--Episode 17--
What the heck are you doing?
It's all my fault.
Head Cattle Broker did nothing but rescued me.
Let me go.
I said let me go!
Hey you rascal!
How could you treat a woman so harshly?
Are you on terms of intimacy with this woman?
You damned...
Like you said, can't you just forgive...
someone who repents, huh?
Forgive?
Did you just say "forgive"?
The respected Head Cattle Broker became a pirate.
Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker's life is on risk now.
Forgive?
Bong-Sam.
Give me the grain.
We don't have it.
I told you that we already distributed them.
Then take it back from them.
And give me back the grain.
If you don't want to give me the grain back,
then just watch me getting beheaded.
And watch our stable getting crushed.
Ugh, I'm going crazy.
Sir.
Sir!
If he doesn't fill the grain, Bong-Sam will die.
Wang-bal.
Let's find out how much of the grain we distributed can be returned.
Sir Head Cattle Broker.
Do you think you can get them to return the grain that has been distributed?
That's what I'm saying.
Why don't we bring Bong-Sam here as our member?
Let's all live together.
What did you just say?
Are you telling Bong-Sam to become a pirate?
I will make the grain.
If it's 200 grain, then that's worth 10,000 nyang!
I will get the grain, so...
Tell that Bong-Sam guy not to worry.
If you give this to Byeon Gaekju in Gimje, you will be able to get 200 grain.
Hurry up.
If you don't move fast, Bong-Sam will be in danger.
Okay, I will move fast.
Hey.
What is making you to do this?
The way people are made is, no matter how big a sinner you are,
you can't like the person who doesn't like you,
and want to kill the person who tries to kill you.
Why are you trying to help Chun Bong-Sam, who tried to kill you in Namdangjin?
Because I did an awful thing.
Are you, by any chance...
Bong-sam's older sister?
You are, eh?
You are Bong-sam's older sister.
Why would you make such a ridiculous assumption?
I am not.
I am not!
I am not.
You killed Kim Hak-jun to get revenge on him for Chun Oh-su, huh?
No!
I did not!
How could...
How could my father have such an evil daughter like me?
I'm not Chun Soh-leh.
I do not deserve to be Bong-sam's older sister.
Why would Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker become a pirate?
Give me the grain.
I can't give you back the grain.
Bong-Sam.
How about Head Cattle Broker Cho?
Did you meet him?
What head cattle broker?
He looks nothing like him.
No way.
I saw him with my own eyes...
No, no.
Our Sir Head Cattle Broker would never become a pirate.
Whoa, that's weird.
Then, what would we fill 200 grain with?
It takes 4 days to fix the bottom of the ship.
We must find that grain within 4 days!
I know.
I know that if we don't find it, then I will die.
I'm heading back first.
Bong-Sam!
Tell Bong-Sam.
I can't.
How could you be so selfish?
Don't you care how Bong-Sam would feel?
I don't have the courage to see Bong-Sam.
Also for Bong-Sam, I can't.
Please let me help Bong-Sam secretly.
What would be the most painful thing in this world?
It's when you don't know whether your family is alive or dead.
If you know they're dead, you can forget about them.
You should know how painful it is to live like that.
Am I wrong?
If you can't say it with your own mouth,
I will tell him.
Sir Head Cattle Broker.
Hey look.
Whether you attempted murder or conspiracy, family is family.
Even though people stamp on you and speak ill of you,
a family is the only one who would support you.
There are only two of you siblings in this world.
I wanted to hug my brother for once in my life.
But if he finds out that I'm his sister,
wouldn't Bong-Sam suffer because of me?
Either yesterday or today, did anyone put out grain to sell?
No.
Are you okay?
Wang-bal.
Act like you don't know me.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Did he say no? / Yeah.
What is going on?
I have prepared the grain.
Come to the hill behind the unoccupied land tomorrow
tomorrow around 10 o'clock...
Heaven helped us!
Now you're alive.
Thank goodness that Sir Head Cattle Broker and Wang-bal are alive, too.
And thank goodness we can get the grain back.
Don't accept that grain.
What do you mean?
Pirates stole that grain.
Even the Gunsan naval forces know about it.
What are you going to say to them?
That pirates suddenly changed their minds and returned them back?
The superintendent is Bong-sam's brother.
Why are you being so suspicious?
Seriously?
Bong-Sam, don't accept it.
I don't think you should.
I have no option.
What is important to us is that we can get the grain back.
So-gae is just like Choi Dol-ee.
He took care of me when I was a young kid.
Don't you worry. I trust So-gae.
Let's go.
Everyone hurry up.
We have to load them before the hour of cockcrow.
How did the stolen grain come back?
Be quiet.
We need to move quietly.
Sir Head Cattle Broker!
It's you!
Sir Head Cattle Broker.
Thank you for returning the grain.
But, why are you still roaming around us?
You are Namdangjin water ghost, huh?
Look, you need to have some sense of honor.
If the heaven saved your life,
you should live as a Buddhist nun or hide yourself good in a secluded valley!
Bong-Sam. She is...
the one who prepared the grain.
What?
Oh, that's why?
"Thank you."
"I will forgive you."
Are you roaming around us to hear that?
Bong-Sam!
Look.
I am begging you.
Stop acting like you're crying,
and please get away from Sir Head Cattle Broker!
Bong-Sam!
She is...
your sister.
What?
What did you just say?
Look carefully.
No matter how many years have passed,
don't you recognize your own sister?
Stop talking nonsense!
How can this damned woman be my sister?
Bong-Sam!
Chun Soh-leh.
She's your older sister that you have been looking for.
Sir Superintendent?
We're changing the plan.
Get Chun Bong-Sam, who have been secretly communicating with the pirates.
Kill those three guys,
including that wench over there.
Okay.
I have a question.
Where is...
an empty hut?
I'm Chun Bong-Sam from Song-pa Stable.
Bong-Sam.
You need to get up.
Bong-Sam.
What a close call, eh?
Bong-Sam almost have killed his own sister.
Oh, my. It made my hair stand on end.
Okay. Let them two talk.
Bong-Sam.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Bong-Sam.
For leaving...
For leaving you.
I'm sorry.
Bong-Sam.
Let me see your face.
Bong-Sam.
Were you okay?
Chun Soh-leh, were you okay?
Yes.
I was okay.
Bong-Sam.
Soh-leh.
Bong-Sam.
What is this smell?
Where is this smell coming from?
Is it rotten chicken egg or what?
Blowpipe!
It's a blowpipe!
Lie flat!
Move!
Bong-Sam, run away!
It's blowpipe!
Hurry.
Run away!
Hurry!
They're coming.
Run and catch them!
They're running away!
Bong-Sam!
Sir Merchant!
Let's go.
Sir!
What are you guys doing?
Follow him!
Choi Dol-ee!
Don't let anyone who communicated with the pirates live!
Gil So-gae, you rascal!
So-gae?
Bong-Sam.
Deuk-gae!
Catch them!
Oh no.
We can't do this!
No!
Bong-Sam!
Bong...
Let's go.
No!
I can't leave Bong-Sam and Deuk-gae like that!
If you stay here, Bong-Sam will be in a bigger danger.
Here.
Leave me here, and go ahead!
We didn't do anything wrong, so go ahead!
Sir Head Cattle Broker!
Hurry.
Hurry!
We captured all the guys who communicated with the pirates.
Good job. You did a good job.
Let's go.
Throughout my service as the governor in Jeolla Province,
I did encounter pirates stealing grain several times.
But 2,000 grain?
You all must be out of your mind, huh?
What do you mean by 2,000 grain?
That's not it.
We got 200 grain...
We did nothing but receive the stolen 200 grain that the pirates returned.
We're missing 2,000 grain.
Pirates took 2,000 grain overnight.
While you were drawing attention to the naval forces,
they took them out from the other side.
What in the world are you saying?
We're here to transport the grain.
We're not here to steal the grain.
We didn't steal them!
Beat them until they confess the truth!
It doesn't matter if you beat them to death.
We must track those missing grain!
Yes, sir.
Sir.
Are you able to move your body?
I'm okay.
Let's hurry up.
We can't leave like this.
I can't leave Deuk-gae like that.
I can't leave Bong-Sam, too.
How can I leave them?
The guys can be back anytime soon.
Is anyone in there?
Anyone?
Who are you?
So it was you, Head Cattle Broker Cho.
Good job.
Awesome!
Because of you all, Bong-Sam and Choi Dol-ee are about to die!
What are you going to do?
I asked who you are!
I'm Sun-dol.
Bong-sam's friend, Sun-dol!
Here!
Bong-Sam.
Is it you?
Did you do it?
Let this go. You need to save your energy.
About 2,000 grain. Did you do it?
No. It's not me.
Don't lie.
If I don't take the grain to Kim Bo-hyeon, I die.
Do you believe you can do anything with money?
That's not true.
Money is nothing without partnering it with power.
One can lose millions of nyang within a second.
One can lose life within a second, too.
Don't you get it after seeing your father, Chun Oh-su, and my father, Gil Sang-moon?
So-gae.
You and I had a business match in place of Shin Suk-ju and Kim Bo-hyeon.
You lost that fight.
And I won.
Shin Suk-ju lost the fight.
Kim Bo-hyeon won the fight.
He made a great profit of 2,000 grain.
Is that business?
That's fraud and theft!
Didn't you know?
Half of business is made up with fraud.
Making profits by drawing others' attention somewhere else is business.
You damned bastard!
It's 2,000 grain.
2,000 grain!
2,000 grain of the grain paid as nation's tax?
2,000 grain?
Instead of sending it to Jeonju,
it's strange that the governor came to Gunsan warehouse.
He lives with Kim Bo-hyeon in the same household.
That guy Gil So-gae had set things up to do this.
They say low class people's lives matter less than animals'.
Why are so many guys trying to kill Bong-Sam?
Hey, is life more important to you or your friendship with your best friend?
My life belongs to Chun Bong-Sam.
Bong-Sam has a great friend, huh?
Do you know how to ride a horse?
I've ridden before.
Hand this to Kim Bo-hyeon.
To Kim Bo-hyeon?
Why don't you confess?
If you stay quiet, nothing is going to change.
My sister.
My poor sister, Chun Soh-leh.
Did you do it knowing everything?
Did you know she was Soh-leh,
and made me throw her in Namdangjin with my own hands?
How could you say that?
Just say it!
Do I look like a beast to you?
Soh-leh used to be my finance!
How could you think of me like that?
This is the last chance.
If your tears are fake,
I will kill you.
Bong-Sam.
You did this to yourself.
What is so great about Cho Sung-jun?
Whether he was your former boss or whatever,
you should have left him when you found out he became a pirate.
Your unnecessary compassion caused you death.
For everything you have said,
you will have to be responsible for it.
If it's a lie,
I will kill you
with my own hand.
I'll give you some medicine.
Get some rest.
I don't like it.
I've grown old, too.
I don't like it when I have to have someone's blood on my hands.
Lord Ambassador of Sun-hye Palace said that he owes you a huge favor.
Really?
What exactly does he want?
He wants the general manager of the grain ship
to be strictly responsible for missing 2,000 grain.
I got it.
Wait until Chun Bong-Sam says that he communicated with the pirates.
I can punish him or execute him only after he makes some kind of confession.
I will take care of it.
It's Kim Bo-hyeon's extended property ledger, huh?
Look how much he has stolen from Sun-hye Palace.
It's even in Kim Hak-jun's record.
This is the only way to rescue my brother.
If you get unlucky, you may die for doing this.
Soh-leh, my life was rescued by Bong-Sam anyway.
You have to get this within four days.
Hurry up. What are you doing? Leave!
I know.
I know that Bong-Sam will die if I am late.
The wind is cold.
I'm okay.
I need to be healthy to see my boy grow up.
Head Merchant Shin!
What brings you so early in the morning?
This is not a time to be working out for your health!
If we get unlucky, you and I might die!
Did something happen to the grain ship?
That rascal.
Chun Oh-su's son, Chun Bong-Sam communicated with the pirates
and stole the grain!
What?
I received an urgent message from Gunsan!
Once the morning assembly starts, our King will find out.
Say something about it, Head Merchant Shin!
Everyone get out.
Chun Bong-Sam, this rascal stole 2,000 grain.
Are you telling me to believe that?
What if you don't believe it?
That's right.
Even if I don't believe it, there's nothing we can do about it.
Because you're the one who appointed him as the general manager,
I think you should notify this incident and kill him.
Mistress.
Mistress!
What is going on?
It's a chaos!
Head Cattle Broker Chun's life is at risk!
What do you mean the grain is stolen?
He doesn't steal things!
Men with power would do anything to save themselves!
They probably made this up!
You can't go to Sir Head Merchant.
Then what would I do?
What else would I do?
I should put my head to his feet, and beg him for life!
He will die, you will die, and the baby inside you will die, too.
You can never do that.
Are you able to swallow the porridge right now?
We're about to upset the applecart!
If it's 2,000 grain...
it's 100,000 nyang.
If you sell that to smugglers, you can easily receive 1,000,000 nyang!
So what?
Chun Bong-Sam has a huge deal, huh?
How dare he attempt to steal 1,000,000 nyang away from this Shin Suk-ju?
Transporting the grain paid as nation's tax is your duty.
Whether it is 100,000 nyang or 1,000,000 nyang, you will have to fill it up.
I don't know what Maeng Gu-bum had committed,
but you kicked him out in one blow.
Why are you so weak in front of Chun Bong-Sam?
Just sit.
Sit.
How has your morning sickness been?
At the market, they have Western-style cakes called confections.
I'll get you some of them.
Sir Head Merchant.
Before you open your mouth,
you should ask yourself first,
If it will benefit or harm yourself,
if it would kill you or save your life!
Rather than speaking out your mind,
it's better to keep it inside you.
People don't realize that.
Sir Head Merchant.
I'm going to pretend I didn't hear you.
Sir Head Merchant!
I have something to tell you.
Didn't I tell you that I will pretend I don't hear you?
Head Merchant Shin.
I see you a lot today.
Ambassador Kim, did our King find out about the grain ship incident?
Oh man. Are you kidding me?
The morning assembly was a chaos!
I can't believe I have disappointed him.
Ambassador Kim, kill him.
Who?
Chun Bong-Sam?
Kill Chun Bong-Sam?
No matter which ship has the missing grain,
getting robbed is the general manager's responsibility.
Go ahead and kill Chun Bong-Sam.
Mother.
What is it?
A person from Sun-hye Palace said that the grain ship flipped over.
You know the general manager?
Bong-Sam?
Chun Bong-Sam?
What was the name?
Hurry up and say it.
What about the general manager?
He planned things out with pirates and stole 2,000 grain.
What?
Stop it!
How many days have been past?
Why is it so hard to confess?
The circumstances show that you guys secretly communicated with the pirates!
Sir.
We didn't improperly communicate with the pirates.
Governor, this is unfair.
We didn't.
We're not it.
Then, are you saying that you don't know the pirates?
I did meet them.
Not as a pirate, but when he was a head cattle broker,
when I was a merchant, I served him.
I met him as the person I knew back in the day.
Stop making excuses!
We're saying the truth.
Save us!
Please save us.
Please save us!
They say that one that lives with cripples learns to limp.
You and the pirates are one team!
We are not pirates.
We're not pirates.
We're workmen of the grain ship!
Okay, that's it.
Until they confess, torture them so their skins will rip apart!
Mr. Bong.
Yeah?
I have a favor to ask you.
Okay.
What?
I don't think I can handle it anymore.
Saying that I secretly communicated with the pirates
is about to come out of my mouth.
Are you crazy?
If you say that, you will get killed immediately.
Because we didn't say that, we are still alive.
That's what I'm saying.
Therefore, Bong-Sam, if you think I'm about to say that,
you have to kill me.
I have no regrets. I'm serious.
I enjoyed doing business with you.
Even though I'm sad that I won't be there to watch you get back the stable,
I'm okay.
Are you okay?
You're okay?
You know I get easily scared of things.
I can't let everyone die because of what I said.
So with your hands...
Okay?
Promise me!
We know this...
Bong-Sam.
You're not going to die.
You're not dying, okay?
Mother.
Lord Ambassador Kim will be late.
Because of the grain ship incident, Sun-hye Palace is on alert.
How about you go home and come back tomorrow?
Are you okay?
This rascal, are you out of your mind?
I'm from Gunsan.
Did Superintendent Gil send you?
Kim Hak-jun's concubine was Chun Bong-sam's older sister?
Chun Oh-su's damned daughter. How dare she threaten me?
If Chun Bong-Sam dies,
she said she would send the remaining 5 ledgers
to Sir Min Kyeom-ho.
You rascal!
You rascal.
Lord Ambassador!
Do you want to die right now?
If you want to kill me, do whatever you want to do.
Please save Chun Bong-sam's life.
Lord Ambassador.
Please save my friend Chun Bong-sam's life.
Chun Bong-Sam!
Why is that name bothering me so much?
Open it.
Yes.
This rascal is...
Lord Ambassador?
What is it?
This is a promissory note for exchange gaekju under Kim Hak-jun's name.
It's worth 1,000,000 nyang.
It's the price for Chun Bong-sam's life.
Go put some medicine on or at least wash the blood!
What's so funny, Honorable Mama?
From the yard of Guksadang Shrine,
I looked at this household early morning today.
Well, I saw a rainbow over the ridge of your roof.
Congratulations.
What do you mean?
Didn't you hear me?
I just had a moment of failure.
Do you not trust my words?
No, not at all.
Honorable Mama, what should I do?
It is harder to get money in your hand,
when you force your arm to reach it.
Just pick it.
I'm telling you there are endless amount of money under your feet.
Just sweep it with a broom and pick it.
Why are you so worried about Chun Bong-sam's life?
When they come back to Port of Seogang,
do you think Head Merchant Shin will leave him alone?
You should just let him live,
and act like you don't know anything.
I'm telling you to focus on picking the money.
Let Shin Suk-ju hold the sword by the hilt?
I'm sorry, Bong-Sam.
For leaving...
For leaving you.
I'm sorry.
Soh-leh.
You're okay, right?
You safely ran away with Sir Head Cattle Broker, right?
Right, Soh-leh?
Soh-leh.
Deuk-gae.
I will never forget about you.
I'm sorry.
Were you here again?
Is Sun-dol back yet?
I asked the warden through a messenger.
The governor said...
that he will make them confess today no matter what.
What should we do, Ms. Soh-leh?
I will go to the warehouse and confess.
Do you think that will make them to set Bong-Sam free?
I should meet Gil So-gae.
No.
That's a really dangerous thing to do.
We need to earn some time before Sun-dol gets here.
Please find out where Gil So-gae is.
Choi Dol-ee.
Gom-bae.
It depends on you whether they live or die.
I think it depends on you whether you and I die.
The governor ordered to end it today.
If you don't confess today, everyone will die no matter what.
What do you mean it depends on me?
We can end this with you.
If you confess that you alone communicated with the pirates and stole 2,000 grain,
I will convince them to let others live by making them laborers.
Don't you think that's better than letting everyone die?
Sir.
What is it?
This is for you.
This is...
This belongs to my sister!
This belongs to Chun Soh-leh.
Belongs to Chun Soh-leh!
Take him away.
Why would my sister send you this?
Huh?
Why would...
Why would she give this to you?
So-gae!
So-gae, why? Why?
Are you here, So-gae?
What is your intention behind it?
What is it that you want?
Money?
Is 1,000,000 nyang what you need?
1,000,000 nyang.
It's very tempting, but I don't want to eat it.
I don't want to end up like Kim Hak-jun by taking the money he stole.
Did you ever miss me?
Soh-leh.
I'm not 17 anymore.
You, too,
isn't Chun Soh-leh from that time.
Even when I was living as Kim Hak-jun's concubine,
I always...
missed you.
I can't save Bong-Sam.
Let's talk about Bong-Sam later.
Right now, you and I...
should talk about us.
--The Merchant: Gaekju 2015--
Did you purposefully let them steal it?
Hire Gil So-gae.
As a leading merchant.
I am in charge of getting rid of Song-pa Stable.
Are you a head cattle broker?
I'm a pathetic man!
Go get Chun Bong-Sam!
How am I supposed to stand watching him die?
I'm here because your life is at risk!