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My love...
No...
What happened?
Why are you here? Why are you here?!
Is anyone out there?!
Wait a minute.
Episode 16
Generally, the anatomy of the opening to your mouth
was created by the heavens for your food [rice] consumption.
Yet, humans
use it to spew out nonsense.
They can't shut up until they die.
Great Head Merchant Elder, are you telling me to hang myself...?
After, I finish taking care of the two of them,
you're the only one who knows about this incident.
Only your mouth remains now.
Hang yourself from the crossbeam of the house!
My Young Miss was born as the daughter of a butcher.
She was the one who rescued me from being sold into a brothel to be a prostitute.
I have to pay back that gratitude with my life.
My Lady...
I couldn't protect My Lady.
Yes...
I'll die. I will die.
What's the use of staying alive by myself?
Your body is that of a female servant,
but your loyal heart is better than some male scoundrels.
Tie me up tightly
with that!
Pardon?
Is anyone out there?!
Look here! Is anyone out there?!
Even if we get out of here, we won't be able to get out of the Great Head Merchant Elder's eye.
He's not someone who'll spare you and me...
I asked him to end it all
with him killing me.
While drinking that poisonous alcohol,
I desperately requested.
Were you planning to go down that long path alone?
I'm not afraid of death if it's with you.
What I'm afraid of...
is staying alive by myself.
Yes. Tightly, tie it tightly.
I don't know when I'll break these ropes and get out furiously.
I don't know if I'll run outside and kill Cheon Bong Sam
and your owner immediately.
Tie it tightly!
Her Shaman from the Gueksadang [Shrine] once prophesied to me that, I'd ruin the life of a man . . .
She said that my face wasn't a blessing but a curse.
In the end, I
have ruined you.
If this is also my destiny...
then I have no regrets nor fears of
dying together with you.
Don't cry.
Don't cry. Instead, please smile.
Although I don't know how long the path from this world into the underworld is,
I'll tightly hold your hand
and never let it go.
I'll smile as I walk with you.
Yes. Please do so.
You can never let go.
I will also never let go of your hand.
If I can breathe my last breath in this world
in your embrace,
that's an immense happiness to me.
You'll have a son.
You'll have a son who is strong, healthy and wise.
Your son is someone who will surpass you and become a great merchant.
When the first rooster crows,
The Captain of the ship, Cheon Bong Sam and the Internal Affair's head agent, Gil So Gae both will be on the Sae-Goek-Seon (A Taxation Ship full of grains/rice).
I pray that you'll protect them from any ominous spirits. Please let them be safe and sound.
Mother Shaness, what's wrong?
Are you feeling ill somewhere?
No, I'm fine.
Cheon Bong Sam
My Lady! My Lady! Quickly come out!
Come out quickly, My Lady!
My Lady!
My love.
My Lady! Quickly come out, My Lady!
My Lady!
Did the Great Head Merchant Elder really send you?
Really?
You must hurry up and get on board. He said how can tax freighter depart without the captain?
He says to not waste a second and go to the Seogwang Port.
My love...
I have indebted my life to the
Great Head Merchant Elder now.
I, too...
how can I ignore his gratitude of sparing me?
I think this is the last time.
I've greatly indebted this life to
that Elder
so how can I betray that heart?
Safely...please return safely.
Please, achieve your grand will as the brave man that you are.
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I told you to run away.
What are you planning to do after stepping into your death?
Shin Seok Joo and Kim Bo Hyeon aren't your opponents.
It is still too much for you to handle.
Ah, the Captain...
A bookkeeper and salesman who'll accompany me on this trip.
Weren't you the bookkeeper for Gang Gyeong Cash Exchange Capital?
Ah, yes, yes. You're correct.
I got a new employment at the Chief of Tax Collection Office.
I'm Ddo Chul.
Okay, please take good care of us.
Now, let's go.
-Yes.-Yes.
We should go too.
I'm somehow bothered by their gazes.
The people he gathered seem serious.
You should be careful. He's planning something.
I'm certain that he has some other motives.
Let's go. Let's go quickly.
You came? We just started and I'm already getting sea sick.
Hey, you should bite one too.
Ginger is good for sea sickness.
Hyung.
I've bet my life on this boat of transferring rice taxes.
Yeah, I heard.
You agreed to give up your head to Shin Seok Joo if the boat used for transferring rice taxes gets looted by bandits?
The bandits aren't the ones I'm worried about.
It's Kim Bo Hyeon.
Those words mean that you see me as a thief.
"Since the rice taxes are the household of the nation for a year, you have to protect it well."
I don't know things like that.
I have nothing to do with the politicians fight.
The only thing is as long as I am the Captain,
none of the rice taxes can be stolen.
Bong Sam. Bong Sam,
I'm your hyung.
You're like my dongsaeng (younger brother) who used to leak urine onto my back.
We're brothers who used to eat from one bowl with the same spoon at the Cheon Merchant Group.
Do you not trust me?
How can you not trust me?
How can "I don't trust Gil So Gae" come out from Cheon Bong Sam's mouth?!
I trust you.
I'll trust that Gil So Gae isn't Kim Bo Hyeon's slave
but an older brother who used to treasure me.
I'll trust your sincerity.
Yes. Would I just let you die?
What's Kim Bo Hyeon? Would I abandon you because of him?
Thanks.
Don't worry, Bong Sam.
I'm...your hyung.
[2 months later; Gunsan Port]
Go on!
Everyone, hurry!
Now, stop!
-You all arrived now!-My Lord.
Did you come out all the way here?
But of course, I'm the head official of the Port of Gunsan.
Our city holds the biggest 'Sae-goek-me, (a taxation grain's storgage)' for the surronding aread for the Joella Province of Kimja, and Man Gyeong.
How could the Chief of Tax Collection Office not be here?
Now, let's go in.
-Everyone, move the items!-Now, now, hurry!
First off, there are 2,400 sacks of grains from the storage's of Buan County, Gokseong County and the Port of Buhpseong.
Additionally, there are 2,000 more sacks from the storages' of Gooksan, Uhoonbo and Seondang Counties.
Lastly, we just need to board the 4,200 sacks of grains from our Gunsan Port's storage only...
That's enough. That can be verified with the manifest later.
You're saying that until now, you loaded up the rice taxes without any complications.
Although there were small attempts made by the bandits,
Captain Cheon here did an excellent job to defend the taxed crops by delegating the 'Songpa's untouchable bandit members.'
Yes, you worked hard.
Now, all that's left is to get into the Seogwang Dock. We should go and have a drink.
I'll let you all play properly today.
Thank you.
Ah, My Lord.
I'll drink to it once we reached the Port of Suhheung.
After we put all the grains into the Tax Collection Office storage, then I'll drink.
Captain...!
Alcohol? We're still not finished transferring the rice used as taxes.
Hurry up and drink. Won't you drink it all up?
Hurry!
I'll take it after I finish this trip well!
Yes, yes. You resemble your father perfectly.
You really are the same as Cheon Oh Soo from the Cheon Merchant Group.
We'll go by ourselves.
I'll escort you.
We are at Goonsan Port, the place where you promised me 1-million nyang.
The Japanese merchants are already at Yoobu Island.
I got a message they hid ship behind the island to carry the 2000 sacks of tax grains.
I have already strongly influenced a custom's agent for the city of Okgoo and the managing director of Gunsan Port.
Whatever happens, they'll pretend not to know.
They'll only follow your orders so control them as much as you wish.
I'll take care of it quietly.
And...you should end Chun Bong Sam now.
I'm looking for a chance.
What good will come out of dragging it out for long?
I understand, My Lord.
I'll finish Chun Bong Sam here in the Gunsan Port.
Chief, I heard the rice sacks are out of the government building.
Leave the big boat alone. We'll take it out of the small boat.
Only take 200 sacks, understand?
Yes, Chief!
The first group take the rice and the second group will follow So Deuk Gae's orders to block the enemies.
We depart between 7 to 9 o'clock.
Yes, Chief!
Deuk Gae.
They say that the workers who rode on the boat for the rice taxes
are Songpa workers.
By any chance, are there people who know you?
I'm...Wang Bal, you and me
are already dead in this world.
There's nothing to worry about.
The evil Kim Bo Hyeon has his inspector Gil Saeng Won on board.
-Gil Saeng Won?-Yes.
Who is the Captain?
I think it is the General Manager of Shin's Merchant.
Where did everyone go? Where did everyone go after leaving the boat filled with rice like that?
Did you not hear it? They are having a party at Han Tuh.
What? They're playing before the rice is all loaded?
Lead the way!
Yes.
This one looks really tasty.
You got some already sliced?
Oh, Bong Sam.
Here, have a drink.
What are you doing right now?
Is this the Seogwang Dock right now?!
Did you already put the tax grains into the Tax Collection Office storage?
Is all of our work finished?!
Why are you relaxing and letting loose? What are you all doing right now?!
You aren't living in this world alone.
What's most important is that we safely transport the taxed grains. Great Lord of Dangsan and so fourth is secondary as of now.
If you're going to live arguing by the rules, then become a scholar instead of doing any business.
Just stay locked up in the room and read books.
Are those Gunsan Port workers scarecrows?
Are they some high morale scholars who hold a rifle in their hands? As if . . . !
Guards have their own work, so why ask them to do our work?
Is it the end if we just take the rice?
What if Lord Kim Bo Hyeon says sand is mixed in with the rice?
Or you put water on the rice to increase the weight and use it as an excuse
not to accept your loads. Then what will you do?
Transportation is my responsibility so you don't need to worry about it.
What are you all doing?! Return to the boat quickly!
Chun Bong Sam, my father died because your father followed the rules like you're doing now.
My father, Gil Sang Mun,
died because that Merchant Elder Chun Oh Soo followed the rules.
They said it'll take around 4 days until the boat is finished being repaired.
They told us to stay here until then.
But what was that about?
Bong Sam, did your father really-
Nonsense. Why would my father kill ahjussi?
I know right! It seemed like nonsense, yes...
The inspector's words are 100% wrong.
Everyone worked hard for 2 months.
There are also comrades we lost while fighting the bandits. We need to make them work while consoling them.
Sun Dol. This Gunsan Port has about 50-60 small and big islands.
And the fog on Geumgang Mountain is no joke, is it?
This is perfect area for the pirates to hide. Don't you understand?
I know. I know but they said this place is fine.
There are military guards protecting Tax Collection Office storage.
And the guards watching Gunsan Port as well. Unless the pirates are crazy, ehh...
Swear to the heavens.
I...will swear to the heavens.
I will definitely shove Merchant Elder Chun into the Gunsan Port waters.
-Why are you like that?!-Merchant Elder...I'm sorry!
I love you so please die.
Because I love you, please die quickly in one shot!
Hey, hey, you rascal! Hey, you rascal! Hey, hey!
Hey, your foot...your foot...is your foot okay?
What...is that?
Bandits. They're bandits!
Wang Bal.
Yes, Hyungnim.
-Bandits! Bandits have appeared! Bandits have appeared!-Bandits have appeared! Bandits have appeared!
Bandits!
Bandits! Bandits are here!
Get to your senses!
-Get up quickly!-Bandits! Bandits! Bandits!
Get up quickly!
Hey, you rascal. Get up quickly.
Get up quickly. Hurry up and get up!
Go!
Hurry and send the signal!
Hurry! Get up!
Why can't you guys get your senses straight?!
When I put up the signal, the Japanese smugglers will come.
You guide the smugglers ship.
Yes, master Saeng Won.
How nice! I guess there are shooting some fireworks too, Inspector.
-Bandits. It's bandits.-Oh?
-Bandits?-It's not a firework show?
They are Gunsan pirates Hyungnim.
Quick, we need to run to the backside of Gaeya Fort. subtitles ripped and syced by riri13
We can never meet up with them.
We need to block the enemies and move the rice first.
I got it Hyungnim.
I'm Songpa Stable's Jo Seung Joon.
From now on, I'll treat you as my younger brother.
How are the people who drown in Namdang Jin...?
Ddo Chul, go to the commander and tell him to just act as if he's chasing them. Tell him no matter what the bandits do,
just let them go.
Yes.
You two should follow those two closely.
-Yes. -Yes, I understand. Let's go.
Where is your headquarter?
Where are you planning to take the rice?!
- B... Bong Sam! - Bong Sam!
Bong Sam!
Is this fortunate or unfortunate that Jo Seung Joon showed up as a bandit now?
Fortunate or unfortunate?
Right. If it is unfortunate, I just need to make it fortunate.
Humans are meant to kick the rock they tripped over and fell,
only to fall over again.
You've fallen once because I tripped you once.
Jo Seung Joon...you aren't worthy enough to be my opponent.
Bong Sam! Chun Bong Sam!
The other boat is safe. They only took it from here.
It's a relief that we didn't load up all of the rice in this boat because it was under repair.
So how much did they steal?
We're missing 200 sacks.
200 sacks of rice is worth 10,000 nyang of money.
Since you are the inspector, can you just let it slide?
Hyung!
Shin Suk Joo will kill you. Of course he will!
Won't there be a way?
Something like mixing sand in with the rice and increasing the amount
or put some water on the rice to increase the weight to make 200 sacks.
Why are you talking nonsense instead of thinking of how to get the rice back from the bandits?!
And...why didn't our soldiers chase after the bandits yesterday?
We definitely could have caught them. What's the reason you didn't chase them?!
What?
You two, please leave us for a minute.
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Sun Dol, Sun Dol, Sun Dol, is it like that?
Did the soldiers really just let the thieves escape?
Why do I find Gil So Gae so hard to trust?
Is that so?
I've told you a few times, Hyungnim.
What? Nonsense!
The Merchant Elder definitely died in the Namdang River.
You said so yourself that
since he's someone who was born and raised in Songpa, he's someone who was raised swimming in the Han river. How could he drown?
No, no. He would rather just die
instead of looting. He's not someone who would ever do that.
He and I even become brothers. Don't you think I'd recognize his face?
Here. Just in case, I made my kids follow him.
It's written in there so you should meet him.
Anyway, we have to find the rice first.
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Have you heard the news of the boat transferring the rice taxes?
The official message from Bupseong Port had arrived 2-days ago.
As of now, they should have finished loading up all of the rice taxes in the Gunsan Port.
I assume they'd depart either today or tomorrow.
It's about 800 lie. So, they should arrive by the River Port of Seo in about a week, to be conservative.
The main captain over-exceeded his duties as the captain of the ship.
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You should sit too.
I'm fine. You should eat while talking.
We're not even nobles so what talking would we do? Let's eat together.
I feel a bit nauseous. Before it cools down-
We need to call a physician. You look like you are having indigestion.
Great Head Merchant! Congratulations!
What congratul-
No...you...
No. No, Great Head Merchant Elder.
I know my body better than Her Highness.
My Lady, why are you like this?!
We have to leave. We have to escape this house immediately.
You're pregnant, aren't you?
Quickly pack your bags.
Are you going to the Songpa Stable? To the Merchant Elder?
If not, then where are you going to go? You can't go to your own house and you have nowhere to go.
Wherever that is, I have to go. I can't be next to the Great Head Merchant.
How could I do something so shameless?
I didn't come to this house for no reason.
I had a pregnancy dream last night.
I saw a golden dragon on your roof.
It's a son.
Great Head Merchant Elder, you'll see a son!
It's a pregnancy you were waiting for so earnestly. Aren't you happy?
I'm h-happy. Why wouldn't I be?
It seems all of my energy has been drained since I'm so happy.
This Shin Suk Joo is finally going to become a father.
Stop.
It must be difficult for you so you should ride in it and go!
Where are you planning to go?
Let's go to Ohkwansoo.
What? Why would you go to that dirty place?
Mother! Let's go together!
Mother!
Give me one too.
-Be quiet.-Okay, I got it.
-Let's eat just a bit.-He's studying.
You are so immature. What is this?
Just leave it.
Okay. Wait.
Head Merchant, you should have some. There was a festival today!
Here's the spoon. It's tasty.
-Why would you throw away this precious thing?-Why?
Why do you give us this every time you come?
Go to the marketplace and have a drink.
Have a nice visit!
Thank you.
You're not even saying thank you to the person who saved you?
I guess this place is an okay place to live. You look better.
Shin Suk Joo's wife is pregnant.
I think you know something about that.
Do you when the babies start acting like human?
It's when they're potty-trained. Do you still not know if I'm an enemy or your comrade you need to hold hands with?
Well...Shin Suk Joo made you like this because you can't differentiate between those.
Without my help, you won't be able to escape this beggar-like place.
[Cha Tae: Baby conceived by another man]
Cha Tae...[Cha Tae: A child obtained through pregnancy by another man]
It's Chun Bong Sam's child!
The thing inside that woman's stomach is Chun Bong Sam's child!
Cha Tae...
She's pregnant with my lover's child?
I can't forgive her. I'll never forgive her.
Excuse me, let me ask you something.
Um...
I heard there is a vacant house. Do you where it is?
Don't be shy and tell me.
I'm like this because I have someone I need to find.
Do you not know?
There...if you go over there...
Over there?
Thank you.
Bong Sam...
Who are you?!
I am Chun Bong Sam, the captain of tax grains freighter.
The boat carrying rice taxes?
He's someone who came to steal our people. Kill him!
Ah!
Everyone stay still!
Bong Sam!
Aigoo...Bong Sam!
Wang Bal hyung...
You were alive?
Yes.
I really missed you.
What about the Merchant Elder?
He's doing well.
-Where is he?-Let's go.
Merchant Elder!
I really,
really missed you.
You should have just...left me as a dead person. Why did you search for me?
Words! If you're happy, then just say you're happy!
I am a murder suspect and bandit.
Even if you found me, I'll only become luggage to you and to our stable family.
How can a Head Merchant be that soft?
If a Merchant Elder loses his path, then that Merchant Group ends!
He hasn't changed at all, hasn't changed at all.
He's nagging again as soon we meet, aigoo, aigoo.
Bong Sam, you know that man you fought with outside earlier?
We used know him when he worked at Kim Jae Hee Stable.
But he was a bandit here.
He saved my life and hyungnim's life.
That's how Hyungnim became the Chief here.
What are you talking about?
You are the Chief of the bandits?
Bong Sam.
I can't return the rice to you.
Merchant Elder.
Merchant Elder!
Gone...let's go, My Lady.
Great Head Merchant Elder...
You're pregnant with my child but you're trying to leave me?
How dare you? How dare you?
I can't stay next to you anymore, Great Head Merchant Elder.
Are you planning to go to him?
Are you really planning to kill Chun Bong Sam?!
N-no. I swear I wasn't trying to go to Songpa.
I learned morals, so how can I go to Songpa?
You can't go anywhere!
Great Head Merchant Elder, you already
know why I'm trying to leave.
Please send me away.
Shut up!
It's my child. My child!
No one can take my child away from me.
It's my child, my child! It's my son who will take over the Shin Merchant Group!
Then all of this...
you planned all of this...?
I will raise my child with my own hands.
I'll raise him up to be the Great Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon.
I'll raise him to be a merchant who'll be
praised and respected by all the merchants in the world!
Take care of your body well.
You must give birth to a healthy son.
Great Head Merchant Elder!
If you take one step outside of this house's gates,
Chun Bong Sam
will die in my hands that day!
I feel a bit nauseous.
Before it cools down-
Did you think I would let you go next to Chun Bong Sam?
Live just as Shin Suk Joo's wife in the Shin Merchant Group.
If you take one step outside of that house,
you'll die.
I told you to go! Go quickly!
The Merchant Elder of the Songpa Stable
has turned into a bandit? What bandit?!
There would be nothing better if I could
change the world with morally correct ways.
I now understand since I've become a bandit.
There are too many people who die of starvation here.
I can't just watch and let the people who saved me die.
Hurry up and give me the rice.
Bong Sam! Your rice isn't here.
To the people around here who'll starve to death before the new crop is harvested,
we already distributed it all at dawn.
So you are going to be a righteous thief?
A merchant should fight through a merchant's ways.
Why are you fighting holding guns and swords?
A soldier fights with swords and a scholar fights with books such as these.
Merchants fight with the goods using skills.
Becoming a bandit?! You can't even become a bandit!
Then what should we do?! Hyungnim and I are already dead people in this world!
We don't have a merchant's license so if we don't loot,
then are you telling hyungnim and me to starve to death?
Bong Sam, you should live by your way.
Forget Wang Bal and me and live by your ways.
I'll help you.
I'll help you so that you and Wang Bal hyungnim
can do business again!
Are you okay? That-
No, you're...
You're Kim Hak Joon's concubine, you're that woman!
No...
What happened? I clearly threw her away in the Namdang River
with my own hands.
I punished you by the peddlers rules!
What happened?!
Hyungnim saved her.
Where are you planning to go? It's dangerous, hyungnim. It's dangerous.
Hyungnim! Ah, I'm going crazy.
Hyungnim!
What great things you're doing, what great things!
You saved a evil woman like this one?
Since hyungnim and I didn't die,
we can't charge her for murder.
Then what about Kim Hak Joon?
No matter how terrible of a person he was, he was still her husband.
She killed her husband.
She ruined our stable!
Bong Sam,
We are called human because we can remorse about our wrong doing.
Forgiving a remorseful person is human compassion.
Is that so?
Aigoo.
Then with that large heart of yours,
you should have forgiven
hyungnim Man Chi and sister-in-law Bang Geum.
What are you doing right now?!
It's...it's all my fault.
The Merchant Elder's only crime was saving me.
Let go of me.
Let go of me!
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[The Merchant: Gaekju 2015]
It's 2,000 sacks. 2,000 sacks!
What?
Chun Bong Sam planned together with the bandits
He stole the rice taxes!
Because of you guys, Bong Sam and Choi Dol hyung are about to die!
You said whoever dealt this hand will die.
I missed you, orabeoni.
Kill me!