#6
“Are you calling me to reply here?”
“why? “You don’t like it?”
My grandfather, who had been sick for a long time, sighed with a blank expression on his face. The influx of invitations and letters could be tiresome, but Grandpa Chairman Seo just looks amused even after seeing the flood of letters.
“How can I be this sick of the guy who is supposed to take over my position? “This shouldn’t even take half a day.”
“But isn’t it a receipt?”
“what? receipt?”
Chairman Seo chuckled at Lee Han’s honest personality both now and then. In fact, no matter how nice the words, most of these letters addressed to my grandfather ultimately want one thing.
Whether you cover it with any kind of rhetoric, or whether you cling to it with miserable tears. Money, nothing more or less.
“I can’t help it. “I am the chairman of various support associations and have held several positions as chairman of the board.”
“So, I don’t know why that busy person even bothers to reply to something like this.”
I really couldn’t understand. I was 23 years old and about to enlist, and I was secretly looking forward to my grandfather’s first job. However, I thought it was strange that they called me to the hospital instead of the office, and the only thing I was asked to do was reply to the receipt, so I sighed in frustration.
“At this rate, if I take the money, that will be the end of it.”
“It’s over.”
“You know that and you still do this?”
Still, Lee Han couldn’t show his displeasure outright in front of his grandfather, so he picked up the top letter. As expected, the main body of the letter, which begins with all kinds of rhetoric, comes out only at the end, just before you get tired of reading it.
“You’re asking for money. “I will put it to good use.”
“Then whatever.”
“… … Are you telling me to take care of this?”
“How do you feel? “Even now, you act like the world is yours and you barely have that much money.”
The grandfather’s eyes as he looked at Lee Han were full of power. Although he has retired from the front line and held honorary directorships here and there due to illness, he was once in charge of the Korean economy. Although he spoke lightly, his true feelings could never be as light as his words.
“Lee Han, if you see that it is worth it, give it to me, but if not, I will stop you. “How much have you seen and learned so far, so you can judge that?”
“It’s not that difficult.”
“Please don’t look at me funny. “If this is all an investment, it’s an investment.”
Grandpa said it as a joke, but Lee Han didn’t believe it. No matter which one he picked up, there were only traces of research on how to make the obvious content, hoping for support, appear ‘less shameless’. For most organizations or individuals, it’s over as soon as they get what they want, so even from a business perspective, it’s a deficit within a deficit.
What is investment?
I couldn’t understand why my grandfather, who was no one else, would take on such losses.
“Then, thanks to you, I will be able to rest comfortably for the first time in a long time. “Even after leaving the company to your father, I couldn’t breathe properly.”
“What are you going to do after resting?”
“What are you doing? “You better take charge of one of these.”
Chairman Seo chuckled as he looked at the letters full of letters in his eldest grandson’s hands. Grandfather! Just then, Yuhan ran up to hug her, and judging by the way she lifted herself up as if she had been waiting, it seemed like she wasn’t as weak as she said. Chairman Seo cleared his throat as he saw Lee Han’s narrowed eyes.
“Hmm. If you do that, you might find out. “I wonder if I’ll get something other than a receipt at least once.”
“… … yes. what.”
There was a look of resignation in Lee Han’s eyes. No matter what my grandfather’s true intentions are, I cannot refuse whatever he asks me to do.
It’s just not obedient.
“Even if something else comes, I will take care of everything. “You are probably leaving it to me to do that.”
“I guess so.”
Lee Han chuckled as if he couldn’t help it at the grandfather’s answer, which seemed to be quite expected. As the secretary guarding a corner of the hospital room helped his grandfather out, saying it was time for a checkup, young Yuhan pouted his lips.
“Hello! Grandpa is gone. Yuhan came and went away. Grandpa is strange. yes?”
“I know.”
Your grandfather was strange not for a day or two.
Lee Han, who was still holding the letter, carelessly ruffled Yuhan’s hair with one hand. Shiny hair, a texture that felt quite interesting even back then.
“brother. Then can I do origami like this? huh?”
“okay.”
Yuhan’s cute hand picked up the letter lying next to Lee Han. Since I started kindergarten, I have developed the skills to do origami in a fairly realistic way. Cut the pretty paper horizontally and once vertically. Unlike Lee Han’s signature, which was extremely annoying, it was filled with quite a bit of sincerity.
“Hey. brother. But shouldn’t we just fold everything?”
“I’m not going to tell you not to do it.”
“But… … But didn’t his grandfather say earlier that something else might come?”
The child chattered innocently while already picking up another envelope on his own. The corner of Lee Han’s mouth quirked up as he wrote his grandfather’s name in a letter asking for his support.
“No way.”
If you give me the money I asked for, what else is there?
Afterwards, Yuhan folded the paper as soon as he could, and Lee Han signed as he could. An ordinary afternoon for a chaebol brother went by without anything particularly memorable.
“Try anything. “As you wish.”
I don’t know if it’s because I couldn’t tell my grandfather about my true feelings, or because I remember kissing Yuhan’s small forehead.
