Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 92

With embarrassment, my hand went to my head.

“It’s only been a day since I’ve known you, so it’s hard to say something like this, but your new haircut is cute.”

Seeing the youngest of her three brothers holding back her laughter as she spoke, she didn’t seem to be all that cute.

“Ah yes. Heh, the hair salon I went to was closed, so I went to the new hair salon… … . I guess I explained it wrong. Whoops.”

“Oh, the Michelle hair salon downstairs? We used to go there too, but it’s a pity that the door is closed.”

“I recommend this white rose beauty salon.”

“Fufu. We will consider it.”

Looking at his face, he doesn’t look like he’s going.

“Are you coming to our laundry by any chance?”

“Yeah, I think we had a weird look at the beginning. To apologize too… … .”

“Oh, come in. I will also call Mr. Yu. I don’t know if I can empty the store now. It’s time for a lot of guests.”

“Hey, we didn’t make an appointment in advance and we came at any time.”

“Fine. Please sit here.”

I was led to a table in the small garden in front of the laundry (it’s not that big of a garden, but I’ll call it a garden).

The three of them were still showing off their white hair and smiling.

“It is also beautiful. When I first came, I thought it was a very old and unsightly building… … . I think the old and the plants go well together. If it was a new building, it wouldn’t have felt so good.”

“Are the plants too big? I wish the garden was a little bigger, but the space in the front yard of the laundry is too small.”

In fact, the plants have grown to the extent that they invaded the entire table.

When the four of us sat at the table, it felt like we were sitting in a jungle.

“good. Because we also touch trees… … . Our dream is to have a workshop with a large garden. I almost had that dream come true. Even if a business went well in an instant, it was also an instant that hit the bottom.”

The eldest hyung kept looking at the garden and laundry building alternately and said with envy.

The three brothers raised their coffee cups as if they had made a promise, drank a sip and put them down again.

The movement was so similar that I almost made the mistake of smiling.

‘Ah, why do I have so much fun with these three brothers?’

“Oh, what is coffee? It’s like drinking the Milky Way through the universe.”

As the second spoke, the two brothers on either side nodded as if in agreement.

“A universe?”

“Ah, you can’t say that coffee is actually delicious. It’s just bitter or jealous, but what’s delicious? Still, coffee has a certain taste that goes beyond the word delicious. No one can describe the taste properly. It’s like the world’s 7th biggest math puzzle. If you can solve the coffee taste as clearly as a mathematical formula, you should give it a Nobel Prize.”

“Brother, don’t say anything strange. So people look at us strangely.”

The youngest hit the second.

“No, no. Fine. It’s such a fun expression. But why is it like the universe?”

“Sorry. I have some kind of delusional disorder. Just because coffee has a dark color, it looks like space when you just look at it. So, when I see delicious coffee, I say that simply because it is delicious is not enough. The Milky Way gives the universe a flavor.”

“Ah yes. When I think about it that way, it feels like a real universe.”

I turned my gaze to the cup of coffee and looked at it for a while.

The three brothers also looked at the cup of coffee, and for a while we looked at the cosmos of a cup in front of them.

“Ah, it’s too late to introduce ourselves. My name is Il-yong Choi.”

The eldest hyung held out his business card, and the rest of the brothers took out their business cards in order.

“I am Choi Doo-yong.”

“I am Choi Yong-Soo.”

Choi Yong-Soo, that was weird.

“Ah, Samyong is correct in the original order. My father tried to name me Choi Sam-yong, but the name Sam-yong didn’t sound right, so I named it ‘Use’. People are all four brothers, but there are times when one thinks he is dead.”

“Ah yes… … . Still, I was a little puzzled. I don’t have a business card and my name is Ahn Nam. I’m quite young, so you can talk to me comfortably. By the way, Mr. Yoo is not coming. You must be busy.”

“But I’ve been curious since yesterday. Is President Pyo opening a cafe with Mr. Yoo?”

“Just call me by name. It’s okay to be called the boss.”

“Yes, then I will call you Annam.”

“Yeah. I have a small stake in Mr. Yoo’s cafe. There are several reasons for that.”

Let’s briefly tell the story related to President Yoo, the three brothers nodding their heads with the same beat as if they were agreeing.

“I thought the three of you would come tomorrow, but they came early.”

“Yeah. I just want to make some excuses. And we’ve been discussing what you suggested.”

“which… … .”

“Actually, we had a big business. Originally, I had no intention of making a big deal. My father originally worked as a furniture maker, but as we grew up in trees, we naturally started making furniture. He wanted us to do other things, and we all had different jobs and eventually we all quit and returned to this job.”

“Yes, I did.”

“It was enough if we could make and sell the furniture we wanted to make, and our three brothers could make a living with the income from that. But one day, someone came and said that he wanted to store our furniture and brand it. You’ll be selling it yourself, so just ask us to make furniture. It worked out well at first and made quite a bit of money, but the IMF burst and the company went bankrupt. At the same time, we couldn’t even get a late payment, and we had to pay for all the logs we already imported.”

Up to this point, it was the same as what Mr. Yu said.

While Choi Il-yong spoke, Doo-yong and Yong-yong were still quietly listening to his brother without losing their smiles.

“We lost all of our money and lost debt, but we decided to go back to the beginning and make our own furniture just like the beginning, and we came to this world building and opened a store. I came here because I was looking for a cheap place in Seoul.”

“This neighborhood is a bit out of the way in Seoul, so Gagatse is cheap.”

“However, the furniture did not sell as expected, and the debt grew to the point that it was difficult to pay off the interest. To the point where we can no longer stick to what we love to do. So, a few days ago, I decided to put everything down and scattered to pay off the debt first. If you work on a construction site, you will earn more than this.”

Hearing that, I understood why the three brothers were crying.

“It was disastrous. Before coming to Segye-dong, we lost everything and even our laughter. Once it was twisted, everything was swept away like a black hole. Coming to the World Ward, we made a decision. Even if there is a terrible hell behind us, let’s not show off in front of our guests. That’s why we forced our smiles to look like this.”

I understand why the expression is so.

“But yesterday, for the first time, I noticed that our expressions were bizarre. I also knew that this is what happens when people who have lost their laughter laugh. But what about it? You can’t go around with a gloomy look on your face.”

I understood that and nodded my head.

“Thank you so much for coming yesterday and giving me a good suggestion. By the way… … .”

“Wait!”

I knew.

That they would turn down our offer, and then… … .

I didn’t want to even imagine.

But these three brothers seemed to have poured out the rest of their lives along with the tears they had shed earlier.

I thought I might make a bad choice.

like me in my previous life.

Having experienced that moment, I could guess what choice they would make.

I got up from my seat and went to the laundromat, looking through the refrigerator.

A refrigerator full of fruits harvested from the forest.

‘What would be good? Yes, it would be nice to have a big bang.’

Among the fruits, ‘Laughing Corn’ and ‘Orange Fart’ were taken out.

When I put it on a large tray and held it in front of the three brothers, I had a puzzled expression on my face.

“Ah, the time we were eating the fruit… … .”

“Would you mind peeling this off?”

As soon as he held out the orange, Mr. Choi Il-yong stopped him, and he had no choice but to accept the orange.

“I will do it. My brother has a lot of pain in his fingers.”

The youngest, Choi Yong-Soo, jumped up and took the orange.

He then pressed his thumb against the orange belly button to peel it off.

In an instant, yellow smoke billowed from the orange, which soon struck the three brothers’ senses of smell.

“Ugh, what is it? fart smell! Youngest, did you fart?”

When Doo-yong Choi bruises the youngest while holding his nose, Yong-yong Choi vehemently denies it.

“Oh, no. I just went to the bathroom.”

“Ugh, the smell! So are you your brother?”

This time, looking back at the first Mr. Il-yong Choi, it is a bruise.

At that moment, the corn lying quietly on the tray begins to tremble.

I put it in the refrigerator and it seems to be responding only now because it is in a low temperature state.

Otherwise, if only the sound of ‘fart’ came out, it should have exploded already.

As expected, the corn, which had been shaking violently as if it would break a tray, suddenly stopped moving.

The corn kernels were seen shrinking inward.

“What is this corn for? Is it a toy?”

The three brothers were looking into the corn, unable to take their eyes off them.

Moment!

Baba Pang Pap Pang!

The corn swelled and became popcorn, bouncing into the air, striking the three brothers’ faces and heads.

Aww!

The three brothers, startled, screamed and leaned back, then fell over with the chair and rolled over on the floor.

The three of them didn’t even think about getting up, and they were just looking at the sky, confused about what was going on.

Then, no matter how much you think about it, Choi Il-yong bursts into laughter first as to how ridiculous this childish situation is.

Doo-yong and Yong-yong are also making a big deal out of it.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

Fuhahahahaha!

Colourful!

The three of them laughed while lying down, holding their stomachs for a while, and the laughter that was thought to end soon continued.

As before, he forcibly showed his dry teeth and smiled like a sad Pierrot, disappearing, and he was making a joke that he had forgotten for a long time.

When the laughter stopped, it erupted again, and when someone told a funny story about their childhood, laughter erupted again.

The laughter that started once brought back the fun memories of the past.

About the time I was yawning from boredom, the three of them got up and fixed their chairs again.

“What? this corn? Suddenly it turns into popcorn!”

“It’s just, like, magic. Before the three brothers left, I wanted to give them a laugh. It’s really childish.”

“Fufu. Thanks, it’s been a long time since I broke bread It’s cool and sweet. I don’t know what kind of magic it is, but let me know next time. I’ll try it when I’m depressed.”

“Because it’s a trade secret… … . Whoops.”

All three brothers put their right hands on their stomachs and knead them to see if their stomachs were still pulling.

“Oh, but what were you trying to say earlier? It was before I brought the fruit.”

“Ah… … .”

Choi Il-yong, who stopped while speaking his words, turned to the other two brothers, and nodded his head as if he had made a promise.

“Actually, I was going to turn down the offer. But now I have changed my mind. I thought I could quit after doing the last thing you suggested.”

“Oh, I’m glad. I was afraid of rejection, so I took it for ten years.”

At that time, CEO Yoo came running in a hurry.

“Oh, sorry sorry. Are you late?”

“Yeah, it’s very late. The story is already over.”

At my words, CEO Yoo wiped the sweat from his forehead with a bewildered expression on his face.

* * *

After the three brothers and President Yoo passed away, I headed straight to Segye-dong Real Estate.

Maybe it was time to close the door, and President Kim was clearing the table.

“Good morning.”

“Oh, Annam! What’s going on here?”

“there… … I want to ask about the building next to us, that is, the building with a hair salon on the first floor.”