Chapter 101
“Chan-ah, are you really going to do this?”
As a man named Jeong Chan began smashing the shop to pieces, the pottery shop owner grabbed his waist, trying to stop him. Jeong Chan paid no heed, kicking and smashing everything in sight.
The shopkeeper bellowed.
“I need to sell this to pay the tribute money, you understand! Why did you have to break it? There are so many injured people around, and I’ve spent a lot on medicine and paying the doctor. I’m not saying I won’t pay, I’m just asking for a little more time…”
Jeong Chan spun around and slapped the shopkeeper across the face.
Smack!
The shop owner, struck for the first time by Jeong-chan, grabbed his own cheek in shock.
Jeong-chan said.
“Mr. Gong, what kind of childish game is this tribute business? If you’re late again, I’ll smash the whole shop to pieces.”
The shop owner, who had been slapped, glared at Jung Chan with a furious expression before going inside. He then came back out holding a kitchen knife and thrust it toward Jung Chan.
Hey, you bastard Jung Chan. Just kill me already. You won’t give it to me unless I have money, right? Jung-chan, you grew up in this neighborhood. You shouldn’t act like this. Are you even human? All the bums who used to loaf around here, once they joined Mokryongdang, why did they turn out like that? Don’t you remember the neighborhood elders taking you in when you were a kid, calling you an orphan, feeding you, even giving you a single dumpling? You worthless piece of shit, you shouldn’t be doing this.”
