Head Cattle Broker.
Shoot them.
Shoot!
Oh, no!
Stop it.
No!
No, you can't go!
Let go!
What's the point of going up to them now?
Head Cattle Broker! Let me go!
Bong-Sam!
Let go! Head Cattle Broker!
Bong-Sam!
Head Cattle Broker.
Who are you?
Head Cattle Broker.
Head Cattle Broker!
You're a friend of this murderer, huh?
What do you mean by a murderer?
Who's a murderer? Who?
Without investigating the incident,
how could you kill people first?
Head Cattle Broker...
If you want to follow along your fellows,
then jump.
Head Cattle Broker...
Head Cattle Broker.
Head Cattle Broker...
--Episode 12--
Bong-Sam.
How did you get in here?
Huh?
Sun-dol emptied his money bag to get in here to give you this soup.
Think about who Kim Hak-jun is.
He's a half brother of a man from Sun-hye Palace.
It's a war-zone around here.
Hurry up and eat.
It's all soggy now.
How about Head Cattle Broker?
They're saying that it's going to be hard to find his dead body.
What nonsense is that?
He used to live in Han River.
Would the famed Song-pa head cattle broker die in mere water?
Tell them to stop making nonsense.
They didn't die because of the river.
They got shot.
And it was high tide.
Their dead bodies are somewhere in the ocean now.
Brother...
It seems like you're angry at Bong-Sam.
Are you mad because you had to spend money?
We have to think straight now. Dead people are dead.
You said you needed to go find Song-pa Stable again.
You said you're a cattle broker.
You said there are hundreds of people under you.
So what?
What are you trying to say?
I asked for cross-examination.
This room and that room...
I fed all the guards in every room, and got this chance.
They will examine you to see if you broke into Kim Hak-jun's house or not.
If they say no, then you will be set free.
But do you think they'll say "no"?
If you're from Song-pa Stable, then they'll try to connect you somehow with the crime.
Bong-Sam.
Beg them no matter what.
Okay?
Beg them to save you.
Okay?
That you didn't break in, okay?
Bow down to Kim Hak-jun's concubine and beg for life.
That's the only way to get out of there.
Okay?
Oh, no!
You said "bye" that time.
While celebrating your 60th birthday,
what is this all of sudden?
Oh, no!
Why don't you light the candle first?
You wench!
You're only a concubine.
How dare do you go in and out of this room?
You're a concubine only when he was alive.
Look at you, wearing mourning clothes.
Why are you acting like his wife?
Before other relatives get here, hurry up and leave.
My sister-in-law would feel uncomfortable.
I was being inconsiderate.
Hey, Butler Hwang.
All of my brothers unfulfilled tasks,
I will fulfill them for the sake of my brother.
That way, my brother can rest in peace.
All of the documents, including ledgers and promissory notes,
don't miss any of them and pack them.
Yes, sir.
Oh, no.
Oh...
I knew he was ridiculously greedy,
but I can't believe someone like him controls the nation tax.
Hand him over as much documents as needed, so he won't sense our intention.
And we're going to leave early in the morning after taking care of Gil So-gae.
How about the deed to Song-pa Stable?
People think the head cattle broker killed Kim Hak-jun.
I will have to pass it on to him.
Go!
Mr. Bong!
Mr. Bong.
Bong-Sam. / Mr. Bong.
Go on!
Mr. Bong... Mr. Bong!
Mr. Bong! Mr. Bong!
Does the concubine have to be there at his cross-examination?
She probably resents all of us for her dead husband.
But they said that concubine is a witness.
Bong-sam's life depends on whatever the concubine says.
Ugh.
Let's go.
("Chun's Gaekju")
Ma'am!
You're in there, right?
Oh, no.
They say people can drop out of life.
Ma'am, it perfectly fits your situation.
Oh, no.
Why are you here?
Oh.
People from the government office are here.
They want you to see if this man was the fellow,
who broke into the house with the head cattle broker.
Over there.
Look at him carefully.
He had a Song-pa Stable license.
Put your head up.
I'm sorry for your loss, but
our Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker didn't kill him.
Then?
Do you know who killed him?
This is Lord Ambassador from Sun-hye Palace.
Drink this.
I'm ordering you to drink this.
Now!
Answer me.
Who killed my brother?
The one who killed Kim Hak-jun is
Kim Hak-jun. He himself did it.
Oh, my. Oh, my!
What?
What nonsense is he spouting out?
What's what? You, rascal!
What... nonsense....
Lord!
You, rascal!
What did you just say?
How dare you speak like that about our Lord's brother?
Stop!
Even though we're merely merchants,
there's at least business ethics to follow.
Even though he knew our Song-pa Stable was a stolen property,
he paid 20,000 nyang for it.
On top of that,
he ordered swordsmen to steal back the promissory note.
He ate something he shouldn't have eaten,
so how can he live without dying?
Therefore,
the one who killed him
isn't our Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker.
He got falsely accused. It was false accusation!
My brother was found dead with Cho Sung-jun's jacket in his hand.
What do you mean by false accusation?
The fact that a Song-pa man came to Kangkyeong
is enough to accuse him of murder.
He is also a criminal.
Yes, Lord.
Take him away.
Yes, sir.
Wait.
By any chance,
have you ever seen me before?
Do you have a three-letter name?
He's just a cattle broker. Why would he have a three-letter name?
That's not true.
This is a license.
Huh?
Gaeseong, Songdo Village,
Chun's Gaekju, Chun Oh-su?
How can a cattle broker from Song-pa Stable
have a Songdo village license...
You're even more suspicious now.
Chun's Gaekju license is my father's.
I am...
a Song-pa Stable cattle broker named
Chun Bong-Sam.
Chun Bong-Sam!
That's right, that's right.
I know your father.
You guys look alike. Look extremely alike!
Yes. Thank you!
I am grateful!
To be like him, I still have a long way to go. But I would like to look alike!
I'm making a great effort to be like him!
I'm grateful!
You're just like your father.
This is why breed is so important. Breed!
Take him and strictly examine him.
Yes, Lord.
Get up.
No!
No, Lord.
Before he died, my master told me
not to associate with men playing with big beasts.
He told me to avoid men from Song-pa Stable.
What the hell are you...
Then,
are you telling me to be afraid of that cattle broker and set him free?
My master...
I just want my master to rest in peace.
How many people died from this Song-pa Stable incident?
My master died.
And the head cattle broker of Song-pa Stable died.
Please...
Please stop it here.
I don't want him to smell dead blood.
And I want him to peacefully rest.
That man.
I've never seen that man before.
Just like he said,
I'm sure that he came to Kangkyeong after this incident.
If he is...
if he is the fellow of the murderer,
I would kill him with my own hands.
Take him away.
Let's go.
Hurry up and go!
No!
Let go!
My Bong-Sam is right in front of me!
My Bong-Sam!
Did you forget who is here with us?
If Kim Bo-hyeon finds out who you are, everyone dies.
I'll go check first.
Who are you?
Soh-leh?
Did Soh-leh send you?
I have it here.
Here.
Take it.
I don't need pieces of gold.
What is it?
Oh, oh.
Misunderstood it.
Soh-leh misunderstood it.
Take me with you.
And whatever she is thinking, I'll go talk to her.
Kim Hak-jun said it before he died that
you're the one who killed Head Merchant Chun.
Bong-Sam...
Does Bong-Sam know it, too?
Soh-leh has been looking for Bong-Sam, and I know where he is.
Is Bong-Sam from Song-pa Stable the one that the mistress has been looking for?
Or is that something you made up as a part of your plan?
What plan?
I saved Bong-sam's life.
Someone pushed him off of a cliff, and
I saved his life when he was about to die.
I was wondering who stole the Song-pa Stable promissory note,
it's you, huh?
Oh, yeah.
I'm right.
I see.
You did it.
Does Soh-leh know about it, too?
That Bong-Sam almost died in your hands because of the promissory note?
Song-pa Stable's second generation Head Cattle Broker is...
Bong-Sam.
Are you going to stay here forever?
Let him be.
You don't know.
To Bong-Sam,
Head Cattle Broker was like a father.
Head Cattle Broker.
This Chun Bong-Sam,
as the second generation head cattle broker,
promises you.
No matter what,
I will find our stable back.
I will take care of our stable families.
Sir,
do not worry about anything.
Rest in peace!
Let's go.
Whoa! My goodness.
You're finally here.
What are you doing here?
I heard you got released, but you weren't coming...
I wanted to check if the swordsman came to see you.
A swordsman?
Then, you're saying that Kim Hak-jun's concubine did this?
If not,
do you think Kim Hak-jun's dead body sent the swordsman?
But there must be a reason to do such risky things.
That's the life of all concubines.
When they grow old, they either get kicked out or stay in a hidden room.
Then, they become less than a servant.
She probably got afraid to get kicked out with no money.
Just because of that,
they kill people?
She is well-known in Kangkyeong as a greedy witch.
She probably made more gaekju to go bankrupt than Kim Hak-jun did.
Making it as if Head Cattle Broker did it,
she killed her own husband. She's that evil-minded.
Bong-Sam, you too.
You almost died because of that swordsman.
If Gae-ddong and I didn't save you,
you would've been dead by now.
Well, that's true. That is really true.
Today, I almost died, too.
If the heaven didn't help me,
I would've been stabbed and turned into fish feed,
or buried in this mountain.
But she knelt down to Sun-hye Palace Ambassador to save your life.
Isn't that weird?
Hey, hey!
She was afraid that she'll get caught by placing Bong-Sam on cross-examination.
Whoa, I see.
Let's take a disciplinary measure on that concubine.
How?
If we have a witness, we can possibly confront them.
Do you think the government office will listen to powerless men like us?
To the government,
it has stupid law that makes them listen to men with power and money.
To us,
there's stricter law than that called the peddler's policy.
You are right.
Bong-Sam, this is...
something you need to be careful about.
That concubine killed Head Cattle Broker and Wang-bal.
She almost killed So-gae,
and she killed her own husband.
Should we leave an evil woman alone like that?
So what are you saying?
That river.
Where Head Cattle Broker and Wang-bal died,
in that river,
I'm going to bury her in that river.
Father.
Our Bong-Sam...
I finally found Bong-Sam.
I know the structure well. You should keep guard here.
Deuk-gae, is that you?
How about Deuk-gae? What did you do?
It seems like Kim Bo-hyeon is here. If you yell like that...
he'll find out who you are and who killed Kim Hak-jun, no?
I hoped to live
a life without thinking about the past, about you, me, and Bong-Sam.
18 years passed, and
both your father and my father are long gone.
I thought it was God's will to save Bong-sam's life.
All three of us
living together. I thought that was the plan.
But I had no idea you would try to kill me.
You save Bong-sam's life?
You won't stop lying, huh?
I brought your brother, Chun Bong-Sam.
He's outside right now.
What's taking him so long?
So-gae!
Did something happen?
No.
Here, use this.
Bong-Sam.
Hurry up.
Bong-Sam, open this up for once. Just for once.
It's me. I'm your sister, Bong-Sam.
Father, help me.
Help me, father.
Hurry, hurry.
The guards will be on patrol shortly.
Let's hurry up.
Wait a second.
She needs to know what she did wrong.
They're going to patrol this area.
Open it up.
Okay.
Hey, Bong-Sam.
If you don't hurry up, we will be in danger!
This...
isn't a personal resentment payback.
This is strictly to represent Song-pa Stable and
Kyeonggi Province village. It's business.
Open it up!
On this one,
Bong-Sam is right.
We're dealing with a person's life,
so we should be following the business rules and ethics.
You, as Kim Hak-jun's concubine,
killed your own husband,
and also killed Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker
and senior merchant Wang-bal.
Because you killed those three people,
among all peddler's rules, you violated the strictest rule.
Bong-Sam, please...
Allow me to say one thing. Just one thing.
How did I live the past 18 years?
We finally met each other now.
You can't do this.
Don't do it.
Song-pa Stable of Kyeonggi Province is
punishing this woman for murdering people
with your own life.
Close it.
Okay.
Bong-Sam, no.
Dear God, please stop this. Help.
Bong-Sam.
Bong-Sam!
If you meet
Head Cattle Broker and Wang-bal,
beg them for forgiveness
in hell.
Let's go.
Bong-Sam!
Father.
I'm on my way to see you now.
Protect Bong-Sam...
Please protect Bong-Sam from Gil So-gae.
Also...
please don't let Bong-Sam know about today.
If he finds out that the concubine he punished to death is his sister,
our Bong-Sam will suffer in sadness.
Father, that little kid
Bong-Sam grew up as a handsome businessman.
("Port of Mapo")
Hanyang is not all that, huh?
This is Port of Mapo.
It's not part of the main city. That's why.
I didn't ask you.
Head Merchant.
Kim Hak-jun of Kangkyeong
Kim Hak-jun is dead.
What?
Why?
For what?
It seems like he got killed for taking over Song-pa Stable.
They said Cho Sung-jun killed him.
Oh, my...
Here.
This is condolence money.
I'll be back, boss.
I'll go on my own way from here now.
Oh, really?
Here.
Use it as your travel expense.
It's for your words of blessing.
If you come across any hardships, come and find me.
It is true that a person can never know what will happen to her life,
but I wouldn't come and find you.
Because you decided to show your gratitude,
I won't reject the travel money.
What is it?
Please give birth to a boy.
You should let Head Merchant bear a successor son.
Excuse me.
Excuse me!
Hey, look!
Look at you, wench,
talking like a man.
What is it?
Did Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker really do it?
Or is it just a rumor?
Oh, how nosy...
Why?
Is Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker your brother or something?
Oh, oh...
That's right.
You said you are on your way to find your finance.
If you're that curious, hurry up and go to Song-pa Stable.
No.
Them two have to stop meeting each other as enemies.
So, I really want you to come with us.
I have to go find Gae-ddong.
We couldn't find the promissory note. We don't have the deed to the stable.
We're not the one to offer him anything.
He will only suffer if he joins us.
While I sell salted seafood,
I'll find you if I hear about you.
Alright.
If you ever get to hear that I got the stable back, come and find me.
Instead of selling salted seafood, doing work at the stable should be much better.
You're telling me to work for you?
No thanks.
My father alone is enough for inferiority.
Let's drink this up and leave.
A farewell between two men can't be this depressing.
Right?
I will pray that you get back Song-pa Stable.
Thanks, brother.
Also, if you find Gae-ddong, tell him I said "hi".
Why are you so deeply in thought? That concubine?
What was she trying to say?
I think I should've listened to her story.
Bong-Sam.
You properly followed the peddler's rules to punish her.
Take it off of your mind.
Thinking about Song-pa Stable is already overwhelming.
You're right. We should get going.
Oh, we must hurry up.
It looks like it's going to rain.
Before the sun goes down, we should at least make it to Gongju.
Let's go.
Soh-leh.
Take this!
Soh-leh.
You didn't die because of me.
You died because of you.
Would you like to drink more?
So, why!
Why did you send the swordsman?
Why did you try to kill me?
Do you think I'll regret it?
Very funny.
When Gae-ddong told me
once I cross the line, I won't be able to come back,
I wondered what she meant.
Is this crossing the line?
The damn line.
I can cross it 100 more, or 1,000 more times.
Chun Soh-leh.
Back then,
when your father killed my father,
that's when we crossed the line.
I did think about it.
Soh-leh, you...
Me...
and Bong-Sam.
Forgetting the past,
I wondered if we can live together like the good old days.
Back when...
Chun's Gaekju was running well.
Soh-leh.
The day I become Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant
I will...
make the world's most beautiful grave for you.
Here comes our Head Merchant!
Welcome back, Head Merchant!
Let me get off.
What's wrong?
Are you feeling sick?
We're almost there.
How can I go through our gaekju entrance riding a palanquin?
Let her out.
Yes, boss.
Put it down.
Here.
This is your new home.
Alright, let's go in.
The day I become the head merchant,
you get my current position.
Don't miss anything, and
observe their bedtime as well.
It's delicious.
Very delicious.
You even have great cooking skills.
Because I'm a merchant,
unlike a nobleman,
I hate to talk around and make jokes.
Do you know what I expect from you?
If it's food, then say food,
playing an instrument, dancing, or singing,
name what you want.
I should do my job to be worth 150,000 nyang you paid.
Look at you.
This Shin Suk-ju really hit the jackpot.
Good.
Dancing is good. Singing is better.
Eating is even better than that.
Look.
Give birth to a son.
If heaven helps,
we may give birth to a son.
This can't be done with heaven's help.
You need to help to make it happen.
Today, I have a thing to take care of,
I'll be in my room.
Head Merchant.
When I saw the portrait of you,
I was moved by it.
As soon as I saw the portrait,
my heart that usually don't move, unless it's about money, moved.
Putting a beautiful woman in one man's heart
isn't just for young people.
Do they say only a young person's heart is sincere?
This old man's heart
isn't all about disgrace.
("Song-pa Stable")
Do you know how much backed up payments there are?
They took away all of the houses...
Because of this stupid Song-pa stable,
our business is about to go bankrupt.
Where is Head Cattle Broker?
Oh, don't do this.
Call him out!
Wait, did everyone run away or what?
There's a rumor that someone else bought Song-pa Stable.
According to the rumor,
they said Cho Sung-jun died.
Someone murdered him.
He didn't just die...
Who do we ask to get our money back?
Everyone! Let's break in.
I don't know what is worth the money,
but let's grab everything and leave.
What a chaos, huh?
Mr. Bong is right
when he said that a gaekju that went bankrupt is hell.
What do you mean by bankrupt!
Why would our stable go bankrupt?
Stay quiet!
Do you think this will solve the problem?
Just because you have to wait, isn't this a foolish thing to do?
By taking old and worthless tools like sickles, we're done.
Do you want your money to be written off like this?
Then, if we wait, can we get our money back?
In this situation?
If Cho Sung-jun dies, is there no head cattle broker or what?
There's Chun Bong-Sam!
Bong-Sam, who is that?
Did Head Cattle Broker have a hidden daughter or what?
Then, wait.
Say that you're right,
how much longer do we have to wait?
You're very impatient, huh?
Have a seat first.
It's way passed lunchtime, you all must be starving from yelling by now.
Let's all eat a bowl of soup.
I'll serve you all delicious bowls of soup.
Okay? Have a seat.
Over here.
Alright. Let's have a seat.
Let's sit down.
But, who are you?
Me?
Who are you?
I'm curious to know...
Why are you doing this?
Our Head Cattle Broker...
do you know him well?
I don't know about the first generation head cattle broker.
I know the second generation head cattle broker very well.
The second genera...
Me? You know me?
Ugh.
You ran away from me in Boeun to avoid paying me back the gratitude.
Wow. Now you're acting like you don't know me at all?
Ddong...
Gae-ddong?
Hey! Look at you all being surprised for being guilty.
You weren't a boy... a woman...
That's right, brother.
I'm Gae-ddong.
Wait, how...
About 10 people are sleeping in the shipper's room,
rest of the creditors left.
Oh, my. Thanks, Gae-ddong.
But...
Whoa.
I mean...
you're such a beautiful lady.
But what story is it?
Salted seafood seller?
That doesn't make sense!
Instead of this,
don't you need to ask me something else first?
Something else?
What?
My wish.
Oh, yeah! Your wish.
That's right.
Okay. What is your wish?
What is it?
My wish is...
to get married to you.
I would like to get married.
Come on, Gae-ddong.
Be my husband.
This is my only wish.
Gae-ddong...
--The Merchant: Gaekju 2015--
It's a writ of attachment.
How can Shin's Gaekju place its hands on this?
Lend me 200,000 nyang.
Didn't I tell you to forget me?
So, did you completely forget about me?
Even if I have to break the wings,
I have to own Chun Bong-Sam.