[269]Snake head 2
The snarky man has now erased his sly expression and only shows an expression that matches his sharp impression.
“Will you buy me with money? I’m sorry, but I’m not a very valuable person. Due to her relationship with the Sunyang Art Foundation, she is only a lawyer with only legal advice.”
“How much do you charge?”
“yes?”
“How much does my grandmother get for legal advice?”
“You don’t have to know.”
His voice started to rise a little, probably offended by the blatant and even somewhat vulgar question.
“Don’t prod unnecessarily, say what you want. Can two men spend the night in a hotel room?”
First of all, you need to let this person know your situation. If you want to handle Grandma’s instructions well, you need to make sure that it is not enough even if you lie down and beg.
“Excuse me for a second. I’ll just make one quick phone call.”
I ignored the frown and turned on the phone speaker.
At the end of the signal, a low, deep voice came out.
– hello?
“hello? chief. This is Jin Do-jun from Sunyang.”
As soon as I said my name, a voice bursting with joy rang through the speakers.
– Oh, who is this! Yes, Chief Jean. long time no see.
“How are you? Chief.”
– I can’t get along because it’s a sad life in the opposition party. Severe beatings. haha.
“But didn’t you win after the general election? Wonnae Senior Vice President. haha.”
The senior vice-president of the 1st opposition party.
Upon learning the identity of the person on the phone, director Cheon Sang-pil could not hide his embarrassment.
“Senior. I’m trying to give you a gift. It’s like a celebration gift.”
– Oh, what a gift… the orchids sent to me are enough.
“You will be pleased with this gift.”
– What is it? Are you feeling a bit different?
“I recently went on a business trip to New York and discovered suspicious behavior by the New York Consulate General.”
– Consul General?
“yes. It seems that the New York Consulate General staff were involved in the smuggling of our national treasure-level cultural assets.”
– what? Smuggling? You mean smuggling?
“yes. It’s obvious smuggling. As you know, diplomatic pouches are not inspected by customs. It seems to have taken advantage of that.”
– These crazy bastards! I’ll have to cut open the boat and check for beetles first!
A high pitched voice came through the speakers. Cheon Sang-pil was already contemplative.
“Quench your excitement. I want to talk about this very urgently, but let’s have dinner together tomorrow.”
– of course. Even if there are two sides of the sky, I will make time empty. I would like to hear more details.
“yes. Enough then…”
Chun Sang-pil shouted as he turned off the speaker.
“What are we going to do now? A national treasure-level cultural property? What is this…!”
“Because smuggling of cultural assets is more destructive than smuggling of artworks. The result will be like this. The consulate general’s smuggling of national treasure-level cultural assets is unfounded, but they smuggled expensive art works comparable to them. Well… overthrow it or beat it, that’s it.”
“Stop it right now. You won’t get a single thing you want in this way!”
“Hey. Mr Cheon Sang-pil How did you survive by my grandmother’s side with that head?”
“what? Let’s see…”
“You still don’t know what I want?”
He shouted at my hard expression, but he closed his mouth.
After staring at me for a while, he sighed.
“Damn it…… I don’t think I will stop.”
Hearing his sighs, I pressed the intercom.
“Bring me the drink I prepared for you.”
The hotel staff brought Balvenie whiskey and a glass of ice and set it down on the table.
“I think we’re almost done talking, so let’s have a drink.”
Cheon Sang-pil drank a couple of glasses in succession of alcohol costing 350,000 won per glass.
He spoke in a calm voice as if the hot drink had soothed his stomach.
“If you’re not going to stop, why did you meet me? We should just move on.”
“Not stopping is an action to get what you want. There are other things you want.”
“Can you stop playing with words now?”
“Everything about my grandmother, Mrs. Lee Pil-ok.”
Cheon Sang-pil poured himself another drink.
“Tell me what is possible. Mrs. Lee has two sons, Vice Chairman Sunyang. They won’t be alone. I will do anything to cover this.”
“I think so too. The boundary allowed to my family is the Prosecutor’s Office. Even if you appear at the prosecution, you will not stand in court. In the courtroom, there were always people who were close to me, waiting for the sentencing.”
“That’s why we use our strength outside. Either on probation or on bail…”
He suddenly fell silent.
He is a quick-witted and quick-witted person. I have already drawn everything that will unfold in the future.
Cheon Sang-pil was the one who wrote the secret contract, and the grandmother, who insists that she can’t speak English at all, just signed it as the lawyer she trusted told her to. I understood that the contract was not a secret sale of the painting, but a lease for an exhibition in a New York gallery.
It was Chun Sang-pil who had secretly sold all the paintings so far, and Mrs. Lee Pil-ok now knew this fact.
Shocked by the betrayal of the last person he trusted, he collapsed and was hospitalized.
Isn’t that a very elaborate picture?
“You are the one who orchestrated the stealing of the Foundation’s art so far, right? So who will the arrow point to? The most appropriate target is you, Director Chen.”
The more you drink, the clearer your mind is not because it is expensive, high-end alcohol. It is because they are anxious, nervous, and frightened by the dangers that are difficult to avoid.
I looked at him and asked.
“What?”
“What do you mean?”
“The tremendous spirit of sacrifice of those who consider themselves closest friends. Shouldn’t it be called a pinch hitter? The reason why he is just a person receiving a salary from the Sunyang Group, but he is messing around with his life and uses dumping instead.”
“A child like you will not know when you wake up dead. The years I’ve lived will tell me why…”
“Puha…!”
After waking up from death, I found out the reason and heard these words. I couldn’t hold back the burst of laughter.
“Excuse me. Stop thinking about the old days…”
I lightly bowed my head to him with a frown on his face.
If you wake up dead no… you will know before you die. That it was just an asshole-like slavery.
“Now stop talking nonsense and talk about what is possible. It is impossible to have everything of this lady. Let’s compromise where appropriate.”
“There is no compromise. I will have everything of my grandma, and if grandma doesn’t eat bean rice, someone will eat it for me. That too for a very long time. I want both of these things.”
As he shook his head in amazement, he threw out another word.
“Especially, I must have borrowed-name shares.”
Rather than being surprised at the word borrowed-name stock, Cheon Sang-pil had a cool expression on his face.
“That was it! stock!”
I don’t know what he was thinking, but his expression changed. It was as if he had won.
“Then the story will be different. I don’t know how you knew about the existence of borrowed-name stocks, but the stocks will go into the hands of the two vice presidents anyway. do you know That the people in your family are crazy about stocks and rush at them?”
“Sure. Isn’t that why I’m pressuring even my grandmother to get it?”
“You do this knowingly? Just give them stocks and the two vice presidents will take care of everything. Of course someone will go to jail. But not me. I really need it to change my stock real name. hahaha.”
It’s ridiculous.
That servile spirit that can’t help but think that everything is solved with only this much satisfaction. Why don’t you know that if you take your thoughts one step further, everything will change?
“Except you, Director Chen, there is no one loyal enough to go to prison. I don’t know if it’s the chairman of Sunyang, but who goes for the old woman? There’s no way they’ll guarantee you a position at the level of the president of an affiliate, isn’t it?”
“You don’t have to worry about that. Money is a very good reward.”
Lawyer Cheon Sang-pil emptied his glass with a very refreshing expression.
I made sure there was no negotiation and I knew what I wanted.
All that remains is to come up with countermeasures.
This measure has also been simplified. I won’t stop, so I just need to find a suitable sex worker and put everything on his back, and that’s it.
Chun Sang-pil, who emptied his drinking glass, licked his lips and stood up.
“You had a good drink. I want to drink it from the bottle, but I’ll put it off until next time.”
“By the way, there’s something I haven’t answered yet, so why don’t you tell me about it?”
Cheon Sang-pil thinks that my plans have already been ruined, but I couldn’t leave the room easily because of my relaxed expression.
“What are you talking about?”
“The number you really want that you don’t even know.”
“Stop it? It looks ugly.”
“No, why is money talk ugly? Is there anyone who hates money?”
“I have borrowed-name shares in my hand. Do you know how much the stock is worth? I could have gulped that stock if I wanted to. I give up because I am not swayed by money.”
“Stocks are not money. And dare you gulp borrowed-name shares? It’s impossible, so I guess I just managed it as it is. If you swallow it, your life is in danger. Don’t pretend to be a great believer. Because it’s disgusting.”
The truth always digs inside.
Perhaps because of the pain, Cheon Sang-pil’s face twisted.
“If you hand over the data to the opposition party tomorrow, there is no turning back. And when it gets big, it makes a lot of money.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Do you still not know who made the secret contract? It’s the insurance money.”
“Bo insurance…?”
“Is it a breach of contract if the secret deal is revealed to the world? Then you can file an insurance claim. A whopping $1.8 billion! At the current exchange rate, it is over 2 trillion won.”
he gulped.
“I just need to find the main shrine. $600 million. That leaves us with 1.2 billion dollars. How is it? Wouldn’t this number be suitable for your deep sincerity that you don’t even know about?”
1.3 trillion.
At this overwhelming number, Cheon Sang-pil stood there blankly, forgetting even the steps he was about to leave the hotel room.
“You don’t have the strength to keep stocks, but I have. Even if I transfer all of the borrowed-name shares to me, I will not die without even knowing. And we guarantee your safety too. You can put 1.2 billion dollars in an overseas account, right? You know how to do it, so do it yourself. Aren’t you the kind of person who can swallow money even if you can’t swallow stocks?”
I, who had only drank coffee until now, poured a glass and drank it at once.
As the pungent scent flowed down my throat, my body heated up in an instant.
“Today, we had a toast separately like this, but next time we will clink glasses and have a toast together. For the moment you have 1.3 trillion won.”
I left Cheon Sang-pil, who was still standing in a daze, in the hotel room and got out first. It remains to be seen whether he will hold the hilt with me, but I have no doubt that he will accept my offer.
A person who would refuse 1.3 trillion won with a single knife would have refused to do all sorts of messy things under his grandmother in the first place and would have already cut ties with Sunyang.
Right now, all kinds of thoughts are tangled up in his head, but as time passes, only one simple number will remain.
Numbers are a true language that never misleads.
And the sweetness of the number 1.3 trillion is so true that no one can doubt it.
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