A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 134



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Episode 134 – Do as you wish – (2)

Inside the police station where Jeon Kang left.

Squeak. Clang.

The prison cell door opened with a loud noise.

Park Jeong-yong came out staggering.

“no way-”

The young detective looks Park Jeong-yong up and down as if he feels something is missing, and Park Jeong-yong tries to avoid the detective’s gaze.

“You’re lucky, you red bastard.”

Park Jeong-yong swallowed hard at the detective’s threatening words and quickly looked around.

“Mr. Park Jeong-yong?”

The one who called him was attorney Kim Ho-cheol.

“Yes, yes.”

Park Jeong-yong smiles brightly as if he has met a savior.

The young detective disappeared with a pang in his mouth at the appearance of Kim Ho-cheol.

Kim Ho-cheol speaks while tapping on the pledge and agreement signed by Park Jeong-yong with a blunt face.

“Don’t forget to sign here.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Kim Ho-cheol frowned as he looked around at the shantytown people who had been criticizing Jeon Kang in the documentary behind Park Jeong-yong.

“Let’s all live with a clear conscience, please.”

People who just bow their heads without answering, either out of shame or out of fear of the cold-blooded detectives.

Kim Ho-cheol clicked his tongue and turned around, and Park Jeong-yong quickly followed him down the hallway and left the police station, fearing he might be caught again.

The shantytown people caught Park Jeong-yong as he was trying to catch a passing taxi.

“Chairman Park! What do we do now?”

“That’s why! We can’t protest or anything!”

“What if that guy kicks us out?”

Park Jeong-yong suddenly crumples his face.

“Why are you asking me that!”

“What did you say?”

“Why are you asking me that? You guys should take care of your own business! I’m also a person with a grape-like throat!”

Hands sticking out from all over grab Park Jeong-yong.

“What are you talking about! You said I should trust you! You said you would give me back my house and everything and give me a big compensation!”

“That’s right! I said that the whole class was committing fraud!”

As if they were without sin.

Those who blame Park Jeong-yong.

“When you think of selling your house in a shantytown where the land price has gone up, your eyes widen and you rush to it, and now you’re blaming others! Get those hands off me!”

As Park Jeong-yong shakes his body violently, several people fall out.

“Those pathetic lives, that’s why they live like that, hanging around in shantytowns – tsk tsk.”

People who show hostility towards Park Jeong-yong just as they did towards Jeon Kang.

“Do you think that’s all there is to it?”

“That rotten bastard!”

“That’s why I said those who learn like this won’t do!”

“We are the ones who are retarded for trusting that son of a bitch who didn’t even hold a funeral for his own mother!”

“that’s right!”

“Give me my house, you son of a bitch!”

The shantytown people who have gathered in droves are tangled up with Park Jeong-yong in front of the police station. Kim Ho-cheol, who was watching them, shakes his head.

“Why do they all live like that?”

“Go, senior. Get out of here.”

Kim Ho-cheol nods his head at the words of attorney Hye-in Lee, who has just returned from the bathroom. He thinks that it would be rude to step forward, and is about to walk to his car.

Beep, beep.

A police officer guarding the front of the police station came running with his baton drawn, accompanied by the sound of a horn.

The shocked shantytown people threw Park Jeong-yong aside and ran away in all directions.

“Tsk tsk.”

It was a sight that made my tongue stick out on its own.

Kim Ho-cheol looked down at Park Jeong-yong, whose clothes were torn and whose hair was disheveled from being torn here and there, and spoke.

“If you live like that, you’ll end up hanging around the police station.”

Park Jeong-yong frowns, then quickly leaves after checking that the police officer is about to arrive.

After a while.

One night, long past dinner time.

Park Jeong-yong entered the apartment complex in a battered state, where women were wearing headbands and screaming.

“You unfilial sons who are bringing shame to our apartment, get out!”

“Get out! Get out!”

“Apartment prices are falling! Get out! Get out!”

“Those women!”

Park Jeong-yong, who was already in a bad mood, frowned and rushed towards the women.

“Over there! Mr. Chairman! Over there!”

As a woman points to him running quickly, Choi Soon-hee, the president of the women’s association, steps forward and places a hand on her waist.

“Everyone! The culprit who made our apartments worth shit is coming over here! Because of that guy- the apartment that used to be listed at 800,000 won per pyeong! has become 300,000 won per pyeong! Everyone-”

Park Jeong-yong, who was running towards him, was startled by the shout of the women’s association president and opened his eyes wide.

“What are you talking about? Why is my apartment priced at 300,000 won per pyeong? I paid 600,000 won per pyeong to move in!”

Instead, the women’s association president walked briskly towards Park Jeong-yong, who was getting angry, with an expression that said, “Go away, you vicious bastard.”

“It’s because of you! You! You damned punk! Not only did you not give your mother a funeral, but now you even know where she’s buried? Huh? Did she get buried in the ground or cremated? Do you even know? Huh?”

“What does that have to do with you?”

The women’s association president chuckled at Park Jeong-yong’s confident attitude. She thought that since he was so shameless, he must have appeared on TV with such a shameless lie, and then she spit in Park Jeong-yong’s face and shouted.

“We can’t stay in this apartment with this ungrateful guy who doesn’t even know the kindness of giving birth to him and raising him!”

“Right!”

“That’s right-”

All of the women’s association members were ultimately women and mothers. They could not help but sympathize with the words of the women’s association president. If even men could sympathize, how much more so must the women who were mothers.

“joy!”

Park Jeong-yong snorts and turns around, seemingly unfazed by the women’s association president’s threats. Meanwhile, the women’s association president lifts up a loudspeaker and sounds a siren.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeng-

“From this moment on! Our women’s association is hereby notified to cease all volunteer and management activities within the apartment complex! We will devote our energies to the campaign to drive out that wicked and unfilial family!”

Some residents opened their windows to see what was going on at the sound of a siren blaring in the middle of the night, and their eyes widened.

“What is that sound?”

“You’re not doing any volunteer work?”

“Then what about recycling separation?”

“You don’t know?”

“Then what about flower bed maintenance?”

“You don’t know?”

“Parking?”

“I don’t know.”

“Patrol?”

“Ah- well how would I know!”

A resident suddenly frowns.

“It’s right to kick that damned bastard out!”

A man quietly watching a resident hurriedly gathering his outerwear.

“Ah! What are you doing?”

“Huh? What?”

“If you don’t want to throw away food waste and separate recyclables every day, then come with me right now, you idiot!”

“Huh? Hey, hey, that won’t do!”

Residents of the entire apartment complex began to gather in front of Park Jeong-yong’s apartment building.

Most of them were old men or male students.

“Oh my! Is this the piglet’s house?”

“Oh, right.”

Male students who appeared here and there began to curse at Park Jeong-yong’s son.

“Anyway, did you recognize that greedy piglet?”

“Who said no?”

“You want to throw away your trash too?”

“Oh, that’s what my mom said.”

“It’s right to kick that kid out.”

“I think so.”

“Just go to school tomorrow. That kid is in class 3, right?”

“Oh, right.”

The women’s association president, who had glanced around, began to shout in satisfaction.

“Residents who don’t know how to respect their parents, get out!”

“Get out! Get out!”

It was so loud that it felt like the apartment was shaking, incomparable to what it had been like before.

And the noise did not stop even after dawn. The women’s association took turns shouting. And finally, the residents living in the same building as Park Jeong-yong, who could no longer bear the noise, came out and shouted, and some angry residents even knocked on the front door.

Boom, bang, bang!

“Hey! Mr. Park! Open the door? Huh? This is not right, really! Huh?”

Of course, the front door that Park Jeong-yong entered was firmly shut and would not open.

“Did you actually go inside?”

“I told you so.”

A resident puts his ear to the front door.

“Please do something about it!”

“What should I do!”

“Don’t be so greedy!”

“You told me not to go, you woman! I was planning on holding an old man’s funeral too!”

“Oh my – what a guy, he called his uncle and asked him for money for the funeral, but when he refused to give it, he yelled at him and said he had no intention of doing that.”

“But this woman- she hasn’t been getting beaten up much lately, has she?”

“Hit him! Yes, hit him! Kill him completely! He’s already embarrassed in the neighborhood and on the verge of death. Even if I die, I’d rather die by the hands of my family. Kill him instead- Ana- Ana!”

The residents could clearly hear the couple fighting.

Boom, bang, bang!

“I can hear everyone talking, so open the door, Mr. Park! Let’s talk! People aren’t sleeping all night long, this isn’t right! Huh?”

The front door was still firmly shut, and now loud noises began to flow out of Park Jeong-yong’s house.

“Stop fighting! Is that the problem right now? Because of Dad, I can’t even go to school!”

“What kind of school is a kid who doesn’t even study anyway? Just beat him up!”

“I said that if you don’t graduate from high school, you’re not even a human being!”

“But this kid is always being rude to his father! How on earth did this woman educate him at home!”

“It must be because you look like me! That vegetable and that rice, right! Huh?”

The loud screaming told them that they were not asleep and not opening the door.

**

On my way home after a boring class, I held back my steps from going to my mother’s store and walked towards Hodori Village. Now, this road leading to our treasure trove through Hodori Village is quite familiar. It seems that quite some time has passed since we moved.

“Hey, when are we going to eat Jjajangmyeon? Ah, I want to try Tangsuyuk.”

Kim Gyu-il smiles and says this at Hwang Dong-soo’s words.

“That guy Sung Jae-hyun doesn’t even ask to play soccer these days?”

“You fought with Youngsoo last time. Are you not a good team?”

“The guys from Junggye-dong have to make a bet so we can eat tangsuyuk.”

Kim Seong-hak glances at Jo Sang-geun.

“Hey, hey, he’s drooling. Stop talking about sweet and sour pork.”

“Choo-up! That’s not it!”

“It’s not that he swallowed all the saliva in the whole neighborhood by himself, saying, ‘Churup chu——rup.’”

“Just what? You got a runny nose because you were cold, kid!”

“Now you even eat snot from time to time?”

“This kid!”

“Will you catch me?”

The children laugh at the two’s pranks.

Sigh.

The corners of my mouth go up without me knowing it.

“Hey, Kang-ah, what are you going to do today?”

“I have a promise.”

“promise?”

“uh.”

“Oh my, what’s with the cap? He’s always busy.”

Buzz buzz buzz.

I’m also quite familiar with these Sanggye-dong guys who chatter around me and walk home from school with me.

“hmm?”

Smoke was coming out of the chimney where it shouldn’t be.

“what’s the matter?”

I tilt my head involuntarily. That house must have been empty. It was because there was something planned.

Boom, bang.

I knocked hard on the locked front door.

There is clearly someone inside due to the smoke coming out of the chimney, but the door does not open.

I quickly turned my head to check the other houses. They too had smoke coming out of their chimneys or felt warm.

The corners of his lips, which had been raised, quickly lowered.

“That’s right. We agreed yesterday.”

Because I clearly promised to settle at the police station.

Those houses that feel warm now were clearly the homes of bats that followed Park Jeong-yong.

“Sanggeun.”

Jo Sang-geun answered my call in a low voice.

“why.”

“I think I’ll have to use some force.”

“okay.”

Sang-geun answers, “Okay, I understand,” without saying anything.

Taesu also asks me with a serious expression on his face, which has no smile on it.

“Can I help you with that?”

“Can you go to the warehouse and get me the keys to the empty house?”

“Oh, it will be soon.”

Taesu, the guy who runs fast.

Gyu-il asks cautiously, perhaps sensing that something is wrong with the guy.

“What’s going on?”

Pick said with a smile.

“Bat extermination?”

“huh?”