Across New Year's Day, 1998 has unconsciously become a thing of the past.

However, Li Yang's pace of life is still slow, after all, he is used to being lazy, so he suddenly gets up early and is greedy for darkness, just like a wolf has always eaten sheep, and it is a reason that it can only eat grass when it suddenly wants it.

Especially after Liu Yucheng took care of the computer room, Li Yang took this lazy temperament to the extreme.

Get up in the morning and go to Lao Yu next door to drink a bowl of sweet potato porridge, and then eat two boiled eggs, the spirit of the day is up, go to the computer room in the afternoon to take a turn, and help settle accounts in the evening.

But Li Yang is definitely not the kind of person who sits and waits for death, especially when observing the floating flow of people around him from a perspective beyond this era, this sensitivity to people and things is more and more vividly reflected.

Even the seven-o'clock news that he used to watch only once in a while, Li Yang would turn on the TV no matter how busy he was, and even if he couldn't see the picture, he would let the announcer's cookie-cutter tone continue to wash his eardrums.

From the long or short sentences that come out of the announcer's mouth, Li Yang can always capture useful information, or restore some images in his memory, and then connect them into fragments and weave them into a history that is about to happen.

Although Xia Yuhe on the shore of Daming Lake has not yet become an Internet term, this year, the drama "Huanzhu Gege", which caused a sensation all over Asia and broke the domestic TV drama ratings record and replay record, was officially released.

In Europe, Zidane won the honorary title of World Footballer of the Year with an overwhelming advantage.

The domestic construction industry grew rapidly during the year;

At the same time, due to the impact of the Asian financial crisis, the growth rate of domestic imports and exports has slowed down significantly, and thanks to the further acceleration of the pace of reform and opening up, the real income of urban and rural residents has increased significantly......

On January 1, 1999, the Higher Education Law was officially implemented, and although Li Yang had long lost the opportunity to receive higher education, this news still convinced Li Yang that history was not amazing but it was full of emotion to keep moving forward as it was.

however

What made Li Yang most interesting was that in January of this year, domestic game enthusiasts officially opened up the era of domestic game technology, breaking the monopoly pattern of non-game software on the PC side.

China's computer games have officially begun to enter an era of continuous innovation and leadership.

And all this is both a little exciting and irrepressibly apprehensive for Li Yang.

He waits for the occurrence of history and the unfolding of those familiar stories, like a girl who waits for her lover while her parents are not at home, afraid that he will not come, and that he will mess around.

…… After New Year's Day,

There is less than one month to go before the county's primary and secondary schools will have winter vacation, even if people are no longer on campus, Li Yang can still clearly perceive a trace of restlessness in the air.

But this atmosphere completely made Li Yang realize that something seemed to be wrong on the first weekend after New Year's Day.

Gao Feihu appeared in the computer room after school on Friday as usual, said hello to Li Yang, and went to the side to play.

Because the next two days were closed, business in the computer room was obviously much better than usual, and it was still overcrowded at almost 7 o'clock in the evening.

Most of the students who came and went were holding back their anger for a week, and it happened to be a Friday, so they didn't have to go to school the next day, let alone hand in their homework, and they didn't even notice that the sky was obviously dark.

Li Yang knew from the perspective of a person who had come before that most of these students would not have much remarkable academic achievement, but from the perspective of a businessman, the more such situations the better.

It's just something that makes him a little weird.

If this is the case for two weeks in a row, and the number of people is obviously much larger than usual, or even several times larger, then there must be a problem.

Maybe it was because of the discovery of conscience, or some doubts in his heart, in short, there was such a reason that made Li Yang a little curious.

While Gao Feihu was in the toilet, Li Yang directly pulled the person aside, and the question in his mouth was a little inexplicable.

"Feihu, is the school holiday earlier than in previous years this year?"

Gao Feihu looked puzzled: "No! I still don't have a holiday until the end of the month, and there are still two weeks left." ”

Li Yang was stunned!

Obviously, the surge in students coming to the arcade to play games is not due to the holidays.

It's just that in this way, Li Yang is becoming more and more incomprehensible.

If it were not for objective factors, such as strict school management, school relocation, new student enrollment, etc., the change in daily turnover would not be obvious at all.

But this is clearly not the case at the moment.

In the two weeks since New Year's Day, the arcade's daily turnover has doubled and sometimes tripled.

There is neither a holiday nor a freshman season, so why is there such a big change?

From the perspective of a businessman, Li Yang naturally hopes that such changes will be continuous, but there has never been a good thing in the sky.

Compared with his 18-year-old body, Li Yang is obviously much more cautious in his heart.

"That's weird, there are more and more students playing games these days, I thought it was a school holiday!"

Sitting on the side, Liu Yucheng also discovered this situation.

Hearing Gao Feihu say that he didn't have a holiday, he immediately wondered.

"You say this, Brother Yang, you don't know yet, the game hall opposite the second middle school was closed last week, I heard that it was being renovated, and if there is no place to go, they will definitely run to you. ”

Gao Feihu finished speaking.

The expression on Li Yang's face was a little dazed.

After all the calculations, he really didn't expect that it would be this reason that caused the daily turnover of the game hall to increase by two or three times.

Li Yang felt more and more that he couldn't understand this era.

But

Anyway, at this time, the door is closed for decoration?

It's understandable to say that you should buy a few more second-hand phones in order to increase your income, after all, it's a matter of moving some places.

It's just that you have a broken game hall and what kind of decoration are you doing, why do you think it's an electronic city?

This is already mid-January, and at most in a little more than a month, the central government will issue a policy document on the operation and management of entertainment venues.

Li Yang didn't need to use a ruler to measure the distance from the game hall to the school gate, and with his eyes closed, he knew that Lao He's game hall would definitely be the first batch of objects to be rectified.

At this time, the decoration is not to look better when it is sealed?

It is...... Even if you have money, you don't have to be so capricious!

Of course

The income of the game hall has increased, Li Yang is naturally happy to see it, who would be afraid of having too much money, but he also has an extra heart.

Looking back at this era, some people once regarded the 90s as China's last gold rush period since the reform and opening up.

In fact, it is.

Even if Lao Yu and Liu Yumei open a small restaurant and make a hot pot casually, they can increase their income by 2,000 a month.

The reason why He Jiu took the heart to decorate the game hall was not simply because he didn't care about the extensive operation of current politics, but on the contrary, it proved that Lao He was a person who emancipated his mind in the reform and opening up.

Only this time, his changes and efforts were not in the right direction.

And often such a simple mistake is enough to make him never turn over, and in a daze, Li Yang suddenly felt that this might be another opportunity for himself.