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Did you say His Majesty's poem is the reason behind all this?
Among the people who saw that poem,
that woman is the only survivor.
I'll never let go of you again.
So Min Chi Hyeong is monopolizing the Goryeo paper production since the massacre of Woon Pyeong Temple.
That neck should have been detached.
Vulgar thing.
Please do not make His Majesty your enemy.
That is the way to protect Madam Shin.
Saimdang, Light's Diary
Episode 13
Please continue to live the way you do now,
for the migrants and for your family.
If that is your way, then go that way.
However, as for me, I will always be standing where I can see you.
You must not do that.
I do not care even if you are another's wife and you do not throw me a single backward glance.
You are really...
How can you be so foolhardy?
Even if the roads we travel
run parallel without ever meeting together,
I am saying I will go with you like that, side by side, all my life.
♬Passing the time, in what form of life♬
♬ Did you come to comfort the pitiful heart? ♬
Okay, he's g-gone.
Go.
My lady!
My lady! Those strange men covered my mouth.
Are you okay, My lady?
Where did that scholar go?
- Madam - Hyang...
Let's go.
Alright.
Wait up for me!
♬ In case you would come even in my dream♬
You must never turn His Majesty into your enemy.
That'll be the only way to protect the woman you cherish.
Please don't make His Majesty your enemy.
Even if you are willing but do not study it right away,
you are willing in words,
but you have no sincerity towards the learning.
Lee Hyeon Ryong (2nd son of Saimdang)
You wrote well about Ji Hak. (about 15 years of age)
Ji Hak - refers to the age of fifteen. Its root lies from the age that Confucius resolved to focus on learning
Bak Nyeon Ji Gye Mak Ye Su In.
Someday, I'll become a great man and rule the world. Min Ji Gyun (1st son of Hwi Eum Dang)
Then Min Ji Gyun!
- Pass! - Yeah?
- Ji Gyun just passed? - Then who's the first place?
Although Ji Gyun's essay which used Guanzi's words was good, too,
today, I am going to give the first place to the answer that wrote his thoughts correctly.
- Lee Hyeon Ryong, first place! - What?
Wow, him!
That makes no sense! That beggar child got the first place?
Here, here, here. We will stop the morning lesson now.
Enjoy your lunch time.
Wow! How can this be?
Hyeon Ryong, you got the first place.
I want to get the first place, too.
Isn't this a croaker that's only seen at the King's table?
We bought it at a fish market that supplies to the royal kitchen,
so it's amazingly delicious.
Hey! Do you always eat barley balls?
Just like a beggar child!
It's convenient to eat and it's really good. So, what's wrong with barley?
Do you know how many people can't even afford to eat this?
What good is placing the first when he is a child. Are you the first place beggar or a beggar in first place?
First Place Lee Hyeon Ryong
- Hey! - Come here.
- What is it? - What else could it be, jerk?
First place?!
- Hey! - This jerk!
Step on him! Stomp him! A beggar kid, how dare he?
- You, rascals! - Let go of me!
Who do you think you are?
How are you managing the students?
What are the teachers doing?
Ji Gyun's mother, please calm down.
Does it look like I can calm down? Just look at Ji Gyun's face!
What are you doing not apologizing?
I don't want to. I didn't do anything wrong!
This jerk! In whose presence do you dare?
Ji Gyun's mother!
You didn't do anything wrong?
No, I didn't!
This incident... I will never let it slide!
You'd better be prepared for it.
Are you alright?
Pass
What were you thinking that you missed the first place?
Did you think I'd leave you alone like that?
How will you show this grade to your father?
Lee Hyeong Ryong! I'll kill you!
If something like this happens one more time, I will certainly not forgive you.
You may leave.
What a hard-hearted kid!
Ji Gyun, I just want you to...
Hyeon Ryong! Hyeon Ryong! Hyeon Ryong!
How on earth is she making him study?
As soon as he enters Central Village School, he gets first place?
In a household where they have to worry about eating each meal,
there is no way he could have a private tutor.
If you can't love His Majesty, you must at least pretend to love him.
That would be the proper way to protect Madame Shin.
Your Majesty, please forgive me.
What are you sorry about all of a sudden? (Joong Jong - Joseon's 11th king)
I heard you had visited Bi Ik Hall.
You commanded me not to leave you but to stay by you.
But I have disobeyed your order by disappearing without any notice.
Could I capture the wind with my hands if I tried?
I was lacking to think that I could grab onto you.
As a prodigal son, I've wandered around for twenty years.
How could I change instantaneously?
I was overcome by the illness of a wandering spirit, so it took a while to roam around to my heart's content.
On the way back, I visited my aunt in North Pyeong Village as well.
Ha! So you roamed around to your heart's content?
So, is your great aunt well?
Yes. She sent her regards.
It's been a while since I visited my hometown, and old memories came popping up
of how I used to play polo and go hunting with you.
Feeling nostalgic, I drew these, even forgetting about sleep.
Isn't that the crafting technique of inlaying with mother-of-pearl on crimson surface?
In the dye he mixed in cinnabarite (orange toned natural mineral) that's more precious than gold.
It is the beautiful scenery of autumn-tinted Mount Poongak (Modern day Mount Geumggang) that I saw on the way back.
In my desire to show this wonderful view to you, who is working so tirelessly,
I drew it all night.
I've decorated the handle with a dragon shaped mother-of-pearl,
and as an accessory, I've added a dragon designed jade.
A dragon is the center of this kingdom of Joseon.
It symbolizes Your Majesty, who is the foundation of all the citizens.
He brown-noses well.
Soon, it will be the pheasant hunting season.
What do you think about doing some falconry for the first time in a long while?
Falconry?
I will prepare a special present for you as well.
Can I look forward to it?
Yes.
How straightforward your answer is! In that case, ministers, why don't you seize this opportunity as well and join us
in cooling down our brains?
Your grace is immeasurable.
Your Highness, the wind is chilly.
Okay.
Deposed Queen Shin
What is that sound?
But, aren't you Hyeon Ryong, child?
What is the matter?
Saimdang's Paper Workshop
That's ready.
My Lady!
What brings you here?
Her Highness is requesting to see you.
Her Highness is?
Did you ask for me?
You must have been surprised to hear that this old woman is suddenly asking to see you.
It's none other than this.
What is it?
Please open it.
But, this is...
A blouse and a skirt made of embroidered satin.
Yes, but why are you giving such precious things to me?
I hear that Hyeon Ryong is attending Central Village School?
Yes, that is right.
It seems that there was a small disturbance at the school.
He has to bring you to the school, but he couldn't tell you.
He was sobbing behind the wall.
I did not know.
I am really sorry.
Please wear this to the school.
I do not want to impose on you.
You have to think about the feelings of the crestfallen boy, as well.
Please accept it as a token of friendship.
Ah, yes.
♬ The place I miss even in a dream the still color of water ♬
♬ Dawn is disappearing dimly ♬
♬ In the sobbing wind my heart is blown ♬
♬ Longing for the song of the day which can't come back ♬
♬ The flower in full bloom, the kite flying everywhere ♬
♬ Are falling and are plaintive ♬
♬My beautiful one ♬
What emergency meeting all of a sudden? Central Village School
Haven't you heard yet? That kid Hyeon Ryong beat up Ji Gyun.
- Leader Hwi Eum Dang supposedly slapped his face. - Omo
Really?
Something's going to go down today.
- It's so nice. - Wow.
The painting is lavish but still has dignity and elegance to it.
It's exactly like our Leader Hwi Eum.
I know, right?
Since it's her work, what else could it be like?
There is no nook or cranny in Central Village School that has escaped our Hyung-nim's personal touch.
That's right.
It seems it's almost the time. Is everyone gathered?
Just a moment.
But, I don't see the newbies?
Why aren't they coming?
Aigoo, I am not running a bit late, am I?
You are late. How can a newbie be late like this every time?
Aigo, I am sorry. My palanquin carriers were not up to snuff. (Madam Gong: Eldest daugher-in-law of the richest person in Jeolla province)
Wasn't it rather you were overly upholstered?
She should pay the carriers twice the normal rates.
Everyone, please be seated.
Yes.
Ew, how haughty...
A Song scholar, Liu Anshi, asked the Great Learned Scholar Sima Guang,
what was the one character, out of tens of thousands of Chinese characters, to take to the heart?
Do you know which character Sima Guang pointed to?
It's the devotion "Seong."
Then, do you know how Sima Guang answered the question of how can one devote all his heart and soul?
Teacher! I have a question.
When a superior man comes across someone hampering him while he is following the proper way,
if he stays the course even if he has to kill the obstructor, isn't that the right thing to do?
What? How dare you say such—
Didn't you say matching one's word and action is the basis of becoming a superior man?
Ahem, even so, going so far as killing a person—
Moreover, Mencius said, "princes of small power are submissive to those of great,
and the weak person to the strong. Both these cases are the rule of Heaven."
That's not a book you should be discussing yet.
Without looking at the depth of a superior man's virtue, deciding the victor and loser exclusively by their magnitude or smallness, strength and weakness,
how is that the rule of Heaven?
Aish, that jerk is showing off again.
Uhh...
That child, seriously...
But, isn't Lee Hyeon Ryong's mother here yet?
She has no idea what is going on and is late.
That's what I'm saying.
What the heck?
Who is she?
She did have a silk dress after all!
I will say...
Look at that silk.
I am sorry I am late.
How pretty she is. Her face is familiar.
She is the mother of that kid, Lee Hyeon Ryong, who gave Ji Gyun a double bloody nose.
They say clothes make the person. She looks completely different from the time of the poetry and painting competition.
Because of the urgency of the matter at hand,
I had to call an emergency Mothers Association meeting. Please excuse the inconvenience.
Lee Hyeon Ryong's mother!
I am a Mrs. Shin, Lee Hyeon Ryong's mother.
That Lee Hyeon Ryong who beat Ji Gyun and received first place?
So slow-witted...
Things have been hectic so I could not attend until now. Next time, I will make sure—
There
will not be a next time to meet like this, it seems.
What does she mean no next time?
- Why? - Who knows!
What is Leader Hwuieum saying?
As of today, you're finished.
What do you mean?
It's exactly as I said.
I mean there will be no next time to meet like this as the Mothers Association of Central Village School.
Oh my word...
While perusing the School Mothers Association rules and regulations,
we came to realize that a student who does not meet the school standards is attending.
- Pardon? - Doesn't meet the standards? Who is that?
The twelfth rule
says a pupil from a family who disgraces or harms Central Village School
can be expelled by a majority vote of the Mothers' Association members.
There was such a rule, too?
What do you mean, disgracing?
There is no pupil at Central Village School whose father has not ascended to a government post.
However, I've heard that Lee Hyeon Ryong's father's been repeatedly failing the exam for twenty years and bumming around.
- He's a total slacker. - Omo, how could he!
Is that true?
Hey, Pauper, what are you doing?
Under such a father, what can a pupil learn indeed?
And what kind of will would he develop?
The fact that the father is not a government employee, does that have any relationship to the child's learning?
Omo, omo, but aren't they related though?
Of course they are related.
Do you think Central Village School is where ordinary students can attend?
But rich and famous fathers are not the only good fathers.
What are you talking about?
Then, are you saying poor, jobless fathers are good or what?
That's what we are saying.
Always accepting the children as they are and making them laugh,
my husband is a good father who cannot be any more loving and warm-hearted.
Even if you use such honeyed words, the bottom line is he's a post-less ne'er-do-well.
Having a government post or not, is that so important?
We are telling you yes.
Mozi, who was a philosopher and strategist during the Warring States Period, never held an official post all his life.
However, through his infinite compassion for the weak, he became a paragon of virtue.
Great Poet Tao Yuanming, also, lived in retirement but left enduring fame through his excellent poetry and writings.
Aigo, showing off so much...
So what? Is Hyeon Ryong's father Mozi or Tao Yuanming?
As far as I've heard, he's a flunking guru who's been repeatedly flunking for twenty years.
Flunking guru, she says...
- Flunking guru, is that your daddy? - What the heck did you say?!
These brats! What are you punks doing there?
Hurry and go home! Hurry!
It's a rule that I can neither agree with nor understand.
Who on earth decided on these school rules?
The Mothers Association of Central Village School.
This is the Mothers Association Rule Book that has been handed down through generations.
Speaking of which, should we see this through to the bitter end?
No matter how dire your circumstances,
how can a so-called lady from a noble family, clad in sweat-soaked rough cotton dress, mix and toil with the lower class?
If this is not disgracing Central Village School's honor, what is?
It's paper making.
Paper is indispensable, important stationery that children cannot do without when studying.
How is making that a shameful job?
Even the Four Books and Three Classics you urge your children to memorize, how can they read them without paper?
Are you going to regress to the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period and make them carry around bamboo slips?
Bamboo slips? What are those?
Bamboo roll books used before paper was invented.
I am talking about how you, dressed indiscriminately from the lower class, mix with the migrants to do physical labor
and drag Central Village School's name through the mud.
What are you so dignified about?
Dress is only for keeping up appearances.
I wore rough cotton during the last poetry and painting competition and today I am clad in silk.
However, the essential quality that makes me the person I am has not changed.
The pumpkin flower may look shabby, but the whole pumpkin provides more than enough to feed an entire family.
The lotus flower may be lavish but its fruit is less useful than chestnuts or jujubes.
Of course, of course, I prefer jujubes over lotus seeds.
So what are you saying? That we are lavish but useless lotus seeds?
Aigoo, so flabbergasted...
Somebody's got to make paper and I am doing that work.
How can that be a disgraceful deed?
But, have you attended a rhetoric school or something?
How can you be so glib and gushing like water?
I wasn't going to go so far as to bring this up, but...
I heard that Hyeon Ryong's maternal family was involved in the Literati Purge of the Gimyo Year?
Gimyo Purge?!
That his maternal grandfather suffered a jail term over that matter and went back to his hometown.
Gimyo Purge? Does that mean they belong to a treacherous family?
And your next door neighbor right now is the daughter of Traitor Shin Soo Geun, also known as the Deposed Queen Shin.
Isn't that the case, Hyeon Ryong's mother?
Moreover, the plum-colored skirt you're wearing right now
is made of embroidered satin that ordinary folks cannot even find easily.
That is why it's called the queen's color.
Does that mean Deposed Queen Shin gave it to her?
The vermillion color of the skirt you're wearing right now is not an ordinary hue that anyone can dye, either.
You see this reddish peony?
Color yeonji. I named it.
Yeonji color?
You caught on only now?
Seok Soon, you!
What kind of place is Central Village School?
Isn't it a school only the scions from eminent government officials' families attend?
The school ties formed here continue to Sungkyunkwan
and to the government service and for the rest of life.
That is right.
A pupil from a treacherous family attending this school is not just disgracing the school name.
- My late father, Mr. Shin using the "Myeong" and "Hwa" characters, - Can it be?
was caught up in the wake of the Gimyo Purge and briefly investigated. However, no cause was found and he was released.
Therefore, he is innocent.
Elder Shin Myeong Hwa!
- I want to visit Mount Geumgang. - I did not doze off, I didn't!
Elder Shin Myeong Hwa...
Saimdang, Saimdang, it really was you!
Even if my father had committed a crime,
his child ought not to report it to the authorities, but cover it up.
That is an honest act that follows the human nature. Even the Classic of Filial Piety says so.
- And how, in such a case, can you ask the child to pay for his father's crime and condemn him guilty by consanguinity? - She's so eloquent...
At any rate, what matters is that these unsavory rumors end up dragging our Central Village School's name through the mud.
- That is right. That's the problem. - So disagreeable...
But then, what is there to argue about?
Why don't you neatly withdraw from the school if a majority of the mothers here vote yes.
- Let's do it that way. - Yes, let's vote.
Vote, vote, that's the way to do it.
Why on earth?
I acknowledge it. Prime Minister, your arrow was one step ahead of mine, satisfied? subtitles ripped and synced by riri13
Aigoo, it's just a small rabbit.
Next time, your arrow will surely catch an elk or a boar.
His Excellency the Prime Minister's game should not be called "a chicken instead of a pheasant" but "a rabbit instead of a pheasant."
What a joker, Your Excellency.
You urged me on to go on a falconry hunt. But where have you been to show up only now?
Falcon Painting - Used to Exorcise Evil Spirits
Isn't that a falcon?
They say ravens are black even after taking a bath. Prince Eui Seong is an undeniable painter.
It's such an intricate brush work.
From the sleek plumage to sharp talons, to the beak that would frightfully tear into the prey...
It seems like it will tear out of the painting any minute now and fly away.
Please accept this token of my devotion to you, Your Majesty.
Why would I decline the best work of art under the sun?
From the olden days they say the hawk symbolizes an exorcist.
During the Song Dynasty, the daughter-in-law of a Zhang family in Wuchang was possessed by a fox devil.
The moment the fox inside her body saw the hawk painting of Emperor Huizong, it got scared out of its wits and gave up its ghost.
They say hawks have been used in exorcist paintings ever since.
If you keep this painting around you, who knows, maybe a vile creature hiding near you may show its true colors?
That's right, that's right, that may happen.
But, how come the hawk is missing its eye?
The dragon is finished but the dotting of its eyes is not done yet.
I left it blank for Your Majesty.
- For me? - Yes.
Please complete the piece, Your Majesty.
Is it symbolic of him watching over the people like a hawk?
Your Majesty, please draw the eye to complete the piece.
- Shall I? - Yes, of course.
- Expel! - Expel!
What a joke...
- Allow. - Huh? Who did that?
- I wrote it. - Who is it? My goodness.
- Expel! - Expel!
It's an expel.
- Allow. - You all are crazy.
- Good, good. - My goodness!
It's 7:7, a tie!
- Oh my... - Oh, my! How could it be?
- Just who? - That fatso...
Let's do it again. Since it's a tie, we must re-vote.
Yes, of course.
First!
Let's have a cup of tea.
Pardon?
I thought you all might be thirsty, too.
I just happen to have some precious tea from Ming.
Let's each have a cup first.
Let's not bother with voting.
How about we rest a bit,
and vote by a show of hands.
- Show of hands? - No wonder! She is after all, Leader Hwi Eum Dang!
- A show of hands is good. - Omo, who would raise hands?
Show of hands is good.
Now, a show of hands. You all understand, right?
Show of hands.
Let's have a cup of tea first!
You didn't vote "allow," did you?
Of course not.
If you get on the bad side of Leader Hwi Eum, you'll pay the price.
Ji Gyun always took the first place until Hyeon Ryong got admitted.
You saw it yourself earlier. Hyeon Ryong isn't an average child.
I heard he got slapped for talking back to Madam Hwi Eum, and twice on the same cheek, at that!
- He got slapped on the same side again! - He got slapped?
Your Majesty, this drawing is calling for a poem on the side.
Why don't you write a poem on it?
- Should I? - Yes, of course Majesty.
Seeing that my writing keeps splitting (ink not seeping into the paper), I guess I was pushing myself too hard today.
I had a hard time mixing glue into a few layers of colors when painting this piece.
In the past, a single stroke would have sufficed, but I had to paint over carefully to complete this piece.
Technology advances as time goes by, but it doesn't seem to be in the case of paper making.
If that's true, then we have a big problem.
Enough with that. Since we still have a lot of daylight left, let's go hunting again.
Yes, Your Majesty.
The tea is luxurious. I wonder if I can get some.
- The white top, spill it on the white top. - On the white top?
I am telling you to spill on the white top.
That woman...
Hurry and go.
What to do?
I borrowed this from His Excellency's house next door.
What to do?
- What is this? You borrowed those clothes? - She acted like she has money.
But it was all a bluff? I guess she's the one who should be expelled.
What to do about this? I am finished. I am finished.
Look! Please bring a brush and ink quickly.
- Quickly. - Did she say a brush?
A brush?
- What is she doing on the skirt? - Is she trying to ruin it further?
She picked up the brush.
What's happening to Saimdang?
Just why?
She's acting all that.
I can do this.
Right, I can do this.
What is she doing? That won't come off.
It's a big problem.
Oh my...
What a waste...
You must always watch your back when hunting.
That was close, Prince Eui Seong.
- She's so talented. The grapes are so full! - Isn't that a picture of grapes?
How did she think of drawing on a skirt?
Indeed, the genius girl painter isn't dead.
Omo, did you know each other?
No, I thought I heard that rumor. Or maybe not.
But you speak like you know her.
If you take this out and sell it, you'll get a decent amount of money.
- No way! - Really?
My in-laws have quite a collection of paintings. I have an eye for paintings.
This will bring some money, for sure!
It's great for you.
Don't you think she's better at painting than Leader Hwi Eum Dang?
Don't say such a thing, that will bring you big trouble!
Wow...
Oh my... The feel! Look at those lines!
Between the ugly
and the beautiful,
I don't think there's any line.
If you take this skirt back,
I think you will at least be able to avoid any unpleasantness.
Oh my word! Thank you! Thank you!
Ladies, I have something to say to you briefly.
From today on, Hyeon Ryong
will voluntarily withdraw.
- Is she saying she is taking him out? - Voluntary withdrawal?
Hyeon Ryong's mother! Still, what do you mean by voluntary withdrawal?
Jajin Chooltwe - Voluntary withdrawal
It's not because of the rules made by the Mothers' Association.
Putting more importance on the father's power and wealth rather than on the child himself,
and even going as far as looking down on the people who are the building blocks of this nation,
this is a place that only forces exam studies on the students.
I don't think my child has anything more to learn from this place.
Excuse us for all the imposition we've made until now.
Wh-Where is she going?
Thank you for everything thus far.
What? Is she really withdrawing her child?
- It seems so. - She has to put on airs till the end.
There never has been a case of voluntary withdrawal by a student, has there?
Hold on.
Oh, that boar!
My Prince Eui Seong is hugely indebted to you, Your Lordship Min.
A boar the size of a house dropped dead with one arrow.
Did you use aconitine or something?
Aconitine - extremely toxic poison from aconitum
I mean the devil's helmet flower.
It probably just got the lethal pressure point
that pierced that boar.
Was it that boar that you wanted to finish off,
- or me? - Hoy!
Prince Eui Seong!
It's not you who's dropping out.
It's me who's kicking you out.
Get that through your head clearly.
A long time ago, you saved my life at Woon Pyeong Temple.
I earnestly wanted to thank you at least once.
It's late, but I truly thank you.
I do not know how you climbed to the position of a nobleman's lawful wife,
but the way you use your heart doesn't seem as good as before.
What?
You may be a lavish butterfly outside,
but inside, you are still a caterpillar.
If the seat of the president of the Mothers' Association of Central Village School
is so absolutely valuable and worth keeping
even at the cost of trampling on and hurting others,
then keep on living like that.
Your words are too harsh when I'm your life savior.
Your Majesty, have you been in good health?
Aren't you So Sae Yang? When you should be in Ming, what brings you here?
An envoy from Ming will arrive soon. You must return to the palace right away.
What do you mean a Ming envoy?
An unexpected envoy, what are you talking about?
They are messengers who bear His Imperial Majesty's edicts.
What? What do you mean edict!
Hyeon Ryong.
Mother.
What happened?
I'll be able to continue to attend, right?
Let's go on inside.
What do you mean voluntary withdrawal?
How could you without even sharing a single word with me?
Why didn't you tell me that you had been hit?
Even without any of this, you were under a lot of duress, Mother.
In case you'd be placed in an even more difficult position was why.
After hearing that you were hit,
my heart was bruised bloody.
I am okay now.
I will never fight with Ji Gyun again.
Please take back that I will be voluntarily withdrawing.
That's not the sole reason.
I saw how you behaved in class.
You continued to pour out question after question to your teacher.
Were these questions you asked because you truly did not know,
or were these questions to flaunt your knowledge?
Of course the biggest issue was the overall atmosphere of the Central Village School.
However, your attitude was also in the wrong.
Hyeon Ryong.
You were born with a superior mind.
However, that's not the case for the most of people.
If you are not able to use your talent properly,
but use it to belittle and disregard others,
it is worse than not having the talent at all.
I am saying that upright character comes before high intellect.
I will keep that in mind next time. So—
Beginning tomorrow, you will come to work with me to make paper.
What do you mean make paper?
I, your mother, will teach you directly.
Mother...
It hasn't been long since the last envoy left. But another one?
What exactly is going on here?
From what I've heard, it is about the issue with Goryeo paper.
The Goryeo paper? What about it?
It seems that there were problems with the paper that has been supplied by Joseon.
To think there'd be problems with the Goryeo paper.
The books made of Goryeo paper are discoloring even though it has not even been twenty years.
So the Ming Emperor is very angry about this matter.
It is the way of the universe that all technology advances each day.
Yet it seems paper has not followed this trend.
Summon the Director of the Bureau of Printing at once!
Is that what you call excuses, Deputy Minister Min!
It seems there is some kind of misunderstanding, Your Majesty.
The paper that has been supplied by the Jangwon Paper Trading Company
is the best paper in Joseon.
It is paper that Ming would never have a problem with.
If there is nothing wrong with the paper, why would a Ming Envoy come all the way here?
If it isn't from a misunderstanding,
Min Chi Hyeong (Deputy Minister of General Affairs)
it must be the result of some scheme.
Those who sought to secure exclusive rights and chartered stalls are not few in number.
That!
...will become clear once the Ming envoy arrives.
If that is true, I will not stand for it.
Joongjong (Joseon's 11th King)
There is definitely a hidden motive.
Why else would they run here, out of the blue, over some paper issue?
Your Majesty, please maintain your calm. Gwan Jin (Chief of the Royal Guards)
What do you mean by a hidden motive? He definitely said it's regarding a problem with paper.
It won't do!
Put up a notification in all eight provinces for any master paper craftsman who can make Goryeo paper.
If there's anyone who can make Goryeo paper, they should be summoned to make it.
We must make it even a single second earlier to send the envoy back!
The items you've requested are ready to be delivered by horse.
We've got ten times more than the last time. Jang Si Oh - Min Chi Hyeong's butler
Those Chinese people are whiny and love bribes.
If there's anyone who doesn't want the money,
then keep shoveling into his mouth so he can't throw it up.
Vulgar bastards.
Let's go.
Bi Ik Hall
You touched a not-so-easy opponent.
I know, right?
Be careful. You might get hurt.
I am well aware of that.
By now, he is probably on his way to Taepyeonggwan (Chinese envoy residence) carrying bribes.
But I don't think Ming's agents are that easy this time.
He's someone who used coercion, violence,
and corruption all his life.
He'll try something else if it doesn't work out.
Just don't push it.
These kinds of matters often don't have a winner or loser,
and usually both sides come crumbling down together.
It doesn't matter to me.
For the last twenty years, he's used corruption to build power, wealth, and everything else,
I won't just sit back and observe.
Uncle! I heard Madame Shin painted an awesome piece, of grapes.
Was she a painter? That lady?
Are you talking about the same Madame Shin who makes paper?
That's what I am saying. People are gathering to see her painting of grapes.
For sure... That Saimdang, Madame Shin, she who is making paper, right?
I am telling you it is her for sure.
I heard she painted an awesome painting of grapes, on a skirt.
Its popularity spread among women by word of mouth,
and now, it is known throughout the capital.
I heard people are gathered in droves at the store.
- One more! - Over here, sir!
I heard an awesome painting of grapes has surfaced!
No, you can't. It's already been sold.
Let's take a look! Don't be so stingy.
Let's take a look. Just once—
I came from Bi Ik Dang.
Heed. Please, please.
Then, it will be for only a short time.
Hurry and bring it out!
- Really geez. - Wait just a bit.
Aigoo, seriously.
Mook Podo Do (Saimdang's real ink painting of grapes on a skirt)
♬ My heart that had been closed up ♬
She picked up the brush again.
Uncle, what are you so happy about?
Her painting talent has come back to life.
♬ It was splendid ♬
♬ Making me tearfully joyful, was you ♬
♬ My one-time love ♬
♬ My only love ♬
♬ Always love you, my love and everything ♬
♬ My heart cries out only, only for you again and again ♬
♬ Love you ♬
Please leave now.
Hold on.
- Let's look at it a little longer! - I told you it's already sold.
Who did you sell it to? I'll pay you double.
What?
No can do.
Three times.
Let's do that. You can talk to the person who bought it.
I want to if I could.
But it's sold to a person I can't rescind.
It's unfortunate, but that will be all.
Look here.
- Aigoo, let's see it again! - Just how much did you sell it for?
I'm saying I can pay as much as you want.
Today, I am going to sleep in this room.
Why aren't you lying down?
Mother.
I was wrong earlier.
I am sorry, too.
For letting go of your hand, I am really sorry.
Hyeon Ryong.
I love Hyeon Ryong, Seon, Mae Chang and Woo.
I love you all, without exception.
But I always nurse an apologetic heart towards you, my Hyeon Ryong.
For you, who knows so much,
and wants to do so much, my Hyeon Ryong,
there's so little I can do for you.
That's what I am always sorry for.
So, I am going to work even harder
to put wings on my Hyeon Ryong.
I'll do everything that I can and more. I'll do my very best.
Will you accept my heart being like that?
It was a rough day today, wasn't it?
Go to sleep.
Mother.
Later, I want to be sure
to give you the lavish life you deserve.
I'll be the son you can be proud of.
Thank you.
Go to sleep.
Okay.
You said what?
You may be a lavish butterfly outside,
but your inside is still like a caterpillar.
Vulgar thing...
Burn. Burn!
I am going to burn it all!
Saimdang! Prince Eui Seong!
I am going to kill all of those conceited, filthy aristocrats.
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Saimdang, Light's Diary
I think she called herself Black Peony. She knew I came back from Ming for Goryeo paper precisely.
I must go to Woon Pyeong Temple.
I think I can find out the secrets of making Goryeo paper.
This time Rade targeted the Mount Geumgang painting.
That Mount Geumgang painting in the Gallery Seon is a fake.
I can just step on the trash like you and be done with it.
I think... there's is another layer pasted on.
It seem like there's something in there.
- Hurry and remove it! - Bring me some malt.
I'll take care of it well, so it won't damage you, Director.
♬ Beside you, all my heart ♬
Cutie!
Ah... I'm a ghost!
Laughing. Rushing out.
Laugh! So cute~
Laughing
- When opening a fan, it should be like this. - Inwards like this. Yi Gyeom is practicing how to open the fan.
When actors come in...
Yi Gyeom will come in first. Oh, yeah!
SBS Drama Special Saimdang, Light's Diary