[Comprehensive Korean Drama] "Core" Life

Cui Xinai is crazy to want to make money. In the past few years, she has truly realized the true meaning of "money is not everything, but without money is absolutely impossible." This sentence.In normal days, except Cui Yingxiong and her birthday, I can drink a bowl of fresh kelp soup, and eat all the leftovers and miso soup left over from entertaining guests.Cui Xin'ai is not obsessed with cleanliness, but she can't even eat when she sees the guests turning over the dishes with drool-worthy chopsticks, foaming from the mouth when drinking, and the droplets from the mouth falling into the dishes.Sometimes, because the dishes are mixed with wine that guests accidentally spilled into them, the taste becomes extremely peculiar, and there is no desire to eat at all.The most basic condition to change all this is money.

The idea of ​​wanting to make money began to stir in Xinai's mind from the first time she ate leftovers. However, she was too young at that time, even if she wanted to be a genius, her three-headed body was locked up all day long. At home, besides her mother and elder brother, she sees vulgar guests in restaurants every day. Under such circumstances, she can't even think of a genius.There are many ideas that can make a lot of money, but Cui Xinai knows that she can only make ideas based on this restaurant, and it is impossible to find another way.

Cui Yingxiong and she are both underage, and it is okay to help out in restaurants with small arms and legs, but it is impossible to operate one thing independently, so this matter will eventually fall on Shun Ren.But Shun Ren was already tied up in the restaurant, and she was told to change course without first-hand experience. Even if Cui Xin'ai talked about the future in a hype, Shun Ren would not give up the restaurant where the whole family lives and lives.What's more, even if Shun Ren is persuaded, where is the start-up capital?It is easy to make money from money, but the original capital is always a problem that bothers most people.

Shun Ren's small restaurant opened in a poor area, because of the income level of the people here, people first consider cheap, and then consider other things.At the beginning, Xinai planned to develop new varieties in restaurants, but her market research found that because South Korea is mountainous, almost 90.00% are mountainous areas, the plain area is small, and there are few cultivated land resources, so daily necessities such as rice, noodles, grains, oils, fruits, vegetables and meat , except for a large part of local production, it needs to be imported from foreign countries, so the price of these living materials is relatively expensive.The Cui family had no land other than the family restaurant in front of them. In order to save a few dollars on vegetables, Xinai took advantage of the wall flowers on both sides and the back of the house, dug soil from a distance, and planted beans, gourds, pumpkins, Climbing vegetables like cucumbers.

The Korean diet is mainly characterized by high protein, many vegetables, light food, and avoiding greasy food. The taste is mainly cold and spicy. Rice is the staple food. Noodles are often eaten for pasta. The main dishes are stewed and baked. , basically do not cook.Xinai once thought about developing other pasta, but she found that Koreans don’t like to eat steamed buns very much. As for pasta with fillings such as steamed stuffed buns and dumplings, after calculating the money for flour and vegetables, even if labor costs are not included, the price in this area people can't accept it.Xin Ai put aside the staple food, wanted to cook, thought for a long time, and gave up.It's still a question of acceptance and cost.

In view of the Korean habit of drinking a cup, Xinai starts with the appetizers.Braised vegetables are the best for appetizers.Beef is the most expensive meat in Korea, followed by pork, and chicken is relatively cheap.Offal is the cheapest, and the cheapest ones are almost sold at a low price, because Koreans basically don't eat them, thinking that they are "cheap" food.But for this slum where Xin Ai lives, there is no room for pickiness.Therefore, Xin Ai worked hard to use Cui Yingxiong's textbooks to learn Korean, and used dictionaries. After a lot of hard work, she finally compiled a stewed menu on this day.

"Xinai, what are you talking about, let's go! Last time we went late, so the beautiful dress was snatched by Nam Yongho's mother, otherwise we will take it back and ask my mother to change it, waiting for you How nice to wear on school day." Cui Yingxiong opened the bedroom door and shouted to Xinai who was in a daze.Xin Ai, who was thinking about how to hand over the order to Shun Ren, heard Cui Yingxiong's cry, reacted, and hurriedly put on her shoes and ran out.Cui Yingxiong took her hand, and the two ran out of the village together.

When Koreans generally dispose of discarded or discarded things at home, they select the usable ones, clean them up, or put them on the side of the road so that those in need can pick them up by themselves, or donate them to recycling agencies, and then these agencies sort them out. Put it in the rescue point to help the poor.This is also part of Korean charity.As a slum area, there is such a "relief garbage point" not far from the village. Some things will be placed here in the middle of each month for people to use.Because the village is not far from Sokcho and Hwajinpo Beach, a major tourist attraction, many wealthy people are attracted by the beautiful scenery here and settle here.So this relief point sometimes has many better things.

At first, Cui Xinai didn't know about this place, and she just listened to Shunren chatting with the villagers once, saying that Shunren could go to the relief point to get some things back, so as to save some money.Although Xin Ai saw that Shun Ren refused angrily at the time, she kept this matter in her heart, and then secretly asked Cui Yingxiong to find out about this place.Hearing that there is such a good thing, Xin Ai is very happy, but Shun Ren and Cui Yingxiong are against Xin Ai going there.

Xin Ai knew that the two were unwilling to accept this kind of relief because of their self-esteem, for fear of being laughed at.But in her opinion, there is no need at all. No one in the village knows what their family is like. Even if they don't go to the relief station to get things, would they still look up to her family?You won't laugh at their family?The primary problem for their family now is to save money and pay off debts. When they can't increase their income, they naturally have to save money. Now that there is such a good thing to be frugal, why should they reject it with their poor self-esteem?

After all, Cui Yingxiong is young, so it is easy to convince him.Shun Ren, who is poor and short-sighted and is about to be overwhelmed by the huge pressure of life, objected more because Cui Yingxiong and Xin loved them. When they didn't care, she had nothing to object to, so Xin Ai and Cui Yingxiong go to the relief station in the middle of every month to search for things that can be used at home.

Later, Xin Ai discovered that in addition to her own family, many people from the village also came here.It's just that they all cover up, either wearing hats with the brims pulled down, or wrapping scarves around their heads with only their eyes exposed, as if they were thieves.It's just that we live in and outside the village, and we don't see each other all day long. We are very familiar with each other. Even if we cover our faces, we can recognize who is who from the figure, so why do we have to dress up like this?It's really deceitful!Xinai really doesn't understand the mentality of these people.

Cui Yingxiong and Xin Ai came to the relief point, Cui Yingxiong rushed to search in the pile of clothes at once, and he had been thinking about finding a beautiful dress for Xin Ai.Xin Ai stood aside, her eyes flicked from furniture, electrical appliances, dishes and other daily necessities, and her eyes fell on the pile of books, her eyes lit up.There are usually only a few books placed here at the relief point, sometimes there are none, and if there are, most of them are dictionaries and other useful books.Today, Xinai looked through and found an introductory reference book on cutting basics of "Garment Structure Design and Its Application". I wanted to take a random one and put the stewed menu in it as something that was already sandwiched in it. , gave it to Shun Ren, and now not only found a good thing, but also solved the matter, how lucky.

When she got home, Xin Ai flipped out the stewed menu that she had prepared long ago as if she were flipping through a book. She pretended not to know what it was, and showed the list to Shun Ren to read. "Mom, there seems to be a recipe in this book, take a look, is it useful?"

Shun Yi, who was busy choosing vegetables and washing pots, didn't care about steaming rice at first. If it wasn't for Xin Ai's obedient attitude, and what he was talking about was a recipe, which had something to do with a restaurant, he would definitely "make trouble" because of Xin Ai. , interrupted her work and cursed.Shun Ren didn't wipe the wet dishwashing hand, just took the list and read it.The expression on Shun Ren's face changed from the initial casualness to seriousness. As a chef, although her skills are not superb, she can still tell that this recipe is not made up randomly, it is practical .And as a proprietress of a restaurant, it is not difficult for Shun Ren to see business opportunities.

Seeing that the water in his hand had wet the paper, Shun Ren rubbed his other hand on the apron. After wiping off the water, he changed the paper in his hand. After carefully looking at it, he folded it carefully. Put it in your pocket, bend down, look at Xin Ai, and ask: "Xin Ai, where did you find this list? Has anyone else seen this thing besides you?"

Xin Ai waved the book in her hand to her, and replied: "It's in this book. My brother and I just got it back from the relief station. When I was reading a book just now, I suddenly found this. I brought it to my mother right away. What's the matter, mother, is there any problem?" Xin Ai pretended to be puzzled and looked at Shun Ren.

"Oh, it's nothing. Let's go and play." Shun Ren didn't say anything, just sent Xin Ai away, and turned to wash the vegetables, as if nothing happened.But only after Xin Ai, since that day, with a face full of faces for several nights, after everyone fell asleep, she tossed and turned, and then sat up with the light on, holding the stewed vegetable menu in a daze.After the usury came to collect debts again, Shun Ren no longer held the list in a daze, but took a pen and paper to calculate the investment on the open table in his spare time, fingers, and finally made up his mind to ask someone to sit in the kitchen. In the far corner, I built an earthen stove, bought jars, and began to try to make stewed vegetables with pig offal and seasonings.Seeing that Shun Ren finally took the first step, Xin Ai let out a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

After staring at the cracks on the low mottled ceiling for a while, Cui Xinai finally came to her senses, and looked sideways at the mother's place beside her. It was empty and the bed had been folded and tidy.Looking at the still dark sky outside the house, she sighed softly in her heart. Without disturbing her brother who was sleeping soundly on the other side, she quietly got up and dressed, rubbed her sore shoulders from sleeping directly on the floor, and lightly beat He touched his waist, sighed secretly in his heart, he didn't know how to lie on the bed and sleep instead of lying on the floor like now.I'm not used to it!

There was a wry smile on her mouth, Cui Xinai knew that, given the current situation at home, it was really too difficult to realize her wish.The financial situation of the family is a deficit. Every month, I save money and save money hard. Then at the end of the month, when the loan sharks come, the family is poor and white, and I have to start saving money again.If not only the interest on the debt has been repaid this month, but also a little balance can be made to repay the principal, that is already something worth celebrating.

The current principle of using money at home is not to spend if you can’t, and save if you can.In the past, Xin Ai's most respected sentence was "money is earned, not saved." Now she really wants to say it to her back then, it really doesn't hurt her back to stand up and talk.Although Shun Ren has started to sell stewed vegetables in the store, because of the short time, Shun Ren is still a little timid, or because he has no money, so there are not many varieties. The chickens are reluctant to let go.Therefore, although there is some income, it is not much, and the family situation has not improved much.What's more, with the consumption level in this area, Xinai is skeptical about whether this way of making money can change the family situation.

In fact, the problem of the bed is still a small problem, and the narrow and cramped room is a big problem.There are three rooms in this house, the living room, and the kitchen.As the largest of the three rooms, three tables were squeezed out of the hall, and it was used as a storefront to entertain guests.The kitchen doubles as a bathroom and utility room.The remaining room is responsible for many functions such as living room, dining room, study room and bedroom.She sleeps, sleeps, drinks and lives in such a small room with her brother and mother. Now she and Cui Yingxiong are still young, and they can barely live together, but it will be embarrassing when they get older and reach puberty.For the Cui family, which is burdened with huge debts, changing to a house where everyone has a separate room, even if it is small, is probably a good thing that can only be dreamed of!

The author has something to say: backbone and self-esteem cannot be eaten as food.