Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Why Are You Yelling at Us?!

“Okay, since it’s a rare resting day mom properly displayed some skill.”

The mother put down meat side dishes and spicy stew on the table and smiled widely.

Appetizing smell filled the narrow room.

“Though far short of our son’s skill, still mom’s food skill isn’t one that falls behind anywhere.”

“Of course! Who would our Jin-myeong resemble?”

The father burst out hearty laughter and agreed.

Just when they finished setting the table pleasantly and were about to lift the spoons.

Kkiik.

The restaurant back door carefully opened and a huge shadow entered.

It was Bong-gu.

“Oh my, Bong-gu young man! Just meal time so came well. Just a moment...”

When the mother rejoiced and hurriedly tried to place one more spoon and chopsticks, Bong-gu scratched the back of his head awkwardly and urgently waved his hands.

“Ah, no! Madam. I ate outside earlier. There··· came to talk a bit with hyung.”

“With Jin-myeong?”

When the mother made a puzzled expression, Jin Myeong put down the chopsticks and stood up from his seat.

The two came out to the quiet restaurant hall with lights off and sat facing at the corner table.

As soon as they sat Bong-gu opened his mouth first with an excited face.

“Hyung! I saw the empty lot side while coming, the broadcasting station set all withdrew! Seems the blow from the fried rice was considerable!”

“...”

Watching Bong-gu bursting laughter with a refreshing face, Jin Myeong only lightly nodded.

Since the broadcasting station people withdrew themselves it was as if Jin Myeong perfectly achieved the original purpose.

“Ah, and hyung! This is the money earned outside today.”

Soon Bong-gu who took out an envelope from the outerwear inner pocket carefully placed it on the table.

“Cash only 1.83 million won. And what I settled the junior’s share and received into my account is 720,000 won. I’ll transfer the money in the account to hyung right now too.”

Bong-gu’s voice was full of excitement that hadn’t subsided yet.

“...”

But Jin Myeong’s indifferent expression didn’t change.

To begin with it wasn’t that he dragged the old cart out for the purpose of earning money.

Moreover the parents’ debt was already all paid so money didn’t have that big meaning to Jin Myeong.

Just the counterpart rushed to die, so he just matched the counterpart.

Jin Myeong propped his chin and glanced at the money bundle and indifferently spat out.

“You take.”

“...Yes?”

“All you take.”

At those words Bong-gu jumped and forcibly pushed the money envelope toward Jin Myeong.

“No! I’m fine! Anyway during the two days the restaurant rests the boss is taking care of half my salary!”

Watching Bong-gu firmly refusing Jin Myeong’s brow finely narrowed.

“You, no interest in money?”

“Interest extremely much! I’m completely a poor person. Seeing the account balance only sighs come out.”

Bong-gu’s face saying that was quite bright.

“...”

Jin Myeong felt a strange feeling.

“Poor but why refusing money?”

“Hyung also refused the large money the broadcasting station guys give.”

“······.”

“Honestly that money, an ordinary person would have received eagerly. But didn’t hyung refuse to protect the chef’s pride? I sincerely respect such hyung.”

“······.”

Jin Myeong swallowed a hollow laugh inwardly watching Bong-gu’s serious face.

The fellow was firmly misunderstanding something.

Jin Myeong refusing the broadcasting station’s proposal in one cut wasn’t because of grand reasons like chef’s pride or belief.

Just their attitude was annoying to the eyes, and getting involved in troublesome matters itself was annoying.

But this fellow is arbitrarily expanding and interpreting such his own actions and granting tremendous meaning.

‘An interesting fellow.’

Jin Myeong burst out a small hollow laugh inwardly watching Bong-gu looking up at him as if a great person.

“Moreover today’s matter hyung did all. What I did is only scooping rice and shouting beside, I know best myself. If such me gets greedy for hyung’s money, that’s not a human.”

“...”

A unfamiliar and strange emotion tickling one corner of the chest.

Jin Myeong tried to tidy the expression and pulled the money envelope in front of himself with a seuk.

“······Foolish fellow.”

“Yes? What did you say?”

“...”

“...”

“As you said I’ll take this cash. Instead take that money in your account.”

“Hyu, hyung! That can’t be! How can I······!”

Jin Myeong coldly cut Bong-gu’s words and raised his body from the seat.

“I hate the fellow beside me acting shabby.”

“······.”

At that one word indifferently thrown Bong-gu’s eyes reddened.

Realizing the deep consideration hidden in the rough tone.

Jin Myeong roughly took the money envelope on the table and turned his body without lingering.

Jin Myeong who was about to open the room door and enter stopped his steps, and spat out without even turning his head.

“If business is over go.”

“Ah, yes!”

Soon Jin Myeong added.

“Rest for two days.”

“Hyung?”

“I’ll rest too.”

“Understood! Rest fully, hyung!”

Bong-gu gave a polite greeting in a loud voice and stepped outside the restaurant pleasantly.

*

Next day early dawn.

The peak of the sparsely populated Jin Myeong Gak back mountain where darkness hadn’t yet cleared.

Jin Myeong sitting cross-legged on the rock was inhaling the clear dawn air and exhaling deep breaths controlling the energy of the dantian.

“Huu···”

Jin Myeong who long spat out the turbid qi accumulated overnight slowly opened his eyes.

Just when he stood up from the seat and lightly loosened his body, something in the pants pocket was touched.

“...?”

What he took out from the pocket was the metal business card the foreign old man gave yesterday daytime.

‘Antoine Rochefort’

“...”

Jin Myeong whose curiosity arose opened the smartphone search window and began typing the alphabet written on the business card one by one the same.

A, n, t, o···

When he roughly typed the first few letters, the auto-complete function kindly displayed Korean related search words at the very top.

[Antoine Rochefort]

Jin Myeong lightly pressed that name.

Modifiers that rose in the result window.

World-class Michelin 3-star chef, living legend of the cooking world.

Jin Myeong played a few of his broadcast videos uploaded on the video platform while at it.

[Bbi- bbii-! Putting this kind of garbage on the customer table?! Throw it all away right now!!]

Antoine in the video was getting angry like fire in the kitchen.

Throwing the plate containing steak at the wall, and pointing fingers at the chefs.

But in other videos, Antoine’s reaction was completely different.

[...This is proper cooking.]

In front of really delicious food he was even moved like a child.

Absolute standard and pure passion for cooking.

There were corners that strangely overlapped with Jin Myeong himself of the previous life.

Jin Myeong’s gaze scrolling down stopped at one latest shorts video.

“...?”

Exactly a few days ago, someone filmed and uploaded the scene of Antoine coming to this Jin Myeong Gak and eating jajangmyeon.

Then he also entered Antoine’s official SNS account.

There photos of jajangmyeon and jjamppong placed on Jin Myeong Gak’s table were uploaded.

[All the cookings I’ve made until now were all pretty garbage.]

Tremendous praise.

One who knows how to purely lower his head in front of cooking he acknowledges.

“······.”

A faint smile was drawn on the corner of Jin Myeong’s mouth who turned off the screen and put down the phone.

***

On large communities the ‘street iron plate fried rice incident’ was receiving attention.

[Emperor Palace cooking survival, soul stripped by street fried rice ㅋㅋㅋ.mp4]

Videos onlookers on site filmed and uploaded rode viral at a crazy speed.

In the video the possessed iron plate skill of the young-looking chef covering his face with a mask, and the huge build wearing a hat controlling people with a loud voice beside.

The fried rice sold instantly as soon as put out, and the flustered faces of the broadcasting station people watching it were closely up as is.

Above all what made people enthusiastic was the reaction of the hotel chefs cooking with highest-grade ingredients and the MC, idols tasting it.

-Hey, look at that idol’s expression. Continuously looking toward the fried rice cart side ㅋㅋㅋ

-Hotel chefs mental gone and missing wok work is fucking honey jam.

-Crazy, is that hand movement CG? Why are rice grains flying?

-Where on earth is that??? Want to go and eat right now.

-Isn’t it near that Chinese restaurant Myeondosa highly praised?

-ㅇㅇ I was on site, that young man wearing the mask is that Chinese restaurant chef.

-Summarizing the situation. Large broadcasting station guys built a hundreds of billions set right in the empty lot in front to kill one neighborhood Chinese restaurant and pulled aggro. But the pissed(?) Chinese restaurant chef dragged out one iron plate cart and finished all the hotel chefs with just 10,000 won fried rice.

-Wow, in the end the broadcasting station guys tried to kill the restaurant and got reverse toured?

-It’s a drama, drama ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-In the end broadcasting station kids atmosphere completely messed and withdrew the set all and fled ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

David and Goliath’s fight.

The neighborhood Chinese restaurant chef collapsed the large corporation broadcasting station with one street fried rice.

A story the public couldn’t help but be enthusiastic about.

-Ah, I also want to eat that fried rice. Selling now??

-ㄴㄴ sold out in one hour and coolly went in.

-Not coming out now?

-Seems not coming out.

*

T broadcasting station entertainment department conference room.

The entertainment department was literally a funeral house atmosphere.

“From the live broadcast schedule decided to proceed tomorrow right now all canceled! The 1st episode broadcast that should go out on weekend prime time editing is also all stop!”

“The programming department is making a fuss saying what to fill in the punctured seat right now! In a hurry even have to air old entertainment reruns, the entire weekend broadcasting station timetable is completely messed!”

At the assistant directors and writers’ groaning sounds deep fatigue and irritation were thickly stained on the CP and staff’s faces.

“Honestly it was a strange act from the beginning! Building such a set in some neighborhood alley commercial district? We’re not some neighborhood thugs.”

“Ahyu, my words. Does it make sense making this fuss to kill one neighborhood restaurant. Seeing the community now because of targeting Jin Myeong Gak the broadcasting station is being cursed all over.”

“Moreover even the mental was stripped by street cup rice and withdrew. Really too embarrassing to even say doing broadcasting station work anywhere.”

At that time.

The youngest writer of the entertainment department opened the conference room door with a beolkeok and ran in.

“Seo, Seo Tae-jin representative came!”

“What?!”

“...!”

At that moment, the conference room was flipped.

“Quickly scatter!”

The staff exited the conference room like the tide receding and scattered to their own seats.

Soon Seo Tae-jin entered the entertainment department panting.

“Ah, hello.”

“Move!”

“...!”

Seo Tae-jin who would go crazy at the employee greeting immediately entered the overall CP room located inside the entertainment department.

Kwang!

A moment later.

Beyond the CP room glass wall with blinds drawn the silhouette of Seo Tae-jin rampaging and the overall CP continuously bending his waist in front was reflected.

The staff watching that scene murmured.

“No, he insisted and made a fuss to build the set in front of Jin Myeong Gak and why yelling at us?”

“My words. Did we even hold a ritual to lose to street iron plate fried rice?”

“To begin with such a plan itself was comedy.”

“Ahyu, really annoying can’t do.”

The staff let out deep sighs watching Seo Tae-jin still rampaging.

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