Chapter 492 Internet Cafe Opens, Netizens Go Crazy

noon.

Deng Shirong is on the phone with his granddaughter.

After greeting each other, Deng Shirong asked with concern: "My dear granddaughter, are you used to eating at school?"

Xiaodong'er said honestly: "Grandpa, I'm really not used to eating this. The food at school is far worse than at home!"

Deng Shirong said: "Since you are not used to eating, then don't eat at school. I will send someone to deliver the next three meals to you."

Xiaodong'er said: "Grandpa, isn't this too much trouble?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "No trouble, your task now is to study hard, everything else is not a problem."

Xiaodong'er also knew that the family was not short of money, so she happily accepted her grandfather's arrangement.

Next, the grandfather and grandson chatted for several minutes before hanging up the phone.

Deng Shirong truly loved his only granddaughter who was both talented and beautiful. He immediately notified the manager of La Meizi Hotpot and the security team to implement this matter. If he was in Nanning from now on, he would be responsible for his granddaughter's lunch and dinner. Take personal responsibility.

If he is not in Nanning, the chef of Hotpot is in charge.

As for the tasks of the security team, they are responsible for delivering meals to his granddaughter to school on time, and also need to help buy breakfast. Neither Deng Shirong nor the chef of Hotpot Hotpot can get up so early to make breakfast, so they can only let the security The team is out there helping with the purchases.

After implementing this, Deng Shirong thought about what delicious food to make for his granddaughter in the evening.

…

afternoon.

Nanning No. 3 Middle School.

As the bell rang, students flocked to the school cafeteria. No matter what age they were, students were very serious about eating.

Tang Yun also said hurriedly: "Squad leader, let's go back quickly to get our lunch boxes and go to the cafeteria to get some food!"

Xiaodong'er shook his head and said: "You go ahead, I won't go!"

Tang Yun was stunned for a moment and said, "Then let me help you prepare food. What kind of food do you want to eat, squad leader?"

Xiaodong'er didn't expect her to say this. She felt that the character of her deskmate was pretty good. Thinking about her grandfather's character, if she had someone deliver food to her, it would definitely be too much. She would definitely not be able to eat it by herself. Done.

Thinking of this, Xiao Dong'er said: "Tang Yun, go back to the dormitory to get the lunch box, and then wait for me at the door of my dormitory."

Tang Yun didn't think much after hearing this, thinking that the squad leader was going to the cafeteria with her to get food, so she agreed and hurried towards the dormitory.

Xiaodong'er, on the other hand, walked towards the school gate.

Soon, Xiao Dong'er arrived at the school gate and saw a security guard waiting there with a food box.

Seeing Xiao Dong'er approaching, the security personnel immediately greeted: "Miss."

Xiaodong'er reached out to take the food box and said politely: "Uncle Wu, please!"

Uncle Wu smiled and said, "It's no trouble. Miss, please eat slowly. When you're finished, just bring the food box out to me."

Xiaodong'er responded, and then, in the surprised eyes of the school security guard, she carried the food box and walked towards her dormitory.

There was quite a distance between the dormitory and the school entrance. When Xiaodong'er returned to the dormitory with the food box, Tang Yun had been standing there waiting for two or three minutes.

Seeing Xiao Dong'er coming back with a food box, Tang Yun asked, "Squad leader, what is this?"

Xiaodong'er opened the door with the key and replied with a smile: "This is the dinner my family brought me. Let's eat it together!"

Tang Yun showed a surprised expression when she heard this, and then said with envy: "Monitor, your family is so kind to you."

Xiaodonger closed the door, put the food box on the table, and turned on the air conditioner while saying, "My family is really good to me."

Tang Yun took the lunch box and said with some embarrassment: "Monitor, this is the dinner your family gave you. You should keep it for yourself. I will just go to the cafeteria to get food."

"There is a lot of food. I definitely can't finish it by myself. It will be a waste if you don't eat it."

While talking, Xiaodong'er had already opened the food box and took out aluminum lunch boxes that were sealed and still warm.

(aluminum lunch box)

There are four aluminum lunch boxes in total, and there is also an enamel lunch box.

(enamel lunch box)

Seeing so many lunch boxes, Tang Yun realized that the monitor was not being polite, but that the meals her family had prepared for her were indeed a bit too much.

Immediately afterwards, Xiaodong'er opened the lunch boxes one by one under Tang Yun's gaze.

Among them, inside the enamel lunch box is a full box of corn ribs soup.

Of the four aluminum lunch boxes, one contained rice, and the other three contained stir-fried pork belly, spicy fish, and stir-fried loofah, all of which were Xiao Dong'er's favorite dishes.

The presentation of these dishes is very good, and they are very appetizing at first glance.

Xiaodonger picked up the box of rice, smiled and said to her classmate with a good personality: "Tang Yun, don't be in a daze, open your lunch box, and I will give you half of the rice."

Tang Yun saw that the portion of the food was indeed quite large, so she stopped being polite. She opened the lunch box and handed it over and said, "Squad leader, then I won't be polite to you anymore!"

"It's just a meal, what's the point of being so polite."

Xiaodong'er gave her half of the rice, and then said with some annoyance: "If I had known better, I would have asked the principal to provide an extra chair."

Tang Yun said quickly: "Squad leader, you sit down, I'll just stand."

"How about that? Let's move the table so that I sit on the bed and you sit on the chair. That's it."

"Alright!"

So, the two of them moved the table in front of the bed and sat down on each side.

Xiao Donger greeted: "Okay, let's eat quickly. These dishes are all made by my grandfather. How do you taste them?"

Tang Yun smiled and said: "These dishes look delicious. Your grandfather's cooking skills must be very good, squad leader."

Xiao Donger was not modest, but nodded directly: "My grandfather's cooking skills are indeed very good. You will know after you eat it."

Tang Yun was no longer polite after hearing this, and picked up a chopstick of stir-fried pork belly shreds and tasted it.

As a result, the crispy taste and the wonderful taste conquered her directly.

"Delicious, really delicious, I have never eaten such delicious pork belly shreds since I grew up."

"Wow, the taste of this spicy fish is also amazing, but it's a little spicy."

"Even the stir-fried loofah is so delicious, squad leader, your grandfather's cooking skills are really amazing!"

"..."

Tang Yun praised while eating, this meal really surprised her!

Xiao Donger's face was full of smiles, and she felt quite useful to the praise from her classmates.

Soon, the two of them finished all the rice and food, and then shared the soup.

Tang Yun put down the lunch box, stroked her belly, and said with satisfaction: "This meal is so delicious. I haven't had this feeling for many years."

Xiao Dong'er felt that her appetite was much better with more people accompanying her for dinner, so she invited them: "Starting from this meal, my family will send me three meals a day. It's boring for me to eat alone. If you don't mind, come and eat with me!"

Tang Yun's eyes widened again when she heard this. Her family conditions were not bad. In addition, she was beautiful and had good academic performance. She was relatively favored at home. It might be okay to ask her family to send her food occasionally, but it was too much to ask her family to send her food every day. This was impossible.

However, the monitor's family did it. She, an outsider, could clearly feel how much the monitor's family loved her.

Now that she heard the class monitor's invitation, Tang Yun was naturally excited. She had also tried the food in the school cafeteria for breakfast and lunch. Those meals could only fill her stomach, and the taste was just so-so. They couldn't even compare with her mother's cooking skills, let alone the cooking skills of the class monitor's grandfather.

Eating and drinking with the class monitor was a heavenly enjoyment.

However, it was okay to eat for free occasionally, but if she had to come here every day, Tang Yun would not feel comfortable. She shook her head and said, "Squad leader, I appreciate your kindness, but this is the food your family sent you. If I come here every day to eat and drink for free, what will happen?"

Xiao Dong'er smiled and said, "It's okay. You can see that the food my family sent is very generous. We two barely finished this meal. If I were to eat alone, I probably wouldn't be able to eat even half of it. With you eating with me, my appetite is much better. Just think of it as eating with me."

"This..."

"Don't talk about this and that. Help me clean up. I still have to take the lunch box out for my family to take away!"

"Oh!" Tang Yun hurriedly helped to clean up the lunch box and put it in the lunch box.

Xiao Dong'er said, "Then you can cool down here in the air conditioner. I'll take the lunch box to the school gate and come back."

"Okay."

Tang Yun responded. After the monitor walked away with the lunch box, she silently calculated how much New Year's money she had left. When she returned home after the holiday, she would buy a gift for the monitor to thank him for taking care of her.

...

Wuyue Square, the most famous commercial square in Nanning, no one else.

In Wuyue Square, there is Yongjia Supermarket, the first large supermarket in the city, La Meizi Hotpot, the first hotpot restaurant in the city, the largest Ahua Home Appliance City in the city, and the mysterious private residence on the fifth floor.

In addition, Wuyue Square is located in the city center, so it is normal for it to be famous.

Over the years, the fourth floor of Wuyue Square has been vacant and no business has been done, which makes many people feel sorry.

After all, a commercial square with such a high passenger flow can make a lot of money by doing any business on the fourth floor, but the boss has kept it vacant, which is a waste.

Now, after so many years, the fourth floor of Wuyue Square, which had been vacant for a long time, finally has some activities. When it was being renovated, it attracted the attention of many customers, who all wanted to know what kind of business this fourth floor was used for.

As a result, those curious customers asked and found out that this fourth floor was actually used to open an Internet cafe.

Most customers didn't understand what the word "Internet cafe" was when they heard it, and the workers in charge of the renovation couldn't explain it to them clearly. They just told them that they would know when the Internet cafe opened.

So, these customers kept paying attention to the fourth floor of Wuyue Square, wanting to see what this Internet cafe was.

Of course, among so many customers, there were also knowledgeable ones. When they heard that this fourth floor was used to operate an Internet cafe, they were surprised and excited at the same time. They were all people who understood the Internet. With such an Internet cafe where they could surf the Internet, it would greatly facilitate these "Internet users".

Soon, the Pioneer Internet Cafe in Wuyue Square opened in the spotlight.

…

After eating breakfast, Cheng Mingwei couldn’t wait to ride his motorcycle to Wuyue Square.

Ever since Wuyue Square hung a banner with a countdown to the opening of “Pioneer Internet Cafe” ten days ago, Cheng Mingwei has been interested in this Internet cafe.

Today is the big day for the opening of Pioneer Internet Cafe. Cheng Mingwei, who has long been addicted to the Internet, will naturally not miss it. He will rush over to surf the Internet as soon as possible.

Cheng Mingwei got acquainted with the Internet when he went to work in Hong Kong the year before last. However, he did not surf the Internet for work, but was addicted to playing bridge online.

From the late 1990s to the early 21st century, many people became addicted to the Internet because of games. This is a very normal thing. Cheng Mingwei is not the first, nor will he be the last.

After returning from Hong Kong last year, Cheng Mingwei felt a little uncomfortable.

Because there was no Internet access in China last year, Cheng Mingwei had to make an international long-distance call to Hong Kong if he wanted to surf the Internet in China.

Although Cheng Mingwei's family is not bad, even making local calls in this era is not cheap, making domestic long-distance calls is even more expensive, and making calls to Hong Kong is even more outrageous.

Not to mention the cost of surfing the Internet.

Therefore, even if Cheng Mingwei has a good family background, he has to control the frequency and only surf the Internet from time to time. He dare not play like this all the time.

Games of this era all have character interfaces, plus a simple chat room, so everyone can chat while playing.

Cheng Mingwei's English is poor, and the phone bill is frighteningly expensive. He is burning money every second, so he has no mood to talk nonsense with those foreigners!

So, every time he goes online, Cheng Mingwei will first type: I'm Chinese, my English is poor, and other people will stop paying attention to this poor Chinese, so he can concentrate on playing cards.

In this way, in more than a year, Cheng Mingwei has spent tens of thousands of yuan to play this bridge game.

If it were an ordinary family, it would have been unbearable.

Although Cheng Mingwei can afford these, he still feels a little distressed that he spends thousands of yuan a month and still can't play enough.

Now, it's good. In this broken place of Nanning, someone actually invested in an Internet cafe, which surprised Cheng Mingwei and made him excited.

Although he didn't know how the Internet cafe charged, he was absolutely sure that it would be much cheaper than calling Hong Kong to go online.

Soon, Cheng Mingcheng arrived at Wuyue Square.

At this time, two long rows of flower baskets were placed at the main entrance of Wuyue Square, and there were banners hanging from the roof to celebrate the opening of Pioneer Internet Cafe. The scene still looked very festive.

After Cheng Mingwei parked the car, he couldn't wait to take the elevator to the fourth floor.

There were already many people watching the excitement in the Internet cafe. Cheng Mingwei took a quick look at the environment and found that this Internet cafe was not only large in area, but also decorated very stylishly and beautifully. The most eye-catching thing was the rows of computers in front.

"What does it mean to go online?"

"It should be to play computer games. Aren't there a lot of computers there?"

"Computers are very expensive. I heard that they cost more than 10,000 yuan each. I didn't expect that there are dozens of computers here. They must cost hundreds of thousands!"

"It costs 15 yuan per hour to go online. Does this mean that after paying 15 yuan, you can choose any computer to play for an hour?"

"That's what I mean. Someone has already paid to play. If I knew about computers, I would also pay to try this new thing. Unfortunately, I don't know anything. Even if I am given a computer, I won't be able to use it!"

"..."

Hearing the discussion of the crowd, Cheng Mingwei was not surprised at all. In this era, not many people in China can play computers.

What made him happiest was that the price of going online was only 15 yuan per hour, which was much lower than he expected. Next, he didn't have to race against time to play games like before, nor did he have to control his Internet addiction.

This Internet price is a bit exaggerated to say that you can play freely, but if you play for three to five hours a day, it is still not stressful for him.

So, Cheng Mingwei couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately went to the bar to handle the Internet procedures, and then went to the Internet area to play his favorite bridge game.

Although there are not many people like Cheng Mingwei who know how to surf the Internet, there are still some. Now that Pioneer Internet Cafe is open, these netizens have heard the news and all paid to surf the Internet.

In this era, those who are qualified to become netizens are not from bad families, because people with poor family conditions have no chance to become netizens. After all, ordinary people don’t even have the opportunity to touch computers, so how can they become netizens?

Soon, less than two hours after the Pioneer Internet Cafe opened, more than 40 of the 50 machines were occupied by netizens.

And those who know nothing about computers and have nothing to do stood behind those netizens curiously, watching how they play computers.

Behind Cheng Mingwei, there were several curious people.

Bridge is a card game originated in Europe. Together with chess and go, it is known as the "three major intellectual sports in the world" and is known as "brain aerobics".

This kind of game is quite addictive, especially when played on a computer, which is even more novel.

Therefore, there are more and more spectators behind Cheng Mingwei, who are surrounded by crowds.

This person has a pretentious mentality. Playing games silently one by one is absolutely different from playing games with a group of people watching.

Anyway, Cheng Mingwei is playing very enthusiastically now, and he occasionally answers questions from the onlookers, and even teaches everyone how to play the bridge game.

One viewer watched the whole show for more than an hour, and finally couldn't help it, so he paid for a machine, asked the network administrator to help him set up a bridge game, and then started playing with great interest.

Deng Shirong had nothing to do, so he stayed in the Internet cafe. Seeing so many people using the computers, he said to his fourth son, "Xiaohua, it seems that the 50 computers we prepared are still a bit conservative. You should quickly ask the installers to assemble 50 more computers."

Deng Yunhua was surprised and said, "Dad, are you sure you want to add 50 more computers?"

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Sure, there are so many people using the computers right after the opening. It will definitely be more popular in the future, because people who like to surf the Internet will feel uncomfortable if they don't surf the Internet for a day unless they have no money. It's different from other industries."

Deng Yunhua naturally believed in his father's judgment and nodded, "Okay, I'll tell you later."

At this time, the brothers Fan Yuesheng and Fan Yueqiang were also in the Internet cafe. Since the last time their sister came home and said that her brother-in-law was going to open an Internet cafe and asked them to learn from him, the two brothers have been running to her brother-in-law's Internet cafe and witnessed the process of her brother-in-law's Internet cafe from scratch.

Now that the Internet cafe is open, seeing so many people using the computers, the Fan brothers are also shocked.

After all, it's not cheap to surf the Internet, 15 yuan an hour!

If so many people come to surf the Internet every day, even if each computer only uses it for 10 hours a day, then one computer will cost 150 yuan. Based on 40 computers, it will be 6,000 yuan a day, and 180,000 yuan a month. This income is really scary!

Of course, this is only the gross profit. We have to deduct various costs, and the net profit is definitely not so exaggerated.

Even so, this is a very profitable business.

If the time of each computer is more than 10 hours, the profit will be even higher.

In short, the Fan brothers are tempted.

Anyway, the brother-in-law has told them that after a period of time, when the computers in the brother-in-law's Internet cafe need to be updated, these old machines will be eliminated and transferred to them. At that time, they only need to find a good venue and go through the formalities to make money.

Compared with this Internet cafe, the profitability of the billiard hall they are currently operating is obviously much worse.

…

After the opening of the Pioneer Internet Cafe in Nanning, Internet cafes also quietly emerged in the four major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

These Internet cafes were undoubtedly opened by the four brothers and sisters Deng Yunhua, Deng Yunzhu, Deng Yunshou, and Deng Yunhua. Although the scale of the Internet cafes cannot be compared with that of Wuyue Square, with the suggestion of Deng Shirong, the venues of these Internet cafes are large Internet cafes that can accommodate at least 300 computers.

Of course, although these Internet cafes can accommodate 300 computers at least, and even 500 computers at most, when they first opened, they only had 50 computers at first, and the rest of the computers had to be increased depending on the situation.

Although the Internet cafes in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen are not as famous as the Wuyue Square in Nanning, these four cities also have advantages that Nanning cannot match, that is, there are many social elites and rich people in these places, and the number of Internet users is not comparable to that of Nanning.

Therefore, even though the Internet cafes in these four cities were not well-known at first, the Internet is the fastest place to spread information. The owners of these Internet cafes did not need to advertise themselves. The Internet users spread the word spontaneously, and soon the Internet cafes became famous in the Internet circle.

As a result, the number of people using the Internet cafes increased day by day.

A week after the Internet cafes opened, the 50 computers were not enough.

It was not until this time that Deng Wenhua and his four siblings really admired their father (Uncle Man) for his foresight, and they couldn't wait to add computers to the Internet cafes.

50, 100, 150, 200...

As the number of computers continued to increase, the income of the Internet cafes also rose. Every day was like picking up money, which made the Deng brothers and sisters excited.