Chapter 492 Internet cafe opens, netizens go crazy
Noon.
Deng Shirong is talking on the phone to his granddaughter.
After greeting each other, Deng Shirong asked with concern: "My dear granddaughter, are you used to the food at school?"
Xiao Dong'er said honestly: "Grandpa, I'm really not used to this. The food at school is far worse than at home!"
Deng Shirong said: "Since you are not used to it, then don't eat it at school. I will send someone to deliver the next three meals to you."
Xiao Dong'er said: "Grandpa, isn't this too much trouble?"
Deng Shirong smiled and said, "No trouble, your current task is to study hard, and everything else is not a problem."
Xiao Dong'er also knew that his family was not short of money, so he happily accepted his grandfather's arrangement.
Next, the grandparents chatted for several minutes before hanging up the phone.
Deng Shirong really loves his only granddaughter who is both talented and beautiful. He immediately notified the manager and security team of La Meizi Hotpot to make this matter come true. From now on, when he is in Nanning, he will be personally responsible for his granddaughter's lunch and dinner.
If he is not in Nanning, the chef of La Meizi Hotpot will be in charge.
As for the security team's task, they are responsible for delivering meals to his granddaughter at school on time, and they also need to help buy breakfast. No matter whether it is Deng Shirong or the chef of La Meizi Hotpot, it is impossible for them to get up so early to prepare breakfast, so they can only ask the security team to help buy it outside.
After settling this matter, Deng Shirong began to think about what delicious food to prepare for his granddaughter in the evening.
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afternoon.
Nanning No.3 Middle School.
As the bell rang, students flocked to the school cafeteria in groups. No matter what era it was, students were always very serious about eating.
Tang Yun also hurriedly said: "Squad leader, let's go back and get our lunch boxes and go to the cafeteria to get food!"
Xiao Dong'er shook her head and said, "You go, I won't go!"
Tang Yun was stunned for a moment, then said, "Then I'll help you get the food. What do you want to eat, squad leader?"
Xiao Dong'er didn't expect her to say that. She felt that her deskmate had an okay personality. Then she thought about her grandfather's personality. If she asked someone to bring her food, it would definitely be too much. She would definitely not be able to finish it all by herself.
Thinking of this, Xiao Dong'er said, "Tang Yun, go back to the dormitory to get your lunch box first, and then wait for me at the door of my dormitory."
Tang Yun didn't think much about it when she heard it. She thought the monitor wanted to go to the cafeteria with her to get food, so she responded and hurried towards the dormitory.
And Xiaodong'er walked towards the school gate.
Soon, Xiao Dong'er arrived at the school gate and saw a security guard waiting there with a lunch box.
Seeing Xiao Dong'er approaching, the security guard immediately greeted her, "Miss."
Xiao Dong'er reached out to take the food box and said politely, "Uncle Wu, thank you for your help!"
Uncle Wu smiled and said, "It's not a big deal. Miss, take your time eating. When you're done, just bring the lunch box out to me."
Xiao Dong'er responded, and then, under the surprised eyes of the school security guard, she walked towards her own dormitory carrying the lunch box.
The dormitory is quite far from the school gate. When Xiao Dong'er returned to the dormitory with the lunch box, Tang Yun had been standing there waiting for two or three minutes.
Seeing Xiao Dong'er coming back with a lunch box, Tang Yun asked, "Squad Leader, what is this?"
Xiao Dong'er opened the door with her key and replied with a smile: "This is the dinner my family sent me. Let's eat together!"
Tang Yun was surprised when she heard this, and then she said with envy: "Squad leader, your family treats you so well."
Xiao Dong'er closed the door, put the lunch box on the table, turned on the air conditioner, and said, "My family is really good to me."
Tang Yun held the lunch box and said awkwardly, "Squad Leader, this is the dinner your family sent you. You should keep it for yourself. I'll go to the cafeteria to get some food."
"There's a lot of food here. I definitely can't finish it all by myself. It would be a waste if you don't eat it."
While speaking, Xiao Dong'er had already opened the lunch box, and then took out a number of sealed and still warm aluminum lunch boxes from it.
(Aluminum lunch box)
There are four aluminum lunch boxes in total, and there is also an enamel lunch box.
(Enamel lunch boxes) Seeing so many lunch boxes, Tang Yun realized that the monitor was not being polite, but that the food her family prepared for her was indeed a bit too much.
Then, Xiao Dong'er opened the lunch boxes one by one under Tang Yun's gaze.
Among them, inside the enamel lunch box was a full box of corn and pork ribs soup.
The four aluminum lunch boxes, one contained rice, and the other three contained stir-fried pork belly shreds, spicy fish, and stir-fried loofah, all of which were Xiaodong'er's favorite dishes.
These dishes all look great and are very appetizing at first glance.
Xiao Dong'er picked up the box of rice and said to her classmate with a nice personality with a smile: "Tang Yun, stop being in a daze. Open your lunch box and I'll give you half of the rice."
Tang Yun saw that the food was indeed quite filling, so she stopped being polite and opened the lunch box and handed it over, saying, "Squad Leader, I won't be polite with you anymore!"
"It's just a meal, there's no need to be so polite."
Xiao Dong'er gave her half of the rice, and then said with some annoyance: "I should have asked the principal to provide an extra chair."
Tang Yun quickly said, "Squad Leader, you sit down. I'll just stand."
"How can that be done? Let's move the table. I'll sit on the bed and you can sit on the chair. That'll be all."
"That's fine!"
So, the two of them moved the table in front of the bed and sat down.
Xiao Dong'er said, "Okay, let's eat quickly. These dishes are all made by my grandfather. How do you like them?"
Tang Yun smiled and said, "These dishes look delicious. Your grandfather must be a very good cook, squad leader."
Xiao Dong'er was not modest, but nodded directly and said: "My grandfather's cooking skills are indeed very good, you will know after you eat it."
Tang Yun was no longer polite after hearing that and picked up a piece of stir-fried pork belly shreds with chopsticks and tasted it.
As a result, the crisp texture and the perfect taste immediately conquered her.
"It's delicious. It's really delicious. I've never eaten such delicious pork belly shreds in my life."
"Wow, this spicy fish tastes 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 ate and praised the meal, saying that she was really amazed by it! Xiao Donger kept smiling, and she felt very happy about the praise from her tablemate.
Soon, the two of them finished all the rice and dishes, and then shared the box of 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 having more people to eat with her made her appetite much better, so she invited them, "Starting from this meal, my family will bring me meals three times 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 that. Her family conditions were not bad. In addition, she was pretty and had good grades, so she was considered to be favored at home. But it might be okay to ask her family to send her meals occasionally, but to expect her family to send her meals every day was just wishful thinking. It was impossible.
However, the class monitor's family did it, and she, an outsider, could clearly feel how much the class monitor's family loved her.
Now that she heard the invitation from the class monitor, 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, let alone the cooking of the class monitor's grandfather.
Following the squad leader and eating and drinking for free is a heavenly experience.
However, it was fine to eat for free occasionally, but if he 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 would that look like?"
Xiao Dong'er smiled and said, "It's okay. You saw that the food my family sent was very generous. The two of us barely finished this meal. If I were eating 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 you eating with me."
"this……"
"Don't worry about this or that, hurry up and help me clean up, I still need to take the food boxes out for my family to take away!"
"Oh!" Tang Yun hurriedly helped to pack up the lunch box and put it in the food box.
Xiao Dong'er said, "Then you can cool down in the air conditioning here. I'll take the lunch box to the school gate and come back."
"OK."
Tang Yun responded, and after the monitor walked away with the lunch box, she silently calculated how much New Year's money she had left. When she went back home after the holiday, she would buy a gift for the monitor to thank him for taking care of her.
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Wuyue Square is the most famous commercial square in Nanning, bar none.
In Wuyue Square, there is Yongjia Supermarket, the first large supermarket in the city, Lameizi Hotpot, the first hotpot restaurant in the city, the city’s largest Ahua Home Appliance 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 Plaza has been vacant and has not been doing any business, which makes many people feel it is a pity.
After all, in a commercial plaza with such high customer flow, any business on the fourth floor could make a lot of money, but the boss has left it empty, which is such a waste.
Now, after so many years, the fourth floor of Wuyue Plaza, which has been vacant for a long time, has finally seen some movement. During the renovation, it attracted the attention of many customers, who all wanted to know what business was being done on the fourth floor.
As a result, those curious customers found out after asking that the fourth floor was actually used as an Internet cafe.
Most customers don’t understand what the word “Internet cafe” is when they hear it, and the workers in charge of the decoration can’t explain it to them clearly. They just tell them that they will understand when they come and see the Internet cafe when it opens.
Therefore, these customers have been paying attention to the fourth floor of Wuyue Plaza, wanting to see what this Internet cafe is.
Of course, among so many customers, there were some knowledgeable ones. When they heard that the fourth floor was used as an Internet cafe, they were surprised but also excited. They were all people who understood the Internet, and with such an Internet cafe, it would greatly facilitate them, the "Internet users".
Soon, the Pioneer Internet Cafe in Wuyue Square opened under the attention of the public.
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After breakfast, Cheng Mingwei couldn't wait to ride his motorcycle to Wuyue Square.
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Ever since the countdown banner for the opening of "Pioneer Internet Cafe" was hung in Wuyue Square ten days ago, Cheng Mingwei has been interested in this Internet cafe.
Today is the opening day of Pioneer Internet Cafe. Cheng Mingwei, who has long been addicted to the Internet, naturally will not miss it. He wants to rush here to surf the Internet as soon as possible.
Cheng Mingwei became acquainted with the Internet when he went to Hong Kong for work the year before last. However, he did not use the Internet for work, but because he 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 and will not 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 access the Internet in the country.
Although Cheng Mingwei's family was not poor, even local calls were not cheap in those days. Domestic long-distance calls were even more expensive, and calls to Hong Kong were outrageously high.
Not to mention, there are the costs of Internet access.
Therefore, even though Cheng Mingwei has a good family background, he has to control the frequency of his surfing. He only goes online to play from time to time and doesn't dare to do so all the time.
Games of this era all have character interfaces and simple chat rooms so people can chat while playing.
Cheng Mingwei's English is not very good, and the phone bill is incredibly expensive. He is burning money every second. How can he have the mood to chat nonsense with those foreigners!
Therefore, every time Cheng Mingwei went online, he would first type: I'm Chinese, my English is poor. When others saw this, they would stop paying attention to this poor Chinese man and he could concentrate on playing cards.
In this way, in more than a year, Cheng Mingwei has spent tens of thousands of dollars playing this bridge game.
If this happened to an ordinary family, they would have been unable to bear it long ago.
Although Cheng Mingwei could afford all these, he still felt a little distressed that he spent thousands of dollars a month and still did not have enough fun.
Now, in this shabby place like Nanning, someone actually invested in opening an Internet cafe. This surprised Cheng Mingwei, but he couldn't help but get excited.
Although he was not sure how the Internet cafe charged, he was absolutely sure that it would be much cheaper than calling Hong Kong to access the Internet.
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.
Many people had come to the Internet cafe to watch the fun. Cheng Mingwei took a quick look around and found that this Internet cafe was not only large in size, but also decorated very fashionably and beautifully. The most eye-catching thing was the rows of computers in the front.
"What does this Internet access mean?"
"He should be playing on the computer. Aren't there a lot of computers there?"
"This computer is a very valuable item. I heard that it costs more than 10,000 yuan each. I didn't expect there are dozens of computers here. This must cost hundreds of thousands of yuan!"
"It costs 15 yuan an hour to surf the Internet. Does that mean that after paying 15 yuan, you can choose any computer and play for an hour?"
"That's what I mean. Someone just paid to play with it. If I knew anything about computers, I would also pay to try this new thing. Unfortunately, I know nothing. Even if you give me a computer, I won't be able to use it!"
“…”
Hearing everyone's discussions, Cheng Mingwei was not surprised at all. In that era, not many people in China knew how to use computers.
What made him happiest was that the price of Internet access was only 15 yuan per hour, which was much lower than he expected. From now on, he would no longer have to race against time to play games like before, nor would he have to control his Internet addiction.
This Internet price is a bit exaggerated to say that one can play as much as he wants, but if he plays for three to five hours a day, it is not a big deal for him.
So, Cheng Mingwei couldn't bear it any longer, and immediately went to the bar to go through 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 use the Internet, there are still some. Now that Pioneer Internet Cafe has opened, these netizens have all heard about it and have come, all paying to use the Internet.
In this era, those who are qualified to become Internet users all come from relatively well-off families, because people from poor family conditions simply have no chance to become Internet users. After all, ordinary people don’t even have the opportunity to touch a computer, so how can they become Internet users?
Soon, within less than two hours of the Pioneer Internet Cafe opening, more than 40 of the 50 computers were occupied by netizens.
Those who know nothing about computers and have nothing to do stand behind the netizens curiously and watch how they use the computer.
Behind Cheng Mingwei, there were several curious people standing.
Bridge is a card game that originated in Europe. Together with chess and go, it is known as one of 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, the number of audiences behind Cheng Mingwei increased, and they surrounded him tightly.
Everyone likes to show off. The experience of playing games silently and being watched by a group of people is definitely different.
Anyway, Cheng Mingwei is now having a great time playing the game. He occasionally answers questions from the onlookers and even teaches everyone how to play the bridge game.
One audience member watched the show from beginning to end for more than an hour and finally couldn't help it, so he paid to turn on a machine, asked the network administrator to help him set up a bridge game, and then started playing with gusto.
Deng Shirong had nothing to do and 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 another 50 computers."
Deng Yunhua was surprised and asked, "Dad, are you sure you want to add 50 more computers?"
Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Sure. There are so many people using the machine right after it opened. It will definitely be even 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 are poor. It's different from other industries."
Deng Yunhua naturally believed in his father's judgment and nodded, "Okay, I'll tell you in a moment."
At this time, the brothers Fan Yuesheng and Fan Yueqiang were also in the Internet cafe. Ever since their sister came home last time and said that their brother-in-law was going to set up an Internet cafe and asked them to learn from him, the two brothers have been going to their brother-in-law's Internet cafe often and witnessed the process of his Internet cafe being built from scratch.
Now that the Internet cafe has opened, the Fan brothers are shocked to see so many people using the computers.
After all, surfing the Internet is not cheap, it costs 15 yuan an hour!
If there are so many people surfing the Internet every day, even if each computer is used for only 10 hours a day, then one computer would cost 150 yuan. Based on 40 computers, that would be 6,000 yuan a day and 180,000 yuan a month. This income is really scary!
Of course, this is just the gross profit. After deducting various costs, the net profit is definitely not that exaggerated.
Even so, it is a very profitable business.
If each computer is used for more than 10 hours, the profit will be even higher.
In short, all the Fan brothers were tempted.
Anyway, my brother-in-law had already told them that after a period of time, when the computers in my brother-in-law's Internet cafe need to be upgraded, he would replace the old machines and transfer them to them. Then they only need to find a good location and go through the formalities to start making money.
Compared with this Internet cafe, the billiard hall they are currently operating is obviously much less profitable.
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After the opening of Pioneer Internet Café in Nanning, Internet cafes also quietly emerged in the four major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
There is no doubt that these Internet cafes were set up by four siblings, Deng Yunhua, Deng Yunzhu, Deng Yunshou, and Deng Yunhua. Although the scale of the Internet cafes cannot be compared with Wuyue Square, with Deng Shirong's suggestion, these Internet cafes are large-scale Internet cafes that can accommodate at least 300 computers.
Of course, although these Internet cafes can accommodate as few as 300 computers and as many as 500 computers, when they first open, they only have 50 computers at first, and the rest will be added depending on the situation.
Although the Internet cafes in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are not as famous as Nanning Wuyue Square, these four cities also have advantages that Nanning cannot match, that is, these places have many social elites, many wealthy people, and the number of Internet users is also unmatched by Nanning.
Therefore, even though the Internet cafes in these four cities were not well-known initially, the Internet is the fastest way to spread information, and the owners of these Internet cafes did not need to advertise themselves. Netizens would spontaneously spread the word, and it would not take long for the Internet cafes' fame to spread throughout the Internet circle.
As a result, the number of people using computers in Internet cafes is increasing day by day.
One week after the Internet cafe opened, the 50 computers were no longer enough.
It was not until this time that Deng Wenhua and his four siblings truly admired their father (Uncle Man)'s foresight, and they were all eager to add computers to the Internet cafe.
50 units, 100 units, 150 units, 200 units...
As the number of computers continued to increase, the income of the Internet cafe also rose rapidly. Every day was like picking up money, which made the Deng brothers and sisters very excited.
(End of this chapter)