Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Big Shots of the Previous Era (1)

Yu Jong-tae walked over triumphantly and majestically.

“Young Master, I, Yu Jong-tae, have successfully completed the mission and returned!”

“Well done!”

I gave a thumbs-up.

Yu Jong-tae stuck close like a puppy waiting for praise.

“Young Master, aren’t you curious how I obtained these invitations? Shall I inform you very in detail?”

“It’s fine.”

I shared the field of view with the underworld messenger and watched it all.

But I can’t say the fact openly.

“I believe Team Leader Yu. End!”

“Young Masteeeer!”

Yu Jong-tae twisted his body while gathering both hands as if moved.

“If it’s the young master, I knew you would recognize my loyalty and ability! To think you would trust and entrust this much!”

Somehow it was a very burdensome gaze.

Uncle Cheol-gu who was chewing hardtack with a crunch casually spat out.

“Damn. Doing one errand and bragging so dirtily.”

“B, bragging?”

“Anyone who sees would think I was dragged to the KCIA and kept my mouth shut until almost drowning from water torture.”

“······.”

Yu Jong-tae had an expression of wanting to refute, but he glanced at me and then bit his lips tightly.

Because it was after I said earlier that I don’t need to be informed of the full story of the incident.

“Just watch. Someday I’ll occupy it, the loyalty number one position! I also staked my life!”

Yu Jong-tae’s small monologue seemed full of ambition.

I like people with ambition!

* * *

The first place I went after obtaining the invitations was of course Myeongdong.

I looked up at the building located in a secluded alley in Myeongdong.

Myeongdong Falcon Pawnshop

This is really a long time, no, I went a few days ago?

But strangely, it always feels like coming after a long time here?

Yu Jong-tae put his hand on his forehead and pretended to look while letting out a hoho admiration.

“This place is also really a long time. At one time, I went in and out until the threshold wore out. Is the owner of the first invitation also the Myeongdong Falcon elder?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll go and deliver it quickly!”

“No.”

I grinned.

“This time I’ll go directly.”

I have to convey the invitation directly to the master.

Also to keep the promise made then.

-Next time I’ll come looking with a gift better than Western sweets.

So I brought it.

A gift that the master will like very much!

Uncle Cheol-gu scratched the back of his head looking at the pawnshop.

“Ha, this place is also really a long time.”

Everyone is saying a long time?

Yu Jong-tae who rolled under Secretary Kim is one thing, to think even Uncle Cheol-gu had come looking for the Falcon Pawnshop.

Well, ordinary people also come to pawnshops without knowing.

Ding.

“Welcome.”

The voice coming from beyond the pawnshop iron bars as always.

It was the master.

The master pushed up his monocle and twitched his eyebrows.

“No, who is this?”

“How are you, elder? Have you been well in the meantime? I’m Yu Jong-tae, team leader of the 5th team of the Taeseong Group security department. Do you remember?”

Yu Jong-tae made a fuss and greeted happily.

“Aigo, the elder has become even younger in the meantime. I heard you swept up good-location Gangnam apartments and made a fortune, your appearance has become even brighter.”

“Elder, it’s been a long time. Smack.”

Uncle Cheol-gu scratched the back of his head and greeted awkwardly.

I gathered both hands and politely did a navel bow.

“Hello.”

The master picked me out among the three of us and asked.

“What brings the little guest this time? Somehow it doesn’t seem like you came saying you’ll collateralize.”

“That’s right.”

“Then why did you come to the pawnshop? Did you bring those humans and intend to hold an auction board here again?”

“It’s not that, I came to give the gift as promised last time.”

“Gift?”

I politely put down the invitation on the counter where the pawnshop iron bars were lowered.

The golden light of the invitation was flashing so much that the dark pawnshop iron bars became brightly lit.

“It’s an invitation to the year-end night held at the Hyunmu Hotel this time.”

“What?”

The master’s eyes flashed.

Exactly the gaze of a falcon that discovered prey while flying in the sky.

“There’s no way a year-end night invitation would come to shadow figures like us?”

Of course, that would be the case.

That was an event only for the leading class of South Korean society, those who wield money, honor, and power in the light.

It was a gathering of high society not permitted even to riffraff as well as clumsy nouveau riche.

“There’s no way this invitation came to me for free. It means someone paid the price instead of me and brought it.”

“So it’s a gift.”

“Ohora, thank you for this. But why does the word bribe correct itself instead of the word gift in my ears?”

Because a gift is given with the heart without compensation, but a bribe is given hoping for solicitation.

I can’t say there’s absolutely nothing hoped for while handing over the golden invitation.

But that’s a matter depending on the master’s decision.

It can be said to be a bit different in texture from bribe solicitation where one must do the value of the money as much as eaten.

“The price of obtaining the invitation wouldn’t have been easy. What should I do how?”

“Just attend the year-end night event. It would be better if you decide on sponsorship fitting the event’s purpose.”

“Sponsorship?”

The master tilted his head.

“Originally, the year-end night event is ultimately a sponsorship meeting. If I go to such a place, it seems only my pocket will be helplessly cleaned out, so I hate it.”

The master tapped the invitation with his fingertip.

“Somehow it seems like there’s a money smell here? Ha, I really don’t know the reason.”

As expected, our master, the sense is also fast!

If it’s a matter that makes money, he really catches it like a ghost?

“That’s right. To be honest, I’m thinking of handing over a matter that makes money there.”

“Ohora!”

“For reference, the invitation is a gift, but this is a transaction proposal.”

“Then of course!”

The master shook the invitation with an insidious smile.

“I wondered why you brought this invitation directly! Now that question is solved! This cunning little guest.”

“You said you smelled money here? So will you respond to the invitation or not?”

“Whether to respond to the invitation or not, let’s decide after hearing your transaction proposal!”

Anyway, he doesn’t try to lose even a little.

Still, I smiled faintly.

“It will be a once-in-a-lifetime transaction that you absolutely won’t regret. Just a moment, ear.”

“Let’s do so.”

The master willingly lent me his ear.

Every time my words continued whisper whisper, the master let out a huff sound.

How many times did I hear the huff sound like that.

“Uhahahat!”

Finally, the master burst into a hearty laugh.

“So in the end, you’re telling me to act as a shill?”

That was the reason I came looking for the master directly.

‘Originally, when driving people into a frenzy crucible, what’s absolutely necessary is a capable shill. In that sense, there’s no more definite shill than the master.’

People who know the master would see the master’s existence of ‘an investment genius who selects only money-making matters with a falcon’s eye and sweeps them up’ as a box office guarantee check from the start.

“Oh dear, it’s hard to believe at all that this is a seven-year-old’s transaction proposal.”

The master looked down at me with a peculiar gaze.

“The proposal is large in scale, the compensation is large in scale, and the plan is even larger in scale. Where did such a little kid pop out from? Really, won’t you learn work under me?”

Telling me to look at the pawnshop for another 10 years?

No way!

“Don’t say other things. So what will you do? Will you attend the year-end night or not? Will you catch the wind or not?”

“I have to go! I have to catch the wind! What kind of opportunity is this, of course I have to catch it!”

The master’s sharply torn eyes curved like a half-moon.

“Will you really hand over one station per 300 million?”

“If Taeseong Construction wins the Subway Line 2 construction.”

“Of course! In my view, U-gwang absolutely can’t win the Subway Line 2 construction!”

“Why have the words changed a bit from last time?”

When I came looking for this pawnshop last time because I was short 18 million won to buy the Hannam-dong mansion.

The master and Secretary Kim had exchanged these words.

-To be honest, I do covet the land near the subway station. But to rip my living 8 million won for that reason, you should have come from U-gwang, not you! Isn’t that right?

-The elder sees U-gwang as having risen to a more advantageous highland than our Taeseong?

-Of course. Isn’t that the fact?

-No way. This Subway Line 2 construction, our Taeseong will win it.

-Wouldn’t it be hard? This time U-gwang is one step faster. The sound that they properly cooked the high-ranking related persons is heard all the way here.

The master said in a voice as full of conviction as then.

“That was a story before the U-gwang Construction bribe ledger entered Taeseong’s hands.”

At the bribe ledger story, Uncle Cheol-gu blankly blinked both eyes.

“I know what kind of thing that ledger is, whose hands it’s in, and how they’re threatening with it, you didn’t think I would still stupidly predict U-gwang’s victory?”

The longer the master’s words became, the rounder Uncle Cheol-gu’s eyes became.

Blinking slowly like a cow was a bonus.

“Moreover, this time President Cha of Taeseong Construction and the incompetent executives all had their necks cut and were chased out?”

Anyway, how fast the information is.

I don’t know how he already knows the matter that happened yesterday.

Regardless.

I pointed to the invitation.

“Everyone was flipping their eyes saying they’d find the owner of the anonymous threatening letter, so I’m offering this cheaply because I’m thankful that you kept your mouth tightly shut.”

“Cheaply?”

“I’m thinking of receiving a much more expensive price from the other owners of the invitations.”

“What? How expensively are you thinking of receiving from that side?”

“Just adding a little more. One station per 500 million!”

“Uhahaha! Good! That’s very good! I’m 300 million, those guys are 500 million! Of course, it should be so!”

The master hit his knee.

“To see the sight of those guys having stomachaches, I must definitely succeed in this matter!”

Yes, this is our master.

He likes seeing himself gain, but he likes hitting fellow industry competitors even more.

The master rolled up both sleeves excitedly.

“Do you know where those guys live? If you don’t know, I’m willing to write the addresses?”

“Do you think I would have stepped forward saying I’d deliver the invitations without even knowing such things?”

“As expected! I knew you would know if it’s you. Anyway, a mysterious little guest?”

He’s making a fuss saying don’t dawdle here and go deliver the invitations immediately.

So I subtly requested.

“If you’re going to catch the wind anyway, can’t you do just one more service?”

“Service? Ahem! If it’s a matter that costs even one 1-won bill, I refuse in advance······.”

“I’m hoping you put in one call each to those people you mentioned earlier and thoroughly teased them?”

“What?”

It’s an era when one public phone call costs 10 won.

Would the master make as many as three calls?

I had no choice but to open the coin wallet and try to offer the phone fee.

“If it’s that, leave it to me! This will be very fun! Uhahahat!”

“······.”

The stingy master excitedly readily agreed.

And how fast the action power is.

He made the calls right there immediately.

“Hey, Maljukgeori Horse Head! It’s me, Myeongdong Falcon! Don’t be surprised listening. Just now a year-end night invitation came to me!”

Click.

“······.”

“······.”

This is exactly keeping it brief!

He only said what he wanted to say and hung up the phone.

But the effect was certain.

Ring ring! Ring ring!

Looking at the phone ringing crazily, the master giggled.

“They’ll be teased to death? Wow, a ten-year-old indigestion is going down completely!”

The master laughed happily and clapped his palms.

“Then, the contract saying handing over one station per 300 million······ huh?”

Ding.

“······.”

The little guest party had already fled.