Nine a.m.

The sun shines over the top of the mountain, little by little, bringing the unobstructed river beach into the range.

In less than ten minutes, there was a shout from the adults nearby: "Let's go, the sun of the dog #day# is too poisonous, go home and cook breakfast!" ”

Twelve-year-old Tang Mingyao sat on a small pony, holding a fishing rod made of spotted bamboo in both hands, and staring at the sparkling river for a moment.

There, a float made of foam is blowing with the breeze, carrying heavy loads and floating.

Suddenly, the float sank sharply.

Tang Mingyao saw the opportunity, decisively closed the pole, and a touch of white was immediately taken out of the water by him, and after falling on the grass, he was still unwilling to jump around.

"Oh, a big crucian carp!"

"It's half a pound!"

"Pure wild crucian carp, this size, is difficult to catch, and it is usually caught with fishing nets."

He happily picked out the gills of the fish, skewered it with other fish, picked up a large bunch, looked up at the sky, the summer sun was extremely scorching, this day had just begun, it was so hot that people's faces hurt, he couldn't help shaking his head, put away his tools and turned to the mountains behind him, and went home.

The road is still the same road in memory.

Time, but it has gone back to twenty-two years ago.

Just yesterday, Tang Mingyao, who was still worried about the mid-life crisis, woke up and found that he had returned to the summer vacation when he graduated from elementary school, and he couldn't help but highly suspect that he had hallucinated.

It took a day to confirm the truth of the matter, for which he did many messy experiments, almost set fire to the grass and trees at home, and almost took a beating.

After waking up early this morning, he carried the fishing rod he had made himself and couldn't wait to go down to the river to experience this rare entertainment when he was a child.

For more than an hour, I caught more than two catties of fish, and the harvest was full.

Tang Mingyao was very satisfied.

It's just that the way back is all uphill, and after climbing for a few minutes, he felt that his legs were weak, and he looked up at the stairs in front of him, and couldn't help but feel weak.

Since entering the city, I haven't climbed the mountains of my hometown for more than ten years.

After resting his breath, Tang Mingyao suddenly came back to his senses, no, he is now a young man's body, and he is not the middle-aged uncle whose physical fitness has dropped rapidly, why can't he climb the mountain? It's all psychological!

He swooped up, stammered, climbed up the mountain, and then ......

After five trips along the way, it took more than half an hour to finally see the three-room tiled house built of earthen walls in my house.

Tang Mingyao hurriedly ran home, filled half a basin of water with a basin, took the fish off the grass, put it in and looked at it, depressed, and all dead.

He remembers that fishing was the same when he was a child, and when he went home with grass, the crucian carp were basically alive, and now why is there such a big gap.

Tang Mingyao took out a kitchen knife, scaled the fish, opened the intestines and stomach, and prepared to boil soup at noon; The small ones are cut open from the back, the entrails are hollowed out, flattened, washed, salted, and exposed to the sun.

With this intensity of sunlight, it can be dried in one day, and when the time comes, it will be wrapped in flour and walked in a pan of oil, which is simply delicious.

Thinking of this, Tang Mingyao's saliva came down, and his stomach rumbled, and only then did he realize that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

In rural areas, as long as the children do not study, breakfast is not punctual. Especially in the summer, adults usually go out to do farm work at dawn, and when the sun can't stand it, they go home and cook breakfast slowly.

Tang Mingyao's family is no exception.

I went to the kitchen and opened the lid of the pot, and sure enough, there was nothing to eat - my mother had gone out to do farm work, and she hadn't come home yet.

There is also a younger brother who is four years younger than him, and no one cares about him, and he can sleep until noon.

As a last resort, Tang Mingyao had to make breakfast by himself, the ingredients were limited, he decided to cook a simple pumpkin porridge, and used the old pumpkin that he had just picked from the ground yesterday.

After working for more than half an hour, when breakfast came out of the pot, Tang Mingyao served himself a bowl of rice, and fished a few sour cowpeas from the jar, eating porridge while sighing that it was not easy to cook rice in the countryside, it was simply cooking with his life.

Just now, when he was lighting the fire to plug in the blower, he didn't notice for a while, and he didn't notice that the plastic on the outside of the plug had been worn out, and the current instantly spread all over his body, as if he had been empowered, and almost didn't electrocute him.

"Was your family so poor when you were a child? The plugs are exposed copper wires, and you are reluctant to change to a new one? ”

Tang Mingyao tried to pull clues from the depths of his memory, but after thinking about it for a while, he only remembered that his mother was a very thrifty person, and he never spent money indiscriminately where he could, and as for being poor or not, he really didn't have much concept at that time.

Anyway, it won't be very rich, which can be seen from the house and the utensils used.

After all, at this time in the late 90s, wealthy people in the countryside generally built two-story brick houses for their homes.

In the house of Tang Mingyao's cousin across the river, a three-story small bungalow was built a few years ago, with more than 20 large and small rooms, compared with his family's lonely three-room earthen house, it is simply heaven and earth.

"Forget it, I don't want to, this plug has to be changed anyway!"

Tang Mingyao ran to his mother's bedroom, rummaged through the discarded sewing machine drawer for a while, and did not find a new plug, but found a roll of electrical tape, which his father brought back from outside during the Chinese New Year.

This one will work too!

He went back to the kitchen, wrapped the plug in three layers and three layers outside, and tried a few times to make sure that he would not be electrocuted again, so he was relieved.

Then there was nothing to do, Tang Mingyao moved Ma Zha and sat under the eaves, habitually touching his trouser pocket, but it was empty, and he didn't touch anything.

What about mobile phones?

He was stunned for two seconds before he realized that it was 1998 and there was no smartphone for him to swipe.

Hey, goodbye Douyin ladies.

We'll see you again in 20 years!

The bored Tang Mingyao decided to find something to do for himself, so he went back to his mother's bedroom and carried a large pile of books neatly arranged on the sewing machine to the door, cleaning them up one by one.

Most of them are the textbooks and homework books he wrote when he was in elementary school, which are quite well preserved, and when I opened them, I saw that the words he wrote were drawn one by one, and there were few blackouts and mistakes, which showed that he recognized the truth when he was reading.

"Therefore, it is not for nothing that I had good grades when I was a child, and I often took the first and second place in the whole grade."

Tang Mingyao admired and self-doubted: "Then why did the results collapse so quickly later?" Junior high school is fine, but high school is gone. When I got to college, I didn't learn anything, so that after entering the society, I got worse and worse, and finally entered a mid-life crisis. ”

"Throughout my upbringing, it is the history of the fall of a genius child into the mortal world."

"A modern version of Fang Zhongyong!"

Tang Mingyao sighed silently and remained silent.

In fact, he knew very well in his heart what the reason for all this was, that is, he was actually a person with little self-control.

When he was a child, he was in the countryside with limited conditions, and there was no temptation around him, so he could still concentrate on studying; When I arrived in junior high school and high school, I entered the county and saw the world, novels, arcade game halls, Internet cafes...... Distracted him too much, and his grades naturally declined; After entering the university, it is not surprising that he is completely open and degenerates all the way to the end.

In the final analysis, the hardships that people endure in middle age are actually lazy debts when they are young.

"Now that I have the opportunity to start over, in this life, I must not be able to live in a mess anymore."

"This time, I'm going to change my fate!"

There are many ways to change your fate.

As far as Tang Mingyao knows, being reborn and going back to buy lottery tickets and getting rich overnight is a kind of thing;

Relying on memory to crisscross the stock market and stir up the financial market, which is another;

Seizing business opportunities in advance and using the classic cases or classic operations of later generations to get rich from the hair family is the third type;

There is also a kind of bottomless one, copying those literary and artistic works that have not yet been born but will become famous in the future, and being a plagiarist of fame and fortune, this is the fourth type.

Unfortunately, Tang Mingyao can't remember the lottery numbers and the World Cup rankings; Second, I have never been exposed to stocks and finance; Third, he has not started a business, and he does not have a dime of start-up capital; Fourth, I didn't have a good writing style, let alone studied music and movies......

Before he was reborn, he was an ordinary office worker from 9 to 5, doing unskilled work, and he didn't make any preparations for rebirth in advance, so for a while, if he wanted to change his fate, he found that he couldn't start!

"It's all a lie in the novel!"

"There is no one who, just because he is born again, he goes from a mediocre man who has nothing to do to a wise and decisive talent! Those who succeed by being born again are more likely to be successful before being born again......"

"So if you want to change your fate, let's do it honestly step by step. Doesn't the old saying say that knowledge changes fate, so start by reading! ”

Tang Mingyao sat in front of the threshold and thought for a while, and finally set a fifth path for himself.

It's just that he himself knows his character, whenever he encounters some stimulus, he secretly resolves to be angry and strong, and he has enthusiasm for three minutes, but it is difficult to last for a long time.

For example, when he was in college, he wanted to take an accounting qualification certificate, and he bought a few books at that time, but after a few months, he read the first few pages of the book several times, and he didn't turn the back pages, and he didn't go to the exam at all......

When he signed up for the next time, he confidently participated, and the result was still the same.

Until he graduated from his senior year, his classmates had passed two CPA exams, and he still hadn't finished his books, and finally he had to fail.

There have been countless similar situations in his life over the past 30 years.

This time, Tang Mingyao didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. Since you have decided to change your fate, you can't be enthusiastic for three minutes, but stick to the end!

"In fact, the system novels that were popular on the Internet before rebirth are the best means to combat procrastination and lazy cancer! The system releases tasks one after another, and the protagonist only needs to brush without a brain, with clear goals, timely rewards, and all kinds of punishments if they can't be completed, and they can't do it! It's exactly the same as playing a game......"

"It's a pity I don't have a system."

"Then let's build our own system, and use it as a tool for self-supervision."

Tang Mingyao immediately took out a Tianzi grid homework book that had not yet been written from the pile of books, went back to the house to find a ballpoint pen, and wrote on the cover: [Save Life Reading System].

The first page is to determine the goal.

Think about it in your head first, why do you want to read? What do I want to gain by reading? What are the short-term, medium-term and long-term goals?

Tang Mingyao wrote:

[I want to change my fate through reading, and when I reach middle age, I will have a strong technical body and will not face a mid-life crisis. 】

[Short-term goal: through the persistence of more than a month left in the summer vacation, develop a good reading habit. 】

[Medium-term goal: Improve your writing skills through reading and be able to write qualified essays.] (Tentative: Spend a year accumulating and publish an article in a small magazine.) ）】

[Long-term goal: Make writing instinct and become a writer in the future.] (Goal: To publish a book in six years, before graduating from high school.) ）】

Acquiring the ability to write through reading is an idea that Tang Mingyao burst out based on his own experience.

Before he was reborn, he did text-related work himself, and he also came into contact with many writers, magazine editors, corporate copywriters, secretaries of government agencies, online writers, self-media people, and Weibo jokers......

He found that writing ability is a similar skill to driving and accounting, regardless of industry, as long as there is writing, this ability is needed. If you exercise well, no matter which industry you set foot in in the future, you will have a foothold.

Therefore, he made this ability the first goal of his study.

Once the goal is determined, the next step is the implementation rules.

The detailed rules should be detailed enough, the various matters in daily life should be quantified, and there should be clear rewards and punishments, otherwise it will be a castle in the air.

Turning to the second page, Tang Mingyao continued:

[System Tasks (Points Earning Rules):]

[Basic task 1: Read for one hour a day, and reward 5 points.] 】

[Basic task 2: Write 500 words a day, and reward 5 points.] 】

[Advanced task: For every additional hour of reading time, or for every additional 500 words written, 5 points will be awarded, and the odd amount will not be accumulated.] 】

For the time being, these three items are used as a way to earn points.

The basic task is mandatory and must be completed, because it requires long-term persistence, the task set by Tang Mingyao is not very heavy, and it can be completed relatively easily with some time every day; Advanced tasks are voluntary, and there are rewards for completing them, and there is no penalty for failing them.

Now that you have a way to earn points, it's time to spend them.

People's needs in life can be roughly divided into two categories: what is needed and what is wanted.

"What you need" is the basic living security, whether you want it or not, you must have it, such as three meals a day, clothes, shoes and socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, laundry detergent, hair cutting and other daily necessities; The "wanted" is not a necessity, but is only related to people's subjective desires # wishes, such as: snacks, fishing, laziness and leisure, playing games online, and reading martial arts novels.

The system rewards set by Tang Mingyao all belong to the category of "wanted".

【System Reward (Points Consumption Rules):】

[Reward 1: All recreational activities, such as fishing, playing games, surfing the Internet, reading novels, gathering with friends, etc., will consume 10 points per hour.] 】

[Reward 2: Spend money on things that are not necessities of life, such as snacks, idle books, entertainment expenses, etc., for every yuan spent, 1 point will be consumed.] 】

[Note 1: When there is a conflict between the above two items (for example, going to an Internet café to surf the Internet, which is both an entertainment activity and requires money), choose to implement the standard with higher consumption points.] 】

[Note 2: The money required for system rewards should be prepared separately by the host and will not be linked to the system.] 】

In fact, there are two rewards, the one for time and the one for spending money, which is simple and straightforward.

Then there is a third section, system sanctions.

[System Penalty:]

[Penalty 1: If you fail to complete the basic task on the same day, 50 points will be deducted.] 】

[Punishment 2: When the total score of the system is negative, (1) give up an item that you feel is the most precious, (2) shout three times in front of at least 100 people: My illness is incurable!] (3) Ordered to return the points to normal within three days. 】

[Note: This system cannot ask for leave, if there is something temporary, please make arrangements in advance.] 】

The system setup is complete.

Overall, this system is very simple, there are three rules for earning points, two rules for consumption, and two rules for punishment, which can be recited with your eyes closed.

The difficulty is the implementation process.

After all, it's okay to stick to it for a day or two, but it's not so simple to stick to it for a year, two years, or even a lifetime.

And if you supervise yourself, you may be lax when you will be relaxed, and the last punishment may not be useful, so Tang Mingyao also needs a supervisor.

It's just that in a short period of time, he doesn't have a suitable candidate, so he can only take his time.

Now, what Tang Mingyao needs to do is to implement it first. At least for the first month or two, he was confident that he would persevere.