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You cannot find it unless you check the houses of the whole noble families.

If it is such a precious sword, they will have hidden it somewhere secret in the house.

You must you probably know most of noble houses, right?

There is no man who does politics without our Castor Oil gang.

I will give my allegiance to you.

There are so many types of precious swords...

Are there any special patterns on the swords?

One of the exercises in the examination is to catch a thief.

Episode 8

You don't overpass the wall with strength, you need technique.

Technique?

Just watch.

Don't start too close to the wall. You need some distance.

Now now, run! Go, go!

While you're running, prepare yourself. Think, "I am no longer a human. I'm a grasshopper!"

Jump!

Jump!

-Jump! Grasshopper! Jump! -Jump!

With the front leg, you jump off, and with your back leg, you kick off the face of the wall.

Catch onto the ledge with your hands, then you get one leg over!

Yes, yes! That's how you do it! Wasn't that easy?

Well, what are you doing? Come back down now.

Geez look at you.

When you land, you have to land on your firm feet. That way you don't get hurt on your knees.

You land like you're sitting on the toilet

Sitting on the toilet? Yes.

Now try.

My goodness! The position when you want you want to go to the bathroom!

Not the "oh my goodness I have to go now" position , but the position where you are actually pooping.

This position.

Bring this leg a little bit forward, like this.

Yes, yes! You're doing well.

You're totally awesome!

A thief's feet are like a ghost's feet.

A bad thief makes noises.

A real thief does not make noise. That is why...

...the guard who catches thieves must have iron ears.

Okay, try to catch your father.

Aish. Could you hear me?

I must have lost my skills.

It's not that. It's your smell! You should wash! I think I know why mom doesn't use the same room with you.

You little brat. How could you say such a thing.

I don't smell anything.

No, no it's not that. If you keep moving like that, how are you going to steal the item and run away?

A thief never raises his toes.

Then how do you not make any sound?

There's a way of walking that does not make any sound.

A way of walking?

The essence of the method is secret here.

If you first step on your toes or your sole, you're bound to make noise, even if you're careful.

You need to practice so that your toes or the back of your foot don't touch the ground.

When unlocking the door, do it within about 30 seconds.

It doesn't open, right?

You shouldn't be able to open it so easily. You know who made that lock?

-Be careful.-Alright.

Look at all this dust!

But what is this place?

It used to be a blacksmith's shop before,

but because it is deep in the mountains, nobody comes here.

When your father was younger, I practiced unlocking the locks here.

My clothes! It's still here.

Is this yours?

This is so short!

You little brat.

Unlock all of these tonight.

Pretend you're a bug and heighten the senses on your fingers.

In the lock, there is a small hole that supports the casket.

That stick will sort of cut the hole in half.

The stick will then whisper.

Honey, you came so late...

Right at that moment.

Carefully...

Very carefully.

How could this have happened?

That means the Left Minister and Kwon Doo Hyun knew everything.

They became framed for the crime?

It looks like it.

This should not have happened!

We need to report this!

If we move too quickly, we'll be the ones in danger.

We first need to wait quietly for the right timing.

Did I not lock it?

How is it?

There is nothing like this for safekeeping money.

I had no idea this way was possible.

I've learned something from you, Hopan.

But the people in the Justice department are getting restless these days.

They say they want to conduct investigations and

they keep making official requests to the King.

Tell them to try all they want.

When the full moon rises, all my money will go to China.

There's not a place in the world like China where you can put everything safely.

You're really worthy of your reputation.

Now, let's go outside.

Let's go.

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It's a thief! A thief!

It's a thief! A thief!

The lock is open.

There was nobody in the inside?

This is really a ghost's doing.

The bastard.

Why did he leave with the whole bottle of wine?

Where did he find such a con man?

My goodness.

Just because that one piece of paper disappeared.

And you're making such a racket at night?

That piece of paper?

You.

Do you know how much that is?

How much is it? How much does it cost?

500,000 coins.

500,000 coins?

How can a piece of paper...

That.

is a masterpiece by Dohyun.

Dohyun Masterpiece.

Is there such a thing?

So.

You're saying that guy is your dad?

I thought my dad came back from heaven.

Somebody there.

Somebody must have drawn my dad.

Father!

You really don't know the painter Jin Heung Soo from Noryun?

No wonder why you're from a low class.

Jin Heung Soo

is the best painter and artist of Myung.

Especially

when it comes to portraits, there's no one as good as him.

Its a dimensionless painting from 300 years ago.

I know! I know!

300 years... yes...

I just made a joke.

Why are you being so serious?

The painting is one of the many paintings

from the painter Jin Heung Soo.

If that's so.

It's a job done by a professional.

A professional?

Isn't it correct?

Without knowing the drawing's cost.

How could he have left everything else.

And only steal that particular piece?

This would be...

...done by somebody who knows art well.

Wouldn't it?

From now on.

You will search every house owned by any prior criminal.

You must find that painting, understood?

Yes.

Let's go.

Guard Myun.

Stay behind and clean out the cell.

We need to prepare to take in the thief.

Let's go.

But why does the brat say nothing?

Has there been no notice so far?

What will he be when he fails the guard test as well?

He'll be quite devastated.

This is frustrating.

What is this?

What could it be

that he hid in here?

He passed, you rotten brat!

He passed! This rotten brat!

This brat hid this here!

You hide this here to surprise your father, you little brat?

You're great, my son!

I'm sorry.

When are we going to the next nobleman's house?

Oh, soon.

By the way, the people from the Nam In household are being difficult these days.

They asked us to take care of it.

Nam In?

Oh, right, you don't know.

Yong.

If you're going to live in the bottom world.

You need to know how evertyhing works.

In Politics, men from Seo In are the ones in charge.

If they perceive you as all right,

our life can get so much easier and more comfortable, like any nobleman!

Seo In?

All right.

Shall we stretch out a little?

Shall we?

Choo Suk Bong, known thief for art masterpieces!

What did you do with Jing Heung Soo's painting?

What are you saying?

I'm done with stealing!

Kang Dal Shik, known con man!

What did you do with Jin Heung Soo's painting?

I don't know.

Sir...

I'm made for this stuff.

I'm really bad at catching thieves.

For me to be in this position for 13 years,

there must be a reason, right?

By the way,

someone came by a bit earlier.

Who was it? He was about this tall and his front tooth was missing.

What? Fa...

It was your father?

You don't look like each other at all! Not the same height either.

Run!

Hey, how is business?

It's soon time to pay your rents and taxes!

Those bastards.

My Yong would crush them all.

Little brats!

Hey.

if these guys

bother you, don't hesitate

and just tell me, Soe Dol.

My Yong, a guard, will take care of it all instantly.

All right then.

Are you Swe Dol?

Yes, why?

What? Why?

Why are you doing this to me?

Where is Na Soe Dol?

What is this about?

Where is Na Swe Dol, known thief of storehouses?

I'm sorry?

Search the place!

But...

What are you doing?

How dare you touch me?

How dare you stare at me?

Who do you think you're staring at?

He's not here.

Why? Why are you doing this to me?

So, you're the best thief of storehouses in this town?

What?

I haven't done anything.

I haven't done any stealing in a very long time.

It's been a long time I've become a new man.

Take him away.

I really haven't done anything!

Sir! Sir! It's not me!

This is the last house.

We've searched all the houses of all known thieves.

You do your job right! Do you understand?

Damn it!

What are you...?

You...

I told you to take care of the prison cells!

What, you don't think I'm giving you orders?

I found it in the bush in that road down over there.

He must be around. Search around this place carefully!

Yes!

You brat!

Go! Go! Go!

No, my lady.

I can carry this at least.

No, I'll be the one to get into trouble.

I'll do it, I'm telling you.

My lady, I will...

Father, you're home.

What are you doing standing here? Go help!

Yes!

It's already finished.

Using all that money for what they said was good wood,

but the exterior design is so poorly done...

It's not about being fancy on the outside.

It must first have a sturdy foundation.

But

you still keep those useless poor people?

Father.

Didn't you give this land to me?

'I will not interfere with your business'.

Isn't that what you promised me?

Okay, I understand.

Be safe at night on the streets. Tell your mother I won't be home for some days, so lock the doors.

Is there something wrong?

Hopan's household got robbed last night.

Lord Lee Myung?

Shhh! It's an ongoing secret investigation.

He told me it was some drawing by Jin Heung Soo or someone from Myung.

Do... something... like a flower.

Is it the Dohyung masterpiece by any chance?

Yes, that's right. That's the one.

What a name.

That must have cost at least 100,000 coins.

Really? He told me that one piece cost 500,000 coins.

My my.

But is that flower so precious?

How did the thief pass the security at the house?

That I don't know.

But since your brother will soon catch the thief, we'll find out then.

I can't believe that the great Hopan got robbed.

I personally hope the thief won't get caught.

What?

Eun Chae!

I guess the noblemen must be on their edge.

This way!

Search this place!

But...

Sir, what is wrong?

What?

What do you want?

I found it, Sir!

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Hey you!

Why are you doing this to me?

Come out!

You stole this, didn't you?

Stole? What do you mean? I found it.

You found it?

This? You little rascal!

What is all this?

These are for my father who is in Chung...

Chung?

Get him out of there!

Sir! Sir! Please! He didn't do this!

Dae Shik!

Dae Shik!

Please have pity!

I don't even know where Sir Hopan lives.

I didn't even know what that was.

Hey!

You don't know what drawing it is?

Then how did you know it was from Chung?

It's not like that.

My father went to Chung.

What? Who's your father and why did he go to Chung?

He was taken there during the war as a hostage.

Father!

Are you alive? Are you all right?

Father!

Hey, then what is this... this weird thing?

It's a mask.

My father used to be a performer. So when he comes back

I can perform with him, standing on ropes and all.

That's why I spent many sleepless nights to make each one of them.

Seriously?

Shi Wan.

What the heck is he muttering like that?

Are you even sure you have the right thief?

Well...

Sir...

I'm hungry.

What? Rice?!

You're hungry, huh?

Right?

Right, you're hungry.

Tell me. Tell me the truth and I will feed you myself.

I won't eat!

I won't eat!

Come here!

Please save me! I won't eat!

I think we have the wrong guy.

What do you mean? You said the drawing was in his room

The footprint at the wall was definitely from someone who is swift.

Someone as big and clumsy as he is could not have passed over the wall.

Yong! Dae Shik has been arrested.

They say he found some drawing or something.

Here.

Dae Shik.

Yong!

I didn't steal it.

You believe me, right?

Yong, what if I die without seeing my father?

When my father comes back, please tell him.

He told me to find him, when I make enough money. I made a promise!

Hey!

You're a man! Act like one! Who's going to die?

Don't you worry. I will save you, I promise.

Rea... really?

Of course!

Dan!

Where did you get it?

I spent the whole night for this one.

A corbina caught in March is precious!

Since Yong passed his exam to become a guard, this is the very least we can do.

What happened here?

What was it?

The authorities came by.

They were looking for a drawing or something.

Oh, a drawing? That's it?

Geez.

Here.

Get yourself some new clothes with this.

Where did you get this?

Why are you looking at me like that?

Are you doubting me, Soe Dol?

Where did you get this kind of money?

To tell you honestly...

You mustn't tell anyone.

Sir!

Sir!

If you were the thief, would you put the drawing you stole in your room?

And what crazy person

would call everyone in the village to show off the drawing he stole?

Yes, you do have a point,

but what can I do?

Sir! Please do something for Dae Shik!

Leave me alone!

Sir!

You leech!

If you really want to have even a chance...

Yes?

What is it?

What?

Let's just try it, all right?

Will it work?

We have to do something! We can't just stay here doing nothing.

Let's go. I'm ready

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Who are all these people?

I think they're all here to plead their cases.

All of these people?

Why are there so many people who want to plead their cases?

Hey, is there anyone in Joseon who doesn't want to be heard?

Pay attention to how this country is being run.

I don't care about anything except my own business.

This is so unfair!

My poor brother, he's being treated so unfairly!

Go away!

What are you doing to a poor and weak woman?

Weak?

Don't be like that. Let us see the king.

The king?

Is he your buddy or what?

Do you think he has that much free time?

I have to see him to tell him about my case!

If you don't want to be beaten up, go away!

Where do you think this is?

Hey!

Pleading my case is something the law of this country allows!

The law of this country?

Since when has this country followed the law?

Words don't work with you, do they?

Move away!

I have to see the king!

Leave me! Let me go!

Why won't you listen to what I have to say?

Let me go!

Where are they all?

So I want you all to push for my case.

For you?

Yes, that's right.

I will stand for all of you, sacrifice myself

and meet the king to tell him of all of your stories.

If you sit there all day long, your butt will be sore, and that's it.

You won't be able to see the king

or even his back.

All right, gather up.

Come here! Yes, over there too.

Attack!

Go! Stop him!

Go!

All right, let's go!

It's a game called 'Chuk guk'

that the Tang dynasty enjoyed.

This is foul play!

Move!

You little brat!

Hey!

Give it to me!

Sir! I scored a goal!

Great!

What is that?

His Excellency!

Your people are being treated unfairly!

His highness!

Please hear my voice!

His royal highness!

His Excellency!

Go away!

Why aren't you leaving? Go!

What's happening?

Kneel and pay your respects.

He says he's here to plead his case.

Let him speak.

So, what is your case that has been treated so unfairly?

Yes, His Excellency.

My friend

My friend just found a drawing on the street

but he was arrested as the thief and being tortured.

Please order another investigation

for my friend who has been wrongly framed.

Hyung Pan.

Yes His Highness.

Your office is in charge of these pleads, right?

Yes sir.

You take reponsibility

and you shall open a new investigation.

How can it be that my people are treated unfairly?

Your Highness!

I am very grateful to you.

Well well.

Young man.

Your eyes are full of life.

I am very impressed

by your devoted friendship.

I promise you myself the truth will be found.

His Excellency!

Thank you!

His Excellency!

While the noblemen here are playing at some game,

out there, at the door,

people are spending their nights out there waiting to be heard.

Please

bare an ear to their stories as well!

What an ingrate!

Is that so?

Why didn't you tell me?

All of you, come in.

His Excellency will stop everything today

and will hear to your stories himself.

This...

who does this belong to?

His Royal Highness! Please hear our pleadings.

His Royal Highness! Please hear our pleadings.

His Excellency! Please listen to my story.

His Excellency! Please listen to my story.

My son would never do that.

His Excellency! Please listen to my story.

Don't worry.

Your Excellency!

We are grateful to you!

We are grateful to you!

How did it go?

The king has promised a full new investigation.

He's a great man!

He gave up on the people and ran away when there was trouble.

I'm sure he had his reasons.

Hey, Bambi!

Let's go.

Let's go.

Come on!

All right!

Hyung Pan.

Take care of everything that I've heard today.

But sir.

If you listen to all of their unfair stories

the people will look down on the court.

You give them one thing

and they will ask for 10, or 100 more. That's in their nature.

The Royal Empire has collapsed.

Chung will soon reunite the continent.

Yet I am here.

Who am I to trust now?

The only people who can support me and give me strength are the people out there.

Because of two incidents,

their trust in me has fallen deep down.

From now on

I will be a King worthy of my people's trust.

That's what I've been saying

and what I've always meant to say.

Make sure to solve that kid's pleading as well.

But the thing is, it has to do with Hopan.

Hopan?

Deal with it according to the rules.

But sir...

Yes sir.

I will deal with it according to the rules.

Did he die?

It's not even his funeral, so why do you use these good pots?

Even if Dae Shik is alive, he's not really living.

Here. people don't die that easily.

Eat.

Eat, you have to gain strenght and that's how we're going to save Dae Shik.

Otherwise I...

Otherwise what?

Well, otherwise, I'll eat it myself.

We're from the ministry.

Come in gentlemen!

Sit here.

Hey madam!

You should drink too.

Here, take one glass.

What are you doing?

If you're here to investigate, that's what you should do.

What? Who are you?

Let's go.

All your complaints have been solved.

Hear!

The theft of the drawing at Hopan's household

has gone through a new investigation

but it has been revealed that Jang Dae Shik was clearly the culprit.

In relation to this, the king

has expressed his deepest condolences.

Jang Dae Shik's friend, who brought in the complaint

should receive 100 beatings in usual circumstances

but under the King's special orders, he will be spared.

Dae Shik!

What are you going to do now?

You messed the whole thing up by interfering!

Dae Shik is going to die now!

Hopan said he was going to kill him! What are you going to do now? Huh?

Kill him?

In 15 days,

all of my hidden money will go to Chung

When it comes to safekeeping money

there is nowhere like Chung.

Hopan you bastard!

Anyway, what are we going to do about Dae Shik?

Is there any other way?

What are you guys doing?

What is up with your long faces? Is there a funeral somewhere?

Geez

Hey!

Aren't you even worried about Dae Shik?

He didn't commit any crime. He will be released soon.

It's a rotten world.

Do you think they'll release him because he has done no wrong?

Don't worry, don't worry.

Why is there no key hole?

Where did you get the money?

Well, actually...

You mustn't tell anyone, ok?

There was a thief in the warehouse in the Hopan household

I think the thief made it in by unlocking the lock.

He's no ordinary thief.

And so what?

I made them a special new lock.

No thief could ever break in now.

A special lock?

So that is the grand masterpiece.

It's the drawing of flowers and trees drawn on silk material.

The portrait,

the wrinkles of the clothes,

they all look alive, don't they?

Well, I can see the clothe is wrinkled, but well, it's so so.

That lowlife stuck it on the wall with sticky rice, so the corner is a bit damaged,

but anyways, I found it back thanks to you.

I will never forget this one. I owe you one.

This is nothing, you shouldn't.

You do have lots of things.

Sir,

what is that?

Ah, that is a special mask called Moksimchilmyun.

I see... Moksimchilmyun...

It's a mask made during the Silla era.

It's made out of pellion tree

but this one has gold engraved in it.

Golden eyes, you say?

May I try it on?

Sure, go ahead.

All right then.

This is a warning to all you people for stealing something from a nobleman's family.

It has been ordered that death will be his sentence!

No!

Dae Shik!

Ajussi!

Dae Shik!

Dae Shik!

Ahjussi!

Father!

Dae Shik!

Hurry up! We have a long way to go!

Keep an eye on him.

Always be aware!

Hurry up!

What the... Let's go around!

Sir! Sir! Something terrible has happened!

The carriage! The carriage!

The carriage!

The carriage has gone! Find the carriage!

Find the carriage! Quick!

Father...

I really wanted... for one last time...

perform with you one last time.

Wait!

You're alive. The thief came by once again.

Dae Shik!

Dae Shik!

I didn't make any mistake this time!

I did go in by opening the lock

and at that time the lock was perfectly normal.

When you opened the lock, this had already been broken.

The culprit was inside here.

What do you mean?

Look.

Before you came, the culprit already broke the chain

and restrained it with this string so that you wouldn't notice it

and after you left, he pulled on this string from the inside.

But if he were here, I would have definitely seen him.

Furthermore...

True, there is nowhere to hide in here.

So

he was over there.

It's a mask made during the Silla era.

It was made from a pellion tree

but this has gold engraved in it.

Golden eyes, you say?

May I try it on?

Sure. Go ahead.

All right, thank you.

Sir!

We have the dinner table ready for you.

You're hungry, right?

I told them to prepare a full table. Let's go.

Yes sir.

What? He was right there, in front of my eyes?

Yes.

The thief was probably wearing black.

By hiding behind this mask, he would have been invisible.

This is the sand that must have come from his shoes.

Young man.

Please find my money back.

All my fortune has disappeared!

Go ahead. I'll stay here.

He can't have gone far. Search this place!

Yes sir!

Hey! What are you doing here?

Hopan told me to come here.

Here here! Let's drink!

Dae Shik, eat this.

I don't know if you know this, but all this is thanks to Guard Yong.

He's the one who made this possible.

Guard? Yeah right.

What kind of guard wears those baggy pants and oils his hair?

What?

What do you say things like that?

Where are you going?

Are you sad that Yong didn't even bother show up his face?

Hey, what did you say earlier? Baggy pants and oil in his hair? What do you mean?

Your son is the errand boy of the Castor Oil gang.

Guard yeah right.

Come on, why do you make lies like that?

Stupid girl, you must have seen it wrong.

Right?

Come to think of it, we've never seen Yong in his guard robe.

I'm telling you the truth. he's hanging with that Castor Oil gang or whatever

I've seen him with my own two eyes.

I'm going to kill him!

That brat! He's going to die!

Don't stop me.

That little rascal! Humiliate me like this!

Look at him go.

Go find that Yong!

Congratulations on getting out!

Yong!

Here. Come here!

Look at this! I cleaned up everything!

I'm sorry.

What are you sorry for?

Just...

I heard everything.

I heard you went to the King and kneeled just to save me.

Thank you, Yong.

When did I tell you I had made it as a guard? You're the one who got yourself ideas.

Then

what is this?

That's not mine.

Is that so?

Good thing you didn't make it as a guard.

Now you can finally start studying for the civil examination. I will fully support you.

I'm not taking the examination. I'll just work with the Castor Oil gang.

You little bastard! What did you say?

Look at me! Am I even fit for the exam?

I only tried it because you were so nagging me about it.

Of course, by law, peasants can take the exam. But have you ever seen anyone actually pass it?

They are all errand boys for the noblemen's sons.

This is reality. Please stop dreaming!

So...

that is why you're with these lawless people?

Even so,

if I do it right, I could live better than any regular nobleman.

I'll earn money that way and succeed!

You brat!

How dare you talk like that to your father!

Dan! Stop!

Stop it. It's enough.

Are you going to spend the whole night like this?

I don't think he'll come back tonight.

There's nothing wrong with what Yong said.

I told you

not to give too much affection for someone else's child.

Little brat.

He's such a precious little boy

why did someone like me, a low life and idiot, take him in?

What are you saying?

If it hadn't been for you, he would have died a long time ago.

What to do? Why go with that lawless gang?

it's all my fault.

Yong...

and even our Ja Dol.

Why did he rob this place again?

Just to doodle on this painting?

I guess he wanted to stop

someone else from dying for his crime.

If you're right, then he's a pretty decent fellow.

But

why draw a red flower?

Father

Does he know?

Do you think he knows the meaning of the red blossom I drew?

The house is very clean and neat, and looks pleasant to live in.

It's all thanks to you, Eun Chae.

I was a little dubious because it belonged to a traitor,

I didn't know it could be changed into this fabulous house.

May I

look around for a while?

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