During the dinner, after three drinks, Zhao Xin's father introduced himself. His name was Zhao Miao, and he was doing some small business in Yuzhou, but he didn't say what kind of business he was doing.
Some people are curious about his and his son's names. One has three waters and the other has three golds. They sound like brothers.
Zhao Miao said happily: "From the time I was born until I was in elementary school, I have always been weak and sick. The medical conditions in the rural areas around Yuzhou are not good, and I almost died several times."
"Later, an elder in our family told me my fortune and said that I was short of water, so he gave me this name. The amazing thing is that after I changed my name, I never got seriously ill again, and my subsequent life was considered smooth. It was smooth sailing, so when my son was born, I took him to see the elder, and he said that the child was short of gold, so he named him Xin."
Several parents suddenly became interested, and immediately turned the topic to folklore and Feng Shui fortune-telling. The conversation was very enjoyable, but the young people were not interested in it. Everyone drank beer and chatted.
Zhang Junnan said mysteriously: "There has just been a gun battle game called CS. It is said to be a beta version that just came from abroad. Have you played it?"
Zhao Xin, Gu Peng, and Li Yiming shook their heads.
Xu Yiyang was a little surprised.
Is CS popular now? It's early enough.
But I feel relieved when I think about it. The mainstay of Internet cafes and computer games in China are young people in the age group of 18-26.
This is especially true for college students.
College students themselves are in a leading position in electronic trends, so college students should be exposed to CS earlier than most people.
The kind of half-grown kids who are fifteen, sixteen or even twelve or thirteen years old in later generations should have to wait until next summer when they are crazy about CS in Internet cafes.
As soon as Chen Meng heard about CS, he immediately became interested and said excitedly: "Counter-Strike, right? I played it during the summer vacation, and that guy felt so good!"
Zhang Junnan exclaimed: "Damn it, have you ever played this game?"
Chen Meng nodded and said, "We have an Internet cafe that has this game installed. I have played it several times."
Zhang Junnan asked hurriedly: "How are you playing?"
Chen Meng chuckled and waved his hand: "Brother, I'm not urging you, I just like to play bandits. I can pick up an AK and knock down a lot of people with one shot!"
Zhang Junnan said hurriedly: "Damn it, let's find an Internet cafe to practice in the afternoon?"
"It's done." Chen Meng said and looked at Xu Yiyang: "Xu Yiyang, are you going?"
Xu Yiyang thought that he had nothing to do in the afternoon anyway, and he hadn't been to the Internet cafe since he was reborn, so it wouldn't hurt to go and have fun, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I have no objection."
Zhao Xin and Gu Peng also nodded in agreement, but Li Yiming said a little embarrassedly: "Well, you go ahead. I will go to the train station to see my dad off in the afternoon, and he will go back in the afternoon."
Zhang Junnan said: "My parents are going back in the afternoon. They will take a taxi. I will just take your dad with me."
Li Yiming said: "I'd better go and deliver it myself. My dad doesn't go out much and is not very good at riding. I have to buy a platform ticket to get him on the bus."
Zhang Junnan nodded and said, "Then you go see your uncle off first, and come back to us when you come back."
Li Yiming hesitated again and again and said, "Let me take a look..."
At the table, Xu Yiyang had nothing to do and quietly speculated on the family conditions of his five roommates.
Except for himself, Zhao Xin's family conditions should be the best. Not only is his father's cheerful performance, but all three of them have mobile phones.
In 1999, there were not many families with three members using mobile phones, and they could be considered middle class.
Secondly, Gu Peng should have a better family situation. He is well-dressed from head to toe and is always playing with a Nokia mobile phone.
Zhang Junnan also mentioned buying a mobile phone to his parents at the dinner table, but their parents did not agree.
According to his parents, college is all about studying hard, so why do you need a mobile phone
There is a landline phone in the dormitory, so he can be found at home at any time, making the mobile phone even more useless.
Zhang Junnan was a little disappointed, and the next best thing was to get a pager first.
Pagers are cheap now. An ordinary digital display machine only costs three to four hundred yuan even if you buy it and bring it into the network.
But Zhang Junnan’s parents wanted to wait until next semester.
It can be seen that the family conditions are not that wealthy.
Like Xu Yiyang, Chen Meng came to school by himself. It seems that his family conditions are relatively average, because when chatting, he said that he came all the way from the northeast on a hard seat. He sat there for more than 30 hours and almost missed it. Half life.
Xu Yiyang felt that Chen Meng's family conditions should be similar to his own family conditions in his previous life, and if they were good, they wouldn't be much better.
As for Li Yiming, there is no doubt that he is the one with the worst family conditions in the dormitory.
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After lunch, all the parents who came to see their children off were leaving without exception.
They all put down what they were doing and came from afar. Now that they have completed their tasks, they must hurry back.
Since the parents of other students came together as husband and wife, the other three did not go to see them off.
Only Li Yiming took the bus to the train station with his old father.
Afterwards, Zhang Junnan invited Xu Yiyang and the four of them to an Internet cafe near the school.
This is the first time Xu Yiyang has been to an Internet cafe in more than half a year since he was reborn.
This Internet cafe called New Century has a total of about thirty machines, and they are all full at this time.
The price of three yuan an hour is really not cheap, but it is still crowded.
Five people lined up to wait for the flight. After waiting for more than an hour, the five people got on the machine one after another, and they were not next to each other at all.
But it’s already good to be able to get on the plane, and no one dares to ask for anything more.
Most of the people in the Internet cafe are playing CS, a small number are playing the old version of Red Alert, and some are addicted to online chatting in the web chat room.
It is said that CS is a game that just appeared this summer. As soon as this game came out, it became popular all over the world. Almost all college students in Internet cafes wore headphones and experienced intense and exciting battles.
Zhang Junnan built an unlocked host, and the other four people, both those who had played it and those who had not, all followed his instructions and joined the room he created.
The map Zhang Junnan chose was the warehouse map that Xu Yiyang had played with vomiting. To put it bluntly, only the most incompetent people could play hard on this map.
Real experts or intermediate players like desert maps and suspension bridge maps best, but for novices, those maps are too big and can easily confuse people.
Xu Yiyang was obsessed with CS for a while when he was in college, and then he threw himself into the embrace of Legend wholeheartedly. When Legend was no longer disturbed by private servers and cheats, he and most of his classmates turned around and entered Azeroth. Mainland China is the world-famous World of Warcraft.
When World of Warcraft became lonely, Xu Yiyang got tired of desperately upgrading online games to fight monsters and grind dungeons. At that time, Chenghai 3C and Dota began to emerge, so he started playing battle games, and later switched to LOL. After having children, he basically Say Goodbye to the game.
Entering the CS interface again, Xu Yiyang felt very familiar, but his skills had declined a lot. Although he ranked first on the kill list, he was not invincible, and occasionally others would steal his skills.
After playing a few games, Xu Yiyang gradually found his feel, and then began the boring stage of being invincible.
The five of them played in the Internet cafe until about four o'clock in the afternoon, and Li Yiming didn't come to look for them.
On the way back to the dormitory, Zhang Junnan couldn't help complaining and said, "Li Yiming is a bit uninteresting. I told him to come over to us when he was done with his work, but he still hasn't shown up yet."
Gu Peng also nodded and said with a southern accent: "That's right, it's a bit disappointing, otherwise it would be so much fun for the six of us to play three on three!"
Xu Yiyang said hurriedly: "What about that? Don't you see that Li Yiming's family situation may not be very good? There are some things that we can't tell him directly in person. We have to be aware of it."
Chen Meng said in agreement: "While eating, I paid attention to Li Yiming's father. To be honest, I felt sad when I saw him."
Zhang Junnan suddenly realized it and said a little embarrassedly: "Oh, it's my fault, I don't have this string in my mind."
Xu Yiyang said: "In the future, we will definitely have to mention this kind of thing because we are sleeping together, but if others refuse or because of it, we should not always persuade others to participate, but should give them enough respect."
Chen Meng said: "I like to listen to what Lao Xu says, he is very particular!"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "Don't call me Lao Xu, I'm only eighteen!"
Chen Meng said: "I'm only eighteen, are you in 1981?"
Xu Yiyang nodded.
Chen Meng said: "I am from March, what about you?"
Xu Yiyang said: "I am in January."
Chen Meng hummed: "That's still Lao Xu."
Xu Yiyang said helplessly: "Okay, Xiao Chen."
Zhang Junnan rolled his eyes and said excitedly: "Let's arrange the dormitories in order, eldest, second, third, fourth, fifth, all the way to sixth!"
"What a great idea!" The other people's eyes immediately shone brightly.
Xu Yiyang said hurriedly: "No, no, no, no. Believe it or not, all the freshman boys' dormitories in hundreds of universities across China are probably doing this today."
Chen Meng chuckled and said, "Isn't this good, Lao Xu? You have to follow the trend."
Xu Yiyang said: "Yes, it seems to be following the trend, but think about it, if you are the third child in our dormitory, and there are thousands of people eating in the cafeteria, there may be one or two hundred third children. Do you know what the old saying is? The third one called you?"
"Fuck..." Chen Meng scratched his temples and uttered a sentence after a while: "This seems to be a fucking problem..."
"Right." Xu Yiyang struck while the iron was hot: "When the time comes, you will subconsciously raise your head when anyone calls you "Lao San". Are you still going to eat? What if someone next to you yells, "You bastard Lao San, Lao San, I will x your uncle, Lao San you" You’re just a piece of shit, do you think you’re being aggressive with others, or are you just listening silently?”
Chen Meng immediately nodded in agreement and said seriously: "Old Xu, I admire you, I really do."
After saying that, he waved his hand: "I suggest you never mention the matter of queuing in the future."
Zhang Junnan also nodded repeatedly: "I won't mention it anymore. I won't mention it anymore."
Gu Peng smacked his lips and said, "Then we can't always call each other by our full names. There will be a sense of distance, right?"
Zhao Xin, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "We can give us nicknames, just like QQ nicknames. Do you know QQ?"
Gu Peng said subconsciously: "My QQ name is Forgot Love. It seems inappropriate to call it a nickname!"
Xu Yiyang immediately clapped his hands, pointed at Gu Peng and said seriously: "Okay, then I will ask you to forget about love from now on."
(End of chapter)