Returner's Magic Laundry

Chapter 48

‘Before I go to the forest, I have to stop by a flower shop… … .’

I took out the laundry to take to the flower shop and started ironing carefully.

Most likely, the apron was worn to keep it from getting soiled.

If it was an apron, I could have washed it at home, but since the store doesn’t have a washing machine, I decided to give it a cheaper price.

There were a lot of aprons with embroidery on a white background, but it looked like they were not professional.

The crooked embroidery belonged to a young child, and it seemed like her mother did what she wanted to put a little better.

Most of the pictures were of her mom and dad and a kid in a yellow chick standing between them.

‘cute.’

I put the ironed laundry in the laundry bag and headed to the flower shop.

The flower shop owner was getting ready to go to work, and was sweeping the dirt on the floor with a broom.

“Good morning. boss. Laundry delivery here.”

The boss, who was sweeping the broom, raised his head.

“Oh, thank you. Mr. Annam It’s convenient to take your laundry and deliver it to you.”

The florist took the laundry and put it on his face and smelled it.

“Fufu, I think it’s become a habit now. When you receive your washed clothes, you smell the scent first. It makes me feel better.”

“Thank you. I love the cute embroidery on the apron.”

“I often embroider in front of my daughter-in-law, so she wants to keep sleeping too. It has grown a lot now. At first, I didn’t even know what a painting was.”

“I think it will be a really good memory for the child.”

“It is a good memory for me. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to throw this away. Baby, you’ll soon forget it when you grow up, but now that I’m older, each and every one of these things is so precious. That’s why the old stuff is just piling up in the house. Her husband tells me to throw away what I can’t use, but it’s not easy for me.”

Objects with memories had the magical power to make them feel as if they were alive.

“My mother also kept all the things I used when I was little. She also washes and puts the clothes she wore when she was a baby every year. I’ve seen a lot of people who thought it was unnecessary and threw it away and regretted ‘why did I throw it away?’”

“Yes. It really is. That’s why you can’t throw away things that you bought without thinking when you buy them, but you have to think about it for a while before throwing them away.”

“If you need to wash old items, please leave them to me.”

“Yes I will.”

The florist took money out of his wallet.

“Actually, I thought I should wash my apron or work clothes after only a few times, but I have to keep it.”

“Yes, thank you. Oh, and did you get the pine and locust tree seedlings I mentioned earlier?”

“right. of course.”

After a while, the florist entered the store and came out with a seedling.

“There are very few plants that can grow together in a pine forest because of the nature of pine trees, which produce a natural herbicide called allelopathic from their leaves. Even weeds don’t grow. However, it is said that it was a tree for the emperor, so mainly pine forests were surrounded by the royal tombs.”

“Oh, I see. How amazing.”

“It is said that azaleas and azaleas grow well even if planted together with pine trees.”

Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen other plants in the pine forest I saw as a child.

“It is said that black oak trees were planted in large numbers for forest reforestation after the Korean War. Because it is a legume plant, it contains root-knot bacteria, which fixes nitrogen, so no fertilizer is needed and the soil is fertile. It is said that when planted, the surrounding plants also grow well, and they are often pushed away by the fertility of other trees.”

“Oh, I only knew that acacia smelled good.”

“The amount of honey is so great that it accounts for more than 70% of the total honey production in Korea.”

“As the owner of a flower shop, I know a lot about plants.”

“no. I think I just need to know when I start a florist, so I’m studying little by little by looking at books and encyclopedias.”

“I think it’s good that you let them know every time you buy one like this.”

“Well… … I have to work harder.”

“Anyway, I will have to pay the money I received for the seedlings again.”

“Oh, that’s right. Thank you.”

“I thank you too.”

I got the seedlings from the florist and returned to the laundry.

A pine tree makes other plants not grow, and a locust tree makes the surrounding plants grow well at the same time. Even if they were really different, they couldn’t be this different.

Still, I wanted to plant it in the magical forest.

Besides, the thought of sucking the nectar from the flowers is already making me salivate.

‘Should I raise bees and beekeepers?’

I thought and shook my head.

I couldn’t imagine how the bee would change if the magic forest’s characteristics were given.

Just by looking at the cat, it is a liquid cat, so it comes out with a sigh.

When I was young, I was stung badly by accidentally touching a bee that built a house in the cracks of my grandmother’s mud wall.

I mainly shot only the head and had swollen up to the face for a while, but her maternal grandmother prescribed it and put her miso on it, so it didn’t make sense.

Seriously, whenever I think of that time, I burst into laughter.

I was giggling alone, when I heard a voice calling me from somewhere.

“Annam, can I leave the laundry now?”

When I looked up to find the sound of a call, I saw someone sticking out my head from the veranda of a house on the 4th floor of a building.

“Yes, yes.”

“Please wait.”

After waiting for a while, her aunt came down with a piece of laundry.

“There is a lot of laundry.”

“It was on the top floor, so when it rained, rainwater leaked and mold grew again. Should I relocate or Even if I talk to the owner, they don’t fix it, and it’s really annoying.”

“I need to do some waterproofing on the roof.”

“Aww, I can’t because the owner is an idiot.”

“There are a lot of old buildings in this neighborhood. Anyway, I will clean it up and bring it to you.”

“It’s right in front, I’ll go get it.”

“Yes, thank you more then.”

‘Hmm… … It’s raining heavily, so there may be more laundry by tomorrow.’

While holding a handful of laundry and fumbling to open the laundry, someone grabbed the key and put it in the keyhole.

“who… … ?”

“Annam, it’s me. Lots of laundry today. Where do the trees buy seedlings to meet for planting?”

The owner of the cafe ‘Sop’ opened the laundry door wide so that I could enter.

“I just want to plant a vegetable garden nearby.”

I turned around and turned the fire to the other side.

“But what are you doing here? Are you running out of beans?”

“No, coffee beans are enough. The business is doing well, but the store is small, so the monthly sales do not increase further. I’m sending the money for the original price and the proceeds to Annamie, are you checking it well?”

“Yes, the boss is very meticulous, so I am receiving good reviews. Thanks to you, I have a thick bank account.”

Even though it is a small coffee shop, there were times when the monthly sales were close to 10 million won.

There was no return on investment, and there was no part-time job, monthly rent, or management fee, so there were many times when monthly sales led to net profit.

The boss agreed to give me a profit of 2 out of 10, so if I earn 10 million won, in addition to the original price, 2 million won is put into my bank account.

Now, the cafe ‘Sop’ has spread as word spread, and there were many customers not only from the neighborhood but also from outside.

“So I mean. Trying to expand the store a bit. Our president Park said that he wants to use it as a warehouse.”

“then… … .”

“I found a bigger store around. If you go up a little over there, it’s in a big meat restaurant. They put up a store there. So I’m thinking of going there.”

If you go there, you will be further away from the train station than you are now.

In addition, the place where Mr. Yoo was photographed was a place where a lot of people closed their shops after a lot of commercial districts died.

If word of mouth spreads, people will come to visit even if you are in a rural area, but the location is still disadvantageous.

In addition, a few years later, I didn’t know if I would be pushed further on the day when a coffee shop was opened.

“I recommend moving closer to the train station.”

I took out a piece of paper, drew a map, and marked the exact location.

Just a few years later, it was a famous place for Starbucks to take place in this neighborhood.

“Ugh! where are you? It’s a bit expensive. This is a deposit, but the monthly rent is not too high.”

“You have to invest. And the place that CEO Yoo said is a place where a lot of commercial districts are dying right now. Even the meat restaurant that was doing so well didn’t work, so I quit.”

“It is not. That’s why the monthly rent was also lowered.”

“You have to think carefully about whether you want to invest in the right place and make a profit, or if you’re going to go bankrupt by opening a store there, even when it seems obvious that there isn’t a lot of floating population.”

“Hmm… … ok It was good to ask Annam. They haven’t opened a store yet, but I’ll take a look. We have to discuss it with our president, Park.”

“Yes, but these days, there are many other menu items besides coffee.”

“Yeah, I’m busy developing new menus every night these days. But it’s fun. The response to making these and other things with the fresh fruits that President Park brings is also very good. And besides Annam’s coffee beans, they also sell imported coffee beans.”

“You look excited these days.”

“Yeah, it feels like living again. I’ll do well and Annam will make you rich.”

“It’s good to hear you say. You have to ask me about the interior when you open the store.”

“Of course. He is my important mentor.”

“Yeah… … Whoops.”

“Then I’ll go and see.”

“Yes, have a good night.”

When Mr. Yoo left, I turned off the sign and closed the laundry.

But, I heard a cat cry from somewhere.

It wasn’t a sound from outside, it was definitely from the second floor.

‘what? I think it’s a crow’s cry.”

The original name was ‘camus’, but ‘camus’ is easier to pronounce, so it naturally came to be called that.

When I went upstairs, I saw a real Cami sitting on the sofa and grooming herself.

“Hey, how did you get out of the woods?”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

I wondered if the washing machine door was open, but the door was closed.

When I went to the sofa and hugged Cami, my lower body was still on the sofa, and only my upper body was stretched like a peephole, giving it a bizarre shape.

“Hey, it’s still a liquid cat. It must have turned into a liquid and came out through the door of the washing machine.”

It was an old washing machine, so there was a little bit of a gap due to the rubber in the slot.

‘Did it really come out through the hole in the slot? I can’t imagine it.’

After thinking about it, he takes the glass bottle he used to put honey in and puts the cami in it, and it turns into a liquid and fits into the shape of the bottle.

I close the lid and check to see if it comes out, but isn’t it really coming out of the glass bottle?

“Hey! If the guests saw this, they would be terrified. Hey, you can’t get out of the woods. Let’s go in quickly.”

Whether or not you know how I feel, a cat that has turned into a liquid sweeps the living room floor and then turns into a cat and sits down on the sofa.

“How did Ariel come out? ‘Cause we’re playing together Ugh!”

First, I went downstairs and came up with laundry and seedlings.

I put everything in the washing machine slot and called Cammy.

“Come on, let’s go.”

“Hey on~”

Cammy, who answers only like a rock, and doesn’t even budge.

Ouch, my stomach explodes.

I picked up Cammy, dragged it into the washing machine, and put it in the slot, but my feet were still on the sofa, so my body stretched like a toenail crossed the living room.

“Ugh, I’m afraid I’ll cut it with scissors!”

I went back to the sofa, lifted the cat’s lower body, rolled it up, and put it in the washing machine together.

“Hey, you stay there. I’ll be gone in a little while.”

After shaving Kami, I went to the bookshelf in my room and pulled out a book.

‘Today, I should do a little work and rest by the stream while reading my favorite book.’

[The Unbearable Lightness of Being] by Milan Kundera

Bought it in 1999 when it was first printed at a publishing house, and it was a book that I would forget to take out and read during the 52 years of his previous life.

As I flipped through the book, the place I marked opened up, and a paragraph underlined there caught my eye.

[Eternal return asserts that life is a shadow because once it is gone, it never comes back… … .]

Turning to the very back, Beethoven’s CD was inserted.

Beethoven’s String Quartet.

I found out thanks to this book, so I burned it separately and put it together.

‘Today I have to play this in the forest.’