Franchise God - Chapter 55



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Franchise God Episode 055

Chapter 12 The Farm Owner and the 40 Thieves (2)

Father, Jeong Jae-min reacted indifferently.

“Did you hear that from Seojin?”

“I heard it from my brother, and I also hear it from here and there. That’s what it is.”

“It’s none of your business. Don’t worry about it.”

“I guess so. I was just worried, so I asked.”

Jeong Jae-min felt a strange sense of unfamiliarity for a moment.

Normally, she would have been upset at least once, wondering if people were ignoring her because she was her daughter.

But he just quietly backs away as if nothing happened.

‘if?’

Has she finally decided to give up her dream of becoming a businesswoman and quietly marry Jeong Jin-seok?

“I’ll go up. I need to wash up.”

“Okay.”

Jeong Seo-hee turned her back and sneered.

‘See you later, Dad.’

His father still doesn’t know that he is the vice president of Prime Company.

You can find out just by looking at the corporate registration.

‘Surely you haven’t already confirmed the name and are going to go to Happiness Circle just because it’s someone with the same name, right?’

Her father told her not to go into business at all, and to find a good husband and in-laws and live a comfortable life for the rest of her life.

What would his father look like if he found out he was the vice president?

Jeong Seo-hee was really looking forward to that day, but she didn’t want to bring it forward on her own.

The longer you age it, the more thrilling it will be.

* * *

Ha Su-yeong was leisurely greeting the morning at her Seoraksan mansion.

Drinking morning coffee and reading economic articles on a tablet PC is an essential part of a 21st century farmer’s daily routine.

[Seohae Electronics, Next-Generation 3-Nano Process Development Fact Disclosure!]

[Semiconductor Myth, Another Leap?]

[TSMC Announces It Will Take on the World’s First 2-Nano Process R&D Challenge. Is This a Race with Seohae Electronics in Mind?]

“The kids here are still fighting over nano-processing units when it comes to making semiconductors. It’s a really boring world where nothing groundbreaking happens.”

Drinking coffee from a large mug, Ha Soo-young quickly scanned the articles with her eyes.

“Let’s just make it thinner and beat the competition. We still have this analog mindset. There’s no innovation. No innovation. Tsk tsk.”

Ha Soo-young clicked her tongue as she scrolled down, and then got annoyed when the screen stuttered for about 0.5 seconds.

“So that’s why the computer speed is still like this. Can’t you just make it by pouring ether or something on silicon?”

Ha Soo-young grumbled as she finished reading the economic article.

After reading the entire article, I went to Science, Cell, and Nature in that order and read the papers published today.

Although it was an English paper full of all sorts of technical terms, Ha Su-young read it quickly as if she was reading a children’s comic book.

“Nothing special seems to be happening today either. No monsters, no alien invasion, no signs of an inner core collapse, no signs of Earth’s destruction, no signs of a solar flare.”

There is still no sign of any magical, mysterious, or suspicious power disguised as science.

What does that mean?

“What a boring and dull world.”

Ha Soo-young put down the coffee cup she had finished drinking and stood up.

“This is exactly the vacation spot I was looking for. I’m satisfied, very satisfied.”

Ha Su-yeong opened the pedestrian gate next to the main gate (used for large vehicles) and entered the mountain.

Ha Su-yeong, who had climbed the mountainside, arrived at the farm and confirmed that all the bait left yesterday had been stolen without exception.

“Father, I got robbed again today.”

– Didn’t I tell you? Evil is sincere and diligent. Therefore… … .

“Yes, yes. So you said that goodness must be persistent and paranoid. I know, I know.”

This time, it’s just that living like that is annoying.

Ha Soo-young muttered softly and went into the container to secure all the CCTV footage.

“Father, I’m thinking of slowly switching to automated farming.”

-It’s a good thing that you have more time to practice once you have the automated cultivation method.

“How about giving me a new power that I can easily apply to farming? Then I can diligently practice whenever I have free time.”

-That’s amazing. I’ll go look for it.

“Yes, not something weird like a new word. Something that would help me farm quickly and conveniently. I’m busy trying to make a living, so I can’t devote myself to the training you’ve given me.”

-Haven’t you already earned enough money?

Ha Soo-young shook her head calmly.

“What? It’s a total deficit, a deficit.”

-Is it that difficult?

“It wasn’t hard, but I put all the money I had saved into starting a new company. Now I’m broke.”

-Then why did you buy the mountain?

“Father! How much is this mountain worth? It’s not even worth the price of an apartment in Seoul!”

-Okay, okay. I’ll look for it again.

“Please, Father.”

CCTV footage was reviewed for evidence.

As usual, the thieves entered the mountain through the open side door and took all the bait mushrooms that had been left behind.

“That’s not a bait left for wild animals to eat. It’s poisoned bait left for you to eat and burst your bellies to death. Tsk tsk…”

Ha Soo-young, who had been clicking her tongue, suddenly noticed something different from usual in the video and opened her eyes wide.

“What is it? Why the cart?”

The thieves in the video were each pulling a large cart and climbing the mountain.

The thieves carefully climbed the mountain so as not to leave noticeable wheel tracks, and picked and packed all the bait mushrooms that had been left behind on purpose.

Of course, it was not enough to fill even half a cart.

There’s no way they’d bring a cart just to carry that.

“Oh my god, really?”

Ha Soo-young quickly rewinded the video.

It was as expected.

“There are thieves coming in, but no thieves leaving?”

Ha Soo-young unconsciously grabbed the baseball bat lying next to him.

It was almost a reflex instinct imprinted on the body, no, the soul.

Ha Su-yeong calmly leaned out of the container so that the baseball bat would not be noticed and looked around.

There was no sign of life.

Ha Soo-young came out of the container, dragging the baseball bat on the floor, and looked around.

Of course, I didn’t forget to keep my attitude and expression natural so that the thieves watching from somewhere wouldn’t get suspicious.

“…….”

Only the faint sound of birds chirping in the distance could be heard.

Ha Soo-young looked around, pretending to be calm, but she didn’t feel anything particularly suspicious.

“Father, it seems like the diligence of evil has been upgraded.”

-Where are the thieves hiding?

“Yes, I think so. There are thieves coming in, but no thieves leaving. I guess they’ve gotten to a point where they can’t be satisfied with just the bait I left behind.”

-Then you should beat him up. Now that you’ve been consistently taking the elixir, your body will be able to handle a world-class fighting champion like a baby.

I was lazy about taking the elixir. And I was really lazy about it.

But Ha Soo-young wasn’t flustered.

Even without that elixir-enhanced body, a thief living in the countryside like this…

* * *

The five thieves were hiding in the dense forest, out of sight, watching the farm.

They were yawning and wasting their time, but when Ha Su-yeong appeared, they quickly got up and took their seats.

I took out my crude telescope and observed Ha Su-yeong’s movements in detail.

“That’s right, that guy. The gatekeeper of Seoraksan Mountain.”

“Why did he come up alone? Where are all the farm laborers?”

“It’ll be up soon.”

“Oh my, I’m hungry. Do you have anything to eat?”

“None. I ate it all. If I had known this would happen, I should have brought more.”

“Let’s bring more next time.

Bring a sleeping bag and a dew jacket. I’m shivering from the cold dew all night.”

“It can’t be helped that I’m clumsy since it’s my first time. Let’s be more careful next time.”

A man was looking around his mushroom farm with a telescope and grumbling.

“The field is very clean. There are no signs of mushrooms growing.”

“How long does it usually take for those mushrooms to grow?”

“Once the mushroom cap emerges above the ground, I know it will grow fully in half a day. It takes quite a while for the cap to form, right?”

“Then bear with it. You never know when the hat will sprout.”

“No matter how I look at it, there’s no sign of the cap sprouting. I wonder if the mushrooms will grow today.”

“If we can just see the sun during the day, it will be a great success. Let’s all wait patiently.”

After a while, Ha Su-yeong packed something, locked the container door, and went back down the mountain.

“Looking at the way you’re guarding the gate, it looks like you won’t be able to get a hat today.”

“Let’s just endure and hold on a little longer.”

But as the sun rose at noon, the afternoon turned, and the sunset colored the mountaintop, the mushrooms showed no sign of growing.

Golden silk umbrella mushrooms spend most of their growing season in the ground.

Then, once the head cap is formed, it grows into an adult in an instant in less than a day, similar to a cicada with a very long juvenile period.

The thieves, knowing this, waited patiently, but the golden silk umbrella mushroom never sprouted a cap.

Eventually they had to come down the mountain at night.

“This was a waste of effort.”

“That’s right. I guess today’s date is wrong.”

They went to the village hall grumbling, and the village head, Park Chung-won, spoke urgently.

“Does that mean I’m going to take a break today? What if mushrooms start growing tomorrow morning? Hurry up and get this done, then go back up the mountain and wait.”

“Village chief, we’ve been up in the mountains all day, since last night. Let’s take a rest too.”

“Stop talking and get up! Hurry up!”

The thieves, unable to withstand the village chief’s urging, had no choice but to settle down, grab some food and sleeping bags, and then climb back up the mountain.

It was worth listening to the village chief’s words.

After taking a short nap at night and waking up early in the morning, I saw countless mushrooms growing there.

“What, what is all this?”

“Wow, there are so many mushrooms!”

At first glance, a huge amount of golden umbrella mushrooms had grown, enough to make your mouth drop open.

The mushrooms I had gathered so far felt shabby.

The field, which was over 200 meters wide and long, was covered with mushrooms, so just looking at it was a ecstasy.

Some thieves even took pictures with their cell phones.

“This is not the time. Let’s move quickly before the mining workers arrive.”

They hurriedly picked mushrooms and filled a cart with them.

He stuffed it so tightly that it could no longer fit in the cart or even the backpack he had brought.

I hurriedly grabbed my mushrooms and left through the side door, and within a few minutes I saw a convoy of trailers coming from the other side.

The thieves quickly returned to the village using a side road without being noticed.

“Village chief, look at this!”

Park Chung-won woke up rubbing his eyes and smiled brightly when he saw the mushrooms brought by the village youth.

“Look at this. It was worth all the hard work. Everyone worked hard.”

“Village chief, that’s not the problem. Take a look at this. Quickly.”

“What are you making such a fuss about?”

The village chief opened his mouth wide in amazement at the sight of the endless field of golden umbrella mushrooms contained in the cell phone held out by a young man.

“Oh my god! Are these all mushrooms?”

“There’s really so much of it. The ones we brought aren’t even noticeable.”