Chapter 1: What a Good Family to Stock Up on a Warehouse of Rock Sugar!
It was a hot summer afternoon.
The sunlight was blinding.
On the street, several young people with exploding hairstyles and a non-mainstream vibe were preparing to go to the store to buy popsicles.
The street vendors on both sides were dozing off.
The Bats brand fan was buzzing.
Ji Yan suddenly woke up from his sleep.
His eyes were filled with confusion.
What he saw was himself wearing an old man’s sweatshirt lying inside a shop.
There was a poster of the Little Tiger Team on the wall.
Where is this?
Ji Yan stood up from the rickety chair, feeling dizzy and lightheaded.
The environment he was in exuded a sense of a different era.
There was a radio on the table.
In front of him was a long table.
Several glass boxes filled with rock sugar were placed on top.
Seeing all this unfamiliar surroundings, a bold thought crossed Ji Yan’s mind.
Could it be that he has traveled through time?
Ji Yan had read many novels before.
He was not unfamiliar with the concept of time travel.
The only explanation for the current situation.
Was that he had indeed traveled through time!
Suddenly.
Ji Yan felt a headache, and memories that did not belong to him emerged.
He was now in the year 2010.
The parents of this body had already passed away.
This candy shop was the property they had left for their son.
After receiving this overwhelming information, Ji Yan’s headache slightly subsided.
At the same time.
A look of excitement appeared on Ji Yan’s face.
What a great time!
In 2010, housing and commodity prices were still relatively low.
Shamate culture was very popular.
Computers had just started to become popular in China.
It was another era after the reform and opening up.
As long as one worked hard.
They could become rich.
Almost in an instant.
Ji Yan had the idea that he must make a career in this era.
Utilizing his information advantage, he would reach the peak of his life in this era!
The smile on Ji Yan’s face became even more intense.
“I didn’t expect to encounter something like time travel!”
“And to travel to such a good time!”
“The money in this era is the real deal! Unlike the money in the future, which is just paper!”
Passers-by coming and going didn’t understand what had happened to Ji Yan.
They only saw the owner of this candy shop talking to himself.
Like a lunatic.
Ji Yan was completely immersed in the excitement of time travel and didn’t care about the gazes of others.
He hummed a tune in his mouth and happily accepted the fact that he had traveled through time.
“To start a business, you need startup capital!”
Ji Yan furrowed his brows and pondered earnestly.
His gaze fell on the cash drawer of the candy shop.
Suddenly, everything became clear to him.
This candy shop seemed to have been around for some time.
In this era, the parents of this body should have saved quite a bit of money, right?
Ji Yan happily walked towards the cash drawer.
As if he could already see himself buying houses like buying vegetables, monopolizing the Bitcoin market, and becoming the new Buffett.
With dreams in his heart.
Ji Yan pulled open the cash drawer.
Inside were scattered bills.
It looked like only a hundred or so yuan.
“What?!”
Ji Yan’s pupils trembled instantly.
He stared at the scattered bills and had a mental breakdown.
His dream of buying a house and buying Bitcoin shattered along with it.
“No way, is this all the money they have?”
Ji Yan aggressively rummaged through the cash drawer.
But the depths of the drawer were cleaner than his face.
Not a single cent.
“What on earth, don’t they have any savings?”
Ji Yan ran back to the house, refusing to give up and started searching.
Chest of drawers, beds, and various places where things could be hidden, Ji Yan searched them all.
Persistence pays off, Ji Yan even found a passbook.
“I knew it!”
“They must have saved money!”
Ji Yan opened the passbook hopefully.
The balance was zero.
“No!”
Ji Yan’s hope shattered instantly.
He couldn’t believe why this was the case.
Ji Yan threw the passbook aside and continued searching in the house.
“This shouldn’t be!”
There was only a bed, a desk with an old computer, and a cabinet in the room.
He searched everywhere he should have searched.
There was nothing.
Ji Yan was dumbfounded.
People in the protagonist always start with a large amount of startup capital, right?
But why is it that in my case, I have to rely on evolving a Kun by swallowing?
Ji Yan sat on the bed, pondering deeply.
In this era, people should have a lot of savings, right?
Why only a hundred or so yuan?
Forget buying a house or Bitcoin with that kind of money.
Even sustaining his own life would be a problem.
If there’s no money left behind, they should have left something valuable!
“Oh, right! The warehouse!”
Ji Yan’s eyes lit up.
Excitedly, he walked towards the warehouse.
If it’s not here, then this family should have kept valuable things in the warehouse.
Maybe there are even gold bars!
The more Ji Yan thought about it, the more excited he became.
He quickened his pace.
Soon, Ji Yan arrived at the entrance of the warehouse.
With excitement in his heart, Ji Yan pulled open the warehouse doors.
In an instant, Ji Yan smelled a sweet fragrance.
He thought he would see a warehouse filled with blinding gold bars.
But instead…
Ji Yan only saw several large bags of rock sugar and some other cheap-looking candies.
In the middle of the warehouse, a mouse held a piece of rock sugar tightly and gnawed on it.
Their eyes met.
A sense of desolation was evident.
“No way!”
Ji Yan once again heard the sound of his dreams shattering.
Refusing to give up, he began searching in the warehouse.
Ten minutes later.
Ji Yan sat at the entrance of the warehouse, his heart as lifeless as ashes.
Speechless, he looked up at the sky.
“Why would a good family hoard a warehouse full of rock sugar?”
He had searched the entire warehouse.
Finally, he confirmed that his unknown and deceased cheap parents had only left him with a sugar shop and an entire warehouse of rock sugar!
A whole warehouse of rock sugar!
It was all rock sugar!
Ji Yan took ten minutes to compose himself.
Only then did he accept the reality of his current situation.
Buying a house or Bitcoin was impossible.
The only thing he could do was to sell the rock sugar.
Otherwise, even eating would be difficult for him.
Ji Yan clenched his teeth.
“So what if I sell rock sugar!”
“A real man can adapt to any situation!”
Ji Yan said and took action.
He walked out of the shop door and started to familiarize himself with the surrounding market environment.
Next to the sugar shop was an elementary school.
There were all kinds of businesses on the street.
Grocery stores, internet cafes, convenience stores.
When he saw the internet cafe, Ji Yan remembered the computer at home.
Now was the era when e-commerce was just taking off.
There weren’t many people sharing this big pie.
But Ji Yan knew.
In the future, online shopping would become an essential part of people’s daily lives.
He acted on his thoughts.
After returning home, Ji Yan rushed to the computer and learned how to list his rock sugar online.
After listing it, Ji Yan didn’t idle either.
He made a sign indicating the wholesale and retail prices of the rock sugar and placed it at the shop entrance.
He even sent some advertisements for the sugar shop in QQ groups.
Then he sat at the computer and calmly waited for his first sale.
This era didn’t have these fancy methods yet.
That’s okay.
He, Ji Yan, would be the first one!
Thinking of this, Ji Yan couldn’t help but feel excited.
Who knows?
He waited for several days in a row.
During these days, no one clicked on the links he posted online.
Only some elementary school students came to buy a few small candies from the shop.
The enthusiasm in Ji Yan’s heart gradually faded away.
Was he really not cut out for business?
Well, not every household had a computer in this era.
He had been too impulsive after all.
Ji Yan laughed at himself.
He was about to shut down the computer when suddenly his QQ account flashed.
A stranger sent a friend verification request.
The message in the remark was “buying rock sugar”.
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