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Cattle Broker Elder!
Shoot!
Fire!
No.
Stop!
No!
No, you can't go there!
Let go!
What will change even if you get involved now?
Cattle Broker Elder! Let go of me!
-You can't Bong Sam! -Let go!
Cattle Broker Elder!
Bong Sam!
Cattle Broker Elder.
-Cattle Broker Elder! -Who are you?
Cattle Broker Elder!
You must be in the same group with the murderer.
What do you mean a murderer?
Who are you calling a murderer?
Without investigating the incident thoroughly,
how can you kill someone first?
Cattle Broker Elder!
If you want to be a water ghost along with your friends,
go ahead and jump in!
Cattle Broker Elder.
Cattle Broker Elder!
-Cattle Broker Elder! -Go!
Cattle Broker Elder.
Episode 12
Bong Sam.
How did you get in here?
Just to bring you this bowl of rice soup,
Sun Dol used a lot of his business money.
Who is Kim Hak Joon? He is a half brother of the chief of the tax department.
The atmosphere is no joke right now.
Hurry and eat up.
There is no broth left because the rice soaked it all up.
What about the Broker Elder?
According to the guards, it will be hard to even find his body.
What kind of nonsense is that?
He practically lived on the Han River.
He was born and raised in Songpa, so in that mere water?
What a bunch of crap?!
But you know it wasn't the water but bullets that got him.
Plus it was high tide.
The seawater already swept him away.
You...
You seem to be upset. Is it because you spent the money?
We need to reassess the situation. The dead is gone.
You said you need to get the Songpa Stable back, didn't you?
Didn't you say you are the Cattle Broker now?
Didn't you say you are responsible to feed a few hundred mouths?
So?
What is it that you want to tell me?
We agreed to meet your accuser face to face.
I barely got this deal shoving a total of 200 nyang into various government officials' mouths.
We'll confront the eye witness.
If she says you are not the one, then they will release you.
But will she say that?
If you are a Songpa Stable person, then she'll probably get you hooked.
Bong Sam.
Just say you are sorry, okay?
Beg for your life, uh?
Tell her you didn't go there, uh?
Lower your body to Kim Hak Joon's concubine's foot.
And cry your eyes out.
That is the only way you'll survive this, uh?
They say you can die over night.
What is this suddenly during your 60th birthday celebration? Aigoo!
Why don't you light the incense first? Please.
You wench!
How dare you come into this room as one with concubine status.
You are only a concubine as long as he is alive.
How dare you to even wear funeral attire,
and act like his wife? The audacity...!
Be on your way before his wife shows up.
I don't want you to make sister-in-law uncomfortable.
I haven't thought about that.
Steward Hwang!
It is only right that I finish my brother's unfinished business.
So he'll be able to close his eyes comfortably.
Deeds, exchange ledgers and promissory notes, don't miss anything and gather them up.
Yeah, Sir.
I knew he was a greedy bastard...
How can he be in the position to manage the country's taxes?
Give him everything so he can't find out.
If we can take care of Gil So Gae tonight, we'll leave early in the morning.
What about the deed of Songpa Stable?
Kim Hak Joon was killed by the Cattle Broker.
That is the known rumor.
So we have to give it to him.
Drag him out!
Bong Sam!
Teacher Bong!
-Bong Sam! -Teacher Bong!
What are you doing? Go inside already!
Teacher Bong!
Must he confront that concubine?
She is already resenting our stable people a lot, believing we killed her husband.
What can we do? She is the eyewitness?
Bong Sam's life depends on that concubine's words.
Let's go there, Hyungnim.
Cheon's Merchant Inn
Madam! Madam!
You are inside, right?
As the saying goes "The dried gourd with a broken line." (Meaning lost all support)
You resemble just that. My Lady.
What brings you here?
The government officials are here.
They ask you to confirm the face if he came with the Cattle Broker.
He is over there.
Take a look at him carefully.
He had a merchant ID of Songpa Stable.
Raise your head.
I am sorry that your husband died.
But the Cattle Broker Elder of Songpa Stable didn't kill him.
Then... do you know who the culprit is?
This is the Chief of Taxation.
Quickly, shove this down your throat!
Why don't you shove it down, immediately!
HURRY UP!
I asked you, who killed my brother?
What killed Kim Hak Joon is
Kim Hak Joon himself. Kim Hak Joon!
What to do? What to do? What to do?
What? What are you saying now?
What did you say? How dare this bastard!
Sir!
You bastard! What did you just say?
How dare you insult my master's half brother!
Stop!
Even though he was a loan shark,
there is at least a shred of decency he should have kept.
He knew full well that Songpa Stable was stolen goods so he stole it with 20,000 nyang.
As if that isn't enough, he sent swordsmen and took the promissory note back.
He ate what was inedible, so how can his life be alright?
However, what hurt his life was not the Cattle Broker Elder of Songpa Stable!
The Cattle Broker was framed. Framed!
My dead brother was holding Jo Seong Joon's shirt in his hand.
Framed my butt!
Songpa Stable people are accomplices just staying in Ganggyeong. This bastard is a culprit too.
Yes Sir. Drag him away!
Yeah!
Wait!
Perhaps... have you seen me before?
Do you have a name?
He is a cattleman, so how can he have a name?
No. Here is his merchant ID.
Eh?
Gaesung in Songdo region... Cheon Oh Soo of Cheon's Merchant Gaekju?
How can he be a cattleman from Songpa Stable?
And Songdo Region?...You are getting more suspicious.
The merchant ID for Cheon's Merchant Gaekju is my father's.
I am Cheon Bong Sam of Songpa Stable!
Cheon Bong Sam!
Right, right, right. I know a little bit about your father.
You do resemble him. Resemble him a lot.
Yeah! Thank you very much! Much obliged!
I still have a long way to go to resemble him, but I want to resemble him!
I am working very hard to be more and more like him.
Much obliged!
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! This is why the seed is important.
Take him away and interrogate him seriously!
Yes Sir.
Let's go.
No! You can't, Sir.
My husband told me before he died not to get involved with people who handle large animals.
He told me to avoid Songpa Stable people.
What kind of?!...
Then, are you asking me to be afraid of that cattleman and release him?
I just want to send my husband's spirit away comfortably.
How many lives were lost because of Songpa Stable?
It happened to my husband like that, and Cattle Broker of Songpa Stable and his righthand man died.
Please stop here.
I want to send my husband away without anymore bloodshed.
That bastard!...I have never seen him before.
As he claims,
I think he came to Ganggyeong after the incident happened.
If he belongs to the same group who killed my husband as he claims,
then I'd rip him to pieces with my own hands.
Drag him away!
Let's go!
Hurry move!
You can't!
Let go! My Bong Sam is right in front of me now! My Bong Sam!
Have you forgotten who is within the walls of this house?
If Kim Bo Hyeon finds out who you are, then we'll all die!
I'll go verify it first.
Who are you?
Is it So Rye? So Rye sent you?
Here, take this!
I don't need gold.
If not for this, then what?
Ah right. It is a misunderstanding. So Rye misunderstood about something, take me to So Rye.
I'll resolve her misunderstanding whatever that might be.
Kim Hak Joon already told her that you are the one who killed her father.
Does she know about Bong Sam too?
I know where Bong Sam is that she'd been searching desperately.
Is Cheon Bong Sam of Songpa Stable the brother she is looking for?
Or is that your strategy too?
It's not a strategy! I saved Bong Sam's life!
He almost dead because someone pushed him off the cliff, but I saved him!
I wondered who tried to steal Songpa Stable's promissory note. By any chance, was it you?
Right, you are.
That's right it was you. Does So Rye know about it too?
That Bong Sam almost died by your hands?!
The 2nd generation Cattle Broker of Songpa Stable is...
Bong Sam.
How long are you going to be like this?
Leave him alone.
You don't know.
The Cattle Broker Elder was like a father to Bong Sam.
Cattle Broker Elder.
This Cheon Bong Sam
will promise you one thing as the 2nd generation Cattle Broker.
I'll for sure,
get the Stable back
and look after the Stable family.
So don't worry about anything.
Farewell!
Let's go Hyung.
You startled me.
You are back.
Why are you here?
I heard you got free, but you didn't show up for so long.
So I thought perhaps a swordsman was after you too.
I was scared to death.
What do you mean by swordsman?
So are you saying all this was done by Kim Hak Joon's concubine?
Then did the dead Kim Hak Joon send swordsman to me?
Usually when people commit a dangerous deed like that, they have reason.
The life of a concubine is either you get thrown out when aged
or she gets to stay in the back room if she is lucky.
If that happens, it is worse than being a servant.
She must be scared that she might get thrown out empty handed.
Does that reason merit a murder?
She is a famous vicious wench in Ganggyeong.
She probably bankrupted more merchant gaekju than the dead Kim Hak Joon.
She is a vicious wench killing her own husband and made it look like Cattle Broker Hyungnim did it.
You almost died by that swordsman too.
You would probably be dead by now if it weren't for Gae Ttong and me saving you.
You are right about that!
I almost died today too.
If heaven didn't help me, I'd be knifed and fed to the fish by now
or been buried somewhere in this mountain.
But she even kneeled before the Chief of Taxation to save you earlier.
Don't you think this is a bit strange?
Ah that!...is because she was concerned they might find out the truth interrogating Bong Sam.
That is what she was afraid of.
Ah that...
Punish... let's punish that concubine.
How?
We have to have evidence to report her to the authority.
Will they believe our poor and powerless words?
The government...
has the rotten laws that only hears the words of people with money and power!
To us,
we have our set of rules that is more strict than the government's.
I agree.
Bong Sam, this is a serious matter.
That concubine...
killed the Cattle Broker Elder and Wang Bal Hyungnim.
She tried to kill So Gae Hyung and even killed her own husband!
Will you leave a vicious wench like that alone?
Then how do you want to punish her?
Nam Nang Jin.
To the place where Cattle Broker Elder and Wang Bal Hyungnim's spirits are wandering...
I'll bury her in that freezing cold water.
Father, our Bong Sam...
I finally found Bong Sam.
You stay here and keep watch, I'll go in there since I know the inside well.
Is it you Deuk Gae?
What about Deuk Gae? What did you do to him?
Kim Bo Hyeon seems to be here, so if you are that loud
don't you think he'll know who you are and who killed Kim Hak Joon?
I wanted to live my life free from the past of you and Bong Sam.
18 years of time is enough for your father and mine to be rotten and become ashes.
I thought saving Bong Sam was heaven's will.
I thought it was for the three of us to live like before.
I never thought you'd try to kill me.
You saved Bong Sam?
You lie every time you open your mouth.
I brought your brother Cheon Bong Sam!
He is outside right now.
What is taking him so long?
Hyung!
Are you having some trouble?
Put this on her mouth first.
Bong Sam. Bong Sam. Save me!
Bong Sam! Quickly!
Bong Sam, just once open this up. Just once.
It's me your sister. I am your sister Bong Sam.
Father, please help me! Please! Help me Father...
Quickly, quickly.
In a bit, the guards will be patrolling.
Let's hurry.
Wait.
This woman should know what she did wrong.
The guards will be here soon.
Open it.
Yes.
Bong Sam! If you don't hurry, everybody will be in danger!
This isn't a personal vendetta!
I'm strictly representing Songpa Stable and Gyoenggi Province's Merchant Gaekju, to punish her.
Open it up!
Bong Sam is right about that.
We are about to end a life, and we can't do it without manners. We are not pirates or bandits.
You are as a concubine, killed your own husband.
Because of that, you took Cattle Broker and his right hand man Wang Bal of Songpa Stable. You took those three lives.
Within the Peddlers' Code of Ethics; you've committed murder which is the worst offense.
Bong Sam, please just hear my words. Just one word please.
How I lived those 18-years? How we just met again?
Bong Sam no. Please don't.
According to the mandate of Songpa Stable in Gyeonggi region,
a seemingly frail lady who is being charged with murder...
You are going to pay for that with your life.
Close it.
Bong Sam no. Please God no. Please help. Bong Sam!
Bong Sam!
If you meet the Cattle Broker and Hyungnim Wang Bal,
ask for your forgiveness on the other side.
Let's go.
Bong Sam! Bong Sam! Bong Sam...
Father... I am coming to you now.
Bong Sam... Please protect Bong Sam from Gil So Gae.
And help Bong Sam to never know about what happened today.
If he finds out that the vicious concubine he punished was his own sister,
how will he live with that torment?
That little kiddo, Father.
Our Bong Sam became a manly man.
Port of Mapo
Nothing special about Hanyang the capital.
This is the Mapo Port. It is because we are not within the four gates.
Did I ask you?
Grand Merchant Elder!
Grand Merchant Elder! Kim Hak Joon of Ganggyeong... Kim Hak Joon is dead.
What? Why? Because of what?
I guess he shouldn't have swallowed Songpa Stable.
He died in the Horse Stable Merchant Elder Jo's hands.
Ah, this...
Here. This is condolence money.
I'll be back, Great Head Merchant.
I'll go on my own way now.
Oh, really?
Here.
Add to your travel money. It is for your words of encouragement.
If anything difficult arises, come and find me.
Even though they say that nothing can be predicted in this world, I won't search for you.
I won't decline your gift for my travel since you offered it from the heart.
Why... are you like that?
You must have a son.
You need to bear the Great Head Merchant a successor.
Excuse me! Excuse me! Hey, look here.
For a woman, your words are... you're not a man or anything.
What is it?
Are you certain that the Songpa Horse Stable's Merchant Elder is the culprit?
Or did the rumors just go around like that?
What a busy body... Why is the Cattle Broker of Songpa Stable your brother or something?
Ah-ah... yes, that's right.
You said you were going to go to Songpa to see your husband, is he your new husband?
If you're that curious, then quickly go to the Songpa Horse Stable and find out.
No.
Those two can't be tangled in ill fate anymore.
Um... I want you to come along with us.
I have to search for Gae Ddong.
We didn't get the promissory note and the deed to the stable is gone.
We're not in the position to ask him to come along with us.
He'll only suffer if he comes along.
If I hear about you while I'm going around selling pickled shrimp, I'll search for you.
Okay. If you hear that I regained my Horse Stable, come immediately.
Work at the Horse Stable is going to be much better than going around selling pickled shrimp.
You want me to work under you?
I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm satisfied with just my father's share.
Let's get up after having a drink.
We can't just all be sad and hang low, like that of bull's penis in the warm months of May or June.
I'll pray that you'll regain the Songpa Horse Stable.
Thanks, hyungnim. Ah, tell Gae Ddong
I said hello when you find him.
What are you thinking so much about? That concubine?
What was she trying to say?
Shouldn't I have
listened to her words?
Bong Sam you punished her in accordance to the peddlers' rules.
Don't keep it in your heart. It's already hard enough for you to think about the Songpa Horse Stable's matters.
Yeah, I have to go.
Ah, we need to hurry.
I think it's going to rain. Before the sun sets,
you need to get into the Gongjoo area.
Let's go.
So Rye...
You should have a drink too.
So Rye...
You didn't die because of me.
You died because of yourself. Want a drink?
So why?!
Why did you send swordsman to me? Why did you try to kill me?
Do you think I'll regret it? Not in a thousand years.
When Gae Ddong
said that I could never return if I crossed the line,
I wondered what she was talking about.
Is this crossing the line?
I can cross this mere line a hundred times, a thousand times.
Cheon So Rye,
when your father killed my father,
we already crossed the line.
I did think about it.
So Rye, you, me,
and Bong Sam.
I thought that we could forget about everything
and return to how we were in the past.
In the past...
like the days of the Chun Merchant Group...
So Rye.
On the day I become the Great Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon,
I'll
make you the most
extravagant grave in the world.
The Great Head Merchant is coming.
Welcome home Grand Merchant Elder!
I'll get down.
Why are you like this? Are you nauseous? We're almost there.
I am a businessman's wife, so can I go over the threshold of the business on a palanquin?
Let the Madam down.
Yes, Great Head Merchant. Put her down.
Mm, here.
This is your house.
Now, let's go in.
Woah...
On the day I become the Great Head Merchant,
you'll get the position I'm in right now. Don't miss anything
and even watch their bedroom.
Mm, it tastes good. It tastes good.
You even have good cooking skills.
I'm a merchant
so unlike the other nobles, I hate beating around the bush and not getting to the point.
Do you know
what I expect from you?
Whether it's a certain dish or a 'Guh-Mun-Go'(Traditional Korean black zither) or even a 'Ga-Yah-Geum'(a Korean long zither instrument),
performing a dance or singing, and the water painting of the 'Four Noble Ones, in Chinese art: the orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and the plum blossom.
Tell me what you want.
I'd have to give your 150,000 nyang worth even with those.
Goodness.
I must have hit the jackpot.
It's good. Dance is good and singing is even better.
Eating is even better.
Look here.
Look here, My Lady, give birth to a son.
If the heavens will help me,
then I guess you could see a son like that from me.
This isn't something that the heavens will help with.
It's something you have to help with.
I have something to attend to today
I'll be in my quarter.
Great Head Merchant.
When I saw your portrait...
my heart moved.
The moment I saw your portrait...
my heart, that never moves unless it is about making money, was moved.
Placing a beautiful woman into one's heart
isn't something that's only allowed for young people.
Who said that only the hearts of the young are beautiful?
Not all old men's feelings are dirty.
Songpa Stable
You are in debt with the unpaid construction fees already.
Even to take the oiled paper that covered the ceiling or the roof.
Because of this Songpa Horse Stable,
our Merchant Group is about to be ruined!
Tell the Merchant Elder to come out!
Aigoo, why are you all like this?
-Tell him to come out!-Come out!
No... did all of them run away or what?
The rumors that the Songpa Horse Stable has been taken over are plentiful.
According to the rumors, Jo Seong Joon is dead.
He didn't just die but died for committing murder.
Exactly where do we receive our money from?
Who cares about this measly thing/the banner!
Aigoo, aigoo!
Hey! Let go!
Everyone, let's go in!
I don't know what's worth any money but let's bring everything out!
What chaos...
Teacher Bong's words were right.
They say that a ruined merchant group is hell.
Ruined? What ruined?
Why would our Horse Stable be ruined?
Everyone, be quiet.
Will anything be resolved with all of you being like this?
How foolish of you to break the earthenware pot for water, just because some dust settled?
Now is not the time and place. Also, I'm not sure if it's worth any money.
It's not worth it to only leave with a sickle or a reap hook. That's it for you, then.
Are you just going to call it even with that? What about their debt to you?
Then, will money come out if we wait?
When the situation is like this?
Is there no Merchant Elder if Jo Seong Joon is dead?
There's someone named Chun Bong Sam.
C-chun Bong Sam?
Someone named Chun Bong Sam?
Ah, Bong Sam. Who is she?
Did the Merchant Elder have a hidden daughter or what?
Okay, let's just say that's true.
How long are you telling us to wait?
Aigoo, you guys are so impatient.
Sit down first. It's way past noon
and you must be so hungry from screaming.
Please come and have a bowl of rice soup. It'll be very tasty and it's on me!
- Sit down. Here, sit down here. Please.-Okay. Let's do that, then.
Sit, sit.
But who are you?
Me?
Who are you?
That's what I'm also curious about.
Who are you that you're doing this here?
Do you know our Merchant Elder?
Well?
I don't know the previous Merchant Elder
but I know the current Merchant Elder well.
The current Merchant Eld-
Me? M-me? You know me?
You didn't want to pay me back for my kindness, so you took of from the town of Bo-Uoon.
Wow, now you're even pretending to not know me.
Ddong...
Ddong... Ddong...
Ddong... Gae Ddong.
Gae Ddong?
You're surprised because you did something wrong.
Ah, you were a w-woman and not a man?
You're right, Hyungnim.
I'm Gae Ddong.
Ten or more folks are sleeping in the peddler's rooms and the rest of the debt collectors left.
Aigoo. Thank you, Gae Ddong.
But...
you're such a pretty woman.
What kind of situation did you have? Huh?
A pickled shrimp merchant?
D-does that make sense?
Not that.
Shouldn't you ask me something else first?
Something else? What?
What?
You said you would grant my wish.
Ah, your wish. Yes.
Right, right. Okay, so what's our Gae Ddong's wish?
What is it?
I...
want to marry you.
I wish to marry you.
Gae Ddong.
Please be my one and only spouse, my partner for life.
This is my only wish.
Gae Ddong.
The Merchant's Preview
Our Merchant Company may be put up for a public auction!
How can the Great Merchant of Shin touch us and try taking over our company?
Please, just lend me 20,000 Nyang only.
Didn't I tell you to forget?
So, did you forget everything?
Even if I have to clip his wings,
I'm definitely going to become Chun Bong Sam's wife.