Episode 31
Are there still matters to be resolved with you?
Sir Head Merchant...
what a pitiful man.
He's about to be kicked out of Yook-ei-jeon's Head Merchant position.
Because of you,
He's losing Shin's Gaekju that he spent all of his life on!
I just--
I just wanted to get Yu-su back.
I didn't know that would happen to Sir Head Merchant.
It's your fault for taking Yu-su.
If you didn't want to have a child for him,
you should've rejected it in the first place.
You didn't say anything to him all this time and followed him,
and now you turn him into a liar?
If you didn't take Yu-su--
I wouldn't have done that.
Yu-su's father.
What did you just say?
What did she just say?
You stole Yu-su?
What did she mean by that!
Tell me the truth.
Did you really--
take Yu-su to the Head Merchant?
Tell me.
Meaningless.
It's all meaningless.
Repaying someone for gratitude--
I knew it was all useless
but I thought Chun Bong-Sam would be different.
But everyone's all the same.
Yes.
I took your son Yu-su to the Head Merchant.
It's better this way.
It's better for us to end it now--
both for Gae-ddong
and for you.
It's better.
Ending a relationship is harder than starting one.
When you think it's really time to end it, you have to do it politely.
She's praying so she says she cannot see anyone right now.
Tell her I'm going to Song-pa tomorrow.
I'm leaving as soon as the sun rises.
Before that...
Tell her to let me know if her mind about Yu-su's mother changes.
Yes, sir.
I'll tell you where the fish barn is.
Get rid of Shin Suk-ju's wife in return.
As Guksadang who serves the Queen,
and as one who takes care of the prince, I will promise you.
If you get rid of that woman, I'll let you become the Head Merchant.
Mama.
Sir Gil left.
He says to let him know when your mind changes.
He says he's going to Song-pa tomorrow morning to pay his debt to you.
That's the last bell of the day.
So what?
Run to So-gae and tell him I was wrong?
That I was crazy for being blinded by jealousy and trying to kill someone?
Shall I do that?
If she dies,
I'm worried about how painful it would be for you,
but my bigger concern in
that you will be judged.
I did an evil act as someone who serves god.
I will have to pay the price.
It's not too late to change your mind.
Mama.
She's not coming.
Get it going.
You must not make a mistake.
Your life is at risk.
I raised him. It'll work without a doubt.
A stable isn't guarded by gates like a house.
It's full of people so it'll be easy to slip in with the crowd.
Look for the right timing.
Don't worry about that either.
I trust you.
Yes!
How will you punish me?
Put me in a bowl of fire,
drop me into a cave of poison--
do as you please!
Mama!
Something bad is really going to happen if you do this!
I am not afraid of you.
No matter how scary your punishment is going to be,
seeing that woman with Chun Bong-sam's son, by Chun Bong-sam's side--
it won't be as painful as that!
Mama.
When she's gone,
he will come to me, right?
Even for just one day...
I want to live as Chun Bong-sam's woman for even just one day.
After that--
you can throw me into fire
or throw me into snake's den,
Do as you please!
Do as you please.
We have to go to Wonsan to buy silk when new year passes.
We should make the best of the wedding season in spring.
What are those people?
No reason to glare at us like that.
You people have no reason to be here in Song-pa but you came in a huge crowd.
How could I be smiling?
So, what brings you here?
We lost to you.
We came to surrender.
What do you mean?
If a merchant comes to a merchant's house, there is only one reason.
You came to make a deal with Merchant Chun.
You all only make deals with the Head Merchant.
What are you saying?
Gaekju customers are like a group of fish.
They move by the direction of the water, flowing from one direction to another.
If we want to compare them to fish, Merchant Ma is the big fish.
Why didn't you come with him?
You want to end the agreement?
Is that what you're saying?
Things are getting rotten in our Gaekju storage.
How can I just sit and watch?
So.
You're going to leave Yook-ei-jeon,
and play along with Dobok people instead?
You received a vote of no confidence at the meeting.
All the Wonsan merchants are going to go bankrupt if we keep working with you!
This is the contract we made for pollocks last time.
Are you going to Song-pa?
To meet Chun Bong-Sam?
Hey, hey--
Sir Head Merchant!
He can't do that!
Even if everyone betrays you, Ma Chi-soon shouldn't do that!
Don't be so angry.
It's no time to be angry.
It's time to be cold.
Now.
Who is my ally and who is my enemy?
Let's determine that first.
Honorable Mama is coming out.
How are you feeling?
I heard you brought Yu-su.
I didn't doubt it at all.
Did you bring him for me?
Or for Gil So-gae?
It was for no one else but me.
You won't understand.
I did it for myself.
Let's go.
Yes, Sir Head Merchant.
Sir Head Merchant.
Your generation is over.
There is nothing in this world that lasts forever.
The harder you try to stay in your place,
the more others will try to pull you down.
Step down now.
You should make your end beautiful.
Once you've lost your battle, everything becomes an excuse.
There's no such thing as a beautiful failure.
I hope the choice you made was a good one.
Is that true?
Gil So-gae is taking Min Kyeom-ho's side?
Yes, Lord Ambassador.
He's been going to Min's house.
That ungrateful child!
I raised that shrimp-selling kid until now...
What--
What are you doing here all of a sudden?
Are you saying you're busy and that I should leave?
That's too embarrassing for me.
You even need a cane now.
So what brings the sick man here?
Weren't you betrayed by Gil So-gae?
I believe there are things to be discussed between you and me.
What did the Head Merchant say?
Did he agree right away?
I was so nervous.
Even if he's lost all his teeth, he's still the tiger of Yook-ei-jeon.
Well then.
Tell us what the deal you want to make with us is.
Will you be able to preserve our Wonsan's pollocks, silk, and kelp safely?
Better than Yook-ei-jeon.
All of those goods?
What is Yook-ei-jeon?
Isn't it a place where you sit still in the middle of Hanyang and sell goods?
We sell goods on our feet, going from one village to the other.
That means we, 200,000 peddlers, are on a different level from Yook-ei-jeon merchants.
Then. Who will sell more goods?
Think about it.
You're right, Merchant Chun.
He's right.
You've come to the right place.
We have to hurry on the meals for the guests.
Yes, Mama.
Wol.
Watch Yu-su for me.
Yes, mistress.
Yu-su.
I should go get some kimchi from the kimchi storage.
Mama, I will--
It's okay.
Continue what you were doing.
I'll go get it.
Yu-su! Yu-su!
Mistress, what's wrong?
Oh, just wondering if he's okay.
You're traumatized from last time.
I'll go work. Stay in here with Yu-su.
No.
I'm a little better at cooking than you are, no?
Don't put him down and watch him well, okay?
I'm gonna go cook for your daddy.
Okay?
What is that?
Isn't that Mrs. Chun's voice?
Mistress?
Mistress! What's wrong?
What happened?
S-s-snake!
Why would there be a snake here in this cold winter?
Now you're seeing things!
No, look closely over there!
The tail, the tail!
A snake, a snake!
Look, the tail!
What...
Were you bit?
Doctor! Doctor!
Come on, come on!
Careful, careful.
Careful.
Mistress!
Careful.
Mistress.
Hang in there.
Tie it tight.
I'll go get Merchant Chun.
Wait here.
No.
He's having an important meeting. Don't.
No, mistress.
We have to go get him!
It's not that bad.
I can handle it.
You took out the poison
and we called the doctor too so he'll be here.
When he's done making the deal and the guests leave...
Wonsan merchants will not fix the price for their goods.
Song-pa Stable, Chun's Gaekju's owner Chun Bong-Sam will actively cooperate
in preserving Wonsan's goods pollocks, silk, and kelp.
The details are as attached.
Gaekju owner, stamp.
I believe the most important part of a deal is trusting each other.
I'll trust you as I stamp this.
Now, now.
We all stamped it.
Let's eat some food now.
Stables are known to have the best food, no?
You don't know much, do you?
Out of all the stables, Song-pa Stable's food is the best of the best.
We'll see you in Wonsan after New Years.
Yes, yes.
Please tell your wife her food is amazing.
My wife will be very happy to hear that.
Well then, have a safe trip.
Alright.
Merchant Han, you've done a great job as well.
Things will work out well.
Alright then.
Safe trip.
Bong! Bong!
What now?
You have to go inside.
Now, now!
Why? What's up?
Mistress is in danger!
Danger!
W-What do you mean?
She was preparing food just fine until now!
Hurry, sir!
Yu-su's mom!
Snake poison?
What do you mean!
Yu-su's mom!
What happened?
The poison already spread out all over the body.
There's nothing I can do.
You're the doctor! What do you mean you can't do anything!
Hey, you can't just leave like that!
Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!
Yu-su's mom!
Where was it?
Yu-su's mom!
Wake up.
Yu-su's mom!
Wake up.
Yu-su's mom.
The woman...
is dead.
Are you satisfied?
Mama.
People from Song-pa are here.
Honorable Mama!
Please let us come in!
Come in.
Honorable Mama!
Our... our...
Our mistress was bitten by a snake.
She's in danger.
It's a life and death situation.
Honorable Mama.
Please help us.
You're the Honorable Mama.
You're the Honorable Mama who even fixed the prince's sickness!
Please save her.
If she dies...
Bong is going to die too.
I know you're not comfortable with them.
But that's that.
Someone is about to lose her life right now.
Please help just this time.
Please!
Leave first.
I'll get ready and follow right after.
Do we trust her and go first?
She'll come.
Let's go.
What are you going there for?
I have to go.
What are you gonna do there?
Are you going to say goodbye to her?
Are you going to mourn for her?
I don't know what I'm going to do either.
But I have to go.
I did this.
I should go.
It's going to be hard.
It'll be just as hard even if I stayed.
Take this.
This is the snake's poison.
It will reduce the pain.
It's not going to be easy.
When you feel like it's the time to use it, use it.
Yu-su's mom.
Fight it.
Yu-su is waiting for you.
Fight it.
Yu-su's mom.
You're awake!
Where is Yu-su?
Yu-su. Yu-su!
He's sleeping at Andong's house.
Our poor baby.
I haven't even stopped breastfeeding him.
Wol.
Please take care of our Yu-su.
Mistress.
What are you doing?
Who told you to leave a will?
Why are you telling Wol to take care of our child?
You get up and take care of him.
You have to raise him!
Yu-su is waiting.
So get up.
Yu-su's mom.
Fight it.
Honorable Mama!
This way.
Honorable Mama, what's wrong?
Hurry, hurry!
Honorable Mama.
We don't have much time.
You came.
Yu-su's mom.
Please save her.
You can do it, right?
My wife!
You can save her, right?
I can't do everything.
It's up to god.
Let her go.
Let me see.
Honorable Mama.
Was it you?
Yes, it's me.
Yu-su's mom.
How could you--
How could I not come when this happened to you?
Yu-su's dad.
Honorable Mama--
Yes, tell me.
Merchant Chun! Merchant Chun!
I caught the guy! Come out!
Yu-su--
Go outside for a bit.
It's not good to talk a lot right now.
All her energy is being wasted.
Mistress.
You shouldn't talk right now.
Let all your energy stay inside.
That's how you can hold onto your life.
Gae-ddong.
Will she make it?
Go out. She needs to rest!
Okay, okay.
I'll be right back.
You gotta let me know if something happens.
She says you can make it.
Thank you!
This is a red-tongued viper.
A red-tongued viper!
Brother.
This is the one.
This red-tongued viper is the one that bit her!
What was a snake doing in the kimchi storage hut?
Snakes are supposed to avoid people.
A serpent might be out in the winter
but what was a red-tongued viper doing out here in the winter?
This makes no sense!
I know snakes well.
This one wasn't in hibernation.
Ones in hibernation can't be this strong even if you force them to wake up.
This snake...
was raised by someone.
It was raised by someone.
Whoever it is, we have to catch him.
We have to get him!
It'll feel better this way.
Was it really you?
They say...
that life is like a circus, full of laughter and sadness.
Just think of it that way -- your circus is just over.
How--
How can you do such a thing?
I will be punished for this one day.
In this life or the next...
I will be punished for this.
Why did you have to go this far?
At a place without your shadow covering us,
I want to spend just one day with the man Chun Bong-Sam.
I don't know why I had to come this far either.
All I know is...
he is the only one who can keep me in good health--
that he is my destiny.
You are pitiful...
pathetic...
pitiful--
I want to forgive you...
I want to forgive you--
Stop.
Don't forgive me.
Don't try to understand me either.
Just go.
Stop putting me in pain.
Just leave this world.
Gat-nan!
Go get Merchant Chun. Now!
She is on her way now.
Go get him now!
Yu-su's mom!
Mistress!
I brought your son.
Yu-su's mom.
Yu-su's mom!
Look at me.
Yu-su's mom!
Look at me.
Look at me!
They say even one who is on his way to Joseon
will turn back if you call them desperately.
Please say something.
Yu-su's mom!
Mama.
Yu-su's mom!
Can you hear me?
I was so happy--
that I got to meet you.
Don't say that.
I can't be separated from you.
Don't say goodbye.
If you are so sad,
how will I leave?
Then don't leave.
Don't go.
Don't cry.
We will meet again.
Don't be too sad.
Yu-su's mom.
My--
My heart is not ready yet.
My heart here--
is not ready to send you away yet.
It's all my fault.
Think of our Yu-su.
Stay with us.
Yu-su.
Here.
He's right here.
I'm sorry.
My baby.
Mistress.
I am leaving your dad with hurt in his heart.
My baby.
Give your dad happiness, in place of me.
Yu-su's mom!
Mistress!
Yu-su's mom!
Yu-su's mom.
Mama!
I'll go get the sedan chair.
The soldiers too.
I don't need any of that.
Send them back.
Now!
Mama.
Gae-ddong!
What are you doing!
What are you doing?
She wouldn't go on the sedan chair or use an umbrella.
She walked all the way here in the rain.
Yu-su's mom really left.
Gae-ddong!
Hold this!
Gae-ddong!
What do I do with this child--
Let's get going.
Hurry.
With our child in my arm like this...
and you're with me right here...
All of this feels like a dream.
I'm scared but so happy.
I'm sorry.
I gave you such a hard time.
I'm really sorry.
when I am with you,
I'm not afraid of anything.
Go inside!
Bong!
What are you doing?
You can't do this!
Where are you going with that?
I can't forgive that guy that took away my wife.
I can't bear to live under the same sky as him.
Bong-Sam!
You can't.
If you really want to kill the one who killed her,
I will do it. I will!
Move out of the way.
Goodbye, Mrs. Chun.
I have nothing against you.
I'm sorry.
What's going on?
You disloyal bastard keeps changing sides,
Betraying Kim Bo-hyeon, did you think you'd be safe?
Take him out!
Yes, sir!
Sir!
Sir, what are you saying?
Sir!
Brother!
Brother, calm down. Calm down!
You are the Gaekju owner.
Hundreds of merchants are only looking up to you!
If you do this, you're ruining all of our gaekju!
We worked so hard to get the stable back and to build Chun's Fish Barn!
Chun Bong-Sam!
You fool!
This is not it.
Is it?
Do you want me to die?
Let me go.
Sir Head Merchant!
We brought Gil So-gae.
You--
You ungrateful child!
I took the stinking shrimp-selling merchant
and brought you this far.
How dare you betray me!
Why would I betray you?
You--!
You rascal!
Everyone step outside.
Yes, Sir Head Merchant.
It's been said that,
government officials' houses, those walls and doors,
aren't built with just regular wood and mud.
They all have eyes and ears.
Why are you making it so hard?
I even know how many spoons Min Kyeom-ho has!
Did you think I wouldn't know that you tricked me and partnered with Min Kyeom-ho?
That's not it!
It's a misunderstanding!
So-gae.
I told you.
When you want to kill an animal,
you have to grab it in the neck and kill it instantly!
Of all the beasts out there,
a half-dead tiger is the most fierce.
A scarred wild beast that is trying its best to survive
will kill anything -- a hunter, a villager, a woman, a child!
I already finished discussing the matter with Sir Head Merchant.
You will not walk out of this room.
What do you think you're doing?
Shin Suk-ju!
What are you doing?
How dare you come in here with an ax!
Shin Suk-ju!
Block him!
Shin Suk-ju!
I will kill whoever blocks my way!
Shin Suk-ju.
Shin Suk-ju!
It's Chun Bong-Sam.
Chun Bong-Sam!
Sir Head Merchant!
Song-pa's Merchant Chun!
Ax!
He came with an ax!
What are you doing here?
My wife.
Did you kill her?
My wife!
Did you kill her?
What?
Shin Suk-ju.
Why aren't you answering me?
Hey!
I don't want to be separated from you.
Just because there's no evidence doesn't mean there's no truth.
Was it you?
You're getting shot by your own arrow.
Why are you keeping Shin Suk-ju so loose?
What do you want?
40,000 nyang.
I need to meet Merchant Chun.
We're about to get all our money taken away by him!
Give me the contract.
It's not Sir Head Merchant.