Park Taehyung was lying on the bed, with a towel wrapped around his head.
His face looked dry and thin, his cheeks were deeply sunken, his lips were pale, and his eyes looked straight at the beam under the yellowish roof. It was bright and scary.
Park Sooyoung lifted the curtain and walked in with a bowl of egg soup. When she saw her son's eyes looking straight at the roof, her eyes, which had turned red from crying before, shed tears again.
"You really know how to make people be upset! What's wrong with you? Do you really have to fret over trifles to the point that you want to court death? If it wasn't for your Uncle Wang passing by with Jiahn, how could you even be alive and lie down here? If not, you would have died a long time ago!" Park Sooyoung said.
Park Sooyoung's heart was in pain and at the same time, she was angry. She was used to being bold and vigorous, so she wasn't able to soften her words. There was a hint of grief in her tone.
How could she not feel aggrieved? Her only omega son was good. She had painstakingly taken care of him for 18 years, and after marrying him off, she thought he would have a smooth life, a peaceful and prosperous life. Who knows, maybe after three years of marriage, he was driven back by his mother-in-law's family without any warning. On the grounds that he was unable to give birth after these 3 years, they didn't want this daughter-in-law.
This sudden news made the whole Park family feel like being struck by lightning. These days, the villagers have their eyes set on their families. ‘You must live with your marriage for the rest of your life, no matter how good or bad it was.’ this is what they taught to do so!.
Her good son has only been married for three years and has turned into a rag. The reason for the divorce was the inability to give birth to a child. In rural areas that pay attention to "more children and more blessings" and "more people and more power", it's like you are being sentenced to death. How can he find someone else in the future?
But again, even if there was no hope (for remarriage) left, he shouldn't have gone and jumped into the river, right? They say it's better to live than to die. As long as you live, there will still be hope, right?
Park Sooyoung put the steaming egg soup on the bedside cabinet, sat down and held her son's hands.
These hands used to be soft and tender, and when he was just her son at home, she pampered him. She had 3 alpha sons, so the manpower was enough. She only lets her omega son stay at home and lets her son help with cooking, feeding the chicken, watering the flowers and vegetables, and other simple chores.
It's only been 3 years since he was married off to the Lee family, and the son's hands have already become thick like this. For these past three years, she could imagine what kind of life he was leading in the Lee Family.
Park Sooyoung regretted that she didn't find out that there was something wrong with the Lee family. She regretted that she was not able to support her only omega son, which caused her son to suffer these three years in vain.
That day, when her son came back with a bag in his back, her son's eyes were red and swollen, his hair was dishevelled. He was only in his early twenties; he should have been as bright as a flower, not withered and lifeless.
He said that the Lee family did not want him anymore, and his dowry was given back by the Lee family the next day.
Park Taehyung's three brothers went to Lee's Village with their weapons to settle accounts with the Lee family. But Lee’s family was also horrible, and directly claimed that Park Taehyung had not been pregnant for three years after his marriage.
There are three ways to be unfilial: having no sons is the worst. Park Taehyung was married for three years, but he didn't give birth. In ancient times, it was also the life of repudiation.
"Stop causing trouble in our Lee's village just because there are so many people in your Park family. If you keep doing this, who would dare to marry your omega son in the future? Given that he was incapable of giving birth, do you really want to see us suffer before you are reconciled?!"
These words not only made the village cadres of the two villages too embarrassed to take charge but also made the Park family lay down their arms.
Strictly speaking, what the Lee family said was not unreasonable. After all, Lee Bogum is the only male member of the Lee family. Although the wife, who had been married for three years, was driven back in the wrong direction, from an ethical point of view, the heirs of the rural people are the most important thing. If he can not give birth, the Lee family will be extinct. Indeed, hundreds of years from now, who will throw the pots? Who will burn incense papers for them?
(A/n: Throwing a pot means that the deceased will be completely cut off from the surviving people in the world. How many people are still alive? Then how many holes will be drilled in the basin? These holes not only express the sadness of the descendants for the death of the old man, but also show that the old man is full of children and grandchildren throughout his life, and he can walk with peace of mind.)
"Who said that it must be Taehyung's problem that he was not able to conceive a child? Maybe it will be born in two years, Lee Bogum, you are still not a man, and you can't even protect your wife! "
Lee Bogum was flushed, hiding in a corner and didn't say anything. But his mother, Park Taehyung's former mother-in-law, spat with her hands on her hips.
"Bah! Our Lee family is already considered benevolent. If it were not for your Park family's omega son, my only family Bogum would not have wasted three years. If I had found another omega, maybe the grandson of the Lee family could carry a pot out and buy soy sauce!"
The Park brothers couldn't face it and pulled Park Taehyung's dowry home with a black face, so the two families broke up completely.
The two were married without a marriage certificate, and this time, there was no need to get a divorce certificate.
This incident spread around several villages, those with good hearts were sighing for Park Taehyung for a while, lamenting that his future is not easy. Those who are not good, begin to sneer behind their backs.
You should know that when Park Taehyung married into the Lee family, everyone envied his good life. His former Father-in-law was the secretary of the brigade, there were no sisters-in-law to have a conflict with. When the two Lee family members died in a hundred years, wouldn't the Lee estate be given to the young couple?
The Lee family only had one son. As long as you can add a grandson to the Lee family, the Lee family can be like a mother. But the life of a person is such that everyone envied Park Taehyung, who, in the blink of an eye, became unable to give birth to a child, a abandoned woman.
Even if they were angry to the point of suffocation, Park Taehyung being incapable of giving birth was the fact after all. After the fiasco, the Park family went back home. The family was very careful with Taehyung because of this matter.
Not to mention his brothers, who adored him since childhood, regardless of what their sisters-in-law thought. They would not say anything unpleasant to his face.
His family will not say anything. but they can't control others' mouths. No, the daughter-in-law of his third aunt's neighbor said something unpleasant when she ran through the door with her child. Taehyung was stimulated. Without saying a word, he ran out to jump into the river, the Han River, which was connected to the sea. If he hadn't been caught and rescued, he would have been washed into the river.
In March, the river was still very cold. Although he was rescued, he still had a high fever. Taehyung was feverish all day and night. Finally, the barefoot doctor in the village took half of the wild mountain ginseng dug from the mountain, boiled the ginseng soup and fed it to him. Then the fever subsided.
"Taehyung, listen to your mother's advice. Don't penetrate a bull's horn again. You are still young. You're only twenty-one years old. You're still at a flower-like age. It was not necessarily your fault that you were unable to give birth. You also saw that the wife of the Hong family was only able to give birth after 6 years of marriage. She held her first baby, and after that, she had one after another, until she reached 5 children."
(A/n: to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom) -to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem)
This time the level of medical care was limited, unlike any B-ultrasound and color ultrasound that can do various examinations in the future. The old thinking of rural people was that as long as the child is not born, it was the omega's fault.
But giving birth to a child really depends on luck. Some people get pregnant as soon as they get married, others can't get pregnant, and there are strange things that the wife couldn't give birth because of the man, and when he/she was married to another man, she could get pregnant.
Anyway, Park Sooyoung doesn't believe that her son can't give birth to a baby.
"The Lee family was wrong at first. I thought Lee Bogum was a good one. Who knows he's a soft rake? He listens to his mother. It's all his mother's fault. Take care of yourself first. I'll find your sixth aunt in a while. She's a famous matchmaker. Your sixth aunt loves you. She has made a lot of good marriages in her life. She knows all the boys from ten miles and eight villages, your sixth aunt loves you. She will definitely find a good one for you."
Taehyung has a headache. He can't lift his body. The original owner jumped into the river and hung up. Then he came into his body. After waking up, he has been sorting out the memory left by the original owner. He knows that the original owner was abandoned by his man's family because he was unable to get pregnant after these past 3 years. Aish, how can he stand such an identity? It's better to transmigrate as a big omega of the yellow flower.
(TN: The term "big omega of the yellow flower" refers to unmarried women over the age of 25 above.)
It's no wonder the original owner had thought of jumping into the river. In the 1970s, having a divorce was a big scandal.
The original owner was a kind-hearted omega, with a soft personality and a little bit submissive. He was always getting called around by his mother-in-law and other people in the Lee family. In addition, he didn't get pregnant after marriage. Then Lee family didn't like him at all.
The original owner was too soft, and he couldn't have a good life in his former mother-in-law's house. Every time his mother asks him if ‘he's doing well’, he says the Lee family are very good to him.
Sometimes the saying, "The poor must-have something to hate, and the hateful must-have miserable suffering," is very reasonable. People like to bully the weak and are afraid of the strong. But if the original owner behaves better with his mother-in-law, she may not dare treat him like this.
After the divorce, the original owner was hurt. His kind of personality was not good and not straightforward, so all he could do was stuff his feelings into his heart.
Originally, he was walking around thinking about his situation, but he was then stimulated by the outside world. So, he decided to end his life and felt that there was nothing left to live for.
He could say that such a little thing was really not worth jumping into the river for, that a divorce was nothing, since, in the twenty-first century, divorce was not a huge problem, but he was not the original owner, he did not know how painful it was, so he could certainly not feel what the original owner felt.
"Come on, drink this egg soup. I deliberately added two drops of sesame oil to it to add some fragrance."
He was in 1975 now. Although it is over, life in the countryside is not easy. Every household has to earn work points. Apart from eating and drinking, this little sesame oil is still squeezed during the Korean New Year. The three daughters-in-law of the Park family take turns giving birth to babies. Park Sooyoung is only willing to use sesame oil, brown sugar, and eggs when a few of her daughters-in-law are in confinement.
Taehyung has no strength in his body, and his stomach has been groaning with a hunger for a long time. He had been smelling this bowl of egg soup since he entered the house, and he had long been greedy.
Alas, in the 1970s, when there was a shortage of food and clothing, who else in the 21st world could eat egg soup? Taehyung missed those modern delicacies very much.
But a thoughtful person should not be reborn because of a bowl of egg soup. He is still very uncomfortable.
Park Sooyoung watched her son drink up the bowl of egg soup. Her heart was finally relieved. As long as he ate, then it meant that he was calm.
Seeing her son thin like this, he has no meat on his face and his hands are skin and bones. She felt distressed. She looked at him lovingly and said, "You look so thin. There are still some white noodles at home. I remember you loved to eat scallion cakes when you were a child. I'll make them for you in the evening."
The scallion cake was easy to make. It is just making a paste with the flour and water, brushing a layer of oil on the hot pot, heating it, pouring the flour into the pot along the edge of the pot, wiping the batter evenly with a spatula, and sprinkled with scallions when the batter is semi-dry. When the scallions are heated, they emit a pungent smell of scallions, which is a rare and easy food in rural villages.
This scallion pancake is best made with white flour. The cornmeal is also delicious but not as soft as white flour. It is said to be delicious, but it is actually a bitter rural life. There is nothing else delicious.
Taehyung received the memory of the original owner and knew that every family was frugal these days. White flour was only eaten during the Spring Festival. The original owner's mother's family has three daughters-in-law, five nephews and a niece. How can he eat that alone?
"Mom, don't get it for me alone. I'll just eat with everyone."
When Park Sooyoung heard this, her tears fell again.
"It's all my fault that I taught you so sincerely since childhood. I always told you that a family should value peace and be filial to their parents in law after marriage. You just listened to your mother's words so much that you suffered so many grievances. In a word, it's still your mother's fault."
When Park Sooyoung said this, Taehyung's tears flowed unconsciously. It should be the residual feelings of the original owner.
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After lying in bed for three days, Taehyung got out of bed today after feeling that he was less weak. When he went out, he could see the full view of the Park family's courtyard.
There were five mud brick houses. The main hall was placed in the middle; facing the south, there were two rooms on either side of the main hall. The yard was clean. They also had a wall, a pomegranate tree, a peach tree, thatch, and firewood piled up in the corner. On the other hand, there's a small vegetable patch; cabbage, leeks, peppers, garlic, and other vegetables were planted on the ground. Next to the vegetable patch was a chicken pen; there were 3 chickens inside the pen.
The scenery in front of him really looked like a yard from the countryside. This kind of mud brick house, even in the 21st century, this kind of house was still rare in the countryside. When Taehyung was a child, he traveled with his parents to the revolutionary base and saw similar well-preserved historical sites.
After breakfast in the morning, the Park family's labor force went to the field. The older children went to school and the young ones were brought by the adults to the field, and Taehyung was left alone in the house.
"That Lee family can be really unethical. The moment Taehyung came back, they immediately took in a new wife to come to their door. The new wife was powerful. Before she agreed, she must be presented with a marriage certificate first. After the Lee family pulls out the certificate, it will be hard for them to decide if they want a divorce."
"Hey, this is a marriage, how can you think of divorce? But if Taehyung was not too honest, his in-laws would rule him to death. How much did the new wife of the Lee family spend on the bride price?"
"Because of Taehyung's matter, their family has a bad reputation. They all say that Mrs Lee is too fierce , andthe new wife has to bear hardships when entering the door. Mrs Lee gritted her teeth and gave 38 yuan as a bride price, 30 eggs and five kilograms of soybean oil. "
"Yo, that's so generous! When Taehyung entered the door, his bride price was 20 yuan, right."
"Hey, I pity Taehyung's mother. I guess that Park Sooyoung also knew that the Lee family had taken a new wife into their home. For these two days, she was also busy looking for a husband for Taehyung. It's easy to find someone if the omega is pure, but those who have been married are always one layer away."
"No, it's not. It's either a poor bachelor or a dead wife who is old. If he leaves for other reasons, it's OK. It's also because he can't have children. Nowadays, men marry a wife just to have children. If they can't have children, how can any man want it? Is Park Sooyoung willing to marry her only omega son to a stupid one? "
"So it's a pity, I watched the omega who grew up. Not to mention his appearance, his temper was really good."
"A omega's life is like this. If he has a good life, he can live a good life. If he has a bad life, he can only suffer all his life."
"Okay, let's just say a few small talks, you can't say unpleasant words in front of the Park family, especially Taehyung. He has a tender face and a heavy mind, so he can't listen to this."
"I know, do you need to remind me of this? I don't have a grudge against him, so why do I have to say something unpleasant in front of him?"
Taehyung was sitting in the courtyard sunbathing when he heard an earful of gossip about the original owner. The sound came from the other end of the courtyard wall of his neighbour's house in the East.
Taehyung didn't fully inherit the memory of the original owner when he crossed. He only remembered some important people and things. He could not remember those little bits of the owner's memories.
Taehyung was not the original owner. Naturally, he didn't care about Lee Bogum's looking for a new wife. Now he only cares about himself, dressed as Park Taehyung, the identity of the abandoned omega. It is impossible to stay in his mother's house for whole life without getting married. Really, his brother and sister-in-law can't accommodate him easily.
But the reality is just like what the neighbor said. An abandoned omega is still unable to bear children. What kind of man can he find at this age?
Taehyung is not the original owner. It's not his native that can be satisfied with a full stomach in this era. He comes from the twenty-first century, highly educated, idealistic and, in pursuit of his other half, he also has his own aesthetic. He really can't imagine marrying an illiterate man, doesn't love cleanliness, eats and stinks when he opens his mouth. In that way, he might as well jump into the river and die again.
Park Taehyung was basking in the sun with worry. When he heard the bell in the main room strike ten times, Taehyung got up and went into the kitchen to see if he could help make a meal.
When he was a child, his parents were busy. Every summer vacation and winter vacation would send him to his grandmother's house in the countryside. He often helped his grandmother to burn a fire, so he could use the old stove in the countryside.
Taehyung looked around the kitchen and found the rice jar with the rice in it and the sweet potatoes stacked in the corner.
Taehyung came to see how the Park family cooked in the past, and in these past few days, they have always added some sweet potatoes to the rice. These days, eating rice is only available during the New Year and ancestor worship.
Taehyung had a rural homemade gourd scoop. He copied what they did, half a gourd of rice, and picked six sweet potatoes from the corner of the well to wash. The broken places were cut with a knife. Then he cut it into chunks of spare, panning the rice. He mixed the rice and sweet potatoes together in the pot, added the right amount of water, and covered the pot.
The preparation work was very smooth. That is, when the fire was lit. After all, it took some time to light the fire because it was not used to the matches of this era.
After this, the bell rang again, and half an hour had passed.
After cooking the rice, Taehyung went to the vegetable field again. He picked a cabbage from the field, pinched half a basket of leeks, selected the vegetables and washed them with the water in the well. He did not know how the Park family usually cooks, so he was afraid that she could not hold it well, so he put the clean dishes in the kitchen and waited for Park Sooyoung to come back to cook.
At eleven o'clock, Park Sooyoung was the first one to come back from the field. The work from the production team was also time-regulated, from eight o'clock in the morning to 12 noon.
Park Sooyoung came back to see her son get up from bed and cook dinner for everyone. She was not only afraid of her son's poor health but also happy how her son was affectionate and sensible.
"I was in a hurry to come back. Are you ready to cook?"
"I'm done with the rice, but I'm not done yet with the food. I washed the food and waited for mom to come back to do it together."
Park Sooyoung lifted the lid of the pot and nodded with satisfaction when she saw the white rice mixed with sweet potatoes in the pot. She didn't eat much or well.
"Very good. You've done it all. I can fry it quickly."
She turned and took out a small bowl of river shrimp from the cabinet. It was cooked shrimp with oil. When she was ready to fry leeks, she put one in.
In addition to shrimp, she also took a small pottery pot with lard in it. She bought suet and boiled it back. It was full, and only half of the pot was left.
"The cabbage is fried with some lard. There is no oil residue at home. If there are bits of oil that can be stir-fried together, it would be mouth-watering."
Taehyung has seen the power of lard. When he was a child, his grandma often made lard noodles for him. Taehyung was so small that he could eat a whole bowl every time. Grandma liked to watch him eat and said that every time she saw him to eat, everything he ate became more delicious.
Park Sooyoung stir-fried it while Taehyung was watching the fire, and secretly observing Park Sooyoung's stir-frying techniques. Taehyung was ready to follow her and learn, so as not to show their own work in the future.
The old stove starts cooking very quickly. The pot is hot. The dishes were cooked three and two times faster. The fragrant smell spreads in the air. After cooking, Park Sooyoung takes two eggs from the cabinet, breaks them up, adds some scallion and salt, and directly steams the bowl in the rice pot.
For today's meal, the dishes were grown in our own field, and the shrimp were fished from the river with their own net.
Daegu village gathers water in front and backs the mountain. It is a very suitable place for survival.
As the old saying goes, "the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea". Although the rice is not enough to eat, they could still eat a sumptuous meal from time to time. They can eat river fish and shrimp, which are wild animals living in the mountains.
(A/n: "the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea". It's an idiom. It means making the best use of local resources.)
So the most valuable part of the meal was the two eggs. Eggs can be bartered these days. The supply and marketing agency has a special collection of eggs. An egg was five cents. It is the money that rural people can get on their own initiative, in addition to work points, so it is extremely valuable.
In the memory of the original owner, under the conditions of the Lee family, eating a bowl of white rice and a bowl of scrambled eggs is also an excellent life, which makes the villagers envious. Of course, even if the Lee family has white rice and scrambled eggs, the original owner was not treated well. The original owner couldn't eat it. Otherwise, how could the original owner be skin and bones? In the 1970s, it was a year when everyone didn't have much to eat, so they were skinny. But in this era, his body was considered skinny.
Nancy and Jaemin were held by the third, wearing thick cotton-padded clothes. They had two lumps of plateau red on their faces. Jaemin seemed to have caught a cold. Two lines of green snot hung under their noses and , and kept sucking it in. It looked like two green vegetable insects.
"Taehyung is up, are you feeling better?"
The person who asked was Park Taehyung's sister-in-law Park Seokjin, the wife of Park Taehyung's older brother Park Namjoon.
Park Seokjin gave birth to his nephew Hwan and the Park family's only daughter, Nancy. She has a square face and a very strong temper. She is Park Sooyoung’s most proud daughter-in-law. She is also the leader outside the family and she is also very neat in handling affairs.
When the people are all together, they will eat. The men have a big appetite because of working hard. Each person has a large bowl of rice and sweet potatoes. Omega's bowls are smaller, and children's bowls are even smaller.
Park Sooyoung took a spoon and dug a large spoonful of steamed eggs for Taeyun and Jaemin, and also dug a spoonful for Taehyung.
Park Sooyoung handed the bowl to her husband, Park Daehyun, who shook his head. Naturally, her son and daughter-in-law were too embarrassed to grab the rest of the steamed eggs, so Park Sooyoung scraped the bowl clean and gave it to her youngest grandson, Jaemin.
Park Jieun, the second daughter-in-law, was a bit upset because her two sons, Han and Jun, were away at school, which meant that the eggs today were given only for the oldest and the third family.
Her own children did not eat the eggs, not to mention that her sister-in-law, Taehyung, was so big that he had the face to eat them, which made Park Jieun extremely irritated.
In fact, when Taehyung came back to his mother's house, Park Jieun's heart had some ideas, but she kept suppressing the careful thoughts in her heart.
At first, she also felt pity for the divorced omega who was driven out by her in-laws. She was sympathetic to her sister-in-law, but when Taehyung jumped into the river and was carried back to die, Park Jieun's sympathy for her reached its peak.
But everything in this world follows the law of "what goes around comes around, and what comes around comes around", and after this sympathy reaches its peak, it starts to go down a little.
Even if she pretends to be generous for a short time, Park Jieun cares deeply in her heart. What she thinks is right, why can't she, who earns work points in the field all day, could not eat an egg? Taehyung, her husband's omega brother, has been married once. He not only lies in bed all day and doesn't do anything, but he was also provided with delicious food and drink. Even if you ask all the 16 production brigades of Shen Commune, there is no such a person.
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No one could blame Park Jieun, because everyone’s life is too difficult.
In the past ten years, the movement of “Study Agriculture from D” has been carried out in rural areas all over the country. Rural areas eat big pots of rice. Every farmer is a member of the community and has to participate in labor to earn work points.
Each production team sets its own work points. Ten work points for doing work for a day, and the approved work points per day were different for each person of different gender and age.
This was an era of rebuilding. The land was barren, productivity was low, and the population was large, so the brigades had to pay for the work after collecting the grain. Only after the work is delivered can the remaining grain be distributed according to the approved work points of each member.
A young wife like Park Jieun can’t do much heavy work, so she will only be paid six or seven worth of work points a day. This is because Daegu village relies on the mountain to draw water. In addition to grain, there are also some mountain goods, fish and shrimp, water chestnuts, etc. that can be exchanged with supply and marketing cooperatives every year.
The most important point is that, at the end of the year, the work points will be deducted from the money for rations, and the rest will go to each person, so every family was living in a tight situation, not to mention eating eggs and meat, it is not easy to eat enough food.
The three hens in the family can lay three eggs a day. The Park family conditions were not bad, and they didn’t sell the eggs for money. In addition to the confinement wife and young children, the family can also occasionally eat eggs and have a large and sumptuous meal.
But the Park family has more than a dozen mouths. Three eggs a day must not be enough. That's why, Park Jieun remembers that she ate eggs a few months ago.
She also knows that from the days when her sister-in-law was saved from jumping into the river, Mother-in-law secretly gave Taehyung a lot of food, be it eggs, white flour, brown sugar. Her treatment towards him was like taking care of a person who was in confinement.
Park Jieun has thoughts in her heart, but she is not stupid. She cannot show them in front of the family. At most, she could go back to their room to talk to her husband, so she doesn’t look much different from usual.
The three daughters-in-law of the Park family are not bad in character. The eldest daughter-in-law Park Seokjin and the third daughter-in-law Park Jiyang were sisters at her mother’s house. They are generous and know how to give in. As for Park Jieun, she is neither big nor small in her mother’s house. The children in the middle are most likely to be ignored by their parents. In addition, the conditions in her mother’s house are not good. She had lived a hard life as a child, starving and suffering from a cold. Therefore, she was more concerned about gains and losses, and she cared more about what to eat and wear.
After Taehyung’s health improved, he helped out at home every day with household chores, washing clothes, cooking, feeding the chickens, and organizing the vegetable patch.
That day, the second nephew came home with a blue nose and a swollen face. There was a big cut on his clothes, and the cotton inside was falling out. Park Jieun looked at it and was furious. His jacket was newly made for the Korean New Year. He had only been wearing it for more than a month, but it was messed up by Changyu⁷!”
She took a rolling pin from the kitchen with a black face and chased after Changyu⁷ to beat him up.
“You stinky boy, you were born to collect debts. If I don’t beat you for a day, you feel itchy, right? See if I don’t break your legs!”
Changyu⁷ was seven years old. It is the age where a child hates to stand still. How could he stand obediently waiting for his mother to beat him up? His two legs ran faster than a rabbit. He ran out of the far door in a blink of an eye and made a face at his mother before he left.
Park Jieun patted her chest to catch her breath. She pointed at the Changyu⁷ fiercely and said, “Wait for me, smelly boy. If you have the ability, do not come back today. If you come back, I will let your father smoke you.”
“The holes are too big, and I’m afraid it won’t look good when sewn up.”
If the clothes are broken, you can find another piece of cloth to patch them up. If you have such a big hole, and it is not in a straight line, It is equivalent to pulling a small piece of cloth down.
A few sisters took Changyu⁷’s clothes and said it was difficult to sew. With this one, it was even more difficult to sew. It is a pity that these new clothes were broken. These days, it is not easy to get a piece of cloth.
Not to mention that each person only has a cloth ticket of 5 feet per year. This cloth ticket is only enough for adults to sew a suit of clothes and trousers. There can be some clothes left for children, but in spring, summer, autumn and winter, they wear long sleeves in spring and autumn, short sleeves in summer and cotton-padded jackets in winter. What can this cloth that measures five feet do?
In addition to cloth tickets, it also costs money to buy cloth. This year, the Park family only made a new cotton-padded jacket for six children, and none of the adults in the family wanted to buy clothes.
She thought that spring would soon begin in the new year. The cotton-padded clothes should be put away for at most two or three months. As long as the clothes are not broken, they can continue to wear them for next year’s new year.
Even if it becomes smaller for their body, it can be transferred to the younger sister in law, so it is not wasted at all.
It was a good plan. The new clothes could be patched in the blink of an eye. No wonder Park Jieun’s face looked terrible.
When Park Jieun frowned and was at a loss, Taehyung came over with a smile.
“Second sister-in-law, why don’t you let me try.”
“You?”
Park Jieun looked at Taehyung suspiciously, and the other sisters-in-law looked at each other.
“You can mend it?”
Park Jieun was a bit unconvinced, when she married into the Park family, Taehyung was still in his maidhood. He was not very talkative. Until Taehyung married Lee’s family at the age of eighteen, he never revealed his needlework skills.
“There should be no problem. If my sister-in-law believes in me, then let me try.”
Park Jieun handed the clothes to Taehyung with confidence, and after handing them out, she was unsure and explained, “Don’t try to be a hero if you can’t, I’ll spend money to find a tailor in town.”
She gave Taehyung a warning eyes like ‘do not spoil the clothes’.
“I know, sister-in-law, don’t worry.”
Taehyung heard Park Jieun’s words and did not get angry, since he opened his mouth, he naturally had full assurance.
His grandmother was from Seong san, and it is said that she used to be in a very prestigious family in Seong san, but her family had fallen and fled to the countryside to marry her grandfather during the chaotic times, and her grandmother had a very good hand in Seong embroidery, and she taught this skill to Taehyung.
Taehyung took Changyu⁷’s clothes back to his room. which was originally a miscellaneous room for the family to pile up miscellaneous things. This room was originally a utility room where things were piled up at home. After Taehyung came back, Park Sooyoung asked the family to clean it up and made a bed board for him to make a small bed.
His parents were both highly educated and his family was considered middle class, and he is the only omega son of the family, so he is said to have been spoiled by his family since childhood.
But people have to learn to adapt to their environment no matter what kind of environment they are in, and this is the case with the living environment in this era. To have a bed to sleep in and a place to shelter from the wind and rain is already a great blessing.
When Taehyung came out with the clothes, everyone was shocked.
“Hey? I really can’t see it. Taehyung, when did you have these crafts?”
Not only was the hole sewn up, but there was no trace of it. If you didn’t know where it was broken in advance, you may not be able to find it if you don’t look for it carefully.
“It’s not much of a craft, but I’ve been thinking about it when I’m not doing anything.”
Taehyung faintly changed the subject, but the Park family did not think much of it. They all thought it was a skill he learned after marrying the Lee family.
“This skill is more than enough to be a tailor.”
These days, craftsmen are very popular. There are tailors at the cloth sales counter of the supply and marketing agency, who can help make clothes and sew and repair people’s clothes. According to everyone, even if you send this dress to the tailor, the mending effect is not necessarily better than that of Taehyung.
“Taehyung, your sewing skills are progressing fast. I remember when I asked you to mend socks, you couldn’t do it well.”
Park Jiyang, the third sister-in-law, was quick to speak. When she said this, she knew it was wrong. She hurried to see Taehyung’s expression for fear of stimulating him.
Before Taehyung got married, he couldn’t even sew a button neatly. Now he is so good at it. So how did he improve so quickly?
“It’s okay, it’s over, I’m not upset at all.”
Seeing the cautious eyes of the crowd, Taehyung smiled and made his attitude clear, but everyone did not believe that he was really not sad anymore, they just thought he was forcing a smile.
Park Sooyoung averted her eyes. She wanted to cry when she thought of her son’s suffering in the Lee family.
“All right, since the clothes have been mended, let’s eat.”
She concealed it in the corner of her eye, Park Sooyoung asked everyone to eat, a simple cornflour lump soup. A lump was added together with salty vegetables, making it salty and very appetizing. Even the smallest Jaemin ate a small bowl.
“Where is Changyu⁷? It’s already dark and he has still not come back?”
Park Jongsuk drank two big bowls of lumpy soup before he realized that his eldest son, Changyu⁷ was not at home.
“Why do you care about him? Are you afraid that he is hungry? “
Because the clothes are mended, Park Jieun’s heart has been half angry, but Changyu⁷ has always been naughty, and he has done a lot of wrong things. Even his mother didn’t have much patience.
“There’s a bowl of soup left in the kitchen. Tell him to eat it, when he comes back.”
Park Sooyoung knocked on the table and gave an explanation. Every meal at home had the right amount. The number of people at the table was roughly estimated at how much each person ate to ensure that no one went hungry. Changyu⁷ was still not home at mealtime, and he can’t miss a bite of his food. These days, no one has any leftover food, so where else can you go to fill your stomach if you don’t come back for dinner?
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[A/n: I have shown the family matters of 80's timeline. Hope you don't have any complications regarding this!? If you still got some thoughts, you can ask me about it..]
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