At ten o'clock in the evening, Mu You and Lin Xue flew back to K City at the end of the day.

After leaving the airport, the two took a taxi home, and when they arrived at the place where Lin Xue and Xiaoya rented a house, Lin Xue got out of the car and went back to the community directly, while Mu You urged the master to continue driving forward and arrived at the pet store.

At this time, it was already half past ten in the evening, and Mu You thought that the store should have closed a long time ago.

As a result, when I got closer, I found that the pet store was still lit up.

Xiaoya stood at the door, wearing an apron and holding a broom in her hand, while cleaning up, she glanced out from time to time.

This image made Mu You stunned, and almost made him think that he had traveled back to two years ago......

"Boss!"

Xiaoya immediately noticed Mu You who came out of the darkness, and trotted out quickly, with apprehension and expectation on her face: "How is the approval?" ”

"Needless to say? Of course, it was done smoothly. ”

Mu You smiled and took out two documents from his bag.

"Did it really happen?" Xiaoya hurriedly took the document and looked at it.

The certificate of breeding and selling magical creatures she had obtained earlier already had several more official seals, in addition to a list of creatures that could be sold, and a variety of other documents that she couldn't quite read.

"Yes, the animals and the venue have been approved, and it can be opened at any time." Mu lobbied.

"Great!"

After reading it, Xiaoya also showed a relieved smile: "Boss, when will we open the store?" ”

When to open a store......

Mu You groaned for a moment. This question was actually almost considered by him on the plane when he came.

"Saturday."

Mu You finally clapped his head and said: "This Saturday, it will be officially opened." ”

"Saturday...... It's so fast......"

Xiao Ya muttered. She had been looking forward to the opening before, but now that she heard that it was going to open, she suddenly became a little nervous again.

The pet store has been deteriorating in the past two years, and a while ago it even reached the point where it was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to be forced to transform.

After the transformation, it flourished for a while, but soon sank again due to the impact of the Fool Game, and this time it sank more completely.

The store had been open for a month, and in the four years she had been in the pet store, it had never been closed for such a long time.

When there was no customer for a week before, Xiaoya was inexplicably flustered, very afraid that one day Mu You would suddenly tell her: The world is changing too fast, the store will not continue to open, and then give her a severance pay to let her go home......

If this scene really happened, Xiaoya really didn't know what to do.

She has been in this shop for four years, and she has become accustomed to everything here, used to taking care of the animals every day, and then delivering them to the right owners one by one.

She doesn't have any other skills, she didn't graduate from high school, she can only deal with animals, and ending all this suddenly will definitely make her extremely confused.

Fortunately, Mu You has never shown any intention of giving up, and has been silently collecting magical beasts to prepare for another transformation.

And this time, the effect Xiaoya also saw that the video posted a few days ago, the terrifying number of views and popularity, and the comments of countless people urging the opening of the business, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like an illusion.

In the future, pet stores will flourish again, right?

"If only they were still here......

Xiaoya involuntarily sighed in a low voice. But as soon as he finished speaking, he regretted it a little, and hurriedly looked up at Mu You carefully, but found that Mu You was fiddling with his mobile phone, and he didn't seem to hear her words, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's not early, rest early today, start tomorrow, but there are things to be busy." Mu You patted her on the shoulder and walked into the pet store.

"Hmm."

Xiaoya also went back to the store to put her things down, and after saying hello to Mu You, she took her bag and went home.

Lying in bed at night, Xiaoya has been imagining what the new store will look like in the future, and she has insomnia watched many videos of chocobo races.

Looking at the messages expressing support and expectation in the video, I gradually gained confidence in my heart.

Early the next morning, Xiaoya got up early with dark circles under her eyes, cleaned up, went out before six o'clock, and rode to the cemetery in the northern suburbs.

It is the burial place of Mu You's parents.

Four years ago, Xiaoya, as a girl who dropped out of school at the age of 17 and came to the city to work, didn't know anything, and ran into walls everywhere. Fortunately, when he was about to be cornered, he met Mu You's parents.

Her uncle and aunt took her in, gave her a job, and let her live in the store temporarily, which was the most difficult time. And she has remained in the pet store ever since.

So for her, the pet store is not only a place to work and make money, but also a place like home, and her uncle and aunt were the only two people in the city who were good to her at that time.

After the second elder passed away, she and Mu You would often take turns to visit the cemetery, so their tombs were always cleaner than the surrounding ones.

Before coming to the cemetery, Xiaoya first went to the flower shop next to her to buy a bouquet of flowers, the most common yellow chrysanthemum, and brought the flowers into the cemetery.

But what she didn't expect was that when she walked along the stone road to her destination, she found that there were already people in front of the cemetery.

"Boss?" Xiao Ya screamed in surprise.

The person sitting in front of the cemetery over there was Mu You.

Today is not the Qingming Festival, nor is it the death day of Mu You's parents, it is just an ordinary day, I didn't expect the two of them to come to sweep the tomb together.

"Here we are."

Mu You was not surprised by Xiaoya's arrival, beckoned to say hello, and motioned for her to come over.

"Boss, you ...... too"

Xiaoya walked closer, only to find that the area around the cemetery had been cleaned up, only at Mu You's feet, there was a bottle of liquor that was about to empty.

She knew that Mu You didn't drink alcohol, and this wine must have been prepared for her uncle, who loved to drink liquor the most in his lifetime.

Obviously, Mu You has been here for a long time, and she has finished saying everything she wants to say about what she should do.

"yes, you have to tell them about such a big thing." Mu You picked up the wine bottle and poured the rest of the wine in front of the tombstone.

Xiaoya also walked over and placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone.

After staring at the words on the tombstone for a while, she suddenly looked at Mu You and said with a smile: "Boss, at that time, fortunately you didn't give up." ”

Mu You naturally knew what Xiao Ya meant by 'at that time'.

Two years ago, when he learned of his parents' death, Mu You was still in other provinces and had a decent job.

Suddenly learning the bad news, of course, was a huge blow to him.

In a daze, he rushed home for funerals, dealing with various affairs and personnel arrangements after the death of his parents......

At that time, he was faced with two options: inherit the pet shop left by his parents; Or give up the pet shop, rent and sell the shop, and continue with your work and life as usual.

Rationally speaking, he should certainly give up the pet store. In this way, while continuing to work with a high salary, he can also have a good rental income as a backup on a regular basis, which can allow him to live a very nourishing life in the first-tier cities.

But emotionally, he didn't want the pet store to close, because it was the store that his parents had worked hard to run for many years, and it was the thing his parents valued the most besides him, and it was the only thing his parents left him.

If you discard the pet store, you will not only lose an industry, but also a sustenance.

And it's impossible to do both. If he wants to inherit the pet store, it means that he will have to give up his job, give up everything he worked so hard in another city, and then have no financial security.

Moreover, by the time he returned to the pet store after everything was done, it was already three days later.

Counting the time when the store was closed after the parents' accident, it has been a whole week, and the store has been left unattended.

In a week's time, the animals should be dead for more than half of them, right? Even if you want to continue your business, there is basically no possibility of it......

However, when Mu You dragged his tired body back to the pet store that night, what greeted him was not as cold as he imagined.

There are lights on in the pet store and there is a person in the shop.

All the animals are well cared for and the shop is cleaned.

At that time, Xiaoya, who was still childish, just like last night, tied an apron and held a broom in her hand, stood at the door, squeezed out a very reluctant smile at him, and called Brother Mu in her mouth, welcoming him home.

Mu You noticed that the girl was just strong and calm, and her hand holding the broom was even trembling slightly because of fear.

Xiaoya looked at him with such an expectant but extremely worried expression, as if waiting for a verdict, waiting for his verdict on the pet store.

It was at that time that Mu You suddenly lost his mind without confusion.

It turns out that the store left by his parents is not only his own sustenance, but also the sustenance of others.

So the first thing he said after entering the store was: "Don't worry, I won't let the pet store close." ”

Mu You had forgotten what the expression on Xiaoya's face was at that time, but in short, it was the two of them, two hands, who laboriously and clumsily supported the store.

Although with the development of the epidemic, the situation of the store took a sharp turn for the worse, suffered from economic pressure, and the eyes of others gradually gave up some things, but the two never gave up and persevered until recently, and finally ushered in a turnaround......

"If I had given up at that time, I would have lost a lot of things." Mu You sighed secretly.

Without the pet store, he would not have met Lu Yao, and he would not have had that USB flash drive, and he would not have entered the game in advance.

He is likely to be like an ordinary person, until the open beta, before he can get the game qualification and become a member of the crowd of players, and he will never be seen from now.

Where is it possible to have the power to change the direction of the world in the future, as it is now......

"Rest assured, boss! Our store will definitely be prosperous! Xiaoya smiled and encouraged him.

"Of course."

Mu You also smiled, and then looked at the tombstone, as if to say to his parents, and as if to say to himself: "The pet store will continue to operate, it may not become the largest and most famous store, but it will definitely exist for a long time......"

Then neither of them spoke, but stood in front of the tomb, each silent for a while.

"Let's go."

Suddenly, Mu You suddenly got up, packed up the wine bottle, and prepared to go home.

"Ah...... Just gone? Don't clean it anymore? Xiaoya was at a loss, she didn't seem to have done anything except put a bouquet of flowers.

"It's all over, what are you sweeping? I have the strength to go back to the store, but I have a lot of things to do today, so I'm leaving. Mu You walked out on the stone road first.

"Oh." Xiaoya hurriedly followed.

It wasn't until she was about to leave the cemetery that she turned her head, looked in the direction of the tombstone, raised her fist, and made a cheering gesture.