Chapter 199 – Episode 199. Christmas Celebration Night -2
After passing by the arched ceiling colored with iridescent lights for a while, I came out from under it again.
The hot-air balloon lights were often yellow and red.
They hung a little high. So it seemed as if it was floating and shining in different colors.
On the walls, there were also colorful lighting facilities that looked like murals of lighting.
There were many beautiful lighting facilities, such as a tree shape with orange lights, a snowman shape with white lights, a gift box shape, and lighting with the phrase ‘Happy new year’.
When Minkyung saw a flashy lighting facility suitable for taking pictures, he pointed his finger at it and walked with me by the arms crossed like a child.
“Jinhyuk-ah, let’s take a picture over there too.”
“Um~.”
I was happy to take many pictures of her with her.
Minkyung and I took turns taking pictures of each other next to the lights shining in the dark night, and we asked others to take pictures together.
The more I walked, the more I walked, expecting to see what kind of lighting facilities would be on the wall this time.
“That too. Can Jinhyeok take a picture of you?”
“Oh, okay, let’s take pictures of each other.”
There were quite a few people, so we had to wait a little bit in line for each lighting facility, but of course it didn’t take long for everyone to take pictures, so we were able to pass by taking pictures at all the places we wanted.
There were occasional benches, and couples were taking a break and talking.
We didn’t particularly sit down and take a break, we walked slowly with our arms folded and our attention was focused on the lighting fixtures.
Then, little by little, I started to walk while looking at not only the walls, but also the large lights embedded in the middle where the river flows.
The lights in the middle of the stream started off as white bead-like lights.
The lights in the middle of such a flowing river diversified as we went deeper and deeper.
Lights like Santa’s shoes with red shoes and ankles rolled in white, and lights in the shape of a large purple gift box that you want to open, although it is made up of lights that are transparent, were followed by lights in the shape of frying pans.
I went a little further, and this time I saw lights in the shape of snow-covered houses on top of the river.
And further along there, there was a large heart-shaped pink light.
Among the many lighting facilities, I think this heart was the most beautiful.
A couple even took pictures under the big pink heart.
There, another ceiling passed by for a moment, and after another moment of the ceiling passed, other lighting facilities appeared.
I said to Min-kyung, looking at the pigs shining a little white gold in the middle of the stream.
“Oh, what. Wasn’t the year of the golden pig last year?”
“Isn’t that a bear?”
“How is that a bear? Doesn’t that face stick out too much? It’s also yellow.”
“Uh, it’s made a bit like a pig. I think it’s a bear.”
“Is that so? Oh, that’s right, there’s an igloo behind it, so I don’t think pigs live in the North Pole.”
“Hohoho! Uh. There’s an igloo.”
After passing by bears that looked like pigs who were good at drinking Coke, there was a green lighting facility in the middle of the stream, followed by a group of frogs, followed by an orange lighting facility for deer.
And on both sides of the stream, lights in the shape of angels blowing trumpets were lined up in pure white like street lamps that were sparsely connected on both sides.
After passing them, there was a place with a ceiling again.
This time, for some reason, people gathered here and there in front of something like a long line of tables.
Minkyung looked curiously at her and spoke her words.
“What is that doing?”
I answered.
“Ah, that’s it, hope, etc.”
“Wish light?”
“Uh. Do you want to try?”
Together with Min-gyeong, I went to the place where they make wish lamps.
After purchasing a wish lantern for a few thousand won, write your wish on the outside of the square lantern-shaped lantern.
Then, a yellow glowing lantern was put inside, and it was to float on the water.
Then, the wish lanterns everyone floated would be collected at once when the festival was over.
Minkyung and I bought each one a wish lamp and wrote our wishes on the outside.
On the outside of a slightly longer square lantern, I wrote in two lines.
[This year]
[Pass]
And I saw Minkyung’s hope once.
[Health and Peace]
[I hope it will be a blessed year♥]
After writing the phrase, we had to float the wish light.
And when I saw Minkyung, I admired it a little.
It was so picturesque to see Minkyung squatting, stretching out her arms, and letting her wish lamp float in the water.
‘Minkyung’s body is amazing no matter how you look at it.’
Her appearance was more beautiful than the large illuminated tree at the entrance of the festival and more beautiful than the murals of colorful lights shining on the walls.
After floating the wish lamp, we walked straight in the direction we had been going.
As you go along, the road continues a little further with the lights, and at the end of the road there are stairs going up from the stream with lighting facilities.
Climbing the stairs could be seen as an exit from the river where the Christmas festival was being held.
“Oh, looks like this is the end?”
“Yes. Shall we go up?”
“Then~.”
We looked at countless lighting facilities, took a lot of pictures, floated a wishing lantern, and watched people, and that’s how we came out of the river where the Christmas festival was held in the evening.
From Exit 5 of Gwanghwamun Station, take the road that came down toward the river to the station, and we walked in the opposite direction again.
The road is back again, but different.
When we came down, we came down along the river, but when we went up, it was because we came up and walked along the road next to the road instead of the road along the river.
At the bottom of the stairs is a beautiful stream and lighting facilities, and at the top is a structure lined with various foods.
As we walked up the stairs, there were endless stalls lined up on the road in the opposite direction of the road we came from.
“Minkyung, would you like to try one of those?”
“What is that?”
“Have you eaten? Tanghulu.”
“Oh, isn’t that a strawberry?”
“Haha, haven’t you tried it? It’s a strawberry. It must be delicious.”
After looking around all the Christmas festival sites, Min-kyung and I went straight to the Tanghulu store.
Coincidentally, I had plenty of cash, so I bought two of her tanghuru and ate one with her.
At the festival site, there are a lot of people, so it is difficult to pick something to eat, but it was easy to eat when I came out like this and passed a place that was quite crowded but not crowded.
“Mum mum mum… Jinhyeok-ah, it’s really delicious, isn’t it?”
She seemed satisfied while eating Tanghulu, a dish of raw strawberries lined up and wrapped in a transparent film.
Tanghulu, which is known as Chinese food and can be found once in a while in Hongdae or on the streets of places like this, has a transparent thin film on the outside of the fruit that breaks sweetly in the mouth when chewed.
So, the shape is a strawberry skewer, and it is coated with a very thin, hard and sweet film.
If you chew it lightly, you can feel the taste of the sweet coating and the taste of raw strawberries together, but I don’t think I’ve met a lot of women who don’t like it.
All the way back to the subway station, the road we walked was endlessly leading to stalls at the top, so we were able to confirm that there were all sorts of delicacies.
There was no street food without it.
From chicken skewers to shrimp crunch, hot dogs, and tteokbokki, everything was available.
Among them, I suggested going with Min-kyung to a place where there was a table in front of a tempura stall where the order was placed.
She also said that the rice cakes were okay, and I was also a little hungry.
It was understandable because I hadn’t eaten anything since I ate at the hotel for lunch.
It was a bit cold because it was a table in front of a small stall, not indoors.
Still, it was enough to grab something to eat and go.
Soon after, the menu with oden added to tteoktusundae came out, and I picked up the tempura and Minkyung sundae with wooden chopsticks and started eating.
“Do you like sundae?”
Minkyung nodded her head.
“Yeah. Mumbling…”
It was beautiful to see Minkyung eating something.
From her point of view, I wondered if maybe mine was the same.
It could be seen that the fact that she was beautiful and that I was handsome had the effect of basically laying down a certain level of satisfaction for each other.
We ate our food, and once in a while we even ate oden soup, which steamed up with the provided spoon.
As we were eating, Minkyung spoke to me.
“I think I will live.”
Sitting at the table, she turned her head a little and looked down at the river we had been walking on.
“Sometimes I want to get away like this.”
“Haha, isn’t it all like that?”
“Is that right?”
Minkyung spoke again.
“Why, you know that when you were young. A fantasy about what you dreamed of.”
“Hmm.”
“When I learned a job through movies and dramas rather than learning it through direct contact with my skin, everything was cool, and what kind of sense of duty or craftsmanship? I felt that kind of thing.”
She’s right.
Everything seems easy when you see it in the media.
The police catching criminals, the students studying, the secretary assisting the president, and working as a lawyer in a law firm—everything doesn’t seem that hard.
However, if you do anything yourself, all of those things have their own difficulties, and there are things that are not easy even if you stick to them all day.
You won’t know until you try it yourself.
Minkyung looked at me again, and she picked up another sundae with chopsticks and said,
“But now, just going through the day, I feel like I’m just becoming the thing.”
She smiled and talked to me.
“Whoops, I guess I’m lucky though, because I’m doing what I dreamed of, even if it’s a lot different from what I thought it would be.”
“Did you dream of becoming a nurse since you were little?”
“Huh.”
She picked up one sundae and ate it.
Then she chewed and swallowed the sundae, and she talked to me, shrinking her body a little.
“She drew with crayons when she was little and you know, from then on, she wanted to be the one who healed others.”
“Ah.”
I thought maybe it had something to do with her sometimes seeming caring nature and her desire to heal others since she was a child.
I nodded her head at her words and said.
“It’s a dream, I think I’ll have to prepare longer than I thought.”
I continued.
“In school, while teaching Guk Young-soo, they teach that they must study unconditionally and make all the children adults, but in fact, they don’t have to become adults while doing Guk-yeong-soo. “
And I smiled at Minkyung.
“As you.”
Minkyung’s eyes widened slightly.
“Me?”
“Uh.”
I took a spoonful of her oden soup and told her.
“I see that you seem like a happy enough person, though a bit overworked.”
“Okay?”
Minkyung smiled calmly.
She then looked at me and said with a bright expression.
“I could be happy like you said right now, but ah, I don’t want to age. I’m already 27.”
Haha, hey, whoever sees it will think that the 70th party is just around the corner. We’re not old enough to chew on the concrete that’s been plastered on the wall of that building over there.”
I turned my head slightly and pointed at a building not far away with a wink.
Then, Minkyung burst into laughter.
“Hohoho! But~. It’s a bit scary. When you get older, you get sick.”
She wondered if she might have more thoughts like that.
This is because he sees countless patients throughout the day.
I talked to her who said that.
“You just have to enjoy it a lot now. No matter how old you are, you’re just living in the present moment. While doing what you have to do, get some fresh air from your nose.”
Minkyung smiled lightly at my words.
“Thank you.”
She said her
“I work on treating the body, but you seem to be treating the mind for some reason.
Minkyung seemed to be quite satisfied with the Christmas festival and sharing snacks like this for a while after the festival.
She came out after dinner, and since she ate lunch at a nice hotel, I thought it would be nice to have a snack together while feeling the atmosphere around the festival site like this. I felt fortunate that it was a good time.
