A Bowl of Jjajang, The Son-in-Law of Jegalse - Chapter 540
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Late at night, after finishing the cooking class at Seonghwari yesterday and finishing the first day of business today.
After finishing the accounting and coming up, I was about to lie down on the bed with my tired body when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
-dripping.
“Who are you?”
The owner of the knocking sound is none other than Chobin.
It was a late visit from the exclusive attendant, Chobin.
“Your Majesty, it’s me. Your Majesty.”
“Oh, come in.”
If Chobin came at a time like this, it means something important has happened.
At the words that he could come in, Chobin entered the room holding a lantern.
Then, Mimi, who was slowly putting her hand inside my clothes next to me, asked in a Kim Sanda voice.
“What’s the matter, Chobin? Is it urgent?”
Chobin nodded in response to Mimi’s words.
“Didn’t you fail to check your internal energy yesterday?”
“Oh, right!”
“I forgot about that.”
A fact that suddenly comes to mind when hearing Chobin’s words.
That’s right.
Yesterday, I couldn’t check my internal energy because I was trying to calm down Maenghee who was upset.
I teased him so much that he became so angry that he couldn’t do anything.
Because I had to work really hard to let it go.
That’s why I decided to check the table every day, but I just skipped it.
“What about Cheong?”
“You said you were coming.”
At the words that Cheong-i should be present to check the table, Cho-bin’s gaze turned to the door, and as he said, he waited for a moment, and Cheong-i followed Cho-bin into the room.
“I’m sorry, Sister Mimi.”
“I’m sorry, but this is something related to your husband’s body, so of course I have to check it out. Please check it out quickly.”
“All right.”
As I sat down on the bed, Chobin and Cheong came towards me.
After a while, the two of them grabbed my hands and started checking the table.
“Surely nothing bad could happen in two days?”
I don’t know why it happened last time, but what if something bad happened in two days?
That’s why I said it casually, but after checking the weather for a while, Cho-bin and Cheong-i suddenly opened their eyes and looked at each other.
Almost simultaneously, their mouths opened.
“This? It really has grown.”
“It has increased, after all? What I checked last time wasn’t wrong.”
Mimi’s eyes widened at the two’s answers that it had increased, and she couldn’t hold back any longer and asked.
“Oh, how much? How much has it grown!?”
Then Cheong-i and Cho-bin answered again at the same time.
“This is it.”
“This is it, ma’am.”
This means that the amount has increased by twenty percent.
It’s been two days since I last checked the table, so it feels like ten percent a day?
‘What the hell is ten percent a day?’
Ten percent of turbidity accumulates every day, but turbidity can only be removed once every ten days.
In the end, it was about maintaining the status quo.
“So, what Chobin said was right?”
“I’m sorry. I thought you suspected Chobin.”
“No, ladies. It is only natural that you would do so, since it concerns your Majesty.”
As soon as the wives apologized for suspecting Chobin, they asked Chobin.
Because I was curious as to why this was happening.
I said I didn’t know last time, but I was also frustrated.
“What on earth is the reason?”
“Well? I don’t know the cause. I haven’t learned the magic of handling turbid energy.
But you don’t have to worry too much. Even though Sohwa-nim hasn’t mastered the martial arts that use magic, he’s better at handling magic than I am. He also said he’d bring someone with him, so if he’s a member of the religion, he’s more likely to handle magic.
If there are two of you, you can probably extract more turbidity than I can, and then we can get rid of it quickly.”
“That’s true, but···.”
In the end, the mystery of my table remained, and it seemed that I would have to be content with the status quo until my mother came.
‘No, why on earth does the table dust pile up!’
***
“Old man, is it like this?”
Cheong-i took an awkward pose and spun around at my request.
Then, the red hem of Cheong-i’s long clothes rotates.
Cheong-yi’s skirt spread open and then fell down like a red flower petal.
“Oh, are you okay? It’s the second time, but it’s still awkward.”
“Oh! How beautiful!”
‘It’s crazy. Just.’
A heart that trembles at the sight of such a beautiful sight.
Last night, I was surprised for a moment because of the table.
As I was blankly staring at Cheong-i, Yeong-yeong grabbed my arm and pulled me from the side.
“What about me? Please look after me too. Don’t just look after Cheong.”
“Then, we should take a look at Yeong-yeong too. Yes, Yeong-yeong, take a look too.”
“Like this?”
If Cheong-i gently circled like a butterfly, Yeong-yeong, who was full of energy, made a rough turn.
As Young-Young spun like a top, red waves fluttered and colored my eyes.
And then the voices of other wives follow.
“Teacher, what about me? I, it’s my first time wearing it···.”
“Honey, please look after Mimi too. Should I go too?”
“Eun-gong, me, me too.”
“Unrang, I changed my clothes too!”
The reason why my wives suddenly asked me to look at their clothes out of the blue was because their wedding dresses were roughly finished today and they were trying them on.
As expected, things progressed quickly when I left it to General Bang.
You said you started making the clothes last time, and now most of them are finished, so all you need to do is try them on and make some alterations.
That’s why he tried it on and showed it to me.
I can hide my wedding dress to show it on my wedding day, but shouldn’t my wives’ common opinion be pleasing to me more than anyone else?
‘It seems like everyone’s clothes are well-made, so I guess the wedding dress is ready···.’
He had recently sent out all the invitations, so all he had to do now was prepare for the wedding in time for the wedding. He nodded his head inwardly, praising Grand Master Bang.
‘I heard that person is really good at work.’
The wedding preparations were going smoothly because it showed how good General Bang was at his job.
Didn’t you make a lot of tents while taking the cooking exam this time, showing how well you organized and systematically worked?
I wondered if I had made too many tents because I didn’t plan on making it this big even if another cooking contest were to happen. According to General Bang, they were going to dye it red and use it for the wedding.
And after the wedding, he explained that he would use it again to expand the night market.
It was a time when I recalled the meticulous handling of affairs by the Grand Master of the room.
The voices of wives are heard.
“Old man?”
“Unrang!”
He came to his senses in surprise, clapped his hands, and answered.
“Oh, then I should let it slide. They’re all so pretty.”
It may not be a problem when dealing with each person individually, but when they are all together like this, he absolutely must be fair. This is the fate of the man who carries this unfortunate fate.
I asked everyone to walk around in a circle like Cheong-i and then thought of compliments to give.
‘Praise x 6. I told you this isn’t easy?’
Do you stupidly copy and paste the same answers just because you treat your wives the same way?
You could think of it as a kind of suicide attempt.
If I repeat a word like ‘Pretty!’ six times, I will be considered to have given an insincere answer and will be completely stripped of my answer.
That’s why the answer comment should always be different, but the meaning contained within it should be the same; this is the work of praise times meat.
He spoke to each of them one by one, looking into their eyes, changing the compliments that came to mind.
“Oh my, so beautiful. As expected from Mimi. Is red really Mimi’s color?”
“Is it because I learned martial arts that contain the energy of the two rivers? Hehe.”
“Is that so? I’m really looking forward to the wedding.”
“Soso is also very beautiful. Our Soso is like a noble flower.”
“Eungongdo Chaam···.”
“Noona Maeng-hee looks good in anything. Personally, I like the short skirt of the Yasugung, or rather, the Beast Palace. What do you think of the wedding dress of the Jungwon?”
“It’s too flashy, but I have to wear it anyway since I’m going to be Unrang’s wife. Hehe.”
Of course, there were some mishaps.
Garyeon made the chest of the wedding dress look like a rainbow.
It seems that she developed the ability to reduce her breasts and used it during the fitting.
“Go, Go-ryeon-ah, but how can there be a chest in those clothes…”
“Well, it’s a wedding, so if I look too big, I’ll look dull. On my wedding day, I want to look pretty too.”
‘No, bigger is always prettier and better···.’
In this world, everything that starts with a person is good, but it was pitiful that he didn’t know that.
Because they all start with the words they like: rough, big, loud, and big.
On the other hand, aren’t all words that start with “poor” bad?
Poverty, poverty, empty cart, destitute, anemia are all words that express the absence of something.
But what can we do?
Isn’t it common for all women to want to look pretty at their wedding?
‘Even if it’s sad, I’ll just endure it for one day.’
I thought I could just endure it for a day, but every time I saw Garyeon’s bride’s dress, the feeling of poverty came to mind.
It was a time when I felt sad and kept thinking about Biyeon.
The voice of the General of the Room was heard from outside.
“Master Ryu, Master Ryu, please come and change your clothes too.”
“Oh, is mine already finished?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
When I heard that my clothes were finished, I headed to the next room and there was Chobin waiting for me with the clothes.
With Chobin’s help, he put on his clothes and what Eun-gyeong saw was a neat and tidy court official.
“That’s great, Cheongun.”
That would be the case, since wedding attire is modeled after the clothes worn by court officials.
I don’t know about you, but for ordinary people, it’s not like that, so they just wear clothes like that to the point of getting confused.
It was when I was dressed like that.
A mistake that is felt.
It was through Eun-kyung that I realized I had made a mistake with the color.
I never noticed when my wives wore red, but then I realized they had reversed the colors.
Originally, the people of the Central Plains liked the color red and wore red clothes to weddings, but these days, things are a little different.
Men wear red clothes, and women wear light green or lime green clothes.
When I got married to Cheong-i, I wore green clothes and Cheong-i wore red clothes because I was her son-in-law, but I just made it happen without thinking.
Currently, I am the son-in-law, but isn’t it not something to brag about as the son-in-law of the unified six families at the wedding?
And I’m also a nationalist (Jin) so I was a bit green.
“But now that I think about it, I think I made the color wrong.”
“Are you talking about color?”
“exactly.”
Grand General Bang tilted his head at my words.
I explained to her what was wrong.
“No, I am your son-in-law, but I feel like this is a bit… Maybe you don’t want to make a fuss about the wedding?”
When I asked General Bang to spare my life so subtly, he made an awkward expression.
“Ah… Is it because of the color? The ladies told me to use this color, so I prepared it that way, but I should have asked Ryu Dae-in first….”
“What do you mean, ladies?”
“Yes, Madam Zhuge said that she used to wear it like this, so everyone should wear it in this color. Should I tell the ladies and change it?”
General Bang asked his wives if they wanted to change the color, but if this was their will, then it was something he absolutely could not do on his own.
If you feel sad once at a wedding, it will last a lifetime, but if the number of times you feel sad increases to 6, it means that the person was not capable of enduring it.
“Well, then just leave it alone.”
“Wasn’t it supposed to change!?”
General Bang’s eyes widened as he asked if it was okay to change it, but that was not possible.
Because I couldn’t do it x6 because I got screwed once.
“Gaga, are you finished changing?”
“Teacher, please don’t show us either.”
Just then, my wives opened the door and came inside. When they saw me in my wedding dress, they made a shocked expression on their faces.
“Wow···.”
“Unrang, where are you looking… gasp….”
“gaga···.”
Speechless wives.
Looking at that sight, I became determined to end up being a loser for a day.
***
The next day, the adult who had not yet returned came looking for me early in the morning.
“Is Cheongun here?”
“News, sir. What brings you here so early in the morning?”
As we went down to the first floor, we heard that there was an adult making tea.
When I made a face like, “Why are you looking for me so early in the morning?” the old man answered in a secretive voice.
[Another secret letter has arrived from the Empress Dowager.]
[Are you talking about the Empress Dowager!?]
[That’s right.]
You said you would make it a national holiday this year, but surely from the beginning of the year?
‘Is this really the National Intelligence Service? I’m sure it’s safe since they won’t be contacting me anymore. I’ll be a bit disappointed if it’s not the case this time, too.’
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Episode 540: Song River Lecture
“Okay, let me check it out.”
“Yes, sir.”
What the adult handed me was a rolled up scroll.
This time I received it with a slightly trembling feeling.
Because it could be news of a national emergency.
‘Now that I think about it, the ‘news’, the good ‘news’ that the adults brought, I have a feeling something about this.’
As I licked my trembling fingers and slowly unfolded the yellow scroll-like thing, the first thing that was revealed was a red stamp.
At the end of the scroll he received was a large square seal.
‘Where should I look, huh? What is it? A seal?’
Come to think of it, the Empress Dowager always wrote something on red paper and sent it, but strangely enough, it was yellow paper.
I thought it was too much of a hassle to write it down, so I looked at the contents and saw that the words on the stamp were good.
Is this a saying that seems like some kind of proverb?
Life is given to you by heaven.
Gisuyeongchang (already long-lived)
He has been given a mandate from heaven that his life will be prosperous forever.
A phrase that feels similar to something I saw once in the Bible: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.’
‘Isn’t this similar to what Brother Cross said? Judging by the content, is it a congratulatory stamp for our wedding? Wait, but where have I heard this phrase before?’
A letter ending with a stamped message congratulating the recipient for hearing the news of our wedding.
But it was a comment that gave me a sense of deja vu, as if I had seen it somewhere before.
A sentence that I tried to remember but couldn’t.
As I nodded my head, wondering if it was something good to say, an adult next to me asked with a smiling face.
“What did you send me? I’m not asking you to tell me the content, but I’m curious about something.”
I received it from someone from the court and gave it to them, but I still felt curious about the contents of the letter.
Since it was a secret letter, I couldn’t go into detail about its contents, but I thought a stamp would be fine, so I smiled and answered.
“I haven’t read it all yet, but the Empress Dowager has sent some good words.”
“Good words?”
“You stamped something like a proverb and sent it to me. I think you heard about my wedding story.”
The old man tilted his head at my words, which were good words.
I told him the sentence that was stamped on the seal.
“May your life be blessed by heaven. May you live a long life. I suppose you sent me this to congratulate me on my wedding. Haha. Such a wonderful thing…”
-Phuuuuuu!
As soon as the phrase “run away” was mentioned, hot tea sprayed onto my face from the mouth of the adult who was trying to finish asking me questions and leisurely sip tea while listening to my answer.
The temperature of the tea that enters the mouth and cools once and flies into the air drops, but it hits the face hard enough to make you wake up.
Having been completely splashed with water, I looked at the old man with a bewildered expression.
Because you are not yet old enough to be able to tell the difference between the esophagus and the trachea.
This is something that could have been avoided if we had been careful.
“Ah, no, sir. What the hell is this sudden bolt from the blue? I’m all soaked···.”
It was when I wiped the tea that had splashed on my face with my sleeve and made a serious expression.
The remaining tea dripped from the mouth of the adult with a blank expression, and strange words flowed out along with it.
“I, the national seal···.”
“National bird? I’ve heard it somewhere… It’s like the National Jade… Heeeeeeek!”
The sound of a pig’s throat being slit comes out reflexively from a mouth covered with both hands.
News The surface of the wet paper was quickly rubbed on the body by the adult who sprayed it with water.
And as I was about to quickly fall to the floor, the old man grabbed me by the back of my neck and spoke in an urgent voice.
“Hey, it won’t work here. Oh, go up there and do it! Are you planning on spreading rumors!?”
Come to think of it, what the old man said was right.
You can’t spread neighborhood gossip here.
“Okay, let’s go to the third floor!”
Although the two of us had not learned lightness, we jumped up the stairs like we had learned lightness and leaped like buffaloes into the empty room on the third floor.
And as soon as he placed the scroll on the table, he fell face down in front of it and shouted.
-Kudangtang!
“The emperor is truly infinitely grateful!”
“Oh, Hwang Eun-i, I am so sorry!”
The reason why we are going to such extremes of excitement and exaggeration is because of the news of the national bird that Su Dongpo mentioned.
The National Seal refers to the greatest item in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the National Seal of the Three Kingdoms, and is a legendary item.
‘I’m the national seal!’
A giant seal made of a Chinese character.
The National Jade Seal began with the jade obtained from Mt. Heungsan by a jade craftsman named Byeon Hwa of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.
The large jade was initially presented to several kings, but they did not recognize its value and judged it to be just a stone. For this reason, Byun-gyeong was accused of deceiving the kings and had both of his legs cut off.
But later, he meets another king who recognizes its value and turns it into a large jade, which is called the Hwasijibyeok (????).
This Huashiji Wall became the property of Qin Shi Huang, who unified the Central Plains. When Qin Shi Huang obtained this Huashiji Wall, he made it into a seal and engraved the characters, which were “Sumyeongucheon Gisuyeongchang.”
It was lost during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Central Plains, and is now probably replaced with a well-made counterfeit product made in Central Plains.
‘Seo, are you the owner of the secret letter?’
Yes, the famous Warring States Seal from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it seems that the owner of that fake had the audacity to print it and send it.
The person who took the picture and sent it was probably the emperor.
Even if the Empress Dowager had been purified, it was clear that he was the one who had this.
‘How foolish of me to have forgotten that my life is given to me by heaven and that I will live forever!’
I calmed my pounding heart and criticized my ego.
How could a guy who is a fan of the Three Kingdoms forget, even for a moment, the phrase written on the item of the final boss of the Three Kingdoms, the Imperial Seal of the Warring States?
Because it’s disqualifying for mania.
The item that is one level higher than the Chosun Ichiban, which instantly maxes out loyalty for the generals of the Three Kingdoms, is the National Seal of the Three Kingdoms, so it would be ridiculous to forget that.
‘No, who would think that someone would take a picture of this and send it!?’
An excuse made by an aggrieved ego.
It certainly was.
People tend to think that the royal seal is something that is stamped on official documents, but the national royal seal is a kind of sacred object that represents the legitimacy of the king, and is not an actual seal.
It is a tool that symbolizes the authority of the monarch, but the actual seal used, the royal seal, is separate.
“This, this is the national bird···.”
Sosik, who had suddenly gotten up, stared blankly at the bottom of the paper with the national seal on it.
I quickly approached him and asked him in a cautious voice.
“Is this your first time seeing me?”
“Then, you bastard. Isn’t this not something you should use?”
I thought I had seen it once or twice in the coffin, but this was the first time I had seen it printed.
I carefully checked the contents, thinking that I should keep this as a reference book at home.
“How are you, little brother? This older brother is doing well. Actually, the reason I am sending this letter is for no other reason······.”
Our little brother’s letter began with a greeting to this younger sibling.
There were a lot of things like how the Empress Dowager had been doing well for me lately and how she wanted to eat the food I made for her.
It feels like a letter of consolation sent by children.
‘What do you want to say, little brother?’
It was when the contents of the letter were becoming boring because even trivial stories were written.
A small note written at the end of the letter.
“After you changed the Empress Dowager’s mind, she began to entrust me with various things. She has entrusted me with the Qujiang Yan (???) for this upcoming civil service examination. It is the most important task among all the tasks she has been entrusted with, so could you help me with it? It’s not that I want you to do it for me. What should I say? I’m asking you to help me out a little out of brotherly duty, something like that.”
‘I want to do well in the work that the Empress Dowager has entrusted to me, but I need your help. Is that what you mean?’
I asked Su Dongpo, who was just glancing at me from the side without being able to see me clearly.
“What is the Senior Citizen’s Song Lecture?”
“Oh, you mean the Gokgangyeon? That is the banquet held by the emperor for the successful candidates who gathered together. They float wine glasses on the winding water and the emperor congratulates the successful candidates.
By the way, the government decided to personally inspect this lecture, right?”
“Oh, so it was a banquet hosted by the Emperor?”
“yes.”
From what I heard, it seemed like they were having a party with all the successful candidates, and they wanted me to help with that.
It feels like he wants to do well since it’s his first time personally inspecting something.
‘I assume you mean to ask me to cook something?’
I guess he felt like he wanted me to come and cook for him, and Su Dongpo’s opinion was similar to mine.
“It seems that the government wants to conduct this lecture well and receive praise from the queen mother. Perhaps he is asking you to help him prepare food for the successful candidates.”
If my little brother does well, I will have a strong support system.
I nodded and asked, thinking that I should help, of course.
“But when will the past be opened and when will the song lecture be held?”
Then came the answer.
“It will be soon, when the peach blossoms bloom.”
“yes!?”
It just so happened that it overlapped with the wedding.
***
I thought about it a lot.
I could be more at ease helping you in the fall, but it’s spring now.
That was around the time when the peach blossoms bloomed when I got married.
It is right to run like a bullet when the emperor calls, but in this Confucian country, weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites are acceptable excuses.
He said in an embarrassed voice.
“I’m telling you this since you’ve already seen it all. The government wants me to help them open a music concert. What should I do? I’m getting married soon, too….”
I would love to help, but would it be of any use if I were not there for the upcoming wedding?
Because it’s not anyone else’s wedding, it’s my wedding.
“Oh, by the way, your wedding was in the spring too, right? What a coincidence.”
As Su Dongpo said, it was indeed a coincidence.
The martial arts competition, which felt like the National Sports Festival, could be postponed because of people in the sports world who were keeping an eye on us, but the Song Dynasty college entrance exam, which was a major national event, could not be postponed.
If he were to act, there would probably be protests from parents.
I was thinking for a long time about what to do with this.
Su Dongpo, the old man who speaks casually.
“First, answer the secret letter. I told you that it would be impossible to go in person because of the wedding. Do you really want to kill someone for something like this?”
“yes!?”
No, Su Dongpo keeps saying that it’s not his business.
When I asked back with a bewildered expression, Su Dongpo patted my shoulder and said.
“This guy is joking. How can you change the schedule when the wedding preparations are complete? Let the authorities know the situation first and ask them in detail what kind of help you need.
“Isn’t there something I can do to help without having to go there in person? The person who brought the secret letter said he would get a reply.”
“Is that okay?”
“Then what is this?”
Thinking that I was somewhat relieved, I quickly took out a pen and ink and wrote down the letter.
I’m getting married to my wife right now and I really want to help, but I can’t leave my brides behind.
So, if you tell me specifically what kind of help you need, I will send someone to help you even if I can’t go.
And he handed it over to the person who brought the secret letter, as Master Su Dongpo had said.
‘I hope everything goes smoothly without any problems.’
I watched the errand boy walk away in the sky and prayed that nothing would happen.
***
I was very worried, but after waiting for about five days, the news I heard was very hopeful.
The Emperor sent another secret letter, but the content was very simple.
It was a request to make a dish that would show the emperor’s majesty and be served to the top candidates attending the Qujiangyan (???).
There was also a note written congratulating the wedding.
‘So, in the end, you’re asking me to teach you a dish to eat for the past students who passed the cooking exam?’
A dish that will show the emperor’s authority to the successful candidates and surprise them.
I had to look for it from now on.