episode_0071

My father and father-in-law went fishing.

I spent about 30 minutes lying in the living room and watching the dads fishing on the breakwater.

My mom, who was lying next to me, started thinking about lunch.

“Sae-ah, Mom. What should I eat for lunch?”

“That’s right. Didn’t you say you could buy it here?”

“Dads will know. Son! Son, do you want to go and ask Dad?”

“Okay.”

When I got up from my lying down position, my older sister Saea got up too.

“I’ll go with Jaehoon too.”

“As expected, Sae-ah is the only one who takes care of her son.”

At her mother’s rare compliment, Sae-ah smiled and headed towards the fathers who were on the breakwater with me.

“Dad. Did you catch something?”

“I guess you’re still sleeping.”

“The sun is high in the sky, why are you sleeping?”

“Fish are different from people!”

“Oh my. Dad, how do I get food here?”

“I heard there’s a restaurant next to the pension run by the pension owner?”

“Really? What do they sell here?”

“Go fishing, son. Dad will go and come back.”

“I don’t know how to do this?”

“Here, if you release the reel, the line will come off, and if you close it and reel it in, it’ll be retracted. Is it easy? If you don’t know, ask your brother-in-law.”

“Easy. Have a nice trip.”

My father, who was talking to the craftsman next to me, seemed to be going to the pension, but then came back.

“Son! Don’t touch any fish with spines on their backs.”

“What kind of thorn is it?”

“Don’t you know? It hurts a lot if you get stabbed. Anyway, I know you won’t be able to catch it, but I’m saying this just in case.”

“How does Dad know that?”

“I studied with my in-laws!”

“Okay.”

I sat down on the breakwater holding the fishing rod my dad gave me, and my older sister followed me and sat down next to me.

“Can I try it too?”

“Would you like that?”

I saw a bundle of potatoes on my fishing rod reel, stopped reeling and looked at the end to see an earthworm still hanging there.

Let’s give the fishing rod to my sister. My sister tilted her head.

“How do you do this?”

“Looking at the master, it seems like if you swing it, it goes far? I don’t know either.”

My sister and I, who don’t know how to cast far, just put the bait down in the sea right in front of us and sat still to rest.

“Jaehoon!”

“Huh?”

“Is he a jerk?”

“Then you have to pull it.”

In response to my sister’s flustered words, I said something obvious and my sister quickly picked up the fishing rod.

I saw a small fish about 10cm long hanging from the fishing rod my older sister had pulled.

“Master!!”

Let’s call the craftsman. He saw my sister’s fishing rod from afar and came running in a hurry.

“Wow, I caught it! It’s a sea bass!”

The father-in-law receives a fishing rod with a fish attached to it from his older sister and catches the fish.

“Here, if you get pricked by a fish thorn, it hurts. If you catch one, tell me right away. But my daughter is first.”

The father-in-law seems to be praising his daughter, but his voice is sad.

In the end, it was Sae-ah who caught the first fish.

The craftsman released the small fish into the sea and made a fatherly sound.

“Go and bring your parents~”

My sister and I laughed together in disbelief at the craftsman’s nonsense.

Then I put on my gloves and put the lugworm back in, and just like my older sister, I put the fishing rod down right in front of me.

As I sat comfortably looking out at the sea, I felt a tapping sensation from the fishing rod and wondered what it was, so I picked up the rod.

A fishing rod that is suddenly pulled in.

I lifted my fishing rod with the line shortened so that I didn’t even have to reel it in, and there was a fish hanging from it.

“Master!!”

The craftsman runs back again after seeing the fishing rod.

“Oh! It’s sea bass again. Why are you the only ones catching it?”

“Even fish are picky about people.”

Did he really bring his parents here like the joke the craftsman had told? There was a much bigger fish hanging there than before.

This time, the craftsman did not let go of the fish, but took it and put it in a fish container he had prepared.

He was a father-in-law who even turned on the water pump, saying that I should live well.

As I was doing that, I was having fun fishing again, putting lugworms in the water, and looking at the sea with my sister.

“Son! What are you going to do if you put it right in front of you! You have to throw it far to catch it! Who would say you’re not a beginner!”

huh?

As soon as my father, who had not caught a single fish, came home, he started training.

“Dad. You haven’t caught a single one so far?”

“Ahem. I’ll catch you soon!”

“My sister and I each caught one?”

“Huh? Really? When?”

“I caught it before Dad came. Look at the fish container next to my father-in-law.”

Dad ran towards the craftsman and saw the fish.

“Oh! Son! How did you catch it?”

“If you just put it in the sea, it will be caught?”

“Hey. Give me a fishing rod. I’ll do it now!”

Realizing that the fish was real, the excited dad took the fishing rod and cast it far away.

“Dad. But what did you decide to do about the meal?”

“The boss said he’d prepare it. We’re going to eat it in an hour.”

“Okay, we’ll go. Catch a lot~”

When I returned to the pension, leaving behind my father, who was a very serious person, I saw my mother and Ye-eun still lying down and resting.

“Hey, are you having fun fishing?”

“If you just leave it in, it will be caught?”

” and really?”

“Son. Did you really catch it?”

“Yeah. One each for Sae-ah and me.”

“Dad and Sae-ah, Dad didn’t catch a single one?”

“Even fish are picky about people. Mom, try it once. It’s more fun than you think.”

“Is that so?”

Thanks to my dad who is always fair, we all went to the breakwater with two of the many useless fishing rods.

The mothers were surprised when I tied a bundle of weights to the end of the fishing rod, put an earthworm on it, and handed it to them.

“Son-in-law! What are you doing here?”

“You don’t have to throw it far, just put it in the gap between the rocks right in front of you and it will be caught, right?”

My mother-in-law and my new sister-in-law were sitting together, and I was sitting next to my mother, telling her what I had done, when my mother suddenly tilted her head.

“Son? The fishing rod is tapping?”

“I did that too, so I lifted my fishing rod slightly and the fish caught something?

“Really?”

When Mom lifted the fishing rod slightly, Mom’s eyes suddenly widened and she lifted the fishing rod all the way.

I saw a fish hanging at the end of a line.

“Oh! Got it?”

“But why can’t Dad do something this easy?”

“Even fish are picky about people.”

“Pfft! Honey~ Give me some fish!”

Dad runs over after hearing Mom’s words from afar.

“What the heck! Isn’t this a good place? Why can’t I be caught?”

“Pfft! Give me the fish.”

After a few minutes, my mother-in-law and Ye-eun caught some too, but my father and father-in-law ended up going to the restaurant together without catching even one.

“Honey. Why can’t you catch us too? ”

“…..”

“Looking at that fishing rod, it looks like they bought the good ones for themselves?”

“…..”

Actually, I think I know the reason a little bit, but I deliberately didn’t tell you.

I guess the sea bass live between rocks, so we caught them between rocks, but the fathers who threw them far away didn’t catch any.

Next to him, his mother-in-law was teasing him, and for some reason, even his older sister Sae-ah joined in and was teasing him.

Let’s all arrive at the restaurant. We ordered kalguksu and raw fish rice bowl. As soon as we sat down, the food started coming out.

The owner, who was serving food on the table, saw us fishing and spoke to my dad.

“Did you catch a lot?”

“Haha. I can’t quite get it.”

“Can you catch someone just by poking a hole here?”

“Are you poking a hole?”

It seems like I was digging a hole. As expected, my dad didn’t seem to know.

“You don’t seem to know much about fishing, do you?”

“This is our first time fishing. Haha.”

“Just put it between the rocks and shake it up and down to catch it.”

“Really? Shouldn’t you throw it far away and put it in the deep?”

“If that’s not a good point to catch, then it won’t be caught.”

“We didn’t know because it was our first time. Haha, thank you, boss. ”

“Our pension guests only need to pay for the table setting fee if you catch fish, and we will prepare everything from raw fish to spicy fish stew. So just catch fish and come~”

“Oh! Really? Honey, we don’t have to cook!”

After hearing some fishing tips from the boss, my father and father-in-law’s eyes lit up as if they wanted to go fishing quickly.

Then, as if he realized the truth, his gaze turned towards me.

“Son! Didn’t your son do something like digging holes?”

“I think so?”

“Why didn’t you tell me that only my in-laws and I couldn’t catch it?”

“When did you say you shouldn’t put it right in front of you?”

Dad continues eating quietly, perhaps remembering what he said.

After having lunch together, we headed back to the pension.

“But you don’t play in the water?”

“You should. If you go down the mountain over there, there’s a pavilion and a good place to swim.”

“Who is it?”

“I saw it on the internet.”

“Are you sure?”

“Then~”

The family, who had warmed up to some extent at the pension, changed into clothes comfortable for swimming and rode in the car.

While moving, I saw a wooden sign and my dad parked his car in front of it.

“Dad. Why are you here?”

“You have to walk down from here.”

“It seems far from the sea?”

“It’s just a 5 minute walk.”

As we all got out of the car and started packing up our belongings, my father and father-in-law started taking out fishing rods from the trunk, which they had packed at some point.

“Honey. Why are you taking that out?”

“You can swim here. You can fish too!”

“Oh my.”

The mothers shook their heads, packed their bags, and went down the mountain on a side road.

Everyone else looked puzzled, wondering if I was the only one who couldn’t understand why they had to go down the mountain to go play in the water.

“Dad. But after playing in the ocean, we have to go back up the way we came down?”

“Right?”

“But why did you come here?”

“…..”

Anyway, I continued to go down since I had already gone down a lot, and I was able to arrive in 5 minutes, maybe 10 minutes.

Wasn’t it a lie that I liked my dad?

A beach with fine sand and a pavilion on top of a rock.

It felt like a good idea to come down to this scenery where we were the only ones there, as if we had rented the whole place.

As everyone stood still and looked at the beautiful scenery, Giga San’s father opened his mouth that had been closed.

“Isn’t it great? I told you this is a hidden place! No one is there, how great! Haha.”

It seemed to me that people didn’t come because they didn’t like Santa Claus, rather than because it was a hidden place, but it was pretty, so it was quiet.

While everyone was organizing the snacks they had brought to the pavilion, a sign written in the corner caught my eye.

“Dad. Isn’t it true that we can’t fish here since this is a marine protected area?”

“Son! It’s okay. If we just keep quiet, no one will know!”

-match

“That’s what you should say to your son!”

In the end, Dad got hit on the back by Mom.

Because of the mothers’ strong sense of law-abiding, the fathers were eventually unable to go fishing.