Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 370

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?” Episode 370 (370/500)

Lying down, scratching his stomach. Crunching on snacks.

Chuckling while watching TV.

Siha watched his uncle’s behavior and asked,

“Samchun.” [Uncle, in Korean]

“Yeah?”

“Are you unemployed?”

I, who was doing the dishes, burst out laughing.

Where did he even learn the word ‘unemployed’ to say it like that?

My uncle does seem like the typical neighborhood bum right now, but doesn’t everyone act like that?

When they’re resting, that is.

But it’s only a few times, and if it’s repeated every day, you can only see it as truly unemployed.

Actually, I’m used to seeing it since I was young. My uncle would stay with us for a long time like a vacation and then go back.

But Siha is seeing it for the first time now.

“Unemployed? What’s that?”

“Don’t know ‘unemployed’? Unemployed is… um?”

Siha tilted his head, as if he didn’t exactly know what ‘unemployed’ meant either.

That’s it. He has a sense of what it is to some extent, but he can’t find the words to give an exact definition.

A common sight among Korean students.

You might think they don’t know if they don’t answer, but they roughly know what it is, but they can’t exactly say a dictionary definition.

You know what I mean? Everyone?

So they keep silent, but the teachers think they don’t know at all. That’s not it.

“Ah! It’s resting a hundred times. A hundred times.”

“Ah-ha!”

Then shouldn’t it be called ‘baekswi’ instead of ‘baeksu’?

Anyway, my uncle knows what ‘unemployed’ is but is pretending not to know.

He’s in ‘I don’t understand Korean well’ mode again.

“Siha.”

“Huh?”

“Your uncle, you see. Money comes in every day even if I don’t work.”

“!!!”

“Hahaha. That’s what happens when you work hard when you’re young! So Siha, you work hard too!”

“No. Hyung tells Siha to play hard. He told me not to work.”

“Then Hyung works every day?”

“!!!”

“You like the same things as Hyung, but you only make Hyung work.”

How mischievous.

If there’s anyone who’s serious about teasing a kid, it’s my uncle right here.

He was like that when I was young too. How come nothing has changed?

“Siha earns money even when playing. I’ll buy Hyung a house later.”

“Ooh! You earn money?”

“Siha has a bank account too. The piggy bank has a lot of money too. Want me to show you?”

Siha went into the room and brought back his piggy bank and bank account.

First, he tapped the piggy bank on the nose and poured out the money.

“Siha has a lot.”

“Wow! I found money! Finder’s keepers!”

“!!!”

“Ehehehe! See! Money comes to uncle even if I don’t work!”

“Samchun! That’s Siha’s money!”

“Puhaha. Siha threw it on the ground, so finder’s keepers.”

“If you pick it up, you have to go to the police station and return it to the owner! Samchun is doing bad things.”

“Yeah. Uncle is a bad person, so it’s okay to do bad things.”

“!!!”

Siha whined and reached out to the arm his uncle was holding.

But my uncle wasn’t going to be easily taken from.

He got up and made it so Siha couldn’t reach at all.

Siha jumped up and down in place, but it was no use.

“Samchun. If you do bad things, the police will catch you.”

“Ehehehe. Even if Uncle does bad things, the police can’t touch me! I’ll be released right away!”

“This is Siha’s money! Give it back!”

“Ehehehe!”

Thinking about how I suffered from that kind of uncle when I was young, my fist clenched tightly.

“Samchun! Give Siha back his money!”

“Show me the money! Show me the money!”

My father sometimes slapped my back or put me in a headlock, and I think I know how he felt now.

Siha jumped a few times and then sighed, realizing it wouldn’t work.

“I’ll give that to Samchun. It’s allowance from Siha. Got it?”

“Huh?”

My uncle looked at Siha, wondering if this could be happening.

Siha got one over on him with this.

Good job, Lee Siha!

“Ahem. Then I’ll gratefully accept it. Then the money in the bank account should be Uncle’s too!”

“Eeing!”

This time, my uncle is teasing him with Siha’s bank account.

Siha sticks to his legs and tries to take it back.

“Hahaha. Let’s see how much is in here. WOW! How can a baby have so much money?!”

“I’m gonna buy Hyung a house with begging. Give it back.”

“No. Is this insurance money?”

I said no. And I said that Siha actually earned the money.

My uncle was surprised and said, “How can a baby earn so much?”

Well, child actors who film commercials earn a lot, right?

Compared to that, it’s a drop in the bucket.

Actually, Siha was the richest in our house.

I finished washing the dishes and wiped the water off my hands.

“But Uncle. How long are you going to be in this house?”

“Why?”

“It’s too small for Uncle to be here.”

“Huh? It’s not small.”

“What’s not small! You slept in the living room again today.”

“So you’re telling me to leave?”

“Yes.”

“That’s too much!”

My uncle looked at me as if he was disappointed.

Actually, it’s not a house where you can stay for a long time.

If you add one or two more pieces of clothing, there’s no place to put them.

“Then we can move!”

“It’s not that easy.”

“No. It’s easy!”

“Ugh. It’s different from three years ago. Ah! Siha. It’s time to go to daycare. Let’s go.”

“Daycare? Siha goes to daycare?”

“Yes. Do you want to go with us, Uncle?”

“Oh! Should I?”

The unemployed uncle got up from his seat, dusting himself off.

Siha puts on his bag and comes out.

“Is Samchun going to daycare too?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Samchun. Then play with Siha at daycare.”

“What? Uh, daycare? Hangukmal neomu eoryeowoyo!” [Korean is too difficult!]

“Liar! You said you were going to daycare earlier!”

“I don’t know what you’re saying!”

I watched the two of them do their skit and urged them to leave quickly.

It’s funny, really.

***

Siha said goodbye to Hyung [Older brother or male friend] and Samchon and went into the room with his friends.

Seungjun couldn’t resist his curiosity and asked.

“Siha. Who’s the foreigner who came with you?”

“He’s my uncle. Samchun.”

“Siha’s uncle was a foreigner?! Amazing!”

“Siha is amazing!”

Siha sticks out his stomach and brags.

He was bickering with his uncle at home, but he wanted to brag.

“Samchun is unemployed. Unemployed.”

“Wow! Does your uncle have a lot of money?”

“Samchun said money comes in even if he doesn’t work.”

“Awesome!”

The teacher shook her head as she watched the two children.

Just listening to that conversation, that foreign uncle must be a prankster.

He’s not an American tycoon, so how can a person get money without working?

There was another person who thought that. It was Jongsu.

“Liar! How can money come in just by breathing?”

“Siha didn’t say it like that?”

“Anyway! How can money come in without working!”

“Siha earns money by playing fun.”

“Huh?”

Siha just drew fun pictures, but he earns money with emoticons.

It’s not work. It’s a fun game.

So what Samchun said must be true.

He was coming to that conclusion.

“Anyway, if he’s a foreign uncle, is he good at English?”

“He’s really good at English.”

“What about Korean?”

“He doesn’t know Korean well. But he knows some things, but he doesn’t know.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Siha doesn’t know either.”

Jongsu became even more confused about Siha’s uncle.

Strange uncle.

That kind of perception was ingrained in the children.

“My uncle gives me allowance~ Isn’t that amazing?”

“Siha too.”

“Siha, you got allowance too? Since he’s a foreigner, did you get dollars?”

“No. Siha gives Samchun allowance. Samchun is unemployed, so Siha gives him allowance so he can buy something to drink.”

“!!!”

The light bulb in Jongsu’s head turned on.

Finally, Siha’s words made perfect sense.

Siha’s foreign uncle is unemployed. He doesn’t earn money. But money comes in even when he’s playing. That’s because Siha gives him allowance!

“Hey. Lee Siha. Is your uncle okay? He’s weird, isn’t he?”

“Samchun is nice. Hyung likes Samchun too.”

“Aren’t you being fooled?”

“No. Samchun is nice.”

“???”

No matter how much Jongsu thought about it, Siha’s uncle was a terrible uncle.

To receive allowance from a child who still has baby fat.

Jongsu patted Siha on the shoulder.

“Hang in there.”

“Huh?”

Anyway, everyone is noisy about the uncle story.

Yundong came over and poked Siha on the shoulder.

“Why?”

“My uncle is amazing too.”

“???”

“He won first place in a B-boy competition. He’s really cool.”

“Amazing!”

“He teaches me a lot of dance. He also taught me how to put strength in my stomach.”

“Stomach?!”

Siha lifted his clothes and looked at his stomach.

Making his bulging belly even more bulging! That’s what he’s been learning lately.

“How is it? I put strength in it!”

“Let’s see. It’s hard.”

“If Siha puts more strength in it, his belly will be as big as Namsan [A famous mountain in Seoul].”

“???”

Eunwoo also participated in the conversation about uncles.

He said that he was from Busan, so his uncle taught him a lot of dialects.

“Hello. I’m Eunwoo! Puhaha!”

“Hello?”

“He also does dialect rap.”

“Dialect rap?”

“Want me to show you?”

“I want to see!”

Eunwoo cleared his throat.

He tilted the hat he was wearing on his head. And he opened his mouth.

“Why are you doing this to me! Why are you doing this!”

“!!!”

“I can’t live like this because I’m so frustrated. I’m going to say everything I can and can’t say now.”

“Ggida! [Awesome!]”

“Yo! Boso! [Hey you!] Don’t slap me on the back for being a entertainer!”

“Maso! [Stop it!]”

“Yo! Boso! Why are you so sloppy, but I’m full of swag!”

“Hamnida! [I do!]”

“Yo! Boso! Ma! Ma! Ma! Stop it! I’m going to drink Hwak Ma! and get drunk!”

“Ggida!”

“Got it?”

Eunwoo showed off the dialect rap he learned from his uncle.

Siha applauded.

Actually, there were parts that he didn’t understand well, but the intense accent captivated his ears.

Eunwoo looked very strong.

“Puhaha! That’s it!”

“Eunwoo is really good! You’re really cool.”

“My uncle is good at dialect rap? He changes all the raps to dialect.”

“Really?!”

“Yeah. All the songs are in dialect.”

“!!!”

The teacher thought as she looked at the children.

All the uncles are talented. They’re talented.

Clap clap clap.

“Okay, everyone. Now, let’s stop talking about uncles and do what we have to do today!”

“???”

“The police officer is coming soon!”

“!!!”

“Today is safety education, so let’s have fun watching, listening, and asking questions!”

And a moment later.

A real police officer came.

The children blankly watched him come in.

Only Siha shouted at the police officer.

“It’s a police officer! Police officer!”

“Oh! Siha. Hello.”

“Police officer. You found the owner. Siha knows everything.”

“Haha. You did.”

The person he saw at the police station before came out for education.

Actually, he knew that Siha was a child at this daycare and applied.

Still, if there is a child he knows, he can explain it more easily.

“Then shall we do safety education today?”

Traffic safety education.

It is well prepared to suit the children these days.

Usually, there is a method of watching videos. A fun character comes out and explains it diligently.

“If you watch hard and answer the quiz later, there will be a gift!”

“!!!”

“You have to watch the video carefully because questions will come out.”

The gift was actually prepared by the daycare, but they matched the words as if the police prepared it.

It is a way to further increase the children’s concentration when watching the video.

The police officer plugged the USB into the TV and played the video.

A fun character child comes out and explains safety education.

The children watched TV with good concentration.

The video length was not that long. Because if you watch it for too long, your concentration will drop.

“Then the question is coming out!”

The police officer took out one of the items he had brought and spread it out.

It was like a mat, but there was a road and a crosswalk on it.

“Okay. Here is the road. The crosswalk turned red. Then can we cross it? Can’t we?”

Everyone raised their hands.

The police officer pointed to Jongsu.

“Yes! You can’t! You can’t cross it!”

“Yes! You can’t cross it. This is not a real problem. Then!”

Jongsu made a disappointed expression.

He was immediately caught.

“When it turns green! How should we cross?! Anyone who knows!”

This time, the children raised their hands quickly.

It was the effect of focusing on the video.

The police officer pointed to Siha.

Siha confidently stands up and says.

“Grab Hyung’s hand!”

“???”

The answer to grabbing Hyung’s hand was not even in the video.