Time Mansour - Chapter 93
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Episode 93: When rice is embarrassed, it bows its head
Sohyun said.
Seriously.
He’s such an embarrassing kid no matter where you show him.
They say that as people become more mature, they bow their heads more.
Maybe that’s why.
I was hanging my head, my face red.
I couldn’t raise my head because of the stares of the people around me, and just looked at the floor in embarrassment.
on the other side.
“Oh my. It’s all your fault.”
Sohyun didn’t seem to have any shame whatsoever.
After you got annoyed with me.
As if nothing had happened, he looked around and found the book he wanted.
After picking up and putting down books like that, he finds a book he likes and spreads it out on the shelf.
I was curious to see Sohyun reading a book, so I asked her a question.
“What book are you reading?”
“It’s a book on editing videos for YouTube. I’m doing it by myself these days. The kids are all busy.”
Sohyun turns the pages of a book without looking at me, with her head down. Swoosh. The pages turn quickly. It’s not like she’s reading a book, but the pages are flowing like a video.
After Sohyun quickly flips through a book, she turns her head to look at me.
“But you, sir.”
“What is it?”
“Why did you come here? You don’t study, do you?”
Sohyun tilts her head. Her expression is one of complete incomprehension.
I had a burning desire to say something.
If you start a fight here again.
It was obvious that Sohyun would get angry and yell loudly.
Then the shame will be entirely mine.
“For work. I’m looking for some reference books.”
I just answered obediently.
“Huh? You don’t work, sir.”
“I do it sometimes.”
Sohyun’s eyes widened at my answer.
This isn’t that surprising, is it?
He really thinks I’m a person who doesn’t do any work at all.
“Development residue? Are you doing that?”
“Well, it’s similar.”
“Oh man. I don’t think I can do it. Coding is so boring.”
After shaking my head like that, I immediately picked up a book.
It’s the book I was just looking at.
“I chose. What about you, sir?”
“Not yet.”
“Then I’ll go and pay first.”
Sohyun slipped through the book shelves. She headed toward the checkout counter, waving both hands vigorously back and forth.
While Sohyun went to pay the bill, I looked around the bookshelf a bit more. Since I couldn’t find any books that I particularly liked, I hesitated for a moment.
“Sir, are we still far?”
I got my hands on a development book that had a relatively good explanation of Sohyun’s voice.
After calculating like that, I went out. Sohyun followed me quietly. It felt a little strange to see her quietly acting like that.
“That’s amazing.”
“Why again?”
“I didn’t ask you to buy me food today. You always ask me to buy you food whenever you see me.”
“Hey. I’m fine today. I just had lunch.”
And then Sohyun smiled brightly.
“Please buy me a drink instead. I’d like a strawberry latte.”
After a while, he grabbed me by the collar and dragged me away.
**
clearly.
Sohyun said she ate lunch.
That’s why I came to the cafe.
“It’s okay. I just ate. I’m not hungry at all.”
As Sohyun spoke, she was holding a fork in both hands.
“Isn’t it a bit strange to order two slices of cake and then say you’re not hungry?”
“This is dessert. Dessert.”
Then he confidently cuts the cake with a fork.
If you are originally angry, do you burn calories quickly?
Suddenly, a thought crossed my mind that that might be the case.
Well. Anyway, while drinking strawberry latte like that.
“Isn’t that really too much? Are they the only ones studying? Isn’t that right?”
I was listening to Sohyun’s complaints. She was chewing on a piece of cake in her mouth. While spitting out her complaints, foreign substances would occasionally come out as well.
“Sir, these days, kids are all so busy. They don’t play with me.”
“That’s right. I’m busy too.”
“No. Really. That’s not what I meant. Stop it. Who wants to play with you? I won’t play with you.”
Sohyun folds her arms and turns her head. She looks very upset.
I was careful not to make too much noise in the bookstore.
There’s no need to do that in a cafe.
“Okay. By the way, if you don’t want to eat any more cake, give me a fork.”
I just said what I wanted to say.
So I reached out and pretended to snatch the fork.
“I don’t like it. It’s all mine.”
He hid the fork behind his back. Then he shook his head and stuck his tongue out.
After struggling like that for a while, I soon got tired first and stopped playing.
Even so, Sohyun deliberately puts more cream on her mouth to make me feel better.
In the end, I ate the whole piece of cake in no time.
Well. I had no intention of eating cake in the first place, so I just watched the scene with a smile.
So when I gave up the cake, Sohyun also put down her fork, as if she wasn’t having fun.
“What’s the point of studying now? You’ll have to study later anyway. What kind of elementary school student would study?”
And then he started complaining again. Well, if you look at his complaints, they were all about the kids not playing with him.
“Can you study with me too?”
“Because I don’t want to do it. And I don’t have to study.”
“Well, that’s true. Even when you become an adult, you can still do YouTube.”
“No. Not YouTube. When I grow up, I’m going to make a fortune and then live like an old man.”
When I say it’s a one-hit wonder, it sounds a bit strange. If someone hears it, they’ll think I’m a bad person.
I looked at Sohyun with a dumbfounded expression.
Well, I didn’t feel too bad though.
Da-eun, So-hyeon, and Jun-woo, although their reasons were different, I felt good inside that they were nurturing their dreams while looking at me, but on the other hand, I also felt a heavy burden on my shoulders.
Even if it was just a misunderstanding, I feel like the kids are being influenced by me, so I think I need to show them a little bit better.
And it has to be that way.
“I’m going to live like you, loafing around all day, working occasionally, and living like that. My dream is to be a rich, unemployed person.”
Sohyun doesn’t say such strange things.
“I want to make money without doing anything, too.”
Sohyun repeats the same words like a broken recorder.
The kid must have been bored for a while. He’s unusually talkative today.
‘It seems like the kids really don’t play much.’
It was a little sad to see Sohyun like that, but I was worried that if I accepted her too much, she would become spoiled.
No… actually.
I just felt a little lazy, so I pretended to give a vague nod. I feel sorry for Sohyun, but it was the best I could do.
**
After breaking up with Sohyun.
As soon as I got home, I took out my book. It’s been a while since I’ve picked up a book and studied. I’m going back to the beginning and opening the book.
As you get older, you learn slower. It’s partly because you’re getting older, but it’s also a matter of mindset.
When I was a newbie, I didn’t know much. When a problem arose, I couldn’t deal with it. So, I studied a lot of things in advance out of fear.
‘As you gain experience, you just try to fill it with random things.’
Should I say I’ve gotten used to it? Or should I say I’ve lost my fear? Anyway, it’s been a while since I started studying for my personal development.
‘Of course, when I was pressed for time, I somehow found it and learned it.’
When I have some free time like now, I never study separately.
If I were asked to do it later, I would do it somehow. When did I ever say I didn’t know and not do it? I used to go to work with that kind of mindset.
And so it came to pass.
“Wow. I really can’t concentrate.”
I can’t remember at all how desperately I used to read books.
Even I could see that my concentration was seriously lacking. How should I fix this? I kept worrying and worrying about it.
Eventually I concluded that it was probably because I was hungry.
It was clear. I was hungry and my concentration was lacking.
So, I hypnotized myself and got up from my seat.
There is no ramen on the desk today.
I deliberately avoided stopping by the convenience store.
To protect my health.
I come out to the living room and turn on the delivery app.
“···”
Still, chicken is better than ramen.
Because I’ve been working out hard lately
I thought I needed to supplement with natural protein.
I pressed and held the payment button on the delivery app.
And then, with a fluttering heart, I lie down on the bed.
Just a year ago, I thought food was just fuel.
Now you can find what you want to eat and have it delivered.
I really have changed a lot.
**
Ding dong.
After the bell rang in the quiet house.
Finally, the chicken arrived.
The smell of fried food wafts through the cardboard box. I take out the chicken breasts from the plastic bag and throw the sauce straight into the trash bag.
When I opened the plastic wrap on the chicken box, the soup inside overflowed. I opened my mouth wide like a carp that had just surfaced. I quickly put my mouth to my mouth and drank the soup, but my clothes already smelled sour.
My hands were sticky too. I wiped them on my pants a few times. After I finished preparing everything, I held the chicken leg with one hand and touched my laptop with the other. I turned on Netflix, sat down on my chair, and played a video.
‘I haven’t watched it in a while, so there are so many backlogged videos.’
Click the continue button for videos you have previously watched.
like that.
He was laughing and dropping fried crumbs onto the table.
-Jiying.
Suddenly the bed shook. Light leaked out from under the covers.
‘I forgot to close the door.’
The phone is crying on the bed. I try to ignore the crying sound and kick the door open with my foot. Soon the phone stops crying.
‘I’ll have to check my phone later.’
There was a lot of oil on my hands. I didn’t want to bother wiping it off right away. After all, time doesn’t pass in this room. I thought to myself as I bit into the chicken with my teeth again.
As each piece of flesh is torn, a bone or two is added to the cardboard box. The bones are piled up one by one like a stone tower.
In that stopped time, I enjoyed some free time for the first time in a long while.
When I came to my senses, there was nothing left to watch.
Of course, the same goes for chicken.
**
Knock knock.
I stretched and heard the sound of my bones. My stomach felt full and my eyes closed. I thought I would feel even worse if I slept now, so I went to the bathroom to wash my hands.
After washing my hands with soap, I also splashed water on my face to wake me up.
After roughly shaking my hands like that, I went back into my sister’s room.
‘I think I forgot something.’
I remembered belatedly that I had received a call on my cell phone.
I check the cell phone that was on the bed.
A missed call from Agent Chae.
And here comes the message.
-Director Jeong. I heard from the team leader today. I heard that you decided to tune the app. Congratulations.
He then sent a smiling emoticon.
After the performance check test was over, Manager Chae must have been bored too. He sent me a message with all his heart, in order to pick a fight with me.
I should also be polite because of your sincerity. I try to rack my brain to figure out what to say in response so that I won’t feel bad.