Chapter 175

Chapter 175

Knew Would Be So!

Saved for this moment now!

Rub rub rub.

I wiped Yerin’s mouth corner with a new wet towel.

Yerin struggled.

“Huuung. No, no······!”

“What no? Stay still.”

“Dislike, dislike······!”

“Why dislike?”

“Embarrassing······.”

Wondered why face reddened.

“Many things embarrassing.”

I smiled faintly and wiped meticulously.

“Ate well enough, what if a bit stained. Natural for a six-year-old little kid.”

“I will wipe······.”

“No mirror? Soon enough.”

Rub rub rub.

“Dislikeee······.”

“Then will go around with jjajang stained on the face?”

“No.”

“Wipe quickly and make pretty Yerin. Good.”

“······Good. Then I also wipe older brother······ huk!”

Yerin looked up at me with unfair eyes.

“Why older brother not stained at all?”

“Well I······.”

Then would I eat staining jjajang at this age?

No matter became eight years old, can’t act like a real child.

That absolutely not acceptable for my pride.

Can’t say this straight!

“······Because older brother? Different from little kid.”

“Sii······.”

Panting breath sound and reddened face.

Yerin puffed the cheeks and abruptly turned the head.

“I also not doing little kid!”

“You little kid correct?”

“No!”

“Can’t even use chopsticks.”

“No!”

Yerin snatched the wet towel from my hand with a whoosh.

“I also can use chopsticks now!”

Yes, knows how.

Just clumsy.

Why your face became all jjajang covered.

“I also can wipe well······.”

Yerin lowered the head deeply and wiped hands meticulously with the wet towel.

What so resentful.

A teary voice.

“Learned numbers hard too? One, two, three, four, five, six. So I six years old.”

Yerin who was counting numbers counting fingers tightly gripped both fists.

“So I not little kid······.”

A tiny fist.

Gripping tightly even egg-sized and trembling.

Clearly a child’s stubbornness.

What this chest tickling.

“Six-year-old Baek Ye-rin. Our little kid.”

I put a hand on Yerin’s head.

Messed Yerin’s hair small to hide the voice mixed with laughter.

“What to do with you.”

“Sii, older brother fool. Not even knowing my heart······.”

Yerin struggled feet.

Even so only feet dangling in the air because the restaurant chair high.

“If shaking the body like that and falling what to do.”

“No.”

“What no.”

I tightly embraced Yerin’s small body.

Much smaller and slender than eight-year-old me.

Such a little kid grows and becomes a woman with such a body.

“Our little kid, hope grows quickly.”

Sincere.

Your face that vividly comes up even if closing eyes now.

I know how sweetly you smile.

Also know how hot and soft body have.

The half year together with you the happiest time in my life.

Couldn’t forget even at the moment of dying,

The only one person in my life.

My first love, my first woman, and the most painful and affectionate longing in my life.

“Me, you too.”

Would I like the eight-year-old body.

Still good can directly see your young appearance.

Honestly very curious.

You who lost words, lost memory, and one day suddenly fell into my arms.

Wanted to know who your family, how your childhood, what your name.

Because no single common photo.

“Grow quickly.”

This time hope your life not so hard.

Hope not secretly hurt covering the blanket like before.

“Marry me.”

We lived in a semi-basement room, but this time newlywed house a splendid country house. How?

Can even prepare hotel cooking three meals a day instead of jjajangmyeon bought sometimes like special.

Then could only put a real ring even emptying all money had, this time will prepare with highest class diamond ring.

“Not knowing this heart of mine the same for you.”

Know only I alone remember us then.

Still don’t care.

This time let’s build a happier life together both of us.

Hope can raise the daughter you said raised alone together this time.

“Yerin.”

I closed eyes and buried the nose in Yerin’s crown.

Baby powder scent baby smell rising.

The body smell of her I knew much sweeter and more captivating so dizzying.

Well, this also not bad.

“Eat well, sleep well, play well, laugh well.”

Hope you happy.

Hope I by such your side.

So hope we become happy together.

That my wish, and lingering.

“Okay even not knowing numbers, okay even can’t use chopsticks, okay even going around with jjajang stained on the face.”

I embraced Yerin’s body a bit tighter.

“Don’t hurt. Understood?”

Yerin flinched.

Know stubbornness.

Still decided to become a bit more shameless today.

“Today said no prohibited.”

“······Yes.”

“Pretty.”

You always pretty.

The prettiest in this world, you.

In the past, even at this moment now.

“So can’t go to other men besides me.”

In the previous life, in this life too.

Hope you only looked at me.

Know greed, but what to do wanting.

“Yerin, answer?”

“Yes.”

Yerin wriggled small in my arms.

Gave more strength to the embracing arms knowing slipping out.

No thought of letting go.

“Older brother really fool.”

Yerin instead of slipping out of my arms tightly embraced me with those small arms.

“Only one husband to me······.”

Yerin folded the pretty eyes like a crescent moon and smiled.

“I will become older brother’s concubine when grow up!”

······What really to do with you.

Yerin, grow quickly.

Sincere words.

And have large ambition. Show some greed.

This also sincere.

* * *

Came out of the Chinese restaurant room holding hands with Yerin.

Grandfather waiting drinking coffee in front of the restaurant.

Grandfather discovered me and brightened.

“Jeong-hyeok, came well. Anyway had words to you······, who that kid?”

“Yerin.”

Grandfather glanced down at our tightly held hands.

Opened eyes half.

“Unseen child. Whose child?”

Eh?

Looking into never heard Yerin’s parents talk.

“Hello, Baek Ye-rin.”

Yerin gathered both hands and did a belly bow.

“The Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva becomes my grandmother.”

“······Shaman house? What parents doing?”

“Both parents passed away.”

“······.”

Grandfather closed the mouth for a moment.

Couldn’t ask back saying orphan, instead took out the wallet.

“I a person who becomes Jeong-hyeok’s grandpa. Buy and eat delicious with this.”

Five 10,000 won bills!

In this era one bowl of jjajangmyeon 300 won so quite large money for pocket money.

“Thank you.”

Yerin received the money politely with both hands.

Then smiled brightly.

“Received favor, will repay by informing good matters.”

“Hmm?”

“Good caught a windfall suddenly today, but will have many worries because of the sudden disaster received without reason.”

The chick-sized vermilion bird that sat on Yerin’s shoulder spread wings and gradually inflated the size.

“But no need to be anxious. Will solve well so the worry colorless.”

The noisier cheep cheep the deeper Yerin’s smile.

“Have a solid backing. Only believe the lucky charm who appeared riding the yellow dragon and scattering money.”

“What?”

Grandfather dropped the mouth open.

Yerin counted hands and pointed the track.

“Upper person pressured. Thinking a die place can’t pull out or insert, but no. Will obtain large honor there.”

“Honor?”

“Tremendous honor enough to stamp eye seals even in other countries beyond this country!”

Yerin smiled brightly.

“Congratulations. Golden opportunity. Catch.”

Yerin tilted the head.

“Hmm, don’t know who but that backing person, really tremendous?”

At the sound of backing grandfather flinched.

“A lucky charm enough to raise a house scheduled to ruin, a tremendous skilled person enough to shake the world.”

Yerin’s eyes half opened.

“Talent overflowing enough to succeed even impossible matters, what worry. Let’s see.”

The vermilion bird that sat on Yerin’s shoulder cried.

“South. The clue to solution will catch from the south. So if wanting to solve the problem have to fully help the noble person.”

Grandfather looked alternately at Yerin and me with confused eyes.

“What kid this doing?”

“Baby shaman.”

I pointed at the money Yerin holding.

“If giving offering fee looks at divine points, does disaster prevention etc.”

“Ha, originally shaman house granddaughters all like this?”

“Probably not?”

I shrugged shoulders.

“Yerin special. A kid who will become the great shaman who will shake this country in the future.”

Obtained the vermilion bird god of Namsan the four directional gods at this young age.

Also the successor who will receive the Inwangsan white tiger god served for generations in the future.

“Yerin’s offering fee price tremendously expensive, grandfather windfall today.”

“Nonsense!”

Grandfather doesn’t believe superstition.

Unlike grandmother.

So no choice but to make a displeased cough sound.

I shrugged shoulders.

“That will know if watching.”

The clue to solution comes out from the south.

But here one problem.

“But what all this sound?”

Because there are words among Yerin’s words I don’t understand.

I know up to caught a windfall suddenly.

But don’t know the sudden disaster received without reason?

Have to know what the problem to solve or not.

“What’s the sudden disaster due to upper person pressure again? Caused an accident in the president’s face?”

“Think me you? I quietly only received and drank liquor and came out!”

Grandfather held out a wide white envelope.

“The Blue House sent such to you.”

The envelope with the Blue House mark largely stamped had my name written.

To Young Master Cha Jeong-hyeok

An invitation with golden light flashing.

Sense came.

Grandfather carefully opened the mouth.

“Jeong-hyeok, this······.”

“By any chance observing the domestic tank performance test?”

“No, how knew?”

“Heard directly from the central intelligence director?”

Grandfather jumped.

“What? When!”

“When went to their house to look at points.”

“What!”

“The central intelligence director also came and looked at points and went. Hanging politicians.”

“······.”

“Grandfather doesn’t believe superstition, no law the central intelligence director also doesn’t believe?”

“······.”

Yerin’s grandmother a very famous fortune teller in the Republic of Korea.

If saying even the central intelligence director wears the threshold going in and out words all done.

I opened the envelope confirmed the invitation and smiled faintly.

“Surely the president wouldn’t invite me just to hang a flower necklace on the neck······.”

“······.”

Wait. Wait a minute.

What this unsettling reaction?

“Surely···, really because of flower necklace?”

“Incidentally. Your Excellency said like this. Took U-gwang Research Institute for free so have to repay with results.”

Aha, caught the sense.

I covered the invitation tak.

Knew would be so!

“Taeseong jumped into defense industry, and the president swept U-gwang’s affiliates, so naturally expecting separate hopes.”

“······.”

What this unsettling reaction again?

Why such expression again?

“Keuheum, keuheum! Jeong-hyeok, this became quite troublesome.”

Grandfather wiped cold sweat and said.

“Your Excellency concentrating heart and blood on domestic tank development from several years ago, but our Taeseong not.”

“Well Taeseong Automobile and Heavy Equipment produced not military vehicles but civilian transport vehicles.”

“Tank and automobile completely different.”

Grandfather sighed.

“Seems knowing that and that rice because same engine attached and rolling with wheels, but from development purpose to use all different?”

Tank as war weapon, automobile as transport means.

“No matter how Taeseong Automobile and Taeseong Heavy Equipment strove in technology development, how can extract excellent tank technology enough to catch Your Excellency’s eyes right now. No, is that proper sound from the beginning?”

A complicated voice.

“Tank performance test observation two months later immediately.”

Whether head aching, grandfather pressed the temples tightly.

“Because never even imagined Taeseong would be invited to such a thick Ministry of National Defense event······.”

Ah, I also didn’t know that.

Originally not an event private companies can observe.

So surprised when the central intelligence director tipped in advance.

“If received have to spit duly. What to do this.

“What what to do?”

I grinned.

“Because a matter already expecting.”

Would I go there empty-handed?

‘Today steel mill business rights with the president luckily caught, but tank performance test observation different again.’

Prepared for then.

‘This time the army security commander!’

Anyway there was something that must receive.

For the comfortable 5 years of Taeseong and JH!