Gun-Ho started retrieving his fishing tools as well.
"Sir, are you going straight back to Cheongdam Town?"
"No, I will have to stop by my vacation home here, so I can release these fish into my pond."
"Oh, you have a pond in your vacation home?"
"Of course. It's about 300 to 400 pyung large. I landscaped around the pond with water plants. It looks really nice."
Gun-Ho thought,
'Wow. It would be really nice to have a drink in a vacation home which is 1,000 pyung large while looking out at a beautifully landscaped pond. That's a really great life.'
"If you are heading to your vacation home, I'd like to take a look at it too. The land is 1,000 pyung, and the house is 200 pyung, with a pond that is 300 to 400 pyung large. I really want to see them. I'm sure the beauty of your vacation home will refresh my mind."
"Sure. Come with me. I don't really invite people over my vacation home, but you are like my family now. Of course, you are more than welcome to come with me."
Gun-Ho drove while following Chairman Lee's Genesis. After going through some narrow concrete roads, his Genesis stopped in front of a majestic house in a forest. Gun-Ho could see the yard through the gaps between the front door panels. There were several trees like pine trees and maple trees. They looked really nice.
"It is indeed a huge vacation home."
Gun-Ho followed Chairman Lee and Manager Gweon to the front yard.
Once he was inside the vacation home, a lot of children started pouring out into the yard.
"Grandpa is here!"
"Hello, my children!"
Gun-Ho was dumbfounded by the unexpected scene.
Many of those children were kids with some disabilities, either physically or intellectually.
"Oh, my gosh. I totally misunderstood Chairman Lee."
It was obviously not his personal vacation home. It was a home for children with special needs.
"This place... Are you running this, sir?"
"Of course. I am personally operating this. It has been about twenty years."
"How many children are there?"
"About thirty. The maximum number of kids I had was fifty. Do you remember that GH Media's President Jeong-Sook Shin recognized me as the father of Professor Hye-Sook Lee at Sejong University?"
"Yes, I remember that."
Professor Hye-Sook Lee grew up here too. She was an orphan. She was a very smart kid. When Hye-Sook was growing up here, the kids used to call me father, but now these kids call me grandfather. Hahaha."
Gun-Ho didn't know what to say. He was extremely impressed and became emotional.
'Oh, my… Chairman Lee is more than a person who I can just admire for his business success. He is such a great person that I can't even stand next to him.'
Gun-Ho remembered what Master Park, who was in Goesan Town, said the other day.
He said, "If you see chairman Lee, please say hi to him for me. He is a very good friend than he looks."
"Grandpa, this is smaller than the ones you caught last time."
"I will get a bigger one next time; I promise, like this big!"
As Chairman Lee talked with one of the children, he gave a kiss to the child's cheek. The child talked weird. He probably had a speaking disability.
"What is that fish? It looks funny."
"Oh, that one is called a bass. Do you see the mister standing over there? He caught it."
"This one is huge."
The children seemed to be having a lot of fun looking at the fish.
"Let's release these fish into the pond until our cooking lady comes back from the supermarket. She will make a nice carp porridge for us."
"I like pizza better than carp porridge."
"If you want to grow taller, you need to eat carp porridge. You can't have pizza all the time."
"Do you promise?"
"Has your grandpa ever lied to you?"
While watching Chairman Lee and the children and listing to their conversation, Gun-Ho's eyes started welling with tears for some reason.
Chapter end
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