On the seventh day of the New Year, Xu Lan cooked a bowl of noodles for herself in the morning, and Cheng Ran ate it. Cheng Feiyang had already returned to Chengdu. The quietness at home was broken when Xu Lan called Cheng Feiyang and urged him to cook a bowl of noodles for himself.
After the Spring Festival, it is the process of visiting relatives and eating at every door. Today, Cheng Xiang's family is hosting dinner, but Cheng Ran said that he has an important dinner and will not go. Xu Lan can't help asking a few more questions, and Cheng Ran said it is a reunion of old classmates.
The phone on the table rang, Cheng Ran went over to answer it, Xu Lan cleaned up the dishes, and when she came back, Cheng Ran had already finished the call. Xu Lan said, "Zhao Qing is coming over? What are you discussing on this New Year's Day? Yesterday was the same..."
"Hey, just some small things..."
Xu Lan did not ask any more questions. She knew that Cheng Ran was setting up the Tianxing Dojo, and she also knew that it was with Zhao Qing's help. It was just that Cheng Ran acted without their permission, and they only found out after the dojo was built. After that, his school performance was not affected at all, and they did not have the opportunity to accuse him of not doing his job properly, so they just let him go.
Sometimes Xu Lan was uncomfortable. When the No. 10 Middle School held a parent-teacher meeting, many parents chatted together. Many of them subconsciously talked about what kind of competition their children participated in after school. Those who liked science made some oil-powered model airplanes after school. They used their hands and brains, and their strong handicraft skills attracted praise from other parents. Some people also said that their children were sent to vocal training classes to play the tuba, and those who were more artistic played the saxophone and piano...
Every time this happens, Xu Lan feels embarrassed and is afraid of being asked. If she is asked, and someone asks her what her child does, what will she say? Will she say that her child opened a teahouse or coffee shop after school... it will probably be a dull occasion.
Zhao Qing came to visit. Xu Lan sealed a red envelope and stuffed it into Zhao Qing's hand, saying it was for his child, Xiao Shitou. She also asked about Xiao Shitou's heart condition. Zhao Qing smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, Master's wife. Xiao Shitou is fine now. The material of the pacemaker is very good and can be used for many years without maintenance..."
After exchanging pleasantries with Xu Lan, Zhao Qing carried his handbag and entered Cheng Ran's room...
The two of them started discussing something again.
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Finally, Zhao Qing left. Cheng Ran was bored and sat down at the desk with his computer turned on and CQ logged in. Cheng Ran and Li Mingshi had been communicating with each other through CQ during this period. He opened the email and read some internal data reports sent by Li Mingshi. After reading them, he made corresponding comments and clicked the reply button. Then he looked at the in98 desktop and the icons on it, and lowered his head to open the book next to him.
It's a bit hard to say, all the games of this period are hard to arouse interest for Cheng Ran, who has experienced all kinds of rich entertainment in the future. The charm of the board game Three Kingdoms is waning, and the sales progress in various cities is not as crazy as the initial growth. This is because computers have appeared in Internet cafes and many people's homes in various cities. Just look at Yu Xiao's pursuit of games now. He has almost forgotten to eat and sleep. Delta, StarCraft, Age of Navigation, Three Kingdoms, Star Cultivation, these classic computer games, once they appear, the impact and charm of this new thing that appears in the information age is hard to resist.
But Three Kingdoms Kill will not be completely defeated. Even in the future, board games still have a place and are particularly suitable for offline gatherings. However, no matter how explosive the growth is, it will probably never happen again.
However, as a developer, due to rampant piracy and increasingly advanced piracy technology, this mine, which was Cheng Ran’s first source of funds, is about to become increasingly depleted in physical sales.
Of course, even if Three Kingdoms Killing doesn’t make any money in the future, in Cheng Ran’s opinion, it has completed the first stage of its historical mission. Moreover, it will become a common thing in people’s lives and exist like a brand.
This is another mountain of gold.
However, Cheng Ran is not ready to start this right now. After all, the physical sales have not dried up completely, and they are still a source of revenue.
Even though old-fashioned games are classics, the feeling you had when you first played them is destined to exist only in memory. When Cheng Ran picks up the mouse and enters that world again, he will find that after going through so many things, he can no longer find the mood and patience he had when playing games at that time.
Some things are truly most precious only the first time they happen.
As the most cutting-edge computer games nowadays fail to arouse his interest, Cheng Ran has found two ways to make himself feel interesting and kill time. One is to draw new compositions and new characters for Three Kingdoms Kill to delay the decline of physical sales.
The other one was actually doing math problems.
In my previous life, when I was a student, I regarded math problems as a disaster. But now that I have been reborn, because of my solid foundation, I am able to climb higher and higher. I find that the fun of racking my brains or seeing the solution of math problems of one difficulty level after another is no less than the pleasure of deploying troops and calculating carefully in a game, and then relying on the resources at hand to defeat one boss after another.
So outside the window, the spring light after the New Year was brilliant, and Cheng Ran was doing his homework in the warm beam of light.
Before I knew it, an afternoon had passed.
The time has come for the meeting that Qin Xizhen and his friends had agreed to have with the son of a wealthy celebrity in Hong Kong.
Xu Lan said hello. She had already changed into a dress and put on her bag. Finally, she confirmed with Cheng Ran whether she wanted to go to Cheng Xiang's house. After getting a negative answer, Xu Lan opened the door and went out by herself.
Cheng Ran packed up the "Ten Secret Scrolls" in front of him and called Qin Xizhen. She was already with Chen Muyi and was going to the Regent Hotel. Cheng Ran packed his bag and went out.
Walking out of the corridor, there were dark clouds in the sky, and a golden sand-like glow appeared on the sunny side.
It was the Spring Festival period, and there were few pedestrians on the streets, and most shops were closed.
Old buildings, old electric poles, and even old blue roadside trash cans with large iron lids, the light of the setting sun reflected from the yellow glass of office buildings of government agencies, and the monotonous buses traveling along the undulating slopes of the highway. The world is warm and silent.
It seems like I am living here just like always, except that I am different now than I was a year and a half ago when I was reborn.
Qin Xizhen, a rising star in the Chinese music scene who rose to fame overnight in the city of Shanhai, will have a showdown with Luo Linwen, the third son of the wealthy Hong Kong Luo family.
This small town, which would not have been disturbed at all, and where people like Luo Linwen would never have settled before, now seems to be placed in a situation where an explosion could occur at any time.