Golden Time (JungYong)

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Suhyuk's smile became brighter.

He met them when he worked as a volunteer for briquette delivery service during college.

Every one of them grabbed his hands warmly. Wearing smiles on their wrinkled faces, they offered him words of gratitude.

"I told you he was a doctor. Right?"

"Thank you very much for back then. We were so worried because you suddenly disappeared without saying a word."

"Hey, we met him again like this, and that's enough!"

At their exchange of words, Suhyuk laughed softly.

"I'm still a medical student..."

"Ah! Have you had lunch lunch yet?"

"No, I'm actually just now going to eat."

"Good, good. You don't have to go out to buy lunch. Just share this food with us."

The grandma lifted a pink wrapping cloth. But then the grandpa next to her shook his head, saying,

"Hey, old hag, don't you know that young people do not eat this?"

"Oh, really?"

Suhyuk laughed, "I am happy to eat any and all food."

He could eat lunch for 1,000 won at the staff-only restaurant, but he felt it hard to break up with those nice people that he had not met in such a long time.

"What is all the food?"

She laughed and said, "I wonder if you like seaweed rolls and miso soup."

"I love seaweed rolls very much."

Suhyuk guided them to the elevator. On the rooftop of the hospital there was a sky park where patients and carers could rest. There were small trees and grass on it. Of course, the place where the helicopter could land was located elsewhere in the sky park.

"Suhyuk," Choi Suryon called, but Suhyuk said, "Sorry, I'll eat with them today."

Suhyuk got on the elevator with the elderly people.

It was not cold. Even the winds blowing occasionally felt warm enough.

Seaweed rolls and miso soup in a Thermos bottle.

She offered him miso soup using the cap of the Thermos bottle.

"Drink it."

"Thanks for the soup. It is very delicious."

She smiled like a girl. Eating a seaweed roll, Suhyuk asked, "What brought you here, by the way?"

"Oh, someone in my village has been hospitalized..."

Suhyuk's eyes grew bigger.

"Is the patient feeling very uncomfortable?"

"No, the surgery was well done. And he says he's okay."

Was it a simple surgery?

"What kind of surgery did he have?"

"What was it... What did the doctor say?" She asked someone next to her.

"It was appendectomy, you said it was appendicitis?"

Suhyuk laughed as if he was fortunate.

Appendicitis is no problem when the surgery is done well.

However, if one gets older, it can become a burden physically, so they need constant care.

"It's so delicious," said Suhyuk eating the seaweed rolls.