Chapter 50 Reading (4k 2-in-1)
Saturday, September 8, 2001.
Zhang Yuan got up early and drove to his girlfriend’s house to pick him up.
"Where should we go shopping today?" Liu Yangyang asked while fastening his seat belt.
“Go to the National Bookstore near my home. I’m familiar with the owner of that store and I’ve been buying from him. It just so happens that after buying, I can come to my house to read.”
"Okay, let's go!" Liu Yangyang waved his arms energetically and commanded.
"Okay, ma'am." Zhang Yuan liked his girlfriend's happy and lively look the most, and cooperated with her to start the car.
It was about nine o'clock when the two arrived at the National Bookstore. There was still a queue at the door of the bookstore. The queue was not long, but in such a small store, queuing is very rare.
On both sides of the bookstore there are promotional signs for "The Worry-Relief Commissary", and there are several posters on the wall. The promotional materials produced by Germination are much richer than before.
There are no celebrity recommendations this time, because Chen Linfeng himself has already made a name for himself in the field of novel publishing.
Liu Yangyang asked doubtfully, "Is this bookstore so popular?"
Zhang Yuan had never seen so many people here. He asked a few people and found out that they were all here to buy Chen Linfeng's new books.
"Why don't you go to the big bookstore to buy it?"
"You haven't gone either? I heard that this store always has enough stock. If you come here, you can't buy it if it's out of stock."
At this moment, the shop owner Zhou Guoming came out with a box of books, all of which were "Jieyou Commissary", followed by a woman carrying a table.
Zhang Yuan knew at a glance that the woman behind was the shop owner's wife. He had met her several times before when she came to the bookstore to buy books.
Zhou Guomin put the books on the table and shouted loudly, "If you buy Jieyou Grocery Store, come here directly. You don't have to go to the store. The store is small and it's too crowded."
Then he leaves his wife inside to look after the store while he sells it outside.
Such a move was still very effective. The team progressed much faster, and soon it was Zhang Yuan's turn.
Zhou Guomin looked up and saw a familiar face, "Old customer, every time Chen Linfeng sends out a book, you must come."
"That's for sure. I'm a loyal fan, so I'll buy two copies."
"Why buy two copies this time?"
Zhang Yuan pointed to Liu Yangyang behind him, "My girlfriend also likes it. His book."
"Hey, you are dating a girlfriend, no wonder, congratulations." Zhou Guomin skillfully collected the money, bagged the book and handed it to the other party.
Before leaving, Zhang Yuan still asked, "Boss, have you read this book? How is it?"
Zhou Guomin thought for a while, "The style is quite different from before, but it looks good. It's a different type of good-looking."
Zhang Yuan is a little strange, what kind of evaluation is this?
Liu Yangyang behind him also heard it, and she was a little excited, "Then let's go home quickly and see how it looks different."
The two of them arrived home soon, and Liu Yangyang couldn't wait. After changing my shoes, I lay down on the sofa in the living room and read a book.
Zhang Yuan looked at his girlfriend funny, found a bench, sat next to her and watched together.
There is a Chen's canteen on a quiet street.
Years ago, this was a magical tuck shop.
At that time, as long as I wrote down my worries and stuffed them in the window, I would get answers in the suggestion box next to the store the next day.
People wrote their confusions in letters and put them in the canteen, and then wonderful things kept happening. They always got answers and replies in time, and many people solved their confusions.
As a result, the canteen became famous and attracted many people to write in and inquire. They were all people who were struggling, hesitant or on the verge of despair.
Nowadays, because the old shop owner passed away, the canteen has been abandoned for many years.
In the early morning, three teenage thieves hid in a dilapidated canteen. Suddenly, they received a letter at the window from someone unknown outside.
The letter showed that it was sent by a shooter 14 years ago. The person in the letter said that he was preparing for the Olympics, but his girlfriend fell seriously ill at this time.
His girlfriend persuaded him to fight for the Olympics. He struggled with whether he should accompany his girlfriend, so he wrote a letter to the canteen shop owner asking for help.
The thieves suspected it was a prank and ran out of the store to see that there was no one outside.
This is a letter from the past!
The three people verified this through a series of actions.
Three people in 2000 received a letter from an athlete in 1984.
They knew that in that year’s Olympic Games, Xu Haifeng won China’s first gold medal by virtue of shooting.
So the athlete who wrote the letter will not have a chance even if he participates in the Olympics.
Therefore, the three of them wrote a reply to persuade him to give up the Olympics and go to accompany his girlfriend on the last journey.
However, the athlete still went to participate in the Olympic selection. His girlfriend died of illness and he did not achieve good results.
He confessed in the following letter that he was afraid of difficulties because he encountered a bottleneck in training and wanted to escape. In fact, he really wanted to win the gold medal and win glory for the country.
Finally, he said that he did not regret pursuing his dream, but he only regretted not working harder and failing to live up to his girlfriend's expectations.
Liu Yangyang frowned a little when he saw this. From what he has seen so far, this novel has changed a lot from Chen Linfeng's previous style.
She continued to read.
The novel then switches to a new story.
A few years passed after the delivery incident in 1984.
An amateur singer who pursues his music dream has still achieved nothing after years of hard work in other places. His family hopes that he will find a serious job as soon as possible.
Recently, his father was seriously ill and he came back to visit. Seeing his father's thin figure, the singer felt a little shaken.
He wanted to give up music and find a job to reassure his father before he left, but his father encouraged him to pursue his dream.
The amateur singer was very confused and passed this worry-relief shop when he was out for a walk.
He thought about the time when he wrote letters to harass people when he was a child, but received a serious reply.
On the road, I happened to meet the athlete whose girlfriend passed away a few years ago. The athlete told the singer that as long as he sent the letter, he would get a reply the next day.
So the singer wrote to inquire and received a reply quickly.
The other person told him that he had no musical talent and asked him to find a job quickly.
The singer was unwilling to give in. One night, he came to the entrance of the canteen.
I stuffed half of the letter, and started playing my most satisfying original song "Rebirth" on the harmonica, and then stuffed the letter completely.
During this process, the three thieves in another time and space saw the half-stuffed letter and heard the music being played.
The three of them ran out the door. There was no one outside, but the music was still echoing in the house.
They believed even more that this was a letter from the past time and space, and they had also heard this piece of music.
is the famous song of the famous singer Li Hong. Newspapers also reported that Li Hong was in the orphanage. It is said that his younger brother was saved by a hero in a fire.
A few days later, his father asked the singer to leave his hometown again to pursue his dream. Before leaving, he got a reply from the canteen.
The letter told him that someone will be saved because of his songs, and the music he created will surely be passed down.
And let him believe in this until the last moment of his life.
In the next few years, some successful singers came to children's welfare homes to perform for children.
One of the girls was so talented that she could hum "Rebirth" just after listening to it once.
The singer stayed at the orphanage that day.
On that night, a fire broke out in the orphanage. In order to save the girl's brother, he sacrificed himself in the fire.
Before he died, he thought about that reply letter and that someone would be saved because of his song.
Hope this is true!
The girl whose younger brother was saved was really saved. She later became a famous singer, and her performance of "Rebirth" became widely sung.
And this singer is Li Hong.
Liu Yangyang somewhat understood that every story would be inextricably linked to the subsequent stories through the Jieyou Commissary.
As expected, the story of the canteen owner begins next.
He has always used letters to help people resolve their worries. He was the one who patiently responded to the singer's harassment letters when he was a child.
And he also has a knot in his heart.
He once received a troublesome consultation from a pregnant single mother. Her physical condition was difficult to give birth and she asked whether she should give birth to the child.
At that time, the store owner gave a positive reply.
As a result, a few years ago, a single mother died in the river in a nearby town. Her child, about three years old, was found floating in the water and miraculously survived.
This woman lives in embarrassment, and the police suspect she committed suicide. She was the woman who wrote to inquire, and the shop owner was deeply shocked.
Recently, the shop owner was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He has closed the shop and will no longer accept consultations.
A shopkeeper in the hospital had a dream in his bed. He dreamed that more than ten years later, someone would send a letter to the canteen. He had a premonition that he would receive letters from the future when he arrived at the shop.
He asked his son to take him back.
The old store manager came into the store alone in the evening and stayed in the store all night.
Before going in, he told his son one thing, that is, on the anniversary of his death fourteen years later, he would inform everyone that the Jieyou Commissary would be reopened, so that everyone who had sent letters could tell them about the impact of the letters on their lives. What impact.
That night, the shop owner received more than ten letters, all of which came from the future, fourteen years later.
The owners of the letters were all people who had written to consult the shop owner, and they all expressed their gratitude to the shop owner in their letters.
One of the letters is particularly special. It is a letter written in the future by a child who almost drowned when he was more than three years old.
It turns out that her mother did not commit suicide, but worked multiple jobs to raise her children. She was too weak and accidentally fell into the river and died.
The adult child expressed her gratitude to the shop owner for letting her come into the world. She became the manager of the famous singer Li Hong and is now living a good life.
All night long, the old shop owner was reading the reply. He felt that he had no regrets in his life.
Before leaving, another letter came through the window. When this letter was opened, it was a piece of white paper.
Although the old shop owner was confused about the purpose of this blank piece of paper, he still wrote a reply and came out again.
The story then goes back to the beginning of 2000. My son published news on the Internet and in newspapers about the reopening of the worry-free canteen, hoping that people who had written letters would reply.
Those who had been helped received the news and wrote letters and delivered them to the window of the Jieyou canteen. These letters were sent to the night 14 years ago when the old shop owner was still there.
When Zhang Yuan saw the blank letter, he guessed that it was foreshadowing. He looked back and saw that the next few stories were also this kind of warm and healing little stories.
Until the last story.
It was the trio of thieves who advised athletes to accompany their girlfriends and musicians to pursue their dreams. They received another letter from a consultant.
This letter comes from 1997. The person asking for help is a woman in her twenties. She was adopted by her uncle and aunt since she was a child. She wants to make money to support two elderly people in the future.
She feels deeply stressed. She has a job and works part-time as a bartender in a nightclub. Now she is worrying about whether to quit her job and make more money.
The three wrote back asking her to give up her nightclub job, do her job well, and then get married and have children normally.
The lady wrote another letter, saying that she did not want to rely on others to survive and wanted to save some money to open a store by herself. She had never had a relationship with anyone and now she just wanted to know how to convince her uncle and aunt. .
The mother of one of the trio was a bartender. She didn’t know who her father was. She abandoned him a few years after giving birth to him. He came out of an orphanage that had been on fire.
The three are determined to help the lady, who happens to be on the eve of the Asian financial crisis.
The lady once trusted Jieyou Commissary for some reasons. With the help of three people, she successfully made a fortune and achieved a career.
In 2000, the orphanage was restructured and it was Ms. who took over.
The lady bought a house to live near the Jieyou canteen.
She also saw the information on the Internet about the restart of Jieyou Commissary and asked for a reply, so she wrote a reply and prepared to stuff it into the commissary at night and put it in her bag temporarily.
Someone in the orphanage was carrying out illegal activities, and they didn't want others to take over, so they interfered and spread rumors that the lady wanted to use the orphanage for other purposes.
Zhang Yuan couldn't help but smile knowingly when he saw that the person spreading rumors in the article was called Yuanyuan.
As someone who often surfs the Internet, he has read the original reply article posted by Chen Linfeng in the forum, and he naturally understands it now.
Then look down.
The trio of thieves were very angry because of this. Before coming to the canteen, they had just arrived at the lady's house, tied her up and robbed her of her belongings.
This brings us back to the beginning of the story.
In order to test the mechanism of the Jieyou Commissary, the thieves also inserted a blank letter from the outside.
After answering a few letters, the three thieves were bored and had nothing to do.
I accidentally opened the snatched bag and found the letter that the lady wanted to send.
Only then did I realize that she was the person whom the three of them had helped before, the person who worked part-time as a bartender in a nightclub in 1997.
The letter expressed her gratitude to the three people for helping her and changing her life.
The trio was a little shocked. They kept receiving replies from others that night, feeling the heartfelt gratitude from others, and they themselves were baptized.
At this time another letter came in.
This is a reply from a past shop owner to an unknown blank letter:
The following passage is addressed to an anonymous friend.
I, an old man, have thought over and over the reason why you specially sent a blank piece of paper. Because I think this must be a very important matter and cannot be answered casually.
I thought about it with my almost confused mind, and finally understood that this meant that there was no map.
If the people who come to me for consultation are compared to lost lambs, they usually have a map in their hands but do not look at it, or they do not know their current location.
But I believe you don't belong to either of these situations. Your map is a blank piece of paper, so even if you want to decide your destination, you don't know where the road is.
The map is a blank piece of paper, which is of course very nerve-wracking. Anyone would be overwhelmed.
But looking at it from another perspective, it is precisely because it is a blank piece of paper that you can draw the map as you like. It's all up to you.
For you, everything is free and there are infinite possibilities in front of you.
This is a great thing.
I sincerely pray that you can believe in yourself and burn your life without regrets.
I will probably not answer troublesome inquiries again in the future. Thank you for asking a valuable question at the end. ——Chen’s Commissary”
Seeing this, Liu Yangyang burst into tears instantly. The whole story spanned a full sixteen years, and a blank piece of paper ran through the entire story.
Seeing that the old man took this blank letter seriously, she really felt the power of goodwill coming from people's hearts.
The stories I read earlier, the kind people, seem to be connected together. Everyone needs to be saved, and they are all saving others.
She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her hands and read the last bit of content.
The trio of thieves were deeply touched, and they were completely saved by this letter from fourteen years ago.
The trio returned to the woman's residence, rescued her, and awaited trial by the police.
Looking at the red morning glow on the horizon, the three people who grew up in an orphanage tried to walk out of their own lives for the first time and put aside their predetermined destiny.
This book has not many words, only more than 200,000 words. The two of them probably finished reading it by noon.
The two sat on the sofa and exchanged their thoughts.
Liu Yangyang closed the book with some emotion and emotion, "This book is so warm, I like it so much."
"No wonder the bookstore owner said that the style is different. It is indeed different and beautiful. It is a good book." Although Zhang Yuan prefers the fast pace and novel creativity of the first two books, he has to admit that this is also a good book. .
“His novels have also begun to move people with emotion.”
Liu Yangyang was immersed in the touching atmosphere of the book for a long time, unwilling to step out, and did not speak.
After a while.
"I really like this novel, even more than his first two. Why is Chen Linfeng so good? The more he writes, the better." Liu Yangyang stood up excitedly.
"I want to watch it again!"
Although she has a lively personality, she is a girl after all, and her mind is more delicate. She can understand the subtle emotions in the story and be more immersed in the joys and sorrows in the story.
"Okay, okay, it's already noon. It's time to eat. Let's go out and buy food first." Zhang Yuan was reading the story from the perspective of a bystander. Although he lamented the plight of each character in the book, he watched Wan also quickly removed his emotions.
Although Liu Yangyang wanted to read the previous content again, he read it quickly the first time. The relationship between many characters in the book was not clear, but it was really late at this time, and he was a little hungry after reading it. I can go out to eat with my boyfriend.
In the restaurant, while the two were waiting for their meal, they couldn't help but discuss the plot of the novel. They were both a little unhappy.
"I think this book is the most beautiful, much better than the previous two." Liu Yangyang has become a loyal fan of the new book.
Zhang Yuan did not agree very much, ""Destiny" is probably more interesting. The setting of that book is very grand, and there are obviously sequels. Even the content of the first part is very exciting."< br>
"Why do you think so? "Commissary" is obviously much more beautiful and touching." Liu Yangyang couldn't believe it.
"Didn't you say a few days ago that "Destiny" is our love token?"
"Now I have a new love!" Liu Yangyang turned away and refused.
It can only be said that even girls with good personalities will occasionally act out of temper.
This chapter is a bit confusing, so let’s post it together
(End of this chapter)