Chapter 182

Chapter 182

Smuggling King (2)

Yu Jong-tae leisurely drove the car past the Mackerel Fisheries Warehouse.

To park in a slightly more secluded and remote place.

Yu Jong-tae lowered the voice as much as the speed driving the car.

“Hmm, quite late time yet people quite many. Strange?”

Even late night the Mackerel Fisheries Warehouse under the incandescent light bulb crowded with people.

Director Choi puzzled and asked.

“Hmm? What’s strange? No matter how looking ordinary?”

A person transporting wooden boxes full of ice and mackerel with a cart,

A person washing mackerel turning water in a wide rubber basin,

A person trimming fish striking mackerel heads with a thick knife.

The cleaning in charge pushing the floor rub rub rub with scrubber brushes, floor brushes, holder brushes, ship exterior brushes etc. used on ships pouring water.

“People working diligently until late night for tomorrow’s business.”

“That’s all show-off ass show.”

“If this show-off ass show our research institute researchers exhibitionism patients?”

“······.”

At this point Yu Jong-tae and I no choice but to realize to the bone.

Director Choi, sense dirty none!

“Think commonly. Who showing to voluntarily suffering pouring sweat like that at this night?”

“Precisely that point strange.”

“······?”

“No customers, staining whole body with fish fishy smell. Indeed suspicious?”

“······??”

Yu Jong-tae clicked the tongue.

“Tsk, so lab flower-like gentlemen.”

“What gentlemen! Dying busy even experimenting, think will grow flower things in the research institute?”

“Correct. Instead of flower gentlemen with frozen pollock eyes.”

“What?”

“Because not growing flowers in the research institute to say head flower garden. Saw.”

Anyway Yu Jong-tae.

If twisted first charge and see.

This very habitual offender.

Already don’t know how many people charged.

Our aunt, Hyunmu Construction president, former Taeseong Construction Managing Director Oh etc.

“Even if eyes there not properly seeing so frozen pollock eyes perfect.”

“What only what seen in what eyes, because saying going to meet smuggling king everything suspicious not?”

“Heard if head becomes good instinct degenerates. Indeed overseas study faction PhD degree holders’ heads. If entering not taking sense and neck cut I don’t know.”

“Team Leader Yu!”

Yu Jong-tae looked back at me.

“Young Master, anyway seems have to abandon Director Choi and enter?”

“Can’t do so.”

I shook the head.

“Even buying used cars take experts. Tanks tens of millions of won per unit.”

“Signs too dangerous. Seems caught the day wrong.”

“Certainly the atmosphere going around not ordinary.”

I nodded and expressed agreement.

Back alley smell blowing thickly to the extent of suffocating.

“Young Master, look at those bastards’ eyes a bit. If something seems will cut this side with the knife that was cutting mackerel pieces?”

“Anyway seems something problem occurred inside there?”

“Looking trimming mackerel at this late night obvious.”

Only Director Choi still not understanding.

“What’s wrong trimming mackerel in the mackerel shop warehouse?”

······Just abandon here and go?

Saw.

Because showed enthusiasm meticulously calculating one by one memoing in the notebook looking at the smuggling tank pamphlet the whole time coming here.

“Mackerel freshness life.”

“Mackerel fresh best. Why that?”

“Live mackerel basic trimming immediately upon receiving order from customers.”

“Became so serious because of mere such reason?”

Mere.

This livelihood-dependent business know-how from the position of fish selling businesses?

“Mackerel flesh soft so from the moment hands touch corruption progresses rapidly. Because fishy smell severe insects gather, flesh bruises so hard to sell visually.”

So in the old days had to sell mackerel tied with straw ropes and hung on walls or special hangers.

The origin of using the word ‘son’ when counting mackerel here.

“Ah, originally red flesh fish that! Now somewhat understanding.”

Director Choi’s face fully opened only then.

Finally understood this suspicious situation!

“Called red flesh fish because having red meat containing large amounts of muscle pigment and blood pigment. Tuna, skipjack, mackerel etc. representative······.”

······Not!

As the specialized field came out, Director Choi began talking without rest as if a motor attached to the mouth.

“Mackerel high in fatty acids and omega 3 content, containing a lot of pigment proteins like hemoglobin and myoglobin among muscles······.”

“Stop. Who curious about mackerel knowledge encyclopedia now?”

“Keuheum, sorry.”

“The point why those people taking out and trimming mackerel not even selling immediately now, not?”

“Right?”

I clicked the tongue.

“To erase the blood marks overflowing on the floor.”

Director Choi blinked both eyes.

As if what nonsense sound this.

“Trying to cover the thick blood smell with mackerel fishy smell.”

“······?”

“Surely not thinking that blood smell mackerel blood smell?”

“······!”

“Don’t know but if pouring mackerel boxes and cutting pieces at night, taking out all kinds of cleaning brushes and wiping the floor rub rub to that extent······.”

I slightly counted fingers.

“At least a dozen or so, went to the afterlife.”

“······!”

Director Choi’s complexion instantly paled.

Couldn’t even turn the head and only rolling eyes looking at Mackerel Fisheries.

Tak tak tak.

Cutting mackerel pieces with a knife with a sharp blue edge.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Glancing this way and pouring water full in the rubber basin on the floor.

Swish swish swish.

Wiping the floor with ship cleaning brushes made of hard fibers boasting strong cleaning power.

Gulp.

Director Choi swallowed dry saliva.

“Oh, said caught the day wrong today?”

Hands holding the smuggling tank pamphlet trembling.

“Us, how about coming again when day bright? Calling police······.”

“Saw an idiot smuggling calling police?”

“······.”

I took the lead and walked stride stride.

Yu Jong-tae followed behind.

Director Choi couldn’t easily lift feet looking alternately at us and the car.

“Like Team Leader Yu said I remaining here······.”

“If loitering alone at this night ten to one stuffed into Busan front sea.”

“······?”

“By any chance might be a witness?”

“······!”

Director Choi inhaled.

Anyway a man pulling a cart loaded with ice and mackerel gesturing.

Two men wearing waterproof aprons and boots approaching this way.

What dangling at the waist hand axes.

“Le, let’s go together!”

“If promise will shut mouth with sense?”

“Will promise!”

As I looked back Yu Jong-tae shrugged shoulders as if to show.

“Because if stuck on strange words and babbling like encyclopedia annoying.”

I silently raised a thumb.

* * *

“Who?”

Tak!

The man striking mackerel heads stuck the knife tak on the wooden cutting board.

A man quite impressive with a knife scar torn from the right temple to the mouth corner on graying hair.

‘Bingo.’

Came properly.

The man roughly washed the bloody hands in flowing water.

“Frozen mackerel, live mackerel, or salted mackerel? Rather come to the International Market when day bright. I’ll do cheap.”

“Domestic enough. Want to buy Norwegian mackerel.”

The code wanting to obtain smuggled goods.

The men wiping the floor rub rub stopped brushing.

Watching this way with sharp eyes.

“Appointment?”

“Would have caught in the name of Maljukgeori horse head.”

“Ha, that annoying bastard!”

The man burst irritation at the horse head sound.

“That bastard only did gambling eating rice.”

Probably?

Why the big shot of the house gambling board for nothing.

“The only one I lost three games in a row until now that guy?”

Yes, I sent saying so.

Because the horse head grinding teeth saying recovering seven houses.

Proposed saying will cut interest even emptying the smuggling king’s pocket and hanging smuggling reservation.

“That bastard, these days wandering the Busan floor like a fish that met water.”

Yes, I sent saying so.

Said willing to cut principal even interest if thoroughly sweeping the Busan area, heard the horse head packed luggage and went down immediately.

“Brought the nameplate?”

“Of course.”

I opened the coin wallet and took out the nameplate with a mackerel drawing.

The loot the Maljukgeori horse head won with gambling.

“Then okay entering inside?”

“Wait.”

The man raised an arm and blocked in front of me.

Cold eyes.

“Anyway that seems a bit troublesome.”

“Interview not all finished inside yet?”

“Not interview but cleaning.”

The man grinned.

The knife scar torn to the temple distorted into a bizarre shape.

“Not a scene to show the precious Young Master.”

“What’s that special.”

Do I see such appearance one or two times.

“Busy slicing sashimi, busy mixing cement?”

“Hahahaha. Of course both.”

The man laughed out loud.

“This really fun little customer came.”

“Probably my business more fun than that.”

I ran a very far way not minding unauthorized runaway, unauthorized absence, unauthorized overnight stay because of this today.

I checked the wristwatch.

“Appointment time seems all done?”

“Hmm, business quite complex?”

“What’s complex? Finished purchase decision long ago looking at the pamphlet sent.”

As I gestured, Director Choi held out the smuggling tank pamphlet with trembling hands.

The man shone eyes.

“Wow. Now seeing a customer with large capacity.”

“Hands even larger?”

The quick-witted security guard Yu Jong-tae who claims to be my hands and feet and secretary put down the travel bag holding both hands heavily so a thud sound.

Ziiik.

As opened the bag zipper, bundles of 10,000 won bills full.

“Deposit. Let’s settle the balance receiving the goods at Incheon Port.”

The man whistled low.

“This not a matter to look down on saying fern-like hands?”

“Imported more expensive than domestic?”

“Oil price and effort fee much more, naturally so, customer?”

“Since first transaction thinking of buying only three units for now.”

Director Choi chose three tanks after careful consideration.

“Soviet, German, US. All latest models.”

“Ha······!”

The man whistled.

The knife scar wriggled bewitchingly whenever the lip shape changed.

“The little customer with large capacity and large hands seems even guts large.”

The man narrowed eyes and looked down at me.

Whether wanting cigarette rummaging the front pocket.

Gathering hands and slowly lighting fire, shadows flickering on the knife scar reflected in the lighter fire.

“Seems no sense what demand making now.”

The man blew cigarette smoke whoosh on my face.

Seemed hoped coughing at the cigarette smoke.

Think someone didn’t smoke cigarettes in the past?

Even looking like this a body that received terminal diagnosis with lung cancer?

“If old model maybe not know. Latest models hard.”

“Not came this far carrying large money to buy old-fashioned?”

“Latest models treated as national secrets. Think easy diverting such behind?”

“Saying add extra money quite difficultly.”

The man spat the cigarette with a deflated expression.

As soon as fell on the floor where water pooled the cigarette fire immediately went out making a chik sound.

“Saying will oil smoothly up and down, who not giving? Will add generously.”

“Not oil problem. Really hard obtaining so.”

“Ei, if no such ability not smuggling king.”

Where continuously trying to probe liver?

“Heard can obtain everything except drugs? Mere latest model tanks nothing.”

“Hey, little kid.”

“Deadline two weeks.”

“Just calculating the time coming by ship from Soviet, from Germany, from US two weeks enough?”

“Ei, why like this among players? Already have at least one each?”

“······.”

“Not like neither knows secretly diverted new main battle tanks in Vietnam War, Middle East War.”

“······!”

The man closed the mouth.

“If taking out the ones hidden in Jeju Island and selling done, two weeks overflowing.”

“You······!”

The long torn knife scar wriggled according to the man’s expression.

Eyes sank coldly.

Killing intent.

“Want to die, little kid?”

“Since when the smuggling king became so small capacity?”

I smiled faintly.

“Heard of the domestic tank performance test?”

“······!”

The man flinched.

The sound of properly knowing about the domestic tank performance test.

Convenient and good not needing to explain long and detailed!

“Now some sense caught whose name I came?”

“Surely······!”

“Yes, correct. President.”

I took out the invitation with the Blue House mark stamped and shook in front of the man’s eyes.

I clearly know public power a great disaster to humans moving in the shade.

If a matter the president watches what to say?