Chapter 32 – The Boss’ Daughter

Monday is finally the day when mother’s rice cake skewers are presented for the first time.
I was nervous all day whether my mother would be able to do well in business or whether the rice cake skewers would sell well.
After class, I ran to the front of the school without waiting for Yeong-rae.
“Mother, I am here.”
“Yes, Seongjin is here.”
“How is the business?”
“Well, it’s just the beginning, but it will gradually get better…”
It didn’t seem to sell as many as I thought.
“Don’t worry too much, mother. You just started today. It’s because people haven’t tasted my mother’s tteok skewers yet.”
“Huh. Know. I’m not worried either. Why am I worried when my son is by my side?”
“Isn’t it inconvenient to use mother’s oil pot and tteokbokki plate?”
“Huh. It’s worth it.”
“Ah! Mom, I decided to go to the gym and exercise from today.”
I said that there was someone who looked at me well, so I decided to help me go to the gym.
Mother said that she was grateful, and later asked her to bring her a meal.
Kim Chun-sik and Jang Gwang-sik were people who could never be brought, but he replied that he would know.
While I was talking to my mother, two female students came into the stall.
“Uh? It’s a new tteokbokki restaurant. Two servings of tteokbokki, please.”
The mother responded quickly to see if she was excited that her guest had arrived after a long time, put an envelope on her plate, and served her some tteokbokki.
The method of putting an envelope on a plate is the method I told my mother.
If you put an envelope on a plate, you don’t have to wash the bowl, and when you wrap it, you can put it in a bowl and turn it over, so it’s a convenient method in many ways.
It is a common method in the future, but it was a method that no one used at this time.
I quickly picked up the tteok skewer, smeared it with sauce, took it off the skewer in another bowl, tore it in half, and served it to the girls.
The female students looked at me and suddenly looked surprised.
“Aren’t you Seongjin Lee by any chance?”
“Yes. That’s right. Have a taste of this over there. This is a menu developed by my mother. It will probably be delicious.”
“This is Seongjin’s mother’s shop, isn’t it?”
“Yes. This is my mother.”
“Aww! Hello mother I will come often in the future. Tteokbokki is so delicious.”
Suddenly, the female students went wild.
My mother looked back at me wondering what was going on, but I just shrugged my shoulders.
All of a sudden, the female students who were chatting with their mothers accidentally ate the rice cake skewers I gave them, their eyes widened and they were speechless.
“Wow!! This is so delicious. It’s great.”
The female students were upset.
After a while, the female students who left in a fuss came rushing in with other female students.
“Here it is. Here… This is Lee Seong-jin’s mother’s tteokbokki restaurant. And those tteok skewers are really good.”
Suddenly, the stalls became noisy, and I reluctantly started serving, helping her mother to put out the bowls for the female students.
The female students were busy eating the tteokbokki or staring at me.
And the taste of the rice cake skewers made everyone look dumbfounded.
The tteok skewers, which are sprinkled with savory powder in a sweet and sour sauce, are crispy in the mouth and soft like cheese once chewed, so it was a food that really hit the taste of women.
Mother’s rice cake skewers showed signs of becoming a hit.
Of course, with Lee Seong-jin as an option, it became a bit unusual, but…
After one wave passed, my mother told me that she could do it alone and she told me to go in quickly.
He didn’t want to see his precious son suffer.
I was also worried about my younger siblings, so I said I would come in the evening and came home.
After coming home, I took care of my younger siblings’ homework and studies, and went to the gym Jang Gwang-shik told me about.

When I opened the door and entered, I saw a punching bag hanging everywhere and a ring in the center, and the smell of hot sweat rushed out.
It must have smelled like sweat, but I felt better.
As I entered, a young man who was pounding on a punching bag approached me and asked how I got there.
“Hello? A man named Jang Gwang-shik asked me to come today, so I came.”
“Ah! You are the person Gwangsik hyung talked about. Come in at once.”
“Gwangsik hyung-nim, here’s someone looking for you.”
The young man shouted inside and went back to the punching bag.
From the other side of the ring, Jang Gwang-shik’s face popped out and he found me and approached me with a happy smile.
“Sungjin, come on.”
Jang Gwang-sik took me into a room marked as the director’s office.
“Greetings. Director, this is Lee Seong-jin I mentioned last time.”
I nodded by saying hello.
A rather short man with short sports hair looked me over for a long time.
“Ho! Well managed The body is very usable. Nice to meet. My name is Lim Chung-ho, the director of this gym.”
Lim Choong-ho, the curator, shook my hand.
“So how old are you?”
“Yes. I am 17 years old, a freshman in high school.”
“Really? Now, this body is a freshman in high school? Hey, Sungjin. Let’s do well in the future.”
The director hugged me as if he had suddenly found a treasure.
“Ugh! Director. Why would you do this? I will raise Sungjin.”
“Hey man, aren’t you going to exercise here? Then I’ll teach you anyway… Kwang-shik, let’s make our stuff.”
Also, I don’t even think of anyone to give me rice cakes, but I drink kimchi soup first.
I couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly.
“First of all, Seongjin-ah, let’s measure your physical strength. Follow me.”
He took me to a place marked as a locker room.
“Change into sweats and come out of here.”
“Hey, I didn’t have sweats, so I just came.”
“No sweats? Then how do you usually exercise?”
“I just wear what I am wearing. There is no need to wear sweats.”
It was only then that the director and Jang Gwang-shik looked over my attire.
A white cotton t-shirt, navy blue trousers, and white laced shoes.
“No, how old are you and are you wearing pants?”
“Yes, that’s because you can buy it cheaply at the factory.”
It was only then that the two of them seemed to have noticed my situation.
“Chief, wait a minute. Seongjin will bring you here for a while.”
Jang Gwang-sik took my hand and left the gym.
He took me to a sporting goods store next to the gym, picked up two pairs of sweats to wear when exercising, sneakers to wear when exercising, and a large bag to carry on the side, put them in and paid the bill.
“Now, this hyung is giving you a present, so exercise hard. Understand?”
I just got a frown on the tip of my nose.
If it was like before the return, they would not have been affiliated with gangsters.
However, he was showing a full of affection that he was trying to take care of more.
“I will write well. Older brother. I hope to go along well.”
I didn’t want to distance myself from someone who was sincere with me.
So I called him brother, and bowed my head respectfully.
“It is good to hear from you brother. Okay. Call me brother from now on. You are now my brother.”
Jang Gwang-sik laughed loudly and patted me on the shoulder.

I went back to the gym and changed into sweats.
The director came with a file folder and a time watch and started measuring my physical strength while measuring the time.
After measuring how many push-ups and sit-ups he did in a minute, he went to the treadmill and made him run.
As the speed increased gradually, the time was measured according to the speed.
Even though I raised the speed to the end, I ran without stopping.
“Stop. Here’s the water… Catch your breath.”
The director handed me a water bottle and pointed to a bench to tell me to rest.
The director looked back at Jang Gwang-shik, who was watching from the side, and spoke to him.
“Hey, madman. Do you see this? This guy is a complete monster. Physical strength and lung capacity are no joke.”
“I will, chief. I think this figure is better than mine.”
“Hey! How old is he now? I am 17 years old. 17 years old… I mean, I’m still growing and growing. But at this level, he will soon become a complete Superman.”
The two of them put their heads together and giggled about what was so good.
Seeing the two of them like that, other officials sneaked up and looked at the chart, and everyone was surprised.
Suddenly, the director walked over and came with a pair of gloves.
“Sungjin, put this on.”
When I received the glove and put it on, Kwang-sik hyung attached the Velcro to my arm.
“Sungjin, hit the punching bag here.”
“Do you just play?”
“Huh. Just hit whatever you want.”
I stood in front of the punching bag, raised my arm, and got into a stance.
While thinking about what to do, I took the Dempsey roll stance I did last time.
After taking a step back in front of the punching bag, he stepped forward again, spread his legs wide, leaned his upper body to the right, and returned with his right hand to stab the hook into the punching bag.
“Puong..”
There was a loud popping sound, and then the punching bag floated to the left to the ceiling and then fell down.
Everyone in the gym was staring at me in bewilderment.
“Huh!! This guy is completely insane. Did you learn boxing?”
“No. I just did it.”
“A guy who never learned boxing puts a knife-like hook into such weaving?”
The director came out with an absurd face and looked at the shaking punching bag alternately.
Haha. I heard that the youngest members were hit in one shot, so that’s understandable.”
Jang Gwang-shik laughed loudly and patted my back.
“What are you talking about?”
“Director, this guy sent four of our youngest children into one room.”
“What? So, is this guy responsible for the gas station incident you heard about from Chun-shik last time?”
“Yes that’s right.”
“Something really came in. I need to think about how to teach him in the future.”
The two of them couldn’t stop laughing while talking about what was so fun.
While I was here, I exercised for about two hours.
The jump rope was equipped with various physical training tools, so it was delicious to exercise.
After showering and changing clothes, Kim Chun-shik was there.
“Sung Jin-ah, did you do well in sports?”
As I entered the director’s office, Kim Chun-sik bowed to me, and Kim Chun-sik greeted me happily.
The director, Kim Chun-sik, and Jang Gwang-sik were talking about what they were talking about. When I entered, they were looking at me lovingly (?) With happy faces.
The atmosphere was awkward, so I was just putting on a rotten smile.
“Sungjin, do you have time tomorrow?”
“Yes. There are no special promises.”
“Okay? Then let’s have lunch with me tomorrow.”
Jang Gwang-shik and Kim Chun-shik were treating me so well, but there was no reason to refuse.
“Yes. All right. Where shall we go tomorrow?”
“I’ll send you a car. Where is your house?”
“Then I will go to school. That will make it easier to meet.”
“Then then, see you in front of the school by 12 noon tomorrow.”
I said goodbye to the three and left the gym.