Chapter 249 – Buying Baby Stuff (3)

“A date?”

Across the neatly cleared table, Ichie and Noboru faced each other. Noboru drank the tea in front of him with a serious expression on his face. Ichie blinked her eyes and looked at Noboru. Noboru nodded at her with an expressionless face, then continued.

“It makes sense. Marriage. Are you going to do it Before you get married, you should see your family once. Older brother. I really want to see the faces of Suhyeon-sang and my parents.”

“Still, Ha-yeon unni is pregnant, and she will have a baby soon, so why don’t we go to Japan with only Soo Hyun-sang?”

“But you must get married. It’s kind of like having your brother attend the wedding himself. Soo Hyun Sang. Now that you’re famous, buying a house is in the news. Japanese tycoon Yakuza ruins the wedding by showing up at the wedding. So, I just want to lightly say hello before the wedding.”

“It is, but…”

Noboru’s words were right. The Ichie family was a very famous Yakuza family in Japan. Ichie himself has never been exposed to the Japanese media or the Internet, but Ichie’s father, Yamataro Ichigaya, was a yakuza so famous that some people in Korea have heard of it.

“It makes sense. Ha Yeon Sang. After giving birth, go once. Let me say hi Ichie decided to release it outside. Because it was my father’s decision. I have to say hello at least once.”

“But…”

Still, Ichie was uncomfortable with the fact that he would introduce people from the Young Yakuza family to Jung Soo-hyeon in earnest. Noboru looked over her sunglasses at Ichie’s disapproving expression, and then she said,

“It makes sense. Ichi awakened, and my brother sent Ichi outside.”

“That, that…”

Ichie shrugged his body. Noboru said.

“Then you should say hello.”

“…All right.”

Ichie nodded his head. Noboru smiled as if satisfied with her answer and got up. Just then, a text message from Jung Soo-hyeon arrived on Ichie’s cell phone.

[It makes sense. Are you done talking with your uncle?]

Ichie flicked her finger around the screen of her virtual keyboard, wiped it off, and sent a short reply.

[Yes. It’s done.]

****

“Uh, hello.”

“Hello. Mr. Noboru. I thanked you last time.”

At the front door, we happened to run into Noboru. Today Noboru was alone without her companion.

“Nice to meet you. Soo Hyun Sang. Ha Yeon Sang. Talk with our ichie. It is over.”

He was wearing a black suit with a gold-patterned shirt overflowing with wild charm today. I couldn’t see his eyes well because of the sunglasses he was wearing, but I could tell he was smiling.

“Are you on your way back now? Would you like to have a meal together?”

“No. Families enjoy a meal, but uninvited guests are not allowed. Is that something you bought today?”

Noboru pointed at the bundles I was carrying and asked. I nodded and replied.

“Ah yes. These are baby items to be born. Now we have to prepare in earnest.”

“Ah, baby products. Got it. I-I’ll be gone then.”

“Ah yes. Take a look.”

Noboru waved his hand and disappeared into the car. The car with the small mark of the rental company boasted a very luxurious appearance. Seong Ha-yeon said.

“Shall we buy a car like that?”

“Isn’t that a bit small? A lot of people have to ride. You must also have a baby car seat.”

“Should I just buy a camper or truck or something? Or buy a bus or something and then get a bus license. I put a lot of car seats for the babies to ride.”

“How many children do you want to make? I am number one now.”

“The more the better. Don’t you think so With Ichie’s baby, Yoojung’s baby, and my baby… Can fragments of the Almighty be pregnant?”

“Shall I ask?”

The moment I put my hand on my chest, a dumbfounded reply came back.

[It’s possible if you can keep the summon for 10 months, but that doesn’t sound like a very wise attempt. In the first place, if I give birth to a child, whose family register is that?]

“Oh, that’s complicated. Let’s go up first.”

At my suggestion, Seong Ha-yeon nodded her head. She put her arms around her waist and we climbed her steps carefully like people on a ride. Seong Ha-yeon carefully stretched her foot out in front of her and she said to me:

“I hope the baby will be born well.”

“I wish I did too. Because he is the cutest eldest in our family.”

“I know.”

Having said that, we stroked our stomachs once. And when Seong Ha-yeon pressed her doorbell, there was a noise from the inside for a moment and her ichie opened the door. She was wearing her apron and gloves, and she was washing up the cups and kettle that she had just set out to serve guests.

“You were washing the dishes?”

As Seong Ha-yeon said that, she took a deep breath at the smell of lime-scented detergent. She said as Ichie poked a drop of detergent from her rubber glove into my nose.

“Supremacy. What did you buy?”

“Wait. I’ll go in and unpack it and show you.”

“I’ll quickly rinse the dishes and come back.”

And she rinsed the dishes in the sink coolly with a quick movement like a hunter, then sprinted to the table again and sat down. Seong Ha-yeon said she was tired from going out for a while. As soon as she came home, she sat down on the sofa and took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from her head. Did she suddenly feel the heat? She had sweat on her forehead.

I said as I took her baby shoes out of the plastic bag.

“It makes sense. Look at this first. This is cute.”

Ichie stared at her baby shoes with her eyes wide open. In the end, she kept her word that she was going to buy her baby shoes on impulse. The envelope contained two pairs of handmade baby socks embroidered with cute flowers and a cute pair of shoes with a design you would get from a children’s set at a fast food restaurant.

“What is it? Uh… ! Cute!”

As soon as Ichie saw the sock, she smiled brightly as her hands trembled slightly as if observing a delicate glass craft that she could not touch with her own hands. Seong Ha-yeon and I both laughed when we saw her not knowing what to do. Seong Ha-yeon said.

“Soohyun. There’s that too that.”

“Oh, this!”

And then I took out a wooden mobile. Little donkey doll and rabbit doll. And it was a mobile that embodies a teddy bear and a pig doll chasing each other. Every time it turned, the small glass marbles attached to the mobile shimmered and made a light jingle sound.

It sounded like the chirping of birds, or the sound of running water. Ichie, who had closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the mobile, took the mobile from me and hugged it tightly.

“I want to hang this on my bed.”

“Hey, even though you’re over 20 years old, what kind of bed do you hang a mobile on?”

“It’s better if you buy another one.”

Seong Ha-yeon laughed again at Ichie’s words. And she said, trying to get up again.

“Is there water in the fridge? I need to drink some water. Oh, why are you sweating so much?”

And she stumbled abruptly and grabbed her couch. We, who were laughing while unpacking, grabbed Seong Ha-yeon without asking anyone first. Ichie stood up from her seat and held Her Holiness Yeon’s shoulder, and I put my hand between her so that her stomach would not hit the handle of her sofa.

Seong Ha-yeon gritted her teeth, exhaled, and shook her head.

“Ah, this…”

She was breathing heavily. The part of her belly that touched her hand was hot. It was a symptom she had clearly seen while examining pregnant women. Her head feels dizzy, her breathing becomes rough, and she breaks into a cold sweat. Her legs lose strength, and tears come out of her eyes.

“Ah… Aww… !”

Seong Ha-yeon suddenly grabbed her stomach and frowned at her. I knew what these symptoms were. It came so suddenly, I just didn’t expect it.

“It makes sense! Reason!”

“Yes!”

When I urgently called, Ichie answered, straightening her back like a recruit caught in a doze. I said, supporting Seong Ha-yeon’s body.

“Call a taxi! Taxi!”

The pain was starting. Ichie too, when she was told to call a taxi, she hurriedly opened her cell phone and made a call.

I began to encourage her by holding her hand tightly.

“Aww… ! Ahhh… !”

Her legs were wobbly, and her other hand gripped my shoulder as if to crush it. White frost shards formed from the fingertips.

“I called a taxi!”

Ichie jumped out and said.

I hurriedly opened the front door.