episode_0069

My father and father-in-law went to buy fishing rods without even eating lunch.

The rest of the people left in the house began to disperse.

Ye-eun goes into her room to play a game, while her mother and mother-in-law drink tea and chat.

My sister and I, with nothing to do, went into the room, sat on the bed, and held hands.

As I was sitting quietly holding hands, my older sister Saea spoke to me.

“Jaehoon.”

“Huh?”

“Can’t I teach you how to study like my positive older sister?”

“Huh? Why all of a sudden?”

“Mom tells me to go to the academy, so why don’t you tell Jaehoon? Then we can be together more, and it’ll be better.”

My head spun around at the sight of Sae-ah’s earnest gaze.

Parents who still don’t know that I can solve problems at the higher grade level.

Anyway, if I don’t have a sister, I won’t have anything to do at home alone, so it would be better if we were together.

“Sister. Did you tell your mother-in-law that I can teach you how to study?”

“No? You promised Jaehoon. To keep it a secret.”

The thought crossed my mind once again that I really did have a good girlfriend.

I don’t mind spending time tutoring my older sister, and it might help me recall some vague memories of studying.

If my mom found out, I could imagine people bragging about their son here and there.

I didn’t think there would be a problem revealing something that would be discovered later anyway.

I was thinking hard about an excuse in advance, and when I finished thinking about it, I left the room with my older sister.

“Mom. Mother-in-law.”

“”Huh?””

“Sae-ah, I will teach you how to study.”

“Huh? Son-in-law. No matter how smart your son-in-law is, isn’t that a bit much?”

“Son. My son is a genius, but Sae-ah is in the second year of middle school?”

While the mothers who were drinking tea at the table treated my words as a joke, I revealed some of the truth.

“I can solve high school problems to some extent.”

The eyes of the two mothers who heard me grew slightly larger.

They say that when you accept unbelievable information, you go through five stages.

Step 1 was denial.

“Hahaha son-in-law. No matter what, that’s not it.”

“Yeah. Son. I understand that you want to be with Sae-ah. But you shouldn’t lie.”

“Mom. I studied with Positive Noona for a year and solved almost all the high school problems. Can I ask Positive Noona?”

I let go of the excuses I had made in advance, and the second stage was anger.

“Son!! I know your son doesn’t usually lie, but he shouldn’t do it when he’s with his new mom!!”

“Madam. I see, my son-in-law wants to be with Sae-ah more, but I guess that could be the case.”

I know it’s hard to believe, but I’m a mom who doesn’t believe it too much.

“Mom. My son doesn’t lie. I told you the truth. If you give him a problem, he can solve it.”

My mom, seeing my serious look, went to the computer, wrote something on a notepad, and handed it to me along with a fan.

Step 3 is a compromise. This isn’t a compromise, it’s a test, but I guess it’ll work out.

“Son. I wrote down some math problems from a 3rd year middle school student. Do you want to solve them?”

“Okay.”

Anyway, I solved the problem my mom gave me in a matter of seconds, and my mom went to the computer with the problem I had solved and checked the equation and answer.

“Son!!”

“I’m telling you, it’s true.”

“Son. How did you solve it?”

“I said I studied with my older sister.”

“Can you solve this after studying for less than a year?”

“That’s right.”

I would like to express my sincere apologies in advance to those who will be bragging about their son tonight.

“Madam. Is it true?”

Surprised by her mother’s reaction, the mother-in-law asked for the truth.

“Hehe. My son is such a genius.”

The mother, who had passed the 4th stage in the 3rd stage test, entered the 5th stage, acceptance, and immediately began to brag about her son, who was a mother who could not sell his arms.

“Is it because my son grew up watching only economic news since he was one year old? He started studying on his own when he was five, and now he beats Minji from next door.”

The mother-in-law, who knew about her mother’s inability to sell her son, began to sweat coldly as she bragged about her son.

As my life story began at the age of one, my sister Sae-ah and I sat on the sofa and waited patiently for our mother to finish bragging about her son.

A little over 30 minutes had passed.

My mother-in-law called me, as if she had finished bragging about her son sooner than expected.

“Son-in-law~”

“Yes.”

“But it’s hard to believe with just one problem, and studying isn’t just about math problems, right? Do you know other things too?”

“Yes. I can tell you almost anything.”

“I want to trust my son-in-law, but it’s a little hard to trust him. After all, Sae-ah’s schoolwork is important. Excuse me, but can you come to my house and solve some problems?”

“Yes, it’s okay.”

The mother-in-law, who had difficulty believing them until the end, left Ye-eun playing games alone in her room and went with everyone to Sae-ah’s older sister’s house.

My mother-in-law took out several workbooks from Sae-ah’s room and started handing them to me.

From math to science, English and even Korean.

Let’s read slowly and solve the problems one by one without any difficulties. My mother-in-law took the workbook and finished checking it with the answer sheet.

“Son-in-law!! How is this possible?”

“It just happened because I was doing it.”

My conscience was pricked by the lie, but when I looked at it, it was true that I was able to solve it.

“This is what you studied for a year?”

“Yes. I studied with my positive sister.”

“Did Geungjeong tell you?”

“I just looked at the workbook and learned on my own.”

“Wow~”

“Hehehe”

I could hear my mother-in-law looking at me with her mouth open and my mother laughing in delight at her son’s genius.

“Mom! Then can I learn from Jaehoon?”

“Yeah. My son-in-law said he can tell you. Instead, if your grades don’t come out well, you go to an academy?”

“Okay! Got it.”

Seeing the bright smile of my older sister, I felt good that the time I spent in my past life was not in vain.

So, after summer vacation was over, I promised to tutor my older sister and headed back to my house.

Once we got home, we all started thinking about what to eat for lunch.

The fathers went out to buy fishing rods and haven’t heard from us for over an hour.

“Son. Can you call me and ask when you’re coming home?”

“Okay.”

My dad picked up the phone just before the signal was cut off when I called him.

-Huh? Son? Why?

-When are you coming? Aren’t you going to eat lunch?

-I was hungry so I ate a hamburger with my in-laws.

-…..

-why?

-No. I was just asking when you were coming.

-You can get in in an hour.

-okay.

I hung up the phone and immediately told my mom the news.

“Mom. She said she was hungry so she ate a hamburger with her father-in-law.”

“Oh my. I really waited to eat it together.”

“Wow these people are real. Were your in-laws like that originally? My husband wasn’t like that originally?”

“”…..””

My mother and I avoided my mother-in-law’s gaze and exercised our right to remain silent.

“Ahem. Mother-in-law. Is there anything you’d like to eat for lunch?”

“Smart son-in-law, you should eat whatever you want. Son-in-law, is there anything you want to eat?”

“Haha. Anything is fine with me. What about Mom? Is there anything you want to eat?”

“It’s hot and I’m feeling stuffy because of your dad. Should I eat some naengmyeon?”

My mother-in-law nodded and my mother, who checked with everyone whether it was cold noodles or cold water noodles, ordered cold noodles.

While waiting for the cold noodles, my mother-in-law and I sat in the living room watching TV, and she kept looking at me with curiosity in the kitchen.

I was watching TV, pretending not to notice, when my mother-in-law called me.

“Son-in-law!”

“Huh?”

“But why didn’t you tell me until now that you can solve high school problems?”

I wonder if my mother hadn’t thought of that either. As she looked at me, I quickly thought about it.

“I know I’m smart. If other people think I’m abnormally smart, that’s a problem too.”

Even in my opinion, my mother and mother-in-law were speechless for a while because of the perfect excuse.

“Wow. But son-in-law, that’s a bit unlucky.”

The mother-in-law continued with her understandable diss.

“That’s because my son is so smart. Hehe.”

Fortunately, my mother seemed convinced, and the conversation ended without any further questions.

After a while, the naengmyeon arrived and we all started eating it together in the living room.

“Daughter. Your son always gets 100% and studies well, but your daughter doesn’t study?”

Recently, Ye-eun’s mother dissed her because her grades have not been good.

Ye-eun lowered her head and quietly began to finish eating her cold noodles.

She looks like Ye-eun, but I don’t know why she looks like her father.

As long as you grow up pretty, kind, and healthy, that’s all that matters.

Ye-eun, who ate the cold noodles the fastest, quietly ran away to her room to play a game.

After finishing cleaning up and sitting on the living room sofa, the dads arrived.

My father-in-law comes into the house carrying two boxes, and my father-in-law comes in carrying a long box in his arms.

The mothers just looked on, dumbfounded, wondering what they were doing, and I had no choice but to ask.

“Dad. What is that?”

“Head lantern and fishing gear!”

“But why are there so many?”

“It would be sad if there was only one. I bought seven because it would be dangerous at night when I go out!”

“What about the rest?”

Dad opened a box and showed off each one as if he was proud of them.

“This is the container you put the fish in after catching it! This is called a water bubbler, and it gives air to the fish. This is…”

Dad continued explaining the supplies, and the craftsman nodded next to him.

The mothers were sighing on the sidelines and I was really curious.

“Then what are you going to do with these after you use them this time?”

“I have to use it again next time I go!”

I sat quietly as I watched my father thinking about going fishing again, even though he had never done it before.

Even the mothers didn’t say much, perhaps because they had given up. Only the father and father-in-law, excited at the thought of catching a fish, were running around the living room.

After some time, the fathers heard that I could solve high school level problems.

“Son-in-law! There’s a reason why I always lose to my son!”

“Haha. So Sae-ah won’t be going to school from now on?”

“You should learn it first, and if your grades aren’t good, you should go to an academy. But why do you like it?”

“The tuition must be tight. Can’t you buy a better fishing rod, honey?”

“…..”

When my father-in-law said that he would buy a fishing rod with the solid tuition money, my mother-in-law quietly got up.

Suddenly, he grabbed my father-in-law by the collar and left our house.

While everyone was shocked by the unexpected situation.

Only the clueless father was smiling while looking at the new fishing rod he bought.

Ugh…