Chapter 17 – Episode 17. 4 Cars With an Unexpected Woman
“I guess you ate a little less when you were drinking with friends?”
I asked Han So-yul.
One Soyul answered me with her pleasant face.
“Uh. Rather than drinking, I spend most of my time chatting~, it ended in the first round, but it’s already this time. No matter how close it is to 12:00, we met.”
“Really? Did you meet a friend studying here?”
“Huh.”
Friends, in a way, can be a common relationship that exists in everyone.
But when a woman talks about her friend, for some reason, her friend becomes a little curious.
It’s kind of curious about a new woman.
I was curious about her friend’s photos and such, but I ruled out such curiosity and focused only on Han So-yul.
“Um~. Did you come to buy food for your study friend?”
“Haha, I guess you can say that~. Now I can’t afford to buy food for you either.”
“Why?”
“You hit the company a while ago.”
This seems to happen more than you think.
Among my friends and seniors, I often saw cases where the company passed the exam with great difficulty and then quit shortly thereafter.
I think of those things as natural.
There may be many variables, such as the environment of the work provided by the company or the conditions such as annual salary, or the wrong person.
So changing to another workplace seems to be correct when I see it given several times.
Unfortunately, in today’s society, even a single job opportunity is not easily given.
“If it doesn’t fit, you can quit. What did you do?”
“Call center.”
“Ah. Telephone sales?”
I think it is difficult.
Even if it’s just me, I’ve never planned anything with you when an advertisement call came in like this.
When I asked, wondering if it would have been difficult for Han So-yul to be really difficult, she answered.
“No, I was in the complaints department, dealing with customer complaints.”
“Aha.”
The complaints she said were more difficult than the phone sales I thought.
Seniors who did similar work all said that they couldn’t really do the work in the complaint department, even if they didn’t know the different things.
Han So-yul also told me about it.
“Really… It was complete torture? Basically, a lot of angry people called me, so it was really to death. Whoa~, how did I survive that.”
I took her word for granted.
“Somehow~, your voice sounds like a masterpiece?”
“Hohoho! Really?”
“Uh. Since it happened like this, let’s become an announcer!”
“Ahaha~ oppa~, isn’t that something you have to be very smart about using the same voice?”
“How are you? Tada~!”
My glass and hers collide one by one more.
Not long after, seafood and green onion pancakes came out, and we started talking more while eating them.
Just like the last time I came, the seafood and green onion pancake at this house was truly hearty.
The visuals were good, such as the hugely sliced green onion, the thickness was thicker than the pizza, and the squid-like seafood seemed like a lot.
“Brother, how long has it been since you came here?”
“Third year.”
“Really? It’s been a while? But oppa doesn’t look like a college student at all. All the guys around here are really haggard.”
“Your brother is too tired right now.”
I said, touching my face with the palm of my hand.
Then, Soyul flicked her index finger left and right and said.
“No~ Oppa, you seem to shine? Right from the moment I first saw you.”
“No, what am I?”
“Oppa. Even with all the guys I saw when I was in college and the guys I saw while working, there wasn’t even one like him. Ha… He’s so handsome.”
I’m used to hearing stories like this.
However, even if you ask for it once, it is a little difficult to receive it if you hit it like this again.
At that time, I continue the story as if nothing happened.
“Why did you come to a friend’s place and have a drink? Invite a friend and go somewhere together.”
“That’s okay. My friend works really hard.”
“Have you been on a trip recently?”
When I asked, Han So-yul thought for a while before answering.
“Um~, it’s been a while since I went on a trip. Ah. I was going to go abroad with another friend these days… But it’s too bad that it was canceled.”
“Where abroad?”
“I was just going to go to the nearest Southeast Asian country once.”
Han So-yul said that, and then he seemed to be lost in thought for a moment before speaking with a smile.
“Whoops. Ah~, I want to gather together and go out to play like in the old days~.”
“If we’re all together, who are you talking about?”
“Ah~, the friends I came to eat today were also family, and there are three of them. The three of us went abroad before.”
“I see. Where did you go to so much fun in the past? The three of us.”
“Thailand!”
Whether it’s when I’m talking to friends or when I’m talking to women, I choose a position that suits the situation at that time.
The position I chose this time is one in which I mainly choose to listen while little by little I allow her to get her words out.
This also has its own.
The conversation with Soyul was enjoyable.
She was good-natured.
I’m passing by at that midnight time, and if I want to borrow a cell phone, it may be possible to be as respectable as I am, but if it was during the daytime, I might have borrowed it without hesitation.
Some of the beauties are a bit nervous, so there are occasional hard-working types.
Compared to the few other cases, Soyul was far from nervous and belonged to a good-natured person.
I think that’s why I felt like the conversation with Soyul was more enjoyable.
In the middle of her conversation, her aunt pushed a large pot on a restaurant cart or something and came to our table.
“Hey~, student!”
I wanted something like this
“This… What is it?
When I asked, the lady smiled and set something like steamed fish toward our table as she spoke.
“Service. Student, you came here once before, right? Please come more often.”
At that time, I think I came with another friend, not a girl.
Still, I’m not a regular customer, and I’ve been here once, but the service was this good, which was a bit excessive.
“Ah, hey, ma’am, is this more expensive than our main dish?”
“Ayu~, just eat~. Please come again~.”
I was also a little embarrassed.
However, this experience is also an experience that I often have.
When I go to the store and order something, the service comes out, and sometimes the service comes at a higher price than the amount I ordered.
If you look at it that way, it could be saying that it would be good for me to sell at a loss.
Although it may not be a loss if the cost is cheap.
Anyway, I didn’t forget to say thank you to the lady who went back to the kitchen.
“Thank you boss~! I’ll enjoy my meal~!”
The aunt kept her human smile and swung her right hand from top to bottom, conveying her intention that she was mine.
As Soyul looked at the steamed fish dish, which was well-seasoned in a red light, she looked at the dish while holding a wide glass of makgeolli as if she was thinking about drinking more.
“Wow… The service here is good… Awesome. Oppa. What is this?”
“Hmm…”
After observing the steamed fish dish for a while, I glanced at the menu.
Then I snapped my fingers and looked at Soyul again and answered.
“This is it. Spicy kodari-jjim.”
“Kodari?”
“Have you not eaten?”
“Huh.”
I said while refilling Soyul’s makgeolli glass with one shot each time it was filled.
“Kodari comes out a lot in the military. There’s something called Kodari Gangjeong, right?”
“Huh.”
“When it comes to the worst food in the military, maybe 25 million males in Korea would agree.
“Is it delicious?”
She could think it was ironic for her.
It’s the worst food menu to eat in the military, but you mean it can be delicious if you eat it outside?
I thought she might think so, so I added an empirical account of her rationale for her assertion that eating at her store would be delicious.
“Uh. I had preconceived notions about it in the army, but I came out after being discharged by chance… Was it with my relatives at that time? I ate it outside with them and it was pretty good. Really. It’s good to bet with my brother.”
Haha, is that so? That’s enough…”
I poured a generous amount of stew on the plate in front of her.
And after a while, Soyul ate the steamy kodari.
“Wells … Um ~. It’s really delicious?”
“Right?”
I didn’t eat kodari here either, but I thought that this house, kodari was pretty good too.
Generally, when you go to a makgeolli restaurant, you order Jeon mainly and don’t order anything else, but I wanted to consider this as a main next time.
We shared a drink while eating a large snack that was added as a service.
“Brother. But I saw something very strange here?”
“What?”
“My friend asked me to come an hour late, so the doors to the cafes were closed, but among the cafes with the lights off, there were quite a few such things, 1,000 won Americano. It’s great. Are all the prices here originally cheap?”
There are actually a lot of things around here that are really cheap.
As Soyul said, if you go to other regions, they sell Americano for 1,000 won, which is not strange even if you pay 5,000 won.
If you go one more drink than that, if you go to a discount mart, there are soda drinks for 150 won, chocolate wafers for 400 won, and 500ml tea for 250 won, so some are cheaper than water…
By the way, I eat instant or industrial products because there are makers, but other things are a bit different.
Meat or something like that is bought and eaten at its own price.
When you eat cheap meat, there is a disadvantage that pork smells a little too much, so non-industrial meat is preferred rather than cheap.
It’s okay to even talk about that to Soyul, and when I asked if the price was cheap, I answered as if I was joking around.
Haha, if our So-yul gets married, her husband will like it. She spends very much and is frugal. You saw Cheonwon Americano again with a hawk’s eye.”
“Ho-ho-ho! I’m a bit thrifty. Instead, will my husband’s pocket money be thrifty?”
“I can’t, let’s break up.”
“Ah~ oppa~, it’s a joke~! I’ll give you a lot of pocket money~!”
“How much. See the agreement here.”
“Umm~! 300,000 won?”
“Ask and go double! 600,000 won!”
I thumped the desk and imitated my voice.
At my ad lib, Han So-yul couldn’t stop laughing.
Haha! Oppa! So funny!”
I actually just threw it as soon as it came out.
Still, most women like it.
Laughter is a kind of disarming.
No matter how funny you say, if it’s done by an ugly guy, the other person will somehow hold back their laughter and make the atmosphere go crazy.
But on the other hand, even if I throw something suitable, most of them are so happy that they don’t know what to do.
To be honest, it’s true that, to some degree, I feel better about her with her.
I even cut the part where the seafood was in the crispy, delicious-looking part of the pajeon and put it on the front plate of Soyul.
“Here’s a really big squid. Try this.”
“Oh, great.”
As we talked, the day was getting brighter outside.
It seems really strange.
If you tell me to study and wait for the day, it is pain itself, and it may be hard enough to die, and you may have to come in and out for a cigarette from time to time.
So, in the case of studying all night, I haven’t done it since high school or university exam period, but it’s hard to stay up all night while drinking, but I feel good.
And in the process of drinking for a long time like that, there is one thing in common when talking with friends and when talking with women.
That is, with a high probability, the topic turns to the story of men and women in the second half.
“Brother.”
Soyul called me with a gesture as if she was quite drunk.
“Uh?”
“What kind of character do you like women to be?”
I thought for a moment.
And answered.
“Well, well, a little~, I don’t like being nervous, and I don’t care about anything else. Rather than saying I like a certain personality, it’s more like having an attractive type when you’re together.”
“Really? Umm~ Then, what’s your ideal type? In terms of appearance.”
I answered as it is.
“Bagel girl.”
Haha! Ah, oppa, really. Men are all the same.”
“You?”
“Huh?”
“Soyul, what is your ideal type? In terms of appearance.”
I asked the same question Soyul asked.
And she gave her answer.
“Yeah… I really don’t care about appearance. Just a friendly personality, that’s fine.”
It was a fairly typical answer.
I decided to go one step further.
“Really? What can I do? Then, which part of the male body is the most important? Except for that.”
Haha! Oppa, where is it?”
When I asked what part of a man’s body he considered important besides that, Soyul smiled as he recalled the pillars of his lower body.
So I quickly responded.
“There? Um… Toes?”
“Ah~, that’s not it~!”
We had such pleasant conversations.
Whatever he said, he seemed like he wouldn’t remember tomorrow.
It’s because there were a lot of words that were just thrown out without going through the filtering of the brain.
However, in the sense of enjoying the present, I wonder if these meaningless words have meaning.
As we talked happily, dawn broke before we knew it.
Me and Han So-yul went to a pajeon restaurant together.
I was going to pay her bill, but at some point, while I was going to the bathroom, she had already done her bill.
I have quite a few cases like this.
When I do something unreasonable on a date, the contents of my wallet tend to decrease a little less than I thought.
As soon as we left the green onion house, the dawn light came a little brighter.
The day was bright, but it was a bit cold outside.
I managed to hold on, but Soyul moaned as the cold set in.
“Ugh.”
“Cold?”
“Little.”
Soyul seems to be a bit sensitive to her coldness.
I don’t know how she was waiting without a promise near the studio where I live when I called my phone last dawn.
If I was hungry at that time and went to the convenience store to eat cup noodles, it would have been a little later.
Anyway, after coming out like this, our destination could be seen as a natural place in a way.
It is a motel.
It is highly probable that the place where men and women drink together until very late in the morning and go to a motel.
And the next course, of course, is to undress together and fuck there.
She didn’t say that neither she nor she were taking the subway, nor did I say that I was going back home.
I don’t know at what point, but Soyul and I were walking hand in hand.
The slight chill on the back of her hand had nothing to do with either me or her.
And the place we headed to was a motel that was fucking close to the pajeon house.
All the motels in this gosichon came and went, so I knew the location in my head at some point.
In a way, I also thought it would be more advantageous to go on a date in a place where I know the terrain well.
Soyul didn’t specifically ask where I was going.
And I walked a little and came to the front of the motel with Soyul.
Soyul must have made predictions while walking hand in hand with me.
I spoke briefly as I held her hand and headed to the motel.
“Let’s go.”
Soyul barely nodded her head, held my hand, matched my pace, and walked to the motel together.
People could be seen in the distance, but that didn’t matter.
