Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 17

After a while, the old woman returned and brought a shopping cart full of ingredients.

“Aren’t you busy?”

“There are a lot of employees in our mart. Go back without me.”

“I’m looking at the store. I’ll call you when it’s done.”

“Yeah.”

The old woman went up to the second floor.

– Aww, no Namah. What is this. I have to clean and live.

From upstairs she heard her aunt’s voice.

“Yeah? I clean it every day.”

-Did you do this?

Even though she said Hano, she doesn’t seem to be in her eyes.

She nagged for a while, and then she calmed down little by little.

This time, the smell of her delicious food began to spread little by little.

Ummm

‘… … Miso soup, the smell of grilling fish… … This is pumpkin pie… … This smell is steamed egg… … .’

After a long time, the house was filled with the smell of cooking.

Knuckle, Knuckle~

She began to signal her without notice from the ship.

Kick~

She continued to salivate and went down her throat.

It smells so good just by smelling it.

I was on the second floor and sniffing my nose when someone walked into the laundry.

“Hello… … .”

It was the husband of a mart aunt, Mr. Yoo.

“Ah, Annam, hello. My wife told me to come over for lunch.”

She never said good-bye, but every time she opened her shop door, she greeted her in the eye.

“Ah yes. Come in.”

– Is President Yoo here?

An old woman’s voice came from the second floor.

“Yes, President Park is here. Shall we go up?”

-Yeah, both come up. It’s done.”

Although the two were a couple, they called each other President Park and President Yoo.

I locked the laundry door and guided Mr. Yoo upward.

“Come over here. It’s okay, but they keep making me eat. Sorry.”

“I’m sorry what. It’s been a while since I’ve had a proper meal and it’s good. They don’t do it well in my house.”

When I went up to the second floor, there was a dining table in the middle of the living room.

It wasn’t a supper, but it was a table with everything there was.

“I don’t have anything prepared because I’m in a hurry, but I eat a lot.”

“Wow, that would be delicious. Annam, let’s sit down and eat.”

“Yes, I will eat well.”

I scooped out a spoonful of warm rice and put it in my mouth, and put the miso soup in my mouth.

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a mom’s table.

Suddenly, something hot rose from my chest.

“Is it worth eating?”

her aunt asked cautiously.

“Really delicious!”

“President Park, your food is good. Do something like this at home.”

“I’m busy, but where do I have time to cook? President Yoo, don’t do it.”

“Am I busy too?”

“Then keep eating bread.”

“Yes, yes. Do this sometimes.”

Without a moment for her to speak, she hurriedly began to eat her food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The old woman looked at her with delight.

“But I haven’t thrown that washing machine away yet. isn’t it broken? Your father said he would throw it away, but he kept not throwing it away. It’s the first time I bought it when I started the laundry, so I guess I’m starting to fall in love with it.”

He was talking about the washing machine on the veranda.

I am currently using it as a portal.

“Yeah, I throw it away too. It reminds me of my parents.”

“Yes, throwing it all away is not the only answer. Even if things break, memories don’t break.”

“Memories don’t break… … That’s a really good thing.”

“President Park, do you know how to say things like that? I thought you only knew how to count money.”

“No, this gentleman. Eat some rice.”

President Yoo and I ate a bowl of rice in an instant.

“Give me more?”

“Yeah!”

“I also!”

After we ate one more bowl, we moved away from the table.

“I’ve had enough. old lady. It was really delicious. I was thinking about what to say if it didn’t taste good. haha.”

“Ho Ho. I’m not as good as your mom, but average. What can a person do better than average?”

“Oh, I’m hungry. ate too much I will do the dishes.”

President Yoo jumped up from his seat.

“No, I will. Please sit down.”

I stopped, but Mr. Yoo was already wearing his rubber gloves and his apron.

He looked familiar, as if he had done a lot.

The aunt cleaned up her dishes by putting the finished dishes in her washing-up bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;

“Then I will serve you coffee.”

“coffee? If it’s coffee, you can go to our cafe and eat it. Do not.”

Oh, by the way, Mr. Yoo was running a coffee shop.

Still, he wanted to serve coffee harvested in the forest.

“Try our coffee, too. Come down when you’re done.”

“Yes, yes.”

I went down to the laundromat, changed the coffee beans, and ran the water slowly.

About the time the scent of coffee filled the laundry, Auntie and Mr. Yoo came down.

“Wow, the coffee smells so good. It smells completely different from our cafe coffee.”

“Come here and sit down.”

As she sat down, she looked around her laundry.

“Now the clothes are full.”

“Yeah. We have some guests today.”

“When your mother was in the laundry, there was a warm feeling. People could feel that energy spreading around this laundromat. Washing your clothes doesn’t just make your clothes clean. I felt something warm. It doesn’t feel like anyone. But I still feel that way.”

“Did you? I didn’t know.”

She placed one mint candy in the coffee cup.

The old woman took her cup of coffee and she gave her faint eyes.

“Come on, have a drink.”

“Yes, thank you. Oh my, this teacup is the same. Your mom always drank coffee from this cup. Oh well, I always carry this teacup with me when I go out. Even if it was blunt, it was unusual.”

“President Park is always talking about your mother.”

“Yeah… … Eat before it cools down.”

Auntie and CEO Yoo took the cup of coffee, brought it to her mouth, and drank it slurp.

For a moment, I wondered if my eyes would start to swell and I started drinking.

The old woman, who was talking a lot, didn’t say a word while she finished drinking.

After he finished drinking, Mr. Yoo opened his mouth and looked only at the ceiling.

After she had finished drinking, the old lady who had put down her coffee cup sat there for a while without saying a word again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“Are you okay? Doesn’t the coffee taste too good?”

“No, it’s so delicious. But there is no way to describe the taste.”

“It’s a taste that makes you forget what to say.”

“Ah, that’s good. I am again.”

The taste that made me forget what to say, that seemed to be the right word.

‘Cause that’s what I saw

“I drank coffee, and a beautiful fantasy world unfolds in my head. It’s like a forest, with light particles circling around it, and there are small streams and lots of flowers.”

Oh, it’s a forest.

Upon hearing President Yoo’s expression, she was a little surprised.

“This gentleman has been writing poetry since a long time ago. He’s an inspirational person.”

“No, because it looks real.”

The old woman is nowhere to be seen.

“By the way, if we give away free coffee like this here, our store will not do business any more.”

“The business didn’t work in the first place, but don’t blame others.”

“is it? haha.”

The two went back after talking coffee for a while.

In the afternoon, the guests flocked in again.

After leaving the clothes, we sat on a chair in front of the store and chatted for a while.

All of a sudden, the front of our laundry was turning into a meeting place.

It was delightful.

After a few customers, it was time to pick up the laundry in the afternoon.

As I was packing my bag and getting ready, my phone rang.

It was an unknown number.

“Hello?”

A young woman’s voice came from the other side of the phone.

‘Oh, it’s a girl. I don’t have a woman to call me.’

“Annam, it’s me. Shin Se-yeon.”

“Shin Se-yeon? Oh, it was Seyeon. But what about my phone number?”

We never exchanged phone numbers.

“I’m sorry. I also have personal information… … .”

“Ah… … Fine. But for what?”

“I don’t know if I can ask you this, but I’m in a hurry, so could you bring me some of my clothes over here?”

Shin Se-yeon’s voice seemed to be tense and trembling.

“What’s going on?”

“The audition schedule was suddenly pulled. I couldn’t prepare my clothes because I was in a hurry.”

Perhaps he was very nervous because of the audition.

“If it’s close, that’s fine. I also have a delivery service.”

“Oh, thank you. Fortunately, it’s close.”

“Then give me your address. I’ll go right away.”

“Yes, thank you, Annam. I will never forget this grace.”

After hanging up the phone and waiting for a while, the address arrived via text message.

‘This is not a place you can walk to.’

Five stops by bus were where I had to go.

‘I have to give up walking around town today. Today we finish delivering Seyeon’s clothes.’

I looked at the time and had to move quickly.

I took Seyeon’s clothes and the ‘juice of courageous herb’ that I got from the forest.

I was going to take the bus, but I thought I would be late, so I took a taxi after a long time.

Come to think of it, it was the first time I went to another town after returning home.

“Chief, would you like to go to Gukje-dong?”

“Yeah.”

As the driver started the car, he started sniffing his nose.

“I think the bachelor smells good.”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“Ah yes. I am doing the laundry.”

“It smells fresh and pleasant. When guests ride, they all smell different. It’s the first time I’ve smelled such a pleasant scent.”

‘This is all because of the forest of the extinct world.’

The streets of Seoul in 1999 were fast passing through the window.

It felt completely different from 2020.

‘At that time, there weren’t that many apartments.’

When I arrived at the address that Se-yeon Shin had taken, I took out his wallet to get off.

“It’s money.”

The knight held out his palm as if to put money in.

“Uh, why?”

“It just makes me feel better. Every day, I only smelled the smell of strong perfume, cigarette smoke, and alcohol, but when I smelled the incense from the bachelor, my head was clear.”

“No, though.”

“done. I’ll go to the laundromat next time, so please take care of me then.”

“Then come to our laundromat. The phone number is… … .”

“I know, somewhere. I’ve seen you come and go It was a flower shop.”

“Oh yes, thank you. I will make it clean.”

The taxi driver started the car with a happy face.

‘What’s wrong with taking a taxi for free?’

When I got out of the car, I saw the building Shin Se-yeon was talking about right next to me.

Seoul Film Academy.

‘Oh, it was here.’

Seoul Film Academy was a familiar place.

A place that produces future film directors.

Many famous film directors were from here.

The famous director Bong Tae-jin, whom he briefly greeted in his previous life, also came from this academy.

‘I think it will be a good opportunity for Shin Se-yeon to appear in a film directed by a native here.’

“Annam, here you are!”

I looked back at the sound of Se-yeon Shin coming out of the building and calling me.

“Oh, Seyeon-san.”

“It came just right. Thank you very much.”

Still nervous, his hands were trembling.

“I guess I’m trembling. what can I do. I’m going to ruin everything today. I also ate cheongsimhwan, but to no avail.”

Also.

What you need in this case… … .

Before handing the clothes to Mr. Seyeon, he lightly smeared the ‘juice of dragon fruit’ brought from the forest.

With a faint smell of mugwort, I could see the dragon grass glowing and soaking into the fibers.

Then a letter appeared in front of his eyes.

『The container vinegar is effective.』

“Your confidence and self-esteem increase.”