A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 30



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The Chairman Who Has No Regrets Episode 30 – Kkamnyang.

I was walking along the street, obsessed with the thought of how much the prize money for the NBC Scholarship Quiz was at the time. I think I should watch the scholarship quiz program the day after tomorrow, Sunday. I guess you have to knock on the stone bridge before crossing it. There is no rush, so there is no reason to rush.

“There are a lot of customers today too.”

The kids I saw yesterday are looking at our store from the corner of the alley at the same time.

“Ugh- I’m hungry.”

“Chang-Hyeon, you still have to wait. The lady might not like it.”

Where did my half-broken guys learn consideration? Did I know what consideration was when I was that age? They say you can learn something from a three-year-old, but it seems I wasted half my life.

On the one hand, I feel strange.

It may not seem like such a happy thing to learn about the world at a young age when you are still young and innocent and know nothing about anyone else.

“Oh! It’s that guy from yesterday.”

At the words of the young boy called Chang-Hyeon, two girls who appeared to be his older sisters turned their heads at the same time.

“hello.”

The older child was momentarily flustered and then greeted politely, while the younger child looked at me with a very wary expression. It was as if he was trying to protect the older child.

How do adults usually deal with situations like this? I don’t know because I’ve only ever been treated with consideration, and never actually done it myself.

“Okay, bye.”

I tried to greet them with a smile. Perhaps they noticed my fake greeting, and the faces of the boy named Chang-Hyeon and the little girl became wary. Then, the older girl slightly frowned and spoke to her younger siblings.

“My brother said hello, so I should say hello.”

The boy quickly lowered his head and raised it, and the little girl nodded her head in greeting. The older one didn’t seem to like the greetings from his younger siblings, but I didn’t really care. It was natural for them to be wary of me. I was a stranger, a stranger, and a stranger.

And to me, those children are the same. Strange children, unknown children, and other people’s children.

Whether polite or not, it means that we are in a relationship where I don’t have to worry about anything or pay attention to anything.

The eldest child, who seemed to be busy checking my mood, smiled awkwardly and walked past the children to the store. Just as I was about to exit the alley.

“Tsk.”

Why do I remember the old days I spent with my sisters, old events? The clear eyes of my eldest son, who used to watch my every move, looked just like my older sister’s eyes when she was young.

I quickly turned around and approached the children again, and the youngest, Chang-Hyeon, was blocking my sisters. Could he do it with those small hands? The boy’s eyes were wonderful. They didn’t look like the kind of eyes you would carry around somewhere. I wonder if I had eyes like those when I was that age.

“Aren’t you cold?”

That was the kind of question I had to ask after turning around. Is it this hard to deal with someone? It was especially hard for me because I thought they were children, not adults. It felt like I was forced to wear clothes that didn’t fit. It would be easy if we had a relationship where we could talk about business and business.

I have no hesitation at all when dealing with David or Choi Tae-woong, but strangely, I feel uncomfortable now.

“It’s okay. If you’re cold, I can hug you!”

The guy’s answer is quite interesting.

A little child who resembles his older sister.

The eldest child who resembles his older sister.

I thought the youngest remaining kid would resemble me, but I don’t think so.

If it were me, I would have been lucky if I hadn’t begged my sisters to hug me because I was cold, otherwise I might not have come to this place in the first place. There would have been no consideration to keep my sisters warm.

Perhaps that sight looked admirable to his mother, or perhaps she felt sorry for him.

“Hey, if it’s cold, do you want to come in?”

I pointed to the store and asked.

A conflict appears in the man’s eyes.

The same is true in the eyes of other children.

The eldest girl stretched out her arm and pulled the youngest, Chang-Hyeon, toward her and said.

“No, brother. It’s okay.”

Looking at the frozen hands pulling my brother, I didn’t feel well at all. The earmuffs with the fake fur all over them, the chubby cheeks, the faded quilted clothes.

His behavior told me that he wasn’t okay, but he was saying that he was okay. I nodded as I stared into his clear eyes.

I don’t know anything else. Where did he learn such consideration? Where did he learn such manners? But one thing I do know is that I can tell what the eldest boy’s gaze is.

“Four lunch boxes?”

The eldest brother nodded and answered my question, hugging his younger brother tightly.

“yes.”

“Hey, can you give me the bundle?”

The eldest boy shakes his head.

“It’s okay, I can wait.”

The guy is just like my older sister in being stubborn. My older sister used to be like that too, and when she did that, no one could stop her because she was really stubborn.

I nodded obediently. I knew that it would be rude to show my kindness to the children any more. I knew full well that even pure kindness can sometimes hurt someone.

“Okay, then.”

Just as I was about to turn away from those guys.

“hey!”

My little sister runs towards me, calling me with a loud voice.

At that sound, the children turn their heads at the same time like meerkats, and I can’t help but laugh.

“Are you here?”

“Yes, I came.”

My little sister who spoke rudely to me but bowed slightly in front of the children.

“Chang-Hyeon, Mi-Young, and Mi-Hyeon are here.”

I guess he even knows the children’s names.

“Yes! Hello, sister!”

“Hello, sister!”

“Sister! You look pretty today too!”

It’s totally different from when you greeted me. You guys are so annoying.

By the way, did your little sister have such a disgusting voice?

“Did you sleep well yesterday?”

“Yes! I protected you, sisters!”

“Oh my, is that so?”

The older sister stroked the head of the boy named Chang-Hyeon, glanced at the eldest boy, straightened her back, and said.

“Didn’t that ugly guy over there bother you?”

“I protected my sisters!”

This is ridiculous.

“What are you protecting? Something so small.”

“What! My sister is only this much taller than me?”

Unlike the way the children treated me, the way they treated my older sister was very natural and comfortable.

I’m not jealous.

I’m not jealous.

“You guys are being deceived.”

Bam!

My little sister hits my back without any mercy.

“Hey hey, I told you I’m a witch.”

“Do you really want to die today?”

The children laugh and are happy. Their tastes seem to be quite sadistic, but they seem to know that my younger sister and I have no sincerity in our faces. The children are quick-witted. Do they instinctively sense the mood?

“Okay, let’s ignore that ugly old man. Today, our three cute siblings need to help out their big sister.”

The older child opens his eyes wide and asks at the younger sister’s words.

“Us?”

“Okay, will you help me?”

The children nod their heads loudly. Is it really possible to smile so brightly when helping someone? The children’s faces are filled with joy.

That’s amazing.

By the way, is there anything I can do to help with the restaurant work with my little hands? I still have a long way to go.

My little sister started walking as if she was leading the way, and the children followed her like ducklings following their mother duck. Before I knew it, I, who had become cold rice, followed her.

“mom!”

The little sister calls her mother as she enters the store.

Two tables were already occupied, as dinner guests had already begun to arrive.

“Oh my, your daughter is here?”

My mother, who was peeking out of the kitchen, spots me and smiles brightly. Still, I’m glad that she welcomes me.

“My son is here too-”

The mother doesn’t seem to know that the children are not in sight in the kitchen.

The little sister leads the children into the storage room. I was about to go into the kitchen when the little sister, who had just poked her head out of the storage room, shouted.

“hey!”

I walked towards my little sister, tilting my head. I wondered if there was something I could do with the kids.

“this.”

The first thing he held out was a bundle of lunch boxes that the older child had been carrying.

Then he nods to give a hint.

He brought the kids here under the pretense of asking for help, but was it all a plan? He chuckles and glances at the children sitting huddled together behind his older sister, brightly looking at the green onions in a small basket.

“What are you doing?”

My sister gestured for me to hurry up and go. I shrugged and headed to the kitchen. I’m not that stupid to not notice something like this.

“Why the warehouse? What’s going on?”

At my mother’s words, I shook the lunchbox I was holding.

“Huh? Miyoung is here?”

“Oh, I was waiting in the alley.”

“Oh my – you guys must have been cold.”

I nodded.

Because you can clearly see from their eyes and behavior that the children are cold and hungry.

“Oh my – even the heavens are indifferent to children.”

Without saying a word, my mother takes the bundle from me and starts packing a lunch box. There is no sign of regret on her face as she packs the lunch box. Rather, she only seems to be thinking about what else she can pack for me.

I find that really fascinating.

A heart that doesn’t think about getting anything in return. In these times, there is still affection in Korea, but I don’t know. I think I understand it in my head, but my heart doesn’t really understand it. I still don’t really understand what my mother said yesterday.

What is the right way to spend and earn?

“I’m busy with the kitchen work, so Hye-ri, come and play with the kids, Kang.”

There are still two tables outside that haven’t had food yet, but the mother seems to be packing lunches for the kids anyway.

By the way, I don’t have the confidence to play with children. What should I do?

First, I went to the warehouse as my mother had told me to and tapped my little sister who was cutting green onions.

“why?”

When I gave him a hint with a nod, my little sister nodded and stood up from her seat.

“Guys, this guy doesn’t know how to do this, so Miyoung and Mihyeon have to teach him well?”

I can’t get used to hearing my little sister’s hoarse voice.

“yes-”

The children answered nicely. I sat in the seat where my older sister had been sitting and watched what the children were doing.

The children were cutting green onions with their lips pouting and concentration. Even though the warehouse was indoors, the children’s faces and hands were already finding their own colors.

How many green onions would there be in a small basket?

“Not spicy?”

A little girl who just stands there and glances at me in response to a question I just asked her.

“Sir, don’t be lazy.”

Pick, laughter bursts out.

I thought that guy looked just like my little sister.

“okay.”

As I was thoughtlessly cutting the roots of a plant covered in dirt with a knife, Hong Tae-soo suddenly came to mind.

That guy had eyes just like these kids. Eyes similar to the ones I used to have. Eyes that reveal a chilling venom in someone’s sympathy, and want to make them not dare to sympathize.

Just a small basket.

When I almost finished chopping the green onions.

“Okay, that’s it.”

My mother came carrying a bundle containing a lunch box wrapped in her own handicraft.

“Oh my – you trimmed the green onions really well! If you make kimchi with these, it’ll be really delicious.”

The children lift the corners of their lips brightly at their mother’s praise.

“Really?”

“Me! Me! Changhyun did the best!”

“What are you good at? I did better.”

The mother praises each and every one of her children for their unique reactions.

“Oh my, Miyoung did it thoroughly and cleanly. Mihyeon did it nicely, and Changhyun did it deliciously?”

The children’s faces became filled with pride.

“Okay, let’s go in quickly before it gets dark.”

The eldest child, Miyoung, who received the bundle, tries to take out money from her bosom. The mother hesitates for a moment, but soon receives a few coins from the child.

It seems that the mother also understood the children’s feelings.

“Go quickly, go quickly. Be careful of the car!”

“Yes, ma’am-”

The children leave the store with bright faces.

Finally, a boy named Chang-Hyeon, who was about to leave the store, turned around and asked.

“Ma’am – I’ll help you again next time! Just ask me anytime!”

“Oh my? Really?”

“yes!”

“Okay, I’ll definitely ask you to do it later, ma’am?”

“Yes! Goodbye.”

“Okay-”

The mother feels proud as she sees the boy’s proud face.

As the children disappear into the distance, the mother lets out a deep sigh.

“Ugh···”

He asked, tilting his head.

“Why, Mom?”

“Oh my, the people in the district office are saying that the shantytown will be torn down soon···”

right.

Yes, that’s right.

It’s just like my old house, where we endured hunger without even having a house.

Perhaps, through her children, our mothers were giving us warm meals from the past.

I don’t know much about the children’s proud faces, but I wish I could protect the proud face of my mother. Well, I wonder if I’ve become that kind of person already.

I feel like I should hurry up and see it.