[Episode 10]
Cattle Broker Elder. Why is Kim Hak Joon trying to lure you into Kang Kyeong?
Until I find that out, stay still.
You can't trust anyone.
Until I get there, wait.
You have to wait.
If you move rashly, our stable will really fly away.
-Chun Bong Sam.
You weren't so bright then, but you got smarter.
Cheon Oh Soo of Cheon's Merchant Inn's blood is running pretty thick in you.
I have to see an end to this before Bong Sam gets here.
You were here Gae Ttong!
I heard Kim Hak Joon's 60th birthday is in 4-days.
Let's charge in on that day!
Huh?
Even though he is an illegitimate son, he is from Kim family of Ahndong, and
older brother of Kim Bo Hyeon, the chief of tax department.
There will be a whole lot of guest coming to suck up to him, and their two gates will be wide open.
Those gates are not opened for us to come in. The police is patroling around the house.
Ah, so we need to mingle in between the customers.
We sneak in and tie up Kim Hak Joon and kidnap him.
Then exchange him with the Stable document.
It is easier to say...
Cattle Broker Elder and I are even before we pass the threshold,
will be attacked by the swordsmen.
I'll go in.
They don't know my face.
Nonsense!
You being a salted seafood seller...so how?
How could I go in as salted seafood seller?
I'd have to think of a plan.
We must be very careful.
Let's wait until Bong Sam shows up.
I don't know who Bong Sam is, but
if you missed the timing, no one can make it work right.
The most important thing to make this successful is the timing, TIMING!
Wow, Gae Ttong is good at acupuncture.
You must feel all healed up saying that.
Let's hurry!
Aigoo.
What is that?
Excuse me! I am sorry!
Hemp cloth trading restriction Until the restriction is lifted, in 8-provinces of Joseon
merchants can't trade any of the hemp cloth
personally with the peddlers.
Great Merchant Head, Shin Seok Joo.
Do we have a national funeral? Why is he collecting Hemp cloth?
If there was a national funeral then it would say so.
Heck...What do they think they are at Yukuijeon?
Who the hell are they to restrict trades? Why are they interfering with our business?
I like what you just said fellow peddler.
They are trying to starve people like us carrying about 10 rolls of hemp cloth!
Sun Dol is taken!
Everyone! Sun Dol is being taken!
Sun Dol?
Let go! Let go!
Let go of me! Heck!
Let go of me! What does Yukuijeon think they are?!
What does Yukuijeon think they are?!
-How are you...hemp cloth--- -Be quiet bastard!
Shut you mouth!
-Let go! -Sun Dol! Sun Dol!
Who is this?
Isn't this my friend Bong Sam?
What the hell happened to you?
Hey bastards! Is this place for your to reunion?
What the heck are you doing?
Hey!
Bong Sam!
What to do? What to do?
-Drag him in! -Bong Sam!
Bong Sam!
Sun Dol!
Wait just a bit!
I will, this Cheon Bong Sam will save you soon!
Bong Sam, Bong Sam, Bong Sam!
How are you going to save him?
Let's all go to Jo Soon Deuk's house and scream together!
No, he still won't let go of Sun Dol.
If he won't then we'll break his house.
Breaking his house,
will only hurt you guys.
Then we'll all die.
Sun Dol is holding the money to buy hemp cloth.
If I don't get the money or Sun Dol, my family will die this winter anyway.
Either starve to death or freeze to death.
You are right.
Look, just one day.
Give me just one day.
This shirt is Sun Dol's.
We are friends who switched shirts with each other.
So please trust me and give me just one day.
Just one day, uh?
Bong Sam, Bong Sam, Bong Sam!
Your shirt friend...
Let's them handle it and let's go to Kang Kyeong.
Hyung! Sun Dol walked from Uiju until his feet bled.
So who is going to interfere with his business?
Even the king can't tell you to starve to death.
I am fully aware of Cattle Broker is waiting for me desperately at Kang Kyeong.
But Sun Dol's life is more important.
Our fellow peddlers life is more important than that!
Shin Seok Joo is the one who issued the restriction!
The Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon!
Hyung. I don't know how scary Shin Seok Joo, great merchant head of Yukuijeon is, but if you are that scared then you sit out.
Go and bring Gae Ttong here.
This is pretty...
Where is the sewing room around here?
Go over there to narrow street.
Yeah.
Is this log rice cake of snow?
Seems like it will melt in mouth if take a bite.
Aigoo! Don't know what your story is
for wearing things like this!
Uyi?
What life doesn't have a story?
Aigoo!
Mother I am getting married today.
I finally met my mate who will change my fate.
Bong Sam!
Oh my leg.
What about Gae Ttong? Where is Gae Ttong?
I don't know but he is not there.
He told the inn mother that he was leaving.
Ah really?
[Cheon Bong Sam]
Say things I can believe.
I know you don't like Gae Ttong, but make things up.
You stay here. I'll go get him.
That's is because you are broke.
That's is why he left.
Seriously, are you going to keep lying to me?
I am going to get angry!
I am telling you the truth.
What did you say?
What did you just say now?
So I am saying a man named Bong Sam asked me to relay this message.
If you really want to get paid for gratitude, then come to Songpa Stable.
When you are offering generosity, you should expect anything in return.
Moo Joo Sang Bo Si.
Among the fellows with merchant IDs, shouldn't talk about the debt.
Cheon Bong Sam...It wasn't Cheon Bong Sam,
but it was said by a man with lame leg, right?
No, no. I am telling you the truth.
Cheon Bong Sam...These are his words.
There is no way...
He is not the type.
He promised and swore to heaven.
I need to go...I need to go to him.
I've waited for 10-years. We can't be apart like this.
Either to Songpa or Kang Kyeong, I must go.
Wine
Have you ever heard fellow peddlers saving someone's life and made them swear to heaven?
Still you can't do that to Gae Ttong!
It is not that...Hey Sam Bae!
-Why? Where are you going? -Hold on.
Sun Dol tried to escape
and poked Manager Maeng's eye and almost made it blind.
W-What?
What to do? He is going to be beaten to death now.
We can just sit back and watch this situation.
We'll find a way to save him, so you guys find a way too.
Let's go!
We don't have much time now.
Bong Sam, Bong Sam, Bong Sam. On my way here,
I heard a story about Jo's Merchant Inn.
Jo's Merchant Inn?
Jo Soon Deuk's daughter
and the Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon are getting married. The rumor spread everywhere.
But that woman is very beautiful.
One of a kind of beauty, they say.
If you see her once, your bones just melt because she is so beautiful.
So the Great Merchant Head and the daughter of Jo's Merchant Inn are getting married.
Hyung! Let's go.
W-W-Where to?
Hyung. I need to get a place to hide after the kidnapping.
I will look around. You stay put
and keep watching, okay?
Uhm. I will.
Kidnapping? If he get caught, he die right away.
What are you doing?
What do you mean by marriage?
This is nonsense.
The Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon is the king to us.
So you are becoming like the mother of nation. Mother of Yukuijeon.
Because of your greed, look at the peddler locked up in the storage room who is about to be beaten to death.
Must you get the money like that?
What the heck is the money?
What do you mean what is the money? It is more precious than life and more precious than you own parent and siblings.
No. If you didn't marry into Jang's family,
would you have know how the meat tasted?
Or experience the joy of wearing silk clothes?
When did I ever want meat or silk clothes?
I just wanted to live like a human being.
That is living like a human being.
Eating meat and wearing silk clothes!
Aigoo. This is why the young ones live with their heads.
The grown ups live with their throat.
You...Have you ever seen people wearing hemp cloth clothes
in the middle of winter and freeze to death in the cold?
Have you ever seen people starve to death between the time of harvest when the old crop had run out and the new is not ready to be harvested yet?
You don't know how horribly painful that is.
No matter what you say I am marrying the Great Merchant Head.
What?
I'll go into a temple and live my life repenting for you.
Wol, let's go.
-Yes Madam. -Ah that...
Ah...Seo Lyn. Seo Lyn!
What's with the palanquin?
Please go back now, father.
Follow me.
Father!
You are about to become a monk for the rest of your life, so can't you give me a little bit of time?
Father!
I said follow me!
Father!
Follow me.
I said follow me!
Why are you doing this?
I already promised for your marriage with the Great Merchant Head.
If I break that promise,
your brother will be killed.
I'd have to give up my position as well.
There won't be anywhere we can go in all of 8-provinces of Joseon.
I'll be killed by Shin Seok Joo anyway...
Fine, let's just die together today.
Give me the cover up skirt.
If that is how you've decided, then I must follow.
To the brazen Great Merchant Head who wants to hold a widow of just 3-month,
I can't marry him to obey your request.
W-What?
But...I will obey your request to die together.
I'll go first so you follow me.
-Madam! -Let go!
Are you afraid?
Uh uhm...
I am not afraid.
Living as a puppet or dying, what is the difference?
I got it, I got it.
I will hold you hand and jump off together.
But wait just a minute. Wait just a minute.
Wol, you go over there.
Do you how your grandfather died?
How did he die?
I heard he died of starvation.
What about your grandmother?
Please stop it already.
My father and mother both died of starvation.
I was only 9-years old then.
The famine was horrible that year.
The landowner took all the grains,
and so we only had small amount of grains left to be used for seed for the next crop.
But they could not eat that,
so they starved to death.
Your father took that seed and sold it in the market for 3 nyang and got a merchant ID.
I got hired as a salesperson at Boeun Merchant.
But they cursed at me and beat me almost everyday.
And won't feed me either.
Because my life was so harsh
I came here often...
to jump off and kill myself.
Now, let's go.
Father...Father! Father...
Your unfilial son Soon Deuk is coming to see you.
My daughter tells me to die, so I should die, right?
Father! I miss you!
Your resentment for dying of starvation must be huge,
but I couldn't resolve it for you.
I didn't even prepare a table for you father and mother,
and coming to you.
Father...
Fine, I'll go.
What did you say?
I will marry the Great Merchant Head...
I will go.
Okay...okay...
It is 150,000 nyang. Manager Maeng!
Yeah.
Aigoo.
What's the point to handle it by multiple hands?
Direct dealing is the best between the direct parties.
Eh?
What is wrong? It is 150,000 nyang.
Isn't that the price you set for your daughter's body?
But since you are the Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon,
I thought you'd give me some more.
If you daughter bore me a child whether it is a son or a daughter,
I'll give you something then.
As the Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon, you shouldn't be making a deal so vaguely.
Something whether it is a son or a daughter?...
It sure is quite vague...
If it is a daughter, then I'll give you exclusive rights to silk in left side of Chungcheong province.
If a son...
If I get to hold my son...
What couldn't I do for you?
I will give you full rights to cotton cloth in the left side of Chungcheong province.
YEAH?! Aigoo Great Merchant Head!
Take this Jo Soon Deuk's---no you father-in-law's big bow to you.
I'll take her either tomorrow afternoon or the next day as soon as I finish my business.
Of course...I make her get ready right away.
Be careful going home in the dark and don't fall.
You don't have to see me to the door.
Then sleep well.
Oh this is suffocating...
Is it you Wol?
Who are you?
Hurry hurry hurry. You can't wake the monks.
Hurry, hurry...
Uh seriously...
Put your mask back on!
Are you boasting that we are kidnapping?
Who are you guys?
Strike.
I am sorry.
What to do, what to do, what to do?
Look, look.
Uh this bi*ch!
Ah that...
I'll send you back before the rooster cries, so please endure it little more.
Just a moment! Just a moment.
We can't wake the monks up! They are light sleepers.
I am going to scream. That person earlier, your partner...
He is the one who saved my Madam at Gokcho valley, right?
What are you saying?...
I am right. He is the one at Gokcho valley.
Tell him not to return my Madam.
Tell him to take my Madam and run away to faraway.
I hit her on the stomach for sure...
Why is she talking nonsense like she got hurt in the head.
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Stay still!
My friend is captured for a ridiculous reason of violating the hemp cloth trading restriction.
If I don't save him by morning, he probably be rolled in a straw mat.
If he is lucky, he'd be crippled. If unlucky, he'd be dead.
I told you the reason for my kidnapping.
So please don't think for any other reason.
If your father release my friend Sun Dol,
I will return you completely unharmed.
I am sorry for doing this to a woman who is about to get married...
I am the one who should ask for forgiveness.
If a child commits sin, how can it be just the child's fault?
The parents also becomes sinner for the rest of their lives.
Same for the parents wrongdoing.
You must be the most filial daughter in the world.
If I can be of any help saving your friend, that is relieve--
Uh...
You are...
When you told me you wanted to be a female merchant, I guess you were just playing.
I didn't realize you were becoming the lady of the house to the wealthiest in Joseon.
I heard they poke eyes of the pretty birds in the palace.
So they can't fly away.
They may look fine but they all are blinds.
Because of my rough fate, I am also like the bird in a cage
Like a floating weed, I am being sold to here and there.
Why...at Chulwon Inn...did you just leave me.
I thought you liked me enough to follow me there.
What difference would it have made?
If you asked me to come with you,
If you extended your hand asking me to come with you, then I'd have taken your hand and left with you.
Wherever that might be...I'd have with you...
I...
I'll go get some water.
I dreamt the same dream often.
Meeting a regular man, having kids and living happily.
When I wake up from my dream, I never remembered my husband's face.
I saw his face clearly after I met you.
The husband in my dream,
was you.
What are you doing?
The reason I kidnapped you is...
not for this.
What are you doing now?!
You can't...test a person like this!
You must be thirsty...so I'll got get some water.
If you embarrass me like this, I can only die.
I revealed my heart and body to a man like this. But having my heart rejected, how can I live with that embarrassment?
For once in my life...
Can't I live just for one day in my life as I want?
A woman...can't have a lover to hold in her heart for the rest of her life?
Aigoo this...
How can you not know where she is?
Where is she?
Aigoo, aigoo.
Aigoo I've worked so hard on this deal.
Now our Jo's Merchant Inn will be ruined.
My head will be rolled by Shin Seok Joo.
Aigoo Seo Lyn!
I need to save Sun Dol and make a trip to Kang Kyeong.
After that I will with you--
Don't say anything.
Don't tell me to follow you and don't tell me to wait for you while you are making a trip to Kang Kyeong either.
To us...
We both have people to protect.
No matter what people say about my father, he is precious to me.
I can hate him but I can't abandon him.
Out fate...
ends here.
Don't lie to me.
I know that is not your true feelings.
As of today...
Please forget about me and I'll do the same.
We can't see each other anymore,
and we must not meet again.
I understand.
Then...you forget about me.
Even if I don't see you, how can I not think about you?
No matter how far we are apart, if I keep you in my thoughts
then you are in my heart.
I am Bong Sam!
Cheon! Bong Sam!
Cheon...
Bong Sam.
Husband! In this lifetime,
I won't be able to see you again, right?
Please be a good merchant.
Please be a big merchant.
Who is it?
Who the heck are you?
This crazy bastard!
Do you know this Jo's Merchant Inn is about to be ruined?
Quickly move away.
Why is it so loud out here?
Hey bastard! Do you have a death wish?
How dare a bum like you coming into a nobleman's house and making a ruckus?
My name is Cheon Bong Sam. Cheon Bong Sam.
What Cheon Bong Sam?
Being this dirty lowly bum...
How dare you exchange names with a noble?
You are that guy at Gokchunggo valley of Uiji...
How could I repay gratitude with money?
Gold, silver and gems won't do.
I can only repay with my heart.
Please take this old man's big bow.
Please d-d-don't...
Aigoo...
Then...perhaps you bastard...
How...should I tell you EVERYTHING HERE!
Don't be absurd. Don't be that way and hurry...
hurry and follow me in.
What are you doing? I said hurry and follow me in.
You...do you even know who Seo Lyn is marrying to?
A person like you can't even look up to him.
Everybody on this Boeun land knows about it.
So why wouldn't I know about it?
I heard he is the Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon, Shin Seok Joo.
How dare this lowly thing utter the Great Merchant Head's name...
I'll just...Don't be that way...
and return my daughter Seo Lyn. I'll compensate you well.
Storage room...My friend who is locked in the storage room is first.
He is a trafficker who violated the hemp cloth trade restriction!
What bastard issued that hemp cloth trade restriction?!
The government didn't restrict the hemp cloth trade, nor there is a national funeral!
It is the Yukuijeon people who got together scheming to raise the price of the hemp cloth!
So why is my friend Sun Dol has to hurt in the process?
I got it. I got it.
I'll get him out. So please return my daughter.
She has to follow the Great Merchant Head to Hanyang tomorrow.
Ah, thank you.
Then give...50 rolls of hemp cloth
and the money Sun Dol gave to your son to pay for the hemp as well.
This...this thief!
Either friend, hemp cloth or money. Just pick one of these.
Taking my poor daughter as a hostage and trying to get
everything or what?
You really are slow, aren't you?
Regarding the 50 rolls of hemp is that your own son tried to sell them to Sun Dol and his fellow peddlers
and took the money already. So it is only right to return the money to him.
Then what about the money?
That is...to help out Sun Dol for the damage.
W-What?
You probably took away his merchant ID anyway.
So where would he go to get another merchant ID in Joseon?
He can't be in selling business anymore, so has to get some farmland
to feed himself, doesn't he?
You punk!
Why do I have to worry about your friend's meals?
Look here!
You must not be afraid of the Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon! Fine!
Aigoo aigoo, don't be this way merchant. Aigoo merchant.
Why would you get up in the middle of dealing?
If dealing with the Great Merchant Head is more comfortable, then do that.
Aigoo aigoo. I'll give you all that asked. All of it.
Just return my daughter Seo Lyn, okay?
I'll give you 50 rolls of hemp and money even your friend. I'll give you all.
Give you all of it. So please just return my Seo Lyn.
Ah okay okay. That...
You got anything to eat?
Uh right. I'll give it to you.
Look Miss, Miss! Miss! Aigoo, aigoo.
Aigoo you are awake...
-Ah over there. -Madam! -Seo Lyn!
What are you doing? Hurry and drag him out!
Seo Lyn! Quickly let's go, let's go!
Let's go! Let's go!
Must you really go?
Your servant told me to tell Bong Sam to take you and run far away.
I didn't hear your story but I don't think you shouldn't go.
What are you doing? Hurry and come over here!
Open it.
Let's go quick quickly.
Let's hurry.
Hurry! Move quickly.
Put your backs into it!
Sun Dol!
Sun Dol! Hyung!
Sun Dol alright? Is he hurt?
What took you so long? He is heavy.
Take him! Oh my...Hyung!
I dropped on my way a couple of times but he was fine. He is just like you.
Sun Dol!
Are you alright? This is Bong Sam! Can you recognize me?
Hey. Hey stupid!
The woman you kidnapped was the woman at Gokchoon valley, right?
She was the one, right?
Right.
Why did you!...Aah...
Why did you send her away?
Then what can he do? Do you think Bong Sam will ditch his friend and gain a woman?
The bond of first love to man is second to his mother.
It is scary and precious...
and bury it in his heart for the rest of his life.
I feel so sorry. I am sorry...
and grateful.
I think we need to drop him a few more times.
Even worrying about me...hey punk...I am more grateful.
That you are not dead...
and being alive like this.
Lift him up!
Let's go!
Aigoo.
Look here.
You left early in the morning to go to Songpa, but you are still here.
Something happened to this household?
The daughter of this household is known for her beauty.
I heard she is marrying the Great Merchant Head of Yukuijeon, so I came to see.
You must feel disappointed to be leaving your home.
I am busy with the meeting at Yukuijeon.
So I must rush.
Leaving childhood home
is woman's destiny.
Seo Lyn, wait just a minute.
This...
Keep this well, okay?
What is...
Undergarment! A woman who bore seven sons wore this.
This...this...
But...your husband is too old to have any child.
Does it not matter?
I am sorry.
As of today...
Please forget me.
I'll do the same.
We can't see each other again.
And we must not meet again.
Farewell.
What a pitiful guys.
Move away from the warm spot at once!
What the heck this punk!
Right punk! The price for the warm spot is you neck!
Noble...He is nobleman Cattle Broker Elder.
Cattle Broker...uh?
Do you call "Elder" to a cattle butcher too?
What? This...
Uh Gae Ttong!
You are...
What do you think Hyungnims? You didn't recognized me at all.
Do you still think it will be hard to go over the threshold of Kim Hak Joon's house?
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Come over here!
Welcome Elder!
What household have you come from?
I'll get off.
What household...is my guest from?
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Will I have an heir to my business?
If you just take care of Gil so Gae, then we'll leave at dawn.
There is an eye witness.
My Bong Sam is right in front of me! My Bong Sam is!
How dare you speak carelessly?
Make your choice. Either die here or marry me.