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I grew up in an ordinary family, after I was admitted to university, I also learned Korean, and then went to South Korea for graduate school, by chance, I started a cosmetics purchasing agency with a friend, and I made a lot of money in a few years.
Later, due to the change of business model, our business gradually deteriorated, and I withdrew in time and began to work alone.
I picked a nice location and opened a Chinese restaurant, and it was in this shop that I met my Korean wife, Youzhen, and we quickly fell in love, and we got married in less than a year, and when the Spring Festival approached, I took her back to my hometown for the New Year.
The parents were very satisfied with this gentle daughter-in-law, and a large table full of dishes was prepared on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Youzhen felt flattered and even a little uneasy.
I comforted her: "Everyone is a family, just feel free!" and Youzhen's words made everyone speechless, I have to say, the gap between China and South Korea is really big.
My restaurant is not big, there are a dozen or so seats in the store, business is very good, and when Youzhen walked in, I felt that the slightly dim room suddenly lit up.
Youzhen wore a simple ponytail, dressed very ladylike, and had very white skin, a bit like Korean actress Choi Ji-woo, she left after eating with her friends, and I found her headphones left on the table, so I hurriedly chased them out and returned them to her.
I don't remember what she said that day, except that I was shot by Cupid's arrow.
Later, she often came here to eat, and I would talk to her from time to time, and once she didn't leave after eating alone, as if she was in a bad mood, and then she received a phone call.
I vaguely heard her say that she hadn't been paid this month, and that she would find a way to ask someone to borrow money, and I walked over and asked what was going on.
Youzhen told me that her mother was sick and needed an operation, and she would not be able to come up with the money for a while.
I asked how much it was, and after Youzhen answered me, I said, "I'll lend it to you, and when you have the money, just pay me back!"
Youzhen's expression was surprised and disbelieving, but she thought for a minute, but still accepted my help and said, "When I pay my salary, I will pay you back!"
From then on, we exchanged contact information, and when her mother recovered, I was relieved to see her smile.
Finally, one day, I confessed to her and asked her if she could agree to be my girlfriend, and in order to show my sincerity, I showed her my savings and said to her: "Many of us Chinese men love girlfriends very much!"
Youzhen was very moved, almost without hesitation to agree, she worked as a clerk in a nearby company, often looking for me after work, and when it closed, we went out for a walk.
I bought her a lot of skin care products and clothes, and to your surprise, I said, "It's right to buy something for your girlfriend!"
With the stability of the relationship, Youzhen also took me to meet her parents, I prepared some wine and meat, their family made bibimbap, looking at a table of radish and cabbage, I remembered Zhao Lirong's line: "There are still a group of heroes, look at this is a radish meeting!"
However, there is a saying that is called following the local customs, I ate kimchi and praised the deliciousness of the food, and my parents were very happy.
We quickly put our wedding on the agenda, and because we were too busy with work, we decided to set up a wine in Korea to get married first, and then hold another banquet when we returned to China.
As the Chinese New Year approached, Yuzhen knew that we were going back to China together, so she started to get busy, packing her bags, shopping for goods, and asking my parents what they liked to eat.
I said to her, "You don't have to prepare anything, just bring a few clothes, and when we get to China, we will buy some gifts for our parents!"
Youzhen frowned and said, "Then what's the matter, it's the first time I've met your parents, and I'm sure I'm going to bring some Korean specialties!"
I said, "I have prepared some money, and they can buy whatever they want to eat and use whatever they want!" Youzhen said to me uncharacteristically: "No, how can there be such a perfunctory old man!"
Then she went out and bought some things, in addition to some Korean ginseng, she also bought seaweed, cookies, and kimchi.
I couldn't laugh or cry, and I was embarrassed to say, after all, I was a part of Youzhen's heart at this time, so I watched her stuff everything into the suitcase.
She also asked me, "Do your parents eat kimchi, do you want to buy more?" I hurriedly waved my hand and said that enough was enough, and my parents knew what we wanted.
We got on the plane with two bags of luggage, and she was so nervous that she had to drink water to relieve her mood.
I took her hand and said, "Don't be nervous, my parents are very easy-going, and besides, we are both married!" Youzhen suddenly asked me, "When I see your parents, do you bow or hug?"
I immediately laughed and joked, "The new daughter-in-law has to hold the tea in her hand and bow down to her parents!"
As soon as I saw her serious appearance, I quickly said seriously: "No, I just joked with you, that one is the custom of the ancient people, and now you don't like this, if you feel uncomfortable, just bow!"
Youzhen asked me a lot of questions, and I was afraid that the time would be inappropriate, so I comforted her again.
After getting off the plane, I quickly turned on my mobile phone and called a Didi, and it didn't take long to get in the car, Youzhen asked me in surprise: "Such a good car, what does your family do?"
Because Youzhen spoke in Chinese, the driver laughed when he heard it, and I quickly said: "I'm not a big boss, at this time I called an online car, what is the appointment, don't believe you ask the driver!"
The driver also heard that Youzhen was Korean, so he said, "This car is not mine, it belongs to my father, I want to make some money if I have nothing to do!"
Youzhen looked at me in disbelief, and I said, "Don't be surprised, many people who drive online car-hailing and run takeaways are Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or they may be hidden rich second generations, industry masters!"
Youzhen still didn't quite understand, I said: "You'll know later, what you want to eat, what to buy, make an appointment for a car, if you are sick at night and want to buy medicine, you can find someone to make it for you at night!"
About half an hour, we arrived at the gate of the community, after we got out of the car, the driver left, Youzhen hurriedly asked me: "Did you pay?"
I said, "I've already paid for it on my phone!" "Are you all so advanced?" I squeezed my shoulder, not knowing if I could.
She took out her mobile phone to show her: "We are all WeChat now, Alipay connects bank cards, go to the store and buy whatever you want, just scan the QR code, now everywhere is like this, you just go to the vegetable market, and also pay by mobile phone!"
Youzhen said: "That's more convenient than credit card payment, just operate it yourself?" "Yes, just take a mobile phone, and some places have opened face recognition, but I haven't used it yet!"
When I rang the doorbell and my mother came out, Youzhen immediately stepped forward and bowed deeply, and called out "Hello Mom", a serious battle that made my mother a little nervous.
When I entered the house, I saw my father wearing an apron and making dumplings, and Youzhen was surprised: "Dad can also make dumplings?"
I said, "Yes, both parents are busy, so the housework is shared, and whoever wants to come back after work cooks first!"
Youzhen couldn't help but exclaim: "Dad is so amazing!" I opened my luggage and took out the contents of it, and my mother looked at me with an indescribable expression, and said to me: "Why are you buying so many things!"
Youzhen said seriously: "Mom, this is a Korean specialty bought for you, I hope you like it!"
Mom smiled and said, "I like it, you can buy anything!" said and took out a big red envelope from her clothes and handed it to Youzhen.
I forgot to tell her that the first time my girlfriend came to the door, the man's parents usually wanted to give a red envelope, and although we were married, my mother still thought that we should make up for it.
I asked Youzhen to take it quickly, she reached out to take it, we ate the dumplings, Youzhen praised my parents for making delicious dumplings.
We rested for a while, and when we went out to the supermarket in the evening, and when we saw a wide variety of products, she said to me, "I don't know a lot of fruits and vegetables here!"
I said, "Don't talk about you, I don't know some of them, China is so big, the transportation is convenient, good things from all over the world can be delivered, and you can know all of them anywhere!"
I said that I used to travel, and I took a car ride for three or four hours in the province, and my bones fell apart, and Youzhen thought it was incredible, because Korea could go around in a few hours, and we could only go around locally for a few hours.
The next day was Chinese New Year's Eve, early in the morning my parents started to get busy, Youzhen wanted to help, but she couldn't cook Chinese food, I said: "You just lay down the handle, such as cutting a green onion, peeling a garlic and so on!"
In the evening, when the table was full of all kinds of dishes, Youzhen was so excited that she said to me, "It's so hearty!" When everyone was ready and started to move the chopsticks, Youzhen asked me, "Aren't you going to drink soup first?"
I also blamed her for not talking too much about Chinese customs, I said, "We all start eating vegetables directly, and we will drink soup at the end!"
Although the table was full of chicken, duck, fish, and beef, my parents still sat on a lot of vegetarian dishes, and the marriage match was appropriate.
Because Youzhen likes to eat kimchi, I went to the supermarket to buy capers and sweet garlic, and I said, "This is Chinese kimchi, you can eat it, and we will make it for you!" Youzhen took a few bites, nodded and said to me, "It's really delicious!"
But other people don't seem to eat "kimchi" much, so Youzhen eats it alone, and after a while she asks curiously: "Don't you eat kimchi during the New Year?"
After listening to her words, everyone didn't react for a while, and after waiting for a long time, I said: "Not only do we rarely eat during the Chinese New Year, but we don't usually eat every day, because there are many fresh vegetables to choose from!"
South Korea is small and has few resources, so what I often eat is radish white zucchini bean sprouts kelp and the like, I remember when I first went to school in South Korea, I lost more than a dozen pounds in two months, their meals are too little oil and water, and the amount is also small, and I always feel that I can't eat enough.
Almost after eating, my mother made a dish of rice wine and egg drop soup, everyone ate enough wine and food, during the Chinese New Year, I took Youzhen to the street to watch a lot of folk performances, ate a lot of snacks, she was happy like a child, and said to me: "I didn't expect China to be so fun, so delicious!"
I said, "Then when I have saved enough money, let's go back to China, and make sure you have a lot of kimchi to eat, as well as a lot of other delicious food!" Youzhen nodded, and we were full of confidence in the future.
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