Return To 1998

Anything, the fourth time you do it, practice makes perfect.

Internet cafes are the same.

Ximendao Internet Cafe 4 is already the fourth Internet cafe opened by Xu Tongdao. It can be said that the experience in all aspects is rich, and the various publicity before the opening also has rich experience.

Leaflets, night cards, 20% discount for the first month of business...

After this set of procedures, the Electromechanical College across the road, although it may not be well known to everyone, is almost there.

As we all know, the grades of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering are one or two grades lower than that of the Water Normal University, the Water Bird University and the Water Bird Engineering University.

In the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, there are no undergraduate majors, only college students here.

The learning atmosphere in the college is not as strong as those of the three universities.

Open an Internet cafe near such a college, will the business be good?

Will there be many students who are interested in coming online?

Before the official opening of Ximendao Internet Cafe No. 4, to be honest, Xu Tongdao was a little worried.

not much! Just a little worried.

He worries that students at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering are not as interested in the burgeoning Internet cafes as students at the other three universities.

Until the official opening day, which was also the Saturday he specially chose.

In the morning, before 8 o'clock, four boys came. As soon as they entered the door, they asked, Boss, are you opening today? Can this thing really get 20% off?

The boy who asked the question was a handsome young man. When he asked, he held a leaflet printed on white paper in his hand.

Tongdao Xu smiled, Yes! Welcome! Come! I'll start the machine for you! You come first, and I'll give each of you a bottle of Coke! Come in! Come in!

...

This is just the beginning.

The arrival of these four people was like opening a Pandora's box. In the next two hours, groups of boys and girls came online with leaflets.

Uh, shouldn't Pandora's Box be used here?

Maybe!

But the meaning is the same.

That's it anyway.

It should be able to describe the morning of the first day of opening.

The students of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering used their practical actions to dispel the little worries in Xu Tongdao's heart today.

They seem to be more interested in surfing the Internet than the students of the Naval University, the Waterbird University, and the Waterbird Engineering University.

Before ten o'clock in the morning, Tongdao Xu was full.

After ten o'clock, people still come from time to time, but there is no computer for them to play. Some people leave in disappointment, and some people watch others play curiously, and wait for someone to leave by the way.

...

Around ten o'clock.

Changmin, who went to the side entrance of the Mechanical and Electrical College early in the morning to sell breakfast, rode a tricycle back to the small courtyard.

As soon as she saw the crowded seats in the Internet cafe, she had a look of surprise in her eyes.

Then he subconsciously glanced at the sign hanging on the front of the main house - Ximen Road Internet Cafe.

Internet cafes... business is so good?

She whispered to herself.

Obviously taken aback.

However, this seems to be just the beginning for her.

afternoon.

She is in the kitchen preparing the minced meat for tomorrow morning, and occasionally when she goes out, she subconsciously glances at the Internet cafe with the door open.

As a result, every time I saw it was a full scene inside.

In front of the computers in the Internet cafe, young faces stared at the screen so intently, and some people were learning to type on the keyboard with both hands.

Some people wear headphones, and their heads are bit by bit, like a chicken pecking at rice, but it doesn't look like they are dozing off.

Others wore headphones and stared at the movie playing on the computer screen, and they couldn't take their eyes off it.

Changmin's eyes were full of surprise and doubt.

She was surprised that the Internet cafe's business was so good. From morning to afternoon, it was full.

And what she wonders is - does the computer really have that much magic power? Those young people, why are they all following the devil?

It seems to be the game arcade that was all the rage a few years ago.

But it was a little different from the game hall in her impression.

In her impression, every game hall is very noisy, every game hall is always full of smog, and some young people are always yelling in it, looking like hooligans.

But this Internet cafe opened by Xu Tongdao... Although it is not very quiet inside, but generally speaking, there are not many people talking in it, most of them are doing their own things and do not interfere with each other.

...

At night, at night, the moon has risen very high.

When her aunt ran out of towels, Changmin opened the kitchen door and went out while putting on her coat, ready to go out to buy a pack. After she went out, she subconsciously glanced at the brightly lit Internet cafe.

It was still full inside.

At that time, she was startled, a little unable to believe her eyes.

Is the magic of this Internet cafe really that big?

Full in the morning, full in the afternoon, full in the evening?

Too exaggerated, right?

Don't you need money to play in it?

Every full-fledged scene I saw today, added together, had a big impact on her at this time.

She thought of running under the sunset that day...

wrong!

It was because of the Maolin Hotel that their family opened before. Half a month ago, it was still her family's Maolin Hotel, but why did her family have fewer and fewer students every day when she opened a restaurant here?

Don't they have to eat?

Is playing on the computer more important than eating? Why didn't these people come when her family opened a restaurant? Now that there are Internet cafes here, these people will not come to patronize them during the day and night?

She was puzzled.

She didn't know that since the rise of Internet cafes, this era has entered a new era of rapid change.

For example, 20 years later, some of the capital giants that everyone is familiar with have grown rapidly after the rise of the Internet.

For example, the Big Three of BAT.

Such as Apple, Huawei, Meituan, etc.

Before Tongdao Xu was reborn, someone said: When the times abandoned some people, they would not even say hello.

This is a fact!

The rise of the Internet, for most people, is silent, like mushrooms after a rain, like the rising sun.

People of Changmin's age were generally not interested or even disgusted when Internet cafes were just emerging.

They subconsciously think that Internet cafes and game arcades are the same type of things, and they are both harmful things. Not only do they not want to touch them, but they even educate and warn their children and family members not to go to Internet cafes.

Such a concept, three or five years, will not affect their lives.

Ten or eight years may not have much impact on their lives.

Twenty years later, when the Internet economy began to sweep the land of China, these people couldn't even play a smartphone.

Then, one day, they finally realized that the times had changed, and it seemed that they couldn't keep up with the times.

By that time, time can no longer be reversed, and they are destined to keep up with the times.

...

More than four in the morning.

Changmin got up early and prepared to take a shower, so she started making steamed buns, steamed buns, and siumai. Otherwise, she would have nothing to sell today when it was dawn.

When she opened the kitchen door and came out with the washbasin to pour water, she turned her face, what did she see?

Through the window of the Internet cafe, she saw that there were more than a dozen boys surfing the Internet in the dimly lit Internet cafe, sitting in front of the computer, staring at the computer.

At that moment, she was stunned, as if she had seen a ghost.