Episode 3. Sprout
Episode 3. Sprout
crunchy.
The leaves of the green onion made a cheerful sound and were cut easier than expected. The texture was good too.
Hwaaah.
As soon as I chewed the green onion, the spicy spicy taste spread throughout my mouth. My body heated up from the spicy taste. My pores opened and sweat flowed like rain.
Mumbling.
Sejun continued chewing the green onions while wiping his sweat. However, the sweetness I expected did not come out.
‘I thought the spiciness would have gotten stronger and the sweetness would have also gotten stronger…’
It seemed like the taste was drowned out by the spiciness.
gulp.
When I swallowed the green onion, the spiciness disappeared completely. Fortunately, I didn’t feel sick.
‘I can eat green onions when I’m craving something spicy.’
Crunchy.
Sejun continued to eat the spicy green onions. First, I had to appease my hunger.
It seems like Sejun ate a handful of green onions while sweating profusely. For some reason, the more I sweat, the lighter my body became.
Plop, pud, pud.
Sejun, who was full of green onions, mercilessly cut the green onions that shaded his seat. It wasn’t that I was taking out my anger because it didn’t taste sweet at all.
‘Um… let’s say absolutely not. ‘Because I had some expectations.’
First, I laid out the cut green onions in a sunny place. Today, thanks to green onions, I started work a little late, but it didn’t matter. Even if it’s just a daily routine…
it’s a no-brainer.
After watering the crops for a moment,
“…”
I was staring blankly at the hole in the ceiling.
Still, I found something to relieve my boredom a little.
After staring at the ceiling for a moment, I noticed that the green onions were growing well.
“Do green onions really grow this fast?”
I checked the time on my smartphone to see if it was because of my mood. Green onions grew about 10cm per hour. Amazing growth rate. Although Sejun had no farming experience, he thought this was an impossible task.
“Is it because you were raised in the tower?”
That was all there was to doubt. These are green onions I bought at the supermarket. If the seed was originally a green onion that grew at a rate of 10 cm per hour, there would be no way for it to be called kumpa partech.
“But there’s no news from them.”
Sejun looked at the spot where cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes were planted on both sides of the green onions. If the soil is good, other things will also grow well.
But there was no change on the land.
“Is this land good for growing green onions?”
I looked more closely just in case.
“uh?!”
Looking closely, I noticed that the soil where the sweet potatoes were planted was the same, but the soil where the cherry tomatoes were planted seemed to be slightly convex. Sejun lay down on the ground and stared at the raised ground.
“oh!”
there was!
(…i…)
A greenish stem with a glossy blue head shyly emerged from the soil.
“One, two, three…”
A total of 52 buds had sprouted. Sejun looked at the cherry tomato sprouts for a long time.
“Hehehe. It’s cute.”
Plants that you grew from seeds. Just looking at this made me feel proud and reassured.
***
Beep beep beep beep beep beep.
[May 15, 6 a.m.]
Sejun greeted the morning of the 6th day. Yesterday, I spent the whole day looking at cherry tomato sprouts. Although they didn’t grow as rapidly as green onions, they grew little by little over time, so I was full even without eating.
“Tsk!”
Sejun lightly got up from his seat. My body was getting lighter day by day these days. At first, I thought it was because of fatigue from overwork, but recently I thought that might not be the case.
“Let’s see. Have our sprouts grown a lot?”
As soon as Sejun woke up, he left behind washing his face and eating and went to look at the cherry tomato sprouts. I was very curious about how much he would have grown while he was sleeping.
“oh!”
(…”…)
The blue heads at the ends of the sprouts were slightly split. But there was a black shadow blocking the sprouts. The green onions had already grown to Sejun’s height again, blocking the light that should have gone to the cherry tomato sprouts. .
Plop. Plop.
Sejun plucked off the leaves of the green onions mercilessly.
“Whew.”
Sejun plucked all the green onions and hurriedly ran to the pond.
Uppu! Uppu!
After simply washing his face
, gulp. gulp.
Mineral water bottle and plastic. I filled the container with water and moistened the soil around the sprouts of the cherry tomatoes and the fields of green onions and sweet potatoes.
“It’s not that I hate you.”
I especially gave a lot of water to the green onions.
When I finished watering, my stomach
growled.
Unpaid labor. demanded payment as if it was impossible.
“I have to eat breakfast.”
Sejun put a freshly cut green onion into his mouth.
Crunchy. Crunchy.
After eating only green onion leaves instead of sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes yesterday, he thought it would be enough to satisfy his hunger. I had a thought.
I didn’t feel empty or lethargic. I felt like carbohydrates were being absorbed for some reason.
And more than anything, there was a lot of it. It grew to about 180cm a day, so it was too much to deal with.
‘First of all, I have to dry it well and store it. .’
Looking at the current situation, it is unlikely that green onions that grow well like this will suddenly stop growing, but I decided to prepare just in case.
No one knows what happens to people. Who would have thought that I would be shipwrecked in a place where even I don’t know where it is.
The remaining cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes are for the future. I decided to plant for more food
.
Sejun dug up the soil and planted cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes.
Then he
said, “Grow well.” He poured in
enough water and said, “Grow well.” He
poured in enough water and placed his designated seat, the sun. I sat on a flat rock that was easy to lift. After doing something productive, my heart was filled with pride.
“The sky is nice.”
The blue sky was high and clean. People’s hearts were very treacherous. Until yesterday, I thought it was frustrating, but today it looked good. .
Now that I think about it, I was just staring at the sky for several days.
“When I was working at work, I didn’t even look at the sky for a few days… It’s great.”
But that feeling was short-lived.
“But I feel something is missing. If only I had coffee here…”
I really wanted an iced Americano with an extra shot. I missed civilized life so much.
When Sejun looked at the sky and thought about city life
, beep, beep.
His smartphone battery dropped below 20%. A notification popped up saying that I had lost. I set it to low-power mode and looked at the screen only when necessary, but I couldn’t completely prevent battery consumption.
“Let’s charge this for now.”
Sejun opened the laptop and pressed the power button. It consumes less power than a laptop and has time to wake up and sleep well. A smartphone that told the time was more useful.
Floating.
The laptop screen came on and the Excel window I was working on appeared. It was a job I was planning to finish at home as I couldn’t finish it at work as a quotation to send to a business partner.
Click.
Sejun. I coolly closed the Excel window. Of course, I didn’t save it or anything. Even though it was an estimate I had written for several days, I wasn’t disappointed at all. And it was probably already too late.
“Someone will do it for me.” I
felt a little sorry for the person who would do it, but I couldn’t do it anyway. It wasn’t even a situation.
Sejun connected the smartphone and laptop and charged the phone. The laptop also turned on low power mode to reduce battery consumption.
And while the smartphone was charging, he looked at the cherry tomato sprouts.
It feels good to see them again and again. Drop.
As I was looking at the cherry tomato sprouts for a while,
water
dripped from above.
“What? Is it raining?”
Sejun knew it wasn’t even after he said it. Except for a few floors, the tower is always sunny.
‘Could it be a monster?!’
Goosebumps came out as he thought of the monster looking down at him and drooling. Sejun quickly looked up.
But
“Huh?!”
In the hole in the ceiling, there was a small white rabbit looking down and drooling.
‘Is that a monster too?’
While Sejun was wondering if the rabbit in front of him might be a vicious monster,
beep!
When the rabbit made eye contact with Sejun, it let out a cute cry and jumped down the hole.
Jump.
“Huh?!”
It’s dangerous!
Sejun panicked and fell. I unconsciously stretched out my hand towards the rabbit, which I didn’t know was a monster.
However, the rabbit avoided Sejun’s hand by controlling the direction in which it fell with its long ears, stepped on Sejun’s shoulder once with both feet, and landed safely on the floor.
“….. .”
I felt very embarrassed as I was stretching my hand out in the air.
At that time,
there was a beep.
A rabbit walked on two legs and approached me cautiously, and pointed to the green onion with a trembling finger. Seeing that it was walking on two legs, it was not just a rabbit.
“Can I eat it?”
Beep!
The rabbit answered and nodded his head vigorously. His eyes were full of earnestness asking for his consent.
“Now.”
Sejun
plucked the whole leaf of the green onion and gave it to the rabbit.
Beep!
Crunchy crunchy.
The rabbit was Sejun. He began to eat the green onions handed to him without hesitation.
Plop, plop.
While the rabbit was eating the green onions, Sejun plucked the leaves of the green onions. While he was doing so, he decided to pluck them all.
From now on, Sejun will eat once at 6 a.m. and once at 2 p.m. I was thinking of cutting the green onions. That way, the cherry tomato sprouts can see the sun.
Crunchy. Crunchy.
The rabbit was still eating the green onions eagerly. Even so, he had only eaten about the length of two fingers.
Sejun looked at the rabbit like that. I looked at the cherry tomatoes again.
“Huh?!”
(…’ ‘…)
Before I knew it, the tips of the cherry tomato buds were spreading out. It looked like leaves would come out soon.
How much time had passed like that?
Gorolong.
I heard the sound of a rabbit sleeping next to me. It looked sleepy because its stomach was full. It was cute in its own way to sleep lightly.
Then,
beep?
The rabbit woke up, probably because it felt Sejun’s gaze.
Pudding.
The rabbit shook its head and shook off the sleep
.
Bleep!
It jumped with a strong cry.
Chuck.
The rabbit lightly climbed up the hole, holding a green onion in one hand.
Bleep.
Before the rabbit left, it bowed its head to Sejun and expressed its gratitude.
‘Are you just going to eat and run away?’
Although I was ungrateful, Sejun also waved. It was only for a moment, but it was nice.
While Sejun was waving, the rabbit left.
“……”
He said he didn’t know where I was, but I knew where I was. Even though it was only for a moment, I felt empty.
Sejun said Putting the emptiness behind me, I looked at the cherry tomato sprouts again.
Meanwhile, the sprouts gained strength and began to bloom more brightly.
“Cheer up. Guys.”
After a while
(…Y…)
As if they knew Sejun was waiting, the cherry tomato sprouts began to unfold two green leaves one by one. The leaves, which are delicate but full of life, are blooming little by little. The sight was amazing in its own way.
Beep, beep, beep, beep.
[May 15, 10 p.m.]
The alarm rang, signaling evening.
But I didn’t want to sleep today. I wanted to keep watching the sprouts grow and then fall asleep.
“… !”
Slap. Slap.
Sejun woke up when he felt something lightly hitting his cheek.
“Huh? What is it?”
When I opened my eyes, the rabbit that ran away yesterday was hitting Sejun’s cheek with his hand, waking him up.
“Uhm. What time is it?”
Sejun checked the time.
[May 16, 5 a.m.]
It was an hour earlier than he originally woke up.
“But what are you wearing?”
The rabbit had holes in it for its ears to come out. He was wearing a straw hat and holding a water bottle in his hand.
At that time ,
he heard another rabbit’s cry.
”
Huh?”
Sejun looked where the sound came from and saw another delicate rabbit wearing an apron.
And he
nodded.
Sejun The rabbit made eye contact and greeted them politely.
“What is this?”
Day 7 of the shipwreck. I woke up a little early and the rabbit couple joined the cave.
