After Aunt Xue went offline, she exchanged the copper coins she had saved in the past few days for RMB. Looking at the series of numbers on her bank account, she calmed down and confirmed the fact that she had also made money in the game.
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In just over a week, she had earned an income that she had not been able to earn in the past few months. She happily went to the vegetable market to buy good things that she was usually reluctant to buy, and prepared to cook a big meal for her daughter, who is in high school, to give her teeth.
Celebrate it too.
After a busy morning, I prepared a sumptuous lunch and waited with great anticipation for my daughter to come back from school.
The school is not far away. In the past few years, the family has changed based on the daughter's further education.
I went to elementary school in the town, went to junior high school in the county, and when I reached high school, I moved to the prefecture-level city where my hometown is.
My daughter is also very successful. She has never had to worry about her studies since she was a child. School is the focus. Tuition is waived. She also applied for a subsidy for poor students and helped rent this house very close to the school.
To her, her daughter is everything in life and her life's hope. As her daughter grows up and becomes more and more independent and strong, the position of the head of the family has been transferred from her to her daughter without realizing it.
As soon as Xie Xiaomeng opened the door, she could smell the sweet smell of the feast. She looked like a tomboy with short ear-length hair and a school uniform jacket wrapped around her waist. She kicked off her shoes and rushed to the dining table.
"Wow, Mom, what day is it today?"
Aunt Xue came out of the kitchen wearing an apron and said, "Wait a minute, there is another fish."
"What kind of day is today, so luxurious?"
Xie Xiaomenghou anxiously grabbed a piece of spareribs and threw it into his mouth. While chewing, he fanned the hot mouth and said vaguely to the kitchen.
"Good days, good days for our family. Guess, aren't you the smartest in the world?"
Xie Xiaomeng spit out the bones, patted her chest and swallowed a mouthful of delicious gravy. She picked up the Sprite and blew a big sip on the mouth of the bottle. Then she wiped her mouth and said, "No need to guess, I must have made money in the game, right?"
?You changed the copper coins into money, how much did you change?"
"You girl, I can't hide anything from you. You are a monkey, what will you do in the future if you are so shrewd?"
Aunt Xue brought the last plate of braised fish and placed it on the dining table. The simple dining table could not fit it, so it had to be stacked on top of each other to fill it up.
"How many have been changed?"
"Thirty thousand"
"Ah!? Thirty thousand?"
"Shh, don't be so loud, be careful not to be heard."
"You won't convert all the copper coins into money, will you? How will you do business in the future?"
"Don't worry, I have enough money to keep it, and your mother is not stupid."
"But, we have agreed to expand our operations. How can you expand your operations if you have taken out all your capital?"
"What about expanding business? Your mother and I are already very satisfied with this income. Counting wages, we can still earn more than 100,000 yuan a month. This is 100,000 yuan a month. It's like a dream. How could I have dared to think about it before? I won't say it anymore.
Enough talking, let’s eat!”
"But...you can obviously earn more..."
"No matter how much your mother doesn't dare to think about it, she can't even sleep at night, for fear that when she wakes up in the morning, it will be a dream."
"But...if you don't expand your business and keep up with the development of the game, you will be eliminated in the future. You can't reap a wave of dividends for a lifetime."
"What do you mean?"
"That is to say, you can earn 100,000 a month now because there are not many players and tourists yet, and the competition is not so fierce. What kind of technical content can you have in making street food? When there are more people in the future, can you still earn so much?
If you don’t seize the first-mover advantage and complete accumulation, you will be eliminated in the future.”
Aunt Xue felt that what her daughter said made sense, but she didn't want to worry about it on such a happy day, so she ignored the words and urged her daughter to eat quickly so she could go to school.
"Well, a little wealth means peace, a little wealth means peace..."
The daughter shook her head and sighed while eating, moving her chopsticks very quickly, and the way she wolfed down the food was so heartwarming and cute in the eyes of a mother.
"Slow down, slow down, no one will compete with you."
Aunt Xue looked at her handsome face that looked more and more like her own when she was young, and felt sour in her heart. She silently glanced at the photo of her deceased husband hanging on the wall, and then thought of the face she was playing with, and felt an inexplicable heat in her chest.
There was a moment of panic.
How many years has it been?
This family finally has some light and hope.
Although her daughter was carefree, Aunt Xue knew that she was actually very sensitive inside. She had spent many cold nights crying alone with the door closed, holding a pillow and covering her head with a quilt.
A child without a father meets a mother with no ability or education, and no relatives or elders. He grew up at a street food stall, watching his classmates holding hands with strict fathers and loving mothers, and having a lot of relatives and elders, celebrating the New Year.
All the New Year's money was received mercilessly... What about her?
For my daughter to grow up to be what she is now, I have already thanked all the gods and Buddhas in the sky.
Thinking, thinking, tears welled up in my eyes. I was afraid that my daughter would see them, so I wiped them away with the back of my hand while filling the soup.
Xie Xiaomeng saw it, but pretended not to notice it. She ate a piece of hot pepper and kept shouting that it was spicy. Aunt Xue hurriedly poured her water and said in confusion that there was no spicy food.
By drinking water, Xie Xiaomeng wiped her eyes and said willfully and scoldingly, "If you let it go, let it go. Even though you know that people can't eat spicy food, you let it go..."
The whole meal was spent in such a noisy atmosphere, but there was a different kind of sweetness and warmth in it.
There were so many dishes that it was impossible for the mother and daughter to finish them all. There was a lonely old couple living downstairs, so Aunt Xue drove out some untouched dishes and asked her daughter to deliver them to the grandparents downstairs.
"Who can bear to eat your leftovers!?" Xie Xiaomeng didn't want to go.
"Your Grandma Wang won't mind. Go quickly. You've forgotten how they took care of you when you first came here."
Xie Xiaomeng went out reluctantly. When she went out, she met Aunt Liu who lived across the street. This person was famous for being a bitch. Xie Xiaomeng didn't want to talk to her, so he just nodded and walked over. Who knew that today
She was particularly enthusiastic, "Xiaomeng, your mother went to Canaan and made a fortune selling pancakes, right? I heard
I said it, good guy, I have earned hundreds of thousands in just a few days... I heard that you were the one who decided on the group for the lottery. Come on, come on, come on, let me tell you Aunt Liu, what are the tips or tricks in it?
What connections do you have? I heard that a classmate in your school is related to the Canaan Company..."
"What the hell, Aunt Liu, please stop talking nonsense."
"Hey, this kid is still hiding this from me? Who in the street doesn't know that he is the young man who waits downstairs all day long for you to go to school together..."
Xie Xiaomeng was afraid that Aunt Xue would hear it in the room, so she said perfunctorily, "I have something else to do, I will tell you in detail later."
Aunt Liu then looked at the dinner plate in her hand, clicked her tongue twice, and offered food to your Grandma Wang... I don't know what that expression meant.
It was not easy to get rid of this pestering Aunt Liu.
The first floor is a semi-basement, with only the windows exposed to the outside. It is dark and humid. The narrow corridors are filled with cooking utensils from various companies, cooking and frying, and the smell is very pungent.
Xie Xiaomeng walked to the end of the alley, knocking on the door and saw a hunchbacked old woman sitting on a pile of garbage cardboard boxes, tying and sorting them with difficulty.
She quickly put down the food and went up to help.
Grandma Wang has cataracts in her eyes, so when she looks at people she sees shadows, but she smells the girl's unique fragrance and knows who is coming.
Her wrinkled face was wrinkled with smiles. After hearing Xie Xiaomeng's intention of coming, she kept nodding her head and saying yes, yes, yes...as if she couldn't say anything else.
After helping, Xie Xiaomeng went to the back room to see the bedridden old man again. When he came out, his mood became particularly heavy.
When she got home, she told Aunt Xue, "Shall we send Grandma Wang and the others to a nursing home?"
Aunt Xue paused her busy hands and asked, "Your Grandpa Wang's illness is not cured yet?"
"Well, no one is taking care of me, and the old man is so stubborn that he won't go to the hospital no matter what."
"Then give it to me. The one I asked last time costs more than two thousand a month. We can afford it now."
Xie Xiaomeng was very happy, "Grandma Wang still has subsistence allowance, so she doesn't need that much."
"Don't touch the subsistence allowance, let the provincial people talk."
"What can I say? What can I say? Are we still trying..."
"Shhh, you are still young and don't know that people's hearts are fearful and rumors are the most hurtful."
"Then... when will it be delivered?"
"I'll go take a look this afternoon."
"What about the game? There's another round in the afternoon, right?"
"It's easy for tourists to log in, but they're not players, so they have to queue up."
"Too……"
"You go to school quickly, you don't have to worry about these things."
Xie Xiaomeng left the house and looked back at this tube building built in the 1980s and 1990s. She thought it was time to move. This place would become very unsafe if she stayed here any longer. When she first came out, many people carried her on their backs.
She pointed and talked, saying that Aunt Xue had made a lot of money in the game, and her family was like a mountain of gold and silver.
Seeing a figure riding a shared bicycle across the street from a distance, Xie Xiaomeng felt annoyed. Thinking of what Aunt Liu said, she became even more vigilant.
"Xiaomeng, Xiaomeng!"
A sunny boy with a big white tooth in his smile chased after him on a shared bicycle. Xie Xiaomeng pretended not to hear and just walked to school.
"Xiao Meng, we have a party today, a party!"
Xie Xiaomeng stopped after hearing this and asked angrily, "What kind of party? Players' party?"
"Yes, yes, yes, player, my cousin's party, will you go or not? There are many tourists, all from the circle."
Xie Xiaomeng hesitated after hearing this.
"Isn't your mother a tourist? Go ahead and get to know more people. It will be good for you."
"But... I have my old class's class in the afternoon."
"What are you afraid of? You are number two in the school. You can just make up an excuse and deal with it."
"Is it really a gathering of players and tourists?"
"Can I still lie to you?"
"Where?"
"Municipal Workers Sports and Cultural Activity Center, People's Square."
"What time is it?"
"It officially starts at two o'clock, and the TV station is still recording."
"Okay then, I'll go to school to ask for leave first."
Unexpectedly, they didn’t have to ask for leave when they arrived at school. The school had to participate in some activity organized by the city. Several of their high school sophomores were asked to become volunteers.
The event took place at the Workers' Sports and Cultural Activity Center.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the People's Square was filled with colorful flags and a sea of people. The main leaders of several groups in the city also came. They set up a high rostrum and raised several large hot air balloons. Xie Xiaomeng was wearing a uniform.
He is wearing a very silly red vest, and hanging on his shoulder is a banner welcoming a certain metaverse organization and a certain large game guild that are on the verge of inspecting the environment of our city.
The sunny boy was complaining at the side. Some officials were really crazy about political achievements. They wanted to get involved in this circle. I don’t know how they got the news. A good private gathering was turned into such a horrible thing.
Xie Xiaomeng also met Sunshine Boy's cousin, the man who was said to have connections with Canaan Company, a senior player, and the president of a certain player guild.
As for players, there are so many in the city, and they all stay in the city due to various welfare conditions and treatment. If you want to develop the economy of the Metaverse, how can you do it without players?
In order to retain those few players, the city gave many special policies and treated these players as meat and potatoes. Many people criticized them, saying that the city was so full that they had nothing to do, and they were suspected of using public equipment for private use.
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What now?
Without these players, how could we usher in the golden phoenix of a certain game guild?
The city leaders were proud of their foresight while delivering a report on the podium. No, the opportunity was seized.
How can a small place with poor economic development, inconvenient transportation and few resources compete with big cities?
Courage, posture, policy, and sincerity are all indispensable.
If you want to catch up with the vigorous tide of the Metaverse, how can you do it if you don't have anything useful?
Sunshine Boy's cousin, the president of a game guild in Canaan, was also stunned by this high-standard reception.
How do you make them look like foreign guests?
There was also a high-level reception dinner in the afternoon, and everyone in the city was present. The officials had a low profile and were very sincere. A series of preferential conditions were finalized at the dinner table. As long as the gaming guild settled in the city,
The Yuan Universe Economic and Industrial Park will give you what you ask for.
The security and privacy issues that players are most concerned about are not a problem. The Director of Public Security slapped his chest and issued a military order. The Director of Housing and Urban-Rural Development promised five-star standard supporting facilities, telecommunications bureaus, banks, taxation, etc., at the wine table.
I set up an on-site office and got the green light all the way.
"...So, our small place also needs to have a formal player organization and offline trading market?"
The sunshine boy's face was red after drinking. He had just had a drink with the deputy mayor, and the principal was still laughing with him like a waiter. As a bad student who is hated by everyone, he is still a little confused.
"But, it's not like that. Once there are players, there will be, there will be...
...Well, demand, if there are business opportunities, a large industry can be revitalized, and how many job opportunities can be created? Those officials are not stupid, this is called buying horse bones for a thousand gold... My cousin was fooled by them
, I agreed to move the guild headquarters here in a daze..."
Xie Xiaomeng made plans of her own.
The more I calculated, the more I felt that this was an opportunity. When I got home, I told Aunt Xue about it, hoping to let my mother expand the business.
Aunt Xue didn't think this had anything to do with her. She was a pancake seller, so these things were too far away.
No matter what Xie Xiaomeng said, it didn't work, so she could only act anxiously.
"You will be eliminated by the times!"
"Era, what era, what does it have to do with us ordinary people?"
"You...I can't tell you clearly. Anyway, you listened to me right. You are not allowed to exchange copper coins in the future. How to play games is all up to my arrangement...otherwise, I won't go to school!"
Not attending school well was Xie Xiaomeng's trump card. Aunt Xue panicked when she heard this, and it was the same this time.
In the evening, Xie Xiaomeng wrote in her diary, "We are in a great era full of changes and opportunities." This was what she heard from the dinner party, and her handsome face looked thoughtful.
