Chapter 37

Chapter 37

I Will Take Charge (2)

I cut off the field of view sharing with the underworld messenger.

‘Good. Then shall I write the list of people to send invitations to?’

Now is not the time when I was counted as one of the five big shots in South Korea’s underground finance world.

It’s the period when the generation above me was active.

It’s the era of the shadow big shots who survived even the government’s loan freeze measure suppression.

Scratch scratch scratch.

I began writing down on the new paper taken from the coin wallet with the Montblanc fountain pen taken from the coat.

“Oh my, you’re writing something strange?”

Oh dear. Was I thinking too deeply about who would be good to invite.

I didn’t expect Mother to be looking down at me.

“Myeongdong Falcon, Maljukgeori Horse Head, Kkachisan Room Madam, Jongno Gold Teeth?”

“······.”

“What are all these?”

“······Nicknames of alley leaders?”

What? Why? What!

The gentlemen written here are all big shots known in that vicinity, so alley leaders are fine!

“Then what would our Jeong-hyeok’s nickname be?”

“······Sillim-dong Ant Hell.”

“What? Ahaha, that’s really fun. Wow, kids these days play like this.”

“······.”

Sorry, Mother.

Actually, I was called by such a nickname when I grew up, ahem!

“Here, this is for our Jeong-hyeok.”

Thud.

Mother smiled brightly and put down a cup of warm cocoa with a sweet smell rising.

“While preparing the tea to take to the study, I also made the cocoa that our Jeong-hyeok likes~”

“······.”

Now is the time when I have to drink even lye water with eyes tightly closed.

I quietly received the cocoa.

“Thank you, Mom. I’ll drink well.”

“Probably today it will taste especially better. I put an extra spoonful of cocoa powder generously.”

“······.”

I can’t even refuse Mother’s sweet goodwill!

I drank it with a slurp with eyes tightly closed with filial piety.

“As expected, kids die for cocoa? Next time I’ll make it even sweeter.”

“······.”

Mother held the tray and went up to the study.

Why is the coffee smell so good today of all days.

It’s completely different from the cocoa that only gives off a sweet smell.

Then a large shadow was cast over me.

“Want to eat?”

What Uncle Cheol-gu held out was puffed rice and silver pellets.

“Shall Uncle help?”

Uncle Cheol-gu took my cocoa and downed it at once.

3-second cut until the bottom was revealed!

“K, warm and sweet, good!”

Uncle Cheol-gu wiped the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.

The gentleman who drinks coffee black and frowns when chocolate is put in his mouth.

Who would like it if he does this?

“Next time Uncle will buy you ssanghwa tea. Floating two eggs. Right?”

Ha, it can’t be helped.

I took out a 500-won bill from the coin wallet.

“I want barley tea, Uncle coffee, the change is Uncle’s tip. Shall we go clean out the vending machine again later?”

“That’s good. The coffee there is tasty.”

Uncle Cheol-gu smiled innocently and stroked my head.

Then there was someone poking their face out from behind Uncle Cheol-gu.

“I also like vending machine coffee! Among them, sweet sugar coffee is the best!”

It was the quick-witted security guard, the self-proclaimed number two, the security team leader Yu Jong-tae who volunteered to be my limb.

“Unlike Hard-headed Lieutenant Colonel Bak, I plan to like sweet foods very much. So when you have to handle the sweet things that fell in front of the young master from now on, please find me, Yu Jong-tae!”

Yu Jong-tae rubbed his palms.

“Loyalty loyalty!”

“Yes, you eat it all. Then it’s good for me!”

Uncle Cheol-gu shook his head while returning to the room.

Only then did Yu Jong-tae withdraw the smile and whisper in my ear.

“Shall I tell you what I just carried to the study?”

“Whether I look or not, it will be work related to Taeseong Construction.”

“Huff! How did you know?”

“Secretary Kim who I thought would come out after just drinking a cup of tea has no news until now. If he even brought in a desk and chair, that says it all.”

“As expected! As expected! As expected!”

Yu Jong-tae gave a thumbs-up.

Then he immediately drooped his shoulders.

“Then do you also know that I plan to roll under Father for the time being to help with that work?”

Yu Jong-tae rubbed both hands again.

“I’m a body that swore to bury my bones for the young master! Can’t you somehow pull me out? Somehow I have an unpleasant premonition that I’ll be ground until my body becomes powder.”

Hoho.

“The loyal servant of the young master only offers loyalty to the young master! Loyalty loyalty! If the young master tells me to roll, it’s fine even if I roll until my feet sweat! But······.”

That’s how it is?

Click.

Then Secretary Kim opened the second-floor study door and came out.

He discovered me and walked over this way with large strides.

“Young Master, did you wait long?”

“As Secretary Kim said, while looking at this, I didn’t know how time passed? It was fun.”

A hollow laugh naturally comes out every time I turn the page?

“How can one waste so much money up to this point?”

There’s a limit even to distributing to subordinates, and there’s skill in investment too, how did they pour money only into things that don’t work like this?

“They stuck it into stocks, and the lands they bought are all places with little development possibility. This has no answer.”

Looking at it, only hollow laughs and sighs come out deeply.

For the younger brother of Grandfather who grew the 1 billion won Taeseong Chemicals into a 30 billion won company in 7 years, he does work too too poorly.

“The overseas real estate is similar. Still, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, New York are better. I wish you would dispose of all the rest except those and exchange them for dollars.”

“Yes, understood.”

Secretary Kim took the overseas real estate.

“This time, Father has taken charge of the Subway Line 2 construction.”

“Good!”

It was news I had been eagerly waiting for anyway.

Why did I clean out the flies stuck to Taeseong Construction.

“It seems Grandfather is properly pushing our Dad this time? Please convey that I’m thankful for yielding.”

“Yes, I will convey so.”

Secretary Kim smiled gently.

He knelt on one knee and matched eye level with me.

“Actually, Taeseong was clinging to the construction bidding estimate with all their strength to win the Subway Line 2 construction. Cutting the amount down to the 1-won unit to compete in price.”

That would have been the case.

Because Taeseong was ahead of U-gwang in all aspects other than price.

“I vaguely guessed that U-gwang was conducting behind-the-scenes work, but I didn’t know it was lobbying of this scale. And that they were spending favors by cleaning out Taeseong’s safe.”

It was a bitter smile.

“But the bribe ledger that the young master brought flipped all the board. So isn’t it right that that merit should be occupied by the young master, and Father?”

I deliberately omitted the Taeseong Chemicals talk in the three pages I cut out aiming for this.

I had to first drive out the flies stuck to Taeseong Construction.

Only then would our Father put a spoon on the meal table I set neatly!

‘Taeseong Construction is our Father’s rice bowl no matter what!’

I had no intention at all of making porridge and feeding it to the bastards.

“By the way, you said earlier you had a request for me, right?”

“Yes, this.”

I opened the coin wallet and took out the neatly folded paper.

I held the folded paper between my fingers like a cigarette.

“I want to invite these people to this year-end night event. I’m thinking of circulating invitations.”

“Oh dear. This year-end night event is held at the Hyunmu Hotel according to the turn of the Federation of Korean Industries.”

Secretary Kim clicked his tongue softly.

“If it was last year when it was held at the Taeseong Hotel, it would have been resolved very easily, but this time it might be a bit difficult.”

“If it’s the owner of the Hyunmu Hotel, it’s the president of Hyunmu Construction, right?”

“Yes.”

“Then it seems the matter will be resolved even more easily?”

The luck is good!

“The Apgujeong Hyunmu apartment hit the jackpot. They say their eyes are flipped saying let’s push forward with this momentum and find new apartment sites?”

“I understand so.”

“Fortunately, I have it, the apartment site!”

The apartment site that the incompetent Taeseong Construction president and executives postponed the construction and neglected!

The apartment site that was confiscated after trying to sell it to others!

This land document that Grandfather gave me as a gift earlier.

“I’m thinking of receiving invitations in exchange for handing this over to Hyunmu Construction at an appropriate price.”

“Since it’s disposing as an urgent sale, it will be difficult to receive the full market price. Do you have to yield that much just for sending a few invitations?”

“I’ll guarantee. This is absolutely not a losing business.”

I was confident.

‘This doesn’t give off any golden light at all. Rather, only a murky shit-colored light is turning.’

It’s fitting for the apartment site that the incompetent Taeseong Construction president eyed and diverted!

The outside is only flashy, but the inside is on the verge of rotting and bursting!

No matter how they choose, upon knowing, they only chose things that are dirt cheap.

Being this incompetent also seems like a talent.

‘If you think about it, it’s not even a business where I lose that much. I’m thinking of ripping a lot of money from the previous era’s underground finance big shots this time and solving Father’s headache!’

The apartment site with a shit-colored light will only give me a headache if I hold it.

If I can exchange a shit lump for money, I should!

“Young Master, there are only three days left until the year-end night. To send invitations, they have to be sent at least today or tomorrow.”

“I know that too. That’s why I’m saying I’ll hand it over as an urgent sale.”

The land document I received, I’m handing it over.

I’m fine, why is Secretary Kim making an expression of regretting to death.

I can’t even say that it’s a business scheduled for shit ruin so I want to withdraw my hand early!

There’s no way to explain this?

“Young Master, there are too many piled-up matters now to hand over the apartment site after even reviewing the business feasibility.”

Secretary Kim seems determined to persuade me somehow.

“Because the matters that the incompetent guys postponed are piled up like a mountain, Father will feel an excessive burden just handling that. The meeting with the president of Hyunmu Construction is pushed back a lot in priority.”

“Then I’ll take charge of this matter.”

“Yes? The young master?”

“Instead, may I borrow security team leader Yu Jong-tae for a bit?”

“If it’s that······ good.”

Secretary Kim glanced at Yu Jong-tae.

“Since he’s a guy I take around directly, his skill is quite good.”

Shall I confirm security team leader Yu Jong-tae’s skill this time?

If he can’t even properly complete the errand of just sending invitations, he has no qualification to volunteer to be my limb!

Secretary Kim looked at me with interesting eyes.

“I can’t even guess at all. How do you intend to handle it? It will be hard with only Yu Jong-tae. Even dealing with the president of Hyunmu Construction right away will be a problem.”

“I’ll take care of that too.”

“Hmm, who on earth do you want to invite that the young master even bears this kind of trouble, it makes me very curious.”

Secretary Kim glanced at the paper held between my fingers.

But I have no intention of handing this over after it disappeared.

Secretary Kim will be busy helping Father, so I have to handle my matters myself.

“Just watch. I’ll prove with the result that it was an invitation worth exchanging for this apartment site.”

“Hoho.”

“The year-end night event will be completely flipped upside down in Taeseong’s name.”

“Then I’ll look forward to it.”

Secretary Kim’s gaze flashed beyond the silver-framed glasses.

They were eyes full of expectation and curiosity.

“Team Leader Yu.”

“Yes!”

Yu Jong-tae attached a salute.

“I will definitely succeed in this matter by reliably assisting Young Master Jeong-hyeok!”

I like guys full of motivation!