Many young friends have dreams, fantasizing about making a lot of money, marrying a beautiful wife, and the people around them are envious, how beautiful such a life is, but on the road to a better place, it may be necessary for you to repeatedly experience and continue to experience, only after experiencing hesitation, confusion and loss will you feel: gold is repeatedly washed and excavated in the soil.

I, Zhang Xiaosheng, studied an ordinary undergraduate in Shanghai, and took the exam in Shanghai for a second major, maybe other provinces were admitted as a major, and I studied logistics. I guess I have the same experience as many male college students during college: I often skip classes, play games, fail exams, and finally graduate, if I am not mistaken, I spent at least one of my four years of college playing games in the dormitory or Internet café.

I still have a bit of buckteeth, when I was in junior high school, everyone called me Bucktooth Lang or A Leopard, in fact, I was not an excellent graduate in any way. I'm introverted, but in my junior year, I wrote a seven-page love letter and secretly stuffed it to the girl I liked, and then, there was no then, but this love letter experience became my deepest impression of college, because I really hid somewhere and cried for an hour, and finally the love letter was seen by my roommate, and I named the love letter "A fool has loved you", this love letter essay is definitely at the level of Xu Zhimo, but the confession is worthless if it fails, and now I am reminded of her when I write this time, I couldn't help but giggle again, maybe the beauty is my self-absorbed crush memory, not the reality of her, she has become the symbol of the crush in my memory. I didn't regret writing love letters, but cherished this experience and emotional experience, maybe people often regret not doing something, not doing something, and then going to Africa may be this weak and faint perseverance in my introverted personality.

Four years have passed in college, and I am about to graduate, and my graduation project thesis barely passed in the sigh of my supervisor. Nearly 100 resumes have been lost, and there have been several talent recruitment fairs, all of which are taken by the other party and my resume without reading it, and there is basically no follow-up, or it just makes you wait for a notice of no result. At that time, looking back, it was really a failure, and the expected salary was reduced from 5,000 yuan to 2,500 yuan at the beginning, RMB Oh, hey, basically this expected salary is lower than the requirements for sweeping the floor on the road, and what is even more tragic is that no one wants it, and there is not even a chance to interview.

The other five roommates in the dormitory have all found jobs one after another, and during that time, I often talked and laughed in the dormitory talking about my job, hiring my company, and their future plans. I could only pretend to be hanging out outside and telling my roommate that I was going to an interview, because I was a loser in this situation, and in an Internet phrase, I was "life is like a coffee table full of cups (tragedy)".

It was May 2010, one day before my diploma was about to be issued, I was still swaying on the road outside the school to avoid the discussion of my roommates, and the sun was very hot. I walked into an Internet café next to the school, which I frequented in my four years of college, and I paid ten yuan, wanting to play a game to numb myself and forget about my loss and upset. I turned on the computer and clicked on CS (Counter-Strike, a versus shooter), entered the LAN battle mode, and selected the map opened by other Internet café players, and I saw a familiar name - Brother Legend. Four years ago in college, when I was in this Internet café at night, I often came across the CS map opened by Brother Legend's name, and I often went in to fight him at that time, Brother Legend's marksmanship was very good, and he liked to use a sniper rifle; And my marksmanship is relatively not as good as his, but I am good at tactics, often outflanking him or being squatted in an unexpected place by me to plot. Of course, in fact, none of us knew anyone because we had never actually met, but every time I knew that he was beaten to death by me in a corner of the Internet café and yelled "Damn, sinister", I secretly laughed.

I entered his map, and as I was about to choose a side, I glanced at a man of my age who was sitting next to me with a scruffy beard and a cigarette in his mouth, and his computer screen was the same map as mine, and I was surprised to find that the "enemy" of the years had been seen just before graduation.

I said hello to him, "Brother Legend, I'm a shadow demon, remember me?" "Oh? Brother Shadow Fiend, I haven't met you for a long time, I'm going to be a police officer with me today" He didn't look at me, he still stared at the screen, always paying attention to the battle situation in the game.

I chose the police to join him, that game, we didn't lose a game, I cooperated with him, he snipered with the rifle, I covered or outflanked, it was a divine cooperation.

After playing a game, he took off the headphones on his head, turned to look at me, and handed me a cigarette, "Let's go and eat with my brother at the small restaurant next door." There was an inexplicable sense of familiarity, I didn't ask anything, just followed him to the small restaurant next door, he ordered a plate of cucumbers, a stack of peanuts, two catties of spicy crayfish, and two bottles of Tsingtao beer, and we began to eat and chat.

Legend has it that my brother's real name is Wei Yiyun, he is from Shanglin County, Guangxi Province, and I am in the same grade but in different majors. Wei Yiyun's situation is worse than mine, and he still has several courses, and continuing to retake it is equivalent to studying for another year to pass these subjects before he can graduate, which means that he is equivalent to repeating a year in college. His hometown of Shanglin County is a national-level poverty-stricken county, their family is not rich at all, and they are studying for student loans, and now if they repeat a grade for a year, he will not be able to explain to his family, and he will not know how to repay the student loans.

People are more popular than death, but compared with the legendary brother, it seems that my situation is much better than his, I don't know whether to comfort him or say something for a while, because the two of us are only half a catty and eight taels, and I am not qualified to comfort him.

"Brother Shadow Demon, it should be Brother Zhang, your situation is much better than mine. Look at you, you are still from Shanghai, how can you be much better than me from this poor mountain and remote area, at least you have also obtained a graduation certificate, it's just a matter of slowly looking for a job" Wei Yiyun suddenly lowered his voice and looked at me solemnly and said slowly.

"Brother Wei, you are a year older than me, I call you brother, the two of us are also fate, both CS fallen people, I didn't expect to get married to a game. I'm just a poor Shanghainese, and my family doesn't have much money, and it doesn't matter, and now I can't find a job, and we can't do much about it."

"Brother, the tree dies and the man lives, do you understand?" Wei Yiyun put down his wine glass and looked at me, and took a sip of the wine on the side of his mouth.

"Do you mean you're going to change your fate in a different place?" I leaned back in my chair and looked at Wei Yiyun as well.

"That's what it means, Brother Zhang, Shanghai is my sad place, I don't want to stay any longer, I don't have the time and money to study for another year, I've thought about it for a while, I plan to go to a far away place to make a fortune, brother, are you interested in going with my brother?" Wei Yiyun said to me very seriously.

"Huh? Do you want to give up your diploma? Where do you say it is far away? I asked Wei Yiyun in surprise.

"The graduation certificate is a bird, Bill Gates and Jobs didn't have college graduates! There is a saying, if he succeeds in Lingyunzhi one day, he dares to laugh at Lao Tzu for not having a degree! Wei Yiyun poured beer into my glass and his own quilt, "Do you know Ghana? ”

"Cannes, where is that, the film festival that?" I sighed at the passion and ambition that emerged from Wei Yiyun's body, but I repeatedly thought about how to make a fortune in Cannes, is it to make a movie?

", Ghana, Africa, not the Cannes of France" Wei Yiyun was a little angry at what I said, and said loudly.

"Africa??? Haven't you heard of Ghana, the poor side of Africa, can you get rich there? "Images of desert Africa that often starve to death come to my mind.

"You don't know this, the boss of my old watch went there to dig for gold at the beginning of this year, and it is said that he sends back five or six hundred thousand yuan every month."

My eyes widened suddenly, and I couldn't find a job for two and a half thousand people when I heard so much money, swallowed my saliva and said, "Dig for gold? “

"In our hometown, Mingliang Town, Shanglin County, there is a tradition of digging for gold in history, and in the past two years, many uncles in the town went to Heilongjiang to dig for sand gold, and even went to North Korea. Later, since 2009, some people have gone to Ghana to dig for gold, and the boss of my old watch went to Ghana in January last year, and my old watch managed the gold mine for him for more than a year in Ghana. Now my old watch is planning to go to Ghana next month, and this time he has raised some money to mine gold on his own. I want to discuss with my old cousin and let him take us with us, with the cooperation of your god-like teammates, I believe we will be able to make a name for ourselves, and we can also make a lot of money by mining alone in the future!" After saying that, he drank all the beer in his cup and looked at me with wide eyes.

"Digging for gold?" I was stunned for a while and said, "Brother, you and I are fate today, although we met for the first time, but I feel like I've known each other for a long time, I'm a nest in Shanghai, I'll think about the opportunity you said, I'll check the place you said online, and then discuss it with my family" I thought about it strictly and said, where is Ghana in my mind.

"Do you know what my old phone told me? What is the dream, the simple summary is: make money, make a lot of money,!

Listening to Wei Yiyun's unbearable words, he felt that his heart was already boiling. "Don't be a mother-in-law, a manly man, with a three-foot sword in your hand, you will be in the world, you grinding and chirping, you will not be productive" Wei Yiyun was very strict and made a sword swing with his hand.

I felt my fighting spirit be whisked by him, and I lifted the bottle and poured beer into my stomach in one gulp.