I suggest you investigate; this person doesn't seem to be a first-time reborn individual.

As Lin Ran listened to Wang Meiling's nagging and scolding, his eyes gradually softened. He had never heard such nagging since he went to start his own business in an unfamiliar city.

Twenty minutes later, Ms. Wang was probably tired of talking. She gulped down a large cup of tea and then slammed the teacup on the table.

"Have a meal!"

Her tone was still not very good, but when she went to the kitchen to get the dishes, her steps were much lighter.

The table was set with a simple three-dish-and-soup meal: scrambled eggs with tomatoes, shredded pork with green peppers, cucumber salad, and a bowl of seaweed and egg drop soup.

They were all home-style dishes, steaming hot and fragrant.

Lin Feng picked up a piece of shredded green pepper and pork with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth, pausing almost imperceptibly while chewing.

Then, without changing his expression, he picked up a piece of food with his chopsticks and put it into Lin Ran's bowl.

Feeling this rare warmth, Lin Ran lowered his head and ate a mouthful of rice, his eyes getting a little moist and his throat feeling a little dry.

Then, almost simultaneously, the two brothers picked up the water glasses in front of them.

The action of tilting their heads back to pour water was synchronized and uniform.

It's so damn salty...

Lin Ran lay sprawled on the bed, staring blankly at the old incandescent light bulb on the ceiling.

He had spent two consecutive days, and if he calculated carefully, he hadn't slept for more than 24 hours.

I recall reading a post a couple of days ago titled "A Guide to Getting Rich Again," where the author painstakingly compiled the timelines for buying and selling various stocks over the past decade, surprising scores in the World Cup, and the cycles of cryptocurrency price fluctuations...

He just scoffed at the time and casually made a sarcastic comment: "I didn't expect there would actually be someone so bored that they'd ruin their brain by eating too much good food?"

Now he felt a surge of blood rushing to his head, wishing he could go back two days, punch himself first, and then memorize every single word of the post.

He tried for a long time, but could only recall a few fragmented words: "Bitcoin," "stocks," "World Cup"...

"Damn it..." He grabbed a handful of hair in frustration. If only he had looked at it a little longer, even just a couple of times...

It's true that Lin Ran was able to build a fortune of hundreds of millions from scratch before his rebirth, but in this life, all he really wants is to make money while lying down.

He quickly calmed down and thought about it carefully. Simple speculation seemed a bit boring. Should he go back to his old profession and start a live streaming company? But current technology hasn't developed to that level yet.

If you were to start a business, what direction would you choose?

He got out of bed, turned on the second-hand computer in his room, and prepared to look up some information first.

On the eve of the launch of smartphones, when 3G networks had just become widespread, and before the "battle of the hundred groups" had even begun...

The next decade will be a golden decade for the development of mobile internet. More importantly, he knows the exact timing of the rise and fall of each trend in the next decade.

"The first pot of gold..."

For him, the most important thing right now is to find his first pot of gold.

Lin Ran thought about it for a long time but still couldn't come up with a solution, so he decided to ask Ms. Wang for some start-up capital to try and find a solution.

He walked out of the bedroom and sat down next to Ms. Wang, who was watching TV on the sofa.

"Mom, lend me 20,000 yuan to start a business." Upon hearing this, Lin Feng, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa, had a slight twitch in his eyes.

"I have no money." Ms. Wang said without turning her head, her eyes glued to the TV. Lin Ran was immediately disappointed.

"But," Lin Ran's eyes lit up.

"I can give you two of your favorite slaps."

Lin Ran looked at her with some grief and indignation, then pointed to the TV, where the currently popular drama "Magic Phone" was playing.

"Guess what the ending of this show is?"

"To protect the Earth from exploding, Silly Girl ran out of energy and died."

"The four of them, along with several monsters, went back to their respective homes. Lu Xiaoqian was so upset by crying that he was practically traumatized by it all."

"..."

Feeling betrayed, Lin Feng gave Lin Ran a resentful look.

"Lin Da, were you deaf just now? You didn't hear anything," Lin Ran said, seemingly trying to comfort him.

Ignoring the murderous glares from the two men, he returned to his bedroom and decided to rely on himself and do some research.

Lin Ran had just sat down in front of the computer when he saw the penguin flashing in the lower right corner.

He casually opened it and saw the flashy, cool profile picture, the nickname "Melancholy Prince," and...

"In my world, you don't understand the sorrow."

Lin Ran has practically scraped together enough money to create a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment.

He changed his profile picture to a picture of a cat, changed his nickname to "AAA Building Materials Brother Lin", and changed his signature to a lyric.

That looks much better now.

Opening the message pop-up, the first message was from Wang Zihao, whose profile picture was a black and white image of a melancholic man with bangs covering half his face: "Brother Ran, tomorrow afternoon at 'Hurricane' internet cafe! [Cool][Cool]"

Lin Ran replied with a "1".

The second message was from Huang Lingyue, whose profile picture was a Samoyed, which unexpectedly seemed to match the furry photo he had just changed to, making them look like a couple's profile picture.

Moonlit Peak (Huang Lingyue): Lin Ran, once you've decided which school you want to go to, be sure to tell me!

Lin Ran looked at his previous chat history with Huang Lingyue and realized that he hadn't replied to many of her messages.

Just as I was about to close the chat page, I hesitated for a moment and replied with "1".

Just as Lin Ran closed the chat window and continued searching for a direction for his business, Wang Meiling knocked on the door and came in.

"Here, three thousand yuan. Go to the driving school to register yourself tomorrow."

Ms. Wang tossed Lin Ran a wad of banknotes of varying condition, muttering, "You can't just sit around doing nothing during the holidays. Look at Old Liu's daughter, she even runs a tutoring class..."

She kept nagging and instructing her, from "go to the queue early" to "remember to count the money carefully." Lin Ran finally managed to get her mother out of the bedroom after much persuasion, and her mother's words of advice could still be heard outside the door.

"Okay!"

Lin Ran casually tossed the money onto the bed; he had more important things to do at the moment.

For some reason, he suddenly looked at the money, took it in his hand, and counted it.

Lin Ran was a little surprised and counted again.

That's right! Four thousand yuan! Ms. Wang is indeed all bark and no bite.

Lin Ran's eyes welled up with tears again.

Who has such a kind soul who only has a thousand yuan as start-up capital for their business?!

Before going to bed, Lin Ran skillfully took out half a pack of cigarettes from his pillowcase, sneaked out of the house without making a sound.

When they reached the stairwell, Lin Ran and Lin Feng bumped into each other. Their eyes met, and Lin Feng was still holding half a burning cigarette in his hand.

Ms. Wang had no idea that her two eldest sons smoked, but the two brothers were well aware of it to each other.

Lin Feng glanced at the Hongtashan cigarettes in Lin Ran's hand, then took out his own "Lotus" cigarettes and tossed them to Lin Ran.

"Draw this one."

Lin Ran didn't stand on ceremony and started smoking as soon as he lit a fire.

The motion-activated lights in the hallway slowly went out, and the two brothers remained silent in the darkness, with only the red glow of burning cigarettes flickering on and off.

The atmosphere became a little awkward for a moment.

Lin Ran rolled his eyes and spoke first.

"elder brother"

"Um?"

"Lend me some money."