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[Restaurant]

[Episode 10: Barley-dried Corvina]

Around this time every year

there's a dish my regulars like to ask for.

It's the dish that comes to mind during the summertime.

Barley-dried corvina.

It's here, right?

Thanks to Mr. Kim, who loves fishing and calls himself 'Kim Tae Gong'

I get good quality fish airlifted to me by each producer at a cheap price.

My whole body aches in the summertime because I want to eat this so much.

This and soy sauce marinated crab really whet your appetite.

What doesn't whet your appetite?

Master, please give me another bowl of rice.

Okay.

This was originally made by drying yellow corvina.

If you say yellow corvina in Classical Chinese

it means to help vitalize.

So, during the summer, when you don't have an appetite

this one dish will do the trick.

Pour in more.

I don't understand that phrase the most.

Why wouldn't you have an appetite, when there are so many things to eat?

It tastes so good.

A bit more.

It tastes really good.

But, it seems that this taste

incited Kim Tae Gong's suppressed skill.

Seriously, my fishing skills are amazing.

I was going to show them off once.

But, why don't you go fishing these days?

I was completely drunk the last time I was fishing.

I almost fell into the water and died.

After that, my wife...

told me to stay still at home without even breathing.

I'm coming to this restaurant to breathe.

This is really amazing.

Seriously.

My body's aching because I want to do this so much.

Who can I tempt to go fishing with me?

- Let's go. - I don't want to.

You were quiet for a while. Now you're starting up again.

In the past, you went around using my name for your advantage a lot.

Back in my glory days, when I was at my very best

I would say I was going fishing with him, but actually play around the whole nation.

I had several women in each district.

Hey, let's go.

You really have to be good to your wife.

Your wife is a great catch in the world of wives.

Hey, the fact that I've been living with only one woman all this time

is already a big achievement.

I have five siblings.

But all of them divorced at least once while I haven't.

My father, grandfather, and even the people above them

all had two or three lowly concubines.

But I'm the only one who isn't following my family's disposition

and living my whole life with just one person.

My kids said that they're grateful for that one thing too.

I can't get married because I'm worried I'll meet a man like this.

No, I'm not going to do something else this time.

I'm really going to go fishing.

There's an excellent spot that only I know about.

You can only catch the big fish if you go fishing at night there.

I don't want to.

We don't want to either.

It's a bit scary to go there alone though.

In the end, his fishing partner was Min Woo.

He said he got time off from all his part-time jobs for summer vacation.

- Are you hungry? - No.

I'm not just taking time away from a student who should be studying, am I?

No, you're not.

Yeah, you need to come to these kinds of places sometimes too and get some air

so that your brain works better.

Yes.

The air's so fresh!

I really wanted to do this kind of thing once.

Do what?

I wanted to do this kind of thing with my dad.

Hey, real dads don't bring their kids along to these kinds of places.

I took my kids around when they were little too.

After they've grown up, they can't even remember.

Now that they're older, they refuse, saying they're busy.

So I don't take them around.

That's possible.

If you're bored, try cooking up some ramen.

Ramen tastes the best when you eat it at these kinds of places.

Mister, I'm the best when it comes to cooking ramen.

Ramen is the one thing that I can cook more deliciously than Master.

- Please wait. I'll cook it deliciously. - Okay.

Yeah, try cooking it.

Why is my stomach being like this?

What's wrong?

My stomach's been hurting since a little while ago.

Why is it hurting more when I haven't even eaten that much?

- This is a big problem. - What do we do then?

I'll just do my business somewhere over there.

So, you watch the fishing rod carefully.

- Okay? - Okay.

Watch carefully for any bobbing movement.

Come back safely.

- Saying something that makes sense. - It's true.

Yeah, right.

I parked the car less than 10 meters away from where we were.

I was doing my business behind the car.

I didn't see a woman like that.

I was with her for sure.

Did you come to fish?

Excuse me?

I'm sorry.

You were startled, weren't you?

No, I wasn't.

But, why are you here all by yourself?

I came out to get some air for a little while because I felt suffocated.

I'm guessing you came to fish.

Yes.

Would you like to have some ramen with me?

No, it's okay.

Then how come I didn't see her?

I don't know.

I mean, I'm a person who jumps right out bed for women.

Did you see that woman's legs?

Do you think I'm like Mr. Kim?

Why would I look at her legs in that situation?

Hey, ghosts don't have legs.

Hey!

You saw them, right?

Well, that's...

Seriously, why are you being like that?

What should we do about him?

He must be possessed by a maiden ghost.

So, why did you drag a kid who should be studying to a fishing spot?

I'm a man who just gave up on fishing and came back

because I was freaked out by what he was saying too.

I couldn't even eat the ramen properly, so I'm extremely hungry.

- Make some hot soup or something for me. - Do you want spicy roe fish soup?

Seeing as how he keeps hallucinating, it seems like his body's weakened.

I think you should really boil some beef bone for him.

No, I wasn't hallucinating. I think she was really there.

Do you want me to cook something warm for you?

No, it's okay.

It's true. I'm sure that...

That scared me.

Master, please give me a beer and beef jerky.

Okay.

You saw a woman there?

Yes.

What does she look like?

She had long hair and...

Was she wearing a sky-blue dress?

How did you know?

What the...

I think it is that woman.

Is she a woman you know?

I have a friend who does the alligator job.

Alligator job?

Getting paid to find the bodies of people who drowned and died.

That's known as the alligator job.

My friend said that not too long ago

he recovered the body of a woman who looked like that from the reservoir.

He said that a man cheated on her or something.

It seems that at first, the man did it just to intimidate her

while they were arguing.

But, she really fell into the water and struggled.

The guy tried to save her at first.

But he thought that he would die like that.

So even when the woman was grabbing and clinging onto him

he shook her off and got out.

When my friend got the woman out

he said he saw that she was clenching a bunch of hair in her hands.

- What the... - Oh no.

I'm getting goosebumps.

You're talking nonsense.

Hey, there's no need to worry about it.

He's just saying that to tease you.

You know that, right?

The red mask and the Hong Kong granny ghost.

Those are all stories that were made up.

There's a story like that for every fishing spot.

- But still, Mister... - Forget about it, kid.

Why is a guy being so...

Men find it most dreadful to hear

their girlfriends say, 'Honey, I think I'm pregnant.'

Jeez, Mister.

That and...

to hear that the price of cigarettes has gone up again.

Those are the only things.

Seriously, men.

I wish I at least had a man, even if he's like that.

I'm just going to live alone.

Why would you uselessly say that to a kid who's studying...

It's true though.

He's saying useless things, and making me strangely...

Why are you over there?

What the heck?

Why did she stick this on here?

Did you have a nightmare again?

Yes.

Oh no.

You said that you can't sleep at all at home either.

You hear this sound, right?

What sound?

Where?

This sound right now.

There's no one there.

What should we do?

I sense tachycardia.

What's that?

It's when your heart beats fast.

It can be caused by anemia, shock, or extreme fear.

If you've been in a state of anxiety for a long period of time

and are worried, then it could also happen.

Hey, does that woman still appear in your dreams?

Shouldn't we scatter salt or red beans over him or something?

You know, that's what you do to repel evil spirits.

Jeez, that's a superstition.

Anyway, I'll prescribe something that will help you sleep for now.

So come with me first.

Yeah.

I call this guy a quack just to tease him.

But he was originally an acknowledged Oriental medicine doctor.

Okay.

But...

there's a place that I really want to go to.

Surprisingly, that place...

was that reservoir.

He said that he keeps on having the same dream...

so he has a strange feeling.

Hey. Why are you being like this again?

Everyone kept saying it's all my fault that this happened to you

so I was compelled to come, but seriously...

Over there.

What the...

Wait a minute!

Hey, wait for me.

Hey, it might be a water ghost.

I don't want to live!

I just brought her here because I thought she shouldn't be left alone.

There weren't any proper places that I could take her to.

You did well.

- I'm sorry. - It's no problem.

Her name is Ji Hee.

Her wedding with her beloved lover was right around the corner.

But there was an accident while they were playing in the water.

She said he saved her when she was being swept away by a strong current

and fell unconscious afterward.

I've been staying by his side for three years now.

You're not even married, yet you stood by him for three years.

His family also said that it's enough now...

and told me not to come.

But, I just couldn't bring myself to do that...

since he ended up like that because of me.

At first, I believed in miracles.

Even if he couldn't move

as long as he opened his eyes

I thought that it would be okay

and that I could live with him forever.

But that kind of miracle didn't happen.

Well, that's how it is.

They said that if you want it very desperately, then it will happen.

I wondered if I didn't want it enough.

I only blamed myself at first.

But as time passed...

I kept faltering.

I would say that it was tough and tiring in spite of myself.

That's reasonable.

They say that a prolonged illness wears out filial devotion.

Moreover, you aren't even married.

I feel apologetic to him...

but staying at the hospital all the time is so constricting.

I was passing by the lounge for a second...

when I saw someone on television

eating barley-dried corvina with rice in water.

But in spite of myself...

I thought that it looked tasty...

and that I wanted to eat it too...

even though my lover was lying unconscious.

I felt so lame and pathetic...

thinking those thoughts just because I have an active appetite.

That's why I went out.

But, you...

looked so much like him.

Of course, you weren't him.

No.

It could have been that even though I knew it wasn't him from the beginning

I just enjoyed talking to someone who was alive.

After that...

in spite of myself...

I wondered when it would end.

I think he probably knew that I was thinking that.

So, it seems that she tried to follow him out of guilt.

I don't want to live!

But Min Woo said that scene appeared in his dream.

Some man appeared in my dream and told me...

that I had to save you no matter what.

With that, a summer night's mystery came to an end.

I was worried that the restaurant might be closed.

I'm going to leave.

For where?

For Africa.

His dream was to work at a volunteer organization there.

I'll be going now.

Wait.

You should eat before you leave.

Sometimes, I wonder...

how grave of a sin barley-dried corvina committed

that it has to endure the sea breeze while preserved in salt

and even spend a period of suffering left idly in barley.

However, with time...

wounds are patched by wounds one after the other...

and the skin becomes firmer

and the taste with its unique flavor becomes stronger as well.

So our lives would probably be like that too.

I look around because I smell rice being cooked.

I stop walking busily and walk slowly.

On the path that I walk on every day

the smell of rice being cooked from that time suddenly fills the air today

so I walk slowly.

The smell of rice spreads throughout the alley

and I hear the sound of the footsteps from when I was running home that time.

So I walk slowly.

Even on a day when I fought with my friends

I used to forget about it after just eating one bowl full of rice.

If I walk on the path more slowly

will I be able to see the sky that I had lost again?

The dreams that I harbored are growing more distant from me

but I want to eat the bowl of steamed rice that I yearn for again.

As I look around because I smell rice being cooked

I stop walking busily and stand there.

I'm leaving.

After making a triangle shape

the three people stand at a crossroads.

Do I still like Cherry to you?

Hey, what's wrong with you?

It's a big fish.

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