Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Thoroughly Cleaning Out (2) (Free End)

Chairman Cha’s eyebrows rose.

“Are you indirectly criticizing me now saying I sold my son expensively?”

“Indirectly criticizing? It’s sincere. If it’s U-gwang’s daughter and Taeseong Chemicals, I’m even willing to divorce the badly getting along eldest son couple and remarry them?”

“Noisy.”

“It’s congratulatory words. You know. Hehehe. This is the congratulatory liquor this younger brother is offering.”

“Congratulatory liquor······. Then I should drink.”

The two brothers drank the alcohol in one gulp without who first.

The older brother deodeok liquor, the younger brother cheap soju.

Trickle.

Now two glasses left.

“Yun-seong, we two brothers grew that small company up to here while going through all sorts of hardships.”

“Yes, we received the disposal of one cement factory that the Japanese left, and on top of that established a construction company and came up to here.”

“We really suffered a lot. We worked hard day and night. We remade Seoul that was all collapsed in the war. We paved roads, built bridges, established schools, and made and sold houses. You carried bricks, I carried cement.”

“Our brothers really rolled around in the dust of the construction site every day grinding our teeth. Let’s become rich. Let’s live cooler and more stylishly than anyone.”

“There were really many words and many troubles in the meantime. Laundering political funds, covering the backs of dirty guys, gangsters and loan sharks. Incidents and accidents didn’t stop.”

“Thanks to that, didn’t I also go to prison twice. Hehehe.”

The taste was bitter.

So the alcohol went in smoothly.

Chairman Cha downed the alcohol at once.

Thud. Trickle.

“Now it’s the last glass, Yun-seong.”

“Then I’ll also make this glass the last one.”

The younger brother emptied his liquor glass at once.

Then he began babbling the words he hadn’t finished earlier again.

“If we just win the subway construction, Taeseong Construction will hit the jackpot that day! It’s a subway penetrating Seoul City! It will become the transportation that Seoul citizens commuting use every day! Everyone will think of Subway Line 2 first when they say our Taeseong Construction? Then Taeseong Construction’s stock price will rise to the top of the sky!”

Even though the older brother couldn’t bring himself to empty the received alcohol.

“Yun-seong, even though I clearly said it’s the last glass, you only say other things until the end.”

“The president of U-gwang Construction came in front of the hotel. This time they said let’s hold hands as in-laws between U-gwang and Taeseong and try a joint bidding, how is it?”

“Ha······!”

“There’s no reason for us to refuse. If a good opportunity came, we should catch it. As said, if U-gwang resolves and blocks, we can’t win the subway construction. You know?”

Chairman Cha put the last glass into his mouth.

It was because of that remark just now.

“Damn!”

Chairman Cha threw the empty liquor glass.

The porcelain glass that flew scraping the head of the president of Taeseong Construction hit the wall.

With a clinking sound, fragments scattered in all directions.

The president of Taeseong Construction was surprised and shrank his neck like a turtle.

“O, Older Brother, why suddenly?”

“This sense-less guy. Yun-seong, why did you do that?”

“Yes?”

“Why did you betray me.”

The complexion of the president of Taeseong Construction changed.

He intuited that it was unusual.

“O, Older Brother?”

“A good opportunity came so you couldn’t help but catch it? Was Taeseong Construction that coveted?”

“······!”

“This stupid guy.”

Chairman Cha’s eyes flashed coldly.

“You only talked about Taeseong’s future uselessly until the end, and only talked about the subway construction that isn’t even in hand yet, and completely blew away the opportunity to reflect on the wrong you committed.”

“That w, wrong thing······.”

“Secretary Kim, bring that!”

“Yes, Chairman.”

Secretary Kim immediately presented what he had prepared.

Chairman Cha threw one copy of the documents each in front of the president of Taeseong Construction.

“This is the double ledger you wrote, this is the bill that Taeseong Construction has to block, this is the land document of the Taeseong Construction apartment construction site that you tried to sell.”

“Those were all in the safe of the Taeseong Construction president’s office, right?”

The president of Taeseong Construction seemed to sober up completely.

But Chairman Cha didn’t stop.

“This is the Taeseong Construction stocks you were secretly gathering under a borrowed name, this is the bearer bond, this is the gold bar, this is the overseas real estate, this is the dollar bundle.”

“You even opened our house’s secret safe?”

Eventually the president of Taeseong Construction screamed.

The items that Chairman Cha had thrown rolled on the table and fell to the floor with a thud.

“T, this is theft! How could Older Brother do this to me······!”

“Theft?”

Chairman Cha’s eyebrows rose.

“Yes, I opened your safe. If you’re wronged, report it to the police.”

“No, Older Brother!”

“You also opened my company’s safe, so I’ll hand you over to the prosecution.”

“P, prosecution?”

“Breach of trust and embezzlement. With this much, it’s a minimum 15-year sentence.”

“Older Brother!”

“Why? Do you think I can’t?”

“······!”

The president of Taeseong Construction turned pale.

Chairman Cha’s nickname is Flame Bulldozer.

Pushing strongly enough to make even impossible things possible was his specialty.

“It’s regrettable, Yun-seong. You’ll have to hold your sixtieth birthday party and seventieth birthday party in prison.”

“Older Brother, no! Prosecution!”

“If you dislike the prosecution, shall I send you to the KCIA?”

“······!”

If dragged to the KCIA, one cannot come out safely.

It was a fact that the president of Taeseong Construction also knew well.

“O, Older Brother······!”

“The reason you could sit in the Taeseong Construction president position wasn’t because you did well. It was because you are my younger brother.”

Chairman Cha was cold.

“It would have been good if you diverted moderately. You crossed the line. Dare try to snatch even my child’s rice bowl? Then do you think I can’t snatch your wife and children’s rice bowl?”

Thud!

The president of Taeseong Construction knelt.

“I was wrong, Older Brother! Please overlook just once!”

“The last opportunity I gave, that golden opportunity, you blew it away with excuses and complaints, vain delusions.”

Chairman Cha turned his head.

“I said when the deodeok liquor ends, the loyalty will also end. Our brothers’ loyalty was exactly up to there.”

“Older Brother, I committed a sin worthy of death! It’s real! If you forgive just this once······!”

“Is this something that ends with just saying sorry?”

It had come too far to brush off with a mere verbal apology.

The one who had run to the opposite side was that guy.

“What I took care of, what you diverted, what my son earned, all of it has to be spit out.”

“T, that······!”

“Or shall I make even your wife and children’s things all spit out? Want to hold hands amicably as a family and go to prison?”

“Older Brother! If it’s my wife and children, they’re Older Brother’s sister-in-law and nieces and nephews. Please overlook the wife and children!”

The president of Taeseong Construction stammered.

“T, there’s no need to act so harshly even between family. Our seven brothers all died in the war, scattered, and now only Older Brother and I are left.”

The president of Taeseong Construction walked on his knees and clung to the older brother’s leg.

“Older Brother, I really committed a sin worthy of death! Rather get angry at me! I’ll shut my mouth and get hit as you hit! So please······!”

“Won’t you let go of this?”

Chairman Cha who was angry to the top of his head grabbed anything among the items on the table.

It was a soju bottle.

The president of Taeseong Construction frightened clung desperately to Chairman Cha’s leg and begged.

“I even went to prison twice! When the tax investigation came in, when the prosecution investigation came in, I went to prison instead of Older Brother!”

The president of Taeseong Construction choked up.

“Older Brother, the youngest daughter is getting married this spring. I have to hold our daughter’s hand on the way to get married. So Older Brother, please just this once······!”

The hand of Chairman Cha holding the soju bottle trembled.

He wanted to hit that guy’s head right away.

“Hoooo······.”

Chairman Cha let out a long sigh as if his lungs were being crushed and his intestines were being cut.

After fuming for a long time, Chairman Cha tightly closed his eyes.

“Get out of Taeseong.”

“Yes.”

“Spit out the money you diverted too. That’s what my son earned.”

“Of course.”

“The stocks you secretly bought, the stocks I took care of, if it’s Taeseong’s stocks, don’t leave even a single share and hand over everything.”

“Understood.”

“Also leave all these that Secretary Kim brought.”

“Yes.”

Chairman Cha gestured.

“Go back. Spend the end and beginning of the year with the family.”

“Thank you, Older Brother.”

“Remember. You owe a debt to Seong-jun.”

“Yes, I will definitely repay this debt someday. If a problem arises for Seong-jun in the future, I will step forward and shoulder it instead.”

The president of Taeseong Construction bowed deeply at the waist.

With a long sigh, he staggered back with weak footsteps.

Chairman Cha who was glaring fiercely at that back turned his back.

“Secretary Kim, extract a confession from that guy. From the circumstances of diverting money colluding with U-gwang to the mastermind, in detail.”

“Yes.”

“Damn.”

Chairman Cha felt like a thousand fires were boiling inside.

He opened the soju he was holding and gulped it down without even breathing, bottle and all.

The path of the alcohol going down the esophagus was clearly felt.

It burned hot deep in the chest as if scalded by fire.

This wasn’t just because the alcohol was strong.

It was because he used his heart viciously.

“Chairman, you drank too much. Please stop.”

Secretary Kim dissuaded.

“Leave it. I didn’t send that guy to prison, but I just scraped everything he had.”

Secretary Kim silently held out a note.

It was crooked child’s handwriting.

Grandfather, don’t drink a lot of alcohol saying you’re upset. But today it can’t be helped, right? If you must drink alcohol, please drink medicinal liquor that upsets the insides less. -From Jeong-hyeok-

Chairman Cha let out a long sigh and quietly put down the soju bottle.

-Don’t worry. Everything will be fine.

It seemed like the grandson’s voice was heard.

“Secretary Kim. As promised, take all this to Jeong-hyeok. Thoroughly clean out the backs of the Taeseong Construction executives too and recover everything diverted behind.”

This is all because my precious child brought the U-gwang Construction bribe ledger.

Since merit was established, a corresponding reward must be given.

This is our Jeong-hyeok’s share.

‘My precious child! The young one is already being filial. Cleanly removing even the flies stuck to his father’s rice bowl.’

The more I think, the more lovable I could die, and the more I see, the more commendable I could die.

“While taking the gift to Jeong-hyeok, also convey to that Seong-jun guy. The Taeseong Construction president has changed.”

Chairman Cha crossed his arms.

“Since he brought Japan’s advanced civil engineering technology as well as the U-gwang Construction bribe ledger, this merit must remain in my son’s name!”

Since the flies were also cleaned out, now he’ll win the subway construction with all his heart and strength!

“Since U-gwang hit my back of the head first, even if they resent me saying I’m cold-hearted, it’s useless!”

Chairman Cha ground his teeth.

“Even if it’s my biological younger brother, I can’t overlook you guys who don’t even have a drop of blood mixed with me!”

Because U-gwang intervened and played tricks, even the relationship between the only remaining brothers was ruined like this.

Even if incompetent, it was blood, and even if lacking, it was a younger brother.

“I can’t do business with guys without business morals! I can’t form in-laws with a household without even family ethics!”

The conclusion was already made.

“Secretary Kim, convey to Seong-jun to attend the year-end night event together with his wife and child!”

The year-end night was a year-end charity event where not only the political and business worlds but also key figures from all walks of life attend in large numbers.

Chairman Cha intended to clearly show in front of ten thousand people.

Who the owner of Taeseong Construction is!

“Does Taeseong collapse just because there’s no one chemical?”

The difference between Taeseong and U-gwang!

“Did you properly send the threatening letters?”

“Of course.”

“Not only the guys who received bribes from U-gwang but also the guys who didn’t receive them, all without omission?”

“Yes. The contents are a bit different, though.”

“Good! Then the preparation is done. Let’s go that day and cause a big ruckus!”

Chairman Cha stood up abruptly.

Then he left the Taeseong Hotel room without looking back.

He didn’t even glance at the soju bottle and liquor glass that the younger brother left, and only took the bottle that had contained the deodeok liquor.

Of course, the note that the grandson wrote was together.

This much couldn’t be ignored or discarded either.

*

Ding dong! Ding dong ding dong!

The quick-witted security guard, the self-proclaimed number two, security team leader Yu Jong-tae ran over and reported.

“Young Master, Secretary Kim brought a gift!”

Oho!

Not a bribe but a gift!

Then I have to run with both hands raised!