Bang Hyun-sik was sitting next to him.

Bang Hyunsik was a person full of charm the more he got to know him. Not only was he good at his job, he had a good personality.

There were times when a colleague made the mistake of pouring the fermentation broth over, but he brushed it off with a smile.

It was hard to believe that I had a lot of accidents when I was young.

“CEO, can I get the dried persimmon fermented juice separately?”

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On the way to Hadong, Hyunsik Bang asked cautiously.

“Isn’t it Hyunsik’s turn soon?”

Starting with Ye Na-eun, I made dried persimmons together. The last one is Bang Hyunsik. Soon his turn will come.

I was curious as to why the fermentation broth was different.

“I’m going to try making dried persimmons in my house by myself.”

“Alone? Is there any special reason?”

Hyunsik Bang hesitated for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“Because of my mother.”

“It’s because of your mother, what do you mean?”

“Your mother has a bad knee.”

Bang Hyun-sik told the story.

He said that he had no complaints about growing dried persimmons together.

The problem was my mother. My mother said that if people came to my house, she wouldn’t stay still.

She made a worried expression, saying that if a customer came, her mother would be overworked.

“If people come to help with the dried persimmons, they will prepare food from dawn.”

This was the reason why Bang Hyun-sik chose the last turn.

“I understand what Hyunsik is worried about. But wouldn’t it be hard to do all the dried persimmons alone?”

“No, it is difficult. It can move like a machine that makes dried persimmons.”

“If you say that, it is difficult to decline the request. What if it was just me?”

“Thank you for your words, but I want to try it on my own.”

“Are you rejecting my hand too?”

I asked with a smile.

“No, that’s not what it means, but I want to try all of this dried persimmon farming on my own.”

“just joke. I know what you mean. I think Hyunsik will do well on his own. I will prepare the fermentation broth I mentioned earlier.”

“thank you.”

“But you said you don’t have a car? I will carry the fermentation broth.”

“I will also take the fermentation liquid.”

“You don’t mean to carry it by hand, do you?”

I looked at Bang Hyunsik and asked.

“I don’t have a car, but I have one legacy my father left me.”

“Inheritance?”

“There is one junk cultivator.”

“Ha… that’s right. Do what Hyunsik is comfortable with.”

Bang Hyunsik scratched his head as if embarrassed. I thought he was just a gentle and sincere personality, but he was stubborn. But I couldn’t let him do everything alone.

“Okay, then I will finish the dried persimmon work and check it. You’re not going to reject this, are you?”

“Of course, I would appreciate it if you could check for any problems!”

Bang Hyun-sik nodded in the car.

* * *

The dried persimmon work of the person who drew the seventh number was finished.

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Now, there was only one person left.

“I’m going to Hyunsik’s house tomorrow.”

Ye Na-eun looked at Bang Hyun-sik and said.

“No, tomorrow I plan to tour the burials of farmers in Jirisan.”

“A field trip? So, Hyunsik, don’t you work on dried persimmons?”

Ye Na-eun asked with a puzzled expression.

“Bang Hyun-sik’s dried persimmons are to be shared with me.”

Everyone looked surprised.

“Yesterday, Hyunsik confessed to me.”

“What confession?”

Ye Na-eun came out with a surprised face and looked at Bang Hyun-sik.

“The fact that dried persimmons were farmed to the size of a rat’s tail.”

At those words, all the participants grabbed their belly button and laughed.

“Aren’t you supposed to help? We’ve been together all along.”

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Others, including Ye Na-eun, spoke with one voice.

“If we’re only going to see each other this year, maybe that’s a good thing. But we’re not just seeing each other this year. There will be many things we can do to help each other in the future. When the time comes, we will all come together and do many things together. Then Hyunsik, please help too.”

“If the teacher says that, we can’t help it either.”

Ye Na-eun said with a sad expression.

“I will do a lot next year. I will go and help.”

Ye Na-eun tapped Bang Hyun-sik on the shoulder and said.

Bang Hyunsik smiled brightly and nodded his head.

I thought about how to tell them. If Bang Hyun-sik had just told him what he was saying, it was clear that everyone would be clamoring to go even with a packed lunch.

I decided that it would be better to persuade them in an appropriate way.

Bang Hyun-sik also looked at me with satisfied eyes.

After all the work, we went to the farmers’ stores in Jirisan together.

The end of the training was a burial tour.

There was a sense of vitality around the Hwagae Market. The front of our store was also crowded with people.

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Noh Hae-mi and Kim Kkot-nim were moving around frantically.

There were a lot of little customers today.

“Is the store full of children?”

asked Noh Haemi.

“I got a tour today.”

Haemi Noh said looking at the children in green hats.

It was a kindergarten tour.

It was a program to make tea by looking at the pictures of green tea farmers displayed in the store.

It was a collaboration between Noh Hae-mi and Kim Kkot-nim.

Coincidentally, the tour of kindergarten students and the tour of dried persimmon farmers overlapped.

“Are you learning dried persimmons?”

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Noh Hae-mi looked at the people behind me and asked.

“Everything is ready, just go up to the second floor.”

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On the second floor, there was a separate conference room in addition to the exhibition room. Before entering the conference room, I looked at the exhibited photos for a while.

“It’s amazing to have a place like this in the Hwagae Market.”

There were shouts of admiration from all over.

Bubble tea and medicine were prepared in the conference room.

“Are the dried persimmons we made sold here?”

Ye Na-eun asked while drinking bubble tea.

“Yes, I am thinking of selling it here. Of course, I do not intend to force anyone with a separate sales plan.”

“I have no other plans. I want to sell dried persimmons here.”

Yena looked at the other and said. Everyone nodded as if in agreement with her.

We also talked with them about the packaging of dried persimmons. It was planned to start selling under the names of farmers in Jirisan.

I showed them the box where I sold dried persimmons last year.

“The design is stylish.”

It was a common reaction. When I first sold dried persimmons, I also paid attention to the design. A simple yet luxurious design.

“This year, I plan to change the design a little.”

“This is good too, can you change it again?”

“I want to make a more noticeable change.”

After the dried persimmons of Jirisan farmers became popular, there was a place with a similar design.

We wanted to emphasize our own color with small changes.

People’s eyes lit up when they talked about sales. It was different from when I was working on dried persimmons.

I could feel the anticipation of the dried persimmon farming this year.

* * *

A few days later, Hyunsik Bang came to see me.

“The dried persimmon work is finished.”

“I worked alone.”

“Now we are ready for inspection.”

He didn’t mention how many dried persimmons he had. When I brought a cultivator and received the fermentation broth, I took a larger amount than I expected.

I didn’t say anything, but the amount of dried persimmons seemed to be quite large.

He went to his house with Hyunsik Bang.

It wasn’t far, but I was living in a remote village.

After entering the village for a long time, the house did not come out.

“Do I still have to go in?”

“Just a little bit more and I’ll be home.”

“It must have been difficult to commute to school.”

“I use my bike to get to the bus stop.”

Bang Hyun-sik said with a smile.

Finally, the persimmon orchard came out. It was bigger than expected.

“There are many persimmon trees.”

“Since my father, I have grown so many things.”

From there, the packaging was cut off. His house was in a remote place where cars could not enter.

I had to get out of the car.

“Where did you work on dried persimmons?”

Except for the persimmon orchard, there were many slopes around. There was no place to work with dried persimmons.

“If you go inside there, you will find dried persimmon deokjang.”

Bang Hyunsik headed towards the beckoning place.

I saw a flat area carved out of a mountain slope. There were three greenhouses there.

The greenhouse was full of persimmons.

“Did you do this all by yourself?”

eyes widened I couldn’t believe I had done all this by myself.

There were probably over 3,000.

“I came out early in the morning to work.”

Bang Hyun-sik said with a shy face.

I checked the condition of the dried persimmons. Not a single thing was wasted. It seemed that each and every one of them worked with sincerity.

“Everyone is fine. Well done!”

He went around all three greenhouses and said.

That was then.

The door opened in the greenhouse and a middle-aged woman appeared.

She limped one leg.

“Is that the brother you spoke of?”

It was Bang Hyun-sik’s mother, Kim Hye-sook.

Bang Hyun-sik nodded at her question.

“Hello, my name is Kim Deok-myung.”

“I heard a lot. Thank you very much.”

As Bang Hyun-sik said, my mother’s legs looked very bad.

She thanked me.

“Do you need to eat?”

It was still a long way from dinner time. She reiterated that the meal should be served.

Hyunsik Bang’s insistence was hereditary.

He narrowly refused her request, saying that he had an urgent appointment.

“You can’t just let it go. Hyunsik, bring him some.”

At Kim Hye-sook’s words, Bang Hyun-sik ran quickly.

He came back with a brown bottle.

Bang Hyun-sik handed the bottle to his mother.

“Take this, this is the sesame oil I make at home.”

She gave me a brown bottle and said,

“It was really made by my mother herself. Even after waking up, we farmed in our house.”

Hyunsik Bang added. It was sealed, but there was a fragrant smell.

“Thank you very much for the gift. I will enjoy this food.”

I said goodbye to my mother and left the greenhouse. Bang Hyunsik saw me off.

“My mother also has high expectations for dried persimmons. He told me that if the dried persimmon farming went well, he would let me marry him.”

“Hope is growing in the greenhouse.”

Hyunsik Bang smiled broadly at the word “hope”.

Then I remembered what my mother said.

I asked Hyunsik Bang if he was the older brother you mentioned.

I asked him why.

Bang Hyun-sik answered with embarrassment.

He said that whenever I told my story to my mother, I called him hyung.

He said that I should call him teacher like everyone else, but I was too young to say that.

He said that it was strange to call him the CEO because he was not an employee of the Jirisan farmers.

He had no other brothers. He said he wished he had an older brother like me.

It was because I became Bang Hyunsik’s older brother. He was educated and when he got home, he talked to his mother.

I couldn’t leave out my story. Every time he told my mother about me, he called Deokmyeong older brother.

“I apologize if I offended you.”

Bang Hyun-sik said with an apologetic face.

“No, it’s okay.”

I loaded the perilla oil I got from my mother into the car.

There was something I wanted to say to him before he went back.

“I don’t even have a brother.”

“yes?”

Bang Hyun-sik looked at me with surprised eyes.

“You can call me hyung.”

“Really?”

Just by looking at his face, he seemed to know how happy he was.

“Then I will call you hyung from now on.”

“I do it with my brother when packing dried persimmons.”

“Yes, bro!”

Bang Hyunsik exclaimed loudly.

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Winter was coming.

The persimmons hung in the deokjang were turning into dried persimmons.

I visited Hyunsik Bang’s house once a week. It was to help apply the fermentation broth.

Just because the persimmons were dried in a duct was not the end. The fermentation broth had to be applied periodically.

Hyeon-sik Bang had a larger quantity than other participants. It was difficult to handle alone.

“Brother, are you here again?”

Bang Hyun-sik asked as he looked at the day the fermentation broth was being poured.

“I came to apply fermented liquid.”

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