***
“Um, how much is it?”
“The table and chairs together… the estimate is 2.5 million won.”
After the morning business.
Hae-jun, who visited a nearby workshop, was surprised to hear the estimate for the table set to be placed in the yard of the store. He thought it would be expensive, but he didn’t expect it to be this expensive.
“Can’t you make it any cheaper?”
“I’m sorry. We make everything by hand, so it’s hard to reduce the price.”
“Yes, I understand.”
I visited one or two more places, but the estimates were similar in other places as well.
Even if the customers are uncomfortable right now, I can’t buy it because I don’t have that much money on hand.
‘I guess I’ll have to wait more than a month.’
Hae-jun, who had made up his mind, returned to the store and headed straight for the farm.
By now, the sugar cane and apple trees must have grown enough to be harvested. The second crop of olives and grapes that were planted is the same.
“As expected.”
The luscious red apples hung from the tree.
The size of an adult’s fist.
I picked one of them, rubbed it on my clothes, and took a bite.
Crunch-
The refreshing fruit juice bursts in my mouth.
It was so rich that the fruit juice dripped down between my lips.
After giving one each to Pote and Chloe, they exclaimed in admiration.
[Oh, it’s delicious.]
“It’s so sweet. The flesh is firm, and the fruit juice bursts!”
“Meow~.”
Mongchi also licked the flesh of the apple diligently.
The grapes were also sweet and sour, but the apples were even more delicious.
Hae-jun and Chloe, who tasted it, diligently harvested the fruits and moved them to the warehouse.
Olives, grapes, sugarcane, apples. The warehouse was filled with fresh produce.
“Ugh, the warehouse is full and I can’t put any more.”
I planted a lot because I needed it, but storage was a problem.
The small warehouse could not handle all the produce from the field.
In particular, grapes deteriorate quickly over time, so storage is especially important.
‘What should I do…?’
All of the ingredients here must be processed before they can be sold, and it is difficult to transport them to the real world.
The sugarcane had to be extracted from the stalks, boiled in a pot, and made into sugar, and then the sugar had to be mixed with apples to ferment the vinegar. The only thing that could be consumed right away was olives, but since it required a huge millstone to press, it was impossible to keep all of it.
“Hmm…”
“Hae-jun, what should we do?”
“Shall we go to the village carpentry shop? Let’s ask them to build another warehouse.”
If possible, I was thinking of asking them to build equipment that could press olives. Hae-jun didn’t have the skills. At that time,
“Sigh~ This place is still the same.”
James appeared on the farm as if he had been waiting.
“Mister.”
“Hae-jun, have you been well?”
“How did you get here?”
“I told you. I was close to Charles. Didn’t I build all the farm buildings here?”
“As expected, you did.”
After learning that the owner of the only carpentry shop in the village was James, I wondered if he had built the facilities here.
“I was just about to go to the carpentry shop.”
“To our store? Why?”
“I have something to ask for.”
“Hmm…”
Somehow, James didn’t seem interested.
Instead, what caught his attention was,
“But what’s that?”
It was the grapes piled up in the wagon.
“They’re freshly harvested grapes. Try some.”
“Oh~ Grapes.”
James put half of the bunch of grapes Hae-jun handed him in his mouth and chewed it.
He looked like a wild bear.
“It’s delicious. It would be perfect for making wine.”
The flow of all of James’ conversations was ‘rise-tension-turn-alcohol’.
“Haha… I’m not going to make wine. I’m going to extract oil from grape seeds.”
“Pfft, kid. You don’t know anything. Grape seed oil is made by collecting and pressing the remaining seeds after making wine! That’s why grape seeds were originally used to make edible oil. Recycling the useless seeds left over from making wine. Hahaha, alcohol is the best after all.”
He proudly showed off his knowledge.
It was something that Hae-jun didn’t know.
He had produced a lot of grapes in order to make grape seed oil, but he didn’t have a plan on how to use them up. He had thought about eating some of them, but he was thinking of throwing away the rest because it was a waste.
‘I learned something thanks to mister.’
Then suddenly.
An idea came to Hae-jun’s mind as he listened to the story.
‘Wait, should I try to persuade mister with wine?’
Right now, he needed facilities to make wine or edible oil from grapes. He also needed a warehouse to store the overflowing produce.
‘James is a good carpenter, so what if I ask him to build a warehouse and facilities in exchange for wine?···’
Hae-jun told James his thoughts without delay.
“Mister.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Let’s work on something together.”
“Work? What?”
James tilted his head.
.
.
.
Another new warehouse was built next to the farm warehouse.
It was made by James, who had received Hae-jun’s request.
“Wow, you’re really amazing. You built a warehouse in just one day.”
“Pfft! This warehouse is nothing. If you’re a skilled carpenter like me, you can make it with your eyes closed. Hahaha!”
Hae-jun made a deal with James.
He said that he would give him all the top-quality wine freshly harvested from the farm in exchange for building a warehouse and facilities for making wine.
Upon checking, the processes for making wine and grape seed oil were similar, so if the facilities were properly equipped, olive oil could also be made.
“Then how long will it take to build the wine facility?”
“Hmm… It’ll be easy in four days.”
Four days would be about 24 hours in real time.
The price was to fill two large oak barrels with wine. With the amount of grapes harvested so far, it was a sufficient amount.
“But do you know how to make wine properly?”
“I have my father’s secret recipe notebook.”
“Oh, Charles’? I’m looking forward to it.”
James gulped as he spoke.
He had often gotten wine when he was there, but it had been over 5 years since he had not had any.
“Then let’s get moving.”
James moved quickly at the word wine.
While he was building the winery, Hae-jun also worked diligently on the farm. He harvested crops and planted new ones. This was because there was something he had to finish today.
After finishing the farm work, Hae-jun went to the warehouse and took out all the sugarcane.
Chloe, who was transporting goat’s milk, was surprised to see the sight and asked.
“Why are you taking all that out?”
“I’m going to make sugar.”
If he made sugar, he could take the taste of ketchup and mayonnaise up a notch. It is also an essential ingredient for making vinegar, and you need to make vinegar to make cheese.
If you only have cheese and butter, you can upgrade the taste of a sandwich.
In fact, Hae-jun had been researching ways to improve the taste by looking for other recipes in addition to his father’s recipes. Then, he discovered that the flavor of the sandwich was enhanced when butter or cheese was spread inside the bread.
“Sugar? How do you make it?”
“It’s simple. Just cut it thinly and boil it.”
He didn’t know then.
How dangerous those words would be.
.
.
.
“Haah haah… Crazy… This isn’t simple at all.”
The recipe in his father’s notebook was very simple.
He said to wash it thoroughly, peel it, and boil it.
However, I’ve been peeling sugarcane for hours now. The sugarcane itself was very large and the skin was hard. Instead of peeling it with his hands like peeling vegetables, he had to use a knife and peel it with all his might.
“I should have just bought sugar. This is too hard.”
Sweat was dripping.
After shaking his right arm up and down for hours, his muscles were starting to cramp.
After a long time of suffering, I finally peeled it all off, but the bigger ordeal was next.
This was because I had to stir the sugarcane juice that had been finely cut and juiced in a large pot while it was boiling.
‘My right hand is suffering.’
Even as the temperature rose and boiled, I removed all the murky foam that boiled up.
After repeating the process several times, it gradually turned into a clear and light brown color. As I continued to boil it, at some point, the water suddenly boiled down and it turned into something similar to caramel.
“Oh!”
A thick, dark brown solution with a sticky consistency.
When it was cooled and crystallized, unrefined sugar was finally made.
The texture was like that of candy that had been forgotten and thrown in the corner of the room, melting in the warmth of the heated floor. A chewy and sticky texture like brown sugar.
However, the taste was,
“Sweet.”
He also showed the taste of sugar to Chloe, who was diligently making butter next to him.
Whenever he made something for the first time, she was the first to try it.
“How is it?”
“It’s so sweet.”
“Right? Do you think it’s a success?”
“Yeah.”
Now that he had extracted sugar from the sugarcane, he immediately began the process of making vinegar.
Making vinegar was like eating cold rice porridge. Put apples, a spoonful of sugar, and water in a sterilized glass jar and leave it in a cool place.
Now all that was left was to wait.
Time will take care of the rest.
I got hungry after finishing my work.
“What should I eat?”
“Yeah. I’m hungry. James might be too, right?”
“I guess so?”
Hae-jun showed off his skills.
He upgraded the sandwich he usually made by spreading butter carefully made by Chloe.
His skills gradually improved because he cooked a lot in the real world.
The taste would be great with the best ingredients and improved skills.
James and the farm family sat in the shade and ate.
The evaluation of Sandwich ver. 2 was positive. Everyone liked it because it was richer than before with the addition of butter. And so did James.
“Hahaha. It tastes good. You inherited your father’s skills perfectly. What kind of wine will be produced from this?”
James’ ending remarks, who had been praising the taste of the sandwich, were of course about alcohol.
“Mister, everything you say ends with alcohol.”
“Then alcohol is the best. Hahaha.”
“Hahaha.”
As we laughed and enjoyed ourselves, it was time to return to reality.
Hae-jun loaded the sandwich ingredients in the wagon and returned to reality.
***
“Oppa, when will the chairs and tables for the waiting customers be ready?”
After the morning business was over, Min-ju asked.
“The wait is getting longer, so another customer grumbled today. We need to come up with a solution soon, or there will be problems.”
“I got it.”
Hae-jun had something in mind.
Once the construction of the winery on the dimensional farm is complete, he plans to ask James to make it.
James is good at craftsmanship, and since he can bring items instead of money for labor, it’s a win-win situation.
“Rather than that, how was the customers’ response today?”
“I asked the regulars, and they said it got tastier.”
“That’s a relief.”
Starting this morning, I started selling butter produced on the farm by spreading it inside the bread.
The sandwich recipe has been upgraded a bit, and the mayonnaise and ketchup have also been made fresh using only ingredients from the farm.
The response was favorable, just like on the farm.
Everything went smoothly.
***
“Um, how much is it?”
“The table and chairs together… the estimate is 2.5 million won.”
After the morning business.
Hae-jun, who visited a nearby workshop, was surprised to hear the estimate for the table set to be placed in the yard of the store. He thought it would be expensive, but he didn’t expect it to be this expensive.
“Can’t you make it any cheaper?”
“I’m sorry. We make everything by hand, so it’s hard to reduce the price.”
“Yes, I understand.”
I visited one or two more places, but the estimates were similar in other places as well.
Even if the customers are uncomfortable right now, I can’t buy it because I don’t have that much money on hand.
‘I guess I’ll have to wait more than a month.’
Hae-jun, who had made up his mind, returned to the store and headed straight for the farm.
By now, the sugar cane and apple trees must have grown enough to be harvested. The second crop of olives and grapes that were planted is the same.
“As expected.”
The luscious red apples hung from the tree.
The size of an adult’s fist.
I picked one of them, rubbed it on my clothes, and took a bite.
Crunch-
The refreshing fruit juice bursts in my mouth.
It was so rich that the fruit juice dripped down between my lips.
After giving one each to Pote and Chloe, they exclaimed in admiration.
[Oh, it’s delicious.]
“It’s so sweet. The flesh is firm, and the fruit juice bursts!”
“Meow~.”
Mongchi also licked the flesh of the apple diligently.
The grapes were also sweet and sour, but the apples were even more delicious.
Hae-jun and Chloe, who tasted it, diligently harvested the fruits and moved them to the warehouse.
Olives, grapes, sugarcane, apples. The warehouse was filled with fresh produce.
“Ugh, the warehouse is full and I can’t put any more.”
I planted a lot because I needed it, but storage was a problem.
The small warehouse could not handle all the produce from the field.
In particular, grapes deteriorate quickly over time, so storage is especially important.
‘What should I do…?’
All of the ingredients here must be processed before they can be sold, and it is difficult to transport them to the real world.
The sugarcane had to be extracted from the stalks, boiled in a pot, and made into sugar, and then the sugar had to be mixed with apples to ferment the vinegar. The only thing that could be consumed right away was olives, but since it required a huge millstone to press, it was impossible to keep all of it.
“Hmm…”
“Hae-jun, what should we do?”
“Shall we go to the village carpentry shop? Let’s ask them to build another warehouse.”
If possible, I was thinking of asking them to build equipment that could press olives. Hae-jun didn’t have the skills. At that time,
“Sigh~ This place is still the same.”
James appeared on the farm as if he had been waiting.
“Mister.”
“Hae-jun, have you been well?”
“How did you get here?”
“I told you. I was close to Charles. Didn’t I build all the farm buildings here?”
“As expected, you did.”
After learning that the owner of the only carpentry shop in the village was James, I wondered if he had built the facilities here.
“I was just about to go to the carpentry shop.”
“To our store? Why?”
“I have something to ask for.”
“Hmm…”
Somehow, James didn’t seem interested.
Instead, what caught his attention was,
“But what’s that?”
It was the grapes piled up in the wagon.
“They’re freshly harvested grapes. Try some.”
“Oh~ Grapes.”
James put half of the bunch of grapes Hae-jun handed him in his mouth and chewed it.
He looked like a wild bear.
“It’s delicious. It would be perfect for making wine.”
The flow of all of James’ conversations was ‘rise-tension-turn-alcohol’.
“Haha… I’m not going to make wine. I’m going to extract oil from grape seeds.”
“Pfft, kid. You don’t know anything. Grape seed oil is made by collecting and pressing the remaining seeds after making wine! That’s why grape seeds were originally used to make edible oil. Recycling the useless seeds left over from making wine. Hahaha, alcohol is the best after all.”
He proudly showed off his knowledge.
It was something that Hae-jun didn’t know.
He had produced a lot of grapes in order to make grape seed oil, but he didn’t have a plan on how to use them up. He had thought about eating some of them, but he was thinking of throwing away the rest because it was a waste.
‘I learned something thanks to mister.’
Then suddenly.
An idea came to Hae-jun’s mind as he listened to the story.
‘Wait, should I try to persuade mister with wine?’
Right now, he needed facilities to make wine or edible oil from grapes. He also needed a warehouse to store the overflowing produce.
‘James is a good carpenter, so what if I ask him to build a warehouse and facilities in exchange for wine?···’
Hae-jun told James his thoughts without delay.
“Mister.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Let’s work on something together.”
“Work? What?”
James tilted his head.
.
.
.
Another new warehouse was built next to the farm warehouse.
It was made by James, who had received Hae-jun’s request.
“Wow, you’re really amazing. You built a warehouse in just one day.”
“Pfft! This warehouse is nothing. If you’re a skilled carpenter like me, you can make it with your eyes closed. Hahaha!”
Hae-jun made a deal with James.
He said that he would give him all the top-quality wine freshly harvested from the farm in exchange for building a warehouse and facilities for making wine.
Upon checking, the processes for making wine and grape seed oil were similar, so if the facilities were properly equipped, olive oil could also be made.
“Then how long will it take to build the wine facility?”
“Hmm… It’ll be easy in four days.”
Four days would be about 24 hours in real time.
The price was to fill two large oak barrels with wine. With the amount of grapes harvested so far, it was a sufficient amount.
“But do you know how to make wine properly?”
“I have my father’s secret recipe notebook.”
“Oh, Charles’? I’m looking forward to it.”
James gulped as he spoke.
He had often gotten wine when he was there, but it had been over 5 years since he had not had any.
“Then let’s get moving.”
James moved quickly at the word wine.
While he was building the winery, Hae-jun also worked diligently on the farm. He harvested crops and planted new ones. This was because there was something he had to finish today.
After finishing the farm work, Hae-jun went to the warehouse and took out all the sugarcane.
Chloe, who was transporting goat’s milk, was surprised to see the sight and asked.
“Why are you taking all that out?”
“I’m going to make sugar.”
If he made sugar, he could take the taste of ketchup and mayonnaise up a notch. It is also an essential ingredient for making vinegar, and you need to make vinegar to make cheese.
If you only have cheese and butter, you can upgrade the taste of a sandwich.
In fact, Hae-jun had been researching ways to improve the taste by looking for other recipes in addition to his father’s recipes. Then, he discovered that the flavor of the sandwich was enhanced when butter or cheese was spread inside the bread.
“Sugar? How do you make it?”
“It’s simple. Just cut it thinly and boil it.”
He didn’t know then.
How dangerous those words would be.
.
.
.
“Haah haah… Crazy… This isn’t simple at all.”
The recipe in his father’s notebook was very simple.
He said to wash it thoroughly, peel it, and boil it.
However, I’ve been peeling sugarcane for hours now. The sugarcane itself was very large and the skin was hard. Instead of peeling it with his hands like peeling vegetables, he had to use a knife and peel it with all his might.
“I should have just bought sugar. This is too hard.”
Sweat was dripping.
After shaking his right arm up and down for hours, his muscles were starting to cramp.
After a long time of suffering, I finally peeled it all off, but the bigger ordeal was next.
This was because I had to stir the sugarcane juice that had been finely cut and juiced in a large pot while it was boiling.
‘My right hand is suffering.’
Even as the temperature rose and boiled, I removed all the murky foam that boiled up.
After repeating the process several times, it gradually turned into a clear and light brown color. As I continued to boil it, at some point, the water suddenly boiled down and it turned into something similar to caramel.
“Oh!”
A thick, dark brown solution with a sticky consistency.
When it was cooled and crystallized, unrefined sugar was finally made.
The texture was like that of candy that had been forgotten and thrown in the corner of the room, melting in the warmth of the heated floor. A chewy and sticky texture like brown sugar.
However, the taste was,
“Sweet.”
He also showed the taste of sugar to Chloe, who was diligently making butter next to him.
Whenever he made something for the first time, she was the first to try it.
“How is it?”
“It’s so sweet.”
“Right? Do you think it’s a success?”
“Yeah.”
Now that he had extracted sugar from the sugarcane, he immediately began the process of making vinegar.
Making vinegar was like eating cold rice porridge. Put apples, a spoonful of sugar, and water in a sterilized glass jar and leave it in a cool place.
Now all that was left was to wait.
Time will take care of the rest.
I got hungry after finishing my work.
“What should I eat?”
“Yeah. I’m hungry. James might be too, right?”
“I guess so?”
Hae-jun showed off his skills.
He upgraded the sandwich he usually made by spreading butter carefully made by Chloe.
His skills gradually improved because he cooked a lot in the real world.
The taste would be great with the best ingredients and improved skills.
James and the farm family sat in the shade and ate.
The evaluation of Sandwich ver. 2 was positive. Everyone liked it because it was richer than before with the addition of butter. And so did James.
“Hahaha. It tastes good. You inherited your father’s skills perfectly. What kind of wine will be produced from this?”
James’ ending remarks, who had been praising the taste of the sandwich, were of course about alcohol.
“Mister, everything you say ends with alcohol.”
“Then alcohol is the best. Hahaha.”
“Hahaha.”
As we laughed and enjoyed ourselves, it was time to return to reality.
Hae-jun loaded the sandwich ingredients in the wagon and returned to reality.
***
“Oppa, when will the chairs and tables for the waiting customers be ready?”
After the morning business was over, Min-ju asked.
“The wait is getting longer, so another customer grumbled today. We need to come up with a solution soon, or there will be problems.”
“I got it.”
Hae-jun had something in mind.
Once the construction of the winery on the dimensional farm is complete, he plans to ask James to make it.
James is good at craftsmanship, and since he can bring items instead of money for labor, it’s a win-win situation.
“Rather than that, how was the customers’ response today?”
“I asked the regulars, and they said it got tastier.”
“That’s a relief.”
Starting this morning, I started selling butter produced on the farm by spreading it inside the bread.
The sandwich recipe has been upgraded a bit, and the mayonnaise and ketchup have also been made fresh using only ingredients from the farm.
The response was favorable, just like on the farm.
Everything went smoothly.
