Episode 32
What are you doing?
Shin Suk-ju!
What are you doing?
How dare you bring an ax to this place!
Shin Suk-ju!
Block him!
Shin Suk-ju!
I'm going to kill whoever blocks my way!
Shin Suk-ju!
What's going on!
My wife.
Did you kill her?
My wife!
Did you kill her?
What?
Shin Suk-ju.
Shin Suk-ju!
Why aren't you answering me?
Hey you!
Did you do it?
Shin Suk-ju.
Answer me.
What are you saying?
You should escape, Sir Head Merchant.
Shin Suk-ju!
Sir Head Merchant, hide in here.
Hey.
Shin Suk-ju.
Did you do it?
Why can't you answer me?
Yes.
Yu-su's mom.
Yes.
I...
I killed her.
Shin Suk-ju.
Shin Suk-ju!
Hey.
I...
Yu-su...
I wanted to have Yu-su so bad.
That's why I killed her.
I...
I did.
People of this world
say you are the richest man of Joseon.
But I'm not jealous of your wealth at all.
A tiger leaves its skin when it dies.
A hero leaves his name.
And a rich man leaves people.
But you...
You won't be able to leave anything and die as an old man.
In your pile of money.
Pathetically.
As a pitiful, old man.
You'll die that way.
I'm going to watch you.
I am a pathetic man and there's no one else like me in this world!
Kill me!
I'll kill you right now!
Sir Head Merchant.
Please save him.
It's delicious.
I
Can't let you go...
I can't let you go.
Was it Chun Bong-Sam?
I thought I heard that Yu-su's mom died or something.
You said she died last time but she was alive!
Is she really dead this time?
Lord Ambassador!
Leave now!
But why is Chun Bong-Sam talking about Yu-su?
Ah, darn it!
I said leave!
Get out! Now!
Please leave, Lord Ambassador.
What are you doing?
You said we'll kill this guy!
Can't you hear me? Get out!
Get out!
Sir Head Merchant!
Are you getting senile?
How can you treat the ambassador like this?
You think you're that great?
We'll never be able to meet smiling again so you better be ready!
You!
You get out too!
Get out of my sight!
Get out now!
Get out!
Get out of my sight!
The Seolhwa Paper landed in Yook-ei-jeon.
You take care of it.
Goods came from the palace.
Do as you please.
Can I keep all your possessions then?
That too. Do as you please.
Sir Head Merchant.
What is it?
Sir Head Merchant.
Lord Ambassador from Sun-hye Palace is here.
Didn't I tell you to lock the front gate?
Sir Head Merchant.
It's the Lord Ambassador.
You have to go out.
What a hassle.
What are you thinking, throwing away Yook-ei-jeon?
I had to block people from demanding that we accuse you of high treason.
Thank you.
How would I repay you with this gratitude?
25 ships.
18 shops throughout the eight provinces.
This is...
This is the list of my possessions.
I'm sorry.
Only my title is the Lord Ambassador.
Compared to you, I'm nothing but a piece of rice on your dinner table.
So.
What is it that you want?
20,000 nyang.
Will Sir Head Merchant give in easily?
It's all up to Min Kyeom-ho's skills now.
Our turn will come. Let's wait and see.
I need 40,000 nyang in the next 20 days.
As you did for Kim Bo-hyeon,
I want you to fill in that 40,000 nyang.
You want money expansion.
Why? Is it too hard?
Piece of cake.
I spent my life increasing wealth of the government officials.
Why would that be hard?
I knew you'd do it.
Bong.
What are you doing here?
Yu-su.
Tell your daddy to go inside, it's cold.
In his arms.
Tell him.
Move.
Get him out!
Leave.
Leave!
Get me some water.
Water.
Get me some water.
Is that you?
Yu-su's mom.
Is that you?
Why did you drink so much?
Did you come to get me?
Do you want me to take you with me?
I don't want to be separated from you.
Again.
I don't want to be separated from you again.
If you don't see something, does that mean it's not there?
Do the times we spent together all disappear?
Hey.
Why are you trying to be separated fro Mme?
You are here and I am there.
Why are you trying to draw a line between us?
When I look at Yu-su...
I see myself, left alone without you.
I think that's why.
I am...
Right here.
I am alive in here.
Did you already send me out of here?
No.
You know I didn't.
You were the one person that I could not reject in my life.
You know that.
Close your eyes.
I am with you in your heart.
Yu-su.
You dreamt about Yu-su's mom, huh?
It was good to see you smile.
Were you the one who sent her to me?
Just because I'm Guksadang's shaman
doesn't mean I have the power to bring her out.
She came because you missed her.
Yu-su.
Yu-su grew so much already.
You didn't miss your son?
Yu-su...
If I look at him in the eyes,
I feel like he misses his mom.
I felt like he was telling me to take him to his mom.
Yu-su.
I'm sorry.
Yu-su's mom.
Everything you said is right.
You are alive right in my heart.
Not seeing you for a little bit shouldn't be so bad.
Wait just a little.
I'll raise our Yu-su well
and look after our Gaekju well
and then I'll be right there.
So don't worry.
Wait just a little for me.
Honorable Mama.
Don't pretend to be my mistress.
Mistress is the only mother to Yu-su.
What?
Just because the victim isn't here doesn't mean the truth disappears too.
If there's an awl in a pocket, it will eventually poke through the pocket.
You're just like your owner.
I..
I swore by mistress' grave.
That I will find the one who made my mistress like this
and make sure they are punished.
I heard Sir Head Merchant already told Merchant Chun that he did it.
No.
Sir Head Merchant would have used a different way.
That I would find the one who made my mistress like this
and make sure they are punished.
Opening Wonsan Port to foreign trade?
They recently opened one for foreign trade and they're opening another one?
Then what's going to happen now?
How should I know?
Let's go.
Welcome, welcome!
Sit down!
I couldn't gone to you, no need to come here!
No, no, no.
The thing that Lord Ambassador had asked you about last time...
Yes, I brought it.
Here.
Let me see.
Yes, sir.
What is this?
Why is it still the same 20,000 nyang I gave you last time?
Lord Ambassador.
When that one village was an open port,
our Yook-ei-jeon barely hid from that hail.
But you opened up Wonsan Port to foreign trade as well?
It's not going to be easy to make money, Lord Ambassador.
All the good days are gone now, Lord Ambassador.
I'll give you one week.
Bring 40,000 nyang by next week.
40,000 nyang!
Sir Head Merchant.
How about you just give him what he wants?
He's different from Kim Bo-hyeon.
He's not going to stop there.
He's going to peel me all the way.
He's already made a deal with Gil So-gae.
But he's the Queen's brother.
You should give him the respect he deserves.
I need to meet Merchant Chun.
I need to meet Chun Bong-Sam.
What?
Merchant Chun?
Merchant Chun!
We're in trouble.
What's wrong?
Wonsan Ma Chi-soon is not giving us his goods!
That bastard who keeps switching sides!
You need to take away their merchant careers from fools like those!
Save that for later!
What's going on? Why did he change his mind?
I'll go to Wonsan Port and check first.
Gom-bae, come.
I'll be back.
Let's pack!
What are all these foreigners doing in Wonsan Port?
So many Japanese people.
They must have opened up Wonsan Port too.
They opened it.
Over there, over there!
Ma Chi-soon over there!
What are you doing?
We never told you not to sell to foreigners.
But you have to sell within the line of our agreement.
Are you going to ruin all the merchants of Joseon?
Give us our goods!
We're telling you, we have nothing to sell you!
A merchant's life is in his trust with other merchants.
You stamped right here!
Look at this with your own two eyes.
You're saying this contract is the problem, yeah?
What are you doing?
You are merchants of Wonsan Port! What are you doing?
We are merchants connected with a contract, not blood brothers!
Tell me!
If you're that angry, kill them.
What?
How can you call yourselves Gaekju owners and merchants?
Can you not see even with glasses on?
Look what Wonsan Port is like right now!
Thanks to the open port, people are earning Japanese money!
How can a merchant say no to money?
How did it go?
What do we do?
Silk and kelp prices are hitting the roof.
There's no way we can buy them with the money we have.
This is all my fault.
I knew they made a contract with Japan to open up the port.
My fault for not thinking of a countermeasure.
Merchant Chun!
What is it?
You should come out.
Why?
Shin Suk-ju sent somebody.
Merchant Chun.
What are you doing here, all the way from Hanyang?
Sir Head Merchant wants to see you.
You did that to his wife and you say that?
I didn't leave that day because I forgave him.
I thought of Yu-su's mom.
I thought she wouldn't want me to kill him.
That's why I just left.
Go back.
Leave.
It wasn't Sir Head Merchant.
I can swear to you.
It wasn't Sir Head Merchant that killed her.
So.
Did you see the open Wonsan Port?
I did.
How was it?
Japan's money and luxury items are flooding in.
And our nation's money and goods are going over to Japan.
At a rate like this,
of all the merchants in the country,
only the ones that connect Japan and our country and the translators will be left.
I can let go of fame, money, and even my life...
But I can't let go of Yook-ei-jeon.
What is Yook-ei-jeon that it means so much to you?
Yook-ei-jeon...
It was an overwhelming joy to me,
an honor,
a heavy burden,
a sadness like the fading sunset...
Yes, it was everything to me.
Become the Head Merchant of Yook-ei-jeon.
I still have enough power left to make you the Head Merchant.
Hey, Sir Head Merchant.
What did you say?
He's been talking with Bong-Sam from morning till now?
Yes, sir.
They locked all the doors.
Yes, sir.
Yook-ei-jeon.
He's going to hand over Yook-ei-jeon to him.
Nonsense!
Shin Suk-ju locked all the doors of Shin's Gaekju.
Why would he not be stepping down already?
No!
Yook-ei-jeon is not the problem right now.
All the money and goods of this country are drying up right now.
They're all being sent to Japan.
The center of Joseon's market
is Yook-ei-jeon.
You just need to protect Yook-ei-jeon to prevent that.
That Yook-ei-jeon has already collapsed, Sir Head Merchant.
All the water flooding in from the ocean...
How would you throw all that out with this little bowl?
You...
You can do it.
If Yook-ei-jeon collapses,
the foreigners will flood all the away into Jongno.
How would simple peddlers be able to block them?
We need to find a solution.
Do you know what that solution is?
No, I don't.
But what I do know is
if we don't find that solution, Joseon's markets will not be of Joseon anymore.
That's all I know.
We must find a solution.
Hey.
Merchant Chun.
Yook-ei-jeon lost its power to fame and money.
It can no longer block the ocean water flooding in.
Bong-Sam!
What did you talk about with Shin Suk-ju?
Did he say he'll give you the Head Merchant position?
If I become the Head Merchant of Yook-ei-jeon,
you'll become dog food.
You!
If you really want Yook-ei-jeon,
think how you should respond to trouble,
how you could protect Yook-ei-jeon, if you have the power to do so.
Think about that first.
Before you lust after the Head Merchant position.
You would've been a good Head Merchant.
Don't say such useless things.
Okay.
I'll get you the open port and Japanese contract papers.
Alright. Thanks.
Try this Covina.
This is from the Queen.
What are you thinking about?
The world isn't ending just because of the port opening.
Sir Head Merchant...
It wasn't him.
What wasn't?
Yu-su's mom...
That wasn't his doing.
That can't be.
Who else would do that?
I saw in his eyes that he misses her.
Like me.
It wasn't him.
Who could it be?
Forget about it now.
If you keep holding onto it, she won't be able to leave comfortably.
Let me get you some soup.
I have no idea what you're saying.
I'm saying in 3 years, the Jemulpo port will open as well.
From Jemulpo to Hanyang's Jongno is 100 Li.
Only 100 Li.
So what is it?
Can you say it so we understand?
So basically,
we have to fight against Japanese merchants,
which is harder than fighting Ma Chi-soon and Yook-ei-jeon.
Foreigners who are richer than Shin Suk-ju.
That's what this means?
Is there a solution?
We can just trust you, right?
We know nothing about foreign merchants.
How they sell,
how they make profit,
how they bargain their goods.
We have to find out.
Man-chi, Gom-bae.
And Bang-dae.
Look after the stable.
Yes, sir.
Let's go back to Wonsan Port and fight against the Japanese merchants.
Let's go!
Let's go to Min Kyeom-ho.
Sir Head Merchant.
Think about it one more time.
Even just for me who served you for 40 years.
Please, just one more time.
Yang-beom.
Come on, let's go.
500 nyang.
You took 20,000 nyang...
and bring back 500?
Lord Ambassador.
That's what business is like.
Sometimes you make profit,
and sometimes you lose money.
I thought you always make profit.
Lord Ambassador.
You opened up Dongne Port, Wonsan Port,
and foreigners are flooding in.
How would we be able to make profit anywhere?
How dare you, you little merchant!
Are you fooling me?
Sir Head Merchant!
It's okay.
You old man of Yook-ei-jeon.
I'm trying to build possessions for the palace and you fool me?
Fooling you?
It's because a merchant's luck goes downhill, Lord Ambassador.
It hurts.
I feel dizzy.
I can't tell if I'm dead or alive.
I should go to the doctor.
Come here.
Come here!
Yes, yes. Lord Ambassador.
The money I need now is 200,000 nyang.
This is your last chance.
Tell him to crawl in next week with 200,000 nyang.
200,000 nyang!
Yes, yes, Lord Ambasssador!
It's okay.
Sir Head Merchant!
Just give him the money.
It's making me embarrassed too.
So-gae.
Yes, sir.
When you're trying to eat a prey that's bigger than you,
you bite carefully.
And eat little by little down your throat.
If you try to eat it in one bite,
your stomach might just burst.
That old man has gone senile.
Isn't that Guksadang's Honorable Mama?
Did you come to see Mama?
Yes, that's why I'm here.
What about you?
We have a deep relationship.
By the time you regret, it's already too late.
But I've done something regretful again.
That's what life is like.
Forgive me.
Honorable Mama.
Let's talk.
Before you became Guksadang's shaman,
you had said you have a fiance.
Was that Chun Bong-Sam?
A shaman is to forget her life before she becomes a shaman.
I had a fiance?
I don't remember.
If it wasn't me, it's you.
Yu-su's mom...
If it wasn't me, it was you.
And it wasn't me, so it must be you.
Sir Head Merchant.
News of you are going around everywhere.
That you embarrassed yourself with your son,
and now you're going senile.
Senile?
Because I sincerely like you, let me give you advice.
As a sunset is beautiful, a person should also set beautifully.
Be careful.
Honorable Mama.
You get shot by your own arrow.
And that's when you say, "What goes around comes around."
I got shot by my own arrow as well.
You should be careful too.
I'm giving you advice because I sincerely like you too.
Gae-ddong!
Gae-ddong.
What is it? You said it's urgent.
When the water comes it, you sail the ship.
How can you keep Shin Suk-ju so loose?
Min Kyeom-ho is working on it.
He can't beat Shin Suk-ju by a mental game.
There's only one way to beat him.
Press him by his power.
Tell me.
You know something, don't you?
Shin Suk-ju is secretly cleaning up his possessions.
You didn't know?
What?
Cleaning up his possessions?
No doubt about it, sir.
Let Kim Bo-hyeon know too.
I can't beat Yook-ei-jeon by myself.
Yes, sir.
You!
Why are you talking nonsense?
How can he clean up millions of nyang that easily?
My Lord.
If it wasn't for Min, you would've been dead by me already.
Get out of my sight!
I heard it from Guksadang's Mama!
What?
It was really Guksadang's Mama who said that?
You can't just sit still here.
We're going to lose even the 20,000 he initially gave him at this rate!
Sir Head Merchant?
Don't worry.
Leave Yu-su here, and you just follow me.
In there is a book and an envelope.
Give it to Merchant Chun.
What is this?
Inside the oil paper envelope,
It's what I want to give Yu-su.
There's a letter in there too.
Give it to Merchant Chun and he will...
Ah, darn.
Sir Head Merchant!
Get going now.
Leave.
We don't have much time.
Quick! Leave.
There are boars out there with their teeth out,
watching out for our front door.
Wol.
Don't go to Song-pa Stable and go straight to Merchant Chun.
Sir Head Merchant.
Receive my bow.
Alright.
Get going.
She can still come even if Madam is dead.
Why is that weird?
Easy, easy!
Oh, Lord is here as well.
Stay outside.
My legs hurt so I'm gonna have to sit down.
First, what happened to what I asked for?
Yes, I need to give that to you.
Yes, I should.
5 nyang...
It's 5 nyang.
20,000 nyang becomes 500 nyang,
and 500 becomes 5 nyang.
Have you really gone senile?
Oh no.
Sorry, I gave you the wrong one.
This is for the coffin for Shin Suk-ju's funeral.
What?
Are you kidding?
Joseon's richest man is going to get a 5 nyang coffin? Is that enough?
Lord.
All a human body needs is a coffin.
What else would you need?
You don't take all your money with you when you go.
Sir Head Merchant.
There have been weird rumors about you these days.
There are rumors of you having cleaned up your possessions.
I didn't clean it up...
I used it all.
This 5 nyang is all I have left.
What is it?
He gave all his possessions to Wol.
Maeng Gu-bum, you!
You get your tongue cut off and you still can't watch your mouth?
Yu-su.
Chun Bong-sam's son Chun Yu-su!
He's giving all his possessions to Yu-su.
We have to catch Wol before she gets to Chun Bong-Sam.
All his money!
Gil So-gae!
We have to find the one who took all of Head Merchant's possessions.
Has all of Shin Suk-ju's possessions?
Sir, you can't monopolize.
Do you want my money that badly?
The Head Merchant will not survive out of this winter.
You are fired from Yook-ei-jeon's Head Merchant position as of today.
Are you promising me the Head Merchant position?
What did you say happened to Shin Suk-ju's body?
Chun Bong-Sam is at Wonsan Port.