Episode 595
Jeong In-ho saw Lee Jae-heon.
“….”
“Why aren’t you eating?”
In response to Lee Jae-heon, who noticed his gaze like a ghost, Jeong In-ho simply smiled.
“No, I thought you were eating like the youngest master of the Grand Gamma’s house…”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
“There is such a thing.”
Lee Jae-heon, who was looking at Jeong In-ho with his characteristic nervous expression, sighed slightly and picked up his chopsticks.
As always, Lee Jae-heon’s chopsticks were aimed at the side dish of vegetables, and Noh Yeon-seok, who was in charge of the vegetables, was very happy.
“It’s delicious, Manager!”
“…Oh yeah. “It’s delicious.”
“I thought you enjoyed the spinach and soybean paste stew last time, so I gave it a try. I used the same sauce for the one made with cabbage. “I had pine chives at home, so I made it a little spicy. Do you like the taste?”
“Oh, it’s delicious.”
“There were also bok choy and hijiki. I didn’t think the manager would do anything if he was home alone, so I just wrote it all down. “I made a side dish with herbs and vegetables that will soon wilt and put them in a container, so you can take them out little by little and eat them later.”
“…What are you doing…? “Why are you taking care of the side dishes that even my mother doesn’t provide?”
“? “Because I’m good at cooking…?”
“Hey, that guy is Shiki.”
Kwon Yeon-hee grinned and stabbed Kang Min-ah in the side.
“Sister, sister.”
“huh?”
“I will get married well, sister.”
It was a compliment to the household management skills of Noh Yeon-seok, who is dating Kang Min-ah.
Noh Yeon-seok and Kang Min-ah seemed to have made some progress in their relationship while they were at the Secret World Park. It seemed like they had become much closer than the last time they saw each other. After hearing Kwon Yeon-hee’s words, Noh Yeon-seok looked at Kang Min-ah with sparkling eyes.
He looks like he’s waiting for Kang Min-ah’s words, as if he’s hoping for praise or judging it’s an opportunity to appeal.
“Hmm…”
Kang Min-ah opened her mouth with a soft smile.
“True.”
“Hehehe…”
Kwon Yeon-hee leaned back with a perverted smile, and Noh Yeon-seok smiled brightly without even pretending to be embarrassed by Kang Min-ah’s playful praise.
It seemed very happy that Kang Min-ah did not deny Kwon Yeon-hee’s words ‘Collection of Poetry’ and gently accepted them.
‘It looks good.’
Jeong In-ho thought so and smiled embarrassedly.
‘But do you really have to get salted here…?’
At this narrow table where all the survivors were gathered.
Perhaps Kim Ki-jeong was thinking the same thing as Jeong In-ho, and muttered quietly, “It’s a disaster…” and put his head down on the table. Then, he was absorbed in the meat on the ribs, and Han Do-yoon, who saw it, shouted, “Mr. Kim Ki-jeong is tearing off the meat with his own strength…!” and ended up getting hit on the back.
“Ahh! “My back!”
“Please be satisfied because I held back from slapping you.”
“Satisfaction…! If Mr. Ki-jeong has such tastes, I can accept it…!”
“Please shut up and eat something…”
Kim Ki-jeong tried to get away from Do-yoon Han with a disgusted face, but failed.
Kim Ki-jeong and Jeong In-ho’s eyes met for a moment.
“….”
“….”
good luck.
Jeong In-ho gave me a thumbs up to indicate that I should overcome this difficulty on my own and turned off my nerves.
Beside him, Noh Yeon-seok was still ordering side dishes.
“There are a lot of good ingredients at the manager’s house, but there is no cooking. Since you seem to like vegetables, I made it mainly with vegetables, but you still need to eat protein and other things to keep your body healthy… It had sausage and meat, so I made it. Please eat that too.”
“Thank you for that, but…”
“You don’t like meat fighting, do you? I made it, but I’m worried that you might not like it. But I made it because the manager seemed to like Korean food…”
“No, I don’t like it. “I like it.”
“What about seasoned shepherd’s purse?”
“I like it, I like it….”
“I seasoned it a bit because there was bracken in it. There are many different types, but not a lot, so you should eat them all before they spoil. “Even though I don’t usually eat at home, honestly, the manager’s side dish arrangement was a bit excessive.”
“So, why are you worried about the side dishes at our house, Mr. Yeonseok?”
“yes?”
Noh Yeon-seok asked back, a little embarrassed, as if it was obvious.
“Wasn’t Seo-ah living with us?”
“….”
“No matter how much you enjoy eating out, you have to feed your kids some home-cooked side dishes on a regular basis for them to become attached to the house. “The manager will take care of it, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be good at cooking, so I filled it up.”
“….”
“Did I do well?”
“…Oh, well done….”
Lee Jae-heon eventually sank before Seo-ah’s name.
Inho Jeong thought about that.
‘I guess I really only eat out on a regular basis.’
Around that time, Yeonhee Kwon asked.
“Manager, can’t you cook?”
“What… is that what you want to say to the manager now?”
“Hmph, I didn’t ask you anything strange….”
“It’s like that again and again. “I told you not to act cute.”
“Isn’t it? You’ve never done that before? “Do you think the manager just thinks I’m cute?”
“This is really annoying.”
Woo Woo-young, known as the mother of the planning team, came forward to see Lee Jae-heon clicking his tongue.
“It’s because our Yeonhee wants to become closer to the manager. You know that Yeonhee is a very pure person.”
“No, Team Leader Wu has to take my side, right?”
“Among grown adults, where is your side or my side? “I’m just saying what I want to say…”
“Huh, these.”
Hong Gyeong-jun intervened when he saw Lee Jae-heon making a disapproving expression.
“Seeing as you keep changing the topic, it seems clear that you are not good at cooking.”
“Is it okay for the people’s cane to be this biased, Detective?”
“Don’t misunderstand, Mr. Lee Jae-heon. “I have always been biased.”
“Cluck, cough, cough…!”
Jeong In-ho stopped by Sare because he got choked on rice while eating.
“Did I say something wrong?”
Kang Min-ah smiled and responded to Hong Kyung-jun’s confident yet playful appearance.
“As expected, Detective, there seems to be a big difference in personality between when you are in the secret world and when you are in reality.”
“Ah… there were a lot of rude people back in the underworld.”
“No, rather, in such a situation, it would be better for us to be like a detective and give orders and manage. “I just did it because I liked seeing him joke.”
“thank you.”
In a friendly atmosphere, Kwon Yeon-hee asked again.
“So, manager, you can’t cook?”
“This is persistent.”
“I learned that grit is important in people.”
“Show some grit when working at the company, Employee Kwon.”
“Grit is not something you see at work. “It’s something you have to show in life.”
“Well, isn’t work a part of life?”
“So stop talking. Can’t you cook?”
“Hehehe….”
Lee Jae-heon clicked his tongue and answered.
“…I don’t think I’m very good at it…”
“You lie.”
“If you’re not going to believe me, why did you ask?”
“I can’t imagine the manager cooking.”
Hong Gyeong-jun intervened in Kwon Yeon-hee’s words.
“Oh well. Jaeheon Lee is very good at drinking black tea.”
“…? “Tea?”
“I remembered you serving me tea the last time I visited…”
“Wow.”
Kwon Yeon-hee looked back at Lee Jae-heon with extremely sparkling eyes.
“and.”
“stop.”
“and!”
Perhaps imagining Lee Jae-heon drinking tea, Kwon Yeon-hee made a fuss with an excited look on her face.
“me too…! Please give me some black tea! “I have a mouth, a tongue, and I know how to drink tea!”
“I don’t know how to drink, but I can only distinguish between black tea and green tea.”
“Everyone has the right to drink tea…!”
Lee Jae-heon, who had been robbed by Kwon Yeon-hee for over 10 minutes, nodded with a look on his face that had his soul broken.
“I’ll get on after you eat, so please sit down.”
“Yes, yes.”
“Please sit down and eat calmly and civilly.”
“I’m good at that.”
“So much.”
Noh Yeon-seok, who was watching the two, said with sparkling eyes.
“But if you’re good at driving, I guess you’ll be good at cooking too…? “Tea leaves are very sensitive to temperature and water volume, but if you can brew them well, doesn’t that mean you have basic cooking sense?”
“That’s why I said I couldn’t do it….”
Lee Jae-heon muttered with a tired face.
“It’s quicker and easier to hire someone who cooks better than me, but if you cook something ordinary and decent, you can do it. “It’s not that great so I just eat out.”
“You didn’t hire someone to cook for you? “When you watch a drama, you see one woman like that.”
“It used to be there, but… I didn’t want people I didn’t know coming into my house all the time, so I sent it somewhere else. Even though Seo-ah is at home now, Teacher Lee Yun-byeol prepares breakfast and lunch anyway… so what do I need to cook?”
“Do you know what to do?”
“Just… foods like fried rice or stew? Or Japchae?”
“What about soup? “That’s surprisingly easy.”
“I don’t know about that.”
“You really like Korean food.”
In response to Woo Joo-young’s exclamation, Lee Jae-heon scratched his neck and said.
“Because my family loves Korean food, I naturally developed an appetite for it. Seo-ah seems to like Western food, so we’ve been stopping by restaurants like that recently…”
“Do your parents like Korean food?”
“They say comfort food is the best.”
Jeong In-ho nodded inwardly.
‘Well, this party is famous for its traditional image.’
In the first place, I knew that the corporate logo itself contained a lot of Korean colors and maintained a close relationship with Gyeongbokgung Palace and other tourist attractions.
Even though it did not have the same level of technology as Oseong, it was popular in Korea thanks to its thoroughly public-friendly image and its abdication of Gukbong.
“They wear hanbok even at home.”
“Oh, wasn’t that just viral? “I thought it was just for show.”
“No, it’s true. “When I was young, I also wore hanbok at home.”
“omg.”
Kwon Yeon-hee’s eyes sparkled.
“Show me.”
“Show me something, you crazy idiot.”
“I want to see the young manager in hanbok.”
“Where can I find something like that?”
“Do you have any albums or anything?”
“album?”
Jaeheon Lee blinked.
“…What album?”
“…? “It’s an album where family photos are collected.”
“Why do you make something like that?”
“….”
Kwon Yeon-hee quickly closed her mouth and took a step back.
“Phew….”
“Why is he sighing again?”
“…Don’t you have an album, Manager?”
In response to Jeong In-ho’s question, Lee Jae-heon thought deeply and then shook his head.
“I don’t know that there is an album where those photos are collected on purpose… Oh, right. Perhaps there are photos of the event? “At that time, I usually went out wearing a suit, so I don’t have the picture of me wearing the hanbok I wanted, but can you at least show me that?”
“It’s okay, you can stop talking now.”
“Why are you guys so nervous about me when you ask questions?”
That’s because normal people make family albums.
‘No, of course, there are many families who don’t make one…’
Lee Jae-heon’s comment that there is no family album, in addition to the unfortunate family history of Lee Jae-heon, which has been known so far, made people angry for no reason.
‘The atmosphere was good until just now.’
I felt like I was going to feel a bit embarrassed now.
“….”
“Yeonseok, are there any more of these?”
“Spicy cabbage? I made a lot of them. “Can I get you some more?”
“Oh, the seasoning is boring, so even if I eat a lot, it’s still delicious and not salty.”
“Right? “I did well, right?”
Only Noh Yeon-seok, who was quite clueless, was so excited by Lee Jae-heon’s praise that he just brought some side dishes.
‘…It’s delicious.’
Rattling.
Because there were so many people and the table was wide, we put the same side dishes here and there, and thanks to that, Jeong In-ho was able to eat the seasoned cabbage that Lee Jae-heon mentioned.
It was slightly spicy, but the rich soybean paste had a pleasant aroma and was quite delicious.
‘It’s not sweet and it’s not too salty.’
It suited Jung In-ho’s taste well.
Around that time, Jaeheon Lee spoke.
“But how long will it be like this?”
“…yes?”
“Every time you come to this world, you stop by my house once in a while. “It’s nothing else, it’s my boss’s house.”
“….”
“Isn’t it uncomfortable?”
ah.
‘…this.’
Jeong In-ho tried to ignore the strong feeling and answered with a calm face.
“It’s inconvenient. The house is spacious and there are a lot of fun things to do.”
“….”
“It’s almost like going to a picnic at the manager’s house.”
“….”
“After finishing the secret world, I feel relieved to gather together like this.”
Lee Jae-heon, who listened silently to those words, naturally responded.
“okay?”
Kuuk.
Jeong In-ho held his chopsticks tightly for a moment.
“….”
At this point, it became clear.
‘…They’re on guard against us again.’
It felt a little distant.
It was even more so because I knew that it was Lee Jae-heon’s own consideration.
(Continued in the next part)
