I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 290



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Quitting the company and opening a cafe Episode 290

The spirit hid again in the wood-burning stove, seemingly shy.

I thought it would be better not to pretend to know, so I just pretended not to know.

And for a while, I just sat there blankly in front of the wood-burning stove.

There was no particular reason. I just wanted to stay that way.

It wasn’t just the guests who needed this time, I needed it too. Time to just sit there and not think about anything.

Of course, it didn’t last that long.

Ding, ding, ding

“mister!”

Because Suah came.

He said he would come today without stopping by the practice room in the middle.

Because there were things to make here.

“Did you buy the ingredients?”

“Yes! Here!”

The materials that Sua bought were nothing more than things to make placards.

“What about you, sir?”

“I have it too.”

And I took out what I had brought.

It was a white t-shirt. There are t-shirts with the same plain design in different sizes.

It was a group t-shirt.

I wondered if it was really necessary to do this, but I decided to do it in the end thanks to Su-ah’s active appeal.

It’s not that hard to make and wear, and it can add to the fun of cheering as a group.

“The strongest white tiger wins? Is this how you write it?”

“Yes! Why?”

“No, what.”

For a moment, I thought to myself that maybe I had just thought of doing the cheering comment that Su-ah had come up with.

Yeah, since you’re going to do it anyway, why not try something childish?

And if you do it this way, it will actually look better to the eyes.

“Palace script?”

“of course.”

Su-ah nodded with a solemn expression.

I don’t know what the obvious thing is, but I decided to go with Gungseo font.

It wasn’t hard to imitate. You just had to use the talent of Cheonmu-Gyeol along with the talent of Cheonbyeonmanhwa.

The two talents fit together really well.

‘It was a mistake to think that wood and metal would not match because they are incompatible.’

After all, they were energies that came from the same root called the earth.

If we use each other well, we can get a good enough combination.

Don’t they say the difference between poison and medicine is as thin as a fine line?

Of course, I don’t know if this is the right analogy.

“But I don’t know about water and fire.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“Huh? Oh. No. I’m just talking to myself.”

Suah was next to me.

I found myself muttering to myself without realizing it.

This was something of a habit that developed after the spirits and crystals arrived.

If you talk to yourself like this, the crystals and spirits will react.

So sometimes, I did this without realizing it, even when there were people around.

‘You have to be careful.’

If you talk to yourself too much, you might look strange.

Su-ah didn’t seem to have any particular thoughts.

“Don’t you know the difference between water and fire?”

“What else is there?”

Are you saying that fire is bad and water is good?

“Water is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, and fire is a phenomenon in which heat is released and light is emitted as a result of a combustion reaction. So water is a substance, and fire is a phenomenon!”

“……oh.”

It was a somewhat novel answer.

I never thought you’d talk about justice.

“Did you learn anything today?”

“Hehehe! Yes! Oh, and it is said that if you love each other desperately, you can overcome water and fire!”

“… … What is that?”

“They showed it in the movies?”

I don’t know what movie I saw. What kind of place is school?

Is it a place that teaches love, or a place that teaches justice, or both?

I don’t know, but I don’t think it’ll be of much help right away. Still, I should remember it just in case.

Because I don’t know what will happen next.

“I guess you watched an interesting movie.”

“Yes! It was an animated film and it was really touching.”

“I see.”

“Let’s watch a movie together again next time!”

“At a cafe?”

“yes!”

We watched a movie together last time when the typhoon was coming. It was definitely a fun memory.

“Maybe so? I guess I can light a wood stove in the winter and see.”

“Oh! Perfect! I ate sweet potatoes and chestnuts, and corn instead of popcorn!”

“… … Are you eating or watching a movie?”

“Hehehe! Both of them!”

I also laughed along with Sua who was smiling bashfully.

That was right. I could eat it and look at it.

That’s the fun of it.

“Okay. Is this okay?”

“Wow! Totally! Awesome!”

Even while talking to Su-ah, his hands moved busily.

I wrote encouraging messages on T-shirts and drew pictures on placards.

In the end, Su-ah just talked from the side and I did everything, but it didn’t matter because the process itself was fun.

“Okay. Try it on.”

“yes!”

I put on a t-shirt over the clothes that Su-ah was wearing. It wasn’t difficult since I had already made it a loose fit for this purpose.

“Are you okay?”

“That’s right.”

“Hehehe! You should try it on too, sir.”

“Me? I can wear it later.”

“Hurry up!”

I tried it on thanks to Suah’s nagging.

The size was fine.

“But I have to wear these in order and sit down, right?”

“I see?”

Because of the message written on the T-shirt, it seemed like we had no choice but to sit in that order.

Well, it wasn’t a big deal.

Okay, that’s fine for the T-shirt.

Ding, ding, ding

“I’m here~”

Now it was time to make a placard, and a flower just happened to arrive.

“Are you here?”

“Sister~!”

Su-ah ran to Han-song and hugged her, chattering nonstop.

The tension is different now than when I was there.

“Sister, try it on quickly.”

“Huh? Is this mine?”

“yes!”

Hansong put on a T-shirt as soon as she arrived. And when the three of us stood up, the strongest Baekho victory was complete.

“But then, isn’t this just cheering for Baekho instead of Suho?”

“Don’t you know that ‘no player is greater than the team’?”

“What does that have to do with the present? Are you just saying that because you don’t know?”

“Heh.”

Anyway, you speak well.

Well, since it was already made, I had no choice but to just wear it as is.

Because there’s a placard anyway.

“Oh, right. I just made a new sweet potato latte. Want to try it?”

“Oh really? Of course I like it.”

As soon as she arrived, I decided to make her a drink to give her a break from wearing a T-shirt and making a placard.

“Huh!? Why aren’t you giving it to me!”

“I’ll give it to you. Give it to me.”

“Hehehe!”

Come to think of it, I decided to help Soo-ah, who was busy talking, to rest her mouth a bit.

I brought out two glasses made in the same way I had made them earlier.

Since I prepared the sweet potatoes in advance, this seemed easy to make.

I’ll have to make a lot of them later when I harvest them properly and store them.

“Okay. Here. Let’s have a drink first.”

“yes~”

“It’s hot, so drink slowly.”

“Ahhh!”

I knew it.

I shook my head at the sight of Su-ah jumping up and down, saying it was hot as soon as she put it in her mouth.

You’ll know how hot it is once you try it.

Suah glared at me once, then blew on it and slowly tasted it.

“Mmm! Mmm! It’s delicious! It’s delicious, sir!”

“okay?”

“Yes! Perfect! Can I give this to you too?”

“I’ll make you one.”

It seemed like a perfect drink for Suho to drink when he goes out in the morning.

It is rich in nutrients and, above all, it makes you feel full after drinking one.

He held the cup with both hands and drank it, blowing on it as if every single flower was delicious.

It seemed as if they both didn’t even realize that there was white whipped cream on the corners of their mouths.

“But the sweet potatoes are already ripe?”

“Huh? Oh, oh. Not yet. I made that with what I got. You can only eat what you grow in the garden in the winter.”

I was surprised by Hansong’s words, but I made excuses naturally.

Unfortunately, these two were the ones who plowed the land of the sweet potato field, so they couldn’t tell the truth about the existence of sweet potatoes.

Fortunately, it seemed like no one was particularly suspicious.

“Really? I want to try eating sweet potatoes from the garden in the winter. They’re really delicious. They smell like roasted sweet potatoes and are sweet and savory.”

“That’s right! It tastes like eating sweet potatoes with milk!”

Well, that’s because I mixed sweet potatoes with milk.

I chuckled at Su-ah’s precise expression.

Ding, ding, ding

“What did you eat without me?”

“Huh? Didn’t you say you were busy today?”

“Okay. Content.”

“ah.”

There’s no way that content ghost would miss out on making T-shirts, placards, and even drinks.

I even brought my camera with me.

So, a T-shirt expedition team with Lee Sun-ah joining… … no, a cheering tool workshop was formed.

I don’t know why they do that in our cafe.

‘Time spent alone in a daze is healing, but talking like this is also healing.’

Healing isn’t just one thing.

Just as a leisurely rural life can be healing for some, enjoying cultural life in the city can be healing for others.

It was important to find something that suited each person’s personality, and I think I found some of that by coming here.

One of them was at the same time as now.

“Sir! Please draw this for me!”

“Oh, that’s a bit.”

“Why! You like flamingos, don’t you, sir?”

“No.”

Um… isn’t it?

* * *

The autumn time seemed to pass unusually quickly.

It’s already Chuseok.

After Chuseok comes the CSAT. And then the end of the year.

‘A year has passed by in a flash.’

Is it because Chuseok falls at the end of fall this year?

But strangely enough, there were a lot of things that came to mind this year. When I start a long-term project, a year often passes by in an instant, and at those times, I don’t have many memories, but this time it was different.

Spring, summer, and now fall.

There were many things that came to mind.

But I had a feeling that there would be more things like that in the future.

Because today is the day to go cheer on Suho.

The game starts in the afternoon, so there is still time.

Suah decided to come after taking her morning class, and Seonah Lee and Songi Han decided to come after sleeping a bit since they worked all night…

In the meantime, I decided to have a snack.

First of all, the menu consists of pizza and hot dogs.

And for drinks, I was planning to prepare hand-drip coffee, matcha latte, and green tea lemonade.

Since I had already asked about it the day before, I didn’t have to worry about this.

“I’ve tried everything else… … Should I try matcha first?”

The matcha dried very well under the autumn sun on the roof. I ground it and took out the matcha powder.

First, I decided to check the taste of matcha.

To do this, the finely ground matcha powder had to first be steeped in warm water.

“This is what I made it for.”

There were tools needed to make a fire.

Of course, there was no need to use all of those tools.

In fact, the process of making fire does not necessarily have to be done by hand. These days, machines are very well developed.

But I thought it would be good to try it once and see if it tastes different, so I prepared it briefly.

First, I prepared the tea leaves to mix in the matcha powder.

It was a kind of bubbler made of bamboo.

Just pour warm water into a bowl, add matcha powder in an appropriate proportion, and mix as described above.

Crunch crunch!

Tea ceremony may seem like nothing special, but it has something to do with giving peace of mind.

Of course, what we were doing now was closer to a simple tea ceremony, but it still seemed like there was a reason for doing it this way.

‘Is this enough?’

I first tasted the well-mixed matcha as is.

Hururup!

“oh?”

─Is it delicious?

“Want to try it?”

─Yeah!

I gave Soo-Jung a bite because she was curious.

“Is it delicious?”

─Yeah, yeah! It’s really delicious!

Sujeong also gave a thumbs up.

Is it because the matcha is made by growing and picking the tea leaves themselves? The taste was different.

It was different from green tea and other commercially available matcha powder.

First of all, it was refreshing. It felt like taking a sip of the forest.

‘If I make a drink with this, it’s bound to be really delicious, right?’

It was even more effective than green tea.

Is this because of the fire?

[Matcha]

*situation

─Jiseon-geup

*effect

─Relieve tension

─Improved concentration

─Keep your composure

─Eradicate the evil spirits

I decided to quickly make it into a drink.

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