Time Mansour - Chapter 17



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Episode 17 Before we start again

**

Raised two children while playing the sewing machine.

When mom steps on the pedal.

Ohhh. Ohhh. My sister sang a song.

When my mother smiled brightly, stars shone.

So every night the stars shone.

**

This is my second visit.

The atmosphere is different from before.

There is a sense of leisure on the director’s face.

Would you like some mixed coffee? When I nodded, the manager poured hot water.

“I heard. You were in a band.”

“It was just a club. Well. It was kind of bad.”

I laughed.

It wasn’t a great skill.

An ordinary high school band. That’s about it.

“Do you still know how to play?”

“Not at all. I don’t even remember the code anymore.”

It’s been 15 years.

Now, when I think of code, Spring code comes to mind first.

“But if you hit me again, I’ll remember.”

“It wasn’t erased. It was overwritten.”

Recovery will be difficult. I tapped my head lightly with my fingers.

Have a light, everyday conversation.

It was a different experience than when I first came.

The manager places a 4TB hard disk drive on the table.

“One? Is this all?”

“Yes. Please. This time, please write down the account number.”

“all right.”

I picked up the hard disk.

The manager was smiling strangely.

**

Paradise shopping mall.

When I was young. I first came here with my mom.

‘Youngjun. Can you see it? Over there. That’s the Paradise Apartment.’

I remember my mother smiling brightly toward the Paradise Shopping Mall.

I started working as a seamstress when I was 8, and started using a sewing machine when I was around 11.

For the young sewing machine worker in the shantytown, luxury apartments were just a distant dream.

“It’s changed a lot.”

Well. After that, the kids came along a few times to buy guitars.

Even that was a memory from long ago.

Keyboard. Where is the keyboard? I mutter to myself.

Find the store where the keyboards are displayed by pointing with your finger.

The interior of the Paradise Statue was tangled like a maze.

Find the stairs.

As if it couldn’t be easily uploaded, the stairs were kept tightly hidden.

From small and medium-sized enterprises to mid-sized enterprises, and from mid-sized enterprises to foreign enterprises.

I found the hidden stairs and climbed up one step at a time.

“Is there a product you are looking for?”

“No. I’ll just take a look around.”

The employee who got up awkwardly sits down again.

Take a quick look at the instrument.

Long time no see.

It was the first time I pressed the keyboard since entering the orphanage.

A small orphanage attached to a church.

I begged the director to let me play the piano.

The teacher accepted the tantrum of a young child who could not forget his mother.

“They’re all similar.”

Even if I look, I still don’t know.

I guess it’s better to just use what I’m used to. My old keyboard was probably an Amaha product.

like that.

Towards the one that looked most similar to the keyboard in the band room.

“Please give me that one.”

He raised his finger.

**

On the way home.

-Jiiiiing.

The vibration rings.

Blackhard’s Managing Director Lee Yoon-cheol.

I guess the news has already reached our competitors.

-Jiying. Jiying.

The cell phone keeps shaking.

It’s noisy.

I turned off my phone by pressing the power button.

ha.

Sigh.

There were many places to come.

It’s a narrow floor.

As much as the bad rumors.

Good news travels fast.

Even if Director Chun spreads malicious rumors.

It didn’t really mean anything.

Because there were more salespeople and engineers who had seen me in person for a long time.

People tend to believe what they see more than what they hear.

“There is no problem.”

Earnestness was the only talent I had.

No matter how unreasonable the customer’s demands are.

I endured it with a smile and endured it again.

Honestly, from my perspective, the development team’s deputy manager is not even on the top level.

It’s just that they were a bit sensitive for a large corporate customer.

Small and medium-sized businesses. When it comes to the level of individual business owners, even more rude cases are common.

so.

The moment when I started swearing at Vice President Ko over something trivial and insignificant.

I felt it myself.

I have changed.

When my sister left, my only talent disappeared with her.

**

Two days passed.

-Dingdong! Customer Jeong Yeongjun.

This is Mast Delivery, a sincere delivery company.

We are leaving with the product that Mr. Jeong Yeong-jun has been waiting for.

Expected delivery time: 7-9pm

I bought a keyboard on a whim.

Well, it’s not like there’s any grand purpose to it.

Now that I have some free time.

I was thinking of turning it on every time I was bored.

“Because your room will be well soundproofed.”

I’ll have to try it out as soon as the delivery arrives.

I don’t know if my fingers will move.

While thinking about that, I was looking up sheet music on the Internet.

-Jiiiiing

I got a call from Seongtae.

“Come up quickly. The kids are gathered here now.”

“Not today.”

“why?”

“The delivery will come later. I have to wait.”

“···”

Shit. He’s talking like a delivery man. He’s doing it again. If it’s annoying, just say it’s annoying. No. It looks like that guy is seeing a woman. Several voices could be heard on the other end of the line.

The lines he recited are the same as when he was a student.

Not a single word has changed.

“Okay. Come quickly.”

Stop.

Seongtae hung up the phone without even answering.

‘It won’t work. I can’t do it today.’

I sent another message to the delivery man, asking him to leave the package in front of my door.

If I don’t go this time, I’ll be worried for the rest of my life.

Are you the only one who’s busy?

These are the people who would say anything even if they came to my grandson’s wedding.

furthermore.

I’ve been busy for 15 years already.

There were no more excuses.

**

World Beer Discount Store.

I glanced at the sign. It didn’t seem to be the place that Seongtae had made.

He goes inside, muttering to himself.

As soon as I entered, I saw kids at the table right in front of me.

“Why are you all gathered here all of a sudden?”

“It’s your retirement party. Come and sit down. Let’s have a drink.”

Myung-gyu smiles and opens a bottle of beer.

The lid falls to the table with a bang.

“What the hell. That’s an excuse.”

“It’s not a retirement celebration. It’s Myeong-gyu. He suddenly called me because he was bored today.”

Gukyeong and Seongtae shook their heads while looking at Myeonggyu.

I thought so.

It was the same when I was young.

There was no particular reason for us to meet each other.

Just. They were the kind of friends I would contact when I was bored.

“What? It’s a matter of humility.”

Myung-gyu scratches his head in embarrassment.

Myunggyu is a drummer.

I used to play drums in the school band. It just kind of looks like a drum can.

“Myung-gyu. You seem to have gained weight.”

“You should go see an eye doctor. I lost about a kilogram recently. Is something wrong with my eyes?”

“One hundred and twenty. One hundred and seventeen. That’s it, isn’t it?”

They laugh and taunt each other as usual. Nothing has changed.

Except for the wrinkles around my eyes that become more evident every time I smile.

Everyone is still the same as they were back then.

“So what are you going to do? Do you have anything in mind?”

Guk-yeong, who was next to me, turned his head and looked at me.

After laughing and chatting for a while, everyone looks at me with a very serious expression.

“I don’t know. But I’m never going to do the cloud again.”

“Then. Are you going to become a developer?”

“No. To be honest, it’s not that I don’t like working in IT. I just don’t like going to work.”

Everyone nods their heads to what I say.

It looks like everyone agrees.

In any company, people are more difficult than the work.

“What about that data? How about that? You’re a self-employed person, right?”

“I’m not confident. It’s not my field.”

“Why? This manager praised you so much. He said you were incredibly fast compared to other companies.”

That’s it. What.

It’s not so much my skills as it is my sister’s room.

It wasn’t a difficult task to begin with, as there were a lot of sheep.

“Anyway, I’m jealous. I should quit my job too.”

“What the hell. Don’t hit people.”

“Am I you?”

Myung-gyu and Seong-tae start joking around again.

The glasses of alcohol went back and forth a few times.

In the end, Seongtae was the first to get up from his seat.

“Okay. Let’s go for round two. Round two. Youngjun will pay for round two.”

“Do you want to get something from a freeloader?”

It didn’t really matter to me though.

I’ll just grumble once.

“It’s petty. I bet you got a nice treat from this director. I heard he put a lot of thought into sending it.”

“Huh? What?”

“··· Didn’t you check it?”

“uh.”

“···”

To my answer.

Seongtae looked at me with a dumbfounded expression.

**

There are a lot.

I was a little surprised when I saw the numbers printed on the ATM.

The amount of money this manager sent is larger than expected.

Somehow, it felt strange.

The second hard drive I recovered was a bait.

A decoy to find out my account number.

If you add up the money you’ve saved up for retirement, you’ll have enough money to easily open a restaurant or cafe.

however.

‘Will I be able to do business?’

‘I’ve lived in front of a computer my whole life.’

well.

I think to myself and then shake my head without realizing it.

I’d rather go with a data recovery company.

I was more confident than the restaurant.

If you need to recover a large amount of data in a short period of time.

I had some advantages too.

But, it is more about being confident than doing business.

To be honest, it’s a bit ambiguous.

I know how to do a little bit of everything.

If you look at them one by one, they are not competitive.

Virtualization, networks, backend development, data, etc.

So much so that people around him jokingly call him a problem solver.

I’ve done all kinds of things in the IT field for 15 years.

But once I left the company, I couldn’t use it.

While I was standing in front of the ATM, lost in my thoughts.

“So how much did you get in?”

Seongtae slowly raises his head.

The way he smiled seemed a little vulgar.

“Just a little bit.”

“Okay. Then you shoot the second one.”

Seongtae rubs my back.

Hurry. Hurry. I’m going to be late. I’m going to be late. Unable to resist Seongtae’s temper, my body was pushed forward.