Chapter 1

Graduation season is a busy time. The dormitory building that was noisy not long ago is now mostly empty in the blink of an eye. People are leaving the door one after another with suitcases.

Jiang Li's dormitory is also empty. The other roommates have either found jobs and rented houses in advance and moved out, or they are locals and left the school early to go home. In the end, he was the last one to leave, and his hometown was also the farthest away.

He packed the last luggage and cleaned up slowly, then picked up a potted plant that he had raised for four years and left with his suitcase.

The online car-hailing service took Jiang Li to the train station. He found a suitable place for his plant in the car, then plugged in headphones, leaned back in the seat, closed his eyes and rested. The plane ticket was too expensive. The high-speed rail ticket Jiang Li bought took six or seven hours to ride. After getting off the high-speed rail, he had to change trains again. He was rushing all day.

The messages on his phone kept ringing.

It was really hard to ignore. Jiang Li took it out and saw that the message in the dormitory group had been sent to 99+ people, and there were also a series of tags.

Jiang Li typed slowly: [On the way home. ]

The others were already chatting enthusiastically, and as soon as he appeared, the topic immediately turned to him.

[@姜裏, are you really going back to your hometown? ]

[It would be great if you could stay and keep me and the boss company. There are so many job opportunities in City A. Although you have passed the campus recruitment, it is not difficult to find a good job with your resume. Are you really not going to submit a resume? ]

[@姜裏, why don’t you come and take the civil service exam with me! 】

【……】

Messages flashed up one after another, and all of them were worried about Jiang Li's future.

During the four years of college, the six people in the dormitory had a very good relationship. In the graduation season, classmates of the same year either went to work in a large factory or took the postgraduate entrance examination or the civil service examination. The other five roommates in the dormitory also found their way out, but only Jiang Li was left. Obviously, his grades were among the best and he received many awards, but he rejected several opportunities. Now, he is planning to go back to his hometown, which is far less developed than City A, to be a salted fish? !

Jiang Li is the youngest among them. For various reasons, his roommates usually take good care of him, and now they are more concerned about his future than he is.

Before Jiang Li could type a reply, the private chat lit up first.

It was also his roommate Lin Chengrui, a rich second-generation whose family had a mine.

Lin Chengrui: [Jiang Li, have you really thought it through?]

Jiang Li: [Really.]

Lin Chengrui: [Okay, if you have any difficulties, remember to tell me, don't be polite with me!]

Jiang Li's heart warmed.

Lin Chengrui: [By the way, what do you plan to do after you return to your hometown? Have you thought about it?]

Jiang Li replied with emotion: [I plan to go back and inherit the family business.]

Lin Chengrui: [……]

The person on the other end of the phone sent six speechless dots, not knowing whether he believed it or not.

Jiang Li smiled, put away his phone and continued to close his eyes and rest.

When he got home, the night was dark and the sky was full of stars.

The house was dark. Jiang Li took out the key from his pocket and opened the door. The house had not been occupied for half a year and was covered with dust. A car passed by outside the house, and the flashing headlights illuminated the furniture in the house covered with dust-proof white cloth.

Jiang Li followed his memory and touched the switch on the wall. With a "click", the light bulb above his head flashed and made a crackling sound, followed by a slight explosion. Suddenly, his eyes went black and the light bulb went out.

Jiang Li: "..."

He pressed the switch several times, but the light bulb above his head did not respond.

Jiang Li resigned himself to turning on the flashlight in his mobile phone to illuminate himself. Fortunately, except for the light bulb at the door, the lamps in other rooms were all working properly, and the water and electricity were unobstructed.

With some time left, he simply cleaned his room. The water pipes that had not been used for a long time flowed with yellow water for a while, and then became clear. He cleaned up in a hurry, but had no time to tidy up more. After a day's journey, he was quickly exhausted and fell asleep.

After waking up the next day, Jiang Li went to pick up the luggage he had sent back, and then began to clean up the whole house.

He cleaned a few rooms first, bought new light bulbs to replace them, and then went to the first floor to wipe the shelves.

Jiang Li was not talking nonsense, he really had a family business to inherit.

Although this family business was not that big.

Jiang Li's home is a three-story building. The upper two floors are for living, and the first floor is a small supermarket. Originally, Jiang Li's parents were the only ones who managed the business. Although the business was not very good, the couple worked hard and raised Jiang Li with this supermarket. From childhood to adulthood, Jiang Li never lacked snacks and was the envy of countless children.

Until the year before last, Jiang Li got an internship opportunity and did not plan to go home for the New Year during the winter vacation. Knowing that it was a good opportunity, Jiang's father and mother were very happy for him and told him a lot of things on the phone. As a result, before the New Year, when Jiang Li received the news again, it was the news of their death.

He didn't go home for the New Year, so the couple closed the supermarket in advance, prepared a big bag of delicious food, and planned to go to City A to accompany him. Unexpectedly, he encountered a car accident on the way and died when he was sent to the hospital.

The supermarket was left by his parents. Before, Jiang Li had to continue his studies, so he could only deal with the remaining goods in the supermarket in a hurry. Later, only empty shelves were left here. During this period, some people wanted to rent this shop to run a restaurant or a car wash, but Jiang Li did not agree. During

the graduation season, other classmates either worked part-time, went ashore, or started a business from scratch. Jiang Li didn't want to do any of them. He thought about it, and in the end, he thought of the scene when he was a child sitting behind the cashier and watching people coming and going.

So Jiang Li came back, planning to inherit the supermarket left by his parents and become an ordinary supermarket boss.

He wiped the shelves, cleaned the first floor, then took out his mobile phone to take a photo of the empty supermarket and sent it to the roommate group.

The photo immediately blew up the others.

Lin Chengrui had already told others that he was going to inherit the family business. Now, as soon as the photo came out, everyone responded.

[Okay, Boss Jiang.]

[If you are rich, don't forget each other!]

[Wow, isn't this my dream when I was in elementary school, to open a canteen?]

[Jiang Li, this is not a canteen, the scale is much larger than I imagined.]

[I can't tell, Lao Liu, you are actually a hidden rich second generation!]

Jiang Li: [Cool.jpg]

...

It took Jiang Li several days to get all the documents, and then he asked workers to renovate the supermarket on the first floor. Finally, he used the phone book left by his parents to contact the supermarket's supplier.

The supplier's surname was Gao. He had cooperated with Jiang's parents for many years and was an old acquaintance of the Jiang family. Knowing that Jiang Li was going to come back to open a supermarket, he was happy and regretful.

"It was OK in the past few years, but since we opened several large supermarkets here, the business of small supermarkets is not as good as before. When your parents were still alive, they said that after you graduate, wherever you settle down, they will close the supermarket to accompany you..." Thinking of Jiang's parents, Uncle Gao stopped talking and said with concern: "Why don't you stay in City A and come back to our small place?"

Jiang Li's hometown is a small third- or fourth-tier city. It is neither as developed as first-tier cities nor has so many job opportunities. Young people like to go out. The young man of the Jiang family graduated from a prestigious university. It would be a pity for him to come back.

"Isn't it nice here?" Jiang Li said, "I've wanted to come back for a long time."

Uncle Gao replied with a smile, "Yes, yes, it's nice here, with beautiful scenery and a lot of people coming to travel during holidays."

However, the small supermarket only does business with neighbors. Most of the people who stay are middle-aged and elderly people. The permanent population is not as large as that of developed cities. There are also large supermarkets with more complete products, so the business is not that good.

Uncle Gao stood at the door and looked inside through the polished glass. After the supermarket was renovated, the walls were snow-white, the light bulbs cast bright light, the shelves below were neatly arranged, and the interior was neatly divided into several areas. Several newly purchased large freezers were used to sell ice cream and frozen fast food in the future. Compared to the old supermarket that had been in business for decades, the interior was completely new.

Even the signboard was newly made, only the name remained the same: Trust-Mart Supermarket.

Young people all had their own ideas, and Uncle Gao did not persuade them much, just helping to move boxes of goods into the warehouse. When

the last box was moved in, Jiang Li went to get him a bottle of water, and Uncle Gao took it and said straightforwardly: "When your supermarket opens in a few days, I will send you a big flower basket."

Jiang Li smiled: "Thank you, Uncle Gao."

"Why are you being polite to Uncle He? Your parents and I are old friends. I held you in my arms when you were a child."

Uncle Gao had a lot of things to do, so he did not stay for long. He left after helping to unload the goods. Uncle Gao also had a daughter in college, and he felt a little sorry to see him alone. After getting in the car, he rolled down the window again and shouted to Jiang Li: "Call me if you have any problems, don't carry it alone!"

"Okay, be careful on the road."

Jiang Li walked back after watching the small truck disappear in the air.

He unpacked the boxes and placed the goods neatly on the shelves. Jiang Li's supermarket did not hire anyone, so he did it all by himself. Although it was a little slow, it was orderly.

The opening time was a good day chosen in advance. Before the opening, Jiang Li completed all the preparations.

...

The day before the opening, Jiang Li moved the tables and chairs to the terrace.

The third floor of the Jiang family is an attic with a spacious terrace outside. The sky of the small city is free of haze and the summer nights are dotted with stars. The Jiang family's small building is not in the city center and there are no tall buildings to block the view. Sitting on the terrace, the deep blue sky is endless.

When Jiang Li was young, he often sat here to do his homework.

The cool evening breeze of the summer night blew gently, carrying the heat of the day. A not-so-bright light bulb hung on the eaves, and a few small flying insects were circling around the light source.

Tomorrow is the opening day of the supermarket.

This choice is very willful. Jiang Li was very enthusiastic and only started to feel nervous when the opening was approaching.

He wanted to find someone to talk to and relieve his tension, so he turned on his phone and saw that someone in the roommate group was complaining about the new boss, while others were trying to comfort him. After thinking about it, he did not join in.

Insects were chirping, and there was a kitten that came from nowhere and kept meowing. Most of the kittens here are free-range and allowed to run in and out. There are also many stray cats. During this period, Jiang Li would occasionally see a big orange cat lying at the door of the supermarket, drying its belly.

Jiang Li listened for a long time. Hearing the cat's meowing non-stop, he was worried that a cat was trapped somewhere and couldn't get out, so he turned on the flashlight and prepared to look for a cat.

He just stood up and caught a glimpse of a flash of light passing by in the sky from the corner of his eye.

A shooting star?

Jiang Li subconsciously raised his head and looked up at the sky.

He thought it was his illusion, but he really saw a meteor in the sky, streaking across the night sky, leaving a long tail, appearing from the deep blue sky, and coming closer and closer, straight towards him.

?

Wait? !

Towards where? !

Jiang Li's eyes widened, and he saw that the meteor was getting closer and closer, from a star in the sky to a ball of fire, wrapped in something, and flew towards him with great momentum.

Jiang Li: ? ? ! ! !