Take me with you.
What?
What are you saying?
Please take me with you.
Oh... that's really thoughtful, but...
Well, to be honest, I'm very confused.
So I...
But yeah. It's not like you have bad spirits.
No bad spirits at all, but...
To take care of a family,
to make a family...
Oh wait. Before making families, I need to find my sister.
I want to become a female peddler.
A female peddler?
Oh...
--Episode 8--
Hurry up! Hurry up!
Watch your step, okay?
Mistress!
Seo-Lin!
Hurry up!
Let's hurry up. The sun is setting.
A weird stranger popped out of nowhere,
and he's trying to take my Seo-Lin away!
The day's getting darker.
I can't let it be. I can't!
Oh, man. I'm sorry.
Sorry, my mind must went out somewhere, like over there or something.
What do you think a female peddler is?
You were trapped in fence,
and now you're flying like the clouds up there,
so you think it'll be fun and free, huh?
You've never had a blister on your foot before.
And you've probably never carried your belongings on your head...
But a female peddler?
I've been to a crowded field in Gaeseong with my father-in-law before.
I've been to a market in Hanyang.
I know how to take care of myself.
You were just trying to save this body out of the river,
but I'm being a burden, huh?
Let me follow you to get a peddler's permit and get help getting the goods.
Then I won't bother you furthermore.
Just up to that point.
Please help me.
You desperately want to leave, huh?
What is...
the reason for it?
Oh! There she is!
Mistress!
Seo-Lin!
You were here, huh?
Oh, my sister!
Are you okay?
Put this on.
Are you okay?
Is she okay?
Move, move. Oh, Seo-Lin!
Seo-Lin!
You didn't get hurt? Huh?
Your father-in-law did this!
It's because I told him that I'm taking you with me.
He thinks his money is going to waste, so he was trying to kill you...
Father.
That's not something you should say right now.
Huh?
Don't you need to thank the man that saved my life?
I'm busy enough to think how I'm going to pay him the gratitude back.
Gratitude?
Yes, we need to pay the gratitude back.
If we're human-beings, of course, we need to pay him back.
Of course. Gratitude is there to pay back.
To pay the gratitude back, / "Sun-dol"
you can give him your daughter.
What? You damn bastard!
What are you staring at?
So, how can this gratitude be paid back with money?
Or even with gold or silver?
It must be paid back with the heart. The heart.
This courageous and righteous young merchant...
I mean Sir Young Merchant, please accept this old man's bow.
Oh, no... Don't...
Don't, don't...
Alright, let's go. Escort her.
What?
Seo-Lin, let's go. Seo-Lin.
Let go of me.
I must say thank you to the savior.
I already paid him back with the heart. Let's go.
Father. Father! / Hurry! Let's go.
Go, go!
Man, it's ringing.
Ugh! That short-tempered man!
Hey!
So did you hold hands with the lady?
Or...
put your lips on hers?
How dare a punk say such say nasty words!
I'm Sun-dol!
You left your belongings with me.
Here!
You're like a dog that was chasing a chicken.
Hey, you pathetic fool.
You jumped for your life to save her,
I believe that the Great Wall is big,
but I have to believe that you didn't hold her wrist, too?
Such a fool.
Stupid.
It's blood!
You're bleeding from both nostrils!
Oh, my precious blood!
That short-tempered man!
He's damn strong.
Take me with you.
There's no medicine for lovesick.
You're not sleeping?
My fellow has been
lying down, getting up, sighing, and touching his heart....
he's going crazy. Would you be able to sleep?
What about the clothes? They're not dried up.
It's not late yet.
You think saving a person's life is common?
Let's go follow her. Go!
To that woman who looks like an angel in a full moon
say, "I saved you. So marry me!"
That's nonsense.
I have to find my sister and a new place to do business.
Why would I go follow her?
I'm not going.
I thought you were a man. But you're a girl, huh?
Go to sleep now.
Ask me once?
Let's go together!
Oh, man.
I'm the one who was saying it. And now you're going alone?
So cheap.
Senility, senility.
He has never given any kisaeng attention.
But now this old man is about to get lovesick.
Why did you bring the portrait?
You're afraid that
Cho Seung-deuk's daughter will take over Shin's Gaekju house, huh?
What are you saying?
You're afraid that Shin Suk-ju may bear a child.
You've been under Shin Suk-ju for 30 years to become his successor.
You're afraid to become a dog chasing after a chicken, huh?
There's no way he can bear a child.
He can. Very well.
If a man has strength to hold a spoon, that's enough to bear a child.
Especially our Head Merchant, who works out a lot,
can definitely bear a child.
Collect money.
To take of Shin's Gaekju, what you need is money.
Money!
In my position, where would I get the money?
Isn't there poppy? Poppy?
Opium?
Opi...
Shh!
The days of fighting with spears and swords are gone.
You need money to bribe the three ministers and six board members of the government.
And you need money to take over Yook-ei-jeon.
Isn't now the era of fighting with money?
Let me know if you're interested. I'll support you.
Head Merchant!
They're here.
What?
Oh wow! Look who's here!
It's you Merchant Song.
What brings you all the way here, Merchant Song?
Wow. I can't believe Merchant Song came to my house. Welcome to...
I have to sell some goods to you.
Goods?
This isn't it.
Get up. Let's go.
Oh, okay.
You're more timid than you look.
Is it because you're aging?
You're not the Kim Hak-jun that you used to be.
Back in the day, you would've drooled over this Song-pa Stable deed.
I would love to eat it,
but to eat it with my old teeth, it seems too tough to chew.
I can't go out far. Bye.
Wait.
Eat a bowl of skate rice, which is our gaekju's special dish.
I'm not that hungry.
From Kangkyeong to Song-pa is 500 kilometers.
How can I dare to let our gaekju guests
leave without serving them a meal?
Fine.
Let me try a Kangkyeong gaekju's food.
So-Hong.
Go ahead.
Yes.
This is a good fortune that fell into our lap.
Isn't Song-pa Stable the hottest place in Chosun?
So-Hong. You can't eat everything you want to eat.
Of course, there must be a problem because it's so cheap.
You said there's some money you didn't receive at Chaek-moon.
That money went around and finally came back to you.
They say you can just poop it out after eating bad food.
But with money,
you can die after eating bad money.
I can die.
So-Hong. Do you want me to die?
Oh, really? How did you take over Chun's Gaekju with that nerve?
That is different. I worked on making the game board for three years.
Spreading baits and shaking them all around...
And then Chun Oh-su and Gil Sang-moon themselves played on that board.
But this one, I didn't make a game board for it.
They say windfall isn't good fortune, but rather a scar! Scar!
That's how you get great profits from it.
So-Hong!
You don't know about the cattle brokers.
Do you know why they call a person from a stable a cattle thief?
They deal with huge beasts. So they are ignorant,
intimidating, rough, and stubborn.
They are absurd as well.
And at times,
they pick up ax and sickles to fight.
Even rough gangs avoid the cattle brokers.
But they get along among themselves.
Honey.
Even though in the midst of fighting each other,
if an outsider attacks them,
all cattle brokers get together and become one team to strike back.
Oh, no. Headache, headache.
You can't chew it nor spit it out. Headache, headache!
Taking this piece out and that one out. How can you play chess like that?
When you were earning money, was anything without headache?
So-Hong.
Just as I was ordered, I want to live long. Longer than Shin Suk-ju. Long!
That's why you lose to Shin Suk-ju.
When are you going to stop getting nervous and
bowing down to your younger brother?
When the tide is in, you need to sail your ship.
When the tide is in.
You never know when the tide will come back in.
If you lose Song-pa Stable this time,
you may never get the chance again.
Okay. You're right. You're right.
We need to sail the ship when the tide is in.
A man who can't eat what's in front of him isn't a man. I'll cut his...
This is why you're my man.
So-Hong.
What's what?
10,000 nyang?
You bastard!
Man-chi. Man-chi!
What a raw thief!
Hey, Bang-geum.
Our stable is worth 200,000 nyang,
and they're trying to swallow it by paying 10,000 nyang.
This raw thief needs to get his face smashed!
Man-chi!
Because I am a raw thief and a raw robber,
isn't that why you came to see Kim Hak-jun?
No other exchange gaekju in all 8 provinces in Chosun will accept Song-pa Stable.
Then just take it.
Because I can't carry the coins around anyway,
give me 20,000 nyang promissory note, and
I need travel money. So give me 300 nyang for that.
These three things.
Pull these three things out.
If you can't do that,
I'll just swallow...
Hey! Hey!
You need to eat food, not this. This is mine.
Take your lady's hand and
with 20,000 nyang, live happily.
Now, travel all 8 provinces of Chosun and enjoy their food like a king.
Song-pa Stable's land 2900 pyeong (unit).
One tiled-roofed house, nine thatcher-roofed houses,
eight barns, and 17 cattle.
Man-chi.
The cattle aren't ours.
You can't hand them over the bailors' cattle.
They're Mr. Bong's cattle. Mr. Bong.
Why would I steal the bailors' cattle?
Mr. Bong's cattle can be handed over for free.
Alright. Here's the promissory note.
Travel money 300 nyang.
This is nice.
For real this time, Cho Sung-jun's stable has broken down.
This is very awesome!
Bang-geum, let's go.
I'll buy you drinks.
Get up. Get up!
Let's go.
Eat well and live well!
I'm nervous.
As if I got chills in my heart.
My whole body is shaking.
Finally... the day I've waited for 18 years has...
has come.
Now that Kim Hak-jun has eaten something that shouldn't be eaten,
his life will be in danger.
He must die in Cho Sung-jun's hands.
Cho Sung-jun's hands.
Go follow them.
Find out their steps, and spill that information to Song-pa Stable,
and then bring me the promissory note.
Yes, mistress.
Of course, that promissory note must
look like it has been taken away by Kim Hak-jun of Kangkyeong Gaekju.
Kim Hak-jun, this man, who wanted to eat both the pheasant and eggs,
became greedy so he took over Song-pa Stable and stole back the money.
That's how we'll make it.
If that happens,
Cho Sung-jun will come see Kim Hak-jun.
That will be the day that
I've been waiting for 18 years to
get back at him.
About Mr. Bong.
Please find out one more time.
I need to know more about Song-pa Stable's Mr. Bong.
Don't miss any details.
What happened?
What? What? What?
She's here.
We finally found her.
Look at your heart pounding so fast.
Head Cattle Broker!
Sir!
Head Cattle Broker.
We found them. We found them.
Munkyeong.
We got a notice that they were seen in Munkyeong.
Whoa! Whatever is being cooked smells so good!
You little kid. Are you ignoring what I'm saying?
I'm going to beat you up in the head.
Let's eat together.
We have no food for you.
What's wrong?
If it's not enough, we can eat the boiled brown rice together.
Yes, that's right.
You're so much younger than us, but you're so impolite.
Sharing food with the fellow travelers isn't generosity but basic. Basic!
Here.
It's worth two bags of rice.
It will feed you two for at least 15 days.
We didn't pack any food.
So we'll take your generosity.
Yes.
Let me see.
It's not ready yet!
Hey!
How long have you been making street food? You don't even know...
Oh, my!
Here are fellow travelers!
There's no food to share here!
Ow, my ears!
We have food with us. Just lend us the fire.
I have a circular letter.
Oh, man. Go ahead.
I'm curious to know what chaos has been going around.
Oh? Oh! Mistress!
Hey, Bong-Sam.
Ouch. Did she leave? Huh?
Chun Bong-Sam. What are you doing? You were running with confidence.
Well, I'm just thinking, whether to go in right now and bow down, or
go in after finishing the food and brushing my teeth.
Oh wow. What a sight you are.
Fine, fine.
Whether I get bleeding nose from both nostrils, or
get slapped on the face, I'll go in no matter what.
I'm going in!
Fellow travelers! Let me read a circular letter while you're eating.
A circular letter regarding Song-pa Stable's Head Cattle Broker Cho Sung-jun.
Song-pa Stable is looking for Song Man-chi,
who is charged with robbery and adultery.
What did you just say?
What?
What? About what?
This?
You know a lot about Song-pa Stable?
So a merchant, Song Man-chi,
is having an affair with the head cattle broker's wife,
and they ran away in the middle of the night.
It's not even about the mere runaway.
This man ran away with the stable's deed.
Oh, no.
This can't be it!
Let's eat.
Everyone, let's eat.
Oh, oh. Yeah. You're right.
Oh this is really delicious. Very delicious.
Anyway.
These are criminals who deserve to be put on a straw mat and die,
so keep your eyes wide open and find them.
What?
A straw mat?
No. I meant... Will straw mat be enough to those criminals?
If it's Song-pa Stable, it should be worth 10,000 nyang, right?
What do you mean 10,000 nyang? It's at least 200,000...
You should go down the mountain soon.
We... we... we should go down.
Let's go.
Bong-Sam.
What about the mistress?
We finally found the place, but you weren't able to put your hair in a topknot.
That's better for her.
I'm about to lose my house, shrine, and cattle.
Don't worry too much.
Who will buy the deed to Song-pa Stable?
Unless they want to get killed by the head cattle broker.
That's right.
Anyway, Sun-dol.
Let's meet again, okay?
I've only known you for 7 days,
but why does it feel like I've known you for 7 years?
Man up.
I'm leaving!
Bong-Sam.
Let's exchange clothes.
Okay.
Take care. Okay? Keep in touch.
Bye!
Bong-Sam.
Take care!
Okay.
Don't do it, Man-chi.
Head Cattle Broker.
Nothing can happen until I get there.
Let go!
How did you know I was Song Man-chi?
You were acting so weird, I would be stupid not to notice it.
Oh, so you noticed it.
Okay, that's nice.
Hey but...
Give it to me. When I'm being nice, give...
Kangkyeong Gaekju Kim Hak-jun?
What a thief.
20,000 nyang? How shocking.
What are you doing right now? Huh?
Let's split it in half.
What?
Isn't Song-pa Stable too big for you to swallow?
It won't be a good idea to scream to have people out here.
Merchant Song is a man, so it's whatever.
But what about the head cattle broker's wife?
Huh?
What did you say?
You bastard!
You're a thief, huh?
I will beat you up with my own hands.
Please.
This is good.
I will pull your head out.
Hey. Let go. Let go!
You let go first.
Hey, you rascal.
A dude had to grab there? Huh?
Hurry up and let go.
Hey!
My balls are going to pop. They're going to pop.
I let you go. I let you go.
So now you let go...
I can't have my balls pop.
I didn't even get married yet.
Take it. Take half.
Take half...
Sir.
Please forgive me. Please.
You can take everything.
Take it.
Take the whole thing...
Oh, father, father.
Take everything! I don't need it...
Father you take it. Spend it all.
Alright, son. Thanks.
Is that you, brother?
That's not you?
How much behind are you paying for the feed?
You already took 15 sacks of rice and barley.
Why are you guys doing this to us?
Let's just go in and pick anything that's worth the value.
Head Cattle Broker isn't here, so that's the only way.
Yeah, let's go.
Why are you doing this?
People are passing by.
What are you all doing?
Bong-Sam!
Where have you been?
You saw the round robin?
What in the world is going on?
Did our gaekju go bankrupt?
It hasn't gone bankrupted yet, but it's about to!
That's right. Head Cattle Broker isn't even here.
And we're not getting the backed up payments.
Did our Song-pa Stable ever had a payment backed up?
Even though the world can be fickle,
there's no way this can happen.
Everything can be solved within 15 days.
But if you keep doing this, I'll have to tell Head Cattle Broker,
and change all of our vendors.
What? Change?
Then fine.
We're going to trust Mr. Bong. So please solve it.
The biggest vendor is Song-pa Stable.
But if it goes wrong, then all of us will break down.
Don't you worry.
That will never happen.
Our stable will never let that happen.
Trust me.
Go. Okay, now go.
Hurry up and go.
Hey! Get me some water.
Okay, okay.
Everyone's leaving.
If you have straw shoes made, give me about five or six pairs.
You're not going to even take a break or eat before you leave?
No!
I have to stop the two brothers fighting each other to death. No?
We got to stop our stable from breaking down.
Yeah? Then let me go with you!
I had it in my hand.
So-gae! You're finally awake!
I thought I was dying bringing you here.
You were unconscious for 3 days.
With this hand, I almost had it.
Ouch!
Wait.
Gae-ddong.
Am I a thief?
In Kangkyeong, we had salted clam, salted shrimps, and more salted seafood.
Went to Wonsan to exchange salted pollack roe and other salted seafood.
Selling pollack roe, salted intestine, and more and more salted seafood...
We only touch 22 nyang a year.
When can I go to Yook-ei-jeon like this?
When can I pour cold water down Maeng Gu-bum's throat,
and kick Shin Suk-ju's butt?
In order to go back to Yook-ei-jeon,
I need money.
For 8 years,
I've carried salted seafood on my back.
But now..
is it time to quit this?
Or is Yook-ei-jeon out of my reach?
But...
in front of me
Song-pa Stable
Song Man-chi popped out.
Gae-ddong.
Am I a thief?
If you want to steal, steal big.
This whole world is full of thieves.
You become a king if you steal big, and you become a thief if you steal small.
If you fail on stealing big, then you're in a big danger.
Whether it be a king or a thief, that's your fortune.
Anyway, stealing small doesn't suit you.
You'll make it.
You're going to make it. Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant.
I told you in Euiju, right? That you will make it.
Fine.
The day I become Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant,
I will give you Shin's Gaekju.
Those people couldn't go down the mountain.
Really?
Well?
If you're afraid, you're supposed to run farther away.
But when people get afraid, they tend to hide their minds.
Pheasants and people are the same.
You guys.
What did you come here for?
To watch the fight.
Bong-Sam said you'd be in this area,
so we searched this area looking for you everywhere.
Good job. You did a good job!
So.
So about Man-chi... Did you find where he is?
Man-chi is my business.
You need to take care of the stable!
You need to take care of 87 employees
and customers bringing cattle.
Kim Hak-jun is about to take over the stable.
What employees!
Kim Hak-jun is about to become one, no?
You rascal...
The head cattle broker run away the stable?
Who?
Who said he's going to be the head cattle broker?
You rascal... go back!
Why are you taking it with you?
Just leave it here and go.
I'm hungry. Hungry.
I get that you don't want to be seen fighting with Man-chi.
There's nothing more important than saving the stable.
I will go prepare this,
Wang-bal, prepare the sticks for us.
Okay.
Dol-ee, follow me.
Okay.
Hey, look. He seems like a fellow traveler.
Pee. I need to pee.
Hey, fellow traveler.
Fellow traveler!
Sorry to ask at our first me,
but may I borrow the sickle to prepare this pheasant?
This is not to prepare for a pheasant,
but this is to cut your head off!
Huh?
No, Man-chi!
Don't come here. Don't!
No, you can't come.
Don't look!
Who is that?
You encouraged Sung-jun to spread the round robin, huh?
Why does that matter?
Hurry.
Hand me Kim Hak-jun's promissory note.
Why doesn't that matter?
Bong-Sam!
Bong-Sam! Bong-Sam, hold tight.
I'll bring Head Cattle Broker. Just wait.
No, no!
If you call him, all three of us will die.
Sister-in-law, Man-chi, and Head Cattle Broker will all die.
Who is worrying about whom?
Because of your hot temper,
how many lives do you need to see go away to think straight?
Are you trying to test your strength with me?
No. I have to bring him here.
No!
Hey!
What... what to do. What to do!
I'm hungry.
These dudes can't eat uncooked...
Or wait... did they eat it raw?
Oh, no. Pheasant! Pheasant!
Where is it?
Hand me the promissory note!
You rascal. Who is sitting on top of whom?
Do you want Song-pa Stable to become hell?
What nonsense is this now?
People say the world is like hell.
Do you know what hell truly is?
A bankrupted gaekju is hell.
That's what my father used to tell the merchants.
Why do you bring up how smart your father is all of sudden?
People who supplied rice and cattle feed,
the consignors who didn't get their money
people scream out to claim their money.
The gaekju people no longer have anywhere to go.
All of sudden, when you have to worry about the next meal, is hell.
How dare you attempt to turn our stable into hell?
Why would I make Song-pa Stable into hell?
The hell I want to make is not Song-pa Stable.
It's Cho Sung-jun!
Man... Man-chi.
Wang-bal, no!
Let go! Let go of me!
What are you guys doing?
Hurry. Hurry up and leave.
Before Head Cattle Broker comes, run away!
Are you worrying about me?
You rascal!
Man-chi!
You saved my life.
At Euiju mountain god's shrine, you saved my life.
How do I...
forget about that gratitude?
How am I supposed to not worry about you?
Please. Please, hand me over the promissory note.
And run away.
Hurry up and go!
Head Cattle Broker!
Are you really asking to knife fight with me?
Would you like to put five necks on the line and play?
Sure.
Either way, I'll live or die.
Okay.
That's what being a man is.
That's the strong man Song Man-chi!
Okay.
Stop!
Stop it, Man-chi!
Everything's over now.
Everything's over, Man-chi.
Bring her here.
Yes, sir.
Bang-geum, you,
as a female peddler, obtained the license from Kyeonggi market.
And until this day, you are still licensed.
What does it say on the back of your ID?
Man-chi only has me.
After you and Song-pa Stable leave me...
Man-chi only has...
Adultery!
You cannot commit adultery.
Bang-geum, you left your husband at home
and left with another man.
You are charged with adultery crime.
I will cut your heel as your punishment.
Put your feet up.
I'm so sorry, sister-in-law.
Man-chi.
Please don't do it.
Just cut me instead.
Whether you cut my ankle, toes,
or fingers, just cut them all off.
You can break all my joints off.
You can cut my skin, too.
But,
leave Bang-geum alone.
Please, not her!
Make sure you hold her shoulders tight.
Yes.
Please forgive Bang-geum!
Head Cattle Broker!
If you can't handle this, why did you come here?
If you are caught by the emotions, why did you crawl up in here?
What are you doing?
Sister-in-law...
This... bite this.
Man-chi!
Bang-geum.
Don't. Please don't.
Sung-jun.
It's all my fault.
This Song Man-chi
is really sorry.
Please forgive us.
Please forgive Bang-geum.
Bang-geum!
Sister-in-law...
Fine!
Very nice.
Very.
Cho Sung-jun, you're very awesome.
Wow.
What are you doing?
Hurry up and cut my throat.
Now!
Kill me!
Song Man-chi.
As a merchant of Song-pa Stable, violated two peddlers rules.
Because you stole the deed to Song-pa Stable, one, as robbery.
Head Cattle Broker!
Don't you see him passed out?
I can't stand still anymore.
Now, please stop.
Please stop it now!
Stop being a fool who lost his wife!
Stop it!
--The Merchant: Gaekju 2015--
I can't go.
He's Chun's Gaekju son. The one who killed my father. Chun Oh-su's son.
I finally met my fate that I've been looking for.
Kim Hak-jun, you rascal!
Kill Gil So-gae. Kill him!
I get to bear a son.
So what is there I can't do?
Don't send my mistress back.
Run away with mistress.
I waited for 10 years. So I can't leave like this.
You're...