#45

 

Eventually, I brought the four alphas to my house and set the table. Oh, of course, I didn’t prepare everything for you from start to finish.

 

‘I’m going to take this opportunity to show Eun-soo in front of the gongs and let him go out with them!’

 

With such an ulterior motive, I made Seo Eun-soo come to the main house where I live and prepared breakfast with Seo Eun-soo.  I told Ajumma that she didn’t need to help, but she insisted on helping me set the table, saying, “How can I leave you alone in front of those hungry tigers?”

 

I didn’t want to just do everything, so I gave the gongs a little work.

 

“What’s this?”

 

“It’s a spoon.”

 

“…What am I supposed to do about this?”

 

Joo Tae-kang looked perplexed when I held out the spoon box. Either way, I put the spoon box down on the table.

 

“The most annoying thing is not putting aside utensils or a spoon to scoop up your own rice when you set up the table. At least take care of this much.”

 

“…….”

 

“Alphas that are looking there, put the spoon on the spoon stand as well. You don’t want any complaints about tracking people and feeding them delicious food for free, right?”

 

Did I even tell you guys to set the table, make jeon, or prepare rice?

 

Joo Tae-kang, who looked at him with fierce eyes, quietly put a spoon and chopsticks on the spoon stand. The design of the spoon that Secretary Choi carefully selected was a very Korean spoon. It was very cool to see camellia and pine trees drawn at the end.

 

The only thing is not being my cup of tea.

 

“……you too, come help.”

 

Joo Tae-gang handed the spoon box to Baek Do-jun sitting next to him. Baek Do-jun calmly put the spoon on the spoon stand and handed it over to Chae Yoon-chan.

 

“Why would I have to do something I don’t even do at my house…….”

 

Chae Yoon-chan tried to complain to me with a dissatisfied look, but there was someone who noticed him before he did.

 

It was Seo Eun-soo.

 

“You’re not bad at this either, are you? Chae Yoon-chan ssi.”

 

“Uh… Yes…”

 

Unable to move in front of Seo Eun-soo, Chae Yoon-chan eventually left the spoon and turned it to Yoo Yi-seo. Yoo Yi-seo put the spoon down and handed me the spoon box with a smile on his face.

 

“It’s very interesting. Ha ha.”

 

…….Hearing it made me scared because it seemed like he would scoop me up like a piece of cloth and salted me like a fish, but I held my head high and set the table.

 

Five major Korean side dishes that I enjoyed in the morning were placed one after another, and hot brown rice was given in front of the gongs as a rice ball. Adding crunchy kimchi and pickles to a small bowl was the cherry on top.

 

‘Even if I had eaten it before, my mouth is watering again.’

 

Perhaps the gongs were having the same thoughts as me, as they also smoothed their lips while looking at the table. They were all ready to eat the food combatively with their spoons in hand.

 

“Thank you for the food.”

 

Starting with Baek Do-jun’s words, who was well-versed in table manners, the kitchen was filled with only the sound of eating without words. It was nice to be quiet.

 

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Baek Do-jun, Chae Yoon-chan, Joo Tae-kang, and Yoo Yi-seo came to their senses only after filling their hungry stomachs.

 

‘What are we doing now?’

 

I didn’t visit Sung Chan-young’s house early in the morning to get a meal, but when I came to my senses, they were busy scooping hot rice with delicious side dishes.

 

As they were alpha, the amount of food was abundant, so side dishes and rice refills were made several times. I thought there was a lot of high-protein rice piled up like a mountain, but there wasn’t. What was really big was the camouflage of the alpha.

 

Maybe it’s because they’re hungry. When they inhaled the strangely delicious side dish with their noses in it, all the side dishes ajumma had prepared were sold out. Ajumma made a gesture that she liked quite a lot because they emptied all the rice without leaving a grain of rice.

 

“Did you finish eating?”

 

“…….yea.”

 

“Then put the lid on the side dish. You four take care of putting it in the refrigerator. We will put the empty ones in the dishwasher.”

 

“Uh……yes.”

 

Baek Do-jun nodded, looking strangely powerful and puzzled. Chae Yoon-chan tried to get angry again from behind, but only his lips pouted because Yoo Yi-seo put his index finger to his mouth and told him to be quiet.

 

Meanwhile, Yoo Yi-seo felt a little uncomfortable when he heard that Seo Eun-soo was within the category that Seong Chan-young described as “we.” Seo Eun-soo’s slight smile was annoying, but he held it in.

 

‘It’s not good to cause a disturbance for nothing.’

 

Seong Chan-young might be trying to bring a broom and beat them to dust this time if he is violent again here. I didn’t want my body to be dusted.

 

Since they had a good memory, it was not difficult for the alpha to cover all the side dishes with their large size. It was easy because it wasn’t long before the side dishes were scraped off and the contents were left over.

 

“Does it mean that those who don’t work, don’t even eat?”

 

The gongs sat still, having the same thought. Because they thought it was over.

 

But that was only the beginning.

 

“Why are you sitting down? Get up.”

 

“…Isn’t it over?”

 

“If you ate, you should wash the dishes. Don’t you know that it’s a national rule for you to clean up what you ate?”

 

Washing the dishes? Do the dishes?

 

At the first request after hair growth, the alpha froze like frozen chickens. Joo Tae-kang looked for the earpick at the sound that made him doubt his ears, but what he saw was Seong Chan-young holding hot pink rubber gloves in his hands.

 

“If you don’t want to do it, give it to one person.”

 

Hot pink rubber gloves were given to them. Yoo Yi-seo, who was the cunning one among the still blinking alphas, hit the player first.

 

“Let’s decide by rock-paper-scissors. It’s a decision based on luck, so you all have no complaints, right?”

 

“I don’t like it!”

 

Chae Yoon-chan protested against this regard. Washing dishes was too much of an ordeal for him, a rare foreign aristocrat.

 

“Why should I? You have to bet on a 25 percent chance of getting caught? No, there’s an old lady over there. You can leave it to her, why should I do it?”

 

“Chae Yoon-chan. Be quiet. We’re outsiders, and the landlord is Seong Chan-young. Listen to him.”

 

“But he is making me do what an employee would do! How could he……!”

 

Thud.

 

A dull sound rang through the crowd. Everyone turned their heads to where the sound was.

 

“Yah, if you are going to be like this, get out. I fed you out of pity, but whose house are you whining at now?”

 

The identity of what Seong Chan-young held was a mini pestle. The one that is famous for grinding garlic in every house. Chan-young took care of it first as soon as Chae Yoon-chan upset him.

 

So that I can swing it at the head of that bully.

 

Before transmigrating, Chan-young was the youngest who was interested in peeling garlic and onions. What’s it like being the youngest? He was the lowest rank in the family. It is true that the youngest is loved in the house, but not in Chan-young’s house.

 

Labor is sacred, and when you are in trouble, you will forget your sorrow by simple labor. When you are about to cry, raise your head and peel garlic and onions to help you eat today.

 

In particular, garlic is a seasoning that should not be left out of the Korean table, so be careful.

 

“Don’t speak ill of sacred housework, you son of a bitch.”

 

Honestly, it looked ridiculous. Holding a mini pestle like a baseball bat and seriously preaching the importance of housework was like a scene in a comedy movie.

 

‘But… he’s too serious to say anything.’

 

Chan-young’s eyes were like the shape of a devil from hell. Chae Yoon-chan withered and unconsciously hid behind Joo Tae-kang.

 

“What are you doing? Why are you hiding behind me? Go away.”

 

“He, he’s a little weird.”

 

Chae Yoon-chan crouched as he was about to smash the earthen pot. Seong Chan-young was a beta to threaten using alpha pheromones. It’s no use trying.

 

From Chae Yoon-chan’s point of view, who did not know that Chan-young was a recessive omega, he was an opponent with no weapons to use. He was also in front of Seo Eun-soo.

 

Other alphas were surprised, too. Each responded to Seong Chan-young’s anger for different reasons.

 

“Seong Chan-young is so sincere about housework……? How could a miser ^[1] A miser(깍쟁이) is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions who had lived without water on his fingertips for the rest of his life think like that?”

 

This was Baek Do-jun.

 

“Since when did he know how to take good care of his own people?”

 

This was Joo Tae-kang.

 

“……The more I look at him, the more he stands out, like he has a meteoric charm that tries to penetrate the stratosphere.”

 

The last one was Yoo Yi-seo.

 

“What the heck is wrong with him……? Did he hurt his head? He looks like a different person, doesn’t he?”

 

Chae Yoon-chan muttered timidly in front of Seong Chan-young, who was dumbfounded but still stared at him fiercely without missing a mini pestle made of wood.

 

“So, are you going to wash the dishes or not?”

 

The words automatically translated to, Do you want to get kicked out without doing it, or do you want to be quiet and listen to what I’m saying?

 

“…I’ll do it. I can do it…….”

 

The alphas gathered in a circle and played rock-paper-scissors. Seong Chan-young watched from the side with hawk eyes and shouted, “If you lose it, do the dishes, scissors, rock, paper!”

 

“Yuck! No way!”

 

The loser was Chae Yoon-chan. Baek Do-jun sighed and raised his hand when he saw Chae Yoon-chan trying to run away because he didn’t want to do it, blue in the face.

 

“I’ll do it for him. Please let Yoon-chan be a little childish.”

 

“I will watch you do it.”

 

If the lava seemed to fall from the snow earlier, it was now as cold as frost. It was very difficult for the alphas to adapt to a 180-degree different posture than before.

 

‘What happened.’

 

Baek Do-jun silently thought while wearing rubber gloves in his hands and wetting the sponge with pongpong.

 

What Seong Chan-young said when he left was not a lie. Far from lingering on them, they are treating them worse than the rocks in the rice paddies.

• 1. A miser(깍쟁이) is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions