Worry-free grocery store: everyone only listens to the answers they want to hear.

There was a shortage of books last year. I wanted to find some books to read, and I found Keigo Higashino, a well-respected Japanese mysterious family. Among his many works, the first one that attracted me was Worry-Free Grocery Store.

At first, I was a little unaccustomed to reading his books, with plain language and little perspective, but after patiently reading them, I couldn't help it. I want to see the ending and know the result as soon as possible. Like his other mystery novels, the worry-free grocery store full of warmth was peeled off layer by layer from beginning to end, and it was not until the end that the whole story was uncovered and the initial sigh was issued.

Throughout the book, Langya grocery store and Marukongyuan orphanage are two time and space endpoints, where people and things meet in a complicated way. The origin of the story at the beginning is that Yue Yuegongzi, a rich girl, eloped with nirvana in fire when she was young and failed.

Because of a bicycle repair, Keiko, from a well-off family, knew and fell in love with 10-year-old mechanic Hausi. However, Kyoko's father wants her to marry into a noble family, not an unknown mechanic in a small factory. Their elopement plan was revealed to her father by Kyoko's maid. She was worried that her father, who was well-connected in the police, would have trouble finding Yoshiko, and she took the initiative to write to make Yoshiko forget herself.

Three years after the "elopement" failed, Hiroshi Hirotani, who was about 30 years old, asked Jingshi to hand over a letter to her sister. In this letter, Hiroshi Hirotani apologized for his attempt to elope with Kyoko. "I actually disturbed your feelings when you were a student, and almost separated you from your family. In retrospect, these behaviors are really bad. " He hoped that Kyoko would let go of the guilt of betraying her boyfriend and get her own happiness.

Langya Xiong Ji's kindness and thoughtfulness deeply touched Kyoko, who was unmarried all her life. Ji Yueliang believes that her sister's celibacy is because she can no longer fall in love with other men. She devoted her life to Marukongyuan orphanage.

"My sister said before she died that she would pray for everyone's happiness in heaven. I believe that the man who wrote this letter is also silently guarding her somewhere. " Yue Liang's speculation should be the key to solve the mystery of the book.

As Jun Yuezi said, the Langya grocery store opened by Guang Lai indirectly guarded Maruyama Park orphanage where Jun Yuezi devoted his life through troublesome consultation. Somehow, it seems that with the blessing of the moon in the sky, the Langya grocery store has formed a closed space with distorted time and space, so that the orphans in Langya Xiong Ji and Maruyama Garden can redeem each other in this time and space cycle.

Hirohiro Hiroshi, an elderly man who is over 70 years old and lives alone, began to provide free trouble consultation service because of the jokes (Japanese pronunciation: namiya, nayami) played by children around the grocery store. From all kinds of nonsense questions to serious troubles, he came to everyone and gave his well-thought-out answers seriously. As long as people put this annoying letter into the mail delivery port on the iron gate of Langya grocery store at night, they can get a reply in the milk box behind the store the next day.

In this process, Guangye's life became enriched, and even became the meaning of life and the motivation to live. Daughter Laizi said to her younger brother Lang Yagui in surprise: "Dad suddenly became very energetic, maybe even more energetic than before his mother died."

However, the news of the death of counselor Green River (Kawabe Green) made Ryoji lose this vitality instantly, and his spirit seemed to be taken away. He began to reflect on the significance of providing this kind of consultation and its value to the life of the clients. The distortion of time and space in nirvana in fire grocery store gave him hope. Before he died, he received a feedback letter from a consultant 33 years later. Without exception, these future letters are all words of thanks. Hongzhi's fire of life continued to burn weakly, and finally there was no passing pain.

Shota, Dunye and Xing Ping, who live in Marukongyuan Orphanage, have a bad social life and often shoplift together. However, when hearing the rumor that a female boss is going to tear down Marukong Garden and turn it into a motel, these three people who are "worried about Marukong Garden but can't help anything" decided to break into the female boss's house and get something valuable.

In the middle of the night, carrying the property obtained from the female boss's house, the old car broke down, and the three of them had to spend the night in the nearby abandoned Langya grocery store. Coincidentally, that day happened to be the resurrection time of the consultation window after Langya grocery store closed for 32 years. That night, the mailbox at the front door and the milk box at the back door of Langya grocery store were connected with 32 years ago, and the gears of time and space staggered here.

The trio received letters from the past, and the consultants included Moon Rabbit (fencer Shizuko), Matsuoka Krone (musician of fresh fish shop) and Wu Teng Harumi (female boss of Want Want Co., Ltd.). I also sent a blank letter. Because they live in the modern age 32 years later, they can predict the future and know that they can easily solve the problems of the past.

Moon Rabbit sent a reply to the trio 32 years ago (Matsuoka Krone died in a fire in Maruyama Park, but failed to reply), while Muto Harumi's reply was mistakenly found among the stolen goods. It was Muto Harumi's reply that made the trio find themselves caught in a wonderful cycle. There is an invisible line between Langya grocery store and Maruyama Garden, and someone is manipulating it from the sky.

"Just now, I tried to persuade a young woman not to go to work in a hotel and told her what would happen in the future. She also succeeded smoothly. Unexpectedly, 32 years later, we broke into her house to steal things. " This discovery convinced the three men that the female boss (Wu Teng Harumi) wanted to rebuild Marukong Garden, and decided to return the stolen goods and wash her hands of it.

The blank letter that was thrown in the past was also answered at the last minute (the last letter was written by Dr. Bo Ya). Langya Hideki racked his brains to understand this letter, imagining the reason why it was sent and the best reply. "If the person who comes to me for consultation is a lost lamb, he usually has a map in his hand, but he can't see or know his current position." "Your map is a blank sheet of paper. You can draw any map. Everything is in your own hands. You are free and full of infinite possibilities. " Undoubtedly, the three lost lambs have bright eyes, and the guidance of the old man makes them Huo Ran cheerful.

He Jiuhao Jie's story did not meet with the trio. He consulted Guang Lai Ryoji, but his story itself formed a cycle.

Seeing that my cousin had shed tears for the Beatles' music, after his cousin died in a car accident, he also received his cousin's collection of Beatles CDs and his love for music. His business parents not only gave him a much richer life than his classmates, but also gave him the freedom to pursue new things. However, the business failed, the family fortune fell, and the debt was heavy. My parents had planned to escape from debt. His parents, who once made him proud, made him lift his head in an instant and brought him a great blow. More than 50 collected Beatles CDs were resold to Beatles fans at low prices. However, on the way to escape with his parents, he fled his parents, gave up his identity, changed his name to Fujikawa Bo, and was sent to Maruyama Orphanage as an orphan by the police.

Thirty-two years after the resurrection of the information window of Langya grocery store, and Xijie came to the Beatles theme music bar to reply. The main idea of the first letter is that some people don't listen to the original advice, work hard for themselves with their hands, find happiness and don't regret their choices.

However, when chatting with the bar hostess (the sister of the classmate who bought the Beatles CD from him at the beginning), I learned the follow-up of the "runaway incident": my father Zhenxing stole the boat, pushed his wife's body into the sea (disguised and killed his son at the same time), and returned to land to commit suicide, thus completing his escape. This true relative and his assistant have a belated regret and remorse. "I don't know what I would have done if my parents hadn't paid the price of their lives." In the second letter he rewrote, he gave up his complacency and expressed his respect and gratitude to nirvana in fire.

In addition to the above three main time-space and causal cycles, several characters in the story also have their own intersections. For example, Wu Teng Harumi learned about Langya grocery store under the introduction of her sister next door (Moon Rabbit/Shizuko); When I was a child, Hisuke sent a woodcarving puppy to Wu Teng Qingmei, and they met again after the fire in Marukong Garden. Matsuoka Krone soloed in Marukong Garden on Christmas Eve, playing his own track "Rebirth". When the orphanage caught fire, he died to save Qin, the younger brother of a musical genius. Qin became a talented female singer and thanked Matsuoka Krone for singing Rebirth. The music frustrated Matsuoka Krone curve realized the dream of CD, and Kawabe Green's daughter became Qin's agent. ...

Matsuoka Krone (a musician in a fresh fish shop) dropped out of school to pursue his musical dream, which disappointed his parents, but failed in persuasion. Instead, they stepped forward and became the guardians of their son's pursuit of dreams.

After many years, Matsuoka Krone, who has little musical talent, still has no achievements in music. Going home to attend her grandmother's funeral, Matsuoka Krone is faced with the dilemma of inheriting the family business, accepting the fish pine shop founded by her grandfather, or continuing to pursue her musical dream. I learned that my 60-year-old father had a heart attack and fainted not long ago, and his health was much worse than before. His balance once tilted to "give up his musical dream" and he was a dutiful son at home.

When Matsuoka Krone expressed this idea, his father said to him, "Since you want to invest in something regardless of your parents' dissuasion, you should leave some achievements. If you can't do it, you should think that you should have no problem running a fresh fish shop. It is simply too contemptuous. " "You don't have to think too much, try again, and then go to Tokyo to play. It doesn't matter if you lose the battle at that time, you must leave footprints. "

This agreement between a man and a man, the father hopes that his son can realize his dream, and Matsuoka Krone has therefore strengthened his heart to continue to pursue his dream. I wonder if dad will regret it? Several years later, his son died in a fire.

Like Matsuoka Krone, Hisuke also has a pair of parents who love him selflessly.

"Not only mom but also dad put you first. As long as we can make you happy, we can pay any price, even if we risk our lives. " After the business failed, before the family left, mother Ji told me to take it back.

On the way to the whole family's debt evasion, He Jiuhao Jie chose to flee alone and left his parents who made him feel strange. His parents' first thought is how their son can survive. In order not to interfere with him, they took the name and experience of Hejiu Hao Jie away from this world by collective death, leaving their son a "self-made struggle" life.

Keigo Higashino's emotional expression has no straightforward sentence language, but is vividly expressed in the changes of the story, which makes the characters' characters and images full and vivid.

This book tells the story of friendship, love, warmth between strangers, and dreams beyond family ties. Through the love between Keiko and Hiro, the strings of the whole story are plucked, and these emotional notes come together to play a dull and strong movement.

As a grief-relieving grocery store, the most direct impression left to people is the process of correspondence interaction between psychological counselors and clients, which relieves worries.

It is easy for us to find out, because counselors will have vague answers to some difficult questions more or less. Although the client (Hiroshi Hirotani and the thief) made sincere suggestions to the people who wrote the letter for consultation after careful consideration, or made suggestions directly, the consultants either "misinterpreted" the answers that were beneficial to them from their own standpoint, or directly blocked these suggestions, and few people followed suit, so they had to figure out one thing on their own.

"Even if we rack our brains to write back, what will happen? Our answer didn't have any effect at all. The man in the Olympics just understood our answer in his own way. " The trio said. After reading the letters written by the trio full of anger and anxiety, Moon Rabbit (the fencer Shizuko) strengthened his choice, because the result was good, thanks to them.

Langya Hideyoshi is also aware of this. He said:

"Don't worry, no one wants to hear your answer."

"I found that my answer can help them because they have the right mentality. If they don't want to live seriously and work hard, no matter how others answer, I'm afraid they can't help them. "

"Although I was worried that my answer would cause other people's misfortune, in retrospect, it is really funny. What can I do as an ordinary old man? How can my answer have the power to affect other people's lives? It's really too much. "

Nevertheless, the goal of eliminating troubles and worries has reached half.

"I know that someone understands my troubles and my mood is relaxed." Moon rabbit counselor said.

Matsuoka Krone also faced himself in the correspondence with the trio. "I have long known what to do, but I still can't make up my mind to give up my dream, which is a bit like unrequited love."

Counselors are vacillating and often can't face up to their own hearts. In the process of communicating with others, the reply that pokes a sore spot forces you to face it, but you can better understand yourself and find the core problem. As for whether to solve it or not, it depends entirely on your own mentality and courage.

On the issue of psychological counseling, I have a deep understanding myself. Friends around me come across all kinds of troubles and talk to me. I will give my own suggestions enthusiastically, and even poke the pain point. But actually, others just want to talk about their troubles. No matter whether I am indignant or piecemeal, my words can reach their ears, but it is difficult to change their original ideas, how to do it or how to do it. This state once discouraged me.

But if I think about it carefully and change my position, I will become a psychological counselor myself, and I may behave like this when I talk to others. The advice given by others will only serve as a reference. Once you have an opinion to support yourself, it will be cited as "evidence" in an instant to strengthen your choice.

Perhaps, as psychological counselors, we should learn the mentality dominated by Bo Ya:

"Whether it's a prank or a prank, people who write to Langya grocery store, like people who really come to the door to find trouble, have holes in their hearts, and important things are gradually losing from that hole ... even if they are making trouble, it's hard to come up with 30 troubles. With so much effort, it is absolutely impossible for the other party not to want to know the answer. Therefore, I will try my best to think of the answer and write back to him. I can never ignore other people's voices. "

In a word, I said mine, whether I want to listen or not, and how to understand it is your business.