A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 110



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The Chairman Who Has No Regrets Episode 110 – Faith, Hope, Love and Despair (4)

The commotion in front of the school gate ended only after the principal appeared. The drill instructor stood with his neck erect and his face flushed as he continued to swear at the communists in front of the principal, but the homeroom teacher seemed to feel so humiliated that his face turned red.

“Whew, you little punk.”

“Yes, sir.”

“What the heck- Oh my… Why did you go on a show like that? It’s not going to be of any help.”

“The appearance fee was salty.”

My homeroom teacher, Seo Yoon-seok, looks at me as if to ask if I’m being sincere.

Seo Yoon-seok nodded slightly, half-sincerely, but Seo Yoon-seok shook his head.

“Yeah… I guess you need money… How is your mother’s restaurant doing? I’ve heard rumors.”

“Yes, I’m busy these days.”

“I’ve been meaning to visit you for a while, but I’ve never been able to.”

“it’s okay.”

“I’m not okay, you punk, all of a sudden you became a communist teacher.”

Is it time to laugh?

“By the way… is the broadcast true?”

“What about some parts?”

“Whew- what on earth are you doing out there… Students shine when they’re students, Kang-ah.”

“I have never forgotten my duty as a student.”

“Ugh, well, I know you’re a good person who knows how to do things well… Well, since the principal intervened, I guess things will turn out well… Go inside and study.”

“yep.”

“Don’t pay too much attention to what the kids say or what that guy says!”

“yep.”

I bowed my head to the homeroom teacher who was waving his hand and left the teachers’ office to head to the classroom. As soon as I entered the classroom, I saw Hwang Dong-soo shouting loudly.

“Those who don’t even know! Talking nonsense-”

“You’ve already been on TV, so how can you not know? Are you a bodyguard or something?”

“Shut up! The class president isn’t that kind of guy. The broadcast is wrong!”

“What do you mean, not really? To be honest, the nickname Tanaka hasn’t even been around for a day or two.”

It was a childish argument.

But then that target comes out.

I thought it was the second round after the school gate.

Knock knock.

Someone taps me on the shoulder.

When I turned my head, Gyu-il, a student from another class, was already there.

“Are you okay?”

He shrugged.

This level of reaction is not annoying at all.

By the way, it seems like the guys who didn’t show it at all when we met in front of my house this morning had somehow managed to watch the broadcast.

It’s strange, these are the guys who should have asked but didn’t.

bang!

Taesu was banging his head on the desk, then straightened his back and hit it with his palm.

Thanks to this, the children’s attention is focused on Taesu.

“You piece of shit, Tanaka. If I hear that word again, I’ll kill you. Get out there, you little brat.”

It makes me laugh out loud.

I’m currently filming a school drama.

The funny thing was that the guy who had been arguing with Taesu in the bathroom was just looking around, returning to his seat, and biting his lip without saying anything.

I was near the back door and approached Taesu and asked him.

“Did you watch the broadcast too?”

Taesu glanced up at me and said with a face that seemed to ask if I was being serious.

“We don’t have a TV at home?”

“Oh, really? Me too.”

The guy nodded.

I nodded too.

“Don’t overdo it, just go to sleep.”

“okay.”

The guy lay down on the desk again, and I sat down at my desk and read a book like I usually do.

“Ugh-”

Dong-su kept sighing, wondering if he couldn’t understand my appearance.

“Why- Imma.”

“Aren’t you worried?”

“I’m not that kind of guy?”

“No- sir, that’s because I know you.”

“Okay then.”

“What can be done?”

“You know me? Then that’s fine.”

Dong-soo blinks his eyes as if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

“It’ll be shiny for a few days. Don’t worry about it and just do what you want.”

“Anyway… tsk, erra- I don’t know.”

Around the time the second period started.

I had to come to the principal’s office instead of the classroom.

Knock knock.

Only after I opened the door to the principal’s office did I realize why I was there.

“Adventure!”

The great man who coughed in vain as if he was very uncomfortable after seeing my face was the district mayor.

“All students, please sit down quickly.”

The principal was tapping the seat next to me and rubbing his palm against the mayor sitting at the head of the class.

As soon as I sat down on the sofa, the mayor opened his mouth again, coughing as if he was uncomfortable.

“Am I in a really difficult position? They were preparing a commendation and all that stuff from above, and then they gave me an order to handle it properly.”

What do you want me to do?

Wasn’t it just my greed that I kept talking about making Hodori Village a tourist attraction? I wanted to make it my own achievement since I was able to create a tourist attraction without spending a single penny.

“Is that so?”

The mayor wiggles his eyebrows at my answer.

“Adventure! It seems like it was acquired unfairly. Wouldn’t it be better to return it and end it on good terms?”

“I acquired it legally. I paid the taxes on it and it’s already mine.”

“Oh my, which parent would do that to someone else’s child, leaving their own child behind? Even if they did, who would believe them?”

“I’m telling you that there is absolutely no problem as long as you follow the proper procedures.”

“You’re a student so you probably don’t know much yet, but in our country, children have priority over property. That’s the law.”

I know.

Director Baek had doubts, but the reason I am going to the extent of public opinion war is because there are problems in many areas. The fundamental part that I talked to the mayor about is that if you put it on your nose, it becomes a nose ring, and if you put it on your ear, it becomes an earring.

Because our country’s laws are really shitty.

Legal interpretations had a curious tone that changed from time to time. For example, a bus driver who embezzled 300 won would be sentenced to prison, while someone who defrauded hundreds of billions or trillions of won would receive a suspended sentence.

“I understand that there are exceptions to that law. In particular, the youngest son who appeared on the show is also disqualified.”

The mayor tilts his head toward me as if to ask me to speak further.

“Disqualification reasons?”

“yes.”

“What is that?”

I shrugged.

“You’ll know when you watch the next broadcast.”

And the most effective way to overturn that legal interpretation was to move public opinion. Of course, there are many cases where this public opinion doesn’t work. When punishing the rich, it doesn’t work even if public opinion is bad. After all, it’s their league.

Fortunately, he is not the youngest son of the illegitimate grandmother, so if public opinion changes, he will not be able to exert power. I am waging a public opinion war to punish him even more.

“Well, are you sure about that?”

My bastard has been telling stories, so it seems like it would be hard for him to abandon me. In fact, it’s true that my bastard has no way of abandoning me, but then again, you never know. The judicial system these days is absolutely untrustworthy.

“I am sure.”

“Well, then I’ll believe you one more time.”

The mayor soon changed his attitude and ended the conversation on a friendly note. It seems that it was difficult for him to intervene in the judicial system because he was only the mayor.

Time passed in a strange environment where I didn’t notice others but the people around me did, and when it was time to get off school, the place I headed to was definitely my mother’s store.

As expected, it seemed difficult to find people, let alone a line, at my mother’s restaurant.

Knock knock.

“Welcome! Ah-”

My older sister, my mother, and my older sister Sooyoung found me with my younger sister’s sigh.

I glanced around the kitchen towards the table where they were sitting, but there were no other ladies in sight. Judging from the fact that Sister Sooyoung was there, I could only guess that she had probably been asked to go in first.

In front of the kitchen, covered metal trays are lined up in a row, and between them, my mother’s skewer is peeking out, revealing the presence of meat.

The amount of food was so much that it was hard to believe that my mother and my older sister were doing the kitchen work alone.

“Are you here?”

My mother’s greeting was strangely powerless.

To be exact, it feels like Kimchi.

“Yeah, Mom.”

“You must have had a hard time studying.”

“What is the hardship?”

I sat down in a relatively empty seat, and coincidentally it was next to Sooyoung’s older sister.

“West-”

Sister Suyeong, who had been watching me closely, greets me with a slow, snorting sound.

It’s obvious that it’s forced, but it’s not unpleasant. After all, it seems like they’re trying to break the ice.

The sight of her trying to hug me tightly while I was sitting with my arms spread wide open.

“Up to there.”

The little sister’s hand stops Sooyoung.

“Let go of this!”

“Don’t let dirt get in my eyes!”

“Sob sob.”

Sister Suyeong, who was acting a little over the top, glanced at me and asked carefully.

“Was school okay?”

I shrugged my shoulders at the implied question. I was more worried about the store. There must have been many people who swore at me in front of me. Isn’t that what business is all about? Customers have a strange tendency to want to stand above the owner. In any industry, you’re bound to encounter the truth.

“Yeah, that’s good.”

The little sister pursed her lips.

“Oh, people are funny too. It’s not like the water boils quickly and then cools down quickly.”

“There weren’t many guests… right?”

At my question, my little sister frowns and speaks with her eyes. She tells me to be careful.

Instead of her older sister, her mother spoke with an awkward cough.

“If there are days like this, there will be days like that… But I sometimes wonder if I should have listened to my son and bought a little less ingredients.”

I said with a big smile.

“Hey- thanks to you, mom won’t make a sound today, and your muscles won’t hurt!”

Swish!

My little sister hit me on the back.

“100 million.”

“Hey, you punk, tsk tsk. I don’t know if I’ll get married, Mom. This is also a consolation.”

“You- treat your little brother so mercilessly!”

“Did your dad do this too?”

My mother immediately chuckles at the sudden question about my father.

“Yeah, they look exactly alike.”

Since my mother smiled slightly, it would be okay to give her a pat on the back once. Ten times would be too painful, but two or three times would be possible. I don’t know why my little sister’s hands are so sharp.

A brief laugh passed, and silence fell again in the store.

“hello!”

The ones who broke the silence were not my sisters, my mother, or me, but the guys from Sanggye-dong who opened the door and came in.

“Mother- I came to eat!”

Kim Gyu-il, who confidently declared that he had come to eat, put money in the money box first, grabbed his plate, and stood in line. Following him, the other guys quickly put money in the money box and stood in line.

“Oh my gosh, these guys – just eat it, what’s the money for?”

Kim Seong-hak smiled brightly at his mother’s words.

“No, that’s not possible. Sang-geun eats too much, ma’am.”

“Kekekeke.”

“Kick.”

My mother smiled, got up from her seat, moved to where the soup was being served, and spoke.

“Oh my – I ate a lot.”

Well, I don’t think his mother knows Sanggeun very well yet. He really does eat a lot, though.

“uh···”

Sanggeun glances at the guy.

I guess he knows that I eat a lot too.

“Eat up, you guys. I’m hungry.”

“yes-”

As the kids were putting an appropriate amount of rice and side dishes on their plates, their mother quickly turned her head and spoke to her older sister.

“Hye-rin, you’re really bad at preparing the kids’ side dishes. Come here and help me prepare them for you.”

“Yeah, Mom.”

The eldest sister, acting on her mother’s instructions, fills the kids’ plates with so much food that they almost burst. It’s so much that you wonder if that amount is right for the price.

It’s no secret that the corners of Sanggeun’s mouth were torn by the piles of dumplings on his plate.

Still, the atmosphere is much warmer now that the guys have come to the restaurant.

Knock knock.

Then the door opens.

“Hello, ma’am – it’s been a while since I’ve had a meal.”

The father of the three Chang-Hyeon siblings entered the restaurant with the laborers.

“Oh my, you’re here.”

“Hahaha, I told you this place was delicious, but the line was so long these past few days that I gave up. But I’m so happy today.”

“That’s what happened.”

He nodded, turned his head quickly, and shouted at the workers.

“Come on! Let’s eat quickly-”

In response to the three brothers’ shouts, another shout is heard from behind the door.

“Yes! Come in quickly – I’m freezing to death -”

Before we knew it, a long line of merchants began to form behind the laborers.

The shadow had long since disappeared from my mother’s face, and she went outside with a smiling face and spoke to the merchants lined up.

“Oh my- why are you here?”

“Oh my gosh- Sister, don’t say that! Look how much weight I’ve lost. I haven’t had anywhere to eat lunch lately. Oh my gosh- I’m going to live now. I’m happy if it’s In-sook’s food.”

“Then- who said not- I was so happy that I didn’t know.”

“Oh my god- really.”

While my mother was shaking hands with the market ladies and greeting each other, a group of market men standing in line suddenly started shouting loudly.

“Madam Geo Jeong, please hurry and give me some food – I’m cold, hungry, and look like a beggar.”

“therefore.”

My mother nodded with a laugh and quickly ran into the store.

Market vendors, laborers, guys from Sanggye-dong.

Even though everyone is looking at me and confirming, they don’t say anything. As if they know without me saying anything, as if you can’t do that. That’s the kind of face they have.

I came back into the store and saw my mother’s bright face as she carefully placed soup and side dishes on people’s plates.

Mother’s wish.

I also come to wish for it.

I feel a little more touched by why my mother likes and loves this Sanggye-dong.

People who believe in others no matter what they say, people who take their side. Is that as easy as it sounds? It seems that the affection for helping each other when times are tough still remains in Sanggye-dong.

“Enjoy your meal-”

“Madam, isn’t your food the best?”

“Sister, your food is the best.”

“I was sad because I couldn’t eat this for a while!”

Even if it doesn’t cost you a penny.

Sanggye-dong is a neighborhood that is well worth it.