23. Eighty-three
According to my mother, I started to learn Chinese and became more confident in my studies.
I thought the TOEIC score could be just a coincidence… He said that the moment he bought a Chinese textbook for a BangTongdae class and looked through it from the beginning, he became convinced.
The fact that mothers have special abilities.
And it is said that her mother solidified her belief in her own abilities while taking the Kwangtongdae class.
The next thing my mother did was apply for a lecturer at the TOEIC academy.
In fact, my mother said that she did not expect much, because of her academic background as a high school graduate.
Last Life After returning from America, I have experience working in a hagwon.
A good academic degree is not a very attractive condition for a hagwon instructor.
There were often cases in which academic backgrounds were inflated in academy’s promotional materials, not to deceive students, but because they know well that academic background is not that important.
As a successful instructor, the most important thing is not your academic background, but word of mouth that you teach in a fun way.
If you interpret the saying that my mother applied for a translator license differently, it seems that teaching at a hagwon was not a very attractive job for her.
Actually, I did too… .
Whether in an American university or a Korean hagwon, teaching someone did not feel fun or rewarding to me.
I remember the words of a colleague who one day observed my class.
A genius was said to be not good at teaching.
According to her, a genius is because he thinks differently from ordinary people.
When explaining the road from A to C, people usually go from A to B to C to understand it, but geniuses don’t understand why they have to go through B because it makes sense at once.
My mother talked about it, and mentioned that Yeong-mi came to our house last Sunday, and she said that she was very upset about what she said that day.
I pondered what Anglo-American said on Sunday, but… No matter how much I thought about it, there was nothing that Yeong-mi made her mother feel bad about.
I asked my mother.
“Maybe Youngmi… What did you say?”
“My son said he likes bulgogi pizza so much.”
“… ?”
“Mom said that our Jung-ho is mature… Sometimes I’m so grown-up, my mother’s heart hurts a little bit.”
“Mom… .”
“So Mom made a decision.”
The mother spoke with a very sad expression on her face.
“I want my mom to make money. The school instructor… After working on my own, I thought it would be difficult to get a lot of money unless I run an academy.”
“… … .”
“Do you remember what Jung-ho said when your mother started talking to you? Are you saying that the demand for Chinese will increase in the future?”
I nodded, and my mother continued.
“So, I prepared a Chinese translator license. I saw a newspaper article that said that trade with China is increasing.”
By the way… I wondered if a translator could make a lot of money, and my mother said with a smirk if she had read my expression.
“And Mom, I didn’t completely quit broadcasting.”
“ah… So are you going to continue?”
“I’m going to do some translation work in the future and decide. If the translation job is okay, I will change my major from Chinese to economics or trade.”
“… !”
“My mother looked into the translation work in detail, but there was also a separate major for each field of translation. Literature, economy, trade, society, politics… What do you mean like this?”
I thought that it was a decision that my mother made after a lot of preparation.
“I will graduate from Kwang-Tong University as soon as possible and start working as a professional translator, so wouldn’t it be possible to earn a lot of money?”
The smile on my mother’s face made me feel better.
It felt good to know that my mother had a dream, not because of the expectation that she would make a lot of money.
“My mother hates Jung-ho being too mature. our son… If you want something to eat, something you want to have… I wish I had been forced to buy it and begged for it. Understand?”
“Okay, Mom.”
Even though I replied that I knew… .
Actually, I don’t need anything more right now.
I like a peaceful life like now.
It’s my dream to live a normal life with my mother, Yeongmi, and Incheol, the people I like.
past life… There was a word to express this, what was it… ?
okay! remembered
Small but certain happiness, small happiness.
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News that the bridge over the Han River collapsed.
It was a shock in itself.
It was a major accident where the bridge top between the piers fell into the Han River.
During the accident, the bus even fell under the bridge, and as a result, a total of 32 people, including the bus passengers, lost their lives.
It was a terrible accident.
On the way home after school.
In-cheol looked at Yeong-mi and carefully opened his mouth.
“Young-mi, your father… Don’t you go to Seongsu Bridge when you go to work?”
“uh… ? You knew.”
“Last time, you and Jung-ho took a taxi to your father’s company.”
“ah… ! It did? Fortunately, my father didn’t go to work yesterday because he had work to do with the police station.”
At Yeong-mi’s words, In-cheol nodded and said.
“Jin— I’m glad I did.”
When I heard that Young-mi’s father had gone to the police station, I wondered if an investigation into the embezzlement case had begun.
I asked Youngmi, pretending not to know.
“Perhaps… Is it because of the computer in the company’s computer room last time?”
Youngmi shook her head.
“It’s not… There must have been some kind of check missing from my father’s office.”
In-cheol asked Young-mi.
“check? What check?”
“I said it was a check from the US… I don’t know. Anyway, because of that, there has been no fuss since yesterday morning when I got a phone call from my house.”
In response to Yeong-mi’s answer, In-cheol looked at me with a serious expression.
When you enter the apartment complex, the first is 105 where In-cheol’s house is located, then if you keep walking along the road, you will find Yeongmi’s house in dong 102 and our house in dong 101.
So, naturally, In-cheol enters the house first… .
Today Incheol continues walking along the road with us.
“Aren’t you going home?”
In-cheol answered my question.
“Jungho, you said you bought a computer? let me take a look at it How different is the 486 from the 386, I’ll have to check it myself.”
Youngmi said at Incheol’s words.
“really? I want to go see it too.”
In-cheol waved her index finger left and right toward Yeong-mi and said.
“No no! This is something only us men can see.”
“Ugh! Poor quality!”
Young-mi ran towards her house without saying goodbye with a disgusted expression on her face.
“no… I, Young-mi… that is… I’m not… .”
In-cheol is really quick-witted.
As soon as he entered our house, he immediately asked me.
“Did you know?”
“What?”
“That check, the check!”
“… !”
“Is that check correct last time? huh? right? That’s when you went to your father’s office to check the check, didn’t you? Yeah, isn’t it? Am I right?”
In response to In-cheol’s constant push for questions, I said with a calm expression.
“Wow, what are you talking about? I was wondering what a foreign check looked like back then… Knowing you asked me to show you… .”
In-cheol stared at me with a look of disbelief.
And he let out a short sigh and said:
“When I was rescued a year ago… Team Leader Kim Jung-soo has something to say.”
“Chief Kim Jung-soo?”
Incheol nodded and said.
“yes. You were the one who showed me where I was locked up. ah… ! Don’t get me wrong. Because you said it was an absolute secret. Still, you told me to know who the lifesaver is.”
“… … .”
“By the way… When I heard the story of Youngmi earlier, I thought of that time. I don’t know the details… How did you do that check? Yesterday Young-mi’s father tried to avoid the Seongsu Bridge accident? Is not it?”
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No, this again… What are you talking about… ?
In-cheol… I thought it looked good, but it doesn’t.
“haha! What nonsense… .”
The guy cut off my horse.
“All right, man! You don’t even have to lie to me like that. You are my lifesaver! I don’t want my lifesaver to lie to me.”
“… … .”
“Yeah, you better say nothing. You are my lifesaver.”
“Heh—! think your way You won’t believe anything I say.”
At my words, Incheol smiled and said.
“I don’t know the details… Two things are certain.”
“… … ?”
“The first is that you saved me, and the second is that you also saved Youngmi’s father this time.”
ah… What should I say about this… .
As I kept silence, Incheol asked.
“Maybe you too… time traveler… ? What is it?”
“Hey, you idiot! Now stop talking nonsense!”
Even in my pin-zan, he continued to speak without regard for it.
“Hey, Jung-ho! Could I possibly be a police officer in the future?”
In-cheol’s future hope is to become a police officer.
You must have heard the story of the moment when team leader Kim Jeong-soo broke the door and rescued In-cheol a year ago, probably more than 100 times.
I’ve heard too many exaggerated stories of Incheol… Now, I could only imagine how team leader Kim Jeong-soo really blew a long wind to smashed the door, and turned somersaults to avoid the flying knife to subdue the criminals.
When I asked if I could become a police officer in the future, I said.
“How do I know that?”
“That’s what Team Leader Kim Jung-soo did. Look at me and try the police. I deal with being a good cop. That’s why I’m working hard on my computer studies these days.”
What? what?
Computer studies for In-cheol, who dreams of becoming a police officer?
“You said that if you want to become a police officer, you should study computers?”
In response to my question, Incheol nodded.
“yes. The team leader said that computer crimes will increase in the future, so you should study computer hard.”
In-cheol knew a lot about computers.
School studies were behind him, but he didn’t know anything about computers.
For the past few days I’ve been thinking about how to draw a Riemann zeta function.
It wasn’t difficult to find the function value at each coordinate, but there was definitely a limit to making it into a 3D image.
So the method I thought of was to draw contour lines.
I showed Incheol the file in which the function values were stored, and when asked if he could draw a 3D image using these values, Incheol said.
“That’s it, what… Don’t eat it cold.”
“really?”
Incheol nodded his head with a serious expression.
“What I’m studying these days is a game that simulates fighter jets. Do you think I can bring the 3D implementation program used there? The program is at my house. I will bring it now and install it.”
In-cheol installed the 3D simulation program until late, and even taught me how to use it.
“Thank you,” said Incheol.
“To this extent… What! You are my lifesaver.”
“under—! It’s always embarrassing… Stop calling me that, man!”
“haha! But Yeong-mi’s father, Yeong-mi wouldn’t know anything… Are you still okay?”
He still seems to believe that I saved Yeong-mi’s father from the Seongsu Bridge accident.
It is true that Young-Mi’s father helped him not get involved in the embezzlement case… .
I don’t think I’ve done a great job for Anglo-American.
When I think of what Youngmi did for me in my past life… .
This is really nothing.
I said to Incheol, who was waiting for my answer with a serious expression.
“Ugh! You crazy man! Now stop talking nonsense!”
That night.
I remembered the conversation I had with Incheol while lying in bed.
In particular, I analyzed each change in In-cheol’s facial expression.
The expression on the face of the guy who calls me a lifesaver is sincere.
And it is clear that In-cheol believes that I can see the future.
As In-cheol changed the computer’s diskette, the words that seemed indifferent came to mind.
“How much better would it have been if the Seongsu Bridge accident never happened? Is not it?”