A Bowl of Jjajang, The Son-in-Law of Jegalse - Chapter 530
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Episode 530 Refill
“Okay, I will check your blood pressure, Mr. Cheongun.”
“Okay, I’m ready.”
It was the day after the secret letter arrived.
-Bam!
Suddenly the door to my room opened wide and Mimi rushed in.
He seemed very nervous about something.
“My lord! There are twelve people outside the restaurant, and there are a lot of soldiers! Why does Mimi still get nervous when she sees soldiers?”
And twelve light-armed soldiers brought news that the great Confucian scholar had arrived at the spot.
The ladies were not allowed into the kitchen, so there was nothing to do and I was trying to get the second treatment to remove the table air from the table.
“They said they would send someone from the court, but why did they come this quickly?”
“In the adjustment?”
“They said they would send a judge.”
“judgment?”
“The examiner said. Well, since it’s the past, the court said they would send someone to make sure it was fair. I guess we’ll have to take out Chobin Takgi later this evening.”
“Understood, Mr. Ryu.”
As I headed to the first floor of the spot, I thought about it, and it felt like he had sent a secret letter saying he would send an international referee, and had probably sent someone along with it.
Otherwise, you wouldn’t have arrived this early.
‘No, it’s possible that he had already sent someone and then forgot to send the letter later, so he packed it up and sent it later.’
As I left Chobin behind and arrived at the first floor of the restaurant, all the customers who had been eating were looking off to one side, tense, and there sat a face I knew, with a haggard look on its face.
The most skilled martial artist in the martial arts world.
Because that’s not something an ordinary person would ride.
It is very fast, but the shaking is no joke, and unless you are trained in martial arts, you cannot withstand it, because the martial artists are Confucianists who ride bare-handed.
I rode it once, but I never wanted to ride it again.
‘Let’s see, who went through all that trouble to get here on that… Huh? How did they get here?’
The person sitting in the seat, trying to calm his rumbling stomach, is a face I know very well.
He ran to me with a happy face and grabbed both my hands.
“Oh my, who is this?”
“Ugh… Oh my, I’m going to die… Oh! Right, it’s been a while.”
The person who greeted me happily was none other than Su Shi, the elder brother of Su Dongpo.
“News, it’s been a long time, adults.”
“Yes, is this the first time you saw me when you came up to Tokyo on the Queen Mother’s business?”
“Yes, sir.”
“This time, I have come to carry out the order of the Imperial Commissioner by order of the government.”
“Oh, my God, I am so sorry!”
When the word for emperor, Gwan-ga, came out and he cried out the word Hwang-eun and fell down, even the people who were eating were startled and fell down in their seats.
-Wow!
“Wow, Hwang Eun!?”
“Wow, Hwang Eun-i? What’s going on?”
“Is Ryu Dae-in wearing Hwang Eun?”
It seems that everyone, including me, instinctively bows down even though we don’t know the content.
Originally, if you were living as a commoner in the Central Plains, you would all have to have these passives.
And when I think about the position of the Imperial Commissioner, the fact that he was appointed as the Imperial Commissioner, who directly carries out the Emperor’s orders, is a direct expression of the Emperor directly directing and supervising this matter.
When dealing with Ga-ryeon’s affairs, I remembered that it was a position that my uncle Jegal had also received.
‘No, you didn’t just come here to quietly watch the judgement!?’
This means that the Empress Dowager used the Emperor’s name to add the word ‘international official’ to the front of a local soccer match.
‘This is an internationally recognized early morning soccer game, my heart is filled with pride!’
It feels like the original purpose of this small cooking competition has completely gone down the drain.
The news came from an adult who was waving his hand at me as I lay face down.
“You don’t have to, so stand up. I didn’t bring a personal letter from the Emperor.”
“Yes, sir.
It ended up being a strange competition called the International Early Bird Soccer Association, but what can you do once you’ve started it?
I thought that at least it was fortunate.
Putting everything else aside, I was a little worried about who would come, but I was a little relieved to find out that the person who came from the court was Su Dongpo.
No matter how high my position in the court was because of my older brother Yeon Seong-gong, I would have felt uncomfortable if an official who was obsessed with bureaucracy had come from the court.
It would have been very embarrassing if someone came and told me to give them a persimmon or a pear without knowing anything about it.
However, since Su Dongpo is from our side and is also very knowledgeable about cooking, he was a perfect judge.
‘Did the court send a better judge than expected?’
Su Dongpo was a writer from the Song Dynasty who was also passionate about cooking.
This is because he created many dishes including Dongpa pork, Dongpa tofu, and Dongpa fish.
Although I’m not sure if this is all something he created.
“I’ll give you a room first, so would you like to rest for a while?”
Seeing Su Dongpo’s haggard appearance, I advised him to rest for a while.
If you rode a Confucian, you probably had to take a break.
“Would you do that? I don’t think I can talk about anything in this state.”
“Then let’s do that. Wol-hee, give your old man a room and assign a servant to take care of him. And tell Brother Po to prepare a place for the soldiers who followed you to rest at the government office.”
“Understood, sir. Please follow me.”
That afternoon, after the elder Su Dongpo disappeared into the fog following Yue Xi and sent the soldiers who followed him back to the government office,
My thoughts of being lucky were fleeting.
As Su Dongpo, who had regained his energy, began to inspect the preparations for the competition, when General Bang finished reporting on the preparations for the cooking competition, he spoke with a serious expression.
“Hmm… I guess I made the right decision to come. I’ll have to tear this all down and fix it.”
“Are you saying you’re going to tear it apart and fix it?”
No, it’s just a matter of making some food, rewarding the ones who make it well, and letting the chosen ones run a business. What’s there to fix?
When I asked with a look of doubt on my face, Su Dongpo nodded and said,
“First of all, let’s choose these captains and top players. It’s ridiculous to choose them after consulting with the judges.”
“You think that’s ridiculous? That’s only fair…”
It was when I asked if it wasn’t fair for the judges to deliberate and choose.
Su Dongpo explained as if telling us to listen carefully.
“This guy also doesn’t know the deep meaning of the past. Listen carefully. The Song Dynasty’s imperial examination is called the palace examination, and no matter who the examiners recommend, the one who is chosen is the government. Do you know why that is?”
I’m not interested in the past, so how would I know anything about that?
He answered, scratching his head.
“Well, well?”
“That’s to prevent factions from forming due to acquaintances between the examiners and the winner, or due to favors given to the winner.”
“Oh, so the government selects the person who can receive a bribe and make him the top candidate? And there is also a reason to prevent factions from forming due to the favor of selecting him?”
“Okay.”
The explanation that follows when you nod your head at the thought that the past system of the Song Dynasty contained a deeper meaning than you might think.
“And if the Emperor himself selects those who will become the top officials, the gratitude will be directed to the Emperor. Wouldn’t the number of loyalists increase in the court?”
“Aha. I see. Okay, I get what you mean now, but my culinary past doesn’t necessarily involve hiring people or anything…”
I knew what you meant.
The saying goes, choose people who will help you.
But I don’t hire people, so I wondered if it was really necessary, but Su Dongpo said with a serious expression.
“Oh, you, you are now a nationalist. Whatever you do will be interpreted politically, not simply. Can you think of it as something that is not important?
The more people who respect and look up to you, the better.
“The final decision on who will be the captain must be made by you. Even the most insignificant cooks, when gathered together, become the people, and when gathered together, they become a great force.”
After listening to the story of Su Dongpo, my shoulders suddenly started to tingle.
Although my influence would have a big impact on selecting the top and bottom players anyway, I was told to make it official and make the selection last.
It was a request to wield power, and when I thought about it, it wasn’t a bad thing, so I pretended not to be defeated and answered.
‘Power, it’s sweet, you know.’
“Then, what should we do?”
“Okay, let’s do that.”
Here, things like majority rule, which are the foundation of democracy, felt like they weren’t treated very well.
I guess it’s because it’s the Central Plains.
It was after I answered like that.
A bit of a question.
I thought that if I chose too arbitrarily, it might not look good either.
“But then how can it be fair···.”
I’m thinking of holding it again next time, but if there’s a lack of fairness, won’t the credibility of the competition be undermined?
When I asked such a question, Su Dongpo nodded his head.
“There are many methods. In the exhibition, we use the method of sealing and recording. Do you know what they are?”
“well?”
“The sealing method refers to the act of covering up the names and ages of those viewing the exhibition, and the registration method refers to the act of collecting all the test papers and having government officials write them all on their behalf so that people cannot be identified by their handwriting.”
“No, you really have to go that far?”
I thought this was just a rough sketch of Song’s past where they would give him money and pick him out, but it felt more thorough than I thought.
Getting through this has made my respect for Brother Po grow.
I had some doubts about whether my brother had used some trick to pass the exam, but this didn’t seem to be the case.
‘Brother, you really passed the exam?’
And when I opened my eyes wide at Su Dongpo’s words, he nodded.
“Well then, you. Isn’t it the past? If you use the name of the past, you have to do this much.”
“It’s okay to hide the name, but the food has to be cooked by someone else, so I don’t think it would be possible to apply both to our culinary history.”
By the way, we couldn’t apply all of that to our cooking competition.
It’s fine to hide the name, but it’s not like someone else can make the dish for you.
When I asked if the only thing that could be applied to us was the sealing method, Su Dongpo smiled and answered.
“Yes, but we can make the sealing method more thorough.”
“Thoroughly?”
“Let’s make everyone wear the same clothes and cover their faces with cotton cloth. What do you think?”
“Oh, that’s a really good idea.”
As the saying goes, only those who have eaten meat can eat it, and those who have experienced it in the past know this well, and the administrative aspects of the competition began to be greatly improved by Su Dongpo.
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“I received it last time too, so was it really necessary to do this?”
“But we still have to be here.”
“That’s right. Gaga.”
I was planning to get the bleaching treatment I couldn’t get in the morning.
The wives who flocked in.
When he heard that he was going to have secondary cystectomy surgery, all the wives rushed into the room.
“Okay.”
What can I do if I want to go see it because I’m worried?
Although there are quite a few guardians, we decided to perform the procedure with six guardians present.
“Chobin, then let’s begin.”
“Yes, Cheongun-sama. Then I will check the table again first.”
“Okay then.”
I held out my wrist when I heard that they would check the air pressure again before the procedure.
Then, Chobin started taking my pulse, and shortly after he started taking my pulse, he said in a voice that said he couldn’t believe it.
“What, what is this?”
“Why are you like that?”
“Why are you like that? Chobin.”
“What is it? What’s going on, Chobin?”
It’s natural for everyone to be surprised when someone reacts like that before undergoing a procedure.
When everyone looked worried at Chobin’s reaction, Chobin checked the patient’s pulse a few more times and then answered.
“Oh, this is strange. I definitely took out the turbidity once before, but the amount is the same as before.”
“Are you saying it became the same?”
“They became the same!?”
“Yes, it’s exactly the same amount as the one I checked before I took the pill last time.”
The answer was that the amount of turbidity was the same as before the last treatment.
I wondered what on earth was going on.
‘No, what kind of tableware is refillable?’
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