"Old Zhou, where are the study materials you told me about? Did you bring your USB drive?"

Liu Tian sat in front of the computer, hung his gaming headset around his neck, rubbed his hands together, and was eager to try it out.

Ye Zhou nodded and took out a small USB flash drive from his backpack.

Liu Tian was so excited that he almost felt like he was returning to his ancestral home.

I plugged in the USB drive and excitedly opened it.

Sure enough, there were a lot of videos.

Liu Tian was moved to tears.

"My good brother never lied to me!"

Put on the headphones and randomly open a video.

"Hello everyone, life is short, I'll be using Python..."

Liu Tian's eyebrows twitched. But this female teacher was quite pretty. Could it be a movie with a plot? Would she take off her clothes soon?

I'm not sure, I'll think about it some more.

After watching forty-five minutes...

"Class, that's all for today's lesson. Next lesson will cover the basic usage of for and while loops."

Liu Tian was in a fit of impotent rage.

"Ye Zhou!"

Ye Zhou happened to call, and Liu Tian answered the phone.

"Old Zhou, is this the study material you gave me? And you even said you know more than me?"

It seemed quite noisy on Ye Zhou's end. He said, "Bring your USB drive and come help me out, okay?"

"Oh, what's the matter? What's wrong on your end?"

"I'm at the computer repair shop, the one on the first floor."

Liu Tian took off his headphones and went straight downstairs.

When they arrived at the computer repair shop, they saw Ye Zhou standing in front of a somewhat dilapidated computer.

The beer-bellied owner of the computer shop couldn't help but praise: "Young man, you're so young, but you know a lot about computers. You've repaired a computer that was almost broken to this condition. It's better than 99% of the computers in the country. Do you want to work for me? I'll pay you this much a month."

The boss held up a six.

Ye Zhou shook his head with a smile, just in time to see Liu Tian coming down from upstairs.

Ye Zhou clapped his hands. "Xiao Tian, ​​come and help me carry the computer to the car."

"Huh? You bought a computer? What can this crappy computer even do?"

"Tsk, it'll definitely work."

Liu Tian followed Ye Zhou and loaded the monitor and host onto the borrowed tricycle.

They moved one computer, and now there's another one—two computers in total.

Liu Tian asked curiously, "Old Zhou, when did you become so rich? How much money does this cost?"

Ye Zhou patted the dust off the computer case. "Not expensive, two for six hundred."

"What? What? Two computers for six hundred? That's so cheap?"

Ye Zhou said, "These are both secondhand computers; they've been handled by many different people."

Moreover, these two computers had already been declared scrap and could be disposed of as scrap metal, but Ye Zhou had a lot of knowledge about hardware and software, so repairing them wasn't that difficult.

After reinforcing the hardware and fixing it up, its performance is now able to outperform most new computers.

Liu Tian got into the tricycle, with Ye Zhou driving in front.

"Old Zhou, what do you need two computers for? Can you sell me one cheap?"

"I'm useful in all of them."

"Oh." Liu Tian really didn't understand. Who would need two computers?

"How do you like the study materials I gave you? Aren't there many teachers involved?"

Liu Tian could no longer laugh at Ye Zhou's insensitive behavior of bringing up topics he shouldn't have.

"Hmph, what did you say? There are many teachers, but not a single one of them took off their clothes!"

"Huh? These teachers are all fine, why are they taking off their clothes? They are all renowned teachers in computer technology. In the future, computer technology will be a very hot field. Have you heard of space machines?"

Liu Tian's face flushed red. "Do I need these kinds of teachers? I need teachers who can connect you both physically and emotionally. Don't tell me you haven't hinted at this before! You've hinted at it several times already!"

"Oh, I'm so sorry that this has caused you such a misunderstanding."

Seeing how sincere Ye Zhou was, Liu Tian said, "Forget it, I won't hold it against you."

After moving all the belongings back to Ye Zhou's house, this was Liu Tian's first time visiting Ye Zhou's home.

"Your sister isn't home?" Liu Tian seemed a little disappointed.

Ye Zhou opened the door. "She's not here. I don't know if she'll be back for summer vacation."

At this time, Ye Fan and Zhou Ping had both gone out to work, and only Ye Zhou was still at home.

The two computers were moved into Ye Zhou's room, plugged in, and worked perfectly.

Liu Tian collapsed directly onto Ye Zhou's bed, where he was pressed against something painfully.

"Your bed frame is too hard, didn't you put a thick mattress on it?"

Ye Zhou was focused on the computer and didn't say anything.

Liu Tian lay on the bed and started playing on his phone by himself.

When Liu Tian got tired of playing, he turned over and saw Ye Zhou still fiddling with things on the computer, his fingers moving very fast on the keyboard, like a lightning-fast hand.

What exactly is it? He couldn't understand it at all.

"Old Zhou, what are you doing?"

"Mining".

Ye Zhou's eyes remained fixed on the screen.

Ye Zhou remembered seeing a news report in his previous life that the exchange rate of the Bitcoin had reached as high as 400,000 yuan that year.

Currently, there is still a lot of Bitcoin available. With a well-designed algorithm, it is possible to accurately locate the Bitcoins and acquire them efficiently.

In this day and age, Bitcoin has only just appeared and has not caused much of a stir. Some people even think it's just a toy to fool children, that it can't be redeemed, and that it has no collectible value.

Who would have thought that ten years later, a single Bitcoin could fetch as much as 400,000?

At first, Liu Tian complained about the hard bed, but before he knew it, he fell asleep. When he woke up, he saw Ye Zhou leaning against the desk drinking water.

"Old Zhou, are you done?"

Ye Zhou nodded.

I can write a simple algorithm in an hour, but the mining speed is a bit slow; it takes an hour to mine four Bitcoins.

With further algorithm optimization and the purchase of more high-quality graphics cards, the speed will improve rapidly.

However, this can only be used for future appreciation; it is absolutely unnecessary now.

He still needs to go to university, and the initial tuition fees will be at least 20,000 yuan.

He has another solution to address the immediate crisis.

Of course, he had planned to use both computers in advance.

One machine is used for mining, and the other is used for programming.

After drinking a glass of water and resting for a while, Ye Zhou sat down at another computer.

The software was already downloaded, so I just opened Java and got to work!

Liu Tian watched Ye Zhou's actions and typed out a lot of incomprehensible English.

Although I don't understand it, it seems very impressive!

Ye Zhou spent four hours that evening and successfully developed a mini-program before 11 p.m.

Liu Tian had already gone home and was lying in bed playing video games.

I saw the mini-program that Ye Zhou sent me on WeChat.

I clicked on it casually.

Addictive music, simple rules, complex challenges.

"Wow! What kind of game is this?"

Ye Zhou washed up and went to sleep. He woke up the next day to check the earnings from the mini-game.