Chapter 1499 1501 [Harmonious Neighborhood Relations]

  Because Jung Hwan's family is relatively wealthy, the phone is already a cordless phone. In comparison, the telephones of Sunwoo and Deshan's family are still old dial phones.

   "Didn't you say you won't come back for dinner?" Luo Meilan yelled loudly after picking up the phone.

  Xiang Nan knew that it was his father Jin Chengjun who called back. He originally agreed to eat out today, but now he called back and said he wanted to go home to eat.

   This disrupted Luo Meilan's arrangement and naturally made her angry. And Luo Meilan is nicknamed Ms. Leopard, not only because she likes to wear leopard print clothes, but also because she has a hot temper and is as smart as a leopard.

   After losing his temper, Luo Meilan's tone became gentle, "Okay, got it, come back soon."

  After hanging up the phone, she poured the tofu soup back into the pot, preparing to reheat it when her husband came back to eat. Then she found that not only the gas tank was out of gas, but also the stewed rice was gone.

  Because she knew that her husband would not come home for dinner, she cooked meals for three of them, which is naturally not enough now.

   "Zhenghuan, go downstairs and ask for a bowl of rice." Luo Meilan greeted, and then used a large bowl to fill a bowl of tofu soup for Xiang Nan, "By the way, take this here."

   "Okay." Xiang Nan nodded, took the tofu soup and went downstairs.

  The downstairs of their house is Cheng Deshan's house.

  Because Deshan’s father, Cheng Dong-il, guaranteed a loan for a friend. After the friend ran away with the money, the bank pursued the debt from the guarantor. As a result, the family’s financial situation plummeted, and they were forced to move to live in the basement of Kim Jung-hwan’s house.

  …

  When Xiang Nan came downstairs, he saw Cheng Deshan bending over, washing lettuce in front of the water pipe.

  If it was Kim Jung-hwan, he would definitely take the opportunity to play some pranks, and this is also his way of expressing his affection. Just like in middle school, boys deliberately pulled girls' pigtails.

  But Xiang Nan is much more mature than Kim Jung-hwan, so he won't play such silly tricks.

   "Auntie~" he raised his voice and shouted.

   "Jung Hwan is here, what's the matter?" Deshan's mother greeted her with a flower.

   "Mom asked me to bring you tofu soup." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "By the way, I want another bowl of rice."

   "Wow, it must be delicious." Yihua took it, and then took a bowl of rice, "Your father originally said that he would be home late, but it seems that he will be early."

  Xiang Nan nodded with a smile.

He knew that Li Yihua, Luo Meilan, and Sunwoo's mother, Kim Sunyoung, were sisters in Ssangmundong, and they sat on the cool bed in front of the house every day to do things, chatting and gossiping while doing things, so there were no secrets in the whole alley , It can be called the small foot detective team in South Korea.

  Li Yihua handed the filled rice to Xiang Nan, and then said, "Zhenghuan, take some radish kimchi back." Then, he filled another large bowl of radish kimchi.

   "Okay, thank you." After thanking Xiang Nan, he returned home with rice and kimchi, and said to Luo Meilan, "Auntie said, give us these kimchi."

   "Wow, it must be delicious." Luo Meilan praised, and then filled a bowl of chili fried pork, "Zhenghuan, take it downstairs."

  Xiang Nan nodded, and was about to leave, when Sunwoo pushed the door and walked in, "Auntie, my mother asked me to bring you some curry~"

  Xiang Nan looked at him and smiled.

   It is already a tradition of Phoenix Hall to send food to each other. In fact, this phenomenon is quite common in rural and urban family buildings in China.

  Which family makes delicious food, they will invite their neighbors to taste it together. For example, the rural areas of Northeast China still have the habit of slaughtering pigs during the New Year. Every household slaughters pigs every Chinese New Year. Every time a pig is slaughtered, people from the same village are invited to eat pig-killing dishes.

  So in the next half hour, Xiang Nan, Deshan, Shanyu, and Donglong were busy delivering food around.

Xiang Nan's family gave chili fried pork, Deshan's family gave lettuce, Donglong's family gave seaweed, and Shanyu's family gave curry... From the dishes presented, it can be seen that Xiang Nan's family background it's the best.

  Only Cui Ze doesn't need to deliver food from house to house, because Cui Ze's father can't cook, so he can't do it if he wants to. However, the neighbors will still deliver food to his family and take good care of their father and son.

  …

  After the food was delivered, it took another half an hour before I heard the door open.

   "Father is back." Luo Meilan knew as soon as he heard the sound.

  Jin Zhengfeng and Xiang Nan immediately got up and greeted, "Dad, you are back~"

  South Korea has been greatly influenced by China since ancient times, especially in Confucian culture, where the concept of hierarchy between monarch and minister, father and son, superiority and inferiority, and orderly seniority is very strong. When younger generations see their elders, they not only have to bow and salute, but even speak in honorific terms.

  In Xiang Nan's view, the Confucian culture of South Korea is not authentic at all, and has long been alienated.

  Because Chinese Confucian culture also pays attention to respect, rank, etiquette, and filial piety, but what kind of achievements a person achieves and whether he will be respected by others depends on his own ability, not his identity.

  For example, for the position of emperor, there was already a dispute between establishing the elder and establishing the virtuous, and it is not that the eldest son will definitely succeed to the throne. Moreover, Confucianism does not advocate unconditional obedience to the monarch, elders, and predecessors.

In "Mencius", there are "if the king has a serious fault, he will remonstrate, if he repeats it and refuses to listen, he will change his position", "the king treats his ministers like grass, and the ministers treat the king like a bandit"; "Historical Records" also has "the king is not the king, Ministers are not ministers, fathers are not fathers, sons are not sons".

  South Korea requires the younger generation to obey the elders and seniors unconditionally. Even if it is an unreasonable request, it is not allowed to refuse. This is really a misinterpretation of the true meaning of Confucianism.

  However, people have to bow their heads under the low eaves.

  With the current social environment, Xiang Nan can only follow the Romans. Otherwise, a hat of no dignity, no big or small is put on the head, and it is basically dead.

  …

  I saw Jin Chengjun wearing sunglasses and walking into the house with a serious face, like a terminator.

  I don’t know, I thought he was a member of the underworld.

  But then he took off his sunglasses, and started singing and dancing, "Excuse me, excuse me, stretch, stretch. Take a look, is this my home?"

  Although I have seen him play tricks many times when I watched the drama before, but seeing this scene again now, Xiang Nan still felt a sense of shame, it was really embarrassing.

  Actually, President Kim did this to imitate the performance of Zhao Jinshan, a well-known comedian in the 1980s. But the show was a few years ago, so the gags are long gone.

   Besides, comedians do not have a high status in South Korea. In the South Korean entertainment industry, film actors rank first, followed by TV actors, then singers, and lastly comedians.

  So President Kim imitating the outdated jokes of comedians is a very low behavior, no wonder no one is always willing to go along with him. Only Deshan, who is kind, casual, and playful, is willing to cooperate.

  So, after President Jin finished singing and dancing, the family of three ignored him, which made him very bored.

  (end of this chapter)