Chapter 91 – Part 1
“Uh…”
It’s terribly heavy, really.
Still, it seemed that the daily exertion on Gina hadn’t worked at all.
Even though it’s hard, if you look at it, it doesn’t seem like you’re going to fall behind.
Anyway, since I was dropping the things I brought from the mart like that on the table, it seemed to have reacted to the sound of the front door opening, and it secretly appeared.
Then, when I checked the things I had arranged on the table, I opened my eyes slightly wide in surprise.
“Huh? What, what did you buy so many?”
“Oh, I’m going to pack some lunch.”
“Lunch box?”
Suddenly wondering what kind of lunch box it was, passing by, the corner of his mouth twitched.
He quickly added to the look as if he had been forced to hold it in while trying to grin.
As you can see, I must have misunderstood something.
“Yeah, lately, Auntie’s condition has been a bit… Like that.”
Sure enough, as soon as the mention of Ga-young came out of my mouth, I flinched as if I was going to soar upwards at any moment.
Couldn’t he have been able to openly show his disappointment in front of me?
Gina agreed with my words in a slightly awkward voice.
“…Well, you’ve looked very tired for the past few days.”
“Therefore.”
“So you want to pack a lunch?”
“Yeah, the last time I heard about it, it seemed like the store was too busy to even eat lunch properly.”
So, she added, asking if it would be better to have a simple meal, and began unfolding the contents of the envelope on the table.
Gina’s expression changed very slightly at the feast of things that began to appear from the inside of the envelope.
Could it be that she felt jealous of her mother, Ga-young?
“..I don’t think it’s a simple level.”
“Ah.. That.. There are some people I work with. It would be similar for them to not be able to eat properly, but if you pack only aunties, that’s a bit… That’s right. Auntie would be uncomfortable too.”
“Hmm..”
Looking at his expression, he seemed to have a lot to say.
So, pretending to keep an eye on her, she glances at her and continues to spread the contents in her envelope on her table.
“..I am?”
Gina, who couldn’t stand it, asked her about me.
She feigned bewilderment at that and shrugged and shrugged her shoulders.
“Yes?”
“Mine?”
“Who’s your sister’s?”
“Or did you mean to make it only for your mother?”
It’s the same that she can’t eat properly while working at the gym, so why do you only take care of Ga-young?
A mischievous smile appeared on Gina’s face.
Her expression was the same, but what was contained in her squinting eyes was another. Unlike her expression, Gina’s eyes were those that sincerely wanted me to make her own.
Thanks to that, it didn’t look like he was joking despite the expression on his face.
But pretending not to notice it, she continued her bewildered look.
“Oh, no, it’s not like that.”
“Then you’re making your sister’s too?”
“Well… I can make it if I make it…”
He slightly lowered his tail and then counterattacked.
“But you said you don’t eat anything when you’re at the gym.”
“Uh, huh? Did I..?”
“Yeah, I’m sure the other day—”
She said so
It was a passing word, but it was certainly so.
She even remembers the words she said back then.
So then pass by and tell me–
“I heard that if there is something in the stomach, it’s hard to concentrate when exercising.”
Yes, that’s exactly what I said
As I recited what came to my mind at that moment, Jina, who seemed to have remembered a bit, opened her mouth a little and let out something that I didn’t know if it was a sigh or exclamation.
“..Ah.”
Then, with a wry smile, she brought her feelings of embarrassment to her face, and she glanced at her face like that before asking cautiously.
“So… Make it?”
And what Gina came up with as an answer to my question was—
“Ah, no… Come to think of it, it’s a bit… That’s true. It probably smells like it too…”
That was it.
I wanted to nod her head, but since she already said something, I couldn’t bear it.
Could it be that the current situation where he had no choice but to spit out words located about the opposite of his true intentions was savage.
Then, with the words to make her work hard, she headed back to her own room, and Gina’s shoulders were gloomy and drooping.
She laughed bitterly at Gina’s back as she went into her room, babbling uncharacteristically.
‘Ugh…’
If she’s going to miss it that much, she just closes her eyes and asks for it to be made.
What is his ego about?
‘It won’t work.’
It seemed like I should make Gina’s one too.
Of course, that wasn’t today.
To be honest, there was nothing I couldn’t make if I wanted to make it, but if I made it and handed it to her in a situation where I had already declared that I would make a lunch box for Ga-young, I would not be able to bear the impression that I made it with both sides while making Ga-young’s.
Whether you make it later or now, the suffering is the same anyway, so wouldn’t it be better to postpone it for a while even if it’s cumbersome?
That way, you will be able to feel the satisfaction of putting in the best effort.
While thinking, I sorted the things that were arranged in order on the table by menu.
‘I wonder if it would be nice to have a national highway…’
Originally, when you buy an expensive lunch box, it comes with a national highway.
So even if it’s a bit cumbersome, it would be better to build a national highway.
Ga-young’s prayers will come to life only when she works hard to make it work.
Of course, I didn’t mean to boil it properly, so I decided to go with an arranged version of the super-simple miso soup that made Sena fall in love the other day.
‘Since there is seaweed again…’
Oh, you have to call it to use it.
Before starting to cook in earnest, I took out the seaweed from the cupboard, cut an appropriate amount, put it in water and started to soak it.
Then, he took out a large nest of boxes that had been tucked away in the corner of the kitchen, washed them clean, and spread them out on the table.
The nest of drawers, made of a material similar to porcelain, was four-tiered.
‘Assuming that one square is filled with fruits.’
How would you like to distribute the remaining 3 spaces?
The menu was already conceived, so I just had to think about that.
You might say that it’s okay to just put it in, but that’s what I’m saying because I don’t know.
Wouldn’t Ga-young feel more proud when the admiration of ‘Ouya..’ Comes out of the mouths of the co-workers when the rice cake looks good and is easy to eat?
So she thought carefully about the arrangement, barely finished it, and started cooking as it was.
First of all, I decided to fill the large one with no separate compartments with fried tofu sushi.
If you arrange them neatly in the order you made them, it will look quite plausible.
Of course, she had no intention of filling it with tofu sushi.
‘It might be a bit annoying, but…’
These things should go by color.
It was for this reason that Kimchi, which had nothing to do with tofu sushi, was put in a pan and stir-fried.
‘One line goes to the kimchi fried rice version..’
If you fill the next to it with the normal version, there will be roughly two lines left, so what else would be good to fill it with?
After thinking about it for a while, I went over to the refrigerator and took out a Crami. Then, while the kimchi fried rice made by stir-frying it cools down, it is shredded as finely as possible and mixed with mayonnaise along with chopped chives.
‘This is another line completed.’
What about the rest of the line?
After thinking about it for a while, I brought the minced meat and stir-fried it with bulgogi seasoning.
Since the normal version and the Crammy Mayo version are on the sweet side, adding one more savory flavor would have been a good balance.
After stuffing the four versions of the fillings into the bean curd, they are neatly displayed in the nest of boxes.
“Oh..”
It seemed that it was quite plausible even to Senna.
If you see him admiring it with his mouth wide open like that, he must be like that.
No, even if that’s the case, at what point did he come all the way to my side?
I didn’t even hear it coming down.
‘Am I too focused?’
Maybe that’s why, but it must have been the moment when he was relaxing his slightly stiff neck by bending it to the side.
Sena, who was carefully looking inside a box of fried tofu sushi with different ingredients inside, reached out and ate the one at the front of the Crami Mayo line.
“Oh come…”
“No, what are you doing?”
“Huh? Weren’t you making it for lunch?”
“If that’s the case, I wouldn’t have put it in there and put it on a plate.”
“Oh, come to think of it, what’s the deal?”
As if the Crami Mayo Sushi seemed to suit her taste, Sena mumbled something in her mouth, and soon a puzzled expression appeared on her face.
Then-
“..Do you want to go somewhere else?”
I don’t know what he was imagining, but he suddenly frowned.
“What are you talking about? Where am I going?”
“Then why are you sitting there cheaply?”
“I’m going to bring it to my aunt. Why? Any complaints?”
“Ah..”
Only then did Senna shake her head with a relieved expression, and once again stretched out her hand toward her nest of boxes.
“Write!”
Slap-!
“Ah! Why are you hitting me!”
“If you’re hungry, eat what’s on the plate here instead of that.”
“This one looks more delicious…”
“Because they’re made the same with the same ingredients?”
Senna, who casually spat out nonsensical words and stretched out her hand toward the stack of boxes, gave Senna another taste.
And then he started to eat what was in the plate.
Taking advantage of the gap while Senna was picking up tofu sushi, she neatly filled the empty space created by Senna’s non-abruptcy with the same thing and covered her stack of boxes.
It’s fruit, so you just have to slice it with a knife so that it’s easy to eat, so if you fill in just two more squares, the lunch box for the employees will be finished.
I needed to hurry a little more to meet the pre-arranged time, so I spurred the movement.
It was precisely then that Sena started flirting beside her.
Why, when mom is making gimbap, aren’t there kids who come next to her and pick up ham or something?
That’s exactly what Senna was doing.
Of course, what Senna was eating was finished products, not ingredients.
Then, it’s normal for her to feel nasty, but seeing all her looks, it’s not that she’s nasty, she’s just cute.
“Hey, are you doing some cooking?”
“What do you mean, anyone can do this?”
“Is that so…?”
“You can find out how to make it just by browsing the Internet.”
Even in the midst of exchanging conversations like that, she kept eating it, so if I left it like that, she would keep eating it, so I had no choice but to say one thing in the end.
“Anyway, would you like to stop eating?”
“Oh, how much did you eat?”
“If you add up all the things my sister has eaten up until now, I’m sure it would have been cheaper.”
“. Hehe.”
As if he couldn’t deny what she said, he sighed and smiled bitterly at Senna, who smiled awkwardly.
“Don’t just put it in because it’s annoying.”
“Nye.”
“Do I have to put it neatly and beautifully?”
“You just have to fill it in moderation..”
“Still, what looks good is good to eat.”
“It’s already delicious enough, so don’t worry and see what you have to do.”
Despite being mumbling, he was still working hard.
So, with Senna behind, who started to pile her finished products into the box, she started slicing her fruit.
After filling her bottom shelf like that, she took a break from Senna’s concentration on her work and took out a new lunch box she had bought with ingredients from her mart.
Ingredients to fill it up were a bonus.
At the same time, I wonder if the rustling sound bothered me.
Senna glanced at me as if she was making such a noise. She then noticed that she was being held in my hand and widened her eyes.
“..What is that?”
“You can’t see it? It’s an eel.”
I finally saw this.
My secret weapon to embarrass Gayoung.
When it comes to health food, it is eel, and when it comes to health food, it is the same in this world. When I searched for health food, only pictures of eel came out.
“Now, why are there eels?”
“They say that eel is good for the body. I thought if I ate this, I’d feel a little better.”
“Can you make it properly…?”
“It’s all sorted out anyway, so what?”
So I just had to season it and bake it.
It’s been a long time since I made the seasoning for eels by referring to the Internet.
“No, that… There’s a seat…”
Hearing Senna’s words, he picked up a new lunchbox he was covering with his body and waved it proudly.
After making Senna silent, he immediately started grilling the eel.
I wanted to bake it all at once, but the pan wasn’t that big, so I cut it in half and grilled one with spicy seasoning and the other with sweet and salty seasoning.
Then, before moving it into the barrel, cleanly washed lettuce was laid out in the barrel, and the eel, which was cut so that it was easy to eat, was placed neatly on top.
‘It would be a pity if it ended like this.’
Thinly sliced garlic, deep-fried, and placed lightly on top of the eel. And finish by arranging thinly sliced lemons on the side.
‘Well, then the eel is over.’
Only with the eel, it seemed sad and empty, so I immediately started on the second menu.
“My mom is going to be happy today. Eels and abalone..”
After putting the finished abalone butter-roasted salad with tomato, avocado, and bacon and cocktail shrimp in dressing into the lunch box, it was just a matter of adding rice.
The rice just happened to be fluffy again, so I pressed it into the square box and put it in.
‘It’s a bit flat since it’s only served with rice..’
The seaweed cut into a heart shape was gently covered over it.
Of course, he did it secretly while Sena was looking elsewhere.
“Did you put all your sisters?”
“Oh, I’ve filled it up for now…”
“Show me once.”
“At this level, didn’t you put it neatly?”
“Well… Not bad.”
Then, after putting the finished lunchbox for the staff and the lunchbox exclusively for Gayoung filled with good things for the body in a shopping bag, he changed into clean and tidy clothes and headed to Gayoung’s beauty salon.
Holding a thermos bottle of soup in his hand, shaking it gently.
