Mei Fang spent two weeks of weekends accompanying Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi in driving practice. During this period, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi would also find time to practice on their own.
By the third week, the two of them were able to ride their bikes to and from school, but they would ride together as a group of three, with Mei Fang and Xia Yuan standing outside to protect Lin Youxi, who was not very experienced yet.
The winter of 2009 was as cold as the previous year, but the weather was mostly sunny, so the ground was not slippery. The three of them rode their bicycles to school together on such days.
Working day and night, getting up early and going to bed late.
Waiting together in the cold wind for a companion who slept in.
We bought various snacks together at the shop at the campus gate.
Delicious hot thousand-layer cakes and sauce-flavored cakes;
The cakes look delicious, but are always prohibitively expensive;
The ridiculous prices of 5 yuan for 3 and 10 yuan for 5 for 5 pan-fried buns;
Inexpensive and good quality sweet oatmeal porridge for 1 yuan a cup with refills.
Although he was mentally prepared for the study life after the second year of junior high school, he still couldn't help but sigh that it was so hard when he was studying.
Now he is not obsessed with a certain game like in his previous life.
He squeezed out his spare time to maintain the website with Lin Youxi, and found time to practice guitar with Xia Yuan.
Of course, the most important thing is that he is busy maintaining the stability of his academic performance.
He previously thought that the questions in junior high school were mainly theoretical knowledge, and it would not be difficult for him to learn them by himself.
However, the questions he practiced in the enrichment class tended to be Olympiad questions, and occasionally he would spend a long time pondering over some problem-solving ideas that he couldn't understand.
His grades in his previous life were average, and he was not considered particularly smart. It was only because someone urged him on (Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi) and he wanted to study hard that he packaged himself as an excellent student.
In fact, the relationship between Mei Fang and Zhang Ming in this life is a little duller than when they met in high school. After all, they are not deskmates now, and the friendship they had when playing games together in the past has not been established because Mei Fang devoted all his free time to accompanying Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan.
However, the friendship between junior high school boys does not care about the depth of the feelings. Two people can become very familiar with each other just through daily communication and conversation.
Compared to Du Zihan, Zhang Ming is not as resistant to girls. On the contrary, he is quite popular among the girls in the class because he is a good guy.
Because students are not allowed to leave the school during class hours, and many students are tired of the school cafeteria which has few choices, they will run to the fence outside the school to buy breakfast bought by aunties. Zhang Ming is one of them, and he will bring breakfast for the girls.
Sometimes when Mei Fang saw Zhang Ming being ordered around all the time, he would remind him that if he didn't want to be led around, he should learn to refuse. However, Zhang Ming felt that it was no big deal if he was just doing it by the way, so Mei Fang stopped trying to persuade him. He thought that one day Zhang Ming would feel unhappy about these things, so he could just give him a push then.
Another problem that Xia Yuan faces is the pressure from Lin Youxi's excellence.
Lin Youxi was the monitor of Class 9 and had always been the top student in the grade, so it was natural for her to become the monitor of Class 1 for gifted students. She almost always got scores that made the top students in the gifted class stare in amazement. In the gifted class, Lin Youxi was always surrounded by many classmates who asked her questions.
As Lin Youxi's exclusive deskmate, Xia Yuan would be more or less affected mentally by the comparison between them. Mei Fang saw all of this, so she would discuss questions with her whenever she had the chance in class.
Lin Youxi probably also noticed Xia Yuan's discomfort, and later on, students who came to her for questions were often rejected by her or were put behind the questions Xia Yuan wanted to ask. Gradually, everyone stopped hanging around Lin Youxi.
Although it is somewhat different from the process of shaping her into a cold and aloof character in her previous life, Youxi is indeed changing along a similar path.
The website operation of Station C is currently in a lukewarm rising period. Because its sections are basically based on Station A, it has gradually formed a stable user group.
Mei Fang's user screening for Station C is as strict as it was in the early days of Station B in its previous life. However, unlike the early days of Station AB, which only opened registration on specific holidays, he and Lin Youxi discussed putting a lot of multiple-choice questions related to games and the second dimension in. Only those with a correct rate of over 95% are allowed to register as members of Station C. Only members of Station C can contribute videos and send barrages.
The current official uid 0001 of C Station is [山有林兮]. Usually, Lin Youxi only uses this account to send some website update announcements, but Mei Fang will use this account in the name of Lin Youxi to chat with users on the website and collect suggestions.
In fact, Mei Fang also had experience in community operations when he was a planner, plus he was also a second-dimensional person. Although he was usually busy with study and other life, as soon as he appeared in the forum, he could always get along with everyone.
The way Mei Fang spoke for the webmaster imitated Lin Youxi's usual tone, showing the appearance of a cool little princess. However, netizens in the community took it for granted that the webmaster of Station C must be a technical geek. Lin Youxi only found this interesting because she found that Mei Fang imitated her very well. The online community is really amazing.
Of course, in addition to this, Mei Fang also secretly sent free registration invitation codes to many UP hosts on Station A in the name of the webmaster of Station C. Many UP hosts responded to Mei Fang's call, but few of them actually posted video drafts on Station C. Only the subtitle groups invited by Mei Fang would diligently submit the animation videos they produced, hoping that their favorite animations could be spread more and more.
The reason why the domestic ACG culture ecosystem has been able to expand to the level of 22 years is inseparable from the early ACG culture enthusiasts who worked for love, especially the promotion of the subtitle groups. Their enthusiasm and efforts made Mei Fang, who chatted with them, sigh for a long time.
This time, when Mei Fang brought Lin Youxi to run C Station, he actually didn't intend to go for commercialization. He thought that as long as it could maintain operations, even a small loss would be acceptable.
Maybe that site will come as scheduled in the future, or someone will imitate them and create a more commercial and successful website, but he does not intend to easily change the current beautiful and harmonious cultural atmosphere of this circle.
What Mei Fang was thinking was that if this C station could stick to its original intention and go all the way to the end, withstand the pressure to maintain the purity of its user screening, and take a different path from the B station he had known for 22 years, in a sense, would it also be making up for the frustration of that generation of two-dimensional fans who could not find a home for 22 years
After the winter snow, the new year comes again.
The ice and snow are melting, and spring is gradually awakening.
The time of 2010 passed quickly. After the relatively short winter vacation, Mei Fang and his classmates in the second year of junior high school quickly entered the next semester.
Sorry, sorry! I was playing games this afternoon and didn't have time to update. I will definitely be on time tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)