. Chapter 7 Paragraph 3 : Romance of parents
Parents are dead, but their
romance always remains an echo for me (SKYMOM)
It was a nagging and the
instructions of the departed
and a bell of love, which had to
be heard frequently .
This is the content.
My grandmother, who lived in
Pyongyang around 1940, made a marriage broker for her daughter-in-law.
Finally, the marriage broker
who knew my mother and the Pyongyang
marriage broker were connected with each
other
Matchmaking story comes and
goes, and finally parents are married by matchmaking.
But when it looks inside, it
has a amazed story.
It is also the birthplace of
the famous General Ulji Mundeok
Unfortunately, it is not a
free marriage in which men and women love each other at this time.
It is a matchmaking marriage
that matchmakers connect to each other..
In some cases, they did not
know about each other's family each other
before they married .
My parents are also married without knowing
each other, and they are married to old-fashioned marriages that see each
other's faces on wedding day.
One day when marriage ceremony ripens,
my grandfather and my father go to my mother’s country
to receive a marriage date at their
home.
The
azalea and a golden-bell tree blooms on
the mountains and the cherry blossoms at street in the Pyongyang city as the weather is
springtime.
The village where my mother lived is an orchard which Apples and
pears were growing all the time. .
.It was a step for father’s house of my mother to go outside.
In ancient times, it is said that there is a
certificate such as a marriage pledge written in Chinese to make a wedding.
Of course, so the pledge was
in Chinese, my father is going to bring up an expert who is good at Chinese
writing.
At that time, first my father met a father of my mother who will become my mother’s father .
My father knew that my mother’s father is an intellectual who
knows Chinese text well and writes well.
.My father was surprised to know that my mother’s
father is the owner of the village with
a large orchard and is the eldest grandson by the eldest
son of the scalar family.
But my mother’s father was
very embarrassed that he finds my father who has been poor and has never
learned when he meets my father.
This marriage was
accomplished through matchmaker of my mother’s second mother.
So when he knew wrong
marriage, he got mad and beat her wife, who was second wife, with a broomstick.
He was separated
from by death about my first wife.
"Stupid, you chose the stupid matchmaker and ruined marriage!"
he was sighing.
My mother’s second mother bled
in her head much as he hit hardly.
My mother's second mother
said that "I will go to the Japanese police “ with complaint.
It is a happening that can
happen in the situation at that time.
My grandfather also told and asked my mother
."It is spilled water
anyway.
You must marry and live well! "
It’s reminiscences said to have
regretted that my mother’s father says "I wish my father’s elder brother would
become my son-in-law."
I think my mother’s father
gave a good score for my father’s elder brother rather than my father.
So my mother says me that "it
should never go with two persons and have to go out alone because it has a
comparison about two , when it happen the marriage meeting” ,
It also tells stories like
these legends.
My mother’s mother was a
well - known beautiful woman in the city..
One day mother of my mother went to shopping
in downtown.
However, it is said that a
certain Japanese police man came to the house as the mother’s beauty of my
mother..
So father of my mother says Japanese
police man that "this woman is my wife. Do not come back again”.
It also have a famous legend
that a father of my mother kicked Japanese police man out of the house.
I think that the mother of
my mother was like a beautiful woman as much as North Korean have very
beautiful girls..
I wish I could see you once
in my dreams ...
Thus, the wealthy daughter of the rich man has the
newly-built unmatched honeymoon home in Pyongyang with the son of the poor man.
New Street of Pyongyang was a glorious and awesome landscape..
But the honeymoon house that my mother had to live in
was a shabby room of rent .
So one day my mother went to the village of my mother’s
father.
Then she said him “dad, I can not live in a house in
the poor room in Pyongyang. It's too poor to eat and live.
It is difficult to live even though it is
needlework for pay
”
She had a complaint to him and then he said her that
I will buy you
a house and move away from your husband’s
mother house and make a honeymoon home.
A grandfather could not hide his sorry heart for his
eldest daughter because of a marriage that does not fit for each other.
My mother’s father promise that he will buy my mother
a house in a way to compensate for the wrong marriage.
However, my father’s mother said that “I can not consent branch family..
It is not about branch family while I am alive. After I'm dead, you can live in branch family.”.
So you should go to move out a big house which have with
three shops with my father’s mother at Pyongyang’s peak.
However, due to the 6.25 war, my mother’s house was
severely damaged by US military B-29 bombing.
And my parents felt sad parting to leave Pyongyang house forever as a result of evacuation to
south Korea
My parents have been evacuated to South Korea for a
while due to the Korean War.
However, my parents could not imagine that there will
be a truce line which can not go to Pyongyang..
Of course, my parents think that North Korea is not a
place to live for merchants.
My home is a Christian family that does not like the
Communist Party.
My parents was
forced to evacuate to the south body only with all my house and property left.
My parents could not think of it as a dream that could
not go to Pyongyang forever.
"The 38th line is the enemy .!" said mom.
It occurs that reincarnation
recalls my mother's face.
“Good bye Daedong River
Bye Moran peak.
I can not forget you forever.
I drank the water from the Taedong River, and grown up
here .
Then I looked up at Moran peak and was blooming with a flower youth.
It's goodbye forever now.
So long Daedong river.
God bye Moran peak.”
She said good bye when was crossing the frozen Daedong River at
Korean war
My parents were destined to end up not seeing the
Daedong River and Moran peak of a lot
sadness in their life time.
She once told me
this story.
On my way of shopping to the down at Pyongyang, father
said mother that .
“Honey, when you go out wearing a bright Korean
traditional clothes , all the others are staring at you, because you are so beautiful.
So I want to you go out wearing shabby clothes.
Then other peoples
will not look at you because you are similar
with me. "
Mother always was
proud of missing her beauty of young
days.
. So next time,
I will sketch the days of Busan refugees.
