Cabbage Your Life Episode 9

Trust and planting

The boys interactions at school were very sweet. Even middle boy has a reason to wake up in class.😂🤣 Bo Mi has given eldest son marigold seeds for hope and happy future. Mr Seong is keeping a list of the villagers, but now it seems Mr Bae has used him as an in to the villagers because he is trusted. I hate the sinking feeling that the company is making Mr Seong their new fall guy. The Chief and Seong have a chat over snacks and drinks. It was interesting that Chief could tell the crop and life circumstances just by looking at the prepared dishes. He shared a poignant story about his wife and then asked Seong to take his wife home so he could get his life back.😂🤣 Seong gets his wife’s suitcase and sees how little she packed and a few family photos he wasn’t in. The company sabotaged the village with the fertilizer. There is some white fungal mass that has taken over the soil making it unfit to plant. Seong is asking Chief to give him time to find out what it is to treat it properly without killing the soil. There is a sweet interaction with middle son and WuJu. She has a fan. They are adorable and a cute break from the field debacle. I love Bo Mi’s optimism and confidence, she is a good influence on the eldest son. They make dumplings together and the moms liked them. Ms Cho was unhappy that they tasted good and that he was throwing his life away to make dumplings. The two moms talked about kids and Chief’s wife gave her some pointers in not trying to control everything about their lives. It is still not acceptable news to Ms Cho who continues to pout not getting her way. They really need to have her character grow up or be in less scenes. Right when I almost like something she did it is followed up by selfish and childish behavior that adds to my annoyance of her character. Seong realizes it would be a mistake for soil analyses to go to company so he is getting an impartial lab to find out what the fungus is. Bo Mi has both suitors at the coffee shop. 🤣 There is a sweet exchange between the three sons as the older two snuggle the youngest who is not feeling well and missing mom. Seong and Chief work together to discover what is causing the winter fungus to thrive in spite of the cold. A friendship is forming between these two and it is nice that they are all villagers now with no one being an outsider. The youngest has a fever and he gets mom to come home. It is a big to do for a fever, but it is nice seeing them together and the two parents finally talking and listening to each other. Ms Cho is still angry with her oldest and makes it clear she will not change her mind. I wish she would have seen him literally shaking at a knife. She has no idea how unfit her really is to deal with medicine. She will finally have to deal with her debt because a court order has found her. I don’t know why she thinks hiding is a better option. I guess in flight or fight she opts to run. They are learning that this fungus is only in the village so what did the company do first time around? Other than having way to much of the mom I am enjoying the series. The actors give a good spectrum of family and country/city dynamics. I don’t always care for the humor, but I do appreciate the candid conversations and the bridges of understanding being built between the characters.

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