Solo Farming In The Tower Chapter 829 102: Accidentally Running a Hotteok Stand (2) / 826
TL: Hanguk
Snow was pouring down from the sky.
Because of that, the roads were completely jammed.
"Huh? What's going on? Did a new popular restaurant open or something?"
Driving his car home at a turtle's pace, Kim Dong-sik spotted a long line near Oksu Station and grew curious.
"Excuse me? What's this line for?"
So he rolled down the window and asked a man standing in the line.
"Ah?! You're Hunter Kim Dong-sik, right?!"
"Yes. That's me."
Though he had almost zero presence when with his mentor Han Tae-jun, Kim Dong-sik was still a top 10 Hunter in Korea.
"Hahaha. Of course."
Since this happened often, Dong-sik pulled out a pen he always carried and signed the cap the man handed over.
"Thank you! This line is for the Cat Paw Hotteok."
"Cat Paw Hotteok?"
"Yes. It's a hotteok shop that stamps the hotteok with a cat paw print. It spread instantly on Stargram, so now the line's gotten really long."
"Is that so? Could you send me the link via DM?"
Dong-sik planned to send the link to his wife and buy some hotteok if she said she wanted to eat it.
"D… DM? Yes, I sent it."
The man, touched that Dong-sik accepted his DM, sent him the link.
"Thank you."
Dong-sik checked the link.
"Huh?!"
Why is Sejun-nim selling hotteok…?
He spotted a familiar face in the photo. He couldn't recognize the others due to illusion magic.
This is an emergency situation!
"Thank you. Enjoy your hotteok."
Dong-sik gave a polite farewell to the man, then drove off and out of the area.
"Hey, it's me. I just sent you a link, right? Dispatch agents to that location and control the crowd to prevent accidents."
He hurriedly deployed personnel.
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"Puhuhut. Welcome, meow!"
"9 hotteok, please."
"Puhuhut. Just a moment, meow! Chairman Park, 9 hotteok order, meow!"
Squish. Squish. Squish.
Theo pressed the hotteok on the griddle with his front paw while taking the customer's order. Iona adjusted the illusion magic so that the customers saw Theo using a cat paw-shaped hotteok press.
What is this? Why do people keep coming?
While diligently making the hotteok dough, Sejun was puzzled.
At first, they were just going to make food for themselves and sell a few to the few customers that came. But now, there were way too many customers.
In the end, he used up all the hotteok dough the hotteok granny had prepared, and even the gas ran out.
But Sejun didn't close the shop. Having survived the 99th floor of the Black Tower, this was nothing for Sejun, and he didn't even consider shutting down.
"Iona, heat up some more griddles."
"Kyoot Kyoo Kyoot. Okay!"
Instead, to reduce the customer wait time, they increased the number of griddles to five.
"Aileen, put the dough I made on the empty griddle spots and pour oil whenever it's lacking."
"Okay!"
"Cuengi, handle hotteok packaging and money."
Kueng!
[Got it!]
"Paespaes, play work song track 3."
(Pip-pip! Okay!)
Kihihit. Kking?!
[Hehe. Butler! What about great Blackie?!]
"Blackie, bark at anyone who tries to cut in line."
Kking! Kking!
[Okay! Butler! Leave that to great Blackie! Release!]
Blackie deactivated the illusion magic for his mission.
After giving out the tasks, Sejun took out flour from the void storage and started making dough, then began preparing ingredients to stuff inside the hotteok.
Sugar made by squeezing sugarcane directly.
Magical roasted peanuts.
Stamina Corn.
Sticky Corn.
Extremely-delicious roasted and dried sweet potato.
Midway, he came up with a new recipe idea and increased the variety of hotteok fillings.
The basic hotteok with sugar and peanuts.
Sweet and salty corn cheese hotteok using Stamina Corn and mozzarella-like stretchy Sticky Corn.
And also,
Adding roasted and dried sweet potato would go well.
Roasted and dried sweet potato hotteok, suggested by Blackie.
Rip.
Sejun tore a box and wrote the names and prices of the new hotteok:
Corn Cheese Hotteok / Roasted and Dried Sweet Potato Hotteok – 1 for 2,000 won.
Corn Cheese Hotteok / Roasted and Dried Sweet Potato Hotteok – 3 for 5,500 won.
He placed the sign next to the original hotteok price list.
"Oh?! Boss, give me 3 of the corn cheese hotteok and 3 of the roasted sweet potato hotteok too!"
Customers waiting for their hotteok to be ready started placing additional orders.
In this way, hotteok made entirely from crops grown in the Tower were being sold.
-Wow! The corn cheese hotteok is seriously delicious! This is my new favorite hotteok for life!
-Try the corn cheese hotteok and the roasted sweet potato hotteok! They're so good I got back in line! This time I'm buying 30, including the basic hotteok!
ㄴHey, have a conscience!
ㄴDon't get in line! I'm still on my way! The roads are blocked because of the snowㅜㅜ
ㄴFYI, if you cut in line, a black Sigorjab dog will scold you real hard ㅋㅋㅋ
Reviews from people who ate the hotteok kept popping up on Stargram, and those posts began drawing in more customers.
-Who's the boy singing at the hotteok stand? His face is average, but he sings so well! He could debut right away.
ㄴI know, right? I'm standing on the roadside eating hotteok just to listen to him sing.
ㄴHuh?! Are you the person next to me wearing the red fur hat?
ㄴHuh?! Yellow padding jacket?
On top of that, Paespaes's singing skills also began spreading by word of mouth.
At that time.
"Oh?! It's Sejun!"
Kyung-chul, who was lounging around and browsing Stargram in the house Sejun had recently built for him, saw a photo of Sejun.
"But why is Sejun grilling hotteok at Oksu Station?"
"Could it be a charity event?"
Choi Mi-na, who was working on company tasks on her laptop next to him, replied. As expected of someone from a chaebol family, her way of thinking was quite different.
"Ah!"
As expected of my friend Sejun!
Moved by Sejun's good deed(?), Kyung-chul said,
"Honey, I'm going to go help Sejun."
"Okay. Please bring back some hotteok. All three flavors."
"Got it!"
He quickly rushed over to Oksu Station. Considering that the hotteok was made with ingredients so expensive you couldn't buy them even with money, and yet being sold at a very low price, it was indeed a good deed.
Five minutes later.
Oh Kyung-chul arrived at Sejun's hotteok stand.
"Sejun, I'm here to help too! What should I do first?"
"Oh! Kyung-chul, great timing! Help guide the customers in line."
"Got it!"
He had been worried because of the large crowd, so Kyung-chul showing up was a relief! Thanks, man!
Sejun was touched that Kyung-chul came to help him.
However.
"Earth's strongest! It's Hunter Oh Kyung-chul!"
"Oh. Did Hunter Oh Kyung-chul also come to buy hotteok?"
"Well, even Earth's strongest can't resist hotteok on a snowy day."
"Everyone! Please form a line to the side so others aren't inconvenienced!"
"Huh?! Hunter Oh Kyung-chul is managing the line?"
"Using Oh Kyung-chul, Earth's strongest hunter, as a line guide? What is the identity of this hotteok shop?!"
Kyung-chul's appearance created an even bigger ripple effect.
-This is the hotteok stand at Oksu Station. You can line up and get Hunter Oh Kyung-chul's autograph and even take a picture with him.
-I just took a picture with Hunter Oh Kyung-chul and asked, he said he's real friends with the hotteok shop owner.
ㄴLucky!
ㄴI'm a fan of Oh Kyung-chul! Heading there right now!
Thanks to that, the line didn't shrink, it grew even longer.
Thirty minutes after Kyung-chul's arrival, the line was twice as long as before he showed up.
"Sejun-nim, hello. Do you need anything?"
Kim Dong-sik, who had just arrived after parking nearby, approached Sejun with personnel from the Korean Awakeners Association and asked.
"Oh. Hello, Dong-sik-nim. I don't need anything. Please have some hotteok."
"Puhuhut. Dong-sik, good to see you, meow! Basic hotteok is 3 for 4000 won. Corn cheese hotteok and roasted sweet potato hotteok are 3 for 5500 won, meow!"
"This voice… Theo?"
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"Puhuhut. That's right, meow!"
"They're all with me. Here's your hotteok."
"Oh. Thank you. Then if you need anything, please let me know!"
While eating the hotteok Sejun gave them, they kept close watch around the hotteok stand in case anyone tried to cause trouble for Sejun.
Fortunately, the hotteok business ran smoothly until the end.
"Kyoo?! Sejun-nim, the kids are awake!"
"Really?! Then Aileen and Iona, please head home first."
"Okay!"
"Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Yes!"
Although Aileen and Iona left when the kids woke up,
"Could you help us out here?"
"Yes!"
The shortage of manpower was resolved with help from the staff of the Korean Awakeners Association.
The hotteok business finally wrapped up after 10 PM.
"Kyung-chul, thanks for helping out."
"Nah. I didn't really do anything."
"Take this and eat it."
"Thanks, Sejun."
Sejun handed Kyung-chul a heavy paper bag. Inside the bag were ten hotteok of each of the three flavors.
"There's enough for everyone, so please take one each."
Sejun also handed out packed hotteok to the Awakener Association staff who had helped him, and then said,
"Let's go home now."
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow!"
Kueng!
(Pip-pip. Yes!)
Kking!
Together with the group, they headed home.
When Sejun arrived home.
"Dad, why didn't you take Taecho?!"
Taecho came running out and pouted in protest.
"Sorry. But Daddy brought something yummy for you."
"Something yummy?"
Gulp.
At Sejun's words, Taecho swallowed her saliva.
Gulp.
Gulp.
Children of Destruction behind also swallowed their saliva while staring at Sejun.
"Here. This is something called hotteok…"
When Sejun took out hotteok from the void storage,
""Wow!""
Taecho and the Children of Destruction got excited and each tried to grab one and put it in their mouth.
"Wait!"
Sejun quickly stopped the children.
If they ate the hotteok without any caution, the hot filling inside would burn their tongues,
And then the kids might cry, and no since it was winter, a snowstorm could break out.
"The inside is hot, so you have to blow on it like this before eating."
Sejun demonstrated how to eat it.
"Fuu!"
"Fuuuung!"
The children blew hard with their mouths until spit almost came out, trying to cool down the hotteok.
Sejun looked on at the kids with satisfaction and then
"Here."
He quietly offered one hotteok to Theo.
"Meow?!"
"I put Churu in it."
"Puhuhut."
At Sejun's words, Theo split the hotteok in half, and the Churu inside began to ooze out.
I can't miss the Churu of the great Chairman Park, meow!
Chomp…
"Meow! It's hot meow!"
He burned his tongue.
"Come on. I just showed you to blow on it before eating."
"Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Theo-nim, stick out your tongue. I'll heal you."
"Thanksh-meow!"
"Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Power of healing…."
Theo stuck out his tongue and received healing from Iona.
"Puhuhut. Thanks, Iona, meow! Fuu, meow! Fuu, meow!"
This time, he blew on the Churu thoroughly with his mouth,
Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.
And enjoyed the Churu deliciously.
Lick. Lick. Lick.
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. The roasted and dried sweet potato hotteok is all mine 'cause great Blackie licked it!]
Blackie, in an effort to keep the roasted and dried sweet potato hotteok to himself, had licked them all over, but
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. All three flavors of the hotteok Dad made are delicious!]
Kking!
[No way!]
His plan was crushed by Cuengi.
"Hehehe. This is nice."
Sejun smiled as he watched Aileen, the group, and the Children of Destruction happily eating hotteok.
Perhaps because it was cold outside and warm inside, he felt especially happy today.
He decided he would build a snowman tomorrow.
Sejun also ate hotteok and wrapped up a joyful day.
And so a day passed, and
"Huh?"
Why are there so many people?!
The granny, who came to work for the hotteok stand, was flustered when she saw the long line of people in front of the shop.
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