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This is a fictional drama, creatively written based on history.
Do you think you can make 5,000 sheets in five days? The only drawback is that if you do not complete the task in time, you must compensate ten times the contracted payment.
What happened here?
Migrants, please help us make paper.
There was no greater hell on earth.
There are rumors that the Pyeongchang Village Head or whoever did it.
The Pyeongchang Village Head at the time
was someone named Min Chi Hyeong.
What do you mean we have to produce 5,000 colored papers?
I have brought the colored papers which were ordered.
This isn't my signature. I do not know anything of this.
So what will we do with this many papers?
I cannot return like this.
Saimdang, Light's Diary
- Buy colored paper! It's different than any other colored paper! - Please buy!
Deep Red, Blue, Salmon colors! We have all the colors!
Buy colored paper!
Come have a look. Isn't it pretty?
What do you think is going on over there?
I think she's setting up her own stall.
- A stall? - Yes.
Not only is she laboring, but now she even works a stall in the streets!
This is better quality than the stationery stores.
That's what I'm saying.
Navy! There's no color we don't have. Come please have a look.
Deep Red, Blue, Salmon colors! We have all the colors!
Welcome!
What is this! Move!
What is this!
What is the matter?
With whose permission are you selling paper here?
No!
Madam! No!
- Are you alright? - Are you okay, Madam?
You!
Who are you to cause such a ruckus in broad daylight!
Do you really want to be dragged to the police bureau!
- Who the heck are you! Continue on your way, high and mighty Yangban. (high-ranked noble) - Uncle!
I said go. Go on! Go!
Let go of me, punks!
Oh, no!
What to do!
- What's going on! - A big fight is going on! Oh no!
He's great at fighting!
No!
Wife? Wife! Wife!
Wife!
Move! Move, you thugs!
Wife, Wife!
Wife, Wife let's go. I'm here.
Oh!
Come on. Let's go, Wife! Come on!
Joseon Era Fan - Yellow dyed fan with 40 or more ribs were used by royal relatives or on-court officials (red robed)
What's going on?
It has 40 ribs, with yellow dye.
It is certain that he is a royal relative.
Let's go, Wife!
It's the police bureau!
Here, here. Let's go.
Let's hurry!
I guess I cannot let you be.
Prince Eui Seong. Saimdang!
These swain!
Madam!
I don't know why you are behaving in this manner.
However, if perhaps you are thinking about someone, and intending to hurt them,
while looking only at your own injury on your hand,
I would hope that you do not forcefully pierce the heart of another.
They were communicating with each other
for those long twenty years, the whole time!
Where was he able to procure such great colored paper!
Where did he get that?
Wow, fascinating.
He is really amazing.
♬ I want to live like the wind forever ♬
♬ So that I wouldn't leave anything ♬
♫ However, there is one heavy burden that's holding me back ♫
♬ That one person ♬
♬ The person who embraces me all cut and bruised ♬
♬ That person is you ♬
♬ If I can just love ♬
♬ If I can just look at you ♬
♬ Even if it is a dream which is shattered overnight ♬
♬ For me, it's you ♬
♬ Even if that dark sky should separate us ♬
♬ I can't ever give up ♬ - Now,
today's theme will be here! These colored papers,
whether you paint on them, write poetry on them, tear them apart and put them together, use them to your heart's desire!
Here, take them. Here!
♬ If I can just love ♬
♬ If I can just look at you ♬
♬ Even if it is a dream which is shattered over night ♬
♬ For me it's you ♬
It's all ready now. Please lie down. Yes?
This won't do. I have to leave this instant.
Darkness has fallen. Where are you going!
I must go to the migrants. I cannot stay like this right now.
Wife! Wife!
Wife! Wife! Are you okay, Wife?
Hey, Hyang! Hyang!
Wow, this is so great!
Since the papers were dyed excellently, the pieces shine ever more brilliantly.
Yeah, that's how it is!
The subtle contrast in the coloring, between the writing and paper, is great!
It's good. Very good.
How could they look so sophisticated?
Where did you get such great colored paper?
There's a new paper making workshop that's been set up in that mountain over there.
Hold on, hold on. Look carefully.
Although the coloring is wonderful,
- That's right! - the paper quality isn't that great.
That's right, that's right. I wonder what they made it with.
Look. Look here now.
Do you know how much effort goes into making paper! Try making it yourself!
You need to endure the heat though you feel like melting, and boil out the bark.
- While your hands are burning, - They burn!
- you have to rinse them in the cold stream, one by one, and pick out the articles one by one! - Of course!
It is back-breaking labor!
Is-is-is it wrong for the person-in-charge of supplies to analyze the paper?
What I'm saying is, it's that difficult to make paper.
- Talking without knowing anything. - He would only know if he had tried.
This beautiful paper!
Look at these beautiful hues!(Lee Mong Ryong - an artist who is in love with Prince Eui Seong)
Your Excellency Prince Eui Seong! If I were to buy more of these beautiful colored papers, where must I go?
I will buy a year's supply at once!
- What's with that 'ahjumma'?- He is pleasing me today.
- Your Excellency Prince Eui Seong! Colored paper!- There he goes again.
- His voice is so irksome. - Prince Eui Seong~
This is chrysanthemum tea.
They say it is great for a startled heart and rejuvenating the body. So drink up!
You've been moaning in suffering all night. You must have been so startled. So up, up. Bottoms up.
Why aren't you drinking, Wife?
For what reason did you come back this time?
It was because of that paper making, I heard a rumor that you can't even sleep.
If this isn't because of my incompetency, what else can it be?
Look at how ruined, your white porcelain face became. What can we do about your ski—
Hold on, look, wife!
I bought this at the tavern on the way down.
Please take it!
What is this now?
This is the blush, which is the talk of the town now.
It's Okhonggo that Yang Guifei used.
If you use this just once, your face will become rosy and your skin will be radiant...Wait, wife.
That's okay. You can rest here today, but prepare to leave tomorrow.
Where are you going? You'r sick.
I need to go to the workshop. I made a promise that I would sell the colored paper and split it evenly.
The migrants must be waiting.
What? I'm sure they are really upset that we came back without selling the paper.
I will have to explain the entire situation and make them understand.
I got it. I will do it. Just follow me.
That's okay. Let's go.
Wait...Wife...
Just stay here. Ah, really.
Ah, this girl.
Ah! How...
How is she leaving when she's so unwell? Who can fight against her stubbornness?
Wait, but where am I?
AIgoo, I'm so worried. Let's just go for now. Let's go.
Do you see what you've done to us?Cheon Jin Seok - Head of the migrants
I know that even if I tell you 100 times, it'll still sound like an excuse.
It's our fault for trusting in this woman.
I'm telling you. You can't trust pretty women.
Lady!
Not only your bewitching words, your false acting skill is also first rated.
I may be deceived once, but never twice.
To the people that believed and followed me,
I can express my gratitude and apologies only in this way.
I already told you. Burying a couple of women isn't even a hard task.
The one who broke a promise is paper store's owner. Please believe us.
We did get an order. The owner changed in that short time.
Yes, Leader. She didn't seem to intentionally deceive us.
That's right. They tried hard to sell the paper with us.
Shut up! In the end she wasn't able to sell the paper! Don't you see that over there?!
That's right. All those!
We work so hard and spent all our energy to end up even hungrier!
You are not trying to train a mutt! What do you think you are doing!
Damn it! I had a slight hope, but I ended up dreaming futile dream because of these women.
That's why I told you we can't trust the nobility!
- Bury them.- Just bury them!- Bury them, already!
Please save us.
Bury them?!
Bury them!
- These bastards!- Move aside!
Hello there!
Here it is!
- This is the paper.- It is here!- They are so pretty!
- This is it! This is it!- This is like a pumpkin flower.
That's what I'm saying!
Who's that octopus head?
What is with the atmosphere? Why are you just glaring at your customers? Aren't you going to conduct business?
Oh yes. I'm coming!
Wrap all of the up!
Go away! Don't touch me.
Aigo! Aren't you the one who passed the state exam with top score from Yongdo?
It's been a while.
And who is this?
Hello, I'm Jo Hyeon Nam, an administrator of Ministry of General Affairs and Personnel (Rank 5A). It's nice to meet you.
I'm Kim Jeong Wook from Ministry of General Affairs. After hearing Bi Ik Dang's reputation, I was hoping and waiting to be invited.
I ended up pressuring my friend here and came here.
But only artists may enter Bi Ik Dang.
Would you have any hidden talents? If not, it wouldn't work.
I'm just joking. It's good that you came.
When I told them that I had met your excellency, Prince Eui Seong,
these guys were nagging me so much to pay you a visit together.
What are you talking about? You are the one who bragged first. That you had met His Excellency Prince Eui Seong.
If I make Prince Eui Seong visitation cards and sell them at the market, I could make some money!
Eunja - Money made out of silver. Used as the best item for bribery
Among the artists that visits Bi Ik Dang, there isn't anyone that needs to be paid special attention as of yet.
In addition, like other artists, he accepted us, the new officials, without any reservation.
Without any reservation... Behave yourself in a manner that he will not have any wariness towards the new officials.
There will come a time when it will come in handy.
Yes, My Lord.
If you are a man, you should certainly have a big ambition, shouldn't you?
Of course!
Kim Gap Poon.
Yes!
You've worked hard.
Thank you, My Lady.
Shin Sang Sae.
Yes.
You've worked hard.
I'm Soon Shil.
Good work.
All I did was to beat with bats.
- That's the most important thing in making paper.- Thank you!
Taking out the impurities...
She's Kkot Soon and I'm her mom.
- Kkot Soon.- Thank you.
I'm the one who boiled it in ashen water. Ha! I'm Kim Soon Dal.
Good work.
Thanks to Madam, we get to see money!
Anyone else?
Leader? Leader!
You've worked hard.
No, that's alright. Just distribute more to others.
What nonsense are you speaking?
He is trying to look cool.
- We worked together, so we should received together.- Right!
Hurry! Leader!
He is so petty!
This time, we sold it really cheap so we didn't make a lot of profit. Next time, let's work really hard.
- Yes!- Yes!
Let me have some stew--
Excuse me, bring some drinks here.
I cannot be of any help to my wife. I am sorry.
- Hyungnim! - Big hyungnim!
Hyungnim? How dare you call him hyungnim! Quiet!
Hyungnim. Have you been well?
Yes. Have you found out?
Yes. He is someone who roams around without a home, it's hard to trace him.Im Kkuk Jeong
The one with a big sword scar on his neck, who survived from Woonpyeong Temple.
Some say he saw him in Gaegyung; another one says he saw him in Hanyang.
It looks like he might be roaming around with a group of migrants.
A group of migrants?
What are you doing here?
Are you trying to pray or something?
Well...
Why did you come back?
When you come back without a single coin, who would know what would happen to you?
Why did you come back?
There were too much debt that I had to repay.
Debt?
A long time ago,
so many people died because of me.
They were migrants, too, like you people.
On my hometown mountain, at the courtyard of Woonpyeong Temple,
high officials were indulging themselves.
Behind it, poor and hungry migrants lived secretly.
Because I was shocked at the two worlds that were so starkly different, I drew a picture.
On it, I wrote a poem.
That was
what drove them to death.
This year is exactly the 20th anniversary year.
Then, have you been offering prayers of penitence for 20 years?
I will live all my life trying to pay back that debt.
When I met Sae Dol and you people, that's when I realized
that you were the precious people Heaven sent to me so I would be able to repay that debt.
Precious... people...
Give it here.
Bang Gi Moon (Ming Ambassador)
You'd better pay more attention to the quality than quantity.
What does he mean by that?
He made a point of saying the Goryeo paper received decades ago is rather fine,
but the Goryeo paper received from Your Lordship Min nowadays is not as fine as before.
Books made with the paper tributes from here are already discoloring and brittle.
He has only made deals with your paper stores so far,
but if you keep doing this, that will put him in a very tough spot.
I manage all the best quality papers made within the Eight Provinces of Joseon.
If you are not satisfied with ours, then you will not find satisfactory ones anywhere.
The fella says his is the best.
Please take a look at this paper.
This is paper coated with lacquer oil.
Lacquer oil is applied 8 different times and then aged for another five years.
Speaking Mandarin
He says the scent is clean yet exquisite.
When he returns to Ming, pack up about 10,000 sheets of the lacquer paper for him.
Yes.
Both Ming and Joseon Dynasties, as one, love bribes. How laughable is this...
I will say...
You worked hard today.
Thanks to you, I saved my face.
I only carried out my duties.
That is why... I prepared a present for you.
A... present?
Open it.
Do you think you can tell who this finger belongs to?
This miscreant tried to hand over our paper store ledgers to Prince Eui Seong.
How can you manage the paper stores like that?
- Aigoo, you didn't have to...Goo Young Tae (former manager of Jang Won Paper Stores)
Sir, I made a mistake!
You made a mistake?
Please believe me.
Never again...
I believe you.
However, I don't believe in mere pleas for trust.
Take this to your heart.
My Lady...
It was not your fault.
I am telling you it was not your fault.
The migrants at Woon Pyeong Temple
getting massacred is what I'm talking about.
What...
What do you mean by that?
Woon Pyeong Temple's secret legacy of making Goryeo paper
- I handed it over to those scoundrels.20 Years Ago - Paper Workshop at Woon Pyeong Temple, Gangneung
From the very beginning, they were planning to kill everyone once the secret was in their hands.
I am saying whatever you drew had nothing to do with it.
Choi Pal Bong (Artisan at Woon Pyeong Temple Paper Workshop)
After stealing the Goryeo papermaking secret,
they meant to kill everyone who knew something of the technique, including their families.
Without knowing that, I got them the secret myself.
I am the sinner and I deserve to die.
It's me who deserves to die!
- No way...- My Lady, it wasn't your fault.
I am the one who should die.
No, it can't be...
My Lady, I did it...
Aish, really, he doesn't discriminate between day and night.
They say the paper store manager disappeared that day and hasn't been seen since.
- What?- And there is a new owner there.
- The owner has changed?- Yes.
They say he left for a countryside, but something seems off.
I asked around and went to his house.
Three days ago, you know, the day when we met him at Myeong Wol Pavilion,
They said since that day he had not returned.
He must have kicked the bucket somewhere.
Three Days Ago- Min Chi Hyeong who was a mere magistrate of Pyeongchang
has bootstrapped himself into the capital city by the got (nobleman's headwear) strings of the Prime Minister and has been on a roll ever since.
For as long as 20 years at that.
What secret is there between those two?
They say the hardest to change as you please is your children.Goo Young Tae (Former manager of Jang Won Paper Stores)
- Children?- I mean the Prime Minister's son!
The Prime Minister's son...
I heard that you have taken a very good care of that awkward situation for him at Woon Pyeong Temple.
I am indebted to you.
Yoon Gyeong Bo (Prime Minister)
It seems you will have to pay some attention to your wife's family.
I do not know what you mean.
A petition has been received that says your father-in-law is involved with riding the coattails of a traitorous scheme.
Only think of your own personal safety and wellbeing.
You should learn how to dump garbage and trash.
While you are at it,
try making a pouch to hold this as well.
It's a deadly poison.
If only grazed by an arrowhead dipped in this,
a boar the size of a house will collapse.
You must
handle it with great care.
Arsenic: a slightest trace will kill a person on the spot.
The Mistress has passed away!
Family Genealogy Records of Lord Jeong Hee Branch of the Hanyang Choi Clan
From today on, you are my lawful wife. Forget your past self.
- Your assumed name will be...- Hwieum...
Hwieum (means Death Knell)
I will call myself Hwieumdang.
I've done everything in my power,
as if I was his own tongue in his mouth,
I've bore and endured it all.
I can't crumble like this.
Never!
It's driving me nuts! The sounds of Gayageum is piercing my heart.
My heart is just... How should I describe it...
Ah, I'm tearing up all of a sudden. Omo! Prince Eui Seong.
- It's a performance filled with deeply rooted grudge.- Deeply rooted grudge?
How would you know that?
Can't you feel it? She must have layers of stories.
Deeply rooted grudge...
How's that going over there?Saimdang's paper making workshop
Peel the bark quickly and drain the ashen water.
- I'm rushing here.- Boss, why are you working so hard?
What do you mean I'm working hard? I just don't want to hear her nagging.
- Let's hurry!- Yes, yes!
You scoundrels! subtitles ripped and synced by riri13
What's going on?
With whose permission do you live here?
What did you say?
This is a wasteland and it's not designated as residential area.
Living in huts in groups like without permission in the capital city is against the national law.
When people live, it becomes residential area. Since when did we have to register?
- That's right, that's right.- What b*llsh*t is he saying?
Stop hitting us! Just use words!
What did we do wrong?
Follow me!
Wait! Over there!
Don't do this to children.
Don't go out.
Stay here.
What's going on?
Let's go.
Where are you taking them to?
I'm taking them to the police office for breaking the national law and roaming in group.
What do you mean by breaking the law? Exactly what law did they break?
Although at one point, they were roaming around as migrants. But they have settled down and trying to live like human beings. These are good citizens.
Ha! Good citizens? How do we know what crimes they committed before they crawled into the capital city?
Among the roamers, I've never seen anyone who lived a clean life.
They've only migrated in order to survive.
In order to live, they settled down here. How can that be a crime?
Uh-huh! If you want to complain about it, do it at the government office!
Stop!
This is clearly unlawful.
You must be Madam Shin. The one who tried to profiteer by instigating the migrants.
Although it's true that my last name is Shin, I've never profiteered by instigating the migrants.
These swains! It doesn't matter if they are killed.
Please do not hit them. Why are you doing it?
The public security must be strong, in order for the law and order of this country to be well established.
Since people like that are walking around freely, there are no ends of bandits in and around the capital city.
To those officers who are working hard at the field, Kim Moo Song - Police Captain
I need to give even more.
You didn't have to do this.
You bitch dare to make paper!
- My Lady!- My Lady!
I have submitted the paper that we made so far to the police office,
- and our work got acknowledged.- That's great.
However, they say they cannot release you unless if you can reveal your identity.
As for the identification card, Sae Dol knows where we have hidden them so he can dig them out and bring them.
But that is not the problem.
Then, what is the problem?
Although we are not runaway slaves or criminals,
we are migrants who had to leave our home town driven away by the huge amount of taxes.
If we can't pay that debt back, we won't be released anyway.
As for the debt, we will just have to pay them. I will prepare them no matter what it takes, so don't worry.
- Oh, Hyang.- My Lady! - Please have some.
- Aigoo!- Do not grow weary, but keep your senses.
- Your stomach must be filled in order for your heart to feel confident.- Yes. Thank you!
Have some.
- Here, hurry and eat some.- My Lady!
- We will be able to get out of here, right?- Yes, of course.
Eat a lot. This, too.
Don't worry. Alright? Your parents will surely be released.
Sleep here comfortably tonight. Alright?
- Yes, ma'am.- Yes, ma'am.
Why does she take so much care of the beggars' children?
We are not beggars!
- Mae Chang!- What's a beggar?
What do you mean "beggar"? They are people just like us.
These are children of nice people who are helping me.
- It's already crowded here.- That's what I'm saying.
W... What? How can we give all our savings to migrants with unknown background?
The reason that our family can have meals,
also the reason that Hyeon Ryong can attend the village school is
because they can work along with me at the paper workshop.
At this time,
we must get them out.
But still...
Not only at the Royal Secretariat,
but also at the Capital Bureau and the Ministry of Rites' Rituals Division,
Prince Eui Seong is threatening the officers there, saying he's investigating corruption,
and forcing them to reveal government documents and to respond to his probes.
This is overstepping his boundaries as a royal family member
and engaging in deeds that he must never do.
Even Prince Eui Seong's Bi Ik Hall is
overrun nowadays not with artists but political hacks
masquerading as artists.
So?
Are you telling me to punish Prince Eui Seong?
Prince Eui Seong has lived all his life as a free soul without any official position.
If you come crying to me about the doings of a person who's lived like a free bird flitting here and there as he likes,
what am I supposed to do about it?
Should I send him on an exile or should I sentence him to death by poison?
First, please fire the Liaision of the Office of the Royal Clan
for neglecting the management of distant royal clan members.
Furthermore, Instructor Baek In Geol who placed himself
next to Prince Eui Seong to bad-mouth the government officers
ought to be dismissed as well.
I told you to be careful.
Their eyes and ears are everywhere.
If you move so noticeably,
that they would resist with hostility is as clear as day.
Forgive me.
However, Your Majesty, Instructor Baek In Geol had nothing to do with this matter.
Baek In Geol is your upright minister.
An upright minister...
Baek In Geol, that fella is a cur
that should have died during the Gimyo Year already.
To save his own skin, he abandoned his comrades
and ran away to Mount Geumgang. Aye, that's him.
He should thank his lucky star that I did not have him beheaded but just demoted his rank.
An upright minister!
Do not recruit people based on your own standard.
Do not form such a group.
Do not go around in a group
or willy nilly squabble about justice.
People who formed groups under the pretext of justice
in the end
grew greedy for power and dispised me.
Prince Eui Seong.
You are the person I cherish the most at the moment.
I don't want to lose you.
Our relationship, you see,
will not change.
It mustn't.
Only you have fallen into a tough spot because of me.
You followed your conviction and I, too, think you were right to do so.Baek In Geol - Headmaster of Central Village School
That's all that matters.
This, seriously...
One family is moving and shaking the whole government and school, honestly...
But where, on earth, is that power coming from?
Perhaps the rumor that Min Chi Hyeong dominates not only paper mills but the paper trade all over the country
is that the truth?
For a guy who's uninterested in politics, you know all kinds of things.
I'm not interested in such matters either.
However,
in the background of a Pyeongchang magistrate, a minor local post-holder, advancing to the central government
there is a rumor of some temple fire being related to it.
You know something, right?
You do.
Tell me. There's something I heard as well.
You just asked a dangerous question.
Tell me!
Forget the past. You can't change it.
People can get hurt.
Even if you're the one asking that question.
I still want to know... No, I need to know.
Hyung-nim!
The source of all that conflagration and massacre that broke out at the temple...
seems to have been one poem.
A poem?
A few scholars stormed out of the secret gathering on the eve
of the Literati Purge of the Gimyo Year.
There was a rumor that His Majesty secretly bestowed a poem on those scholars.
It was just around the time when some migrants got massacred at the temple.
All the scholars who received the poem got murdered.
And among them...
was also Elder Shin Myeong Hwa.
Elder Shin Myeong Hwa?
The father of Madam Shin whom you loved so dearly...
He was a hyungnim that I respected.
The other scholars who also stormed out the meeting on the night before the Literati Purge
are supposedly being killed. Please hurry and hide!
It's not true, it's not.
It's all over.
I...
What was that poem about anyways?
Rumors that it was honoring those executed during the Gimyo Year
floated around briefly and then disappeared.
But who knows...
Because the dead do not speak.
Miss went up to Woon Pyeong Temple!
Woon Pyeong!
What do you think about making the poetry subject to be about Woon Pyeong?
Woon Pyeong Temple. What on earth happened there?
Prince Eui Seong!
Miss, Miss went up to Woon Pyeong Temple!
Saimdang!
What happened?
Mistress!
Child! Child!
What do you mean a wedding? Who's getting married?
Miss Saimdang.
Move, you bastards!
Bastards!
Saimdang... Saimdang!
Let go of me!
It's not true, right? It's not.
You are putting on a show because of some reason, right?
It's just as you've seen.
We promised to share our whole lives together over a written marriage proposal.
How could you become another's wife without so much as one word of excuse?
For the past 20 years, there was not one moment that I forgot about you.
How could you forget?!
Police Bureau
Omo, My Lady has returned!
Please release them with these as the bail bonds.
I have brought their ID sticks as well.
- What are these?- They are the deeds to my house and land.
Use these as the bail bonds
and release those people over there for now.
Thank you.
Look here, madam.
Do you even know how much their debt is?
It's more than 900 sacks of white rice (about $100,000 USD by today's money) and 200 rolls of cotton.
And since it's been overdue for a considerable period time, if the interest is added...
These two pieces of deeds are far from being enough.
What wrong have we done? All we did was live hard.
No matter what I have to do, I will procure the rest as well and bring it here.
Please give me a bit of time and release them first.
I need people to make paper, and thus, they can pay back their debt.
Trying to solve this matter through bail money may not be the best thing to do.
People like those, when gathered one by one, become bandits and rioters.
How can you guarantee that those are not a wicked bunch?
They are good people.
I am saying they are all respectable subjects of Joseon.
I will become their surety.
In the event any of them causes a problem, take me instead.
- Miss... - Miss!
She even brought house and land deeds as the guaranty.
And she said she'd pay back the outstanding debt within one month.
If their debts do not get repaid in a month, not only will this land and house deed be taken,
these people, as long as yourself will not be able to avoid the crime of insulting the bureau.
What can be done.
We will do that.
Miss... No, miss!
Thank you!
- My Lady, thank you so much!- No, that's too much.
- Hurrah!- It's all thanks to Miss.
Woah!!
How much is it?
Over 900 sacks of grain, and over 200 rolls of cotton.
They say there is interest on top of that too.
If it's not paid in a month, everything from the house to the land will be gone!
What exactly did they do that they have so much in backtaxes!
They say they were commoners.
They have to offer up indigenous specialties, pay up regional taxes. On top of them, farmers have to even pay tax on land.
It totally makes sense that they have backtaxes.
That's all nice and all, but why is my wife involved? Why?
She promised to take responsibility in the event any one of them runs away!
I knew that my wife was generous, I just did not know it was to this extent.
At this rate we'll all die from this sinking ship. Let's see now. Oh yes!
Seon, Mae Chang, Hyeon Ryong, Woo!
- Where did they go?- Why?
Bring the kids and my wife.
We will never pay for that debt.
We need to at least escape secretly in the night.
Me too! I'm too nervous to function.
I will also return to North Pyeong Village!
If you go what about Miss?
There's you Master!
You really have no loyalty, do you?
Look who's talking!
You look like you're going to hit someone. Every time you talk to me you glare your eyes at me.
I never... What do we do?
What was she thinking for her cause such big trouble?
I'm saying!
When exactly are you going to pass your civil service exam!
Isn't it because you keep failing to pass that Madam keeps creating incidents!
Does it look like I try to fail when taking the exams?
It's hard to pass!
Fine. Say I passed. I got a position.
Do you even know what the starting salary is?
It's only 10 mal of rice (about 160kg), and 5 mal (80kg) of yellow beans a year!
Even if I earn for a lifetime I will never be able to pay it back!
- Not unless I accept a bribe. - Heol!
Did you cause a fire in the kitchen?
Geez... my head.
The starting salary is a pittance.
Move that over there.
I won't go.
I said I won't go, so why are you doing this? I won't go!
What are you doing?
Why did he pack up?
Well... it be grain or hard labor... By trying to fill a bottomless jar, I feel like I would die.
- We've roamed around so much.- So?
How on earth will we be able to pay that huge debt back in a month!
What are we going to do when the police guards come and crack down?
- Nothing will be solved by running away!- How could he think of running away?
- What about us?- That damned guy!
What about madam?
I don't want to run away.
I will work here and receive human treatment, though my body may be in a difficult position.
What is this woman saying!
So many things that Madam did for us.
Where would you be going?
How will you live, if you leave here?
Miss, I know you said you'll pay our taxes in return for labor,
but there's no guarantee those rotten folks won't raise the taxes.
So I am a bit worried...
That's why running away is the answer!
- Stop talking nonsense!- That's not right!
- There is a way...- What are you, a mudfish?
Huh?
- What?- What a scare.
Pal...Pal...Pal... Grandpa Pal Bong?
Omo!
There is a way.
He said something! He can talk!
Grandfather.
I didn't hear wrong right?
See? I said our grandfather wasn't a mute!
This is what I have been hiding this whole time.
It is the secret method how the Woon Pyeong Temple made goryeo paper.
Woon Pyeong Temple...
What is this "goryeo paper"?
The goryeo paper of Woon Pyeong Temple?
Goryeo Paper? Woon Pyeong Temple? What's that?
What's Goryeo paper?
The secret's in here?
Yes, Miss.
If we can make the goryeo paper that was produced in Woon Pyeong Temple, there is a chance for success.
Even now in Ming they call goryeo paper, gold paper and consider it the best.
It doesn't change just like gold, and lasts a long time. Goryeo Paper.
So you're saying Grandpa Pal Bong you will make the Goryeo paper?
What?- How could grandpa Pal Bong do that?
I learned off the shoulder, so I cannot guarantee.
Instead, I need a sample.
- A sample? - Without it, we can't make it?
He must be kidding, right?
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Come out! Anyone there?
Come out!Gangreung Oh Jook Heon - Saimdang's birth house
How could this be at this late hour? Open it up.Gangreung Oh Jook Heon - Saimdang's birth house
Oh, Sir!
Tell her Prince Eui Seong is here, and that I would like an audience with her. Hurry!
But it's really late...
- Sir! You can't!- Let go!
She says to leave.(Lee of Yongin - Saimdang's mother)
Please ask her again. I just need a brief moment.
I'll wait until she sees me.
Please go back.
Sir, please go back. Oh, Sir!
Oh, no! What should we do!
I'll wait here until you see me!
Oh dear...
♬ Only one love; My only love ♬
♬ I will love you; You are my everything, my love. ♬
♬ My heart like this... ♬
Saimdang, Light's Diary
As soon as he finds out there is a survivor, His Majesty will become the most cruel person.
Don't make His Majesty into your enemy.
That guy Prince Eui Seong is making the game bigger.
Whether it is a bait to lure a fox, or to hunt for the tiger.
What a vulgar person!
There's something you'll need to do.
The deeper his love is, the more he will feel betrayed. That means that we have the upper hand.