That morning, after years of lost years of reading, walking, and widowhood, Florence Green was sober and clear about what she wanted to do, to open a bookstore in the small town where she lived.
Mrs. Green likes to read, and what she likes most is the moment after reading a book, those stories will continue to accompany her like the most real dreams, through countless long days and nights. In addition, she also likes to go for a long walk, walk through the streets, go to the beach to blow the wind, watch the waves surging, and organize the thoughts and feelings caused by reading in the boundless world.
Reading gave her the courage to live alone, and she wanted to share this courage with the residents of the town. Like opening a bookstore.
Mrs. Green chose the old house in the center of the town as the storefront, and immediately began to apply for business licenses and began to repair the old house for decoration. The news spread like wildfire and quickly spread throughout the town.
Invited to attend a noble banquet in the town, Mrs. Green wore a long pomegranate dress to the banquet. She was a little nervous and cramped when attending such an occasion for the first time. Mrs. Garmat and others came to talk to her one after another, persuading her to give up the old house. It turned out that the invitation was not for no reason. Mrs. Green understood their intention and left the table angrily.
Mrs. Garmat tried to build the old house into a local art center. The staff of the certification agency delayed several times, and the people in the town also persuaded her to find a new location. Mrs. Green was full of confusion. Before that, she had always believed that there was no life-and-death relationship among human beings, and that the strong was not always the king.
But when it comes to opening a bookstore, she doesn't understand why they have allowed the old house to be abandoned for the past seven years, but now they are not satisfied that the old house is about to become a store, and she doesn't understand why they don't want to open an art center if they want to open an art center. Let her open a bookstore there. "Art center, how can art have a center?"
"It took me more than six months to negotiate this deal, so I can't believe who else in Harburg doesn't know about it..." "I hope you can handle all the pending formalities as soon as possible, so that my bookstore can get there as soon as possible. Open." One person is a team, and Mrs. Green single-handedly wrestled with the crowd.
The bookstore is finally open. When Mrs. Green opened the first box of books she ordered, all the obstacles and difficulties she had experienced in the previous days disappeared. Looking at the signboard of "Old House Bookstore" hanging on the wall, she couldn't help but want to cheer and cover her mouth. , as happy as a little girl.
"In a bookstore, people are never alone." At that moment of joy, Mrs. Green did not know that it was her happiest moment in the bookstore.
The business of the bookstore is on the right track, attracting a lot of customers, including Mr. Browntich, a gentleman who also loves to read. Mrs. Green would regularly send books to the reclusive Mr. Blanchet, and would ask him questions such as whether to sell Lolita, and the gentleman would give sincere advice: "It's a good book, I Feel like you should try to sell to Harburg people, they probably won't understand the book, and understanding makes the mind lazy."
It seems that everything is going in a good direction, but people in the upper class have never given up their coveted old houses.
"Bookstores won't sell." Even if funds were scarce due to vicious competition from new bookstores, Mrs. Green was still stubborn and unyielding. She also restrained her disappointment and helplessness when her part-time assistant, Kristin Jipping, was forced to leave. But over the unexpected death of her friend, her emotions finally exploded, roaring "Never slander such a noble and sensitive person again!"
In the end, Mrs. Garmat secretly did bad things, not only depriving the "Old House Bookstore" of the right to use the house with the new legal provisions, but also taking advantage of Mrs. Green's kindness even more despicably, so that she could not even get basic compensation in the end. Their ruse succeeded, and the helpless Mrs. Green had to move out of the old house and even leave the town.
"So I was expelled from the city of Flymarkt?" Looking at the old bookstore in the center of the town at the ferry that was about to leave, Mrs. Green felt sad but had no regrets when she recalled the time when she became the target of public criticism. She lost, just lost a bookstore, but she is still the warrior who cannot be defeated.
"She achieved her dream and was taken away, but no one could take away what she had in her heart: her courage."
And the people of this town lost more than just a bookstore. There is no need for a bookstore here, and the bookstore cannot save them.
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