Chapter 1
What Jiang Qi didn't expect was that he would soon meet this strange girl for the fourth time.
After breakfast, Jiang Qi went to Boss Wang's store to refer to the price list to price today's new products. Jiang Qi's method of pricing the braised food in his store is very simple, just increase the price of the braised food in Boss Wang's store by 50%.
When Jiang Qi went to refer to the price list, Boss Wang was happily gnawing on duck neck. Next to the duck neck were two bottles of empty soy milk. It was obvious that Boss Wang's ability to eat spicy food needed to be improved.
"Boss Wang, why are the duck necks in your store so cheap? I remember that the Jingwu duck necks next to Chen Ji are sold for 6 yuan each? Why are you only selling them for 4 yuan?" Jiang Qi was a little confused when looking at the pricing of the duck necks.
"This was the pricing from two years ago. At that time, everyone sold duck necks for 4 yuan. The price has only increased to 6 yuan in the past two years. I haven't braised duck necks in my store for a long time. The duck necks I braised are so unpalatable that even my wife doesn't want to eat them." Obviously, Boss Wang has a very clear understanding of his own strength.
Jiang Qi: ...
Jiang Qi silently set the price of duck neck at 9 yuan per piece.
He is such a shady businessman.
Since there were not many types of new products, Jiang Qi quickly set the price and sent it to Chengzi.
It was already past 8 o'clock. Orange, who had developed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early since he started working, excitedly sent Jiang Qi a series of exclamation marks after receiving the message to express his feelings at the moment.
Then she asked Jiang Qi if she could leave some more duck necks and duck feet so that she could eat them while watching TV series, as she loved eating this kind of food.
Jiang Qi felt that if she was not afraid of her mouth becoming as spicy as sausages, he wouldn't mind.
Jiang Qi was replying to Chengzi's message when Boss Wang received a call.
"Hello? Are you here to look after the shop? When are you planning to come? Today at 3pm? No problem, I'm nearby. Just call me when you get to the entrance of the alley. Ok, sure, my last name is Wang."
After Boss Wang hung up the phone, Jiang Qi asked casually, "Boss Wang, do you still have a shop that you haven't rented out?"
Jiang Qi thought that all his shops had been rented out. By the way, Chen Ji’s shop belonged to Boss Wang.
"It's not my shop, it's Old Man Chen's. Didn't he close the hardware store? He cleared out everything in the store some time ago, and the store has been closed for four or five days. He wanted to rent the shop out, but he didn't know how to run it, and he was afraid of being ripped off by the tenant, so he asked me to help him rent it."
"We are all neighbors, and it's really pitiful for Old Man Chen to be alone. Just help him with this small favor." Boss Wang said.
"So where does Grandpa Chen live now?"
"They live nearby. Old Man Chen has always lived here. I think it's better for him to close the store. He has a bad temper. There is also a hardware store on this street. His store's business has never been good. It would be better for him to close the store and rent it out to earn some rent money."
As he was speaking, Jiang Qi saw the strange girl he met again in the noodle shop in the morning walking past Boss Wang.
She looked around as she walked, examining the signs of each store one by one, first at the sign and then at the storefront, as if she was looking for a store.
Meeting this girl four times in less than 24 hours was definitely not a coincidence. It was because Jiang Qi was staying here and this girl was running around in the alley, so it was normal to meet her.
Jiang Qi pointed at the girl in a simple shirt and trousers and asked Boss Wang: "Boss Wang, did you see this girl last night?"
"See, this little girl is very strange."
"Why is it strange?"
"She was dragging a suitcase when she came here yesterday. She looked around and checked her phone. She walked back and forth in the alley four or five times in one night. I don't know what she was looking for."
"Not only is this girl weird, she's also rude. Do you remember Aunt Xu? She used to be from the neighborhood committee. She had curly hair, a loud voice, and was very enthusiastic."
"I remember, I remember." Jiang Qi nodded repeatedly.
"Aunt Xu is such a warm-hearted person. Seeing a little girl dragging a suitcase and wandering around like a headless fly, people thought she was here to look for some relatives, but she couldn't find anyone. Aunt Xu took the initiative to ask her, but the girl ignored her and just kept looking at her mobile phone, which made Aunt Xu very angry." Boss Wang said while shaking his head.
"I don't know what's wrong with the girls nowadays. They all treat their mobile phones as treasures. My daughter is the same. She is about to go to high school, but she doesn't think about studying all day long, but how to play with her mobile phone. It makes me and my wife..."
“…”
By the time Boss Wang finished talking about the ten major effects of mobile phones on young people, the strange girl had already left. Jiang Qi also said goodbye, and Boss Wang continued to watch TV on his phone.
Jiang Qi, who was preparing to go home, met the strange girl for the fifth time in front of his shop.
She was standing at the entrance of the Xinghe Script-Killing Shop, looking at her phone while looking at the entrance of the shop. She also took a look at the noodle shop next door as if she was confirming something.
They had met each other five times, and this time it was at the door of his own store. Jiang Qi couldn't resist his curiosity and walked up to pat the girl on the shoulder.
"Are you looking for something?"
"Ah, I..." The girl was so embarrassed and nervous that she couldn't speak for a moment.
Jiang Qi noticed that the interface of his mobile phone was a news video.
A news video he was very familiar with.
News about Zhang Yicheng’s arrest.
But the girl was not watching the news itself, because her phone was not on. The video was not an official one, but a marketing account that edited several related videos, without any subtitles.
She was looking at the pictures.
"I am the owner of this store." Jiang Qi pointed to the entrance of the script store.
"S-sorry." The girl apologized loudly and subconsciously bent down and bowed, "I didn't mean to block the door of your store and affect your business. I just wanted to-want to find a store."
"What store are you looking for?"
"I don't know either."
Jiang Qi:?
Jiang Qi opened the door of the shop and said, "I know all the shops in this alley and I'm very familiar with them. If you want to find a shop, you can tell me and I can help you find it."
The girl didn't respond.
Jiang Qi turned around.
The girl said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I can't hear you. I couldn't read your lips when you were talking with your back to me. Did you just talk to me?"
Jiang Qi suddenly realized.
No wonder, he thought this girl was actually very polite, why would she always ignore him.
Jiang Qi repeated what he had just said, and the girl loudly said thank you for going into the store with him.
"My name is Jiang Qi, and I'm the boss of the Xinghe Script Society. What's your name?" Jiang Qi poured the girl a glass of water.
"My name is Liu Rui. I watched the news about the arrest of the fugitive. While watching the news, I saw the video of this store and thought..."
"I felt like I had stayed here when I was a kid, so I wanted to come and take a look."
Jiang Qi:?
"like?"
After Liu Rui's confusing explanation, Jiang Qi roughly understood why she came to this alley.
She came to find her biological parents who abandoned her.
Liu Rui was abandoned by her biological parents when she was a child. She was only wearing a thin cotton jacket in the middle of winter and was almost frozen to death in the icy and snowy north. She was lucky enough to be picked up by the director of an orphanage.
The abandonment caused her to have a high fever, severe hearing loss, and severe memory loss, with only very few memories. The director of the orphanage reported the case, but there was no follow-up, and Liu Rui was sent to the orphanage.
Because of hearing problems, Liu Rui only finished junior high school and stopped studying. She now works in a factory with extremely serious noise pollution.
The reason why she traveled thousands of miles to Xuncheng just because of a piece of news edited by a marketing account was because she felt familiar with the shops around the Xinghe Script-Killing Game when she saw them in the video.
She felt like she should have lived here as a child, but when she actually arrived here, she was not sure.
She felt that there should be a store here that she would be very familiar with, and she also hoped that she could accidentally see her relatives here, but there was none.
She walked around the alley all night last night and looked at every shop. Some of the shops did look familiar to her, but she couldn't find the feeling she was looking for.
She felt that she was just wishful thinking, and she ran over calmly on impulse.
"Actually, if you calm down and think about it carefully, it's ridiculous that I lived here when I was a child. My parents abandoned me in the north. Xuncheng is so far away from the city where the dean's mother picked me up. Who would abandon their child so far away?" Liu Rui smiled bitterly.
Liu Rui didn't know that Jiang Qi, who was standing next to her, had been stunned by what she heard.
Jiang Qi now has only two words in his mind.
What the hell?
Oh shit!
What the hell?!
"How old are you...?" Jiang Qi's tongue was tied as he spoke.
Liu Rui said uncertainly: "Maybe 17 or maybe 16. I was picked up by the director's mother 9 years ago."
Jiang Qi:!!!
Jiang Qi wanted to run out, but was afraid that Liu Rui would run away, so he turned around and pulled her out. Liu Rui was stunned.
Jiang Qi grabbed Liu Rui and rushed into the noodle shop next door: "Sister Hu, what season was it when Grandpa Chen's twins were kidnapped?"
"It seemed to be autumn, and winter was almost here. What happened? Hey, Xiao Jiang, why did you grab that girl's hand?" Sister Hu was shocked.
Jiang Qi was so excited that he was incoherent: "Do you have Grandpa Chen's phone number? Call him and ask him to come over, ask him to come over!"
Sister Hu was confused and scratched her head. "I don't have Old Man Chen's phone number, but Old Wang should have it. Isn't he helping Old Man Chen rent a shop? Why do you want to find Old Man Chen in the first place? Do you want to rent his shop?"
"No." Jiang Qi pointed at Liu Rui with his other hand, "She, she is Grandpa Chen's granddaughter!"
"What?"
"She is Grandpa Chen's granddaughter! She was picked up by the director of an orphanage in the north in the winter nine years ago. She... my mind is so confused, I can't explain it clearly, but she is definitely Grandpa Chen's granddaughter!"
"Oh shit!" Sister Hong screamed and subconsciously grabbed Liu Rui's other hand. Like Jiang Qi, she was afraid that she would run away.
"Hurry, hurry, call Lao Wang and ask him to ask Old Man Chen to come over!"
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