The small grocery store’s partition housed a total of ten computers, arranged in four directions: three at the top and bottom, and two on each side, with a large ceiling fan hanging overhead.
Chen Qiao’s usual computer was located at the upper left corner, right in front of a window.
Outside the window was the back kitchen’s sewage ditch.
Generally, no one passed by there.
In case the curtain was blown by the wind, people on the street side could only see his back.
It was very safe.
Moreover, in case of any unexpected situation, he could directly escape through the window.
The computers in the black internet cafe did not have an internet cafe system installed.
When shutting down and restarting, the data downloaded by users would not disappear or reset.
Chen Qiao’s game save files were still there.
The downside was that if users accidentally clicked on some pop-up ads and downloaded viruses, the computers would easily blue screen and crash.
Chen Qiao had installed computer management software on each computer.
Although these management software were big bullies, they could still control the little bullies to some extent, using poison to attack poison.
Chen Qiao turned on the computer, drank some water while waiting, dialed up to connect to the internet, and then logged into QQ, both his and his sister’s.
His sister’s QQ account was also applied for by Chen Qiao.
She chose a relatively easy-to-remember QQ number, which was still nine digits at that time.
This year, ten-digit QQ numbers had already started to appear.
His sister surprisingly cared about her QQ level.
No matter how excellent and sensible she was, she was essentially still a junior high school girl.
Chen Qiao skillfully opened the farm to steal, harvest, and plant vegetables, as well as to grab parking spaces.
His sister had few friends on her side.
There was him, in the family category.
Then there was a group with an English name called Best Friends, which also had only one person with the online name Summer Sky Light Blue.
In this era when Martian language was everywhere, this online name was already very normal.
The profile picture was the back of a girl wearing the sports uniform of Lanhe Middle School, standing on the playground under the sunset, holding up a V sign with the sunset in between.
It was not a stock photo. It was the dilapidated playground of Lanhe Middle School.
The pixel quality was a bit poor, and the person taking the photo had some ghosting.
It was blurry, but it had a special artistic conception.
Other friends were in the classmates group.
Except for Chen Qiao, who was his younger brother, his sister’s other friends were probably added by borrowing classmates’ phones.
Perhaps it was this friend named Summer who could take such photos.
The phone that could take such photos was not cheap, even if it was a knock-off.
His sister often helped boarders bring their phone batteries home to charge, using a kind of flashy universal charger.
As for Chen Qiao’s friends, there were only those few who came to surf the internet together.
The first time he added friends in bulk was in the classmates’ yearbook before graduating from elementary school.
Chen Qiao also followed the trend and bought one.
He shyly asked everyone to write a page for him.
Chen Qiao opened the first installment of Xianjian.
The familiar BGM rang in his ears, as if he had returned to his childhood.
No, he really did come back.
At this moment, the save file was at the plot where Li Xiaoyao was discovered by Anu while stealing the Phoenix egg.
The two met and got to know each other.
Anu was also one of the characters most adapted and changed in the TV series.
Chen Qiao completed the first installment of Xianjian during this summer vacation.
He then played Sword Three and Sword Four.
He really admired himself for having the patience to play them.
When he was stuck at a level, he felt a sense of pleasure in buying equipment, grinding for money, or leveling up.
Sword Three had a younger sister, who was a dual personality and a sword spirit.
It could be considered Chen Qiao’s enlightenment work for being a younger sister complex.
After growing up and becoming a streamer, he earned money and his life was no longer so hard-pressed.
He bought the complete set of Xianjian tickets, but he could no longer get into the game.
He became restless and didn’t know whether it was because he had changed or the game had changed.
Chen Qiao closed the game and opened Kugou Music to play the song “Ten Years” by the Doctor.
He put on his headphones.
The downside of this black internet cafe was that the headphones were a bit inferior.
They were not the common cool over-ear headphones in internet cafes, but knock-off headphones from a street stall.
They were the kind sold in stores, but at least they could make a sound.
He created a new blank TXT document.
Compared to fully-featured office software like Word, Notepad opened quickly and the file took up less memory.
There was no automatic save function since there was no internet connection.
In the countryside during summer, power outages were quite frequent when the power supply was difficult.
He had to save often, otherwise all his efforts would be in vain.
Chen Qiao planned to write a novel to make money, which was also his old profession.
He had been a struggling writer.
Although he had never become very famous, he had at least finished a book and earned some, which was not much, just enough for a modest living, similar to the salary of a factory worker, but it was already more than many writers earned.
Now, the welfare system of a certain point was relatively well-developed, and it had also opened a channel for readers to reward authors.
Perhaps every struggling writer, when feeling frustrated and unfulfilled, would think that if they could go back to the early days of online literature, they could definitely surpass these big gods.
However, Chen Qiao would not be so arrogant.
What seemed to be a very bad routine and plot in hindsight might have been pioneered by these big gods.
They were able to tell the same old stories better, either in terms of literary foundation, wording, or in terms of foreshadowing and invoking readers’ emotions.
Even if you directly opened a new track for yourself, a new genre that no one had written before, if you didn’t write well, there would immediately be people who followed and copied, and there were many who could even write better than the original work.
This was also the cruelty of online literature.
But it was a fact that in this era, the competition was less intense.
Readers had not read so many novels and would not be so picky.
Coupled with the favorable environment, although there was a “Clean Internet” campaign every year, the most recent and largest one was in 2007.
The next one was the 2014 “Clean Internet” campaign, which could be recorded in the history of online literature and was almost a watershed for online literature.
2009 was called the year of the double fight.
When Chen Qiao opened the webpage of a certain point, he saw familiar big god names.
After Shanda acquired a certain point last year, it was the same as the later Penguin Literature.
It began to buy and acquire many novel websites, which were eventually acquired.
Chen Qiao did not plan to copy novels and be a literary thief.
Many novels he had read, he only remembered the general idea.
How could he completely restore them?
To be exact, he wanted to copy what he had written before.
His naive works from the past, in the era of the great wave of sand, could only be considered average.
Now, if he took them out and reset them, they had already been tested by readers.
He could optimize the parts that were not well written.
With the addition of his years of experience and reading volume, they should be improved.
Especially in some places, he could write more freely, which made Chen Qiao even more eager to try.
After all, they were written by himself.
When he recalled them, they were all impressive, especially the parts that were severely criticized, which made him feel like his heart was broken.
In no time, Chen Qiao had knocked out a rough outline.
When he first wrote it, he wrote wherever he thought of, without any outline.
Chen Qiao also planned to make a detailed outline so that he could write faster.
However, the internet fee was also a considerable expense.
Chen Qiao planned to write on paper first and then type it into the computer.
After all, there was no before going on the shelf.
He estimated that he would have to endure for about two months.
If he signed a contract, the current regulations were not as strict and standardized as in the future.
Of course, a young writer under the age of 18 could sign a contract.
As long as the book was well written, without an ID card, he could just attach
He could, of course, directly use his father’s identity information, but Chen Qiao still wanted to do more in the online literature world with his own identity.
After all, this world was not short of young talents.
Next year, mobile phone reading would start to charge fees, and wireless reading would gradually become popular.
Similar to the development of mobile internet, the share of the computer end would gradually be eroded by the mobile end in the future.
Chen Qiao planned to finish writing this book within this year and release it slowly.
Next year, he would write a wireless novel and then use the manuscript fees to invest in Bitcoin.
If he were to do consignment shopping, many products would not include free shipping.
The courier service would only reach the county town.
Online payment required a bank, and if the buyer chose to pay upon delivery and then didn’t want the item?
Returning goods now was very troublesome, and various systems were not yet, with many problems.
Buying goods on wholesale websites to open a store and sell for a profit was an option, but there was a risk of holding unsold inventory, and the township market was still too small.
Securing the township agency for various courier points first, and then charging the recipients one or two yuan for remote area fees, with more for larger items, should be something people would start doing in two or three years.
Providing free consignment shopping services at the courier points was more feasible, offering a one-stop service.
If there was no road, he would build one himself.
In addition to striving on his own, being a rich second generation was not bad either.
He could make his parents the first generation of the rich.
However, apart from driving, his father had no other skills and talked about so-called brotherhood, which was actually just a bunch of drinking buddies.
After his father got into trouble, only two people lent him money.
His father had a long driving experience and a wide network of contacts.
Many jobs would come to him first.
When he was too busy, he would distribute the work to his car friends.
But among these car friends, some were still speaking ill of his father.
Chen Qiao hoped that his father would start a dump truck fleet or a construction waste transportation company.
Since his father had the ability to get more jobs, it would be better to take a commission or let the company make this money.
Compared to individual households, a company had a higher risk resistance capability.
There was no need to limit himself to the local area.
There were more orders in Pengcheng.
The new district was constantly under construction.
The land was so valuable that there was no place to pile up construction waste, which had to be transported to a farther place.
Sometimes, when it was necessary to backfill the construction waste, it even had to be bought back.
As for his mother, she was an extremely conservative type.
Investing was out of the question.
Finding a job was the right way.
Convincing her to buy a house was already quite an achievement.
Advice still needed to be given by his excellent sister, whose words carried more weight and whom their parents were willing to listen to.
Chen Qiao was still the mischievous troublemaker in his parents’ eyes for the time being.
Just as Chen Qiao thought of his sister, the female QQ icon in the lower right corner started to flash.
Drip——The familiar prompt sound rang, and his sister’s avatar started to flash.
Someone had sent a message to his sister, and it was none other than that Summer Sky Light Blue.
“Are you there?”
What a familiar opening line.
“Not there, not me.”
“Of course I know it’s not you. Feifei is right beside me doing her homework.”
It turned out to be his sister’s deskmate.
“Please study hard.”
“Who are you to Feifei? How do you know her QQ password and help her keep her QQ level?”
“I’m her brother.”
“Oh, I remember now. Feifei mentioned that she had a particularly naughty stinky younger brother. Feifei’s family doesn’t have a computer. The stinky younger brother must be at the internet cafe, right?”
“You’re still playing with your phone in class. You should study hard.”
“Aren’t you afraid that I’ll tell your sister?”
“Not afraid. You should stop disturbing my sister’s study.”
Chen Feifei, of course, knew about Chen Qiao’s internet surfing.
He had even applied for a QQ account for her.
She helped keep Chen Qiao’s secret and didn’t tell their parents.
She also warned Chen Qiao not to go there again, or she wouldn’t lend him money.
Moreover, Chen Qiao wasn’t there to play tonight.
He was there to do something important, so he had the upper hand.
“Wow, the stinky younger brother’s guts are pretty big. The teacher is coming. I’ll talk to you next time. Bye……”
Would this sister’s good friend also lose contact with her later?
Chen Qiao had never seen his sister have any particularly good friends or close girlfriends, nor had he ever heard her mention them.
Chen Qiao continued to type on the keyboard, writing a detailed outline.
Today was Monday.
The junior high school students and the few high school students in town had evening study sessions.
The little hooligans hadn’t discovered this untouched land yet.
They usually went to the internet cafe in groups and were more familiar with the internet cafe managers. Chen Qiao didn’t bring his buddies over either.
Tonight was like having the place all to himself.