Chapter 41

Chapter 41

Big Shots of the Previous Era (2)

We got into the car without looking back.

“Team Leader Yu, depart!”

“Everyone fastened their seat belts, right? Young Master, then departing!”

Vroom.

Uncle Cheol-gu sitting in the passenger seat giggled.

“That Falcon gentleman, bursting into successive admirations unfittingly. Little kid, what on earth did you whisper?”

“Ahem, whether to live on the young master’s trust or solve the curiosity. Hard-headed Lieutenant Colonel, no, Mr. Park Cheol-gu, choose?”

“······.”

“For reference, I chose credit over curiosity.”

Yu Jong-tae grinned triumphantly.

“Well, I also find it mysterious. The elder who only clicks his tongue every time I see him hit his knee today? To the extent that I rubbed my eyes and looked again.”

“That gentleman, lamenting every day whether a smart disciple would fall from the sky, like that.”

“To think that picky elder had already been eyeing our Young Master early.”

“When he said to the little kid to come under him and learn work, I doubted my ears?”

“Of course! For that elder, it has to be Secretary Kim for the words that he’s usable to come out? But to our Young Master··· k, as expected, as expected, as expected!”

Come to think of it, when I first met the master, I also heard the words shit eyes.

Saying that compared to using the head, the eye is poor so it won’t do at all.

Thanks to that, I rolled only at the pawnshop for 10 years!

“Even seeing the sight of readily volunteering to be a shill.”

“It’s the first time seeing that stingy elder doing service without receiving money either.”

Uncle Cheol-gu and Yu Jong-tae burst into laughter at the same time.

“Puhaha, as expected, our little kid is the best!”

“Khuheup, as expected, our Young Master is the best!”

Uncle Cheol-gu and Yu Jong-tae stopped the laughter at the same time.

Then they looked at each other with very dumbfounded expressions.

“Why are you saying the same words as me?”

“I’m also bewildered?”

The two made hollow laughs at the same time and turned their heads sharply in opposite directions.

Uncle Cheol-gu said while looking out the window passing by whoosh whoosh.

“Hey, little kid. It would have been good to continue watching the gentleman making calls and teasing like watching a fire across the river, why did you refuse that fun thing and flee?”

“I decline getting hit by flying sparks while watching the fire.”

With the master’s personality, as soon as he hung up the call to Maljukgeori Horse Head, the talk of writing a contract would have come out and more.

‘When secret back deals exchange like the bribe ledger becoming shackles, one shouldn’t leave evidence.’

I’m the style that very dislikes leaving traces when doing back deals.

Absolutely decline it becoming shackles and tightening the breath.

“Young Master, where shall I take you?”

“Please go to Jongno.”

Uncle Cheol-gu and Yu Jong-tae turned back at the same time.

“Not going from Maljukgeori first?”

“Not going from Maljukgeori first?”

I shook my head.

“If you go looking there now, you’ll just receive a cold water baptism in midwinter and get cold treatment at the door?”

Was Maljukgeori Horse Head’s temper ordinary anywhere.

Shall I say fitting for the master of the Namsan Leech?

That guy was known as an enemy with our master.

Moreover, now right after the master made a call and thoroughly teased.

He would probably be firmly resolving saying he’d vent on the errand runner while grinding his teeth.

“Little kid, but why are you working so hard obtaining invitations and circulating them?”

“Grandfather said to bring our Mom and me to the year-end night.”

“So. You’re an invited guest, not the host of the event.”

“If our Mom and I are introduced in front of so many people, what kind of matter will break out? Dad has a fiancée. Will that side stay still?”

“Ah······.”

“There will be many people pointing fingers at our Mom. Saying she ruined the marriage of both families.”

Uncle Cheol-gu’s eyes deepened peculiarly.

“So that cold gazes of people don’t gather on our Mom, instead I want to flashily draw attention so all people pay attention to Taeseong’s subway construction.”

I smiled brightly.

“Taeseong Construction has no money these days. If we receive sponsorship money this time while at it, everyone will think our Taeseong will win the subway construction?”

Of course, I’m thinking of ripping a lot of money from the big shots I invited.

As the price of handing over the information where the subway stations will enter.

This is a win-win transaction that benefits us too, and that side too.

“Little kid, you think too much. You don’t need to try so hard on adults’ matters.”

Uncle Cheol-gu stroked my head roughly.

“Your Grandfather and Father will somehow resolve it on their own. Believe a bit, little kid. Got it?”

“Yes.”

I nodded.

Of course, I believe our Grandfather and Father.

They are people who will flashily boost Taeseong more than anyone if the board is laid.

For that, people who will enthusiastically offer sponsorship money to Taeseong are needed.

The master readily agreed, and the person to cause a ruckus here is only Horse Head.

‘Horse Head has a strong contrarian temperament. Whim comes before gain. He won’t be able to leave the sight of the master doing it alone and will put up obstacles. Then Taeseong might just receive finger-pointing and see misfortune.’

Horse Head is a person whose itch is only relieved if he somehow follows if the master goes!

He’s a human who will charge into the year-end night even by snatching the invitation.

If that guy causes a mess, not only me and Mother but also Grandfather and Father might become troubled.

‘Since Grandfather has decided to firmly push the parents’ marriage, I also have to firmly support this subway construction. Of course recruiting construction fund sponsorship as well as issue-making.’

Because I concluded that Horse Head needs to be suppressed from the beginning.

I’m about to start a psychological war with that guy from now.

‘If I was going to call a disruptor, I wouldn’t have prepared invitations from the beginning! Instead of persuading the guy, rather I’ll seize that guy’s leash this opportunity!’

Maljukgeori Horse Head and Namsan Leech.

Having lived clashing with that unlucky master-disciple pair over every little thing for a long time, just hearing the name makes my teeth grind.

Just thinking of the matter where those master and disciple colluded and harmed our master······.

Grind.

‘I can gladly become a money line for the master, but I can’t give even one 1-won penny to Horse Head!’

I used the carrot for the master, but I’ll use the whip for Horse Head!

‘Let’s thoroughly clean out Horse Head’s pocket this time!’

If I resolve to clean, there’s nothing I can’t clean!

I absolutely don’t lose in matters involving money usually.

“Let’s postpone that person to the very last.”

Anyway, there are many guests to circulate invitations to.

Disrupting Horse Head’s composure and then attacking.

That is the start of this plan.

* * *

At that time, Maljukgeori Horse Head was in the office.

On the office wall, a taxidermied horse head was hanging, next to it a frame with a photo of the Ttukseom Seoul Racecourse, and under it the company motto written in cursive on hanji was written.

Someday I will definitely advance even to the racecourse!

A plaque that he looks at ten times a day even usually and reaffirms the grand aspiration.

Horse Head fumed today too while chewing on the racecourse photo and company motto habitually.

“Falcon, this bastard dare tease me?”

Like the nickname Horse Head, he was skinny, and the lower face was long.

“What? A year-end night invitation came? Wow, teased!”

While hitting his own palm with a riding crop slap slap, Horse Head went back and forth in the office.

The house manager looked at Horse Head’s eyes.

“What shall we do? Shall I put in a call to Myeongdong again?”

“Enough! Anyway, that Falcon bastard doesn’t answer my call!”

That was the reason Horse Head was angry to the top of his head.

“Passing me and conveying the invitation first to Myeongdong Falcon!”

Horse Head ground his teeth.

“Pour a bucket of cold water on that damned errand runner from the start and chase him away!”

“Yes, understood.”

Horse Head who had been throwing a tantrum thoroughly flopped down on the horse leather sofa.

Already quite a bit of time has passed.

There’s no word that someone came looking.

Ring.

Horse Head quickly answered the phone.

“Hello?”

-It’s me, Jongno Gold Teeth. Horse Head, are you also attending the year-end night event?

“What?”

Horse Head tightly crumpled his brow.

“Did you also receive an invitation?”

-Myeongdong Falcon also received it, is there a reason I can’t receive it?

A bizarre laugh was heard beyond the phone.

Horse Head immediately noticed that Jongno Gold Teeth was smiling until the corners of his mouth tore while revealing the yellow gold teeth neatly planted like corn on both upper and lower.

-To think the day would come when we are invited to a high society gathering where only high-ranking figures from the political and business worlds attend. This is a matter to live long and see. Then see you then. Let’s have a drink after a long time.

Click.

“How can this be! I was short even to Myeongdong Falcon and pushed back even to Jongno Gold Teeth?”

Horse Head snorted.

“Gold Teeth handles a lot of dollars and gold bars anyway. Since he’s a guy who launders money with that, most of the customers he meets will be high gentlemen from that side.”

The inside of the mouth was rough, and the taste was bitter.

“So the arm bends inward, it seems he went looking for Gold Teeth with face first······ tsk!”

Honestly speaking, don’t I have more cash than Gold Teeth?

“Add one more bucket of coarse salt to the bucket of cold water on the errand runner who came looking for me!”

Horse Head flopped down on the horse leather sofa again and picked up the racecourse paper.

“The next will be me. That’s certain. That’s a fact, itself!”

Tick tock tick tock.

Already another hour has passed, but still no news at all.

This is heating up.

Ring!

“Hello!”

-It’s me, Kkachisan.

It was Kkachisan Room Madam.

-I called because of the year-end night. You won’t have a shortage of cash, right? As you know, I have a lot tied up in real estate so the cash line suddenly got tightly blocked?

Kkachisan Room Madam mainly swept the real estate and apartment sales market dealing with lottery wives and real estate agencies.

So-called floating rooms!

She also took charge of laundering money for tax evasion and speculation purposes with real estate.

These days with the Gangnam development fever sweeping, she was hearing that Kkachisan Room Madam was screaming happily and was busy without a moment to open her eyes and nose.

-A few good-location lands and well-shaped apartments came out in Gangnam, I’ll give them cheap. How about it? Let’s dispose as urgent sales. Okay?

“If you have no money, go home and wash your feet and sleep! The sponsorship meeting can freeze to death!”

Bang!

Horse Head hung up the phone as if he would break it.

“Kkachisan Room Madam also received an invitation, but only I was left out?”

Room Madam’s specialty is selling real estate expensively.

Her hobby was making mutual aid associations with lottery wives and eating the mutual aid money.

So it’s obvious that that side won’t have a shortage of cash either, but treating someone as a bank safe!

“Yes, Kkachisan Room Madam’s main customers are lottery wives and chaebol house madams. That side also the arm bends inward······ I’m pushed back even to Room Madam?”

Among these, I should have the most cash.

It means only I don’t have connections as much as those guys?

“Certainly, when I meet high-ranking figures from the political and business worlds, it’s only when grabbing collars and scuffling.”

Even so!

The bastards who used to come looking for me and struggle on their knees when short on money······!

Tick tock tick tock.

Time flowed helplessly again.

“Hey, if a guy looking for me comes today, convey that I’m not here! I’m absent so I couldn’t receive the invitation! Got it?”

“Yes.”

“Until I come, give some gambling for pastime! Call the gamblers and attach them next to!”

“Yes!”

Horse Head smiled meanly.

“Thoroughly clean out that guy’s pocket as well as mentality and make him a penniless wreck and chase him away!”

* * *

Uncle Cheol-gu who got out of the car hardened his expression.

“What’s this smell of blood?”

“Cockfighting, dogfighting, bullfighting, gambling. So-called house gambling.”

Horse Head was a guy who built a house in a secluded place on the outskirts of Maljukgeori and operated a private gambling den.

“That’s Horse Head’s main business.”

“What? That guy was operating a gambling den?”

The only gambling den that Horse Head couldn’t accept was the racecourse hosted by the Korea Racing Authority.