Huh?
Eat up, yeah.
Bong Sam, I'm leaving.
Next time, I will definitely come next time.
I'm sorry, Bong Sam.
Truthfully, I was listening to everything back then.
Yeah. No matter how much I told you not to go
in my heart, you still just left.
Cheon So Rye! You said you would come back again!
You said you would come back to find me! So why can't you come, why?!
What are you doing and where are you that you can't even come here once?
My young sibling was 8 and he caught smallpox.
Saying that he would spread it to other kids in the village,
you left my younger sibling and me in the temple in the mountain.
But I...
I just...
left my younger sibling there and left.
An older sister is the same as a mother. How could you just leave your young younger sibling behind?
But...my younger sibling is alive.
After a few years past, I sent that man here to ask around.
They said there was no dead child in the mountain temple.
I found out this recently that you had a child about my brother's age at your home that time.
Who was that child?
You saved my younger sibling, Bong Sam, right?
Bong Sam?
Bong Sam? Bong Sa- Cheon Bong Sam?
Yes. That's right. Cheon Bong Sam. He's my younger sibling.
I know where your younger sibling is.
Is that...is that true?
A jarful of salted whitebaits!
A jarful of seasoned flounders!
Hey! Come here quickly, hurry up and come!
Uhm try this.
To my taste this is much better than the original seasoned flounders. Gae Ddong Yi
Right?
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This tastes great.
This is for sampling and not for packing your stomach as a meal.
You are quite heartless!
I bought 3-jars! Don't you think it is enough to get a tableful?
Go visit Ganggyeong! They bring a tableful of food out for you.
Uhm let's go! Cheapskate...
This is so heavy and so damn hot.
Let's take a rest, and eat too.
Yes.
Ah...
Why does the weather keep getting hotter? I'm worried.
Salted young corvinas from Yong Cheon needed more salt...
Cheon's Merchant Inn Predecessor Boss Choi Mak Bo.
Cheon's Merchant Inn Owner Cheon Oh Soo.
Oh my!
[Gil So Gae]
Damn it. What is this?!
Of all places, why did I come here to eat?
What is this? Did you call me? Is that it?
You called me all the way here to argue about
why I didn't marry Cheon So Rye, about why I let Cheon Bong Sam die?
My Bong Sam is here?
Ah, that's right. Hurry, hurry up!
Bong Sam. Bong Sam! Bong Sam!
Bong Sam! Bong Sam...
My younger brother...
Where did he go? Being a sick child...I brought him here.
I'm right! It's here.
He came. Bong Sam brought this.
He brings it everyday.
But...what's your relationship to Bong Sam?
I haven't been paid for the kid's medicine.
What?
Don't be like this.
I came only believing you. You can't be like this.
My younger sibling...you have to find my younger sibling.
You have to give me money so I can cure the illness!
Bong Sam peed on my herbal medicine and ran away!
My Lady, his mind...
Oh...
Bong Sam.
Bong Sam, where are you?
I came all the way here like this...my Bong Sam, where are you?
Physician.
Ah, yes, yes? Yes, yes, yes?
I believe your words that you saved Bong Sam's life.
How should I repay that gratitude?
My Lady.
It's fine.
It's not a petty gratitude I can pay back with Kim Hak Joon's money.
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Physician.
Yes?
This is a hair pin that my mother cherished.
She told me to give it to Bong Sam's wife
when he marries.
Saving my younger brother to continue the Cheon's Merchant Inn.
My gratitude is enough to touch the sky.
Hyungnim Sang Moon,
I'm going.
Hyungnim!
What are you thinking about so deeply?
There was always something like a hard rice cake...
No.
Here...a person was caught right here.
I can't swallow it nor can I spit it out.
Not this person,
but this person's daughter, Cheon So Rye.
What is she doing to make a living? Did she become a kitchenmaid
under a nasty nobleman's wife.
Getting beaten and crying,
and continuing to do it because she can't die.
Seeing that she came back to her father's grave and even put a tombstone,
she must not be living like a dirty beggar.
It's fine.
You will be able to become the Great Head Merchant of Yukuijeon.
Although I don't know how good becoming a Great Head Merchant is,
but you will become the Great Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon.
Let's go before the sun sets.
Hey, Grandpa!
Are you coming back from somewhere?
Why? Did you not eat lunch?
I didn't.
I knew you would be like that so I prepared this for you.
Eat slowly. You'll get indigestion.
Bong Sam, the palanquin your older sister was riding was really good.
The kind that only noblemen wives ride.
It was decorated with red, yellow, blue
and it even had lotus decoration.
Because I don't want to hear t-this senile old man's nonsense,
I want to go to the Somak.Let's go Sonmak.(Resting place)
Ahjumma, have you been well?
Aigoo the bachelor came!
Aigoo, what happened to the clothes I changed you into this morning? Hurry up and take it off.
Aigoo you are being embarrassed?
Ah, I don't want to!
Now. Here.
Grandpa, I'm leaving. Let's see each other again next year too.
So you have to not die and stay alive healthily. Understand?
Aigoo, take this off.
Oh. What is this? Where did you get this?
The Madame gave it to me.
Who would give away a coral hairpin?
You stole it from that nobleman's concubine, didn't you?
No. Bong Sam's noona gave it to me. It's real.
Grandpa.
Did my older sister really come?
Did you see her too?
I don't know if it's your older sister or not.
From a distant, she looked like a nobleman's concubine.
Grandpa, did my o-older sister really come?
I told you before. She came in riding a palanquin and she visited the mountain temple.
Bong Sam! Here, this.
She says it's your mother's.
Your older sister gave it to me so I could give it to your wife.
Noona!
Cheon So Rye! Noona!
Noona! Noona!
Noona!
Noona! Noona! Noona!
Cheon So Rye!
Noona! Noona! Cheon So Rye.
Noona!
Cheon So Rye!
Noona!
Cheon So Rye!
Noona! Cheon So Rye!
Noona! Noona!
Cheon So Rye...
Noona! Cheon So Rye!
Cheon So Rye!
Let me pass! Cheon So Rye!
-Move over! -This is a narrow path over cliff man!
I got it.
You try to go one step faster, but you can go all the way first!
I said I got it!
Ah, that crazy bastard. Hey!
-Miss! -So Lin!
T-That So Lin!
Aigoo!
So Lin!
-So Lin! -Miss!
So Lin!
Noona!
So Lin!
My Lady!
Cheon So Rye! Cheon So Rye!
So Lin!
Is the woman is the palanquin So Lin or Cheon So Rye?
My So Lin...ah this crazy punk!
I know that this isn't the time to ask things like that but he clearly called her "Cheon So Rye".
This!
If he become a water ghost by mistake, he'd feel wronged at the gate to the other side.
This punks need to be beaten to death.
Who was it? It was Merchant Jang, right? Since I said I was taking my daughter,
Because the money is wasted and jealous, so that bastard...
ordered to toss the palanquin over the cliff, didn't he?
I stepped on a rock by mistake. Please kill me Elder!
Fine. I'll kill all of you this instant.
Oh! There, there, look over there!
Oh! Oh! There, there, there, there.
Merchant Elder, that's My Lady, My Lady.
I thought he was a noble but he's just a merchant.
What are you all doing? Quickly bring the rope, rope. Bring the rope!
Ah, will it work with a rope? Stop doing that and follow me.
What?...How dare you tell a noble to come and go?
Then, what? Huh? Are you fine with him taking your daughter?!
-Ah...-What?
If you don't want that, then follow me. Ah, quickly.
What should I do? huh!
Noona, you'll be fine. Quickly throw up.
You'll be fine if you vomit out everything inside.
Now...
Ah, t-that...
That women...
Oh dear! That women.
Oh! That's good!
Lord Dang Sang, elderly marchants!
Head peddlers, you are very hungry because the meal was prepared late.
Oh you are the food...it's been awhile since I saw you...
I told gisaeng to come in after we had some food.
At our age, the food is better than women.
Head Pedder Choi? You told the best story today.
We enjoyed hearing about Songpa Stable breaking up.
Yeah?!
I am glad you enjoyed it.
Hold! Head Peddler Choi, put your hands down!
I want to receive that drink first.
No...do you have a fun story or something?
It's a story about a father selling his own daughter.
That boring story of fathers selling their daughters to Gisaeng House in bad economy.
That's right.
If the daughter is ugly, then she'll become a slave.
Beauty like this is not even in the palace.
She is pretty enough to slap Hwang Jin Yi (famous gisaeng) and back hand poppy flower.
Ah...where is such a woman like that in Joseon?!
She's here.
Let me see it. Aigoo she is beautiful!
She is a beauty.
-Where, where, where?-Aigoo.
Woah...
Woah, Cheon So Rye. You became weak
in the time I haven't seen you.
Fine. I didn't brush my teeth.
Noona!
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You find your brother in 18-years and slap me?
This is me Noona! Do you not recognize me?
This is Bong Sam, Bong Sam. A younger brother of Cheon So Rye, Cheon Bong Sam!
Because I am sorry...
I went to the shrine every year.
Because I believed you will come there.
Still you...Cheon So Rye took too much time.
Even so...even so we met like this...uh Noona!
Okay...that will do...
Cheon So Rye!
Because I am sorry...really sorry...
I can't speak. (Speaking formally)
I am not Cheon So Rye.
I am So Lin, Jo So Lin.
There is a hemp cloth marchant in Chungcheong's Boeun land.
Jo Seung Deuk of Jo's Merchant Inn?
Indeed you are Boss Maeng.
This man called Jo Seung Deuk is a really talented businessman.
Since he doesn't have the valuable goods to sell, he sold his daughter.
But did he own the merchant inn in the first place?
Of course not. With the money from selling his daughter, he purchased a government position and acted like a noble.
But he was originally a mover at a merchant inn.
He has an only daughter and this daughter was getting more beautiful as she got older.
He thought he could turn her into a large sum of money.
Ah, take a look first and then say something.
Aah! No.
Take a look. Huh?
I should not cope with her.
Take a look at her once.
It would be a waste to sell such a beauty like this to the Merchant Elder.
What?
Try putting her in the palace instead. You're hitting jackpot if she bears a prince.
Aigoo, ah. Aigoo, don't say something like that. Jo Soon Deuk
Money is the best. There is no use
for politics or anything like that.
Isn't she a beauty?
I have nothing futher to say.
She is 100,000 nyang.
What 100,000 nyang?! Take this!
Ah! What's this!
Ah...ah, ah. Now that I think about it, I remember.
He came to Kang Reung and put her portrait into our faces trying to sell her as a concubine
for 100,000 nyang. So I hit him with a broom and kicked him out.
So? So what happened?
She married a retarded son of Jang's Merchant Inn.
Then why is a married woman's portrait being circulated again?
Ah ha! On the last final dog day of summer,
I received obituary saying the son of Jang's Merchant Inn died while playing in the water.
Then the daughter who is in the mourning period,
he wants to sell the daughter again?
Forget the mourning period. It hasn't even been 100 days yet.
Let me pour you a drink! This father and daughter story is the best.
I am not done yet.
Do you know how much she is?
Not sure...but she's been married once...so about 30,000 nyang?
Uh huh...The boss who is in line for Great Head Merchant
doesn't understand the current economy?
It is whopping 150,000 nyang.
Eh?!!!
-150,000 nyang.-Oh!!!
That man is crazy. That man is crazy!
What kind of calculation is that? Okay, so she never slept with her husband because he was retarded.
But she is still a widow!
A widow is 150,000 nyang?!
Oh no...green fruits are less sweet and less expensive.
But fully ripened fruits are more fragrant and sweeter.
Besides it's not like she is going to be a proper wife to anyone.
It is re-marriage anyway. So what if she marries a second or third time?
That man is the best story today. If he was here now, I'd given him a drink.
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Come closer.
You have to dry your clothes. Come closer and sit down.
Ah, ah!
Ah hurry, hurry!
Eh hey...my...
Father, hurry!
Hurry, hurry, hurry...
Let's go quickly, quickly! The sun is setting! Quickly, quickly...
I hung it for my lifesaver.
F-f-f-for me?
There is a big river called Aprok River in Ui Je.
And there we have a shrine like this too.
After a new year, the women in the village
they make knots like this and hang it on the shrine.
Praying for a good husband or to give birth to a son.
Praying that
my lifesaver must see his sister.
Thank you, My Lady.
I...
I'm not "My Lady" and an aristocrat.
I just have an unfortunate destiny.
So, I am wandering here and there...
like a wind.
Take me with you.
What?
Ah...
Ah, what are you talking about right now?
Take me with you.
Preview
A fate saving a life doesn't come around that often. Let's follow her.
Notice from Jo Seong Joon, the Head Broker of Songpa Stable.
If you're going to steal, then steal big. The world is filled with thieves.
Nothing can happen until I go there.
-Where is the promissory note? -Give me the promissory note!
Are you saying you want to play some swords with me?
Do you want the Songpa Stable to become hell?