There is a small supermarket in front of my house, accompanied by my time for more than ten years, this small store closed down at the beginning of today, changed into a small hot pot store, but this small store to my memory has always stayed in my heart.

Then it was more than ten years ago, after I graduated from university, I came to this strange city in the pace of the southern drift. Wanting to find a small room to rent near the unit to settle down their lives, then noticed this small store located downstairs. The store is run by a middle-aged couple with a little boy. What makes me feel the most friendly is that they are also from the north to work here.

So I often come home from work and patronize this store, and also stay up all night to buy instant noodles, or buy some water and cookies on my way home after a fierce battle with my friends at the Internet cafe. The man and woman who own the store don't say much, but they look like an honest couple, and the little boy often does his homework in the not-so-bright light of the supermarket.

A few years later, I put down roots in the city, bought a house here, and later married. Their small store has also changed, the original store to other people, and then across the street under the newly built building opened a larger small supermarket. So we became neighbors again. By this time the owner and his wife and I were acquaintances. We still came down often to buy things. One time the boss and I said, if you're busy you don't have to come down to sell, you can add my WeChat, we now provide small area delivery. I also joked with him at the time and said: "You are now also on the information technology train, manpower busy? ". The boss smiled and said: "It's okay, now not many door-to-door buyers, more demand for home delivery, we also have to adapt to the changes ah. My wife and I have a person to look after the store, another person delivery, sometimes our boy does not study when we also asked him to send, now around the supermarket more, the competition is also very fierce, we also have to pay attention to the next service."

A few more years passed and I went to their house to buy something, he saw me coming and was happy, grabbed a handful of sugar and gave it to me. I looked happy and asked him, "Why are you marrying a second wife and treating me to candy." He smiled and said: "My boy got into college, or a 985 university, next month will go to the provinces to go to school". I listened to him also very happy for him, then asked: "This is really a great thing, but after he left, your store how to do, all of a sudden less an important helper ah. "He smiled bitterly and said:" We two old guys stick to it, can do more, can not do less, it's okay. "

Three years ago, we were surrounded by several new neighborhoods, accompanied by several large supermarkets in the vicinity all of a sudden. Some of them are still international brands, and the number of people who come downstairs to buy goods from this small supermarket is even less. One day I passed by this store, I saw a few delivery carts in front of the door, I probed to look inside, see him being busy, I asked: "do what? "He wiped sweat while saying, now the supermarket business is not good, I also opened a rookie station, on the one hand to earn a little outside the block, on the other hand, but also to the small store to increase the popularity of a little." From this day onwards this small store entrance is lively again.

Until the month before last, I saw a sign in front of their store saying "Jidian for rent". I walked in, saw him there, and asked him what was going on. He said, "Now the rebate for rookies is not as high as it was before, and there are a lot of complaints from customers. It's not as good as it was before, but mainly because I'm getting older and my mind is not as flexible as it was before. Sometimes I lose express to my neighbors, and I'm embarrassed. Think or do not do, son graduated from college last year, in Hangzhou to find a good job, also want us to let him where to go. So we can be together again as a family. Discount this small store out, we old couple to see what we can do over there to do something again."

With their departure, my mood is also complicated, the city's change is really too fast, the owners of this small supermarket has also been here for twenty years, they also once in order to stay here negative out a lot of effort. But time has changed, and they finally have to choose to leave. I wish everyone who struggles in a foreign land good luck.