421 Cultural assets sold for $2.00 (1)

Jong-seok was heading for a transport ship.

Boooong!

Jong-seok, who had been driving familiarly, stopped his car in the parking lot and walked along the route.

Ten years have passed since Jongseok came here, but the shipping line has not changed.

And Jong-seok liked it. Walking along the path between the beautiful lawns, Jong-seok could see Kim Sook-soo leaning his fishing rod in the pond.

"Sooksu."

As Jong-seok approached, Kim Sook-soo smiled and pointed to the side.

"Sit down here."

Jong-seok sat next to Kim and looked at the pond.

"Are you going to make braised carp?”

There were quite a few carp in the pond. It's for ornamental purposes, but it's not impossible to eatable.

Kim laughed at Jong-seok's remarks.

"It's not something you can't eat, but you've lived with me in my house all your life, and you don't eat it."

"Life? A carp?”

When Jong-seok saw the carp in surprise, Kim nodded and pointed to one of the carp.

"I don't know anything else, but you see that guy over there with a long scar on his head?"

When I saw Kim's words, I saw a carp with a black and red pattern.

There was a scar on the forehead of the carp, which looked much larger and thicker than its forearm.

"Yes."

"I'm a scar because I dropped it when I was trying to catch it when I was a kid."

"Then how old is he?"

"You've grown up like me, so you must be eighty."

"You live a long life?"

Kim nodded at Jong-seok's remark.

"It's usually said that carp live 20 to 30 years, but......He's as healthy as he is, and he lives a long time when nothing happens

"Then why are you fishing? If you put your mouth on a needle, they'll be sick, too."

When Kim Sook-soo raised the fishing rod at Jong-seok's question, the line was pulled up.

And at the end there was an addition, not a hook.

"There are no needles."

"I like watching the end of the fishing line like this these days. Did he say he's spacing out these days?"

Jong-seok smiled as he saw Kim Sook-soo, who dipped his fishing line back into the pond with a smile.

"You're like a sun net."

"Taegongmang tried to fish the whole world, but I'm just spending time."

Jong-seok, who was staring at the end of the fishing line, looked at Kim's face.

Seeing a subtle flush on his face and a youthful look on his eyes, he seemed to have no health problems.

No, there is nothing wrong with my health compared to my age. Like Moon Bang-woo's adults, Kim Sook-soo takes care of Jong-seok once a month and prescribes a bodyguard accordingly.

Kim Sook-soo, who was looking at the fishing rod, looked at the watch and got up.

"I think it's about time for you to come, ladies and gentlemen."

When Kim Sook-soo folded the fishing rod, Jong-seok headed with him to the transport boat.

Jong-seok, who was talking about this and that while walking on a transport boat, could see people moving cabbages from one side.

"Are you already getting ready to make kimchi?"

"Good cabbages and radishes are already served in Gangwon-do. So this year, I'm going to make kimchi a little early."

"It seems like cabbage and radish are really good enough for you to pull the kimchi date."

"Would you like to go and see?”

"Yes."

Kim Sook-soo went to the place where the cabbages were piled up and took one of them in his hand and ripped off the stems.

Then he tore out the yellow leaves of the cabbage. Jong-seok took it and put it in his mouth and smiled.

"It's sweet and nice."

"This year's cabbages have been very good."

Jong-seok said while chewing cabbage at Suk-soo Kim's words.

"It would be good to make cabbage pancakes and soybean paste soup with this.”

"Then try the two menus."

Kim chose two cabbages without refusing Jong-seok's words.

Sometimes, if there are good ingredients, Jong-seok makes his own food.

Jong-seok, who entered the kitchen of the transport boat, greeted the staff.

"Hello."

Kim Ho-young, who was in charge of the busy kitchen, looked at him and said when he saw the cabbage.

"What are you going to do?"

Although it was a shipping line kitchen that no one could enter, Jongseok was not everyone, and he often came to make and eat food, so it was like a kitchen table.

"I like cabbage, so I'd like to have soybean paste soup and cabbage pancakes."

"What about the outside pickles?"

"Don't you go into the basic tray today?”

Kim Ho-young smiled and nodded at Jong-seok's words. There is nothing fixed about the transport arrangements.

Basic menus such as kimchi are set, but other cups are made with the best ingredients of the time.

And since good cabbages came in, we didn't have to make Jongseok because of the fact that it would be made with pickled vegetables.

Kim Ho-young, who laughed at Jong-seok's words in anticipation of it, shouted.

"Strong water! Don't cut straight!"

Kim Ho-young heard the wrong sound of a knife going out of his ear.

"Okay!"

When the pointed young chef shouted and started cutting again, Kim Ho-young saw Jong-seok.

"Post some more cabbage pancakes."

"Okay."

Jong-seok, who bowed his head, went to one side and began to trim the cabbages and trim the ingredients.

Both cabbage soybean paste soup and cabbage pancakes are simple foods.

If you want to eat cabbage soybean paste soup simply, you have to dissolve soybean paste in water, boil the refined cabbage, and season with salt. In addition, the cabbage pancake only needs to be made by adding flour to the cabbage. In other words, it was a simple food that guaranteed the taste as long as the ingredients were good.

Of course, it is the cook's skill to make simple food delicious.

The stalactites, which had a thick iron bowl on fire, began to dissolve the soybean paste after receiving water from the bowl.

This was one of the secrets of the Transport Jeong Doenjang Bureau. Heat the iron cooker on fire first and pour the soybean paste water into it.

Argh! Argh!

Then the bean paste-fed water starts to boil up in the iron pot, as if it were being fried momentarily.

In that way, things like old and japnae fly away with the heat of the moment.

When the well-mixed stalactites put in a cabbage and tofu, a female employee approached.

"Mr. Lee, senior Moon Bang-woo is here.”

"I'll be in five minutes."

"Yes."

When the female employee left, Jong-seok saw the liver of cabbage soup and now began to make cabbage pancakes.

Jong-seok was moving to the plum, dragging a cart containing cabbage soup and cabbage pancakes.

When I knocked lightly and opened the door, Jong-seok could see the welcoming elders of Moon Bang-woo.

"Are you here?"

When Jong-seok came in, the elders of the literary circle smiled and welcomed him.

"I heard you're making some food, what kind of delicious food did you make today?"

When Hong Seok was curious to see the tray and bowl covered with a lid on the cart, Jongseok put the tray on the table.

"Good cabbages came in. So I simply made some cabbage pancakes and some cabbage soup."

When I opened the lid, I saw a sliced cabbage pancake.

"It looks delicious."

When the adults laughed and put cabbage pancakes into their mouths one by one, Jong-seok put cabbage soup in a soup bowl and put them down.

"It's a little disappointing that cabbage soup tastes better when the weather is cold."

"However, the taste of food changes depending on the weather."

Jong-seok nodded at the principal.

"On rainy days I think of pajeon, and on hot days I want to eat chicken and beer."

Kang Chul-jae laughed at Jong-seok's words.

"Let's catch the day and go to the valley before it gets colder."

"The valley?"

"It's really good to eat ramen after dipping your feet in the cool valley water."

"Wouldn't it be too cold to dip your feet in the valley water in this weather?"

Steel shook his head at the principal's words.

"Do you know how delicious ramen you eat during the cold winter training?"

Then, Kang Chul-jae ate his fill oftaste.

"I still remember the ramen I ate in the field.”

Jong-seok nodded at Kang Chul-jae.

"It's really delicious when you cook ramen at the water."

There was a lake in front of Jongseok's main house, so when my father was fishing, I sometimes cooked ramen and ate it there.

Surely it tasted better there than inside the house.

When Jong-seok responded, other adults interrupted.

"That would be fine, too. Eat ramen and grill some meat.”

"Then how shall we set a date?"

"But isn't cooking in the valley these days?"

"There's a mountain in Gangwon-do that I know, so you can do it there. Or you can go there and do it because water flows in the mountains behind the traditional seowon."

"If you eat it in the valley, it's good to eat cold rice and kimchi alone."

"It's already making my mouth water."

Jong-seok smiled and said as adults already began to plan excitedly.

"I don't care if I eat kimchi or roast meat at the valley....Let's start with the food in front of us. It's best to eat warm food and cold food cold."

Kang Chul-jae laughed at Jong-seok's words and put the cabbage pancake into his mouth.

"That's right. Where and how to eat is important, but...... isn't the food right in front of you right now?"

"I'll enjoy your meal, Mr. Lee."

Watching adults laugh and eat cabbage pancakes, Jong-seok put out some cabbage soup.

Moon Jae-chul, who took up the cabbage soup and blew it up, smiled.

"My mouth is getting greasy."

"It's a greasy food, so I thought it'd be nice to eat it spicy, so I boiled it a little bit spicy."

"Good."

Watching adults eat cabbage pancakes and cabbage soup, Jong-seok started eating jeon and soup.

Moon Bang-woo, who had a meal with the menu of a transport boat that was followed by cabbage pancakes and cabbage soup, was drinking tea.

Then Won Seung-hwan took out a thick envelope from his pocket. I took out an admission ticket from the envelope and put it down on the table.

"This time, the National Museum is holding an exhibition of artifacts from China. Come and see with your family."

Won Seung-hwan handed out the tickets and put the envelope on the table.

"Take more if you need more and tell me if you need more. I'll talk to my museum and let you in.”

Adults held up the tickets at Won Seung-hwan's words.

"It's finally on display.”

It has been several years since the Korean artifacts were exchanged for financial relics, but they have not been disclosed to the private sector before now.

"They were precious artifacts, so we had to study them and restore them. Besides, I have to make some fake goods."

"Fake?"

Won Seung-hwan said when Kang Chul-jae saw him in wonder.

"They're national treasures and treasure-class cultural assets. Would you be able to display these things easily?"

"So you're going to display the fake?"

"This is my first exhibition, so I'll have to display the real one, and next time I'll have to display the fake one.”

"Do you mean I have to go to the museum and see the fake?"

Kang Chul-jae, who only knows honesty and straight lines, somehow felt like he was being swindled.

Won said with a smile.

"Not all fake. There are fakes, there are real......and even if it's fake, it's no different from the original unless the public, or the expert, touches and examines it himself."

"You mean even experts don't notice the difference?"

"Wasn't the talk of the town almost been scammed?"

Moon Jae-chul coughed at Won Seung-hwan's words.

"Why bring up the past?"

"That's what I'm saying."

With a smile, Won Seung-hwan took out a few more tickets and gave them to Moon Jae-chul. Won Seung-hwan said when Moon Jae-chul received the vote.

"Even if it is a cultural asset, what else can't be copied except for the passage of time? Besides, these days, people are copying the flow of time.”

At Won's words, Cha In-beom opened his mouth while looking at him.

"But... ...I heard a strange story from my juniors.”

When Cha In-beom said carefully, Won Seung-hwan tapped the ticket with his hand for a moment and opened his mouth.

"I had something I wanted to tell you...... Your story seems to be similar to what I heard."

At the sight of the two, the principal looked at them in wonder.

"What's the matter?"

Won Seung-hwan opened his mouth at the principal's words.

"A relic from China is missing."

At Won's words, Cha In-beom said.

"Some of the artifacts from China were fake."

Won Seung-hwan and Cha In-beom laughed at each other.

"Oh, this is... ..this must be a problem for both houses.”

"It's one bar, but it's also a bird, but it's a problem for both houses....Huh!"

Jong-seok murmured small at the two men's words.

"How many are fake, gone?"

Jong-seok, who murmured in a small way, looked at Cha In-beom and Won Seung-hwan with surprised eyes.

"Who stole the artifacts from China from the middle?”

"Since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in charge of shipping......it's your job to disappear."

Cha In-beom nodded at Won Seung-hwan's words.

"Right. And......I'm in charge of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, so...... if the stuff they say is real is fake, then it's the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism."

The two men's words were tempting with steel.

"You're both in trouble."

Two people sighed and nodded at Kang Chul-jae's words.