Mining And Construction Tycoon [EN]: Chapter 154

154. Eye Contact (3)

Jang Seo-yeon’s eyes trembled slightly.

“Why are you bothering an innocent person?”

“Well, our future son-in-law keeps trying to run away…….”

Son-in-law?

Jang Jun-yong grinned and shook Tae-soo’s arm.

“I like this guy, what about you?”

“Father.”

“Don’t change the subject, just answer. Do you like him? Or not?”

Jang Seo-yeon looked at Secretary Kim in embarrassment.

“Secretary Kim, my father is too drunk. Let’s go home quickly.”

“Ah, yes.”

Secretary Kim, who was picking up the golden business card from the floor, jumped up.

He called two hotel bar employees to support Jang Jun-yong.

Tae-soo also escorted Jang Jun-yong and Secretary Kim to the hotel lobby.

‘It’s finally over.’

It was a tiring drinking session.

‘If you can’t win, don’t keep drinking straight whiskey like that.’

How can I stop that drinking pride?

Jang Seo-yeon approached Tae-soo.

“You were at the hotel bar for a long time. Did you drink a lot?”

“I drank quite a bit.”

“Would you like some honey water?”

“I’m fine.”

He says he’s fine, but Tae-soo’s body reeks of whiskey.

If he had drunk with Jang Jun-yong, he would have definitely overdone it, but Tae-soo doesn’t seem very drunk.

Jang Seo-yeon stared up at Tae-soo.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“I’m amazed.”

“What’s so amazing?”

“I never imagined you could stop Chairman Han so decisively.”

Usually, the chairman is elected by majority vote, so they focus on securing Han Kyung-ryun members in advance.

That’s the basic rule of the chairman election.

But Tae-soo reversed the situation with a method close to being unconventional.

“I wondered why you were so indifferent to securing Han Kyung-ryun members. You solved the problem in a unique way.”

“How can a new member who just joined secure existing Han Kyung-ryun members?”

Securing members is enough with Jang Jun-yong.

If Jang Jun-yong can’t secure them, it means Han Cheong-ho has them tied up and won’t let them go.

Jang Seo-yeon smiled brightly and said.

“Now that I see it, Chairman Kang is more resourceful than I thought.”

Tae-soo smiled.

“You flatter me.”

Jang Seo-yeon stared blankly at Tae-soo for a moment.

A small, mumbling voice.

“It’s a foul.”

Tae-soo was bewildered, managing to understand that small voice.

“What’s a foul?”

“…I really thought men who drink well were the worst.”

Jang Jun-yong is known as a heavy drinker.

It’s known that he drinks at least 5 days a week.

She didn’t like her father, who always smelled of alcohol and came home late at night.

“You’re a bit different. You drank so much…….”

“Does it show that I drank a lot? Do I smell a lot like alcohol?”

Tae-soo suddenly raised his arm and checked the alcohol smell coming from his body.

He remembered when he had drunk too much with Ahn Jung-woo, and the employees all pushed him away, saying he seemed soaked in alcohol.

Today, he had to drink straight whiskey because he was caught up with Jang Jun-yong.

“Rather than the smell of alcohol, it’s more the atmosphere…….”

“Atmosphere?”

“Ah, it’s nothing. You must have had a hard day today. I think I kept you for too long.”

Jang Seo-yeon quickly turned her back.

Her ears were a little red.

“Last time, we drank my favorite cocktail, so next time, let’s drink your favorite drink. What kind of alcohol do you like?”

“I don’t like alcohol.”

“…….”

Tae-soo’s iron wall was solid.

* * *

The next night.

Someone was knocking on Tae-soo’s hotel room late at night.

It was Kim Kwang-rok.

“Hyungnim [older brother/respected male acquaintance] Kwang-rok.”

“Oh, Tae-soo.”

He was already thinking of meeting Kim Kwang-rok about the security team issue.

But before Tae-soo could speak, Kim Kwang-rok said urgently.

“Someone is looking for you.”

He was puzzled.

“Me?”

“I’ve already let them into my room to wait…….”

“Who is it?”

“Uh, that…….”

Kim Kwang-rok scratched the back of his head.

“Meet them yourself and ask.”

Kim Kwang-rok strode away.

He burst open the door to the room next to Tae-soo, and the people waiting inside could be seen.

‘Who are they?’

One woman and four men.

A total of five uninvited guests.

But one of them was lying on the floor, bound with blue tape all over his body.

“I don’t know these people.”

“I’ve heard a lot about you. Is this the first time we’re meeting properly?”

A woman in her mid-20s untwisted her legs and stood up from her chair.

Her well-proportioned figure, hard to believe she was from the Orient, caught the eye.

“Excuse me. It’s a bit difficult to wait outside the room because we caught the wrong guy.”

Kim Kwang-rok nodded beside her.

“I checked it too. It was a guy who opened the tire valve cap more than halfway.”

What happens if you open the tire valve cap?

The air slowly leaks out, causing it to break down in the middle of the road.

It has a similar effect to putting a nail in the tire, but it’s a more insidious act.

You don’t know if it was done intentionally, if it was due to poor equipment maintenance, or if it was just bad luck.

“I’ve put the other six in the car in the same condition. Do you want to go and check?”

“Is this guy we caught a sample? Or the leader?”

Kim Kwang-rok shook his head firmly.

“No, the car is full.”

“…….”

He’s saying he had to bring him because he exceeded the passenger limit.

“While we’re changing it, let’s get a bigger car.”

“…….”

Then the woman spoke.

Because Kim Kwang-rok missed a more important fact.

“Brakes.”

“Ah! First, they cleverly cut the car’s brake lines. They turned it into a ticking time bomb that could cause an accident at any time while driving on the road. These bastards are really vicious.”

“They’re gangsters from Gukbin Hall.”

Only then did Tae-soo look at the guy lying on the floor again.

“Gukbin Hall?”

Tae-soo also knew the name.

‘If it’s Gukbin Hall, wasn’t that the gang Han Il-kwon used to hang out with in my past life?’

It was 1980 when Tae-soo finished his secretarial training and officially joined Cheongil Group.

He had seen them a few times as Han Il-kwon’s secretary.

‘They seemed quite nasty.’

There was no need to get deeply involved.

Because he didn’t try to find out Han Il-kwon’s secrets, as Secretary Song had taught him.

Also, Gukbin Hall disappeared less than half a year later.

‘They were forcibly disbanded because they were dragged into Chun Doo-hwan’s Samcheong Re-education Camp [a military-led purification campaign in the 1980s].’

How sorry Han Il-kwon was at that time.

But Han Il-kwon quickly filled their void with other guys.

The world was wide, and there were many bad guys.

“We are always keeping an eye on Gukbin Hall. They sell women and drugs. They also secretly engage in human trafficking and organ trafficking.”

Tae-soo frowned slightly at the woman’s words.

Now that he saw it, the Gukbin Hall gangsters were doing trashy things.

‘Han Il-kwon was hanging out with those kinds of guys?’

He was even worse than Tae-soo thought.

The woman raised her chin.

“Get rid of this person first.”

Then two men standing behind her picked up the Gukbin Hall gangster and threw him out the door.

She sat in her chair and said in a languid voice.

“You were lucky.”

“What do you mean?”

“We received information about human trafficking and were tracking the Gukbin Hall gangsters.”

“Does that mean…….”

“It means we came out to catch traffickers and ended up catching someone who attempted murder.”

In that case, it’s definitely fair to say he was lucky.

The woman just smiled, and he couldn’t help but think she was seductive.

Kim Kwang-rok was completely mesmerized.

“How is it? Aren’t we lifesavers?”

“Thank you. But who are you? Are you a police officer?”

“No.”

She held out her hand to Tae-soo.

“Ahn So-jung.”

It was a familiar name.

“Kang Tae-soo.”

“Nice to meet you.”

The two shook hands.

Ahn So-jung’s hand was colder than ice.

“I was going to meet you because of the rumors.”

Ahn So-jung said the reason for her visit bluntly.

She is Ahn Jung-woo’s daughter and owns 50% of Taeyang Securities, Insurance, and Dongbang Ilbo shares.

“Did my informants say they needed it?”

It meant that Ahn So-jung was using informants.

Jang Mal-dong was a loan shark, Ahn Jung-woo was a arms dealer, and Ahn So-jung was in charge of information dealers.

“We happen to have a novelist who specializes in conspiracy theories among our informants.”

When Ahn So-jung raised her hand, the person standing behind her bowed.

“This person will write a very plausible novel. Just like you wanted.”

He will publish a novel that will alienate Park Jung-hwan and Han Cheong-ho.

In the gossip columns, anonymously.

That was the reason for acquiring Dongbang Ilbo.

“We’ll be meeting often in the future.”

“Please take care of me.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll definitely screw over Han Cheong-ho.”

Ahn So-jung winked and got up from her seat.

She handed over a black rose-patterned card.

“If you see a card like this in the future, know that I sent it.”

It meant that she would provide information to Tae-soo.

She definitely made an impression.

* * *

After Ahn So-jung left, Tae-soo turned to Kim Kwang-rok.

“Have you filled all the security team positions?”

Kim Kwang-rok smiled confidently.

“I’ve brought all the useful guys who were under me in the military.”

He was satisfied.

“How many did you bring?”

“Huh? I brought about 30 because you told me to bring plenty?”

“Will that be enough? Let’s double it.”

“60 people?”

“100 people is fine too. I’m going to send them to Gangwon-do as well.”

“Ah…….”

Tae-soo’s parents and skinny grandmother live in the Gangwon-do mine.

But Kim Kwang-rok couldn’t hide his worried expression as he crossed his arms.

“That’s too much.”

“The most useless phrase in the world is ‘too much’ when it comes to safety.”

You can never emphasize safety too much.

If you can buy your one and only life and health with money, it’s cheap.

“But the guys I brought are worth a hundred each. They’re veterans who have dealt with North Korean spies.”

Their sense of approaching enemies is top-notch, and their combat skills are first-class.

In addition, they were only Kim Kwang-rok’s people who were not tainted by Oseong Group.

“We also have to work in shifts. The security personnel will not only be me but the entire executive team. The security team will be very busy in the future.”

“…I offered them a huge salary.”

“It’s okay.”

That’s what he earns money for.

“I have a lot of money.”

Why is a chaebol [large business conglomerate owner] showing off his money?

Kim Kwang-rok laughed loudly.

“Who doesn’t know you have a lot of money? Alright.”

Kim Kwang-rok jumped up.

“There aren’t many people I can bring from the military. So, I can’t fill that number with the current level of skilled guys. Is that okay?”

“It’s okay.”

“Good, if there are lacking guys, the seniors can teach them, so I’ll bring in promising sprouts too.”

“Good.”

Kim Kwang-rok grinned, revealing his gums.

“Wait. I’ll fill it more splendidly than the Presidential Security Service. I’ll train them properly and make them useful.”

“I’ll look forward to it.”

Kim Kwang-rok was burning with enthusiasm, so he had to repay him.

“Since they started the attack, we can’t just stand by and get hit.”

“Of course!”

Does Tae-soo not know that Cheongil was behind Gukbin Hall’s gangsters?

‘This isn’t just a warning.’

It was a declaration of war.

Isn’t it polite to respond to a declaration of war?

“Should we raid Gukbin Hall first?”

There’s no place that doesn’t have dust when you shake it.

“Let’s shake out all the dust from Han Il-kwon this time.”

It’s a place Han Il-kwon frequents, so there must be traces he couldn’t erase.

Kim Kwang-rok’s eyes flashed.

“That’s our specialty. Just leave it to us. We’ll catch them and throw them in jail like we catch North Korean spies, right?”

He was very reliable.