＜ Declaration of War ＞
I was sitting with my arms crossed.
Excited that it was Saturday, the grim reaper who lived on the TV clicked his tongue.
[Stop shaking your legs. The fortune falls.]
‘Are you sure you’re out of luck? Is it officially notarized in the underworld?’
[Why don’t you even ask for notarization? That’s just what they say.]
‘Then is it a superstition or an idiom?’
[It’s just crazy… no, why are you acting so sharp today?]
‘Who’s going to pick a fight with a pissed off person?’
[Huh…!]
The grim reaper refused to even watch the TV and turned around to sit cross-legged.
[The tutors are not given a mountain of assignments, the executives are not given all sorts of chores, and even the work of picking anchovy dung is postponed to Yoo Jong-tae…]
The grim reaper banged on the floor and said.
[Sit here. Let’s talk.]
‘I’m annoyed, so can you refrain from saying things like girlfriends? There’s nothing to flirt with while we’re looking at each other.’
[Why are you not responding?]
The grim reaper twitched his brow.
[As usual, it would have already been sorted out.]
‘That’s right.’
admit.
‘What do you mean? It’s the first time in my life that I’m unfamiliar with it.’
[what? The first problem in your life? If it were you, you would have lived through all the dirty things you did?]
Yes, I am a person who was punished by God in my previous life!
Thanks to whoever has his eyes wide open here!
Betrayal, alienation, stabbing in the back, retaliation, grudge, death threats, swindling, scams, etc.
But that’s it.
‘You should know what a family is.’
[what?]
‘If it were someone else, I’d ask, poke, george, or cover it up! It was something that would have been planned, conceived, and executed. It’s clean and simple, even post-processing.’
[You can do that. Plan, envision, and execute immediately.]
‘As a family. Can I really poke, chew, cover, and ask? My way?’
[That, that’s…]
The grim reaper rolled his eyes as if in trouble.
[There seems to be a bit of a problem.]
‘Look at it. That’s why I’m not doing this.’
The more you talk, the deeper the gap between your eyebrows.
‘Did I have parents or siblings? I didn’t even have relatives to take care of, and even the woman I promised to marry.’
[······It did.]
‘There were only a lot of people who turned on the light in their eyes to devour me, so it’s okay if I give back more than I received without showing any mercy? The human relationship itself was simple.’
[······yes.]
‘But it’s family. It’s different from people you’ll cut ties with and never see again. Even if we fought yesterday, we have to eat together today and gather together tomorrow to hold a memorial service.’
[Kuhm.]
‘How are you going to look at me in moderation? How far will you look? How much do I have to endure, how long do I have to wait?’
I shook my head.
‘Phew, difficult, difficult!’
I wonder if there is another problem more difficult than this.
[But it seems like you also had a family?]
‘Oh, rainfall?’
[Yes, the adopted son you picked up and raised. I wouldn’t have lived with him. Wouldn’t it be nice to compare that experience?]
‘Rainfall is a bit different.’
I shook my head again this time.
‘Kangwoo was embarrassed to lie flat on me unconditionally. He acted like someone who owed his life.’
A seven-year-old child was wandering the streets in the middle of the night in the dead of winter, unable to withstand hunger, in her underwear.
When I went into the house with Kang Woo, I wondered if I had lived with the corpses of my dead parents for several days.
It was Kang-woo who took care of the situation and raised it on my family register out of pity.
‘Kangwoo never said anything back, never got angry with me or showed negative emotions like resentment or sadness. I’m just happy, the only thing I can say is thank you.’
Thank you for raising me, thank you for taking care of me, I’m glad you played with me, I’m excited to receive pocket money, etc.
Only positive feedback came back.
Could this be a proper family relationship?
‘I thought it was my real son, but it seems that it wasn’t Kang-woo. There’s nothing I can do about it.’
A case study came to mind.
What the woman who said she would marry wanted was an 80-pyeong apartment located in Gangnam, so there was nothing I couldn’t do for her.
Kang-woo said that he was grateful just for raising him, and refused the bankbook and Han River view penthouse I had prepared, and decided to get married.
The reason why Kang-woo went back to the meeting place was only to take his deceased mother’s bankbook.
‘A good son, a good son.’
So it was more pitiful, it was my sore finger.
‘It was very difficult to unravel the thread of a human relationship once twisted. That’s why I left it alone, and it only accumulated scars. so i repented If it’s going to fester anyway, it’s better to cut it as soon as possible.’
If I let go of her, my mother will continue to marry like this!
Every time I see you slumping and not being able to say that you are the best sister-in-law, I’m dying of frustration!
[Actually, it doesn’t matter if it’s a family.]
‘hmm?’
[Do you know that they don’t betray, fight each other, and don’t hit the back just because they’re related by blood?]
‘······uh?’
[All human relationships are the same, is it different from family? How did you deal with company members when you were a loan shark?]
Suddenly, lightning flashed in my head.
I grinned.
‘Oh, in short, ordering and drawing lines is the problem, isn’t it?’
[······uh?]
‘Is it simple?’
I jumped up from my seat.
‘Hey, Guardian. thanks.’
Whether the grim reaper opens his eyes round or not.
‘Something seems to have come to a strange conclusion, but let’s talk more…’ or not.
I picked up my coat and stormed out the door.From noble mtl dot com
Now that the planning and conception have been completed, it is time to execute them.
“Today is the day I go to my grandfather’s house, right? I’ll be back!”
“Jeonghyuk-ah, wait! Your shoes are mismatched!”
Whether or not someone calls from behind.
“Chief Yu, please.”
“Yes, leave it to me, Jong-tae Yoo!”
The quick-witted bodyguard and self-proclaimed number two, Yoo Jong-tae, was already running with his coat and car keys.
* * *
jump!
“grandfather!”
“Oh, what a surprise! Is my baby here?”
Grandpa was sitting on a chair at the tea table in the master bedroom and reading the newspaper.
He chuckled as he put down the newspaper and reading glasses.
“Looks like you came running in a month? Do you want to see Halaebi so much? Or business after all…”
“What kind of business is it to freeze to death? Isn’t it time we were talking about business at leisure?”
“hmm?”
“I came today to see my grandfather’s face and ask him.”
“Let’s sit down and talk for now. Do you want to drink ssanghwa tea or honey water?”
“It’s a double car. Float two whole egg yolks.”
The old woman who was trimming her nails jumped up.
“Chairman, I will come.”
The grandmother said in a small way, “My Jeong-hyeok is a ssanghwa car. Whisk in two egg yolks. memo.” he muttered.
“Bring some snacks to accompany your Ssanghwa Tea!”
“If it’s for snacks, chocolate cookies and butter cookies would be good, right?”
“no.”
I shook my head.
“Puffed rice or white snow. Not without it.”
“No. there is! Absolutely there! Puffed rice, white snow. memo······.”
Grandmother fluttered her skirt and left the room.
‘Wow, the whole room is golden.’
The living room and kitchen, where many people come and go, are the sophisticated and splendid conglomerate houses themselves, but the interior style of the master bedroom is a bit different.
Furniture and bedding, as well as tolerable props, are all gleaming golden.
Even the decorations on the curtains had large gold beads hanging from them, and large jewels in the middle were studded with colorful lights.
‘Is this really my style?’
Most people get scared and run away when they see my taste.
It turns out that even this taste was a family tradition.
I sat down in a golden tea table chair.
“You’re going to follow me. What’s wrong?”
“It’s my grandfather’s behavior.”
“huh? my behavior?”
“You can’t stop the daughters-in-law from fighting, but you keep setting the stage for a fight.”
“I?”
I’m annoyed, but I can’t curse.
I sighed and inflated my cheeks.
“I thought of my grandfather’s face, and I didn’t want to blush with my family, so I endured and endured it. I can’t stand it anymore.”
“So, what specifically are you dissatisfied with?”
“Two great mothers. You couldn’t eat my mother from the beginning, so it was a mess? It’s very blatantly disrespectful.”
“That’s a common brawl between daughters-in-law…”
It was the sound of a rank fight.
“Grandpa, as the head of the family, should have done the traffic right.”
“That’s why you prevented it from turning into a big fight.”
“It’s not about stopping the fight, it’s about blocking the fight. It’s not about sorting out the ranks and whether or not there is a dogfight, it’s the first thing to set up rules and discipline them.”
I snorted.
“Do the daughters-in-law say everything they want to say in front of their father-in-law, not knowing that they are afraid of them?”
“I’m not a dictator…”
“Who said anything about being honest with your father-in-law? It’s a problem because I’m trying to catch my lower sister like a mouse. After giving the scars as they are, ‘Pull only to that point.’ Is it okay if I just pretend to stop it belatedly?”
Grandpa coughed.
“Did I tell you? It’s not enough just to clean up the family register. They say that even wounds caused by words will fester and rot if left unattended. It lasts a lifetime.”
“Kuhm! I’ll prick my tie later…”
“When later? How long do I have to endure it? After my mother’s festering wound burst? I will decline that first.”
Grandpa had a puzzled look on his face.
“I know that there are positions and circumstances other than grandfather.”
“Kuhm!”
“I don’t know everything, but I think I can guess why the daughters-in-law are paying attention.”
“okay. It’s all because I raised my children wrong.”
“Then you should call the child who raised you wrong and beat him up. Why do you let my strict mother be cut off?”
“…”
I just cut it out.
“Just as if the police don’t properly organize the 12-lane traffic, it leads to traffic congestion and accidents, so if the grandfather, the eldest adult of the family, doesn’t properly organize the house, it will lead to family quarrels.”
“Junghyeok, each family has its own circumstances…”
“The fight in each house should have ended there. Why should the whole family get together, but we, who are not guilty of fighting other people’s houses, have to live without noticing?”
“Because we are a family, we understand each other little by little…”
“His family! So our family is not even family? Then why is it that no one wants to understand my mother’s position?”
“Keuheum, I know that too…”
“It wasn’t until after a family fight and sibling fight broke out in our family that ‘Oh no, even this house is in trouble!’ Would you like to?”
“…”
“By the way, what do we care if Uncle Dad gets a divorce or not? If you are upset because the house is noisy, it is innocent to take out your anger on my easy-going mother, right?”
I could see the water jug, so I poured cold water and drank it in one go.
I feel sick!
“Draw the line properly. Please crack down on your children properly.”
I put the glass of water down on the tea table with a thud.
“I think if you are a real family, you should be able to discipline them by cutting out the wrong things.”
This is why I decided to open my mouth at the risk of blushing with my grandfather.
“Don’t use the name family just for nothing. No matter how much my family does, I really can’t stand it anymore if my mom keeps messing with me.”
“So you’re saying you’re going to fight with uncle’s family?”
“If necessary.”
Be warned that I do not avoid the oncoming fight.
“It can’t be helped that my grandfather says he doesn’t know me. I have to protect my family.”
I jumped off the chair.
“Think carefully. Accepting it just because you feel sorry for it is not a good thing.”
That’s all I had to say.
‘Whoa.’
Grandpa might think I’m too mean.
Still can’t help it!
Because my mother, who raised me through hard times, comes first rather than my uncle’s family whom I have never seen before.
‘I think I know why my father made this expression at the time.’
Suddenly, I thought of my father, who stood firm against my mother and saying that he could not abandon me.
Would my father then feel the same way as I do now?
jump!
“Jung Hyuk is right! There is nothing wrong with that!”
it was grandma
“Do you know that I’ve been gritting my teeth and holding back my temper while listening to my stepmother’s voice to see things like this?”
Grandmother came into the room with a sigh.
A tray of ssanghwa tea and fried dumplings was placed on the tea table until it made a clicking sound.
“Do you know that someone asked me to come because I couldn’t tell my daughter-in-law to get married? Because these really want to see!”
Grandma exploded.
“Convening the entire family tonight!”
“…!”
“I can’t see my daughter-in-law being mistreated!”
“Honey, the owner!”
“Don’t stop! Have I ever said anything to the president about my outside work? You know that this is definitely a chore, and from now on it’s my responsibility!”
Grandmother hit the tea table with a bang.
“It’s been 29 years since I’ve lived in this house! I’m still like that, but at most, are you territorial, campaigning for your daughter-in-law because you’ve lived together for a dozen years?”
Grandpa flinched, Grandma snarled.
“I heard that this is a mess because of Taesung Chemical? Taesung Chemical? How much is that? Do you know anyone who lives without money? If these are money, I know they’re sweet!”
Grandma snorted.
“If you’re going to bet money like that, let’s start by figuring out how much I share in Taeseong’s share! Shall we hit the calculator with an average annual interest of 67.8% and 30-year compound interest according to the rules of our parents’ house?”
For some reason, a very familiar calculation method popped out.
＜Declaration of War＞ End