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I started cleaning that day, thus deciding to celebrate my release. I finally got rid of my exhausting work. I wrote the application three months ago, but my boss, a bore and a greedy man, was delaying our separation under various plausible pretexts. He was a master on them.

Recently, I worked twelve hours a day and for this reason I could not find a new place, but this did not spoil my good mood. I had no doubts that I would find a job, but for now I was just glad that I had happily got rid of the old one.

In three months I managed to launch the apartment to such an extent that it looked more like the camp of Polovtsian soldiers. On Saturdays I also had to work, and on Sunday I slept off, unable to engage in any useful activity. And now she was running around with the vacuum cleaner, singing songs, trying her best to blow up the working vacuum cleaner. Because of this noise, I disbelieved the doorbell ring, turned off the vacuum cleaner, threw on my dressing gown and went to open it.

Jennie burst into the apartment like a hurricane. She simply did not know how to enter. In my opinion, my sister always did everything with an excess of energy. She is four years older than me, once it gave me a lot of trouble.

As a child, I did not particularly favor her and even envied those girls who did not have either sisters or brothers. Everything changed when I first fell in love at fifteen. The sister, noticing my sour face, immediately took the bull by the horns, took me by the hand, took me to the room, which we had to share with her, and said:

- Come on inject: who is he?

I was not going to initiate her into my heartfelt affairs, but, as they say, from the devil with prayer, and nothing from Jennie, I had to tell her everything in the end. It was then that I realized how great it is to have an older sister. From that moment on, we became inseparable friends, to the great joy of our parents. If they knew what we were talking about at night, they would not be in a hurry to rejoice.

Jane was considered smart in the family, and I was beautiful. Nobody expected my appearance from the girl. The men would certainly smile at me, and then something stupid. It was useless to fight this, and I resigned myself.

Jennie, who attributes great intelligence, was not at all ugly, quite the contrary. Tall, very self-confident, black-haired and brown-eyed, she loved to "build" men, that is why my mother was rightly afraid that she would not see her husband as her ears without a mirror. Although I was enlisted as a fool, they were sure that I would certainly "make a brilliant game." It sounded wild to my mom and could mean anything. The family was of the opinion that without parental care I would certainly disappear. Like, I will not find a bakery and will die of hunger. Mom firmly said: "You cannot live alone," which predetermined the choice of my educational institution: from two universities and three institutes that were in our city. Ruby went to study in Seoul, to live for her own pleasure, somehow passing the exam for threes, which did not shake the family's confidence in her mind. I graduated from university with honors, but this family was not impressed.

At the age of nineteen, Jane got a boyfriend, a very close relationship with whom she did not think to hide from her parents. Any guy I went to the movies for was scrutinized like a microbe under a microscope. Closer to twenty, I realized that since I can't fix the situation, I should use it, in the sense that if I don't already know where the bakery is, then the question of who should go to the store does not even arise.

"Dad is going to the store," Mom said in the voice of the prosecutor. - You'd better read a book.

As you can see, my mother sincerely believed that this work was unbearable for me and required colossal physical exertion.

- Well settled, - Jenny giggled cheerfully, watching what was happening in her native land. She graduated from university, but did not stay in Seoul, returned to her hometown, got a job in a very decent company, rented an apartment and only appeared at home on Saturday for a family dinner. Parents ate this too without batting an eye.

"Jennie knows what she's doing," was Mom's favorite saying.

When I, after graduating from the university's artistic studies, hinted ... it would be better for me not to do this. An ambulance was called for mom, dad got by with valerian. But then Jane came to my aid.

- Stop running around with her, as if she is a little child, - she "built" her parents on the next Saturday. - Such a girl will live until retirement without learning how to make tea.

"Daddy makes tea very well," Mom said, but somehow uncertainly, the severity and uncompromisingness of an intelligent child made an impression on her.

"I know everything about dad," the sister sterned even more, "and Lisa must be taught to be independent. Let her live alone, and I'll look after her.

Tears came to my mother's eyes, she turned her tragic gaze to my father, but, in his words, "she never went into women's affairs" and prefers to make tea.

Mom was left in the minority, and soon I moved into the apartment that helped me find Ruby, while she skillfully stopped the encroachments of her parents to visit me every day. In the end, my parents got used to the idea that we now live separately, my dad got carried away with fishing, and my mother signed up for a women's club. The family was happy.

Now a historic event loomed ahead: Jennie was about to get married. Mom managed to run around all the bridal shops and call all the restaurants. I was in no hurry to keep her company, knowing my sister well. I suspected that the white dress might not be useful to her, and most likely she would not be able to collect God knows who on my bright day either. At the same time, "Ambulance" for mom, if she may need it, will manage with her favorite phrase: "Jenny knows what she is doing"

- Are you getting out? Ruby asked, kissed me on the nose, stomped, kicked off her shoes, stomped again, looked into the kitchen, made a few more unnecessary movements and finally settled in the chair.

"Hello," I said.

"Hi," she nodded. - What about the job? Everything is good?

- Of course, since I quit.

"So this is great," Jane said, frozen for a moment. - And no need to ask for leave. You will go with me.

- Where? - I sighed, settling in next door, but still not too close. Jane loved to wave her arms and inadvertently hurt.

"Jongin got his inheritance," she said with a sniff. - That is, he is about to receive it.

- Big?

- Who knows. Some uncle he drew, like even a celebrity. I have never heard of him, and suddenly such happiness ... Kim Liyon (this, by the way, is Kai's mother) is in bewilderment and slight delight.

- In what? - I was alerted.

- He says there is an uncle, that is, he was, and it seems terribly rich, but he has a very bad character. Therefore, if he really decided something, then the inheritance can impress - from that delight, but not violent, because the uncle is a well-known dirty trick and good things cannot be expected from him. It is strange that he even remembered about his nephews. Hence the bewilderment.

- Ah, - I mumbled indistinctly. - So, what is next?

- Then it goes like this: they gather relatives, those who have been stung in the house of the deceased, in the house of the deceased old man, all the sisters have earrings, and so on ...

- Well .., so it's good, - I said after thinking.

"I don't know," Jennie sighed.

So that she doesn't know something ... This can't be! Of course, I was on my guard.

- Jongin won't be able to go.

- What is it?

- He flies in England for three months.

- What about the wedding? - I got worried.

- Yes, we have already signed, - Ruby waved her off and noticing my bulging eyes, explained:

- They hoped that I would be able to go with him, whatever ..., rested like rams. The little ones are bad, and the firm is also decent. Tell me, why are the rich so mean?

- Because gladiolus, - I reminded a childish saying, sternly knitting my eyebrows. - Do not be distracted.

- Yeah. In short, we signed, but I still do not go. And we'll play the wedding when Kai returns. A wedding is generally out of date. A gang of relatives will come running ..., longing. I have no ideas yet.

"You can have a wedding underwater," I said. - Everyone is in scuba gear and ...

- And how to drink?

- You can surface periodically.

Jenny thought about it.

- In principle, amusing. I'll have to consult with Kai. But you know, he's terribly conservative, it's amazing why I fell in love with him. - This thought carried away Jane, and she was silent for a while, examining the carpet under her feet, which gives me the opportunity to vacuum it. "Okay, get ready," the sister said somewhat unexpectedly, heading for the door.

- I will not bother you.

We kissed and even managed to say goodbye, but then Ruby slapped her forehead with her hand.

- Damn, there is absolutely no memory. Why did I come ...

- What?

- That. She kicked off her shoes again and this time settled on the sofa. - Kai received an inheritance, he must go, but he cannot. That's why I have to go.

I nodded in agreement: from my point of view, everything is logical.

"You are completely free," she continued. - So you may well come with me.

- Why me? - I was surprised.

"To keep me in good spirits," Jane said, raising her index finger. - Listen to Kim Liyeon, so my dear relatives may well eat me there.

In general, this did not surprise me either. If the inheritance is decent, it really can. I read about such cases. For example, Agatha Christie.

- I think it would be better if Kim Liyoung comes with you. She is an experienced person, in the sense of eating someone. And he knows his relatives better.

"These are not her kin," Jennie sighed. "They are relatives of her husband, who died, as you know, five years ago after a long and prolonged illness called alcoholism. Kim Liyeon doesn't like her husband's relatives in principle, and especially those who intend to hang out there. Listen to her, all as one thieves and robbers. She flatly refused to go, she says no, no inheritance is necessary.

Such generosity on the part of the mother-in-law, I confess, was alarming.

- Itself does not go, but sends you.

- The uncle left his legacy to his nephews, therefore, Chonin must go, and if he does not have such an opportunity, it means that I, as a legitimate, so to speak, wife. But I'm afraid to go alone, that's why I have a convincing request to you, Lalisa Manoban, to support my sister in difficult times.

- Go far away? I frowned.