Chapter 428:
As expected, a man came over and sat down on the spot, grabbing a bottle of liquor.
He was Ha Mu-gon, the manager of the IT team, and his face looked quite drunk already.
“Ha Daeri, you’re lucky. You get a lot of love from your juniors, a lot.”
His mouth spat out bitter words.
He didn’t like Yoo-hyun from the start.
He was annoyed by his shy actions, and he hated seeing him having fun with the staff below the manager level under the pretext of preparing for the retreat.
He had been holding back, so he filled his beer ss with soju.
Yoo-hyun, who saw that, moved his hand under the table and answered with a good-natured tone.
“It’s all thanks to Ha Manager’s support.”
“Geez, you’re good at talking. That’s why you get a lot of love from the director too. Come on, drink.”
Thud.
Ha Mu-gon pushed his beer ss forward and curled his lips.
Yoo-hyun understood and sympathized with his dissatisfaction.
Not only him, but other managers and deputy managers also looked unhappy.
It was a natural thing, and there was no reason to fight, so Yoo-hyun epted his offer without refusing.
Of course, his hand was holding a beer ss filled with water by now.
Gulp gulp.
He leisurely emptied his ss and handed it to him.
“I can’t just take it. I’ll offer you a drink too.”
As Yoo-hyun picked up the soju bottle, Ha Mu-gon’s face turned red and he said.
“Are you trying to screw me over?”
“Of course not. If you can’t drink, you don’t have to. It’s not mandatory, is it?”
Yoo-hyun answered calmly and poured the liquor, and Ha Mu-gon snapped at him.
“Hey, follow me.”
Then Jeong Saet-byul came over with a cocktail shaker in her hand.
She seemed to be in a good mood after receiving somepliments.
“Oh my. Manager, you have to drink a penalty drink for talking about work at a drinking party, a penalty drink.”
“What are you talking about?”
She shrugged off his words and picked up the half-filled beer ss that Yoo-hyun had poured.
Then she turned the cocktail shaker upside down and sprayed it into the beer ss.
Squeak.
The vodka that went on top of the soju bubbled up and spilled over the beer ss.
It looked like a very strong drink.
Jeong Saet-byul pushed the ss towards Ha Mu-gon and shouted.
“Ta-da. This is a new menu made with soju and vodka.”
“What? Why are you doing this?”
“Hey, Manager, don’t be so timid and drink like a man.”
Jeong Saet-byul was not trying to make him ufortable at all.
She was just acting as she pleased because she was in a good mood.
“One shot. One shot.”
She pped her hands and incited him, and people who didn’t know the situation cheered him on withughter.
“Yeah. Ha Manager, drink it coolly.”
“Try it. It’ll make you buzz. Hahaha.”
Ha Mu-gon’s face turned red and blue in an instant.
He couldn’t just avoid it because there were many eyes watching him.
He finally closed his eyes and emptied his ss.
“Cough.”
He barely drank it and made a grimace.
“How is it? Delicious, right? Right?”
She asked innocently, even though he looked very upset.
Yang Yoon-soo, a junior from the same team, added more fuel to the fire.
He handed him a hangover remedy that he had prepared in advance and ttered him.
“Manager, you’re amazing. You must have a stomach ache. Please take this. I prepared it specially for you.”
Click.
“Ha.”
Ha Mu-gon was dizzy from the two people’s unexpected actions and the alcohol that rose up quickly.
He couldn’t handle this situation anymore and got up from his seat.
Yoo-hyun chuckled at that sight.
It was no big deal to roast one manager when two fourth-dimensional people got together.
Choi Min-hee, the team leader, also found that sight very impressive and came over to Yoo-hyun and said.
“They look just like Ha Daeri when they’re together.”
“No way.”
Yoo-hyun frowned and Choi Min-heeughed softly.
“Well. You’re still unbeatable. You even made Go Jae-yoon Deputy Manager lose his mind.”
“I think you’re misunderstanding something big time.”
Yoo-hyun clinked his ss with Choi Min-hee’s ss that she offered him and she asked him with a yful expression.
“But what are you going to do about Junsik now?”
“What do you mean?”
“They look like they’re going to overshadow Junsik now.”
“No way. Nothing beats the original.”
Yoo-hyun shook his head right away.
His words were proven in no time.
It was when Yoo-hyun and Choi Min-hee looked at Jang Junsik, who was sitting at the next table.
Park Guk-byeong, the deputy manager of the TV team, whose face was flushed with alcohol, sat down at Jang Junsik’s table.
He had just joined the TV team and he was the type who nagged a lot whenever he opened his mouth.
“What, how can you grill beef like this?”
Jang Junsik, who was holding the tongs, bowed his head.
“I’ll grill it hard.”
“No, no. There are rules for grilling beef. Don’t you know? Front for 10 seconds, back for 10 seconds.”
Jang Junsik’s eyebrows twitched at the mention of rules, and Kwon Se-jung, the deputy manager next to him, tried to smooth things over.
“Hahaha. Deputy Manager, you’re so funny.”
“Do you want me to tell you a really funny story?”
“Yes. Please tell me.”
As soon as Kwon Se-jung reluctantly answered, Park Guk-byeong scanned the people sitting at the table and asked.
“Do you know why it’s hard to raise sheep in our country?”
“Why is that?”
“Because sheep have to pay ie tax too. Hahaha.”
Park Guk-byeong spat out the answer andughed while holding his stomach.
“…”
People’s faces darkened at his insensitive joke.
Then, Jang Junsik retorted with a stiff expression.
“That’s not true. They are tax-exempt agricultural products and are not subject to taxation. You’re mistaken.”
“Wow.”
The people who were watching gasped, and Manager Park Guk-byeong stammered in confusion.
“No, I mean, sheep don’t pay ie tax…”
But Jang Jun-sik was like a wall.
“It’s not taxable. I know well because my grandmother raised sheep.”
“What, what did you say?”
“Hahaha. Manager Park, your old man jokes don’t work.”
Then, Manager Yoon Byeong-gwan, who was next to him,ughed loudly.
Thanks to him, the people who were dumbfounded also shrugged their shoulders.
In the end, Manager Park Guk-byeong, whose face turned red, left with the excuse of going to the bathroom.
Yoo-hyun, who saw that, said to Team Leader Choi Min-hee.
“I was right, right?”
“You were right, you were. Jun-sik is unbeatable.”
Team Leader Choi Min-hee still chuckled and pped the floor with her palm.
Then, Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min came over and sat down next to her.
“What’s so funny?”
“Jun-sik did something again.”
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min nodded his head at Team Leader Choi Min-hee’s words.
“As expected, we have a lot of funny guys in our TF. How did you gather them?”
“You’re the best among them.”
Yoo-hyun raised his thumb, and Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min growled with a yful expression.
“What did you say? Come on, follow me. Let’s have a neck-grabbing contest.”
“That’s a good idea. Let’s do that.”
Yoo-hyun smiled and agreed.
Yoo-hyun, who went out behind the restaurant, sat on a bench ced on the wall of the building.
Come to think of it, he always sat like this and talked with Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min.
He remembered the conversations he had with him when he went to Ulsan on a business trip and when he went to Yeontae-ri.
Every time, Deputy Director Kim Hyun-minforted Yoo-hyun with his unique wit and warm words.
Then he suddenly blurted out something absurd.
“It’s an honor to sit side by side with the man invited by Steve Jobs.”
“Hey, what are you talking about?”
“It’s amazing. Has Apple ever invited an employee directly? This is something that only Steve Jobs can do.”
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min was exaggerating the contact from Apple the other day.
Of course he was overinterpreting it, but Yoo-hyun didn’t bother to tell him.
Instead, he answered casually.
“Then please take good care of me.”
“I do everything you ask me to do.”
“Like what?”
“Make me in charge of the integration n, make me in charge of the pic, make me in charge of the exhibition. Oh? They’re all hard things?”
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min folded his fingers one by one and looked away awkwardly.
He nced at Yoo-hyun and said with a sheepish expression.
“Well, I’ll just have to do better from now on, right?”
“Yes. Then let me see how you do it.”
“Okay. So don’t go anywhere else again.”
“What do you mean?”
“Did you wander around a lot? If you say you’re going again, I’ll go to Yeontae-ri instead of you.”
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min growled as if threatening him, and Yoo-hyun pointed out the w logically.
“Yeontae-ri is not a ce where you can go if you want to. Thepetition rate there has gone up a lot.”
“So are you saying I’m not qualified?”
“You have to take a precision test. From what I see, it’s close.”
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min stuck out his tongue at Yoo-hyun’s serious expression.
“Sigh. This kid, can’t you lose a word?”
“I must have learned from my senior rascal.”
“Haha. Well done, you learned well.”
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-minughed and shrugged his shoulders.
Maybe it was because of the warm evening breeze or the pleasant conversation, but Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min’s face looked much more rxed.
Yoo-hyun also enjoyed talking with him very much.
They chatted for a while without noticing the time passing by.
It was then.
Whoosh.
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min carried his feelings for Yoo-hyun on the wind that blew in.
“How can I be good to you?”
“Just buy me something delicious.”
Yoo-hyun answered nonchntly as he looked at Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min who sparkled his eyes.
“Haha. Then do you want to go to Paju with me this Saturday? I know an awesome restaurant there.”
“Hey, what are we going to do there as two men?”
“What’s wrong with that? You don’t have a girlfriend yet.”
“I’ll have one soon. And I’m really busy this weekend.”
Yoo-hyun tly refused, and Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min leaned in and urged him.
"What? Do you have a chance? What is it?”
“You’re already helping me enough.”
He had made him in charge of the exhibition, and he had also assigned him the right staff.
Thanks to that, he had enough preparation to meet Jeong Da-hye again.
Deputy Director Kim Hyun-min blinked his eyes as if he didn’t understand.
“What do you mean?”
“There’s something like that.”
Yoo-hyun smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
The warm evening air felt very pleasant.
The Innovative Product TF had changed after the emergency issue response.
Thanks to the short but impactful time they spent together, the new members quickly blended into the organization.
That change was also easy to find within the mobile team.
“Deputy Kwon, you did a good job with the data organization. You have a good vision.”
Deputy Kwon Se-jung became more proactive with thepliment from Kim Jin-yeol, the newly joined senior manager.
“Thank you. I have some updated data, do you want me to upload it?”
“Sure. Let’s do that.”
The two filled the gap that Yoo-hyun left when he stepped back from the work for a while.
The second part also had Lim Myeong-hwan, the newly joined senior manager, who took the lead well.
Thanks to him, Senior Manager Yu Hye-mi was able to speed up her steps with less burden.
Meanwhile, Yoo-hyun led the Starlight Team and prepared for the exhibition.
To be precise, it was not Yoo-hyun but Jang Jun-sik who led his two juniors well.
Jang Jun-sik, who was carrying aptop bag, greeted Yoo-hyun.
“Deputy, I’m going to Ulsan on a business trip to check on the mobile exhibition panel.”
“Okay. Jun-sik, go and see and hear a lot. Yoon-su and Saet-byul, learn a lot from your senior.”
Yoo-hyun asked the three people who were standing in a row, and they all bowed their heads.
“Yes. Thank you.”
They were so passionate and diligent that Yoo-hyun didn’t have much to do with them.
After sending off his juniors, Yoo-hyun returned to his seat and slumped down on his chair.
Thud.
He just rxed his body a little bit, but wary eyes came from behind the partition.
It seemed like they were trying hard to find something to catch him on.