At six o'clock the next morning, when the sky was bright, Lin Ming got up from the bed. The curtains were pulled open and the harsh sunlight flooded the room. There is a big tree outside the window, and the warm sun shines through the branches and leaves into the window, like a soft backlight, and the room is filled with bright and colorful warm colors.

At this point, the parents haven't gotten up yet, and the high school students in Yuncheng have had a very hard time, the morning self-study is 6.40, and after deducting the ten minutes when he washes his face and brushes his teeth, Lin Ming has to get up at least 6.10 to get to school.

Lin Ming got dressed and walked out of the room, and there were five yuan on the table in the living room.

At that time, prices had not skyrocketed, and five yuan was enough for a high school student to eat a bowl of beef noodles or eat a few buns and drink a bottle of milk. After washing, Lin Ming took five yuan to go out, the morning sun was born, the sky was cloudless, whether it is now or in the future, Cloud City is known for its urban environmental protection and cleanliness, greening and tidyness. Except for the rare foggy weather in the south, Cloud City is in an extremely refreshing and comfortable environment most of the time. Especially at the beginning of the 20000s, when there were fewer cars, a small amount of exhaust gas was not enough to cause significant damage to the environment. Let the sky of Cloud City always maintain a clear blue color, and it is very comfortable to walk on the street to breathe fresh air.

Lin Ming got up so early in the morning, thinking that he was already early, but when he went down the stairs, he saw that most of the lights in each house were on. There are students walking down the stairs, and the family courtyard is a four-row old-fashioned six-story building, and the flower beds downstairs are full of plants, and in May, it is full of greenery.

There are three units in one row, divided into three stairs on the left, middle and right, six floors, two families on each floor, and a total of 36 households live in one row. Lin Ming's family lived on the third floor on the far right, and through an osmanthus tree, he saw a teenager coming down from the leftmost unit from a distance.

The young man looked very familiar, Lin Ming was stunned for a few seconds, and only then shouted loudly before the young man turned around and walked towards the road: "Hezi!" ”

Liu He turned around, said a word, and then stopped in place and waited for Lin Ming to come over.

Because the provincial government and many government departments are near the city center, the families living here are basically cadres at or above the provincial or municipal department level, in the early two thousand years, except for senior officials at or above the provincial level, the families between the department level and the department level cadres were not as tightly guarded as in later generations, in Lin Ming's eyes, the middle-level officials in the province are actually no different from ordinary families. Liu He's family is from the procuratorate, and the old man was originally the deputy procurator general of the provincial procuratorate, at the department level, and now he has been retired for several years, and he plays Tai Chi in the courtyard when he has nothing to do. Liu He's father is the second-in-command in the Anti-Corruption Bureau, which is a responsible department in the procuratorial system, and can be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business.

According to Lin Ming's memory, a few years after graduating from university, Liu He was arranged to work as a civil servant in the Nanxian County Procuratorate less than 50 kilometers away from Yuncheng, and was transferred to the city procuratorate two years later.

There are several other buddies who also work in the government department with him, but they failed the exam. In fact, this is normal, at that time, there were two places every year in the interior, as long as the diploma was not so outrageous that he didn't even graduate from high school, undergraduate or even college diploma, there was this relationship, and basically he could get in.

Lin Ming trotted over and walked side by side with Liu He, and while walking in the direction of the road outside the yard, Lin Ming said, "What about them?" ”

"Those B's have to grind until at least half past six to get up, and you don't know it. Then again, why did you wake up so early today? Liu He put his hands on the waistband of his trousers, he looked like a kind of honest and honest type, but what kind of good person could he play with Lin Ming and them, and he looked like a hanger.

"Go to school and memorize English."

"Memorize English?" Liu He was stunned for a moment, then reacted and tilted his head, looking at him with extremely exaggerated movements: "Wow, I heard him right!" Che Weiming is going to school to memorize English, is there something wrong with my ears? ”

Lin Ming smiled and didn't speak. If it was before, he would definitely have a few words with Liu He, but in the second life, his temper and personality are much calmer.

"By the way, don't you have a guitar at home?"

Lin Ming suddenly remembered that Liu He was admitted to the university where he studied music, and his grades were actually not bad, he ranked in the top ten in the key class of No. 1 Middle School, and he could go to one without relying on extra points in the art class, plus his professional advantages, he was easily admitted to the School of Music of Capital Normal University. According to Liu He's words, even if you are a scholar, you must be a scholar who is interested in something. Music is his interest, I don't know what it is influenced by, Liu He has been learning Western music since elementary school, and two pianos are broken at home. In the two years after graduating from college, he also formed a band and wrote songs, but unfortunately he didn't have that famous life, so he honestly listened to his family's arrangement to come back to be a civil servant.

Lin Ming didn't plan to go far on the road of music, but now this path was the only way he could think of to quickly accumulate raw funds. It only takes a few catchy songs to get out, even in '02, when record piracy was rampant, making music wasn't actually a good path.

But Lin Ming relied on his prophetic memory to think of an excellent idea, which, if realized, could even change the future music path and people's lifestyles to a great extent.

The idea was to make a paid music site.

Many people don't know that MP3 was actually invented as early as '98, and by 02, it was quite popular in our country. Even more than ten years later, Lin Ming can clearly remember the pain of only eating one or two buns for breakfast for two consecutive months in order to buy an MP3 for a few hundred yuan. At that time, the protection of music property rights was not serious, and what songs you wanted to listen to were downloaded everywhere on the Internet. For example, Qianqian Jingting, which was the most popular at that time, was almost standard in Internet cafes, and more than 99% of the songs could be downloaded directly in it. Many post-90s generations may not know about this listening software, but in that era, the later NetEase Cloud, Kuwo, Penguin Music or something, they were all very young juniors. Paid music sites may be available on some forums, but they can be very niche. The main reason is because of the restrictions on online banking, in 02 there was actually such a thing as online banking, but it was generally used to pay for overseas trade, strictly speaking, it was actually another form of non-counter payment, and the online banking of later generations was not only very difficult to operate, but also had property risks. Therefore, because of the fact that paid websites often need to be made in the form of payments, coupled with rampant piracy, this kind of website has died before it has become popular.

However, Lin Ming thought of another way to solve the problem of online banking and piracy.

First of all, piracy, Lin Ming has at least hundreds of songs that will be very popular in the future, all of which are placed on the website, which is enough for listeners to consume, and many people may not even like so many songs in their lifetime. Therefore, he does not need to prevent the problem of piracy, he only needs to earn enough money in the early stage before the piracy website is started. In the future, when the website is built, you can also hire a lawyer to protect the rights of piracy and crack down on those pirated websites. And a music website can't just have its own songs, if you want to be big, you definitely can't know the law and break the law. In the future, I will spend money to buy genuine music, and it will be the first genuine paid music website in the country in the real sense.

The second is online banking, which is better solved. Many post-80s and 90s generations played Legend when they were children, and Legend was to make point cards to pay. Lin Ming can learn from the same, even if he doesn't have the ability to make point cards, he can also find NetEase and Shanda, which are online game giants at the time, to cooperate and use their point card system to make this money.

In fact, when we encounter difficulties in this world, the most important thing is to find a solution. It's just why others can't make this thing, but Lin Ming can. It's just because he has the advantage of hundreds of future pop songs more than others.

With this advantage, he can lay the foundation of a paid website and have a certain amount of capital. Otherwise, if you want to make genuine music, the website first has to buy the copyright. Without this cost, how can a website be possible?

"Yes, what? Do you want to learn guitar? Liu He looked at him: "It's very tiring to learn the guitar." ”

Influenced by the music trends of the 90s, many high school students were clamoring for their parents to buy a guitar at home every day. What high school student doesn't have a dream of holding a guitar and singing in front of the girl of his heart? It's a pity that the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. Most people play for a few days and can't stand the boredom of repetitiveness. Strictly speaking, the guitar and piano are not difficult to learn, the piano keys and guitar strings are there, and all you need to do is learn how to play. It's easier to get started with the guitar, but if you learn it every day, you may be able to play a simple piece in two or three weeks. But once you want to advance to a proficient point, it takes a lot of effort, such as how to use the pick, how to use the metronome, a lot of chord memorization, and chord skillful conversion, all of which require a long time of accumulation and learning. To put it simply, it's like it's easy to follow the teacher's 1+1=2 in kindergarten, but to learn how much 10+10=, you have to spend more time mastering addition and subtraction.

"It's okay, teach me if you have time."

Liu He was not afraid of trouble, patted his chest and said: "As long as you are not afraid of being tired, you can come to my house after school today, I have to practice the guitar for two hours every day, and I will teach you to get started when the time comes." ”

"Okay, it's up to you." The two walked to the intersection of Xiangchun Road, the first middle school in the city had to take the bus at the entrance of the alley, and Lin Ming had to turn left from Xiangchun Road to the direction of the fourth middle school.

The bus stop is full of students who get up early to go to class, standing on the platform with headphones plugged in their ears. Affected by MP3 in 03 years, the Walkman market has been much worse than before, but in 2002, when the cheapest MP3 cost more than 1,000 yuan, dozens of dollars of Walkman still occupy a large area. An Ran was carrying a big schoolbag, and the gray walkman was placed in the pocket on the side of the schoolbag, because the school uniform was very wide, it seemed that she was very thin. Fifteen-year-old An Ran's height of one meter and six or five is actually not short, so he stands out among girls. She put her hands in her coat pockets, and her side face was picturesque, looking straight ahead, beautiful like an elf.

"Enron!"

Liu He shouted.

An Ran turned his head and saw Lin Ming.

Lin Mingzheng looked at her with a smile.

The light was shining sideways, and the sun was shining right on his face.

Then, she brushed her short hair behind her ears, tilted her head, and laughed too.

Under the sun.

That slight smile is beautiful.