In the ancient times, there was the family with father, his son, and son’s wife in one village. One day, son left his house far away for the business. When leaving house, the son begged his wife to support his father well.
So she paid special attention to prepare the dishes for the son’s father.
But after the meal, her husband’s father would be a little hungry and gready sometimes. After a while, it was the winter solstice. This day, the daughter in law cooked the red bean gruel and served it to the father. As soon as the father ended the meal, she said to him.
“Father please have some more.”
“No, I had it to my heart’s content.”
In fact, he wanted to have some more but he declined her offer because of matter of face.
After a while, she went to the well to bring water.
Being hungry and gready, he went into the kitchen, ladled the gruel into the bowel and went to the back of house to eat it. After bringing water, she found he was not in the room and ladled the gruel into the bowel to eat it. Then, to avoid meeting the father, she also went to the back of the house. By the way, he was eating the gruel while squatting on his haunches. To avoid her mistake, she thrusted out the bowl of gruel to him.
“Father, please have some more.”
Being very surprised to see her, he took off his horsehair hat, poured his remaining gruel into it and put it on his head. The red bean gruel rolled down his cheeks like sweat when she offered him gruel, he said to her as follows;
“Hey, I can’t have gruel because I am very hot, look!
The sweat like the gruel is rolling down my cheeks.”
Both the father and his son’s wife fluttered for a while without a word because of the shame.
After this event, she tried to serve him better and he tried to act more kindly toward her.
After a few months, son returned and they looked back at this event interestingly.