003 Arcade
"Okay, Yoko, I really can't see it. ”
"What's wrong?"
I didn't bother to pay attention to Xu Chao's bastard's teasing look.
Li Yang naturally knew what he was joking.
But a girl like Wu Fangfei.
If nothing else, the trajectories of their lives are like two parallel lines, and there is no possibility of intertwining them at all.
If Xu Chao's ridicule is taken seriously, it is tantamount to a mediocre person disturbing himself.
"Alright, where are we going now?"
"Why don't you go to the arcade?"
In 98, when the arcade machine was on fire, in addition to the second middle school on West Street, there were also experimental junior high schools and two other vocational schools, and the game hall was naturally not less.
Turn the corner.
The three of them went straight to the game hall on Lao West Street near the entrance of the vegetable market.
The boss here is an acquaintance.
Entering from the narrow alley, there is a hall outside the door, which is quite serious, and you can't see anything, but it is different in a room inside.
All kinds of voices rang out non-stop, and all the people gathered inside were some students who had been on summer vacation, and occasionally a few young people from society.
At this time, the game hall is roughly like this, the outer room is hidden, and the inside is another world.
The boss Wang Kai is also twenty-five or sixteen years old, and he has a good relationship with Li Ping.
Li Ping used to study in high school in No. 2 Middle School, and he was contaminated with heavy social habits, so he naturally got acquainted with such third-rate figures.
Wang Kai naturally knows Li Yang.
So as soon as they saw Li Yang and them coming in, the flat-headed young man named Wang Kai immediately got up to greet them.
"Yoko, have you come to the county to play?"
"Well, today's class reunion, let's have fun. ”
In fact.
Li Yang's impression of Wang Kai is not good.
The main reason is because of Li Ping's mess.
But when it comes to this kind of thing, it can only be said that Li Ping's luck is not good, but it is no wonder that others.
"What's the game? I've got two new Fighters here, do you want to try it?"
In fact, Li Yang could see that the expression on Wang Kai's face when he saw him was not very natural, but Li Yang didn't have any ideas.
"Okay! Try your hand, I haven't played in a while. ”
In the arcade, The King of Fighters is a classic among the classics, and Li Yang is no stranger.
Coupled with the Three Kingdoms War Chronicles launched in '99, these two arcade games can definitely be regarded as the most popular.
There is Wang Kai to treat.
The three of them are naturally not welcome.
I didn't spend any money and took a handful of game coins to go into battle, and it happened that the King of Fighters's machine had a few boys who looked like elementary school students playing hard.
Wang Kai didn't bully people, he sent people away with a few game coins, one of the boys still wanted to stare at people, Wang Kai was not a vegetarian, so he yelled directly.
"it, get out of here. ”
Seeing that the little chubby dun was about to cry, Li Yang was also funny, he could be angry with a group of elementary school students, and it was estimated that people like Wang Kai could do it.
"Forget it, I'll play when he's done with this game. ”
Fortunately, Wang Kai didn't play a temper, and after warning the little fat dun for two sentences, he sat on the side and went to the fugue again, and when the little fat dun finished fighting, Li Yang began to get started.
I hit the customs clearance in one go, and my palms were already full of sweat.
The elementary school students watching from the side were like ghosts.
", Yoko, you're really a bit of a cow, and I haven't cleared the customs. ”
Behind him, Wang Kai didn't know when he was already there, and when Li Yang cleared the customs, he immediately slapped him on the shoulder.
In fact.
Li Yang has beaten this thing at least dozens or hundreds of times, and it is not uncommon for him to be able to clear the fart.
But it's a bit scary to fall into Wang Kai's eyes.
After all, these two machines have only come in for a long time, and there are too few people who can clear the customs, Li Yang cleared the final level in one go, and it is indeed a bit of a cow to fly out of the sky.
On the side, Xu Chao and Shi Peng probably didn't enjoy the fight, and the game currency in their hands was spent, so they were embarrassed to ask Wang Kai again, so they went to the slot machine in the corner to play real guys, and they didn't feel distressed when they exchanged coins one by one and stuffed them in.
Li Yang didn't continue to join in the fun, so he chatted with Wang Kai on the side.
"Do you smoke?"
Li Yang waved his hand.
Cigarettes, he naturally smoked it, but it was in his previous life, and this life may be the reason for changing his body, and he didn't have any addiction to cigarettes, which can be regarded as saving the country.
"Your brother's business... There are some things I can't say......"
Speaking of Li Ping's matter, Wang Kai was a little nervous and stopped.
Li Yang waved his hand again, obviously not wanting to continue on this matter.
"Okay, then let's not talk about that, but when he comes out, you let him come to me. ”
"You can make a lot of money in this arcade, right?"
Turning his eyes around the room, Li Yang naturally didn't think about this kind of thing before, but he was short of money recently, and he really saw that everything was like a mountain of gold.
"Don't say it, I really haven't calculated it, and I don't lose money anyway. ”
Wang Kai's words were somewhat coping, but Li Yang didn't mind.
But the last few years of the 20th century should be the only few good days left in the arcade, and a game hall can't really bluff him if it doesn't make money.
The two chatted for a while.
"You've graduated this year, have you been admitted to college?"
"Nope!"
"And what are you going to do next?"
"I don't know yet, I plan to come to the county to find something to do in a while. ”
Li Yang didn't lie.
As for going to Shenzhen to learn tailoring, he actually didn't think about it at all.
"That's ......"
Wang Kai took a puff of smoke and spit it out of his mouth.
Seeing Wang Kai's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Li Yang also felt strange.
"I'm going to go to SH for a while in the second half of the year, and I want to find someone to watch it for me first, if you're okay, why don't you show me for a while?
The place to live is here, you can find your own way to eat, I will give you 500 a month, and another 100 yuan for food, what do you think?"
Looking at the arcade?
Li Yang was actually a little surprised.
He really didn't expect Wang Kai to ask him to help watch the game hall.
A salary of 500 yuan a month plus 100 yuan of food expenses is actually really good in a small place like Red M County in 98.
But from the other side, it can also be seen that the game hall is indeed very profitable, and he can open a salary of 600 plus food expenses for himself, so Wang Kai himself can earn several times as much.
But a place like a game hall is not a serious job after all, Li Yang hesitated for a while.
"It doesn't matter if you haven't thought about it, I'll not leave until next month at the earliest, you go back and think about it first, and then come back at the end of the month, whether you want to think about it or not, give a quasi-word, how about it?"
patted Li Yang on the shoulder.
Wang Kai's height is actually not very tall, and he is more than 1.7 meters old, so his movements look somewhat reluctant.
Li Yang didn't care.
If he was just a high school student who had just graduated, he naturally didn't have the courage to take over from Wang Kai.
But there is a real need for a job right now, so I just hesitated for a while, and I actually had an idea in my heart.
"I'll think about it and I'll get back to you. ”
He's not playing with anything.
A student who has taken a leave of absence after graduating from high school, what is there to handle.
It's nothing more than thinking about the fact that Lao Tzu at home still has an appointment with Li Xuan, although he has long known that Li Lamei's personality will not take him to Shenzhen to enter the tailor factory.
But after all, you can't talk too much.
Who knows if the wings of this butterfly will fan any yin wind, in case the sun comes out in the west, people really plan to be a good person, I am afraid that they will have to spend some effort to convince the old man at home.
Come to think of it.
Li Yang himself couldn't help but want to laugh.
I solved one by myself, and in the end I got into another one, and I don't know if it's right or wrong.
However, with Li Yang's letter, Wang Kai is not inked.
"Nacheng, I'll wait for you for a few more days, and I must come over at the end of the month, if you don't come, I'll have to leave the store." ”
"Can't find someone else?"
Hearing that Wang Kai even had the idea of selling the store out, Li Yang was really curious.
After all, a discerning person can see at a glance that the game hall at this time is a small gold mine, and a lot of money can't be earned, but there must still be three or five thousand yuan a month.
"I'm not at ease with others, besides, in a place like a game hall, ordinary people can't look at it, you're different. ”
After speaking, Wang Kai glanced at Li Yang.
Li Yang naturally understood what he meant, it was nothing more than looking at the face of the boss in the family.
Although Li Ping is in a prison cell, he has also been in the county for several years, and he can't say that he is a big man who eats both black and white, but fortunately, he dares to fight, and there are still some acquaintances on the scene.
Not to mention anything else, at least all kinds of third-rate characters in the area of Old West Street are still willing to sell face.
Of course.
With a "black boss" hat on his head, it is actually not a good thing for Li Ping.
In the future, once there is a situation of striking hard, he will definitely bear the brunt of it.
In the previous life, Li Ping came out of it for a long time, in fact, there was this problem, as the social security management became more and more strict, the hat on his head became darker and darker.
In the end, I had to stay away from Hong'an and go to the western border provinces, which gave me another start in life.
But in the current 98 years, the hat is more good than bad.
Otherwise, Li Yang didn't think that Wang Kai would be kind enough to send this kind of thing to him.
"Alright then, I'll come back in a few days. ”
On the other side, Shi Peng and Xu Chao were almost playing, and after greeting Wang Kai, the three of them went to the station.
Back from the county.
No surprises.
The little niece really held her mouth and ignored him.
Fortunately, the little guy is not old and easy to coax, Li Yang did not forget this stubble, and took out a handful of colorful small snacks from his pocket, and the little man who looked like a pink carving immediately pounced on him with a smile.
It's just that the sweat on her face is mixed with the soot that she doesn't know where it came from, and she looks like a flower-faced cat, so Li Yang had to wash her face.
"Little uncle, you washed my nose and hurt. ”
stubbornly turned his face to prevent Li Yang from exerting force.
Li Yang had to let go of his hand and moisten the skin on the tip of the little guy's nose with some water, and it took the boss's strength to wipe it off for her, only to find out what kind of pot ash it was, and it turned out to be pen oil.
A certain bear child painted it for her.
The uncle and nephew sat under the big willow tree at the door to enjoy the shade, and Qingqing insisted on sitting on his lap and was not afraid of panic from the heat.
The little man peeled the candy paper in his hand, muttered something with his little mouth, and a pair of fleshy little short legs dangled around, leaving the best time behind him in his childhood memories.