Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 50 Reading (4K -in-)

Saturday, November 2001, 9.

Zhang Yuan got up early and drove to his girlfriend's house to pick her up.

"Where are we going today?" Liu Yangyang asked while fastening her seat belt.

"Let's go to the National Bookstore near my home. I'm quite familiar with the owner of that store and I always buy books from him. It's a good opportunity for you to come to my house and read after you finish your shopping."

"Okay, let's go!" Liu Yangyang waved his arms and gave orders with full energy.

"Okay, ma'am." Zhang Yuan liked his girlfriend's cheerful and lively look the most, and he cooperated with her to start the car.

It was around nine o'clock when the two arrived at the National Bookstore. There was actually a queue in front of the store. It wasn't long, but in a small store like this, queues were very rare.

There are promotional billboards of "The Worry-Solving Shop" on both sides of the bookstore, and there are several posters on the wall. The promotional materials produced by Mengya are much richer than before.

There are no recommendations from famous writers 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 book.

"Why don't you buy it at a big bookstore?"

"You haven't been there either? I heard that this store is always well stocked, and you can't buy what's out of stock here."

At this moment, the shop owner Zhou Guoming came out carrying a box of books, all of which were the book "Sorrow-Relieving Shop". Behind him was a woman carrying a table.

Zhang Yuan knew at a glance that the person behind was the owner's wife. He had seen her several times when he came to the bookstore to buy books.

Zhou Guomin placed the books on the table and shouted, "If you want to buy from the Jieyou Grocery Store, just come here. You don't have to go to the store. The store is small and too crowded."

Then he left his wife inside to look after the store while he sold things outside.

This measure was 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, you always come every time Chen Linfeng sends a book."

"Of course, I'm a big fan. I'll give you two copies."

"Why did you buy two copies this time?"

Zhang Yuan pointed at Liu Yangyang behind him and said, "My girlfriend likes his books, too."

"Oh, you have a girlfriend? No wonder. Congratulations." Zhou Guomin skillfully took the money, put the book in a bag and handed it to the other party.

Before leaving, Zhang Yuan still asked, "Boss, have you read this book? What do you think?"

Zhou Guomin thought for a moment and said, "It's quite different from the previous style, but it's very beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty."

Zhang Yuan was a little surprised. What kind of evaluation was this?
Liu Yangyang behind him also heard it, and she was a little excited, "Then let's go home and see how different it is."

The two quickly arrived home. Liu Yangyang couldn't wait to change her shoes and lay on the sofa in the living room to read a book.

Zhang Yuan looked at his girlfriend with some amusement, found a bench, and sat next to her to watch together.

There is a Chen family store on a quiet street.

Years ago, this was a magical little shop.

At that time, you just had to write down your worries and put them in the window, and you would get an answer in the suggestion box next to the store the next day.

People wrote their confusions in letters and threw them into the store, and then wonderful things happened. They always got answers and replies in time, and many people solved their confusions.

The store became famous and attracted many people to write to it for consultation. They were all people who were struggling, hesitant, or on the verge of despair and pain.

Nowadays, the store has been abandoned for many years because the old owner passed away.

In the early morning, three teenage thieves hid in a shabby store, but suddenly they received a letter stuffed into the window by someone outside.

The letter showed that it was sent by a shooting athlete 14 years ago. The person in the letter said that he was preparing for the Olympics, but his girlfriend fell ill with an incurable disease at this time.

His girlfriend persuaded him to fight for the Olympics, but he was struggling over whether he should accompany her, so he wrote a letter to the store owner for help.

Suspecting it was a prank, the thieves ran outside the store to see that no one was outside.

This is a letter from the past!
The three of them verified this through a series of actions.

The three people in 2000 received a letter from an athlete in 1984.

They knew that in that year's Olympics, Xu Haifeng won China's first gold medal by shooting.

Therefore, the athlete who wrote the letter would not have a chance even if he participated in the Olympics.

Therefore, the three of them wrote back to persuade him to give up the Olympics and accompany his girlfriend for the last time.

However, the athlete still went to participate in the Olympic trials. His girlfriend died of illness and he did not achieve good results.

In the following letter, he frankly admitted that he had encountered a bottleneck in training and developed a fear of difficulty and wanted to escape, but in fact he really wanted to win the gold medal and bring glory to his country.

Finally, he said that he did not regret pursuing his dream, but only hated that he did not work harder and failed to meet his girlfriend's expectations.

Liu Yangyang frowned when she saw this. From what she had read so far, the style of this novel was quite different from Chen Linfeng's previous works.

She continued to read.

The novel then moves on to a new story.

A few years passed after the delivery incident in 84.

An amateur singer who pursued his musical dream had achieved nothing after years of hard work. His family hoped that he could find a proper job as soon as possible.

Recently, his father was seriously ill, so he came back to visit him. 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 by this worry-solving store while he was out for a walk.

He thought about how he had written letters to harass others as a child and received serious replies.

On the way, he happened to meet the athlete whose girlfriend had 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 a letter to inquire, and received a reply quickly.

The other party told him that he had no musical talent and asked him to find a job as soon as possible.

The singer was unwilling to give up, so one night he came to the door of the convenience store.

He stuffed the letter halfway in and began to play his most satisfying original song "Rebirth" on the harmonica before stuffing the letter completely in.

During this process, three thieves from another time and space saw the half-stuffed letter and heard the music being played.

The three of them ran out of the door. There was no one outside, but the music was still echoing in the house.

They were more convinced that this was a letter from the past, and that they had also heard this piece of music.

It is the famous song of the famous singer Li Hong. The newspaper also reported about Li Hong's experience in the welfare home. It is said that her younger brother was rescued from a fire by a hero.

A few days later, his father asked the singer to leave his hometown again to pursue his dream. Before leaving, he received a reply from the convenience store.

The letter told him that someone would be saved because of his songs and that the music he created would be passed on.

And let him believe this until the last moment of his life.

Over the next few years, some successful singers came to the orphanage to perform for the children.

One of the girls was very talented. She could hum "Rebirth" after listening to it only once.

The singer stayed in the welfare home that day.

That very night, a fire broke out in the welfare home, and he sacrificed himself in the fire in order to save the girl's younger brother.

Before he died, he thought of the reply letter, and that someone would be saved by his songs.

I hope this is true!
The girl whose brother was saved was truly redeemed. She later became a famous singer, and "Rebirth" became widely sung due to her interpretation.

And this singer is Li Hong.

Liu Yangyang understood a little bit. Each story was inextricably linked to the following stories through the Worry-Solving Shop.

Sure enough, the story of the convenience store owner then begins.

He has always been helping people to relieve their worries through letters. He was the one who patiently replied to the singer’s letter harassment when he was a child.

And he also has a knot in his heart.

He once received a consultation from a pregnant single mother who was troubled by the situation. Her physical condition made it difficult for her to have children, and she asked whether she should give birth to the child.

At that time, the owner gave an affirmative response.

As a result, a few years ago, a single mother in a nearby town died in the river, and her three-year-old child was found floating on the water, miraculously alive.

The woman was living in poverty and the police suspected she committed suicide. She was the woman who wrote the letter to ask for advice, and the shop owner was deeply shocked.

Recently, the owner of the store was diagnosed with terminal cancer, so he closed the store and stopped accepting consultations.

A shop owner in the hospital had a dream while lying on his sickbed. He dreamed that more than ten years later, someone would send a letter to his shop. He had a premonition that he would receive the letter 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 he would stay 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 should inform everyone that the Worry-Relieving Shop would be reopened, and let everyone who had sent letters to him know what impact the letters had on their lives.

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 the store owner for consultation, and they all expressed their gratitude to the store owner in the letters.

One of the letters was particularly special; it was a letter written in the future by a three-year-old child who nearly drowned.

It turned out that her mother did not commit suicide. Instead, she worked multiple jobs to raise her children. She was too weak and accidentally fell into the river and died.

The child, who has now grown up, expressed her gratitude to the store owner for bringing her into the world. She became the agent of the famous singer Li Hong and is living a good life now.

The old shop owner spent the whole evening reading the reply letter. He felt that he had no regrets in his life.

Before leaving, another letter was thrown through the window. When the letter was opened, it was a piece of white paper.

Although the old shop owner was puzzled about the purpose of the white paper, he still wrote a reply before coming out again.

The story then goes back to the beginning of 2000, when the son published an announcement on the Internet and in newspapers that the Worry-Free Store had reopened, hoping that those who had written to it would reply.

Those who had been helped received the news and wrote letters and delivered them into the window of the Jieyou Shop. These letters were delivered to the night 14 years ago when the old owner was still there.

When Zhang Yuan saw the blank letter, he guessed that this was a foreshadowing. He read on and the next few stories were also such warm and healing short stories.

Until the last story.

The three thieves who previously advised athletes to spend time with their girlfriends and musicians to pursue their dreams were all members of this group. Now they received another letter from a consultant.

This time the letter came from 1997. The person seeking help was a woman in her twenties. She was adopted by her uncle and aunt since she was a child. She wanted to make money to support the two elderly people in the future.

She feels under great pressure. She has a job and also works part-time as a hostess in a nightclub. Now she is wondering whether she should quit her job and earn more money.

The three men wrote back asking her to give up her job in the nightclub, 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 shop. She had never had sex with anyone and now just wanted to know how to convince her uncle and aunt.

The mother of one of the trio was a hostess and he didn’t know who his father was. She abandoned him a few years after giving birth to him. He came from an orphanage that had once caught fire.

The three men were determined to help the woman, who was just before the Asian financial crisis.

The lady once trusted the Jieyou Convenience Store very much because of some things. With the help of these three people, she successfully made a fortune and achieved success in her career.

In 2000, the welfare home was restructured and it was a lady who took over.

The lady bought a property near the Jieyou Grocery Store and settled down there.

She also saw the information online about the reopening of the Jieyou Convenience Store and the request for a reply, so she wrote a reply letter and prepared to stuff it into the convenience store in the evening and put it in her bag temporarily.

Someone in the welfare home was doing illegal things and didn't want others to take over, so they interfered and spread rumors that the lady wanted to use the welfare home for other purposes.

When Zhang Yuan saw that the person who spread the rumors in the article was called Yuanyuan, he couldn't help but smile.

As a frequent surfer, he had read the response article posted by Chen Linfeng on the forum, so he naturally understood what he meant.

Then look down.

The trio of thieves were so angry about this that before coming to the store, they just went to 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 Convenience Store, the thieves also stuffed a blank letter in from the outside.

After replying a few letters, the three thieves were bored and had nothing to do.

He accidentally opened the stolen bag and found the letter the lady was about to send.

Only then did they realize that she was the person whom the three of them had helped before, the one who worked part-time as a hostess in a nightclub in 97.

The letter expressed gratitude to the three people, thanking them for helping her and changing her life.

The trio was somewhat shocked. That night, they kept receiving replies from others. Feeling the heartfelt gratitude from others, they felt like they were being baptized.

At this time, another letter was stuffed in.

This is the reply from the former shop owner to the unknown blank letter:
The following words are for my anonymous friend.

As an old man, I have pondered over and over the reason why you specially sent a piece of white paper. Because I think this must be a very important matter and cannot be answered casually.

I thought about it again and again with my almost confused brain, and finally understood that this meant there was no map.

If I compare the people who come to me for consultation to lost lambs, they usually have a map in their hands but don't look at it, or they don't know where they are now.

But I believe you are neither of these two situations. Your map is a blank sheet of paper, so even if you want to decide on a destination, you don't know where the road is.

The map is a blank sheet of paper, which is of course very puzzling. Anyone would be at a loss.

But from another perspective, it is precisely because it is a blank sheet of paper that you can draw the map as you wish. Everything is up to you.

Everything is free for you, and there are endless possibilities before you.

This is a great thing.

I sincerely pray that you can believe in yourself and burn your life with no regrets.

I probably won't answer troublesome inquiries anymore. Thank you for asking a very valuable question at the end. - Chen's Store"

Seeing this, Liu Yangyang burst into tears instantly. The whole story spanned a full sixteen years, and a blank sheet of paper ran through the entire story.

Seeing that the old man took this blank letter seriously, she really felt the power of kindness from people.

The stories we read earlier and the kind-hearted people seemed to be connected together. Everyone needs to be saved and is also saving others.

She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and finished reading the last bit.

The three thieves were deeply touched and completely redeemed by this letter written fourteen years ago.

The trio returned to the lady’s residence, rescued her and awaited police proceedings.

Looking at the red morning glow in the sky, the three people who grew up in an orphanage tried for the first time to walk out of their own lives and put aside the predetermined fate.

The book is not very long, only about 200,000 words, and the two of them finished reading it by noon.

The two sat on the sofa and exchanged their thoughts.

Liu Yangyang closed the book with some emotion and feeling, "This book is so warm, I love it so much."

"No wonder the bookstore owner said 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 are also beginning to move people with emotions."

Liu Yangyang was immersed in the touching atmosphere of the book for a long time, unwilling to come out and did not speak.

After a while.

"I like this novel so much, even more than his first two. How can Chen Linfeng be so talented? He keeps getting better and better at writing." 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 appreciate the subtle emotions in the story and can immerse herself in the joys and sorrows of the story.

"Okay, okay, it's noon, time to eat, let's go out and buy some food first." Zhang Yuan was reading the story from a bystander's perspective. Although he lamented the plight of the characters in the book, he quickly detached himself from the emotions after reading it.

Although Liu Yangyang wanted to read the previous content again, she read it quickly the first time and didn't understand many of the relationships between the characters in the book. But it was really late and she was a little hungry, so she had to go out to eat with her boyfriend.

In the restaurant, while the two were waiting for their meal, they couldn't help but discuss the plot of the novel, and they both had something to express.

"I think this book is the best and much better than the previous two." Liu Yangyang has become a loyal fan of the new book.

Zhang Yuan disagreed. "Is Fate more interesting? The setting of that book is very grand, and there is obviously a sequel. Even the content of the first part is very exciting."

"Why do you think so? 'The Shop' is obviously much better and more touching." Liu Yangyang couldn't believe it.

"Didn't you say a few days ago that Destiny was our token of love?"

"I have a new love now!" Liu Yangyang turned her head and refused to acknowledge him.

All I can say is that even a girl with a good personality will occasionally lose her temper.

　This chapter is a bit watery, so let's post it together

　　
　
(End of this chapter)