Chapter 105 Extra 1
Granny Chen has been observing the supermarket next door, Jiang's.
The supermarket has been open for many years, with a full range of products and affordable prices, providing great convenience for the neighbors in their daily lives. Granny Chen is old and has a bad back and legs. Sometimes when she buys heavy things like rice, the supermarket owner Jiang will take the initiative to help her carry them upstairs. After the supermarket closed for some reason, Granny Chen felt sorry for a long time.
Unexpectedly, the college student son of the Jiang family did not stay in the big city to work after graduation, but came back to reopen the supermarket. After the Jiang's supermarket was closed for a while, it was renovated and opened in a bustling manner.
Strange things also happened after this.
In the morning, Granny Chen made breakfast quickly. Not long after, the door of the small building next door to the Jiang family opened, and Xiao Jiang walked out yawning.
He went out for a while, came back with breakfast, and never came out again.
Grandma Chen was busy cleaning the house and watching TV. At noon, she started cooking. Halfway through lunch, she found that the oyster sauce at home was gone. Grandma Chen glanced at the closed supermarket door next door from the window, and then glanced at the wall clock. She waited patiently for a moment until she saw Xiao Jiang open the supermarket door from the window. Then she took out ten yuan from her wallet and ran downstairs.
In the morning, the supermarket next door was closed.
Grandma Chen skillfully took down a type of oyster sauce she often used from the shelf and handed over the money in her palm at the cashier. While waiting for the change, she glanced at the rotating sausage grill. The space on it was almost empty, leaving only oil stains from use. There must have been countless sausages grilled on it.
She glanced at the shelf at the door, which was filled with game consoles that were rarely seen in supermarkets. Grandma Chen didn't understand these things until her grandson mentioned it last time. In such a small convenience supermarket, such trendy toys are rarely patronized, but the goods on the shelves seem to be frequently replaced.
Not only that.
Grandma Chen returned home with oyster sauce and prepared lunch for today. After lunch, she took a short nap and was soon awakened by the sound of a truck downstairs. When she got up, she saw that it was indeed the truck delivering goods to the Jiang's Supermarket next door.
Large boxes of goods were unloaded from the truck and moved into the supermarket's warehouse. After Jiang Li handed over the goods to Uncle Gao, he quickly went back to the warehouse to sort the goods and fill the empty spaces on the shelves.
Grandma Chen stared deeply in the direction where the truck left.
The delivery trucks came very frequently, every few days, and each time they unloaded large quantities of goods. The Jiang family's supermarket next door has been open for so many years, and its customer base is also nearby neighbors. The sales volume is fixed, so where do the extra goods go? At
four o'clock in the afternoon.
The courier drove a fully loaded courier truck to the door of the supermarket.
"Boss Jiang." The courier boy shouted inside: "Your delivery has arrived."
Jiang Li walked out of the supermarket with a bottle of iced drink in his hand: "Please help me unload it in the yard, thank you for your hard work."
"Okay."
The two young men worked together to move several large boxes with tight packaging from the courier truck. The courier truck was soon half empty. The courier boy opened the bottle of water and gulped down a few big gulps before getting back in the car. He casually asked: "Boss Jiang, what did you buy this time?"
Jiang Li replied: "Nothing, just some electrical appliances."
The cartons were stacked on top of each other, and the top carton had an air conditioner pattern printed on it.
Grandma Chen thought: This is already the fifth air conditioner he has bought this month!
Not to mention the various express deliveries that had been sent in the past. The strangest one was when the Jiang family’s yard was filled with seeds of crops, but they disappeared the next day.
Strange.
It was really strange.
After the Jiang family’s supermarket opened, it was closed every morning, and the business in the afternoon and evening was not very good, but Xiao Jiang never panicked. He bought in large quantities, and the express delivery was as high as a mountain. He obviously spent money like water, but he never seemed to be short of money, and the extra things also flowed to unknown places.
Sometimes, strange lights would emerge in his home. But before Grandma Chen could see clearly, it disappeared in an instant.
Grandma Chen felt that the supermarket next door was strange for a long time.
One day, she couldn't hold it in any longer, and when she went to buy seasoning, she asked her doubts.
"Xiao Jiang, I saw you just bought a few boxes of hot pot base yesterday, why are they gone from the shelves?" Granny Chen said, "I want to make hot pot tonight."
"Ah, this..." Jiang Li said hesitantly, "It's sold out."
"Sold out?"
"Yes."
"Who bought it?"
"..."
"There are more..." Granny Chen asked all her confusions in one breath, and she asked in confusion, "Xiao Jiang, what's going on?"
Jiang Li: "..."
Granny Chen stared at Jiang Li across from her nervously, waiting for his answer.
He froze for a moment, and then he took out a strange-shaped wooden stick from somewhere, and Granny Chen's eyes were subconsciously attracted by the strange crystal on the top of the wooden stick. The next moment, as Jiang Li whispered a strange spell, the crystal suddenly shone with dazzling light in her eyes.
...
After watching Grandma Chen go back, Jiang Li took out his magic circle books and the magic materials he bought from another world at a high price.
He had made some progress in learning magic circles. At the beginning of his study, he was studying a kind of magic circle, and recently he had some results.
It took several days of effort to use a magic circle drawing pen made of special materials to draw a large magic circle that could cover the entire Jiang family building. Then he placed the materials needed for the magic circle at the key position and filled in the last stroke. The faint light representing the successful operation of the magic circle lit up, and then quickly dimmed, turning into an invisible barrier and hiding.
The entire Jiang family building was covered by a magic circle. Magic elements were flowing actively inside. The magic circle was quietly operating. Under the influence of magic rules, all unreasonable things that happened here were rationalized and would not make anyone suspicious. Unless a more powerful magician saw through the disguise here.
Jiang Li wiped his sweat: "Well, there is no problem."
Jiang Li's supermarket is also open for business today!
...
Grandma Chen has been observing the supermarket next door to the Jiang family for a long time.
Since Xiao Jiang graduated from college and took over the supermarket at home, strange things have often happened.
For example, in the morning, Jiang's supermarket is never open... Huh? What was she thinking just now?
Oh, supermarket.
Oh, I'm out of MSG at home, I need to go to the supermarket to buy a pack.