I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 186



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Episode 186

On my way up to the cafe, I met this officer in a passing patrol car.

I heard that fortunately, no one in the neighboring village was seriously injured.

The house was just a little damaged.

It’s not a small thing, but it’s still nice that no one was hurt.

So I came to the cafe after hearing that somewhat fortunate news.

But how should I really write this… … There really were a lot of eggs.

I brought it because I thought I would use it more at a cafe than at home, but I don’t know where to use it…

─Boss! If you don’t mind, can I ask you a favor? When we go to film the music video, can you please buy us some snacks and drinks to eat with the staff? I’ll buy them!

At that moment, as if she had been waiting, a long text message arrived from Go Na-eun.

Snacks and drinks for the staff… … .

‘huh?’

This looks like it could use up a lot of eggs?

First, I told Go Na-eun that I understood. I told her that the menu hadn’t been decided yet, so she should let me know if there was anything she wanted.

─I like anything that the boss makes!

He left the task to me.

That’s good. As soon as I got the talent of Cheonmu with Moksaeng, I felt like it was useful…

‘If you think about it the other way around, you’ve already acquired good skills before anything happens.’

I decided to think positively.

Didn’t you already give us a special day with the typhoon?

Perhaps when you think of Cheonmu, that day keeps coming to mind?

The night a typhoon was coming, and watching a movie with like-minded friends, etc.

It was the same as making it so that Cheonmu could remember it clearly.

So, let’s move on from yesterday and think positively.

Today, I have to do today’s work again.

First, I decided to choose a menu that would allow me to consume eggs.

What would be good? The first thing that comes to mind is toast.

‘Not bad.’

Toast was definitely a good snack.

It’s easy to eat and has a lot of eggs in it.

Well then, let’s do this first… … .

I took a look at my grandfather’s recipe book once.

Looking at the dessert side.

“uh?”

It looked okay.

Egg tarts. It’s a dessert that’s good to eat as a snack and fills you up with sugar while also filling you up.

I thought this was it, so I immediately told Go Na-eun about it.

─Like! (Heart) (Heart)

The answer came straight away.

But aren’t you busy? You reply really quickly. Well, I’m glad I made a decision quickly.

“Then, should I give it a try?”

The first thing to make was the pie.

The pastry that went into the egg tart was a little different from the ones I made before.

Because the pies are made from pastry, and they had to be made a little more delicately.

‘first of all…….’

I took out the materials.

Butter, sugar, cold water, flour, salt.

I placed it on the workbench, except for the cold water.

One thing to be careful about when making this pie is to make sure that the temperature does not rise above a certain level.

It was also said that butter should not melt in the heat of the hand.

So, if my grandfather had trouble getting the timing right, he would just put it back in the fridge for a while and then take it out.

but.

Swish.

I didn’t have to do that. I just spread my ‘Cheonmu’ towards the materials placed on the workbench.

Then, the aura of Mok-saeng, or Mok-gi (木氣), circulated through his body and a thousand martial arts were unleashed from his hands.

Perhaps it was a talent for target detection, as the path of moving the energy was visible.

If you move your hand along that path… … .

Step by step!

In an instant, the butter was cut into small pieces the size of rice grains.

Up to this point, it was similar to scones.

Pour cold water into it and mix until it becomes lumpy.

Swish!

After kneading it with my hands a few times, a dough was formed.

The dough was cut in half, stacked, pressed, then cut in half again and stacked.

Repeat this one more time and knead the dough appropriately. Next, it should be left to rest for a long time, usually around 12 hours, but the effect of Cheonmu greatly reduces that time.

‘An hour will do.’

I decided to leave the dough in the fridge and make the cream to fill the pie crust in the meantime.

Actually, eggs were needed here.

Custard filling.

The ingredients are egg yolk, whipping cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla bean.

This is a task that requires a lot of delicacy. If you do it wrong, it will just end up as steamed eggs.

Of course, this no longer applies to me.

“Put only the yolk aside.”

Knock! Bang!

He cracked the egg with almost magical dexterity, and at the same time separated the yolk and the white.

What this meant was that when he was breaking an egg, he used a mysterious movement to separate the white and yolk out of thin air and put them in separate containers.

‘There is no other trick.’

I was amazed at how the eggs were separated right away without any separate work to get the yolks.

It seemed like a good idea to combine the talents of Mok-saeng.

─Wow~! How do you do that?

“This? Like this?”

Today, I even showed a demonstration to the curious Sujeong.

Of course, I can’t say that I can show you.

─Me too! I can do it too! Look at this!

Chook!!

Soo-Jung followed suit and created water droplets in the air. Then, she tried to separate the water droplets as if I was doing it.

Of course, that didn’t work out.

─Heehee.

Sujeong, who got hit by a thunderbolt for no reason, started to cry.

I gave the guy a little reassurance and continued working.

I put the remaining ingredients, except for the eggs, in a pot and heated it while melting the sugar. Then I poured the melted sugar little by little into the place where I had put only the egg yolks and mixed it.

Of course, the milk and cream mixed into the egg yolks here should not be hot.

I had to mix it while keeping it at just the right temperature to make a cream. And I did that without much difficulty.

I passed the mixture through a sieve to remove the vanilla bean and any impurities.

That’s it for the cream.

‘This should also be refrigerated for 1 hour.’

I decided to grab a coffee while I waited.

“brownie.”

Kuru~

“Can you step on this?”

honey!

I brought coffee beans.

After putting it in the grinder, I asked Brownie. Then Brownie climbed onto the grinder and… … .

Knock knock!

I ground the coffee beans.

‘I knew it would be like this.’

This was the most surprising thing after I obtained the Thousand-Mu.

But that wasn’t all. He put some well-ground coffee beans in the dripper and called Miho and Sujeong.

“Please.”

─Yeah!

Kiyung!

This time it was a collaboration between the two.

As Sujeong created a blob of water in the air, flames shot out from Miho’s tail, heating up the water.

The lump of water heated to such an appropriate temperature is… … .

Slurp slurp~

I dripped coffee in a small circle on the coffee beans in the dripper.

Should I call this hand drip or spirit drip?

Whatever it was, a strange coffee was brewed.

It was a simple matter to make this possible.

Because if you share the wood with the spirits, you can share the heavenly martial arts.

In the end, what the spirits did was a part of the Heavenly Martial Arts. It was possible because the talent of Mok-saeng and the energy of Mok that contained the Heavenly Martial Arts could be given to the spirits.

─How was it?

“good job.”

─Hehehe! Should I do it again?

“No. This is enough. Do it again later.”

─Yeah!

I wouldn’t make the kids do it if they didn’t like it, but surprisingly they liked it.

It seemed like Soo-Jung, Brownie, and Miho wanted to do more too.

I don’t know why.

I wonder if it feels like a game to them, or if there is another reason. Anyway, this coffee is… … .

[Spirit’s Coffee]

*effect

─Reverse emission generation

─Charm

─Vitality

In this way, we were able to obtain the effects of the talents possessed by the spirits.

Of course, there were effects that I could also inject.

The only difference was that the effects the spirits put in weren’t as weakened as the ones I put into my coffee.

Coffee made from Ssuksuk beans can have various effects, but it has the disadvantage of weakening the effects.

To make up for it, I had to consume the original aura and use the talent of the flower to strengthen it… … .

Now you can infuse the spirits with their effects without having to do that.

‘There are only a few types.’

It’s limited by the talents that the spirits possess, but where is this?

Moreover, when your hands are busy, you can ask the spirits for favors.

“Good.”

The coffee given by the spirits was, of course, delicious.

It was similar to what I made.

‘Sujeong’s feeling is strong.’

I can’t explain it, but the difference was that the spirits’ feelings permeated the aroma and taste of the coffee.

That too was a bit different each time.

Sometimes it felt more like Miho, and sometimes it felt more like Brownie.

Since I can’t control this completely yet, for the time being I’ll be the only one drinking the coffee they make.

“It’s fortunate that there was no damage from the typhoon.”

I looked outside while drinking coffee.

It was still cloudy and not completely free from the typhoon’s influence.

Still, I definitely felt like the colors had become more vivid.

Feels greener and more vibrant.

I leisurely drank coffee while appreciating a different scenery from last night’s night sky.

It always felt good to see the open sky above the vacant lot.

‘It seems like the sky has gotten higher.’

I don’t know if it was because of my mood, but it felt like the air in the sky was getting more and more autumnal.

Summer has just ended and I can already feel its energy.

“Time really flies.”

─An hour has passed!

“Huh? Ah.”

While I was enjoying it, Soo-Jung flew in and made a fuss.

It was because I said earlier that I had to wait an hour when putting the pie dough in the refrigerator.

When did another hour pass… … .

I just took the dough out of the fridge.

Since you shouldn’t knead the dough with your hands for too long, you should immediately roll it out to a consistent thickness.

And cut it to fit the tart mold.

Put the cut pie in the mold and press down thoroughly. Fill the inside with the custard filling you made earlier, and now all that’s left is to bake it.

I always think that the hard part is before it goes into the oven, but once you make it like this, it seems to be finished really quickly.

Because it’s done just by putting it in the oven and taking it out.

─Wow! Are you giving me corrections too?

The golden, well-baked egg tart is complete.

It’s still hot, but I gave one to Soo-Jung. And one to Mi-Ho.

I’m not really interested in eating brownies, so I’ll pass.

The rest was packed.

I made quite a few.

Of course, I didn’t make it like this and plan to give it to the filming crew when they came.

‘They said there were no casualties, but there was some damage to the fields and rice paddies.’

I heard that there was some damage to the field of the village chief who said he was preparing for it.

So they said that support for civilians would come from a nearby military base.

Since the soldiers who came out like that wouldn’t be able to come all the way here, I thought I’d package it up and give it to them so they could eat it on site.

As I felt this morning while picking peppers, nothing in the countryside is easy.

So I wanted to do this much.

It’s not my job, but I still help out with things around me.

‘It’s something I couldn’t even imagine in a city.’

If I had lived in the city, I probably wouldn’t have gone out to help if something happened right next door.

Since coming down to Cheonho-ri, not only have there been external changes, but many other things have also changed.

“Brother! We’re here!”

“Oh. Okay. You came just in time. Please hold this.”

“yep.”

Kang Do-yoon, Lee Seon-ah, and Han Song-i entered the cafe.

He was the member who took the packaged egg tarts and coffee with him.

But there was also an unexpected member.

“hello!”

Go Na-eun came in smiling brightly.

What? Wasn’t it supposed to come in a few days?