Chapter 50 – [What Is Life, Just Live It the Way You Live It]

It wasn’t enough to have a barbecue grill, so I put a fire on a gas burner and started grilling more.

Campus couples come up to prepare dinner as if they were hungry after smelling the meat.

“Ah! That’s why I said to buy Hetbahn! Who cooks first?”

“It’s good to eat here!”

But unlike us, I want to bring raw rice to cook first. The travel beginner’s tee is revealed. When you go on a trip, you have to think about the troublesome things and prepare, but there is no convenience store nearby, and if you are going to cook and eat from scratch, shouldn’t you be a natural person rather than camping?

But these days, there was no way people could cook a single meal properly. Aaaaa! Don’t put it on the fire right away, wash the rice first Oh!

Unable to wait, I stepped in and took the pressure cooker away.

“You don’t even know how to cook, I’ll help you a little”

“Ah, thank you. I’m sorry about this…”

“Then go over there and eat meat together and help me grill some. It’s a bit difficult because I’m the only person grilling.”

All I do is eat, so I’m busy. Shion occasionally wraps wraps and feeds them, but I still can’t eat them properly.

While the campus couples were grilling the meat, I opened the lid of the pressure cooker again and looked inside.

The water is very flooded. Flooded. Even if washing is the second thing, do you boil porridge? Why do you pour so much water?

I washed the rice with a bottle of mineral water I brought. When cooking rice, the important thing is to wash the rice first. You have to wash it quickly and thoroughly so that it doesn’t get caught and tastes good.

It’s good to wash with water from the valley, but it’s a little uncomfortable when you think about environmental problems these days. So wash it with bottled water.

After washing, pour moderate amount of water. To the extent that when you put your palm on the rice, it even comes to the palm of your hand. That much is just right.

When it’s ready, cover it and put it on the fire. If the era was in the past, we would have had to cook rice with a cauldron rather than a pressure cooker like this, but then it is more difficult. Long live technological progress.

As the number of people eating and baking increased, my job became much easier. The pressure cooker will take care of itself if you set the right amount of time and complaints, so let’s leave it alone for a while.

“Wow, President Choi’s icebox only has meat in it. How much did you use?”

“Well, I didn’t look at the receipt.”

“It’s great, that’s why money is good. I don’t worry about the budget.”

“We have meat too.”

“Pork belly bought at the market? Hey, quality and quantity are different, right?”

I deliberately bought meat while walking around, and I bought it with the intention of eating a lot, not thinking about money, so considering the students’ wallets, I can’t compare it.

When playing, the more people there are, the better. Or eat alone with Shion. It is better to be noisy when traveling. That’s why I accepted that campus couple too.

Time passed while we ate. I thought the rice would be ready, so I turned off the heat and steamed it until the steam was gone.

And when the steam was gone, I opened the lid.

Delicious freshly cooked rice with steam coming up is ready.

“Keueueu! Look at how shiny this is! Is this the rice we brought?”

“If it’s not a lot of old rice, it’s usually good if you cook it well. If you don’t have the know-how, it will be three-layer rice, porridge, or burnt rice.”

“We are really lucky to have met President Choi.

“Hey, it’s all thanks to me, right?”

“I don’t know if it’s good luck or bad luck.”

I said, scooping rice into a disposable plastic bowl with a spoon.

“Who wants to eat freshly cooked rice?”

Everyone raised their hands without exception.

The rice was distributed again in disposable bowls, and I sat down and scooped up a spoonful of rice.

The combination of hot rice and meat was fantastic. Rather better than beef. If you think about it, beef would be good as a snack, but if you want to eat it with rice, pork belly is better.

First of all, I put pork belly with ghee on top of the steamed rice that I just made, and kimchi.

The beer goes down the drain. The adults took out beer from the ice box and had a drink at a time.

“Ah! Me too!”

“No minors!”

“Even if you drink, you won’t get drunk! Just one can! Only one can!”

“Just give him one can too. It’s a guy who comes out with a ID card the day after tomorrow anyway.”

“Okay! I like the boss brother because he’s flexible!”

He also handed a can of beer to Ruri. The beer was kept cool in an ice box.

The atmosphere becomes lighter when alcohol is added. As we talked about this and that, the moon was floating in the sky before we knew it.

It was near the water’s edge, so the weather wasn’t too hot, and thanks to my ability, the jab bugs couldn’t come nearby, so I was able to rest comfortably.

The children went into the tent first as if they were tired.

My stomach will be full, and my body will be tired. With the sleeping bag and blanket covered and inside, falling asleep is an instant.

The rest is adult time. Oh, it’s not a strange sound, but it’s a story that the adults have played now that the kids have played.

Grill a little more meat, take out a little more alcohol, roll it with wheat and eat it with pork belly and sirloin, so it goes smoothly.

“It’s no joke because we’re doing a lot of work. It must be hard to clean up…”

“Well, wouldn’t it take a while if you have a lot of hands?”

“I have a few hands, but there’s nowhere to throw away the garbage here anyway, so I just sort it out and put it in a plastic bag.”

The air is good, the snacks are good, and the alcohol is good. I was in a good mood because I was moderately drunk, so I spent time laughing out loud even at the not-so-funny stories.

The moon is high It seems that a lot of time has passed.

Everything is good in moderation, so I organized it. I sorted out the grill and tools, gathered the garbage together, collected it separately, and put it in a garbage bag.

If you come to a place like this and throw away the trash, you can’t use it. The environmental problem is already serious, but I’m the only one, and the accumulation of doing is polluting the world.

“Go in first and go to sleep. I’m going to sleep after drinking a little more.”

“Oh, good night then”

I spent a quiet time drinking together with Shion.

……As Baekli said during the day, I have no intention of going outside. Even if I do, I’ll do it in a place where I can’t hear it, away from here. There is minimal morality.

“It feels so good to come out like this.”

“Did you do well to come out?”

“Especially the kids were cute”

“…The kids?”

Seonghye, Sujeongi, and Aram. Girls of that age are cute.

I know this because I have raised children. Shion also has experience raising her own children, even if they are not her own.

However, we do not have any children between us. Although we lived together for hundreds or thousands of years, we had no children between us.

There are various problems with it.

Ah, it doesn’t matter that there are different races. The current country can do it.

“Do you want to have children?”

“I would like to have”

If you want to have it, you can do it today.

But… It’s me who refuses.

For good reason. There have been many children so far, but the weight is different if it is a child with Shion.

Even if I atone for many times the life I have lived so far, I have sinned with my hat. There was no way I could die gracefully, there were people who I had a grudge against, and what I was going to do in the future was also a problem.

If I had a child, I wouldn’t be confident enough to be there when the child needed a father. He is not confident that he will be a father he will not be ashamed of.

The only person I need to protect is Zion. If Zion could live instead of all the people around me dying right now, I would choose Zion without hesitation.

But when you have a child, the things you need to protect increase. I don’t have the confidence to protect that child.

“Are you scared?”

“…That’s right”

“What if things are done?”

What if my work is done?

It might be possible if my main job, that is to say, the main job, which I would be quite resentful of, comes to an end. If salvation comes down to me.

…..Salvation. I don’t know if he’ll do it if I just say it well.

“Let’s think about children later. And how painful it is to be pregnant, but tell me easily without experiencing it? Especially, do you have a bigger problem?”

“I’ll have to try it sometime anyway.”

First of all, my problem is a problem, but Zion is also a problem. There is no problem with getting pregnant, but then childbirth is a problem.

No matter how you look at it, it’s hard to have a normal childbirth with the body of an elementary school student. It seems to me that a caesarean section is barely possible.

“No”

“What?”

“I’m going to give birth naturally”

“Hey, I can’t, I die of shock before I argue.”

Even though childbirth is difficult these days, not many mothers die, but in the past, giving birth was risking one’s life to give birth.

Half of the reason was because of the problem of bacterial infection due to cleanliness, but also because of the custom of early marriage. I haven’t fully grown yet, so how much of a burden can I put on my body?

The same goes for Zion. When you’re pregnant, you can’t transform your body at will. But you can’t stay transformed for 10 months. Most of her powers and abilities are also sealed because she wants to know what will happen to her child.

The real difficulty goes beyond hard to inferno difficulty. To have a natural childbirth there? It would be better if I cut the absolute head.

“There is still plenty of time. So, let’s think a little slower.”

“Okay”

The night passes quietly.

I hugged Shion, drank beer, and pondered.

*        *    *

In the morning, I woke up feeling good. The station field that I spread out… Should I just use a mosquito net? The mosquito net was continuously activated even when I was sleeping, exterminating all approaching mosquitoes.

……Really, there are a lot of mosquitoes in the mountains. Thousands of mosquitoes came here only during sleep and died.

“Since we’re going to play in the water and eat ramen for lunch, wouldn’t it be better to eat breakfast?”

“It’s good to have a good breakfast”

I came up with a menu that I had thought of beforehand and prepared to cook. The first thing I need is…Bacon.

“Bacon! Salty and delicious bacon!”

“Is it meat for breakfast?”

“No?”

“I’m joe!”

Also, it is imported, not domestic. In Korea, because of pork belly, there is no part to make with bacon, so the bacon only comes out with oil, which is not very good. On the other hand, making bacon and fried eggs in the morning in overseas is commonplace, so you can make crispy bacon that looks like it is fried somewhere.

But it’s not the bacon that’s important. It’s the fat from that bacon.

First, remove the bacon from the vinyl, cut it into appropriate sizes, and fry it in a heated frying pan. Profit! And the unique nutty smell of salty bacon comes up. The smell naturally stimulated my appetite, and a rustling sound came from a corner of the tent where I was still sleeping.

“Cut the garlic here”

“Garlic!”

I hope there are no fools who call onions garlic. Garlic is garlic. Onions are onions.

When I eat meat, I take out the garlic I brought to wrap the wraps, cut it into appropriate slices, and throw it on the frying pan. And sauté garlic in bacon grease. Then, a great flavor base is completed.

Here, cut the leftover vegetables in moderation and toss them. Mostly potatoes or carrots. After stir-frying it once, I threw the leftover cold rice in the same way.

Stir-fry and sprinkle soy sauce evenly. And fry again.

When you want it to be properly fried, turn off the heat and transfer it to a plate.

“Bacon garlic fried rice is complete!”

“I wonder if fried rice will be included in the morning, but if the smell hits you, all those thoughts will fly away.”

“If you add kimchi here, you’ll be able to finish three bowls right away, right? It’s good to eat breakfast in moderation, but the kids will overeat.”

People who woke up were drawn to the good smell and came out of the tent. When I saw the already prepared breakfast menu, I exclaimed in exclamation.

“Wow! Fried rice from morning! It must be delicious!”

“Eat in moderation, you’ll eat anyway, drink water and play.”

“It’s a bit chilly since it’s morning, but it’s not like you can’t go in! You have to eat and digest some food before you go in!!!”

The children also got up and sat down at the table to eat. Bacon garlic fried rice is even more delicious because the fat of the bacon acts like lard. In the first place, since lard is pork fat, the ingredients are almost the same, except for the spices.

Waguwagu, when I saw the kids eating, that kind of sound effect suited me. Chewing chews, but chews quickly so it doesn’t take a few seconds to pass a spoonful.

“It’s better to eat with kimchi.”

“Ah, that’s right. Thank you!”

“Eat slowly, then pretend”

“You eat slowly, and your food is taken away from you, right?”

“…It wasn’t once or twice that you hurt me like that. Give me back the pork cutlet I’ve been saving for myself! Throw it up!”

“Ebebebe, if you can take it, cut it open and take it!”

Back in the morning, Baek-ri and Ruri fought. Brothers and sisters, so it’s rather nice to see them.

Campus couples also got up and came out of the tent. It seems that men and women share the cup. Hmm, the youngsters must be full of blood, but it worked well for them to share like that. Just hold my hand and sleep! It wouldn’t be strange if the same thing happened.

“Oh, good morning. Have breakfast with you too.”

“Ah, President Choi, thank you so much for taking care of me until morning!”

I heard that the campus couples are going back today. After playing until noon today, they said they would return late in the afternoon. Still, it says that we can play together until today, so we just have to play to our heart’s content and make good memories.

While eating breakfast, Son Seung-jin, one of the campus couples who was mistreated for jumping on the wrong leg, asked something.

“Come to think of it, there was a small mountain road up here. Is there a separate climbing course?”

“Climbing course? I don’t know much about it, but since it’s a campsite, I wonder if there’s a place with a separate road?”

“Like a hike or a trail?”

This is the place where Zion originally intended to be registered as a camping site and turned it into our vacation resort. It is not strange that an empty lot was made here, and that a road was laid out to make a walking trail.

“Shall we take a short walk after breakfast? It’s not too bad, so it’s cold to go into the water, so I think it’s better to go in when it’s hot after a walk?”

“Well…..”

Not a bad opinion Ruri says she just goes in, but it’s only natural that the water is cold in the morning. It’s easy to catch a cold for kids like Seonghye, Sujeongi, and Aram to enter. It’s going to take some time to get in, closer to noon.

In the meantime, it seems to be fun to go for a little walk. The mountain is nothing special, but it is full of spectacles for those born and raised in the city.

“Then, shall we go up for a while?”

If you’re only going to go into the water, you should have gone to the beach. It’s a waste to come to the mountain and play only in the valley and not climb the mountain. Even if it’s just a walk.

Anyway, it is not good for children to go into the water because they have just eaten. I decided to climb the mountain with the kids because it would be nice to walk for a while to help with digestion.

It’s only about 2,30 minutes without going far. If you walk that far one way, it will take the same amount of time on the way back, so it will be digested and hot even if you do.

“When a couple climbs a mountain?

“…….”

“Oops! My brother beats me! This is domestic violence! Damn evil!”

“It’s true that Ruri did something wrong this time. Hit me a little more, Baekri.”

“I don’t think so”

Seonghye, Sujeongi, and Aram are at an age where they can have fun even if they only have clay. Even though the generation has changed a lot these days, it can’t be fun to experience new and unfamiliar things. It’s much better than holding onto your phone and doing that.

I walked little by little along the path that someone had been working on. The slope is also gentle, so it’s not bad for children to walk.

“Ah! Look! It’s raspberries!”

“Where? Where? Oh, it’s real”

“I only saw that on TV.”

“But it’s a bit far…”

“Guys, wait a minute. My brother will pick you up.”

Across a fairly wide ditch, I can see some small red fruit hanging from the bushes beyond. In response to the children’s curiosity, Baek-ri jumped over her ditch at once and picked her strawberries.

“Hey, be careful of snakes there. But snakes usually come out well.”

“No snakes. It’s okay.”

After picking a handful of baekri, the children gathered and looked at each small raspberry in their hands. Strawberries are easy to see in the market, but it is the first time to see a raspberry-like one picked from nature, so it is worth being curious.

“Should I take this and eat it?”

“Wow, you look pretty”

“Guys, don’t eat that, just throw away your appetite”

“Aren’t these raspberries?”

“It’s a snake strawberry. It’s similar to a raspberry, but the taste is bland.”

If you look closely, you can clearly tell them apart. Raspberries have small fruits closely attached to each other, whereas snakeberries have a large fruit with small projections protruding from it. In fact, Bamberry is closer to the strawberry we are familiar with than raspberry.

Rather, raspberries belong to the same category as raspberries and raspberries.

Come to think of it, I don’t know about raspberries, but I think there are bokbunja. There are quite a few plants in the mountains.

“Oh, see that heart-shaped leaf? That’s a bear smell.”

“Are you a bear?”

“Yes, it’s just a grass that can be eaten raw.”

“Can I try it?”

“It’s bitter, so it’s probably not good for kids?”

As you walk, you will see various plants.

To the children’s eyes, only fruits or grasses with other colors can be seen, but to me, edible grasses are mainly visible. I don’t know if it’s like a poisonous plant because it’s just a magazine type.

I looked carefully at a tree I was passing by. Oh, this is a mulberry tree.

“Wait a minute Baekri. Come over here.”

“Yes? What is it?”

I don’t know if this is a good mountain. Oh, is it because I bought it before people arrived? There are quite a few things that have not been harvested close to the road.

There are traces of mulberries on the floor that have not yet disappeared. It was too late now, and the mulberries that had already fallen from the trees left black fruit stains on the ground. But that’s not what you should be paying attention to.

The forest is thick and it is quite steep, so it is difficult to climb, but there is no problem for me or Baekri.

Going to the back of the mulberry tree, you can see that it was hidden by the trees on the road.

“Isn’t this a mushroom?”

“The mulberry tree Sanghwang mushroom is the best among them.”

Three or four yellow mushrooms the size of an adult man’s palm had sprouted. A couple of smaller ones also sprouted, but let’s take only the larger one, promising the next one.

“Take this and give it to your parents. It’s good for your body, so cook it well.”

“Really?”

“This is precious. Food is about tens of thousands of won, but if it’s natural Sanghwang mushroom from the mulberry tree, which is said to be the best in nature… I don’t know the market price these days, but at least 500,000 won.”

The unique yellow color and bark-like head of Phellinus Phellinus are definitely the Phellinus Phellinus. Mushrooms are always confusing, but this is real.

It’s like seeing Sim after coming up the mountain.

“Oh! That’s great! I’ll have to cook it for my dad!”

This kind of thing happens because people’s hands can’t reach it. Originally, nature gives its grace even if it is left alone. If you moderately reduce your greed, you can live with that grace, but people destroy such nature with excessive greed.

It’s not something that I, who enjoys the advantages of civilization, have to say…

“Uh……?”

As I was enjoying the scent of Phellinus linteus, there was a smell that passed through my nose in the wind.

The smell of blood, and nothing else like wild animals, but the smell of human blood.

“…..Baekri, stay still. I smell blood right now.”

“Do you smell blood?”

Open your mind and gather information. And from a little distance away, but as if the other side had noticed it, there was a sign that was quickly approaching this way.

Wild animals?

Wild animals that run at 120 kilometers per hour are not cheetahs in the savannah, but are there any in our country?

Booooong!

Just then, the cell phone rang in Baek-ri’s pocket and me at the same time. Unless it’s really a coincidence, there is no such thing as a message that arrives at the same time……. Except for disaster messages.

Baek-ri took out her cell phone to check her text message, and instead of talking, she showed me a text message.

[KFU]

Currently, the appearance of the progenitor fox has been received in the Duryu Mountain area.

Nearby residents are requested to refrain from going out and contact the KFU Report Center if witnessed.

Bai Li asked me.

“What mountain did you say this was?”

“…..Mt. Duryu”

At that moment, a fox that shone through the trees and shone with gold rushed at us like an arrow.