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Lee Jong-seok, who shredded the radish into thin slices, put it in the sauce bowl and mixed it quickly.

Swing, swing!

"What are you doing!"

Only then did my mother come in a hurry, surprised to see it.

"I've had some liver.”

"Jong-seok, season it because you know what sauce! What is it? Did you put in the radish?”

"Yes."

"What kind of tteokbokki do you put radishes in it? This guy's going to throw away all the sauce."

"You said it didn't work out."

When Lee Jong-seok rubbed the sauce with a spatula, his mother sighed and suddenly said,

"But you did the radish?”

"Yes."

"When?"

"Just now."

"With what?"

"I'll use the knife, not the knife."

"You've done all the radishes now?"

"Yes!"

Lee Jong-seok, who constantly mixed the sauce while answering his mother's question, looked at his liver.

It's a little spicy, but... If you add rice cake, it will be neutralized. This is enough.’

Lee Jong-seok, muttering inside, looked at his mother.

"Because it's not matured. You have to boil the rice cake before you put it in.”

At Lee Jong-seok's words, his mother dipped the sauce with her hands and ate it. Then, he looked at Lee Jong-seok with surprise.

"Delicious."

Then my mother, who had dipped the sauce once again, said after a while.

"It's delicious, but isn't it too spicy? And the liver looks a little strong, too.

Mother's voice had softened. It was definitely tastier and better than when I made it yesterday.

"It's because I just did it. After a while, the spicy taste will be gone. Bring it to a boil over low heat anyway."

"But where did you learn this?”

Lee Jong-seok smiled and said to his mother after a while.

"I saw it yesterday in a book called How to Make Tteokbokki Delicious in an Used Bookstore."

"Really? Why didn't you buy me that book?"

"It's okay because I memorized it all. Then I'm going to school."

Lee Jong-seok, who entered the room in a hurry, wore a school uniform and hurried out of the house with his backpack.

***

Business for elementary school students starts early in the morning. From 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. before the children go to school, half the daily sales.

So the couple, who rushed Lee Jong-seok to school, were hurrying to prepare for their morning business.

The mother, who poured the sauce on the tteokbokki plate first, turned on the light slightly.

"I told you to boil it on low heat first, didn't I?’

Rice cake and fish cake were put in when the sauce was slightly boiling over low heat.

By the time the tteokbokki was getting cooked, the children began to show up one by one on the street.

"Tteokbokki smells good.”

"It doesn't taste good here, but it smells good."

The mother's face hardened slightly by what the children said as they passed by.

'I'm sorry it didn't taste good. Phew!'

No one is as cruel as the children. To speak without thinking means to be as honest as he is....

One of the children who was on the way came up with a smell as he smacked his lips and mixed rice cakes.

"Madam, please give me 500 won worth."

"Okay, hold on.”

The mother, who had saved 500 won worth of paper cups, was wary of the child.

'I should say it's delicious....'

As it was made by Lee Jong-seok, I was a little more worried than usual.

"Wow, it's delicious!"

When I saw my child eating with sauce around her mouth, I felt relieved.

"Delicious?"

"Yes! It's really delicious."

"Really?"

At the child's words, the mother was watching the tteokbokki and dipped one in her mouth with a toothpick.

"Oh my! Honey!"

My mom told me that my dad was preparing fried food from behind.

"Why?"

"Try this!"

My father ate tteokbokki once at my mother's words and his eyes grew bigger.

"Delicious."

"Yes! Oh, my God! Why is this so good?”

As they said, the child also began to eat tteokbokki as if he sympathized with them.

And the children who were passing by came up to me one by one and started to eat tteokbokki.

****

Lee Jong-seok, who returned early today without going to an old bookstore, could see something interesting.

Boom boom!

The snack bar on the first floor was full of children.

"Give me tteokbokki, Lee In-bun!"

"One more tteokbokki, please!"

The children were ordering tteokbokki one by one, and the children who couldn't get inside were eating cup-shaped tteokbokki at a stand by the window.

"Wow, it's really delicious here."

"Yes, it's delicious."

As much as the children enjoyed tteokbokki, their parents' hands were busy.

In addition, the sundae and fish cakes that I ate with him were also popular because the tteokbokki was delicious.

It is also a delicacy to dip sundae and fish cakes in tteokbokki sauce.

When Lee Jong-seok winked at her mother at the sight, she hurriedly said.

"You, too, come inside and help me with my work.

"Me?"

Lee Jong-seok was puzzled by his mother's words, which he usually did not say to help him with his work, and he looked at his busy plan and said.

"I can't see you busy!"

"Okay. I'll be right down after I change.”

"Okay, come on!"

Lee Jong-seok, who went upstairs and changed his clothes at the mother's words, took the dishes from the table without the children to the kitchen.

"Oh, it's crazy!"

Lee Jong-seok said when he saw his father washing dishes with a big smile.

"But didn't you say no business? Why are there so many kids?"

"That's all thanks to tteokbokki."

"Tteokbokki?"

"Yes, it has to be very delicious. Go eat one.”

Lee Jong-seok, who nodded at his father's words, approached his mother who was rubbing tteokbokki.

"Ah!"

When Lee Jong-seok opened his mouth, his mother picked up a piece of tteokbokki and put it inside.

Lee Jong-seok, who put tteokbokki in his mouth, tasted it for a while and spat it out into the trash can below.

"Why? It doesn't taste good?”

Lee Jong-seok, who saw his mother's face full of expectations, whispered slightly when he saw the children in front of him.

"Did you put in fish cake soup?”

"Why is the sauce dozing off?"

"Don't put it in."

"Why? It's delicious."

Lee Jong-seok shook his head when his mother said, putting a piece of rice cake in his mouth.

"The sauce taste, which should be spicy, has become murky because of fish cake oil."

"Then what do we do? The sauce will boil down over time, but the sauce will become watery when I pour water."

"But don't put fish cake soup in here. Just put a little bit of water in it."

"Yes, I see. My son's tteokbokki chef is all done."

The mother, who smiled with a happy face, rushed to sell tteokbokki in a paper cup to the students' success.

It was not until the ingredients were out of stock that the store was closed that the family came upstairs.

"Oh, it's hard."

My mom and dad were counting the money they earned from selling and selling today, smiling even though they said it was hard.

"357,500 won!"

"Argh!"

Mom smiled brightly and began to clap her hands at Dad's words.

"If I had more materials, I would have gotten 400,000 won."

"I know. You'll be rich in no time if you earn this much."

My father, who was smiling brightly, called Jong-seok.

"Jongseok!"

Lee Jong-seok, who was washing his hands at his father's call, approached.

"Why?"

"Come on!"

Dad took out three 10,000 won bills and held them in Lee Jong-seok's hand.

"Oh!"

"Feels good."

said the father, who smiled pleasantly and held the money.

"And go get the book."

"Book?"

"The book, How to Make That Tteokbokki Delicious.”

"Ah... the book is sold and gone."

"Really? Then what about the sauce from now on?”

"I can make it."

"You?"

"Yes. Let's make it while we think about it."

Along with the horse, Lee Jong-seok brought olive oil out of the room. I bought it because I thought of it on the way home.

"Why is that?"

"I thought it'd be delicious if I put it in."

When Lee Jong-seok took out chili powder and red pepper paste with the horse, his mom and dad helped him take out the ingredients next to him.

And began to mix the ingredients quickly.

Lee Jong-seok, who mixed the sauce, was thinking about putting olive oil for the last time.

I think I need olive oil for some reason, but I hesitate to put it in the sauce.

Instead...

'Should I put it on the rice cake?'

For some reason, Lee Jong-seok, who thought it would be better to put it on rice cakes than sauce, took the rice cakes and put some olive oil on them.

'If you apply too much, the unit price doesn't match.'

It is tteokbokki sold for 2,000 won per person for elementary school students. You can't sell it if you have too luxurious ingredients.

I saw the liver of the sauce made by Lee Jong-seok, who finished with a little bit of rice cake.

'Good for you.'

"Mom, try tteokbokki."

"Okay."

While watching what Lee Jong-seok was doing, his mother made tteokbokki by mixing sauce and rice cake with a frying pan.

"Ma... Delicious."

"Yes! It's really delicious."

Unlike his parents' admiration for his finished tteokbokki, Lee Jong-seok's face had a strange look.

'Is it because it hasn't matured yet? The liver is playing strangely separately.'

"Bitter!"

Lee Jong-seok, who took a deep breath, nodded while savoring the scent and taste left in his mouth.

"I think I'll have to season it again tomorrow morning, leaving it like this."

"Why do you like it as it is?"

"After ripening, the taste can change. And... ...from tomorrow, before you put in the rice cake, add a little olive oil and mix it before you put it in."

"Okay."

Lee Jong-seok went into the shower room because of his mother's words.