Chapter 30 – The Boss’ Daughter

The day after the Chuseok holiday, strangely, my father did not come.
My family has never been to my hometown on holidays like Chuseok or Lunar New Year.
My uncle lived in Seoul, and at least the situation was better than mine, so the whole family used to go to his uncle’s house on holidays.
So, of course, I expected to go to my uncle’s house when my father came this year, but my father did not come.
On Friday, my mother called my father from a payphone.
He was told that he could not go because he could not get a ticket.
My father’s behavior was strange.
But her mother wasn’t so sad or angry.
It must be because her mother’s love for her father has grown cold.
Still, her mother smiled at us and was happy.
My younger siblings and I could feel that she was really happy seeing her mother like that, so we were able to laugh.
The person who makes her mother happy has already changed to me, not her father, so her mother was able to smile so happily.

After Chuseok, the business finally begins.
There is a girls’ middle school where Jinhee attends, about one bus stop away from my house, and a high school where I attend is about a 20-minute walk away.
Also, right next to the high school I went to, there was a primary school Sunghoon attended, and they were all attached to one wall.
Through that wall, I used to run away from the vultures some time ago.
I wanted to do business in front of the nearby girls’ middle school because it was hard for my mother to drag a cart, but my mother wanted to do business in front of the school I attended, and she also said that since there are two schools next to each other, there will be more people doing business in front of our school. Did it with
Our high school and elementary school have school gates in the same direction, so when it’s dismissal time, students literally pour out like dogs.
My mother took a seat in front of the school gate, on the corner of the township complex.
When asked by her younger siblings if she would not be ashamed if their mother sold rice cake skewers in front of the school, she replied that it would be nice to be able to eat rice cake skewers after school.
The menu was decided to be simple, just tteok skewers and tteokbokki.
The first two or three days sales were not that cool.
It’s the first time I’ve seen food, so I didn’t go to the hand.
Still, since my mother’s tteokbokki was so delicious, it wasn’t that she didn’t have customers at all.
But after a week, the situation completely changed.
As children became addicted to the mysterious taste of tteok skewers, rumors began to spread to nearby high schools.
After two weeks of starting the business, it became a rare sight to line up in front of a food stall to buy tteok skewers.
I already knew it would be like this, but…

In 1990, Chuseok was on Tuesday, October 2nd.
So, the holiday ended on Thursday.
After the holidays, it’s Friday that I really don’t want to go to school.
My mother’s rice cake skewer business will start next week.
After class, Donggu, Youngrae and I were leaving the school gate when someone approached us.
It was a somewhat familiar face.
Ah! It was a slender guy called the youngest member of the organization who fought in front of the gas station last time.
He strode towards us with a blunt face and started talking.
“Hey, boss Seongjin Lee wants to see you.”
While Youngrae’s face turned bright, I had to groan and worry.
‘Should I go for this or not? I’m worried.’
But the trouble didn’t last long.
It was because the problem was that there was still more than a month left before Kim Chun-shik could be arrested.
My mother is starting a business next week, but I didn’t want to cause trouble.
“All right. Can I go now?”
“Okay, follow me.”
I looked at Dong-gu and told him that I had to go alone today and followed him with Young-rae.
When I left the school gate, there was a car parked there.
Sending Kim Chun-shik to his car to bring me was a burden.
I got into the car and went to the entertainment district for about 10 minutes and got off in front of a five-story building.
After being guided by the slim guy, I went up to the 5th floor, and there was a glass door with a sign saying 00 Unemployment.
When I opened the glass door and entered, there were several rooms to the left and right of the hallway, and the doors were wide open.
Passing through the hallway, I peeked out and saw gangsters with diced radish heads and diced cubes in each room, sitting and watching us as we passed by.
Yeong-rae was so scared that he just noticed her, shrugged her shoulders and followed her hurriedly.
“Boss, I brought Seongjin Lee.”
He took us to the far end of the hallway and knocked and opened the door.
Inside was the president’s desk and large sofas.
Sitting on the sofa was a sharp-looking, oversized man.
Like the gangsters we know, he didn’t look sluggish because his size was inflated like a mountain, but his whole body was convex and convex as if it were muscles, so he had a body that seemed like his clothes were about to burst.
The moment I saw it, the feeling of intimidation was no joke.
I took a deep breath and nodded as I went inside.
“Hello.”
Youngrae followed suit, but was barely able to say hello while trembling in fear from the atmosphere.
“Oh, yes. Is Sungjin here? Come over here and sit down. Youngrae also came and sat down…”
“Yes.”
When we went to our seats and sat down, the slim guy who had brought us earlier put a can of soda in front of us and left.
I bowed my head slightly in gratitude, opened the can right away, and took a sip.
“No, you bastard. How come you haven’t contacted me even after Chuseok?”
“Sorry. I’ve been a bit busy in the meantime.”
I straightened my back and bowed my head.
“Hey madman. This is the guy I was talking about. How are things?”
Kim Chun-shik smiled haha ​​and introduced me to the big man sitting in front of me as if he was proud of having acquired a good item.
“Did you say Lee Seong-jin? My name is Jang Gwang-sik. People call it a brown bear..”
An enormous man sitting in front reached out his hand to me.
“Hello? My name is Seongjin Lee.”
I lightly held Jang Gwang-sik’s hand with both hands and said hello.
However, Jang Gwang-sik suddenly grabbed my hand and began to give it strength.
I resisted the pain coming from his hand, reflexively giving strength to my hand.
“Hoo..”
When I resisted Jang Gwang-sik’s grip, Jang Gwang-sik burst into exclamations.
“Brother, look at how hard this guy is working. Are you really 17 years old?”
Jang Gwang-sik let go of my hand and burst into laughter.
The laughter was so loud that the room reverberated.
“I told you. He’s a real man… How do you think he’ll go well with our Kyungmi?”
“No? Older brother. Are you already thinking that far? I definitely like it.”
The two adults seemed to be in a good mood, laughing and chatting among themselves.
Jang Gwang-sik then shook hands with Yeong-rae and made a full statement.
Yeong-rae’s eyes looked at Jang Gwang-sik and did not know what to do with their eyes sparkling with admiration.
“Sungjin, I don’t know about you, but Gwangshik here is quite a famous person. Have a good drive forward.”
“Yes..”
I said hello and looked at Jang Gwang-sik once again.
There was one memory that came to my mind suddenly.
‘If. Is this the Jang Gwang-sik?’

As a founding member of ROAD-FC, Korea’s first mixed martial arts champion, who became the first K-1 champion in 1993, he was a living witness of Korea’s mixed martial arts by establishing a mixed martial arts gym and training numerous fighters.
He was so famous that even I, who didn’t like mixed martial arts, knew him by name.
However, he is now in his mid-twenties and is serving as the sub-head of the Chunshik faction.
He probably looked like he had just been out of jail during his crimefighting days, washed his hands and turned into a martial artist.

“Sungjin, what are you doing? He has good strength, and looking at his body, he seems to have done quite a bit of exercise.”
“Nothing special. I run for about an hour while reading the newspaper in the morning, and in the evening I do basic physical fitness exercises like push-ups.”
“Her! Really? But is your body like that?”
Jang Gwang-shik looked at my body as if it were going through every nook and cranny.
“Would you like to exercise with me? There’s a gym down there that I go to, and if you say you’re coming, I’ll tell you…”
I couldn’t hear the voice asking me to join an organization, but I heard the voice telling me to exercise.
My stamina had improved to a strange extent, but I was thinking that it was regrettable that I only did physical exercise every day.
“I wish I could learn to exercise, but my family’s financial situation doesn’t allow me to go to the gym. Thank you for your words.”
“Don’t worry about money. I’ll take care of everything…”
Jang Gwang-sik laughed loudly as if he was happy with my manners.
“Sungjin, if you say you work out, I can give it to you.”
Kim Chun-sik also smiled and said that he would pay for it.
“Ah! Then I am burdened.”
“Sungjin, if an adult says yes, just do it. Then come to the gym next week.”
“Then I understand. Let’s do that. Thank you.”
Thinking that I could exercise, I immediately agreed without thinking twice.
Youngrae was already on the sidelines of a cold meal.
“Brother, if you raise this guy well, he will become a great guy. Even the eyes are alive..”
“Yes? Sungjin is good at studying too. She is number one in the whole school.”
“Her! Really? That’s great.”
“So I won’t be greedy? “
“Hyung-nim, so what about Kyung-mi?”
“Shh! It is still a secret.”
For some reason, I felt as if there was a trick in their conversation that I didn’t know about.
Still, it felt good to think that I could exercise for free.
“Brother, it feels good, shouldn’t we have a drink?”
“Yeah, you bastard. These guys are students now, what kind of alcohol are they? Let me introduce you to the family today, and let’s have dinner together next time.”
“Is that so? Anyway, nice to meet you, Sungjin. Let’s do well in the future.”
Jang Gwang-sik, who laughed loudly, patted me on the shoulder and spoke to me in a friendly way.
It seemed that everyone accepted my joining the organization as a fait accompli.
I don’t even think of anyone to give me rice cakes, but everyone was drinking kimchi soup.
We followed Kim Chun-shik out and greeted each other from the next room.
The bulky rice cakes greeted Youngrae with a friendly smile.
“Hey, did you say you smashed Daesung and the kids?”
The slender guy’s name must have been Daesung.
When I entered Daesung’s room, a person who looked like a middle boss reached out to me and smiled and talked to me.
I just shook hands and smiled softly.
“I say Jeong Dae-seong. You fight well Let’s do well in the future.”
Jeong Dae-seong, a slender guy, also greeted me with an awkward smile.
I didn’t intend to join the organization, but when I greeted people and they treated me friendly, I felt at ease thinking that this is also a place where people live.
After staying here longer, I really felt like I had to join the organization.
So I said goodbye to Kim Chun-sik and Jang Gwang-sik and forcibly stopped them from giving me a ride home, and quickly got out.
I was walking with Youngrae, but Youngrae spoke.
“Wow! Seongjin Oh, I thought her heart would tremble earlier.”
“Why?”
“Kwang-sik hyung, you’re a really great person. He is a legend among us. Its countless saga. He’s never lost a fight. You met the legend you only heard about in person. Moreover, we shake hands and talk in a friendly way. Wow! Going crazy.”
“Gwangsik hyung? Hey, when did you say you saw it, bro?”
“It’s because you don’t know. Kwang-sik hyung, it’s really not a joke. Sungjin wants you That Gwangsik hyung suggested that we exercise together. Ah! I also want to work out with Kwang-sik hyung.”
“Then come to the gym too.”
“I want to do that too. But I can’t tell my sister that I want to go to the gym. You know that.”
“But.”
“Since the word came out, Seongjin, she said come home on Sunday. My sister misses you a lot. We haven’t seen each other for a long time, like during Chuseok.”
“I still feel embarrassed when I hear you say that. Are you really okay with me meeting you?”
“Are you okay. You are fine If it’s strange, I’ll introduce you to your little sister later.”
How did he know that I had a younger sister? Youngrae smiled and told me.
“What… What? This dog hasn’t been hit for a while, so she lives with her mind. How dare you take my brother… Come here. You followed today.”
Strangely, when he asked to introduce his younger brother, his expression hardened even though he knew it was a joke.
Is this a sign of a thief? I can meet my friend’s older sister, but my friend can’t meet my younger brother…
When I looked straight, Youngrae became contemplative and ran away.
I immediately chased after him and punched him.
“Evil! Sorry. I won’t.”
Youngrae was hit and screamed as he ran away.