My Dad is Too Strong - Chapter 243
As a child, Kang Min-hyuk left his parents’ hands and grew up in the arms of his grandmother.
Before entering elementary school, I cried a lot because I still needed my parents’ warm hands, and the memories of being angry and grumpy with my grandmother went by. I wanted to see my parents, and I cried all day wearing a blanket to send them home.
“……….”
After puberty, when I realized that my parents had abandoned me, I felt nothing. She gave birth to herself at a young age, and her mother left the house because of the disagreement, and her father left her to take care of his children, saying that he could not cope with the alcohol all day long.
Since then, she remarried with another man and started a new family.
My father has been informed that he has returned to acute myocardial infarction due to alcohol.
Anyway, when I realized the only family I had left was my grandmother,
I grew up faster than my age, and I couldn’t dream of going to college because of my poor environment, so I decided to graduate high school and join the military right away.
My grandson is enlisting tomorrow, but he can’t take me…
I couldn’t get an uncomfortable grandmother to come to Nonsan, where the training center was.
Seventeen years old, crooked waist, hands full of stiff flesh and small wrinkles.
Kang Min-hyuk thought about whether it would be good for him to join the military leaving his grandmother alone, but he decided that it was obedience to get a proper job by getting discharged quickly.
If you want something to eat, let me know.
So he said he wanted some chicken. Crispy Fried Chicken that came out for school meals occasionally. Or the captain of the school tried to turn the chicken on a special day, but I couldn’t forget the taste. So I told my grandmother that I wanted some chicken.
What’s a chicken?
I explained the chicken. Fried chicken in oil. However, my grandmother’s wallet was not enough. There was an old pension in the country, but I didn’t have any money if I paid utilities and bought some rice or street food. I’ve barely got enough money to get to Nonsan, so I’m done talking. My grandmother expresses her apology.
I can’t right now because I don’t have any money…. Next time we take our grandchildren on vacation, I’ll buy them for you.
I wanted to stop for a moment. I was sorry because it seemed to weigh on my grandmother’s heart for no reason. I don’t care if you don’t eat chicken. I just want my grandmother to be healthy and happy forever.
After completing the training process, he was assigned to a military base.
My dull appearance disappeared and my muscles became as strong as a man. Life in the military was not difficult. If there was anything difficult, it was that the behavior had left the uncomfortable grandmother alone.
Congratulations. Your first vacation?
A two-night, three-day vacation with a squad deployed for the first time.
I declared a leave of absence to the administration clerk, and ironed my battle clothes like a knife and flashed the brightness of my boots. I gathered some salaries from senior officials to see if they heard that the family was difficult.
Buy Grandma something delicious. He’s just waiting for you to come out on vacation.
I cried because I was so grateful for the consideration of my superiors.
And thanks to the driver and the on-call officer’s consideration, he left early the next morning.
I got excited and drove home in my first car. When I arrived at the front of the house, I looked at the reflection of the road and tidied up my clothes. I wanted to look good.
Standing in front of an old iron gate.
Kang Min-hyuk smiled. When you hear my voice, your grandmother will come running. I was going to pay my respects to my grandmother and raise a big temple after saluting her magnificent crocodile. Your grandson has regained his graceful appearance.
After opening the iron door and entering the yard.
With a palpitation, “Grandma, here I am. ‘I shouted in a cornered voice. However, no matter how many times I called, my grandmother didn’t come out. When I opened the long statement, I saw a grandmother covering her duvet. He always wakes up in the morning because he can’t sleep, but he must be tired today. Kang Min-hyuk smiled.
Grandma, I’m here.
Sleep shakes her and tries to wake her up. But I didn’t think it would happen. He must have been very tired.
Min-hyuk is here.
Shake a few times However, she looked pale as a grandmother. Suddenly, anxiety came over me, and from then on, I called her by the neck like crazy, and I tapped my shoulder with my palm. Despite the summer, I felt no warmth at all. It was as cold as a corpse.
Tak! Tak!
I couldn’t breathe for a moment, so I punched myself in the chest with my fist.
Calendar on drawer. On the day of today, I noticed a paper with circles on it and a map of the chicken house in Namdaemun Market called ‘Old Aid Chicken’ next to it. Then I choked, and I started beating my chest harder.
And that day.
The autopsy revealed that he would have died quietly at dawn.
After that, Kang Min-hyuk couldn’t put chicken on his mouth.
“…….”
Kang Min-hyuk thought it was time to go down.
You can’t eat chicken, but the guild members are waiting for you.
The moment I woke up from my seat thinking I should just drink beer after briefly conveying the encouragement.
I heard a text message on my smartphone. It was a text from Joo Joon.
[Do you have a moment?]
* * *
Jubbuck.
“…….”
Kang Min-hyuk is hanging next to a rusty iron gate.
The light touches the worn old doorframe. It was blurry, but it was clearly written as Kim Wal-soon. It’s been a long time since I’ve been back. Kang Min-hyuk did not understand why Joon told him to come here. How did Joo know about this place and what kind of house this is?
Yuck.
Pushing lightly against the iron door, it opens with a beep. After a long sigh, Kang Min-hyuk took a hard step and crossed the threshold. As you enter the courtyard, you see a tightly closed ledger. Somehow, I felt like my grandmother would lie down when I opened the long statement, and my eyes turned red.
“Grandma.”
Kang Min-hyuk glanced at the long statement and said.
“Here I am. Grandma.”
A hollow cry like an echo that never returns.
Kang Min-hyuk bitterly smiled, took out his smartphone and tried to contact Joon. I found the ‘principal’ listed in the telephone book and pressed the Call button. No, I didn’t.
Glug.
“Oh my! My grandson is here!”
Kang Min-hyuk dropped his smartphone.
The long fingerprint opens, and someone jumps out of the way. Kang Min-hyuk’s eyes widened. A crooked old woman came over and grabbed my hand. Kang Min-hyuk’s lips trembled. At that moment, I was strangled.
“To… money…….”
10 years ago, the way he remembered it.
Despite my yearning, I saw my grandmother in front of my eyes.
“My baby, it’s been hard, hasn’t it? You’re losing weight.”
Your clumsy hands continue to touch the back of your hand.
Is he seeing visions now? Yeah, this has got to be a hallucination.
There’s no way someone who died 10 years ago could be here. But why does it feel so vivid? I pinch my cheek. It hurts.
“Come on in. Grandma got the chicken.”
Taken by my grandmother’s hand, I took off my shoes and went up to the floor.
You hear a creaking sound. And as you enter the room, you see the chicken lying on the tin table. Inside the box that says’ Old Aid Chicken, ‘the old lady took out the cold chicken and began to tear it up with her good hands.
“…….”
“I was hot earlier, but I was a little cold. If I’d known this was gonna happen, I’d have come and bought you.”
Grandma placed the chicken on a plate in front of Kang Min-hyuk. I left out the crust with the fried powder. It contains only the meat.
“Grandma will keep you alive, so eat up.”
Kang Min-hyuk’s eyes turned red.
Then, I smiled, stealing tears with the back of my hand.
“Grandma, chicken is delicious when it comes to pork and shells.”
“Oh, my God, is that it?”
Then my grandmother put the shell she had left aside next to the fillet.
Kang Min-hyuk took the chicken by hand and put it in his mouth. Like my grandmother said, the chicken was cold. The chicken was covered in tears and snot, so it didn’t taste right, but it didn’t matter. Kang Min-hyuk shed tears and shoved the chicken in his mouth.
“Why is my grandson crying? Doesn’t it taste good?”
“No…. Really…. really…. Delicious.”
“Are you crying because someone’s bothering you? Or it’s hard to train…”
“It’s not hard… Seniors are really good people. He ironed my battle clothes for me because I’m going on vacation, and he cleaned my combat boots. And he said,” Have a nice vacation by collecting your salaries. “So, don’t worry.”
“Really?”
“Yes, I do.”
Kang Min-hyuk couldn’t finish all the chicken. Not because I was full, but because I felt like my grandmother would disappear if I ate it all. Kang Min-hyuk stopped eating, got up and stood up to see his grandmother.
“What are you not eating?”
Kang Min-hyuk is silent.
I raised a big temple to my grandmother.
Suddenly, Kim Wal-soon was embarrassed by Kang Min-hyuk raising his temple instead of eating chicken.
“Grandma… Thank you. Thank you so much for raising me. And I’m really sorry for being mean to you when you were a kid. I had a grandmother, so I could be here now.”
Kim Wal-soon, who was embarrassed, showed a peaceful face.
When I first came here, my great-granddaughter, who was really excited, had suddenly surpassed his height. Besides, what a character. There are many handsome people in the world, but no one is more handsome than their grandchildren.
“You’re all grown up, my grandson….”
“Yes!”
Kang Min-hyuk couldn’t get his forehead off the floor.
If I show my face now, I’ll look ugly to my grandmother.
I’m afraid I’m going to look like I’m about to burst into tears and start to shed tears.
“Now…. I’m relieved……”
The grandmother laughed and muttered.
After a while, Kang Min-hyuk slowly raised his head.
Her appearance was becoming more and more transparent. However, she looked beyond the long fingerprint, not at herself.
“Thank you……. Bachelor.”
Soon she was completely gone.
Kang Min-hyuk looked back, stealing his tears. And I looked up at her palm where she was sitting. I definitely felt warm. Kang Min-hyuk got up and went out to the yard.
“Have you said enough?”
“…… Yes.”
Joon looked at the tin food table.
To be precise, a chicken on a rice table.
“I guess you’ve had enough. For failing to keep the promise you made…….”
“…….”
“My grandmother would have gone to the ninth heaven on her own. Your grandson grew up so well.”
Kang Min-hyuk nodded slightly.
JooJoon looked back at Kang Min-hyuk like that.
“What about you? The snake in my heart…. Did it go well?”
Kang Min-hyuk’s eyes turned red again.
“…… Yes.”
“Glad to hear it.”
Joon remembered Kim Wal-soon walking around in front of the market coop.
Her smile, gladly watching her grandson eat the chicken, was beautiful enough that she would not be forgotten for a while.