Lao Hu, a classmate of Dafangze's class, is such a person.
Every Saturday afternoon, he would go to the Internet cafe to play games and go back until Sunday evening.
Later, because Dota became popular all over the country, he often skipped class with a few classmates in school who liked to play Dota and took a bus to a far away Internet cafe to play Dota and wait until the next morning to go back.
Among them was Fang Ze.
The reason why Fang Ze and Lao Hu got to know each other was because of a fishing expedition conducted by the director of the Education Department at that time.
Although Fang Ze also played Dota at that time, he did not play with Lao Hu. Instead, he went to an Internet cafe with his best friend Chizi and then played against others on the platform.
One morning, Fang Ze and Chizi walked out of the Internet cafe with tired steps, and happened to meet Lao Hu and his party. Then, while everyone was waiting for the bus, a medium-sized van drove over.
After the car stopped, the driver poked his head out of the window and shouted to everyone, "Anyone going to Huanghe No. 4 Middle School? It costs five yuan per person and we can drive you directly to the school gate."
At that time, Fang Ze and others were delighted when they heard what the driver said. It cost five yuan per person to take them directly to the school gate. Although it was three yuan more expensive than the bus, the bus sometimes had no seats and was slower than the van.
So all the students including Fang Ze and Lao Hu got on the van.
Because there were so many people, several people still crowded together to sit together.
Then.
Then the van kept its promise and pulled Fang Ze and the others to school.
Not only did they not put them down at the school gate and let them walk in by themselves, but they also pulled them directly to the front of the teaching building, where a group of teachers from the Academic Affairs Office were waiting for them.
This driver is the brother-in-law of the dean of the Academic Affairs Office, and he drives a black car.
After the dean of the Academic Affairs Office learned that a student had escaped to surf the Internet at night, he did not go directly to the Internet cafe to arrest them. Instead, he asked his brother-in-law to drive a van and deliver it directly to the school gate for five yuan to lure all the students who escaped that night. All Internet users were caught in one fell swoop, allowing Fang Ze to experience for the first time how insidious the adult world can be.
Later, after graduation, Lao Hu did not continue studying in college, but opened a board game store and sold game CDs. When Fang Ze returned to the imperial capital, he would occasionally go to Lao Hu's store to play board games.
After the taxi arrived at the entrance of Lao Hu's board game store, Fang Ze and Lao Ao got out of the car and walked over, only to find that Lao Hu's board game store was closed.
"What's going on?" Fang Ze looked at the closed door, a little strange.
Could it be that after Lao Hu stopped selling game discs, the board game store also closed down
Fang Ze stepped forward and pushed the door. He found that the door of Lao Hu's board game store was locked from the inside, so he patted the door and shouted, "Is Lao Hu here?"
"Who is it?" A man in pajamas opened the door and asked while rubbing his eyes, "Didn't there be a sign saying it's closed today?"
"Lao Hu, it's me."
"Fang Zi." Lao Hu opened his eyes and saw Fang Ze. He shouted with joy and waved for Fang Ze and others to come in.
"Why, Lao Hu, have you made enough money? The store is not open anymore?"
"No, I just fell asleep after drinking last night." Lao Hu said while letting Fang Ze and Lao Ao sit on the sofa in the board game store, "I still make wool money. I lost so much recently that I was ready to jump off the rooftop. "
"Have you traded in stocks?" Fang Ze asked.
"No?"
"Then how much money can the board game store make if you jump on a woolen rooftop? If you are short of money, how about I invest some money and open a board game store with you?"
"If you are willing to steal money, I will sell this board game store to you." Lao Hu said, "You know that today's League of Legends S-level finals will be held in the Bird's Nest. I tinkered with a batch of tickets, and now I'm losing money. ”
As he spoke, Lao Hu opened the drawer, took out a stack of tickets as thick as a Xinhua dictionary, and threw it on the table.
"The double ticket price came in from a ticket seller. I wanted to bet that a Chinese team would enter the finals this year. Then when the price increased by five or six times, people would buy it. As a result, the two baseball teams joined forces in the Bird's Nest. Now Not to mention selling it at twice the cost, even at the original price it wouldn’t be sold.”
"You deserve it." Fang Ze was very familiar with Lao Hu and knew that Lao Hu was not a narrow-minded person, so he directly mocked, "Is the scalper thing something that a layman like you can do? Do a few business deals at the same time, and if you lose on this one, you can make money from other businesses. If you want to make a fortune from this one deal, isn't this a dream?"
"Isn't this a lesson learned?" Lao Hu lit a cigarette depressedly, and then said to the two of them, "You two are here to play board games today. It's just the three of us. You can play if you want."
"No." Fang Ze pointed at Lao Ao and explained, "This is my good friend, Lao Ao. He makes game videos. He needs a CD of an old game. I will bring him over and ask if you have any here."
"Which game can you tell me and I'll see if I have it?" Lao Hu said while smoking. "As long as it's not too popular, I have a collection."
Lao Ao told Lao Hu the name of the game. Lao Hu thought about it and went to the warehouse of the board game store to browse for a while, then came over with the CD.
"I only have one, you have to give it back to me after you use it."
"Well, thank you very much." Lao Ao saw that he got what he wanted and quickly thanked him.
"Brother, your voice sounds familiar to me." Lao Hu suddenly thought of something, pointed at Lao Ao and asked, "Are you the manager of the chicken farm who makes the game?"
"He really is." Fang Ze pointed at Lao Ao and said with a smile.
"What a coincidence, I've been watching your videos recently, and the good buddy you've been talking about turns out to be Fang Zi."
"His good friend is really not me, but another guy. It's just that this guy is not in the imperial capital, so I helped find him."
"That's it." Lao Hu took a puff of cigarette, and then said to Fang Ze, "What you just said about investing in a board game store is true. If it is true, I will invest in this board game store. If I sell it to you, I will lose a lot of money this time, so I have to find a business to make a fortune."
"It's true." Fang Ze said immediately, "The phone number I saved for you before was empty. Please tell me your current number. When you get back, you can estimate the price and send it to me."
"Okay." Lao Hu agreed. Then when he saw Fang Ze and Lao Ao leaving, he casually stuffed the pile of tickets into Fang Ze's hand, "These are for you. Leave them here and I'll take a look. I’m also upset.”
Fang Ze and Lao Ao walked out of Lao Hu's shop, and then looked at the pile of tickets in his arms. He looked at Lao Ao dumbfounded and said, "The finals start tonight. Do you have time tonight?" Why don’t we go see it together?”
"Okay." Lao Ao nodded and said, "Your stack of tickets is all connected. There will be no one else around the two of us by then, so we can watch quietly."
(End of chapter)