The Genius Decided To Live An Ordinary Life [EN]: Chapter 254

Ordinary People (4)

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Returning to the room to create the frame, Jo Seul-chan, after examining the blueprints, scratched his cheek.

‘This is, uh, isn’t it a bit too much?’

The yacht he had drawn without fear was excessively large.

With the cockpit, the left and right seats, and the deck space combined, it was a size that could accommodate more than twenty people, and it seemed impossible to even float it in the waterway.

‘I need to revise the design from the start.’

The concept, which had become excessively luxurious due to incorporating Choi Mi-kyung and Kim Eun-jung’s requests, was also a hindrance. It was said that too many cooks spoil the broth, but who knew a rowboat would turn into a yacht?

‘Seul-chan, make it smaller, smaller. Let’s remove the chairs too.’

‘Alright-. It just needs to be something we can sit on, right?’

‘Still, it would be nice to have a motor-.’

Chop chop-.

Yu-jin, who was dipping crackers into her instant coffee, also added her opinion.

It was a method Choi Mi-kyung had taught her, and when you dip the dry and bland AC crackers into instant coffee, they become incredibly soft, moist, and flavorful.

Since she could taste coffee, which her mom and older brother didn’t give her, when eating these crackers, it was a snack that gave Son Yu-jin a reason to hang out with her older brothers.

‘Yu-jin, you said you liked rowing boats, right?’

‘Hehe-. It was hard to row.’

‘When?’

‘There’s a boat in the training center pond-.’

She had been going in and out of the training center so often that she had even tried boating.

Yu-jin probably spent more time at the training center than all the employees of the Sein Group combined.

‘Kim Ho-jin and Lee Dong-ho and umm-, I rode with grandpa, and Lee Dong-ho even got a splinter in his hand-. Kim Ho-jin said his back and side hurt. Chop chop-.’

The fewer the disadvantages and the less effort required, the better. That’s the truth.

Thanks to his sister, who had unintentionally learned the disadvantages of rowing, his worries were limited to the size.

‘Oh my, it’s still big-. The length is about five meters, isn’t it?’

‘Let’s make it seven meters-.’

‘Should we?’

These guys are so impulsive.

But isn’t seven meters incredibly long?

‘Do whatever you want. It’s a blessing that Jo Seul is doing it all.’

If Yu-jin requested something, Jo Seul-chan applied it immediately.

He said it was possible to change it instantly because he had a pre-drawn design, but was it really that easy? It wasn’t like adjusting the scale of an existing design on a computer.

Scribble scribble-.

Yet, Jo Seul-chan was drawing a new design with a triangle ruler, protractor, and pencil.

‘Jo Seul is amazing, isn’t he?’

It wasn’t that he knew about this talent that he had encouraged Jo Seul-chan to study design.

It was just that he had said it with the hope that Jo Seul-chan would benefit when he started various businesses later.

‘Wow-. Oppa draws well.’

‘I’m just doing it because it’s fun.’

Still, being fun and being easy must be different.

‘Eee······. Let’s see. Since we need to attach a motor here, should we make a groove?’

‘Yes, make it. Make a motor groove.’

Chop chop-.

Even when cracker crumbs with instant coffee fell from Yu-jin’s mouth, Jo Seul-chan focused on his work.

Jo Seul-chan called Jin-hyuk without even turning his head.

‘Jin-hyuk, isn’t it time for your workout?’

‘I can do it a bit later.’

‘That won’t do-. You’re the one who taught me that you have to do it regularly at a set time.’

Jo Seul-chan was right.

When Jin-hyuk was in middle school, he emphasized regular exercise to his friends, and when he was in high school, he emphasized it to his juniors. The most important thing he emphasized was punctuality.

It wasn’t about doing it at the same time every day, but about practicing warming up and sprinting according to the competition time of the target tournament. He thought that doing so would reduce the chances of his condition being ruined by the time, no matter where the competition was held.

That’s why he had written a workout schedule in the living room.

It was a pledge to exercise at that time and a notice to ask for cooperation from his family.

No, but still.

The guy who grabbed someone who was going to exercise to build a boat is now telling him to go exercise.

‘Ah-, what am I supposed to do-.’

The sight of the blueprint being drawn was unexpectedly healing, so he was reluctant to leave, but he got up from his chair.

‘Then, I’ll go. Yu-jin, let’s go too. Don’t bother Seul-chan oppa.’

‘No. I want to build a boat with Seul-chan oppa.’

Wow. She’s changed.

Even if they are smart and grown up, children are unpredictably fickle.

He was about to move his feet, which wouldn’t budge, when.

Bang bang bang-!

The sound of someone knocking on the door with a hard object, it seemed like Jung-won, who had woken up from his nap, had come up.

‘Bro-, bro-. Do you have to do exercise?’

Mom must have sent Jung-won after checking the schedule in the living room.

To exercise.

‘I, I’m going!’

***

‘Mom, it’s time to exercise.’

‘Just a minute-. Mom needs to make a call.’

Hong Su-jeong, holding a box full of things, came to the reception room.

‘Mom, where should I put this?’

‘Just a minute! Put it anywhere there. I’ll organize it after I finish my call.’

Hong Su-jeong, without complaining, put down the box and tilted her head, reading the words on the box.

「SIT SCM-X760」

It was a cell phone.

There was also a color photo of the cell phone printed on the outside of the box.

‘It’s pretty.’

The latest model jointly released by Sein Electronics and Sein Telecom.

She had heard that it worked well anywhere thanks to the base stations that had been built across the country with a lot of money. Of course, she had learned about it by eavesdropping on her parents’ conversations since it hadn’t been released yet. Thanks to the satellite communication network that had been launched, it could be used even in remote mountain villages and overseas.

The cell phones that adults had been using so far were as big and heavy as an adult’s palm.

However, the cell phone in the box was small, about the size of a pager, and it looked incomparably lighter than a brick phone, and it was even a folding type.

‘A flip phone?’

It was a unique name.

It seemed like it should break if it was folded like that, but it was amazing that it could be folded and unfolded.

‘Mom, can I take one out and look at it?’

‘No-. Wait-.’

Am I a dog? Hong Su-jeong grumbled and picked up a box, her eyes shining.

Like a cat in front of a strange prey, she tilted her head left and right.

‘Hmm-.’

They said they would distribute them before leaving for the Olympics anyway.

They had decided to provide the latest cell phones to the athletes of other sports teams as well.

The Olympics, where a large number of reporters and athletes gathered, and the latest cell phone that appeared in the middle of it. It was predictable that the marketing effect would be explosive.

Despite her young age, Hong Su-jeong, who had been interested in her father’s work and had been eavesdropping for more than three years, was more aware than her peers.

Hong Su-jeong also freely expressed her opinions. Every time she did, her father smiled happily.

– ‘Why don’t you give them to foreign athletes too? Dad has a lot of money.’

– ‘That’s the plan. I’ve already made models that can be used in the Americas and Europe.’

– ‘You said you were making a model with a camera, what happened to that?’

– ‘Oh, how did my daughter know about that?’

– ‘I heard Dad talking to the American president, Hank? I couldn’t understand everything because it was in English, but I could understand the camera module.’

That was the first time her father had looked so surprised.

It also meant that he was indifferent to his daughter’s education, but she wasn’t upset. Her dad was a busy person.

It seemed that Hong Ki-jun, her father, had talked to Hong Su-jeong for the first time as a person, not as a child.

– ‘The model with the camera needs more development, but I’m thinking of releasing it when the government changes. That way, Sein can continue to shine. And if we release everything at once, people will think it’s thanks to the country’s leader. There are people who work hard behind the scenes. It’s the limit of ordinary people.’

– ‘Yeah. I know what you mean.’

Her father’s face, smiling as he watched Hong Su-jeong nod easily, couldn’t have looked happier. He hadn’t even had a drink, but why was he grinning like that?

– ‘Dad, will we be able to use the internet with cell phones then?’

– ‘It won’t be long, but it will take some time. Internet connection is possible now, but to make it function like a computer and display it like a monitor, we need to miniaturize the processor and enlarge the display at the same time······, are you asleep?’

Her dad had a tendency to ramble on with difficult words when he was happy.

‘Hmph.’

Hong Su-jeong, who had put down the box she was holding, turned away without any regrets.

They said they would give it to her when the time came, so there was no reason to pester them.

She had lived her life not just without lacking anything, but also achieving whatever she wanted, so she didn’t even have any materialistic desires.

Hong Su-jeong, who was smart and aware of her social position as the daughter of a conglomerate, also guessed why her mother, Yu Se-ra, worked so hard even on weekends.

‘She’s trying to sell my prison oppa [referring to Jin-hyuk, who is currently not in prison but is being treated as such by her].’

She said something about sales.

Just try to sell him. Prison oppa belongs to Hong Su-jeong.

She was also enduring the sight of her immature friends squealing over Son Jin-hyuk’s pencil boards and posters with extreme patience. She didn’t know why her mother made and sold such things, but she endured it because she heard that some of the money went to her prison oppa. If she hadn’t, the two lionesses would have had a big fight.

*

Yu Se-ra, who had finished her call quickly, turned her head to where her daughter had been.

‘Su-jeong, we’ll activate it before you leave-, huh? Su-hyuk, where did your sister go?’

Yu Se-ra, who couldn’t see her daughter, asked Hong Su-hyuk, who was lying on the sofa and rolling around.

Hong Su-hyuk, who was sucking on a pacifier, took it out of his mouth.

Pop-.

‘Don’t know. She went.’

Then he put the pacifier back in his mouth.

Yu Se-ra sighed, looking at Hong Su-hyuk, who was sprawled out like a male lion in the most comfortable position.

‘Sigh-, the family education is a mess.’

These guys always speak informally to their mother.

Son Yu-jin and Son Jung-won even use honorifics with Jin-hyuk, but it’s too much of a comparison.

‘Su-hyuk, you have to use honorifics with your mother.’

Pop-.

The pacifier fell out again.

‘Mommy-.’

‘Yes?’

Did he try to use honorifics after I nagged him a bit?

Yu Se-ra’s eyes shone with anticipation.

‘Snack. Ate it all.’

Ugh. You king of the jungle, you.

‘Mommy-.’

‘Okay-, I’ll give you a snack. Wait, you.’

‘Su-hyuk pooped.’

Ah, really.

This is why the company is better.

***

On Monday, the candidate registration finally closed, and the election campaign period began.

Early in the morning, Jin-hyuk, Choi Mi-kyung, and Kim Eun-jung, who had gone to school, went around the high school building and posted notices in the hallways.

After posting the last notice together, Choi Mi-kyung stretched.

‘Ugh! This is the first time in my life that I’ve worked so hard on something other than studying.’

‘Mi-kyung, me too. It was a lot of hard work.’

What are you talking about, Kim Eun-jung, you never work hard on anything.

Still, it was an interesting experience.

It felt like doing a group project with friends, like the group projects that college students do. It felt like I was having a college experience in high school, which I had hardly had in my past life.

‘You worked hard.’

‘Jin-hyuk will be busy. Now you have to go around shaking hands.’

‘Jin-hyuk, be careful when you shake hands with the boys.’

‘Why?’

Kim Eun-jung squinted her eyes.

Is she a misandrist? Based on what I’ve seen so far, she didn’t seem to have that tendency.

‘They don’t wash their hands well.’

It was too realistic of a point to dismiss as hatred.

‘That’s true. I can just not wash my hands either.’

An eye for an eye, ickiness for ickiness.

‘Oh, that’s a good idea. Go pee first.’

Jin-hyuk, who had turned around, frowned and tilted his head strongly.

When he talked to Kim Eun-jung, he felt like he was dealing with an alien, and his mind became hazy.

*

After the first period, the executive candidates, who had gathered for the election campaign and put on their sashes, finally left the classroom.

They were planning to start with the 3rd grade classrooms.

Choi Mi-kyung, looking around the hallway, said with a puzzled expression.

‘But why aren’t the other candidates visible?’

‘I don’t know? Are they going to do it at lunchtime?’

Lee Seung-hoon scratched the back of his head.

[Beeeep-.]

‘Ugh-, damn it!’

When the speaker screamed, Choi Mi-kyung reacted nervously.

Other friends also flinched all at once.

[Ah, ah-. This is an announcement.]

Hey, hurry up. We have to do the election campaign!

The high school students, burning with fighting spirit, all narrowed their eyes as if they had made a promise.

[Due to only one candidate for the student council president election-, according to the single candidate regulations, we announce that the 34th student council president of Taeyang High School has been elected without a vote-. Ah, we announce again-.]

Wow, what’s with the unopposed election······.