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~ Conspiracy in the Court ~ DIRECTOR'S CUT
How could some people's lives...
be worthier than others?!
~ Episode 3 ~
Follow me this way.
Free the way, now!
We must find whether that slattern is still alive.
Even if it is merely her corpse, you must find it!
Yes!
Those infallible daggers, as I suspected.
So the varmints who smuggled those poisonous berries trailed...
the man who used them for a series of murders, and slew him?!
What is his relationship with those culprits?
Was it an altercation borne out of possessing such berries itself?!
Do not try to find out.
They are people you cannot do anything about.
It represents the meridians' flow and all acupuncture points!
Was it to show where the needle should pierce?!
He used his own body to impart acupuncture lessons to his pupil?!
- To that slattern?! - What for... Why this far?!
Chief.
Did you find her?
A man spotted a slattern and someone trailing her during his nightly mourning rites.
Are you telling me she is still alive?
Where?
Now that Hwang has perished,
we must find that slattern, if we are to apprehend the culprit.
It has been already a few days since the Minister's death.
If the Minister was their final target,
there is no way they would still be in the capital.
We must hasten and find that slattern.
- What were you responsible for? - Protecting the Master...
- and the lives of our fellow... - And did you fulfill your call?!
My apologies.
Three of our fellow compeers have perished.
Will apologies bring them back to life?!
Give it a rest!
I deserve to die, Master!
Rise.
Now!
It is something I ordered him to do.
If any reproof is necessary, I should be the one imparting it.
The casualties are too grave to ignore.
Stop using our fellow compeers for your personal whims.
That is for me to decide, as the leader of this group!
I certainly would not contend that.
My apologies!
I trust the ceremony will proceed as planned?!
Make sure nothing hampers the proceedings.
All right.
Milady...
Did you find her?
You could not?
She still will be in the capital,
- so never you worry. - That concerns me even more!
Her description has been shown all around the capital,
and the Hanseong prefecture is fervently looking for her.
So why is she still in the capital, why?!
Take her away.
What is the reason, Naeuri?!
Naeuri!
She dares to fabricate documents enriching her lowly upbringing?!
Imperious wench...
Next.
Why can't I see any name next to your clan of provenience?
I was abandoned right after birth, so I do not know whose clan I belong to.
A rootless slattern, I see.
No need for documents.
"Hab(gyeok)*"
*Accepted
Kang Jae Cheol of the Chamber of Punishment...
is a fellow compeer of mine,
do you by any chance know him?
- That man... - You do not?!
Your duty is to select court physicians,
are you going to squander time with personal inquiries?
My apologies.
- I merely... - Did you verify the commending pledge...
which was sent from the Gyeongsang administration?
Yes, I did.
"Habgyeok"
Aloe is characterized by its bitter taste and heat-draining functions.
It is used for liver, intestine and colon-related ailments.
It is effective against constipation and insomnolence,
but as its effects are very powerful, it cannot be prescribed to...
parturient women or men of weak disposition.
And what is that?
They are cuttlefish bone powder and tansy.
Cuttlefish bones help coagulation, while tansy can alleviate wintry spells,
throes, and the poison of harmful plants.
They both are very effective against melena.
A most sagacious specimen, I see.
This venerable patient laments lack of stability and feeble consciousness.
She did not hurt her pate, yet she has been bedridden for days.
How would you proceed?
Did she hit her haunches on the ground?
She did.
A fractured bone pressed her miryonghyeol (coccyx point),
making her lose consciousness.
Should we push the fractured bone away from the point,
she will soon regain consciousness.
What on earth are you doing?
Who is that slattern, being allowed to treat Lady Jung?
That...
Her significant talents moved me to allow her treatment.
How dare you entrust a Chief Royal Court Lady's treatment to a lowly slattern?!
I allowed you to briefly supersede in her stead,
but are you already lusting after her position?
Your Highness!
Those are mortifying accusations.
Your Highness...
The grieving throes afflicting my body...
seem to have completely vanished.
Is that true, Lady Jung?
Her pulse has stabilized.
If you keep her under restful observation for another odd month,
she will be able to completely regain her vigor.
Is that right?
It is a relief, Lady Jung.
The results might have rewarded your decision,
but it is not the kind of conduct I associated with you.
Ohh Ohh... Will you stop following me?!
That slattern treats heinous murders like a daily morsel in the morningtide.
We have people who witnessed her around Samcheong-dong,
so we must hasten and apprehend her, Your Excellency.
Ohh Ohh... As if she made a compeer of yours her morningtide morsel,
why are you so adamant about apprehending her?!
Time to stop! Uh?! Ohh!
Why would my knowing the victims even matter?!
Because of that slattern, we lost several lives including that of the Minister.
Before she commits other heinous crimes, we must apprehend her.
Let us give it a rest, my ears are wailing in despair already! Uh?!
The Minister's case has been archived by the Board of Punishment.
If our superiors put an end to the investigations,
don't you realize how purposeless it would be for subordinates to...
once again open that case under their noses?
Don't you very well know why they so impetuously archived this case?!
I... have... no clue!
Your Excellency.
Your Excellency!
Am I after you, or is it the other way around?!
Bodies slain by the same daggers are piling up at the mortuary,
are you going to just stare at all this?!
Park Bujang.
Just because you suddenly investigated an important case,
are you after fleeting fame and an exalted repute as well?!
Here... Here is your craved attention.
Here... Attention.
Attention! Attention!
Even from below... attention!
Does that suffice?
It is impossible to conduct an investigation with the Hanseong prefecture alone.
Should any other innocent victim perish, will you take the blame?!
Then, how are we going to proceed?
We need more men, Your Excellency!
How long have you been in this trade? Uh?
My cellars are brimming with years of experience, uh?!
Why squander your time on such fruitless endeavors, uh?!
Why don't you head to the palace gates with the Chief instead?
It is a blessing to see such allegiant subjects by your side.
Now that His Excellency Chae Seung Hwan will make his return to the court,
may you abate your nightly saunters, and concentrate on treating your ailments.
I got word that your abscess is exacerbating by the day.
Our people are the core of this country.
How could my meager ailments take my mind away...
from fulfilling our people's wishes?
The core of our country is no one but Your Majesty.
All your people and courtiers should do is heed your word,
and fear and respect you as their ruler.
But not only you engage in nightly saunters incognito,
now you even allow plebeian vermin into these sacred dwellings?!
Circumjacent eyes are observing all this with utmost concern.
Do you believe this olden matron just muttered fallacious utterances?
Never let me hear such mortifying inquiries again.
What distinguishes a dragon from a mere ophidian...
is their riding above the clouds in all their majesty.
But how can a dragon's legacy be beclouded by descending upon those minions...
maundering the streets, soiled by plebeian vermin?
I am merely concerned it might besmirch your majestic prestige, Sire.
If I could only bring peace and comfort to my people,
why would that mighty dragon refuse the company of ophidians and vermin?!
Is that so?!
Certainly, words suiting your limitless benevolence, Sire.
His Majesty shall deliberate on your grievances firsthand!
So remove the bundles you carried, submitting them to inspection.
Listen!
Are you going to quell public fervor with the authority of your blade?!
Remove our bundles?! And why would we ever?!
It is only a precautionary formality to eschew any further quandary.
What are you waiting for? Remove their bundles!
Prohibit entrance to anyone resisting our inspection.
It shall be done, Your Excellency.
Are you not the Minister of Rites' son?
Yes, I particularly support and cherish him, as his superior.
I heard from Chief Seo.
That you are investigating the Minister of Personnel's death.
Ahh... yes! Our left capital bureau, following the Board of Punishment's ruling,
has already archived this investigation.
I cannot believe he could have perished so suddenly myself.
So, have you found any significant clue?
What?
Ahh... yes.
The investigation... is already... closed, so...
Park Bujang. Any particular clue?
Still nothing.
Should you encounter any difficulties, feel free to contact me.
Yes, my utmost gratitude, Your Excellency!
My gratitude, Your Excellency!
His Majesty the King deigns you with his presence!
May everyone be seated!
Should you find anything about them,
will you convey to me the news?!
She shall join you from here on in.
She will not be accustomed to life in the palace yet,
so watch over her and offer your assistance whenever needed.
Yes, Naeuri.
I am sure of it, Milady.
How did a slattern from a treacherous clan exterminated for their sins...
end up becoming a court physician?!
I am positive I saw her at the Cheongju prisons.
I heard she was taken around the eight provinces during the purge.
Did I utter any falsehood?
However, we must protect our history and traditions, Sire!
*From the "Mencius" (Jinxin part), one of "Four Books" of Chinese classic literature
Thus spoke the Master, "Yuhangsan Yuhangshim*."
What does it imply?
That only when a famished's body is refurbished...
can a sound mind find the righteous path.
Then...
How would you refurbish our famished people's spirit?
Here in the capital, by engaging in almsgiving.
And to create jobs so that people in the provinces will provide for their families.
Indeed.
Our people need land to cultivate. But, just take a look!
A very small minority of nobles and merchants monopolize...
both production and distribution,
their sole concern being that of filling their bellies.
Hence, no great effort will ever bring our famished people a sound meal on their tables,
creating despair and rancorous discontent amongst the populace.
As these throeful quandaries afflict this country,
how could we hold onto this capital, merely bound by its secular legacy?!
However, Sire!
Should we transfer the capital, we shall in no time witness...
the same quandaries afflicting us as we speak.
Will you move the capital once again, then?
If I only could quench my people's hunger, not only once...
but ten, a hundred times shall my royal dwellings move for them!
Is that not the righteous path we can kindle our people's lives with?!
Sire!
I am the son of Chungju's Kang Man Su, Kang Jae Sun.
Chungju's Kang Man S...
That is correct, Your Majesty.
I am the son of former Vice Councilor of Public Works, Kang Man Su,
*1791, Jeongjo 15th (Shinhae Persecution, the first against Catholic followers)
sentenced to death during the Shinhae year* persecution.
Allow me to quote another maxim from Mencius' Jinxin, Sire.
"It has only now occurred to me how grave slaying someone's father can be."
"Should I slay one's father, he shall in turn slay mine."
"Should I cause his brother's demise,"
"it is with vengeful flames that he shall engulf mine."
Ohh Ohh! What are you waiting for?!
Get that perfidious miscreant out of these sacred walls!
Now!
Apprehend him at once!
Your Majesty slew someone's father and cherished brother!
*Confucius and Mencius
As a scholar pledging unyielding allegiance to the Masters'* teachings,
how could I dare refute my vengeful call?!
Take down that man!
May you stop at once!
Nobody is allowed to approach the premises, Your Highness.
Then, am I supposed to await here and let concern engulf me?!
He did indeed escape unscathed, but I suggest we should await...
Shut your gob!
I shall verify with my own eyes whether he is unscathed or not!
You cannot die!
Move! Now!
We have royal commands to save this man at all costs!
I cannot feel his pulse.
He must have lost too much blood.
Is there no other way?
I must arrest the bleeding.
Bring the bandages!
Needles and thread would be better.
Sire!
What happened to that bureau officer?
We moved him to the Royal Dispensary,
but his chances of survival are slim, Sire.
I deserve to perish for my malfeasance, Sire!
We deserve to perish, Sire!
He will certainly have other sympathizers, Sire.
Let us assemble an emergency bureau to ferret out the culprit, Sire!
I vehemently concur, Sire!
We also must punish those responsible for allowing such deviltry!
Speak no more!
I shall pretend nothing happened on this day.
You cannot, Sire!
At this crucial juncture, when deliberating on our people's future is paramount,
I shall not squander time with fruitless political strife.
Royal Secretary, inscribe my orders and convey them to...
the offices of border defense, inspector general and special advisers.
Yes, Your Majesty!
I cannot allow you to do so.
Sire.
How could you possibly overlook this obloquy?!
Apprehending the miscreants responsible for this,
and punishing all the courtiers involved in this deviltry is a must!
If blood soils the royal garments,
should not their treacherous limbs wallow about in repentance?!
May you abate your wrath, Your Highness.
I trust all those responsible are already repenting for their misdeeds.
It shall not be so.
You cannot allow this to go unpunished.
I must tend to that capital bureau officer.
Sire!
Even biting your tongue until the gates of demise welcome you...
shall not lave away the blasphemous travesty you displayed today!
Did you not promise me you would always take good care of yourself?
You cannot hurt yourself so severely again.
Is that clear?
So you became a capital bureau officer?!
I am glad you did.
So you rescued the king?!
I am glad you did.
Did you engage in conjugal ties?
Do you have a consort by your side?
As a man and a spouse,
may you enjoy propitious company,
and the guileless praise of your every compeer.
The fragments of our long lost affinity,
our innermost feelings caged by time.
They now are free to maunder in the desert of the past.
So you are that slattern called Na Young?
I deserve to perish a thousand times, for not recognizing my king!
You had the opportunity to slay that man, but you did not.
Did you envisage a way out of that situation, even without slaying that miscreant?
I deserve to perish, Sire!
Was taking that vengeful blade in my stead done to save a man,
or was it because royal garments bedeck me?
That...
I cannot answer that question with certainty, Sire.
Whomever it might be,
all you are concerned about is saving a life.
I merely...
tried to stop that man from committing a foolish mistake.
Then, you should have slain him the moment that saber graced his hands!
Your negligence caused injuries and demise for many an innocent subject of mine.
- May you slay this criminal, Sire! - I applaud your consideration for human life,
but you must realize that each and every life under heaven is valued differently.
How could some people's lives...
be worthier than others?!
You insolent!
If you had to choose only one between that man and me,
what would have you done?
You might believe rescuing both is always the best solution,
but look what that brought us.
There will never be a best solution everyone can concur with.
You will always find yourself choosing the lesser evil, favoring one side over the other.
Time will force you to only choose one option.
Just as I am forced to choose the lesser evil for the sake of our majority,
you must always...
slay anyone pointing his baneful blade in my face with no hesitation.
Sire!
Regain your vigor, and await an edict of mine.
I shall awake you from that ingenuous candor of yours.
Sire!
Open that mendacious gob of yours!
I am already aware of all the malfeasance you committed.
What are you talking about, Milady?
You contemptuous slattern!
I know very well the reason why...
you were brought here.
I laud your pertinacity,
but it is regrettable I have already been informed by the Gyeongsang office!
If you confess everything at once, I might be inclined to spare you.
Now!
This is the royal palace. Should a lowly court attendant perish,
it will not be of concern to anybody.
Disclose everything you know,
and it will bring you survival.
The wound is not severe, but your loss of blood certainly was,
so I suggest you enjoy some respite, for the time being.
I even received orders to tend to you until you recovered,
but since you insist on leaving, I shall prepare you an infusion.
There is no need.
Ohh Ohh! A golden needle?!
I did realize she was not your average specimen,
but people who can use these in the entire eight provinces...
could be probably counted on your fingers.
Were it not for that wench, you would have abandoned your glorious path,
and headed for the shadows of demise, lucky young fellow.
May I meet this lady responsible for rescuing me?
- I would like to at least.. - Ehh Ehh...
No matter how lowly a slattern, still a palace lady she is!
Do not let her allure your heart.
What brings you here at this juncture?!
I shall briefly take a leave.
May I take a look?
This... Was this not a physician in the palace?!
It was a mystifyingly sudden departure.
May you stop this at once!
My son!
Mother...
Aigoo... look at him, my proud little son! My boy!
You even rescue the life of our ruler! How prideful...
Aigoo... I'm so proud! Aigoo...
Mother!
Ahhh... Why?!
Can't a mother even compliment her son?!
No. It's not that.
This mother of yours, uh?! I am so proud I'd gleefully perish!
You made my day.
You saved the life of our mighty ruler,
so soon a hefty position will befall you, right?!
Aigoo! I can finally breathe in relief.
All the weight hampering my shoulders is gone,
and I can finally live with my head held up high.
Here you come!
This beauteous son of mine has arrived!
Here you come!
Milord!
Your Excellency!
Our Sang Gyu here...
He did something remarkable today!
Milor... Ahh! You...
His Majesty shall soon reward him with a position in the court,
how dare you lowly varlets hamper his way?!
Mother, give it a rest.
Ahh... really. For propitious news such as these,
you should naturally convey them to His Excellency and be lauded for that!
Your Excellency!
Your Excellency.
My Sang Gyu...
They say he saved the king!
The eventide is ripe.
What position will His Majesty bestow him?
When will he summon him to the palace?
Today... Today it could not be, I presume?!
Have a drink in the inner quarters and enjoy some respite.
Let us talk in the morrow.
Aigoo... My gratitude, Your Excellency!
Ahh... Have you heard? Uh?!
His Excellency just ordered you...
to prepare a big drinking feast for his proud son!
Ahh... what are you waiting for?!
Let us have some flavorful nectars and assuage our thirst!
My dear son!
May you become an illustrious personage everyone reveres!
My gratitude!
For entrusting this esteemed leadership to a man of slender means such as me,
allow me to commend you honorable market chiefs, not to mention the traders who...
generously accorded me conveyance of their proprietary rights,
and you fellow purveyors of the commercial revolution...
which shall turn our eight provinces' fortunes around.
*SaNongGongSang: Joseon social hierarchy (scholars >> farmers >> artisans >> tradesmen)
At the behest of our traditional mores*,
society only bestows contemptuous disdain upon our billet.
And it was none other than ourselves what caused this predicament.
Endlessly seduced by lucre, vile jobbery besmirched our trade,
and it is only natural such rampant usury would accord us this treatment.
But we now must turn the page!
We shall sell at exorbitant prices to the affluent,
and use those gains to assist people on the streets with meager prices.
Only then will the grieving famine afflicting our people slowly vanish,
moving them to put more faith in us than in those mighty ruffians bedecked by nobility.
That is also for the sake of our descendants.
We shall not allow this society to treat us with contempt...
because of our lowly upbringing any longer!
We shall gain the same opulence which gazes at us with deriding eyes,
and earn more conscionable treatment on our own.
And once all that glory fills our cellars,
why would we ever look at those mighty yangban with jaundice?!
When that day befalls us, what will they possess that we do not?!
Once we, alongside all the people who will lean onto us,
will celebrate this abundance with jubilation,
it will mean this country itself can exult in this prosperity with us.
To realize those aspirations, it will take neither muskets nor the blades...
the mighty ruler and those yangban use to intimidate us,
but the money that I myself, Yang Man Oh,
and everyone present here will use to contend their might,
money that we shall use to create a new world made by tradesmen like us!
That glorious day shall soon come, my fellow tradesmen!
- Here he is... Master Yang! - Master Yang!
- Come here. - Come.
- Quick, come and join us! - Come here.
I commend you for a most sumptuous carousal!
You are flattering me.
- Why don't you join us for a drink? - Join us.
Perhaps later.
- Have a seat here, Master Yang. - Come on.
If you pardon me, I must go.
Master Yang...
Is this not the proprietary right I gave to Park In Bin...
to establish our connection with the courtiers?!
Why is this...
They are a certain Kang Jae Sun's kin.
The man whose pate is gracing a gibbet outside the palace, for yesterday's exploits.
- So, was it Park In Bin... - How will you proceed?
Should we not alert the authorities?
Accord them some dwellings, and one of our men as protection.
You now even shelter a traitor's kin?!
- Listen, Master Yang... - Do as instructed.
His Excellency Park In Bin...
You insolent!
How could you instigate such a harrowing misdeed?!
Ohh Ohh!
Did I not warn you not to intrude into matters that do not concern you?
Did you not already bask in enough power and riches?
What else are you looking to gain?
Brandishing a measly scabbard is all your calling entails to,
so would you ever realize in what shadows politics can tread?!
Politics is the spirit to devote one's efforts for the sake of his people.
Spirit?!
Do not indulge me with such childish drivel.
It is a power even stronger than any conviction your spirit will hold dear.
No matter how veracious your fealty,
if the ruler you serve is a traitor, so are the subjects pledging allegiance to him!
It is not to gain anything more,
it is merely to survive.
Only power, and the riches that come with it,
will help you survive.
The stronger you are, the more you shall gain.
And the more you gain, the stronger you shall become.
Survival of the fittest!
Be fearful of they who stand above you, and crave their status.
That is the only rule moving this jungle of ours around.
What if only dread engulfed your every powerless, obsequious move?!
Would you ever be able to devote that spirit of yours to our people?!
Should that daughter of Minister Lee who so fervently captured your thoughts...
appear right before your eyes,
would you be able to assist her in any way?
I see you are not asking me...
why you were subjected to such torturous questioning.
If you do grace my ears with an explanation, I will listen.
I had to verify if you still could be of service to us.
And that is because your calling shall from now on...
greatly differ from your past endeavors.
The only reason you survived through this...
is because you proved you could be useful to us.
But bear this in mind.
Should your survival cease to be fruitful,
you shall inevitably join Butler Hwang in the netherworld.
Yes, Milady.
The atmosphere is already severe enough,
so do not squander our time with fruitless exploits and just leave.
Did I not tell you I must return some goods to the Royal Dispensary?
- Briefly allow me to enter. - Ohh Ohh!
You still don't get it!
What is all this uproar?
He is an officer of the left capital bureau,
and he is insisting we allow him passage.
Return where you came from.
Unless you present a conscionable reason,
you shan't be easily allowed inside the palace.
But... you...
Were you not the man who rescued His Majesty?
You already were up and walking?!
You will pardon me,
but there is someone inside I must meet at all costs.
Did I not tell you she is not anyone you can seek audience with?!
I will merely return her needles.
And did I not just say I will do that for you?!
Just a moment will suffice.
You do not seem to heed my words...
I implore you to let me meet her.
You were responsible for a remarkable deed,
so I shall accord you forbearance just this once.
But I cannot guarantee she will accept to meet you!
I am really grateful.
There is no best solution in this world.
*Joseon painter Jeong Seon
Is this one of the fruits of Master Gyeomjae*'s peerless brush?
A propitious fortuity brought it into this minion's incognizant hands,
but it should rather be in the custody of those able to appreciate its mastery.
Custody?!
Should custody prove too discomfiting,
you are free to send it back at your leisure.
Listen to you...
Ahh... right!
Did you forge all the coins?
Your commendable efforts allowed us to solve our circulation problems.
What efforts?!
According funds to the market when the need arises...
is well within our code's means.
Feel free to visit these gates at any time.
I do not know how to repay your boundless benevolence.
After our purchase of proprietary rights and abodes from the western district,
we were being sweltered by a serious lack of endowments.
It is a relief.
It is exactly when everyone rushes to sell that one should buy.
*Wa (16th century); Manchu (17th century)
Did we not experience the same after the last foreign invasions*?
The more daunting the risk, the better our profits will be.
So you will continue buying abodes in the western district?!
Once reparations are complete,
send someone to lodge at Milady's abode.
So I shall.
This was exposed at the market.
I have no clue.
The man who intimidated her is no longer of this world,
but Milady has vanished.
With no dwellings Milady could turn to,
why is she not contacting or even seeking me?
I wonder if she did contact that other fellow, though.
I thought I saw...
a physician here...
Looked like a dream, felt like reality.
Did you fare well?
I have been faring well myself.
Is there anything you wish to tell me, Naeuri?
Ahh... so...
I wanted to return you this.
My gratitude, Naeuri.
Naeuri?!
*Deferential for bachelor
Call me Park Doryeong*, why don't you?!
I...
do not know anyone by such name.
Milady!
Wait!
Was the one who rescued me from demise...
none other than you?
You saved my life twice, Milady!
Do you realize how fervently I thought about you?
Day by day...
How many times your memories sweltered my mind...
You do not realize.
I should have never left!
Should have never parted ways...
I regretted and bemoaned that day.
Did you not feel the same?
Your whispers gracing my ears before the gates of dissolution...
Was that nothing but a vagary of mine?!
No way.
I...
have forgotten it all.
How does it look?
Upside down, does it not?!
Wow... it is really remarkable.
Such a small piece of glass changing things so incredibly...
It is truly wondrous.
Our eyes gazing at the outside world should not be much different.
Add or remove but a single viewpoint,
and you could see what the world truly looks like,
or even see it upside down.
You are like that glass to me, Milady.
Through you, I can finally see the world with clarity,
so that is why.
If you truly wish to see the world with clarity,
you will always need that glass by your side, then.
Milady...
I shall now look at you.
Even if from afar, may you always appear before my eyes.
Is that clear?
It was a wise decision.
Courtship will always be unconscionable for a palace physician.
Do you recognize what this is?
What is it?
Palgak.
And are you also cognizant of their use?
This...
assuages any ailments afflicting one's digestion,
and helps restore appetence.
I trust you would know how to serve it?!
Rinse it with limpid water inside stoneware,
and slowly boil it over a feeble fire.
It is not to a meager minion this will be served.
Yes.
How can one be so impetuous?!
What are you referring to, Your Excellency?
Those culprits behind the attempted murder of our ruler, who else?!
Will slaying the king grant them immediate power?!
Without the Minister of Personnel and His Majesty,
all which remain are puppets like Chae Seung Hwan and Lee Jae Han,
so they certainly could be moved to think as such.
It would be like bathing inside a pigsty.
A mere eleven moons graced the crown prince's gates,
envisaging the Queen Dowager's inevitable regency!
Her Highness's unyielding political prowess is renowned the world around,
so would anyone harming the king live to see the morn?!
If truly a great endeavor is what they plan,
taking the necessary steps must surpass any impetuous frenzy!
Ohh Ohh!
It almost sounds as if you are suggesting to deal with the Queen Dowager first?!
Is that what graced those ears of yours?
The Minister's demise seemed to quench his advance,
but the only thing all this will bring is His Majesty's rancorous wrath.
Right.
Was it your son who did it?!
I should summon him and reward his remarkable feat.
No matter how much I drink, too weak a nectar it is to inebriate me.
Did anything cause such despair?
I met her.
If you did meet her, would this not be a most propitious day?!
But she pretended not to know me.
This world of ours is brimming with mysterious clouds.
There must be a reason she did that.
There must be.
Perhaps...
she does not feel the need to tell me.
Since we are no longer what we used to be.
Even if desirous to howl it all out with utmost resolve,
everyone has things they cannot dare to confess.
And even if she told me,
nothing I can do would possibly help her.
Helping her?!
I could barely get close to her, what help?!
Can't you lean onto your indomitable spirit still cherishing her?!
Spirit?!
Is this childish drivel as well?!
Milady.
Master Yang is here to see you.
Tell him I shall meet him on another occasion.
He is here to meet with Park Bujang, actually.
Did you meet Milady?
Where is she?
- Even if I told you, it would be no use. - Tell me where!
Not looking for her is the only way you will help.
May you return.
I am well aware of how much you despise me.
However...
At least tell me that much.
Is there any reason why I should?!
Are you not looking for those who murdered the Minister of Personnel?!
Tell me where Milady is.
Then,
I shall confide in you information about the woman you are looking for.
- You know that heinous slattern? - Milady is in a grave predicament.
- That is the safest place she can be. - And where would that be?
She has become a physician in the palace.
How could the palace be harmful to her?!
Did you just say palace?
Palace?!
- Who is that heinous slattern? - Don't you know already?
Milady is exactly that heinous slattern you're looking for!
Derangement is finally upon you!
How could she be a murderous wench?!
I saw her both at the giru,
and where Butler Hwang was murdered.
There is no way.
Tell me who that murderous wench is at once. Now!
Trusting my words or not is only up to you.
What I must find...
is a way to rescue her.
No way...
There is no way.
It cannot be of her own volition.
Someone must have surely coerced her into doing this.
Needle?!
The needles we found on that shylock's body.
Allow me to take this.
Look!
Sang Gyu!
No way!
This cannot be!
And what is that supposed to mean?
You desecrate a tomb at this belated juncture?!
What is this despiteful demeanor?!
May you free the way, I must go somewhere.
I knew you were aware of something.
Did you find who these belong to?
Hyungnim!
I must know who they belong to as well.
Can't you let me know?
You might be a bureau officer, but desecrating a tomb is no laughing matter!
- Take him away! - Hyungnim!
Yes!
Hyungnim!
Hyungnim!!
That infusion...
Why did it take you so long to get that licorice?
Afraid the fire would ruin the infusion, I already scrunched it.
My apologies.
I am grateful.
Is it done?
Yes, Milady.
Let us go.
What are you standing there for?
Where are we headed to?
My apologies, Milady.
It is the same golden needle indeed.
Do you know of anyone using those needles in the capital?
I am not aware of anyone doing it in the capital...
Is it just you who's incognizant, or is there really nobody using these?
Originally, leaving needles inside the body after treatment...
has always been forbidden.
I did hear they briefly allowed it during the Ming dynasty for added effect,
but since a golden needle piercing veins would create a dire predicament...
All right.
You have been of assistance.
To whom do those golden needles belong?!
- I cannot tell you now. - If it's not now, then when?!
So you know the slattern who pierced you with those needles...
and committed murders using those berries, don't you?
- I shall reveal it to you later... - Not to mention...
the fact you also knew the man who smuggled and provided those goods to her.
Is that not the truth?
Be seated!
- Hyungnim! - She is responsible for several murders.
And the hope of all reformists, the Minister of Personnel, was one of her victims.
But... later?!
I might have fomented suspicions towards your father once,
but what is wrong with you?!
- What is the reason? - Allow me some time.
Should I find the culprit, you will be the first to know.
Are you forcing me to question you?
May you have faith in me, Hyungnim.
Should I bind and lash you until you speak?!
- Boys! - Hyungnim!
Park Bujang! Park Bujang!
I had no doubt that providence would shed light on your talents one day!
We received a royal edict summoning you to the palace in the morrow!
How prideful. Remarkable!
- Why would I... - Ohh Ohh!
You rescued His Majesty from the flames of demise,
so is it not natural he would reward you with a position in the court?!
Pride for your wondrous feats is sweltering me!
Would it not be at least Inspector of the State Tribunal?!
Not to mention the fact your father is a high courtier in the palace,
so would becoming a minister be out of the question?
Unless you drench such a propitious day in flavorful nectars,
how could you call yourself a man?!
And like men we shall indeed behave. Let us go! To the gibang...
There is still something Park Bujang and I must confer about!
Ohhh! Nonsense, you varlet!
I heard everything from the Chief Magistrate.
During an investigation, you certainly might encounter the need...
to dig graves, open and close the coffin and other such amenities!
Why would you pester him for such trifling issues?!
- But! - Ohh! End!
I am well aware of the close fellowship you two share,
but I trust you are not going to hamper a compeer's path to glory now?!
I shall request His Excellency the Chief Magistrate's consent,
so await just a moment.
I shall be back in no time!
Follow your orders.
But I shall reveal who that slattern is whatever it takes!
You have avoided your royal repast for an entire day, Your Highness.
Are they not villainous scalawags?!
A crazed miscreant swaggers about with a blade in His Majesty's presence,
as blood soils his royal vestments.
How could the dignity of our royal family have fallen into the pits of oblivion?!
And would it be merely those lowly miscreants?
*Tangpyeong: Yeongjo's (failed) tentative to end strife between Noron & Soron
What did the former king's policies* ever do to quench their obloquious spite?!
You must consume your repast and regain vigor, Your Highness.
This place...
All you need to do is follow my every command.
You are not allowed a single mistake.
Is that clear?
Did I not just tell you to get that table out of my sight?
Your Highness!
Your Highness.
I brought your infusion.
Let her in.
Are you not the one who treated Lady Jung?
That is correct, Your Highness.
What are you trembling in my presence for?
This is not even our first encounter.
I am deeply concerned this infusion I prepared might prove unsatisfactory,
hence my daunted frenzy.
If you gave your all, you must be content of that.
There is no reason you should be daunted.
Your grace is immeasurable, Your Highness.
Treasonous varmints lusting after His Majesty's pate are swarming the streets,
while flagitious dullards fed by spite for the royal family soil these kingly walls.
How could this heart of mine not be engulfed by despair?!
You must regain your vigor, Your Highness.
May you gorge upon those nectars.
Every grain of rice I feast upon feels like a cumbrous rock encumbering me...
To what end...
It has a peculiar flavor.
It shall aid you regain the lost appetence.
Fine.
A healthful body shall bless this olden matron,
if this royal family is to prosper beyond the ages.
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