"Worry-Free Grocery Store" is not too long. Holding a book for a long time, the wonderful writing technique makes people want to stop. After reading a book, the meaning is still unfinished.
The context of the novel is wonderful, from the past to the future, and from now to the past. Past and present overlap in Langya grocery store. The five seemingly independent protagonists in the novel gradually contact and influence each other with the progress of the plot, which is a common technique used by Keigo Higashino and a bright spot to attract people to continue reading. At the same time, the style of the novel is fresh, bright and beautiful, with less suspense and more warmth.
This is a story about choice and redemption.
In science fiction, it is often a dangerous taboo to travel to the past to affect the direction of things, because the change of small things will affect the future, which is the famous butterfly effect. But in the "worry-free grocery store", people in the present communicate and help with people in the past, but people in the future have not changed. This may be because of the setting of "September 13, the grocery store connects the past and the future", but I believe the choice is already in my heart. As Grandpa Langya said in his book, "Many times, people who consult already have the answer in their hearts, and they just want to make sure that their decision is right." Fencer Jingzi insisted on training after being scolded by Shota and others, and advised her to give up the competition and accompany her boyfriend to the last leg of her life. Finally, although Japan boycotted the Moscow Olympic Games, she still had no remorse and gained her boyfriend's happy smile.
In fact, the choice has long been in my heart, and the grocery store is only the promoter of firm will, but it will not affect the final choice. The human heart has an innate stubbornness and tenacity. The future has been decided, and it may have been entangled in a dilemma, but in fact everything is the best arrangement.
Grandpa Langya said that people who come to Langya grocery store for consultation are all people who have "holes in their hearts" or "no maps in their hearts" Nirvana in fire grocery store answered many questions, ranging from children's naughty and childish questions to questions related to life events. There are answers from Grandpa Langya who meditated at his desk early in the morning or late at night, and there are also answers from Shota, Xing Ping and Ya Dun, three thieves who strayed into the grocery store, who had a heated discussion and analyzed what happened from the past to the present. At that moment, they were all the greatest. The spirit of wishing others happiness and sincerely helping others is the most beautiful brilliance of human nature.
People who got help from the grocery store also got the best ending, and Shizuko finally struggled for her dream under the gaze of her boyfriend. Krone's songs saved people, and his music was widely circulated. Hirosuke understood his parents and finally believed the truth; Under the guidance of Shota, Harumi reached the peak of her career and got rid of absurd daydreams. ...
While saving others, Langya and Shota were also saved. Grandpa Langya recovered his spirit by writing letters after his death. Xiang Tai and his wife also found the value of life in the grocery store and decided to turn themselves in and start a new life.
"The strong help themselves, the saints help others"-Rhett once said in The Shawshank Redemption. Greatness begins with smallness-ordinary grandfathers, thieves at the bottom of society, self-help and redemption in grocery stores, which make them strong and become saints.