A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 471

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 471

“But how do we actually run a guesthouse?”

If this were a variety show, we could just focus on creating entertaining scenes without worrying about operations, but the current situation had the review ratings of an actual guesthouse (and restaurant) at stake, so we had to take it seriously.

We couldn’t just eat all their food and then ruin their business.

“Don’t we just clean the rooms and wooden platforms, take lunch and dinner orders, cook the food, and serve it?”

“That sounds manageable, right? We only have to do it for three days.”

Kim Dobin, who had been continuing his phone conversation, hung up and turned to us.

“Uncle said he’ll come by later to pack up things from the hospital room and explain what we need to do.”

“That’s a relief. I was worried we might accidentally ruin someone else’s business.”

Seo Yehyeon let out a sigh of relief.

A little later, Kim Dobin’s uncle arrived by taxi, pulled a box of ingredients from the trunk, and thrust it at Kim Dobin. When Kim Dobin staggered under the weight, I immediately took the box from him.

“Uncle, are you okay? How’s Aunt?”

“Ugh, my whole body aches. Your aunt just tweaked her back a bit. As long as she didn’t die, right?”

His incredibly blunt joke left us unable to nod and only managing awkward smiles.

“If any accommodation reservation calls come in, turn them all away saying you’re not taking reservations for now. Just clean the rooms and wooden platforms thoroughly. Put all trash in garbage bags, and when the recycling gets full, take it to the trash disposal area. The trash disposal area is straight down that way. Don’t be lazy and put recyclables in garbage bags too. For laundry, there are towels and blankets… leave the blankets and just do the towels.”

Kim Dobin’s uncle, who had shown us the location of the trash disposal area and garbage bags, handed Kim Dobin a small notebook.

“And your aunt wrote down all the recipes in this notebook, so you can cook by following this. Put the groceries in the refrigerator, and if you run out of ingredients, use this card to go to the mart and buy more. Oh, the chicken coop is back there. Dobin, you know where the chicken coop is, right?”

Kim Dobin, taking the card, nodded.

“If you think you can’t follow the recipes, you guys are good at other things, right? Kimchi fried rice, spicy pork stir-fry, stuff like that. You can sell those for 10,000 won each.”

His kind pricing guidance made us feel a bit less burdened.

“Is that really okay?”

Gyeon Hajun, who had nudged Kim Dobin’s side as he eagerly asked, answered with a smile.

“We’ll try our best to make it taste similar.”

“Don’t feel too pressured. You’ll understand once you taste it, but it’s hard to match my wife’s cooking.”

Kim Dobin’s uncle waved his hand dismissively and moved to show us where the barbecue grill set was, continuing his explanation.

“When they ask for barbecue, first tell them the grill, charcoal, and grate rental set costs 10,000 won. And you guys have to assemble everything, light the fire, and bring it to them. You’ve assembled barbecue grills before, right?”

We all nodded. Actually, it had always been me, Gyeon Hajun, and Ryu Jaehee doing all the work before. This time would probably be the same three of us suffering again. I could see it clearly without even looking.

“And for restaurant reservations… if you can’t make chicken soup or spicy chicken stew, don’t take them. We only do those two dishes by reservation. Still, ask them once. Tell them those two dishes aren’t available and ask if that’s still okay.”

After roughly finishing his explanation of what needed to be done, Kim Dobin’s uncle grabbed our hands, shook them repeatedly, and thanked us several times before heading back to the hospital.

“If you don’t know anything, call right away! Don’t cause any accidents! And if difficult customers come, kick them out! Got it?”

As soon as the taxi left the pension with his final earnest requests, Kim Dobin said with a slightly excited face.

“Doesn’t this feel like a combination of a tycoon game and job experience? I’m getting excited.”

And at that moment, before Kim Dobin could properly feel the excitement of the situation, we were immediately thrown into action.

“Boss, boss! Oh my, where did they go?”

At the customer’s call looking for the boss, the five of us exchanged glances and then all rushed toward the customer together.

The customer, startled by the five men suddenly crowding in front of her, widened her eyes as soon as she saw Gyeon Hajun.

“Kim Yuhwan! Team Leader Kim! That’s right, isn’t it?”

At the character name and title from 【Project Blind Date】 that came from the middle-aged woman customer’s mouth, Gyeon Hajun awkwardly touched the back of his neck and nodded. Meanwhile, the smile on his face was the perfect professional smile.

The customer, who praised Gyeon Hajun saying she enjoyed the drama so much and that he looked much better in person than on TV, looked around and carefully asked.

“Are you here for some kind of filming?”

After hearing our explanation that it wasn’t filming, but that the pension owners had suddenly been hospitalized due to a traffic accident and we, as the nephew’s group, had taken over as temporary managers, the customer nodded with a concerned expression.

“Ah, the nephew. Oh my, the owners were hospitalized? Are they okay?”

“Yes, fortunately they weren’t seriously injured.”

“That’s a relief. Then for meals…”

“It’s possible. We’ll be doing the cooking.”

The customer, whose face brightened considerably, placed her lunch order.

“Then for lunch, we’ll have one chicken soup, one spicy chicken stew, one seafood pancake, and you have chicken porridge, right? Then just give us three bowls of rice, and please have it ready so we can eat at 11:30.”

The customer, who must have been really impressed by 【Project Blind Date】, even took a photo with Gyeon Hajun before leaving. As we headed to the kitchen carrying the grocery box, we poked at Gyeon Hajun and giggled.

“Wow, drama fame really can’t be beaten.”

“Kim Yuhwan came out right away.”

“Actor Gyeon, how does it feel to meet a fan of your drama at a vacation spot?”

Of course, Gyeon Hajun ignored our teasing with an unfazed expression. But the fact that Gyeon Hajun’s steps quickened was probably just my imagination. Yeah, definitely.

After arriving at the kitchen while we were organizing the groceries, Gyeon Hajun, who had been checking the refrigerator with the recipe notebook, said in a serious voice.

“There are no chickens in the refrigerator.”

Without chickens, two-thirds of the meal the customer just ordered couldn’t be served. While Kim Dobin made a phone call to ask about it, Ryu Jaehee said with a quite serious expression.

“Come to think of it, didn’t Aunt say she catches and cooks chickens directly? We heard that when we ate chicken soup on our first day.”

“Come on, there must be a few already caught and prepared.”

Kim Dobin, who finished his call, scratched the back of his head and relayed the message.

“We have to catch them ourselves. They became famous for catching live chickens fresh on the spot, so we can’t use regular chickens.”

“We have to catch chickens ourselves?”

Suddenly this went from a tycoon management game to a primitive survival experience game?

“Anyone here ever caught a live chicken?”

No one raised their hand at my question. But why are all their gazes directed at me? I’ve never caught a live chicken either.

This was the first time those four pairs of eyes’ incredibly firm belief felt so burdensome.

“We’ll be preparing the cooking, so go catch the chickens well. We need two chickens for chicken soup and spicy chicken stew.”

Gyeon Hajun waved his hand with a benevolent smile. Trying to naturally slip out of the chicken-catching raid like this.

But since there were virtually no other people who could cook besides Gyeon Hajun, no one could raise any objections.

“I need to help with cooking too, so have a good trip.”

Seo Yehyeon also slyly tried to escape from the chicken-catching raid, but…

“Hyung, chicken soup and spicy chicken stew are high in calories, can you make them?”

“Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and follow us, hyung. How long will it take three people to catch two chickens?”

Not a chance. He was dragged all the way to the chicken coop by three pairs of hands.

Cluck cluck cluck-

And as soon as we entered the chicken coop, we faced a huge obstacle.

The chickens didn’t let us catch them obediently.

Half of them quickly escaped to corners, while the other half flapped around and actively resisted us.

I grabbed the neck of one flying toward me and shouted at the three who I couldn’t tell if they were chasing chickens or being chased by chickens.

“I caught one! You three hurry up and catch one more! I can’t help because I’m holding this one right now!”

“The chicken is flying! The chicken is flying!”

“Well, chickens are supposed to fly!”

“Chickens are representative flightless birds! But these ones are flying! Hey, look how sharp those chicken claws are! Aren’t they predators, I mean, birds of prey?”

Those guys should be grateful they were born as modern people. If they were born in a hunting era, they would have starved to death. Three people can’t catch one chicken and they’re acting like this.

In the midst of the noise, Kim Dobin’s phone rang even more loudly.

“Hyungs, wait a moment! Group reservation guests for accommodation have arrived! I’ll go show them to their rooms and come back!”

“Hey, Kim Dobin! Don’t receive guests looking like that, get the chicken feathers off first!”

Kim Dobin’s steps as he left the chicken coop, shaking his head vigorously, looked mysteriously light.

With Kim Dobin gone, the chicken capture difficulty increased even more. Still, after much hardship, Ryu Jaehee and Seo Yehyeon barely succeeded in hunting one chicken.

We took the two successfully captured chickens to the area behind the chicken coop where a cutting board, knife, faucet, and hose were prepared.

Ryu Jaehee, lifting up the chicken that was still flapping vigorously, asked.

“But how do we kill this? And after killing it, how do we pluck the feathers and stuff?”

“No problem, youngest.”

“Oh, as expected, Eden hyung! You know how to do it! I believed in you, hyung.”

“It’s all on YouTube. Hurry up and search for how to kill live chickens. We can just watch and follow along.”

It looked easy when watching videos, but killing a living creature was something I really couldn’t do. I thought both would be useless, but surprisingly Seo Yehyeon was good at it. Ryu Jaehee retreated far away saying he couldn’t bear to watch.

“We have to go through this ordeal every time customers order chicken dishes…?”

“Should we seriously remove chicken dishes from the menu?”

“Youngest, go boil some water! We need to blanch this!”

Even though we somehow succeeded in killing the chickens and removing the skin, another obstacle remained.

“Hey hey hey hey, you can’t take it like that! You have to remove the organs too!”

“Damn it! Even on an uninhabited island, they didn’t make us catch live chickens!”

Once again, with the help of YouTube teachers, I managed to somewhat successfully prepare the chicken. I washed the prepared chicken clean with water once more and successfully delivered it to Gyeon Hajun.

But the trials given to us weren’t over with that.

“It doesn’t taste right.”

Gyeon Hajun, who had taken a spoonful of the chicken stew broth with a spoon, muttered with a serious expression.

“I definitely followed the recipe exactly the same, so why doesn’t it have that deep flavor? It’s lacking 2%, no, 5%.”

“That’s exactly what hand feel is. There’s a gap of years, so what can we do about it.”

“Hajun, it might be because we butchered the chicken pretty messily. Don’t blame yourself too much.”

“What if the reputation here gets bad because of my cooking? What if rumors spread that the taste changed? What if customers stop coming because of that?”

This kid isn’t usually like this, but maybe the burden of being the temporary manager in charge of cooking was heavy. Well, Dobin’s Aunt’s cooking was incredibly delicious.

At Gyeon Hajun’s absent-minded muttering, Seo Yehyeon patted Gyeon Hajun’s back and spoke up.

“Would rumors really spread… in just three days? They wouldn’t spread, would they? Though it seems like they might…?”

“Ah, hyung. Don’t fan the flames and just stay quiet. Can’t you see Jun’s mental state is shot right now?”

But since we had already taken the order, we had no choice but to serve this.

As I approached the wooden platform carrying the chicken soup pot and chicken stew pot, gazes focused on us.

“I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere before…”

“The grandson of the grandmother next to Hye-ra Grandmother’s Ward!”

“That’s right, that’s right!”

Jaehee and I did all the singing, but they only recognize Seo Yehyeon – what a damn unfair world.

A few commercials that Seo Yehyeon had filmed also came up in the customers’ conversations. To hear the food reviews that Gyeon Hajun had earnestly asked me to listen for, even after finishing all the serving, I pretended to clean the next platform while keeping my ears open.

“Hmm… somehow the taste is slightly lacking compared to yesterday.”

“That’s right, yesterday it was really delicious.”

“The owner was hospitalized today due to an accident, so young kids made it. Just eat it. For guys in their 20s, this is incredibly well done. My son is thirty and still can’t even make seaweed soup with his own hands.”

“It’s just because this is the last meal at this place, so it’s disappointing. I was planning to come again next time.”

While listening to the harsh food reviews, I exchanged glances with Seo Yehyeon.

The approaching lunch time, the incredibly difficult live chicken catching, and the not-so-good food evaluation compared to our arduous labor.

This won’t do. We needed some kind of solution.

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