A Genius Writer Loved by an Actress 15
I woke up to the sound of an alarm the next morning, so I was able to get on the first car safely.
I passed out as soon as I got on the intercity bus, and when I woke up, I was running on a country road.
I saw cumulus clouds in the blue sky, golden sunlight and thick greenery, and people camping in a clear valley with a gurgling stream.
‘If it’s not work, I’m just jumping into it. too bad.’
The mind was healed by the quiet and comfortable countryside scenery.
After seeing the water and looking at the mountains, I arrived at my destination before I knew it, and then I took a taxi and ran further to Ji So-young’s orchard.
The taxi dropped me off in front of the sign that read ‘Farm under the Sky’ and left. I could see the vineyards, but I had to walk a little more by a side road to get to the farm where people live.
‘Even in summer, the wind is refreshing and cool because it is close to the mountains. It feels like my hometown Jirisan.’
Our house is also in the mountains, so this type of terrain was very familiar.
It’s not difficult to find, but it was a little difficult to meet Ji So-young, who I don’t know much.
I just came yesterday because Song Seon-ah said that she had kept in touch with Ji So-young, but I was worried about whether I would be able to meet properly or what to say if I did.
‘Let me know the audition date and hand over the script. Let’s say that Soyoung is perfect for the role of Chaerin. That should be enough.’
I took one step at a time with the belief that if Ji So-young still had a passion for acting, it would work if she simply said it.
As we approached the entrance, we saw a truck loaded with sacks of fertilizer. A man who looked to be in his fifties was cutting the bags with a cutter knife and pouring them into a one-wheeled cart.
As I got closer, the old man stopped working and stared at me.
“Are you here to buy a Shine Muscat? Aigoo, what should I do? It’s still not ripe. I have peaches now.”
A look of sadness washed over his face. It seemed that there were often strangers passing by to buy Shine Muscats.
“The house comes out in August, and the outdoors in September and October. You came too early.”
“no. no.”
I greeted each other by waving my hand.
Uncle looked at me again, wondering if anyone else had come to buy fruit.
“…I came to see Ji So-young. Because this is the hometown.”
“Ah… our Soyoung has come to meet you.”
The uncle’s relaxed eyes filled with curiosity this time.
“yes. I have something to tell you.”
“Okay? What kind of relationship is it with Soyoung?”
“Ah yes. We are just acquaintances.”
“Well, not boyfriends or lovers?”
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“No, no. Just like co-workers… well, that’s right.”
He waved his hands like a trembling aspen tree and denied it with his whole body.
“Oh, what are you so surprised about? I was just asking because I was curious. Come follow me.”
The man poured another bag of fertilizer into the one-legged cart and grabbed the handle. However, his face was contorted.
“No, father. Why?”
“No, no. I draw because my hand is a little uncomfortable. It’s okay.”
Come to think of it, the uncle’s hand was wrapped in bandages.
“Oh, come on, please. I’ll do it.”
“My dear. If a guest does something like this, write it. And this is not for city people.”
“it’s okay. Our house is also in the mountains, so I did it a lot when I was young.”
“Uh-huh. feel like that? Isn’t it easy to pull a single wheelbarrow? Even if you can’t focus even a little bit, you’ll fall over.”
“yes. I know. Since then, I have won 1st place in the unipedal wagon race at the Vondo Elementary School athletic meet.”
He quickly grabbed the handle of the cart. Then I grabbed it and pushed it tight. It was very light and smooth movement.
The man’s face, who had been skeptical of what I said, suddenly opened up.
“Uh, uh, uh. Oh my, it’s basic. Then I will lead the way, follow me.”
“yes. Take the lead. I will follow you.”
He pushed the cart through the ripening vineyards. Looking at the scenery, I wondered if this was the Greek coast of the Mediterranean Sea or Yeonan-eup, Taean-gun, Republic of Korea.
“All right, all right. Just put it down here.”
“Oh, yes.”
I carefully lowered the cart to the designated place. Then he stretched out his finger to one side.
“Thank you. Go inside over there. Soyoung will be there.”
“Ah yes. All right.”
I said hello and went straight to the place pointed to.
Lush leaves blocked the sunlight and created shade between the hangers hanging in the air. The cool air, the gentle breeze, and the sweet scent of Shine Musket.
‘Okay, fine. By the way, where is Soyoung?’
Standing in place and looking around,
“Oh. Writer! You really have come all the way here!”
Ji So-young found me first from a distance and was approaching me.
Her face was brighter than she was worried. No, I was even refreshed by the intermittent sunlight.
“I was really surprised when I got a call from Seon-ah unnie yesterday. No, how did you get here?”
It was more comfortable than I was worried about when I actually met Ji So-young. That’s why the words came out without me knowing.
“Is there only one more reason for me to come here? I came here because of Soyoung.”
“So what is it?”
“yes. that is…”
The moment I thought I had to take the script out of my bag,
meow~~
A fairly heavy force rubbed my calves.
what? One, two, three times before checking. I was staggered by the indiscriminate attack.
“Mackerel, cheese, snow white. no. stop it.”
Ji So-young shouted,
I looked down and saw three black, yellow and white cats alternately babbling on my legs.
meow
meow~~
As Ji So-young approached, Mackerel and Bek Seol stopped booby-boobying, but only Cheese was still hitting them.
“Cheese is especially fond of people. Still, it’s not that great, but the author seems to like it very much.”
“Oh yeah?”
Hearing that he likes me, he bent over and stroked the cheese. He closed his eyes and felt my hand, and he was happy.
It was then that the scissors in Ji So-young’s hand caught my eye.
“…you must have been thinning grapes?”
For grape varieties, the fruit had to be shredded because the fruits could come into contact with each other and burst. There were quite a few vineyards in my hometown, so I knew that.
“Oh. How does the writer know that?”
“My hometown is Hamyang, Jirisan Mountain. There are also vineyards nearby. In the summer, when I had a job, I went to help and get pocket money.”
“Oh yeah? He looked like a Seoulite.”
“I’ve been hearing that since I was a kid… no, do you have any leftover scissors?”
“What are you going to do?”
“I need to know. 800 to 900 grams?”
Shine Muscat is best suited to that level.
Ji So-young nodded and smiled happily. Then I pulled out an extra pair of scissors from my apron.
“Then shall we begin?”
“yes.”
When I grabbed the scissors, I remembered the old days and my skills came out. Soaked in perfume, I counted the grapes with joy.
“Remove what you see in the sky, remove what is extinguished to the ground, remove a lump, remove what is embedded. Eliminate the sky again, remove the earth, remove what is stuck except what is stuck.”
It was slow at first, but as I got used to it, the scissoring got faster and faster.
poop poop poop
As the grape drops fell to the ground like a shower, the cats were most excited.
We had fun playing ball with grape drops, jumping, grabbing and climbing. Oddly enough, it didn’t interfere with people’s work.
“Wow. Author. You must grow grapes.”
Ji So-young looked at my skills, put a rubber band in her mouth, put her hair together over the nape of her neck, and then wrapped it in a polka dot.
“I have been growing grapes for 10 years. I can’t lose.”
“yes. If the two of us join forces, this furrow will be over in no time.”
Ji So-yeong’s neckline, with her hair tied up, was very white and thin. So, without realizing it, my eyes stopped.
“See what? Writer.”
“Ah… no. Cough Cough”
I was so surprised that I coughed.
After that, we focused on our work in silence. As if we were competing, the work quickly decreased.
“No, how could your hand move like that? The shape of the Shine Muscat cluster is just art, art.”
“How the hell do you know how to thin eggs? He can easily do what a worker Senet should do by himself.”
Ji So-young’s mother and father stood admiring when they arrived. I looked back at them with a confident look.
“When I was young, there was a vineyard around my house. It’s been done a lot.”
“Oh, yes. Glutton.”
“But I make the person who comes as a guest do a lot of work. What do you really do?”
The aunt looked strangely at my egg thinning technique, but she seemed uncomfortable.
“What do you do, what do you do? You should treat your guests deliciously. Show your skills after a long time.”
The man next to me said, plucking his straw hat into his pants.
“That should be it. This is not the time for me to do this. Writer Seon-sang, I will prepare a delicious lunch for you, so eat well and go.”
“No, even if you don’t…”
I did not want to cause any inconvenience, so I declined, but the aunt didn’t listen to me and disappeared somewhere.
Ji So-young approached me.
“You helped me with this kind of work, but if I just let it go, my parents don’t feel comfortable either. Have lunch and go. My mom is good at food.”
“Ah yes. Then I have to work harder.”
When Ji So-young said that, I felt at ease. You just have to repay it with hard work as much as you eat.
Scissors did not stop.
Buried in the cool breeze, the fragrant scent of Shine Muscat, and the bright sunlight, I put my body to rest for the first time in a while.
After cleaning up a section of the vineyard, it’s lunchtime.
“You will be very hungry. So drink a lot.”
“Ah yes. thank you.”
Sitting in the farmhouse hut, I looked down at the table that was set up so that the legs were bent. It was a spectacle to see a colossal native chicken lying on a large pot and sticking out its front paws.
“Here, try one leg.”
She took off a huge chicken leg and put it on my bowl. My mouth watered at the savory smell.
“I will enjoy this food.”
I immediately grabbed the chicken leg and cut a bite.
Soft lean meat along the grain-
“Wow, it is chewy and soft. cadet. It’s really the best.”
He gave it a thumbs up and started eating with his nose pierced. Brown-brown potato pancakes, sweet and sour acorn jelly, fragrant herbs, and each food were excellent.
After a long time, when food like food went in, my mouth lost face and became a vacuum cleaner. It sucked in all the food like a black hole.
“Ah, writer man. Happy to eat well. Hey, give me some more rice.”
“What kind of rice do you eat? There is fried rice. There are also peaches.”
“Draw?”
When Baeksuk was easily served, the lady scooped out some scorched rice and handed it over.
It was not hot and lukewarm, so I drank it and ate it with a spoon at the end.
“Um, it’s good.”
As soon as I brushed off the nurungji, a refreshing peach blossom came out of the ice.
I was full as if I couldn’t take another bite, but to my surprise, I ate again.
Finally, after clearing the peach blossoms, I put the spoon down.
“hahaha, I ate very well.”
It was only later that I realized how hard I ate and that people were staring at me. Ji So-young laughed softly.
“Writer. Would you like to go for a walk to digest it?”
“yes. That’s good.”
The grapes were thinned, the rice was eaten, and the time was passing. Now it’s time to tell Ji So-young about the drama and auditions.
A walk seemed like a good excuse.
A Golden Retriever named Yum-Jean followed us.
“I think the dog is very gentle.”
“yes. He’s good with cats, and he’s a kind, gentle kid. You don’t know how wary strangers are, though.”
Ji So-young stroked Yum-jeon’s hair and kissed her nose. Yum-seon wiggled her hair once and took the lead.
I walked for a while, looking at the clouds of various shapes hanging over the mountain. The sound of cicadas and mountain birds was in summer, but it was not very hot.
“I have to learn.”
All of a sudden it popped out without me knowing.
“yes?”
Ji So-young was startled and met my eyes. I did not turn away from her gaze.
“What did you just say?
“I have to be an actor. So-young said that I should be an actress.”
Her expression darkened,
“···no. Now I’m not acting. I have no talent.”
Between trembling lips, he answered without strength.
I turned my head and looked again at the clouds above the mountain.
“＜Rose＞ 1500 to 1, ＜Hunting＞ 2800 to 1, ＜God of Retro＞ 2000 to 1.”
Ji So-young turned to me with her round eyes. like what do you mean
“It’s the audition competition for movies that have been screened recently. Am I really lacking talent just because I fell there?… No, I don’t think so. Soyoung just hasn’t met her role yet.”
I took out the script for ＜Baristas Don’t Know Coffee＞ and handed it to Soyoung Ji.
