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Main plane, January 1, 2014.

Today is the traditional festival "New Year's Day" of Yanhuang. Although New Year's Day is the Gregorian New Year, and it is relatively close to the "Spring Festival" of the lunar New Year, which is the most important thing for the Yanhuang people, its importance and festive atmosphere have declined. But after all, New Year's Day can still form a 3-day national holiday by borrowing Saturday and Sunday, so it is still very popular in the hearts of the people.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Yanhuang CCTV 1, 4 and news channels began to broadcast the New Year's Day speech of the head of Yanhuang No. 1. Judging from the content, the speech itself is not very special: first, I wish the elderly people in the country health, children happy, and families happy; Then summarize 2013, look forward to 2014, and express the tone that Yanhuang will understand and help each other with the world; Finally, it is proposed that the whole country should work together to overcome all difficulties, dangers, risks and challenges on the way forward, so as to truly realize the dream of Yanhuang and national rejuvenation.

But to the surprise of the Yanhuang government, after the broadcast of this video, although there was no fluctuation in the content, because the speech was held at the desk of the No. 1 chief, it caused the gossip of the public to begin to burn. For example, there are three telephones on the desk, two of which are red and one of which are white, and where they are connected; In the background of the office is a painting of the Great Wall with a national flag behind it, what does it mean; On the bookshelf, there are several photos of life such as the No. 1 chief walking hand in hand with his family and taking photos with his wife, does it refer to the people-friendly style? As a result, all kinds of interpretations and deep speculations appeared on many gossip websites and military forums, and the record of replies to the post exceeded 10,000 in just half a day.

Yanhuang capital, Beijing.

Although the sun was already hanging in the sky at this time, Wang Fan was still lying comfortably on the soft bed in his "Xiaozhu" large bedroom, next to Mu Yunting's beautiful face and half-bare shoulders.

"You can't afford it?" After waking up for a while, Mu Yunting, who was afraid of disturbing Wang Fan who had not gotten up and made a sound, saw that after the other party opened his eyes, he still half-squinted and had no intention of getting up, and couldn't help urging.

"I like to lie in bed the most~~" Wang Fan said with a smile. Before the adventure, because he was usually busy on weekdays and often worked overtime, Comrade Wang Fan, who always felt that he couldn't sleep enough, one of the things he looked forward to the most every week was to sleep until three o'clock in the morning on Saturday morning, and then look at the sun outside the window in a daze.

"Your habit is not good for your body." Mu Yunting, who usually pays attention to fitness and maintenance, frowned lightly.

"Haha, I know, it's slowly changing now. But then again, Tingting? Wang Fan Yile grinned at the corners of his mouth, and looked at Mu Yunting with a thief smile on his face.

"What's wrong?"

"I was great last night, wasn't I?" recalled that after returning home with Mu Yunting last night, because he hadn't seen each other for a long time, coupled with the gradual improvement of his physique, Wang Fan, who had set a record of "four shots" in one night, looked complacent.

"Die! Say this in the morning! Mu Yunting heard the meaning of Wang Fan's words, and thought of the gradually released and almost crazy response of the "two hairs" behind her, her fair face immediately flushed, and she pushed Wang Fan's outstretched head away.

Twenty minutes later.

In the spacious peninsula-style kitchen, the two of them baked two pieces of bread, fried a few eggs, and whipped two glasses of milk in the microwave, which was considered to be the first day of breakfast after entering 2014.

"Will you be back to the company in a moment?" Mu Yunting remembered that Wang Fan said yesterday that he came directly to him as soon as he got off the plane, and he hadn't returned to the company yet, so he asked.

"No, I've been with you for 3 days on New Year's Day, and it's rare to come back on a holiday, and I haven't seen you for so many days, I want to die~~" Wang Fan, who knew that women relied on coaxing and had a sweet mouth, replied along the pole.

"Cut~~ I knew I wouldn't have traveled for so long." Mu Yunting was annoyed when she thought of this, but fortunately, this time Wang Fan came back every two weeks, which was much better than the original one month, so she was a little satisfied: "Then you accompany me to Christie's auction, I fell in love with a screen and dressing table for their exhibition." ”

"Okay." After Wang Fan finished eating the fried egg, he took a sip of milk and nodded: "But screen, didn't you like the looks I took you to the warehouse last time?" ”

"The ones you have in your collection are very good, but I prefer neo-classical furniture styles with modern elements. So those screens of yours are too traditional, and I feel that if I use them, my taste is a little old. ”

“ok，no_problem！”

Minhang District, Shanghai.

Shanghai, also known as the Yanhuang Magic Capital, echoes the north and south of the capital Beijing. Beijing is the political center, while Shanghai is more of an economic center, so there are also many people who come to Shanghai every year to work. Like the Beipiao people, a small number of them succeeded, relying on their own hard work to earn a lot of wealth, buy their own houses, cars, and have a large number of tickets, thus entering the middle and upper class of Yanhuang in one fell swoop. But most of the rest of the people still live mainly on their salaries, and they need to constantly calculate rent, water and electricity bills, transportation expenses, food expenses, and daily expenses every month in order to make a living.

Zhou Zhi is such a migrant worker in Shanghai, after deducting five insurances and one housing fund from his monthly salary, he gets about 5000~6000 yuan in his hand. This income is not much in Shanghai, but it is by no means the bottom.

Zhou Zhi majored in computer programming and design at university, and he was born in a rural area, so he chose the IT industry with better earning prospects at that time in consideration of future employment and income. However, after graduating from college, it was worthless because of the continuous expansion of enrollment, which made it more difficult for him to find a job. Dozens of people often compete for a position in a relatively well-known company, and the competition is really cruel. With a solid knowledge foundation and a high technical level, Zhou finally became an IT employee of a medium-sized Internet company in Shanghai after passing a round of auditions, a round of written examinations, and two rounds of interviews, and had a material foundation for survival in Shanghai.

Zhou Zhi usually has a flexible head, likes drilling rigs and thinking, and he does not relax his spirit just because his work is stable. In addition to the fact that he has a younger brother and a younger sister who go to school at home, as an elder brother, he must bear the "responsibility" of sending money to the family, and he also needs to save extra money to repay the debt of more than 40,000 yuan borrowed by the family because he is going to college. In his hometown, in order to provide for his three children to go to college and middle school, Zhou's father went to work on the construction site, and his mother worked as a porter in the masonry factory in his hometown, and life was very hard.

"Ya yes, hurry up and open the door~~" Zhou Zhi, who was standing at the door of China Resources Vanguard Supermarket, said to himself in a little anxiety while looking at the time on his watch.

In order to save money, Zhou Zhi shared a one-room apartment with two other migrant workers. The only room in the rental house, with three single beds and three small bedside tables, basically occupies the entire room. And, except for the shared house, Zhou Zhi never eats out, and every time he makes his own bento and brings it to the company (the company has a microwave oven). He never goes to the supermarket to buy groceries, but spends his weekends observing the crowds of Shanghai ladies and looking for guerrilla vendors scattered in the alleys and buildings of Shanghai. These vendors don't have stalls to rent, so the ingredients they sell are relatively cheap. As long as you spend about half of the supermarket's price, that is, about 600 yuan, you can buy the following ingredients: 10 catties of eggs (50 yuan), 30 catties of rice noodles (75 yuan), 10 catties of pork and chicken (150 yuan), 35 catties of various vegetables (100 yuan), 20 catties of various fruits (75 yuan), gas, water and electricity (150 yuan, evenly shared), as a whole, reasonable arrangements not only ensure their own nutrition, but also greatly reduce the cost of living and eating.

Therefore, in addition to buying daily necessities, Zhou Zhi generally does not go to the supermarket. The reason why he came here today is because the virtual world "Second World", which he has always followed and loved, announced two months ago that from January 1, 2014, all citizens of the virtual world can enjoy the offline shopping experience initiated by "Second World". According to Second World, they have negotiated and signed agreements with several well-known large supermarkets in Yanhuang to set up a display table for virtual world items in large supermarkets such as China Resources Vanguard, where each virtual citizen can use virtual currency (merit coins) to purchase directly.

Of course, in terms of system, in order to control speculation, realization, and money laundering are all potentially dangerous. The entire offline experience is restricted, such as: each virtual citizen obtains merit coins by completing tasks, this task is not running errands in the virtual world, meeting NPCs and other non-connotative businesses, but corresponding to various skill training, such as language, industrial mechanic construction, car simulation maintenance, etc. (from low to high divided into many levels, and there are level exams arranged by the virtual world), only those who spend a certain amount of time to really learn can get the corresponding merit coins (of course, virtual players who directly recharge RMB, It is possible to obtain the equivalent value of merit coins), and then after Yadea calculation, the normal IQ level of normal people spends 1~2 hours a day on tasks, and they can roughly get about 300 yuan merit coins a month. In this way, through the amount limit, the upper limit of merit coins that each person can spend in the supermarket every month is also 300 merit coins, and they can only buy items from the monopoly display cabinet (the main category of goods is a large amount of grain and other basic ingredients that Wang Fan exchanged for from various target plane transactions), so that for rich people, these goods are not attractive, but for people like Zhou Zhi, who are not very wealthy and need to calculate and save often, spend some private spare time every month, so as to obtain rice, soybean oil, If a family of three participates, the cost of living can be reduced by 900 yuan (the situation of the reduction in domestic food demand, the decline in grain prices, and the decrease in farmers' incomes caused by this welfare will be purchased at a protective price by the state, and the security problem will be solved by the agricultural land subsidy policy that will be planned in the near future).

Vanguard Supermarket, export checkout counter.

"Hello, rice and soybean oil are a total of 112 yuan, are you cash, credit card or merit coins?" A few days ago, a specially trained female cashier, saw that Zhou Zhi was buying counter goods marked with the eye-catching icon of "Second World", and asked with a smile.

"How exactly are merit coins settled?" Although Zhou Zhi knew that it could be used here, he didn't know how to use it.

"It's very simple, may I ask you have registered in Second World and done fingerprint binding, right?"

"Yes, I read the instructions given on the website that before spending merit coins, you need to bind your ID card and fingerprints."

"Then just put your hands here." The cashier pulls out a palm-sized flat screen and explains, "It scans your palm fingerprints, and then you tap to confirm it." ”

"Great, thank you!"

A few minutes later, Zhou Zhi, who walked out of the supermarket with rice and cooking oil, showed a few wisps of joy and a smile on his face. In addition to "not spending money" to get rice and bean cooking oil, there was a small accident to take advantage of, and on January 1, 2014, this special day ushered in a good omen, but also made him unconsciously have a little more hope for the future.

2014 may be a good year!