When I Returned to Farming, National-level Big Juniors Flock - Chapter 7



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7. What is the relationship between you two?

Gulp.

Tears flow down Han Su-yeon’s cheeks.

A flustered Oh Hyun-seong asked if she was okay, but she just nodded silently.

Then he started eating the potatoes placed in front of him one by one.

If you’ve been living off of only the colorful, colorless food from restaurants, this baked potato melting in your mouth right now is rustic but makes you feel alive.

Most of the foods currently available in the city have the virtue of covering up their flavors with spicy seasonings.

At the very least, if you carefully select ingredients that are less screwed up and cover up their shortcomings with strong sauces and seasonings, that is the best dish.

If you try to preserve the original flavor of ingredients like you did in the past, you’ll be called crazy.

But the potatoes she was eating now were completely closer to the latter, and had no sauce other than a sprinkle of salt on them.

That’s why it came as an even fresher shock.

“Hey… Han Soo-yeon?”

Now, Han Soo-yeon is walking with both arms outstretched and pushing in baked potatoes.

Every bite was filled with rich flavor, and every time she did, Han Soo-yeon’s expression would fluctuate greatly.

My poker face has long since been broken.

And a few minutes later, the two faced each other in front of an empty bowl.

“… Have you eaten everything?”

“senior.”

“huh?”

“I’ll just sleep here for one day and then go.”

***

‘What is happening all of a sudden?’

Oh Hyun-seong, standing in the kitchen, looked at the empty frying pan.

The sight of all the baked potatoes disappearing.

It’s nice that you ate well, but I didn’t expect this level of reaction.

That Han Soo-yeon is so focused on eating that she can’t even understand what I’m saying.

Tub.

Oh Hyun-seong ate the last piece of potato left on the pan.

And then he agreed.

“It’s so delicious…”

Oh Hyun-seong, who had been standing in the kitchen for a while, felt the aftertaste of the potatoes lingering in his mouth and came out.

Han Su-yeon was sitting on the platform in the yard, looking outside.

As I approached and stood nearby, lights began to leak out from the village below, and stars began to shine intermittently in the now dark sky.

“It’s already night. When are you planning on going back?”

“It’s okay. I already told my workplace.”

“No, I’m not joking. Are you really planning on sleeping here?”

“…Wouldn’t that work?”

Han Soo-yeon looks at him intently and asks.

Oh Hyun-seong touched his forehead at that sight.

What a coward he was to suddenly give me a choice.

But that doesn’t mean you can kick out a guy who can’t even drive well in the middle of the night and tell him to get out.

“Is that all of a sudden okay? I heard you’re super busy with work these days?”

“I have a packed schedule tomorrow, but it’s not something I can’t put off. So I’ll just stay for one day and then go.”

“I’m telling you in advance, there are no beds?”

“Is there a place to lie down?”

“Look at the state of this house. The problem is that there is too much space.”

“As expected, a big house is better. Thank you.”

Han Su-yeon said with a smile.

Oh Hyun-seong sat down next to him with a strange feeling, thinking that he had the most excited expression on his face since he got here.

But what followed was silence.

An awkward atmosphere flowed as we both stared blankly at the scenery.

‘Have you seen me for so long? I can’t think of anything to say.’

At first, I was just happy to see my junior after such a long time.

But when I think about spending a day alone with just the two of us, it feels vague.

Even though a lot of time had passed, I suddenly saw you crying with tears streaming down your face.

‘By the way, why were you crying just now?’

Did the potatoes just taste so good that you cried tears of joy?

No, that’s nonsense.

No matter how much your personality changes, it won’t be like that.

Han Soo-yeon was even more insensitive to taste and had less of an appetite than her past self.

‘Hmm, I should have brought some board games with me from Seoul.’

In the silence that followed.

Suddenly, a thought crosses my mind, wondering if it is okay for me to be like this, even though I am a guest.

But there really wasn’t anything to do in this country house.

At that moment, Oh Hyeon-seong, who had a brilliant idea, took out a Hwatu card from a drawer in the living room.

It was the only entertainment left in the house.

“Are you bored? Want to play Hwatu?”

“Senior, you don’t even know how to draw that.”

“…Let’s go to sleep.”

“Ahaha! You always make me laugh out of the blue. And it’s still too early for me to sleep.”

Han Su-yeon suddenly got up from her seat.

Then he took a bottle of alcohol out of the trunk of his car.

It was a liquor that looked extremely expensive, as if it had been given as a gift from somewhere.

“How about having a drink with your junior after a long time?”

“I’m fine.”

As I nodded, Han Soo-yeon poured me a glass.

They toasted their glasses lightly and shared a drink with each other.

It was obvious that the alcohol content was extremely high, but no one would think they were awakened, so they both had inhuman drinking capacities, so there was no need to worry.

“I should have brought a housewarming gift, but since I came unexpectedly, this is all I have.”

“I’m curious. How did you suddenly come to a mountain village like this?”

“I just… suddenly thought of you, senior.”

Han Su-yeon took another sip of her drink and sighed deeply.

And then he said with a slightly reddened loaf of bread.

“I enjoyed hanging out with my senior.”

“You must have had a lot of work to do back then. Is the President making your life miserable?”

“No, you do it so well that it’s burdensome. Sometimes I wonder if you’re being clingy.”

When she was a member of the special forces in the past, Han Su-yeon had once rescued civilians who had been kidnapped by enemy Awakeners during a mission.

Those who were in danger of being scrapped as negotiations behind the scenes broke down were literally miraculously saved.

Of course, at that time, I had no idea that the rookie politician I had rescued would become the leader of the ruling party and even the president.

“But why am I sighing?”

“When I first joined the team, my senior seemed like a really cold-hearted person. He didn’t hesitate to give up two to save the team.”

“I’ve fought with you because of that.”

“That’s right. At the time, I really didn’t want to work with a team leader like that. Later on, I realized that it was the best result I could get.”

Han Su-yeon took another sip of her drink.

The speed seemed quite fast, but Oh Hyeon-seong kept up with it.

“That doesn’t mean it was a good thing.”

“Either way, I’m not qualified to judge. Just as we’ve become more and more accustomed to the deaths of our comrades, I feel myself becoming more numb as I do this work. And… now, human lives seem like numbers. Numbers that are put on reports… and will be replaced tomorrow.”

Han Su-yeon lowered her head with a bitter smile.

Her tired, dangerous eyes stared at him intently.

“How on earth… did you survive that hellish time, senior?”

Night falls early in the countryside.

But the conversation that day was unusually long.

***

“Wow, how many bottles did you drink yesterday?”

The next morning.

Oh Hyun-seong got up, wiping his cheek.

They ended up having an unexpected drinking party because they had so much liquor in their car trunk.

Maybe that’s why, even though it was later than usual, Han Su-yeon didn’t show any signs of waking up.

When I open the door slightly, I see Han Su-yeon sleeping deeply as if she were dead.

He said that he had been having trouble sleeping due to his busy schedule recently, so he decided to let him get some good sleep this time.

Feeling like it was the first time in a long time that I had a hangover, I drank some water and went for a walk.

As I came out of the gate, I saw vast expanses of land.

These are all fields and private lands that were passed down along with the house.

Oh Hyeon-seong, who was walking around without much thought, looking at the surrounding scenery, saw an empty field that had been dug up here and there by moles.

“Well, I guess we need to start taking care of this too.”

A field that had been abandoned for a long time.

As it was not properly managed, it was obviously difficult for it to fulfill its original role as a field.

Unlike the small garden attached to the yard, this land was so different in scale that Oh Hyeon-seong had never thought of touching it.

‘Now that I think about it, should I just take care of it?’

Oh Hyun-seong stopped walking and looked around carefully.

Anyway, what’s left is time.

Besides, he was just thinking about expanding the size of his garden.

‘You can’t live on potatoes forever.’

The reason he only ate potatoes was not because he was too lazy to cook.

Because adding anything other than basic seasonings like salt or sugar was a serious disadvantage.

Even the simplest dish uses basic vegetables like onions and garlic.

Whether it’s natural or factory-made, if those things are mixed in, there’s no answer.

But even if the power of the spirits makes things grow in one day, it is impossible to grow many crops in a small garden in the yard.

That is, I felt the need to expand the garden.

Oh Hyeon-seong went back into the house and brought a hoe.

‘It’s a long way off, but… let’s try to increase it slowly.’

grasp!

Remove any overgrown weeds and remove any stones that could hinder the growth of your crops.

I looked it up on the internet and found that it was necessary to spread compost and neutralize the soil beforehand, but I decided that it wasn’t necessary and skipped over it.

Because it has already been proven by the two previous non-farming attempts.

After the groundwork was completed, ridges were created for growing crops and furrows for drainage.

Although it was a bit sloppy, as expected of a farming beginner, this was enough.

As the repetitive tasks became more familiar, Oh Hyeon-seong began to think about the crops he would grow next.

An hour or two passed like that.

While reorganizing the field, I felt my clumsy hands becoming more skilled.

A voice was heard from far away.

“Brother, what are you doing there?”

When I turned my head because someone was watching me, I saw Seungsoo Yoo and Eunha Yoo.

A picture of siblings carrying something in their hands.

“Me? Farming.”

“…Farming? What farming all of a sudden?”

“By the way, why are you here?”

“I feel lonely eating alone, so I came here to eat with you.”

Eunha Yoo lifted the bundle and said.

When I looked inside, it turned out to be a lunch box.

The siblings who approached asked Oh Hyeon-seong about the sudden farming incident, and learned the general story, excluding the story about the spirit.

“Aha, so you’re saying you want to try farming properly?”

“That’s great. We will help you as your farming seniors.”

“No, it’s okay. The food I brought is getting cold. Let’s eat lunch quickly.”

I even brought lunch with me, so I can’t eat it for free.

Oh Hyeon-seong put down the hoe and returned home with his siblings.

Yoo Seung-su followed him into the yard and looked back briefly as he spoke.

“There’s a car I’ve never seen before? Isn’t that really expensive?”

“Oh, that’s not my car.”

“Huh? Then who is it?”

Yoo Seung-soo asked, bewildered.

But before he could finish speaking.

“Ah, senior. You’re back.”

When I turned my gaze to the hoarse voice, there was Han Su-yeon standing on the veranda, who had just woken up.

She came out, drying her hair with a towel as if she had just washed up, and was wearing a loose-fitting men’s t-shirt that she had borrowed the night before.

The siblings froze in place, their mouths wide open.

And exactly 3 seconds later they both shouted at the same time.

“Ha… ha… it’s Han Soo-yeon!”

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