Chapter 108 Shocking! Circular timeline
Tao Yanyan looked at the time when she got home, it was 8:40 in the morning.
Tao Yanyan prepared some snacks and continued to watch "Jieyou Grocery Store" while eating. She was very curious about what the female athlete in the 1970s would make in the future. "If it were me, I would probably choose to participate in the Olympics..."
Tao Yanyan thought so.
The three thieves in the novel kept communicating with the female athlete in the 1970s, helping out with various ideas.
“These three thieves are not bad people.”
Tao Yanyan quite liked the three thieves because they really wanted to help the female athletes.
Finally, the female athlete sent her last letter saying that she still tried her best to prepare for the Olympic Games, but unfortunately she was not selected in the end, so she returned to her hometown and accompanied her boyfriend on the last journey of her life.
"so good."
There was no delay on either side.
Tao Yanyan felt relieved.
This is the best of both worlds.
The first story of the book ends here. Tao Yanyan also understands the setting of Night Hou. This grocery store is a medium that can connect the present and the past, allowing people in two time and space to interact in this fantasy way. way to communicate.
No hesitation.
Tao Yanyan turned directly to the second chapter. This setting has attracted her... There will definitely be people sending letters later, right?
Tao Yanyan guessed it right.
But I only guessed half of it right.
The perspective of Chapter 2 unfolds through a man named Katsuro.
Katsuro was also born in the 1970s. He had always cherished a musical dream, but his relatives wanted him to inherit his family's fish shop, so he wrote a letter to Jieyou Grocery Store, thinking that he would receive comfort and guidance. Unexpectedly, the person who replied to the letter directly mocked Katsuro.
approximately means:
Brother, your troubles are really extravagant. If you don’t inherit the family fortune and insist on pursuing some illusory dream, then it’s a good thing for people like you to go out into the society and suffer hardships...
Tao Yanyan was happy when she saw this.
The tone of this reply is clearly that of the three thieves!
Kelang was furious and wrote directly back to argue that his parents and family had always supported him and hoped that he could stick to his dream. By the way, he felt that the person who replied was very rude.
It’s just rude.
The other person responded again, still cursing Katsura. Anyway, every sentence hurt his heart, and he directly blamed Katsura for being autistic.
Ke Lang began to reflect:
Although the replyer’s words were fierce, he was right. Maybe he really didn’t have any musical talent, otherwise he wouldn’t have accomplished nothing so far.
“Can we meet?”
Hoshiro sent a third letter, accepting the other party's criticism and stating that he decided to go back and inherit the family business, but before that, he wanted to meet with the person who responded to the letter.
Obviously.
Kelang cannot be seen by anyone.
That night he sat in front of the grocery store, took out his harmonica and started playing. The song was called "Rebirth" and it had no lyrics yet. It was Kron's most satisfying work.
A few days later.
Kasuro returned home and found that his father was ill. He took care of his father at the bedside. Thinking that his father had been motivating him to keep making music, his shaken heart became firm again:
I want to stick to my music dream!
Because this is not only Katsuro’s own dream, but also the dream of his family. If he gave up music, his father would also feel very sad.
Shortly afterwards.
Hoshiro finally received the third letter, but was shocked to find that in the third letter, the other party's attitude turned around completely!
The letter reads:
"Dear Mr. Fish Shop Musician, I have read your third letter. I am sorry that I cannot meet you. Your pursuit of music will not be in vain. Someone will be saved because of your songs. You created Music will also last forever, please always believe in this and believe it until the end."
at this time.
Hoshiro doesn’t understand what it means to persist until the last moment of his life.
Tao Yanyan, who was reading a book, didn't understand either, "First of all, I can confirm that it was the three thieves who corresponded with Ke Lang, but why did the three thieves suddenly change their attitude in the third letter, wishing Ke Lang to continue to pursue his music dream? Even your tone becomes full of respect?"
There is no explanation in the book yet.
Eight years later, Ke Lang still hasn’t had many achievements in music, but he can occasionally receive some performance invitations.
For example, this day.
Katsuro was invited to perform in an orphanage called Marukouen.
Who knew that a fire suddenly broke out in the orphanage that day? Katsuro rushed in and rescued a little boy, but he was trapped and fell into the blazing fire.
this moment.
Hoshiro suddenly remembered that letter. Perhaps this meant letting himself continue to pursue his dream of music until the last moment of his life?
In the fire.
Kelang is dead.
He is a hero.
Tao Yanyan felt as if something was choking her throat when she saw this. It turned out that the three thieves already knew about Ke Lang's future.
Many years later.
There was a famous singer who held a grand concert and the last song was about to be performed.
on the stage.
The singer choked up and said: "This song is my famous song, but this song has a deeper meaning. The author of this song is my only relative and my brother's savior. He sacrificed his life for He came into my brother’s life. If I hadn’t met him, I wouldn’t be who I am now, so I will sing this song throughout my life. Please enjoy it - "Rebirth"."
It turned out to be "Rebirth"!
"Rebirth" created by Katsuro!
Tao Yanyan’s eyes widened and her eye sockets were red.
It turns out that these stories are all connected, as if there is an invisible thread that connects everything together, as if everything is destined in the dark.
Why did the three thieves change their attitude towards Kron?
Because in the era of the three thieves, the song "Rebirth" has become an eternal classic of the singer.
The singer, like her younger brother, was born in Marukoen!
The three thieves are also orphans, and they were also born in Marukoen!
As for the starting point of this line, it is the deceased owner of Jieyou Grocery Store—
Grandpa Langya.
After a few stories, the timeline goes back to the past, and Grandpa Langya’s perspective appears.
Nangiya has persisted in answering people's worries for many years. One day he received such a letter. The writer said that she was pregnant now, but the father of the child had his own wife.
What should she do?
Namiya’s son said of course he would be aborted!
Langya scolded his son: She wrote such a letter precisely because she wanted to give birth to a child. In fact, what she needed was not advice but support.
So Naniya replied to the letter.
Not long after, Naniya was hospitalized for terminal cancer, but he saw this news:
A woman committed suicide while driving with her child. As a result, the mother died, but the child was saved.
The wave of arrows was struck by five thunders!
This woman is exactly the woman who asked herself if she wanted to have a child before!
Since you were born, why did you choose to die? Langya blamed himself painfully, and suddenly wondered whether the life advice he had given others by insisting on replying to letters for so many years was wrong? Have you been doing yourself a disservice?
Nangiya asked his son to take him back to the grocery store.
The son couldn't resist the old man, so he had no choice but to do as he was told. Before entering the grocery store, Naniya gave his son another suicide note and asked him to read it.
The suicide note reads:
"Nanya Grocery Store will be resurrected on the 33rd anniversary of my death. To this end, I would like to ask everyone who has inquired about the grocery store in the past and received a reply to tell me what impact that letter had on your life at that time, and whether it helped. Are you busy?
As it was then.
Please put your letters into the mailbox at the roller shutter door. Thank you very much. "
In his suicide note, Naniya asked future generations to release the news about the resurrection of Jieyou Grocery Store when the time comes.
It turns out that Naniya has long known that Jieyou Grocery Store can connect time and space, and he hopes that everyone in the future can reply to the letter.
next moment.
Naniya was standing in the grocery store and received countless letters. He opened them and saw that all the replies were thanking himself, saying that your answers were very useful and what you did was very meaningful—
These letters!
From the future!
There is only one letter among them that is special.
Nothing is written on it. Is it a completely blank paper? A blank sheet of paper?
The night when the trio of thieves broke into the grocery store was the night before the Jieyou Grocery Store window was resurrected.
“It’s on the string again!”
Seeing this, Tao Yanyan was already in awe of Hou Yehou. Every story can be strung together. The seemingly messy timeline is actually always surrounded by invisible clues!
These stories are either touching or sad.
Tao Yanyan almost forgot the time while reading the book, and also forgot how many times she choked up and how many times she couldn't help crying.
…
finally.
The story returns to the perspective of the thief.
The final story begins.
The last letter writer called herself "the lost puppy". She said in the letter that she was in urgent need of money recently, but she made too little money at work and wanted to be a barmaid.
The three of them got angry and wrote directly back to scold the girl. Why would they do such a thing? Isn't it better to go to work down to earth?
Okay.
The righteous thief.
The lost puppy explained:
I want to make money not for extravagant consumption, because I was a child who grew up in an orphanage. My parents adopted me, and now they are experiencing financial difficulties and have no money. I want to repay their kindness, but my current job is Money is too slow and too little... Orphanage!
It’s an orphanage again!
what to do?
The three thieves came up with an idea and directly instructed the "lost puppy" in the letter how to seize the opportunities in the future.
Simply put, it means cheating girls.
The perspective shifts to the girl's side. Under the guidance of "Mr. Niyaya", she has been rising to great heights!
What stocks to buy at what time...
At what time should I buy a house or sell a house...
A few years later, she was already quite wealthy and saw a piece of news:
“Fire broke out at Marukoen Orphanage”
She was born in Marukoen, and for the first time she had the idea of helping this orphanage.
A few years later, this lost puppy had her own company and was already a very successful entrepreneur. Her desire to help the Marukouen Orphanage became more determined.
But.
The old director of the orphanage has passed away, and the acting director is a guy who enriched his own pockets, so she wants to take over the orphanage.
The acting dean spread rumors:
It was said that this female entrepreneur wanted to persecute our orphanage and turn it into a hotel or something. The rumors caused the children in the orphanage to feel disgusted when they saw this woman.
There is no way.
The female entrepreneur temporarily gave up the idea, but suddenly she saw Grandpa Langya’s grandson announcing online that the Jieyou Grocery Store’s mailbox would be reopened on September 13th.
September 13th?
Years ago, she relied on the guidance of "Grandpa Langya" to become a successful businesswoman today. She wants to write a thank-you letter and put it in the grocery store!
is.
On the night of September 12th, the female entrepreneur went home first, and then prepared to go out to deliver a letter. Unexpectedly, three thieves broke into her house and robbed her.
Three thieves blindfolded her and asked angrily:
“Are you going to sell the orphanage?”
“No! How could I...”
She explained immediately, but the three thieves didn't believe it at all. They threw her at home, snatched her bag and ran away. But when they escaped outside, they found:
car broke down!
Without any choice.
The three of them hid in an empty house.
…
The novel was almost over when I read this, but Tao Yanyan was so shocked that she couldn't speak at this moment, staring blankly at this text!
Three thieves?
Home invasion?
The car broke down?
Isn’t this the beginning of the novel!
The end of the novel is also the beginning of the novel! ?
The timeline ends, and the past and present come together!
It turns out that the three thieves who broke into the house were the Dunye trio!
It turns out that they robbed female entrepreneurs because they believed the acting dean’s slander against female entrepreneurs!
It turns out that the reason why the female entrepreneur achieved success was because she received writing advice from the Dunya trio back then!
Loop!
The whole story is actually a cycle!
Without any link, this story will not work!
At this time, the trio of thieves still don’t know that they are the beginning of a certain cycle...
“The terrible Nightless Lord!”
Tao Yanyan used to admire Hou Yehou’s ability to play with the timeline and connect several seemingly different stories together.
At this moment.
Tao Yanyan was not just impressed, she was completely shocked. All the stories put together form a cycle!
Like a complete circle!
It can be said that there is no starting point and no end point, or it can be said that the starting point is the end point!
Back to the book.
The night is getting darker.
The three of them began to sigh with emotion.
“This is the most meaningful night in my life.”
“I never thought that people like us could also provide life guidance to others.”
"Ah."
Tun Dun also sneered, "Can you make money?"
Tun, among the three thieves, is also the one with the worst temper. He is not as emotional as his two friends, although he is the hard-tongued and soft-hearted kind.
At this time.
The three of them talked about what happened tonight.
“By the way, what was the name of the woman we robbed?”
"have no idea."
“She is a female entrepreneur, she should have a business card in her bag.”
The three of them took out the female entrepreneur's bag, but they couldn't find any business cards, but they saw a letter in the bag first.
letter?
Tonight is really fateful for Xin.
Even the robbed bag contained a letter.
The three people opened the letter out of curiosity. After seeing the content inside, they were suddenly stunned!
“Nanya Grocery Store:
Do you remember? I am the [lost puppy] who wrote to you in the summer of 1980.
Your predictions about the future have all come true. I sincerely thank you. Without your advice, I would not be where I am today.
You are my eternal benefactor.
The website says tonight is your 33rd anniversary, but it was 32 years ago when I wrote.
In this case, I should be the last person to consult. This may be some kind of fate.
May you rest in peace—
Once a lost puppy
…”
Lost puppy! ?
The three thieves did not dare to read any more!
They understood the truth and finally realized what a stupid and ridiculous thing they had done!
It turned out that the female entrepreneur they robbed was the "lost puppy" who wrote to them asking for help!
The lost puppy really did as they asked more than thirty years ago, and turned from a person at the bottom of society into a successful person, and he thanked them from the bottom of his heart!
Even they themselves look down upon themselves.
The three of them stood there blankly, no one spoke.
Gradually.
Its daybreak.
A faint light from outside entered the grocery store.
This long night seems to be finally coming to an end.
The three thieves could no longer describe their feelings in words, but they knew what they were going to do next—
They were going to untie a lost puppy.
They have to face the mistakes they made.
You must assume your own responsibilities.
At this time, the sun was already extremely dazzling, but Dunya suddenly turned around, looked at the mailbox with reluctance, and stepped forward to open it gently.
“Is there a letter?”
There is a letter in the mailbox, written by Grandpa Langya, "This is an answer to the friend who sent a blank piece of paper. If you are not the sender, please put the letter back where it belongs."
Tun Dun was also stunned.
Then I remembered that in order to test whether this mailbox could really travel through time and space, he had also posted a letter outside. There was nothing written in it, it was just a blank piece of paper.
And that letter…
This is the strangest letter among the many thank-you letters that Grandpa Langya received from the future.
That blank piece of paper.
For Grandpa Langya, he will reply even if it is a blank letter.
Because in Grandpa Langya’s opinion, all the people who write to him are actually people who are lost in the journey of life.
As for these lost people, they actually hold their own life map in their hands, but they just choose not to look at it, or they can't see it.
Grandpa Langya wrote in reply:
"The map is a blank piece of paper. This is of course very troublesome. Anyone would be at a loss. But looking at it from another perspective, it is precisely because it is a blank piece of paper that you can describe everything on the map as you like. For you, everything 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 never answer trouble inquiries again. Thank you for asking a valuable question at the end—
Naniya Grocery Store. "
Tun also burst into tears while reading the letter.
The story ends here.
Tao Yanyan suddenly burst into tears.
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ps: Two hundred thousand words is too difficult to abbreviate. I hope everyone can get a little bit of it. The original work is much better than what I summarized.
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(End of this chapter)