Living in a Garage With an Alien Car

“..sure. it’s okay.”

“I think you will go to Jeju Island in the future.”

“Yes, Jeju Island is a sacred place for traveling by car.. I am thinking about it.. but nothing has been decided yet. It’s not because it’s not a trip with a schedule and a plan.”

“I envy you. Traveling is also a challenge.. I will always support you while watching the video.”

“thank you.”

It’s a trip I love.

I was surprised and grateful that people supported my trip.

“Ah…then where are you going on this trip? I’m very curious, as a fan…”

“I think I will spend the fall in Mt. Jiri. I think there will be a lot of richness in autumn.”

“Mt. Jirisan.. I like it..”

The faces of the two are full of envy.

“I look forward to it. Have a good trip in the future and please make a lot of good travel videos.”

“Take care of your health too.”

“thank you.”

In no time, we arrived at the Mokpo Coastal Passenger Terminal.

He stopped in front of a young couple who had already disembarked and were waiting, and took out the guys from the cage.

“Ayu.. so pretty..”

Couples holding chewing gum and guys busy taking pictures.

When Kkandoli Kkansuni climbed up the man’s forearm and landed on his shoulder, he vomited his flagship and liked it.

I didn’t want to take away my favorite time, so I opened the roof top window.

Food good.

As the mango rushes towards me with its powerful wings, the couple is busy taking pictures.

Flying was an art.

Seemingly envious, honey drips from my gaze toward Mango.

“Give this to Mango.”

“What is this?”

“It’s a mealworm that mangoes love. Let go of your guard and approach.”

After handing the couple a bag of mealworms, they quickly toss them around as if feeding pigeons, attracting Mango’s attention.

A couple who had spent time with them for a while handed them over to me.

“Wow, thanks to that, I took a picture with the cute gumballs that look like stars.. Thank you.”

“Have a nice trip.”

“thank you.”

After breaking up with the guys and leaving the couple moving to the taxi stand, I got into the car.

I remembered the words of the two brothers asking for the address, so I sent the address of the Shinseonbong Pension where Dami is located and the address of my brother in Seoul.

I didn’t know the address of my brother’s house, so I called my sister-in-law, but my sister-in-law was puzzled when I asked for her address.

of course.

It’s absurd. Asking for the address right away had no choice but to be honest.

He said that his older brother, an abalone farmer in Hongsan Island, whom he met during the trip, sent some abalone.

And I ended the call by saying that I would arrive at Jirisan a day earlier than the promised date and see you comfortably.

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It is about 130 kilometers from Mokpo Passenger Terminal to Gokrye, the city of Jirisan Mountain, where we are supposed to meet my brother.

It takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes by highway, and about 2 hours by national highway, which is a free priority road.

‘He’s not busy.’

Since I had plenty of time, I rode the national highway to enjoy the scenery of Late Autumn, slowly descending the Baekdu Daegan.

After leaving the Mokpo Passenger Terminal, Moo-song passed Muan and entered Hampyeong, where the endless horizon continued.

“Wow.. now it’s autumn in full swing.”

Golden reeds and harvested rice fields and unharvested golden fields were repeated infinitely, making the eyes happy.

Passing by Yeongsanpo, Naju, I was happy to think of the skate I ate at Hongsando, and the autumn leaves on the outskirts of Mudeungsan were creating a magnificent view.

As soon as you enter Gorye, your destination, you can already smell the scent of autumn.

The mountains were at their peak in reddish autumn leaves, and farmers were busily moving in the fields to collect all kinds of grain.

The location of the pension, which is said to be run by a friend of my brother, was in the valley at the beginning of Jirisan Mountain.

It’s a pension, but it was a bit of a remodeled bed and breakfast.

It is a pension that provides accommodation and food to those who manage the pension while doing mountain farming in this area and travel the Jirisan Dulle-gil.

In the back yard, which is not so sophisticated, there is soybean paste sauce, and the appearance of a rural mountain village with stringed eggplants and shiregi hanging down from the eaves looked very friendly.

When Moosong entered the yard at the back of the spacious pension, a friend of the owner’s older brother came out and helped me with Moosong.

The straw hat and red coated gloves, the symbol of mountain village farmers, are impressive.

He was tanned in the autumn sunlight and looked ten years older than his older brother.

I wondered how he and I became friends.

“Seok-i is Dongsae… Aeng?”

“Yes, Seok is your brother’s younger brother.”

“I have been contacted. Oh, I had a hard time coming to a mountain village.”

I think I heard from my brother that he was on a trip..

Gum ticket, Kkandol, Kkansuni, and even Mango are surprised and smiled happily when they come out of the car.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen him wearing a squirrel and carrying a peacock. I buy a lot of variety. huh? Ugh, Seok only knows about work and family. They have a large yard, so you can let them loose. People get tired when they drive for a long time, but animals are the same. It looks cramped because you’ve been in the car for a long time.”

“thank you. Brother, you can speak comfortably.”

“ha ha ha. so what Hun?”

“Yes, brother. Brother, when I came up here, people were catching something in the rice fields after harvest. What are they catching?”

I was very curious.

It seemed that the two villagers were bending over and grabbing something.

“It’s for catching mudfish.”

Ah.. Mudfish.

“No, loaches live in the rice fields.”

“These days, they don’t use medicine and grow rice, so they buy a lot of mudfish. I’ve gained a lot of weight now, so it’s good for male stamina. how is it? Caught and come? I’m going to cook you a really amazing loach dish.”

What is a wonderful mudfish dish?

“Good. I think there are many chestnut trees in the back mountain.”

“Can I pick it up?”

“Can someone go and pick it up?”

“Mushrooms have to be collected by someone with permission in the military, and chestnuts are rotting on the floor.”

“ah···.”

I got something to play with today.

After catching the mudfish, I started to get excited like a child at the thought of going to pick up chestnuts.

“hahahahaha, you’re well-prepared. good, good.”

When I showed up with my boots and gloves on and dragged the wheeled jogwatong, it was my older brother who laughed heartily.

He then hands me an onion net and a large plastic basin.

“Ogeoruda scoops water on top of the mud and pours it into the onion net, and only loaches will remain.”

“Oh, thank you. older brother. Then I will go. I’ll take the chewing gum. Mango, please. Kandori Kkansuni will play well without going far.”

“Draw it. Peacocks will not fly to the mountains. Hey, it’s the first time I’ve seen it, it’s pretty, it’s pretty.”

“It can’t be.”

“Be careful, there is a lot of water in the rice fields here, so your legs will sink.”

“all right.”

I went down the narrow cement road while admiring the surrounding scenery.

A stream flows along the side of the road.

‘There must be a lot of fish here.’

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A pension located on the Jirisan Dulle-gil course, located deep in the mountains.

There seems to be a lot of entertainment around.

Doongdoongi and Cloudy follow along the road, sniffing it excitedly, but following it well.

If you walk down for about 10 minutes, you will find a rice field.

Two elderly people were in full swing catching mudfish in the rice paddy furrow where the harvest was over.

When I appeared in the Nongorang, I stopped moving and looked at me with a wary look.

I bent my waist at 90 degrees and said hello.

“hello. This is a person who came to play at the upper pension. There is a mudfish in the rice field. So I came.”

“Stop being a customer at Hae-shik’s shop.”

My brother’s friend’s name is Park Hae-shik.

“Yes yes, that is correct. Even if you catch loach, young people these days can’t eat it. It’s all red, let’s eat.”

“In the old days, everyone ate whole loach, but the pear flakes were gone.”

I also remember eating whole loach loach soup when I was young.

I remember thinking that it was disgusting because it was my father’s favorite food, but I remember putting the little baby loach on a spoon and eating it with my eyes closed because I was afraid of the loach.

Seeing this, my father laughed and laughed.

“no. Even when I was young, I ate loach soup from time to time.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, yes, my deceased father liked it.”

“Because the mudfish I’m taking these days is medicine. You took a lot and let’s go.”

“Yes, yes.. Be careful going in.”

The two elders struggled to the rice paddy bank to give me their seat.

Now all the mudfish in this vast rice field are mine.

however,

Even in the muddy water, where the legs were sinking, it was difficult to move.

“Oh, this is a very difficult job.”

In just a few minutes, sweat was forming on my forehead.

There are a lot of mudfish, but I found out why the locals didn’t come out and catch them.

Even after 10 minutes, I couldn’t catch a single one.

‘I prepared this loudly and came out, but it’s not just embarrassing.’

it was raining

After a few tricks, the speed at which rice fields such as pearls were picked up was fast, and three thick fish wriggled in the onion net at once.

“Oops! three at a time Three!”

“Kyong-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k!”

“Nyaaaong!”

When I cheered, Doongdungi and Cloud, who were sitting there watching, also liked it.

This is another taste…

“Come on, let’s catch ten. Only ten.”

For an hour like that, I wandered through the mud on the rice field.

“Hey heck. Ah, this is good for exercise.”

I moved heavy steps to the rice field bank and collapsed to the ground.

It was tiring, but it was fun.

When I heard the onion net, I think I caught about 20 of them.

I thought this would be enough to eat alone, so on the way back to the pension, I crossed the stream and walked down the low hill that looked like chestnut trees.

to pick up fallen chestnuts.

“wow.”

There were numerous fallen chestnuts, and their mouths were gaping.

If you step on it with your foot, thick chestnuts come out.

Fruits and berries are good to eat in season, but the same goes for chestnuts.

If you eat it grilled, boiled, or eaten raw, there is no other snack like this.

Two or three eggs in a large chestnut cluster are standard.

In some cases, a single chestnut kernel the size of a baby’s fist was firmly established.

If I leave it like this anyway, it will become food for wild animals or rot, so I was in a hurry to take it all with me, and before I knew it, the onion net was stretched out with loaches and chestnuts.

“done. That’s all for today.”

It was the first day of my trip to Jirisan, and I came out to search in advance, so I was satisfied with this and headed to the pension.

Like a child, with his mouth wide open.

Hae-shik’s eyes widened as he entered with the onion screen filled with them.

No matter what it is, it is filled with eyes like this that I never expected to come.

“Hun is quite the younger brother. I thought I couldn’t catch even five. It’s good to play tricks. I also bought a lot of chestnuts.”

“Ah… no. I was lucky.”

“Honey, I need to prepare some chueotang. Seok’s brother came a day early.”

I introduced myself to my sister-in-law who was working in the anchae building.

“hello. Thank you, sister-in-law.”

“Please, I beg of you. Thank you for coming to this mountain valley. Wash up and rest. I will prepare the food.”

“Yes, thank you.”

At the edge of the yard and parking lot with sparse grass, there was a conventional tap, a large crab, and a fire pit.

It was good because it had an old analog sensibility.

It must be a sensibility that is perfect for Jirisan Mountain.

While rinsing off the pearl-stained boots on his chest, Hae-sik washed away the green onions and started lighting a fire.

“Brother, are there more mudfish than I caught?”

“I went to the residence that the elders in the neighborhood took today.”

“is it so?”

“Yeah, the young man said that he was good at greetings and told me to treat him well.”

It must have been given to him by an old man whom he met a little while ago.

I was just grateful.

I wondered what the identity of the green onion mudfish was and why it was lit.

“Let’s boil the mudfish you caught in Maeuntang and bake the mudfish that the elder gave us. Try it. It’s awesome.”

“Do you eat grilled mudfish?”

“Then, if you grill it together with this green onion, this is another delicacy. Before dinner, let’s bake together with chestnuts.”

I’m already salivating about the taste of loaches grilled with green onions.

Roasted green onion mudfish and roasted chestnuts

Swish.

On the large cutting board brought by my sister-in-law, I cut long green onions up to the waist of an adult as if apportioning them.

15-20 cm size?

So, about the length of a loach.

And some roots were left unwashed and ancient.

‘Why don’t you leave that behind? Not washed or trimmed?’

It was something that made him tilt his head, but Park Hae-sik quickly opened his mouth, as if he didn’t want to give him a chance to think.

“Will you light a fire?”

“Yes, brother. I’m good. I carry the torch. I will take it out and smoke it right away.”

“Hiya, you’re cool and sensible. huh?”