Zhou Sheng's mother still remembers when she married into the Zhou family, at that time, the reputation of this grocery store in the store still had a certain influence, at that time, there seemed to be a lot of people coming and going every day, and the business in the grocery store was very good.

And their parents-in-law are relatively enlightened people, and in their hearts, the daughter-in-law they promised to come in is a family, so they didn't hide anything from Zhou Sheng's mother, but taught him how to run this grocery store hand in hand, and they can see clearly that their son is useless, so it is better to train their daughter-in-law and support this family.

Therefore, it has always been in Zhou Shengqiang's heart, although this grocery store is not a daily money, but the business is still good, his impression is that the grocery store is still the one that needs a lot of candles every day, and the store is always bustling with customers.

But this reality is really too undesirable for people to admit, look, in the dim shop, those goods seem to have lost their luster, and a thick layer of dust has fallen on the surface. Zhou Sheng's mother's eyes wandered between the shelves. What I remember is the bright and lively scene of the grocery store when she first got married.

He remembered that the rows of shelves were full of goods, and then each one of them was bright, even if there was no sunlight shining in the store, but there was enough candlelight to make the hall bright, and almost all of the goods reflected the candlelight, as if they could shine on themselves.

He still remembers himself, but he had to wipe down every shelf every day, so that they were spotless and greeted buyers in the best condition. Since then? These things are becoming more and more lazy to do it themselves.

It's not like this, although he is doing less and less, but he entrusted that thing to his eldest son, after all, he still has to collect accounts and receive goods, sort out the inventory and settle accounts, these things need to be done by himself, after all, his eldest son has no talent in arithmetic and literacy.

Even after teaching him for a few years, he didn't learn how to calculate accounts and record inventory with his son, and these things were enough for him to do every day, and he really didn't have time to organize the shelves.

Now seeing the dim store, the crooked shelves are piled up in a mess, and these messy goods have accumulated a thick layer of dust, Zhou Sheng's mother's eyes are a little blurry, I really don't understand, why the originally neat groceries in their hands have become like this.

Maybe it's because after the death of his in-laws, there is no one to urge him, and no one to educate him on how to operate, no one to guide him behind his back, how to go on step by step, when he encounters words he doesn't know, and when he encounters unclear accounts, no one can teach him hand-in-hand, and he doesn't have any support, his own man looks like that, so that he can't lift any feeling, and all his life hopes seem to be pinned on his son.

But even though she made great efforts to teach his son the knowledge for several years, his son was not able to master it, but wasted the time of those years in vain.

However, Zhou Sheng's mother turned a blind eye to what her son had done, although he knew that his son had some shortcomings, but he had been unwilling to face it.

Of course, Zhou Shengniang does have her own plans in her heart, after all, this store will be passed on to her eldest son, so he will not let other people in the family enter this house, not to mention, Brother Zhou's newly married daughter-in-law, in fact, even Zhou Sheng's own mother is very few, allowing him to come to the store.

Because the mother of sentient beings knows very well what his son looks like, but he is unwilling to admit this, in order to keep his eldest son's image and status in the family, he does not allow others to see the work status of his eldest son, and he does not even want them to realize that his son is actually doing nothing in the grocery store.

He wanted to help his son do everything well, but for a little woman, being able to learn literacy and arithmetic, these took him a lot of effort and time, and it was not easy to do, and there was no guidance from his elders, so he relied on him to support it alone.

And deep down in his heart, he doesn't want to admit that his son is not doing well, so it's like wearing colored glasses, even if the store is messy, even if those shelves have not been taken care of for a long time, even if those goods are full of dust, he seems to be blind, blind, and completely invisible.

Of course, Zhou Sheng's mother, who struggled with those account counting, was actually very busy all day long, which also made him ignore some of the situation in the store. Now it is rare that he realizes the situation in the store, and he really doesn't want to blame his son for this matter, he can only secretly think in his heart, maybe it is because the goods in the store do not meet the ideas of the surrounding neighbors, after all, what goods are in this store are stipulated by his parents-in-law at that time, maybe the times have changed, and these goods are no longer easy to sell.

Even at this point, Zhou Sheng's mother was reluctant to admit that she or his son had any flaws and shortcomings in running the store. Even if something could go wrong, he was willing to put it down to the dead and not to let anything fall on himself and his dear eldest son.

He prefers to think that the business conditions of the main store have fallen again and again, because the goods sold in the store are outdated, so the people around him are unwilling to come to buy, and naturally the business in the store will be bleak.

But in fact, Zhou Sheng's mother didn't want to think about it, and it was only a decade since her in-laws died, but the lives of the people around her have not changed much in twenty years, fifty years, and a hundred years.