A Bowl of Jjajang, The Son-in-Law of Jegalse - Chapter 544
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Episode 544 Zara Al
“Ryu Dae-in, eat well and go. Thank you for the free pottery dumplings. Hong Yeong-ah, thank you Ryu Dae-in. I should do that.”
“Thank you, Mr. Ryu.”
“Okay, come again next time. You too, have a good trip.”
It was when Cheong, who had eaten breakfast and gone to buy side dishes with the other wives, was watching the counter instead.
Suddenly a commotion began to be heard outside the spot.
“Wow! It’s huge!”
“Huh! Two of those things?”
“Joe, be careful. Get out of the way. Ladies, come in.”
‘You’re here already?’
Surprised cries and exclamations from people outside.
Listening to the story, it felt like the wives had returned.
However, it has only been six days since the wives went to buy the Yangtze River King Zara.
As I was walking away from the counter to check outside, feeling puzzled, Young-young ran into the spot and shouted.
“Gaga! We’re here! You missed us so much!?”
Then Mimi and Garyeon followed suit, and Cheong-i entered the spot, leaving two huge, struggling Zaras floating in the air.
“My lord! I’m back.”
“Teacher! I’m back.”
Three people running towards me and Cheong asking while holding Zara in the air from behind.
“I’m back, sir. Would you like to take a look?”
I don’t know how they got here, but they’re still going strong.
“Cheong, let’s put it in the pond of support for now.”
“Okay, old man.”
Since there was no place to store the living ones, we decided to keep them in the pond for now.
Zara can survive for quite a long time in dirty water, but it cannot survive without water.
So open the door to the backyard and run quickly to the pond to get two giant geckos.
-with a plop!
I checked out the two guys making huge waves in the pond and asked them how they got back so quickly.
I thought it would take about 10 days to get to Poyang Lake and back at Mimi’s pace, but I got back much earlier than that.
“No, it’s only been five days, how did you get here so early?”
“I went near Namseong and happened to meet a merchant selling zara.
He said he was on his way to Bokju to sell the gizzard shad he bought in Poyang Lake, but wouldn’t his carriage have collapsed and he be in trouble at the government office?
“If we just left them alone, they would die without being able to be sold, so my older sister came out and was able to buy them cheaply.”
“Oh, I see.”
The story goes that when he was about halfway there, he was lucky enough to meet a merchant selling zucchini.
However, I was lucky enough to buy a good one, but because of that, my break was cut short.
I decided to think about how to cook it, feeling like a soldier who has been ordered to return from vacation.
‘Okay, let me do my thing. But you had a few days off, right? And you found out something good, right?’
This time, the fact that your wife disappeared at the same time allowed me to figure out one thing.
Since the remaining Soso and Maenghee sister monopolized the seat next to me, I had time to rest in between instead of working a brutal daily shift.
This poor slave was given time to rest.
When they were six, there was more competition and the time spent together had grown longer, so on the days they slept together, there was an atmosphere where they had to do something, but when it became once every other day, they seemed to be a bit more relaxed?
“Let’s just sleep today, Unrang. It’s nice to just sleep like this, holding each other.”
“Me, really!?”
“Why? You don’t like Unrang?”
“Oh, no! It’s fine!”
“Thank you, so···. Tomorrow···.”
“So, so, are you asleep?”
“···.”
“!”
“You really fell asleep!? What, what luck!”
I promised myself that I would occasionally give my wives business trips from now on, and I thought about how I would catch the swimming snails.
‘Let’s see, it’s big. First, I have to catch it, but of course, to catch it, I’ll have to use a method that drains blood from its neck…
To do that, you have to put a knife to your neck and hold it upside down···.’
First of all, the best way to slaughter a Zara is to insert a knife into the artery below the neck and drain the blood.
This is so that when you open the lid, you won’t see much blood.
It also removes bad smells the best.
But to do that, you first have to grab the guy’s neck when he pulls it out, then hold him up and put the knife in his neck.
And then I had to lift Zara upside down, which somehow wasn’t something I could do alone.
‘If it were normal, I would have tied it with a rope, pulled it up, put a knife in it, and pulled it up again, but then the meat of the Zara would get bruised, right?’
While I was thinking about how to catch the guy, I heard Young-young’s voice.
“Gaga! Gaga!”
“Oh! Yes, Young-young.”
Judging from the voice I heard, it seemed like he had been calling me for a long time.
“What are you thinking about?”
“Oh, you were thinking of a way to catch those guys. To catch them, you have to put a knife in their neck and hang them upside down to drain their blood, so you were wondering how to do that.
“I think it’s because it’s so big that tying it with a rope would damage its flesh.”
As I explained to Yeong-yeong with a worried expression while looking at the stars, Yeong-yeong tilted her head.
Yeong-yeong said in a nonchalant voice.
“Why worry about all that? Just tell him to put the knife in his throat after looking at it closely, and if you want to hold it upside down, just ask Cheong-i to lift it with water.”
“What!?”
Young-young, who came up with a plausible method that didn’t match his IQ.
When I think about it, this is a very plausible suggestion.
Moreover, it would be better for Soso to just get it done with one stroke of a sword than for me to show my ugly appearance with blood all over my body.
Besides, what could be more worth seeing than Cheong-i’s empty nest?
‘Yeah, if you think about it, seeing Young-young read the books well and get along well with people, it seems like even though his IQ is lacking, his EQ isn’t bad, right?’
Seeing as our Young-young’s social skills weren’t bad, it was clear that his EQ wasn’t bad either, so following Young-young’s advice, So-so decided to put a knife to his neck and lift him upside down.
“Well then, since we’ve decided to catch the guy that way, I guess I’ll have to try and catch him myself.”
“Catch me?”
“Yes, I check the taste and see if there are any fishy smells, and if the seasoning is well-cooked and such.”
“aha.”
Now that the plan was set, I decided to take one out the night before and catch it and cook it just as Yeong-yeong suggested.
“Just put the knife in about an inch deep. So-so.”
“Okay, Eun-gong. Get ready, Cheong-ah.”
“Okay, Soso. I’m going!”
A giant Zara rises into the air at Cheong-i’s signal.
As the neck of the guy who had floated up into the empty water came out, Soso put her hand on the handle of the newly fitted shovel that was attached to her waist.
-Crunch!
And then a flash of light passes before your eyes, accompanied by an eerie sound.
It seemed like the knife had passed through, but something felt strange.
The neck should have split open and blood should have flowed out, but the little guy was just so energetic.
It seemed that Soso had made a mistake because she was using her swordsmanship with Chae-ro, but when Cheong used the empty space to lift Jarah upside down onto the wooden barrel, Jarah’s neck finally split open and blood began to flow out.
Then the axis sags.
They say that if you get cut by a master’s sword, you won’t know you’ve been cut until you die, and it seemed like Soso was probably at that level.
‘So far so good.’
First of all, the slaughtering process has been completed perfectly.
A clean cut that is sure to grab people’s attention.
Next, I had to pour hot water over it and peel it off, but as expected, there was a problem.
In order to spray hot water evenly, you have to turn it over, but without the kettle, you wouldn’t be able to turn it over and spray hot water evenly.
It was impossible to turn over because it weighed over a hundred kilograms.
‘As expected, you have to catch it yourself to know this. You can’t tell until you catch it.’
A problem I never thought about before I caught it.
This time, I decided to get help from Cheong-i.
“Hey, can you lift him up into the air for me?”
“Yes, old man. Is this height okay?”
“Enough.”
A plastic-like shell that rises when Cheong-i sprinkles hot water evenly on the Zara that she has floated up to her waist in the empty space.
After peeling off all the shells, I moved on to the next step of removing the lid.
A technique for cutting the outer shell of a zara, slightly inward from the edge, along the border of the ribs, like a canned food.
Even though Zara had grown bigger, the body structure was similar, so I was able to catch it easily.
It took a lot of strength though.
The armor had become thicker, making it difficult to insert a sword, and the bones must have been thicker as well.
When I opened the lid like that, the amount of flesh that was revealed was truly enormous.
If you catch a one-kilogram squid and clean its entrails, you will get about eight hundred grams of meat. In other words, if you clean the squid, you will have about eighty kilograms of meat left over.
After removing the inedible lungs and internal organs, what was left was, as expected, about eighty kilograms of the animal.
Just like the small jara, I cut it into bite-size pieces and cleaned it, but unlike the small jara, I had to remove all the bones.
Because the bones were thick, it was impossible to cook it like this.
As a result, the remaining Zara meat is full of only collagen lumps and boneless meat.
Let’s cut the meat, liver, and intestines and cook it again. The dish turned out to be much more delicious than the small ones.
If the Hongso Bingtang Gap-eo (??????) I made before had a taste similar to fried chicken, the Hongso Bingtang Gap-eo I made this time had a taste similar to boneless chicken.
The only difference was that the meat was a bit tougher and took longer to marinate, but the taste was much better.
‘Then the preparations are complete! We’ll start the performance tomorrow!’
The preparations were perfect and the surprise night market event was set to take place the next day.
***
The next day at noon a large bonfire was lit in the center of the night market.
People gather around in surprise when a large fire is suddenly lit for lunch.
In the middle of the noisy crowd, he placed the large wok he had already completed on top of the fire that had turned to charcoal.
“Isn’t that a really big wok?”
“I heard you were cooking something big?”
And I started cooking just as I had practiced yesterday.
“Wow!”
“That huge cuttlefish is floating in the air!”
Applause poured in as Cheong-i lifted Zara into the air.
There, Soso’s swordsmanship cut off Zara’s neck and blood poured out, and the people of Bokju who had gathered there were excited.
This is the age of barbarism.
It was a time when even punishments and beheadings were spectacles, so the sight of a large giraffe being hung upside down, beheaded, and slaughtered was a great spectacle.
“Is that Namgung’s sword!?”
“That’s amazing. The fish was hit by the sword, but it was still alive for a long time.”
“That’s a hollow thing! How can something weighing over thirty pounds be lifted upside down!”
As I expected, the reaction from the people who gathered was good.
There, the finished dishes were given to people for free, so the moment of sharing the dishes was almost like a festival.
“Okay, line up and get yours. This is the Red-Roasted Emperor Ice-Crusted Sugar-Crusted Fish.”
Thanks to the Hongso Emperor’s Bingtang Gap-eo, the night market’s sales that day were able to break the record for the highest ever.
***
“There are experts in the royal family, so they can catch a kingfish, right?”
“Of course, my lord. Surely you wouldn’t catch even one of those cutlassfish.”
After finishing the night market sparkling event yesterday, I was writing down a recipe to attach to a letter to the emperor based on my cooking experience.
Yeong-yeong, who had been watching me with her chin resting on her hand for a while, asked with a slightly worried voice.
“Gaga, but after I finished making it and thought about it, I’m a little worried.”
“What are you talking about?”
When I tilted my head at Young-young’s words that she was worried about something out of the blue, the best curse in the Central Plains came out of Young-young’s mouth.
“It’s called Wangpadan. Wangpadan.”
“Oh my, Young-young, you should only use pretty words.”
The Wangpadan that Yeongyeong mentioned is the greatest curse in the Central Plains.
The meaning is turtle or turtle eggs.
Wangpa means turtle or turtle, and dan means egg.
The reason why this became the greatest curse is because it started from a kind of ignorance of the Central Plains people, who viewed turtles and geckos as both female and thought that in order for a turtle or gecko to reproduce, it must have a male snake.
That’s why a turtle and a snake are drawn together on the black tortoise.
So, the eggs of turtles and turtles soon came to refer to the offspring born from their relationships with male snakes that were not compatible with them.
Jungwonsik your mom Em···.
That’s what it means.
Because the worst curse word among curses is ‘Padlib’.
So, the question is, why does Yeong-Yeong have to be Zara cuisine?
It reminds me of the Wangpadan.
“But I’m worried. What if the government officials are offended? Why on earth is it Zara cuisine?”
“Oh my, would the government officials do something like that?”
There’s no way my brother would do that, not even Young-young.
But then I heard Young-young’s story out of nowhere.
For some reason, I started to feel like I had forgotten whether or not I had turned off the gas stove when I went out.
‘No way… Right?’