Little Forest Page #4

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"Now, I'm the only one

Eun-sook needs out of the way."

What?

"If you don't leave here,

I won't either."

What?

"Let's fight fair and square

over Jae-ha."

What do you mean?

Think you'll lose?

What?

Okay...

"- Holy!

- Deal."

I don't believe this!

She was Jae-ha's ex-girlfriend.

I was barking up the wrong tree.

Our ancestors were amazing.

"They made that idiom

to explain my situation now."

Will you give up?

Her skin is too white.

I don't stand a chance.

It could be the right tree.

"Don't give up barking.

Once the prey comes down, catch it."

I'm so stressed!

Got anything to eat?

"You said if I hit the manager,

you'd give me the best food."

I did?

"The best food is making it

yourself."

Not the cabbage, but peppers.

Peppers.

"That's too much!

It'll rip up our stomach!"

I'll eat spicy food and die!

Is it good?

Totally!

Did you two fight?

It's spicy.

"I'm crying more than

when I got dumped."

Get your own fork!

"- Where's the girl?

- She left."

Already? Did you fight?

She was just dropping by.

"Why would she drop by

a rural place like this?"

"Why'd she have to come now

when I'm over her?"

Are you crying?

It's because it's spicy.

"I heard later Jae-ha's ex-girlfriend

was not over him."

But Jae-ha said to her...

I like someone else now.

"As a child,

I heard bears came out in the fall."

"Though it can't be true,

memories have lasting impacts."

See you tomorrow.

"I make sweet chestnuts

even sweeter to store them,"

"so that I won't eat them

all at once."

"Glazed chestnuts tasting this good

means it is deep into autumn."

"My friend Jae-ha

the soon-to-be millionaire!"

Your paddy is filled with rice.

"Your orchard

is covered with apples."

The rice paddy is my dad's.

Still...

"I'll give you a sack of rice

at harvest, if..."

If what?

"Help pick the apples.

Stop loafing around."

What? I keep busy!

"I have to help my aunt

pick peppers and sesame."

"I have to find chestnuts

and dry persimmons too."

I have lots to do.

"You say you'll go to Seoul,

but you're busy storing fall's goods?"

"Keeping busy like that

won't solve your problems."

Right.

"I should go back soon

and figure out my life, right?"

See ya!

Damn it!

Why are you out in the rain?

Were you scared?

It's okay. I'm here.

"I called in a tractor

to harvest next week."

Heaven can be cruel.

"You worked so hard

in the scorching heat..."

It's not fair.

"What can we do against

heaven's will?"

Don't work too hard.

I should've gone back yesterday.

We'll never get this done!

"Stop yapping and work!

We'll be done soon."

It's endless!

Ow! My back!

The storm hit here too?

"- Hi.

- Too bad."

"Lesson learned

for a newbie farmer."

"You enjoy living like this

when farming is this hard?"

"Getting hit hard like this

is upsetting,"

but farming suits me.

"At least there's no scamming

or cheating in farming."

"My body may hurt,

but I'm not stressed."

What's wrong?

I put up rice stalks yesterday.

You're in pain just from that?

What? I almost died!

"Wish I can show you my back

covered with pain relief patches."

Ow! My back!

Just go home.

Take some fallen apples with you.

Make apple jam with them.

Can I really go?

Yes!

It's better if you go.

Wait!

Take this.

This apple is fine.

"I wanted to give you that

before this."

"It held out through

the typhoon."

Unlike you.

Jae-ha was right.

I ignore what's important

"and evade the problem

by pretending to work hard."

You chose this life not me.

What will you do in the city?

"What's to do here?

Cooking and plucking weed?"

"You may want to live here forever,

but not me!"

"If you massage it, it'll become

a soft dried persimmon in winter."

"Winter has to come

to eat good dried persimmon."

What in the world!

I'm going to school.

Eat before you go.

Mom, I'm late!

"I'm going to live right next to

a bus stop in Seoul."

"And it's less cold in Seoul.

Bye!"

"Hae-won, you'll leave here

for college soon."

"I want to go and try things that

I had given up to get married early."

"I may fail, and I'm worried

that it may be too late,"

"but I'll walk out our front gate

and make my own time."

"I always said everything

is about timing."

I think the time has come now.

"I didn't go back to Seoul

after your dad passed away"

"because I wanted to plant

and have you set root here."

When things are hard,

"remember the scent of the land,

the wind and sun here."

"Then I know you can dust yourself off

and get up again."

"Let's think of it as the start

of a long trip to return home well."

"I love you always, Hae-won.

From Mom."

Finally, I understand Mom's letter.

Mom?

Mom?

Where are you?

Mom?

For Mom,

"the nature, cooking,

and her love for me"

have been her little forest.

"I should find

my own little forest too."

I wrote back to Mom that night.

Dear Mom,

"If dried persimmons

taste this good,"

it means it is deep into winter.

"Whoever sees this first

takes care of Fivo and the hen."

"She makes me so mad.

How can she not call once?"

"She's like a salary

passing through a bankbook."

"You think she'd stay,

but vanishes in a flash."

I don't think she ran away.

What?

Are you two keeping in touch?

"I just have a feeling

Hae-won will be back soon."

Really? Why?

Permanent planting.

"Maybe Hae-won is preparing for

permanent planting."

Onions start out as seeds.

Plant the seeds in the fall.

"Cover it for a week with a straw mat

until the sprouts grow."

"Then you move and plant them

in a good, fertilized field."

That's permanent planting.

"It means no transplanting,

but planting for good."

"If you protect them

until they set root,"

"they won't die and wither

in the frost."

"Onions that endured winter

are sweeter than spring onions."

"Hope she knows we did this

for her in the cold!"

It's freezing!

"Here's your order of

salad rice bowl."

"Let me know if you need

anything else."

Thank you.

"- Water, please.

- Yes."

It's spring!

Fivo!

Fivo! I missed you!

How'd you come here?

Fivo!

Hello!

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