chapter 17
Beeswax soap was also a rare commodity in the West. Because of its anti-inflammatory properties, it was also used as a folk medicine in the Middle Ages.
It has natural healing properties, so it reduces skin troubles and acts as a natural antibiotic. It is used as a treatment for burns as well as dermatitis such as atopic dermatitis.
“I want you to take over the soap business.”
“Can I do that?”
“When you learned dried persimmons from Yushin Hwang, you said you went to an aroma workshop. I also learned how to make soap there. I think of using beeswax instead of aromatic oil.”
“Because I am no expert.”
“Everyone has a beginning.”
I knew that Kahi could make handmade soap. Some of her study novels were also related to soap.
It was a short story with a unique title, ‘Soap Man’.
In the novel, the soap-making process is described in detail.
Beeswax soap might be new to you, but I thought she would be interested.
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Not only Kahi, but also the monks in the temple were all interested.
That was the reason I went with her.
“I didn’t tell you earlier.”
As if when she was, she returned to her former self as Jeong Ga-hee. As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly started asking for information about beekeeping.
I knew it had a simple side, but I didn’t know it was this much.
“not there yet? How much more do I have to go?”
Her heartbroken heart was soothed, but the murmuring continued.
“Are you sure you want to learn from this place? Is he that great?”
If it had been his life before that, he would soon be annoyed. Life experiences make people flexible.
I changed the topic.
“I don’t want anyone to punish me.”
“Should I be punished?”
Just as cows are bought to raise cattle, bees had to be rented to raise bees. Most of them are sold to senior beekeepers.
You will inherit your master’s punishment. If you are unlucky, you may be punished with antibiotics. Such bees have weak immunity and cannot produce strong forces.
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Naturally, strong and healthy bees make good honey and beeswax.
In order not to fail in beekeeping, there must be a good bee.
In some ways, it was more important than technology. When I passed on the basic knowledge to her, I nodded in agreement.
When I told him that the person who became the teacher was a nun of the same age, I was even surprised.
“Are you that young?”
When Monk Maehwa said that he was deaf, he had a bewildered expression on his face.
He made up his mind again and climbed the mountain, but he was still struggling.
I needed an uplifting story.
“All the nuns in the temple are young.”
“During?”
“There are rumors that it’s all thanks to the honey. It is also the reason I chose this place.”
“Did you really get younger by eating honey?”
It was a look that was hard to believe.
“Check it out for yourself. Because everyone has good skin.”
Her steps were noticeably faster. Now he didn’t even shout.
The words to be young and beautiful seem to have stimulated her.
The roof of the temple was visible in the distance.
We arrived at Jijangsa Temple.
* * *
Upon arrival, I visited the office. The secretariat woman recognized me.
“My name is Kim Deok-myung, who is going to go home for a hundred days. Can I see Monk Yeonhwa?”
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Monk Yeonhwa was the dharma name of the master monk. It was a name he knew when he came.
“Please wait.”
As she walked out, she smiled inexplicably. Kahi looked around as if everything was strange.
“There are really only female monks here. As you said, my skin is all right.”
“There is something I haven’t told you. You must be prepared.”
“Resolution?”
As I was about to answer, the door opened. It was the monk Yeonhwa, the chief of Jijangsa.
“You really are here.”
It was as if he knew he wasn’t coming. There was a strange atmosphere.
“But who?”
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Master Yeonhwa looked at Kahi next to me and asked.
“He is a person who will go home for a hundred days together. Can you accept it?”
“of course. This place is open to anyone. At the time, there was a shortage of workers, but it was very good.”
I thought the governor would allow it. But she didn’t know at the time that her last words were a trap.
Kahi seemed to be in a good mood. He even said that he wanted to eat a spoonful of honey right away.
It was like a kid on a picnic.
She looked excited even when she signed the document stating that she would go home for a hundred days.
He seems to have thought of going out as a temple stay.
I never foreseen that it would happen to us either.
It was waking up at 4 in the morning. From dawn, when the sun had not yet risen, the temple people were busy moving.
We had to clean and cook. It was not an ordinary task to cook for thirty people and clean the maze-like temple.
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Of course, there was a monk who cooked rice. We acted as assistants to her work.
They had to move the rice sacks from the warehouse and wash and trim radishes, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, and carrots. It was drawing water flowing from the mountain.
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My hands were frozen while I was cleaning the vegetables.
We were the youngest in the temple.
The youngest was almost like a mother-in-law.
I woke up early in the morning, helped cook, and cleaned up before I could have breakfast. After that, there was a lot of work to do.
Jijangsa was basically self-sufficient in principle.
Growing vegetables in the field was also the responsibility of the youngest. It was winter, but vegetables were growing in the greenhouse.
Even in winter, they had to grow as much as possible. This is because you cannot bring all the food with you.
Winter potatoes had to be planted and harvested. The rotten ones had to be picked out of the stored sweet potatoes.
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One of the hardest jobs was cleaning the bathroom. It was different from sweeping the yard and cleaning the rooms at dawn.
It was a toilet deep in the mountains. Of course, I was using the classic method.
Humans had to be turned into manure.
Apart from the smell, it was difficult in many ways.
Kahi did it once and was about to leave the temple. Had it not been for the heavy snow that day, she would have already left.
All of this had to be repeated every day. It made me wonder who did what before we arrived.
I remembered that the governor was surprised when I arrived. There was also a reason for the woman in the secretariat’s unexpected smile.
I was prepared for it to be physically difficult. I never imagined that the robbery would outweigh the army.
“Where?”
Gai asked me. It had only been a few days, but it felt like a different person. The smile on his face when he first came here has long since disappeared.
He even looked a little dazed like an idiot.
“To go down to town.”
“Are you going to run away alone? Take me too.”
She looked around and whispered. We hardly ever met if we were just working.
I was the only man in the temple, so the dorm also used a separate space.
He hadn’t seen her face properly in days. I never thought that we would have a conversation like this as soon as we met.
“I’m going to the village to buy things. You have to go down and come back up.”
“Are you coming back?”
It seemed that I was mistaken because I was carrying a backpack.
“If you want to give up even now, just tell me.”
She gulped the saliva. The words I wanted to give up seemed to hang in my throat.
“By the way, when do you learn beekeeping?”
“Hang in there. I will do it soon.”
“Someday. I’d rather be with the bees. I’m having a hard time.”
I couldn’t even tell her that I didn’t get permission yet. I was so busy with work.
“Mr. Gahee.”
A monk who manages the secretariat sang Gahi.
“Hold on a little bit. They say they have free time the day after tomorrow.”
“free time.”
she said with dismayed eyes. The voice of the monk who sang Kahi grew louder.
“Go. I think you are looking for it.”
She disappeared with a sad face.
I packed my backpack and headed for my destination. It was a mart at the bottom of the mountain. I had to buy rice and fly it.
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Other temples used small cable cars to fly things. It is a special cable car made to carry luggage.
This is impossible at Jijangsa Temple located in a national park. People had to fly it by hand. He said it was done by a monk who had the most power in Jijangsa.
That is now tomorrow. It carried a 40 kilogram rice sack. The nuns were more active than expected. I also ate a lot of rice.
I bought rice and met Min-seok and received the requested item. It was something I had said before I left.
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Minseok looked at me and said with a surprised face.
“In a matter of days, my face was halved.”
“I’m a little busy with work.”
“It’s hard. How is Kahi?”
“I am dying.”
I didn’t have time for a long talk. We had to climb the mountain before the sun went down.
* * *
The things Minseok asked for were materials to make soap, including beeswax.
Wednesday evening was the only free time allowed by the temple. Except for the nuns who devote themselves to training, everyone was able to enjoy their leisure time.
It was free time, only one day a week. You were free to do anything.
I was planning to use that time to run a soap making program.
It was also a place to test business items in advance.
I also got permission from the governor.
“Handmade soap. It would be fun.”
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Master Yeonhwa showed great interest. It was the expected reaction. The soaps used by nuns were all cheap factory prints.
The governor was also a woman. My eyes lit up when I heard that it was a soap made from natural ingredients.
“I want to make one too.”
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Monk Yeonhwa even made a notice to all the nuns in the temple instead of me. Gahee hadn’t gotten permission yet.
I got permission from the governor and met Kahi. Because it is a space for training, it was not easy to meet even in the same space.
When I talked about making handmade soap, she stared at me with wide eyes.
“what? You can’t even take a break in your free time and do education?”
Gahee was furious. When I first visited this place, I asked him to take over the soap business. The excited face at that time was nowhere to be found.
He just looked like a servant who needed rest.
“If this goes well, I can get away from cleaning the bathroom.”
“really?”
Kahi reacted violently. Just by looking at his face, he knew it was consent.
She immediately checked the materials and made educational materials.
If I could get away from cleaning the bathroom, I would sell my soul.
It was a special request from the governor.
She needed a hole to rest.
* * *
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On Wednesday evening, most of the monks in the temple, including the head monk, gathered. interest was great.
The monks did not even use cosmetics. In a way, it was the only beauty product they used. Everyone knew the beneficial effects of honey.
Beeswax soap was a curious thing.
In particular, I thought that if you were a plum monk who raises bees, you would not be able to get it if you didn’t come.
Kahi and I shared roles. I took the theory and she did the practice.
I’ve had experience selling natural soaps, so theoretically it shouldn’t be a problem.
“Now, I will show you how to make beeswax soap.”
I announced the beginning to the nuns. As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened from the corner.
Finally, today’s hero appeared.
It was a plum monk.
I hadn’t seen her once during the week I was at the temple. In the meantime, he’s been avoiding me like a clever squirrel.
I had no intention of chasing her.
It was meant to come to me on my own feet.
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“Soap is a special invention that saved mankind.”
The nuns listened to me.
Soap is a hygiene product. In the days when there was no soap, lye, calamus, and animal scaffolds were used to clean the body.
Soap substitutes did not have good cleaning power. This is because when an epidemic spreads, it was not uncommon for a group to be infected.
In modern times, soaps using plant oils have appeared. Only then could mankind be freed from the risk of mass infection.
Infectious diseases can be prevented simply by following good hygiene. Now, soap has established itself as a necessity for life.
In the not-too-distant future, soap consumption patterns will vary. This means that we are not just looking for soaps with good cleaning power.
Functional soaps appear according to the needs of consumers. Among them, natural soap forms an expensive soap market.
“Most soaps on the market contain surfactants and preservatives.”
The courthouse roared at my words.
“No surprise. We only add the amount that does not deviate from the standard.”
They said they had followed the standards, but they all looked disapproving. It was the expected reaction. Few people look closely at the ingredients of the soap they use.
It is the consumer’s psychology to judge the brand and price rather than the ingredients.
When I was an advertising designer, I used to sell natural soaps. A strict advertiser would ask about soap at every meeting, as if taking a test.
The advertiser’s position was that he could not work with a marketer without basic knowledge.
I didn’t make soap myself, but I learned everything from the ingredients to the functions of natural soap.
I also discovered beeswax soap then.
“Natural soap is made from only natural ingredients. Chemical materials such as preservatives are not included. In particular, soap made from beeswax containing propolis has the power to regenerate the skin. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.”
Beeswax is a natural substance excreted through glands located under the belly of a worker bee. The sugar extracted from the flower is converted into beeswax through a unique reaction in the internal organs.
Although the composition and structure are close to plastic, it is vegetable oil. It is basically used to make a nest for bees.
Worker bees use propolis to fill gaps in the hive. It’s kind of an adhesive. Like beeswax, it is produced through an enzymatic reaction in the internal organs.
The beeswax and propolis produced by bees miraculously act as natural antibiotics. So, soap with beeswax has the ability to protect the skin.
Beeswax soap was the most popular among the natural soaps sold when I was an advertising designer. In particular, people with severe skin problems or atopy used beeswax soap.
As the business flourished, the advertiser took another spoonful and made soap with honey.
I also used the product and felt the effect. The dead skin cells I had chronically suffered from using beeswax soap disappeared.
The dead skin cells that were not heard with ointments or cosmetics were treated by changing one soap.
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Now it was time to start making soap. When the theory class was over, Kahi, who was behind him, came forward.
She was wearing a white gown. People who didn’t know would see him as a scientist from a research lab.
“From now on, I will show you how to make soap. I’ll show you a demonstration first, and then I’ll try to make them individually.”
With Kahi at the center, the nuns gathered in a circle. Everyone focused on making soap with bright eyes.
It was like high school chemistry class, not a courthouse.
When the nuns were making soap, I just watched from behind. It was the governor’s request.
I was the only man in the chieftain. It could be a hindrance to her performance, she argued.
It was like a strange man living in a convent. On the one hand, it was understandable.
When I moved my body during practice, I was able to unintentionally touch.
The governor also added that even the smallest kindness can lead to misunderstanding.
I followed the master’s advice.
Kahi conducted the class enthusiastically. Being able to get away with cleaning the bathroom was magic.
It was like she was born to make soap.
If I had written a novel with the same determination I am now, I would have been more than a best-selling author.
“Wow. Real soap came out right away. The soap smells like flowers.”