Chapter 90 – Ah! Kyungmi..

In the languid hours of the afternoon, I ran to the market and bought raw chicken.
In one corner of the store, the chicken was boned and cut into small pieces the size of a finger.
Wash in running water to remove blood, season with salt and pepper, and put in the refrigerator.
Then, starch and baking powder were added to the flour, and the dough was made in two versions: water and milk.
I remembered seeing on a cooking show that if you put milk instead of water in the dough, it would make soft clothes like Kentucky Grandpa’s Crispy Chicken.
After vacation, it was Saturday, so in the afternoon, guests came sparsely.
He took the aged chicken out of the refrigerator, poured it into the batter, mixed it, and put it in the frying pot.
When the outside color of the batter turns light brown, take it out and shake off the oil.
When doing business, you fry it once until it turns yellow, and when you go out to customers, you fry it with a chaebol so that it turns brown.
Put the fried chicken in an iron pan and mix it with the tteok skewers sauce.
I picked one up and put it in Hyo-seon’s mouth, and I ate one too.
“Wow! Seongjin, how did you do this? The taste is amazing.”
There were customers in the store, so I couldn’t call him the owner, but I called him Mr. Seongjin, but I didn’t stop talking.
“How is it? Delicious?”
“Yes. This is really good. Do you think it tastes better than tteok skewers?”
Customers in the store stared at us as Aunt Hyo-seon made a fuss.
I put a few pieces of fried chicken in a bowl and handed them to the guests to taste.
“This is a new menu to be served at our restaurant in the future. Taste it.”
The customers looked curious and ate the fried chicken, and everyone’s eyes widened.
There was a fuss that it was delicious.
“It will taste even better if you add mustard sauce to it. It will be released soon, so please look forward to it.”
Customers all greeted me saying that they would come to buy and eat, asking when it would be released.
I closed the store and came out with Mrs. Hyo-sun.
I have something to tell Ms. Hyo-seon about the new menu, so she asked me to come to the store on Sunday evening.
And, while helping her organize the stalls, she notified her mother and Aunt Jeong-hee to gather at the shop on Sunday evening.

There was a trial for Mr. Chun-shik on Friday.
On Thursday, Hyejeong, who came down from the mountain, took time in the afternoon to attend the trial.
However, as a result of the first trial, Uncle Chun-shik was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
It was the result of the merger of all the cases, even adding to the cases committed in the past.
Uncle Chun-shik, who was stained with her despair, quickly changed her expression, then came out with rather calm eyes, looked at Aunt Hye-jeong, and then disappeared through the door toward the judge.
Aunt Hyejeong, engulfed in her shock, immediately stumbled and tried to sit down on the ground.
I supported Auntie Hyejeong, and she cried profusely in my arms.
He patted the back of Hyejeong, who was sitting on a chair in the hallway of the courthouse and crying sadly.
After a while, Hyejeong, who came to her senses, asked what she was doing now, looking at me.
I was in a state of panic because the judgment came out too excessively, so I couldn’t answer anything.
He brought Aunt Hyejeong, who couldn’t even walk properly, to her house and laid her down in her room, and held her Aunt Hyejeong’s hand to comfort her and tell her not to worry too much.
First of all, he asked me to rest well until tomorrow and go see him on Monday.
Aunt Hyejeong, who said she would understand with a helpless expression, fell asleep.
She kept asking what happened to Kyung-mi, who was looking at us with a worried look from the side, and I told her the truth that I had been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Kyeong-mi sat down on her sofa and wept bitterly at her.
She held her tightly in her arms and stroked her back until she stopped crying, and when she stopped crying, she hugged me by the neck and kissed her.
“I’m glad my brother is here with me.”
With a man by his side who he could definitely rely on, he seemed to be able to gather his heart quickly.
Gyung-mi told her to take a deep breath and went to Mrs. Hyo-seon’s shop to study the crispy fried clothes and the seasoning for seasoned chicken.

On Sunday, we originally planned to go on a date with Younghee and Kyungmi, but since Kyungmi was in such a bad state, we decided to go see a movie on Christmas day, when Younghee was resting.
Auntie Hyejeong, who had been crying until Saturday, was fortunate to get up on Sunday to eat and talk.
After spending time with Kyungmi and Hyejeong, I took them to the store.
I forcibly dragged him out because it was not good for me to stay at home all the time.
On the way, Gyeong-mi suddenly asked to take Young-hee with her.
Now, when Kyungmi met me, she seemed to think that of course she should have Younghee noona too.
When we went to Young-hee’s house, Young-hee greeted us very happily, and after a while, when she found Hye-jeong with us, she ran away to her room to change clothes as she blushed as if she was embarrassed to run around.
We looked at each other and laughed because it was so cute and funny.
The weather was cold and it was hard to wait outside, so I asked Yeong-hee to change clothes slowly, and we went to Aunt Hyo-seon’s store first.
When I arrived at the store, my mother, Aunt Jeong-hee, and Aunt Hyo-seon had already arrived and were chatting.
When Gyeong-mi and Hye-jeong entered, her mother saw Gyeong-mi and welcomed her. Aunts Jeong-hee and Aunt Hyo-seon looked at me in surprise at the beauty of Gyeong-mi and Hye-jeong.
After a while, when Yeong-hee noona came to the store, Aunt Jeong-hee glared at me at the pretty Young-hee noona, and Aunt Hyo-seon made a strange, sad expression.
I sighed and averted their gaze.
Seeing us like that, my mother giggled and laughed to herself as if it were funny.
“The reason I called everyone here today is to present a new menu. It’s called ‘Kim Hee-kyung Chicken’. This is a new concept chicken that you have never tasted before. The chicken is seasoned with seasoning to infuse the taste, and it is fried in a crispy batter like a snack. It is on a different level from the existing market where a whole chicken is roughly coated in flour and fried.”
After explaining the new menu in detail, I started cooking right away.
Two types of chicken, one that was previously boned and seasoned and stored in the refrigerator, and one that was just cut into pieces and seasoned, were mixed into batter and fried.
The smell of fried chicken made the women in the store look ecstatic.
The fried chicken pieces were served as is, and the small fried chicken for cup chicken was served with tteok skewer sauce and mustard sauce separately.
“Now, taste it. This one is fried chicken cut into pieces, and it will be the main menu of ‘Kim Hee-kyung Chicken’ in the future. Fried in small pieces on the side is the next menu item after arm tteok skewers in ‘Kim Hee-kyung Tteok Skewers’. It is also called ‘cup chicken’.”
The crispy fried chicken that melts in your mouth like a snack is literally an art.
Everyone was surprised by the first fried chicken.
“It’s fried chicken, but it’s incredibly crispy. And because I seasoned it beforehand, the seasoning goes well. And eating it with this yellow sauce makes it very delicious.”
My mother gave a general evaluation like the representative.
“First of all, since the tteok skewers have just been released, Cupdak will only be sold at the 4th store of ‘Kim Hee-gyeong Tteok Skewers’. Other places will be added a little later to see the situation. You can fry the tteok skewers in the same oil anyway, so there won’t be much confusion once sales start. During the vacation period, I can bone the chicken and cut it into pieces, but when the demand increases, it will be difficult for me to handle. So, Mrs. Hyo-seon, please find a place where you can bone the chicken and cut the meat into small pieces and deliver it. A chicken house in the market is fine, or it can be a chicken house you know, so find out where you can get it done and delivered.”
Aunt Hyo-seon nodded her head vigorously in agreement.
But suddenly, Aunt Hyejeong asked if she could try some skewered rice cakes as well.
So, she fried rice cake skewers and fried chicken coated in a batter made with milk.
“Hmm. This is different from before, but it has a similar shape, but it is a little softer.”
“Yes. It’s because I made the dough with milk instead of water. If you season the chicken with a bit of spice, it will be very tasty. It will be released later when the ‘Kim Hee-kyung Chicken’ franchise is created.”
All the women sitting in the shop looked at me like they were looking at some great person.
“What on earth can Seongjin do? Studying well, doing business like this, I think it’s really amazing where you come up with these foods. I hope Sungjin’s mother is good. Because you have such a smart son.”
Aunt Hyejeong looked at her mother with her very envious face.
Her mother lifted her chin and smiled graciously, and the rest of my women smiled lovingly, as if they were admiring my good looks once again.
Aunt Hyejeong, who had even eaten her skewered rice cakes, asked me questions with her serious face.
“Sungjin. The tteok skewers are also really good. If you do business with something like this, you’re bound to do well. So that’s the point. Can’t I do some business too?”
“Mom?”, “Auntie?”
Kyeongmi and I were both surprised and looked at Hyejeong at the same time.
“Sungjin, you know our situation, right? Now I have to live without my husband, but I feel like I have to do something. But looking at it like this today, I think I can do my business well enough.”
As I understood Auntie Hyejeong’s feelings, I felt sorry for her.
She also strongly listened to her desire to help.
It was natural that my lovely Kyungmi was intertwined.
“Here, Sungjin. Can’t I do this too?”
Suddenly, cautiously, Younghee’s older sister raised her hand and spoke her words.
“Omg! What’s wrong with my sister all of a sudden? This is not easy.”
“Know. It’s not because it looks easy, but I think this will definitely work. Moreover, Sungjin made it himself. Then I’m sure you’ll succeed. If it is absolutely possible to succeed, isn’t it a must? So I want to do this too.”
Suddenly, it became a business briefing session.
“Hmm. For now, my sister puts it on hold. And Aunt Hyejeong will talk to me separately later.”
When she heard that Aunt Hye-jeong wanted to do business, she had a fleeting idea, so she said that we should talk about it separately.
Seeing me explaining the new menu and even directing traffic in an instant, my mother and Aunts Jung-Hee and Aunt Hye-Jung were smiling very pleased.
In the midst of such a friendly atmosphere, the chatter of the women continued without noticing the passage of time.
The subject of most of the stories was me, Lee Seong-jin.
How cool they are, how good they are at fighting, how good they are at sports and studying, etc. The six women were chatting without realizing the passing of time on the common theme of country.
In the meantime, mother, Aunt Jeong-hee, and Aunt Hyo-seon accepted Aunt Hye-jeong, older sister Young-hee, and Kyeong-mi as if they were one family.
Of course, Aunt Hyejeong doesn’t have a special relationship with me, but since my mother treated her like her daughter-in-law, Aunt Hyejeong was able to be accepted among them as her status as Gyeongmi’s mother.