***
Dimensional Farm.
“Oppa~!”
As soon as Hae-jun arrived, Mia ran up and hugged him.
Although she liked her father the most, she liked Hae-jun the second most, and the third was,
“Shall I make you some candy skewers?”
“Yeah! Okay.”
Candy Skewers.
No, maybe Candy Skewers is better than Hae-jun.
Hae-jun took Mia to the bakery.
After checking the naturally fermented yeast, he made Candy Skewers with alternating apples and grapes, as promised.
“You can only have 2 because if you eat too much, your teeth will rot.”
“Okay.”
When he handed her the candy, she smiled broadly and ran outside.
Hae-jun smiled like an uncle as he watched Mia’s cheerful back.
The next place he went to was the winery. Not only wine but also vinegar that needed to be aged were stored here.
<Apple Vinegar>
<Lemon Vinegar>
<Red Wine>
He checked the results with a satisfied smile.
It had aged properly in the cool temperature. The wine, in particular, was so good in taste and aroma that James would have flipped out if he had seen it.
‘I’ll give him the wine and ask him to build Chloe a place to stay.’
The place she was currently living in was too cramped.
It was a temporary shelter, and as time went by, the amount of luggage increased.
It seemed like she would be staying for a while, so it would be better to build a separate shelter.
He looked around Chloe’s chicken coop and goat ranch and headed to the field.
Haas was weeding the field.
His help made field management much easier.
He was able to manage the crops without much effort.
It felt like using the auto-play system obtained by purchasing a paid cash item.
‘I need to raise my fame more. It’s too convenient.’
Just by checking it occasionally, the warehouse was filled with crops.
What’s more surprising is that what Haas and Chloe do also accumulates as Hae-jun’s experience points.
Thanks to that, he had some free time in his busy life of going back and forth between the Dimensional Farm and reality.
“You’re here?”
Haas, who was cultivating the field, greeted Hae-jun.
Hae-jun also bowed his head in greeting and entered the field.
While harvesting salad greens. Hae-jun also helped harvest the arugula and romaine lettuce covered in refreshing dew.
It has a unique taste that is both savory and slightly bitter, making it one of the ingredients that customers at the restaurant crave these days.
In particular, the taste became even more outstanding since Haas started cultivating it.
“I feel like the arugula that Haas cultivates tastes especially better.”
“This guy is nothing special. Just plant it in sandy loam and give it plenty of sunlight.”
Sandy loam.
It was a concept that Hae-jun heard for the first time from Haas, the herbalist.
Sandy loam is a mixture of sand, silt, and clay, with coarse particles that allow for good drainage.
If the soil where he first came to the farm and cultivated the field was loam, Haas would create soil suitable for the growing environment depending on the crop he was cultivating.
So the results had to be better.
He learned a lot while farming with Haas.
Thanks to that, his occupation was upgraded to an intermediate farmer, and his cooking skills also improved from a beginner to a low-level chef.
*
[Cha Hae-jun] Lv.9
Age: 25
Title: One who crossed dimensions
Occupation: Intermediate farmer, Low-level chef
Experience: 99 (99%)
Stamina: 34/55
Skill: 78
Fame: 10
*
He felt proud of himself as he watched himself grow little by little.
“Shall we take a short break?”
“Okay.”
Haas and Hae-jun walked to the shade and sat down.
“By the way, Haas. When the carrots and onions over there are fully grown, let’s plant wheat there.”
“Wheat? People are planting a lot of wheat these days.”
Since he had been making a lot of bread lately, he was running out of flour.
“There are many uses for it.”
“Okay.”
“Have a glass of goat milk each.”
As they were cooling off their sweat, Chloe and Mia brought goat milk.
[Me too!]
“Meow~!”
“Don’t worry, there’s some for you guys too.”
Even Pote and Mongchi. All the farm family members gathered.
It was just the right time to quench his thirst. Hae-jun received the goat milk and emptied the glass in one gulp.
“Hmm? It’s refreshing.”
“Refreshing, right? I chilled it in the cave.”
“Cave? Oh, there?”
Not long ago, when he leveled up and collected rock salt, the fog near the cliff receded.
And a small cave was revealed. It was just a small cave about 10 meters long and nothing special, but it was so cold that he didn’t care about it.
“Anything gets cold if you put it in there.”
It was a kind of refrigerator.
‘I should do something that needs to be frozen there in the future.’
Even without that, it was a bit inconvenient not having a refrigerator.
The candy skewers he made for Mia were actually tastier when eaten cold.
In the past, he couldn’t harden the syrup properly, so he couldn’t achieve the perfect texture of candy, but now it seemed possible.
He decided to store other products that needed to be kept cool in the cave instead of the warehouse.
The short, sweet break was over.
He harvested the fully grown crops and planted wheat in their place.
Then the level went up, and the fog receded.
A vast grassland was revealed to the west of the farm.
“Oh, it’s huge.”
A vast meadow like the one you see in movies.
Hae-jun walked towards the grassland, followed by Mongchi.
He walked, feeling the fluffy texture of the grass and the nature.
It felt different from the farm.
“This tree is huge.”
He stopped for a moment under a huge elm tree.
The cool shade created by the wide leaves.
It seemed like a good place to pack a lunch and have a picnic.
“Do you like it here?”
“Meow~.”
“Shall we pack a lunch and have a picnic later?”
“Meow.”
“Okay. I’ll pack a lot of things you like. But it’s really big here.”
When he actually walked around, it was bigger than he thought.
Trees were evenly distributed throughout the vast grassland.
They were large trees such as zelkova and oak trees. It seemed like a waste to just cut them down, and if he did, they would be big enough to make furniture.
Hae-jun tilted his head back and admired the trees.
Tok-
At that moment, a small fruit fell on his forehead.
It was an acorn.
‘I didn’t know. Acorns grow on this kind of tree.’
He had seen them as food, but this was the first time he had actually seen an acorn.
Later, he found out that acorns were a general term for the fruits of oak trees, such as oak, chestnut oak, zelkova, and Mongolian oak.
Hae-jun, who curiously observed the acorn, threw it on the ground and returned to the farm.
It was a pleasant walk.
.
.
.
“Phew, I loaded everything.”
He loaded the cart full of groceries to be sold at Sunflower.
There were quite a lot of sheep, but they were all sold out in a day.
“Let’s go, Mongchi.”
“Meow.”
***
5 a.m.
Hae-jun was moving crops to the kitchen pantry through the passage.
From now on, he had to work diligently to finish the preparations in time for the opening.
Mongchi, who had come to the real world, walked straight to his designated seat and lay down on his stomach, looking sleepy.
Just as he was moving the last box,
“Boss.”
Ko Dong-sik appeared.
“What! Why, why are you here so early?”
The surprised Hae-jun stuttered.
He almost got caught coming out of the passage.
He had told him to come to work around 6 o’clock in preparation for this situation.
“I looked it up on the internet and it said that the youngest in the kitchen comes early in the morning to prepare ingredients and stuff. So I came to work early. You hired me, trusting me, so I have to work hard.”
Dong-sik said, taking the box in Hae-jun’s hands.
“You moved all these ingredients by yourself? There were a lot of ingredients in the kitchen too. I’ll come an hour earlier from tomorrow. Around 4 a.m.”
“Oh, no. You don’t have to do that. It’s easier for me to move this alone.”
“But I’m the youngest, so I have to come with you…”
“It’s okay.”
He needed to come up with something to say.
Then suddenly,
“You know the Labor Standards Act, right? Just work the exact number of hours you’re supposed to. Otherwise, I’ll be in trouble.”
He said, beating around the bush.
Then Dong-sik looked very sorry.
“Oh, I didn’t think about that.”
“So from now on, be sure to come by 6 a.m. at the latest. Even if you’re late, its fine.”
“Yes, I understand. Boss.”
“And calling me boss all the time is a bit… I feel awkward.”
“No, you can’t. Just let me call you boss.”
They each gave in a step.
Ko Dong-sik to work after 6 a.m., and Hae-jun to the title of boss.
“What should we start with?”
Dong-sik, who was now properly dressed and had washed his hands, asked.
“Please wash the salad greens in running water first.”
“Yes, boss.”
It was definitely easier to cook with someone else.
“The vegetables are very fresh. They don’t even smell like pesticides.”
“Yes. They were harvested just last night.”
“You didn’t buy them from the wholesale market?”
Dong-sik nodded as if he knew Hae-jun would nod.
“Somehow… it’s different from what they sell at the market. Where’s the farm…”
“Hyung. Mash this.”
Hae-jun cut off his question by handing him boiled potatoes.
“Oh, yes.”
Toktoktok-
Gurgle gurgle-
The preparations were finished earlier than usual.
There was a big difference between having an assistant and not having one.
“We’re open.”
Min-ju opened the door of the shop as Hae-jun nodded.
Customers rushed in as if they had been waiting.
“Two morning sets here.”
“Pack me 3 fat sandwiches.”
“Pack 5 fat sandwiches.”
“I’m sorry, customer. We can only pack up to 3 per person.”
“Oh… then pack me 3.”
“Yes, please wait a moment.”
Min-ju skillfully handled the flood of orders and placed them in the kitchen in order.
“Hyung. 2 salads, 2 soups.”
“Yes, boss.”
Hae-jun quickly lined up 8 pieces of bread on the cutting board and said to Dong-sik.
The role he gave Dong-sik was to prepare salads and soups and wash empty bowls.
It was a simple task, but he supported Hae-jun with enthusiasm.
“You worked hard.”
“You too, oppa and ahjussi.”
“You’ve had a hard time.”
The stormy morning business was over.
It was his first time doing something like this, so he was nervous, but Dong-sik felt proud of himself for doing well without making any mistakes.
“Hyung. You worked hard.”
“No, it was more fun than I thought. It gives me strength when people say it’s delicious.”
Sunflower’s kitchen and hall were designed to be semi-open.
So I could hear the stories that the customers shared while eating.
Listening to those stories gave him strength even when he was tired.
“Because it’s delicious food that sells.”
“I think I understand. By the way, what should we do now? Clean up?”
Dong-sik got up from his seat like a knife after a 10-minute break.
As expected, his motivation was the best.
“In a little while. Let’s have breakfast and take it slow.”
“I have to work the money I’m paid.”
“They said it violates the Labor Standards Act. We have to guarantee break time as well.”
“Oh, yes… then.”
Was it because he didn’t want to suffer even a minor loss?
Dong-sik backed down as soon as he talked about the law.
“You only have to work in the morning.”
“Huh? Wasn’t it full-time?”
“It is, but the menu isn’t ready yet.”
“I’ll still be on call. Just in case, and…”
“Think of it as a training period for now.”
“I understand.”
***
After Min-ju and Don-gsik left work, Hae-jun headed to the Dimensional Farm.
It was early dawn here, and he stopped by briefly to harvest some ingredients needed for his cooking research and crops that had finished growing.
“The carrots and onions were over there, right?”
What he was researching these days was not bread like pizza or pasta, but other forms of wheat food.
The taste wasn’t bad, but the chewing texture was lacking.
As he walked, thinking about the menu and recipe,
“Ugh! What is this?”
Something shocking happened before Hae-jun’s eyes.
It was that the field he had carefully cultivated had been dug up by someone.
“Who, who dug up my field…”
***
Dimensional Farm.
“Oppa~!”
As soon as Hae-jun arrived, Mia ran up and hugged him.
Although she liked her father the most, she liked Hae-jun the second most, and the third was,
“Shall I make you some candy skewers?”
“Yeah! Okay.”
Candy Skewers.
No, maybe Candy Skewers is better than Hae-jun.
Hae-jun took Mia to the bakery.
After checking the naturally fermented yeast, he made Candy Skewers with alternating apples and grapes, as promised.
“You can only have 2 because if you eat too much, your teeth will rot.”
“Okay.”
When he handed her the candy, she smiled broadly and ran outside.
Hae-jun smiled like an uncle as he watched Mia’s cheerful back.
The next place he went to was the winery. Not only wine but also vinegar that needed to be aged were stored here.
<Apple Vinegar>
<Lemon Vinegar>
<Red Wine>
He checked the results with a satisfied smile.
It had aged properly in the cool temperature. The wine, in particular, was so good in taste and aroma that James would have flipped out if he had seen it.
‘I’ll give him the wine and ask him to build Chloe a place to stay.’
The place she was currently living in was too cramped.
It was a temporary shelter, and as time went by, the amount of luggage increased.
It seemed like she would be staying for a while, so it would be better to build a separate shelter.
He looked around Chloe’s chicken coop and goat ranch and headed to the field.
Haas was weeding the field.
His help made field management much easier.
He was able to manage the crops without much effort.
It felt like using the auto-play system obtained by purchasing a paid cash item.
‘I need to raise my fame more. It’s too convenient.’
Just by checking it occasionally, the warehouse was filled with crops.
What’s more surprising is that what Haas and Chloe do also accumulates as Hae-jun’s experience points.
Thanks to that, he had some free time in his busy life of going back and forth between the Dimensional Farm and reality.
“You’re here?”
Haas, who was cultivating the field, greeted Hae-jun.
Hae-jun also bowed his head in greeting and entered the field.
While harvesting salad greens. Hae-jun also helped harvest the arugula and romaine lettuce covered in refreshing dew.
It has a unique taste that is both savory and slightly bitter, making it one of the ingredients that customers at the restaurant crave these days.
In particular, the taste became even more outstanding since Haas started cultivating it.
“I feel like the arugula that Haas cultivates tastes especially better.”
“This guy is nothing special. Just plant it in sandy loam and give it plenty of sunlight.”
Sandy loam.
It was a concept that Hae-jun heard for the first time from Haas, the herbalist.
Sandy loam is a mixture of sand, silt, and clay, with coarse particles that allow for good drainage.
If the soil where he first came to the farm and cultivated the field was loam, Haas would create soil suitable for the growing environment depending on the crop he was cultivating.
So the results had to be better.
He learned a lot while farming with Haas.
Thanks to that, his occupation was upgraded to an intermediate farmer, and his cooking skills also improved from a beginner to a low-level chef.
*
[Cha Hae-jun] Lv.9
Age: 25
Title: One who crossed dimensions
Occupation: Intermediate farmer, Low-level chef
Experience: 99 (99%)
Stamina: 34/55
Skill: 78
Fame: 10
*
He felt proud of himself as he watched himself grow little by little.
“Shall we take a short break?”
“Okay.”
Haas and Hae-jun walked to the shade and sat down.
“By the way, Haas. When the carrots and onions over there are fully grown, let’s plant wheat there.”
“Wheat? People are planting a lot of wheat these days.”
Since he had been making a lot of bread lately, he was running out of flour.
“There are many uses for it.”
“Okay.”
“Have a glass of goat milk each.”
As they were cooling off their sweat, Chloe and Mia brought goat milk.
[Me too!]
“Meow~!”
“Don’t worry, there’s some for you guys too.”
Even Pote and Mongchi. All the farm family members gathered.
It was just the right time to quench his thirst. Hae-jun received the goat milk and emptied the glass in one gulp.
“Hmm? It’s refreshing.”
“Refreshing, right? I chilled it in the cave.”
“Cave? Oh, there?”
Not long ago, when he leveled up and collected rock salt, the fog near the cliff receded.
And a small cave was revealed. It was just a small cave about 10 meters long and nothing special, but it was so cold that he didn’t care about it.
“Anything gets cold if you put it in there.”
It was a kind of refrigerator.
‘I should do something that needs to be frozen there in the future.’
Even without that, it was a bit inconvenient not having a refrigerator.
The candy skewers he made for Mia were actually tastier when eaten cold.
In the past, he couldn’t harden the syrup properly, so he couldn’t achieve the perfect texture of candy, but now it seemed possible.
He decided to store other products that needed to be kept cool in the cave instead of the warehouse.
The short, sweet break was over.
He harvested the fully grown crops and planted wheat in their place.
Then the level went up, and the fog receded.
A vast grassland was revealed to the west of the farm.
“Oh, it’s huge.”
A vast meadow like the one you see in movies.
Hae-jun walked towards the grassland, followed by Mongchi.
He walked, feeling the fluffy texture of the grass and the nature.
It felt different from the farm.
“This tree is huge.”
He stopped for a moment under a huge elm tree.
The cool shade created by the wide leaves.
It seemed like a good place to pack a lunch and have a picnic.
“Do you like it here?”
“Meow~.”
“Shall we pack a lunch and have a picnic later?”
“Meow.”
“Okay. I’ll pack a lot of things you like. But it’s really big here.”
When he actually walked around, it was bigger than he thought.
Trees were evenly distributed throughout the vast grassland.
They were large trees such as zelkova and oak trees. It seemed like a waste to just cut them down, and if he did, they would be big enough to make furniture.
Hae-jun tilted his head back and admired the trees.
Tok-
At that moment, a small fruit fell on his forehead.
It was an acorn.
‘I didn’t know. Acorns grow on this kind of tree.’
He had seen them as food, but this was the first time he had actually seen an acorn.
Later, he found out that acorns were a general term for the fruits of oak trees, such as oak, chestnut oak, zelkova, and Mongolian oak.
Hae-jun, who curiously observed the acorn, threw it on the ground and returned to the farm.
It was a pleasant walk.
.
.
.
“Phew, I loaded everything.”
He loaded the cart full of groceries to be sold at Sunflower.
There were quite a lot of sheep, but they were all sold out in a day.
“Let’s go, Mongchi.”
“Meow.”
***
5 a.m.
Hae-jun was moving crops to the kitchen pantry through the passage.
From now on, he had to work diligently to finish the preparations in time for the opening.
Mongchi, who had come to the real world, walked straight to his designated seat and lay down on his stomach, looking sleepy.
Just as he was moving the last box,
“Boss.”
Ko Dong-sik appeared.
“What! Why, why are you here so early?”
The surprised Hae-jun stuttered.
He almost got caught coming out of the passage.
He had told him to come to work around 6 o’clock in preparation for this situation.
“I looked it up on the internet and it said that the youngest in the kitchen comes early in the morning to prepare ingredients and stuff. So I came to work early. You hired me, trusting me, so I have to work hard.”
Dong-sik said, taking the box in Hae-jun’s hands.
“You moved all these ingredients by yourself? There were a lot of ingredients in the kitchen too. I’ll come an hour earlier from tomorrow. Around 4 a.m.”
“Oh, no. You don’t have to do that. It’s easier for me to move this alone.”
“But I’m the youngest, so I have to come with you…”
“It’s okay.”
He needed to come up with something to say.
Then suddenly,
“You know the Labor Standards Act, right? Just work the exact number of hours you’re supposed to. Otherwise, I’ll be in trouble.”
He said, beating around the bush.
Then Dong-sik looked very sorry.
“Oh, I didn’t think about that.”
“So from now on, be sure to come by 6 a.m. at the latest. Even if you’re late, its fine.”
“Yes, I understand. Boss.”
“And calling me boss all the time is a bit… I feel awkward.”
“No, you can’t. Just let me call you boss.”
They each gave in a step.
Ko Dong-sik to work after 6 a.m., and Hae-jun to the title of boss.
“What should we start with?”
Dong-sik, who was now properly dressed and had washed his hands, asked.
“Please wash the salad greens in running water first.”
“Yes, boss.”
It was definitely easier to cook with someone else.
“The vegetables are very fresh. They don’t even smell like pesticides.”
“Yes. They were harvested just last night.”
“You didn’t buy them from the wholesale market?”
Dong-sik nodded as if he knew Hae-jun would nod.
“Somehow… it’s different from what they sell at the market. Where’s the farm…”
“Hyung. Mash this.”
Hae-jun cut off his question by handing him boiled potatoes.
“Oh, yes.”
Toktoktok-
Gurgle gurgle-
The preparations were finished earlier than usual.
There was a big difference between having an assistant and not having one.
“We’re open.”
Min-ju opened the door of the shop as Hae-jun nodded.
Customers rushed in as if they had been waiting.
“Two morning sets here.”
“Pack me 3 fat sandwiches.”
“Pack 5 fat sandwiches.”
“I’m sorry, customer. We can only pack up to 3 per person.”
“Oh… then pack me 3.”
“Yes, please wait a moment.”
Min-ju skillfully handled the flood of orders and placed them in the kitchen in order.
“Hyung. 2 salads, 2 soups.”
“Yes, boss.”
Hae-jun quickly lined up 8 pieces of bread on the cutting board and said to Dong-sik.
The role he gave Dong-sik was to prepare salads and soups and wash empty bowls.
It was a simple task, but he supported Hae-jun with enthusiasm.
“You worked hard.”
“You too, oppa and ahjussi.”
“You’ve had a hard time.”
The stormy morning business was over.
It was his first time doing something like this, so he was nervous, but Dong-sik felt proud of himself for doing well without making any mistakes.
“Hyung. You worked hard.”
“No, it was more fun than I thought. It gives me strength when people say it’s delicious.”
Sunflower’s kitchen and hall were designed to be semi-open.
So I could hear the stories that the customers shared while eating.
Listening to those stories gave him strength even when he was tired.
“Because it’s delicious food that sells.”
“I think I understand. By the way, what should we do now? Clean up?”
Dong-sik got up from his seat like a knife after a 10-minute break.
As expected, his motivation was the best.
“In a little while. Let’s have breakfast and take it slow.”
“I have to work the money I’m paid.”
“They said it violates the Labor Standards Act. We have to guarantee break time as well.”
“Oh, yes… then.”
Was it because he didn’t want to suffer even a minor loss?
Dong-sik backed down as soon as he talked about the law.
“You only have to work in the morning.”
“Huh? Wasn’t it full-time?”
“It is, but the menu isn’t ready yet.”
“I’ll still be on call. Just in case, and…”
“Think of it as a training period for now.”
“I understand.”
***
After Min-ju and Don-gsik left work, Hae-jun headed to the Dimensional Farm.
It was early dawn here, and he stopped by briefly to harvest some ingredients needed for his cooking research and crops that had finished growing.
“The carrots and onions were over there, right?”
What he was researching these days was not bread like pizza or pasta, but other forms of wheat food.
The taste wasn’t bad, but the chewing texture was lacking.
As he walked, thinking about the menu and recipe,
“Ugh! What is this?”
Something shocking happened before Hae-jun’s eyes.
It was that the field he had carefully cultivated had been dug up by someone.
“Who, who dug up my field…”
