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Episode 4

But ... where is Ajusshi, the bookstore owner who ...

I can't see him?

Hey!

Did you come here after receiving a message from Mr. Han?

This doesn't feel right...

Maybe it's a trap by the royal guards to capture us.

Damn...

Mr. Han has been killed by the Royal guards.

However, until he died,

he vowed loyalty to the Daedong Society.

Where were you thinking of going?

Were you thinking about running away at this point?

The loyalty you swore by your blood in front of the Teacher...

Have you forgotten?

You don't know the situation in Hanyang.

Almost all members of the Daedong Society are dead.

It's the Teacher's blood he spilled as he was dying.

He did not commit suicide but

he died by the blades of the Royal Guards.

I am Kim Do Chi, the son of a lowly Baekjung (butcher) This Kim Do Chi,

will fulfill the Teacher's dream.

A dream where the noble and commoners are equal...

The dream to make an equal and fair world...

Where even a butcher who gets treated as less than a pig or a dog now,

can be treated as a human being.

That dream to make that kind of a world...

The world that the Teacher dreamed of...

I will fulfill it!

Who will be with this Kim Do Chi? Who?

I will. I will be with you.

Take me with you. Me!

Take me as well.

-Me. -And Me!

Kim Do Chi!

Daedong Society! A time of national peace and order!

The Eastern Faction! A time of national peace and order!

Daedong Society!!

Teacher, can you hear this?

Daedong Society! A time of national peace and order!

Surely I will avenge you and

I will achieve the Daedong world. [Daedong = "Great Common"]

As to the payment for my sin,

I will pay, when that time comes.

Daedong Society! A time of national peace and order!

Is that girl the very best way?

If I were to take the girl as a concubine,

I will have to rescind the beheading command.

If I do that, the royal advisers will make noise.

So, let me ask you once again.

Is there no other girl than her in this world?

Your Majesty, her facial features

are the best I've seen in my life.

She perfectly counterbalances your facial features, Your Majesty.

She has the features to bring a peaceful reign.

Are you saying that no other can counterbalance my facial features?

It's not exactly like that but

Your Majesty, I will do my best to look for another one.

You are going to have to choose a bit more carefully this time.

The traitor Kim Doo Sun will be interrogated tomorrow and

the wife and the daughter will be sent to exile; that is the King's command.

Drag her out!

Yes!

Wait. It can't be.

It can't be.

Then, what will happen to my father?

Drag her out!

I have to meet Professor Go.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, I hear that Ga Hee has been taken by the royal guards.

The King has ordered that she be exiled since she is a traitor's daughter.

Please.

Please.

If I had known things would turn out this way,

I would not have let you live as your brother.

You, poor little thing.

Mother, be determined.

You have to survive.

Aigoo.

Who are you?

We are just merchants, sir.

But are you transporting prisoners?

Move aside.

Oh, yes.

We'll do that.

Let's go!

Yes.

Those who want to fight, fight. Those who want to run away, run!

Mother!

Mother, wake up.

Mother.

We have to go. The other royal guards will seek us.

I can't leave my mother here.

Let me go.

Go...

Rather than becoming a concubine,

and living like that.

Follow that man.

Mother!

-Mother! -Let's go.

Let's go!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee.

Ga Hee.

It's a bulls eye!

It's a bulls eye!

I came...

to get answers from you, Your Majesty.

What do you mean answers?

What is it that you are afraid of, Your Majesty?

-What? -You are already a King.

What is it that you are so afraid of?

The only things a King should be afraid of are the Heaven and his people. However!

What is it that you are afraid of

that you behead innocent people?

and even put their children's lives at peril?

Why are you so afraid of facial features?

Have you finally gone mad?!

What is a sage king? In this whole world,

is there a sage king who kills numerous people?

The whole nation respects you already. What are you afraid of?

Why do you have to kill so many people

because of a physiognomy book?

Do you really want to die?

If killing me

can eliminate your fear, please kill me now!

I'm willing to die for Your Majesty. Please kill me and

stay away from your terror.

Store the arrow away for later.

One day,

with that arrow, you will either have to spear yourself to die

or shoot your father's heart and get the crown.

You will have to decide.

That is your destiny, who's born

with a king's face.

It's raining!

The heaven...

The heaven has granted us rain.

The rain...

The heaven granted us rain!

It's raining.

It's raining!

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Three years later in the 25th year of Seon Jo's reign (1592)

He took the pancake.

Hey, little punks.

Hey, what is this line about?

Don't you know about the "Room Divider Master"?

With one look at a person's face,

he can even tell about one's unborn child's fate.

That face reader. Haven't you heard of him?

Wait, he's that skilled?

On top of all that, it's free!

Seeing how your forehead is sunken in and the color is dark, your relationship with your parents is tough.

What use is having a husband?

Having such a long nose means you have a fortune of staying alone every night.

I even see a sign of misfortune on the bridge of your nose which is under Sangeun (root of the nose).

What do you meana misfortune?

Soon, you'll have to clean up a corpse.

Then, what must I do?

I'll tell you how you can avoid the bad omen.

Immediately bring your old parents to your house and treat them warmly.

Stop nagging your husband about his ability to make money.

And if you share even a bean with your neighbor,

you'll avoid the bad omen.

All I have to do is that?

Next!

I didn't know Sook Yong

has such neat ability.

The true ability of Sook Yong is that

she straightened the fate of this country with her precious physiognomy.

She is like a talisman to Your Majesty.

That's right.

After I took in Sook Yong,

didn't that long drought disappear?

All this is because you found Sook Yong.

Here, take it.

I'm abashed, Your Majesty.

When I listen to your flute, it feels like I'm in paradise.

Your Majesty, is that for real? Sook Yong (Royal concubine, 3rd junior rank) Hong

I'm a king of a country. Do you think I would lie?

Your Majesty, what is this?

Don't you like birds?

That's a very rare kind which was brought by Ming's envoys.

Your Majesty!

Oh, my.

Look at the pretty color.

How can it be...

Oh, no.

Look at this bird.

Here it...

How come I caught you instead of the bird?

-It's ticklish. -Ticklish?

Your Majesty.

Has anyone seen such a big bird like this?

Your Highness, please go in now.

No, that scene....

I will keep that scene in my heart for a very long time.

How many times did I tell you? I don't take outcalls.

I don't need the money, so take it back and leave now!

I don't know how powerful your boss is, but

he needs to come here if he wants to get his fortune told.

I can't promise your safety if you don't follow my words today.

Ahh...this man...

Then come tomorrow, didn't you see the line outside?

According to your physiognomy, you...

won't be able to stab me with that sword.

Darn it!

What is going on?

Oh No! My chickens!

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Hey.

Wait!

Why do you interrupt somebody who is busy?

Since you have helped me, I would like to give you my gratitude.

How does your name go?

I am just a passerby.

Hey!

Hey!

Dosa (Taoist Priest) !

Are you ok? Did you get hurt anywhere?

Do I look alright to you?

Without a doubt, Jang Soo Tae, the merchant in Jangtongbang, must have sent him.

Why would he?

I reported him for loan sharking at the police bureau.

He must be bearing a grudge against me.

Your Highness, isn't this the Red Arrow?

Red Arrow?

Yes, who shot this?

Yeong Sin, is this Red Arrow that great?

Isn't it made from bamboo that absorbed the blood of people who died unfairly?

Bamboo stained with blood?

Did you not know, why it is called a Red Arrow?

It' my first time hearing it.

Then, you really don't have to find out.

I'll take my leave since it's getting late...

Stop there.

After the crisis in the year of the yellow ox (1589), in Jukdo, which used to be the stronghold of the Daedong Society,

red Bamboos started to appear.

They say it's the blood from the people who died at the time.

What?

Although it is a rumor, it is true that the red bamboo only grows in Jukdo.

Young Shin...

please acquire these Red Arrows.

What?

All right.

Now...

Let's go.

It's Red Arrows!

Block them!

Evade!

For mere pieces of silver, you dare to take Joseon's precious items?

There is a person who wants to sell them, so I'm buying as a distributor.

In business dealings, there is no difference whether it's from Japan or Korea.

When there were Japanese raiders on Joseon territory

I never let a single one live.

But, I'll let you go. Go back and let them know.

Tell them never to covet Joseon's items.

If they step onto Joseon territory, right at that moment,

they will not be returning alive!

What is it that you do?

You're suppose to smuggle...

You, punk. Idiot! What is it

that you do? What is it that you do?

Please stop. Everyone is going to die at this rate.

What? Jan Soo Tae: Merchant Inn's owner

Then, Oh Gil, why don't you get the beating instead.

Hey, punk. Insolent punk.

Okay, who were they?

Who are they that they can see my work

as if they are reading the palm of my hand?

Again, they were the ones who shoot the Red Arrow.

Whoever attacked us last time,

it was the same people.

What? The Red Arrow?

Who did it? Is it that bastard, Jang Soo Tae?

I'm so used to it now that it doesn't even hurt.

Let's go in first.

They are thieves who are robbing the country's stored assets and selling them off.

With your eyes wide open, you want to just watch them?

With one swing of your fist, don't you know that everything can crumble?

Right now, we have to persevere and be patient.

Oh! I can't understand what the heck you are saying.

If you use difficult language once more, didn't I say I was going to sew your mouth together?

They are all up in arms because they found that in the ginseng bundles.

But what is that anyway?

The engraved seal of the deceased Queen In Soon.

I know that we need more money.

I also know that we need to get more people.

Even if that's the case, for how long must our Daedong Society

rob the smugglers and endure like this?

You don't care about other people's feelings, and that's how the Daedong Society collapsed three years ago.

What do you know about it? You joined us when you were drifting during the turmoil.

Do you understand the flame of sincerity by flapping your lip?

Bong Doo!

My heart feels as you do.

So, stop it.

Dang.

Hyungnim Bong Doo , how can you leave like this?

Where are you going?

This ignorant itinerant merchant is going to go sell stuff.

I'm sorry for causing such a ruckus.

However, don't waver. The most urgent thing is you becoming the physiognomist for the King.

Even if didn't say anything, I know I have to pass the competition.

How did this...

Did you think I didn't know about your wish to have a weasel tail brush?

With this, come in first place tomorrow at the Occasional Exam.

I'm relieved that you are smiling brightly.

I was worried that something might have happened to you at the market because you looked gloomy all day.

Coming back to Hanyang reminded me of the past and is making me feel unsettled.

Be at ease brother, because you have nothing to worry about.

You submitted to my decisions all this time,

thank you.

Totally unnecessary.

I was already determined when I followed you into Myohyang Mountain 3 years ago.

3 Years ago, Myohyang Mountain

From now on, I will not live as a noble, commoner, man or a woman.

For my Father who dreamed of a Utopian world, I will live the rest of my life devoting myself to that cause.

Kim Do Chi, who is in front of me, is my brother and my guide.

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I see all of your nose is low,

so you will easily have diarrhea and melena.

Also, you have to be careful of constipation.

Decoct the Amur cork tree's inner bank and drink it.

Baek Kyung: Former King's Physiognomist .

Yes, elder.

You have droopy ears,

which means you have a weak stomach and frequent indigestion.

Yes, Elder.

Eat lots of kudzu roots.(arrowroot)

Yes, Elder, thank you.

Who are they? It's first time seeing them in our village.

Elder Kim Doo Seo told me to seek you.

I'll feed you. Stay here for a short while.

Elder,

I would like to recuperate here.

Please help me.

The Daedong Socieyt will disperse like the sand.

Why are you saying such a thing without any evidence?

The Daedong Society will not crumble that easily.

Wasn't it your fault?

You think that nobody will know what you did just because all the people are dead?

Heaven and the Land know.

All the spirits in the world and now, I know.

If you are going to make a great achivement, don't seek the help of swords.

The sword that you have, in the end, will be pointed at you.

Then, what must I do?

What is the way for us to achieve our goal?

You have good set of eyes.

Be a physiognomist. That's what you can do.

Also, you can achieve your goal that way.

Teacher...

Finally, it is tomorrow.

Now, I will enter the palace,

and get next to the King.

Your Highness, what are you doing here so late at night?

Presumptuously, I was reading the faces of the kings in the past.

Do you know how to read faces?

King Sejong has a wide forehead, a straight nose bridge and the strong chin. He had a very balanced face.

A wide set of eyebrows like his means he's the master of learning.

What is the opposite of that? What if someone has close set eyebrows or a mark in that area?

Close set eyebrows means ungenerous and

stubborn personality, so he causes conflicts.

Then, all men with a close set of eyebrows are like that?

No.

The same facial feature can be applied differently. It depends on the person,

because we read the balance of the features.

What has happened to you today?

You are giving me all the answers that I want.

Master, maybe it's time for me to graduate.

Didn't I say you should be wary of arrogance?

I was just kidding.

Master, I think I will take the occasional exam that's coming up.

How can a prince take the exam for the selection of technical public service officials?

For this exam, all the skilled men from all over the country will be gathered.

How can this Byeong Poong (folding screen) Master not go?

I'd like to compete with them.

-You came from Jeolla Province? -Yes.

Go in.

Kim Do Chi, you came from Pyeongan Province?

That's correct.

Just where did he go?

Worrying about His Highness, I will die early.

Excuse me.

What is it?

Can you perhaps tell me a place where the eyes of the examiners won't be too focused?

This uncouth guy! You're thinking of cheating from the start on a national examination?

It's me. Me.

I said it's me.

Is the disguise that good?

What happened with you?

Why is your arm like this?

Since you can't recognize me, there won't be a person in Joseon who will.

First stage of the examination

Starting now, we will begin the technical examination to pick the physiognomy professors.

Take a careful look at their facial features.

The first test is to reveal their identity.

The ones who get at least half of them correct will be able to move to the next round of the test.

Seeing how the tip of his nose is low but the end is round, he has luck with money.

That guy is a merchant who has touched much money.

His sunken eyes tell me he is responsible and shrewd.

Surely he makes his living by skills with his hands.

Seeing how he has pronounced cheek bones, he has many skills.

He is either a shoemaker or an artisan of some sort.

The wide space between his forehead and his eyebrows tells me of his literary skills.

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That person has a flattened and wide nose with thin lips. He is rigid.

He probably took only one path in his life.

But all of these guys are...

Their social positions are different, but why...

do they all have dark Gwanrokgong (center of the forehead)? They are rather black.

All their identities are different, but they are in the same situation.

-These guys are criminals who are in jail. -These guys are criminals who are in jail.

Fail.

Fail.

Pass.

Second stage of the examination

All these people are in jail.

The second stage of the examination is figuring out what their crimes were by physiognomy.

It's really an excellent problem. Let's take a look.

Since the nostrils are pointed upward, his personality must be tough.

The eyes are shaped like acorns and bulging. So, he must be an aggressive person.

On top of that, his eyes resemble a pig's eyes and his eyeballs are rising.

The pupils are rather unclear that the white and the black don't show clear distinction.

The eyelids are thick and droopy.

Since he has these eyes, his temper is nasty and he is greedy.

He's glancing side ways rather than moving around his neck. That means he's lustful and a kleptomaniac.

It's positive that he was coveting other's possessions, got violent and ended up in jail.

He has a wrinkle at the stem of his nose and his eyebrow hairs are all twisted in all directions.

Like weeds that are intertwined, the brows look messy.

The features tell me that he can't avoid his jail sentence in his middle age.

His misfortune can have an influence on his siblings.

He has small and tilted ears. People with that kind of ears are sly, tricky and harm others,

but hold power and wealth themselves.

He even has triangle shaped eyes which is the indication of a tough character.

Certainly, he must have hurt someone counting on his power. Murder.

He has small and tilted ears. That kind of ear certainly means hurting others but having power for themselves,

but his eyes show clear distinction in between the pupil and the sclera.

I'm sure he could control his behavior.

He went to jail because of his entangled eyebrows, but the lifted bone on his forehead means he has a luck with official carrier.

Oh my! His temples show that he's licentious.

With his power and money, he must have coveted someone else's wife.

Not a murder but an adultery.

I'm praying to the gods.

Please let me pass the exam...

Your Highness! Your Highness!

Your Highness, please come here.

No way.

Oh, stop it already and come out.

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There were 12 who passed the first and second stage?

Among the many, how will we decide who's going to be the first?

Since the last question is difficult, we will see who is better than others soon.

The last question?

Your Majesty, "who will be the Crown Prince?"

How about posing that question?

Was I wrong in my thought?

No. It's an unbelievable suggestion.

This person...

My piss bag is about to explode.

I'll piss quickly and be back.

The test will start in a few, come back in a hurry.

Why, why are you doing this?

I was going to piss and come back...

Tie everyone up. Not one

can leave this place.

Yes Sir!

Please save me.

What the hell are you doing?

What crime have we committed that you are doing this?

One of you dared attempt to assassinate the King.

Well, oh my...

To His M-majesty?

So then what? Are you saying that His Majesty has suffered some kind of mishap?

Sit down!

What happened to His Majesty?

The King is safe.

However, what does that have to do with us that you would arrest us?

Among you...

there is the person who attempted to assassinate the King.

- What? Who is it? -That doesn't make any sense...

No way!

Your Majesty.

It's poison, Your Majesty.

- Are you sure? - I'm sure, Chief Minister.

Poison, you say?

Who in the world tried to kill me?

Your Majesty!

Please make me pay for the sin of not properly assisting Your Majesty.

Your Majesty! Please kill me.

Are you certain that you saw an unfamiliar man go into the royal kitchen?

Yes, half an hour ago, I saw it clearly with my own two eyes.

Who was it? Who would dare enter the royal kitchen without permission??

I didn't see his face directly but he ran toward the royal observatory.

To my eyes, it looked like he came to see the occasional exam.

The guards must have held all of them.

Shall I tell them to start the questioning immediately?

I am going to catch the culprit personally.

His Majesty the King is present.

All of you raise your heads.

Among them, the one that went to the royal kitchen,

- pick him out. - Yes, Your Majesty.

It seems like this man.

What?

I-it's not me.

I haven't stepped one footstep out of this examination hall.

Lift your head.

Your Majesty! How can I dare to look at the King's face?

I'm so nervous that my body won't move.

Didn't you hear that someone saw you inside the royal kitchen?

It's not me.

Isn't it possible that this Court Lady is in cahoots with the man who tried to poison you?

Isn't it possible that she's trying to unfairly lay false charges on us to hide that fact?

Your Majesty! That's definitely not true!

Now that I look again, I'm sure it's this man.

Look here! I haven't moved one footstep out of this place!

Since you keep trying to hide your face, you seem truly suspicious.

First, lift your head up immediately!

I'm sorry, but if you would give this lowly man the opportunity, I'll try to reveal the culprit with physiognomy.

What did you say? With physiognomy?

You're saying that you want to find him using physiognomy. That's quite unbelievable.

There was a scholar named Park Young, the Minister of Engineering, during the period of King Seongjong's reign.

When he was the governor of Gimhae, he solved a murder case with his physiognomy skills.

Originally, physiognomy is to seek the truth through looking at the face.

I beg of you, please give me the opportunity.

Is that so?

But what if you're the culprit?

What if you're trying to escape with your eloquence after making an attempt to poison me?

If I can't find him,

then I will offer my own neck.

You'll offer your neck, you say?

Yes, Your Majesty.

On the other hand, if I'm able to solve this issue,

please award me first place in the examination.

Your Majesty.

If he has the skills to find the poisoning culprit with physiognomy,

even for the royal observatory,

it could be a chance to gain the most excellent man of ability.

That's fine.

The suspects of this incident will not be able to move one footstep outside of this place until the culprit is caught.

Moreover, the one who solves the incident will become the winner and

you will become the King's Physiognomist in the future.

"If you want to read my destiny, you must look at the physiognomy of the person who is with me," it is said.

Looking at your face, it is the face of someone who will be rising up to a government position.

What I'm saying is...

that we will all leave here alive, isn't it?

Okay then, have you made some progress?

If there is a wrinkle in the philtrum, she would not have had a child.

Also, since there is a mole next to this philtrum, this is the face of someone who will die early.

Among her eyes, nose, and lips, there isn't one thing to protect her philtrum from early death.

Since the end of the nose is plumb and has good shape, she must had good fortune with money. However,

Since the cheekbone is poor, it was not able to protect the nose.

In her middle age, she would have faced turmoil.

Moreover, the cheekbone even has a wart on it,

so after suffering by working to benefit others,

it's a face that is open to misfortune.

Since her cheekbones are as dark as pitch,

Certainly she must have had a secret, which caused her death.

The root of her nose is hollow, dark and has a mole.

She must have been suffering from a chronic illness.

It is self-evident.

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