My Dad Is Too Strong

When he was young, Kang Min-hyuk left his parents' hands and grew up in his grandmother's arms.

Before entering elementary school, I was still in need of warm hands from my parents, so I cried a lot and got angry at my grandmother. I missed my parents and cried all day long, asking them to return home.

".........."

When puberty passed, and when he found out that his parents had abandoned him, he felt nothing. She gave birth to herself at a young age, and the mother left the house because of the discord, and the father left the grandmother to take care of her child, saying it was difficult to handle her after living on alcohol all day.

After that, she remarried another man and started a new family.

My father was told that he had returned to acute myocardial infarction caused by alcohol.

Other relatives, anyway, when I finally realized that my grandmother was the only family left.

Because he grew up faster than his peers and couldn't dream of going to college because of his poor environment, he decided to join the military immediately after graduating from high school.

My grandchild, I'm joining the army tomorrow, but I can't help you.….

I couldn't get my grandmother to come to Nonsan, where the training center is located.

Over seventy years old, bent waist, full of calligraphies and wrinkled wrinkles.

Kang Min-hyuk wondered if it would be a good thing to join the army, leaving his grandmother alone, but decided that it was filial duty to get a decent job and to make her happy.

But if there's anything you want to eat, Grandma will do it for you, so tell me.

So I said I wanted to eat chicken. The crispy fried chicken that was served as a school meal sometimes. Or the class president of the school used to give out chicken on a special day, but I couldn't forget the taste. So I told my grandmother that I wanted to eat chicken.

What's chicken?

I explained about chicken. Fried chicken in oil. However, the grandmother's purse was not enough. There was an old-age pension in the country, but after paying utility bills and buying some rice or side dishes, there was no money. He barely managed to get the money to Nonsan, which means he's done talking. Grandma clearly expresses her sorryness, and now I don't have money so I can't......... I'll make sure to buy it for my grandson next time he's on vacation.

For a moment, I felt like a chill. I was sorry that I felt like I made my grandmother's heart heavy. It doesn't matter if you don't eat chicken. I just want my grandmother to live a healthy and happy life forever.

And after completing the training course, he was placed in a sack.

The slim figure disappeared and became quite manly and muscular. Life in the army was not hard. One of the difficulties was that I left my grandmother alone, who had difficulty moving around.

Congratulations. First vacation?

The first two nights and three days of vacation after being assigned to the camp.

They reported the vacation to the administrative officer, and the seniors of the same unit ironed out their combat uniforms and flashed the glow of their combat boots. The senior officers collected a small amount of salary, as to whether they had heard about the difficulties of their family.

Buy me something delicious. I'm sure you're just waiting for your vacation.

I was so grateful for the consideration of my seniors that I shed tears.

And thanks to the consideration of the driver and duty officer, we will leave early the next morning.

With a fluttering heart, I headed home in the first car. And when I arrived in front of my house, I saw the reflection on the reflector of the road, and my clothes were in order. I wanted to look cool.

When I stood in front of an old iron gate.

Kang Min-hyuk smiled. If you hear my voice, Grandma will run out of the way. For now, I was going to bow down after saluting my grandmother with a nice hand salute. Your grandkids are back in such a state of grandeur.

After opening the iron gate and entering the yard.

With a throbbing heart, 'Grandmother, I'm here,' she exclaimed in a shrill voice. However, even though I called her several times, my grandmother didn't come out. When I opened the door, I saw an old lady covering the blanket. He always wakes up early in the morning because he doesn't sleep in the morning, but he must have been tired today. Kang Min-hyuk approached with a smile.

Grandma, I'm here.

Za tried to shake her up. But I didn't think about getting up. Were you tired?

Minhyuk is here.

Shake it several times. But my grandmother looked very pale. Anxiety suddenly came upon me, and since then, frantically laid down her grandmother and patted her shoulder with her palm. Despite being in the middle of summer, I could not feel any warmth at all. It was as cold as a corpse.

Bam! Bam!

I couldn't breathe for a moment, so I punched myself in the chest.

A calendar on top of a drawer. Today, I saw a circle on the date and a piece of paper with a map of a chicken restaurant in Namdaemun Market called "Old Original Chicken." Then he became more suffocating, and began to hit his chest harder.

And that day.

An autopsy showed that he would have died quietly at dawn.

Later, Kang Min-hyuk became speechless.

"......."

Kang Min-hyuk thought he should go down now.

You won't be able to eat chicken, but guild members are waiting for you.

The moment you get up thinking you should just drink beer after giving a simple pep talk.

There was a notification that a text message came from a smartphone. It was a text from Dojun.

[Are you free now?]]

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Jeobuck

"......."

Kang Min-hyuk is hanging next to the rusty iron door.

He stroked the faded old doorplate. It was vague, but it clearly said Kim Wol-soon. an old house to visit again after a long time Kang Min-hyuk didn't understand why Do-jun asked him to come here. How did Dojun know this place and how to call it after knowing what kind of house this is?

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As I push the iron door lightly, it creaks open. After a long sigh, Kang Min-hyuk took a hard step and crossed the threshold. As I entered the yard, I saw a tightly closed jangji-moon. Unknowingly, my eyes blushed as I felt like my grandmother would be lying down when I opened the door.

"Grandmother."

Kang Min-hyuk said, looking at Jang Ji-moon quietly.

"I'm here, Grandma."

A hollow cry like an echo that never comes back.

Kang Min-hyuk smiled bitterly, took out his smartphone and tried to contact Do-jun. I found the "Director in Charge" in the phone book and pressed the call button. No, I couldn't press it.

Dropping.

"Oh, my! My grandson is here!"

Kang dropped his smartphone.

The jangjimun opened, and someone rushed out of the bushel. Kang Min-hyuk's eyes grew bigger. A bent old lady approached and folded her hands to hold her. Kang Min-hyuk's lips were trembling. At that moment, I choked and couldn't speak.

"Grandma..."

Ten years ago, just the way he remembered it was.

In longing, there was an old lady I had only seen in front of me.

"My baby, you've had a hard time, haven't you?" You've lost a lot of weight."

Keep touching the back of your hand with your clumsiness.

Is he seeing a fantasy now? Yeah, this must have been a fantasy.

The man who died 10 years ago couldn't have been here. However, why is the feeling so vivid? Pinch the cheek. It hurt.

"Come on in. Grandma bought a whole chicken."

Driven by her grandmother's hand, she took off her shoes and climbed to the floor.

I hear a squeak. And as I entered the main room, I saw a whole chicken lying on the tin table. Taking out the cold chicken from the box that read "old original chicken," the old lady began to tear it with her hands to make it easier to eat.

"......."

"It was hot before, but it cooled down a bit. If I knew this would happen, I would've bought it after you came."

Grandma put the whole chicken on a plate in front of Kang Min-hyuk. Remove the skin on which the frying powder is coated, and only the meat is served.

"Grandmother will keep putting on the flesh, so eat it."

Kang Min-hyuk's eyes turned red.

Then, with the back of his hand, he wiped away his tears and laughed.

"Grandmother, whole chicken is delicious when you eat it with flesh."

"Oh, my God. Is that what it was it?"

Only then did Grandma leave the skin beside the lean meat that she had left out.

Kang picked up the whole chicken by hand and put it in his mouth. As my grandmother said, the whole chicken was cold. The whole chicken didn't taste right because it was covered with tears and runny nose, but it didn't matter. Kang burst into tears and put the whole chicken in his mouth.

"Why is our grandson crying? It doesn't taste good?"

"No... really...It's really... delicious."

"Is someone bothering you and crying? Or it's hard to train.…."

"I'm not tired...They're really good people. He ironed my combat uniform and wiped my boots for me on vacation. He also collected his salary little by little and told me to have a good vacation. So, you don't have to worry."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm telling you."

Kang Min-hyuk couldn't finish the whole chicken. Not because I was full, but because I felt like my grandmother would disappear if I ate it all. Kang quit eating, got up from his seat and stood looking at his grandmother.

"What are you doing not eating?"

Kang Minhyuk, without saying a word.

I gave my grandmother a big bow.

Suddenly, Kim Wol-soon was embarrassed by Kang Min-hyuk's appearance of bowing instead of eating whole chicken.

"Grandma..." Thank you. Thank you so much for raising me. And I'm really sorry that I was mean to you when I was a kid, because I had an old lady, I could be who I am now."

Kim Wol-soon, who was embarrassed, looked calm.

When he first came, his grandson, who was really young, suddenly became well over his height. Besides, what else is a character like? There are many handsome people in the world, but no one is as handsome as his grandson.

"You're all grown up, my grandson...…."

"Yes!"

Kang Min-hyuk couldn't take his forehead off the floor.

If I raise my face now, I might look ugly to my grandmother.

I'm afraid I'm going to see you cry and cry endlessly.

"Now... ...I feel relieved...…."

Grandma murmured with a big smile.

After a while, Kang Min-hyuk slowly lifted his head.

The grandmother's appearance was becoming more and more transparent. By the way, the grandmother, not herself, was looking outside beyond the Jangjimun Gate.

"Thank you... ... A bachelor."

Soon the grandmother was completely gone.

Kang Min-hyuk looked back, wiping away his tears. And I looked up at my grandmother's seat. There was clearly warmth. Kang Min-hyuk rose from his seat and went out to the yard.

"Have you spoken enough?"

"......yeah."

Dojun looked at the tin table.

To be exact, the whole chicken on the table.

"You must have had a hard time. For failing to keep your promise...…."

"......."

"My grandmother would have gone to Guchon in a lighthearted way now. Your grandson has grown up so well."

Kang Min-hyuk nodded slightly.

Dojun looked at Kang Minhyuk like that.

"How about you? The lump in my heart......... did it go well?"

Kang Min-hyuk's eyes reddened again.

"......yeah."

"Good thing."

Dojun recalled Kim Wol-soon wandering in front of a whole chicken restaurant in the market.

Her smile as she watched her grandson eat the whole chicken had been so beautiful that it would not be forgotten for a while.