＜ Should I pluck or cut? ＞
The bedroom door opened.
“It’s late at night. What are you doing there?”
“Mrs.”
My mother, with her arms over the railing on the second floor, looked down at us.
“Oh my gosh, Jung Hyuk. What are you like now? oh my god! A colorful shirt…”
It was after the gold necklace and stone ring had already been confiscated.
“Why is your head like that again? Did you spill some cooking oil?”
“Bocchan’s bath, I Jong-tae Yoo will help!”
Yoo Jong-tae quickly winked.
The Taesung Group bodyguards secretly covered my face.
“I will take responsibility and wash you clean. With baby powder scent!”
“I’ll give you an oil drink and sing a lullaby to put you to bed!”
The Taesung Group bodyguards rushed at me in an instant and took off my clothes.
“Now, wait a minute! Now is the time to be doing this… Eup!”
Yoo Jong-tae covered my mouth and smiled at my mother.
“Please leave it to us, Bocchan. Enough then.”
“Crush!”
Yoo Jong-tae lifted me up and ran to the bathroom as if running away.
Steam was already rising in the bathroom.
I was getting warm water in the baby’s bathtub.
“What are you doing now… huh!”
A toothbrush topped with children’s toothpaste came in.
It was strawberry flavored.
As Taesung Group bodyguards brushed my teeth, foam bubbled up.
“Did you pour a whole bucket of Dongdongguri radish? I can’t! Cover this too!”
“yep!”
In no time, the baby shampoo cap was installed.
It was a bath product made to prevent soapy water from getting into your eyes when washing your hair.
I couldn’t even be a parent because of Yoo Jong-tae who shampooed sparingly.
The bodyguards of Taesung Group crouched down with their trousers raised and moved their hands swiftly at terrifying speed.
“Oh, you are pretty. Look at that immaculate skin.”
“A crab with soft limbs…, Zelida, Zeliya…”
“It’s cute because your eyes are wide open like that. Then the soapy water goes in. Close your eyes and sniff.”
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No, is it time for me to be treated like this here!
It was the moment I was about to take off the baby shampoo cap and throw it away.
“Oh, are your hands empty? I knew that and prepared for it. Voila!”
The one who was forcibly placed in my arms was Brother Oh, the yellow duck for bathing.
“I heard that these are the most popular products these days, so I picked them up as soon as I saw them!”
“You are playing with your duck friends for a little while. It will be over soon!”
“If you wind the mainspring like this, wow, does the duck swim?”
Clap, clap, clap!
“If you press your stomach like this, wow, does the duck make a cute sound?”
Quack! Quack, quack, quack!
“…”
Fatigue sets in suddenly!
Yoo Jong-tae, a quick-witted bodyguard who claims to be my limbs, grinned.
I stopped wiping me down with a lathered baby shower towel.
“My young master, you have been paying a lot of attention to tutoring these days, so your shoulders are already tight. I need to loosen up my shoulders!”
I think the back bone will come together now, not the shoulder.
“Please trust only me, Jong-tae Yoo! I’ve already taken a baby massage class for today!”
* * *
Due to an unexpected happening, it was late at 11:00 when we arrived at Cheonggye Mountain.
Today, thick clouds swallowed the moon and the son-in-law was dark.
The bonfire that the bodyguards had lit in advance shimmered in the eerie mountain, which was far from the hiking trail of Mt. Cheonggye.
tadak. tadak.
A total of seven drum bonfires made by filling the cut drums with construction waste lumber.
The bonfire shimmered, allowing me to look down into a large pit.
“These bastards…! Hey, bodyguard!”
“Aren’t you going to untie the rope? This is a crime!”
“Do you think I will leave you guys alone? Did they eat rat poison!”
Tied to stakes in the pit, former executives of Taesung Construction squawked.
Of these, only one-third were gagged, and the rest were not, so only the unbridled ones made a lot of noise.
“Did the president send you?”
“No! If that’s the case, it’s not you guys, it’s Secretary Kim himself!”
“What is goong goong? A few days ago, he kept doing some repair work. Wow!”
Former executives of Taesung Group were not in a good condition.
His face was red with bruises and bloodstains.
Even so, they were still pouring out abusive language.
“Bocchan, Team Leader Yu. Are you here?”
The bodyguard from Team 5 of the Taesung Group, who had arrived earlier, scratched the back of his head and took a step back.
It was a frustrated expression.
“It seems that chaebol families treat people gently.”
“……Your voice is too young?”
Laughter flowed from the pit.
this. I can’t believe I’m already shallow with just my voice.
I can’t do this!
“I still see the rostrum still alive and fluttering like that.”
“Should I pull out my tongue?”
Yoo Jong-tae immediately replied.
Yoo Jong-tae’s piercing voice immediately calmed him down.
Only, ‘Yoo Jong-tae!’ was heard.
“If you pull out your only tongue first, how will you serve alcohol?”
“Oh, I see. I was short-tempered.”
“I have to pull out my teeth.”
Suddenly, the grinding sound ceased.
“For every bullsh*t, take one out. The front teeth are good, the molars are also good.”
“Can you draw thirty-two times?”
A cold stillness descended.
Inside the pit, the sound of swallowing dry spit could be heard.
“How many people have signed an employment contract?”
“Bocchan, I’m sorry. Not even one yet…”
The bodyguard who was dealing with the officers lowered his head.
“Hey, there, young boy! How old are you? Which house is whose son?”
It was an exploration game.
“Chief Yu, did you properly sharpen the blade of the hatchet?”
“of course. As a test, I ran some hair over me and it cut cleanly.”
“It doesn’t take all ten fingers to hold a fountain pen and sign an autograph.”
“You can sign with just two fingers. Shall we cut off the eight we don’t need?”
A choking sound could be heard from inside the pit.
“Do, young boy!”
“When did you say you saw it, young master? Do you guys know who I am?”
There was a lot of buzz, but no one answered properly.
Someone in the pit suddenly shouted.
“Taesung is one family! Family members who ate together…!”
“Have you ever had a meal with me here?”
“…”
Former executives of Taesung Construction did not even come to greet the New Year.
Do you dare to discuss family members when you have never eaten rice cake soup together?
My theory is that there is no decent person who only looks for family when he is happy.
“Huh, what do you think would happen if the president found out about this!”
“If the young master makes an accident like this, how are you going to deal with it!”
Let’s see, let’s see, isn’t it very spectacle?
“Are you threatening me now?”
I snorted.
“You’ve messed up from the basic stance of intimidation. You should have figured out the relationship with A before threatening.”
Intimidation is my specialty!
I snapped my finger.
“Pour the dirt.”
He pointed to the pile of dirt piled up next to the pit.
The bodyguard jumped into the mini excavator and started it.
clattering!
As the mini excavator moved, a pile of dirt fell into the pit in an instant.
“Aww!”
“What is this!”
Yoo Jong-tae clicked his tongue slightly.
“In the first place, the Bocchan told me to put my head down and bury it. Kids, do you want to do something casual?”
“sorry!”
Rush!
As the bodyguard pushed in another mound of dirt, the sound of music naturally came out from within the pit.
After all, work is equipment!
I didn’t even push it a few times, but the soil filled up in an instant.
Ex-executives of Taesung Construction, who were tied to the stakes, cried out in embarrassment.
“stop! stop! I will be buried alive like this!”
“Let’s talk, talk, let’s solve it!”
“Tongue, let’s negotiate! What are the alternative conditions for you to do this to us?”
It was the sound of a nervous voice, breathing heavily.
I still haven’t come to my senses about this!
“Do you think I came all the way to Mt. Cheonggye at night to have a leisurely negotiation with you guys?”
“Bocchan, what shall we do?”
“What do you do? Bury me.”
Rush!
Piles of dirt poured down on the heads of executives without mercy.
Taesung Group bodyguards added a hand to the spade they were holding, and the executives felt the temperature of the cold soil and turned blue.
“stop! Stop pouring the dirt!”
“Let’s talk, let’s talk!”
“Brother, tell me! I will listen!”
When I raised my hand, the mini digger also stopped pushing dirt.
“If I had become an executive, I would have been very quick-witted. Do I look very funny?”
“no!”
“No, what is it? It’s not in words, but the staring eyes are rotting.”
“sorry! It snowed right away!”
Yoo Jong-tae immediately replied.
“Should I pluck my eyes?”
“No. Still, he’s an executive, and he has to serve alcohol, but it’s so disgusting to wear an eye patch with a prosthetic eye. Would you like to run a business properly with that?”
“Then what shall we do?”
“What do you do when you habitually shout bullsh*t?”
“They told me to pull out my teeth first so that I wouldn’t be a bullsh*t. I’ll be back.”
Yoo Jong-tae picked up pliers and jumped down the pit.
“Aww!”
“Ugh!”
After one long scream, the pit fell silent.
After jumping back, Yoo Jong-tae grinned, sticking out two golden teeth.
It was a hollow gold tooth in the middle, probably because it had been covered after nerve treatment.
“Let’s see. The paperwork is very thick. It would be all night trying to list every single thing, right?”
“What should I do? Shall we cut the bullsh*t X?”
“If you cut it, how will you deal with the physiological phenomenon?”
“Then why don’t we take off the X egg with two sides?”
Inside the pit, someone shouted out in astonishment.
“Sah, save me!”
“Wrong! I have committed a mortal sin!”
When one shouts, the other shouts along.
This is why crowd psychology is scary.
There’s no need for me to repeat the same threat 32 times in a one-on-one interview.
In short, is it an efficiency issue?
“Would you like to hear what you did wrong and whether you are reflecting properly?”
“I robbed Taesung Construction’s safe!”
“We handed over the apartment site to Wookwang Construction at a bargain price in cooperation with Kim Gwangpil of Wookwang Construction!”
“I manipulated the ledger and stole the company’s money!”
I poked my ear with my little finger.
“It’s so noisy, I can’t tell who’s at fault. Besides, I am a person who believes in documents more than words.”
I grinned.
“Each of you should write a statement of reflection, no, a statement. right?”
When the sound of the statement came out, the loud shouting stopped.
Someone inside the pit said cautiously.
“Isn’t it too dark and cold? Since my hands are frozen and I don’t think I can write a statement, I can at least take time to reflect verbally…”
So you’re saying you don’t want to leave any evidence that could hold me back?
I won’t be able to dry it anyway.
To think that even after reaching this point, you still want to get out of here.
“If it’s a finger that can’t even write a statement.”
“Should I cut it?”
A scream echoed from the pit like a seizure.
I pretended not to know
“A jigsaw or a hatchet, that is the question?”
“Let’s try both.”
When Yoo Jong-tae strode and appeared above the pit, former executives of Taesung Construction screamed.
“It’s not possible! Then you will bleed to death!”
“Wrong! Please hand it over to the prosecution!”
Still, don’t you say you’re going to write a statement?
In the meantime, someone shouted loudly.
“If you want to serve alcohol, you will have to carry a kettle and a glass, but can you do business properly without your fingers?”
“you’re right! We should serve drinks!”
“of course! We’re not even gangsters, but if we saw our fingers cut off as a group, who would agree to sign a contract with us?”
He exhaled like a sigh in the pit.
However, at the next remark of Yoo Jong-tae, a scream erupted like a seizure.
“Bocchan, then at least pull out your nails.”
“It hurts for a while and it’s over, and it’s growing again. So, will it remain as a lesson to be engraved in your bones? Am I wrong?”
As I poked my face into the pit, I met thirty-two pairs of eyes.
Then came the sound of gasping for breath.
“It’s blood, it’s blood!”
“Look at the eyes. These aren’t the usual pretty crazy eyes!”
“To be so single-minded at that age, huh…!”
“f*ck, just looking at the cancer, it looks like this is properly X.”
I smiled at the disgusting guys.
“Um, toes would be nice.”
“Do, young boy!”
“I don’t have to hold a fountain pen with my foot, so it doesn’t matter if I cut out all ten, right?”
“Please save me!”
I replied languidly.
“When did I kill you? They said they cut off useless fingers or toes that could not even be used for statements.”
“I will write! I will write the statement right now!”
Then the desired answer came out.
‘On the subject of chaebol group executives, it’s okay to like KANGDAGU.’
My purpose is not torture.
It breaks the pride of the ex-executives of Taesung Construction, who run amok without knowing how high the sky is.
“Come to think of it, you didn’t even write an employment contract? After all, useless fingers…”
“I will write! Employment contract, please!”
I looked down at the former executives of Taesung Construction with their tails curled up like dogs.
I lightly shook the thick book in my hand.
“Remember. It’s not just your private parts in this.”
“Well, then…?”
“My parents, siblings, and even my wife and children jumped in and ate a lot. Would you like to join the family together?”
“No, no! Absolutely not!”
“That’s up to you to do in the future.”
Executives of Taesung Construction shouted out all of you.
“I will do my best!”
“I will dedicate all my efforts to rebuilding my bones. So please take care of your family…”
“Isn’t that saying that if I do well, my family will look after me? Thank you, Bocchan!”
I nodded to Yoo Jong-tae.
Yoo Jong-tae raised his thumb.
“As expected, Bocchan! You are so amazing!”
He whispered softly to me so that no one would hear.
“In the end, I pulled out the two gold teeth that were overlaid, sprinkled it on the soil or near my feet, and it was over, right?”
Intimidation is usually half-eaten by the nasty atmosphere.
“Go ahead and get my autograph.”
“yep! Trust me and leave it to me!”
Yoo Jong-tae and Taesung group bodyguards immediately jumped down the pit with paper and ballpoint pens.
Among them, there was one person who was shivering, tied up alone.
When I pointed at the gagged man in his forties, Yoo Jong-tae quickly brought him to me.
“Now that I see it, our homeroom teacher is also buried there?”
＜ Should I pluck or cut? ＞end