Chapter 183 – #183. Surgery
“What did you buy?”
“I bought some meat.”
Dad taking out groceries one by one from a plastic bag.
I started to organize my luggage as if I would help by the side.
Naeun also tried to help her by her side, but it was her father who hit her player before me who stopped her.
“Naeun is going to rest. I have a child, so why should I do something like this?”
“That’s right. Naeun. You just relax I’ll help Dad.”
“Still…”
It was then.
“Naeun, please talk to me separately for a moment.”
Naeun was taken away by her mother who came out of her room for a while.
I was worried about what the two of them would say, but since it’s Naeun, I think I’ll do my best.
At least he’s more savvy than me.
As soon as I finished cleaning the refrigerator, Dad started preparing dinner right away.
“What. Doesn’t her mother do?”
“Your mother is talking to Naeun-ssi, isn’t it?”
“Then is Dad cooking?”
“I’m going to eat meat anyway, so I can prepare that much. Minho, you too, wash your hands and come here.”
I nodded at my father’s instructions, washed my hands thoroughly with soap, and stood next to him.
“Chop some green onion over there.”
“Yeah.”
I’m not good at cooking, but it’s about simple labor like this.
The thing that made me tired of the architecture department was cutting.
Of course, in a slightly different way.
As the green onion was sliced without a word, Dad handed over the apple in a calm voice.
“…I’m sorry I hit you a little while ago.”
“No way. No. I was just right. What.”
Even if my son did that, I don’t think he would have left it alone.
I was the one who should consider myself fortunate that my strict dad ended up at that level.
“…Naeun-ssi.”
“Yes.”
“It was pretty.”
I burst out laughing at my father’s words.
“Honestly, I never expected in my life that you would bring such a pretty child.”
“No. What do you think of your son?”
“Isn’t that so? Considering your usual behavior and the fact that you haven’t seen a single girl so far, it’s strange from our point of view.”
My father, who says at length that he was roughly ignorant.
“Certainly… I’ve had some luck.”
It was right that it was a relationship that started by chance.
If I hadn’t been in the middle of winter
If Naeun wasn’t HNE.
We would have lived as strangers without knowing each other’s identity, like parallel lines that would never meet.
“Of course, we’ll have to talk a bit more to find out, but it seems like you’re polite.”
Unlike the grim atmosphere a moment ago, my father expressed various impressions of Naeun.
“That’s right. How good are you with adults?”
I wasn’t praised, so why am I so proud?
That was the moment.
“But why did you suddenly let her get pregnant! You bastard!”
“Dad! Knife! Let’s talk about our knives!”
I didn’t know what to do with wooden swords, but that’s really scary.
On the meat, grease from the cut dripped onto the floor from the tip of the knife.
“Ah… I’m sorry… Ah. But the more I think about it, the more my fever rises.”
Uh… This sub-team leader…
I couldn’t predict his father’s anger control disorder.
It feels like a volcano whose eruption time is unknown.
Ever since I was little, I often thought that I shouldn’t do that.
“Dad. I’m going to be a father too… Please take care of it a little bit…”
“So… I’m also a grandfather… Soon… Heh heh…”
Dad smiled dejectedly and then he prepared his own meat.
“It’s Minho. I married your mother when I was twenty-nine.”
“Yes.”
“So you’re saying you’re thirty years old?”
“Yes.”
Dad’s expression as if he was lost in memories.
“I still remember. After graduating from college, I just got a job, and it was you who came out.”
From there, my dad started to tell me the story of his marriage to my mom, which I had heard so much.
It was something I knew all about.
How did Dad fall for Mom, and how the two of them developed love.
How did you get married and have me?
But why?
I heard the stories that I thought were boring today, but I couldn’t let them go with one ear.
* * *
Being alone with my mother made my hands sweat again.
I entered the room that looked like her brother’s room and sat face to face with my mother.
“Mr. Naeun.”
“Yes…”
“Why are you so depressed?”
I’m afraid of my mother.
Still, the words of my cold mother were ringing in my ears.
“No. Something like that.”
“Of course, I know it’s not a comfortable position, but I’ll ask you a few questions because we still need to talk.”
“Yes yes.”
It was a situation where the string of tension could not be slowed down even an inch.
“I have no choice but to ask about Naeun’s family relationship.”
Hukou investigation.
My brother had also been beaten in our house, so I expected that I would be no different.
“Ah. I have both parents and one younger sister.”
“What do you guys do?”
“My father runs a shop in our neighborhood, and my mother is a piano teacher.”
“Is your brother a college student?”
“Ah. Yes. I entered this year.”
When my mother asked about her sister’s entrance exam results, I couldn’t help but smile.
Because I went to a better school than my older brother.
My sister is also benefiting from you. Nayeon.
“Okay. Naeun-san, you and Minho are in the same grade, right?”
“Yes.”
“Since you said you took a leave of absence, what are you planning to do with school in the future?”
I got pregnant in April… In 10 months, the birth is around February…
“I plan to take a leave of absence for one more year.”
My body was also a body, and someone had to take care of the child to be born.
“Is that okay?”
“I’m going to wait for my brother to graduate and go back to school the following year.”
I haven’t discussed it properly with my brother yet, but I thought this was the best.
“Do you plan on getting a job after graduation?”
“Uh… I’ll probably work as a freelancer.”
“Are you a freelancer?”
“That… I’m not an architect, but I’m still doing a separate job of drawing with a computer.”
“Um… Is that so?”
A look that I don’t know.
I just wanted you to not ask me to show you the picture you drew.
“Mr. Naeun. I honestly hope that Minho is not the only person doing economic activities at home alone.”
“Of course, it is true that Minho somehow managed to accumulate a large amount of money, one billion, but that money would disappear at once if the two of them were to sell or sell a house. It may not be enough by Seoul standards.”
House prices in Seoul…
Mother’s realistic remarks made me salivate.
We had a house we had a current contract with, so we had no plans to move yet.
However, moving was inevitable.
It was realistically impossible for three people to live in such a small house with a room without a window.
“That’s why I hope we don’t depend too much on our son for our economic power.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
At least I’ll save you more than a hundred units for your son’s illustration. Mother.
“And our Minho…”
It was that moment when it felt like he had something to say.
“Mom!”
My brother opened the door.
No. Hey man, I was going to knock and ask him to come in, but I realized that this was an emergency because of the unusual smell behind me.
“Eggumina. What does this smell like?”
His mother must have noticed right away, stopped him and jumped up from his chair.
“No. What are you doing!”
“I told you to do some meat with the one I bought.”
I swear, this smell was far, far away from anything I know.
I followed my mother as she ran into the kitchen.
The smell of herbal medicine that stings the nose.
I felt like I was in some oriental medicine clinic.
“…How many of those did you put in?”
“A… 6 bottles? I put everything in the house.”
The scene of the accident was literally a catastrophe.
In the meantime, I must say that I get a fever when I see the crookedly sliced leeks.
Just looking at the knife, I could tell that my brother had done it.
“No! Just trim the material. Why are you making healthy meat like that?”
“You talked to Naeun-ssi, so I tried to do it in advance.”
“If you’re going to do it, do it well. Somebody put 6 bottles of this!”
What my father put in the pot was Xhwatang, which is often sold in pharmacies as a fire extinguisher.
It is said that it is often used to catch fish, but it was clear that this was a two-much.
“Ugh! Take it out again.”
My father and brother are confused by my mother’s urgent voice.
I was certain that this chaotic situation was an opportunity to score points.
And when it comes to Hannah, you can’t leave out cooking.
“Mother! I will do it!”
Really. Lee Min Ho.
You should thank me
That’s how I came to my in-laws’ house for the first time out of the blue and went into a broken meat surgery.
…Of course, I cut the green onion that my brother cut like a beggar.
