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Spring, summer, autumn, and winter grocery store

Dogo Village has four small stores, they are spring, summer, autumn, and winter grocery stores.

By Christopher A MendenhallPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter grocery store
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Spring, summer, autumn, and winter grocery store

Dogo Village has four small stores, they are spring, summer, autumn, and winter grocery stores.

  The spring store is run by a rabbit, selling delicious mulberry jam, soft and sweet fern cakes, and green dumplings; the summer store is owned by a fox, from which you can buy firefly lanterns, lemon-flavored popsicles, and cattail fans that can fan the cool summer nights; the bear is the owner of the autumn store, and in his store, maple leaf postcards, persimmon cakes, and bean paste moon cakes are all hot products.

  The owner of the winter store is Grandma Squirrel, which sells nuts stored for winter, hot tea, scarves, gloves, and sweaters. Every day, Grandma Squirrel knits her sweater slowly in the store, and the red ball of yarn rolled around her feet.

  Business in the four small stores always takes turns to be red and then recession. Is there any way I can make a little more money? The rabbit in the spring grocery store thought and thought, and finally came up with an idea.

  She invited raindrops and clouds, rain fell and clouds stopped the cold wind. In this way, people ran into the rabbit's store and bought a dandelion umbrella.

  When the fox saw it, his eyes rolled back in his bones, and immediately afterward he came up with a solution. He got the sun and scorched the earth with the fiery sunlight, and there were long lines of people running to buy lotus umbrellas, dandelion fans, and popsicles.

  Not to be outdone by the bear in the autumn store, he found the wind. The wind blew the sky high and far, blew the leaves off the trees, and ripened the persimmons. Stalks of laurel were bought from the bear's store, and bags of groundnuts and corn were shipped from the autumn shop into people's homes.

  Seeing that the fox and the bear had taken away the business, the rabbit invited the clouds to cover the sun again, and the raindrops to fall again, and the season returned to spring. The fox soon noticed the change in the weather, and he asked the sun to step up its game, and the customers returned to the front of the store. At that moment, the bear hurriedly called for the wind again, so that the wind would blow the clouds away and disperse the sunshine.

  In this way, raindrops and clouds continue to gather, the sun is working hard to glow and heat, the wind keeps blowing and blowing, the village of Dogo will be cold and then hot, sometimes sunny and then cloudy, sometimes a day to change three seasons.

  In spring, summer, and autumn, the grocery store continued to do business, but Grandma Squirrel's winter store became very cold.

  Someone asked Grandma Squirrel, "Why don't you invite the snow? The store will be closed if it continues like this!"

  Grandma Squirrel did not answer, still buried in knitting her sweater, knitting a piece, and hanging up. On days when there were no customers, the red sweaters hung all over one wall.

  The weather was sometimes spring, sometimes summer, sometimes autumn. I don't know when the people of Dogo Village got completely bored with these three seasons, and they started to want to go outside to blow the cold wind, roast the fire in the house, drink hot tea, and eat baked rice cakes.

  The raindrops, the clouds, the sun, and the wind, having worked for most of the year, were all exhausted, and when they stopped to catch their breath, the long-awaited winter finally arrived.

  Grandma Squirrel's store has never been so busy. People bought up all the hot tea, rice cakes, and plum blossoms on the branches. Scarves and gloves were sold out, and all the red sweaters on the wall were snatched up.

  The rabbit, the fox, and the bear also wanted to rest. They bought enough nuts for winter from Grandma Squirrel's store and were ready to enjoy a snowy winter.

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