"Finally done!"

Xie Liang stretched out comfortably and worked for half an hour. He finally sorted out the old toys piled up in the store.

"Thank you, uncle!"

A child's shout came from the shelf on the right. Xie Liang turned his head and saw a child, about ten years old, wearing a school uniform with a dark face, running out from behind the shelf with eyes full of expectation.

"Xiao Ning, I'm not an uncle. I'm not that old. You should call me brother!" The child's name is Wei Ning, a student from nearby Donglin Middle School.

"Uncle Xie, how old are you?" Wei Ning looked up at Xie Liang, his big black eyes blinking.

"Twenty-four, what's wrong?"

"That's it!" Wei Ning looked clear. He clapped his fingers as if calculating something: "Grandma said that anyone who is more than ten years older than me is an uncle, so I call you uncle.

That’s right.”

"..." Xie Liang took a deep breath and smiled helplessly. He accepted the title: "Okay, pick out whatever toy you want. It's already very late now. You have to go back early, otherwise your grandma will come back again."

You have to ask me for help."

"Yeah, I know! Uncle Xie, I'll be quick." After talking to Xie Liang, Wei Ning quickly ran to the shelf where he was just now.

That was shelf No. 3, which contained assembly toys. Xie Liang could tell at a glance that compared to the high-tech toys on shelf No. 5, the toys Wei Ning was holding now were really nothing.

"Thank you, uncle! I've got it." Wei Ning trotted to Xie Liang with a big box in his arms. He pursed his lips and looked at Xie Liang, as if he was asking Xie Liang if he could take the toy.

"Well, it's good. I also like assembly toys, which can not only educate the brain but also strengthen hands-on skills." Xie Liang touched Wei Ning's head and showed a warm smile: "After you have picked it, go home early.

Come on! Don't make your grandma anxious."

"Well, goodbye! Thank you, uncle."

Watching Wei Ning's back gradually disappear, Xie Liang turned around and returned to the toy store. He had to check the number of old toys again to see which toys were out of stock and which old toys had the most remaining ones.

You should know that old toys can best reflect the sales of various toys in a toy store. When the number of used toys of a type decreases, it means that this type of toys is easy to sell, and vice versa.

However, for Xie Liang, it is a failure to judge the sales of toys from the number of old toys, because this will always slow down his peers, and he has already suffered a big loss in this.

In recent years, times have changed too fast, and the competition in the toy store industry has been fierce. If you want to win over other toy stores, you must have your own characteristics, either a wide variety of toys, or high-quality toys.

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When someone else sells a toy very well, it may be too late for you to follow suit.

Moreover, toys are very strange. Their popularity is not continuous. Sometimes, it is not uncommon for an inconspicuous toy to suddenly become popular. The uncertainty has caused Xie Liang to suffer serious losses.

Especially some time ago, in the toy store

A new toy store opened opposite, which was several times the size of Xie Liang's. What disgusted Xie Liang the most was that the owner of this toy store started a price war.

Since a few weeks ago, the toy store has been unable to make ends meet, and no one comes to pay attention to it throughout the day.

"Just take it one day at a time, and things will get better."

After confirming that the number of old toys was correct, Xie Liang resumed the work before closing the store every day, cleaning and rearranging some toys that had been misplaced by customers.

"Huh, luckily I had Ning help me sort out the old toys, otherwise I don't know how long I would have been busy." After pulling down the roller shutter and making sure it was locked, Xie Liang was ready to go home.

As soon as Xie Liang turned around, before he had taken a few steps, a man in a suit and leather shoes walked towards him.

Seeing him, Xie Liang frowned subconsciously. This was the person he least wanted to meet.

"Hey!" The man pretended to have seen Xie Liang accidentally: "Isn't this the owner of the toy store opposite me, Boss Xie? How is the business recently?"

"Wang Hai, what do you want?" When Wang Hai opened his business, he came over and mocked Xie Liang, and he still has the same face when he meets her now.

"I didn't think about it!" Wang Hai spread his hands and said sincerely: "Seeing that you are also a young man, I would like to advise you, don't imitate other people's toy stores. The skills in this industry are very good.

There are so many! You can’t beat me without some funds and popularity.”

"And don't be hostile to me. In fact, I don't like toys or anything like that." While talking to Xie Liang, Wang Haibian lit up a cigarette, "I like animals, but my boss runs a toy store. Now this

The toy store is a chain store, and I plan to work for my boss for another three years before quitting and opening a pet store."

"Well, it's good, but I will continue to open the toy store." Xie Liang's voice was not loud, but Wang Hai could still feel the determination in his eyes.

"Stubborn."

Wang Hai dropped these two words and walked straight forward.

"Maybe!" Xie Liang understood what he was insisting on. To him, this was more than just a toy store.

After separating from Wang Hai, Xie Liang returned home. He took out a loaf of bread from the refrigerator for dinner, and then quickly walked to the bedroom.

Xie Liang wants to write down the number of old toys in his account book while he still remembers them. He wants to calculate how much he has lost during this period, and then compare the number of old toys to purchase according to market demand.

"I heard from Wei Ning that collecting game cards seems to be popular in their school recently. This should be recorded on the purchase note." Opening the drawer, Xie Liang remembered that the purchase note was placed here.

Stacks of A4 paper and many small notebooks were piled together. Xie Liang moved the pile of things out directly. He was looking for an account book with a yellow cover. When he was doing accounting last time, the purchase note was sandwiched in.

"Why is there an invitation letter?" Among the piles of paper, Xie Liang quickly found the account book, but when he opened the account book, a black invitation letter strangely appeared next to the purchase order.

This made Xie Liang very confused. He clearly remembered that only the purchase order was included in the account book.

Yes, what the hell is this invitation with a black background that appears in the ledger?

"The dinner officially starts at twelve o'clock at midnight. Guests attending the banquet, please get ready. We will hold it at Gusnot Castle. Those who don't show up will be responsible for the consequences!" Xie Liang frowned as he slowly read out the large gilt characters on the invitation letter.

He raised his eyebrows.

This is not so much an invitation as it is a mandatory order. On the invitation with the dark night as the background, the dark castle looks like a staid old housekeeper.

Whether you agree to attend the dinner or not, it just requires your people to be there.

"What a mess." Xie Liang crumpled the invitation into a ball and threw it away. He still had a lot of things to be busy with.

You know, he hasn't even finished changing the goods that should be included in the purchase list, not to mention that he has to send the old toys to the orphanage tomorrow, so there is no time to deal with these prank-like things now.

After sitting down on the chair, Xie Liang turned his back to the invitation that was crumpled into a ball. The ballpoint pen in his hand tapped the table rhythmically as he recalled the largest number of old toys he had sorted out today.

While Xie Liang was thinking seriously, the invitation that was crumpled up behind his back was quietly unfolded. The wrinkles on it were instantly smoothed out. The castle that was originally just printed on paper became more and more real, and some of the fog that filled the surroundings of the castle became more real.

Floating slowly.

There was only a "bah" sound, and the lights in the room went out instantly. Xie Liang was suddenly plunged into darkness. Except for the table in front of him and the bed not far away, Xie Liang couldn't see any of the darker places.

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"Is there a power outage?" Xie Liang walked towards the window. The whole neighborhood was still brightly lit. "There is no power outage. Could it be that the circuit breaker tripped? Why do I keep having such troublesome things happening every day?"

Wearing slippers, Xie Liang came to the door of the bedroom. He planned to go to the main gate and lift the trip switch again. He turned the door handle and pushed. Xie Liang suddenly frowned. He found that the bedroom door could not be opened, as if someone had blocked it.

It's like it's locked.

That's not right... Even if it's locked, it's impossible to open the door from the inside!

Thinking of this, Xie Liang was a little panicked. He threw his phone on the sofa after returning home. This was so dark that there was no lighting at all. And for some reason, Xie Liang always felt like there was a pair of eyes in the darkness.

Stare at him.

"I remember there seemed to be a flashlight in this room." Darkness and the unknown always make people uneasy, so Xie Liang planned to light up the room first.

With the dim light outside the community, Xie Liang looked for a flashlight in the darkness, but before he could take a few steps, Xie Liang suddenly jumped forward as if he had missed a step.

A door engraved with a mandala pattern emerged from the void, and a burst of dreamy purple light suddenly erupted in the dark room. Xie Liang, who rushed forward, rushed directly into the door. At this time, the unfolded invitation also followed

Entered the door behind Xie Liang.

There was only a "squeak" sound, and the mandala-patterned door suddenly closed after the invitation came in. The dreamy purple light disappeared instantly, and the lights in the room turned on again, and everything seemed to be back to normal.
Chapter completed!