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Wol…

Wol…

No, Mr. Yoo.

He killed her.

But Mr. Yoo…

But if you get killed by those men right now,

then nobody will be able to avenge her death.

But…

You cannot.

Where have you been?

Somebody dared…

to try to assassinate a member of the Cho family.

That is why I was late.

Please have mercy, sir!

You know that I did it out of my loyalty to you.

You must pull yourself together.

Mr. Yoo.

Come on, we need to get out of here.

Darn it.

He is the one who told me to kill him.

What are they playing at?

Why did you not kill him?

Why have you not killed Se-yeop yet?

Please give me another chance, Father.

Please.

Prove to me

that you are not a weakling.

I will.

I will get rid of Yoo Se-yeop,

and bring back the needle.

I have a job for the two of you.

How are you feeling?

That knife went in pretty deep.

Councilor Cho will be suspicious

if you kill me right now.

It will look like you did it because you have something to hide.

You have

something that belongs to me.

I am not sure what you are talking about.

You are being a bit too obvious here.

I am guessing that is pretty important.

We will have to hurry if we want to finish what Councilor Cho told us to do.

It is almost the harvest, after all.

I need your help

to make sure that it circulates well.

You are bleeding.

We cannot keep going like this.

Mr. Yoo.

I can never

protect the people who I love.

You could not have stopped it from happening.

I had no idea

that Shin-woo would do something like that, either.

I…

I was foolish.

Do not blame yourself.

Please do not.

You are the biggest victim in this situation.

The criminals are the ones who should be punished.

My goodness.

What if something happened to my Young Master?

Do not cry.

Will you stop whining?

Come on, eat this. It will make you feel better.

I do not want to eat it.

Eat.

Yes. Do not worry too much.

Those two are smart.

Since Wol can talk now,

she just needs to come back home safe.

Maybe we could ask His Majesty for some help.

-Yes. -I mean, something else might happen.

Dad, go to Hanyang and tell His Majesty what happened.

Yes.

Am I a government official?

I have no power there. How am I supposed to meet him?

Should I go?

I can pretend that I am the queen.

I think you will just look like an old woman.

I am not that old.

You were born on the year of the black horse, on the fourteenth day.

You are more than 40 years older than His Majesty.

Do not say that!

I am 19 years old at heart.

This is killing me.

-Young Master. -Lady Eun-woo.

Oh, dear!

Lady Eun-woo.

Oh, gosh.

Where is Wol?

Wol…

Is dead.

What?

What? What are you talking about?

Why would she die?

What?

-Lady Eun-woo. -Oh, Wol.

-Wol. -Our precious Wol. My baby.

-Wol. -She was just a child.

This is breaking my heart.

Wol, my baby.

-My precious baby Wol. -Wol.

My precious baby Wol.

-It is all right. -My baby.

Wol, no.

Well, what are you going to do now?

I need a horse.

I am going to Hanyang.

You are going to Hanyang right now?

You must be suffering too.

I need to tell His Majesty what happened.

Since Councilor Cho was involved, he should be punished.

But you do not even have Wol, your witness.

What can you do in Hanyang?

You will come with me.

No, you cannot.

You are in exile. You will be turned away at the gates if you go alone.

Do not worry about that. His Majesty gave me an entrance pass.

Councilor Cho is still looking for you.

You should not use that.

I know what to do. Just take me with you.

Listen to her.

Is there anything that I can do in Sorak?

I need you to find out what Mr. Im is doing.

Im Soon-man?

Yes. He is plotting something with Councilor Cho,

so please find out what he is up to.

All right.

How could you leave me behind?

I will find you.

I will drag you back to this hell.

-Do not leave me. -You sold your own child.

-Do not go. -You sold us for that drug!

Was that drug more important than us?

Just die!

-What in the world? -Dad, come out here.

Stop right there.

I…

I am so sorry.

No! I did not do it!

He is the one who did that at the fields!

That is why we are missing them.

-It is all right, Jang-goon. -Sir, please do not kill me!

Please do not beat me, sir!

Darn it, I need a break.

I think he has jeongwangjeung.

Is illness why he is talking nonsense like that?

He has an illness that is affecting his brain.

Some might say that he is possessed.

Your idiot master would be great at treating somebody like him.

What a shame that he is not here.

Are you two married?

Yes. We have been married for two years.

We are planning on opening a business in Hanyang.

You can go in.

Eun-woo.

I think we will need my entrance pass…

Please hold this for a moment.

Name, Yoo Se…

Poong.

Where are you from?

We are from Cheongju, Sorak…

Sorak County.

You can go in.

Hold on.

You two.

What brings you to Hanyang?

Well…

We are looking for a house to live in.

We have been married for a year,

and my husband is going to take the liberal arts exam.

You may go.

-Eun-woo. -Yes?

Thank you for coming with me.

But please promise me that you will not do anything dangerous.

Of course.

I will just lend you my wits like I promised.

There are bugs…

Eating my skin and bones.

Please help me.

Stop whining. You will live.

I do not understand. His energy has been disturbed a bit,

but he should not be in so much pain.

-What are you doing? -I just touched his arm, that is all.

Jeez.

Jang-goon, can you brew some anshin?

We do not have any sanjoin and seokchangpo.

Darn it.

Get ready to go down to the market.

I am not going anywhere. It is almost time to eat.

Would you rather be kicked out and starve to death?

I will go. I am ready.

Come on.

What do you mean, you do not have any sanjoin and seokchangpo?

A lot of physicians have been looking for them recently, actually.

Are there many people with jeongwangbyung?

I guess so. Maybe it is a side effect of the plague.

Get out of here.

I swear I will bring you money. I will sell my wife if I have to.

So please give me just one dose of opium.

It just hurts so much.

The wind feels like needles on my skin.

If it is so painful,

then go and sell your wife first.

Darn it.

Confucian classics are that way. Other books are this way.

Two nyangs each.

I have not seen you before.

When did you open up this bookstore?

Why? Do I need your permission to sell books around here?

I am not looking for books.

Give me some opium.

I am going to need money first.

Are you kidding me?

You could not buy a single dose with this money.

Just go.

How can it be that expensive?

Our…

Our item is special.

Let me see it first.

I will tell him to fetch me more money.

Just look. Do you not see how the color is different?

Did you dissolve this in water once?

Of course. That makes it taste better. Do you have a pipe on you?

How dare you sell something like this?

Who made this? Who was it?

Dong-pal.

Yes, sir.

-Get rid of them. -Yes, sir.

You little…

If you want to get to Mr. Gye,

you have to go through me first.

Are you asking for a broken bone or what?

I am feeling a bit under the weather today.

So if you mess with me,

then you will get a few broken bones, too.

You are no match against me.

That must have hurt.

My goodness.

That hurt!

Let me ask you nicely just one last time.

Who made this? Answer me!

Follow me.

Your Majesty.

Se-yeop.

Who is this?

She is a physician at Gyesu Infirmary. She is here to help me, Your Majesty.

All right, then.

How is Wol? Has she gotten any better?

I am sorry, Your Majesty.

I could not…

Protect her.

Please punish me,

for I failed to follow your orders.

We brought the corpse from the ice storage.

She tried to tell me the truth at the cost of her own life.

I can no longer trust the Royal Infirmary,

so you will have to carry out the autopsy.

Madam!

Can you hear me? What on earth happened?

Wake up.

There is a court lady

who was involved in your father's death.

That discoloration is caused only by the dan sedge.

Does that mean…

her blood has traces of the dan sedge?

Yes.

The people who killed her used the dan sedge on the King as well.

The other needle was discolored in the exact same way.

The color of her boils

is just like the ones from the plague.

You are right. Actually…

Then, the illness that went around the village…

The illness that I got…

No. It was not the plague.

Did you bring me an answer?

Well, what is this?

I trust that you know by now.

This needle is given to the best physician in the Royal Infirmary.

Judging from the markings, it is definitely from the royal palace.

Really?

And why is it so discolored?

I think it was caused by a very rare and fatal poison.

A poison?

Have you heard anything about how the previous King died?

Some people say that he was poisoned.

Poisoned?

An infirmary this pathetic does not suit such a location.

If it had been up to me,

I would have built a better and grander building.

Just give Gyesu Infirmary to me.

Maybe he came after our infirmary because

he wanted to grow poppies on the land.

He had to stop stealing the martens after the Nine-Tailed Fox incident,

so he wanted to sell opium by taking the infirmary.

But that did not work,

so he started to distribute it to the bookstore.

I swear I will bring you money. I will sell my wife if I have to.

So please give me just one dose of opium.

Soon-man is working for Councilor Cho.

So if I can prove that Soon-man sold opium to benefit Councilor Cho,

it will help us bring Councilor Cho down.

I want you to triple the amount of the harvest.

I want them all picked within ten days.

We might get caught, sir.

Do not worry. I know what I am doing.

I am going to live like a king

after I distribute these all over the country.

Come on, hurry up.

Soon-man is selling smoking opium, sir.

Smoking opium?

He is a government official,

but he is making the people fall sick and even killing them.

He must be arrested right away.

How do you know this?

I caught the owner of the bookstore selling it in secret.

Then we must arrest and interrogate him first.

Soon-man is a snake.

He will find a way to escape.

But I cannot go after him without any solid proof.

Sir, I have bad news.

The government office is planning on arresting you.

What?

How dare they?

What happened?

The physician from Gyesu Infirmary knows about the bookstore.

Ji-han, that damned bastard!

How dare he spoil my plans again?

-Let us go. -Yes, sir.

-Bring me the sedan chair! -Sir?

-Darn it. Just get me a horse. -Yes, sir.

DO NOT ENTER

Let us stay here for the night.

What is this place?

Well, it is my house.

But it is old and ghastly now because it is the house of a criminal.

Not at all.

It is very grand.

Then shall we sneak in?

This house feels like you, Mr. Yoo.

It is probably because I have lived here ever since I was born.

Young Master, where are you going looking like that?

I was called to the palace. I will be right back.

Stop.

I told you that I need to hurry.

I lost my mother here.

After that, I promised myself that I would not lose anybody else.

That is why I became a physician.

But…

then I lost my father,

as well as many others.

Mr. Yoo.

Give me your hand.

Sinmun.

Sobu.

Do you feel a bit better?

Those are the acupuncture points in the Heart Meridian.

You are better than me.

You use sinmun when you are feeling down,

and to treat various illnesses of the mind, right?

Yes, very good.

The Heart Meridian.

Councilor Cho.

Councilor Cho.

You must help me, sir.

How dare you come here?

-Get him out of my sight. -Councilor Cho.

Did you know that I have that needle?

A little birdie told me that the needle, which was used on the King,

changed colors because of poison.

But you want to kill the physician who used that needle,

as well as the court lady from the Royal Kitchen.

Now, that looks like treason to me, Councilor Cho.

Councilor Cho.

If you kill me right now,

that needle will be sent straight to His Majesty.

Is that all right with you?

Is there a reason why you are asking me that?

Why?

Is there a reason why His Majesty should not get that needle?

Well…

It does not concern me. Do whatever you want.

Please have mercy on me, sir.

I just want to stay in your good graces.

I would never use that needle against you, sir.

All right, then.

What do you want?

The magistrate of Sorak is trying to mess with

the opium farm, sir. Please stop him.

You just need to send a little letter, sir.

I work for you now.

After the opium harvest is done,

I will bring you that needle as well.

Your late father was holding a discolored needle in his hand.

I think the man who stabbed me took it with him.

Your father was murdered.

Mr. Yoo.

Good morning.

Let us return to Sorak.

Open the doors.

You are under arrest, Im Soon-man.

It is fine.

If you do not open the doors, we will kick them down.

Stop right there.

The King's Court has ordered a fair investigation.

Withdraw your men.

What is going on?

I think you are at the wrong house.

What are you doing here?

What is going on here?

Move aside.

You little…

What? Why?

What are you doing?

-Arrest them! -Yes, sir.

You have no right to do that.

Hey, let go of me!

-What the heck? -Stay away.

Do not touch us.

-Hey. -Stay away.

It is all right, Jang-goon. Do not worry.

Hey, Ji-han.

Let go.

Stop it.

I could kill them all right here.

Just cooperate, all right?

Dad.

It is all right.

Mr. Gye.

Jang-goon. Ip-boon.

Man-bok, where are you?

Poong.

Granny, what is going on? Where did they go?

I do not know. They dragged them away.

They were not the barbarians, though.

The guy who looks like a rockfish.

You mean Mr. Im? He took them away?

There is the weird guy.

Please do not hit me.

Please, just do not kill me.

He is coming for me. Mr. Im…

Mr. Im is coming for me.

Sir, I did not steal it, I swear.

I swear I did not steal the opium.

Mr. Im?

Opium?

I think he knows something.

Did you work for Soon-man?

Not at all.

Please do not beat me, sir.

Can you tell me what happened?

Stop it.

I deserve to die.

I…

I sold my entire family away.

And it was just for some opium.

Stop hitting yourself. It hurts.

Where did you sell your family to?

You can tell us.

I do not know.

Please help me, sir.

Please help my child.

Our family has been taken there, too.

They are very dear to me.

Please tell me where they are.

You cannot hide forever.

We must know in order to bring Mr. Im to justice.

Tell me. Where is it?

I do not know anything.

The ground is dark.

From the black ground,

I can hear hissing noises.

And when it gets dark, I can hear those darn ghosts.

It scares me. It scares me so much.

I told you,

you should not have gone there.

It is a scary place.

Granny, do you know where it is?

Why is it scary?

Of course it is scary.

The barbarians will kill us all.

They all returned to their homeland in the year of the red cow.

They will kill us all before they leave.

They will drag us away.

What is it? Did you figure it out?

Mr. Yoo.

Mr. Yoo.

Pour it in here. I have the limestones already.

I am boiling ot, eunhaeng, chooh, and cheonoh.

It stinks.

The worse it smells, the better.

The texts say that we should use poisonous cheongeumja as well,

but we are running out of time. Let us just use these for now.

Cheongeumja?

Well, I have this soksuja right here.

We shall put this in as well.

What are you playing at?

Beat him!

Stop being so lazy. Move it!

What are these?

Wait, this is the drug you can get addicted to, right?

Dad would never use it.

There are so many of them. What are they going to use them for?

Opium. It is so strong that it could kill the patient.

-Jang-goon. -Calm down.

Opium is very bad.

-Be quiet. -It can kill the patient.

You cannot use it. It can kill…

-No! -No!

Shut your mouth.

Ip-boon.

-Ip-boon. -Ip-boon.

-Ip-boon. -Ip-boon.

Well, I smell money in the air.

How lovely.

Hey, move it!

So this is it?

How dare you try to ruin my plans again?

Well, not this time.

This is too big for you. Do you understand?

It is too much for you to handle.

Hey.

I do not need your concern.

I almost had to burn this entire place down

right before the harvest because of you.

Because you were being so nosy.

Have you never considered living an honest life?

You are a quack physician who kills people,

and you want to talk about an honest life?

If you have money and power, you can live an honest life.

You are making your entire family suffer because you are poor.

Where is my family?

Do not worry.

I will make sure to put them on a pretty sedan chair

and send them straight to hell.

You little…

You will have to try harder to get out of those.

Goodbye.

You will be going to the afterlife.

It does not look like anybody ever comes here.

I did not know that this place existed on Sorak Mountain.

I grew up hearing about the haunted black land.

So it actually exists?

Yes. Granny was right.

During the war, the barbarians chased our people

deep into the mountains and slaughtered them.

Now, there is not even a path because people are too scared to go.

I have never been here, either.

A black land.

A black land that was watered

with the blood of innocents.

That is heartbreaking.

He is using this place

to ensnare people with opium.

He must be stopped. We need to find him.

Yes.

We need to get out of here. Ip-boon will die.

-Jang-goon. -We need to get out.

-Calm down. -No.

Just look at me. Calm down.

Ip-boon.

You cannot go to sleep. Wake up.

We need to get out.

-I am not going to die. -We need to get out.

We need to leave. Ip-boon is going to die.

We need to leave.

My goodness.

It looks like there are not that many people here.

Yes. Thank goodness.

Where do you think they are?

Maybe they are in there.

What is this?

-Lady Eun-woo. -My lady.

Ip-boon.

What on earth happened?

How did you find us?

Let us get out of here first.

Lady Eun-woo is here.

We need to get out.

-Ip-boon, wake up. -Ip-boon.

Oh, no.

Come on, get up.

We need to get out. Ip-boon will die…

You can do it. Hold onto me.

Slowly. Take it easy.

-How did you find this place? -We should talk outside.

Who are you?

Do not move.

You are the idiot physician.

So you managed to survive.

You know, Councilor Cho is out for your blood.

But you walked right into his hands.

I told you, you should have joined us a long time ago.

Let these people go and burn all of the opium.

Hold on.

Are you looking for that needle, too?

Well, I have it. I bet you did not know that.

Everybody is looking for that needle now.

I will give it to you as a parting gift when you die.

What? Go and bring them back.

You better not lose them, do you understand?

You two, kneel. Now!

Stop this now.

Shut it. You annoying prick.

I am going to kill you, I swear.

You will be the one dying instead.

Do you really trust Councilor Cho?

This is your last chance before it is too late to return.

Do not make me laugh.

What are you doing? Cut them.

We have an order from His Majesty!

Burn it down.

Darn it.

Darn it.

That way.

Oh, no!

Do not come any closer.

If you take another step, this needle will be thrown into the fire.

This is very precious to you, right, Se-poong?

If you have this needle, you can redeem yourself to everybody.

I will give you this if you let me go.

It has always been mine.

I will give this back to you.

So please,

have mercy on me, Se-poong.

Give it here.

All right.

How can you live with yourself?

How dare you? Do you not know who I am?

I am under Councilor Cho's protection.

Even if you arrest me,

I will be released the very next day.

You forced innocent people into labor

and crippled them by making them into drug addicts.

They will provide testimony to your evil deeds.

So let us see if Councilor Cho will take your side this time.

Wait, hold on.

Fine.

I am sorry.

I did terrible things.

But I did everything under Councilor Cho's orders.

I did not want to do it, I swear.

It is time for you to reveal the entire truth.

Reveal the orders you received from Councilor Cho,

and every single crime that you committed to bribe him.

Of course I will.

I will tell you everything.

So,

please spare me this once.

Please, Se-poong.

I mean, Lord Yoo.

I will tell you everything that he made me do,

and everything that I gave him.

I will tell you everything.

Just trust me.

I swear that I will tell you everything that Councilor Cho did.

Councilor Cho must have used thesedge to kill the King.

I found the ledger.

What does this line mean?

Did you really hope to lead a normal life after poisoning the King?

We need to find out who was behind it.

I want that needle and Se-yeop

completely wiped from this world.

I will do that.

I am going to bring them to justice,

and make things right.

Subtitle translation by: Su-in Choi