Chapter 51 · 8 min

Chapter 51

So Arrogant Like That?

The foreman was shocked at the shocking taste unfolding in the mouth.

“...!!”

He was confident he had eaten countless jajangmyeon while living until now.

But this was a different dimension.

To the extent hard to accept that it is the same as the jajangmyeon he knew originally.

“Cra, crazy···!”

Screams full of shock burst from the mouths of the team members who put the noodles into their mouths beside too.

“Wow, shit! What is this?! Why are the noodles like this?!”

“The sauce went crazy, really!! Wow··· haa···!”

Now there were no team members who thought 18,000 won was expensive.

And thoughts about Mr. Kang had also disappeared from the mind at some point.

“Hururururuk!! Tseup tseup! Ujeok ujeok!!”

“Tseup tseup tseup!!”

“Huruk!! Hururuk!!”

At some point conversation had completely disappeared.

The team members were all out of their minds sucking the noodles.

Dalgeurak, dalgeurak!

Not long after the six bowls became clean as if washed dishes.

“Keueueueok···.”

“Haa··· haa···.”

The team members slumped deeply on the chair backs as if drunk on the taste.

Everyone looked up blankly only at the ceiling with dazed expressions drunk on the fantastic residual aroma circling on the tip of the tongue.

At that time one team member muttered in a soul-left voice.

“Foreman··· what on earth did we just eat?”

“···I don’t know either.”

The foreman also let out a hollow laugh looking down at his own empty bowl with eyes that lost focus.

Another team member beside also continued speaking sweeping his own cheek as if he couldn’t believe.

“Wow, shit··· to the extent wondering if this is the jajangmyeon I knew.”

“My words. What on earth did they do to the jajangmyeon?”

“Wasn’t a famous restaurant people flock to for nothing.”

The jajangmyeon just eaten made amazingly ecstatic.

Just when everyone was exchanging soul-left dazed conversations.

“Did the taste suit the mouth.”

At the calm and leisurely voice the foreman and team members were startled and turned their heads.

At some point Mr. Kang who came out of the kitchen was standing in front of their table with a towel around his neck.

Sweat-soaked appearance.

But his attitude was comfortable and natural.

“Eh··· eoeo, Mr. Kang···”

The foreman was flustered, and other team members also avoided gazes and only fake-coughed.

“Th, right. Taste··· delicious. Very··· amazing.”

Mr. Kang only made a faint smile and lightly nodded.

Strange leisure.

At that atmosphere the team members strangely became intimidated.

Just when an awkward and uncomfortable air was flowing.

“There, hand-pulled master!”

Three young female customers who finished the meal and were about to leave approached Mr. Kang’s side smiling.

“We just ate jajangmyeon, the hand-pulled noodles were really too too chewy and delicious! If not rude by any chance can we take one photo together?!”

When the young female customers approached and asked, Mr. Kang was flustered and waved both hands.

“Ah, aigo. No. Photos rather than me take with our chef···.”

When Mr. Kang tried to step back awkwardly, the female customers whispered small.

“We already asked the chef before!”

“But rejected in one go. Chef’s style, completely chic.”

“Hand-pulled master, take together. Yes?”

At those words Mr. Kang didn’t know what to do and flustered.

“Will smell of sweat. There other customers too···”

“It’s fine, fine.”

“Yes, right.”

The madam who was watching that appearance pleased from the counter stepped out.

“Mr. Kang! What’s the matter? Customers want like that so take photos together.”

“Ma, madam. Still···”

“I’ll take it!”

Bong-gu approached good-naturedly and received the female customer’s smartphone.

“Okay okay! Uncle! Do V once coolly! Other people too. One, two, three!”

Click! Click!

The scene of Mr. Kang surrounded among the female customers awkwardly drawing V and smiling shyly.

The expressions of the former team members watching that situation right in front became strange.

“...”

When the female customers who finished photo taking continuously conveyed thanks and left, Mr. Kang lightly bowed toward the team members with an awkward face.

“Then, go carefully. I’ll go.”

“Ah, eh... yeah.”

Watching Mr. Kang’s back entering the kitchen again and picking up the flour dough, the foreman and team members couldn’t say any words.

“···Let’s go out.”

The foreman stood up from his seat.

The team members also flusteredly followed behind.

“Here, calculation.”

They who finished payment at the counter came out of the restaurant as if chased.

Outside was still crowded with people’s waiting line lined endlessly to taste Jin Myeong Gak’s hand-pulled jajangmyeon.

The six men who broke through that numerous crowd stopped at the alley entrance.

“······.”

No one readily opened their mouth.

A strange and bitter expression brushed past their faces.

“···Let’s go.”

At the foreman’s one word, the team members moved heavy steps toward the construction site again without words.

Dawn with darkness thickly laid.

Jin Myeong Gak back mountain peak.

“Now quite recovered.”

At Jin Myeong’s words Mr. Kang who was sitting cross-legged slowly opened his eyes.

“From now seems can do yourself.”

“Yourself··· you mean?”

Mr. Kang asked back with a flustered face.

“No need to think difficult. That feeling I led. Just breathe and circulate energy according to that feeling. Close eyes and concentrate.”

“······.”

Is it an easy matter like words?

But since Jin Myeong said so, unavoidably closed eyes again.

‘According to that feeling...’

Mr. Kang began groping in his mind the flow of that warm energy Jin Myeong blew in from behind.

Inhaled breath deep into the chest, and fully concentrated consciousness toward the lower abdomen side.

‘But··· is this really possible alone?’

Just when doubt arose.

“······?!”

Energy that gradually bloomed from the lower abdomen began circulating.

Then soon felt softly flowing to the arms and shoulders along the meridians.

‘Th, this can be done alone too?!’

Mr. Kang couldn’t help being shocked.

The path of qi and blood that Jin Myeong forcibly opened, now is operating finely even with Mr. Kang’s own breathing alone.

When the heartbeat tried to quicken without realizing, Jin Myeong warned.

“Concentrate.”

“...!”

Mr. Kang hurriedly erased miscellaneous thoughts, and concentrated on that strange flow circulating inside his body.

In that way how much time passed.

Around when the surroundings brightened clearly.

“Huu···.”

Mr. Kang exhaled breath and slowly opened both eyes.

Sweat drops were formed on the forehead.

But the lightness and refreshment circulating the whole body was indescribable.

“Still clumsy, but the path opened.”

Jin Myeong who was leaning on the rock was looking down at him with an indifferent expression.

“Now just breathe and control like that alone.”

“······.”

Mr. Kang looked up at Jin Myeong with a blank face.

He absolutely couldn’t understand with the head this miraculous change that occurred in his body, but there was one thing he clearly realized.

‘...What on earth is the identity.’

Mr. Kang’s gaze continued from Jin Myeong’s young face to the deeply sunk languid pupils.

Just looking only an ordinary youth in early twenties.

But the strange momentum that occasionally emits, and that gaze of unknowable depth.

Above all the ability to handle a person’s body and the depth of cooking absolutely couldn’t be seen as an ordinary person.

“Time is late. Going down.”

“Yes, chef.”

***

Peok! Peoeok!

Paaaang!

Early morning.

Empty boxing gym.

The sound of the glove striking the leather mitt was echoing loudly in the wide indoor.

“Hook! Hook hook! Hook!”

Paang! Pang!

The one continuously extending fists spitting breathless breath was the elderly with graying hair, Chairman Seo the head of Seowon Group.

To the extent age well over sixty was colorless, the back and shoulder muscles firmly built without unnecessary were pulled tight like a bow every time he extended the fist.

Thick blood vessels protruded as if they would burst on the upper body glistening with sweat, and his eyes shone fiercely.

The punch with weight perfectly loaded as the waist twisted split the air again.

Peoeoeok!

Paaang!

“Seueup···!”

From the mouth of the gym director receiving Chairman Seo’s fist, a groaning sound leaked without realizing.

“Heok, heok! Today up to here.”

Finally when Chairman Seo lowered the gloves and caught rough breath, the director hurriedly prepared towel and bottled water and stuck out his tongue.

“Wow··· Chairman seems continuously getting younger.”

“Exaggeration···.”

Chairman Seo wiped the sweat on his face with the towel and chuckled.

But the director said sweeping his own wrist lightly with an admiring face.

“What exaggeration. The fist gets stronger the more so my wrist tingles. Not inferior to active players’ punches.”

“Heuum, even flattery the mood is good.”

Chairman Seo drank the bottled water gulping and chuckled.

But soon furrowed his brow.

“Tsk··· because of the stupid fellow my stress these days is not ordinary.”

“Ah, Director Seo’s words?”

“Yeah. Tsk, only knows how to throw money, nothing he can properly do!”

When Chairman Seo clicked his tongue and grumbled, the director carefully agreed glancing.

“Seems the counterpart was a bit of a venomous one.”

“Venomous? Tsk, that fellow is incompetent who to blame?”

Chairman Seo threw the gloves with a tuk and moved his steps toward the shower room silently.

A moment later.

Chairman Seo who finished showering and dressed in perfectly tailored suit walked out to the gym corridor.

“Good work! Go carefully, chairman!”

“Yeah.”

In front of him a middle-aged female secretary who assisted him like a shadow for a long time was waiting holding a tablet PC.

“Finished, chairman.”

“Yeah. How is the afternoon schedule?”

“There is a group affiliate executive meeting at 2 PM, at 4···”

Just when the female secretary briefed the tightly packed schedule in a calm voice and moved steps side by side toward the gym entrance.

“Cancel.”

“······?”

The female secretary’s steps stopped dead for a moment.

Chairman Seo who always digested schedules thoroughly.

Since there was no law of postponing schedules unless special variables the female secretary tilted her head with a puzzled expression.

“Let’s go to that Chinese restaurant.”

“That Chinese restaurant··· Jin Myeong Gak you mean?”

“Yeah. Want to see directly what kind of fellow it is.”

The Chinese restaurant chef who gave the son complete humiliation.

Became wanting to confirm with his own two eyes what kind of fellow it is.

“Is there a need to go directly all the way to the province?”

The female secretary asked as if difficult.

The group head going down directly to the province to see a mere restaurant chef was beyond common sense.

“Rather calling would be right?”

At her words Chairman Seo snorted low.

“Even if call anyway won’t work they said.”

“···Yes?”

“That chef fellow there is that arrogant?”

“······.”

“Go.”

Chairman Seo smiled and walked ahead.

“...”

The female secretary followed Chairman Seo with quick steps.