My Wife is A Gangster Chapter 10: My Cunning Wife

               Sungyeol sat silently by the sofa sighing deeply. After the incident with the steak dinner his mother in law doesn't trust him around the kitchen anymore. Now he was assigned laundry duties. Laundry wasn't so tough, or so Sungyeol thought. He had loaded the washers, put a sufficient amount of detergient in the wash and all that's left was wait for the machine to finish the load. Days went by terribly slow for Sungyeol now that he became a housewife, because of the pregnancy Myungsoo had forbid him to step into the office, even though Lee Credit Union was temporarily close. Poor Myungsoo had to finish the important work that Hoya handed down to Sungyeol. The bride couldn't even see Myungsoo often. The younger man was always home late, sometimes he would have to stay at the apartment because it was too much of a commute for Myungsoo to go to work the next day if he came back to the country house.  Some evenings Sungyeol was stuck at home with the elders of the house without his husband, but most certainly Myungsoo always made time to come back during weekends.

               Sungyeol laid his head down on the sofa cushion. He missed Myungsoo so much. Staring down at his tablet in hand he decided to give Myungsoo a video call.

               "Yeoboseyo?" Myungsoo answered after three rings.

               "Yeobo! I miss you so much." Sungyeol cried out upon hearing his husband's voice, and seeing Myungsoo's tired face.  " Are you going to come home tonight?"

               "Hey baby, Ani, I can't I still have some work to do tonight."

               "Wae...it's already 8:55 P.M. Why are they giving you so much work?" Sungyeol protested feeling sad for Myungsoo. " I'm sorry Yeobo...you have to work extra because of my family's situation...and...its taking away time from your real work...sorry...."

               "It's okay baby, I'm almost done on your side anyways. Be good and listen to Abeoji and Eomma okay? I miss you and our aegi too." Myungsoo reassured.

               "Aegi and I miss you so much!" Sungyeol pouted patting his stomach, which was barely showing still. The baby had grew a little since the last time he saw Myungsoo, but because Sungyeol was thin it wasn't so visible.

               The newlyweds were interrupted by a terrible screech that came from the next room. Sungyeol quickly got up from the sofa and headed towards the sound.

               "Wae...wae.. what was that?" Myungsoo said with worry on the other line.

               "I dunno..." Sungyeol said heading towards the room.

               "Sungyeol!! How much detergent did you put in the washer?!!" Woohyun screamed from underneath the bubbles.

               To Sungyeol's horror, he found his mother in law laying flat face on the ground under a massive amount of overflowing bubbles that had erupted from the washing machine. He quickly too some rags, and a mop trying to scrub away the soap but to no avail.

               "....I only but 1/3 the bottle...h..how did this happen?" Sungyeol was in panic of the whole situation.

               "Ugghh!!! You only need a cup for a load! Aiiigoooo"

               "Eommaa I'm so so sorry!" Sungyeol cried pulling Woohyun up from the floor, after digging through thick fluffs of soapy foam.

               They took 45 minutes to clean up the mess to find all of Myungsoo's white laundry turned pink.

               "I...is that...my new shirt?! Why is it ALL PINK?!!" Myungsoo called out seeing his mother and wife dig through the laundry.

                "Aiiigooooo because your precious wife forgot to take out this single red underwear from the batch! The colors bleed onto all the whites!" Woohyun complained.

               "...Yeoboo I'm sorry! But I told you...not to buy cheap underwear...the red Calvin Kleins ones doesn't bleed through the stuff..." Sungyeol was half in pitiful tears and half arguing with his mother in law and husband.

               "Sungyeol! Remember we can't afford Calvin Klein underwear anymore." Myungsoo said on the other line. A few unfamiliar giggles could be heard from the background causing Myungsoo to slam his head on the table in shame. Apparently he forgot to turn down the volume on his phone during the video call. Myungsoo had to end the call after the embarrassing dilemma. Woohyun helped Sungyeol clean up the laundry room before heading to bed.

               Sungyeol sat on the lonely bed lamenting on the day's disaster. Never in his life had he face something like this before, never in his life did he fail so bad in anything, he felt so bad for getting everything wrong with this whole housewife ordeal.

               "Aegi...what should Umma do?...I want to help everyone out, but I keep messing things up...and causing more problems..." Sungyeol said sadly. "I'm only good in dealing with money...nothing else..."

               The tall bride fell asleep hoping that the next day would be better and he can actually be useful.

               Sungyeol look over to his father in law as the man sigh deeply crinkling up the newspaper in hands, and grumbling to himself. His father in law was obviously bothered with something. Every once in a while he would pick up his phone, dialed a number, then hangs it up once again.

               "Abeoji...are you alright?"

               "Huh?!..Wae...What?" Sunggyu said in surprise breaking away from his thoughts.

               "I was wondering if you're ok Abeoji, you look bothered."

               "Oh...hehe...um...there's just some minor issues going on..." Sunggyu didn't sound convincing at all.

               "....Is...there anything I can help?" Sungyeol asked hopfully.

               "Well....you see...Mr. Oh...our usual customer...always order our crops monthly, but usually he doesn't pay us until the next month, and usually he does pay back, but he's been not paying for 4 months already...I've tried to contact him, and he keeps promising he'll pay for the pass shipments, but he still owe us the other 4 shipments from before, but he keep postponing the payments...and even promise to pay interests...."

               "I see..." Sungyeol said narrowing his eyes in thought, " ...Abeoji, let me speak to this Mr. Oh."

               Sunggyu stared nervously at Sungyeol from the driver's seat. Sungyeol was typing something on his notebook silently, with intense concentration and serious thoughts. From the amount of time they had got to know their son's wife Sungyeol due to the mishaps of household duties he had forgotten how scary and serious Sungyeol can get when it comes to business matters. He drove the car nervously on the path to Mr. Oh's store.

               Mr. Oh was bowing profusely at Sunggyu and Sungyeol after Sungyeol's little "talk" with the man. It reminded Sunggyu that the formerly fierce Lee Sajangnim was no less scary than back in the day when Sunggyu had owe him money, he was glad this time Sungyeol was dealing with 'business' on his behalf. There were just a few words of exchange between Sungyeol and Mr. Oh yet Sungyeol had gotten the man groveling on the ground agreeing to payback Sunggyu instantly in full payment with interests. It turns out Mr. Oh was trying to cheat the Kim for their shipments, and that wasn't going to fly with the new member of the Kim's household.

               On the ride back Sungyeol stayed silent looking innocent once again outside the window. Sunggyu couldn't help but feel grateful to have him around.

               "Sungyeol-ah...Abeoji want to know...what exactly did you say to Mr. Oh to make him grovel like that?"

               "Oh... I review the contract, reciepts, and when we came to his store I knew right away that he was probably cheating taxes too, so I threatened the if he doesn't pay us back now we'll report him to the government for cheating taxes, and sue him for breaking the original contract. This offense could cause him to close the store, or worse maybe 3 years in prison. I said next time we won't be so nice, so he agreed to pay us." Sungyeol said smoothly.

               The younger man acted as if it wasn't anything out of the ordinary while speaking about the situation to his father in law. Sunggyu couldn't help but be amaze at his son's wife, and how he can deal with business so well, and after all that he was back to being Myungsoo's cute wife. Sungyeol was a really interesting character.

               "Abeoji...if you don't mind I'll like to review the paper works, and financial status on our store, and business." Sungyeol asks.

               "Ah would you?" Sunggyu said cheerfully.

               The older man sat behind the counter looking at his son's wife at work in awe. Sungyeol was amazing at business indeed. In a matter of a few hours he sorted out all contracts that needed to be dealt with, tax reports, store credits and made brilliant resolutions to help the grocery business improve further. 

               "Well Abeoji, now that things are more organize, I think if we can get these people to play you back your business will be stable for a while." Sungyeol suggested handing Sungyeol a list of debtors. Sunggyu looked through the list and frowned.

               "...But...these people...they've been giving us troubles for years..." Sunggyu said with a frown.

               "Ohh that won't be a problem Abeoji." Sungyeol said calmly with a smile.

               Saturday came and Sungyeol couldn't be more happier to see his husband. Myungsoo was coming back early Saturday morning. Even morning sickness couldn't bother Sungyeol, the young man looked in the mirror to see learn that his stomach grew an inch. His pants were starting to be a little tight on him.

               "Aegi-ah...Appa is coming home today, aren't you happy?" He said cheerfully.

               Myungsoo came through the doors with eyes half open. He had a long drive and he was feeling moody. All he wanted was to go to sleep right away. The house was quiet since it was still quite early, his father was probably still asleep while his mother was probably off in the barns milking the cows.

               "Baby, I'm home." Myungsoo grumbled half asleep not paying attention to anything much. As soon as he entered his room he flopped face first onto the bed.

               Sungyeol heard his husband through the bathroom and came out to greet him to find a sleeping Myungsoo laying face down on their bed. With a sigh he tucked Myungsoo legs under the covers and got in to join his husband. He kissed the back of Myungsoo's head and cuddled next to the sleeping man.

               "Sleep well Yeobo."