Episode 7...
So because the stable grew after Bong-Sam came,
what became better?
Man-chi!
Every human being has his own capacity.
Song-pa Stable is...
not something you can handle with your capacity.
So what?
My capacity is small?
Bong-Sam...
Bong-Sam! Bong-Sam!
I don't even want to hear it!
Bong-Sam, you rascal!
Is Song-pa Stable something you can own if you want?
Do the boss and I, including other merchants, look like poop to you?
Do you even know what it means to become a head of something?
Huh?
Do you know what being a gaekju owner is like?
It means you have to feed and take care of everything from the body to the tail.
It means there are hundreds of people placing their lives on me.
It's such a lonely position.
It's such a scary position.
As a gaekju owner,
I will have to put my life on it.
I'm not doing it.
I will never become a gaekju owner!
Song-pa Stable's second generation head cattle broker is...
Bong-Sam.
What?
Who is the second generation head cattle broker again?
This damn stable...
just destroy it!
We are like brothers.
So what's the big deal handing me this stable over?
Alright.
This damn stable!
Man-chi, is that you?
What are you doing over there?
This is...
Song-pa Stable's deed, right?
What are you trying to do?
Oh, alright.
This is it.
This is our stable's document, right?
Mine. I'm taking this with me.
Man-chi.
Oh, yeah. I almost forgot.
There's one more thing that belongs to me.
"Bang-geum-e (Cho Sung-jun's wife)"
Give that to me!
Man-chi.
Hey!
Let me go!
Ouch!
Do you think I'm a cooked pork or what?
Come here! / Don't!
Don't come near me! What!
Let's go back. Okay?
Hurry up and let's go. It's not late yet!
I'm not going back! Never going back.
They say a man is either a kid or a dog.
Are you a child?
Yeah. Up until now, I lived as a kid.
But from now on, I'm going to live as a dog.
A dog!
Fine!
You're so great!
Live as a crazy dog or a stray dog. Do whatever you want!
Bang-geum. Bang-geum!
Bang-geum, don't go! Cho Sung-jun has Bong-Sam next to him.
There's no one next to me...
Bang-geum! Don't leave me. Bang-geum.
Hey, you little brat! You used to be mine.
Not Sung-jun's, but mine!
You did well, sir.
Everyone did well!
Bring it on, stable! Now we get to settle down, huh?
Bang-geum, you should manage the household for the stable.
Well... I don't mind.
I've been suffocating from men's stinky feet and their sweat...
and getting bitten by fleas. I was sick of traveling anyway.
Why are you complaining while we're having celebration drinks?
No, I'm saying that...
I want to live as a normal housewife.
Oh. That's what you meant?
The only thing my mother left me...
is this.
Come follow me!
Bang-geum, it hurts! Ow, ow...
It hurts, it hurts.
Let go of me!
Sung-jun will misunderstand if he sees us.
You don't have anything to give me?
Give you what?
What do you think about your brother asking me to marry him?
Hey, you brat. Why do you ask me about your marriage?
Why do you care what I think?
Well, I am curious to know what Song Man-chi thinks, okay?
Can I get married?
To Cho Sung-jun?
Oh, man, my sister-in-law.
You, my sister-in-law. Your fortune has now flourished like a lazy dog in summer.
Now, you are the housewife of Song-pa Stable owner.
You can now live in comfort. Yes, yes. Congratulations. Yes, yes.
Hey, sister-in-law.
There are distinctions between men and women.
If a sister-in-law slaps her brother-in-law like this,
Sung-jun will get the wrong idea.
So what?
What now?
What do you want me to do?
All those times have passed,
and now what do you want me to do, you stupid fool!
What do you want me to do?
"Port of Euiju"
Bro, let's take a break.
Alright, alright. Here.
Oh, man!
Oh, man. I'm dying.
So heavy.
Man, I'm dying...
Buy some eggs. Eggs!
We have boiled eggs.
Let me have one row.
Yes. Here you go.
What's the point of thinking about the place I left?
Man-chi and Head Cattle Broker will...
forget about it and live happily ever after!
Happily ever after!
Ouch!
Is this a boiled egg or a stone egg?
Give me a different one.
" Song-pa Stable"
Um... sir?
All of us are anxious and we don't know what to do.
It's been five days already!
If he was going to come back, he should've been here already!
There are 87 of us employees...
Including their family members, there are 400 lives
that could be in danger out on the street in winter if our stable doesn't go on.
But the scarier thing is the rumor. There's a rumor going around!
The customers who left their cows with us
and the vendors who supply rice are poking around.
If it goes wrong,
they will all rush in to collect money.
Wang-bal and Choi Dol-ee, you guys follow me.
We're going to go to the headquarters in Kyeonggi.
What?
Are you going to write a petition?
A petition? That means you're going to kill him?
You didn't go back to Cho Sung-jun.
And it's not like you're in my arms.
Then why did you come follow me, you brat!
I'm not going! I'm not going!
I'm never going back to Cho Sung-jun.
Ugh.
You don't even know crap.
Instead of kneeling down to Cho Sung-jun and losing to Chun Bong-Sam,
I would rather put my tongue into Song-pa sand floor and die.
Fine!
Let's see how far we can go!
Whether either one of us die, or even better whether we both die...
Get up. Now!
What?
Just lie down. I'm going to eat.
Go!
To Kangkyeong Kim Hak-jun.
What did you just say?
Why do you bring up Kim Hak-jun?
Our stable's deed you brought,
where else would you exchange it with?
The only exchange gaekju that would give us money for it
is Kim Hak-jun.
Get up.
From our Song-pa Stable,
I'm looking for a bastard and a woman who ran away violating the rules.
Please issue a round robin.
At our Kyeonggi headquarters,
we can never forgive these criminals who deserve to die.
Fellow merchants, don't stop moving and pass around those round robin
all around the land of Chosun.
Go find criminal Song Man-chi, who deserves to die.
As soon as you find him,
report to any of the province headquarters or to Song-pa Stable.
Yes, sir.
Oh, my Lord. My Lord.
You must be busy with government work,
but forgive me asking you to visit.
Instead of seeing some useless politicians,
this is much better.
This Kim Bo-hyeon must support you, Head Merchant.
Oh, my. Thank you.
Alright. Come on in.
Isn't it great?
To see you and Head Merchant standing kindly next to each other?
Gaechuri? (Gaechuri Order: to restrict hemp trading)
That's right.
Because next year July is a leap month,
they can gain exclusive rights from making funeral clothes with hemp.
There will be a lot of complaints then.
Will it restrict trading from outside of the country?
That's right.
It's not like there's a national funeral service.
There's no reason to restrict it.
This year, Yook-ei-jeon had lots of palace construction work to do.
Starting with Kyeongbok Palace renovation, Yook-ei-jeon is about to break its back.
Hey, hey. If Head Merchant issued the order, just follow it.
Why do you need to say so much?
You all are the most influential people in the land of Chosun,
Go back to your town and stop the hemp trading...
Just convince the hemp trading dealers.
Yeah, that's right.
Head Merchant is the true loyalist.
Who else would serve the King that well?
Even if it's not Gaechuri, we must follow any other order as well.
I... I'm late.
I apologize, my Lord.
Head Merchant...
What made you run late?
Oh, there was...
There was an interesting incident.
Spill it out. You need to pay the price for being late.
Song-pa Stable is...
broken apart.
What? What do you mean?
Song-pa Stable...
The one that has been expanding for the past 10 years?
That's right.
People said in a few years, it will become the best stable in Chosun...
People were jealous about it.
So the Head Cattle Broker's wife...
is having an affair with a man who was like a brother to the broker.
And they ran away with the deed to the stable.
Oh my goodness.
Even if they are low-class fools, they went beyond themselves, huh?
Finally, Song Man-chi stabbed Cho Sung-jun's back,
and everything fell apart, huh?
What's so funny?
It's funny. It is very funny, brother.
"Euiju"
Slowly.
Over here.
Do you recognize me?
Euiju is quite large and it has a lot of doctors.
I'm very sorry, mistress.
You're a precious patient who is visiting in a long time.
Please come on in. Please. Here.
Grandpa, I'm here. Bong-Sam.
How have you been?
Because you were the one who saved my life,
this, it is very delicious. Try some.
It's really delicious.
Alright.
Grandpa.
By any chance...
has Chun So-leh ever stopped by?
You didn't see my sister looking for me?
Huh?
Okay. Eat.
Bong-Sam.
I'm leaving.
Later...
I'll come back later.
I'm sorry, Bong-Sam.
Honestly...
I was listening to everything back then.
I said not to leave.
"Please don't leave," I said it in my mind like crazy.
But Chun Soh-leh left.
Chun Soh-leh!
You said you'll come back!
You said you'll come back and find me.
But why aren't you coming back? Why?
Where are you, doing what...
You can't even come here once?
My brother was 8 years old.
He had mama disease.
The doctor said it will spread to other children,
so he put my brother and me at a mountain god's shrine.
But I...
eventually I...
left my brother there.
An older sister is just like a mother. How could you leave him?
But, he's alive.
A few years later, I sent that man and
he said there was no dead kid at the shrine.
I found out recently.
Back then, there was a kid at my brother's age at your place.
Who was that kid?
You're the one who saved my brother Bong-Sam, right?
Bong-Sam?
Bong-sa...
Chun Bong-Sam?
Yes! That's right!
Chun Bong-Sam.
He's my brother.
I know where your brother is.
Are you...
Are you serious?
A jar of salted seafood!
A jar of salted flatfish!
Brother! Brother! Hurry. Hurry up.
Try this.
This is very tasteful.
To me, it tastes better than Wonsan salted flatfish.
Right?
This?
Yum... it's so good.
This is here to offer samples.
But who said to eat a whole meal here?
What a cheap gaekju owner!
I bought three jars. It's even worth offering a table of food.
Go to Kangkyeong. They bring a table out for you.
Man. Let's go! Go!
Cheap.
My goodness...
This is so heavy.
And oh my. It's so hot.
Let's take a break. And eat, too.
Okay.
Why does it keep getting hotter?
Man, I'm worried.
The saltwater fish we got in Yongchun.
It probably needs more salt.
Chun's Gaekju...
Senior Merchant Choi Mak-Bo.
Chun's Gaekju...
Gaekju owner, Chun Oh-su?
Oh my!
"Gil So-gae"
Damn it.
What is this crap?
Why, out of all the places, did I come here to eat?
What?
Did you call me here?
Was it you?
To ask why I didn't marry Chun Soh-leh,
and why I let Chun Bong-Sam die? Huh?
Is that why you called me?
Bong-Sam is... here?
That's right. Hurry up.
Hurry up.
Bong-Sam.
Bong-Sam. Bong-Sam...
Where's my brother?
Where did he go? He's a sick person.
I carried him here.
Eh?
I'm right! Here it is.
He stopped by. Bong-Sam brought this.
He always bring this.
But mistress, how are you related to Bong-Sam?
Because I didn't get paid for giving him medicine.
Excuse me?
Don't do this...
You're the only one I trusted.
You can't do this.
My brother.
You have to find my brother!
You have to pay for the service!
Bong-Sam ran away after peeing on my herbal medicine.
Mistress.
His mental condition is...
Bong-Sam.
Bong-Sam, where are you?
Your sister came here for you.
Where are you, my Bong-Sam?
Doctor.
Yes? Yes? Why...
I believe that you saved Bong-sam's life.
How should I pay you back?
Mistress.
Stop it.
It's not something I can pay with stupid Kim Hak-jun's money.
Doctor.
Yes?
This is a hair pin that my mother cherished.
She told me to give this to Bong-sam's wife when he gets married.
Because you saved my brother's life,
Chun's Gaekju generation is continuing on.
Your kindness reached the sky.
Sang-moon.
Here I come to you.
Sang-moon!
Why are you so deep in thought?
I've always thought I'm heartless, but...
Never mind.
In here, there was a person stuck.
I couldn't swallow it or spit it out.
Not this person, but
his daughter Chun Soh-leh.
I've wondered how she's doing.
I've wondered if she became a kitchen-maid under a mean nobleman's wife.
Getting beaten and crying.
If she's doing it because she'll die otherwise.
But seeing that she came back to her father's grave,
I guess she's not living like a beggar.
Then that's it.
Brother, you...
You can become the next Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant.
I don't know how great being a Head Merchant is, but...
You'll make it. The next Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant.
Let's go.
Before the sunset.
Hey, grandpa!
Where are you coming from?
What? You didn't have lunch yet?
Not yet!
I knew it. That's why I have this for you.
Ta-da!
Slow down. You'll get upset stomach.
Bong-Sam.
Your sister's palanquin looked so awesome.
It's the one only nobleman's wife could ride.
It was decorated in red, yellow, and blue.
And there was a lotus decoration on it, too!
Man. I don't want to hear this old man's nonsense.
I'm going to go to Sonmak. Sonmak!
Ma'am. How have you been?
Oh, you're here again, young man.
Why are your clothes that I changed this morning like this?
Take them off.
Oh, my. Is there something you're hiding or what? Come on!
I don't want to!
Alright.
Here.
Grandpa. I'm leaving.
I'll see you next year.
So don't die. Live as healthy as you can. Okay?
Come on. Take this off!
What is this? Where did you get this?
The mistress gave it to me.
What do you mean? Who gives you a hair pin?
You stole it from that nobleman's wife, huh?
No! Bong-sam's sister gave it to me.
I'm not lying.
Grandpa.
My sister really stopped by?
Ma'am, did you see her?
I wouldn't know if she's your sister.
From a distance, she just seemed like a nobleman's wife.
Grandpa.
Did my sister really stop by?
I told you earlier!
She was here riding a palanquin. And then went to the shrine, too.
Bong-Sam!
Here. Take this.
She said this is your mother's hair pin.
Your sister gave it to me, telling me to pass it onto your future wife.
Soh-leh!
Chun Soh-leh!
Soh-leh!
Soh-leh.
Soh-leh!
Chun Soh-leh!
Soh-leh!
Soh-leh.
Chun Soh-leh.
Soh-leh.
Soh-leh!
Chun Soh-leh.
Soh-leh.
Chun Soh-leh.
Soh-leh.
Chun Soh-leh.
Soh-leh.
Chun Soh-leh.
Soh-leh.
Chun Soh-leh.
Excuse me. Chun Soh-leh!
Move!
Hey, this is a cliff road!
Okay.
By trying to pass this line, you can die.
Okay, I got it!
That crazy-head. Hey!
Mistress!
Seo-Lin!
Mistress!
Seo-Lin!
Mistress!
My sister...
Chun Soh-leh!
Seo-Lin!
The woman in that palanquin. Is she Seo-Lin or Chun Soh-Leh?
Of course it's Seo...
You crazy-head rascal!
I know it's not the right time to ask but...
He yelled Chun Soh-leh though.
He'll be upset if becomes a water ghost and found out he had it wrong.
You bastards!
Who did it?
Merchant Chang did it, huh?
Because I told him I'm taking my daughter with me,
he became jealous, so he ordered to throw the palanquin down the cliff, huh?
I stepped on a stone...
Please kill me, sir!
Alright.
I will... kill you all right now!
Whoa! Look, look.
Look at them!
Whoa! Over there! Look!
Head Merchant. There's our mistress. Mistress!
I thought he was a nobleman, but he's a merchant.
What are you guys doing? Bring a rope! Rope!
Do you think a rope will do it?
Just stop it. And follow me.
What?
You rascal...
Who are you to tell a nobleman what to do!
Then what! You don't mind if that man takes your daughter away?
What?
If you don't want that to happen, follow me.
Now!
Soh-leh. You'll be alright.
Throw up the water.
Or whatever is inside.
It'll be alright.
Oh, man, they're funny.
Alright. It's ready.
Fellow head merchants and gaekju owners,
you all must be very hungry.
Oh, my. It's food. It's been a while!
I told the kisaengs to come in after we fill our stomachs.
When it comes to our age, food is better than women.
Head Peddler Choi! Take my drink.
You had the best story today.
Your Song-pa Stable story was very interesting and fun.
Yes? Oh, my!
Governor, I am very glad you enjoyed it.
Wait!
Head Peddler Choi, take those hands down.
I would like to take that drink first.
Do you have a more interesting story or what?
It's about a father selling his own daughter.
Eh-hem.
A father selling his daughter to a kisaeng house is common. Boring story.
You're right.
If the daughter is ugly, then she becomes a servant.
But this beauty is nowhere else to be seen.
She is prettier than renowned Hwang Jin-yi and Yang Qui-bin.
There's no woman like that in Chosun!
Over here.
Let me see.
Whoa! How amazing.
Whoa!
Huh?
Hey! Chun Soh-leh!
You became weak, huh?
Over the time I haven't seen you, huh?
Alright.
I didn't brush my teeth.
Soh-leh!
Whoa, whoa.
How could you slap your brother you haven't seen for 18 years?
It's me, Soh-leh. It's me, yeah?
You can't recognize me?
It's me, Bong-Sam. Bong-Sam.
Chun Soh-leh's brother, Chun Bong-Sam!
I'm sorry but...
I went to the shrine every year.
Because I truly believed you'll come back.
But you, Chun Soh-leh.
It took you way too long. No?
But still.
We still ended up meeting each other...
Okay. This is enough.
Chun Soh-leh!
I'm sorry but...
Because I'm so sorry...
I can't really talk.
This isn't...
Chun Soh-leh.
I'm...
Seo-Lin.
Cho Seo-Lin.
There's a hemp clothes merchant in Boeun, Chooncheong Province.
Cho's Gaekju, Cho Seung-deuk?
Yes, Merchant Maeng.
This man, Cho Seung-Deuk,
sold his daughter because his business wasn't doing well.
But, has he been a gaekju owner all along?
No way.
He sold his daughter,
and then paid to become a government official and acted as nobleman.
But he used to be a gaekju servant.
He only has one daughter.
And as she grew older, she was getting prettier.
He knew he could collect a huge load of money by selling her.
Take a look and say something.
Just take a look for once, yes?
I can't handle her.
Ugh, man. Please, look at this for once.
This much beauty is way too worthy to sell to a gaekju owner.
Instead, send her to the palace.
What if she gives birth to a prince?
No way... Don't say something like that.
Money is the best.
Having power and status is no use!
There's no woman like her. I'm telling you, eh?
So, it's 100,000 nyang. 100,000 nyang.
What? 100,000 nyang?
Hey, you rascal!
Oh yeah. Yeah, I remember now.
He brought a portrait of her all the way to Kangleung
and asked me to buy her as my wife for 100,000 nyang.
So I kicked him out with a broomstick.
So. So what happened after?
She married a retarded son of Chang's Gaekju in Euiju.
But, why is the portrait of a married woman circulating around again?
Ah-ha.
Last summer,
I received an obituary stating that
Chang's Gaekju son died while playing in the water.
Then, the daughter who just lost her husband...
He's trying to sell her again?
Forget about her husband's loss. It hasn't been 100 days yet.
Take my drink!
This father-daughter story is the best!
That's not it.
Do you know how much this Lady Cho's worth?
Well? She's been married once... so maybe 30,000 nyang?
You work for the Head Merchant, and you don't know the current economy?
It's...
150,000 nyang! 150,000 nyang!
Eh?
Really?
He's out of his mind.
He is crazy!
What kind of calculation is that?
Even if she has never slept with her retarded husband,
she's still a widow!
That's right.
A widow... a widow is worth 150,000 nyang?
You don't understand, huh?
An unripe fruit is not tasteful and worth less.
But fully ripened fruits taste sweeter and smell better.
Also, did someone ask you to have her as your official wife?
It's a re-marriage anyway. So what matters if it's her second or third marriage?
This is truly the best story!
If he was here, I would have definitely offered him a drink.
Why don't you come near here?
You need to dry your clothes.
Please come sit near here.
Come on! Hurry! Hurry!
Hurry up!
Father, hurry up!
Hurry up and go find her!
The sun is setting.
Hurry! Hurry...
I hung it up for my lifesaver.
For... for me?
In Euiju, there's a big river called Aplok River.
There's a shrine like this one, too.
After a new year, women from the village
hang these knots on the shrine.
Praying for a husband, or for a son...
I prayed that you will meet your sister.
Thank you, mistress.
I'm not a mistress...
nor a noblewoman.
I just have an unfortunate fate.
I wandered here and there...
moving from one household to another...
Take me with you.
What?
What kind of nonsense are you talking about?
Please...
Please take me.
The Merchant: Gaekju 2015...
Saving someone's life isn't common.
Let's follow them.
Song-pa Stable's Cho Sung-jun. Head Cattle Broker's petition.
If you want to steal, steal big.
The whole world is filled with robbers.
Until I come back, nothing must happen.
Where is it? Take it out!
You really want to play swords with me, huh?
Do you want Song-pa Stable to become hell?