Chapter 686 - Battle (1) – Part 1
Gun-Ho searched for Accountant Nak-Jong Lee’s phone number on his smartphone, and when he found it, he dialed the number.
“Hello, this is Gun-Ho Goo from Dyeon Korea.”
“Oh, sir, how are you?”
“We need to make some adjustments with the audit report because of the certification that we are applying to be recognized as a startup company with technology.”
“Yes, sir. I was told about it. You will need to collect every single of the audit reports that have been distributed.”
“Sure, we will do that.”
“And you will need to destroy them all.”
“Okay, no problem.”
“It seems that you are calling from China because of it, aren’t you? I will start making the adjustment right away. Don’t worry about it. I hope things go well with the certification that you are trying to obtain and your business.”
“Thank you.”
When they arrived in Antang City, Jae-Sik Moon said to Gun-Ho, “The board meeting is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10 am. I’ve reserved a suite room for you at the hotel. Take a deep rest.”
“Thank you.”
“And, for dinner, why don’t you come to my place? My wife is preparing Korean food for dinner today.”
“Really? Thank you, but I don’t want to impose.”
“You must have been having oily Chinese food during the trip. Come over and have Korean food with us. She is cooking Doenjang-jjigae* too.”
“Well, I guess I will join you for dinner then. I want to meet your baby too. Thank you.”
“You must be very good at riding a bicycle.”
Jae-Sik said again for his wife, “She got her driver’s license too.”
“Oh, really?”
The helper lady asked Jae-Sik’s wife about something. Gun-Ho thought that the helper lady had an accent from Guizhou Province. It seemed that she was asking which alcohol she was supposed to bring to the table. Jae-Sik’s wife replied to her in Chinese, and she sounded fluent. She had a certain Guizhou Province accent as well. The rumor about her fluent Chinese seemed to be true.
“You have been in China for only a few months. How come you speak Chinese that fluently?”
“I just can speak some basic Chinese. That’s all. Hahaha”
Jae-Sik’s wife laughed out loud. Gun-Ho was surprised by her laugh because he didn’t know that she could laugh like that.
‘She used to be very quiet and always keep her head low all the time. I didn’t know she could be perky and vibrant like that. Moreover, she speaks Chinese fluently. I guess Jae-Sik is lucky to have a spouse like her.’
Jae-Sik’s wife showed her concern about the chauffeur.
“Is the chauffeur waiting outside right now? Ask him to come and join us for dinner.”
“Yeah, he will come up soon. He seemed to need to make a call to somebody.”
At the very moment, the chauffeur entered Jae-Sik’s condo. Jae-Sik’s wife started making small talk with the chauffeur. She indeed sounded fluent in Chinese. Gun-Ho was amazed again.
‘Wow. She has been in China for less than half a year, and she already sounds like a native Chinese speaker. She speaks better than me who went to college here. I guess that there are people who have an inborn talent for language.’
Jae-Sik’s couple, Gun-Ho Goo, the chauffeur, and the helper lady all sat at the dining table and had dinner together. In China, it was not unusual to have meals with helpers and chauffeurs.
Gun-Ho asked the chauffeur, “How do you like Korean food? Do you like it?”
The chauffeur smiled and nodded his head.
Jae-Sik’s wife brought a bottle of Baiju. It was in a white bottle. Only Gun-Ho and Jae-Sik Moon drank the liquor.
Gun-Ho said to Jae-Sik’s wife, “I’m glad to see you acclimate yourself well to the life in China and also learn quickly the Chinese language.”
Jae-Sik Moon responded on behalf of his wife, “She goes to a poetry reading these days. She also started learning to play the Chinese traditional musical instrument—Erhu.”
Jae-Sik’s wife glared lightly at Jae-Sik and said, “Why do you say things like that? It’s embarrassing!”
However, the look on her face was telling that she was proud of herself for doing a lot of activities outside home. Gun-Ho was thinking while sipping his liquor, ‘She is not just quickly adapting to the new environment. She is fully enjoying life here.’
“Please, let me fill up your glass with liquor,” Gun-Ho offered Jae-Sik’s wife a glass of liquor.
“I usually don’t drink.”
Gun-Ho asked the helper lady to bring two empty glasses. When the helper lady handed two glasses to Gun-Ho, he filled them up with Baiju, and then he gave one to Jae-Sik’s wife and the other one to the helper lady.
“One glass of liquor wouldn’t hurt anyone. I will have to skip it with this Mr. Chauffeur since he has to drive.”
Jae-Sik’s wife and the helper lady took a small sip of liquor.
Note*
Doenjang-jjigae – A Korean soybean paste stew.
Galbi-jjim – Korean style beef short ribs dish.