Chapter 313 – Chapter 313

〈 Song Jung-shin (1st grade class 3 teacher) Point of view〉

It wasn’t just the students who enjoyed the long holiday of Chuseok.
So did the teachers.

“After, after 5 days of resting at home without seeing the children’s faces, the pain in my back and shoulders, which I thought was chronic, disappeared completely.Haha!”
“Ah, Mr. Kim, would you like a cup of coffee? Something is full of energy from this morning.”
“It’s a refreshing day enough to go hiking from dawn.”

Looking at the teachers full of energy while smiling hahahoho, Song thought to himself.
I wonder if everyone can do that even during work hours today.

Including myself, of course.

“Whoa.”

A sigh comes out of my mouth already.

Of course, as an elementary school teacher, she’s cute and cute… She also felt proud and moved when she saw her children grow up, so cute that sometimes she even believed that angels had descended.

But it was also true that there were many more difficulties than that.

Because elementary school students have more things they don’t know than they know.

They say fools are brave?
It felt just like that.

Children have more things they don’t know, so they had no fear compared to adults when it comes to breaking things up.

「Clap!」

“Ugh! Everyone be quiet and come inside! We are going to have a meeting from the morning today!”

At least, the senior vice-principal tried to lead her teachers by catching a relaxed atmosphere instead of the laid-back principal.

“Everyone knows that right after the holiday season is the most dangerous, so why are you so relaxed? What if an incident like this happens? The number of elementary school students is rapidly decreasing these days, so there are many schools that are going bankrupt. Even if you work harder, it won’t be enough…”

However, the nagging was terrifying.
It was a meeting, everyone gathered together and listened to the assistant principal’s nagging for nearly 10 minutes, and everyone’s tension, which was already high, went down vertically.
But on the other hand, it is also true that this condition is the best condition for teaching children.
There was nothing more dangerous than for a teacher to lose her sense of duty by hanging out with young children.

“Teachers must teach students that they should not carry a lot of money with them all the time, and that they should report to the nearest police or inform their parents immediately when they encounter so-called Iljin children. Anything else that could be a problem?”

Song Jeong-in raised his hand.

“I know this because I was a 6th grade homeroom teacher last year, but when it comes to this time, the kids come with pocket money for Chuseok. I understand that ‘punching’ or light money bets are made in schools.”
“Pandeering? What else is that?”
“Yes? Oh, that… Now that… Put a coin on top of the book, hit it with your palm, and pick the coin. … No, it’s like the winner taking the money.”
“Is it like the sipping we used to do in the past?”
“That’s right.”
“Children are already betting on money, huh… Let your teachers prevent this in advance. If the 6th grader does it, the 5th grader will learn it, and if the 5th grader does it, the graders below it will learn the same. Do you understand?”
“All right.”
“Then let’s end today’s meeting here.”
“Yes.”

Most of the homeroom teachers nodded at the words of the vice-principal, but they knew that it would not be easy to block the words.

This is because the teacher’s job was not solely in the management of children.

When going to and from the classroom to solve office work, there will definitely be times when the classroom is empty, and there was no way the children would just skip that time.

‘I’m sure you’ll go through some hardships.’

Song Jeong-shin, who was moving to the first-year class with the attendance board, sighed and laughed.
The good news is, at least, there is no way that children who are still in the first grade can learn to wager money like ‘panchigi’.

Song Jeong-shin, who quietly and lightly placed the attendance sheet on her desk her, greeted her with a grin.

“Students, did you all enjoy the Chuseok holiday?”
“Yes!”

Song Jeong-shin, who looked around her while listening to her lively answer her, tilted her head.
If she had been another child, she might have noticed it too late, but she noticed right away because the two most prominent students in the 1st and 3rd classes were nowhere to be seen.

“Where did Miho and Noah go?”

She had a bag, so it was clear she was at school.
Where have you been?

It was then.

“Mr. Song.”
“Uh?”

Teacher Kim, who is in charge of the 6th grade class 1, came over with her Miho and Noah at her side of her.

What is this?

“They were playing a game with the students in my class. Let the teacher give you some attention.”
“Kyaaaaang! It was fun to beat, moya.”

It’s not them, it’s Miho.
No, more than that, why did Miho go all the way to the 6th grade class to play a game!

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〈 Child View 〉

The homeroom teachers of all classes prohibited gambling at school, and even used video materials to explain why gambling should not be done to young children at the cost of the first period.

Unfortunately, there was only one person in the entire school who truly understood and accepted the explanation.

‘A dangerous act that could even destroy a happy family!’

That was Noah.

So, even more so, when it was only break and lunch time for Noah, she had no choice but to run after her sister, who, unlike usual, wasn’t carrying a soccer ball, but her cash, including her coins, and ran to the slaughterhouse on the 6th floor.

As her younger sister her, I could n’t actively dissuade her older sister her, but I had to prevent her worst situation her.

‘Really… Why is it that even though the teachers told me not to do it, everyone doesn’t listen to me?’

To Noah, it was rather difficult to understand the children whose teachers’ words were not even heard.
Even this time, the atmosphere was different from usual.

“Fuck, give me my money!”
“What did you say! You lost because you fought fair! But why am I giving it back! If you pick one, you bring money and eat it again!”
“It’s my money, you bastard!”

I thought they were laughing and fighting, but the two 6th graders were fighting while biting and pinching each other.

“Why are you fighting?”
“I must have been very angry because I lost money. When I lost it, the money was too precious.”
“To… Miho can’t understand. It’s money that was legitimately lost, so why are you clamoring for it back?”
“That…”

The reason her older sister can’t understand that feeling is because her first aunt her has a lot of money that ordinary people can’t imagine.
In the first place, what kind of family would put candy cans with bundles of 10,000 won and 50,000 won bills at the entrance?

So it was.
Noah didn’t say anything because he was with Miho and just followed him every time.

The total amount of money Miho brought today is 220,000 won.
Considering that we carried around 800,000 won in cash openly during the Chuseok holiday, it is a very small amount, and from the perspective of our family, it is okay to lose that amount of money.

‘At least it won’t break the family.’

However, for most children, especially elementary school students, a few thousand won was a pretty good amount.
This is because they use stationery stores or snack bars.

“Kyaaaaang! Don’t fight.”
“Sister?”

Is your sister trying to stop a fight?

“There are only 53 minutes left for lunch. I have to fight with Miho too.”
“…”

You have become a very gambler.

On the other hand, when Miho appeared, the fighting kids quickly stopped fighting. Because Kim Mi-ho from Class 1, Class 3.
Because this woman was the best Hogu at Sangsang Elementary School.

“Hey, I’ll lend you 500 won. For now, just look for the main exhibition and get out of the way. Okay?”
“OK.”

The guys who had been fighting a while ago also came together and started fighting together with Miho.

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The rules of panchigi were simple.
If you make four identical sides, the winner takes all the money he bet.

“Whoops, today will be different.”

Miho murmured as she put a cigarette in her mouth, made by rolling up a page from a notebook she made in class, as seen in her movie her.
It’s that moment.

「Suddenly!」

A few strands of Miho’s bangs fluttered in the air, and the notebook cigarette she was holding in her mouth split her in half.
She wondered what was going on, and next to her was Noah, whose eyes turned slightly red, smiling.

“Sister, Dad told me not to smoke cigarettes, even as a joke.”
“Ah, uh, uh… Oh, you know.”

Miho tossed her notebook cigarette, which she had been making for ten minutes, into her trash can and began to focus desperately on her punch.

5 minutes later…

“Oh yea! Now you’ve won! Thank you, Miho.”
“Ougyaaaaagh! I couldn’t even win a match!”

The student, who recovered all the 5,000 won he had lost, stood up with a roar of joy. She thought that after she won the money, she was going to mess with someone else.

“Where are you going, brother!”

Widely!

“… Uh?”

Her boy her was at a loss for words as Miho took her 21,000-won bill out of her pocket and put it on her desk her.

“Until I lose all of this, oppa can’t wake up. Sit again!”
“Yes? Ha, but… I’m already good enough.”
“Miho is not okay!”
“Ah Okay.”

Inevitably, the boy had no choice but to sit down again, thinking that he should play with Miho moderately and get out of the way.
If it was a certain amount, I might have been covetous.
The amount of 210,000 won was too much for a 6th grader in elementary school to handle.

‘Let’s lose in moderation, me too… Then it can happen.’

The boy was already satisfied with the main event.
It was the same with the children around.

It wasn’t that I was trying to buy some brand-name clothes as a ransom. I was satisfied even if I could order just one set of tteokbokki with my friends on the way home from school or on the way to the academy.

What do you mean by a million dollars?
That’s Chapter 21.
It was an amount that made my limbs tremble just by looking at it.

‘Please lose me, bastard.’

The kids around her also patted the shoulder of the same grader with similar thoughts, but the boy who was playing a game with Miho was on the verge of going crazy.

“Uryaaaaa!”

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“Chaaaaa!”

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‘He’s just bursting with spirit, this guy!’

Rather, it brought me to tears.
Please win at least one game!

“Hmm, not strange. Miho, I must have practiced for 10 minutes before going to bed yesterday. Why can’t I win a match?”

It is Miho who has only one 10,000 won bill left piled up on the 21st floor.
Conversely, the boy who carried 20 10,000 won bills was breaking out in a cold sweat, unlike Miho who was relaxed.

It wasn’t this.

It’s like a children’s game with coins. It wasn’t a game I played to win such a large sum.

“Ugh, come to think of it, I had to buy tteokbokki for 10,000 won on the way home. That’s it for today, brother.”
“Hey, you, this, this money…”
“Uh? Are you okay. I don’t know if I can take it out again from the container my mother gave me.”

Miho was referring to the cash box placed at the front door, but to the children around her, it was only heard that she was taking money from her mother’s wallet from her.

If we continue to gamble, will we become like Miho?
The children whose thoughts led to that point turned blue.

“Hee!”

The children returned all the money they had won from Miho to Miho, and the other children also returned all the money each other had won.
Then everyone held on to Miho’s shoulders and shouted desperately.

“You shouldn’t gamble! Life is ruined!”
“To…?”

After that day, at Sangsang Elementary School, all kinds of bets with money disappeared.
Miho, who naturally lost her opponent, also lost interest in gambling.