Chapter 174 Surprise
It rains heavily.
The sky is gloomy, and there are traces of moisture in the air.
In the hospital, the humidity mixed with the smell of disinfectant made people breathless.
Susan withdrew her gaze and sat back on the bed. The sound on the instrument was ticking. Grandma fell asleep, sleeping peacefully. In fact, there is no need to be too sad. Grandma is over ninety and has been suffering from illness for a long time. It is a relief to leave her.
only-
She never knew how to say goodbye.
She left the Big Demon King behind some time ago because she was distracted by taking care of her grandma, and there were many things she couldn't think of.
Susan sat on the chair and took out the manuscript.
Yesterday, Li Qingning sent over the manuscript of "Jieyou Grocery Store". Now Liu Tao is focusing on mystery novels, and Xu Guangzheng is busy with the promotion of "The Little Prince". She easily won the manuscript of this book.
Susan decided to proofread the manuscript herself.
Actually—
She admitted that what Jiang Yang wrote was good, but there were too many typos.
She mentioned it to Li Qingning tactfully.
Li Qingning smiled. She said that asking Jiang Yang to check for typos was like asking him to find the keys. The typos were clearly right in front of him, but he just couldn't see them. Jiang Yang said that when he was a child, he checked his dictation and was the first to finish writing and the last to hand in the paper. Because he knew that he had this problem, he now has a psychological shadow even as he repeated each word.
However, Li Qingning said that she had read the manuscript and corrected some typos.
Susan looked through it.
At the back of the book cover, there is a line: "My reply does not mean that I can change other people's lives. I just hope that the people who receive my letter can be happy, that's all. That's all."
This line of text was written by Jiang Yang after he saw the movie and gained insights into the lines.
“It’s faith again.”
Susan said softly that her grandmother suddenly said she wanted to write a letter a few days ago, and after preparing paper and pen, she kicked them out. After coming back, grandma handed the letter to her and opened it when she was gone.
There is also Jiang Yang. His first work was about letters, which is now known as the Bible for scholars.
but-
This sentence is so well written, especially when I read it in the hazy weather.
She opened the back page, and the first one was the story of the Moon Rabbit delivering a letter. The beginning was very attractive. Three young criminals went to hide in an abandoned house, and then suddenly an invisible person dropped into the abandoned grocery store. A further letter—
The story is given a layer of mystery and even a bit of horror from the very beginning.
Very catchy.
The story pace is also very good.
After seeing three young people in 2012 receiving a letter from the Moon Rabbit who wanted to participate in the 1980 Olympics, the story suddenly became fantastic and exciting.
“Tsk!”
Susan has a little problem. When she reads quietly alone, her tongue will flick when she sees something exciting.
She fell in love with this book.
Perhaps it was because she was going through an extremely painful thing like illness. When she saw people helping each other, Susan felt warm in her heart. She felt that a warm current was slowly flowing out of her heart in this wet and cold weather.
The ward is very quiet.
Susan thinks Jiang Yang is really awesome.
She originally thought this was the story of Moon Rabbit choosing between her Olympic dream and her seriously ill lover and seeking counseling.
But this letter in this chapter, the reversal of this sentence, speaks directly to people's hearts——
No one is a saint, and many people have many small thoughts, just like the saying that there is no filial son in front of the bedside of a long-term illness. Susan thought about relief more than once, but then she blamed herself in her heart. She was the one who loved her most.
At the end of reading, Yuetu wrote back. She followed her heart and chose the Olympics. In the end, she missed both the Olympics and spending time with her lover, but she did not regret her decision.
Good.
Susan finally understood what Jiang Yang wrote at the beginning:
Replying a letter does not necessarily change other people's lives, it just hopes that the person receiving the letter will be happy.
Grandma’s hands moved.
Susan put down the book, walked over to her grandmother, and asked her how she felt.
Grandma shook her head, maybe she was numb. She never cried out in pain, but she was getting thinner day by day.
She asked Susan what she was reading, and Susan told her she was reading a book.
Grandma touched her hand and said, "It's a good book. I saw you smiling just now."
Susan thought for a while, and indeed, on this rainy day, this book was like a ray of warm sunshine, giving people a slight sense of warmth. The point was not how warm it was, but that when there was a ray of difference, the heart felt... Changes followed.
“Read it with me.”
Grandma also liked reading and listened to many stories. She told her many, many stories when she was a child. Susan later wanted to be a writer and just wanted to write these stories. Unfortunately, she was not talented enough, so she became an editor.
"good."
Susan sat down, moved closer to her grandmother, and turned to the first page.
She didn’t know how long she read. During this time, she thought her grandma was asleep.
But when the sound of reading stopped for a while, she opened her eyes, and Susan continued reading. Gradually, even if grandma fell asleep, Susan would continue reading. The sound of reading echoed in the empty room, becoming no longer So empty.
It rained intermittently for three days. Susan read a little bit every day and finished the book intermittently.
The last story of this book is about a company employee, her name is Qingmei. Her parents died in a car accident. She also lived in an orphanage, and was later adopted by relatives. The relative who adopted her became paralyzed due to illness when she grew up, and her family's financial situation deteriorated. Conditions were getting worse. In order to repay her relatives, she planned to make quick money by working as a bartender. However, she hesitated, so she wrote to inquire about Jiyou Grocery Store.
This letter was delivered to the trio of fugitives.
They cheated her, asking her to speculate in real estate and stocks, and then sell them before the economic crisis, etc.
Later, Qingmei heard about the fire in the orphanage (the fish shop musician Krone died), and donated money to save the orphanage. Then at that time, Qingmei learned that the late founder of the orphanage, the old father of the Xieyou Grocery Store, had been there when he was young. They were lovers, and they eloped for a time. Later, the woman was captured and returned. She never married and established this orphanage near the man's hometown.
In this story, all the trio, musicians, and Beatles fans have stayed in the orphanage—
In the dark!
When Susan saw this, she was shocked by Jiang Yang. She never expected that he was not only attractive in novels and stories, but also so familiar with the story structure. He gave readers such a big surprise without knowing it.
ˆ All the stories are wrapped up in the fruitless love between the orphanage director and the worried grocery store owner.
Not only that, at the end of the novel, when the younger brother of the old director of the orphanage was too old to manage the orphanage, he handed over the orphanage to an outsider. However, Qingmei discovered that this person was using the orphanage to make profits and planned to buy it in order to keep the orphanage. Three young people who came out of the orphanage believed in rumors that Qingmei was going to turn the orphanage into a love hotel, so they kidnapped Qingmei.
They were the original trio of fugitives, and they were also the three who guided Harumi to where she is today.
A novel revolves around an orphanage and a grocery store, tying up all the story lines and making the five stories form a more complete story.
This is a really surprising book.
(End of this chapter)