“I’m sorry, I surprised you.”
I bowed my head.
“But what are you doing here?”
The grandmother on the left panicked and replied.
“I came to find you.”
“Me? Why?”
“Let’s introduce ourselves first. I’m Lee Ok-hwa, and this is Hwang Sun-ja. ”
“It is Oh Chun-sam.”
“It’s so nameless.”
My grandmother’s name is also ugly.
I shrugged.
“This is the Ogre area.”
“I didn’t know. ”
“If you are looking for me, you would’ve come to the lizard area… But that’s okay, and why did you come to me? Did Kang Yoo-sik send you?”
“No, I came on my own.”
I didn’t understand, so I looked blankly at both of them.
“Uh, that means you’re running away?”
“Something like that.”
“Why?”
“Kang Yoo-sik, that bad guy sends us into danger. No beads. I thought that I would be killed while I was still on the path, so I decided to enter the forest. I want to live here.”
“It would be more dangerous here.”
Hwang Sun-ja laughed shyly.
“You live here.”
Somehow her backbone is creepy.
“What does that mean?”
“I heard you take good care of women.”
Lee Ok-Hwa helped.
“We are better than Park Min-Ji.”
After breaking up with Park Min-Ji, the bean pods in my eyes fell off. So now, I know that Park Min-Ji’s looks are below average. Still, it can’t be compared to a grandmother. It will be an insult to Park Min-Ji.
“What does that have to do with me?”
“Let’s live together.”
I pointed my forehead with my left hand. Suddenly, the back of my head became heavy.
“I don’t want it.”
“Why?”
“How old are you two?”
“Us? I’m 57 years old. ”
“You’re a grandmother.”
Hwang Sun-ja hung up on me.
“Don’t call me Grandma. We haven’t even reached our 60th birthday yet.”
The two grandmothers exchanged words as if they were drunk.
“I understand your heart. When I was 20, I wanted to be 40, and when I was that age, I hated it, and I thought I’d like to die. ”
“Me too. I felt worse than Lee Ok-hwa, so I’ve seen it. But I became forty, and then I knew. Ah, it’s starting now. ”
“It’s 100 years old nowadays.”
“Being in the 50s these days are different. Youth. “
“The 70s of inspiration tanks are so energetic that they are molesting young women.”
“Look at Kang Yoo-sik. You don’t know how he is trampling the young girls these days. ”
“It’s nauseous.”
“Premature baby.”
“No one.”
If I leave it like this, I think they will speak all night, so I cut in.
“You mean nothing? Is it cheap? Yeomchi? ”
“When he looks at women, he says you don’t have a chest, you don’t have a butt, you know. That’s his analogy. He doesn’t have peppers.”
“Besides, he’s premature.”
I didn’t want to know that Kang Yoo-sik is premature, and his peppers are small.
“Stop, stop.”
I shook my hands with an angry face.
“My mother died at the age of forty. You two are older than my mother. So please don’t tell me you want to live together with me. “
Said Lee Ok-hwa.
“Are you going to kill us?”
“Why would I kill grandmothers?”
Hwang Sun-ja replied.
“Kissing us is like killing.”
“I live in stones. I can’t take care of others. ”
“You took care of Park Min-Ji.”
“That was before.”
“Are you shy because we’re old?”
“Think freely.”
I turned my back.
“It’s nighttime.”
I ignored the glare they shot at my back and moved. The two followed. I jumped a little while struggling.
Lee Ok-Hwa chased me and stumbled over a stone beak. I heard the grandmother’s cry, and I regretted eating white beads for the first time.
Ow, damn it.
I went back and supported the grandmothers.
“Stay with me tonight and go back tomorrow when it’s bright.”
The grandmother continued to grumble. Then she put her hand in her skirt. I jumped in surprise. I wasn’t surprised when the Ogre popped out and swung the club.
“Why are you doing this!”
Grandma took something out. It seemed to be taking out the ssamjidon that was hidden in the squirrel to give to her grandson.
I knew that I had misunderstood, and I blushed.
“What is it?”
Lee Ok-Hwa pushed it in front of me. When I saw the yellow beads, I made a gasping sound.
“Woah!”
“Is it precious?”
I nodded.
“I thought so. I have seen a lot of blue beads and red beads, but I have never seen a yellow bead. “
“Where did you get this?”
“Let us do everything that Kang Yoo-sik is troublesome about. I slaughtered it while they are all slaughtering. ”
“Why didn’t you eat it?”
“Because of you.”
I opened my eyes wide.
“Are you hiding yellow beads to give me even before?”
“Don’t overreact. You were so sick of eating beads. If I ate this and it hurts, I’ll endure it because I’m going to throw out the beads. If it was a blue marble with no side effects, I would have eaten it immediately. ”
Hwang Sun-ja received a speech.
“Because it was the first marble I ever saw, we were reluctant to eat it.”
When I reached out, Grandmother Lee Ok-Hwa took back her hand with a bead.
“Oh my gosh.”
Hwang Sun-ja’s grandmother told.
“Nothing is for free.”
I said with my hands-off.
“What do you want?”
“I’ll give you this if you protect us.”
“I did not keep it because I was worried about the side effects, but I kept it for trading when I need it.”
“There is no such thing. Originally, I had Kim Byeong-woo in mind, but if I offered him this, he would probably say ‘Go away!’ ”
Then fine. Lee Ok-hwa asked.
“What will you do?”
“Deal.”
“In the future, call me ‘Aunt.’ We are still young. ”
“Okay.”
I received the bead. I was excited about what changes will happen if I eat this.
* * *
After the summons, Seo Su-myeong treated Choi Hye-ri politely. I sometimes sent a greedy gaze, but I didn’t feel very anxious about it because I lived in Korea and received it a lot.
There is a saying that without teeth, the gums are cold. Choi Hye-ri never knew that the fall of the queen bee would give her this nightmare. After the queen bee’s arm was cut, Su-myeong seized power in the village and became a typical bastard dog. After that day, the world, which was already difficult to live in, turned into hell.
Choi Hye-ri dreamed of escaping every night and dreamed of tearing the body of Seo-soo. Impossible dreams.
I looked up at the sky, and dark clouds were covering the moon. The darkness felt like her own future, and Choi Hye-ri shed tears.
Kim Byung-Woo and Park Min-Ji approached the darkness. Choi Hye-ri moved towards them. Park Min-Ji thought she was coming because she had something to do with Kim Byeong-Woo, so she tried to go home. However, Choi Hye-ri called her up.
“Wait.”
Kim Byung-woo looked at Choi Hye-ri for a while and then went into the house. Park Min-Ji stood in front of her and laughed awkwardly. I remembered that Choi Hye-ri seduced Kim Byung-woo.
“Aren’t you here for Mr. Byung-woo?”
“I have nothing to say to Kim Byung-woo.”
“Then what… …? ”
Tears flowed down her cheeks.
“I was just envious.”
Park Min-Ji was embarrassed by her tears. Choi Hye-ri, who is in tears, was very pretty and lovely.
A pretty girl like that envied me?
If we were not here, she would have smacked my cheeks.
“You must be having a hard time.”
Choi Hye-ri nodded.
“How did my life became like this?”
“It’s the devil.”
“But you are a good person. If I had acted wisely, life would not have been this hard. ”
“Choices.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“I chose Oh Chun-sam. And you chose Kim Byung-woo. When I think about it now, both our choices seemed to have broken our lives. ”
Park Min-Ji muttered inside.
She was pretty. So if she laughed and flirted, you would have thought that Kim Byung-woo would come over. But I expected that she would never fall for Kim Byung-woo because he was ugly. What I could do for her was to approach Oh Chun-sam, who was out in town. By the way, I’m now with Kim Byung-woo, and she’s suffering from Seo Su-Myung’s hands. Life is ironic.
Park Min-Ji felt strangely satisfied with the misery she was experiencing. Meanwhile, Choi Hye-ri was looking blankly at the forest.
“The grandmother who went into the forest could have been dead.”
Choi Hye-ri shed tears again.
“I don’t have that courage.”
I was sorry that I felt satisfied with her misfortune. Guilt captured me.
“They’re alive.”
Choi Hye-ri opened her eyes wide in surprise.
“How?”
“I saw three people moving around in the distance.”
“Three?”
“Oh Chun-sam was protecting the two of them. That’s why they survived. ”
Park Min-Ji shook her head with thoughts that came to mind for a moment.
No, he probably didn’t have a relationship with those grandmothers.
While thinking differently, Choi Hye-ri moved to the forest. Park Min-Ji quickly ran and caught.
“Are you going to the forest?”
Choi Hye-ri nodded.
“Going into the forest without a weapon? Do you want to die? ”
Park Min-Ji put a window on the back of her hand. And it was.
“I saw them west of the Ogre area.”